Do your research on the REVO stuff on the VW forums. I was looking at a GTi a while back and the general idea I got from the VW guys was you get the APR tune if you want it to stay running, You get the REVO stuff if you want to put a flashy dyno number and then drive it slowly in fear of it blowing up.
From 2002-2010, I was a VW guy. Had APR on two and REVO on a third, all without issue. No CEL's; no problems relating to the tunes in any way.
REVO is a very reputable tuner. They are also now part of Stasis if anyone is not aware.
Having spent YEARS in that market and installing hundreds of GIAC, Unitronic, and APR, software tunes, and driven ones with REVO, I can vouch for their credibility.
Most problems from any tune is not the tune itself, but the lack of maintenance on the car receiving the software. Yes, a performance tune will weed out your weakest coilpack or bad diverter valve, if your priority is to install mods before making repairs.
Also, the R56 ECU is the same as any VW/Audi TSI/FSI, so don't listen to anyone that says it cannot be "cracked". Its been done for years.
Glad to see however that someone is finally bringing this to market for us R56 drivers. As of now, the closest flash tune to this is RennTech, and you have to mail them your ECU if you are not nearby.


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The Mother of All Hoaxes
By Alan Caruba
There was a brief flurry of stories in the media at the beginning of what has become a historic summer of hot weather across the U.S. that global warming was to blame. They faded swiftly because the public has concluded that global warming is the mother of all hoaxes, because we are in the midst of a failing economy and the political campaigns that will decide if the nation literally lives or dies.
This has not stopped the Public Broadcast System's News Hour from airing a new series "on how climate change in the Pacific Northwest is affecting the region's Native American Indian tribes—flooding their reservations and threatening the region's salmon fisheries." Climate change is shorthand for global warming.
While the nation's media continues to propagate the hoax, what hope is there for the TRUTH?
Significantly "the NewsHour's year-long Coping with Climate Change series is funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation." The nation's leading foundations have been funding the global warming hoax for decades and continue to do so.
So one more article about the deception and duplicity of global warming may seem superfluous and it would be if the U.S. Air Force wasn't spending $59 per gallon of "green biofuel" and the U.S. Navy wasn't doing the same for its Great Green Fleet. The justification for this is the utterly false assertion that "alternatives" are needed in the event we can't produce or import petroleum.
The U.S. is floating on an ocean of oil, but for now it can only be extracted from lands owned privately because the Obama administration has done everything in its power to restrict access to it on federally owned lands and, of course, the billions of barrels locked up off-shore.
In exactly the same way that the Obama administration has presided over the loss of billions in subsidies and loan guarantees for the solar panel companies or the ridiculous costs of wind power industry compared to a single coal-burning plant, at the heart of it all has been the claim the global warming is caused by "greenhouse gas" emissions, carbon dioxide, that imperil the Earth.
Recently, my friend Joseph L. Bast, the president of The Heartland Institute, wrote an article, "IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Junk", posted on AmericanThinker.com.
It struck me that very few people even know that IPCC is the acronym for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Few people know that the entire global warming hoax was generated by the IPCC, let alone know what it is.
Most people associate global warming with Al Gore who has been among its most prominent advocates, warning that "the Earth has a fever" and that we were doomed if we didn't stop generating carbon dioxide. Gore and his collaborators wanted to sell "carbon credits" in exchanges around the world and for a while he greatly enriched himself.
In Australia, the government has imposed a tax on carbon dioxide which it likely to destroy its manufacturing base along with the extraction of coal and other minerals.
Here in the U.S. the Environmental Protection Agency continues to assert that carbon dioxide must be regulated as a "pollutant" under the Clean Air Act and, if successful, will likewise destroy what is left of our manufacturing base and all other industries that generate or use energy to function.
And the man in the street remains completely clueless about the impending ruin of the nation based on the reports of the IPCC which the Inter-Academy Council (IAC), a group created by the world's science academies to provide advice to international bodies, has long since concluded were utterly false and baseless.
On June 27, the IPCC issued a statement saying it had completed the process of implementation of the recommendations that an August 2010 IAC analysis had made after examining who was contributing to their reports, who was reviewing their content (the same people!), and the astonishing, utterly false, claim of "a consensus" that global warming was happening.
As Bast points out, "It means that all of the 'endorsements' of the climate consensus made by the world's national academies of science—which invariably refer to the reports of the IPCC as their scientific basis—were based on false or unreliable data and therefore should be disregarded or revised."
"It means that the EPA's 'endangerment finding'—with its claim that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and threat to human health—was wrong and should be overturned."
It is a terrible thing to live in a nation governed by falsehoods, spending the public wealth on useless technologies, living under the tyranny of government departments and agencies pursuing those lies for their own agendas and political masters.
Unless the harm perpetrated in the name of global warming is reversed, we shall all remain the victims of the United Nations IPCC, the EPA, and all other entities seeking to control every aspect of our lives.
The poles are not melting, the glaciers are growing, the oceans rise mere millimeters over centuries, and right now planet Earth is cooling.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
By its actions, the IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Unreliable (wattsupwiththat.com)
IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Junk (americanthinker.com)
Joseph L. Bast: IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Junk (junkscience.com)
CLIMATE SCAM: IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Junk (sgtreport.com)
You Knew That: IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Junk (tarpon.wordpress.com)
Hockey Schtick: New paper shows IPCC models exaggerate water vapor feedback (junkscience.com)
PBS NewsHour global warming coverage: IPCC/NOAA Scientists – 18; Skeptic Scientists – 0 (junkscience.com)
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How green enegy works.
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Let consumers, not bureaucrats decide our country's energy future
By Phil Kerpen & Steve Lonegan
While President Obama is trying futilely to convince the American people he supports an "all of the above" energy policy, he has remained stubbornly committed to vast subsidies for unproven, expensive technologies like wind.
Obama has repeatedly described his intention to increase wind subsidies "doubling down," an appropriate use of gambling terminology.
The U.S. Senate will likely be put on record soon on amendment votes to extend wasteful, expensive subsidies for windmills and to create vast new subsidies for natural gas vehicles. These votes will tell us which senators, like the president, want to double down on a losing hand and which think it might be time to try a free market energy policy.
Sadly, it is hardly a given that Republicans will oppose massive taxpayer-funded giveaways to favored energy players. The clearest evidence of that comes from New Jersey, where Governor Chris Christie has led the way on a disastrous proposed offshore wind scheme.
New Jersey's offshore wind boondoggle was authorized by the Offshore Wind Economic Development Act, signed into law by Gov. Christie in 2010. A cost analysis of the act conducted by the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University concluded that the wind project would cost the state as much as $4.1 billion, drive up electricity rates up as much as 4.2% and cost up to 4,440 jobs. More recently a consulting firm hired by state officials to analyze the bid from Fishermen's Atlantic, LLC to construct the project found that it would result in the loss of almost 30,000 jobs, and drive up electricity rates by $286 million.
With hefty federal subsidies for wind in place, such boondoggles will continue to spring up around the country. Fortunately, the principal federal subsidy for wind, the so-called Production Tax Credit (PTC) is scheduled to expire at the end of this year. Unfortunately, the Senate will soon vote on extending this giveaway, despite the fact that wind is second only to solar in subsidies and is highly suspect both economically and environmentally.
While Obama tells us it's time to end the outrageous subsidies for fossil fuels, the facts are the vast majority of subsidies go to wind and solar. — In 2010, subsidies per megawatt-hour were $0.63 for natural gas, $0.64 for coal, $52 for wind, and $968 for solar.
Instead of looking at those numbers and concluding it's time to pull the plug on wind subsidies and even more scandalous solar subsidies, some Washington politicians look at them and conclude we need to massively increase subsidies for natural gas.
The Senate is poised to vote on doing just that, on an amendment that would add the provisions of the so-called Nat Gas Act to the surface transportation bill. This amendment, sponsored by New Jersey's Senator Robert Menendez, would provide hefty subsidies – up to $64,000 per truck – to subsidize the conversion of vehicles to natural gas.
The bill, sadly, has bipartisan support, including from Republicans like Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, who apparently believes that the only difference between Republicans and Democrats is which industries they prefer to choose to lavish with special giveaways.
The consequences of huge subsidies to shift natural gas into the transportation sector are easy to foresee. If we artificially boost demand at taxpayer expense, prices will go up. That means higher natural gas bills for home heating bills, and it means higher prices for all the industries that use natural gas as a feedstock.
Just as ethanol subsidies rippled through corn prices to higher food prices, natural gas subsidies would have economy-wide effects through higher prices for chemicals, plastics, and fertilizers.
