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Digital technology has boosted growth, expanded opportunities, and improved service delivery in much of the world. ADB's initiatives are empowering the poor to use digital technology to help lift themselves out of poverty.
ADB's Work
ADB's Focus on Digital Technology
ADB's Work on Digital Technology
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Digital technology has advanced very rapidly globally, enhancing connectivity, financial inclusion, and access to trade and public services. Digital technology has boosted growth, expanded opportunities, and improved government services across Asia and the Pacific. The use of big data and the rise of online platforms have accelerated this process over the past decade. In addition, the enhanced role of digital technology in the face of social distancing and lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic has further grown the sector.
The transition to digital has also reduced barriers to market entry for firms, lowering inequality in the process. Advances in digital technology have enhanced the productive capacities of economies, helping to improve economic efficiency and growth. In addition, digitalization has contributed to rises in regional and global economic integration, helping many economies make progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG 9, helping to build resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and fostering innovation.
Efficient and affordable ICT infrastructure and services help countries to engage in the digital economy and boost their economic competitiveness. Such technology provides the means to deliver quality goods and services in health care, education, finance, commerce, governance, agriculture, and other vital areas. Digital can help reduce poverty and hunger, boost health, create new jobs, help mitigate climate change, improve energy efficiency, and make cities and communities more sustainable.
ADB recognises that for digital technology to effectively boost development in the region, more investment is needed in policy, regulations, infrastructure, capacity and skills. ADB financing has included support for:
Digital infrastructure, such as telecommunications networks, data centers, cloud services, devices and applications, and adequate power supply.
Digital technology industries, through an improved business environment, support to research and development, or enhanced competitiveness.
Digital technology start-ups, through ecosystem development and impact investment.
Digital services in areas such as education, finance, governance, and health.
Digital technology policy and strategy.
Data analytics and insights, such as leveraging public earth observation data from satellites for disaster risk reduction or intelligent agriculture.
Digital technology capacity development and upskilling.
ADB's digital technology work is raising agricultural productivity and the quality of life of farmers and the rural poor by improving information flow, communication, and access to reliable information. This empowers farmers and food processers and can lead to higher incomes and more sustainable livelihoods. Digital information technology helps farmers and agricultural producers make better decisions about market prices, logistics, credit, insurance, water supply, livestock, and other critical issues.
Aquaculture research facility in Palau. Photo: Eric Sales/ADB
In education, ADB is supporting its DMCs as they introduce digital technology to improve learning and teaching to build knowledge economies. These projects are particularly effective in rural areas where educational provision is often poor. For example, Uzbekistan's Information and Communication Technology in Basic Education Project, supported by a $30 million ADB loan, is bringing education to remote rural areas, benefiting 540,000 students. ADB also supports initiatives that make learning resources available online for students, teachers, and education professionals. Such technology improves administration and finance in education and aids communication within and between relevant ministries.
Beneficiaries of the Improving Internet Connectivity for Micronesia Project. Photo: Eric Sales/ADB
Digital technology has revolutionized healthcare and public health in many developing countries. ADB projects are improving medical consultation, diagnosis, and treatment, particularly in rural areas, through telemedicine. ADB also supports initiatives where appropriate use of digital technology brings huge gains in efficiency and lowers healthcare costs. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how critical digital technology is in national infectious disease management and in the sharing of public health information.
ADB grant-based PRC testing machine was handed to the Ministry of Health for increased COVID-19 testing capacity in Georgia. Photo: Tengo Giorbelidze/ADB
ADB supports e-government where it helps create new skills, builds capacity, and creates and stimulates public sector reforms. E-government facilitates lower costs, as well as transparency and public accountability. ADB digital technology projects have played an important role in public administration reforms in many developing countries. Such initiatives particularly benefit rural areas by connecting regional and local offices with central government ministries.
With ADB support, the Government of Mongolia has improved its state registry services by connecting 290 soums and sub-districts to the online registry system and improving legal environment, data quality, and accessibility. Photo: ADB
ADB support for telecommunications is changing lives across the region. Farmers receive weather and crop price updates on their phones; remote schools connect to educational resources through the internet; and citizens access banking and government services online. Along with facilitating development and progress, telecommunications is a booming industry in its own right. The industry has created millions of jobs in manufacturing, service provision, and application/content development. A reliable and affordable internet connection is essential to reap these benefits. For example, the Asia-Pacific Remote Broadband Internet Satellite Project provides digital connectivity to remote areas through satellite technology.
Greenhouse staff is harvesting tomatoes. The High-Efficiency Horticulture and Integrated Supply Chain Project will support 30 hectares of climate-controlled greenhouses in Yerevan, Armenia. Photo: Eric Sales/ADB
ADB's approach to digital development embodies the following guiding principles:
Apply an integrated and holistic approach to digital development to respond to the complex and multidimensional development challenges in the region.
Take differentiated approaches, based on the country's development priorities and needs, and their digital readiness.
Value digital technology as an engine for economic growth and for overcoming the middle-income trap in developing member countries.
Support the creation of strong foundations to enable the development and delivery of digital services and products across sectors in Asia sand the Pacific.
Help manage the privacy and security risks associated with digital technologies and platforms.
Promoting responsible use of technologies and data.
Promote inclusive digital development.
The strategic use of digital technology can facilitate effective and efficient delivery of public services in the key sectors of telecommunications, governance, education, health, and agriculture.
In 2003, ADB published its digital technology strategy, Toward E-Development in Asia and the Pacific: A Strategic Approach for Information and Communication Technology. The strategy's three main goals are to:
create an enabling environment through policy improvements, public institution strengthening, and relevant infrastructure provision
build human resources for digital technology literacy and professional skills
develop digital technology applications and information content through ADB-supported projects and activities
In 2016, the background report, Road to 2030: Information and Communications Technology in ADB's Corporate Strategy and Operations was released. This document highlighted the current state of digital technology, trends and applications, and recent and upcoming challenges within the sector.
In addition to providing assistance through its usual financing channels, ADB administers ICT Trust Funds.
e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund
The Republic of Korea (ROK) supports the digital technology initiatives of ADB's member countries through the e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund, as well as ADB digital technology initiatives through partnerships with concerned government institutions, such as the Ministry of Public Administration and Security and the National Information Society Agency, for capacity-building, training, and knowledge-sharing of best practices.
ADB's partnership with the Republic of Korea
e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund Annual Reports
Partnerships with Development Organizations
ADB promotes and encourages the implementation of projects with development organizations and other regional partners whose expertise and resources should be maximized in developing new ideas, innovative strategies, and technological platforms.
Partner Organization
Joint Initiative
Asian and Pacific Centre for Information and Communication Technology (APCICT)
National Information Society Agency (NIA)
Improving Public Services through Information and Communication Technology
This project, which aims to improve the capacity of governments in select DMCs in using ICTs for the better delivery of public services in key sector areas, such as administration, education, health, transport and agriculture.
