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WATCH: Chris Fearne Says Mask Advice Will Still Apply After May But Predicts COVID-19 Situation Will Greatly Improve By Then
By Tim Diacono
Health Minister Chris Fearne has confirmed the authorities will still advise people to wear face masks after May, the month Prime Minister Robert Abela has forecast will signal a return to "business as usual".
However, he predicted that the country's COVID-19 situation would have improved significantly by then because most vulnerable people would have been vaccinated.
"I said from the start of the pandemic that it's going to change normality," Fearne said during a Newsbook interview yesterday. "We learned some things that weren't that important to us before and accelerated certain things. Some things will improve and there'll be other things we'll need to be more careful about."
"For example, our advice will be to continue wearing masks and be responsible after May."
Fearne defended Abela's statements that life will return to "business as usual" by May, noting that everyone older than 70 as well as everyone with chronic conditions should have been vaccinated by then.
"Having a virus in and of itself doesn't necessarily lead to serious consequences… God forbid the world stops every time someone gets a cold. Our concern isn't the virus but its consequences, which are most serious among people older than 70 and younger people with serious chronic conditions."
"Our policy is to immunise the vulnerable and the front-liners first so that while the virus will remain in the community, its consequences won't be severe and therefore life can go on."
"We'd rather not have any cases of COVID-19 at all though, so we aim to achieve herd immunity by September and vaccinate everyone who wants it by the end of the year."
Fearne said it's projected that 60-70% of the population will have to be vaccinated for herd immunity to be reached. He didn't hazard a prediction of when the authorities will be able to ease restrictions though, saying that "the numbers will tell us".
"Our decisions are based on science, not on what people write on Facebook or what is happening in other countries," he added. "We learn from other countries but make decisions based on science."
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How Important is Chinese Lending to Latin America?
Aug 9, 2013 ˙ China & Latin America
Q: Chinese lending to Latin America and the Caribbean hit an all-time high of $37 billion in 2010. But China's lending to the region has plummeted since then, to approximately $6.8 billion in 2012, according to data recently compiled by the Inter-American Dialogue. The drop-off was attributed mainly to a decline in Chinese lending to Venezuela. How important is Chinese lending to the region today? What does the decline in funding from China mean for Venezuela and the region as a whole? What will the future hold for Chinese lending to Latin America and the Caribbean?
A: Margaret Myers, director of the China and Latin America program at the Inter-American Dialogue: "The China Development Bank and China Ex-Im Bank are unlikely to stop lending to Latin America. New loans to the region were announced in June during President Xi Jinping's visits to Costa Rica, Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago. But in the wake of investment-related setbacks in Myanmar, Libya and now possibly Venezuela, China is working to develop better risk assessment capability, which could mean a decrease in loan amounts and more stringent loan terms. A lack of regional expertise in Beijing coupled with China's preference for closed-door negotiations has potentially exposed China to a higher degree of risk than intended. The $44 billion in loan agreements negotiated between Chávez and China's policy banks will very likely face some scrutiny in the coming years. China Development Bank, which is responsible for the vast majority of lending to Latin America, is increasingly working with state-run think tanks to develop profiles for projects in the region and elsewhere. Regional studies desks within state-owned enterprises are also profiling leaders and reporting on environmental issues, cultural considerations and historical tendencies in countries of interest. Some caution against investment in specific Latin American nations. Analysis conducted by Chinese oil firm CNPC warns of excessive political risk and unfavorable tax policy in Venezuela. China will remain a source of finance (though a better informed one) for certain Latin American countries, however. As growth slows in China's domestic market, lending abroad could very well prove an increasingly attractive option for China's powerful policy banks."
A: Sun Hongbo, associate professor at the Institute of Latin American Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing: "Chinese finance played an important facilitating role in China-Latin America economic ties by injecting liquidity during the recent international financial crisis. Such financing could be seen as a supporting pillar to deepen China's bilateral economic cooperation with the region, propelled by China's huge foreign-exchange reserves of more than $3 trillion. Obviously, Chinese lending has promoted the development of resource-based industries and infrastructure in Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil and other countries, and has increased those countries' trade volume with China. In comparison to transnational hot money, China's loans to Latin America have the nature of development finance. Without a doubt, Chinese financial capacity can benefit Latin American development, but the challenge is how to utilize Chinese capital with more efficiency, effectiveness and responsibility. In view of its growth potential, Latin America holds a strategic position in Chinese banks' 'go-global' initiative. Former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in a speech to ECLAC last June that China's financial cooperation mechanism needs to be innovated by creating a China-Latin American cooperation fund with a first tranche of $5 billion from Chinese financial institutions, a special infrastructure fund with $10 billion from China's Development Bank and a $50 million special agricultural fund. China's future lending to Latin America largely depends on multiple factors, such as Chinese macroeconomic change, an economic structural adjustment policy, new financial regulation and Chinese banks' business plans, as well as individual financing needs of Latin American countries and their bargaining with China."
A: Matt Ferchen, resident scholar at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy in Beijing: "For some years now, Venezuela has been the most obvious outlier in China's lending to Latin America. The Dialogue's 2012 'New Banks in Town' report clearly demonstrated that since 2005 Venezuela was the main recipient of Chinese loans, most of which were provided by the China Development Bank as part of the CDB's loans-for-oil strategy. Such an outsized commitment by China to the region's riskiest, if most oil-rich, country raised questions from many observers even before Hugo Chávez's health concerns became public. The combination of Chávez's deteriorating health beginning in 2011 and culminating in his death in March of this year, along with China's 2012-13 leadership transition, are the likeliest causes of China's reappraisal of, and subsequent slowdown in, the country's loans to Venezuela in particular. Unless and until Venezuela's political and economic meltdown, including the operations of state-run oil company PDVSA, can be arrested and placed on a healthier trajectory, it is unlikely that we will see loan commitments from CDB or other Chinese lenders of the size and scale that we saw when Chávez was still alive. As for the rest of the region, lending will likely take place on a country-by-country and case-by-case basis, and as long as there are viable projects that fit Chinese lenders and other firms' investment criteria, there is no reason to think that significant lending won't be forthcoming in the years ahead."
A: Erik Bethel, managing partner at SinoLatin Capital in Shanghai: "Part of the drop in lending to Venezuela in 2012 was a function of uncertainty surrounding Venezuela's political transition. I expect this to ramp up again driven by Venezuela's need for financing and necessary infrastructure improvements. Insofar as the rest of the region, I also expect the lending to increase, particularly in Peru where Chinese firms are investing billions of dollars in very large mining projects such as Toromocho (owned by China Aluminum Corp.). Many analysts also expect Glencore to sell its Peruvian 'Las Bambas' copper project to a Chinese firm. This project will require several billion dollars in capital expenditures and Chinese lenders will be actively involved."


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Study Shows Buying Luxury Items Makes Us Miserable
It is an easy assumption to make that buying luxurious things would make someone feel like a million dollars. But the truth is quite the opposite. Let's admit it, shopping has the power to make you feel better. There's no better feeling than getting a compliment on a brand new shiny object. We believe to some subconscious extent that buying items will improve our lives. More times than not, indulging in a new fancy thing will spark some satisfaction before ultimately fading rather quickly. According to research from Boston College and Harvard Business School, the psychological effects of buying something fancy are often neither positive nor neutral. For most people, owning luxury items actually makes us feel bad.
Nailya Ordabayeva, study author and associate professor of marketing at Boston COllege's Carroll School of Management says that previous research supports the idea that luxury is appealing to consumers "because it promises status and confidence." She continues, "But there has been limited research on how consumers actually feel when they consume luxury products, and we were interested in figuring out whether or not this confidence boost that's promised by luxury in fact materializes, or are there unexpected consequences of indulging in luxury for consumers?"
