The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is committed to working with grantees and partners to reduce the spread of HIV and viral hepatitis in the United States. The nation is experiencing a growing epidemic of illegal opioid drug use, which has also led to an increase in unsafe injection practices that put people who inject drugs (PWID) at risk of HIV and viral hepatitis.
One means of preventing transmission of these blood-borne infections is through reducing the sharing of needles, syringes, and other drug injection equipment by PWID. Syringe services programs (SSPs) that allow PWID to exchange used syringes for sterile ones have been demonstrated to be an effective component of a comprehensive approach to prevent HIV and viral hepatitis among PWID, while not increasing drug use.
In March 2016, HHS issued guidance (PDF 976 KB) for HHS-funded programs regarding the use of federal funds to implement or expand syringe services programs (SSPs) for people who inject drugs. The guidance is the result of the bipartisan budget agreement that was signed into law in December 2015 which revised a previous Congressional ban on the use of federal funds for such programs and now allows communities with a demonstrated need to use federal funds for the operational components of syringe services programs.
The HHS guidance describes how health departments can request to use federal funds to start or expand SSPs in order to prevent new HIV and viral hepatitis infections and how those funds can be used. The guidance states that state, local, tribal, and territorial health departments must consult with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and provide evidence that their jurisdiction is (1) experiencing, or (2) at risk for significant increases in viral hepatitis infections or an HIV outbreak due to injection drug use. After receiving a request for determination of need, CDC will have 30 days to notify the requestor whether the evidence is sufficient to demonstrate a need for SSPs.
The CDC Program Guidance for Implementing Certain Components of Syringe Services Programs, 2016 (PDF 341 KB) provides specific procedures for CDC-funded grantees. The CDC guidance details which SSP activities can be supported with CDC funds, which relevant CDC cooperative agreements can be used to support SSPs, and the process by which CDC-funded programs may request to direct resources to implement new or expand existing SSPs for PWID.


Kosuke Suzuki is an associate in the Firm's Banking & Finance Group in Tokyo. He regularly advises clients on a wide range of finance and securitization matters. Mr. Suzuki has co-authored A Strategic Manual for Creditors in Bankruptcy Proceedings, as well as a number of publications on criminal law. He is a member of the Tokyo Bar Association.
Mr. Suzuki focuses his practice on the legal aspects of project finance, PFI, M&A finance, real estate finance and securitization. He also advises on issues involving various, financial regulations and insolvency laws.
Advised a number of clients on PFI matters and DBO issues involving hospitals, water treatment plants, waste disposal facilities, elementary schools, feeding centers, prisons, broad area interchange centers, housing for government workers, aquariums, museums, passenger terminals, funeral facilities and Diet members' buildings.
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Q: MAVEN - Setting Path in Redhat so the maven commands can be run from anywhere I have just installed Maven on Redhat, the apache-maven-3.3.9 is located in /root/, I ran the following command to set the path (JDK java home path already set and when I type $PATH the below path does show, along with when I type mvn --version):
export PATH=/root/apache-maven-3.3.9/bin:$PATH
The project I want to build with Maven is also in /root/ however, I cannot use the maven commands within the project or anywhere else except for /apache-maven-3.3.9/bin directory.
Any help would be much appreciated!

A: You need to add it to your ~/.profile file.
export PATH=$PATH:/root/apache-maven-3.3.9/bin

so that when you exit the terminal and start a new terminal instance path is not lost

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Why is Competitor Analysis Important for SEO?
This will give you a quick view of the top performing organic keywords for a given domain. Clicking 'Full Report' in the bottom left-hand corner will take you to the full list of indexed keywords. This full report will give a histogram of keywords over time, along with trend, volume, and competition statistics.
By clicking the heading rows in the table, the keyword data can be sorted by any of the given dimensions. Using this keyword data in conjunction with manually reviewing the competitor site will give a better understanding of targeting goals, as well as content strategy and tactics.
With a better understanding of a competitor's keyword portfolio, it is easier to analyze site content and user experience within the context of a competitor's goals. An easy and quick way to do this within SEMRush is to analyze the landing pages for a competitor's top keywords to understand the on-page tactics that contributed to those top rankings.
The keyphrase is used in the heading (H1) tag, before any other content appears in the body.
The number of keywords bringing visitors to their site through paid search.
The amount of traffic they generate through paid ads.
An estimate of how much your competitor is investing in paid search.
A comparative chart of their key competitors in paid ads.
Using this data affords insight into a number of factors: if your competitor has a dedicated landing page for their paid campaign, whether they are they using benefit-driven headlines with keywords, and how they are structuring ad copy such as keywords, benefits, incentives and CTAs. Trends over time allow for an at-a-glance view of how volume trends fluctuate throughout the year.
Using HubSpot as an example again, we can see that HubSpot's strong organic performance has almost completely replaced their paid search traffic, from over 6,000 targeted paid keywords at the end of 2013 down to only 81 as of April 2015.
From the overview, the full backlinks report can be customized to show data from a domain level, down to a page-by-page index of links that displays the source and target (landing) URL in addition to the anchor text. The report also includes DFS (date first seen) and DLS (date last seen) to give an idea of the age and accuracy of a given link.
Understanding your competition and learning from their triumphs (and failures!) is a great way to inform your strategy decisions for your own brand or business. By doing a little bit of legwork and looking at your competition through an analytical lens, you can quickly and easily identify opportunities for growth. Knowing is half the battle!
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Autopsy: No Arabs on Flight 77
By Thomas R. Olmsted, M.D
http://www.sierratimes.com/03/07/02/article_tro.htm
Wed Jul 2 15:48:59 2003
I am an ex Naval line officer and a psychiatrist in private practice in New Orleans, a Christian and homeschool dad. It troubled me a great deal that we rushed off to war on the flimsiest of evidence. I considered various ways to provide a smoking gun of who and why Sept 11th happened. Astute
observers noticed right away that there were no Arabic sounding names on any of the flight manifests of the planes that "crashed" on that day. A list of names on a piece of paper is not evidence, but an autopsy by a pathologist, is. I undertook by FOIA request, to obtain that autopsy list
and you are invited to view it below. Guess what? Still no Arabs on the list. It is my opinion that the monsters who planned this crime made a mistake by not including Arabic names on the original list to make the ruse seem more believable.
President Bush Speaks concerning 911 Conspiracy-Theories...
We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty. To inflame ethnic hatred is to advance the cause of terror.
- President Bush Speaks to United Nations
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The End Justifies the Means
Prior Knowledge and Government Involvement in the Terrorist Attacks of September 11th 2001
U.S. Government Accused in 9-11 Terrorist Attacks
Published on: May 30th, 2003
Modified on: May 30th, 2003
Colonel Donn de Grand said that if President Bush is lying it would not be the first time that the American people had been mislead by its government. He cited the recently published official government archives describing President Roosevelt
AMEC Destroys Evidence in WTC Cleanup Scam
A foreign company - headed by a Knight of the British Empire - managed the controversial clean-up of the rubble at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Some Bare Facts to Consider
Isn't that STRANGE? (But not very funny)
The Overthrow of the American Republic, part 14
Notice the spy tricks. Right after the political assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the mass media, the newsfakers, were handed from the American CIA, the whole alleged background of the aristorcracy-designated "lone assassin", Lee Harvey Oswald. Similarly, right after 9-11, Black Tuesday, a portion of America's secret political police, the FBI, released supposed pictures and details of the alleged Moslem hi-jackers.
New Seismic Data Refutes Official WTC Explanation
Two unexplained "spikes" in the seismic record from Sept. 11 indicate huge bursts of energy shook the ground beneath the World Trade Center's twin towers immediately prior to the collapse.
Smoking Gun Proves "Arab Hijacker" Calls From United Airlines Flight 98 Were Faked
Modified on: April 1st, 2006
Cleveland Center Air Traffic Control Tape, 11 September 2001
Translation & Analysis by Joe Vialls, 17-19 September 2002
Unexplained 9-11 Explosion at WTC Complex
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Despite the fact that the horrible events of Sept. 11 occurred in broad daylight and were widely photographed, significant aspects of the attacks have been completely suppressed by a media blackout.
