Critics accusing airline of hypocrisy miss the point.
A tattoo is probably the most permanent personal statement it is possible to make. Unlike clothing or a hairstyle or a piercing of the lips or nose, a tattoo cannot simply be discarded. Removal is an expensive and painful procedure that is quite likely to leave a stain in any case.
Its permanence makes criticism seem unkind and pointless, which is why people who would never scar their own bodies generally respond politely and even supportively to those who do. But an employer cannot afford to be polite to "body art" that might damage the business.
Air New Zealand has been widely criticised for turning away an aspiring stewardess with a moko in the skin of her forearm. In response the airline says it is reviewing its policy. It will be weighing up whether the woman's complaint has done more harm to its public image than tattooed cabin attendants might do to its business. In other words, it must assess whether the tolerance people profess in public truly represents their feelings.
It is true, as the Prime Minister said, that tourists to New Zealand who meet Maori culture will see lots of tattoos. But Maori culture presents visitors with many gestures and modes of dress they probably would not appreciate on the national airline.
Nobody outside Air New Zealand is in a position to question its commercial judgment. Critics do not depend for their salaries on the airline's success in a competitive international market. Air New Zealand managers have the best incentive to assess the true reaction of most people to tattoos and the company's decision on whether to maintain its ban on visible tattoos will be a reliable indicator of how society really regards this fashion among younger people today.
Many of their critics have accused the company of hypocrisy since the rejected tattoo was a Maori motif and Air New Zealand brands itself with a koru. They missed the point. The aversion of many people to tattoos goes deeper than the subject drawn, it is the act of deliberate and permanent disfigurement as they see it, that they find appalling.
Maori and Pasifika patterns are more attractive than most of the insignia commonly carved into skin and Maori motifs are now often imitated in other parts of the world, not always to the pleasure of their cultural proprietors. It may be that faux ta moko already help promote New Zealand in other places. If so it could be greatly to the advantage of Air New Zealand to have genuine examples of the art on some of its front-line staff.
But the company has not seen it that way, or not until this week. Its reassessment, when it comes, ought to be doubly respected because Air New Zealand not only has the incentive to make the right decision, it is not a conservative company. It is more adventurous than most in its presentation of itself, notably with pre-flight safety films that are not afraid to challenge passengers' expectations and sense of humour, not to mention their patience.
The company's disapproval of tattoos might be quietly applauded by many parents with children coming to an impressionable age. Anything that could discourage young people from taking a step they might regret for the rest of their lives would be doing them a service.
A tattoo is not like the fads earlier generations adopted at a similar age. The only lingering harm done by long hair and flared trousers are frightful photographs that need never be seen. Not so a tattoo. It is there every time you strip off. Whatever it once said about you, you will live with it for life.


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Q: Bind shortcut to applications
Possible Duplicate:
Can I create a shortcut to open a specific application on OS X?

I would like to bind a shortcut to Google Chrome and another shortcut to Finder... I configure as follows, but neither of them seems to work:

Could anyone help?

A: Keyboard Shortcuts can't be used to create shortcuts to open applications. It's used to create shortcuts to existing menu items within applications.
I personally use Quicksilver for rapid access to applications, but you also use applications like Keyboard Maestro or QuicKeys.
Apptivate is another hot key manager that is specifically targeted towards activating, hiding and unhiding applications.

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Changed title from "Tutonic Knights" to "Teutonic Knights"
Nice to see individual designs on each shield.
Truly lovely but those are not "Teutonic" Knights. They are not even Knights, those are Fireforge Foot Sergeants figures. Teutonic sergeants wore grey surcoats with a black "Tau" cross.
Thanks for Correcting the Name.
I thought you guys had all the uniform information in the world and didn't need customers to send any information?
The website clearly indicates that while they have numerous Ospreys and "web-pages", you have to reference them to the figure you sent.
Teutonic sergeants wore grey surcoats with a black "Tau" cross.
Everyone says that, but does anyone know the original source? I don't think I have ever seen one cited. Does it apply to the whole period of the Order's history?
Sorry I do not know why that beep came out in my post…the beeped word is "ranked" though!
This according to more recent studies and German Source.
Sorry, but this sort of vagueness is sort of what I meant by "never seen an original source cited". The idea that there was a confusion between sergeants and Halbbruder is some help, though; thanks.
Also Teutonic is a definition that was never used historically used as the order was known as German Order.
That's half correct, I think; always Deutscher Orden or the like when writing in German, but always Teutonicus in Latin – Ordo domus Sanctæ Mariæ Theutonicorum Hierosolymitanorum.