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Rural Information and Communication Technology Policy Advocacy, Knowledge Sharing, and Capacity Building
This technical assistance aims to contribute to improving policy, legal, and regulatory environments to make them more conducive to the rapid deployment of ICT infrastructure and services for rural development.
United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
JFICT 9068 Empowering the Rural Areas through Community e-Centers under the SASEC Program
This project aims to reduce poverty, empower communities, and improve the quality of life in rural areas in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal through increased ICT connectivity and accessibility.
ADB's assistance in digital technology for development is also carried out through partnership with the private sector and civil society organizations. ADB also encourages public-private partnerships to help promote investments in innovative technologies and strategies.
In 2009, for example, ADB and software company Microsoft began consultations on the possibilities of supporting digital technology-related projects in DMCs. The partnership aims to capitalize on development opportunities created by digital technology in various areas of interest, such as innovation, governance, education, job generation, as well as regional integration and trade.
ADB aims to help countries in Asia and the Pacific region reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of their citizens. ADB assists its members and partners by providing loans, technical assistance, grants and equity investments to promote social and economic development.
The Digital Technology for Development Unit supports coordination under the European Space Agency (ESA) partnership, complementing Global Development Assistance (GDA) with the Earth Observation for Development and Digital Transformation Initiative. This initiative supports the Operational Departments to streamline the adoption of this technology into investment programs by leveraging synergies among several Technical Assistance programs to finance Capacity Building and Skill Transfer in Developing Member Countries.
Republic of Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund
Established in 2006 by the Republic of Korea, the fund contributes to poverty reduction in Asia and the Pacific by improving access to advanced technologies including information and communications technology and facilitating knowledge sharing and partnerships.
Your Questions Answered Digital technology challenges and solutions
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Digital Technology Strategy
Strategy 2030 sets seven operational priorities, each having its own operational plan. The operational plans contribute to ADB's vision to achieve prosperity, inclusion, resilience, and sustainability, and are closely aligned with Strategy 2030 principles and approaches.
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ADB Projects on Digital Technology
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Mongolia | 55190-001 | 19 Jul 2022 Transportation Information Systems Development
Maldives | 55348-001 | 01 Jul 2022 Dhiraagu Telecommunication Connectivity Enhancement Project
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One of the main benefits associated with tiled surfaces is the simple maintenance. Tiles have been used for centuries to give a durable layered surface that is hygienic and easy to clean. Not requiring any special cleaning solutions, tiles are easiest to completely clean than most floors options.
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Boston University study finds Vitamin D reduces COVID-19 risk
By Jim Morelli, Boston 25 News
BOSTON — A vaccine for COVID-19 may be months away, but a new study finds there is something already on the market that would appear to reduce the risk of coronavirus infection.
It's Vitamin D.
"Vitamin D modulates your immune system," said Michael F. Holick, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, physiology, and biophysics at Boston University School of Medicine. "It improves your ability to fight infectious diseases, including viral infections.
The study, which appears in PLOS ONE, compared COVID-19 infection rates against blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in more than 190,000 U.S. patients. Holick called the findings 'remarkable.'
"If you're Vitamin D deficient, you have a 54% higher risk of acquiring this infection compared to people who were Vitamin D sufficient," he said. "This was for all ages, for all ethnicities and for all latitudes in the United States in all 50 states. So whether you're in California, Florida, or Alaska this still remained the same."
Exposure to the sun's UVB rays triggers a reaction in skin cells which makes Vitamin D. How then, to explain, that the three states with the highest number of COVID-19 cases are also among the sunniest: California, Texas, and Florida?
"You only get Vitamin D from the sun from about 10 a.m. until about 3 p.m.," Holick said. "And there's been a lot of controversy about sun exposure so people put sunscreen on that basically prevents you from making Vitamin D."
Holick said Vitamin D insufficiency is actually very common in Florida and California because of sunscreen use -- and the fact many avoid the midday sun.
"You might think well, if you have a healthy diet you're getting all the nutrients and Vitamin D you need... not true," Holick said. "Because only oily fish like wild-caught salmon, mushrooms exposed to sunlight, and cod liver oil are the only natural forms of Vitamin D in your diet."
Milk and fortified orange juice can add additional small amounts of Vitamin D, but Holick said that still doesn't add up to enough.
He said supplementation is a safe and effective way to maintain healthy levels of Vitamin D.
"Infants 400 to 1000 units a day, children 600 to 1000 units a day. And teenagers, in my opinion, should be treated like adults: 1500-2000 units a day," Holick said. "If you're obese you need two to three times more."
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Kommos Beach on the south coast of the Greek island of Crete.
Forget that for a hot moment it lit up my Instagram like a brand new Kardashian curve: Kommos Beach in Crete is cool on all counts. The first time I saw this overlooked Greek beach I very nearly rolled like a human boulder from a church's back door into its crashing electric blue surf. That's because my archaic insistence on using paper maps had put me on the wrong side of a village I was trying to find. When I finally pulled up to a small Greek Orthodox chapel in the hope of asking someone for directions, I didn't realize I would be on top of a bluff with swirling waves a couple hundred feet below.
That view had me swooning: a glorious expanse of liquid sky blue fringed by a wide arc of white-gold sand, ringed by pine green and beige mountains behind. In the distance, the uninhabited island of Paximadia seems custom-made to fire up your wanderlust. There are very many beaches in Europe that are, well, nice but also rather manicured and small. Here, petite just doesn't apply. Kommos feels like a slice of heaping nature at the end of the earth and it's not something you can resist.
At least, I couldn't. The church was closed and nobody was around. So I started hiking down a path when I realized it wasn't a path, just a rocky hillside so steep that I had to summon my doughtiest inner mountain goat to make it to the bottom without falling flat on my face first.
Like many people, I had thought of the ancient ruins of Crete mainly in terms of the famous (and super touristy) Bronze Age archaeological site of Knossos, just outside the modern city of Heraklion on Crete's north coast. The legendary home of King Minos and the mythical Minotaur steals all the thunder, so to speak, but to the detriment of greater awareness of Crete's wider cultural legacy in Greece and beyond.
When I rented a car and drove south from Knossos to the town of Matala, I did not expect to see another ruined Minoan palace along the way, but I did: called Phaistos, it was one of the largest cities of Minoan Crete. It's beautifully situated just a few miles from the northern shore of the Libyan Sea. The Minoan ruins at Kommos constitute what was once the palace city's port.
According to the Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations, in the later Bronze Age particularly "Crete became a familiar anchorage for voyagers from the coasts of Asia, Africa and Europe, accepting, adapting and transmitting an adventurous blend of cultural impulses."
Beholding these ruins, perched as they are a few meters above the sea, reactivates the sense of wonder that Minoan culture has long held for scholars of the ancient world. While it's true there are other evocative seaside ruins around the Mediterranean—Leptis Magna in Libya and Salamis in Cyprus come to mind—none combine ancient pedigree with natural setting to quite such dramatic effect as here at Kommos.
This patchwork of stone was once the busy harbor and customs clearing house of one of the earliest civilizations, and though for now you can't walk among the ruins you certainly get an eyeful. Claire Lyons, a curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum, once told me that "ruins evoke the contrast between what is lost and what is retained, and between civilization and nature" and that "there is something quite poetic about them in that sense." And how: at Kommos you are almost standing inside one of the most epic poems of all time: a place referred to in The Odyssey itself: "a small rock holds back the great waves," Homer wrote.
Because of Crete's rugged terrain, you can't see Kommos until you're literally meters from the sand.