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Ordabayeva said that consumers' who purchased something nice experienced a "dissonance between what luxury represents and who they truly are. And that generated what we call the impostor syndrome of luxury consumption." Two-thirds of all 1,000 research subjects (regardless of income level) felt that buying a luxury item made them feel "inauthentic" and it didn't match their true identity. Ordabayeve says even luxury products purchased for use in private like skincare made consumers feel this way. Even luxury items bought on sale. If you find the opposite is true for you, there's a reason behind that. Ordabayeva says "an inherent sense of psychological entitlement" might make you feel less of the impostor syndrome. "We found people who feel inherently entitled, who felt they deserve the best things in life, were the only group of individuals with lower feelings of inauthenticity" regarding their luxury purchases, says Ordabayeva.
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In a frigid spot beyond the Arctic Circle, guests sleep among art that melts into the river each summer
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Entrance to the IceHotel against the backdrop of the northern lights. Asaf Kliger/Icehotel
By Rupali Mehra
LAST PUBLISHED 27.10.2018 | 11:57 AM IST
The possibility of being frozen in time holds the promise of a fairytale. In reality, however, the prospect can give you the chills.
So when I was invited to spend a night on an ice bed, in an ice room, inside an ice chamber, the goosebumps were justified. Yet that didn't stop me from taking an overnight train from Stockholm one cold October evening and heading 150km beyond the Arctic Circle. My stop is Kiruna, the northernmost city in Sweden. From there a 20-minute drive takes me to Jukkasjärvi, on the banks of the crystal-clear Torne river. Jukkasjärvi is derived from Čohkkirasjávri, which in the indigenous Sami language means a meeting place by the river. It is here that the IceHotel is built afresh each winter, only to melt back into the river with the change of season.
Guests plunge into icy cold water, followed by a stint in the sauna. Asaf Kliger/Icehotel
For Christophe Risenius, CEO of IceHotel, the excitement of creating something new every year is what attracted him to Jukkasjärvi. Each year a team of over 50 international architects and artists create a new design for the hotel and work begins nine months before the hotel is reopened for winter. Since 2016, a part of the IceHotel has been made permanent, so that guests can experience "that winter feeling" even in summer.
"Every year the hotel has a different design, with different artists. Even the hotel itself changes shape. If a guest is sleeping in one of these rooms, it is going to be for those moments only, and then it is gone because that room, with its art, won't exist when they return," Risenius says with childlike enthusiasm, as we walk along a white corridor towards the suites that house the art collection.
The temperature inside is -5 degrees Celsius. "How many hours a day can people work in this ice chamber?" I ask, as I am given an extra thermal cloak before we make our way in. "The artists work inside the ice rooms for 7-8 hours every day. You know we have a saying in Sweden; there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing. So as long as you have good equipment, you are absolutely fine," says Risenius, perhaps sensing my tropical conditioning that earmarks 20 degrees Celsius as cold weather.
Four thousand tonnes of ice are harvested from the Torne river in spring, and kept in a cold warehouse which runs on solar power. This is when the ice is at its strongest. The construction begins in November and takes about a month to complete.
The Dragon Residence suite by Bazarsad Bayarsaikhan. Paulina Holmgren/Icehotel
Along the ice corridor, workers are putting the final touches to the wall using snice, a mixture of snow and ice to ensure strength. The interiors of each room are strikingly different from the other, reflecting the creator's style and technique. Some rooms are ornate, with frozen sculptures reminiscent of the baroque age. Others reflect Scandinavian minimalism. Some themes are abstract and still others are straight out of a children's storybook.
The play of light through the ice adds another dimension. And the fact that the artwork is both transient yet permanent gives it a surreal appeal.
The art suites turn into a museum by day. By night, they double as bedrooms. Apart from the ice sculptures, each suite has a bed made from a block of ice, layered over with a specially designed mattress and reindeer hide to retain warmth. Reindeer hide is commonly used in subzero Arctic regions for clothing and in homes, especially among the Sami people, many of whom are reindeer herders.
The Victorian Room, with a bookcase made of ice, two ice lounge chairs and an ice bed, catches my eye. Next door, a woman is carefully measuring and chiselling an 8ft-high column of ice into what is beginning to resemble a human figure.
"These are going to be sculptures of mature women," says the artist Nina Hedman, describing her theme "Invisible, Invincible Women". "It takes about two days to finish one sculpture," she adds.
Fellow artist Lena Kriström, who works with ice and stone, is perched on a ladder within earshot. "I have a big marble sculpture in Pune of a person cupping his chin in his hands and looking up at the sky," she says when she hears I am from India. "I made a similar one here at Jukkasjärvi. Perhaps their sight will meet somewhere up in the sky," she adds. Perhaps that is what brought me here, I think.
Cross-country skiing in Jukkasjärvi. Markus Alatalo/Icehotel
"It is a very special and a unique experience since you are seeing one of the largest exhibitions by artists. It is not only about the room but also about the art. That is something which was from the beginning important for us—to combine an art experience with sleeping in an Arctic atmosphere," says Risenius, as I prepare to spend the night in one of the art suites. There are a total of around 65 ice rooms, including deluxe suites, art suites, and ice rooms.
A decadent five-course Nordic dinner served on ice platters eases me into a food coma and lulls the nerves brought on by the thought of sleeping on ice. Dinner is followed by a sauna and I am ready for the night. I am staying in a room named The Blue Houses, created by artists Nina and Johan Kauppi. The room represents a little village with sloping roofs. The play of light and darkness through the ice walls make the two dimensional dwellings appear three dimensional. In the middle of the room is my bed.
Dressed in a base layer, I leave my belongings in a warm chamber but for my mobile phone that becomes an extension of my hand as I tuck myself into the sleeping bag. I am assured the sleeping bag is designed to withstand cold up to -25 degrees Celsius. Nonetheless, I take no chances. Leaving no part exposed except half my face, I close my eyes and count backward to hundred. Then I open my eyes. The fear seems to have gone. My heart is racing no more and my breath is calm. I am warm in an ice blue chamber surrounded by the silence of snow. The feeling is unimaginably surreal.
I must have slept well. For it takes more than a single "good morning" call from a chirpy staff member carrying a a cup of hot lingonberry tea, to wake me. Still wrapped in my sleeping bag, I sip the tea and look around. The past 7 hours feel like a dream. But sometimes reality is more surreal than fiction.
An ice room for two per night (including breakfast) starts at ₹ 18,000 in autumn; the suites can go up to ₹ 65,000. In winter, the price ranges from ₹ 45,000-90,000.
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Bronze statue of woman in see-through dress sparks sexism row after it's unveiled by group of men in Italy
A bronze statue of a woman dressed in a transparent dress has prompted a sexism row – after a group of men unveiled it on Saturday in Sapri, Italy.
Sculpted by Emanuele Stifano, the controversial statue pays homage to Luigi Mercantini's famous poem La spigolatrice di Sapri (The Gleaner of Sapri). This poem examines the Italian socialist thinker Carlo Pisacane's expedition against Naples. 300 people died in the failed expedition that took place in 1857.
The statue was unveiled by a group of men, including Giuseppe Conte, who used to be Italy's prime minister. This despite the intent to honor the 19th century poem.
Some Italian politicians have expressed their dismay online by calling the figure sexist. One even suggested that it should be "knocked down."
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Laura Boldrini, a member of the Democratic Party, took to Twitter to express her dismay. She called it an "offence to women and to the history it should celebrate."