James works in a luxury hotel and his job is to fix broken electronic stuff in guests' rooms. This morning someone called him on the phone and said that the TV set was broken on the first floor. He writes down the exact room number on a piece of paper and checks and double checks to see if he's found the correct room.
Namely, this hotel's corridors are so complex and reminiscent of some labyrinthian corridors that he's never sure he came to the right room. The room number is also written in such a way that it's unclear whether it's 101 or 107?


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UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929)
Posted byDaniel Joslyn September 26, 2021 November 17, 2021 Posted in1920s Movies, Avant Garde, French movies, Salvador Dalí, Short Films, Silent MoviesTags:1920s Movies, 1929, Avant Garde, French movies, Luis Bunuel, Short Films, Silent Movies, Un Chien Andalou
Writers: Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí
Starring: Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, and Jaime Miravilles
Accolades: 2012 Sight & Sound Top 100 list (#94)
Where to Watch: Free streaming (with ads) on Tubi App
The name of Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) is purposefully meaningless, just like the rest of the film. It is maybe the most famous short film of all time, partly because it studied in cultural circles outside of the cinema world. It is considered one of the major works of surrealist art, and was co-created by perhaps the most famous of the surrealist artists, Salvador Dalí. Supposedly Dalí brought pockets full of stones to the premiere "in case of negative reactions." But of course, the negative reactions were the entire point. Luis Buñuel, Dalí's partner, was furious that the film's biggest audience turned out to be the "bourgeoisie," calling them the "inane herd" that "saw beauty and poetry in something which was basically no more than a desperate impassioned plea for murder." In other words, the intended message was "eat the rich," but it turned out to be the rich that were most into it.
If you aren't familiar, Un Chien Andalou is only 16 minutes long, and is often the only non-feature on "greatest movies" lists. Its story is meant to be like a dream and not make sense. The primary actors are a lecherous man (Pierre Batcheff), a woman he chases after (Simone Mareuil), and a third man also played by Batcheff. But the thing about Un Chien Andalou is that events not only follow each other like non-sequiturs, but the creators would insist that the usual cinematic language of shots one after the other are entirely our own constructions. The man looks out a window at a woman in the street and sees her struck by a car. But is he actually looking at her, just because the shots follow one another, or are the two shots entirely unrelated and it's all in our heads?
This extends to the most famous shot of Un Chien Andalou, right at the beginning, where we see a man sharpening a razor, a woman sitting in a chair, him holding her eye open… and then, a moment later, a razor blade slicing through an eye, the vitreous liquid spilling out. Of course, it's actually a dead sheep's eye. Are we supposed to think it's really hers? If so, what does it mean? If not, what does that mean? Clearly the filmmakers are playing with our basic assumptions. Of course, a lot of people don't really get past that part, because for most people watching eyeballs get sliced up is super disturbing.
Other famous images are the hand infested with ants, the man suddenly pulling on two grand pianos covered with priests (played by Buñuel and Dalí) and dead donkeys (even more random than that sounds in context), and the final shot, where a woman and man traipse off happily onto a beach, followed by a title card reading "the Next Spring," when we see them half-buried in sand, apparently dead. The title cards add to the disorientation, as they are all over the place and seem to have no relation to what's going on. I halfway expected them to be read by the narrator from Spongebob Squarepants. One reads "Eight Years Later," but in the interim we're still in the same scene and no time seems to have passed.
What Buñuel and Dalí had intended to be a rallying cry against the excesses of contemporary European society turned out to be surprisingly popular, running at one Parisian theater for months. They did get one thing they wanted, as the local authorities reportedly received dozens of reports of the film's obscenity. In addition to the weird eye slicing, it also includes shots where the lecherous man blatantly gropes the main female character, then imagines her breasts and butt to be naked. Or again, we make those connections because we expect one thing to follow another, maybe it's not him imagining it at all.
While Un Chien Andalou was literally funded by Buñuel's mom, the film attracted the attention of local well-to-do patrons, who commissioned a longer follow-up. As things turned out, Buñuel and Dalí had a falling out during the filming of this project, and Dalí quit and went off to do more paintings (like The Persistence of Memory) and Buñuel finished the movie, which he called L'Age d'Or (The Golden Age). The movie got him in big trouble with the Catholic Church at a time when that was a pretty big deal, and he ended up going to Mexico where they would let him at least make semi-mainstream movies, before making his triumphant return to Europe decades later. In fact the church was right, and Buñuel's point was pretty much that they sucked. And I suppose they sort of proved his point, and he therefore got what he wanted.
Far better writers than I have sat down to try and parse out what's actually the meaning behind Un Chien Andalou, even though its creators absolutely insisted until the end of their days that nothing in it is a symbol for anything else, that's it's all just images. I think I will go ahead and take their word for it. Un Chien Andalou's importance can be debated (Ebert went so far as to call it "the ancestor of independent cinema," which seems to me a stretch), but it's short, so if you're interested in this kind of thing it's probably worth checking out.
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Q: Rails bi-directional looped associations doing weird queries I have model named User and I want to achieve 2 ways friends functionality using model named Friendship.
User:
class User < ApplicationRecord