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When we had the other house, we were spending all this money on oil to heat the home in winter. In this home, we do not have these bills, so in the winter, we keep the house at a very comfortable 71 degrees.
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Q: Scaling the axes in a polar plot of ggplot individually? my dataset is
cvar setting value
var1 min 20
var2 min 5
var3 min 140
var4 min 40
var5 min 600
var1 max 60
var2 max 15
var3 max 180
var4 max 80
var5 max 1200
var1 center 40
var2 center 10
var3 center 160
var4 center 60
var5 center 900
var1 upper 57
var2 upper 13
var3 upper 162
var4 upper 79
var5 upper 1250
var1 lower 20
var2 lower 6
var3 lower 153
var4 lower 40
var5 lower 620

With
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(data=daten, aes(x=factor(cvar), y=value, group = setting, color = setting)) +
  geom_line() +
  coord_polar()

I get something close to what I am looking for.
I would like to have each of the axes scaled individually, either from 0 to the respective max or with individual min and max for each.
Could someone give me a hint, please?
Thanks in advance
Holger

A: If you mean you want the range of values to be scaled for each cvar, you can do that before passing the data frame to ggplot:
library(dplyr)

daten2 <- daten %>%
  group_by(cvar) %>%

  # option 1: this scales the values at each varX from 0 to max
  mutate(value.scaled = value / max(value)) %>%

  # option 2: this scales the values at each varX from min to max
  mutate(value.scaled2 = (value - min(value)) / (max(value) - min(value))) %>%

  ungroup() %>%
  mutate(setting = factor(setting,
                          levels = c("max", "upper", "center", "lower", "min")))

p1 <- ggplot(data = daten2,
       aes(x = factor(cvar), y = value.scaled, group = setting, color = setting)) +
  geom_line(size = 1) +
  expand_limits(y = 0) +
  coord_polar() +
  ggtitle("Scaled value range from 0 to max")

p2 <- ggplot(data = daten2,
             aes(x = factor(cvar), y = value.scaled2, group = setting, color = setting)) +
  geom_line(size = 1) +
  coord_polar() +
  ggtitle("Scaled value range from min to max")

gridExtra::grid.arrange(p1, p2, nrow = 1)

Edit: If you want to join the first and last cvar values, you can repeat var1 at the end of the x-axis, and explicitly set expand = c(0, 0) so that the last cvar value joins up with the first under polar coordinates:
# I'm only demonstrating with one of the two cases above,
# but the same principle applies in either case.

ggplot(data = daten2 %>%
         filter(cvar == "var1") %>% # make a copy of the dataset with only var1
         mutate(cvar = "var6") %>%
         rbind(daten2),             # append the copy to the full dataset
             aes(x = factor(cvar), y = value.scaled2, group = setting, color = setting)) +
  geom_line(size = 1) +
  scale_x_discrete(expand = c(0, 0),
                   breaks = c("var1", "var2", "var3", "var4", "var5")) +
  coord_polar() +
  ggtitle("Scaled value range from min to max")

And if you want the lines to be straight under polar coordinates, the answer here describes an alternative:
coord_radar <- function (theta = "x", start = 0, direction = 1) {
  theta <- match.arg(theta, c("x", "y"))
  r <- if (theta == "x") "y" else "x"
  ggproto("CordRadar", CoordPolar, theta = theta, r = r, start = start,
          direction = sign(direction),
          is_linear = function(coord) TRUE)
}

ggplot(data = daten2 %>%
         filter(cvar == "var1") %>%
         mutate(cvar = "var6") %>%
         rbind(daten2),
             aes(x = factor(cvar), y = value.scaled2, group = setting, color = setting)) +
  geom_line(size = 1) +
  scale_x_discrete(expand = c(0, 0),
                   breaks = c("var1", "var2", "var3", "var4", "var5")) +
  coord_radar() +
  ggtitle("Scaled value range from min to max")

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Hengbao Co., Ltd. had participated in the 1st CARTES Asia held at AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong from March 16 to 19, in which the company had exhibited the new generation of leading mobile payment solutions, and attracted numerous visitors from Asia, Europe, Africa and other regions.
As a leading supplier of smart cards in China and a leader in the field of mobile payment, the company has introduced RF-SIM, dual-interface SIM, SWP-SIM and other comprehensive solutions for mobile payment by targeting on different scenarios and customers' requirements and taking its substantial experiences in financial and mobile communication industries into consideration, and has realized the mass commercial uses in China. The company is committed to introducing the solutions to the international market and serving the users all over the world. According to the exhibition show, the company's products and solutions have earned high recognition of the numerous customers. Upstream and downstream partners of the industry chain, including banks, mobile operators, terminal manufacturers and integrators, all showed their great interests and intention for cooperation.
Hengbao Co., Ltd. has recently established a wholly-owned subsidiary in Singapore for international business to vigorously explore the international market. CARTES Asia is the first international smart card exhibition for Hengbao to participate in, and it is crucial for the company to build its brand and improve its influence in the international market.