"But how can even institutions accept the representation of women as a sexualised body? Male chauvinism is one of the evils of Italy", she added.
A group of female politicians from the Democratic Party's in Palermo called for the statue to be removed.
In a statement, they said: "Once again, we have to suffer the humiliation of seeing ourselves represented in the form of a sexualised body, devoid of soul and without any connection with the social and political issues of the story."
Monica Cirinnà, a member of the Senate, added: "A slap to history and to women who are still only sexualised bodies. This statue of the Gleaner says nothing of the self-determination of the one who chose not to go to work to take sides against the Bourbon oppressor."
The sculptor took to Facebook on Monday to defend his work. He suggested that he "took advantage of the sea breeze" to "highlight the body".
"This is to underline an anatomy that should not have been a faithful snapshot of a 19th century peasant woman, but rather to represent an ideal of a woman, evoke her pride, the awakening of a conscience, all in a moment of great pathos"He wrote.
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Several of the participants in the webinar have been mentioned in the Pundit, and we did full-blown interviews with both Christine M. Bruhn, Ph.D., UC Davis, and Harlan Clemmons, President & COO, Sadex Corporation, on the irradiation issue.
Q: When the product is irradiated to get rid of E. coli, salmonella or other dangerous pathogens, are all bacterium eliminated? Could there be negative long-term affect if a person's diet included a large percentage of irradiated products?
A: This is not a sterile product that is produced after irradiation. There are still normal bacteria that exist, but the foodborne pathogens have been eliminated. I've never seen any studies that show any dangerous cumulative effect of humans eating irradiated food products. There is no credible data suggesting this is an issue, nothing from FDA, no scientific data that has been peer-reviewed to demonstrate any issue whatsoever. FDA took an exhaustive look at the impact of irradiation. We've not seen any evidence pointing to irradiation compromising future resistance to pathogens.
Is this what he intends to say, and if so, could he elucidate how this selective sterilization works?
Q: Is there a chance the irradiation process could kill off "good" bacteria as well as the bad bacteria? In other words, are you playing with nature's circle of life, where certain bacteria are needed to ward off other problems?
A: My view is that anything living on your food, whether a pathogen or spoilage organism is bad. I wouldn't view any bacteria on food as good bacteria.
In essence you have a lot more spoilage than pathogens on food. The magic in irradiation is in logarithmic reductions. If you start out with 1,000 organisms, bacteria divide dependent on temperature and species of bacteria. That's why you have to be so careful about keeping product at the right temperature. Say at the end of the day, those 1,000 organisms have doubled to 2,000, and the next day to 4,000.
Starting with those 1,000 organisms, if you have a 4 log reduction, take the decimal and move it four places to the left, now you have .1 instead of 1,000. Instead of 1,000 doubling to 2,000, it takes so much longer for organisms to multiply to a dangerous level. Eventually you have the same spoilage indicators, but you're slowing down the spoilage process significantly.
If this is the accepted frame of reference, then it is a moot point — in fact, any survivors such as what Dr. Barach mentions could be seen as a shortcoming of the irradiation process.
First, is their general level of health and immune function similar to that of animals not fed a sterile diet?
Secondly, if you raise a lab animal on a sterile diet, and then expose it to pathogens, is it more likely to have an adverse reaction than an animal would that had been fed a "normal" diet rich in many kinds of microorganisms?
I have not found a source for this information, and so, like many people, am left to my "intuitions," which I find are shared by many: exclusively sterile food, or an overly sanitized environment, are not healthy for people who are not seriously immune-compromised, and their increasing introduction into the diet and lifestyle may have pervasive adverse health effects that are difficult if not impossible to accurately trace back to their causes.
Pundit's Mailbag — Can Irradiation Follow The Path Of Pasteurization?
Q. In your interview, you point out that after irradiation there are still normal bacteria that exist, but the foodborne pathogens have been eliminated. Could you elaborate on how this selective sterilization works?
A. Irradiation treatment will reduce both pathogenic and non-pathogenic (spoilage or normal) organisms.
In real life on a food product, such as fresh vegetables and fruits, the number of the pathogenic bacteria is a lot lower than the number of spoilage organisms.
In addition to that, different microorganisms have different sensitivity to irradiation. In an irradiation treatment, the dose chosen for a specific food product will target a specific organism, which is the pathogen most likely to contaminate that product.
Since many spoilage organisms are more resistant and are in numbers more prevalent than pathogens, the targeted treatment kills the pathogens and some of the spoilage (normal) organisms, but not all.
Q. Richard Hunter proposes that all bacteria on food are bad. If this is the case, could any survivors be seen as a shortcoming of the irradiation process?
A. The comment that all bacteria on food are bad is not exactly correct. I think he wanted to point out he would prefer not to have any kind of bacteria on his food, which is hardly possible, unless the food is "commercially sterilized" (such as with canned foods).
All produce, vegetables, fruits, bakery products, dairy products, etc., have some microorganism load. There are many food products that are purposely inoculated with bacteria, yeast or moulds (i.e., fermented meats, cultured dairy products, fermented drinks, etc).
Irradiation is used for the purpose of reducing the harmful bacteria (the life-threatening pathogens) and not to sterilize the food. Bacteria come in good and bad varieties, or more to the point, bacteria can be helpful or harmful.
Q. Have there been any scientific studies conducted on the significance of non-pathogenic microorganisms on food? For example, would general health and immune functions be similar between animals fed a sterile diet and animals not fed a sterile diet?
If you raise a lab animal on a sterile diet and then expose it to pathogens, is it more likely to have an adverse reaction than an animal that had been fed a "normal" diet rich in many kinds of microorganisms?
A. That is an interesting question but beyond the scope of our discussions here. Irradiated produce is not sterile and will contain some bacteria (of the non-pathogenic type). The remaining "normal" bacteria on the irradiated produce are the same ones you would find on unirradiated produce — there are just fewer of them.
This whole issue is reminiscent of the debate over sterile environments and allergies and asthma in children. There is an interesting little video on the "Hygiene Hypothesis" that focuses on the idea that farmer's children have fewer incidences of allergies and asthma. You can see the video here.
Here's the theory: The newborn immune system is tolerant and non-allergic to most anything (which is why it sometimes does such a lousy job of fighting off infection). When it is exposed to the usual allergy-causing antigens (such as dust and mold and dogs and cats), the immune system and allergens become lifelong buddies: a long-lasting acceptance and tolerance between them develops.
On the other hand, when an allergy-prone infant is raised in a very clean — almost sterile — environment, the immune system remains unfamiliar with these allergens. Then, when exposed later on, it reacts to them as it would to any alien invader, triggering allergies and/or asthma.
Still the research is problematic, the data establishing an epidemic of childhood asthma and allergies is unclear often relying on patient self-diagnosis. There are also many variables. Children on farms may have fewer allergies — but maybe parents with severe allergies don't become farmers. The role of antibiotics in both animals and people may affect this whole line of inquiry. And of course cleanliness can have positive attributes in preventing infection. As a result of all this, public health authorities are not urging parents to have their children eat dirt.
When it comes to irradiation, Bob Sanderson's concern strikes us as intriguing, and we would like to see animal studies done such as he suggests. Yet it does not strike us as an important concern regarding the irradiation of iceberg lettuce and spinach.
Today we are a long way from that; in fact, at this point the Pundit proposed just making a line of produce available for use by immune-compromised individuals or institutions that serve such people.
Since there is no danger anytime soon of the whole diet being "sterilized," we can proceed with irradiation of higher risky items, such as leafy greens, in full confidence that the known benefits in terms of food safety outweigh any even hypothetical risk to society at large.