  has_many :friendships, :class_name => "Friendship", :foreign_key => 'user_id'
  has_many :invited, :through => :friendships, :source => :friend

  has_many :inverse_friendships , :class_name => "Friendship" , :foreign_key => "friend_id"
  has_many :invited_by, :through => :inverse_friendships, :source => :user

end

Friendship:
class Friendship < ApplicationRecord
  belongs_to :user
  belongs_to :friend, :class_name => "User"
end

I am creating friendships kind of this
u1 = User.find(1)
u2 = User.find(2)

u1.friendships.create(friend_id: u2.id)

now when in before_save of friendship I try to check if user has already received a friend request like
self.user.inverse_friendships.where(user_id: self.friend_id)

I was expecting it to search Friendship table where user_id = 2 and friend_id = 1, instead its generating this query

Friendship Load (0.7ms)  SELECT  "friendships".* FROM "friendships"
  WHERE "friendships"."user_id" = $1 AND "friendships"."friend_id" = $2
  AND "friendships"."user_id" = $3 LIMIT $4  [["user_id", 1],
  ["friend_id", 1], ["user_id", 2], ["LIMIT", 11]]

and even with only
self.user.inverse_friendships

I was expecting search on Friendship table where friend_id = 1, its generating query like

Friendship Load (0.0ms)  SELECT  "friendships".* FROM "friendships"
  WHERE "friendships"."user_id" = $1 AND "friendships"."friend_id" = $2
  LIMIT $3  [["user_id", 1], ["friend_id", 1], ["LIMIT", 11]]

But If I try query directly from console, it works as expected
Its even working in instance method, only not working in callback
what I am doing wrong here?

A: I don't know why it was happening
but changing
current_user.friendships.where(friend_id: permitted_params[:friend_id]).first_or_create

To
current_user.friendships.create(friend_id: permitted_params[:friend_id])

