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The pattern of Russian lying, in this case to deny any involvement in the murder of a former Russian double agent in Britain, sounds faintly familiar. The British government has identified the weapon as a military-grade nerve agent called Novichok, a compound made only in Russia. On Sunday, Putin called the claim "total rubbish, drivel, and nonsense." (They don't edit him for redundancy.) Putin went on to insist that Russia had destroyed all of its chemical weapons, as required by international treaty, more than two decades ago.
Piling on, Russia's ambassador to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, told the BBC that if Britain had indeed identified Novichok, then the Brits must have stockpiled chemical weapons themselves, and one could have gotten loose. Another Russian diplomat, Alexander Shulgin, ambassador to the Netherlands, went further, denying that such a compound even existed: "There has never been any program under the group name Novichok in the Russian Federation," he said.
And Russia's ambassador to Britain took that denial even further. Alexander Yakovenko suggested that maybe the whole story was British fabrication to distract attention from Brexit. "Nobody even saw the pictures of these people in the hospital," he said.
Meanwhile, back in Missouri, Donald Trump boasted, at a fundraiser, that he had simply made up his claims of a Canadian trade surplus that he used to berate Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. "I said 'Justin, you do.' I didn't even know. … I had no idea. I just said, 'You're wrong.'"
In terms of brazen lying, it's hard to say who wins the fabrication derby—Putin or Trump. It's one more form of affinity between the dictator and the would-be dictator.
For now, Trump can only envy Putin. Trump doesn't get to use toxins to assassinate enemies, though his impact on American democracy has been toxic.
Putin, who just won "re-election" in a landslide, destroyed his opposition first. Poor Trump still has to contend with elections, and maybe with impeachment.
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And that's one of my chief gripes with the battle cry to banish the Department of Education. It's policy by sound bite. There's too much of that already.
That's the closing graf of Frank Bruni's NYT op-ed this morning. It follows a thoughtful discussion of the usefulness of the beleaguered Department of Education-- ha, no. Just kidding. It comes at the end of series of sound bites from the Usual Sources. I am envious of this style of well-connected mad-libs journalism-- you get out your list of reliable contacts and fill in the blanks. "Although many critics of [topic] have said [sound bite from critic], others disagree. [Sound bite from supporter.]"
Bruni's topic is the continued existence of the Department of Education, and his piece offers all the lack of nuance and shallowness of understanding that he's complaining about in the first place. Perhaps he is offering a post-modern deconstructive criticism of criticism. But on the off chance he's not, let's look at his actual argument.
But, Bruni notes, Democrats are also unfriending the department. Well, actually, one Democrat. Bruni mentions that Murray has teamed up with Lamar Alexander "to sponsor legislation that would leave the department and its secretary with much less influence over states." Why he does not explain that he's talking about the proposed ESEA rewrite that came out of the Senate Education Committe that Murray and Alexander co-chair--- well, that's just a weird detail to skip. Instead he just notes that the bill-- if it passes, which it might, because "bi-partisan support"-- the department would be a shadow of its former self.
So-- to recap-- Bruni has taken the Senate attempt to re-authorize the ESEA, and instead of placing that in the context of a bill that has been awaiting re-authorization by Congress since 2007 and has finally been tackled by the appropriate Senate committee for that tackling, he's creating a new narrative in which, steeped in an anti-department atmosphere, Murray and Alexander just kind of go rogue and float this bill created out of whole cloth just to spank the department.
So what else does Bruni want to point out in this alternate universe?
1) Even with the USED's watchful eye, states are managing to gut the teaching profession. Current leader in assaulting the profession would be the Wisconsin, where they're thinking that maybe anybody-- even a high school dropout-- can be a teacher.
2) USED's ideas about how to evaluate teacher are stupid. Their major contribution has been to demand that teachers be evaluated by using student test scores, an approach supported by no actual research or science or even common sense, and repudiated by pretty much everybody who doesn't have financial or political benefits tied to the approach.
3) "Or if"? Come on. Name one state, one school, one corner of the country where politicians and leaders are saying, "Let's never evaluate teachers at all." Well, except for charter schools. But the USED supports charters and the charter right to make up any rules they like, so again-- if this is a problem, the USED is definitely not on the case.
4) The best teacher evaluation systems are coming from local school districts, not the feds. Time magazine is profiling a system created by UCLA schools in Koreatown (in LA-- my son's neighborhood!) that Audrey Amrein-Beardsley calls "legitimately new and improved."
But now, having laid out the basic question, Bruni is ready to deploy his parade of sound bites for the USED opponents.
Lamar Alexander (former department head, but again-- not acknowledged by Bruni as the head of Senate Ed Comittee): All we need is a leader to man the bully pulpit about education and a treasury department to cut checks.
Mitch Daniels (former governor and Bush administration person): It's not "ludicrous" to get rid of the department. We did fine without them before 1979. Also, they haven't improved anything.
No, says Bruni, they haven't.
But there's much more at work than the failings of the education department, which contributes only about 10 percent of funding nationally for K-through-12 schooling and has only so much impact on what happens in classrooms.
You'd think that sentence would open up a considerably larger discussion, but now-- Bruni leaves the mystery of A) if it's true that US education hasn't gotten better since 1979 and B) if not, why not for some other day. He really only wants to use that to the defense of the department and the sound bites for that side of things.
Kati Haycock (head of Education Trust, a advocacy group-- Bruni doesn't mention that they are charter school advocates): When states are left alone, they don't do right by poor students.
Joel Klein (former chancellor of NYC schools, corporate shill for hire, and creator of many reformster monsters): When states are left alone, they don't generate enough failing grades for students.
"Many advocates": Bruni seems to slip into the middle of his own piece to say that we have to compete globally and so students must be educated not just for their state, but for the whole world. Because everybody remembers America's big bunch of young people who never leave their home state because they are only educated in a state-specific way??
Mike Petrilli (Fordham boss and professional pusher of Common Core, testing, charters and other great education money-making schemes): We need to right-size the feds.
