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The Middle Class or What Makes You a Responsible Agent?
The oldest surviving civilized nation, China, calls itself Zhongguo.
The Middle Kingdom. 'In the middle' of the barbaric people that surrounded her but also at middle distance between Heaven and the rest of the Earth. The aforementioned barbarians.
And, according to Confucius, it was the emperor's job to 'keep things as they should remain'.
Which makes sense. After all, the whole kingdom was the exclusive property of the emperor. And whose job is to watch over one's property?
Well, things went on long enough for those involved to believe this was the natural order of things.
Until the whole arrangement was upset by a small number of people which had come, more or less 'under their own steam', from the other side of the world. And who were, at that time, a lot less civilized than the Chinese.
How can be explained something like this?
OK, the Aztec and the Inca empires might have been primitive relative to the Spanish invaders. They might have prevailed over the small number of invaders by brute force but they had been overcome by the sheer novelty and the apparent sophistication of the assailants.
But China had been in contact for centuries with the rest of the 'civilized' world! And way advanced than the rest. Both culturally and economically.
So, what had happened?
How can something like this be explained?
We might try to take the 'historical route'. And observe that, exactly as Confucius and Laozi had told us, China's destiny had been tightly linked to the ability of those in charge – the emperors, to manage the empire. From the paleolithic migrations until the Mongol invasion in 1271, nothing from outside had any significant impact over the Chinese hinterland. But the fortunes of those living in that hinterland had oscillated from the misery induced by almost constant 'live conflict' during the Warring States period to the various prosperous eras. The Han, Tang and Song dynasties, to mention just a few of them.
The same principle had been valid also for what went on while foreign dynasties had been in power. As long as the 'managers' were doing their jobs, things continued to improve. As soon as the helm was grabbed by an incompetent leader… all hell broke loose.
But is the emperors' incompetence enough to explain what had happened during the XIX-th century? The most advanced, and numerous, nation on Earth had been subjugated – for all practical purposes, by a bunch of drug pushers pretending to act in the name of the far away, and far weaker, British King?
Or we can take the sociological route.
Along which we'll notice that the 'drug pushers' were only nominally subjects of the British Empire. Which empire was behaving imperially only towards the exterior while inside it was already a democracy!
Ancient Athens, the first known democracy, had dominated the Eastern Mediterranean for as long as it had retained its democratic character and had failed, abysmally, each time it had reverted to tyranny?
Ancient Rome had established a huge empire as a democratic republic and collapsed four short centuries after becoming a totalitarian empire?
And so on…?
And what might be the difference between a totalitarian empire and a democratic one?
On the face of it, a democratic empire sounds like an oxymoron… yet there's plenty of such examples in our history…
As you might guess from the title of this post, the 'famous' middle class was both the engine and the explanation for the ease with which the 'democratic' empires had been established. And yes, the Spanish and Portuguese ones can be explained in the same manner. At that time none of the Iberian monarchies was yet behaving in the absolutist manner they had pursued as soon as the looted precious metals had started to pour in…
But what makes the middle class so special?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb would tell you that the middle class has enough skin left in the game to really care about the outcome and I'm going to add that the middle class is simultaneously distanced enough from the fray to act in a reasonable enough manner.
Let me put back, for a short while, my historian's cap.
Most of us consider that the middle class is a late appearance. That most of the time, humankind had been divided in two. The haves and the have-nots. The powerful and the meek.
Well, I'm not so sure about that…
For the first 60 000 years after we had learned to speak – which had made us really human, we had been living in small packs. Led by the more powerful male member of the group – if we consider that our ancestors used to behave like our Chimpanzee cousins, or 'self managed' in a more or less democratic manner if our ancestors had used the model followed by our other cousins, the Bonobos.
Or we could look at how the surviving 'primitives' lead their lives. None of the Hadzabe, Yanomami or Inuit, who have survived in the most difficult conditions on Earth, have a hierarchical social structure.
Primitives?!? Maybe… but not because of their social arrangements. After all, they are freer than most of us.
And what is it that we, proudly modern people, value more than our individual freedom?
Money? I'm going to let this rest… for a while.
Let's go back to our ancestors.
Who, by all indications, had been living as 'extended middle class societies'. Without any 0.1% and without people who went to bed hungry while the rest of the gang had been gorging themselves.
Let's remember now that during those times we had actually transformed ourselves from apes to humans. And if you consider this to be a small feat, just try to teach a bonobo to speak. Then remember how many people who had been born in poor and backward countries are now successful business people or scientists. After passing through a thorough educational process, true! Only that educational process is in no way accessible to any bonobo…
Don't disparage the long evolution we had graduated from, as a species, while living in 'extended middle class societies'.
'But you haven't explained what you mean by middle class! Most of us see the middle class as those people who make a certain amount of money each year and you keep speaking about primitive people… who have absolutely no use for any money…!'
For good or for bad, our present society consist of three categories of people.
The haves, the in-between and the dirt poor.
I'm not going to assign numerical values to any of these.
Taleb's Skin in the Game criterion is far more useful in this situation.
The haves qualify only after they have no skin left in the game. In the sense that they have so much 'money' that come hell and/or high water they feel safe. What they make of this world is heavily influenced by the thick 'insulation' which separates them from the rest of the world.
The dirt poor – or the lumpen proletariat, in Marx's terms, have all their skin in the game. In fact, they are the famous 'Boiling Frog'. They have no way of leaving the kettle so…
In a sense, both haves and the dirt poor are prisoners. Neither can leave their respective cell blocks. Simply because the dirt poor have no way to go anywhere while almost none of the haves would be able to survive 'outside'.
Wesley Chang, The Boiling Frog, Medium.com
Which leaves us with the middle class.
Who have some resources stashed away – or enough credit available, to weather some crises. But not enough to last them for their entire remaining lives.
Which makes the middle class the only really interested people in the long term well being of the entire society. The only ones really interested in maintaining the freedom of the market as the main economic engine. The only ones really interested in maintaining democracy as the main manner of avoiding catastrophic mistakes perpetrated by the too powerful autocrats.
Or, from a psychological point of view, we can look at the haves/dirt poor as being stuck in an immobile state of mind while the middle class are the only open minded members of the society.
In fact, I prefer this last approach.
You see, until recently the American Dream was relatively accessible. With some luck, a ton of determination and a fair amount of brain power, the sky was the only limit. Belonging to any of those three categories, haves, middle class and dirt-poor was as much about the state of mind of those involved as it was about actual economic conditions.
The haves were free to consider the big picture, the dirt poor could contemplate brighter perspectives while the middle class were doing their thing. Keeping the whole show afloat.
I'm afraid we have reached an inflexion point. A watershed mark, if you prefer.
For whatever reason – I'm not ready to tackle this subject right now, we've become so preoccupied with something in particular that we've lost sight of everything else.
Including the middle class.
Exactly those which were supposed to maintain their cool heads and open minds.
Matthew Stewart,
The 9.9 Percent is the New American Aristocracy,
Tags Ancient Athens, Ancient Rome, British Empire, China, Confucius, Democratic Empire, Lao-Tzu, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New American Aristocracy, skin in the game, the 9.9%, The Boiling Frog, the Opium War
Categories authoritarianism, Bounded rationality, Choices we make, collective identity, cooperation, democracy, effective communication, evolution, fail better, Frames of mind, freedom, limited rationality, Mutual Respect, Politically induced fragility, Psychology, The kind of world we are building for our children