Moreover, with natural gas prices collapsing thanks to the fracking revolution, these subsidies are wholly unnecessary.
As long as the EPA and overzealous state regulators can be kept at bay, natural gas vehicles will come to market without subsidies. In fact, this week Chrysler and General Motors announced duel-fuel pick-up trucks that run on both compressed natural gas and gasoline.
Why not let consumers decide if they want these vehicles, instead of putting a government thumb on the scale at a cost of billions of dollars?
In the aftermath of Solyndra, politicians should recognize that its time to pull the plug on energy subsidies, scale back on onerous regulations, and let consumers, not bureaucrats, decide our country's energy future. The U.S. Senate should therefore reject both on the PTC and Nat Gas amendments.
Phil Kerpen is vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity and the author of "Democracy Denied" (BenBella Books, 2011). Steve Lonegan is executive director of Americans for Prosperity – New Jersey.
Read more: Fox News
Subsidized Windmills: Symbols of Corruption and Incompetence (tarpon.wordpress.com)
Removing the disconnect between talk and action on energy policy (mb50.wordpress.com)
Sen. Alexander seeks end to wind energy tax credit (knoxnews.com)
Action Alert: Oppose the Wind Energy Production Tax Credit (junkscience.com)
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DOE Releases Reports on Major Potential of Wave and Tidal Energy Offshore USA
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released two nationwide resource assessments showing that waves and tidal currents off the nation's coasts could contribute significantly to the United States' total annual electricity production, further diversify the nation's energy portfolio, and provide clean, renewable energy to coastal cities and communities.
These new wave and tidal resource assessments, combined with ongoing analyses of the technologies and other resource assessments, show that water power, including conventional hydropower and wave, tidal, and other water power resources, can potentially provide 15% of our nation's electricity by 2030. The reports represent the most rigorous analysis undertaken to date to accurately define the magnitude and location of America's ocean energy resources. The information in these resource assessments can help to further develop the country's significant ocean energy resources, create new industries and new jobs in America, and secure U.S. leadership in an emerging global market.
The United States uses about 4,000 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity per year. DOE estimates that the maximum theoretical electric generation that could be produced from waves and tidal currents is approximately 1,420 TWh per year, approximately one-third of the nation's total annual electricity usage. Although not all of the resource potential identified in these assessments can realistically be developed, the results still represent major opportunities for new water power development in the United States, highlighting specific opportunities to expand on the 6% of the nation's electricity already generated from renewable hydropower resources.
The two reports—"Mapping and Assessment of the United States Ocean Wave Energy Resource" and "Assessment of Energy Production Potential from Tidal Streams in the United States"—calculate the maximum kinetic energy available from waves and tides off U.S. coasts that could be used for future energy production, and which represent largely untapped opportunities for renewable energy development in the United States.
The West Coast, including Alaska and Hawaii, has especially high potential for wave energy development, while significant opportunities for wave energy also exist along the East Coast. Additionally, parts of both the West and East Coasts have strong tides that could be tapped to produce energy.
Earlier this year, DOE announced the availability of its national tidal resource database, which maps the maximum theoretically available energy in the nation's tidal streams. This database contributed to the "Assessment of Energy Production Potential from Tidal Streams in the United States" report, prepared by Georgia Tech.
The wave energy assessment report, titled "Mapping and Assessment of the United States Ocean Wave Energy Resource," was prepared by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), with support and data validation from researchers at Virginia Tech and DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The report describes the methods used to produce geospatial data and to map the average annual and monthly significant wave height, wave energy period, mean direction, and wave power density in the coastal United States. NREL incorporated the data into a new marine and hydrokinetic energy section in their U.S. Renewable Resource atlas.
In addition to the wave and tidal resource assessments released , DOE plans to release additional resource assessments for ocean current, ocean thermal gradients, and new hydropower resources in 2012. To support the development of technologies that can tap into these vast water power resources, DOE's Water Power Program is undertaking a detailed technical and economic assessment of a wide range of water power technologies in order to more accurately predict the opportunities and costs of developing and deploying these innovative technologies. The Program is currently sponsoring over 40 demonstration projects that will advance the commercial readiness of these systems, provide first-of-a-kind, in-water performance data that will validate cost-of-energy predictions, and identify pathways for large cost reductions.
These resource assessments, techno-economic assessments, and technology demonstration projects are critical elements of DOE's strategy to capture the very real opportunities associated with water power development, and to further define the path to supplying 15% of the nation's electricity through water power technologies.
DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy invests in clean energy technologies that strengthen the economy, protect the environment, and reduce dependence on foreign oil. DOE's Water Power Program is paving the way for industry and government to make sound investment and policy decisions about the deployment of renewable water power technologies by quantifying the nation's theoretically available water power resources.
DCENR Submits WestWave Project for EU Funding (Ireland)
Turbines to Harness Tidal Energy in Admiralty Inlet (USA)
OPT Announces Presentation at Rodman & Renshaw Annual Global Investment Conference (USA)
UK: NREL Installs Tidal Power Vessel in Humber
UK: Pelamis Wave Power Device Set Sail for Orkney
UK: Rolls-Royce Hits 100MWh Milestone with Tidal Technology (mb50.wordpress.com)
UK: Siemens Increases Stake in Tidal Energy Company Marine Current Turbines (mb50.wordpress.com)
Wave Power Wants Piece Of Newport Beach Surf (earthtechling.com)
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UK: Tidal Energy, Possible Answer for Renewable Industry
THE latest bid to revive plans for a Severn barrage comes at a time when the renewable energy sector is facing increasing problems.
Supporters of a barrage argue that it is second only to wind power in its ability to produce a substantial amount of electricity and in being a proven technology.
That is debatable, but what is certain is that the wind industry is facing increasing difficulties in getting projects off the ground.
Not only are wind farms becoming more likely to be rejected by local planners, investors are becoming increasingly put off by a perceived lack of political support, particularly in Wales.
This was highlighted in the summer when First Minister Carwyn Jones announced that the Welsh Government did not see the need for a large overhead pylon network in Mid Wales to connect wind farm developments to the grid.
The statement suggested the Welsh Government did not support major new wind farm developments since burying the power cables would add significantly to the cost.
The solar power industry has also had a hard time of it, although it is perhaps a victim of its own success.
The UK Government has twice changed the framework on feed-in tariffs (FITs), on both occasions causing disruption in the sector.
First it imposed an upper limit of 50 kilowatts (kw) on the size of installations entitled to FITs, killing off the development of large solar parks. Then it announced it was to half the FITs rate from 43p to 21p by December 12, a far larger and earlier cut than had been previously suggested.
Supporters of renewable energy hope new biomass and anaerobic digestion plants will take up some of the slack, but there is every likelihood these will also face local planning difficulties, as waste burning plants elsewhere have.
In this context, tidal energy projects could be the best hope for renewable energy.
by Chris Kelsey (walesonline)
More funding for wave and tidal (bbc.co.uk)
Believe it, renewable tidal energy, alternatives from water (ees2001.wordpress.com)
Posted in Tidal, United Kingdom
Tags: Carwyn Jones, energy, Feed-in tariff, Mid Wales, Renewable energy, Solar power, Tidal, Tidal power, United Kingdom, Wind farm
UK: Siemens Increases Stake in Tidal Energy Company Marine Current Turbines
British tidal energy company, Marine Current Turbines Ltd, announces that Siemens is increasing its share in the company to 45%.
"With this increase in its stake, Siemens is strengthening its activities in ocean power generation. We will actively shape the commercialization process of innovative marine current power plants," said Michael Axmann, CFO of the newly founded Solar & Hydro Division within Siemens' Energy Sector.
Marine Current Turbines (MCT) has evolved from a pioneer to a technology leader in horizontal axis marine current turbines and now has 25 employees. In February 2010 Siemens acquired a minor stake in the Bristol-based company and thus entered the marine tidal current market. Financial details of today's announcement are not disclosed.
Ocean power is emerging with strong growth rates driven by global CO2 reduction commitments. Until 2020, experts anticipate double-digit growth rates for the ocean power market. Based on further estimates the global potential for power generation using tidal power plants is 800 terrawatt-hours (TWh) per annum. For comparison, that is equivalent to between three and four percent of power consumption worldwide.
Dr Andrew Tyler, CEO of MCT said: "Through the expansion of the partnership with Siemens, we have further strengthened our position in the tidal energy market. We have the increased backing of a major industrial player which is essential to support the commercialization of our proven technology. We are about to approach investors to secure funding for our first two tidal array projects, and Siemens' increased investment as well as UK Government support should give investors the confidence that we have the necessary backing to deliver these crucial projects and the ones to follow."
