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More than a welcome: the power of cities
What is the scope for circumventing the national and EU deadlock over migration, and what role can cities, together with solidarity movements, play in overcoming this crisis?
Bue Rübner Hansen Manuela Zechner
Lampedusa in Hamburg unites groups from the "Right to the City" network, refugees, trade union activists, student organisations around call, "Right to the City - Never mind the papers!",Germany 2015. Flickr/Rasande Tyskar. Some rights reserved.A new municipal protagonism appears to be emerging in the so-called refugee 'crisis'. City governments are supporting one another in welcoming refugees, contesting state blockages in parliaments and making agreements between cities. In April 2016, ten European cities jointly denounced the inaction of states in the welcoming of refugees in the European Commission. Demanding that cities be seen as key political actors of welcoming, and appealing for direct EU funding to cities, mayors such as Ada Colau (Barcelona) are exploring ways of circumventing the national deadlock in the current crisis.
What role can and do states, the EU and cities play in producing, managing and overcoming this crisis? How might networks of 'cities of refuge' develop sustainable practices of social composition beyond the politics of identity? The role of solidarity movements in cities is key: these movements have opened the space for demands and imaginaries of a different Europe open to solidarity. We ask how municipalities and locals can help break the deadlock and negative spiral of EU and national refugee policy, and argue that the time is ripe for grassroots and government practices to be articulated critically, starting from the city.
A new horizon for translocal solidarity?
Looking at the media, one can easily get the impression that there is an unchallenged European-wide consensus about shutting the borders. But millions of Europeans have been actively involved in refugee solidarity work - in Germany alone the estimated number is 11 million. The far right may indeed be growing, but the media and political elites are ignoring the existence of a popular alternative to the current politics of closure. The media and political elites are ignoring the existence of a popular alternative to the current politics of closure.
However, appeals to the EU and its member states have not stopped the headlong rush into the dead end of closed borders and the EU-Turkey deal. People in Europe who are building an open Europe in solidarity are also showing their states what kinds of societies they want to live in. But the response by both states and EU has been disappointing. These levels are currently blocked as opportunities for action and imaginaries of change. So whence might a horizon of translocal solidarity emerge to break the deadlock?
The city is an essential terrain of struggle, and it is hard to imagine substantial change on the level of nation states and the EU without the production of a culture of solidarity in the everyday life of cities and towns. Drawing on their social, relational, infrastructural and institutional wealth and diversity, cities can be the starting points not only for an embodied politics of everyday solidarity, but also for new municipal policies. The many and ever-changing collective subjects that define our cities go a long way in signalling what welcoming, openness, solidarity and diversity mean on the ground. It is at this level that we should look for solutions to the EU and state deadlock around the arrival of refugees and migrants, and rethink citizenship.
The EU and nationalism
The EU was sold as a project of cosmopolitan solidarity, presented as the overcoming of the divisions of Europe's nationalist past. But over recent years, the reality of the EU has been the exact opposite.
The euro-crisis has revealed an economic architecture that creates divergence between economies, impoverishing some, while undermining others. And the handling of the sovereign debt crisis in the southern periphery has revealed a will to sustain this architecture through direct domination. The imposition of the memoranda, the insertion of unelected technocrats as chiefs of state in Italy and Greece (Monti and Papademos), and the financial blackmail of Greece all confirmed the trend as the automated austerity of the "Growth-and-Stability Pact" has been imposed across the eurozone.
Also the refugee crisis is driving Europe towards fragmentation. While Merkel and German business saw the great influx of 2015 as a chance to replenish the country's aging workforce, a number of Germany's satellite states, such as Austria and Denmark, as well as the eastern European periphery, dug their heels in. The explicit or implicit boycott of the European relocation scheme by the aforementioned countries as well as Spain and France, is a case in point. Germany's forceful intervention in the name of the unity of an unsustainable setup has done nothing to reverse this European fragmentation, reinforcing the drive towards national selfishness.
The EU has always had a problem with creating a 'warm' European identity, a 'we' to give affective and lived meaning to the ostensible ideal of international solidarity. The narrative of a social and open Europe – always at odds with the EU's real practice of austerity, competition and deadly external borders – has finally died off in the refugee and euro crises of 2015.
The reality of the EU project has been widespread popular anxiety and fear for the future. And the blatant hollowness of its ideals has led to suspicion of this cosmopolitanism from above. In this situation it's hardly surprising that many seek security and solidarity in the nation state. In this situation it's hardly surprising that many seek security and solidarity in the nation state. In the crisis, the austerity politics of the EU and liberal state elites have turned European nation states into giant echo chambers for the nationalist right. In what follows, we will explore how cities can come into this situation to undo certain blockages and open new horizons for living together.
Dodging the border, across the metropolis and the town
The energy of people and communities – notably in cities – kept the state baffled for a while in autumn 2015. Powerful self-activating social solidarity, beyond the abstract notions of nation, citizenship or competitive scarcity, challenged state and EU narratives. Soon the latter reasserted their sovereignty via new strategies of divide and rule. Enter once again the politics of fear and the production of enemy images in public discourse, the activation of military means and questionable national alliances, as well as (legally questionable) half economic, half symbolic tricks (such as setting the upper limits for asylum claims, confiscating refugee's belongings, measuring investment in refugees as foreign aid, withdrawal of refugee-related donations from NGO budgets).
But often, lived experiences and practices of solidarity stick with people more than does the politics of fear. Hundreds of families, flatshares, neighbours, neighbourhoods, organisations and collectives have kept up the work of caring and opening doors. Not just in European capitals but also in small municipalities, myriads of initiatives stay true to that moment of rupture in 2015, when Europe was open, was made open by people crossing borders and people welcoming them. A considerable part of this labour is done in cities and towns, by people without traditional activist profiles.
Municipal governments and the terrain of municipal politics can play a significant role in strengthening these horizons, practices and networks of solidarity, by affirming openness, providing resources and infrastructures for welcoming, and even practising municipal disobedience. An impressive example of the latter was provided by the Austrian village of Alberschwende, where the community and the mayor (actually from the conservative party) hid and defended asylum seekers in the face of the police who came to deport them (and even drafted a manifesto).
Networks of cities and the challenges of solidarity
Many European cities have been vocal about their commitment to welcoming refugees, often without much national or international visibility. From cities such as Berlin, Nantes, Leipzig, Ghent to villages such as Loos-en-Gohelle and Alberschwende, models for welcoming are developed together with inhabitants, often also in concert with regional administrations. Many of these are political experiments in their own right, with a view to transforming administration and governance. Expanding these alliances at a European level is key to unlocking the possibility of another Europe.
In September 2015 Barcelona's mayor Ada Colau launched a call for the creation of a network of 'Cities of Refuge', co-signed by the Mayors of Paris, Lesbos and Lampedusa and later joined by many others across Europe, including Milan, Malmö, Wadowice. In March 2016, Barcelona, Lesbos, Lampedusa and Athens signed agreements to support one another in welcoming refugees, including an agreement to relocate 100 interested people from Athens to Barcelona.
At the level of EU and independent networks, cities have begun to make their voices heard on the need to welcome refugees, regardless of blockages put in their way by the state. At the April 5 meeting of cities at the European Commission, the mayors of Paris, Athens, Amsterdam, Berlin, Leipzig, Helsinki, Malmö, Rome and Ghent called for action. Expanding these alliances at a European level is key to unlocking the possibility of another Europe.
Such an expansion is not just a question of networks between the mayors themselves. It depends on a will to experimentation and knowledge-sharing, both on the level of solidarity movements and municipal institutions. And it requires the building of a political and social leverage that can force the states and the EU to live up to their responsibilities to the refugee conventions and to provide sufficient funding for the municipalities.
The living social fabric of cities makes openness sustainable
The city is a place of a lived and contested cosmo-politanism not limited by the idea or borders of Europe.
Cities and towns are the true ground on which people arrive and people meet, and if they become sites of good encounters, institutional experimentation and actual integration (as opposed to the current politics of forced assimilation), the legitimacy of the border and deportation regime will come under strain. Only where municipalities interact with and listen to their populations – from citizens to undocumented migrants – can sustainable models of 'open' and welcoming cities emerge. Town councils must encourage and enable people's action and organisation without trying to control every aspect of them: making space for people to act.
Examples abound. There are countless municipal-supported experiments in linking inhabitants with newcomers, such as that of the Leipzig Refugee Council. Public and municipal institutions across Europe have introduced support schemes for refugees: universities such as Central European University Budapest, SOAS London or Warwick University have introduced special funds and scholarships and opened classes; student initiatives at SOAS, Malmö the UK student action for refugees network or the student-run law clinics in Hamburg, Leipzig, or Rome. Housing for refugees has been found through municipal call-outs and databases (in Vienna and Aarhus, for instance) as well as citizen and NGO platforms that connect newcomers with flatshares, such as German Flüchtlinge Willkommen or Room for Refugees in Scotland.
The city produces a sense of belonging as well as contestation over the common that relates to the everyday experience of commuting, working, going to school, living and paying your rent or mortgage. The city is where you recognize the truth of the imagined community of the nation: the heterogeneity of populations, professions and neighbourhoods, and the forms of cooperation, conviviality and contestation that come with it. Cities are where the abstract humanitarian desire to help the 'other' can be given substance through encounters, turning strangers into neighbours, comrades, co-workers, lovers…