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Fitzrovia pubs: 10. Crown and Sceptre, 26-27 Foley Street
by Editors 7:48 am, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 10:55 am, Saturday, 30 April 2011
By Mike Pentelow
Crown and Sceptre on the corner of Foley Street and Great Titchfield Street.
Aneurin "Nye" Bevan, the founder of the National Health Service, and his wife Jennie Lee, creator of the Open University, drank in this pub at the end of Nye's life when they lived at 35 Gosfield Street.
It was also the local of journalist John McCarthy, who worked at the nearby office of World Television News until he was kidnapped in Lebanon in 1986. There was a huge celebration at the pub when he was realeased after more than five years.
The pub dates back to at least 1826.
A Fitzrovia pub is brewing its own beer on the premises
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The air is unbearably tense as Armand Gamache returns to the Surete du Quebec for his first day of work since being demoted from its command to head of homicide.
Amid blistering personal social media attacks, Gamache sets out on his first assignment. He has been tasked with finding a missing woman, but while he leads the search for Vivienne Godin, Three Pines itself is threatened when the river breaks its banks, and a province-wide emergency is declared.
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Ex-Yukos chief can stay in Britain
By Christopher Hope, Industry Editor 24 December 2005 • 00:01 am
Freedom: Alexander Temerko arrives at Bow Street
A former top executive in Russian oil giant Yukos, who is wanted by the Russian government to face fraud charges, will not be extradited, a judge ruled yesterday.
Alexander Temerko, 39, who was the second most senior figure in the organisation, had been fighting removal from the UK on charges of conspiracy to defraud and pervert the course of justice.
At Bow Street Magistrates Court in central London, Timothy Workman, the senior district judge, ruled that the intended prosecution of Mr Temerko was "politically motivated".
Mr Temerko was effectively the successor to the former Yukos chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a political opponent of President Putin, who was jailed by a Russian court in May.
His lawyers had argued that the attempt to extradite him was part of a wider attack on Mr Khodorkovsky, his associates and Yukos.
In his ruling, Mr Workman said: "I am satisfied that the request for Mr Temerko's extradition is in fact made for the purpose of prosecuting or punishing him for his political opinions. I am satisfied that, if he were extradited, he would be prejudiced at his trial and punished or detained by reasons of his political opinions."
Mr Workman ruled that Mr Temerko's extradition was therefore barred under the Extradition Act and ordered his discharge.
In a statement issued after the hearing, Mr Temerko said: "I am very grateful to the British court for this fair judgment. In contrast to the way Russia treats its defendants, there was in my case fair and free debate and arguments for the accusers and defendant.
"I am also thankful to the expert witnesses who agreed to participate and give their evidence, often under great pressure and fear. They helped to demonstrate convincingly that my small case is another demonstration of continued unlawful persecution against people related to Khodorkovsky and Yukos."
Mr Khodorkovsky had owned Yukos, Russia's biggest privately-owned oil company, and funded political parties opposed to President Putin's regime. Most of Yukos is now under state control.
The legal counsel for the Russian Federation, which had requested Mr Temerko's extradition, said it was considering whether to appeal.
Mr Temerko was said to have been involved in an alleged plot to defraud the company, Rosneft, of its rightful ownership of 75,313 shares in a business called YNG.
His extradition hearing heard testimonies from a number of expert witnesses, all of whom said it was impossible, for him to receive a fair trial in Russia.
Mr Workman said that he had found their evidence "accurate and compelling". He highlighted the case of one of the defence witnesses, Professor William Bowering, a specialist in Russian law.
Professor Bowering, who makes frequent journeys to Russia in the course of his work, visited Moscow shortly after he had given the first part of his evidence. He was detained on entry for six hours before being refused admission and deported.


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Сирхинцы (сирхIян — самоназвания) — этническая группа даргинцев в центральной части Дагестана. Верующие — мусульмане-сунниты шафиитского мазхаба. Составляли вольное общество Сюрга.

Этноним
Относительно происхождения названия СерхIя связывают с персидским словом сер - "гора". Слово "сергеран" этимологизируется так: сер персидское слово "гора", геран "страна" - страна гор.

Расселение
Сирхинцы компактно проживают в районах:

 Акушинский: сёла Нахки, Наци, Цугни, Ургани, Гулебки, Тузла, Гиягира, Кулия, Карап, Мурлатина, Хурби, Уржаги, Кассагу, Бикаламахи, Кадамахи, Нижний Каршли, Верхний Каршли, Урхулакар, Верхний Чиа, Нижний Чиа, Кураши, Букка, Уцули, Араса
 Дахадаевский: сёла Урари, Гуладты, Мирзитда, Карбачи, Дуакар, Сурсбачи, Туракари, Урхучи, Аяцури, Шахбаннакяб, Хуршни.
 Также сирхинцы проживают в равнинных территориях и городах Дагестана.