Afghan Opium Output Seen Eclipsing Golden Triangle
Modified on: September 3rd, 2004
By Sasithorn Simaporn
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Afghanistan will take back its crown this year from the notorious Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia as the world's top producer of opium, the raw material used to make heroin, a Thai anti-narcotics official said on Wednesday. Afghanistan lost its top spot in recent years as a result of strict Islamic rule by the Taliban regime and the U. S. led war which toppled the movement. Chartchai Suthiklom, deputy secretary-general of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board, said combined opium production in Myanmar, Laos and Thailand -- which make up the Golden Triangle -- is estimated at a total of 926 tons this year, compared with well over 2,000 tons in Afghanistan.
"When there was almost no supply from Afghanistan, drugs dealers came to the Golden Triangle as a substitute and the supply rose, but there is abundant supply in Afghanistan now," Chartchai told Reuters. Opium production in Afghanistan fell dramatically, to about 74 tons in 2001 from about 3,656 tons in 2000, an annual report by the State Department released in March shows. The United Nations estimates Afghan production this year will reach 2,952 tons.
Bombs Inside World Trade Center and the Pentagon
On Sept. 12, nobody in the medias reported about bombs anymore, or seemed to care about the existence of these huge bombs since almost everyone had already bought into the phony and pre-arranged, pre-staged and pre-scripted:
Unanswered questions: The mystery of Flight 93
We all know the inspiring story of Flight 93, of the heroic passengers who forced the hijacked plane to the ground, sacrificing themselves to save the lives of others. The only trouble is: it may simply not be true.
Mineral-Rich Afghanistan a Valuable Corporate Property
Afghanistan has an extraordinary abundance of rare and strategic minerals-now all within easy reach of the global planners who installed a puppet government that they both control and protect.
EIGHT of the alleged September 11th Hijackers are Alive
also see http://whatreallyhappened.com/hijackers.html
Two 911 Jetliners EXCEEDED Their Software Barriers
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See original discussion thread at http://www.sianews.com/modules.php? name=News&file=article&sid=48 where this article is discussed.
The Boeing 757 and 767 are equipped with fully autonomous flight capability, they are the only two Boeing commuter aircraft capable of fully autonomous flight. They can be programmed to take off, fly to a destination and land, completely without a pilot at the controls.
911 Top 500 Questions
CNN using 1991 footage of Palestinians celebrating the invasion
According to http://www.snopes.com/rumors/cnn.htm the claims below have later been proven false and the person who made the claim quoted above has since recanted.
By Márcio A. V. Carvalho - Brazil
All around the world we are subjected to 3 or 4 huge news distributors, and one of them - as you well know - is CNN. Very well, I guess all of you have been seeing (just as I've been) images from this company. In particular, one set of images called my attention: the Palestinians celebrating the bombing, out on the streets, eating some cake and making funny faces for the camera.
I tried to be patriotic
Using jet fuel to melt steel is an amazing discovery, really. It is also amazing that until now, no one had been able to get it to work, and that proves the terrorists were not stupid people.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates taught his students that the pursuit of truth can only begin once they start to question and analyze every belief that they ever held dear.
FBI Admits No Evidence Linking Hijackers To 911
The possibility that 19 Muslim men accused of being the Sept. 11 hijackers were not, in fact, the hijackers, is not so extraordinary an idea as it might seem. After seven months of non-stop declarations by U. S. government spokesmen that there exists solid proof tying 19 Muslim men to plotting the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, FBI Director Robert Mueller has now admitted quite the opposite. That 19 Muslim men who have apparently disappeared have been named as the hijackers is not in doubt. What is in doubt is whether those 19 men were actually plotting anything, either individually or together.
Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast
Modified on: August 3rd, 2004
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"Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast"
By Ralph Blumenthal
Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast.
The Rise of the Fourth Reich
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Pleasant things give happiness to everyone and there cannot be more pleasant sight than that of Sri Rama Pattabishekam ~ the eternal state of bliss- the most complete picture of happiness to everyone in the Kingdom. Kosala Kingdom was replete with happiness. The only trouble was that no body could donate ~ for the simple reason that there were none to seek and beget things from others. People lived in such a perfect harmony that there was no fight and there was no opportunity to display valour ~ the subjects were well educated and lived life full of honour… its capital which had no wars was known as 'Ayodhya'.
In that beautiful ceremony, the most benevolent Sri Rama adorned the Crown which was worn earlier by Manu, the emperor- a crown studded with precious jewels, fashioned by Brahma, the great souled VAsishta and other knowledgeable priests officiating at the Coronation.
மங்கல கீதம் பாட, மறை ஒலி முழங்க, வல்வாய்ச் சங்கு இனம் குமுற, பாண்டில் தண்ணுமை ஒலிப்ப, தாஇல் பொங்கு பல்லியங்கள் ஆர்ப்ப, பூமழை பொழிய, விண்ணோர், எங்கள் நாயகனை வெவ்வேறு எதிர்ந்து, அபிடேகம் செய்தார்.
Mere chanting of the name 'Sree Rama' would provide everything to us ~ he is the greatest benefactor ~ the Maryadha Purush ~ the greatest epitome of all virtues Lord Rama. At Thiruvallikkeni, Thirumangaimannan describes Rama as one with his family of Barathan, Satrugnan, Ilakkuvan and Mythili – the one who destroyed Ravana [Ravananthakan] – the most cheerful and calm Rama blessing all his devotees.


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Highline Bears Cancel 2020 Home Events
The Highline Bears have made the tough decision to not host any home games, or events for the 2020 summer.
After discussing different contingency plans with our staff and King County Parks we have decided that we will not be able to host anything at Mel Olson Stadium this summer. With that said, we will be letting our players play on the road if permitted, when the state moves to Phase 3 of the reopening plan.
Our priority every summer is to bring the best experience to our fans, community and of course the players we host from all over the country. Unfortunately, with the current state of events we will not be able to have the normal summer we are used to, playing baseball and putting on a show in front of hundreds of fans every Friday and Saturday night. This summer will be 100% committed to providing our players a safe opportunity to play if allowed to. Our players college seasons were canceled, and we will do everything we can to get them back out on the field when it is deemed safe to do so.
The Pacific International League has voted to move back the first day of the season to June 24th which would be the first day possible for our state to move to phase 3. The Bears will play games in Tacoma, Edmonds, Redmond and Everett along with some other locations this summer, all with no fans in attendance. The league hopes to play games into the second week in August.
In early March we spoke with our partners/sponsors and nearly all of them had to pull their commitment this summer to continue to support their employees and make sure their business could continue to operate. We have decided that we will continue to offer advertising for all of our partners throughout the year at no cost to them. In times like this we need to support our local businesses as much as we can. We ask that our fans please do their best to patronize all of our partners and continue to support our local business community.
We are optimistic that 2021 we will come back stronger, bigger, and better than ever, bringing our community the best show in town. All single game and season ticket holders will be given a credit for tickets in 2021, or can receive a full refund by contacting the Highline Bears.
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The developer behind the project is AMITEN Software Inc., an indie studio from Spain with 5 developers that will work on the game. The game is promised for October 2016 considering the campaign reaches the 4,000 euros goal.
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Ed Begley Jr's new green home - part 2
Peter Bennett April 7, 2014
Last July I wrote about the start of construction of Ed and Rachelle Begley's new home in their attempt to build one of the Greenest homes in North America. The steel framing had just begun and now these months later the sheathing is being laid over that frame. Recently two new water systems started to be installed that will help Ed and Rachelle save on water bills as well as recycle much needed water back to the aquifer.
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New solar array at Culver City elementary school
Peter Bennett February 4, 2014
I did double duty today as a father and photographer at my son's elementary school when at a ribbon cutting ceremony this morning the switch was turned on at Culver City Unified School District's new photovoltaic power system. The giant solar array is located at Farragut Elementary School and spreads out over the parking lot next to Ballona Creek and the back playground on the east side of the school.