Cities are where resources, relations and discourses become concrete and create worlds. Cities provide for newly arrived people with shelter, food, medical care, education. The question of resources is crucial. Poor cities hit by crisis and austerity easily become the sites of a zero-sum competition between 'locals' and migrants. In order not to divide their cities against themselves, city governments must take part in the fight against state and EU austerity and tax loopholes, and provide adequate funds for social services for their citizens – new and old.
As much as there have been attempts at pushing migrants and refugees out of the visibility of urban centres, to isolate them in remote camps, migration has always made it into the city. It is indeed a key part of the history of cities, of trade and travel, of the struggle over access to citizenship. As opposed to the EU's abstract space of elite cosmopolitanism, the city is a space of conflictual negotiation between classes, of racist gangs and anti-racist self-defence, a space of reproduction and of encounters. The city is a place of a lived and contested cosmopolitanism not limited by the idea or borders of Europe.
If municipalities, local institutions such as schools and libraries, associations, and political groups actively welcome refugees, a great deal can be done to build conviviality, counter racist stereotypes and acknowledge the role of migration in the current context of global injustice and geopolitics. The city is a privileged terrain for the development of post-national subjectivity also because it is where tensions around citizenship and access have always played out.
Therefore it is crucial that municipalities, NGOs and newly formed support initiatives take past and present migration struggles into account, particularly those of migrant self-organisation, since they know best about the concrete problems of access and discrimination. To avoid refugees and migrants getting pitted against one another, or that different generations and classes of migrants become alienated from the new initiatives, there needs to be active dialogue across new and old movements. The time is ripe for evaluating welcoming initiatives across places and experiences, to develop them as durable and inclusive practices.
These tensions have their singular manifestations in different cities. In Barcelona for example, there is a mounting contradiction between the town hall's failure to address the criminalization and police harassment that undocumented street vendors experience, and their vocal support for welcoming refugees. The possibility of a 'solidarity city' that's more than a limited humanitarian programme strongly depends on the capacity to articulate different struggles and experiences of migration, within the bigger picture that is global neoliberalist capitalism today. In this sense, the time is ripe for evaluating welcoming initiatives across places and experiences, to develop them as durable and inclusive practices that can last beyond the current 'crisis' moment.
Rethinking citizenship beyond the state
In the metropolis, the question of 'citizenship' – a tool for defining who has access to what in a given territory – becomes very concrete. Doors open and close in people's faces, streets and neighbourhoods are policed, tensions around poverty and exclusion play out. It's where access is defined not only by rights but also by actions, by everyday practices and relations, often by circumventing or dodging official policies, narratives or laws. Citizenship ought to be rethought from the real practices of cohabitation and solidarity that exist in the everyday life of neighbourhoods, especially poor and migrant ones. This is where 'the global' takes on meaning in relation to cohabitation and belonging. The current moment seems promising for redefining citizenship from below.
The current moment seems promising for redefining citizenship from below as well as from local governments and administration, in the cities. The right to the city too needs to be thought anew in this context. Stemming from struggles around land ownership and public space in cities, these point to the redefinition of who the subject of habitation is: do we think the city through the lens of citizenship or the autochthon, or indeed through the right to inhabit and the real contributions of people to reproducing daily life in the city? Everyone who lives here, is from here: new protocols and definitions of rights require a rethinking of the subject of rights. Cities might now experiment with alternative models.
The network of Sanctuary Cities in the US shows municipal models for guaranteeing rights through means other than citizenship. The model of the Sanctuary was born in the US in the late 1980s, when grassroots church networks and radical communities imagined and organised ways to welcome those fleeing from counter-revolutionary US interventions in central America: the access to housing rights, education and health as well as the possibility of working and of living in a community became the goal of large mobilisations that involved multiple cities all over the US.
Since the early 1990s these mechanisms of welcoming and of guaranteeing rights began to be regulated in local and later federal legal mechanisms. Firstly, by providing access to rights, as with the municipal laws in San Francisco that guarantee the right to public services, labour rights or a just trial, or with the New York ID card: a local ID card issued to any resident independent of immigration/citizenship status, valid in the face of police checks and granting discounts to transport and other municipal services. Secondly, by fighting at the federal level to regulate the legitimacy of city council and local counties in providing these services.
In a similar direction, many city governments in Europe are moving their pawns in the current situation, working to find routes and back routes to opening their cities to newcomers. These days we are witnessing a new movement of cities in Europe that actively seek to host refugees: they often do so by opposing the state and European Union. Many municipal and regional administrations have done their best to accommodate and welcome new people. Often in accordance with regional powers who play a key role too in providing the infrastructure of welcoming, cities are finding pathways for redefining themselves in relation not just to the state but also to the world.
If cities and urban movements begin to connect, a transeuropean municipalist movement is a clear possibility. Such a network offers a possible alternative to the failed internationalism of the EU, as spaces of concrete cosmopolitan solidarities join in an everyday production of citizenship through participation, collaboration and struggle.
With thanks to Franco Salvini for editorial comments
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Nutritional inadequacies in patients with stable heart failure.
Sodium restriction is the primary nutritional strategy in heart failure; however, other diet-related concerns may also occur. We characterized dietary intake among stable patients with heart failure and a non-heart-failure cardiac control group to quantify and determine prevalence of inadequate micronutrient intake. Two 3-day food records were completed by 123 patients with heart failure and 58 controls. A subset of each group provided two 24-hour urine collections. Mean intake of sodium (2,540+/-1,122 vs 2,596+/-1,184 mg/day) and potassium (3,190+/-980 vs 3,114+/-828 mg/day) was similar between the heart failure and control groups. Prevalence of inadequate potassium intake was 94% among patients with heart failure and 91% among controls. More than 50% in each group had inadequate intakes of calcium, magnesium, folate, and vitamins D and E. In stable patients with heart failure, sodium intake was not excessive. However, we demonstrated widespread dietary inadequacies of other vitamins and minerals. These findings highlight the importance of diet beyond that of sodium restriction.
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Arcand J
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Floras V
Ahmed M
Al-Hesayen A
Ivanov J
Allard JP
Newton GE
Journal of the American Dietetic Association 109:11 2009 Nov pg 1909-13
Cross-Sectional Studies
Diet, Sodium-Restricted
Nutrition Assessment
Nutrition Policy
Arcand, Joanne, et al. "Nutritional Inadequacies in Patients With Stable Heart Failure." Journal of the American Dietetic Association, vol. 109, no. 11, 2009, pp. 1909-13.
Arcand J, Floras V, Ahmed M, et al. Nutritional inadequacies in patients with stable heart failure. J Am Diet Assoc. 2009;109(11):1909-13.
Arcand, J., Floras, V., Ahmed, M., Al-Hesayen, A., Ivanov, J., Allard, J. P., & Newton, G. E. (2009). Nutritional inadequacies in patients with stable heart failure. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 109(11), pp. 1909-13. doi:10.1016/j.jada.2009.08.011.
Arcand J, et al. Nutritional Inadequacies in Patients With Stable Heart Failure. J Am Diet Assoc. 2009;109(11):1909-13. PubMed PMID: 19857633.
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London is not only one of the biggest cities in the world, but it is a global hub that accounts for the present and future of economy, culture and entertainment. So, if you are living in the English capital as of this moment, or you are planning on relocating here in the next several months, you will be in the centre of where everything is going on.
Today London is divided into 33 semi-autonomous areas that are called boroughs. One of those is Waltham Forest – and here we are going to tell you what you need to know about it, and why it is one of the best places in the city to live in.
The borough we will be talking about here is located to the north-east of the City. As the rest of the modern-day boroughs, it was formed after the administrative reform in 1965, in this particular case by merging the former municipal boroughs of Leyton, Walthamstow and Chingford. The name comes from the eponymous ancient forest, as well as an institution which was responsible for the deer-hunting activities on the territory of Essex. The remains of the said forest that can still be seen today are called Epping Forest and represent one of the most extensive open green spaces and notable landmarks in Waltham Forest.
The borough is on the smaller side in terms of total territory covered – 38.82 square kilometres and the population is 275 500 according to the results of the census that was carried out in 2011.
What makes Waltham Forest one of the best places in London to live in today is the fact that it was one of the Olympic Boroughs during the 2012 London Summer Olympics. As a result, many regeneration and development projects were carried out here in the years before, improving the conditions for residents and attracting more outside visitors than ever before.
The housing stock was largely regenerated before the 2012 Olympics and consists of both older Victorian terraced houses and buildings that were constructed in the Inter-war period.
An extension of Leyton, Leytonstone is another place that deserves your attention. The location of an old Roman milestone, the district is a quiet community with predominantly residential functions. Of course, one is going to find here impeccable removal services in Leytonstone E11, as well as nice schools and transport links – tube, train, and buses, as well as major roads – that make Leytonstone a desirable location for families with kids that prefer the peace of the suburbs.
Another residential district that we would like to point your attention to is Upper Walthamstow. This small suburban extension of the principal town covers a territory of just half a square kilometre. It is one of the more exclusive locations here. Both the terraced 1930s houses and the mid-size Victorian buildings that are to be found here will be perfect for you. Certified removals in Upper Walthamstow E17 are easy to find and will help you make your relocation to the district much smoother and seamless.
The last place we would talk about will be Walthamstow proper. The main district of the borough, with access to cheap removal services in Walthamstow E17, is the perfect place to relocate to. It lies 12.1 kilometres away from Charing Cross and is home to well over 100 000 people – a substantial part of the population of the borough. Good transport connections, the booming economy and low crime rates are just a few of the reasons why you should consider namely Walthamstow for the top place on the list of residential areas in Waltham Forest.