История

Язык
Сирхинцы говорят на сирхинском диалекте даргинской ветви нахско-дагестанской семьи.

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Bafana coach Shakes Mashaba preferred to speak Zulu during his press conference ahead of his side's Africa Cup of Nations opener.
Mashaba pulled a stunt in what has been seen as an act of solidarity with the travelling South African journalists.
The 64-year-old took a decision to answer questions in Zulu – a language he said suited him – after he heard that the South African media contingent had earlier sat through the Algerians' press conference without a translator for coach Christian Gourcuff, who spoke French.
Rafik Halliche, the captain of the 2014 World Cup participants, added to the chaos when he entertained one question in Arabic, which another Algerian journalist claimed was an official Confederations of African Football language. That was met with some bemusement by the foreign press.
At another press conference, Ghana journalists had to struggle to understand the Senegal coach ahead of last night's Group C opener.
To those in the room, now stuck with recorders full of indecipherable French and no video feed of Gourcuff discussing Bafana as the opposition, there was unhappiness with Algeria's exclusionary tactics. News of this got to Mashaba before his press briefing and he took action.
"If I can't speak in English I will speak in my mother tongue – and I speak Zulu, nothing else," said the Bafana coach as he was making his way to his seat.


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Caught On Camera: 'The Capture' Has Eye On Surveillance Culture
by Adam Buckman , Featured Columnist, July 13, 2020
Contemporary police and terrorism thrillers from the U.K. have at least two things that their American counterparts do not: An emphasis on well-placed surveillance cameras, and British accents.
The former have emerged as an integral part of made-in-England TV procedurals that eventually turn up here on U.S. television.
While this kind of public surveillance architecture is proliferating here in America, it is apparently farther ahead in London, where it is well-established and pervasive, at least on TV.
According to a host of thriller series imported from the U.K. going back at least 15 years or so, London is pretty well-saturated with these all-seeing electronic eyes.
Indeed, the ubiquity of London's surveillance-camera system is literally the subject and centerpiece of this new series from England called "The Capture," premiering Wednesday (July 15) on NBCUniversal's new Peacock streaming service launching that same day.
The title itself is a reference to the London surveillance network, which is breathlessly referred to in these kinds of series as CCTV (which stands for closed-circuit television).
"The Capture" refers to video captures -- broadly defined as whatever can be seen and recorded on the CCTV equipment.
In this case, the "capture" in question has to do with what the cameras did or did not see of an incident in which a British soldier in uniform may have attacked, kidnapped and possibly killed a female attorney on an empty London street in the middle of the night.
At first, the imagery captured by the CCTV cameras is straightforward. But another storyline already seen earlier in Episode One of "The Capture" has already tipped us off to the possibility that advanced technology is far from infallible. In fact, it is not only fallible, but also malleable.
This appears to be the lesson of "The Capture," which is a much more worthy inaugural series for the new Peacock than its other high-profile drama, the woeful "Brave New World" reviewed here last week.
As for the British accents that come with any TV show imported from the U.K., some of the voices heard in the premiere episode of "The Capture" will take some getting accustomed to for American ears.
This tends to happen from time to time when watching the English TV shows. But where "The Capture" is concerned, the intelligibility of some of the voices is not an insurmountable obstacle to becoming engrossed in this show.
And here is another thing I've learned when encountering certain British accents on imported shows on PBS or BBC America: Turning up the volume doesn't help.
"The Capture" starts Wednesday (July 15) on NBCUniversal's Peacock.
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3 comments about "Caught On Camera: 'The Capture' Has Eye On Surveillance Culture".
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Douglas Ferguson from College of Charleston, July 13, 2020 at 2:11 p.m.
Always turn on the closed captioning for British shows and Google search the words.
John Grono from GAP Research, July 13, 2020 at 5:20 p.m.
How odd that the English, speaking English in a TV show, can't be understood by some other English-speaking countries.
Paula Lynn from Who Else Unlimited replied, July 14, 2020 at 3:14 p.m.
It's called dialect. On the other hand, even shows produced in the US, there is muffled dialog. Was the script that bad ?
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ADAM BUCKMAN, TV columnist, MediaPost
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Masterful Spieth moves 2 ahead at Augusta
Spieth ended the day two shots ahead of New Zealander Danny Lee & Irishman Shane Lowry.
Jordan Spieth of the United States holds up his ball after putting for birdie on the 13th green during the first round of the 2016 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on 7 April, 2016 in Augusta, Georgia. Picture: AFP.
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA - This week's Masters always had the makings for being something extra special and it lived up to expectations on Thursday as reigning champion Jordan Spieth seized a two-shot lead after the opening round.
The American's love affair with the challenging Augusta National layout continued in flawless style as he fired a six-under-par 66 to storm to the top of a high-quality leaderboard in the first of the year's four major championships.
Bidding to become only the fourth player to claim back-to-back Masters victories, world number two Spieth took advantage of relatively calm morning conditions before coping superbly with tricky gusting winds as he kept his card bogey-free.
"I would have signed for two-under today and not even played the round, knowing the conditions that were coming up," said the 22-year-old Spieth, who is aiming to emulate Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo and Tiger Woods with consecutive Green Jackets.
"Got a lot out of the round with what I felt like was kind of average-ish ball striking. Just scored the ball extremely well, something I've been struggling with this season. I put it up there with one of the best rounds I've played."
Spieth ended the day two shots ahead of New Zealander Danny Lee and Irishman Shane Lowry, with Englishmen Justin Rose, Paul Casey and Ian Poulter, Dane Soren Kjeldsen and Spaniard Sergio Garcia a further stroke back after opening with 69s.
Rory McIlroy bogeyed the final hole for a 70 while world number one Jason Day, the hottest player in the game after winning six times in his last 13 starts, got to five-under before dropping five shots in his last four holes for a 72.
Shaking off a run of inconsistent form in recent weeks on the PGA Tour, Spieth sank a six-footer at the third, a 13-footer at the sixth and a four-footer at the eighth to reach the turn in three-under 33.
FINISHED IN STYLE
He picked up further shots at the 10th and 13th, sank a clutch 15-footer to save par at the 16th and finished in style by rolling in a six-footer at the last before pumping his fist in celebration.
Spieth became the first defending Masters champion to hold the outright lead after the first round since Jack Nicklaus in 1966.
Casey, who played in Spieth's company, was hugely impressed by the American's 66.
"That was a flawless round of golf," said Casey, who shot a 69 on an increasingly blustery day. "One of the toughest days I've ever seen around Augusta National ... it was great to have a front row seat to watch that."
Spieth won the PGA Tour's Hyundai Tournament of Champions in January, but struggled to string together four good rounds in his next five strokeplay starts before returning this week to the welcome surroundings of Augusta National.
He tied for second on his Masters debut in 2014, then last year stunned the golf world as he completed a wire-to-wire victory by four shots, matching Woods' tournament record low of 18-under 270 for 72 holes.
While Spieth flourished on Thursday, former world number one Ernie Els made a nightmare start as he six-putted from three feet at the par-four first to run up a mind-boggling nine.
It was the highest ever Masters score on that hole and left South African Els, who has struggled badly with his short putting for more than a year, shaking his head in disbelief. He went on to shoot 80, tying his worst round at Augusta.
"It's unexplainable," said Els, a four-times major winner. "I couldn't get the putter back. I've made thousands of three-footers and I just couldn't take it back."
Australian Day, seeking a second consecutive major victory after winning his first at the PGA Championship in August, was just one stroke off the pace until he bogeyed the 15th.
He then triple-bogeyed the par-three 16th after hitting his tee shot into water, reloading and three-putting before he dropped another shot at the 17th.
"It's not the way I planned it out but I felt like I played some really good golf up until then," said Day, who had won on his last two PGA Tour starts before this week.
"Obviously if you get yourself out of position here at this course, it's very difficult to salvage par and unfortunately starting at 15 I got myself out of position pretty good."
Three-times Masters champion Phil Mickelson opened with a 72 while fellow left-hander Bubba Watson, a double winner at Augusta National, faded on the back nine to card a 75.
And, coming to a bit of some bad news, Ernie Els has had a bad day at the office.
4-time Major Champions Ernie Els just 7-putt...from 2 feet out...on hole 1 at the Masters. Wow. pic.twitter.com/Mdv8XYYYWf
— Faizal Khamisa (@SNFaizalKhamisa) April 7, 2016
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package com.samebits.beacon.locator.action;