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How I Got Here: Joseph Rodriguez
As a taxi driver in the 70s and 80s, photographer Joseph Rodriguez captured the intensity of New York City from the driver's seat. He talks to us about his childhood, learning from the greats, and his 'get close' mantra
By Megan Williams 04/01/2021 11:44 am
Joseph Rodriguez has an instinct for storytelling. He speaks with verve and familiarity, and talks about the world as though he's seen it all. In many ways, he has.
Before his career as a photographer fully took off, Rodriguez was a taxi driver. His new photo book, Taxi: Journey Through My Windows 1977-1987, sees a coming together of these two lines of work and, through his lens, he reveals a visceral and unflinching view of New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
As a cab driver, Rodriguez was at once hidden and exposed – a little like his subjects – hidden enough to earn the trust of his fares as they relayed their histories, yet exposed by ferrying dangerous passengers in the obscurity of the small hours. His position as silent observer became a conduit for his anthropological brand of photography, encapsulated in the elements that frame many of his shots: the edges of the car window, the reflection of a wing mirror.
Rodriguez's black and white photographs diminish none of the colour and intensity of the city or its people as we catch fleeting glimpses of S&M club goers, homeless people, elderly couples, children playing in their neighbourhoods, and everyone in between. In a recent exhibition at the Galerie Bene Taschen in Cologne, the series was placed in dialogue with another significant, long-term black and white project, Gold, by Sebastião Salgado – a photographer who Rodriguez looked up to at university.
Like Rodriguez's other projects – from his early documentation of Harlem communities to illuminating gang life in east LA – his remarkable photographs of New York City bring disregarded people out of the shadows. In the book, detailed captions about these people lift away some of the forced anonymity that comes with being a member of the underclasses in a city that could quite easily swallow you. When it comes to his own life story, Rodriguez speaks candidly about his difficult childhood and later struggles with addiction.
Ahead of the book's publication in the UK, he talks to us about his early years, working as both a cab driver and a photographer, and the role of empathy in his work.
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"Oh for sure Duane is crying that was his life's work invested into him but Duane knew he was on the juice to. What a leader he is!" Dillashaw posted in response to a fan on Twitter.
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"He is not the first nor will he be the last but yes it is inexcusable! People make mistakes BUT ♂ he's still my Ninja! #StillMyNinja #KillaShaw ⚡ , 'He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.' Jesus Christ," Ludwig posted in defense of Dillashaw.
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A return to former glory.
In 2009, 20010 and 2011 I only did 1 overseas trip a year, and they were both 3 day European city visits.
In 2012 I visited 4 countries and up to this point, I have visited 7 countries in 2013.
Next year, I'm booked on a 15 day trip to Cuba. Its a return to the big trip, other-side of the world type adventuring that I used to do frequently.
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Oh, for those that have noticed, sorry there's been no update about Dubrovnik yet. I just haven't had a minute lately, but it will be complete in the next 10 days.
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Last Saturday, I attended a meeting of the Chester Globetrotters.
2 superb talks, one about an overland trip across Mongolia, and another about budget travel in Tokyo.
Both fascinating talks. The 2nd one was interesting to me, as having visited Tokyo, I was convinced budget travel there was practically impossible.
Yet no. Hotel accommodation for 2 people at £34 per night was common and using a 7 day bullet train ticket, travel across the whole country could be achieved (in significant comfort) for a reasonable amount.
It was also nice to catch up with Hanna and Kevin and all the other organisers of the group, who I haven't seen for months due to work commitments.
Later in the pub chatting about travel, it was enlightening to talk to Kevin, as I had just recently completed reading his book Inshalla, Odssey to the middle east.
The CDWG (which I heard about through the Globetrotters) are also having an AGM on the 21st, so should be a chance to catch up with old friends there as well.
Last Wednesday, I went out to an IVC club night (haven't seen as much of Glenn as I'd have liked recently, so it was a double celebration).
We had a couple of drinks in a pub called Artichoke.
A few friends (Alex, Giles and Andy) are all growing moustaches for Movember.
I don't like moustaches, so I'm not taking part myself, but I'm contributing to the charity.
Next Tuesday, I'm going to see Alan Davies at the William Aston Hall in Wrexham.
He'll be doing stand up comedy, which I've not seen before.
It will be interesting, as to me, he's always been Jonathan Creek, a series I think is absolutely fantastic.
Following Monday, I'm going to a talk by Doug Scott at the Catrin Finch Centre.
Scott and Bonnington's mountaineering feats are legend, but I've always been fascinated by their first ascent of the Ogre (a fascination that's spanned 25 years).
I've met Chris Bonnington on Skiddaw.
He'll be talking about his life in mountaineering. I'll write more about once I've been.
The other evening Vaughn, an ace provider of printers and MFD's invited us out on a social event.
Vaughn, has never let us down, supplies top notch equipment, keeps it working, keeps a constant source of consumables and is very flexible in the delivery of the printing service.
N and I went along to the wine tasting at the Ramada in Wrexham, where we met some of his other customers and his lovely wife.
Afterwards, we jumped in a minibus and headed to Barton Rouge in Chester. One of the city's best Indian restaurants.
We finished of with a few pints in Harkers arms next door.
We had a lovely evening, so a quick thanks to Vaughn and everyone else who attended.
I've lately been accused of prevarication (PREVARICATION !. me ???).
As Picard once said. Belief systems are based on experiences. A disciplined mind is never afraid to re-examine and re-evaluate the conclusion's reached.
What that's got to do with the price of fish, is it was N's birthday and it was time to get back out adventuring.
A weekend in Keswick in the lake district beckoned.
We arrive at our B&B in Keswick.
Very comfortable, spotlessly clean place that will be our home for the next 2 nights.
We headed out for the evening, and had a couple of drinks in town (also visiting the Inn at Keswick, previously the Keswick lodge. A shadow of its former self now, but a place I've had many good times).
In the morning, we have very civilised breakfast, organised with a questionnaire from the night before (fab idea in my opinion. I can't count the number of times I've been served breakfast, knowing that fried eggs and tomatoes are just not going to be touched).
Our host offers advise on the days walking (that's the reason were here).
Were both keen to do Helvellyn and Haystacks. Its pointed out, that frost is at 700m and Helvellyn is well above that. Also, the weather that day isn't good, but on Sunday it will improve.
He recommends a walk, which is a circuit of Derwent water lake, but takes in Walla Crags.
Reminded me of Rick Waller.
It was raining as we left, but just as our B&b householder had said, the walk began literally outside the front door.
We followed the path up to the crags. From the top, there were spectacular views (despite the weather) of Derwent water.
As we look across, we could see the mountains with snow on them. It re-affirms the decision, not to do Helvellyn that day.
We drop down to the path around the like.
Its easy, but one of my favourite walks of all time.
Although I've done the walk dozens of times and have even stayed at the Lodor falls hotel, for the first time, I actually visit the Lodor waterfall, photographed above.
Nearby, we stopped for lunch at the Mary Mount. They did really nice sandwiches there, and the extra chips we ordered weren't even necessary.
One surprise we got when we arrived was what to do about our walking boots. They had really nice carpet inside. Seemed only natural, to take off our boots at the door and wander around in our socks. But what would the staff think ?
As it was, they seemed fine. Loads of other walkers appeared, and as we left, dozens of pairs of boots were laid next to ours at the door.