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Condolences - Hon. Robert James Lee Hawke AC
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Bob Hawke has become an embodiment of a uniquely Australian form of leadership. Bob's type of leadership can be summed up as a 'both/and' style; both determined and irreverent, both successful and humble, and both resolute and kind.
I rise to add my condolences about a great Australian. His passing was a great loss to Australia. Bob Hawke has become an embodiment of a uniquely Australian form of leadership. Bob's type of leadership can be summed up as a 'both/and' style; both determined and irreverent, both successful and humble, and both resolute and kind.
I'm not going to repeat the many achievements of Bob's long public career that others have catalogued here today. I just want to recognise and reflect on one aspect of that. Bob was rightly a hero of the Australian Labor Party, but he was also an Australian hero for what he achieved and how he shaped a better nation. He played a key role in removing one of the three stools of what has been called the Australian settlement. That settlement had effectively guided Australian public policy since Federation. It was first coined by Paul Kelly, and it represented, basically, a troika of three different policies that went together from our founding moments. The first was immigration restrictions and the White Australia policy, the second was high protective tariffs to develop a manufacturing industry in Australia, and the third was centralised wage bargaining. The White Australia policy was, of course, dismantled by the Holt government in the 1960s. Centralised wage bargaining wasn't completely removed until the reforms of the Howard government in the late 1990s. But it was Bob Hawke and his government that can be credited with the removal of high tariffs, the opening up of the Australian economy to the world and the foundation of the strong economic growth we've experienced since.
I want to point out, as a member of the Nationals party, that Bob Hawke did succeed where the Country and National parties had long ago failed. It was the Country Party in the 1930s which first tried to bring down Australia's tariffs. The first coalition agreement between the Country Party and the United Australia Party actually achieved—the Country Party successfully argued for the removal of tariffs on a number of items. Of course, the Country Party's campaign to save farmers money on having to pay tariffs for imported goods was lost. Later, the Liberal Party and the Labor Party were lock step in support of high protection, and so the Country Party took a different path. It took a 'if you can't beat them, join them' path, and under John McEwen established a protection all-around approach, where, if we were going to protect our manufacturing industries, we had better protect agriculture too. By the 1970s, however, the bankruptcy of that approach had become evident. Even as a child growing up in the 1980s, I remember the distinct concern that something was not quite right with our country. I remember Japanese exchange students coming here in droves and having all the latest gadgets and seeming much wealthier than us, and terms like 'banana republic', 'poor white trash of Asia' et cetera were thrown around about our nation.
Obviously, that was not our future. In the last 30 years, we carved out a different path than many thought we were headed down in the 1980s. A lot of the thanks for avoiding that predicted decline does go to the leadership shown by the Hawke government. Reducing tariffs and protection themselves was not an easy decision. It meant hardship for many Australians that had previously relied on those policies. But it was the right decision to open Australia up to the world, to make ourselves a stronger nation and to lay the foundations for the 28 years of uninterrupted economic growth that we have now all enjoyed.
The Hawke government's hard decisions were made easier through the general support that was given by the Liberal and National parties through those times, and we have tough decisions today, of course. We have tough decisions around our budget, the development of our regions and our resources, and the sustainable management of our environment. A greater degree of bipartisanship would make it a lot easier to make these hard decisions today for our future.
Of course, being on this side of the chamber, I did not agree with everything that the Hawke government did. It was under the Hawke government that the Labor Party seemingly first discovered the political opium of doing deals with the green movement to win elections. That first occurred, as has been mentioned, with the Franklin dam but moved on to other issues like the Coronation Hill mine and others. Whatever the short-term benefits of that approach, the longer term impacts have been disastrous for the Labor Party, culminating in this year's election, where many workers left the once proudly self-described workers party. This approach is simply wrong. It is not right to ignore the local knowledge and local interests of people in Australia at an altar of national political calculation.
Hopefully, the result of this year's election will help the Labor Party rediscover the central success of the Hawke government's time, which was a focus on economic improvement to make the lives of average Australians better. That is Bob Hawke's shining achievement as leader. He will be rightly remembered as one of the founding parents of modern Australia. For that reason, he has not passed from Australia's memory. He will long be remembered, which I am sure will be of some comfort and condolence to his surviving wife, Blanche, and other loved ones.