import android.content.Context;
import android.media.AudioManager;

import com.samebits.beacon.locator.model.NotificationAction;
import com.samebits.beacon.locator.util.PreferencesUtil;

/**
 * Created by vitas on 03/01/16.
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public class SilentOffAction extends NoneAction {

    public SilentOffAction(String param, NotificationAction notification) {
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    @Override
    public String execute(Context context) {
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    @Override
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}

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import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
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import * as Basic from '../../basic';
import {SelectBox} from '../../basic/SelectBox/SelectBox';
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  setState(json, cb) {
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);
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        );
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Live coverage of the Race of Champions event from Thailand on Motors TV peaked with 44,000 viewers, overnight viewing figures show.
Saturday's coverage averaged 13,000 viewers (0.11% share), peaking with 42,000 (0.36% share), whilst Sunday's coverage from 13:00 to 16:00 averaged 23,000 viewers (0.21% share), peaking with 44,000 viewers (0.34% share). Both peaks occurred at the climax of the proceedings at 15:40.
Obviously while the raw figures are low, when you compare them to Sky Sports F1's other programming, the figures hold up very well. The figures are also significantly above Motors TV's usual Sunday figures, last Sunday (9th December) the channel recorded zero viewers for the majority of that afternoon, whilst Sky Sports F1 also recorded zero yesterday afternoon.
It's a pity this event isn't on terrestrial TV as with some of the big names involved you would think they would get a decent amount of viewers. Also would get the event much better publicized rather than just hardened motorsports fans knowing it exists.