On our 2nd evening, we had dinner in town. It was a sort of fusion restaurant, so I had Broccoli and Stilton soup to start, and Madras curry and naan bread as a main. Not every restaurant is so flexible.
Above, I've included a photo of the famous "Gigantic pie" which they server in the George hotel. Really popular, it was standing room only at the bar, and the restaurant were taking bookings, several days in advance !.
Tragically, the famous curry house in Keswick has now closed down and is looking for a new owner. I real shame I thought.
Next morning, up bright and early, eat breakfast and pack up the car.
This time we've decided to do Haystacks. It has significance to anyone who's a fan of Alfred Wainwright, as his ashes are scattered over Innominate tarn there.
Its in a place called Buttermere, and initially, we had problems with the Sat nav. In the end it took us there the shortest way, missing out the best of the views. That's technology for you.
Buttermere really is a beautiful spot. I'm going to come here again (Black Sail youth hostel is near here, similar to Skiddaw house where I've stayed previously.
We decide to make the trip a bit more exciting, and wander up Red Pike, rather than taking the easier route (which later, would have consequences).
Exhausting work, but the view back to Buttermere was the best one of the weekend.
We continued along the tops towards Haystacks, bagging 3 fells along the way.
As we reach the foot of Haystacks, its pointed out to me that we've spent so much time on the tops that its now 3:25pm. It will be dark in less than an hour.
Unfortunately, well have to had home.
No matter, Buttermere is a truly beautiful place, and I've just been handed an excuse to come back here !.
Sunday dinner on the way home, and another weekend over.
Well, a sad day today.
Jo Howard, the ace project manager on our new building celebrated her last day (its been complete now for 8 weeks and her work here is complete).
Its a bitter sweet moment for me. I've learned loads of useful things from Jo, and I love working with her (along with Dan, Adam, Steve and toilet Jim).
But people like that, don't stand still for long, and Jo is off for the next challenge.
Whilst we could have gone somewhere more elaborate for a goodbye lunch, it seemed more fitting to relax in the superb staff canteen (one of Jo's many success story's).
We reminisced about various fun (and sometimes alarming) experiences over the past year of the move.
I can honestly say, in employment terms, I've gained more skills and experienced more things in the last 12 months than I have in the previous 10 years.
I'm reminded of a quote by William Blake: Look around. Almost everything you can see physically around you existed in someone's imagination before it become real.
When I walk through the new building each day doing my work. I realise the bridge between that imagination and the tangible building as it exists now was almost solely down to Jo's organisation and hard work.
Okay, she didn't actually put up any walls, and in my case, I built the network and the phones and stuff like that. But without a flag for us all to to march behind, none of it would have happened on time if indeed at all.
Its been an honour and pleasure to work with you Jo and I hope you'll keep in touch with us back here in Warrington.
Well, last couple of days have been quite hard.
With the onset of dark days and evenings, I've been feeling a bit down, due to SAD and its really affected my creativity, hence delay in this and other updates to the website.
On a more positive note, one advantage of our new building, is an excellent canteen run by Dine with good food each day and a relaxing place to have lunch and breaks.
In the middle of the photo, is Emily. As well as being the head chef, she drives the entire kitchen with her energy and enthusiasm.
An absolutely amazing weekend, began early evening in Corks Out wine shop in Chester.
For a while now, I've been seeing someone I really like. Not everyone is like me, and wants their whole life up on the internet, so I've not mentioned her specifically in the blog, until now.
N (that's what I'll call her) really enjoys drinking wine (not the way I enjoy drinking Carling, it's more about the appreciation and the experience).
It's nice when you meet someone with similar hobbies to yourself (like hill walking) but it's also great to try out new things with someone nice.
Every couple of weeks, they do a wine tasting at Corks Out. We normally pay a couple of quid and then get to try 6 wines, representative of a particular region or supplier.
The evenings are normally lead by the shop manager Tom (an extremely talented and charismatic chap, who can engage all levels of wine expertise).
Okay, so I'm not a wine expert, and some of the specialist stuff is a bit lost on me. Thing is, I love trying new things.
For example, did you know, if you ordered a glass of White Zinfandel, it would arrive and you would probably send it back thinking it was Rose. In reality, Zinfandel normally creates a deep red wine, so even when processed into white, it keeps some of its colour.
After this, we head to a restaurant I've always wanted to visit.
It's been open a couple of years, and I've heard amazing things about Upstairs at the Grill, but never managed to eat there.
Originally a fan of Jamie Oliver, I remember he once said the key to running a restaurant was simple food, cooked to perfection with amazing ingredients.
We head home, and get some rest. There's a lot happening the next day.
I love being outdoors, but honestly being wet and cold is one thing I simply cant stand, and as long as I can remember, I've always hated it.
N couldn't decide what to buy me for Christmas last year. She knew I'd been in a helicopter, submarine and stuff like that, but I'd never mentioned White water rafting.
The main reason I'd never done white water rafting, is that the very idea horrified me. I'd had the chance 3 times before, in Borneo, Peru and Andorra. On 2 occasions, I actually paid for it, but couldn't bring myself to go.
As I opened my card I found 2 places booked on a white water rafting adventure at the National White Water Rafting centre.
On the day of the event, this wasn't something I was looking forward too at all. As we left the car to go to reception, I felt like a man walking to the gallows !.
Things were OK, until I tried to put on the wetsuit, and realised how ridiculous I looked in it.
We headed up the hill, put the boat into the water and off we went.
A dress rehearsal for hell !. Cold water splashing into the boat and soaking me. Awful.
After the first 2 goes, it got better, and the 3 after that were quite fun (I think the excitement had warmed me up).
So, will I ever do it again. Unlikely, but it wasn't anything like as bad as I expected. Another lesson, to not be frightened to try something new.
We've decided to make a weekend of it, so we head to the White Lion Royal Hotel (I really liked the hotel but couldn't help thinking the words were in the wrong order).
Bath and a couple of beers. Dinner in Plas-Yn-Dre.
Up the next morning for a cracking full Welsh breakfast.
We had intended to do the 2 lakes walk in Bala (and after buying the wrong map, I bought the correct 1 with the 2nd purchase).
Unfortunately, we were "enjoying" some of the worst weather that the country had seen for an entire year.
A rethink was needed, so we instead decided to visit Portmeirion.
The rain stayed away, and we wandered for hours, around the forest and next to the ocean.
I even found a viewing point high above the village, where I could take this shot.
Wandered by number 6's house from the Prisoner.
As you'll know if you've been there, its now a souvenir shop. I had a look inside, but I already have a mouse mat and mug, so didn't buy anything.
We had dinner at an Italian restaurant in the village, then set off home.
What an absolutely fab weekend.
But life isn't all smiles.
I've been a regular visitor at the Countess of Chester hospital recently (nothing serious, I have Polycythaemia, which means my blood is very thick. The "cure" is simple, they just take a few pints out, to thin it out again.
As I was walking to my appointment recently, it was raining, and I saw a young woman sitting out on the grass, in just a jumper, in the pouring rain.
I wondered what on earth she was doing. As I drew nearer, I could see that she was beside herself with grief.
I gestured if she was ok, and she gestured me away, she wanted to be on her own.
Can only guess, that she lost someone close to her in the hospital.
The message, to me though, is simple. Life doesn't go on forever.
Make the most of every moment, and dont put off your adventures. One day, there wont be a tomorrow, and the chance will be gone.