MCT plans to present two Project Investment Prospectuses to the market within the next month for its 8 megawatts (MW) Kyle Rhea project in Scotland and its 10 MW Anglesey Skerries project in Wales. For both projects, applications for leases from The Crown Estate have already been approved. The UK Government's recent ROCs Banding announcement (October 20) will support these projects with 5 ROCs per megawatt hour proposed for tidal energy.
In addition, MCT is planning to deploy a tidal system into the FORCE facility in Canada's Bay of Fundy and has an approval for a lease from The Crown Estate to deploy a 100 MW tidal farm off Brough Ness, on the southern most tip of the Orkney Islands in Scotland.
MCT has already successfully implemented its first commercial scale demonstrator project SeaGen in Northern Ireland's Strangford Lough. Since November 2008, SeaGen's two axial turbines, with a combined capacity of 1.2MW, have been feeding power into the grid to supply the equivalent of around 1500 homes. SeaGen has to date generated over 2.7GWh of electricity to the grid, the largest amount of electricity in the whole of the ocean power sector.
Marine current turbines generate electricity by utilizing tidal current flows. The SeaGen turbine is fixed on a structure and is driven by the flow of the tides with a key advantage that the generated power is precisely predictable in the tidal cycle. This technology effectively is similar to that of a wind turbine with the rotor blades driven not by wind power but by tidal currents. Water has an energy density of more than 800 times that of wind. Twin rotors rotate with the movement of the tidal flow and pitch through 180 degrees to optimally track tidal current direction and speed.
Marine current turbines are part of Siemens' Environmental Portfolio. In fiscal 2010, revenue from the Portfolio totaled about EUR28 billion, making Siemens the world's largest supplier of ecofriendly technologies. In the same period, Siemens' products and solutions enabled customers to reduce their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 270 million tons, an amount equal to the total annual CO2 emissions of Hong Kong, London, New York, Tokyo, Delhi and Singapore.
Wave and tidal power almost ready for mass consumption, says Alex Salmond (guardian.co.uk)
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Tags: energy, europe, Marine, Marine Current Turbines, News by topic, SeaGen, Siemens, Stake, Tidal, Tidal power, turbines, United Kingdom
UK: Rolls-Royce Hits 100MWh Milestone with Tidal Technology
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has achieved a significant milestone in the deployment of tidal energy technology with confirmation that its prototype tidal turbine, located subsea off the Orkney Islands, Scotland, has successfully generated and fed over 100 megawatt hours (MWh) of electrical power into the national grid.
Harnessing the reliable and predictable energy of tidal streams, the 500 kilowatt (kW) tidal turbine prototype was designed and built by Rolls-Royce wholly owned subsidiary Tidal Generation Limited.
Robert Stevenson, Rolls-Royce, Vice-President – Power Ventures said: "Rolls-Royce has injected its world-class engineering expertise and incubation processes to deliver this innovative renewable energy project. Reaching the 100 megawatt hours milestone highlights the significant potential of cleaner, greener tidal power as part of a diversified UK energy mix. Having proven the capability of tidal energy, Rolls-Royce is well placed to meet any future demand with larger, more efficient technology on a commercial scale."
As a reliable and predictable energy source, deep water tidal stream power generation could make a valuable contribution to meeting the electricity demands and carbon emissions reduction objectives of many industrialised nations, including the UK, Canada, Australia and the U.S.A. For example, Rolls-Royce tidal technology could generate up to 30TWh (terawatt-hours) of UK electricity, equivalent to around 7.5 per cent of existing UK electricity needs or enough to power 3 million homes.
Harnessing the Energy of Tidal Streams
Installed as part of the Deep-Gen III project, co-funded by the UK government-backed Technology Strategy Board, the Rolls-Royce prototype tidal turbine is currently deployed at the European Marine Energy Centre's (EMEC) offshore test site off the Orkney Islands, Scotland. It is the first EMEC located project to both receive Renewable Obligation Certificates and to reach 100 MWh of supply to the grid.
The tidal unit's three-bladed turbine is attached by a tripod to the seabed and can operate, fully submerged at water depth of 40 meters. Its innovative design allows the turbine to continually rotate to face the incoming tide at an optimal angle. In addition, the turbine unit is semi-buoyant and can be easily towed to and from the point of operation, minimising installation and maintenance costs by avoiding the need for specialist vessels.
Neil Morgan, Head of Energy at the Technology Strategy Board said: "This is a significant milestone for the UK marine renewables industry. The UK is well-placed to exploit tidal stream energy resources and, if commercialised on a large scale, this technology could be an important part of the renewable energy mix we'll need in the future, and could create jobs and exports for the UK."
As part of the Energy Technologies Institute funded ReDAPT (Reliable Data Acquisition Platform for Tidal) consortium project, Rolls-Royce is currently building a 1MW tidal turbine demonstration unit that will be deployed in mid-2012 at EMEC in Orkney. The project will deliver detailed environmental and performance information never before achieved at this scale in real sea conditions. Rolls-Royce is also working with a number of developers in advancing demonstration arrays, systematic arrangements of turbines, which will lead to large scale commercial deployment.
Dr David Clarke, ETI, Chief Executive said: "The U.K. is already a world-leader in this exciting renewable sector. However, the long-term viability of tidal technology depends on it becoming competitive with other renewable energy sources. Continued investment and new partners are urgently needed to maintain momentum and bring the technology to scale."
Orkney Islands: glimpse of a renewable future (guardian.co.uk)
Wave and tidal power almost ready for mass consumption (climateinsight.wordpress.com)
Scotland Plugs Tidal Power into Electricity Grid (forbes.com)
Tags: Energy Technologies Institute, European Marine Energy Centre, Orkney, Renewables Obligation, Rolls-Royce, Scotland, technology, Tidal, Tidal power, United Kingdom, Watt

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The basic idea behind an admissions essay is to gain acceptance to some sort of institution and group. More often than not, the tradition student will encounter an admissions essay when they begin to explore options for college or scholarships. Usually an admissions essay is written to address very specific questions that are presented to the writer. Often times, there questions will include such topics as why the students should be considered for admission to the group or institution and what types of skills and views the writer has developed over their life so far.
An admissions essay differs from other essays because it is usually not written to prove something, but rather to explain and inform.
The first step in writing an Admissions Essay is to figure out exactly what needs to be written about. This might sound like a given, but it is important for an Admissions essay to be focused and articulate in order to achieve the greatest impact on its reader. Many essays of this type fail because the writer does not adequately address the questions that must be answered in the essay.
The next step in such an essay is to organize the thoughts and ideas that will answer the questions that are required. Often times this can be as simple as specifically addressing each question progressively. On occasion, admissions essays will be required to be one complete document from start to finish. If such is the case, special attention must be paid to areas of transition from one topic to another.
The final step in writing an admissions essay will be to edit and proofread to ensure that everything is covered and that the essay articulately addresses the requirements of the essay. It is important to remember that in many cases, an Admissions Essay is a tool for selling an individual to an institution. Take care to ensure that proper grammar and spelling are also used.
The writer will begin to creatively set up a format by which the admission questions will be answered.
The writer will add any final thoughts that were not the part of a question.


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Ashby Magna Station and Bridge 413
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Ashby Magna station was a typical Great Central 'Country' pattern station. It was built on the island platform principle and was very similar to Whetstone Station, differing mainly in as much as access was from a stairway down from the road bridge - Bridge 413. This bridge was a double span iron girder bridge, with a room built into the archway between the two spans. This room is the only part of Ashby Magna station to survive to the present day, although it is now inaccessible as the bridge has been backfilled on both sides. The station had a decently sized goods yard to the east, but this disappeared under the M1 Motorway while the line was still open, as did the Station Masters house. Remains of the station are still visible, including a small portion of one of the platform walls which still has a couple of courses of bricks above ground level. There are also some quite large pieces of brickwork on the overgrown cutting wall just south of Bridge 413. Of the goods yard, only the cattle dock remains - in surprisingly good condition. A cellphone mast has been erected in the recess previously occupied by Ashby Magna signal cabin. The southern part of the station site, and the cutting leading to Dunton Bassett tunnel, are occupied by a timber company who are building a new commercial building across the trackbed.
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Teachers at Roding Valley High School discuss how they have adopted the 'Closing the Gap' initiative into their faculties.
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Pulte Homes Inc. said Tuesday its loss narrowed in its fourth quarter, as the homebuilder reported heavy charges that were partly offset by a tax gain.
The builder also reported increases in orders and completed sales for the quarter.