Construction was started over last summer and was completed a few weeks into the school year. The Sunpower 750kw solar array is expected to provide $400,000 a year to the district's general fund.
It will also serve as an education tool to help teach students about alternative energies, sustainability and climate change. Much like the many school gardens I have photographed, the new solar array will introduce these new ideas to the students by allowing them to interact with it, as tours and lectures are already being introduced into the curriculum.
On 2/4/2014, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held at Farragut Elementary School in Culver City for the switching on of the school district's new 750kw solar array built at the school. In addition to providing an expected $400,000 back to the school district, it will also serve as an education tool to help teach students about alternative energies, sustainability and climate change.
Hundreds of kids from the school attended holding up their home-made signs. Parents and teachers milled about, as did many of the town's dignitaries. At the ribbon cutting ceremony was the mayor - Jeff Cooper, the vice mayor - Meghan Sahli-Wells, many city council members as well as school board members were present along with representatives of Sunpower and Todd Johnson, the co-chair of Culver City's Environmental Sustainability Committee.
The thing I love about living Culver City is that in spite of being in the middle of one of the largest urban centers in the country, it still manages to feel like a small town. It feels good to be in a place that is being proactive on many sustainability issues, where the city's leaders are working closely with the community and schools to make our city a progressive and greener place to live.
In Energy, Green Construction, Solar Tags Ballona Creek, Culver City, education, elementary school, environment, environmental, Global Warming, Los Angeles, Peter Bennett, school children, solar array, Solar Power, sunpower, sustainable
Ed Begley Jr.'s Green Home
Peter Bennett July 3, 2013
Ed Begley Jr.. On 2/13/2013 the steel framing continues to be assembled over the foundation on the Begley's new home. Ed Begley Jr. (noted actor and environmentalist) and his wife Rachelle Carson-Begley are building their new home under LEED Platinum Certified standards in an attempt to become North America's greenest, most sustainable home. It is also being filmed for their web series "On Begley Street." Studio City, California, USA
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Home Arts & LIfe Don't worry, be hoppy at Waterloo home brewers competition
Don't worry, be hoppy at Waterloo home brewers competition
The Waterloo homebrewing community packed into the Jane Bond restaurant March 6. </p>
From wall to wall, home brewers talked shop and drank pints at Subzero, the second homebrew competition hosted by Short Finger Brewing Company, this time in partnership with Block 3 Brewing Company. Helping set the homebrew mood, Jane Bond's bar supplemented their usual selection of beer with five craft beer collaborations from Short Finger and Block 3.
Seventy-nine different beers were submitted for judging by local brewers and certified beer judges, more than double the participation from the first event held in Fall 2015. They were separated into categories and evaluated according to the Beer Judge Certification Program style guidelines, which is a standard beer ranking system. The winners in each category were announced early in the event, with Jon Spee's strong American wheatwine ale taking best in show.
To homebrew is to make beer at home, on a small scale. According to Rob Hern, owner of Short Finger Brewing Co. and competition organizer, Waterloo has a thriving and welcoming home brewing community that is continuing to grow. "I get emails and requests each week from people looking for tips to set up their systems or about the best way to get started," he said. As to why he thinks more people are becoming interested in homebrewing, he credits the rising popularity of craft beers.
"There are a lot of great local beers available, but a constant complaint I hear from guys is that the hoppy beer they want isn't fresh in the LCBO and so they decide to try to make it themselves. As people start to understand what quality beer is they start to realize, 'Oh hey, I can actually make that myself,' " Hern said.
Many home brewers, as beer enthusiasts, enjoy the freedom that comes with choosing exactly what goes into their beers. Andrew Cooke, who won second place for American porters, said, "If we started making the beers ourselves, we could brew the type of beer we wanted to drink."
Cooke said he enjoys the opportunity homebrew provides to incorporate different ingredients, such as a Mexican spiced beer or his personal favourite a roasted marshmallow English mild he brewed for a friend's wedding.
While there are some risks associated with home brewing, Hern said that overall it is a safe hobby. There are burn risks from boiling liquid and "it is important to follow the correct ratios with [cleaners and sanitizers] so that they are not harmful," Hern said. "Use common sense and proper safety gear."
According to Seth Ratzlaff, who won best in show in the fall for Dunkels Weiss, beginning home brewing does not necessarily have an enormous cost. "It's as prohibitive as you want it to be," he said, estimating that a new brewer could get started for about $120.
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Israel puts feminist Palestinian MP in admin detention
Less than a week after she was arrested by Israeli soldiers, PLC member Khalida Jarrar was placed under administrative detention for six months. Khalida Jarrar, a Palestinian feminist activist and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), will be placed under six months of administrative detention. The order, which was approved by a military court on Sunday, comes less than a week after Jarrar was arrested by Israeli soldiers in her home outside Ramallah. Administrative detention is detention without charge or trial that is authorized by administrative order rather than by judicial decree. After six months, the military will be…
Read More... Published April 5, 2015 | 19 Comments
Israeli soldiers arrest feminist Palestinian lawmaker
Six months after she was ordered to move from her home near Ramallah to Jericho, the army arrests Palestinian parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar. She will join 16 other Palestinian lawmakers currently serving time in Israeli prisons. Israeli soldiers arrested Khalida Jarrar, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, in her home in Al-Bireh (near Ramallah) during the early hours of Thursday morning. Jarrar, a feminist activist who is also active on issues regarding human rights of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, is a member of the PLC (the Palestinian parliament) on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine…
Read More... Published April 2, 2015 | 2 Comments
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Interview with Leila Khaled: 'BDS is effective, but it doesn't liberate land'
PFLP hijacker Leila Khaled talks about the acts that made her a household name, the current states of resistance, feminism and religious coercion in Palestinian society, and gives a new take on long-buried tales of assassinations and betrayal within the ranks of the PFLP. By Paula Schmitt By the time she was 28, Leila Khaled had already hijacked two planes and held dozens of passengers hostage. Her image appeared on the covers of news magazines, her face was plastered on the walls of student dorms; she become a pop phenomenon, and an inspiration for TV and film characters. A few…
Read More... Published May 17, 2014 | 34 Comments
Turning over a new leaf: An interview with a former Palestinian 'security prisoner'
In 1987, Mukhlas Burgal was sentenced to life in prison for throwing a bomb that failed to detonate at a bus full of Israeli soldiers. Since his release in the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange, Mukhlas has opened a library, and heads several educational projects in his hometown of Lyd ("Lod" in Hebrew, "Lydda" in English). Three years after his release, he discusses his membership in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the torturous interrogations of the Shin Bet, his time in prison and his new life. "Have you heard of 'Iskot' cigarettes? Mukhlas Burgal asks me, not…
Read More... Published May 3, 2014
Abbas must seek recognition from UN, not U.S.