Lord, I ask for wisdom to understand a man, love to forgive him and patience for his moods because if i ask for strength, i'd just BEAT HIM TO DEATH!".
Lord in addition, give us the grace to withstand all the trash they drag our way and also help us to handle the pain and heartache they bring to us.
Lol, insinuation galore. But i still believe the messages are being delivered to the right recipients.
Hahahhahahaha I think I need to pray this prayer today because I am about to.............."all comments reserved"
Really it sounds like a women's prayer. nice to see that phrase..


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# Opcional. Retorna quantas migracoes devem ser rodadas por task (default = 1000)
MIGRATIONS_PER_TASK = 2

# Descricao amigavel dessa alteracao no banco
DESCRIPTION = 'multiplica por 2'

def get_query():
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    return QueDoidura.query()

def migrate_one(entity):
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Winners - Best Offshore Account provider category at the 2017
Skipton International won the Best Offshore Account provider category at the 2017 Moneyfacts Awards.
This is the 4rd time Skipton International (Skipton) has won a Moneyfacts Award – one of the most prestigious awards in the finance industry.
The Moneyfacts Awards involve an independent assessment of personal finance products with input from IFAs.
Skipton has been commended, highly commended or won an award for the past eight years.
Jim Coupe, Managing Director, Skipton International, said: "Winning this award for the second year running is a recognition of the consistently high levels of service, and long-term stable rates we offer our savings customers. Offshore accounts are an integral part of our offering; we look after the savings of Channel Islanders, people from the Isle of Man, along with British expats from more than 100 countries around the world.
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Skipton offers a range of offshore savings accounts including Notice, Easy Access, and Fixed Rate accounts, to Crown Dependency residents and British expats around the world. The bank is in the process of transforming its systems, developing a new online banking portal that will allow customers to access their offshore savings online, in addition to telephone, postal, and branch access.
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The Tolkien Society is an international fan club and educational charity based in England. Founded in 1969 with the blessing of J.R.R. Tolkien, it has expanded its membership across the United Kingdom, Europe and the world.
The Tolkien Society was formed in 1969 by Vera Chapman, an Oxford-educated retired teacher/civil servant, who, horrified at the annexation of Tolkien's works by 'the drugs-orientated writings of hippiedom', decided to form a group dedicated to the true appreciation of Tolkien's works.
On 6 November 1969, Chapman announced the formation of the Tolkien Society in the United Kingdom in the New Statesman. Initially London-based, the Society would meet in Chapman's North London flat; they kept in communication via a photocopied newsletter called Belladonna's Broadsheet (Chapman had adopted the name "Belladonna Took" as her Middle-earth alias), which was first published in December 1969. The Society's inaugural meeting was held in January 1970, and its constitution was ratified on 15 January 1972.
The Tolkien Society grew steadily, and Chapman willingly passed over responsibility for the bulletin to other hands whilst a more scholarly publication, "Mallorn" also appeared. Belladonna's Broadsheet went through a number of identity changes, being "Henneth Annun" for one issue before its then editor, John Martin, adopted its current name: "Amon Hen".
The Society also undertook a pilgrimage to Oxford, exploring the colleges and sites relevant to J.R.R. Tolkien's life. Visit was made to Wolvercote Cemetery where wreaths in tribute were laid. At that first visit, it was found that a wild bramble had rooted in the topsoil of the grave. This was rapidly uprooted, and the Society offered to buy a rose plant, the offer of which Priscilla Tolkien - Tolkien's only daughter - accepted. The weekend event culminated with a visit to the home of Priscilla Tolkien.
CONGRATULATIONS ON 80TH BIRTHDAY AND HONOUR. ANOTHER 50 YEARS TO BEAT THE OLD TOOK.
FROM all Hobbits, Elves, Elf-friends, Dwarves, Ents, Numenoreans, Rohirrim, etc. etc. etc. of the TOLKIEN SOCIETY (in Britain) with love and honour and hearty congratulations, to the creator of so much wonder. Although not to be compared with the true LONGBOTTOM LEAF, we hope that this will at least raise a few smoke-rings of happy recollection.
May I thank you and the Tolkien Society for your good wishes and kind gift on my 80th birthday. I appreciated your generosity very much indeed.
On the 27 June 1972, Vera Chapman was invited to a sherry party by Rayner Unwin, where she met Tolkien himself. After exchanging a few words with him about the belladonna plant, she asked if he would would be willing to be the Society's honorary president; he said "Certainly" before concluding, "If I can help your society in any way, I will."
Following the death of J.R.R. Tolkien on 2 September 1973, the Tolkien Society offered the post of Honorary President to Christopher Tolkien, Tolkien's son, but Christopher declined saying he thought the his father should remain president forever. At the AGM on 16 February 1974 the motion was passed that J.R.R. Tolkien should remain the Honorary President in perpetuo; he remains the Society's president to this day.
The following is a list of chairmen of The Tolkien Society. Italic text indicates an acting chairman who was appointed, rather than elected.
Amon Hen is the bulletin of the Society and is published six times a year.
Mallorn is the journal of the Society and is currently published once a year, in the Spring.
Oxonmoot is a convention held at an Oxford college on the weekend closest to 22 September, Bilbo and Frodo's birthday.
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) involves a meeting where formal business (with regard to the running of the Tolkien Society) is discussed, followed by a semi-formal dinner with a guest speaker. It is held each Spring.
The Seminar is an event which consists of a programme of talks on a Tolkien-related theme. It is held most summers (around June or July).
The J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference was held at Keble College (in Oxford, England) in 1992. It celebrated the centenary of J.R.R. Tolkien's birth. It was organised in conjunction with the Mythopoeic Society and was a combination of Oxonmoot 1992 and Mythcon XXIII.
Tolkien 2005: The Ring Goes Ever On was held at Aston University (in Birmingham, England) in 2005. It celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the complete publication of The Lord of the Rings.
The Return of the Ring: Celebrating Tolkien in 2012 was held at Loughborough University (in Leicestershire, England) in 2012. It celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit.