Pulte said Tuesday it lost $116.9 million, or 31 cents a share, in the quarter. That compares with a loss of $338.2 million, or $1.33 a share, a year earlier.
The results included $925 million in charges related to impairment of assets, the value of land, and its merger with rival Centex last year.
Those charges were balanced by an $800 million tax gain, thanks to a new tax rule allowing companies to offset past losses. As a result of the new rule, the company expects to receive a federal tax refund of $917 million.
Excluding items, Pulte's results would have been about break-even for the period.
Revenue rose 5 percent to $1.73 billion from $1.64 billion. Revenue was helped by a 13 percent increase in completed sales, partly offset by a 7 percent decrease in the average selling price, to $258,000.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters were expecting a loss of 19 cents a share on revenue of about $1.5 billion.
Orders for new homes ballooned, more than doubling to 3,748 from 1,763 a year earlier, as the company's latest quarter included results from Centex. Centex was acquired by Pulte last fall.
Like other builders, Pulte Homes has seen orders pick up due to low mortgage interest rates and a tax credit for homebuyers.
But many industry experts question how the shaky housing recovery will hold up once the tax credits — $8,000 for new buyers and $6,500 for current owners — expire at the end of April.
Recent data show the up-and-down nature of the housing market's recovery. Sales of new homes fell 7.6 percent in December for the second month in a row. The results were the weakest since March and were only 4 percent above the bottom last January.
Still, the number of people preparing to buy a home in December rose slightly from November, a positive sign heading into the spring home buying season.
With its Centex acquisition, Pulte now has more communities with cheaply priced homes, as well as desirable land in Texas and the Carolinas.
"Centex's land assets are proving to be an important resource in a market facing a limited supply of well-positioned homebuilding lots," said Richard J. Dugas, Pulte's president and CEO, in a statement.
For all of 2009, Pulte reported a net loss of $1.18 billion, or $3.75 a share, compared with a net loss of $1.47 billion, or $5.81 a share, for 2008. Full-year revenue was $4.08 billion, compared with $6.26 billion for 2008.
Analysts expected a full-year loss of $3.73 a share.
In premarket trading, Pulte shares were unchanged from Monday's close, at $11.13.


The actress, whose name was made with a role in a well-known film "Hannah Montana" is going to present the new look with each passing year.
Let us start from the year 2011, when she may be seen in the film "So Undercover", presenting a bit curvy shape for which she was much criticized both by fans and critics.
The reply Miley published on Twitter. It was so: "I don't wanna be shaped like a girl; I wanna be shaped like a woman. And trust me ladies your men won't mind either".
Except the cinema stuff she successfully does, she is also great in music. Her songs reach the first positions at the Billboard 100 ranks. That exact year the new track "We can't stop" was released.
However, it seemed she wasn't really disturbed by all the comments around the clothes size, some measures were taken.
So far in 2012 she did greatly trimmed down, appearing on public in new and more attractive look. But if you think the actress changed her opinion about the point, then you are definitely wrong.
The reasons were also special for such a weight-loss journey – the singer discovered a gluten and lactose allergy. So, 30 pounds, which may be equal to 13,5 kilos.
The actress commented the situation this way: "It's not about weight, it's about the health".
Also, the project she participated in is "LOL".
Her trimming down was the result of Pilates to be done regularly as well as other physical exercises. The actress enjoys dancing and cycling, which she does in the leisure time.
Besides, the dieting plays an essential role. Having a strict schedule for meals and the limits to be put for the products she is not allowed to eat, Miley dropped the kilos easily.
Throughout the whole year 2013 the singer was continuing doing the Pilates six times per week, for at least of one hour.
She also shared the perfect body on the Instagram. So, if you are the fan of Miley Cyrus don't be shy to follow her and get the latest news.
The next year to bring the changes was 2015. The song presenter posted too skinny selfies, which made the worries to her friends and fans as well.
Her legs turned out to be too slim as well as the general look seemed to be a bit anorexic. That's why many negative comments were posted, but the impression is Miley doesn't plan to stop.
The production she took part in was "The Night Before". As also she continued working on the studio albums, promoting her tracks widely.
How are the things nowadays?
The year 2016 is famous for the hairstyle changes. As there are no changes in weight, because of being thin enough already, so the hair found its variations.
The singer says: "My life is done chronologically in hair styles". She posts the each step of the creativity to be made on Instagram, boasting a bit or even shocking if the one goes to short.
Currently she stares in "Crisis in six scenes" as also may be seen in other TV-running programs from time to time. The majority of them are oriented on promoting the new tracks.
So far, she changed much from the time we saw her at first on screen, beginning from the hair and childish smile. As for any problem there are pros and cons; but anyway, she adores the stuff she does and so lives the life fully.
For the conclusion may stand that if the person had found oneself in the appearance he considers to be good, like Miley said after having her hair cut – There is more me now than in any other time – other people' opinions are not that important.


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Premier League to turn to VAR from next season
LONDON: Premier League clubs have agreed in principle to introduce video assistant referees (VAR) from the start of next season, they said on Thursday.
The top leagues in Spain, Italy, and Germany are already using VAR, which allows disputed incidents to be reviewed with the use of video replays, and the technology was used at the World Cup in Russia this year.
The English clubs were provided with an update on this season's VAR trials, with key examples of its use in the FA Cup and League Cup discussed in detail.
"The League will now formally make a request to the International Football Association Board and (world body) FIFA to use VAR next season," the Premier League said in a statement.
The League has been using goal-line technology since 2013.
The decision comes after contentious refereeing decisions overshadowed a 1-1 league draw between Southampton and Watford last weekend.
Southampton striker Charlie Austin demanded the introduction of VAR after his goal was disallowed by referee Simon Hooper, who deemed Maya Yoshida to have interfered with the ball from an offside position.
The introduction of the technology comes after clubs voted unanimously against its use in England's top flight during the 2018-19 campaign, instead agreeing to continue testing of the system.
"The Premier League's non-live testing programme will remain in place for the rest of this season, with a continued emphasis on those Saturday afternoons which have several matches being played concurrently," the League added.
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As Corbyn Helps Out with the Homeless, Johnson Jets Off to Mustique
Published by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 28/12/2019 - 9:18pm	in
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Here's a story that acutely shows the difference between Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson: how they spend their Christmas hols. Zelo Street reported just before Christmas that the Scum was maligning Corbyn for disrespecting Her Maj. They found out that he wouldn't be watching the Queen's Speech on TV, and so threw themselves into another bout of righteous anger. However, the stats apparently show that Corbyn wouldn't be alone. Something like ninety per cent of Brits don't watch the Queen's Speech either. Which means that if the Scum really represents 21st century Britain, 90 per cent of its staff are going to either. So it's a case of more Tory press hypocrisy.
But Corbyn had good reason not to watch the Queen's Speech. He does something rather more worthwhile on Christmas Day. He helps out at his local homeless shelter, something he's done for years. He was also giving presents to underprivileged children.
But what of Johnson? To what worthy cause does this statesman of Churchillian stature – or so he sees himself – devote himself at the festive season?
The question's a joke. He doesn't.
Johnson and his partner, Carrie Symonds, are preparing to jet off to Mustique to see in the New Year. That's a private island in the Caribbean, home to the extremely rich. Johnson and partner will be staying with the von Bismarck's, the descendants of 19th century German chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. Jagger has property there, and the island was the holiday destination of such royals as Princess Margaret and the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall.
Zelo Street quoted a number of Tweets from people, who really weren't impressed with Johnson, and compared him very unfavourably with Jezza. They included
"Jeremy Corbyn spent Christmas helping the homeless and giving presents to children. Boris Johnson is flying off to the luxury Caribbean island of Mustique at the hospitality of the Von Bismarck family. Boris is working every day, you see, very hard to get Brexit done … Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds' £20,000-a-week Caribbean holiday villa … Nothing sticks it to those 'elites' like holidaying on a private Caribbean island after putting a couple of cronies in the House of Lords".
And the article concluded
'You voted Bozo to "Get it done"? It was you getting done. And now you all know it.'
Absolutely. Tory scaremongering and hypocrisy stopped people voting for a man, who would have worked tirelessly and genuinely improve the lives of ordinary people. And instead they elected an incompetent, narcissistic hedonist with a hatred of the poor, the disabled, gays and ethnic minorities.
But somehow Johnson is a 'man of the people'. Which tells you all you need to know about how the Scum and Tory press see us.