Since entering negotiations with Palestinians last July, Israeli policies have only led to a deeper entrenchment of the occupation. Now, Abbas must listen to left-wing Palestinian parties and put an end to peace talks. By Uri Weltmann Dancing the tango with a cactus is a bad idea. Not only are you dancing by yourself, you're also going to be pricked by the thorns. But this is exactly what Mahmoud Abbas has been doing since last July, when he agreed that peace negotiations between the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Israeli government would be mediated by the U.S. government, knowing…
Read More... Published March 18, 2014 | 23 Comments
'Free Ahmad Qatamesh'
Accused of being a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmad Qatamesh has been under administrative detention since March 2011, without trial or indictment. Now Qatamesh, who calls for one democratic state between the river and the sea, is having his detention extended under the premise that he is 'a threat to the security of the area.' By Noam Rotem (translated by Jordan Michaeli) At the time of writing of these lines, Israel holds 5,069 security prisoners, of which 134 are held under administrative detention. The authority Israel assumed upon occupying the West Bank - to detain…
Read More... Published September 7, 2013 | 1 Comment
The irrelevance of peace talks
The world may continue to circle its favorite conflict with hypotheticals and speculation, but to Palestinians the objective remains the same: to continue to build pressure against the occupation. By Talal Alyan It's hard to determine what is less interesting: headlines about the potential resumption of peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis or the ensuing debates about what a solution should look like. The cynicism on both sides goes without saying. But it doesn't seem to inhibit the eruption of discourse on the subject. The whole spectacle is tiresome for a number of reasons, the most salient being that the…
Read More... Published July 27, 2013 | 35 Comments
Confronting our tyrants: Incarceration and torture in Palestinian prisons
Findings by a Palestinian human rights group paint a grim picture of imprisonment and torture under both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas regimes. One guest blogger holds that despite the Israeli occupation, these political groups can no longer act with impunity under the guise of liberators. By Talal Alyan "The image before the return of the PLO was the image of the freedom fighter/ Now here is that same freedom fighter (chained with the conditions of his enemies), exercising his direct authority on the ordinary citizen, on the old men, on the students." - Mourid Barghouti Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces recently…
Palestinians demonstrate against sewage settlers spill onto their land
About 100 Palestinians from the ancient village of Sebastia and their supporters held a demonstration today to protest against settlers spilling their sewage onto the village's agricultural lands. This was the third demonstration in two months; villagers are starting weekly demonstrations, much like the ones against the wall and settlements that take place every Friday in Bil'in, Ni'ilin, Ma'asara, Nabi Saleh and Qaddum. Demonstrations took place in all of those villages as well on Friday, some of them with violent confrontations with army forces. In addition, activists in the newly formed popular committee say they are planning to take the matter to the…
WATCH: Three Palestinian NGO offices raided by IDF overnight
Raid comes two weeks after a researcher in one of the NGOs was indicted for organizing and participating in nonviolent demonstrations. The offices of Addammeer – the Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees and the Palestinian NGO Network were all raided by IDF last night. The offices, located in the heart of Ramallah, where Israeli forces are officially not allowed to enter, were searched, and at least in the case of Addameer equipment was confiscated, including four computer hard drives and filming equipment. Security tapes and a video made by neighbors show four IDF jeeps pulling in…
Read More... Published December 11, 2012 | 15 Comments
Palestinian prisoners' rights activist detained, tortured in Israeli prison
Ayman Nasser, a researcher for the Palestinian prisoners' rights NGO Addameer, has himself become a detainee in an Israeli prison, having been charged with several counts of membership in an illegal organization and of partaking in illegal assembly. According to Physicians for Human Rights, he has been tortured during his 39-day-long interrogation. Nasser, 42, was arrested on October 15 in a nighttime raid by armed soldiers and attack dogs on his house in the village of Saffa in the Ramallah district. According to Physicians for Human Rights, Nasser was taken into custody after a prolonged search in his house and a…
Read More... Published December 7, 2012 | 7 Comments
Ex-political prisoner shares journey though Israeli jails
There were 4,937 political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers in November 2011 according to Adameer, a Palestinian non-governmental organization. Yazan Abdulhadi was one of them before he was released on November 28, 2011, between the two swaps of the deal between Israel and Hamas to free Gilad Schalit (not as part of the deal). On January 7, 2012, he agreed to give an interview that would be published in +972 Magazine. The conversation took place in Ramallah, at Café Pronto. By Alexis Thiry Yazan spent 15 months in Israeli prisons, accused of being a member of a student…
Read More... Published February 17, 2012 | 5 Comments
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Translation, publication and distribution of the Bible in Luxembourgish.
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Profile of religion in Luxembourgbogdan.toader2017-04-18T23:25:35+01:00
PROFILE OF RELIGION IN LUXEMBOURG
André Heidersheid, former Editor-in-chief of the Luxembourger Wort, stated a generation ago,
"Conservative and realistic, sceptical and distrustful, utilitarian, pragmatic and infatuated with security, the Luxembourger is also this way in the area of religion, in which he does not wish to take unnecessary risks. Indeed two risks must be assessed: that of marshalling sterile and useless efforts if God does not exist; and the risk of irremediably compromising everything if God does exist and if there is a life after death. Such a dilemma need not necessarily be posed in clear philosophical or theological terms in order to be felt". (1)
Although the Grand Duchy's younger generation has adopted a far more postmodern view of religious issues since Heidersheid made his speech at the Centre Universitaire in Luxembourg, the post-war generation probably still maintains his outlook.
Celts are the first peoples who left historical traces in our region. Archaeological finds point to the cult of the dead among these hunter-gatherers, a practice well known in the pre-Christian pagan era.
Trier and the early Christian tradition are linked in our geographical area. Roman soldiers and merchants brought Christianity into northern Gaul even before the time of Constantine, who declared Christianity the religion of the state early in the 4th century.
Willibrord, a Northumbrian missionary monk who became Bishop of Utrecht, established Catholic influence during the late 7th century in Austrasia (our region was not yet known as Luxembourg), particularly in Echternach, where he oversaw the founding and building of a monastery with the support of the wealthy Irmina von Oeren.
Count Siegfried built a fortress on the Bock in 963 and — like many other noble families — sought to support the advance of monasteries during the high Middle Ages. Throughout the Middle Ages the founding of about forty monasteries within the borders of the old Duchy of Luxembourg allowed monastic life to flourish.
The Jesuit order implemented reforms introduced by the Council of Trent (1545-1563), effectively insuring that the Protestant reformation advancing in Germany, France and the Netherlands did not affect the Duchy of Luxembourg.
Mary became patron saint of the land in 1666 under the influence of the Jesuit order. Under the title "Consolatrix of the Afflicted" her image continues to attract many pilgrims during the spring Octave festivities — the religious event par excellence in Luxembourg's liturgical year, "when Luxembourgers feel themselves most vividly to be a vibrant Christian community". (2)
The role of religion in the public schools has been a controversial issue since the end of the 19th century. In 1912 the government and the Church were pitted against each other regarding the degree of involvement by the Church in the State. The controversy, resolved after World War I, has resurfaced recently, so that religion classes held in the public schools are now being replaced by courses in secular ethics.
Protestant presence after World War II increased marginally with the coming of the European institutions. Several confessions are represented for Dutch-, German- and French-speaking Protestant congregations. Evangelical congregations not supported by the state have been launched, largely to serve French- and English-speaking immigrants.
Vatican II officially sanctioned and encouraged Roman Catholics to read the Bible for themselves in the early 1960s.
Contemporary Roman Catholicism, long the majority religious confession in the Grand Duchy, has encountered the pressures of secularism. Matthias Schiltz, then Vicar General of the diocese, commented already in 1985,
"…the wave of materialism and secularization rolling across Europe does not stop at the borders of Luxembourg. Hedonism is now the religion of many and this has seriously damaged religious faith and practice. Attendance at Sunday mass has been declining rapidly over the last twenty years and the national average is now about 25% of the population. Although most children are still baptized, make their first communion and are confirmed, many of them abandon all religious practice as soon as the [sic] have completed these 'rituals'. A crisis has been reached with regard to religious vocations. Ordinations to the priesthood have fallen by almost two thirds in twenty-five years, with an average of two or three a year. Marriage, too, is being increasingly underminded [sic]. One in three marriages now ends in divorce, which means that there is a very serious threat to the future, not only of the family but also of the Christian faith. Moreover, the number of young people who reject Christian marriage, and sometimes even any form of marriage, is increasing. Others get married in church without adequate preparation or motivation". (3)
The entire Bible has never yet been translated entirely into Luxembourgish. Given that Luxembourgish has until recently been a spoken language with relatively rare literary attempts, and that Luxembourgers are able to read in German and French, the need for a local Bible translation has not seemed to be an urgent need. However, now that Luxembourgish is increasingly becoming a written language of integration for young people, a translation is needed.
Contemporary religious diversity is evident in Luxembourg by virtue of the significant immigration trends since the 1960s. Traditional Roman Catholicism is no longer the preeminent religious force in the country.
The quest for unity in diversity continues to be a theme in Luxembourg's multicultural mix of about 170 nationalities.