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Support for people living with Cauda Equina syndrome
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Written on 22nd October 2021 by Julie Marsh
Boyes Turner is delighted to be able to support the efforts of Allison and Nigel Whitehorn who run a support group for those suffering with Cauda Equina Syndrome.
Julie Marsh, Senior Associate Solicitor at Boyes Turner met Allison remotely during the lockdown in 2020. Allison lives with Cauda Equina Syndrome, and for some time now has been offering support to those living with the condition.
Allison's support group has already helped many people living with this condition, offering support and advice on how to manage the pain the condition can cause, and issues around continence and dysfunction that can be hallmarks of the condition.
Many people have already found a great deal of mutual support talking to the other members of the support group and have really benefited from talking to others who are often experiencing similar issues as them.
Alison Bending, one member of the support group told Julie Marsh:
"I had the pleasure of meeting Allison and Nigel on one of the road trip meet ups in August 2021. I had previously taken part in their zoom coffee mornings and was looking forward to meeting up with other local members of the group. I had only met one other person who has CES and we have since become great friends. The group meet up was great - it was good to speak in person to other sufferers and to share ideas, treatments and experiences. I have felt quite isolated at times and it was very reassuring to discuss symptoms and solutions and to see how others managed. I am very grateful to Allison and the group for their support."
Support Group Meetings
Since lockdown restrictions have eased, Allison has been travelling across the country, setting up support group meetings for those affected by and living with Cauda Equina Syndrome.
Support group member Alison Brown said of her experience:
"I attended in meeting that Allison and Nigel organised for Leeds. It was vitally important for me to meet people locally who also had Cauda Equina Syndrome as it is a rare condition and at times you feel like you are the only person who has this."
Another member of the group added:
"The reality was that I had never met anyone who had Cauda Equina. I was sent home with no follow up [after my diagnosis]. When the day came it took all my strength to drive there and go in. The sea of people was so welcoming and easy to talk to. Allison chatted to me to put me at ease and I felt welcome. Without the meeting I would never have asked for help or advice and I am so grateful for that."
Robert Mackerill also attended the meeting in Leeds, and said:
"After feeling like I was on my own dealing with cauda equina, I found Allison's support group and slowly felt like I was in a caring community…..when the chance came to meet a few people from my area, including Allison in Leeds, I jumped at it.
The group afternoon was great getting to hear other people's stories and feeling I was not alone with any of my symptoms…..we gave each additional support and tips on how to do things.
I feel very grateful to Allison and Nigel for doing this…"
Early recognition of Cauda Equina is essential as, without emergency surgery, permanent disability occurs very quickly after the patient begins to have symptoms.
A patient who complains of severe back pain may have other symptoms, which a doctor must check for to be sure that early warnings signs of Cauda Equina are not missed. The signs and symptoms may include altered feeling in the lower limbs, sexual areas, perineum and anus and urinary problems such as incontinence, retention and lack of sensation whilst urinating.
Boyes Turner regularly acts for clients who have experienced a delay in diagnosis and treatment for Cauda Equina Syndrome, and as a result are left with life changing injuries.
Julie Marsh of Boyes Turner said:
"It is fantastic to be able to support Allison and the support group she has established. I know first hand from working with people living with this condition that the impact of it can present in a number of different ways, and on a sliding scale of severity.
Some people experience problems with their mobility such that they are confined to a wheelchair, while others have milder symptoms like foot drop which affects their ability to walk very far. Some people experience regular episodes of incontinence, while others suffer very much with urgency but the complications of Cauda Equina Syndrome can have a profound effect on someone's life."
Support Group Meeting in Bristol – 25 November 2021
Allison's next support group meeting is due to take place in Cribbs Causeway on 25 November 2021 between 11 am and 2 pm.
Anyone who wishes to attend the support group meeting or learn more about the Facebook group or where other support meetings are taking place should contact Allison on the following email: 4llison@live.co.uk


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When Cody Wright took on the role of Border States Purchasing Specialist a little more than two years ago, she was thrilled to step into one of the country's top employee stock-ownership plans (ESOP).
The benchmark to become fully vested was seven years at the time. In 2018, the company tweaked that number.
"How could you not love being part of a 100 percent employee-owned company? It's even better now that we're fully vested in five years instead of seven years. That's a great way to build our future as employee-owners," says Wright, who has since been promoted to SupplyForce/Vantage Group Specialist.
Wright grew up in Anoka, MN, going on to gain extensive experience in sales and advertising – largely in the automotive and sporting goods industries. She never imagined herself ending up in the electrical distribution world.
It felt great joining a company that valued her professional experience. Today, Wright is part of a tight-knit group that enjoys driving Border States' purchase order strategy as well as volunteering for Habitat for Humanity and other community-focused organizations.
Additionally, Wright says it's fun to see her industrial materials find their way to Border States' more than 100 branch locations.
Like many other employee-owners, Wright has thrived at Border States largely because of the great training opportunities available through the company. Vendors and other industry experts are constantly educating employee-owners on new and innovative technology and best practices.
"Border States encourages us to attend trainings so we can better serve our customers," she says.
Wright most recently visited Nashville, TN, for a Bulwark training on the latest flame-resistant (FR) products.
Border States is the seventh-largest electrical distributor in the U.S., has been included on Industrial Distribution's Big 50 list and is now one of the top employee-owned countries in the nation. But, no one accomplishes anything alone.


The past few months have brought a lot of firsts – first time being in London with a full time employment and not feeling like a student, first ever payslip, and now my first blog post.
Although not too long ago, applying to the GMTS does feel like a little bit of a blur. I do, however, remember thinking my interview had not gone well. My interviewers were definitely playing good cop – bad cop. But one thing I did feel happy about during my post-interview reflection was that every answer I had given was honest and unrehearsed. Despite some of my examples probably not meeting classic interview style guidelines, they did demonstrate my passion for healthcare, and in particular the NHS.
The assessment centre, on the other hand, was actually an incredible experience. Prior to attending, I would not have thought I could enjoy a full day of being vigorously assessed! And yet, I came out at the end of the day feeling more energetic than I had felt going into it. The AC was structured in such a way that we were actually stimulating real life situations we are likely to face in our roles over the years to come. It was also an opportunity to meet so many people who are now on the scheme with me!
I would just like to shout-out to the Uber driver who shared my excitement after getting my formal offer call during the ride (it is, of course, very likely he put on a stellar act to guarantee that 5 star rating – but I'm going to pretend he truly cared…)!
The on-boarding process may have been the most overwhelming part. Continuous exchange of documents and lots of waiting. And although the regular emails sent to us by the leadership academy kept us well informed on the whole process, it still felt never-ending.
And the day finally arrived! After the two days in Leeds meeting so many graduates, networking, and finding out more about the scheme from the 'older years' we were all ready to get started. If you happen to read this before you attend your Welcome event, make sure to stock up on cough drops because I had lost my voice by the end of the 2nd days from non-stop talking!
The event also involved inspirational talks, a massive welcome dinner, and nervously laughing at the finance trainees because their workload really sounds like a walk in the park #sarcasm #firstblogposthashtag.


Guardians of the Galaxy – Gamora Featurette and a Game!
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Guardians of the Galaxy will be opening soon on August 1st! But to tie us all over there are a couple of tasty little things!
There is a new game called Guardians of the Galaxy: The Universal Weapon. It ranges between $7.99 (from the Windows Store) or $4.99 (from the Windows Phone Store). It looks super cute and there is a trailer of for the game!
There is also a new featurette all about Gamora.
So who is planning on checking out as soon as it hits theaters?