'I' Article on McDonnell Receiving Death Threats
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Also in Tuesday's I was a brief article by Patrick Daly reporting that McDonnell had told a meeting of NHS workers that he receives death threats weekly. The article ran
Labour's shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, said he regularly receives two death threats a week, as he called for calm as the general election campaign gets under way.
He said politicians had "exploited" the Brexit result to "unleash forces" that were "dividing society".
He made the comments after being told by a migrant NHS worker how he and a surgeon colleague had been verballed abused following the 2016 referendum decision.
Speaking to London NHS workers at Unison's headquarters, Mr McDonnell said he wanted more politicians to "follow the advice" given by the Archbishop of Canterburty. The Most Rev Justin Welby warned the Prime Minister and MPs last week that it was "extraordinary dangerous to use careless comments" in what he described as a "very polarised and volatile situation"S.
Mr McDonnell said: "We've all had continual death threats. I usually get about two a week now.
"That's the sort of politics we have got at the minute."
This potentially explosive situation has been fanned by Johnson's own highly inflammatory rhetoric and that of the Tory press towards anyone, who dares to oppose Brexit, or their version of it. Remember how the Fail slandered the judges, who declared one of their Brexit initiatives illegal, 'enemies of the people'. Which mirrors exactly the rhetoric used by the Nazis against the democratic Weimar authorities before they seized power in Germany.
But it's also a notable for a number of other reasons. The first is that it contradicts the Tory, Blairite and media narrative a few years ago that Corbyn's followers were evil, raging misogynists sending abusive messages to 'moderate' – read Thatcherite – Labour women. Like Luciana Berger and the rest. This gave the misleading impression that only these ladies received abuse. But as the I also revealed a few days ago, half of the abusive messages sent to Labour politicians go to Diane Abbott, a close ally of Corbyn. And while I've no doubt that some of they did receive abuse and threats, some of the messages they claim to have received, on examination, didn't exist. But I have no doubt that McDonnell's statement is absolutely true.
As is the statement by the migrant NHS worker about the abuse he and a surgeon colleague received after the 2016 Brexit referendum.
Not everyone, who voted for Brexit are racist or xenophobic by any means. Some Labour voters did so in some communities because European policies has harmed their industries. The British fishing industry is a case in point, and used as an example of destructive EU policies by the Times sketchwriter, Quentin Letts, in his book Fifty People Who Buggered Up Britain. Some Old Labour voters no doubt voted for Brexit because of the way neoliberalism and privatisation are written into the EU constitution and economic structure. But many others did. They were lied to by the Tories and UKIP, told that by leaving the EU there would be less foreigners taking their jobs and pushing down wages. And that meant Black and Asian immigrants. One of the most noxious examples of this was Nigel Farage and his wretched UKIP poster showing a line of immigrants from Syria and North Africa, which exactly matched Nazi posters against Jewish and eastern European immigration.
Last year I went into hospital for treatment for a form of blood cancer here in Bristol. I received excellent care, as I have done through the process generally, from the doctors, nurses and other medical and ancillary staff. Very many of these are foreign workers, not just from other parts of Europe, but also Africa and the Caribbean. They were conscientious in their care, and in my experience, had an excellent and supportive attitude towards the patients. We are very fortunate to have such people working for us.
But they are being abused. There was a piece on the local news for the Bristol region, Points West, the other day, reporting that one of the city's hospitals in Southmead has been forced to put in place a zero tolerance policy because of people abusing staff, including, I believe, threats of violence. Threats and abuse to hospital workers and medical professionals isn't new. There have been posters up warning patients against it for years, as well as reports and denunciations in the press and media. But now it seems it's becoming particularly serious.
This is disgraceful. It needs to be stopped, now. Before there's another assassination like that of Jo Cox.
Leave.UK and Boris Now Using Racism to Push Brexit and Get Votes
Published by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 2:55am	in
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I suppose it was inevitable. I realise not everyone, who voted for the Leave campaign is racist by any means. A lot of working class and left-wing peeps voted to leave the EU no doubt because of the very real problems with it. Private Eye has been describing for years its corruption, its lack of democracy and accountability of its senior officials, and the high-handed way it deals with member states that don't toe the line. Years ago it described how the-then president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, was aghast at the terms it presented him and his country for membership. He complained that his country hadn't been treated like that for over thirty years. Which meant that he was comparing it to the way it had been pushed around when it had been a Soviet satellite. This drew an outraged reaction from two of the MEPs in the EU delegation, both of whom, I think, were left-wing. One of them was Daniel Cohn-Bendit, French politician, who had been a radical leader during the '68 revolution. They screamed at Klaus that the EU was definitely democratic, and the architect and keep of peace after the Second World War. Robin Ramsay, the editor of the conspiracy website Lobster, is an old-fashioned left-wing Eurosceptic. He objects to the EU because economic Conservatism and neoliberalism is built into it. He regards a strong nation state with nationalised industries as the best political and economic system and protector of the rights of working people. Tony Benn was the same, noting in one of his books the real harm membership of the EU actually did to our economy and industry.
But Benn was also realistic, and recognised that we were now also economically dependent on the EU, and that leaving it would also cause severe disruption and damage.
All of which is not considered by the right-wing supporters of Brexit. They're not interested in protected our nationalised industries, like what remains of the NHS, because they want to sell it off to the highest bidder. And that means, at the moment, Donald Trump. Thus for all their posturing, they were quite happy to see our railways owned by the Bundesbahn, the German state railway network, and our water by the French, and then the Indonesians. And our nuclear power stations built and owned by the French and Chinese. They've got no objections with other states and nations owning our infrastructure, as long the British state doesn't.
And there is and has always been a nasty undercurrent of racism in the Right's attitude to the EU. Now with the latest poster from Leave.UK it's all out in the open. As Mike's shown in his article, they've now put up a poster showing Chancellor Angela Merkel, with her arm raised in a quasi-Nazi salute, or what could be interpreted as one. And there's a slogan 'We didn't Win Two World Wars to be Pushed Around by a Kraut'.
This is just pure racism, expressed in racist language. And the imagery is offensive and wrong. As Tony Greenstein showed in his article, the CDU had its share of former Nazis amongst its members. And incidentally, so was the Freie Demokraten, the German equivalent of the Liberal party. Back in the 1980s there was a massive scandal when it was revealed that neo-Nazis had all been infiltrating them. Even the odd member of the SPD has been outed as a former member of the Nazi party. But that doesn't mean that the CDU, or any of the other German democratic parties are really Nazi, simply because they're German. I think Merkel herself is genuinely anti-racist, and tried to demonstrate how far her country had moved from the stereotype left over from the Third Reich when she invited the million or so Syrian and North African refugees to settle in the Bundesrepublik. It backfired badly on her, as people, not just in Germany, were afraid their countries were going to be swamped by further Islamic migrants and the wave of 200 or so rapes by a minority of them provoked an vile islamophobic reaction. But Merkel herself, and her people, aren't Nazis and aren't engaged in some diabolical plot to dominate Europe by stealth. As I've blogged about endlessly, ad nauseam.
Mike's article cites the comments from three continental papers, who I believe have rightly assessed the situation and BoJob's shenanigans with the EU. They differ in that some of them think the Blonde Beast is aiming for a no-deal Brexit, or that, denied that, he wants a Brexit extension. But whatever the outcome, he wants most of all to blame it on the EU. Those nasty foreigners are responsible! He and the Tory press are trying to present it as though Boris and the Tories have done everything they can to secure a deal, and it's all due to those horrible, intransigent foreigners, and particularly the Germans, that they haven't. Thus they're seeking to work up nationalist sentiments so that they're voted back in with a massive majority, having seen their lead in the polls.
I can well believe it. It's what they've always done.
I remember how the Tories became the Patriotic Party under Thatcher in the 1980s. Thatcher stood for Britain, and anyone, who opposed her and the Tories more widely was definitely not One Of Us. They were some kind of traitor. The Labour party was full of Commies and IRA sympathisers, as well as evil gays determined to corrupt our youth in schools. Thatcher represented Britain's warrior heritage and island independence. She constantly and consciously harked back to Winston Churchill. Their wretched 1987 general election video showed Spitfires zooming about the skies in what Alan Coren drily called 'the Royal Conservative Airforce'. Over the top of this an excited male voice declaimed 'We were born free. It's our fundamental right'. Actually, the quote comes from Rousseau's Social Contract, and is 'Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains'. Which is a far better description of the free trade, low tax world Thatcher wanted to introduce and her destruction of workers' rights and the welfare state. Thatcher was our bulwark against domestic terrorism and the IRA at home – even though she was secretly negotiating with them – and the Communists and Eurofederalists of the EU abroad.