"Just as Luxembourg during all the centuries of its turbulent history was more than a mere transit country and was also always regarded as a connecting link between enemy powers, today the Grand Duchy is once again preparing to serve as the testing ground, if not a model, for peaceful coexistence in tomorrow's Europe. In particular in the context of an enlarged European Union and worldwide globalisation, this EU member state, the second smallest after Malta, proves that in a multicultural society, with integration potential from both sides, material prosperity can certainly go hand in hand with tolerance and mutual respect, paired with an expansion of cultural horizons. No country in Europe handles the immigration and integration of foreigners with such self-assurance and in such a matter-of-fact way as the little Grand Duchy in the centre of the European Greater Region. And nowhere else do members of such diverse nations live together with hardly any social conflicts. This 'miniature Europe' gives us the chance to study, like in a microcosm, how a multinational community can function". (4)
The CEPS study
According to statistics published in 2011, 73% of Luxembourg's inhabitants belong to a Christian confession (5). Of this total 68,7% are Roman Catholic; 1,8% protestant and 1,9% other denominations.
2,6% belong to another non-Christian religion and 24,9% claim adherence to no religion at all. The study pointed out that in comparison with studies completed ten years earlier, religious observance had remained stable over the decade. The only notable change was the slight progression of Islamic faith from 0,7% to 2%, due to the immigration of refugees from the former Yugoslavia.
The CEPS study also asked respondents to assess how important religion was to them. 16% considered religion to be very important; 26% as rather important; 32% as not very important and 26% as not important at all. Almost half of the respondents declared they were either non-religious (35%) or convinced atheists (9%).
The study furthermore indicated that between 1999 and 2008 religious practice fell substantially (21% versus 13%) and the absence of practice increased (48% versus 53%). Nonetheless 60% of the respondents still supported the need for baptism and marriage, and about three quarters saw the need for a religious ceremony after death. These figures represent a drop since 1999.
^ André Heidersheid, "Les Luxembourgeois: un Peuple épris de sécurité", Etudes économiques luxembourgeoises, Université internationale de Sciences comparéees, Luxembourg, 1970, 146.
^ M. Schmitt, "A Brief Review of the History of the Church in Luxembourg", Poopsvisite zu Letzebuerg: Press Information, 1985, 18.
^ "Brief Note on the Catholic Church in Luxembourg", Poopsvisite zu Letzebuerg: Press Information, 1985, 10.
^ "About Multi-Cultural Luxembourg", Publications du Gouvernement du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, p. 17, http://www.luxembourg.public.lu/en/publications/i/ap-lux-multiculturel
^ "Les Religions au Luxembourg", Le Centre d'Etudes de Populations, de Pauvreté et de Politiques socio-économiques, CEPS/INSTEAD, http://www.luxembourg.public.lu/fr/actualites/2011/03/07-religion/
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"I long for your presence want I want you to long for Mine! My love for you is a jealous and zealous love!
"I AM not just speaking words of love, but I perform them! My care for you is confirmed over and over again by what I do for you! You are My beloved, and I will lavish My love upon you and give you comfort and joy as you fellowship with Me in My presence," says the LORD.
"My table is set and ready for you in My presence," says the LORD.
"I have loaded it with GOOD things and have reserved a seat for you. NO one will take your place! You belong to Me, and when you come into My presence, you will have FULLNESS of joy!
"I will load you with daily benefits, unspeakable gifts, and hidden treasures that will WOW you! Come and dine, and feel the warmth of My love and embrace, as you eat and drink at My table and enjoy sweet communion with Me," says the LORD.
Wow! Those are some moving and deep words. Sometimes we don't, I am mainly referring to myself, we don't truly realize and understand the depths, plateaus, and levels of God's love for me or anyone else, especially his True Children, those who have been Saved by his only son Jesus Christ, who shed his blood for the sake of his love for mankind, his creation.
I sincerely appreciate this message, I long to fellowship with my Lord, sometimes I just get caught up selfishly with the fleshly and tangible things on earth, but my heart longs for Jesus, sharing my deepest love for my Lord, this is the truth.
This message and post allowed me to take notice of my negligence,with my fellowship with God.
I publicly announce my true desire to live and fellowship with my Lord.
Amen LORD GOD in JESUS Name.


text: in 1822, describes the effect on the mind as something which begins before any other sign of the earthquake has manifested itself at all—an anticipatory horror, which is even more marked in the case of the lower animals. "Before we hear the sound, or at least are fully conscious of hearing it, we are made sensible, I do not know how, that something uncommon is going to happen; everything seems to change color; our thoughts are chained immovably down; the whole world appears to be in disorder: all nature looks different to what it is wont to do; and we feel quite subdued and overwhelmed by some invisible power, beyond human control or apprehension." In the Neapolitan earthquake of 1805, these anticipatory signs were most remarkable in relation to the life of the animal world. An Italian writer, quoted in Mr. Wittich's "Curiosities of Physical Geography," says: "I must not omit in this place to mention those prognostics which were derived from animals. They were observed in every place where the shocks were such as to be generally perceptible. Some minutes before they were felt, the oxen and cows began to bellow, the sheep and goats bleated, and, rushing ii? confusion one on the other, tried to break the wicker-work of the folds; the dogs howled terribly, the geese and fowls were alarmed and made much noise; the horses which were fastened in their stalls were greatly agitated, leaped up, and tried to break the halters with which they were attached to the mangers; those which were proceeding on the roads suddenly stopped, and snorted in a very strange way. The cats were frightened, and tried to conceal themselves, or their hair bristled up wildly. Rabbits and moles were seen to leave their holes; birds rose, as if scared, from the places on which they had alighted; and fish left the bottom of the sea and approached the shores, where at some places great numbers of them were taken. Even ants and reptiles abandoned, in clear daylight, their subterranean holes in great disorder, many hours before the shocks were felt. Large flights of locusts were seen creeping through the streets of Naples toward the sea the night before the earthquake. Winged ants took refuge during the darkness in the rooms of the houses. Some dogs, a few minutes before the first shock took place, awoke their sleeping masters, by barking and pulling them, as if they wished to warn them of the impending danger, and several persons were thus, enabled to save themselves." What it is, before the sound or shock of earthquake is felt, which warns both animals and human beings of the approach of some dreadful catastrophe threatening the very basis of their existence, no one, of course, can say, since the impression made upon the nervous system is, at least as regards our own species, evidently one of general disturbance, and not one to which experience attaches any explicit significance. It may be, of course, that some very great change in the magnetic conditions of a spot threatened with earthquake leads to that extreme excitement of mind exhibited by all living creatures previous to the onset of the


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Defango's Vacation From Reality
June 18, 2019 ~ Donna Emerald	~ 2 Comments
Seems Defango has latched onto some new narratives along the way, and teamed up with some new people, for his Hoggbelly and QSlayers campaigns. His old pals, like Cheri, his favourite mod and second mommie, have been left behind for a while, to hold his teeny fort, while he trots through a variety of airports, to escape a subpoena in the Aaron Rich (brother of Seth Rich) lawsuit. The subpoena caught up with him on the same day he managed to avoid falling in an alligator pit, after being nearly trodden on by an astronaut. An exciting holiday, then, for DefangoTV, and he's been updating us from his hotel rooms, and trying to read those complicated legal documents. Seems the court wants him to hand over all his internet communications, and it all proves to be far more interesting than even the tall tales he and his subs have been putting about of late.
He'd had them well trained already, mind. Years of slavishly following made them dog-like in their devotion, and he set them loose on Twitter, to try to cut a swathe through any conversations anyone else might be having with Thomas, well armed with a Chronically inaccurate map, compiled by a buddy, on what Defango has taken to calling his "BlackTeam", the maps produced are designed to point out who is on the "other side", the "White Team", I guess, although the map colours change regularly, as confusing "layers" are produced exhaustively, by Chronic, who clearly has a bumper pack of felt-tips and a ruler at his disposal, or at least a handy little app which helps you target people with precision-ishness, assuming you have a high enough IQ to be able to spell their twitter handle correctly. Defango left the spelling to Chronic, and the other work in his chat to others. They tried to slay my good name in chat, but failed in Twitter, where they couldn't control the conversation, and all sorts of info about the Black Team started to emerge. I suspected already, since the impersonation phone call and murder allegations had been made against me, that Defango and crew had indeed gone to the dark side, but some of the characters that emerged from under their rocks on Twitter looked like they hadn't seen the light of the sun in a long time. This tattooed terror, Lestat, I knew already, but some new and disturbing things emerged into the light, along with the tattoo, along with darker aspects of his video work.