Bruni also muses about the money. If there were no department, who would make sure that the taxpayers are getting their money's worth. Which speaks to Bruni's view of the department, which seems to be as the national education police. There's a whole list of things that the states can't be trusted to do correctly, and a department is needed to Make Them Behave.
Recent history is more complicated. Haycock's argument that states don't do right by their poor educationally is valid; the problem is that the USED hasn't changed that a bit. Haycock, Klein, and Petrilli are fine examples of all the folks who have used the Problems of Educating the Poor as ways to Make Lots of Money. Under modern ed reformsterism, we locate educational problem areas and mark them for strip-mining, while simultaneously depriving the folks who live in those communities of voice or vote. Reformsters did not descend upon post-Katrina New Orleans out of a deep, driving concern that the poor children of the city were being deprived of an education-- they packed up their bags and headed south because it was an opportunity, a chance to create a system that gave a whole spectrum of profiteers and investors the opportunity to get their hands on public education tax dollars.
That magical time has become the reformsters dream, and a dozen techniques for forcing disaster and failure on school districts and using that failure as a means of diverting public tax dollars to private pockets. And the USED has been a champion of the process, putting the interests of investors, hedge fund operators, charter school companies, test manufacturers, and corporate interests ahead of concerns for American students.
From Common Core to Big Standardized High Stakes Testing, the USED has become the champion of one-size-fits-all reform (though, of course, wealthy folks are exempt).
And here's the problem with strong central planning. It requires your central planner to be right every time, and no human can pull that off. But with central control, a single bad idea becomes everybody's bad idea. And when your central planner has mostly only bad ideas, you get widespread disaster.
When your system is infected with money, that only makes things worse, because central planning makes one-stop-shopping for those who want to buy themselves some friendly policy decisions.
There's a lot to discuss, but when Bruni hit his contact list, he missed a particular group of sound bite generators-- he forgot to contact any actual supporters of public education. And so his Festival of Sound Bites is lopsided and nuance-free. Let's hope that next time he collects a better class of sound bites.
I missed anything in the article that justifies the continued existence of the Department of Education. We went to the moon on the basic plain vanilla "basics" system that prevailed in the 50s, the same as the system that produced the winners of the WW2 war effort. So far as I can tell every federal top-down thing since, from the "New Math" to the "Whole Language" has done nothing but mess everything up. If you still think anything about the Common Core makes sense to look at YouTube "9 + 6 + 15" and see if you find anything of significance there. It's the New Math re-packaged again, the stupidest thing you could possibly do.
Bruni typifies the lazy commentary by rolodex style at the Times on education. Everyone of his sources outside of quoting Senators, every one of them, is from the reform circle of Gates, Broad, and Walton funded people. He couldn't bother to open more than one browser window to write that piece.
Reminds me of how columnist after columnist cited the NCTQ report on teacher ed when typing critique of NCTQ into Google took you directly to something written by LINDA DARLING HAMMOND on how poorly done that 2013 report was. It was as if none of the Times writers had ever thought to check.
Bruni is personal friends with Campbell Brown so my suspicion is that he gets occasional phone calls, speaks with whomever she recommends, and we get another one of these hack and dash columns in the paper of record.


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Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans
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Dr. Laing has just moved into an exclusive condominium that houses some of the elite professionals of the city, at least in its upper levels. The lower floors are for the families, where their noise & squalor can be kept separated. The condo comes complete with a spa, gym, pool, even a convenient marketplace, and offers all the accommodations of modern living. As Laing meets the occupants of the high-rise, he begins to understand the social circles that exist there. On the top floor lives the Architect, to whom the building is like a child. Charlotte the actress, Wilder the filmmaker, Pangbourne the upper-cruster; individuals from each group mingle on occasion, but mostly keep to their own kind, creating a utopia of sorts, an orderly world where money & power keep the peace. But as the system begins to break down, as the lowly natives begin to grow restless & resentful, the beauty of the building will begin to crumble, as will the manufactured pecking order that keeps each tier in its happy place.
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In recent years, South Africa has witnessed a rapid expansion of mining in mineral-rich rural areas of the former apartheid Bantustans or homelands that are vulnerable to mining land grabs. Worryingly, there are intensive and wide-ranging "cold wars" going on in these areas that do not ordinarily get much prominent coverage by the mass media. These battles, hostilities or feuds are between the indigenous black rural folks and "lily-white owned" foreign mining companies. In many ways the batt...read more
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$N^4=\{Re(x^p+y^q+z^r)=0:x,y,z\in\mathbb C, |x|^2+|y|^2+|z|^2=1\}$
in sphere $S^5$. It is 4-manifold in sphere which contains Brieskorn $\Sigma(p,q,r)$ as submanifold. Is it possible to calculate homology groups of N ? Is it homology 4-sphere ?

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Clue / Cluedo Discussion: Who? Where? How?
Board index Clue General Discussion
BBP's Cluedo Collection
A place to discuss all aspects of Clue/Cluedo.
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Junior Detective
Post by BBP » Fri Aug 24, 2012 2:50 pm
Besides this I have Clue Jr, which I assume most people here know; the card game with the 8 cities the suspect fled to, need to look for it; FoulPlay, some Cluedo ripoff game; Clue: Murder At Boddy Mansion EU Edition; Fatal Illusion EU Edition; Clue EU DVD with subtitles in so many languages it makes your head spin.
If anyone would like a larger photo, a picture of a specific item or a translation, just let me know!
Cheepo card game called Cluedo Suspect in Dutch. From 2010.
2005 Dutch Travel Game next to ruler
2005 Dutch travel game expanded
1997 Cluedo travel game. This one has the Dutch names already. Bart Smit is a toy store.
1997 Dutch travelgame.
Dutch version of Cluedo Suspects, not to be confused with the card game of the same title.
Dutch Cluedo Suspects
Age of this edition is unknown, but I love the psychedelic look of the rooms!