We thank both Bob Sanderson and Jeffrey Barach for their assistance with this challenging topic.


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First of all, can I ask you what your role is with the Nature Conservancy and how does it relate to e-learning?
I am a learning manager working on our technology learning center, and specifically within that role I manage the three LMSs that we currently use to get our e-learning out, both internally and externally. I also do a little bit of the development and stuff like that, but mainly I work with LMS systems.
So, with those LMS, with that content you present on those LMSs, the training you're doing, what new and/or innovative stuff are you doing to train folks or to present learning?
New and innovative? I'm not sure if it's new, but our specific concern and where we have the most problems is since we are focused on conservation issues globally, we work with a lot of partners from around the world. And just for example, on our external learning portals, we have people coming in from over 150 different countries. And while that's fine and dandy for people who have bandwidth, we are trying to reach the conservation practitioners, and professionals, and managers, in smaller, less developed areas, where bandwidth is a huge issue. And so we have to build our courses as small as possible, but still create a very interactive, engaging piece. Which is a unique challenge because the folks we're trying to get to don't always have the bandwidth connectivity to get to it or to stay online for long periods of time.
Okay, so is it the case that it's not just the size of the course, but the fact that they need a continuous connection, or would you be able to, in a way, make the courses somewhat larger and have that acceptable if the protocols were set up more so you could download some content ahead of time, have them interact with that content, and then later sync back up?
In an ideal world, that's what we would like: either there's pieces they can download to their computer, and then when they're finished it sends something back seamlessly, or they link back into the system, and upload it back. The way we get around that most of the time is for people that are having those problems is we try to make some of the SCORM material packaged up as a zip file that can run locally on their computer, and then ask them that when they've completed it, just take a screen shot of that last page that says they've successfully completed it, and then we have to manually update it. Which isn't a huge issue other than we're trusting them to actually get to the end of it, and sometimes we never hear back from them, and once they download that content we have no idea where it actually goes. So we lose control over it, in that form. Not the authoring files.
Right, that then people can just pass it around, you don't even know if they've taken it. Interesting. So there's one other thing, that I've heard requested that seems like it could help with this scenario too. For the one facet, but not the other, which is that some people requesting for content to be able to run on its own without launching from the LMS, but then when you're done or really at any time the content is designed to do it,start-up communication with the LMS and say, oh by the way, here's this learner that you didn't know about, track their progress.
Yeah, that would definitely work as well. We'd like to be able to track our learners, so given those scenarios, it could potentially work. One of the other areas where we are looking at and trying to see a way to do this and I don't know if there is or not, and it's some of our developers who are digging into it a little bit more than me, is rather than always having to create a SCORM-based activity in the LMS, wondering if we'd be able to embed a Flash piece that has a SCORM call in it, launch it just like any other web page and send that information into the LMS. That sounds like something along the lines you're talking about.
Yeah, it's a similar thing to say that you don't really have to launch it as a SCORM course, just that at some point the content or whatever granularity can say at some point, okay I'd like to track back, some SCORM tracking data and treat me like a SCORM course.
So what is it that you tend to want to track about your learners, and not just what you actually are tracking, but what would be nice to track that you haven't been able to?
In that sense I don't think we're missing anything. What we're more interested in is who is taking it and how far along they progressed in it and if they've completed it. The only other information we'd want to track, and I don't think this is something that SCORM can help us with is more of the motivational: why did they stop taking it? But we're just, as an organization, we're not really interested — well, I shouldn't say we're not interested, but we just don't, we're more interested in getting it out there and seeing it being used. And so tracking by person, organization, and progress is really all we need. We don't do a lot scoring and things like that to where we're worried about how well they did. Or the amount of time it took them or didn't take them, those types of things just don't matter to us as an organization.
So, I guess that's — it's similar to content just being able to track back without necessarily having been lost to an LMS, but it also sounds like you might kind of be interested in, even in if your content gets put into someone else's LMS at some point, or is passed around without an LMS, if there was some standard way for it to track back to you, and maybe even ask the user to let them know I was going to do that and ask for a little bit more information, to give you some sort of statistics, you might be interested in something like that.
Yeah, and I think that would definitely be something of interest, because one of the things we are going to look at now and over the next year or two is creating a conservation learning portal to where we have a set structure of courses people can take. But we're also looking at partnering with other organizations and how we can all that content together, but still track it successfully on an organizational basis. And we have a youth program that's looking to design curriculum and then share it out to thirty or forty schools across the US. So if there was a way to centrally track who is using it, across that type of sense no matter what system they might be using it in, that would be ideal.
You mentioned you had three LMSs, do you have any integration between them or with other systems, or do you see the need for integration with other systems, particularly integration around the tracking data or courses that people are taking themselves?
We didn't start out to have three LMSs. And we're trying to whittle that down. Currently we use PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning Manager, and IntroLearn LSP, and then Moodle 1.9. And the PeopleSoft and IntroLearn systems do do a file transfer a couple of times a day, because we had some courses that were donated to us and we have to use them on that IntroLearn system. So really there's just a shell pointing people to them in PeopleSoft, but then we have to sync up the user data for whose enrolling and their progress. So that's just sort of a data file transfer. Which doesn't always work really well, but we're trying to figure out how to get around that.
Then, our Moodle system is more for our external folks and partners, and right now that's not synced with anything but we would like to have it synced with our internal HR MS, with the PeopleSoft system. That's why we have PeopleSoft, because HR bought the PeopleSoft HR MS system, and it included the LMS component with it. But we liked the features that Moodle has in terms of being able to do some more collaboration and cooperative learning. Right now, if we run a course there we just sort of throw a link up on our intranet and then point people to it for internal staff. There's no way we can track it, so we would like to fix that moving forward.
Moodle system, but at no point does it get tied back in to any internal learning plans on our internal, the PeopleSoft LMS, or part of their employee record. It's just sort of lost. We push them out there to take it, to take advantage of some of the features of it, but there's no — they don't get credit for it as an employee, because it doesn't ever show up on their official HR file, which is that PeopleSoft system.
So, would it be fair to say that what you really would want to integrate across systems is basically completions, the learner, the course they took, the fact they completed it?
Yeah, that's really what we would need. The name, probably a date, when they enrolled and when they completed it, and the fact that they did.
B: What do you think will change about e-learning in the next five or ten years and what do you think should change?
What do I think will change and what should change? I think given the way we see the whole basis of social learning connectivity, and sort of cloud-based platforms, I think you're going to see e-learning content need to be delivered anywhere on any device. Sort of along the lines of the whole mobile learning, so no matter where you are or how you connect to the net, or an internal network, you can still get that same content, however it was designed to be delivered and still should be able to, regardless of device or access, should still track into that system. But then, I think with that what you'll start seeing change, or what I would hope to see change, is greater ability for learners to connect and come together. Not necessarily to change that content, like a wiki change, because there was probably a reason it was put together in that format, but to create more supplemental materials and things of that nature to help support that larger learning community. I would hope that's what would change, myself.
In terms of what needs to change, I don't think anything needs to change. It does work as it was, somewhat, originally intended. So it's doing its job, I think it's a natural for it to change as needs and the industry do change. So I guess the only need for it to change is to keep up with the current needs of the market, but not necessarily because it isn't doing anything or that its functionality was flawed as is.
Do you do any instructor or classroom-led training and do you have any needs to blend the two together?