Lestat the vampire shows his wings
Turns out that Lestat likes 'em young, and although the age limit is 16 in some parts of his native Mexico, I'm pretty sure it's not quite this young. I had heard allegations on Twitter, during the back and forth spats with Defango's cultish subs, over my refusal to participate in the rather vicious anti-Thomas Schoenberger "Hoggbelly" campaign, and receiving all kinds of insults, started to realise that the people I'd not known very well before, had been tweeting out stuff like this, when I had thought the creepy back tattoo and dark videos were quite enough to be dealing with, let alone having to find out this kind of thing.
While I was still reeling from the idea that Defango really didn't care what type of folk he associated with (well, it didn't come as that much of a surprise, but it wasn't pleasant, finding out just how bad), I found more Nazis, Satanists, and Anarchists crawling about with them, than you could shake a stick at and say shoo. I've never had to report so many accounts before, for tweets I had directed my way, like Diane's lovely friend Anna, who is a Nazi, and has other Nazi friends that wanted me to know how awful Jewish people are, and how ecologically sound Hitler was, in getting rid of quite a lot of them. Diane turned her on to the narrative about Thomas, that he was an awful person, and probably Jewish, and away she went, a woman on a mission.
Diane's pal tweets her feelings about Jewish people
Turned out that Diane had been recruiting anyone and everyone that would listen to her stories about Thomas, on Twitter, by telling them he was an abusive man, and she the victim of his terrible deeds. She also had a major crush on him still, it emerged in her voluminous tweets on the topic, although she'd never met him. She begged to be unblocked by him, in tweets, before continuing on to berate and denigrate him to anyone she could get to listen.
I came in for a lot of her tirades, as she was convinced that I'd been up to some kind of jiggery pokery with him (though I'd never met him either), which she'd obviously wished she'd been up to herself, the general tenor of her tweets making it obviously that sex was on her mind a lot.
She wasn't the only lady friend that was giving me what for on social media; back at the ranch, on YouTube, there I was, innocently commenting under a video, when who should spring out of the bushes, but Elizabeth Vering, and she was in a fit of hysterics as well, or at least put me into one with her complaints, as I couldn't help posting this ditty in reply, though I suspect she's more the romantic poetry type. I don't think people will ever really appreciate my sense of humour as much as I do myself, somehow. I had to apologize to the channel owner for the mess in his comments, and back out gracefully, picking leaves from my attire as I retreated, smiling, and luckily, free of any scratches from the prickly bits.
The channel owner had the wit to remove the comments, as they were entirely unrelated to the content of the video, but I, of course, kept them, for my own amusement, and yours. The threat made me giggle, since I know her love of poetry, expressed in rambling comments under various Sofia Musik videos of Thomas's, and I imagined she might wish to bore me to death with some epic poetry, perhaps Milton's "Paradise Lost".
Elizabeth vague threat
Back on Twitter, the not so epic battle continued to rage, and there were tears tantrums on that rage therapy couch known as Defango's channel, with everyone in a funk, and Lestat advising Defango to be smarter (how could he, one wonders, since he claims an IQ of over 200?), and say less. I wonder how he's going to do that, now that everything he's said over the last while will be all out there anyway? Maybe Cheri can perform some "emotional alchemy", as she promised me in comments. She's very keen on that sort of thing , with this the book she'll use, from her single volume playlist.
Trolling – Level 2 Skills (for Professional Development)
May 21, 2019 November 27, 2020 ~ Donna Emerald	~ 3 Comments
Welcome to your Trolling Level 2 Skills for Professional Development course. We hope you have found your way around our YouTube campus, and find our facilities comfy and welcoming. We are all about helping you to learn the skills you need, in a relaxed and friendly environment.
As you know, our Level 1 course was a feeder course, an introduction to the topic, and you should already be familiar with the basic skills every troll needs, in order to boost his channel subs, and ego, all at the same time, by use of simple drama and disinfo techniques, to disrupt the unsuspecting non-troll users of YouTube's platform. You learned also the importance of building friendships, based around trying out these trolling techniques on other users, and why it is important to stay in a herd (incidentally, you have probably already enjoyed our lecture hall environments, where you can use our supplementary study rooms, tucked away quietly in the back, which you can spend time with your chosen groups, to get together to plan and implement your skills).
OG Wan Video Title from his LARP series, produced in conjunction with Fkn Freddy, discussed here.
This semester starts with a demonstration from one of our lecturers providing an example of how a creative approach to truth allows the troll to tinker with it, until it takes on an entirely new shape, an important tactic, and a bolder, Level 2 skill which you need to learn on your way up the troll ladder to success, at least in your own mind. Never mind what the non-trolls think of you, when you have acquired the techniques of lying through your teeth while keeping a straight face, you will, by the time you've completed our Level 2 course, be so unable to distinguish which way is up anymore, from all the LARPage you've been implementing, that you won't even notice those annoying normal people laughing their butts off at your attempts to fool people, which simultaneously turning up their noses at you, in disdain. This will cheese you off (you will learn cussin' skills later on in Level 2, and I'm sure you look forward to putting that tool in your toolbox!!).
Nasty allegations that we cover later, for Level 3, candidates
Soon you will try to wipe the smiles off the faces of good people, like this, by using every trick in the troll kit to steal their peace of mind, and happiness, and we know how you look forward to that ! We studied these sickening creatures we know as non-troll YouTube users, in our Level 1 course, but for those of you who need a refresher to stay focused, here's how those monsters of joy we'll never really understand can be recognised, by their unwillingness to let the troll ply his trade (to heck with PC his/her/its inclusive, ni*ga J*wish f*gg*ty garbage people try to insist on, cos we iz takin' their last safe spaces away) , unmolested by the truth intruding on the lies.
With no further ado, then, may I introduce that second-rate troll with an professional entry level skill demo you will enjoy. Mr. Manual Chavez, known as Defango down the Tubes, as he tries to pin the blame on Donna Emerald, a non-troll normal channel owner, for the police calling to his house, on a harassment charge, because she turned up in his chat, and pointed out some fibs. He uses the level one skill you are familiar with already; tell lies then quickly blame the someone, anyone, for the mess you've gotten into, when the lies aren't terribly believable (scapegoating was briefly covered at Level 1, and we shall be revisiting it next semester, in more depth), and you run into some bother with the cops (reverse trolling module, covered in semester 1, Level 1).
The new Level 2 skill is to add lies to those you've already told, and try to get them spread about as widely by your troll friends and allies, as you can. Loyal subscribers, who have been with you for a while are ideal for this purpose, as they become slave-like and afraid to leave the herd, lest they become the victims of your trolling themselves. They can also provide a source of income, based on whatever narrative you sell them (hey, maybe even give you a place to stay, if you can't get a job?) , and Level 2 will teach you to turn your skills into cash, as your subscriptions grow. You will need to do the reverse pointy-finger tricks you were introduced to first, in our Level 1 course, and document the LARP for subscribers, as your marketing hook…..
https://youtu.be/YwWG3ZOuOsg
Defango's "Bad Guys Fund"
…but with this groundwork in place, you will be able to generate that oh so important sympathy, once your subs engage with the narrative you present, and Presto! the cash appears magically, without any real work on your part, except a bit of hand-waving, and maybe a few tears too, if you have a lemon about. This requires a sympathy build-up, that can be tricky to get right, as some subscribers can get a bit turned off by seeing a grown man cry. Or threaten people, for that matter (we'll be covering how to carefully edit your material, so this beginner's mistake doesn't accidentally occur, while you are in character).
https://youtu.be/vPtSi_oHF4Y?t=3441
Your friends in chat and comments can cash in on their channels too, by joining in the narrative, and keep the drama and clicks coming. Some channels specialize entirely in narratives, to boost their fragile troll egos, by keeping the clicks coming, and money doesn't always come through the front door, like the bigger channels have, where you can get subs to throw their cash at you, like elderly Tom Jones' fans in a knicker frenzy. Of course, having subs who will believe any crazy story you tell, helps a lot.