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This LLM provides students with an opportunity to develop critical understanding of how politics shape international law and how, in return, law shapes the behaviour of states in their dealings with one another and with other actors.
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This innovative programme examines the complex interplay between law and politics in international affairs. Delivered jointly by the School of Law and the School of Politics, Philosophy, International Relations and the Environment (SPIRE), the LLM provides students with an opportunity to develop critical understanding of how politics shape international law and how, in return, law shapes the behaviour of states in their dealings with one another and with other actors. As will all our postgraduate programmes, the LLM encourages an integrated theoretical and interdisciplinary approach to global governance, where law is studied in its broader philosophical, historical and social context. This approach is particularly suited to those who aspire to work for international institutions like the UN, non-governmental organisations, government agencies or international law firms.
Why study international law and business at Keele?
The Keele Law School has a long tradition of academic expertise in the field of international law. These subjects have been taught at Keele by world-renowned experts such as Michael Akehurst and Patrick Thornberry. In recent years, the Keele Law School has invested heavily in the area of international law. Students will be taught by dynamic academic staff with a wide range of expertise and research interests.
Keele is a pioneer and leader in cross-disciplinary education. Students on the LLM in International Law and Human Rights will take modules in both the Law School and the School of Politics, International Relations and the Environment (SPIRE). Students also have the opportunity to study modern languages - including key UN languages - as part of their degree, increasing their range of professional skills. Keele currently offers courses in: Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish.
Placement opportunities
The LLM includes a study trip to Geneva where students visit international institutions such as the UN, the ICRC, or the WTO. This provides an opportunity to meet with high level officials working in the field of international and human rights.
Students also have the opportunity to do work placements as part of their degree with any one of our partner institutions. Keele has a long standing work placement scheme with UN agencies and international NGOs.
The programme can be completed in 12 months full-time, or 24 months part-time. There is also an opportunity to take the course on a modular basis, spreading modules over a period of 2 to 5 years, allowing maximum flexibility.
Taught Modules
The list of modules below are offered in the 2018/19 academic year. We expect to offer the same modules in the future but this may change due to staff availability. If the modules change we will inform you during the admissions process.
Core Taught Modules
Foundations of International Law - This module provides a general overview of the nature of international law as a legal system, its subjects, sources and general principles, as well as an introduction to more specific themes such as the law governing the use of force, sovereign immunities or the settlement of international disputes.
International Law and Human Rights - You will acquire a strong, theoretical and practical understanding of the design and development of modern international human rights law. Special attention is given to the work of UN human rights bodies and of regional organisations, as well as the so-called 'dark sides' of the human rights project.
Advanced International Law - You will build on the knowledge gained in 'Foundations of International Law' module and have the opportunity to acquire a more-in-depth understanding of the nature, function and development of international law. As well as a thorough analysis of core areas of international law such as statehood, the law of treaties or state responsibility, the module explores recent events and developments in the field of international law.
Introduction to International Economic Law - This module will provide you with a general introduction to international economic law, with specific focus on GATT/WTO law and international investmentl law. You will be encouraged to think critcally about the structures of international economic law and their relationship with the environment, human rights, development and social justice.
Dissertation - You will complete a 15,000-20,000 words dissertation and will be assigned a supervisor to guide you in your research and preparation of the dissertation.
Electives include
Elective modules are grouped in disciplinary pathways. Students are free to choose their electives within a single pathway or across the various pathways.
LIST OF ELECTIVES
International Law Electives
Global Health Law
Transnational Crime
Human Rights Electives
Foundations of Human Rights
Equality, Discrimination and Minorities
Human Rights and Global Politics
Race and Justice: Civil Rights in the US
Environment Electives
Environmental Diplomacy
Dimension of Environmental Politics
Climate Change: Governance, Power and Society
Politics Electives
The Changing International Agenda
Comparative European Politics
Rethinking Fault-Lines: Beyond the East-West Divide in Global Politics
Business Electives
Globalisation and International Management
Developments in International Management and Business
Global Business Regulation
Modern Language Electives
As part of your degree, you will have the option of taking up to 30 credits in Language Studies. Language studies, particularly in the core UN languages, enable students to increase their range of transferable skills. Keele currently offers courses in: Arabic; Mandarin Chinese; French; German; Japanese; Russian; Spanish.
The list of electives may vary from time to time, depending on staff availability and sabbatical arrangements.
International Environmental Law - This module provides a grounding in the legal norms, institutions and processes of international environmental law, as well as exploring current environmental global issues such as biodiversity loss, transboundary pollution, toxic waste dumping, trade and environment, food security, animal rights and climate change.
International Humanitarian Law - You will examine the international rules that seek to regulate the conduct of hostilities in times of armed conflict, with special emphasis on the rules that govern the methods and means of warfare and the protection afforded to certain categories of individuals (civilians, persons hors de combat and prisoners of war). The module also looks at mechanisms of international criminal justice.
International Refugee Law - is currently a very topical subject arousing major academic, political and media interest. In the backdrop of contemporary refugee issues, the relevance of this topic is as great as it has been since the world wars. Although this module is delivered in the context of international law, it offers a study of the intersection between the legal, political, social and economic causes of refugees; the human rights and humanitarian dimensions of displacement; restrictive laws and policies. In doing so, it offers an insight into the plight of asylum seekers as they seek international protection.
Global Health Law - This module focuses on the international law, standards and norms relevant to the protection and advancement of health, including international law adopted by the UN and the WHO. Substantive content will include international health law-making and institutional structures; health security threats and responses to them; global health inequalities; access to healthcare services and essential medicine; the human right to health and biosecurity.
Transnational Crime - You will consider the norms and principles established by European and international law to tackle transnational crimes such as human trafficking, drugs smuggling, illegal arms trade, terrorism or cyber crime. As well as developing a critical understanding of key legal frameworks, the module examines major prevention and enforcement challenges, as well as the nature of illegal markets and the modus operandi of criminal groups.
Foundations of Human Rights - This broad foundation module provides a background in which to situate the study and critique of human rights theory and practice. It begins by exploring historical, philosophical and structural aspects of human rights, including Enlightenment perspectives, theories of rights/justice, universalism/relativism debates, sovereignty and non-intervention concerns. The module then provides an important critical elaboration and analysis of the normative frameworks in which human rights operate, with particular attention drawn to the lacunae/silences in human rights discourse.
Equality, Discrimination and Minorities - This module focuses on conceptual and institutional efforts regarding equality, non-discrimination and vulnerable communities, and builds on themes of race, ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, religion, and caste/descent in topical case studies.
Human Rights and Global Politics - This module develops connections between global and local responses to contemporary human rights issues, focusing on strategies to advance human rights in the context of political violence and terror. This will include comparative analysis of the use of terror by states against their own citizens and how this can be understood and explained, as well as an examination of the war on terror and its implications for human rights in both the North and South.
Race and Justice: Civil Rights in the US - The American Civil Rights movement is one of the most iconic protest movements for political and social equality in recent history. But how successful was this movement? What was the impact of the historic legal victories it won in the fight for equality? What did it do for people in the United States? This module examines the social and political background of the Civil Rights movement, focusing upon the conflicts over segregation and racial equality. You will review the relevant laws and court rulings involved in these issues and their impact in protecting civil rights.
Environmental Diplomacy - This module examines a range of case studies in international cooperation on common and shared problems related to environmental protection and sustainable utilisation of natural resources. These include, for example: tropical deforestation, transboundary and straddling fish stocks, elephants and rhinos, the great whales, acid rain, climate change and the global trade in toxic waste.
Dimensions of Environmental Politics - This module aims to provide students with an overview of key concepts, debates, processes and discourses in relation to the political dynamics of 'the environment'. It aims to be a broad introduction to the main facets of environmental politics and will cover the following three questions in environmental politics: How did 'the environment' come to be seen as a political question? How have political institutions responded to what have been called environmental problems? What are the challenges such problems pose for existing political structures?
Climate Change: Governance, Power and Society - Climate change has broad implications for states and societies, yet the foundations of debates on the issue are clouded with uncertainty. While there is broad scientific agreement over the onset of climate change, uncertainty is great in the realm of politics where policy-makers are forced to make decisions that have potentially wide-reaching impacts on their economies and societies. This module provides an introduction to the main academic frameworks used to debate these questions, with a distinctive focus on comparative public policy.
The Changing International Agenda - The module offers an in-depth critical assessment of the development, change and nature of the international system since the close of the Second World War. This will include the rise and fall of the Cold War, the birth the UN, decolonisation, globalisation, climate change, humanitarian intervention and terrorism. Adopting a primarily empirical approach, this module explores the reasons underlying these transformations, and addresses issues of how we talk about the international system.
Comparative European Politics - You will considers the nature and role of fundamental political structures in Europe, including political parties, executives and legislatures. The module explores the ways in which these structures, and the actors within them, interact, as well as the processes of socio-political and electoral change, and the consequences these changes have had on European politics and democracy.
Maritime Security - The traditional study of international relations has traditionally focused upon territory, state and sovereignty in terms of the politics of land, thus marginalising the impact of events and developments at sea that have historically shaped global politics. The sea, if spoken about, was described as a vast empty space through which things moved. But recent developments have radically altered this understanding of sea space. The sea is now understood as a place of wealth, a space ripe for commercial and scientific exploitation, a home in need of conservation. This module takes you through the legal, historical and economic aspects of these changes and explores the theory and practice of securing a vast, three-dimensional, fluid and dynamic environment.
Globalisation and International Management - This module offers insights into a range of social, political, economic , technological and cultural processes that influence and are influenced by the activities of transnational public, private and volunteer organisations, with special emphasis on the role those transnational organisations play in promoting or resisting globalisation.
Developments in International Management and Business - You will examine some recent developments in management knowledge and how these inform business activities and organisational performance. Drawing on empirical case studies, the module investigates how management knowledge is transformed when it 'travels' across the globe, with emphasis on practices such as talent management, TQM, and family-friendly policies.
Global Business Regulation - You will acquire an understanding of how the regulation of business operates in a global economy. You will examines why and how regulation moves from the national to the international level; challenges in implementation and the role of multi-national corporations; and the rise of meta-regulation as a result of the activities of business, NGOs and other global actors. These questions are examined in a variety of industries and policy contexts, with special emphasis on the regulation of global financial markets.
Academic entry requirements
You should have a first or second class honours degree (or foreign equivalent) in Law or a related discipline. Applications are welcome from current legal practitioners or any other person with appropriate professional qualifications and/or experience.
English Language Entry Requirement for International Students
Applicants for whom English is not a first language must provide evidence of a qualification in English language. The minimum score for entry to the LLM is academic IELTS 6.5 (or TOEFL 91). Students who have taken one of the English language qualifications but did not achieve the required grade may be admitted to the programme provided that they study on a pre-sessional English Language course before they start their degree studies.
Keele University currently accepts Tofel iBT tests that have been taken outside of the United Kingdom. All Tofel iBT tests will need to be taken no longer than two years prior to your start date at Keele and must be verifiable with ETS. If you have taken your Tofel iBT test in the UK please contact the admissions team for more information.
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Keele University is located on a beautiful campus and has all the facilities of a small town. Student accommodation, shops, restaurants and cafes are all within walking distance of the teaching buildings. This is a very cost effective way to live and will help to reduce your living costs.
We are committed to rewarding excellence and potential. Please visit our Scholarships and Bursaries webpage for more information.
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Awol Allo
Mark Eccleston-Turner
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Our Heritage Brass Luca door handles are a contemporary solid brass satin chrome plated door handle with a plain rectangular back plate and a curved lever. The back plate is slightly curved at the top and the bottom. These lever door handles are sprung and are available in lock, latch, bathroom and euro profile designs with a back plate measuring 169x42mm. The plain back plate has four screw holes. These door handles are supplied in pairs, one for either side of the door.