The Tories continually used the imagery and memories of the Second World War and the Empire to drum up support.
It's a crude, nationalistic view of British imperial history. The idea that somehow we stood alone against Hitler during the Second World War is a myth, but one that all too many of us buy into. We survived and were victorious because we had the support of our empire. We were fed, and our armies staffed, by the colonies, including those in the Caribbean, Africa and India. If it hadn't been for them and the Americans, we would have fallen as well.
And the history of the British empire and its legacy is mixed. Very mixed. I don't deny that many of the soldiers and administrators that founded and extended it were idealists, who genuinely believed they were creating a better order and were improving the lives of their imperial subjects. But there was also much evil. Like the history of the Caribbean and the slave colonies in North America, or the treatment of the Amerindians and other indigenous peoples, like the Maoris or Aboriginal Australians. They weren't noble savages, as portrayed in the stereotypes that have grown up around them. But they didn't deserve the massacre, displacement and dispossession they suffered. The Irish patriot, Roger Casement, was a British imperial official, and was radicalised by the enslavement of South American Amerindians by the British rubber industry in the Putomayo scandal. This turned him against British imperialism, and made him an ardent fighter for his own people's independence. To get a different view of the empire, all you have to do is read histories of it from the perspective of the colonised peoples, like the Indians or the slaves in the Caribbean. Or, for that matter, the horrific treatment of Afrikaner civilians in the concentration camps during the Anglo-South African 'Boer' War. In too many cases it was a history of persecution, dispossession and oppression, fueled by greed and nationalism.
Ah, but the British Empire stood for democracy!
It was largely founded before the emergence of democracy, which everywhere had to be fought for. And parts of the British imperial establishment remained anti-democratic after the Liberals extended the vote to the entire working class and women at the beginning of the 20th century. Martin Pugh in his history of British Fascism between the two world wars states that sections of it were not happy with the extension of the franchise in the 1920s, especially the diplomats and administrators in the Indian office, like Lord Curzon. It's highly dubious how much of a patriot Churchill was. In the years before the outbreak of the Second World War, Orwell remarked in one of his press articles how strange the times were, with Churchill 'running around pretending to be a democrat'. And there was a very interesting article years ago in the weekend edition of the Financial Times that argued that it was only because Britain needed allies during the Second World War, that the English Speaking Union appeared as one of the leading organisations in the spread of democracy.
But still we've had it drummed into us that the Empire was an unalloyed, brilliant institution, our country is uniquely democratic, and the Tories represent both and our national pride and heritage against the depredations of Johnny Foreigner.
Salman Rushdie and the rest are right. We need proper, balanced teaching about the Empire to correct some of these myths.
Supporters of the Labour Party and Remain campaign in response to the latest eruption of bilious racism and xenophobia have released their own posters. One shows Boris Johnson and has the slogan 'We Didn't Win Two World Wars to Be Pushed Around by a Fascist'. Another shows Nigel Farage with the slogan 'We Didn't Win Two World Wars to Be Pushed Around by a Fraud'. At the bottom is another legend, reading 'Let's Not Leave EU'.
See: https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2019/10/09/leave-campaigns-response-to-angela-merkel-is-racism/
They're right. And the Tories and the Leave campaign are whipping up racism simply for their own benefit. If they get a no-deal Brexit, or win a general election, they will privatise the NHS, destroy what's left of the welfare state. Our industries will be massively harmed, and whatever's left of them will be sold to the Americans.
It will mean nothing but poverty and exploitation for working people. That's how the Tories use racism and xenophobia.
Don't be taken in by their lies. Stand up for democracy and peace and harmony between peoples and nations. Get rid of Boris, Farage and Aaron Banks. And support Corbyn and Labour.
The Nazis and Post-War German Conservatism, The CDU
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That determined opponent of all forms of racism and Fascism, and their Jewish version, Zionism, Tony Greenstein, has written a passionate open letter to the mayor of the German city of Aachen, Marcel Philipp. His letter is a protest against Philipp's decision to withdraw an artistic prize from Raad, a Lebanese-American artist, because Raad supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement against Israeli goods and businesses operating in the Occupied Territories. In his letter, Greenstein shows how the BDS campaign is actually an anti-racist movement, despite the official condemnation of it as anti-Semitic by the Bundestag, the German parliament. Boycotts are the weapon of the oppressed. He notes that it was used against slave-produced sugar from the West Indies, and takes his name from Colonel Boycott, an Irish landlord shunned by his tenants in County Mayo in 19th Ireland. He also points out that the anti-BDS legislation is supported by outright racists and genuine anti-Semites like the Alternative fur Deutschland in Germany and Trump in the US. They do so not because they are friends of Jews, but because they believe that Israel is their real home, and would like the Jewish people in their countries to move there.
Philipp is a member of the CDU, the Christian Democratic Union. This is the German equivalent of our Conservative party, and was formed after the war from the merger of the Catholic Centre Party and a few other parties. Greenstein accuses Philipp himself of racism, due to the presence of former Nazis in the party after the War. He points out that the closest adviser of Conrad Adenauer, Germany's first post-War Chancellor, was Hans Josef Globke, the legal expert, who drew up the infamous Nuremberg Laws for the Nazis. This was the legislation that put the Nazi social policy of racism, anti-Semitism and vicious discrimination and persecution into official state action. After the War, 77 per cent of legal staff in the German department of justice were former Nazis. At the Eichmann trial, Adenauer was determined to stop any mention of Globke and his role in the Holocaust. And so he sent Israel military aid, including submarines, and assistance with David Ben Gurion's nuclear programme.
Greenstein ends his letter
It is perfectly understandable that racists and white supremacists the world over should oppose the Boycott of Israel. Racists have always opposed the use of BDS. It is therefore no surprise that as a member of a racist German party should oppose Boycott.
My only message to you Mr Philipp is not to expiate your guilt over the Holocaust at the expense of the Palestinians. It was people like you who were responsible for Auschwitz and Treblinka, not the Arabs of Palestine.
The annihilation of the Jews in the Holocaust is no justification for the racial oppression and genocidal murder of the Palestinians today. Your party was once full of Nazis. It would seem that old habits die hard.
http://azvsas.blogspot.com/2019/10/open-letter-to-aachens-racist-mayor.html
The letter's interesting, not just for Tony's protest about the withdrawal of the prize and efforts by German, American and European Fascists – he also mentions Italy's Matteo Salvemini, amongst others – supporting and calling for a ban on the BDS movement, but also for the light it sheds on the Nazi past of many members of the CDU. The Baader-Meinhof gang in the 1970s arose because of scandals like this. They were furious that former Nazis like Globke were continuing their lives and careers, untroubled by proper punishment for their horrendous crimes. And as Ken Livingstone pointed out in his 1987 book, Livingstone's Labour, NATO and the various western intelligence agencies actively recruited them during the Cold War as part of their campaign against Communism.
In fact, the party that consistently fought against the Nazis and their persecution was the SDP and later the KPD, the German Socialists and Communists. These formed resistance cells even after they were formerly banned. Not that German Conservatives were alone in possessing extreme right-wing sympathies. Our own Conservative party and its press, like the Daily Mail, also had Fascist sympathisers before the War, and a Fascist fringe afterwards.
Forget the lies about Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters in the British Labour Party, anti-Semitism is and has always been far more prevalent on the right. Which is why we need to have decent, left-wing parties presenting an alternative to poverty, austerity and neoliberalism in government all over Europe. And to fight all forms of Fascism, even when it tries to present itself as friendly towards Jews, like Zionist imperialism.
Establishment Media Bias and the Cheltenham Literary Festival
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Someone really ought to do a study of the way the big literary festivals – Haye-on-Wye, Cheltenham and the others – select the books and media celebs they want to push and the way they try to manipulate public opinion towards the establishment consensus. Because, believe me, it is there.
In a couple of weeks' time, right at the beginning of October, it'll be the Cheltenham Literary Festival. As it's booklet of coming events tells you, it's been proudly going for 70 years. I think it was set up, or given a great deal of assistance when it was set up, by Alan Hancock, who owned a secondhand bookshop on Cheltenham's Promenade. It was a fascinating place, where you could acquire some really fascinating, valuable academic books cheaply. But it had the same internal layout as the fictional setting of the 1990's Channel 4 comedy, Black Books, but without Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey or Tamsin Grieg.
The festival's overall literary stance is, very roughly, broadsheet papers + BBC, especially Radio 4. It pretty much shows what's captured the attention of the newspaper literary pages and the BBC news team, several of whom naturally have books coming out, and who are appearing. In past years I've seen John Simpson, Simon Hoggart, Quentin Letts, Giles Brandreth and John Humphreys talk or appear on panels. This year they've got, amongst others, Emily Maitlis and Humphrey's again.