The poorly written instructions to the 2006 DVD game: with three university-educated people it took us two playthroughs to find out how it works, and then we only had 8 games left.
Cluedo DVD notebook
I think the figurine design is over the top in some cases, but the idea is nice.
DVD game board
Michael has this one too, and you gotta admit, it rocks! It has some of the original advertisements and a note card.
Interestingy the typical Dutch rules of limited use of secret passage (max twice in a row) and staying in a room or on a square as long as you like, are present. With the lower amount of squares, there was only need for 1 die. Later issues have two dice.
This Cluedo edition was given to me for my 10th birthday in 1993. It was very popular in the house: we brought it with us on several holidays. The wrench was lost and replaced with a curtain hook, and the dagger was lost, and found back months later in the washing machine, all rusty.
I have 3 copies, to replace bent carts and lost tokens.
This is the last Dutch edition to use the English names: after Parker took over, Mej Scarlett became Rosa Roodhart (it's a bit of a CareBear name) and Mw Peacock became Mw Blaauw van Draet (resists urge to vomit).
90s edition rear cover
90s edition board
90s edition cards, tokens (including rusty dagger and curtain hook), murder envelope and note book.
CD-i contents
CD-i rear cover.
Post by BBP » Tue Nov 27, 2012 9:10 am
My latest acquisitions:
1985 magazine ad in comic mag Eppo/Wordt Vervolgd. Now I know how old the psychedelic game I have is. It was a gift for new subscribers.
Dutch shrink-wrapped chocolate edition. Best before 2010. I'm not exactly sure if the rules allow you to stay in a room as long as you like, but it does talk about dice.
Post by BBP » Mon Dec 24, 2012 12:55 pm
Dutch 1982 edition. It differs from the other 80s edition I have, in that this one has comic-style text balloons.
Mrs Peacock: (not grammatical, this line) Me, shoot? I can't even hold a revolver!
Scarlett: "What I did in the conservatory is none of your business."
Mustard: "I don't look like I would kill anyone...?
Green: "Me in the kitchen? That's a crude insult!"
White: "I only took that candlestick to the dining room."
Plum: "You (informal plural) find out for yourself why I was in the ballroom!"
Box interior. Unfortunately it's not complete, missing a red pawn, the lead pipe trinket and one of the dice.
The text in the box reads:
"Detective Buitenhuys has handled all interrogations. He studies his notes, but is baffled. He can be heard muttering: "After a cosy party, the body of Dr Black was found at the bottom of the stairs. The doctor was killed between midnight and 1 AM. The staff left the villa at 23:00. Only the guests, friends of the deceased, can be suspected.
Mrs Peacock heard the guard dog bark at 10 minutes past midnight. She was in the lounge where she, out of boredom he thought, wrapped a broken curtain cord around her wrist. Was this the murder weapon? Impossible; professor Plum was chatting to her at the oment. Unless he is an accomplice.
Miss Scarlett accuses reverend Green, who has been ruined by bad speculations, of searching his host's and arch enemy's desk. But this accusation doesn't add up: reverend green was wearing a 6.35 caliber, but this wasn't used. But what was he doing in the study with colonel Mustard, who lifted a heavy candlestick when he came in? A candlestick, isn't that a perfect weapon? The medical examiner will tell him.
Mrs White was refreshing herself in the kitchen. There she met miss Scarlett, who was cleaning a knife, that she's said to have used to cut a slice of cold meat. But when Mrs White passed the dining room, she saw the table hadn't yet been cleared. Rough cut bits of tobacco were found on the vest of the murder victim. Only colonel Mustard smokes this tobacco. One also knew he'd walked through the hall to his car to pick up something: couldn't that be a wrench?
An inspector found a piece of lead piping in the study, behind a chair. It belongs to Mrs White, who hasn't hidden it there. She claims to have lost it... simply. In the end she had exclaimed: "I forget everything in the end, even your suspicions."
Summarising, Inspector Buitenhuys says, I have facts but no proof, the murderer didn't come from the outside. The guests refuse to cooperate. Nobody has a strong alibi. Nobody has a motive.
It seems like the perfect crime: one doesn't know who did it, with what weapon or in what part of the villa. Almost perfect, until you (polite) have solved the riddle. A ridde that renews itself every time you start to play: Cluedo.
Card backs (bottom left) seems to be different from that other 80s edition I have. Would need a more thorough comparison. I'll whip out my magnifying glass!
Board is similar to the one from the other 80s edition I have.
Post by BBP » Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:02 am
Wow BBP, you're so lucky going to Paris in the middle of February! Did you get any souvenirs?
Bindle Stiff
Location: In the Billiard Rm with the Wrench
Post by Black » Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:12 am
What's the top right weapon, I can't make it out?
Post by BBP » Sun Feb 17, 2013 1:11 pm
The card's upside down. That's a "revolver". To it's left is the "Trophée".
Post by BBP » Mon May 12, 2014 3:54 pm
Found today in a set of Clipper adverts in a 1977 Disney magazine:
(they also ran a contest with a stereo grammophone for 1st place)
I've always wondered where in time to place that purple box: funny to see it's in this 1977 picture.
Forensics Supervisor
Post by Murder by Death » Mon May 12, 2014 6:37 pm
That's odd, why would they show the old edition game box in the ad for the new? Was the box cover change so dramatic that even with the brand name Cluedo, people might be confused? Odd ...
Post by BBP » Wed Sep 16, 2015 12:05 pm
Today's acquisition:
2012 Travelgame.
I find this kind of odd, as older travelgames are primarily about being compact and sturdy: this one is flimsy. The board barely stays open.
The rules are a bit of a mix between the international rules and the Dutch ones: two dice are rolled each turn, but you're not allowed to stay in a room.
(staying in a room in a game is allowed by the Dutch rules, even in noughtie's games, but it's a dead sure way of telling people "I didn't get to see the room when I got to see the clue", so I wouldn't recommend it to any player.)