D: We do to an extent, typically when we do face-to-face training, they are purely instructor led, for whatever reason. My team doesn't work on that, but our HR learning team does. Within my team, typically we don't do a lot of it, but we do do some blended learning. But it's not face-to-face classroom based, but web-conferencing based? You'll go into a webinar with an instructor for a couple hours, and then we'll have other activities you'll be responsible for at other times, whether it's going through a SCORM packaged e-learning piece, or doing some sort of practice session in a training environment for one of the systems we're running, or something like that.
And would you say you have any communication integration, synchronization needs that aren't being met in that area currently?
No, not really. Again, just looking with the instructor-led stuff, that we're capturing that, it's the instructor's responsibility to mark attendance so that's working with the SCORM pieces again, more knowing who is accessing it and if they completed it or not. And the integration with a live-system testing environment, we're putting them in that environment so they get practice in the system and we're leaving that up to the instructor to work with them and make sure the activities are getting concluded. I would say our needs, as basic as they are in that type of scenario, are being met.
Our biggest needs are being able to get our content out to people, regardless of where they are, and being able to track their activity with it based on how they access it. I think we covered it.


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BeConnected members join in lottery celebrations
An award-winning project that's helping tackle loneliness and isolation in communities across Stafford has been joining in recent celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of the first National Lottery draw.
Managed by Stafford and Rural Homes (SARH) – now a proud member of Housing Plus Group – BeConnected is one of thousands of worthy causes to benefit from The National Lottery Community Fund and last year received a grant of nearly £60,000 to continue its good work.
To show their gratitude, BeConnected members joined in the birthday celebrations at a special event in Stafford where they welcomed representatives from The National Lottery Community Fund and other local groups benefitting from its support.
Kathy Jones, Operational director of housing for Housing Plus Group, explained: "In 2019 BeConnected staged more than 80 events and, with around 360 members, it's proving a huge success.
"This would not be possible without the fantastic support from The National Lottery Community Fund and we were delighted to host one of many events across the county celebrating this landmark anniversary."
"It's also a pleasure to attend any BeConnected event and I've always been struck by the friendliness and warm welcome from those taking part and the volunteers who have also made a huge contribution to the project's popularity."
Led by SARH, BeConnected includes a programme of fun and free activities including arts, crafts, gardening and exercise classes at easy to access venues across the Borough.
It aims to help older people, who are feeling lonely or are socially isolated, to make new friends, to get out and about and help prevent the physical and psychological health risks associated with loneliness.
Alongside around 45 BeConnected members and volunteers, representatives from a number of local organisations to benefit from The National Lottery Community Fund also attended the birthday party.
Groups and projects represented at the event included Stafford Social Hub, Colanley Gardens and Make Some Noise – charities that also work with a range of activities for the elderly and vulnerable.
During the afternoon at St Bertelin's Church Hall, Stafford, they all appreciated live music and dancing while enjoying each other's company and meeting up with friends old and new.
BeConnected member and volunteer, 68-year-old Ron Mellor, said: "Events like this are fantastic and, as we get older, my wife and I know we'll be surrounded by friends and be able to maintain a busy social life."
A regular bingo caller at BeConnected events, Ron also helps to serve up refreshments and says he gets a lot out of taking part.
"Whether you are a volunteer or a member, BeConnected offers a great way to get out and about and remain an active member of the community," he added


A California native, Diana received her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley focusing on international relations and French. After graduating with honors, she moved to Paris where she worked for a French developer of database, multimedia and image & design software. Upon returning to San Francisco, she ventured into new media where she was involved in the marketing and production of interactive, broadcast and video content, as well as video production, voice-over and sound design. As a project manager and producer, Diana has also worked for documentary filmmakers, commercial photographers and an online apparel designer, manufacturer and retailer. Diana first cultivated her interest in digital archiving while working on a two volume set of catalogue raisonné of Pablo Picasso's artwork. With extensive experience in managing media development projects ranging from dynamic database driven websites to interactives for retail environments, she easily transferred her skills to the cultural heritage community and now collaborates with non-profit, arts and educational institutions seeking to preserve and share their collections online as well as to engage visitors on-site. Diana's love for culture, arts and history is focused on utilizing technology to optimize efficiency in workflows and to facilitate creating innovative ways of captivating and educating the public.


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As Tottenham smouldered in August last year, there was a lot of handwringing over the part that newtechnology played in corrupting the young. But while the rioters commanded the headlines an international community of online gamers was busy solving a puzzle that had kept scientists baffled for a decade.
The Mason-Pfizer Monkey Virus is an analogue of the AIDS virus. Researchers needed to know how the virus protein molecules were folded. After ten years of puzzling – and failing – a team of molecular biologists reframed the question as an online game. Two weeks later they had the answer that had eluded them for so long.
Now you and your students can play "Foldit". There are plenty more proteins to be folded and you can play either alone or in a team. It's a competition – but like the Olympics of old the true reward is in taking part. The real winners are science, thepursuit of knowledge, and anyone whose life might be saved when a vaccine finally rolls off the production line.
The game was developed by a team of computer scientists at the University of Washington's Center for Game Science in collaboration with the Department of Biochemistry to harness the spacial processing power of the human brain. In time they hope to teach computers how we do it. But what's important here is that gamers think differently from scientists.
Science is a discipline. The classic scientific method where problem leads to hypothesis, experimentation, observation and conclusion, suggests that there is a direct route between where we are and the truth – as long as we stick to the rules. But with the game, researchers had the free use of the spacial processing power of over 60,000 human brains, and access to a way of thinking that wasn't their forte. Traditional scientists, trained to follow the rules were working hand in hand with gamers who take pride in breaking them.
John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas described the five traits of the gamer in the Harvard Business Review. They are bottom-line orientated; understand the power of diversity; thrive on change; see learning as fun; and explore radical alternatives and innovative strategies. If there is a well known way to solve a problem the gamer mentality is to find a better one.
Of course butchering a few Orks to enter the "realm of the shadows" in pursuit of a "deathcharger" may not have a direct link to KS3 physics but ifwe're going to get more kids into science we have to recognise the value in the way they think. Gamers learn constantly. If a child doesn't read as much as we would like but plays a lot of games we need to recognise thattheir thinking is probably merely different, rather than flawed.
There a lots of games out there which will teach you about science but a growing number, like Foldit, involve the player in genuine scientific discovery.
Galaxy Zoo – Help classify the galaxies.
Moonzoo – Help map the surface of the moon.
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Heraldry is a descriptive system of hereditary coats of arms, and everything that is associated with it (badges, flags and the like). It is described in a succinct language called 'blazon', which exactly delineates the colors and shapes.
The trophy of arms depicted above inclides the royal coat of arms of King George III.
Heraldry became systematized about 1200 AD, and flourished as a working art up to about 1600. Since that time its use has been mainly ceremonial, although it embodies a wealth of historical information and associations. From 1800 it saw a needless increase in complexity, and today many people erroneously believe they have a right to family arms associated with others of the same name.
So to understand the heraldry of King George III, we need to look at its antecedents.
1198-1340 Three yellow lions on red.
At the dawn of true hereditary heraldry, the arms of England made their appearance on Richard the Lionheart's (Richard I) second great seal, although he is believed to have used either a lion rampant or two lions affrontes before that (as shown on his first seal), and his father Henry II used a lion rampant. His younger brother (who became King John) had a seal in 1177 with two lions passant guardant.
Same arms continued for John, Henry III, Edward I, and Edward II.
Blazon of the royal arms of England: Gules in pale three lions passant guardant or.
In pale = organized on a central vertical axis.
Lions = not realistic lions, heraldic stylizations.
Passant = of a quadruped: facing left (as viewed) body horizontal, three legs on the ground, the left front leg stretched forward, tail reflexed back over the body.