White-collar crimes towards consumers have increase dramatically in Australia in the recent years. Particular interest of researchers has been attracted to the white-collar crimes against older people in Australia. Unfortunately, in the modern era, such people become the least protected consumers and undergo the largest losses. It is much easier for white-collar criminals to take advantage of older people. Therefore, it has been argued that they need the most protection from the government in this regard. White-collar crimes towards consumers in Australia take many various forms.
This type of crimes describes "consumer victimisation which may occur when someone is selling something or delivering a service. It includes such areas as commercial transactions (telemarketing, Internet sales, door to door sales, mail orders); home repairs and home construction; buying and servicing vehicles; and financial transactions (cheques bouncing or problems with credit card purchases, health care products and services fraud, the illegal transferring of money and property as well as superannuation scams).
" One of the most widely-spread white-collar crimes in Australia and other countries of the world nowadays is telemarketing fraud. "For the last decade, telemarketing has been a significant area of consumer fraud, particularly where older people are concerned. " Telemarketing fraud has been broadly used by companies in order to promote products which have very low quality and do not answer the requirements of people. Being unable to sell them in stores, companies turn to telemarketing sales.
As the result of them, many Australians have obtained products which they did not need at all. A Survey was conducted in order to determine the perception of telemarketing by those people who were deceived by it. The results of the survey "found that most victims of telemarketing fraud were well educated, have above-average incomes and are socially active. Less than 5 per cent of these people thought that a telemarketer could be a criminal and 40 per cent said that they could not distinguish legal from illegal telemarketing" .
That is why it was possible to conclude that for the most part, telemarketing fraud is very hard to distinguish even for well-educated people. Even though they are sure they can easily tell the fraud, they still become its victims. In order to protect consumers from this type of fraud, it is necessary to enforce all of the efficient laws regulating this field. It has also been discovered that the active use of computers by individuals has made them even more sensitive for all kinds of white-collar crimes. In Australia this problem is particularly common for old people.
As specialists of ABS state, "in Australia between 1996 and 1997, the percentage of persons aged 55 and over who had used computers from home more than once a week increased 36 per cent to 296,000 with 22,000 of these purchasing goods or services online (ABS 1998). Along with this increased use of information technologies comes an increased vulnerability to the many fraudulent and deceptive practices which exist online. " However, young computer users in Australia are also often suffering from computer fraud.
"Older persons are not the only ones who are being defrauded through the use of computers, but they may be particularly vulnerable if they do not have a full understanding of the technologies they are using" . Home repair is also often used as a basis to perform white-collar crimes in Australia. Many schemes have been introduced in the 1990s in order to take advantages of consumers. For example, "in New South Wales, a number of pensioners were defrauded by a group of offenders who claimed that work was required to repair roofing, install insulation and repair electric wiring.
In each case the work was unnecessary and the offenders demanded and received payment before the fraud was detected" . There have been many complaints for the work of contractors on repairing homes. For example, they often took down payments but never got back to the consumers to do the repair job. There were many other white-collar crimes performed, for example, contractors did not complete their work, nor did unnecessary work in order to make the bill larger. Other popular forms of white-collar crimes practiced widely in Australia deal with financial transactions and purchases of securities by consumers.