it took hours but still don't know exact reason


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To mark the return of the Type S emblem, the Acura TLX Type S will be built around a new 3.0-liter V-6 with a turbocharger in 2021. On Tuesday, Acura posted a short video detailing the development of this engine.
Most of the development work has been done at Acura's mother Honda's research and development facility in Tochigi, Japan, but the engines are built at the Anna engine plant in Anna, Ohio, making the development process an international proposition. The development team included veterans of the Honda Civic Type R and Acura NSX engine development programs.
Acura emphasized that the Type-S engine is not derived from its existing 3.5-liter V-6. The 3.0 liter engine has a unique block that only shares its 60 degree angle with the larger displacement engine.
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The technical highlights of the Type-S V-6 include a twin-scroll turbocharger, to which the engineers attribute the low torque peak of 1,400 rpm, and a highly stressed crankshaft made of forged steel – just like the NSX. The Type-S engine also has an active exhaust system (also derived from the NSX, Acura claims) for an emotional sound and cylinder deactivation that can shut off three cylinders to save fuel.
The result is 355 horsepower and 354 lb-ft of torque mated to a 10-speed automatic transmission that distributes power to Acura's Super Handling All-Wheel Drive (SH-AWD) system. Acura quotes 0-60 mph in about 5.0 seconds, which the automaker says is 25% faster than the standard TLX. Top speed is electronically limited to 155 mph, up from 130 mph for the standard TLX.
The TLX Type-S won't be the only Acura model with this Turbo V-6 for long. The engine will also be used in the upcoming 2022 Acura MDX Type-S SUV.
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Salt, incredibly high amounts of salt, hides in almost all processed and restaurant foods. That's why I spend so much time looking at food labels and writing here about low- and no-salt alternatives to salty products. Check my smart shopping page and my ingredients page for those.
But sugar also hides in many foods and these days nutritionists think too much sugar may do as much if not more harm to your body as too much salt does.
So here's a handy primer to let you know some places you might not have realized that sugar hides. It's a 234-slide quiz for you, see how you do. The first, ketchup is an easy one. I've stopped buying major brands, switching to Localfolks which is low in sugar and salt.
Some may surprise you, like dried cranberries having more sugar than a similar amount of gummy bears!
It's all a good reminder to read food labels before you buy anything.


With 2016 being an election year, our organization has found it's name in a very important poll. To be precise, ACTS is honored to be considered as a nominee of Prince William Living's Annual Giving Back Award. The Giving Back Award is the publication's way of promoting non-profit organizations in the areas of Prince William County, Manassas and Manassas Park in their efforts of creating greater awareness and support for the type of work we all do. From now until September 15th, the public is able to cast their votes on the best non-profit organization in the area from a list on Prince William Living's website. Afterwards, the top five non-profits will receive an article in the magazine that will highlight their programs and services in the community. While our organization does appreciate the amazing work that other non-profits have done for our neighbors in Prince William County, this award will give us a chance to showcase our services to those who might not know us at a time of the year in which we hold our biggest fundraiser (the IWALK) and our biggest giveaway event (Operation Turkey). You now have an opportunity to let the magazine know what our services mean to you. Simply follow the link below, and you will be directed to the poll where you can vote for us once a day. The link is also available on our Facebook page, so please feel free to share it with your friends as well.
We always strive to do more for our neighbors at ACTS, and you now have the chance to speak for those who may not have a voice.