Of all the places for a bird watching holiday in Spain, not many can match the Ronda mountains. You can't ignore the birds around here – there are too many and they're too interesting to pass you by.
What sort of birds might you expect to see in this part of southern Spain? We have dippers in the stream alongside the hotel – hunting for food underwater – there are hoopoes, bee-eaters and golden orioles in the woods nearby – full of exotic colours, and raise your eyes from your sunbed to see Griffon vultures with 3 metre wing spans wheeling on the thermals, sometimes dozens at a time.
And that's just the easy stuff… there is such a variety of birds to be seen that you won't possibly see them all even during a long stay. Warblers of all kinds, four different eagles – watch a Bonelli's eagle hunting over a hillside and pretend not to be excited – hawks and harriers, an amazing migration in the spring and autumn, swallows, swifts and martins in the summer, river birds and so on. And to see them? Just keep your eyes open and, if you like, let us guide you towards some great birding sites.
In the first half of the year, you can visit a lake with 30,000 breeding flamingoes or, in the spring and autumn watch thousands of eagles and other birds of prey migrating from and to Africa, in the summer marvel at bee-eaters like miniature hang-gliders. Or contact a local guide for an even better bird watching holiday.
We can highly recommend two great people who offer this service : Peter Jones is a star and an amusing companion who is a source of information and stories on all aspects of the natural world. And Eva Bratek is also a star who has studied various aspects of Andalucian wildlife and has an infectious love of this area. Contact us for more details about these two very special people.
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Saturnite alloy research facility - The Vault Fallout Wiki - Everything you need to know about Fallout 76, Fallout 4, New Vegas and more!
The Saturnite alloy research facility is a location in the southwest of the Big MT in 2281.
It is located southeast of the Z-43 Innovative Toxins plant. It is a factory based on top of a cave system where they mine the Saturnite alloy. This building is full of crazed Mister Handy robots along with one unique Mister Handy by the name of Sparks.
Upon entering the eastern entrance is a standard lobby with a few desks and computers that leads to a main factory floor. This floor has a southern exit through a garage door, as well as a set of stairs that lead up to the tunnels. The tunnels take you to a cave system with more stairs, that eventually lead down into the main cave. The main cave, as well as Sparks, however, are protected by a force field, so an upgraded sonic emitter will be required.
Past the force field, at the very end of the cave, is a cavern with two catwalks that go around a magma pit and end up in a room. This room contains another crazed Mister Handy, as well as some of the notable loot below.
Light Switch 02 Upgrade: "Mood Lights" holotape: the doorway into the factory is a cabinet on your immediate left. The holotape is on a shelf of the cabinet.
Two construction hats, one up the first set of stairs to the left and one in the pit along with a skeleton at the bottom of the cave. The construction hat inside the pit is dangerous but possible to acquire - the player will die if they fall into the pit itself, but the shelf above the pit is safe to drop on to.
One Saturnite fist, located at the very end of the cave (Around the back of the pit) on a counter.
Five proton throwing axes and a Saturnite fist can be looted from the corpse of Sparks.
If the player commits suicide by jumping down the magma pit, the player will die before landing in the magma, and lay on top of the magma.
The Saturnite alloy research facility appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.
Xbox 360 If you load a save inside the game will stop at the loading screen (this player tried loading auto and hard save).
It is possible to become stuck in between the railings and staircase in the first room of Mister Handy's, requiring a reload to fix.
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What are acute and chronic skin disorders?
Acute skin disorders are short term or temporary. This type of skin disorders can be cured with certain treatments. In few cases this type of disorders can restore themselves without any treatment. This can be caused due to allergies, unhealthy diet, environmental factors. Few types of acute skin disorders are cold sores, blisters, chafing, corns, calluses, sunburn, itching, rashes, bruises and many more.
Chronic skin disorders are not curable. This type of skin disorders can be managed with treatment, life style changes and few tips. Chronic skin disorders can be caused due to genetics, family history and environmental factors. This type of skin disorders can affect individual's physical and psychological health. Few commonly seen chronic skin disorders are psoriasis, eczema, dermatitis and many more.
Skin is the largest organ of our body, skin not only improves our presentation but also does many other functions like it regulates body temperature, stops outside substances like dust, virus, bacteria and other foreign substances. Skin health is very important as it represents our body's health. Maintaining proper skin health is very important to avoid further skin problems. Healthy skin produces vitamin D using sun rays. Vitamin D is very important for our overall health. Healthy skin is very crucial for our overall health and also improves our self confidence and treats depression. Unhealthy skin can lead to several chronic skin disorders.
Usage of products on the skin which contains chemicals.
Itching and burning sensation around the infected area.
Red and dark coloured bumps which may also lead to haemorrhage.
Homeopathy for skin problems is very effective and treats the root cause of the problem. Skin treatment through homeopathy is a safe way, have no side effects and can be used to for all age groups. Homeopathic remedies for skin uses natural substances extracted from plants, vegetables, and minerals. Homeopathy treatment for skin disorders not just treats the issue but also improves immunity and self healing system of our body. Skin treatment through homeopathy not only improves skin health instead treats a person as whole. Homeopathy for skin problems is prescribed based on symptoms, family history and individualization.