Defango's bestie elderwrench Cheri LARPs for her big Daddy to help the Donna murder accomplice narrative along.
As you know, from your previous studies, trolls can harvest material from other channel's narratives, and some of those apple-faced, lovely granny elderlemon trolls can tell the best stories around, and joining forces with other channels is always something to consider, no matter how big your ego is, in the effort to develop those all important professional skills further, build your business up more, or just help the circle of friends to use the drama as a troll tool to help get more subs and cash clanking into the Patreon buckets, as your skills improve. All this comes with the skills already learned in Level 1, and don't fret, because it's not true what they say about your nose growing the more you do it, or the better you get at it. Do it right, and the only inflation that will occur will be to your own ego, and the number of both troll-subs, who enjoy participating actively or in supportive roles in the drama, and stunned gawkers as well, who can't believe that anyone can believe it (how to test these sort of subs' loyalty, for potential use as flying monkeys will be covered in module 4).
So, now you can see the learning experience that is your stepping stone to a viable career on the Tubes, and endless fun to be had with your friends, in chat and comments. Staying with the herd can have benefits, but cast your net wide, when it comes to creativity, as the world's your burrito, just there for the taking.
Defango's mod mom uses the always popular gang theme
Blast those non-fun-loving normies with both guns blazing, and soon you'll leave them in the dust, and maybe even have the show you want, the only thing on the Tubes tonight. Go gettem'. Chaaaaarrrge!
Supplementary material, with extra reverse troll examples for developing pro skills, on Twitter: https://twitter.com/donnaemerald8/with_replies
Magic trolling moments:: With Thomas. https://twitter.com/i/moments/1130840885892177921
With Defango and Diane: https://twitter.com/i/moments/1125356987800330240
With OG Wan Kanobi and Fkn Freddy: https://twitter.com/i/moments/1120807764350124032
Defango Email to Denise Matteau (Truth Convoy) from June, 2018, in which he makes a donation to her channel. Ms. Matteau sent Emails to Defango regularly, with delicious, troll-truffle succulent morsels, around that time, hoping to tempt his appetite with her imaginative inventiveness, and keep him coming back for more.
Denise Gives Defango Info on how to PayPal her
Updates: The Ministry For Truth have deemed Defango's old videos worthy of expunging from the records, since dissidents like Donna were spoiling the whole show, by exposing the inner torture sanctum, Room 101, to the light of day.
She's even trying to blame her recent Elderlemon Welfare visit on me, based on a lie she knows to be false, her and Defango's claim I rang the cops on him. Her name was shown, right in police records, which dopey Defango Tweeted, much to everyone's mirth at the time. pic.twitter.com/w0n1bIHJ6I
— Donna Emerald (@donnaemerald8) November 3, 2020
Defango like a good citizen, stays in his zone, while his lol-gran, Denise, continues to insist that Dissident Donna made the call to Big Brother, to get the police to Defango's, because she didn't get the update memo, naming Tanya the Terrible of Cornwall as the clever culprit. She's also claiming she's not hanging out with the old gang any more, even though she's written a letter to help one of them out, to de judge. That secret pigeon post was found on a Twitter tree, and now the other gang are not pleased. What a shootout, down the Tubes! Duck!
Tanya Cornwell, who admitted later to the phone call to police, which likkle ol' me got blamed for. She's Defango's pal, and Thomas and Mindy's, having once tried to set the last two up in a B&B business together. Fun fact: Tanya's married to Devin Nunes' lawyer, Stephen Biss. Tanya's a generous supporter, like Thomas, of YouTubers she likes.
Thomas's latest offering, where he finally gets the gumption to show his face (he's got a bit of a shyness issue, and likes his privacy, but enjoys invading others' rights to privacy regularly). He addresses some of his critics, face out, in mumbo Italiano, and taunts them in a level 1 troll demo, and rounds it off with a brief reminder of his brilliance as a composer, and puzzler.
Bonus Material NEW: I now have a line of YouTube merch, featuring all your favourite trolls. Here's a prototype, and the link to my shop, should you fancy a T-shirt of your favourite YouTuber. No pressure 'tho; Whaddya tink I am, a goddam troll or sometin'?
Customised handmade Caricature T-shirts of your favourite YouTubers
Psst: There's a new book out, too. "The Q Affaire". Available in the one stop merch shop, juzz fer you.
"The Q Affaire" The novel by Donna Emerald


I'm a little late posting this month's She Said Beauty Box but better late than never! I thought I would share what's inside this month's box and the news that this is to be the last She Said Beauty box as they have announced that they have stopped running the subscription service and are now concentrating on their social media site instead. This news does not come as a surprise to me as I felt in recent months the boxes have become a little boring and more focus has been on competitions and their website. Btw I absolutely LOVED the Cellnique Advanced Bio Renewal Masque from October's Box.
This is a strange item to include, I have never tried contacts before...but never say never! This is not something I would have ever considered buying but maybe I shall save these for a fancy dress party or halloween maybe? I received the purple ones and they apparently give a 'natural effect' not that I have ever heard of anyone having naturally purple coloured eyes before, have you?!
These are gold infused collagen based anti ageing masks for underneath the eyes. I have heard so much about these so excited to try them out!
I haven't heard of this brand before but its super expensive! This eye cream is suitable for sensitive eyes and works to visibly reduce puffiness, fine lines and wrinkles - keeping potential crows feet at bay.
This is a cheap brand of polish that reminds me of my childhood, i'll be interested to see if their formula has improved - the bottle design definitely has!
Again, this brand I'm unfamiliar with, but the products are super expensive I probably wouldn't repurchase but I will give them a go! This cream is perfect for environmentally damaged skin.
I'm pretty sure this was in a previous She Said Beauty box? I still haven't tried the last one we got sent so will pass this onto a friend to try.
These tea bags were included in the first She Said Beauty Box but are a welcome edition as I love th vitamins look interesting I love the simple packaging - they are quite large though!
This month's box contained a couple of interesting products that I am looking forward to trying such as the gold eye mask and the super expensive eye/face creams. This month's box works out at £31.38 when the subscription costs £9 it's good value for money but I felt the box was filled up with sachets and without the edition of the two bonus items the box would have been very sparse.
What do you think to the last ever She Said Beauty box?
I received an email from She said Beauty informing me that my box is late and will only turn up on Tuesday. If this is what I get in it then I'm going to be very disappointed. I would of thought they would 'go out with a bang'?
BTW, I am hosting an International giveaway on my blog where you can win Korean Skincare products. It would be great if you could enter.
That sounds great. How did it go? Do u have it every year?


Nice Catch Christo ~ That looks like Shongweni???
Pragtige fullscale mirror daai, baie geluk!
is that a full scale mirror or a common with really big scales?
It's a full scale mirror, easy to spot because the scale pattern is irregular.
Where was the fish caught??
Looks like Shongweni... nice catch Christo!!
that fish is in pristine condition.
Wow! Awesome fish! Congrats Christo!
Where did you catch that nice size.


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Home Racing News Key Biscayne's Win In Monroe Caps Four-Win Saturday For Sutherland
Key Biscayne's Win In Monroe Caps Four-Win Saturday For Sutherland
Arindel's Key Biscayne rallied from well off the pace to capture Saturday's $75,000 Monroe Stakes at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., providing jockey Chantal Sutherland with her fourth victory of the day.
"I'm so grateful. I'm grateful to God, and I'm grateful to Gulfstream for being so amazing," said Sutherland, who was greeted by an enthusiastic round of cheers from fans in the grandstand and on the apron upon her return to the winner's circle. "It's been really nice here."
Riding for the first time during the Spring/Summer Meet at Gulfstream, Sutherland continued to make her presence felt Saturday with victories aboard Hot Babe ($5.20) in Race 3, Hard Ten ($2.80) in Race 8, and Clapton ($20.20) in Race 9 prior to her victory aboard Key Biscayne ($14.40) in the Race 10 feature. The 45-year-old native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, who has ridden more than 1100 winners during her career, sits seventh in the Spring/Summer Meet standings with 30 wins.