ClueLover98
Location: In the Conservatory with the Candlestick
Post by ClueLover98 » Wed Sep 23, 2015 7:10 pm
Can you post pics of all the pawns from the DVD game with descriptions? (in case there is trouble loading the pictures) Sorry to annoy you with a difficult question.
Post by BBP » Thu Oct 08, 2015 3:05 pm
Sorry it took a while:
(if you mean character descriptions, the game doesn't include them)
You can download it full size from:
http://bonnzai.deviantart.com/art/Clued-564996110
Prins Azuur, Gravin Lavendel, Ross, Professor Pimpel, Mevrouw Blaauw van Draet, Kolonel van Geelen, Dominee Groenewoudt, Mevrouw Grasbeek, Mevrouw de Wit, Rosa Roodhart.
Post by ClueLover98 » Thu Oct 08, 2015 11:52 pm
Cool! Thanks!
Post by BBP » Mon Feb 01, 2016 11:57 am
French Cluedo card game, this works like the Dutch game "Cluedo Suspects" (first post, top photo), couldn't find the English name...
This is the card game where there are 6 suspects, 5 rooms and 4 weapons, you tuck away one from each category and when you ask the questions, you get to ask for 2 cards. They may be of the same category.
There are so many cards because you use them as "notebook".
Post by BBP » Tue Dec 05, 2017 10:29 am
So the one I had for my birthday in 1993 was the 1991 edition, but what I didn't know is there's a 1992 Dutch edition. With the original English character names even!
NotJim
Post by NotJim » Wed Dec 06, 2017 5:12 am
BBP wrote: So...
BBP, hello.
Can you play a level (because the levels are randomised in the CD-I console, right?) of The Hooded Madonna or Happy Ever After and record it (please)?
I want to see the pictures of the evidence clues - and of the solutions, etc?
I've tried to understand how I can rip the picture data (if possible) from ISO images of the CD-I discs (because I don't have a CD-I console) but I give up now.
My only hope left (I think) is someone recording themselves playing a level of The Hooded Madonna, Happy Ever After - or Not In My Backyard.
And I apologise for my previous accounts with the bizarre behaviour and ranting, etc.
I really, really wanted to get the pictures from the CD-Is so that I could share them with others who don't have consoles.
Post by BBP » Fri Dec 08, 2017 5:32 am
Is going to be very difficult since:
-computer needs a graphics card and TV setup to play CD-i;
-CD-i needs a special graphics card;
-A monitor needs to be set up.
We have two CD-is with graphic cards and one computer with special graphics card. Unfortunately that computer is a Vista that once crashed so spectacularly that it's pretty much back to the original settings and cannot be updated anymore. It runs like maple syrup from a bottle.
I made a walkthrough of Voyeur, years ago before the computer went out when it was still a manageable PC, and even then there was a significant 30 second delay that made recording very difficult.
Another problem is CD-i itself: it's only 1-speed and sluggish, plus it's very sensitive to dirt. There's a good chance your game will be interrupted with a Disk Dirty message. Cluedo? cannot be saved. There's no way around it. Cluedo? is commitment and if you fail at any point because of the disk dirty thing, you can throw your recordings away.
In other words, at the moment I don't have the right setup or equipment available.
idk1012
Post by idk1012 » Sun Dec 10, 2017 12:00 pm
BBP wrote: Is...
Thank you for your detailed response, BBP.
I'm - currently - still trying to get all the image data (photos) from the 6 mysteries.
Post by BBP » Sat Apr 28, 2018 2:26 pm
My father found this at the local second-hand shop. He even got a good price deal because it was unfortunately incomplete...
There is no year on the game anywhere but because of the ad with both the purple and the photo cover, I guess it's from before that. It has post-1954 spelling in the rule book, with a few oddities:
-Inside of the box mentions the location "Tudor Close", while the rule book calls the house "Swanenburgh", which is the Dutch name that was to be used for many years to come.
-The two remaining non-rope tokens are plastic.
-The hall is called "hall" rather than "hal".
-Rules mention "dice", possibly there's one die missing. You're also allowed to spend as much time on a space as you like.
-The later purple box moves the starting spaces - Scarlett is 7 spaces from the lounge and rev Green is only three spaces from the ballroom. Here they're all in the regular positions.
-Weirdest: the note books only have the English names on them. One note page in the box has translated names and somebody typed out new lists on a typewriter.
The cards are quite sticky, I'm using an eraser to make them more manageable.
Checked it out, probably from 1959.
Re: BBP's Cluedo Collection
Post by BBP » Mon Sep 17, 2018 12:13 pm
This appears to be a classy edition: the red velvet inbox even has indentations for the pawns! I'm a huge fan of the dice. The candlestick is huge! The dagger pales in comparison.
Even so, the instructions manage to misspell "murder".
Post by Murder by Death » Mon Sep 17, 2018 1:55 pm
That appears to be using the European molds from the original 1949/50 French edition, which were identical to the British edition, except the molds were smaller die cast and not made of painted lead composite. Also, is the rope string, or plastic?
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Interviewed by Tim Lynch | February 22, 2017
In some ways it could be described as reading the 'information field' that is the sum total of a person's 'wave form' - or body. She is also able to access deceased loved ones in the same way.
She has come to Auckland, NZ to present her findings of how consciousness survives death, alongside Dr Robin Kelly author of the Human Antenna and the
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In doing this she is making the paranormal - 'normal'.
Remember this statement by the greatest scientist ever to set foot on earth?
"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence."
Marla's receptivity to the invisible is able to bring healing and insight to anyone seeking deeper understanding about relationships, health, career, family,
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So what do we call a person who has 'certain' abilities that mainstream science is reluctant to acknowledge? This is because, even today, our scientific
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The interview then progresses onto the state of play across the USA that has culminated in a new administration that's changing the way people think -
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Marla, as if 'tapping into the collective unconsciousness' of the American people expresses what seems to be an undercurrent rippling throughout that nation.