Microsoft Excel 2010 provides some convenience features meant to improve your usability of the program. One of these options is the list of documents on which you have recently worked, which is displayed on the Recent menu when you click the File tab at the top-left corner of the window. This menu is meant to provide you with easy access to the documents that you have edited recently, and it will prevent you from having to hunt them down on your computer. Unfortunately this can be a bit of a security risk if you are handling sensitive data in Excel 2010 that you might not want another user to see. You might also simply feel that there are too many or too few documents in that list. Fortunately it is possible to change the number of recent documents in Excel 2010 to almost any number that you want. You can even choose to have Excel 2010 display zero recent documents.
We have previously discussed the method for changing the number of recent documents in Word 2010, and the process for doing so in Excel 2010 is very similar. By customizing the number of documents that you are displaying in your Excel 2010 recent documents list, you are able to either make it more difficult for another user to find your documents, or you are able to make it simpler for you to find more of your documents. The choice is entirely up to you, and should be based upon the other people that have access to your computer and the sensitivity of the data that you handle in your Excel spreadsheets.
Step 3: Click Options at the bottom of the menu on the left side of the window.
Step 4: Click Advanced in the column at the left side of the Excel Options window.
Step 5: Scroll to the Display section of the window.
Step 6: Click inside the field to the right of Show this number of Recent Documents, then change the value to the number of recent documents that you want displayed in Excel 2010. Note that you can choose any number between 0 and 50.
When you return to the Recent menu on the File tab, you will see that the Recent Workbooks column has adjusted to show the number of documents that you just set.


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East Notes: Wieters, Rays, Mets, Phillies, Orioles
By Connor Byrne | February 21, 2017 at 8:01pm CDT
The offer the Rays made to catcher Matt Wieters before he agreed to join the Nationals on Tuesday fell well short of Washington's $21MM guaranteed proposal, reports Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. The Rays were willing to hand Wieters $6MM in guarantees and give him a chance to exceed the $10MM mark via incentives on a one-year contract. While Tampa Bay would have been happy to reel in Wieters at that price, it's not too broken up about losing out on his services, per Topkin. As the Rays await the return of injured free agent signing Wilson Ramos, they'll be "very content" with Curt Casali, Luke Maile and Jesus Sucre as their top options at catcher, manager Kevin Cash said Tuesday.
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Meanwhile, Wieters' agreement bolstered the confidence of an NL East rival – Mets backstop Travis d'Arnaud – because it ended speculation that the former would end up in Queens, writes Anthony DiComo of MLB.com. "For them to back me up like that means a lot," d'Arnaud said. "I definitely worked harder to prove them right, to show them that I do care about it. I want to be here, to help this team get to the World Series and win it all." The Mets didn't seriously pursue Wieters, according to DiComo, and manager Terry Collins explained Tuesday that there's plenty of belief in d'Arnaud within the organization. "If you're a player and your front office and your manager support you and believe in you, you'd better have a good feeling about yourself," Collins stated. "When you talk to Travis, you say, 'Hey look, when you first came here, everybody talked about potential, potential. We've seen it in action, so we know it's in there. We've just got to get it back out.'" The 28-year-old d'Arnaud is a former high-end prospect who was terrific as recently as 2015, though he has an extensive injury history and is coming off a highly disappointing season.
In the weeks between the opening of free agency in November and Andres Blanco's December re-signing with the Phillies, the utility infielder refused to entertain other teams' advances, he told Matt Gelb of Philly.com. "Just wait. They will call," Blanco advised his agent, referring to the Phillies. They finally did – with a $3MM offer – in part because Blanco's a respected figure in the team's clubhouse and a favorite of manager Pete Mackanin, per Gelb. It helps that the 32-year-old has also been quite productive in Philadelphia, having slashed .274/.337/.457 in 523 plate appearances since 2014.
Orioles closer Zach Britton won't pitch in Wednesday's intrasquad game because he's showing symptoms of an oblique injury, manager Buck Showalter told reporters, including Eduardo A. Encina of the Baltimore Sun. Showalter downplayed the severity of the ailment, saying the O's are only holding out the star left-hander for precautionary reasons. While oblique injuries often lead to disabled list stints during the year, Showalter indicated that Britton would be able to pitch through this if it popped up in the regular season.
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Anybody up for a pickup fantasy baseball league? Draft is at 9:30ET tonight
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league name is: all 10 of the Oakland A's closers. H2H points league
bleacherbum
Wish I would have saw this sooner, been looking for a league
mehcky
I run a head to head keeper league… were starting from scratch this year…have a couple openings
name above at yahoo…if interested
ducksnort69
21 million is way too much for a small market team to give a player like Weiters.
davbee
Well good thing for him you don't hold the purse strings for The Orioles, nor do you have any decision making power in their organization.
damn. salty.
halos101
sheesh. relax
baronbeard
He wasn't even talking about Baltimore.
kylelohse
Agree although that's a good thing. Wieters isn't very good.
Armaday
d'Arnaud is ready for this…
Kick some butt, Travis!!!
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Along with the arrival of the robins and the call of the wren, I know Spring has arrived when I read "This is the year TdA will have a breakout season."
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Psst Travis, they aren't loyal to you. They just LOVE that you barely make 2 million. Cause you really aren't a Major-League Ballplayer, ok?
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How pathetic is your life that you need to post crap like this to make yourself feel better.
Sorry Travis, it was time for someone to tell you the truth.