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To Pledge or Not To Pledge?
Is the Pledge of Allegiance a Show of Patriotism, or an endorsement of socialism by an indoctrinated
public?
By: Clint E. Lacy
Most of us know the Pledge of Allegiance by heart but few know the true history
of the Pledge of Allegiance.
The reason that the public knows the pledge is that most of us learned to recite
it in our early childhood during our first years of school, and it is no coincidence
that public school is where we first learned The Pledge.
The Pledge of Allegiance was authored by Francis Bellamy. According to best
selling author Thomas DiLorenzo, In his article 'Pledging Allegiance to
the Omnipotent Lincolnian State' found on the following internet address:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo54.html
Francis Bellamy was a, "a defrocked Baptist minister from Boston who
identified himself as a Christian Socialist and who preached in his pulpit that
"Jesus was a socialist."
DiLorenzo also states that, "Bellamy was the cousin of Edward Bellamy,
author of the extremely popular 1888 socialist fantasy, 'Looking Backward'.
In this novel the main character, Julian West, falls asleep in 1887 and awakens
in the year 2000 when the socialist "utopia" has been achieved: All
industry is state owned, Soviet style; everyone is an employee of the state
who is conscripted at age 21 and retires at age 45; and all workers earn the
same income.
Francis Bellamy said that one purpose of the Pledge of Allegiance was to help
accomplish his lifelong goal of making his cousin's socialist fantasy
a reality in America. He further stated that the "true reason for allegiance
to the Flag" was to indoctrinate American school children in the false
history of the American founding that was espoused first by Daniel Webster and,
later, by Abraham Lincoln."
DiLorenzo continues by adding, "The truth is that in all of the American
founding documents, including the Declaration of Independence, the Articles
of Confederation, and the Constitution, the states refer to themselves as "free
and independent." The Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War
was a treaty with the individual, free and independent states, not "the
whole people" of the United States…The Bellamy cousins decided that
American youth needed to be taught "loyalty to the state" because
they realized that the individualism and the love of liberty of the American
founding fathers would always stand in the way of achieving the socialist utopia
that was described in Looking Backward. America supposedly suffered from too
much liberty and not enough equality, said the author of the Pledge of Allegiance.
The "one nation, indivisible" wording was especially important to
the Bellamy cousins, for if secession were legitimized, their pipe dream of
socialism through a consolidated, monopoly government would be destroyed. This
was the thinking of all the worst tyrants of the twentieth century, including
Hitler and Stalin. (Hitler even quoted approvingly Lincoln's "union
created the states" theory from his first inaugural address in Mein Kampf
in order to make his own case for destroying federalism and states' rights
in Germany.) "
Original Bellamy Salute was disturbingly similar to those of Hitler and Mussolini…
Particularly troubling is that the original salute for the Pledge of Allegiance
was a Socialist salute, very much like that of the Nazi salute that honored
Hitler and the salute that the Italians used to pay homage to Mussolini and
signified an oath of allegiance to these regimes.
A description of the Pledge was also published in the Youth Companion magazine
issue 65 pgs 446-447 in 1882 as follows, "At a signal from the Principal
the pupils, in ordered ranks, hands to the side, face the Flag. Another signal
is given; every pupil gives the flag the military salute — right hand lifted,
palm downward, to a line with the forehead and close to it. Standing thus, all
repeat together, slowly, "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic
for which it stands; one Nation indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all."
At the words, "to my Flag," the right hand is extended gracefully,
palm upward, toward the Flag, and remains in this gesture till the end of the
affirmation; whereupon all hands immediately drop to the side."
Another description of the Bellamy salute can be found on the Wikipedia.Com
website at the following address:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute
According to Wikipedia, "The Bellamy salute is the hand gesture described
by Francis Bellamy to accompany his Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the
United States. During the period when it was used with the Pledge of Allegiance,
it was sometimes known as the "flag salute." It was first demonstrated
on October 12, 1892 according to Bellamy's published instructions for the "National
School Celebration of Columbus Day"
The initial military salute was soon replaced with a hand-on-heart gesture,
followed by the extension of the arm as described by Bellamy. Because of the
similarity of this part of the salute to the Hitler salute, the Bellamy salute
was widely replaced around 1942 with the modern gesture of placing the hand
over the heart without raising the arm. In 1943, the Daughters of the American
Revolution, initially resistant to the change, endorsed the hand-on-heart gesture
during the Pledge."
Most recently the Pledge of Allegiance has come under fire , not because of
its Socialist origins or the previous style of salute, but because of the reference
"One Nation Under God".
This is the one part of the pledge that I have no problem with. On June 14,
1954 President Eisenhower signed into law, the new wording of the pledge, stating
that, "These words, {Under God} will remind Americans that despite our
great physical strength, we must always remain humble. They will help us to
keep constantly in our minds and hearts the spiritual and moral principles which
alone give dignity to man and upon which our way of life is founded"
Many see the attacks based on this argument about the Pledge of Allegiance
as the greatest threat to America today. I however, disagree. Our greatest problem
isn't the few atheist in this country who are making grand legal arguments in