Guardant = the face of the animal facing out to the observer. Passant would have the beast facing forward, unless qualified by another description such as 'guardant'.
Or = gold or yellow.
You see how succinct the blazon is!
In 1340 Edward III asserted his claim to the kingdom of France through his mother Isabelle de France.
He expressed his claim heraldically by quartering the arms of England with those of France, with France in quarters 1 and 4.
Blazon of the royal arms of England: Quarterly of France and England.
France ancient: Azure semy of fleurs de lys or.
England: Gules in pale three lions passant guardant or.
at the edges are cut off in places.
(but also used by the Italian city-state of Firenze, and others).
King Richard II, a pious man, marshalled his arms side by side with the (presumed) arms of King Edward the Confessor.
In response to new heraldic practices, the French royal arms were changed in 1405 or 1406 to three fleurs-de-lys on a blue ground, and also changed in the English royal arms to reflect the continued claim to the throne.
Blazon of the arms: Quarterly of France and England.
France modern: Azure three fleurs de lys or.
Now the fleurs-de-lys are each larger, and each occupy about a third of the field.
Supporters of the arms: Usually two lions rampant guardant, but some monarchs used other supporters.
Supporters = In late to modern heraldry two beasts (or humans) placed either side of the shield in a full achievement of arms.
Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth.
The English flag was the cross of St George: a white field with a red cross throughout.
In 1603 James VI of Scotland ascended the throne of England as James I of England, and the following year changed his style (his title) to that of King of Great Britain. The name of the country changed to Great Britain, and the flag changed to the Union Flag (as borne by the First Foot Guards).
These arms remained the same for Charles I, Charles II, and James II.
Quarters I and 4 contained the quarterly France & England design.
Scotland: Or within a double tressure flory counter-flory gules, a lion rampant gules.
Flory counter-flory = the tressure has fleurs-de-lys arranged alternately pointing in and out.
Rampant = of a beast, standing on one foot facing left, the other three limbs clawing the air in an artistic attitude, the tail reflexed to the back, the face pointing left.
gable of the Old State House in Boston.
The new British flag was formed by combining the flags of England and Scotland.
Scotland: The saltire of St Andrew. On a blue field a white diagonal cross.
The flag is formed by taking the Scottish flag and superimposing the red cross (along with a white edging to reflect its original white field). This is the arrangement as on the regimental colors of the First Foot Guards.
This flag became more complex with The act of Union of 1801, becoming the present day 'Union Jack'.
The impaled coats of William and Mary, proclaimed king and queen in England in February 1689 and in Scotland in April 1689. They are identical, except that William bears an escutcheon of Nassau overall.
Impaled = the organization of two coats of arms on one shield by putting them side by side. Pale = a vertical bar.
William III and Mary II- From 1689-1702, an escutcheon of Nassau was added.
Nassau = Azure billetty and a lion rampant or.
While William reigned alone after Mary's death he used his arms, without those of Mary,as above.
Queen Anne, Mary's sister, returned to her father's arms as they had been used from 1603 to 1688.
The Act of Union united the kingdoms of England and Scotland and this union was signified by a rearrangement of the arms.
Blazon: Quarterly 1 and 4, England and Scotland impaled, in quarter 2 France, in quarter 3 Ireland.
The accession of the House of Hanover brought yet another modification.
Hanover: tierced per pale and per chevron, 1: gules two lions passant guardant or (Braunschweig), 2: or a semy of hearts gules a lion rampant azure (Lüneburg), 3: gules a horse courant argent (Westfalen), over all an escutcheon gules charged with the crown of Charlemagne or (dignity of arch-Treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire).
Tierced = divided into three parts (such a description needs to be qualified by a further description).
Tierced per pale and per chevron = divided into three parts like a three-pointed star (upper point vertical).
Brunswick: gules two lions passant guardant or. (Similar to the old English arms, but with two lions, not three).
Westphalia: gules a horse courant argent. (On a red field a white horse running to the left) The white horse is often seen on British army hats of this period.
Over all = placed on top of what already has been described on a shield. It might therefore cover certain elements already on the arms.
Charged = on the shield. That is, on the red escutcheon there is a naturalistic representation of Charlemagne's crown.
The duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg had titled himself "Elector of the Holy Roman Empire" from 1698, and had added to his arms an escutcheon gules with an electoral bonnet. From 1711 he also bore the title of Arch-Treasurer, and the escutcheon then took a crown of Charlemagne.
The Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland took effect on January 1, 1801.
A proclamation of 1 January 1801 set the royal style and titles and modified the arms, dropping the quarter of France. The claim to France was ipso facto dropped, but it had become moot with the demise of the French royal family.
The arms of England now occupied the first and fourth quarters, the arms of Scotland the second, and the arms of Ireland the third. For Hanover, there was an escutcheon overall surmounted by the electoral bonnet, which was replaced in 1816 by a Royal Crown (when Hanover became a Kingdom).
The flag was changed to incorporate the saltire of St Patrick (a blue diagonal cross on a white field). The saltire was placed on top of the existing white saltire of St Andrew (a white saltire on a blue field), but not on top of the St George's cross and its white background. Yes it is complicated, but just look at a modern 'Union Jack' and you'll see the organization. Because the St Patrick's saltire is not placed centrally on the St Andrew's saltire, it is actually possible to fly the flag upside down. I would notice, retired army colonels would notice, and hopefully now you would notice and have such a dastardly situation corrected forthwith!
In 1814, the king of the United Kingdom became king of Hanover (until 1806 and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, he had been Elector of Brunswick-Lunenburg or Hanover). A proclamation of Jun 8, 1816 (published in the London Gazette of 29 June 1816) ordered that the royal Hanoverian crown be placed over the escutcheon of pretence, instead of the electoral bonnet.


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Robert Mitchum, Broomfield, CO, 1963-1964.
Keith Larkin, Watsonville, CA, 1966-1969.
Ron Van Kretgan/PTI Inc, San Jose, CA, August 1969-2002.
- WFU, parked in open on ramp, San Jose, CA, 1997-2002.
-- Noted in weather-faded civil paint scheme.
- Reportedly undergoing restoration to airworthy.
Under restoration at American Aero Services, New Smyrna Beach, FL, 2005.


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Brexit? Yes, Please!
June 22, 2016 June 22, 2016 by Scila @TheSerialReader	♥ 1 Comment
A State of Independence: Why the EU is the Problem and Not he Solution, by Mark Brolin
It is less than 24 hours until polls open for the EU referendum on June 23. Britons are called to make a "momentous" decision about whether the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Union or leave it for good.
According to the latest opinion polls, the British public are fairly evenly split (44% remain – 45% leave) *FT Latest Developments. But in the end, will they get it right?
If following from the outside the debate about whether the UK should leave the European Union is confusing, it is quite perplexing from the inside, too. The debate itself -frankly- has been neither informative nor enlightening.
Mark Brolin –a British-Swedish Economist educated at the Stockholm School of Economics and presently a UK/EU correspondent– believes in the importance of offering an objective and critical analysis of what's really going on in the Old Country.
By applying a realist approach, Brolin answers some of the most controversial issues; as why is the immigration issue so toxic? or how can the same people responsible for the flagrant mismanagement of the euro project remain in charge of EU economic policies? and how has it also been possible to largely ignore the grumblings of the people despite democratic systems in all EU member states?
A State of Independence is a smart book that deserve to be read. Honest and objective -it will show you why Europe is the Problem and not the Solution.