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Wood calls on Munster to sack Van Graan immediately
Munster coach Johann van Graan
Munster great Keith Wood has called on the club to let coach Johann van Graan go with immediate effect.
Van Graan is set to leave Munster at the end of the current season when his contract expires, after the South African opted against signing an extension to stay on as head coach.
But in the wake of the team's "turgid" 10-8 defeat by Irish rivals Connacht, Munster icon Wood has called on the club to get rid of Van Graan now and appoint an interim coach until the end of the season.
Speaking on 'Wednesday Night Rugby' on Off The Ball, Wood said that he worries the brand of rugby Johann van Graan coaches could have a negative impact on otherwise exciting young talent.
"There's no point in talking about Munster's attack, that doesn't exist at the present moment in time," Wood said.
"I think we're beginning to ruin some of the players. I'm finding it incredibly hard to watch.
"I know Fiona mentioned the disruption in the coaches, well, I'd rather the coaches went if that was the case, than stay and play that level of turgid nonsense.
"We're at a point where we need enough people who are interested in the province to put their shoulders to the wheel.
"I would say to someone like Stephen Larkham – who is going at the end of the year – I'd say, 'Steve, there's an expectation that you can make players play if you are just given the temporary head coach role until the end of the season, can you make that happen? Can you see if you can change Munster?'
"I like Van Graan, I get on well with him. His comment after the game was that this was a derby and this was going to be tough. Well, that's a lovely comment, if you show some effort.
"There was no effort shown. No thinking went into that game."
🗣 "I'd rather the coaches went, than stay and play that level of turgid nonsense"
Keith Wood on the mess at Munster, following their defeat to Connacht.
🗣 "I think we're beginning to ruin some of the players."
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— Off The Ball (@offtheball) January 5, 2022
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How to make roux; more arguments, accusations of blasphemy and down right name calling have been attributed to the proper way to make a roux. First off, what is a roux and why do we care? Gumbo is why, with roux you wouldn't have gumbo, well, maybe a few other reasons as well.
A roux is simply nothing more than heating oil and flour to make a thickener that also adds a layer of flavor. For classic French cuisine the roux will be a lighter color, a blonde. For Southern American cooking the roux will be darker, from a toasty brown to a dark chocolate color.
When used in Cajun or Creole cooking there are more opinions than cooks. The Cajuns use a lighter roux than the Creoles, what? it's the other way around. Irregardless of who uses what, we first have to make the roux.
I have for years cooked the oil and flour in a cast iron skillet stove top. This makes a wonderful roux that you have complete control over, start to finish. So when you burn it and start over you only have yourself to blame. This method requires constant supervision, continuous stirring and scraping the skillet with a wooden (my choice) paddle. Do not answer the door, do not answer the phone, let the children wreck havoc. The roux comes first.
I think there are five different ways to make a roux including the microwave. I have slid over into the oven camp. To me I have the same control as stove top, and even finish the roux on the stove top. Simply put equal amounts of oil and flour in a heavy pot, preferably cast iron and bake at 350 degrees.
Sounds easy and is easy. But a little more hands on than that. I heat the oil on medium high and slowly whisk the flour in so it's silky smooth and slightly bubbling. I then move the roux to the oven at 350 degrees and set my timers for 15 minute intervals.
Every 15 minutes I check and whisk the mixture. The flour will always keep settling to the bottom.
I did 4 cups each oil and flour so I could freeze 1 cup in zip-locks, thus my roux took longer to get to my desired color. Once it did get to the milk chocolate color, I removed the mixture from the oven.
Now on the stove top, I finished my roux the old fashioned way, untill I reached the semi-sweet chocolate color. Actually I removed the roux from the heat before I got there because the hot pot will keep cooking the roux. Many a roux has been ruined in the last 5 minutes because the cook forgot it keeps cooking and can still burn even though the burner has been turned off.
Cooking this way gives you your hands and a burner for the next hour or so. Go ahead, chop those onions, celery and sweet peppers. Sauté them to perfection, you have time while the roux is in the oven.
Now I have my roux for tonight's dinner as well as the next 3 dinners that require a good dark roux. And if you did the Trinity at the same time your next three meals will be a breeze.
Cajun or Creole, to most of us they are the same. But if you live in Lousianna I wouldn't say that too loudly. The food from this region is the best I have ever eaten. I just love the whole experience. For sake of space, I will call both types of food Cajun (even though they aren't the same). Food from this region and style teaches us about building a meal. Blasphemy, to say throw everything in a pot. Cajun food is layered, a foundation, then the sill, then on and on. Then you blend the flavors. When possible, if I provide a recipe I will try to give both variants.
The best descriptive differences between Acadian/Cajun and Creole I have found can be read here. Even though I am married to a Cajun.
The Holy Trinity is the lowest part of the foundation. It consists of onions, celery and peppers (generally green peppers). I add a fourth component at this stage, and that is garlic. And I will probably add more garlic to some other layer as I go.
You will see that I have a mix of onions and a mix of green, yellow, and red bell peppers. Why? Because that was what was in the pantry, and needed to used up. Cajun and Creole food is about using what is on hand, you should never create the same Gumbo or Jambalaya, where is the fun in that? The mix consists of 2 parts onion to 1 part peppers and 1 part celery.
I used to be in a hurry and throw all of the trinity components into a food processor and chop away. Wrong, bad cook. All of the components are thin cell structures full of water. Over chop it and when you cook the layers you will end up with mush. Instead, take the time and do a medium to coarse chop and take your time. I would post on YouTube showing my fancy knife work, including the fancy blood spurting. But it's kind of gross.
I have many skillets, but nothing beats the even heat of cast iron when cooking the Trinity. Over medium heat first add your oil, I used ghee* then add the onions and garlic and cook till translucent, and then add the peppers. Cook for another 5 minutes and finally add the celery, then cook for another 5 minutes, all over a medium heat and stirring more than occasionally.
What I show here is enough Trinity for 4 dishes. You usually cook 1/2 cup onion and 3/4 of a cup each of the peppers and celery.
What I accomplished this evening was creating the foundation for future dinners. I see all kinds of recipes for Gumbo made now, red beans and rice in 1/2 hour. Don't even go there, you just can not make Gumbo, Jambalaya etc. on the fly. But if you take a boring evening and cook up 4 freezer bags of Holy Trinity/ Then some other evening or rainy Saturday make your Rue and freeze. Finish it off by getting some pork shoulders to make your own andouille sausage (not that garlicky, smoked stuff you buy in the store), and you will have the making for some truly fine food that can be assembled in a very short time.
*Ghee is a form of clarified butter that removes the milk solids from the butter, taste like butter but has a much higher smoke point then whole butter has.