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in: TV Characters, TV Deaths, Minor Characters,
Connor (played by Clark Carmichael) was a minor supporting character from Season 1 of Gotham. He was an Irish hitman employed by Carmine Falcone. In the episode "Under the Knife", Oswald Cobblepot - The Penguin - hired Connor to kill Salvatore Maroni. Penguin arranged for the hit to be carried out on the day that Tommy Bones, one of Maroni's old friends, was to be released from prison. Traditionally, Maroni celebrated the release of his pals at Lidia's, a small Italian dive in downtown Gotham. Butch Gilzean had planted guns inside the bar for Connor and his boys to use to kill Maroni.
In the episode "The Anvil or the Hammer", the time came for Connor to carry out the hit on Maroni. He arrived at Lidia's to "pay his respects", then reached for a gun that Butch had taped to the underside of the bar. When he pulled the trigger, however, the gun didn't fire. Believing Falcone to be responsible for putting out the hit, Maroni decided to send the don a message declaring all-out war. He had Tommy Bones shoot Connor and then mailed the hitman's severed head to Falcone's mansion.
What neither Connor nor Maroni knew was that the Penguin had planned for this all along. He had removed the blasting caps on the guns before Butch had planted them and wanted Maroni and Falcone at war in the hopes that they would wipe each other out, allowing Penguin to dominate Gotham's underworld himself.


I am way out of my league here, but this loss of roles we experience as we age has me exploring ego and self-identity.
We begin our lives just being. We are here, with no agendas, roles or goals. We have a sort of pure essence, a being deep inside. This seems to be our soul, our true nature. Its purpose is pure joy. We've all had those soul moments of perfect clarity, peace and deep knowing.
As we grow, our ego develops to help us define ourselves and find a place in the world. A healthy sense of self develops (hopefully) through repeated influences of family, school and social environment. This includes our likes and dislikes, our sense of right and wrong, what we learn, expectations of family and place and numerous other conditions that determine who we think we are. This ego can be a very useful tool. It only becomes destructive when we identify it as our whole being, or when we get too attached to it by focusing on achievement, desire and power.
I'm thinking there are two kinds of identity: ego-identity, which is how we want others to see us, and self-identity, who we really think we are, honestly. Does the development of our soul and self-identity depend on ego-identity for its teachings? Does living with a fully functioning ego give self-identity a chance to collect the data it needs to learn?
So there I was recovering from sinus surgery and then the flu, and for several weeks, I was cut off from everything in my life that has meaning – stripped away from my home, friends, activities I love, connections, etc. I felt formless, floating, with no structure. It was like dying, I think, in that my life became narrower and narrower.
Who am I if I can't do the things I love? Do these things I love to do make up my ego or my soul? Do they construct my identity? Which? Is there a difference? Are they part of the soul's growth toward authenticity? What's left when we can't do them anymore?
I'm not talking about identifying with accomplishments and roles here, and how tied people are to what they do and what they achieve. Many people believe that what they do is who they are, rather than it being only part of who they are. I'm referring to just the simple joys that give our lives meaning and richness – being with family, walking in nature, reading, working our bodies, listening to music, etc. – what I think of as self-identity.
Do we move closer and closer to no ego as we age? Is the work in aging to uncover all the ego-restrictions we've experienced during our lives? Do we go back to ourselves and our soul's essence the closer we get to death? Is death this time of no ego, only the pure embodiment of our spirit? And love, where does that fit in?
These questions are huge, and I feel somewhat grateful for opening to this unique time of illness to bring them to me. The drama of the ego certainly brings up many soul questions. I don't have all the answers, but I find the exploration fascinating. The not-knowing in itself is something I'm trying to practice more, as difficult as it is. Whew!