Much of the Festival's content is innocuous enough, even praiseworthy from a left-wing perspective. For example, there are a number of authors talking about their books about empowering women and ethnic minorities. These include Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinene talking about their book, Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible, which is what it says: a guide for Black girls. Other topics and books discussed are on how empowered Black men are, and various feminist works about how gynaecological problems should be discussed openly, and the changing nature of the female muse. Rather than being passive creatures, modern muses are active, liberated women conquering business, sports, the arts and science. There's also a piece on the future of masculinity, titled 'Will Boys Still Be Boys', which asks what will happen to boys now that the idea that there is a natural realm of masculinity, such as superiority and aggression, has been disproved. The concern with ethnic minority authors has always been there, or at least since the 1990s. Then, and in the early part of this century, a frequent theme of the Festival was 'crossing continents', which gave a platform to prominent literary authors from outside Europe and the West. It also gave space to Black and Asian literature from the UK. I can remember too, how one of the events staged at the Festival was a celebration of Black British poetry, much of it in Caribbean Patois.
The Festival also caters for more popular tastes. In the past it had speaking the Fantasy author, Terry Pratchett, along with the approved, heavyweight literary types. It has events for children's books, and this year features such media celebrities as Francis Rossi from Status Quo and Paul Merton. So, something for everyone, or so it seems.
But nevertheless, the Establishment bias is there, especially as so many of the speakers, like Maitlis and Humphreys, are drawn from the mainstream media. Back in the 1990s the Festival was sponsored by the Independent. Now it's sponsored by the Times, the Murdoch rag whose sister paper, the Sunset Times, has spent so much time smearing Corbyn and his supporters as Communist infiltrators or vicious anti-Semites. Maitlis and Humphreys are BBC news team, and so, almost by definition, they're Conservative propagandists. Especially as Humphreys is retiring, and has given interviews and written pieces for the Heil. Any chance of hearing something from the Cheltenham Festival about the current political situation that doesn't conform to what the Establishment wants you to hear, or is prepared to tolerate? Answers on a postcard, please. Here's a couple of examples. One of the topics under discussion is 'Populism'. I don't know what they're planning to include in it, but from previous discussions of this in the media, I'm prepared to bet that they'll talk about Trump, possibly Boris Johnson, the rise of extreme right-wing movements in Europe and elsewhere in the world, like Marine Le Pen former Front National in France, the AfD in Germany, Orban and so on in Hungary, Bolsonaro in Brazil and the Five Star Movement in Italy. All of whom are definitely populists. But they'll also probably include Corbyn and Momentum, because Corbyn is genuinely left-wing, challenges the Thatcherite neoliberal consensus and will empower the masses. All of which threatens the Establishment. There are also individual politicians speaking this year, but the only one I found from the Left was Jess Philips. Who isn't remotely left-wing in the traditional sense, though she is an outspoken feminist.
The other topic is about what should be done with Putin. Now let's not delude ourselves, Putin is a corrupt thug, and under him Russia has become once again a very autocratic state. Political and religious dissidents, including journalists, are being attacked, jailed and in some cases murdered. Among the religious groups he's decided are a threat to Mother Russia are the Jehovah's Witnesses. I'm not a member of the denomination, and find their doorstep campaigning as irritating as everyone else. But they are certainly not a dangerous cult or terrorist organisation. And they have stood up to tyrants. They were persecuted by the Nazis during the Third Reich, with their members imprisoned in the concentration camps, including a 17 year old boy, because they wouldn't accept Hitler as a secular messiah. For which I respect for them. The Arkhiplut has enriched himself, and rewarded his cronies with company directorships, while assassinating the oligarchs, who haven't toed his line. And I still remember the genocidal butchery he unleashed in Chechnya nearly two decades ago, because they had the temerity to break away.
But geopolitically, I don't regard Putin as a military threat. In terms of foreign policy it seems that Putin is interested solely in preserving the safety of his country from western encirclement. Hence the invasion of the Ukraine to protect the Russian minority there. If he really wanted to conquer the country, rather than the Donbass, his tanks would be in Kiev by now. I've blogged before about how Gorbachev was promised by the West that in return for allowing the former eastern European satellites to break away from the USSR, they would remain neutral and not become members of NATO. That's been violated. They've all become members, and there are NATO military bases now on Russia's doorstep. The Maidan Revolution of 2012 which overthrew the previous, pro-Russian president of Ukraine was stage managed by the American state department and the National Endowment for Democracy under Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland. There's evidence that the antagonism against Putin's regime comes from western multinationals, who feel aggrieved at not being able to seize Russian companies as promised by Putin's predecessor, the corrupt, drunken buffoon Boris Yeltsin. Putin also seems to be quite genuine in his belief in a multipolar world, in which his country, as well as others like China, are also superpowers. But the Americans are interested only in maintaining their position as the world's only superpower through 'full spectrum dominance': that is, absolute military superiority. The US' military budget supersedes both the Russian and that of the four other major global countries combined. Arguably, Russia ain't the global threat. America and NATO are.
Festivals like that of Cheltenham are important. They're business arrangements, of course. They exist to sell books. But they also encourage literacy, and allow the public to come face to face with the people, who inform and entertain them through the written word. Although here the books' pages of Private Eye complained years ago that the Festival and others like it gave more space to celebrities from television, sport, music and other areas, rather than people, whose primary living was from writing. But the information we are given is shaped by the media – by the papers and broadcasters, who give the public the news, and the publishers, who decide which books on which subjects to publish. And then there's the bias of the individual festivals themselves. And in the case of Cheltenham, it is very establishment. It's liberal in terms of feminism and multiculturalism, but other conservative, and increasing Conservative, in others. It's through events like Cheltenham that the media tries to create and support the establishment consensus.
But that consensus is rightly breaking down, as increasingly more people become aware that it is only creating mass poverty. The Establishment's refusal to tolerate other, competing opinions – their demonisation of Corbyn and his supporters as Communists, Trotskyites and Nazis, for example – is leading to further alienation and disaffection. Working people don't find their voices and concerns reflected in the media. Which is why they're turning to the online alternatives. But Festivals like Cheltenham carry on promoting the same establishment agenda, with the odd voice from the opposition, just like the Beeb's Question Time. And this is going to change any time soon, not with lyingt rags like the Times sponsoring it.
The Stepford Daughters of Brexit and Slavery and the Emergence of Capitalism
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Yesterday for our amusement the awesome Kerry Anne Mendoza posted a video on twitter made by two very definitely overprivileged girls talking about the evils of socialism. The two young ladies were Alice and Beatrice Grant, the privately educated granddaughters of the late industrialist and former governor of the Bank of England, Sir Alistair Grant. With their cut-glass accents and glazed, robotic delivery of their lines, they seemed to fit the stereotype of the idiotic Sloane perfectly, right down to the 'Okay, yah', pronunciation. Mendoza commented 'I don't think this was meant to be a parody, but it's the perfect roast of the "yah-yah" anti-left.'
Absolutely. In fact, what the girls were describing as socialism was really Communism, completely ignoring democratic socialism, or social democracy – the form of socialism that demands a mixed economy, with a strong welfare state and trade unions, progressive taxation and social mobility. It also ignored anti-authoritarian forms of socialism, like syndicalism, guild socialism or anarcho-Communism. They were also unaware that Marx himself had said that, regarding the interpretations of his views promoted by some of his followers, he wouldn't be a Marxist.
But it would obviously be too much to expect such extremely rich, public school girls to know any of this. They clearly believed, and had been brought up to believe, the Andrew Roberts line about capitalism being the most wonderful thing every invented, a mechanism that has lifted millions around the world out of poverty. Etc. Except, as Trev, one of the great commenters on Mike's and this blog, said
If "Capitalism works" why are there a million people using foodbanks in Britain today? Not working that well is it? Why did the Government bail out the Banks using our money? Why did the Banking system collapse in the first place, was it because of Socialism? I don't find these idiotic spoilt brats in the least bit funny, I feel bloody angry. When was the last time they ate food they found in the street? Bring back the Guillotine!
See: https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2019/08/14/these-young-ladies-of-brexit-need-to-be-seen-to-be-believed/
The two girls were passionate supporters of the Fuhrage and his wretched party, and were really looking forward to a no-deal Brexit. It shows how out of touch these girls are, as Brexit is already wrecking the British economy, and a no-deal Brexit and subsequent deal with a predatory America would just wipe it out completely. Along with everything that has made post-war Britain great – the NHS and welfare state. But these girls obviously have no connection with working people or, I guess, the many businesses that actually depend on manufacturing and exports. I think the girls' family is part of financial sector, who stand to make big profits from Brexit, or at least are insulated from its effects because they can move their capital around the globe.