a desperate attempt for attention. The greatest threat is that America's leaders
have forgotten President Eisenhower's words warning us to "remain humble".
America has become an arrogant nation that is rapidly overextending itself.
Not unlike the Roman Empire did. In fact, America is becoming a mirror image
of the Roman Empire. Pat Buchanan in a speech given on Tuesday March 20,2007
at the University of N.C. gives proof to my theory that America has become a
new Roman Empire stating that, "We attacked a nation that did not attack
us, did not threaten us and did not want oil from us to deprive it of weapons
we now know it did not have," Buchanan continued, "I don't believe
you send your sons and daughters to fight and die unless there is something
vital to us," Buchanan said. "Saddam Hussein wasn't a threat to
the U.S. The Jordanians weren't afraid of him, the Kurds weren't afraid of him,
neither were the Saudis. So why was the greatest, most powerful nation on Earth
afraid of this thug?…Bush went to war for three bad reasons: hubris; ignorance
of history; and a sudden conversion to neo-conservatism."-Source The Robesonian,
Thursday March 22,2007 issue.
In the Thomas DiLorenzo article cited previously , DiLorenzo wrote that, "The
Pledge of Allegiance is an oath of allegiance to the omnipotent, Lincolnian
state. Its purpose was never to inculcate in children the ideals of the American
founding fathers, but those of two eccentric nineteenth-century socialists.
(Not surprisingly, among its staunchest contemporary defenders and promoters
are the Straussian neocon Lincoln idolaters at the Claremont Institute.)
If the Supreme Court decides that the "under God" wording in the
Pledge is unconstitutional, it will be doing the right thing for the wrong reason
(it does not "establish a religion"). The Pledge itself is an oath
of allegiance to the central state, and the "under God" language only
serves to deify the state. From the perspective of a Thomas Jefferson, George
Washington, or James Madison, nothing could be more un-American. After all,
they and their contemporaries had fought a long and bloody war of secession
to sever their forced allegiance, complete with loyalty oaths, to another overbearing
and tyrannical state, namely the British empire"
In a letter written to British Lord Acton on December 15, 1866 Robert E. Lee
wrote, "I can only say that while I have considered the preservation of
the constitutional power of the General Government to be the foundation of our
peace and safety at home and abroad, I yet believe that the maintenance of the
rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only essential
to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the
continuance of a free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability
to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast
republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain
precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.
I need not refer one so well acquainted as you are with American history, to
the State papers of Washington and Jefferson, the representatives of the federal
and democratic parties, denouncing consolidation and centralization of power,
as tending to the subversion of State Governments, and to despotism."
If we can agree that it has already been established that Francis Bellamy wrote
the Pledge of Allegiance to advance both he and his cousin Edward Bellamy's
agenda and that Thomas DiLorenzo has correctly noted that the Pledge of Allegiance,
is in fact an oath; then how can we not recognize that it is The Pledge of Allegiance
itself that is contributing the America's downfall? It represents everything
that has contributed to America's problems since the end of the War for Southern
Independence.
I have noticed that if one declines to say the Pledge of Allegiance (even respectively)
they are automatically labeled and looked upon as "un-American". Why?
If The Pledge was the one deciding factor that decides how "loyal"
and "patriotic" an individual is, then why don't public officials
"swear in" under The Pledge?
The Oath of Office for the President of the United States, as prescribed by
the Constitution of the United States is, "
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office
of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve,
protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Here lies the difference. For Francis Bellamy's "Pledge" is a blanket
approval of your country, good or bad, right or wrong. It means that you approve
of your country's actions, no matter what they may be. The Oath of Office found
in the Constitution and written by America's Founding Fathers requires the President
to Preserve, Protect and Defend the Constitution of the United States. This
means that it requires the President to adhere to the guidelines and limitations
as prescribed by the Constitution.
If we are to take an oath to prove patriotism and loyalty, then why doesn't
everyone take an oath as prescribed by the Constitution? It in itself is a Christian
oath, due to the fact that the Founding Fathers were Christians whose laws were
inspired and based upon The Ten Commandments and it is an oath that one could
take in good conscience as it requires one to defend the principles and ideals
that our country was founded upon, not the twisted ideals of a defrocked socialist
minister who believed the best way to destroy the principles of our Founding
Fathers was through the indoctrination of school children
http://www.geocities.com/clintlacy1/to_pledge_or_not_to_pledge.html
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June 21 is a very important date for all of us at Sage Age Strategies and our many memory care client-partners nationwide. The date marks the Summer Solstice, the celestial event that the Alzheimer's Association® has chosen to recognize The Longest Day® and an opportunity to show our love and support for all those affected by Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
Unlike marketing low-calorie meals to the weight-conscious, or luxury automobiles to higher-income individuals, the purchase decision process in senior living is a bit more complicated. As we all know, the "end-user" is not the only decision-maker in the senior living buyer journey.