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She uses the analogy of 'a boil on our butt that we can't sit down and be comfortable with' so we need to act together for the benefit of today's and tomorrow's
When it was mentioned that 'we need to love our neighbour as ourselves' Marla says yes, - 'however' the imperative is to love ourselves first - so that
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who we come in contact with. Love is a force that emanates from our being, that penetrates the darkness and that can be ever so subtle in its affect
on us - as when we feel it - it's so heartfelt and unmistakably wonderful as we expand our being in a state of profound gratefulness and thankfulness.
In this interview, Marla along with Tom Campbell another remarkable change agent for a 'greater consciousness' is here in NZ to offer new insights and
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that we embrace it, remain calm and realise that we are part of a greater whole - that we all can tap into to change our lives for the better. For
both ourselves and the greater community as a whole.
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Where: Jubilee Building - Parnell Community Centre, 545 Parnell Road
When: Friday 3rd March, 7.30-9.30pm
Cost: $50 - Use the code: LIVE2
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Plus Marla is on the panel of Dr Tom Campbell's presentation on the 5th of March.
Note that Tom will be doing an introduction this Sunday.
Where: Parnell Community Center, Parnell, Auckland
When: Sunday Feb 26, 2017 from 1-6 pm
Cost: $75 US with high tea included (US$60 for GreenplanetFM radio listeners - use the discount code: RK60)
Bookings: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/my-big-toe-consciousness-in-a-virtual-reality-tickets-27502910947
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DIFFERENT CAPS FOR EACH SIZE - PLEASE SEE PHOTOS. Each bottle comes with two lids. The 40 Oz and 32 Oz Bottle come with a Sport Cap with Straw. The 22 Oz and 18 Oz Bottle come with a Flip Top Lid (no straw), which is great for hot beverages like coffee or tea as you tip and sip. All bottles include a standard wide mouth stainless steel screw cap.


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Hello Pin Lovers! We are so excited to bring you the first official look at the April Pin Lover's Club!
The April Pin Lover's Club Pin-Mini collection is called Hint of Spring. Isn't it just so sweet?
If you aren't a member of the Pin Lover's Club, you can still reserve the April pin collection along with the exclusive Carrot Slider Mini-Pinnie pattern. Join the club by April 1st to get yours! You can sign up here: Pin Lover's Club.
Be sure to visit us here again tomorrow for a new episode of our Stitch School Video where you can get a closer look at the Carrot Slider Mini-Pinnie and learn how to assemble a Slider Pincushion!


Paul Delaney (NATS/Physics & Astronomy) and Michael De Robertis (Physics & Astronomy) on receiving a grant from the Office of the Provost to convert Life Beyond Earth into an online course.
Demian Ifa (Chemistry), who was featured in the Emerging Investigators focus section of the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (JASMS).
4th year Biology student Houman Tahmasebi on receiving a Robert J. Tiffin Student Leadership Award, for his wide-ranging contributions to the University (student representative on Senate), the Faculty of Science (Science Student Caucus; Bethune College peer tutor and mentor), and the Department of Biology (Co-President, University Biology Society), while maintaining academic excellence.
The Department of Physics & Astronomy, in partnership with the Royal Canadian Institute, hosted a free screening of the documentary Particle Fever, followed by a Q & A with Wendy Taylor and Sean Tulin.
Alex Mills (Biology) ran a science writing workshop for high school students at the L3 Writers Conference at Barrie's North Collegiate. He also spoke about bird migration, ahead of Margaret Atwood's keynote address.
Jane Heffernan (Mathematics & Statistics) and Derek Wilson (Chemistry) participated in the University of Toronto's Science Leadership Program, founded by Ray Jayawardhana three years ago, to provide academic scientists with the tools and networks to engage more effectively with the public, media and government. Dean Jayawardhana was the closing dinner speaker.
The late Jack McConnell's contributions to space science were acknowledged in Physics in Canada magazine.
The Observatory can add another wedding proposal to the long list of community engagement activities they host throughout the year: Anthony Antan popped the question to his now financeé Maria Rego on April 24.
Laurence Packer (Biology) was a guest speaker in Waterloo, as part of the Protect the Pollinators Tour, a Sierra Club Canada Foundation outreach initiative.
The Sunday New York Times published Dean Jayawardhana's op-ed "Our Cosmic Selves." He was also quoted in the Toronto Star on Canada's $243.5 million investment in the Thirty Meter Telescope project, and in the Toronto Sun on the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope.
Paul Delaney (NATS/Physics & Astronomy) made numerous media appearances again this month, including on CBC Radio, CTV National, Canada AM and Global TV. Among the topics he commented on were Hubble Space Telescope's 25th anniversary, end of Messenger's Mercury mission, loss of Progress spacecraft, Pluto images from New Horizon mission, and Mars glaciers.
Bridget Stutchbury (Biology) made appearances on CP24's "Animal House Calls" with Ann Rhomer, and on the documentary film The Messenger, which had its world premiere at the Hot Docs international film festival in Toronto.
Alexey Kuznetsov (Mathematics & Statistics) was on Global News TV commenting on the Cheryl's birthday problem that went viral.
A new genetic test for hybrid bee species developed by a team including Amro Zayed (Biology) and graduate student Brock Harper received coverage in several outlets including Science Daily and Germination Magazine.


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Ramfall, Sweden
July is a pleasant summer month in Ramfall, Sweden, with temperature in the range of an average low of 11.7°C (53.1°F) and an average high of 21.4°C (70.5°F).
July is the warmest month, with an average high-temperature of 21.4°C (70.5°F) and an average low-temperature of 11.7°C (53.1°F).
In Ramfall, the average relative humidity in July is 74%.
In Ramfall, in July, during 15.7 rainfall days, 39mm (1.54") of precipitation is typically accumulated. In Ramfall, during the entire year, the rain falls for 127.5 days and collects up to 316mm (12.44") of precipitation.
In Ramfall snow does not fall in June through September.
The average sunshine in Ramfall is 9.1h.