"I'm so happy it's worked out the way it did. Thanks to [trainer] Kenny McPeek, who helped me get fit to do this during the winter," said Sutherland, who had taken time off due to the Covid-19 pandemic before galloping and breezing horses for McPeek during Gulfstream's Championship Meet.
Key Biscayne, who raced in tough stakes company on turf last year while finishing fourth in the Grade 2 Lake Placid, third in the Saratoga Oaks, and fifth in the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks Invitational, was hardly disadvantaged when the Monroe, a 1 1/16-mile race for fillies and mares, was transferred to the main track. The homebred 4-year-old daughter of Brethren was previously undefeated in two races transferred to dirt, having broken her maiden over a fast Gulfstream Park track and rolling to a dominating allowance victory at Belmont last year.
Key Biscayne settled of a solid early pace set by Thissmytime, the 3-5 favorite, who showed the way during fractions of :22.80 and 46.10 seconds for the first half-mile. Starship Nterprise made a strong move on the turn into the homestretch to pull alongside the tiring pacesetter and took a lead into the stretch. Meanwhile, Key Biscayne was making a three-wide sweep on the final turn to enter contention. Starship Nterprise, who captured the Martha Washington on turf last time out, kicked in nicely in the stretch but would prove unable to hold off the wide-and-driving Key Biscayne, who scored by a neck in her second start of the year.
"I had worked her and I worked another horse I've won on for Arindel. I loved how they worked," said Sutherland. "I had so much confidence going into the race. I just love the way she handles everything."
Key Biscayne ran the one-turn mile over a fast track in 1:36.90. Global Brand finished third, 2 ¼ lengths behind Starship Nterprise. Thissmytime finished fourth.
Key Biscayne and Clapton were two of three winners that were owned and bred by Arindel. They also won the fourth race with Gilligan.
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I've checked what it means to be 'steadfast' and it's no surprise that 'steadfast' in Hebrew (Strong's concordance 5564; samak) means to lean and to be at rest. Lean on what you may ask? Let us lean on the finished work of Jesus Christ! Rest and stop trying and sweating to gain our salvation; for it is given to us freely through Christ's sacrifice on the cross! Don't worry about workplace stress, stress at home and within the family or even stress from your health; fighting stress will not give you peace! Lean on the cross of Jesus and He will give you that perfect peace which you have been longing for.
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"Rejoice, you barren one who bore no children; break forth and shout, you who were not in labor; for more numerous are the children of the deserted one than of her who has a husband."
"Raise a glad cry, you barren one who did not bear, break forth in jubilant song, you who were not in labor, For more numerous are the children of the deserted wife than the children of her who has a husband, says the LORD."
You do not see what you mean to the world.
Even less do you see what you mean to Me, my spouse and my beloved.
You think you are hidden under a bushel ... You do not see how your light shines in the world!
So much is hidden from you, my child. Sometimes ... even yourself. And sometimes, more painfully ... yes, even Me.
But I have never abandoned you. I have never forsaken you. Not for a moment have I lost sight of you, nor for an instant have I been heedless of you; never have I forgotten you.
In the sacred corridors of your heart I have walked with you when none have suspected your desolation. I know of your loneliness, my beloved, and in the watches of the night I have seen tears well up in your eyes. Do you think that I am blind to them? How they burned on my heart as they burned on your cheek!
You are pained by doubt. Sometimes you question your vocation. Visions rise before you. A family. Children. I see how this pains your heart.
"Lord, I have given everything up for you..."
Yes, my child. For me. How much you love me! How I yearn to hear you say this, too!
Do you think that I am blind to what you have forsaken for me? As each spouse forsakes every other in the world for the one, you have forsaken every other ... and more – for me.
Oh, my child and my beloved, my bride and my spouse...! Do you think that I have left you barren? Have I not taken you to myself?
Behold ... I have made you the mother of many! ... Of numberless children who will not cease to gather at your feet. I have kept my pledge. Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
Yes, you are mother to the motherless! You are the irreplaceable love of a mother that so, so many need ... and, so sadly, do not have in this world which spurns its children.
You are the only sister of the sisterless.
You are the child of the childless.
You are the daughter of the daughterless.
You are the pledge of my love ... for you are mine ... and because we are one, your love in the world is a testimony of my love for the sons and daughters of men.
You know that I did not leave my children orphans when I returned to my Father ... no ... I left them you. In your love, in your heart, in your beauty, you gather to yourself all who would come to me.
Lift up your eyes, daughter of the Most High God – and see the swallows, so many and so lost, whose only place in this world is in the Altar – and behold, I have made your heart an Altar unto Me. They flock to you. I Who have called, have also counted each one.
As any mother, some of your children are wayward ... the world will abandon them, but you will not. They know this. You are a fixed star in the firmament of my love. When they have nothing, they know that they have a mother, a sister, a child who will never turn them away. They know they have you because you have Me.
I have clothed you in poverty, set you free through obedience, adorned you in chastity, embraced so many of you in enclosure. Do not cast off the raiment with which you were first attired. The world changes. But I do not change. I am the same; yesterday, today, and forever.
How the world longs for My Holy Mother, Mary! They must find her in you. If they do not find her in you, they will find her nowhere. The veil that anointed her in the blood of her Son ... do not cast it off for the ways of the world, my little one. Shall you be like unto her ... or to the world? For whom, my child, does the world long?
Behold your children: they are sick and despondent from the ways of the world ... do not conform yourself to the world. Bring the world to Me!
You must see, my child, that you are a sign. A sign of contradiction; of things unchanging and everlasting in a world upon which no man or woman can set their hearts, for it changes, embracing today what it will spurn tomorrow; a world littered with the dreams ... and even the children ... your children ...it once called, and whom it no longer finds useful.
Go, gather your children! My children! They seek you! How painfully they have known the ways of the world: you can number its scars ... even its wounds ... upon their precious bodies, their vulnerable hearts. Do not be like unto the world that has done this to them.
Gather up your veil ... and if the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. In all things be like unto your Mother Mary ... and not the world. Do not conceal your betrothal to me, arraying yourself as one of the world. Adorn yourself as my bride. Have I not chosen you?
In the cool of the evening I will walk with thee in the garden of our love, and we will talk. In the whispering trees you will hear My song to thee ... and you will know that you have chosen well. For who will love thee as I love thee? If your years are many or few, it matters not. I have made an everlasting abode, a dwelling place eternal in your heart, a place of unspeakable beauty. For in all things you are mine. And in all things, ever and always, I am yours.
I love thee! Unutterably! Unspeakably ... Eternally!


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So I've been recently asked how much I would charge to just paint a kit (not purchased by me and not assembled, or rooted or anything else). I'm not sure how to price it as I don't know how many hours go into my dolls. This is not my full-time job so I only work on the dolls during my free time. I will attach some pictures of my work. Thank you!
I would think $200 is a good price.
Hi, for a kit 15-18 inches I charges $125, for 19-21 inches I charge $150 -$175 the reason for the flex in price is because this in the average size newborn but some of them have massive detailing that takes a lot of extra time so that would be the higher price, for kits 22-26 inches it's $175-$200, and for 27 -^ i start at $250. And buyer has to pay shipping both ways this includes tracking, insurance and signature confirmation. I insist on the signature confirmation because I've had a buyer claim she never received the doll although it the tracking said delivered PayPal sided with her and refunded her money.
Do you seal your babies with Genesis Matte Varnish?
Yes I do Genesis matte varnish. I told her $200-250 depending if it was a huge kit with belly plate etc. She said that was a lot (price). Thank you ladies so much for your advice.
Thank you for your reply! As a collector, I'd gladly pay $200-$250 to have a good artist paint just the kit parts for me! I don't think that price was too high at all!
I am a collector and an artist, your work is gorgeous! Your price is perfect and I would pay it to have some of my own kits painted as well with your work. Don't lower your price for one person. Stay true to you!
Thank you so much! Confidence is hard to keep up with so many amazing Reborn artists now. I appreciate your comments very much!!