"If still in doubt this book makes it perfectly clear that the EU of today is a pipe dream and that taxpayers money could be much better spent elsewhere"
Luke Johnson, Chairman of Risk Capital Partners
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The Essential Books To Understanding Bernie Sanders
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is a celebrated socialist and one of the most liberal members of the Senate, elected as an independent to his state's single House seat in 1990 and to the Senate in 2006. Previously he was mayor of Burlington, Vt., and worked as a carpenter and writer and taught at Harvard and Hamilton College.
On the official website berniesanders.com, senator Sanders shows his political program; a very detailed (and long) list of issues, from immigration policy to affordable housing, racial justice, LGBT equality and social security.
Someone calls it a "populistic crusade" but -whatever you want to call it- America is listening. Sanders wants people in America to take action, to fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all.
Here the essential books to understanding the man who could be the first Jewish president of the United States of America.
The Speech: On Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class, by Bernie Sanders
On Friday, December 10, 2010, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders walked on to the United States Senate and began speaking. A very long speech, lasting over eight and a half hours. And it hit a nerve. Millions followed the speech online until the traffic crashed the Senate server.
The speech was more than a critique, It was a dissection of the collapse of the American middle class and a well-researched attack on corporate greed and on public policy. It was a plea for a fundamental change in national priorities, for government policy that reflects the needs of working families, and not just the wealthy and their lobbyists.
Sanders' speech is a call for action, a passionate statement informing us that the only people who will save the middle class of this country is the middle class itself, but only if it is informed, organized, and prepared to take on the enormously powerful special interests dominating Washington.
Outsider in the White House, by Bernie Sanders and John Nichols
Bernie Sanders's campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, and raising hopes that Americans can take their country back from the billionaires and change the course of history.
In this book, Sanders tells the story of a passionate and principled political life.
The Bern Identity: A Search for Bernie Sanders and the New American Dream, by Will Bunch
Will Bunch wrote probably one of the best books about Bernie Sanders and how he made it out of the backwoods of Vermont to become a very strong contender in the 2016 race for the White House.
Sanders' remarkable bio is interspersed with the tale of the true believers who packed hockey rinks and concrete convention floors in crowds of 20,000 or more, who tweeted incessantly and posted memes of Sanders flying in coach class, and who exploded with excitement at their hero's call for a "political revolution" to raise the beleaguered middle class. In a time of rampant cynicism about American politics, "The Bern Identity" turns into something most unlikely – a love story, between the long-distance runner who never gave up his fantasy of real social change, and the dreamers and the radicals and the formerly hopeless who were waiting for him at the finish line.
Get your own copy now! On Amazon.com (eBook)
Why Bernie Sanders Matters, by Harry Jaffe
Bernie Sanders may be the least political person in politics. He is also, at seventy-four, the rising star of the Democratic party, whose underdog bid for the presidential nomination has hit the marks of a serious contender. He's closed the fundraising gap, and is drawing crowds of thousands to campaign rallies. Why? Because where most candidates are calculating and rehearsed, Sanders is frank, authentic, and impassioned.
For thirty years, he has spoken out against income inequality, environmental injustice, and privatized healthcare.
With reporting from inside the campaign, personal relationships with Sanders's friends and colleagues, and meticulous research, noted reporter Harry Jaffe offers an engaging, insightful portrait of the ultimate outsider candidate, charting Sanders's course from Brooklyn to Burlington, and now to Des Moines and beyond.
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Dear Miss Tate…You're Fired From Millennials
June 18, 2016 June 18, 2016 by Scila @TheSerialReader	♥ 0 Leave a Comment
Government Gone Wild. How D.C. Politicians Are Taking You for a Ride -and What You Can Do About It, by Kristin Tate
I like politics. I like talking about it and I like reading about it. Government Gone Wild was presented to me as a modern j'accuse addressed to our Government -written with humour and a fresh pe rspective by the "young conservative journalist" Kristin Tate.
Seen as a fun way to agitate the entitled political establishment, Tate's political action handbook is meant for a new generation of voters -the Millennials– who are afraid they will be paying for this out-of-control government their entire working lives.
I was expecting -from a journalist- a precise account of what the Government is doing wrong; like bad administration and devilish conspiracies. Unfortunately this book is just a bunch of disconnected thoughts so obvious that is actually too embarrassing to believe they come from a 24 years old woman.
Some of her statements are borderline idiotic: in chapter one, Tate states that America has "overcrowded prisons packed with people who never committed a single crime against anyone but themselves". – I'd really like to know what prison Miss Tate visited that was overpacked with innocent people. Because the prison I visited was, yes packed -but with criminals.
Speaking about drugs and legalization she said: "Joints, spliffs and bongs should be completely legal" -and also- "If you want to smoke up until your eyes roll into the back of your empty skull, you should be free to do that". According to Tate as long as we are allowed to eat junk food and waste our bodies with fat, alcohol or cigarette, we should be free to use cocaine or even heroin in the privacy of our home.
I am not the finest connoisseur of the human genre, but one thing I know is that drug addicts rarely stay "in the privacy of their own home". Nope, they go out and mess with regular people. Like Kenneth Britt Smith, who is accused of striking and killing a bicyclist while was high on marijuana. (Northeast Portland, Dec 13, 2015). Or like David Njuguna– who is involved in the car crash death of a Massachusetts State Police trooper Thomas Clardy. Should I mention that Clardy left behind a wife and six children? And guess what? Njuguna was high on marijuana.
I would die to know if Miss Tate still believes these stoned guys only hurt themselves? Or they was just exercising their right to do what the hell they want with their lives?
And that was only chapter one!! To be completely honest, I am so disappointed with this book, and whilst I do appreciate Tate's young and modern writing style, I am disturbed by the huge amount of stupidity she's trying to feed the reader, especially because she claimed to write this book for Millennials.
Luckily there are a lot of smart Millennials out there who know how to write and how to deliver a good message. When Millennials Rule: The Reshaping of America by Jack and David Cahn is a splendid example of two dedicated and brilliant young men with valid and solid plans to make America strong again. I highly suggest you to read this book! And the previous post about Millennials, if you haven't yet.
Get your own copy now! On Amazon.com (Book) – (eBook) ….or not!
*Disclaimer* -> Luckily not a single dime has been wasted on this book by me. An advanced copy was kindly sent to me via NetGalley by FaithWords/Center Street
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The Essential Books To Understanding Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton's first lady at the White House and in Arkansas, she represented New York in the U.S. Senate and served as President Barack Obama's secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. Wife, Mom, Grandma, Women and Kids Advocate, FLOTUS, Senator, SecState, Hair Icon, Pantsuit Aficionado and officially 2016 Presidential Candidate.
With an extremely detailed political program Hillary Clinton is ready to become the first woman to lead the United States of America. On official website hillaryclinton.com, Mrs.Clinton explains the key policies she will fight for as president.
From gun violence prevention to criminal justice reform and climate change, Hillary Clinton legitimately is the best qualified candidate for the job. Competency, skills, and an undeniable field experience is what it takes to be the leader of the country.
Here the essential books to understanding the woman and the politician who's running for president of the United States of America.
The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power by Kim Ghattas
Kim Ghattas draws on extensive interviews with Clinton, administration officials and players in Washington as well as overseas, to paint an intimate and candid portrait of one of the most powerful global politicians.
Filled with fresh insights, The Secretary provides a captivating analysis of Clinton's brand of diplomacy and the Obama administration's efforts to redefine American power in the twenty-first century.
Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Probably one of the best and honest book about foreign politics. Through diplomatic conversations at the highest levels, Clinton does her analysis of how we can best use "smart power" to deliver security and prosperity in a rapidly changing world—one in which America remains the indispensable nation.