July is the month with the highest UV index in Ramfall, with an average maximum UV index of 5. A UV Index of 3 to 5 symbolizes a moderate threat to health from unsafe exposure to the UV radiation for the ordinary person.
Take precautions - Protection against the skin and eye damage is obliged. The solar radiation is most powerful near the mid-day, so the exposure to the direct Sun should be reduced accordingly. On bright days sunglasses that block both UVA and UVB rays should be worn. A hat with a wide brim is extremely helpful, as it can prevent roughly 50% of UV radiation from reaching the eyes.
What is the warmest month in Ramfall?
The warmest month in Ramfall, Sweden, is July, with an average high-temperature of 21.4°C (70.5°F) and an average low-temperature of 11.7°C (53.1°F).
What is the temperature in July in Ramfall?
The average high-temperature, in July, is 21.4°C (70.5°F), while the average low-temperature is 11.7°C (53.1°F).
What is the average humidity in July in Ramfall?
In Ramfall, Sweden, the average relative humidity in July is 74%.
How many days does it rain in July in Ramfall?
In Ramfall, Sweden, during July, the rain falls for 15.7 days and regularly aggregates up to 39mm (1.54") of precipitation.
When it does not snow in Ramfall?
In Ramfall, Sweden, snow does not fall in June through September.
How many hours of daylight does Ramfall have in July?
In Ramfall, the average length of the day in July is 17.4h.
How long on average sun shines in July in Ramfall?
In Ramfall, Sweden, the average sunshine in July is 9.1h.
When is the highest UV index in Ramfall?
The month with the highest UV index is July, with an average maximum UV index of 5.
What is the UV index reading in July in Ramfall?
The average daily maximum UV index in July in Ramfall, Sweden, is 5. A UV Index estimate of 3 to 5 represents a medium health risk from unsafe exposure to the Sun's UV rays.
The wettest month (with the highest rainfall) is August (40mm).
The month with the highest snowfall is February (120mm).
Average sunshine in July: 9.1h
The month with the most sunshine days is April (15.8 days).
The month with the least sunshine days is February (11.8 days).
The month with the lowest UV index is January (UV index 1).
Months with the most cloud cover are February and December (Cloud cover 72).
Months with the lowest visibility are January and February (7km).
The warmest month in Ramfall, Sweden, is July, with an average high-temperature of 21.4°C (70.5°F) and an average low-temperature of 11.7°C (53.1°F). July is a pleasant summer month in Ramfall, Sweden, with temperature in the range of an average low of 11.7°C (53.1°F) and an average high of 21.4°C (70.5°F). [2128045]


Current Chairman Richard Rojeck to assume duties; new chairman to be elected in June to replace Votava.
The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards announced that veteran advisor Joe Votava resigned effective March 16, 2015, from his position as chair-elect and from the Board of Directors.
The notice in the CFP Board's April 13 Update newsletter said Votava had resigned to "dedicate more time to his growing business and expanding family — including welcoming two new grandchildren." The Board said that until it picks a new chairman-elect at its June meeting, that 2015 Chairman Rich Rojeck would fill Votava's role, including leading the nomination for new Board members. Until June 10, the Board is accepting nominations for 2016 Board candidates, who will take office in January.
In its note, the Board noted Votava's "decades of service to advance the financial planning profession." That service included stints as chairman of the Board's Public Policy Council, as chairman of the Financial Planning Assocation and chairman of the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) Board of Trustees.
The well-documented Camarda case concerns a suit filed against the CFP Board by Jeff and Kim Camarda over Board sanctions against their use of "fee only" to describe their Florida planning firm.
An attorney as well as a CFP and a CPA, Votava is partner/CEO of Seneca Financial Advisors LLC, an RIA firm based in Rochester, New York, and Washington, D.C., with $213 million in regulatory assets under management.
In an Investment Advisor cover story profile in July 2004, it's clear that Votava was a pioneer in not only providing true comprehensive wealth management to clients (since the 1980s in fact, at the financial planning arm of big law firm Nixon Peabody), but also in using technology to become more efficient, in directing clients' philanthropic efforts and in charging clients by annual retainer or an AUM or hourly fee.


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From: The Socialist issue 821, 6 August 2014: Unite to fight pay robbery
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Anniversary of the 1934 Minneapolis strikes
Revolutionary US Teamsters
Alan Jones and Ty Moore, Socialist Alternative, USA
This year marks the 80th anniversary of one of the greatest labour revolts in US history, the strikes of the Minneapolis Teamsters. Led by socialists, this historic strike opened an era of unprecedented revolt of the US working class. Over the course of the following decade, the labour movement would establish itself as a powerful institution in American society and utterly transform the lives of millions of workers for generations to follow.
After a decade of defeats and setbacks in the 1920s and early 1930s, workers' power and unionisation rates were at a low point. Organised labour was dominated by the conservative craft unionism of the American Federation of Labour (AFL). The bad situation was made worse by the Great Depression, causing mass unemployment and a dramatic decline in wages.
By 1933, the pent-up anger of workers exploded into militant unionisation drives across the country. But nearly all ended in defeats, with conservative union leaders incapable of defending workers against violent police repression and fierce attacks by the employers and their hired guns.
In stark contrast, the victory of the Minneapolis Teamsters strike in 1934 showed that combative class struggle methods and mass, democratic 'industrial unionism' could defeat big business and its allies in government.
The fierce class confrontations that unfolded in Minneapolis brought one of three major strike victories in 1934, all led by socialists.
Alongside the Minneapolis truckers, the Toledo auto-parts workers and the longshoremen in San Francisco proved that workers, using the mass strike as their weapon, could fight and win.
These three strike victories opened the floodgates, which led to the emergence of the powerful Congress of Industrial Organisations (CIO) in 1937.
The events of 1934 are by no means the only historical moment when the genuine ideas of Marxism were demonstrated to be the most effective guide for workers' movements to win victories.