We welcome students from around the world and are pleased to offer the opportunity for training with our beautiful Iberian stallions. You can stay for mini breaks in our traditional and comfortable accommodation.
When you arrive at our farm in north Devon you can leave behind the everyday stresses of life. You will find it a place of rare beauty, peace and tranquility, a place just to 'be' and connect with nature.
There are countless lanes and paths for quiet country walking or you may choose to sit and relax taking in the calm aura, be the stallions or enjoy a gentle stroll down the woodland path to our lake.
If you wish to explore further you will arrive at our local country pub.
The north Devon coast remains truly un-spoilt and it's well known surfing beaches are only minutes away. The stunning Exmoor countryside is also within easy reach.
We are pleased to be able to offer you our extremely spacious Shepherds Hut combining traditional yet comfortable, luxury accommodation.
Our rates include a good continental breakfast and mid day food included within the clinics.
Spend a day with Jenny and her stallions.
A free copy of our NEW TRAINING JOURNAL or a copy of Ride From the Heart DVD.
Spend half a day with Jenny and her stallions.
Delicious light lunch is included.
GROUP DEMONSTRATIONS - if you would prefer to be part of a small group of around 4 people please contact us for future dates.
Jenny will demonstrate with her Iberian stallions using her unique skills of communication through core breathing awareness and body language. You will see how the horse connects through loose work as Jenny shows the power of focus and breathing as a bond to connect with the horse.
These skills are taken through work on the ground to further enhance connection, balance and harmony for the rider. The demonstration will begin with Jenny and RED– dancing to music.
Learn the language of the herd, how to use core energy and body language to 'connect' with the horse. Teach the horse to become a confident athlete –enhancing his true spirit and athletic ability.
Learn how you can ride in natural self-carriage, support your posture through core breathing awareness. Unlock areas of tension allowing natural fluidity within your riding. Learn the power of controlled core breathing to gain focus and control, mobility and calmness.
Focus on your core-breathing to enhance posture and balance whilst allowing fluidity of movement throughout the whole body. A connection through core breathing is like a wave in the sea you can create or release energy, from your core, your seat, your CONNECTION with the horse. In this way you will find true HARMONY tuning into the most sensitive responses of the horse.
We look forward to hearing from you and will do our best to make sure your stay becomes an experience, for you to treasure.
can be arranged to include accommodation and your personal training requirements - MINI BREAKS - WEEKENDS - FULL WEEK.