I was wondering if a course in the business side of medicine is included in the curriculum of most medical schools? Do these subjects get covered in other courses? I was thinking the other day and realized that I know very little about business let alone the business of medicine. I have checked the curriculum list that OU gave me and I don't see any course that specifically mentions this aspect of health care.
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
You will find that most of your business education will come from professors who make mention of things in their own practice.
At least thats the extent of our business training at PCOM.
The business side of medicine changes daily. You will need to take note of how things run while you are on your clinical rotations.


The inland voyage, instead of the adventure of cruising around the Atlantic coasts, offers a thorough immersion in French culture, plus passages through rivers, canals and locks of many different types and sizes: a memorable and unique experience in its own right. Under way, someone will always be at the helm - no autopilot laziness here. There's lots of activity to negotiate the locks. Hazards are occasional winter floods, turbulent locks, and depths dependent on seasonal rainfalls.
Vessels over 1.5m draft are limited in their choice of routes, and some routes have even less water. A new world of bridge heights, air draft (<3.5m, and less in places), flights of locks, CEVNI endorsements on your Certificate of Competence, ATIS and RAINWAT are considerations often new to the sea sailor. Sailboats will also need to consider how best to ship their masts.
From Bordeaux to the Mediterranean through the Canal des Deux Mers (Canal du Midi and Canal de Garonne). Maximum feasible draft 1.3m (officially 1.5m), headroom 3.3m. Journey time between 14 and 18 days. The Canal du Midi can be crowded in July and August.
A choice of entries from the Channel coastline; a short crossing to Calais or Dunkerque, passing north of Paris, or a longer hop to the River Seine and Honfleur/Le Havre, thence through Paris. After that, the "Champagne" is recommended, leading to the River Saone and River Rhone. Maximum draft 1.8m, headroom 3.5m. Journey time between 24 and 34 days.
Plus descriptions of the whole range of Mediterranean and Channel coastal ports linking with the waterways.


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Aspen marijuana-patch business acquired for $15,000
Marijuana Marijuana |
Rick Carroll
rcarroll@aspentimes.com
There's a change of ownership at RX Green, the Aspen-based manufacturer of marijuana-infused patches.
The Local Licensing Authority on Wednesday signed off on Steven Garcia's application to acquire the business from Josh Meacham of Snowmass Village.
The move comes a week after Meacham turned himself in to local authorities on allegations that he sold fake New Mexico elk-hunting permits. If Meacham were convicted of the felony theft charges, it would be illegal for him to run a marijuana business.
Meacham didn't attend Wednesday's change-of-ownership hearing. After the hearing, Garcia said Meacham's legal problems had nothing to do with the change.
"We've been planning this for months," said Garcia, who has been Meacham's business manager. He declined to elaborate.
Garcia bought the business for $15,000.
"We've done a complete 100 percent change of ownership," he told the board, adding that Meacham no longer works for the company.
The Local Licensing Authority was hesitant to give Meacham his manufacturer's license in January when his background came into question. Meacham's past included traffic transgressions in Arizona as well as a grand jury indictment in Arizona. The charge, also related to big-game hunting, was dropped. But Meacham failed to report the incidents on his application, prompting the board to call his character into question. At a subsequent special hearing, Meacham explained himself to the board, which unanimously approved his applications to manufacture marijuana-infused patches for recreational purposes and relocate his business to the basement of the Buckhorn Arms building at 730 E. Cooper Ave.
As many as 15,000 patches can be manufactured in one day at the roughly 600-square-foot space, Meacham told The Aspen Times earlier this year. Users of the patches simply put them on their arm, and the effects take hold within 45 minutes, lasting as long as 10 to 12 hours.
RX Green is strictly a manufacturer and distributor of the patches, which cannot be bought at its production facility.
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Martina Király (* 4. Juli 1971 in Budapest) ist eine ungarische Sängerin und Komponistin, die sich stilistisch in den Bereichen Pop, Soul und Jazz bewegt.

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Martina Király beschäftigte sich schon in jungen Jahren mit populärer Musik. Ihr Vater, der als Chefredakteur bei einem Jugendmagazin arbeitete, brachte oft Schallplatten mit nach Hause, welche sie hörte. So wurde sie beeinflusst durch die Sängerin Sarolta Zalatnay und die Gruppe Locomotiv GT. Im Alter von 16 Jahren begann sie, Saxophon zu lernen, wechselte mit 21 Jahren jedoch zum Gesang. Nachdem sie ein Studium der englischen und italienischen Sprache an der geisteswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Eötvös-Loránd-Universität abgeschlossen hatte, absolvierte sie eine Ausbildung an der Franz-Liszt-Musikakademie in Budapest, die sie mit dem Diplom im Bereich Jazzgesang abschloss. Zu ihren Lehrern zählte unter anderem Márkus Tibor. Sie wirkte als Sängerin beim Equinox Jazz Quartett und der Anselmo Crew. Es folgten Auftritte in ganz Ungarn, wie 2005 beim Lamantin Jazz Fesztivál in Szombathely. 2011 erschien ihr erstes eigenes Album Ready for you. Das Stück Ballonkabát dieses Albums erhielt im selben Jahr den 2. Preis bei einem Wettbewerb des Radiosenders Jazzy Rádió und bekam einen Ehrenpreis des ungarischen Jazzverbandes (Magyar Jazz Szövetség). Ein Jahr später erhielt sie als Komponistin den Jackie-Orszácky-Preis (Orszáczky Jackie-díj) der ungarischen Komponistenvereinigung.

Musikgruppen (Auswahl)
Martina Király ist bzw. war Mitglied der folgenden Formationen:
 Anselmo Crew
 Duo Martina Király und Krisztián Rácz
 Equinox Jazz Quartett
 Martina Király Band (mit Krisztián Rácz (Gitarre), Attila Herr (Bass) und Lajos Gyenge (Schlagzeug))
 The Lushlife Project
 Toy Division

Diskographische Hinweise
 Márkus Tibor & Equinox Jazz Quartet: Are You Free?, 2002
 Márkus Tibor & Equinox Jazz Quartet: Eclectic, 2004
 Anselmo Crew: Sex and violence, 2008
 The Lushlife Project feat. Martina: Highway, 2009
 Martina Király: Ready for you, 2011
 Martina Király Band: Higher Deeper, 2014
 Martina Király: The Female Role, 2018

Weblinks
 Király Martina bei BMC ()
 Nőnemű szövegek – Király Martina bei Music Media (ungarisch)
 JazzUp – Az Orszáczky Jackie-díjas Király Martina bei JazzMa (ungarisch)

Sänger
Komponist (Ungarn)
Ungar
Geboren 1971
Frau

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Kétbodony är en ort i Ungern.   Den ligger i provinsen Nógrád, i den nordvästra delen av landet,  km norr om huvudstaden Budapest. Kétbodony ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Terrängen runt Kétbodony är platt åt nordost, men åt sydväst är den kuperad. Kétbodony ligger nere i en dal. Den högsta punkten i närheten är Kók-hegy,  meter över havet,  km söder om Kétbodony. Runt Kétbodony är det ganska tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är Balassagyarmat,  km norr om Kétbodony. Omgivningarna runt Kétbodony är en mosaik av jordbruksmark och naturlig växtlighet.

Trakten ingår i den hemiboreala klimatzonen. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är december, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är maj, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är april, med  mm nederbörd.

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