The most committed and respected workers in Teamsters Local (branch) 574 - those who led the strikes - were principled socialists and veterans of the class struggle. They had been expelled from the Communist Party in 1928 - forming the Communist League of America (CLA) - for refusing to denounce co-leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky.
It was not simply a matter of countering the timidity and conservatism of the union bureaucrats with a revolutionary spirit and firm principles. These traits were combined with clear perspectives, an understanding of the strategy and tactics of the class struggle, and how to link the immediate demands of workers to a wider challenge to capitalism and the dictatorship of big business.
Strike power
Early in 1934, the small Teamsters Local 574 - numbering no more than 120 members - struck against the Minneapolis coal yards. Led by a small core of socialists, the union caught the employers by surprise. The union quickly won formal recognition.
However, the trucking bosses, along with the Citizens Alliance - the powerful business association that effectively ran Minneapolis - had long been hell-bent on crushing union activity. They took pride in maintaining Minneapolis as one of the most notoriously anti-union cities in the country.
Failing to win a contract, after selective strike actions in April, Teamsters Local 574 called a mass meeting on 12 May to take a strike vote against the entire industry.
Local 574 adopted an 'industrial union' approach, admitting as members thousands of truck drivers, helpers, yard workers and workers from various trades. By May 1934 the ranks of Local 574 had grown to over 3,000 members.
The mass meeting on 12 May voted to strike around demands for a 40-hour working week, overtime pay, wage increases, and a closed shop so that all workers in the industry would be represented by the union.
The mass strike began on 16 May, affecting just about every business in Minneapolis, from department stores to factories to groceries and bakeries. Not a truck could move without union permission.
The key tactic employed by the workers to shut down the city was the 'flying squads', mobile pickets stationed throughout the city and dispatched through strike headquarters by telephone whenever a scab truck was spotted. Pickets guarded the major roads, stopping all non-union trucks.
At union headquarters 10,000 people could be fed in a single day by a crew of 120, and there was a hospital with two doctors and three nurses.
The real power for running the strike was the rank-and-file elected strike committee of 100 truck drivers, which met regularly to take all key decisions. They reported to nightly mass meetings. This approach of democratic unionism and mass participation, virtually unheard of today, formed the backbone of union power in Minneapolis.
Another feature of the strike was the extraordinary role of the Women's Auxiliary.
The initial resistance of many union members in an entirely male workforce was overcome by the "explicit, conscious and successful creation of an organised contingent of working class women supporting the male trucking industry workforce" (The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934, by Bryan D Palmer).
The Citizens Alliance responded to the success of the union by calling for a "mass movement of citizens" to break the strike. They began enrolling special deputies to join the police in preparations to violently suppress the strike and break up the picket lines.
The famous "Battle of the Deputies Run" ended in a rout of the Citizens Alliance. This epic confrontation between workers, police, and the well-off deputies was recorded in films and pictures. Audiences across the country erupted in cheers and applause as they saw strikers standing firm and routing their well-heeled opponents.
The response of the Citizens Alliance was a huge red-baiting campaign against the "terroristic Communist-led" Truck Drivers' Local 574. After several days of negotiations, the union agreed to a compromise to temporarily end the strike. They won recognition for Local 574 and pay raises for truck drivers while the other issues were to go to arbitration by the local Labour Board.
However, when the employers refused to end their open shop policy, denying the union's right to represent all workers in the industry, Local 574 began preparations for another strike.
When the third strike commenced on 16 July, Local 574 started publishing The Organizer, with a circulation of 10,000. Edited by James Cannon, the central figure in the Communist League of America, The Organizer countered the propaganda and lies of the trucking bosses and the Citizens Alliance, as well as explaining the union's strategy to workers across Minneapolis.
On 20 July, armed police opened fire on strikers in an attempt to break the strike by terror, injuring 67 people. Two strikers died of their injuries. The leaders of the Citizens Alliance were certain that the strike would be broken. However, the police brutality strengthened the solidarity, determination, and resolve of the workers.
With the continuing upheaval threatening to engulf the entire city, Farmer-Labour Governor Floyd Olson declared martial law, calling in National Guard troops to act as strike breakers. At a mass meeting, the workers decided to resume picketing in defiance of the governor. Olson ordered the arrest of the top strike leaders and shut down the strike headquarters.
Pressed by President Roosevelt, who feared the labour revolt in Minneapolis would spread, Olson backed down, called off the troops, released the strike leaders, and returned the strike headquarters.
The strike ended on 21 August, with a mediated agreement that amounted to a huge victory for the union. Most significantly, Local 574 won the right to represent all workers, breaking the employers' hardened adherence to the open shop.
With the bosses' Citizens Alliance defeated, workers in other industries gained the confidence to organise, transforming Minneapolis from a 'company town' to a 'union town'.
Across the Midwest and around the country, workers inspired by Minneapolis got themselves organised. In the following years, under the socialist leadership of Local 574, much of the interstate trucking industry was organised.
The Minneapolis Teamsters of 1934 serve, then and now, as a model for how a strong, rank-and-file controlled union with socialist leadership can gain mass public support and win decisive victories.
Full version of this article can be read on www.socialistalternative.org
Teamster Rebellion
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The classic account of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamster's successful strike movement, written by Teamster's Local leader and Trotskyist Farrell Dobbs.
Dobbs' compendium books Teamster Politics, Teamster Bureaucracy and Teamster Power £14 each + postage. Special offer on all four books, phone - 020 8988 8777 - for details.
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The National Windrush Conference will be hosted at the University of Nottingham on Saturday 17 November 2018, with a focus on conversations and calls for action on the Windrush Scandal.
Presented by Nottingham Windrush Support Forum in partnership with the Windrush Black Lawyers Group, the conference will uniquely bring together three essential pillars – the Legal, Community and Political. Featuring eminent national and local speakers involved in the Windrush Scandal, in addition to a panel and Q&A session, it will encourage urgent, coherent thinking and action on the scandal and the treatment of the Windrush generation.