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British Freelance Designer Rich Baird has started a Logo Archive where he curates and showcases hundreds of classic logos, symbols and monograms.
Considering some of them date from the 60s and 70s they still look cutting edge and modern which is testament to the skill of the original designers.
The archive is available on Instagram and Tumblr. Personally, I'd love to see it compiled into a book.


Hello and thanks for checking out LakeSuperiorSportFishing.com. We are excited to have our new website up and running, thanks to iO Developments.
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Associate Professor Julie Brown's (BSc PhD) background in policy development and her research strength is providing translatable injury prevention outcomes. She uses laboratory and field-based studies, as well as data analysis, to investigate injury mechanisms, and the factors important to injury outcome. Since joining NeuRA in 2005, her research focus has been on reducing injury among child occupants, and more recently elderly occupants and other users of the rear seat in motor vehicles.


The objective was to track and compare the progression of neuroplastic changes in a large animal model and humans with spinal cord injury.
A total of 37 individuals with acute traumatic spinal cord injury were followed over time (1, 3, 6, and 12 months post-injury) with repeated neurophysiological assessments. Somatosensory and motor evoked potentials were recorded in the upper extremities above the level of injury. In a reverse-translational approach, similar neurophysiological techniques were examined in a porcine model of thoracic spinal cord injury. Twelve Yucatan mini-pigs underwent a contusive spinal cord injury at T10 and tracked with somatosensory and motor evoked potentials assessments in the fore- and hind limbs pre- (baseline, post-laminectomy) and post-injury (10 min, 3 h, 12 weeks).
In both humans and pigs, the sensory responses in the cranial coordinates of upper extremities/forelimbs progressively increased from immediately post-injury to later time points. Motor responses in the forelimbs increased immediately after experimental injury in pigs, remaining elevated at 12 weeks. In humans, motor evoked potentials were significantly higher at 1-month (and remained so at 1 year) compared to normative values.
Despite notable differences between experimental models and the human condition, the brain's response to spinal cord injury is remarkably similar between humans and pigs. Our findings further underscore the utility of this large animal model in translational spinal cord injury research.