A very detailed account of Clinton's journey during her four years as America's 67th Secretary of State, that will show us the delicate process -otherwise unknown- of fighting for peace, justice and social equality.
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
My personal favourite book about Hillary Clinton. Living History is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton, a thirty-year adventure in love and politics that survives personal betrayal, relentless partisan investigations and constant public scrutiny.
Hillary Clinton is the living proof that resilience can take you right there where you are meant to be.
Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox by Joanne Cronrath Bamberger
As we are knee deep in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton's name is on everyone's lips. Clinton evokes extreme and varied e motions among voters in a way no other candidate in recent memory has. But why?
Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox delves into the nuances of our complicated feelings about one of the most powerful women ever in American politics. In this timely collection, editor/author Joanne Cronrath Bamberger provides the narrative framework through which to view the history that's led us to this moment in time.
Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate by Gary J. Byrne
Former Secret Service officer Gary Byrne exposes the truth behind Hillary, Bill, and their public facade. Byrne reveals what he observed of Hillary Clinton's character and the culture inside the White House while protecting the First Family.
A firsthand account of the scandals -known and unknown- and the personal and political dysfunction of the Clinton White House.
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The Essential Books To Understanding Donald Trump
June 9, 2016 June 9, 2016 by Scila @TheSerialReader	♥ 6 Comments
Real-estate mogul and reality television star, Donald J. Trump and his huge ego are taking the scene of the presidential race. Beside he has never held political office, Mr.Trump is confident that his negotiating skills, business acumen and –as he can't help to remind us every single time he gets the chance– his wealth, will easily make him the president of one of the biggest and powerful nation on earth, the United States of America.
Proud republican, Trump's position is clear: he will make America great again! From his official page donaldjtrump.com Mr.Trump shares his 7 step political program:
Carpenters wanted!: he promises he will build a big, big wall -and make Mexicans pay!
Band Aid for Everybody: he will make health a business! by selling insurance across state lines!
Zài Jiàn China!: he will let China off the Hook. No, not Blac China. The real China.
Veterans of America, You Will Be Great Again: he will take good care of our veterans. This is actually an admirable gesture.
Run America Run: and better be fast! According to analysts Trump's economic plan would double the national debt over the next decade. Of course, the tax cuts might boost economic growth but, the economy must grow as fast as 9 percent a year for a decade to make the plan revenue neutral and 11 percent to balance the budget. Sci-fi isn't it?
Just because you can: he will give you more arms because hey, it's my damn right to shoot you in the a#s with my tac evo assault rifle… just because I can! (ironic)
Watch out punks!: he will fill prisons up to the roof and finally make America win the first prize for the best "Incarceration Nation". (very ironic)
Mass deportation: at a cost estimated between $100 billion and $300 billion he will arrest and remove almost 11 million undocumented immigrants, a 20-year process.
Want more? No problem, because we can always rely on him for providing us with the most ridiculous and outrageous quotes. A recent article appeared on Marie Claire Uk exposed 29 of the most idiotic ones.
But who really is Donald J. Trump? Here the essential books to understanding the man, the billionaire and the candidate.
Trump. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention by Wayne Barrett
Barrett paints an intimate portrait of Trump himself, a man driven by bravado, obsessive self-regard, and an anxious ruthlessness to subdue his rivals and seduce anyone with the power to aid his empire.
Reckless as often as he is brilliant, reliant on threats as much as on charm, and ultimately a cautionary tale: is this the man we want to lead the world?
Trump This!The Life and Times of Donald Trump, An Unauthorized Biography by Marc Shapiro
What guides Trump to the decisions he makes? Is his personality real or just a caricature driven smokescreen? Like all larger than life personalities, Trump has cultivated his public image well. He's been selective in what he's let out and, when pressed, he's been quick to deny.
Trump This! The Life And Times of Donald Trump: An Unauthorized Biography has dug deep into the truth that is Donald Trump.
Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again, by Donald J. Trump
It's time to bring America back to its rightful owners -the American people. Distancing himself from the politicians, Trump promises less talk and more action. Ready to shaking up the establishment, bring America back -respected by allies and feared by adversaries.
How to fix a failing economy; how to reform health care; how to rebuild our military and start winning wars; and how to bring jobs back to America by closing our doors to illegal immigrants, and pressuring businesses to produce their goods at home.
The Trump Coloring Book by M.G.Anthony
Whether he's playing chess with Putin, or battleship with Kim Jong-un, see Donald Trump like you've never seen him before! Now's your chance to show The Donald in his true colors!
Hilarious. Like the real Donald J. Trump.
Get your own copy now! On Amazon.com (Book)
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high working with such cutting edge technology."
department who have also quit recently.
talented employee leave despite a top salary?
Are they driving people away?
money, and more to do with how he's treated and how valued he feels.
few drinks, and magically, became as abusive as the boss himself.
work life in the doldrums, his marriage began cracking up too.
anything." Unable to bear this corporate Siberia, he finally quit.
and soul in the job."
often over a seemingly trivial issue.
dispensable. I can find dozens like you."
trade secrets this person may now share with others.
cases, former employees have left to tell their tales.


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HMCS ST. CROIX (1st) (I81)
The History of the ST. CROIX (1st)
Completed in 1919, she operated with the Atlantic Fleet as USS McCook until placed in reserve at Philadelphia in 1922. Re-commissioned in December 1939, she again served with the Atlantic Fleet prior to being transferred to the RCN at Halifax as HMCS St. Croix on September 24, 1940. She sailed for the U.K. via St. John's, 1940. She sailed for the U.K. via St. John's on November 30, but ran into a hurricane and had to return. Arriving at Halifax on December 18, she remained under repair until mid-March 1941, when she took up the role of local escort. In August, 1941, she joined NEF, escorting convoys to Iceland. In May, 1942, following six months' refit at Saint John, N.B., she escorted her first convoy, SC.84, to the U.K., and was thereafter employed constantly on the "Newfie-Derry" run. In April, 1943, she was assigned to EG C-1, and in June to C-5. During this period she sank U 90 while escorting convoy ON.113 on July 24, 1942, and on March 4, 1943, while accompanying convoy KMS.10 from Britain to Algeria, she assisted HMCS Shediac in destroying U 87. In August, 1943, St. Croix was allocated to support group EG 9 for an offensive against U-boats crossing the Bay of Biscay, but the group was diverted to the assistance of a series of convoys beset by U-boats in the Atlantic. While thus engaged, with convoy in the Atlantic. While thus engaged, with convoy ON.202, St. Croix was torpedoed and sunk by U 305 on September 20, south of Iceland. Five officers and 76 men were rescued by HMS Itchen, but only one of these survived the loss of Itchen two days later.
ST. CROIX (1st) Statistical Data
Pendant: I81
Type: Destroyer
Class: TOWN
Displacement: 1190 tonnes
Draught: 9.3 ft
Compliment: 10 Officers and 143 Crew
Arms: 4-4", 12-21" Torpedo Tubes (4 x III)
Builder: Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. Ltd.. Quincy, Mass.
Keel Laid: 11-Sep-18
Date Launched: 31-Jan-19
Date Commissioned: 24-Sep-40
Paid off: 20-Sep-43
Ex USS McCOOK. Torpedoed and sunk by U305, south of Iceland, while escorting convoy ON.202. Five officers and 76 men were rescued by HMS ITCHEN, but only one of these survived the loss of the ITCHEN two days later."
ST. CROIX Coming Alongside with Storm Damage.
Keywords: HMCS ST. CROIX (1st), Royal Canadian Navy Ship, Destroyer, TOWN Class


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