Explore ways of ensuring that the ongoing campaign becomes more coordinated and has a strong national, strategic, regional and local dimensions.
The intended outcomes of this event will be agreement on the principles of a strong community engagement and media strategy, and a conclusion on key demands borne out of the best legal considerations. It is intended that these demands will be put forward to the UK Government's Home Secretary and the Prime Minister.
This conference has been convened by the National BAME Lawyers for Justice in association with the Nottingham Windrush Support Forum, the Identities, Citizenship, Equalities and Migration Centre (ICEMIC) in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, and the University of Nottingham more widely.
"The public outcry regarding the Windrush scandal comes a time of great uncertainty in UK politics. The debate about Brexit has divided the country and brought to the fore key questions about what it means to be British, the notion of 'who belongs', who is part of the UK – and most notably, the beginning of a normalisation of what many describe as a 'hostile environment' towards those regarded as being 'the other'.
The conference is free and includes a lunch and refreshments on the day. To register your attendance, visit Eventbrite.


In I'm in Love with Vienna - Steve Ross Sings the Weimar/American Songbook, his brand new show, international cabaret and concert artist STEVE ROSS turns his attention to the many deep connections, in the 1920s and 30s, between American popular song and the beloved songwriters working in Berlin and Vienna. In those years, while operetta learned to fox-trot, lyricists like Oscar Hammerstein were declaring in song, "I'm in Love with Vienna", American dance bands took up German hits like Casucci's 'Just a Gigolo" and Katscher's "When Day Is Done," while singers like Marlene Dietrich and Richard Tauber crossed borders singing songs like Stolz's "Frag Nicht Warum" ("Don't Ask Me Why"). Hungarian-born Sigmund Romberg became one of America's favorite composers and the American musical genius Jerome Kern displayed the debt his luscious melodies owed to the music of the operetta in shows like Music in the Air.
In the cultural exile that followed Hitler's rise to power, many of the German-speaking world's greatest musical talents found themselves seeking new careers on Broadway and in Hollywood. From Larry Hart's lyrics for "The Merry Widow" to Nicholas Brodszky's collaboration with Sammy Kahn in "Be My Love", Steve Ross takes you on a guided tour of this dizzying, crisscrossed scene with a special tribute to the most famous of them all, Kurt Weill.


Want a truly off-the-beaten-track New York City experience? Then book yourself into a Russian Banya, or traditional Russian bathhouse, where you can mingle with the locals, feel like you've stepped back in time and detox all in one go.
I bring you a brilliant indie beauty brand direct from Hawaii that's guaranteed to make your summer feels last for good. I'm obsessed with Leahlani Skincare's body oils, but that's just scratching the surface of what's on offer.


Regardless of your budget, there is a lot of excitement in home improvement. These tips can help you realize your home improvement dreams.
If you're considering a home improvement project, learn to perform some handiwork yourself. Your home improvement project will be more satisfying, and the overall cost will be much cheaper. However, do consider the complexity of jobs you might do. Will a major mistake require an expensive fix? If so, you might be better going with a professional. Have confidence in how difficult you judge a job to be, and go with your gut.
If you love art, don't keep it hidden in the house. Weatherproof canvas and aluminum is made to withstand rain, sun, heat, and freezing temperatures, and many online dealers like art.com have entire sections of outdoor artwork. This allows you to extend your artistic atmosphere beyond the front door of your home and makes a great statement.
Never let extra space in your home go to waste. Reconsider your unused laundry room, hall closet, or walk-in pantry as a home office or mud room. These hidden areas generally already have built-in shelves, so you don't have to invest in wall units or bookshelves. Keep the area from feeling too enclosed by turning a full-sized door into a pocket door.
For home improvement projects big enough to require a contractor, it is very important that you get a contractor you can trust. Review a prospective contractor's history and talk to his previous employers. Any disputes, lawsuits or cost overruns you find in a contractor's background are serious warning flags. Remember to ask the contractor to explain anything troubling you turn up, though.
Pick out a color that you want in your room. Formal areas of the house are best served by coloring in complementary colors. Complementary colors fall opposite each other in the color wheel: yellow and blue, red and green, or orange and purple. Color schemes that use complimentary colors create a better distinction between colors are are visually stimulating.
Did you know that a simple, cheap improvement like replacing your old window blinds can improve not only the look of the home, but its actual value as well? The crisp, clean look of the new blinds is very attractive, and it also makes the windows look a lot newer. By adding new blinds, you will be making a huge improvement.
When making renovations on your home, you should avoid simply choosing the lowest price from a contractor. Many times, it will be too good to be true and you will have to pay a large amount of money to fix damages. Besides that, it can be very stressful for you. Save yourself the hassle and find the best contractor you can find instead of the cheapest.
Apply these tips and do more research on home improvement so you can start working on the projects you care about. Regardless of how big or small your project is, the information that you just read here should make things go a lot more smoothly when you do your next project.


The Cayce Health Profile offers insights you need to develop a health "optimization" plan so that you can manifest "a more perfect health," just as though Edgar Cayce himself was reading your chart and making personal recommendations.
Astrologer Raye Mathis has interpreted the major astrological influences in your "health chart" and followed them with the remedies that Cayce would suggest for those specific health conditions. Should you be using castor oil packs? Should you practice yoga? Should you set healthy boundaries to reduce the impact of stress on your health? Find such answers and more in your personalized report. Averages 30 pages.


The finished project is beautiful - as I new it would be. Glad you can move on to other things - but I know this has been a heartfelt project.
That is a lovely piece of art, Heather. I admire you for having the skill and patience to create those wonderful quilts. Every quilt looks complicated and difficult to me, but this one especially so.
Your bird quilt is just wonderful Heather. Congrats on getting it all sewn up. What a treasure this will be.
Heather, congratulations on completing this striking quilt. I am not a quilter but enjoy looking at beautiful quilts. The quilting museum in Kentucky is one of our national treasures and a highlight of a trip we took several years ago. Have you been there?