The following is a lightly edited version of a speech I gave on March 1 st in Washington during the anti-AIPAC and Netanyahu visit demonstrations.
Two days later Israeli Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan, whom I cite below, was sitting in the House VIP visitors' gallery beaming as he listened to Netanyahu's love fest with Congress. It might have been the first time a clandestine agent for a foreign country who spied on the United States was so honored but I would observe that the event was doubly significant in that the speaker Prime Minister Netanyahu was also involved in the same theft of American nuclear technology.
Miko Peled is well worth hearing and many of the questions are very interesting, revealing the depth of revulsion for AIPAC and all its works.
I would like to concentrate on two issues. First is the nature of the special relationship between Israel and the United States and second is the role of the Israel Lobby and most particularly AIPAC in shaping that relationship. I was a foreign policy adviser for Ron Paul in 2008 and consider myself politically conservative. I respect the fact that nations must be responsive to their interests, but because of my personal experience of living and working overseas for many years I have come to recognize that the United States is an anomaly in that it persists in going around the world doing things that just do not make any sense. This has been particularly true during the past fourteen years, with invasions, interventions and targeted assassinations having become the preferred form of international discourse for Washington.
Many would agree with what I have just observed, but few recognize the role of the special relationship with Israel in shaping what the United States has become. Quite frankly, the relationship is both lopsided in terms of favoring perceived Israeli interests as well as being terrible for the long suffering Palestinians, very bad for the United States as it damages the American brand worldwide and even bad for Israel as it enables its governments to act in ways that are ill advised and ultimately self-defeating.
I would first like to address the often repeated mantra that Israel is America's best friend or closest ally as it is a bedrock issue that is frequently trotted out to excuse behavior that would otherwise be incomprehensible. Apart from being a recipient of more than $3 billion per year from the US taxpayer, Israel is no ally and never has been. There is no alliance of any kind with Israel, in part because Israel has a border that has been moving eastward for the past fifty years as it continues to absorb Palestinian land. Without an internationally recognized border it is impossible to define a relationship between two nations. Israel also has no strategic value to the United States, so to speak of an alliance, which posits reciprocity is ridiculous.
But that is not to say that Israel does not interact with Washington. Indeed, some might say that it is possesses a disproportionate voice relating to some foreign and domestic policies. The penchant to use force as a first option in international interactions is perhaps itself due to Washington imitating Tel Aviv or vice versa as neither the United States nor Israel seems any longer interested in diplomacy.
American protection of Israel in international bodies like the United Nations is a disgrace, making the United States de facto complicit in Israeli violations of international law, to include its settlement expansion, as well as its war crimes. Under Bill Clinton the United States more or less adopted the Israeli model in dealing with terrorism, which consists of overwhelming armed response and no negotiations ever. Washington's uncritical support for Israel politically and militarily was a major factor in motivating the perpetrators of the 9/11 terror attack.
Deferring to Israel often results in U.S. policies that are absurd and highly damaging to other interests. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described Israel's devastation of Lebanon in 2006 in which nearly 1,000 civilians were killed and more than $2 billion in infrastructure was destroyed as the "birth pangs of a new Middle East" Rice, who also spoke of fear of a nuclear mushroom cloud rising above Washington to justify invading Iraq, far from being discredited due to her lack of discernment, is currently a professor at Stanford University and is now being spoken of as a possible Senator from California or, alternatively, as the next Commissioner of the National Football League. So much for accountability in the United States.
One might well conclude that Israel is not only not an ally but also not much of a friend. It has run massive spying operations inside the United States to include hundreds of Art Students and celebrations by the employees of an Israeli moving firm located in New Jersey when the twin towers were going down. Israel is regularly named by the FBI as the most active friendly country in terms of running espionage operations against the U.S. but nothing ever happens. Israeli spies are sent home quietly and Americans who spy for Israel are rarely prosecuted. Last year we witnessed Hollywood producer and Israeli citizen Arnon Milchan receiving an Oscar even as stories were circulating about his criminal collusion to obtain restricted American technology to enable Israel to build nuclear weapons. The Justice Department has not seen fit to do anything about him.
Israel also has a hand in what is going on domestically in the United States. Many states now have their own departments of homeland security and many of the companies that obtain contracts to provide security services are Israeli. Airport security is a virtual Israeli monopoly. Increasingly militarized American police officers now use federal government grants to travel to Israel for training based on the Israeli experience with the Palestinians. Israelis have advised CIA and Pentagon torturers and Israeli advisers were also present at Abu Ghraib.
Israel's influence over Washington policies frequently means war. American officials extremely close to the Israeli government were behind the rush to war with Iraq. If the Washington goes to war with Iran in the near future it will not be because Tehran actually threatens America, it will be because Israel and its powerful lobby in the U.S. have succeeded in creating an essentially false case to mandate such action. Congress is obligingly advancing legislation that would commit the United States to intervene militarily in support of a unilateral Israeli attack, meaning that Israel could easily be empowered to make the decision on whether or not the U.S. goes to war.
Israel interferes in American elections, in 2012 on behalf of Mitt Romney, and also this week by aligning itself with the Republicans against the President of the United States to harden existing policy against Iran. Looking ahead to elections in 2016, two Jewish billionaires have already stated clearly that they will spend whatever they have to to elect the candidate that is best for Israel. As Sheldon Adelson is a Republican and Haim Saban is a Democrat both major parties are covered and I would warn "Watch out for Hillary," Saban's candidate of choice.
Israel has corrupted our congress which we will witness again on Tuesday. Benjamin Netanyahu publicly rebukes and belittles our own head of state, its government ministers insult and ridicule John Kerry, and its intelligence officers have free access to Capitol Hill where they provide alarmist and inaccurate private briefings for American legislators. In short, Israel has no reluctance to use its enormous political and media clout in the US to pressure successive administrations to conform to its own foreign and security policy views.
Beyond the corruption of our political process, I believe many in this room would agree that the depiction and treatment of the Palestinians has been disgraceful. Israel has engaged in land and water theft and is doing its best to make Palestinian life so miserable that they will all decide to leave. Some would describe that as ethnic cleansing. Just last week there were reports of how Israeli authorities cut off water and electricity to parts of the West bank and also won a bogus court case in New York City that will bankrupt the Palestinian authority.
Netanyahu's policy is to punish the Palestinians incessantly no matter what they do. The United States has certainly embraced a lot of unpleasant policies over the past fourteen years, but I honestly think that most Americans would be appalled if they knew how Palestinians really have been treated. Unfortunately the Israel propaganda machine has been able to maintain a tight grip on the narrative promoted in the mainstream media. Arabs are depicted as terrorists while Israelis are seen as folks just like us.
How does all this happen? Because of money which enables the Israel firsters to control the media and buy the politicians, but unfortunately no one is allowed to say that lest Abe Foxman of the Anti Defamation League accuse one of propagating a stereotype that is an "anti-Semitic myth." American media corporations and national politics are in fact totally corrupted by money and the control that it buys and not just on behalf of Israel. One would have to be blind not to recognize that fact.
This is where groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee better known as AIPAC come in. AIPAC is only one part of the octopus like Israel Lobby but it might well be regarded as the most effective component. AIPAC has an annual budget of $70 million and 200 full time employees. It has thousands of volunteers and tens of thousands of contributors and supporters, many of whom are in Washington right now. On Tuesday they will descend on Congressional offices to pressure congressmen to agree to conform to AIPAC talking points.
AIPAC, which is an IRS 501(c)4 lobbying organization, is able to keep its donor list secret. It characteristically operates in the shadows. It prepares position papers that are then distributed in congress and many congressmen, largely ignorant of the issues, parrot what AIPAC gives them. AIPAC operative Steve Rosen once boasted that he could have the signatures of seventy Senators on a napkin in twenty-four hours.
Congressmen know that crossing the Israeli Lobby is career damaging. Senators William Fulbright and Chuck Percy were among the first to feel its wrath when they were confronted by well-funded challengers backed by effective media campaigns who defeated them in spite of their own outstanding records as legislators. The founder of my own organization the Council for the National Interest Congressman Paul Findley also suffered the same fate when he fell afoul of the Lobby. Within the government the purge has also been widespread with the traditional Arabists at State Department forced out to be replaced by friends of Israel, many of whom have been political appointees rather than career diplomats.
There is no easy solution to what I have been telling you. Certainly a more honest media would produce American voters who are better informed, but even though AIPAC has long been defending the indefensible the corruption in Congress runs deep and it is difficult to find a constituency anywhere in the United States where it is possible to vote for a candidate who is not openly and enthusiastically supportive of the Israel relationship. In Virginia last year there were several important congressional elections. All the candidates were vetted for their views on Israel well before the voting took place.
But to return to AIPAC there should be demands that it and other similar Israel-advocacy organizations register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938. That would require them to have complete transparency in terms of their funding and it would also tell the American people that the organizations themselves are not necessarily benign and acting on behalf of U.S. interests, which is the subterfuge that they currently engage in. It is certainly past time to push back against an organization that is brazenly promoting the interests of a foreign government at the expense of the American people. Thank you.


Make a barrier for the presents with this fun Santa tape!
Use to put across doorways, around presents or round the Christmas tree to keep eager peekers at bay!
Comes in a length of 5 meters.
Please note the tape is not sticky but can easily be stuck in to position with sticky tape or blu-tack.
This tape is part of our Waiting for Santa range.


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Carriera

Club
Ha sempre giocato nel campionato svizzero.

Nazionale
Ha collezionato 10 presenze con la nazionale svizzera.

Palmarès

Giocatore

Competizioni nazionali

Servette: 1949-1950

Servette: 1948-1949

Collegamenti esterni

Calciatori della Nazionale svizzera

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Martha and I on our first week back have landed on late Monday in LA to celebrated our daughter birthday the following Wednesday and then flew out on Friday to make it for our grandson birthday on Saturday...his first birthday and how sweet it was to be there!
We have a tradition to allow the babies to try eating a piece of their birthday cake by themselves...it's funny to watch as they love it and yet don't know if it's ok to do?
Of course Oma came with surprises for the grandsons...Eli favorite one are kinder eggs...from Herbornseelbach to Los Angeles to Pittsburgh...these eggs have flown many miles with special love from Oma!