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Jason Aldean Looks Back on Route 91 Harvest Festival Shooting in New Interview
By Kelli McDonald | August 30, 2018
Recently, country star Jason Aldean sat down with Today's Willie Geist to discuss his beginnings in country music, his current tour and the concert that still haunts him - the 2017 Route 91 Harvest Festival where 59 people were killed and many more were injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
Aldean was on stage that fateful Sunday night when a shooter perched in a room at the Mandalay Bay hotel took aim at country music festival goers below on the Las Vegas Strip. After realizing that the outdoor venue was in a state of emergency, Aldean rushed off of the stage to find his pregnant wife Brittany backstage.
"When somebody buys a ticket to our show or comes into an arena to watch you play, we want them to come, have fun, get home safe, and come see us the next time we're in town," Aldean told Today. "The last thing we're thinking is they're going to show up and never leave."
While Aldean has visited victims several times and plans to play the iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas next month, the shooting still weighs heavily on him, and he doesn't feel comfortable knowing that such an awful act will forever be associated with him. "That's not something I want on my resume for the rest of my life. For me, it's something not that I want to forget, but it's something that I choose to not relive over and over," he said in the interview.
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Today.com adds that Aldean also expressed how he felt shortly after the incident. "I think in the weeks that followed that ... it was a lot of different emotions going on for me and, you know, guilt, anger and a lot of other things," he explained. "I know in my heart that it's not my fault that that happened, but it still doesn't keep you from feeling a little guilty that, you know, people were there for you."
But Aldean's interview didn't only consist of talk about the Las Vegas shooting. As seen in the video above, the relatively short clip covered quite a bit of ground including Aldean's rise to fame as a country singer and how he almost left Nashville before securing his life-changing record deal with Broken Bow. Geist also asked Aldean about his new Nashville restaurant and his recent sold-out show at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
ACM's Entertainer of the Year, Jason Aldean, is currently on tour supporting his latest No. 1 album, Rearview Town on the High Noon Neon tour with Luke Combs and Lauren Alaina.


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German Protestant church wants members to avoid March for Life in Berlin
The 'Evangelische Kirche' cites 'differences of opinion' and 'aggressive manner' for not supporting the March for Life in Berlin.
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Fri Sep 9, 2016 - 1:32 pm EDT Fri Jun 18, 2021 - 7:33 pm EDT
BERLIN, Germany, September 9, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — The "Evangelische Kirche Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz" (Protestant Church) of Germany (EKBO) is dissuading its faithful from participating in the "March for Life" on September 17, when thousands of Christians, Catholics, and evangelicals gather in Berlin for a traditional silent demonstration for life.
While the event culminates with an ecumenical prayer service, spokesman Christoph Heil is distancing the EKBO from the March. He explained to the Protestant news agency, Idea, that the reason is "differences of opinion" and the allegedly "aggressive manner" of the protestors. He said the Evangelische Kirche supports pregnancy counsel that is "open ended."
The EKBO, which is headquartered in Hanover and includes 20 Lutheran and reformed churches in Germany, previously discouraged its members to participate in the March in 2014.
Martin Lohmann, president of the Federal Association for the Right to Life, shared with LifeSiteNews his surprise regarding the EKBO's decision. "You cannot believe your eyes and just don't want to believe it: representatives of the Protestant Church in Berlin-Brandenburg set themselves against the protection of life and pursue evidently left-wing hate slogans. Has the Church in the German capital really said goodbye to the Word of God? Does she only want to be in the socio-political mainstream? Does she really wave a 'bye-bye' Jesus to the Son of God?"
Last year, the March for Life brought together about 7,000 Christians of all denominations to remember the 100,000 abortions that take place every year in Germany. This year, participants will meet in front of the Reichstag, the German parliament, and walk for 5 kilometers carrying banners through the inner city center of Berlin.
"How does one get the absurd idea to defame peace-loving and decent pro-lifers who try to be faithful to the divine precepts and who follow the law? I pray that these confused people who don't even live the basic rules of fairness and who prefer to retreat behind clichés may open their eyes and ears," Lohmann said of the EKBO leaders who discourage members from participating.
In an official statement last year, organizers of the March for Life stated their core principles: the right to life for every human being, born and unborn; and the equal dignity of all human beings regardless of development, capacity, and circumstance. Also, the state must safeguard the life of every individual from the moment of conception, and the right to life is independent from the decisions of third parties.
Hartmut Steeb, chairman of Christian Pro-Life groups and the representative of non-Catholic Christians, had a "horrified" reaction upon hearing the EKBO decision. "Human life is under the protection of God from beginning and a church cannot stand for anything but a definitive 'yes' to the child," he said. Steeb is also the general secretary of the German evangelical alliance that supports the march.
Every year, the march faces massive counter-demonstrations by left-wing extremists and pro-abortion activists. Anti-riot police officers are present to protect the peaceful protesters, who consist of families, children, and senior citizens. Approximately 1,000 officers had to be mobilized last year to guarantee the safety of the protestors. The march came to a halt on multiple occasions for up to half an hour at a time while police cleared seated blockades of people from the street. The police had to carry counter-protestors away who were screaming slogans — "My body, my decision!" "free heads from fundamentalism!" and "If Mary had aborted, we would have been spared you!" — while spitting and throwing trash at the silent, peaceful participants of the March.
Counter-demonstrators are supported by the Green party, the "Linke" – the left wing party of Germany – as well as the ruling mayor of Berlin, Michael Müller (SPD).
"No Christian should take the side of hate-preachers and intolerant, odious people who apparently cannot even stand a silent testimony of the message of life and for the right of life to be protected," Lohmann said.
"What has been said was most of all unchristian. Since I have no fear of dialogue or even of being contradicted, I invite (Protestant) Bishop (Markus) Dröge and his spokespeople to a discussion. I would like to know which arguments they have for their absurd claims. For insults not restricted to only the Christian pro-lifers who are peace-loving and tolerant, they should give an apology, which I will be very happy to accept."
This year, organizers expect participants from 36 cities across Germany and Regensburg Bishop Rodolf Voderholzer as only participating diocesan bishop.
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