The girls' views on the EU was similarly moronic. They really do seem to believe that the EU is somehow an oppressive, communistic superstate like the USSR. It wasn't. And the reason anti-EU socialists, like the late, great Tony Benn distrusted it was partly because in their view it stood for capital and free trade against the interests of the nation state and its working people.
And they also have weird views on slavery and the EU's attitude to the world's indigenous peoples. To the comment by David Lammy, the Black Labour politico, who dared to correct Anne Widdecombe for comparing Brexit to the great slave revolts, they tweeted
"Lammy being pathetic as usual. The chains of slavery can be intangible, as amply shown in China, the Soviet Union and the EU; to deny that just shows your ignorance and petty hatred for the truth".
To which Zelo Street commented that there two things there. First of all, it's best not to tell a Black man he doesn't understand slavery. And second, the EU isn't the USSR.
They were also against the Mercosur deal the EU wishes to sign with the South American nations, because these would lead to environmental destruction and the dispossession and exploitation of the indigenous peoples.
"As usual the GREED and selfishness of the EU imposes itself using their trade 'deals' in the name of cooperation and fake prosperity. The indigenous tribes of the Amazon need our protection not deforestation".
To which Zelo Street responded with incredulity about how they could claim environmental concern for a party headed by Nigel Farage.
And they went on. And on, going on about how the EU was a threat to civil liberties. And there was more than a touch of racism in their statement that Sadiq Khan should be more concerned to make all Londoners feel safe, not just EU migrants. They also ranted about how Labour had sold out the working class over Brexit in favour of the 'immoral, money hungry London elite'. Which shows that these ladies have absolutely no sense of irony or any self-awareness whatsoever.
In fact, Zelo Street found them so moronic and robotic, that it dubbed them the Brexit party's Stepford Daughters, referring to the 70s SF film, the Stepford Wives. Based on the novel by Ira Levin, the films about a community where the men have killed their wives and replaced them with robots.
See: https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2019/08/brexit-party-presents-stepford-daughters.html
There's a lot to take apart with their tweets. And perhaps we shouldn't be two hard on the girls. They're only 15 and 17. A lot of young people at that age have stupid views, which they grow out of. But there is one issue that really needs to be challenged.
It's their assumptions about slavery and the genocide of indigenous peoples. Because this is one massive problem to any assumption that capitalism is automatically good and beneficial.
There's a very large amount of scholarship, much of it by Black activists and researchers, about slavery and the emergence of European capitalism and the conquest of the Americas. They have argued that European capitalism was greatly assisted by the profits from New World slavery. Caribbean historians like Dr Richard Hart, in his Blacks in Bondage, have shown that transatlantic slavery was a capitalist industry. For the enslaved indigenous peoples and the African men and women, who replaced them when they died out, capitalism certainly did not raise them out of poverty. Rather it has done the opposite – it enslaved them, and kept them in chains until they were able to overthrow it successfully with assistance of European and American abolitionists in the 19th century.
And among some left-wing West Indians, there's still bitterness towards America for its constant interference in the Caribbean and Central and South America. America did overthrow liberal and progressive regimes across the world, and especially in the New World, when these dared to challenge the domination of American corporations. The overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz's democratic socialist regime in Guatemala is a case in point. Arbenz was overthrown because he dared to nationalise the banana plantations. Which upset the American United Fruit Company, who got their government to overthrow him in coup. He was replaced by a brutal Fascistic dictatorship that kept the plantation workers as virtual slaves. And the Americans also interfered in Jamaican politics. They were absolutely opposed to the Jamaican Labour party politician, Michael Manley, becoming his nation's Prime Minister, and so did everything they could to stop him. Including cutting trade.
And then there's the enslavement and genocide of the indigenous peoples.
Before Columbus landed in the New World, South America had a population of about seven million. There were one million people in the Caribbean. I think there were similar numbers in North America. But the indigenous peoples were enslaved and worked to death. They were also decimated through diseases carried by Europeans, to which they had no immunity. The Taino people were driven to extinction. The Caribs, from whom the region takes its name, were able to survive on a reservation granted to them in the 18th century by the British after centuries of determined resistance. The conquest of the New World was a real horror story.
And Britain also profited from the enslavement of indigenous peoples. I doubt the girls have heard of it, but one of the scandals that rocked British imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was that of the Putomayo Indians of South America. They had been enslaved by British rubber corporations. It was this abuse of a subject people that turned the Irish patriot, Roger Casement, from a British civil servant to an ardent Nationalist.
On the other side of the world, in the Pacific, British imperialism also managed to dispossess an entire Polynesian people and trash their island. This was in the 1920s. The island was rich in mineral deposits, and so moved the indigenous people out, ultimately relocating them to Fiji. Their island was then strip-mined, leaving it a barren, uninhabitable rock. In the 1980s the survivors were trying to sue the government over their maltreatment, but with no success.
This is what unfettered British imperialism and capitalism did. And what I've no doubt Farage and other far right British politicians would like to do again without the restraints of international law. It's why I believe that, whatever the demerits of the Mercosur agreement are, it's probably better than what individual nations would do without the restraint of the EU.
The girls are right to be concerned about the fate of indigenous peoples. But they are profoundly wrong in their absolute, uninformed belief that unregulated capitalism will benefit them.
It doesn't. It enslaves, dehumanises and dispossesses. Which is why we need international organisations like the EU, and why the Brexit party isn't just a danger to Britain, but to the world's weaker, developing nations and their indigenous peoples.


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The case for investing in research
By Ryan Delaney, WRVO • May 23, 2012
Politicians like investing in infrastructure projects, like the Syracuse Center of Excellence, instead of research, says Dr. Karin Pavese.
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Investments in research take a while to pay dividends.
So says Dr. Karin Pavese, director of innovation at the New York Academy of Sciences.
At a biotechnology symposium in Syracuse Tuesday, Pavese told attendees there's great growth potential in state-backed research. But since the fruits of those investments often take many years to bloom, Pavese says politicians are often hesitant to pony up key funding.
One job created in the innovation work force - like a research position - creates three additional jobs, according to Pavese.
But standing in the way is something called the "valley of death."
New York universities and medical centers take in hundreds of millions of dollars in state and federal research funding every year.
Pavese says that public money has the potential to spur significant private sector job growth - as long as the two sides are able to work together.
But getting from early stage to commercial-grade takes money.
Venture capital and smart government investment can bridge that valley, says Pavese.
But, again, politicians want quicker payoffs - with tangible benefits. Pavese says shiny buildings are a big hit.
"Because you can, at the end of the day, show a building that the money went to," Pavese says. "But investing in the operational piece, the research piece, it's harder to show at the end something in your hand and say, 'This is what your money bought.' "
Pavese says more needs to be done to educate governments on the short- and long-term benefits of funding research.
A potential fix, says Pavese, is structuring funding that forces collaboration between researchers and industry.
NY Fed president: Keeping young people upstate is key
By Ryan Delaney, WRVO • Apr 13, 2012
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The education and healthcare sectors - or "eds and meds" - provide potential for upstate New York's economy - as long as the region can translate research activity into job creation.
That was the message from William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Dudley was in Syracuse Thursday for a series of speeches. He also sat down with the Innovation Trail.
"The educational establishment is world-class," Dudley said. "And the amount of innovation that those institutions are driving is substantial. But not much of that innovation actually leads to jobs in the region."


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We've missed watching #ThingsKemiCooks on 'The Adventures of Kemi Adetiba' and we are only too glad to bring you the last two episodes as we catch up on the delicious meals she has been cooking and the super easy way she has executed each meal.
In Episode 5 she tries her hand on dun-dun (fried yam) and fried fish encrusted in ground plantain chips. Sounds yummy.
In Episode 6 she makes us very hungry with a creamy bacon and mushroom pasta dish.
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I love her recipes. The one for beans was goooood!!! Will I eat dundun and fried plantain at the same time? No. I have never understood it, and I always scream double carbs at my friend when she eats yam and plantain. I am told I am missing a divine culinary experience. lol. However, this is a fantastic recipe as well and I will probably do each at different times. Ground plantain chips!!! I will certainly try that out this weekend though. It seems easy enough.
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I like how she was real and told us that she burnt the first fish. Plus she isn't a chef so the person that commented that they are not sure of her cooking skills. She never said she was a chef.