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CARING COMMUNITIES
Local volunteers seek to Make A Difference
Paul C. Grzella
@PaulGrzellamycj
For more than 20 years%2C USA WEEKEND Magazine%2C in collaboration with Points of Light%2C has sponsored Make A Difference Day%2C the largest national day of community service%3B this year%27s event is on Oct. 25
In Bound Brook%2C volunteers will work to beautify and spruce up areas along Main Street
The Franklin Woman%27s Club will plant a garden to fill the beds around the Ronald McDonald House
All are welcomed to become part of this national effort%3B to sign up and for details%2C visit makeadifferenceday.com
On Oct. 25, millions of volunteers across the nation will unite with a common mission — to improve the lives of others.
For more than 20 years, USA WEEKEND magazine, in collaboration with Points of Light, has sponsored Make A Difference Day, the largest national day of community service, which serves to ignite the embers of a caring community into red-hot action.
This year, two projects in Central Jersey are receiving a boost of $5,000 each, courtesy of the Gannett Foundation, the Courier News and the Home News Tribune.
• The Bound Brook Police Department has received a $5,000 grant to help restore the fountain in the train station plaza, weed and plant at the clock tower at the Main Street round-a-bout, and do other litter patrol, repainting, planting and weed work along the Main Street corridor. This program is being funded by the Courier News.
• The Franklin Woman's Club has received a $5,000 grant to plant a spring garden this fall at the Ronald McDonald House in New Brunswick. This program is being funded by the Home News Tribune.
Planning for each project is well underway, and organizers are looking for community support to expand the breadth and impact of their work.
"The more people who get involved, the more people will have a stake in what we are trying to do, and the better everyone will feel," Bound Brook Police Lt. Kevin Rivenbark said.
In Bound Brook
Over the past several years, the historic downtown of Bound Brook has been devastated by severe flooding, which has wreaked havoc on borough businesses and structures. But now continuing flood-control projects are nearing completion, many of those businesses are filled, and a major residential apartment complex is being built on the eastern end of the borough, near its border with Middlesex.
But with reduced public works staffing, Main Street doesn't always look as nice as it could. A $5,000 Make A Difference Day grant could help borough volunteers address that situation, thought Rivenbark, a lifelong borough resident who has been on the police force for 17 years.
The goals: Restore the fountain at the train station plaza, plant and weed at the clock tower at the Main Street round-a-bout, as well as the islands on Veteran's Memorial Drive and East Main Street. But that's only the start. He's hoping that community members will supply additional donations so that two white, vinyl gazebos can be placed on each side of the fountain — in all, he's looking to raise another $5,000.
He already got a boost from the Billion Fund, which has enabled work to be done on the fountain. A group of Boy Scouts cleaned and painted it earlier this month, and borough volunteers Tom Myers and Gerard April, working with others, installed the new fountain, which was turned on last Wednesday night.
"We didn't want to wait to do this until Oct. 25," Rivenbark said. "If we had, it would only have been on for a few weeks."
But the flowing waters of the fountain are only the beginning of his ideas, which he said have the full support of Bound Brook Police Chief Mike Jannone.
"Bound Brook has so much to offer, with the train station, the movie theater, this new development, the fountain and its diverse population," he said. "I'm working with the theory of the broken windows. If you start fixing the little things, then some of the big things will take care of themselves. ... Perhaps this will inspire others to get involved. It's really just about simple civility, getting past what was and looking at what can be."
He noted that the clock tower area needs to be weeded and flowers and trees planted, as do other areas along Main Street. Painting also needs to be done along parts of the street, and litter needs to be picked up. And then there are those two gazebos he would like to get put up next to the fountain if enough additional donations come in.
"I've already got a commitment from the Bound Brook High School football team to help out on Oct. 25," said Rivenbark, who is the patrol commander and administrative lieutenant for the police force. "I think we'll have at least 100 people here on the morning of Oct. 25, doing lots of different work in the downtown."
If you would like to be among those volunteers, or can help with additional donations of funds or goods, contact Rivenbark at 732-356-0800, ext. 672, or email krivenbark@boundbrookpd.org. He's eager to work with you.
Franklin Woman's Club
The Franklin Woman's Club has served the community since 1922. The club, which has 45 members, is made of up retirees, stay-at-home-moms and working women who come from different backgrounds and age groups but have a common goal: A desire to serve the community, Club President Mary Lou Bak said.
"We are fortunate that the club has been growing in recent years," Bak said. "We have been able to continue to do several different programs, including funding six annual high school scholarships over the past few years."
The club's members have lots of energy and ideas, and they have been working to identify new needs and ways that they can make a difference in the community.
As part of this continuing initiative, some members have toured the New Brunswick-based Ronald McDonald House, which provides housing and supportive services for the families of seriously ill children being cared for in the city's medical centers.
"As mothers and grandmothers, we recognize that helping the families of children who are sick is a very valuable service," Bak said.
One of the continuing ways community members help the work of Ronald McDonald House is by supplying meals for the families staying there. But that isn't something that club members could readily do, given their own busy lives and work schedules.
In talking with management at Ronald McDonald House, Bak was told of their idea to install a garden in the beds around the campus of the building. At first, Bak wasn't sure about the connection to service, but then a club member who works for a business explained to her that businesses spend money and time planting flowers and landscaping around their facilities in order to ensure that customers feel welcome and important.
"Well, I got the connection," Bak said. "If this is important to businesses, it certainly is important to the parents and children who come to Ronald McDonald House at a very critical point in their lives. We feel this is something that fits with our group and something that we can get involved in."
The club plans on installing a colorful scheme coordinated with the Ronald McDonald House colors of red, yellow and white. The $5,000 will be spent on red chrysanthemums, goldenrod, white hostas, daffodil bulbs, red and white tulip bulbs and support materials. The bulbs will be planted to bloom in the spring.
"The result," Bak said, "will be a vivid display showcasing the arrival of spring."
To support the club's spring-to-fall effort on Oct. 25, with donations of additional flowers, goods and planting power, contact Mary Lou Bak at 848-391-5957, email franklinwomansclub@gmail.com or visit http://franklinwomansclub.webs.com.
And please note: On Oct. 12, we will publish another update on these projects, with additional scheduling and how-to-get-involved details. Mark your calendar!
Paul C. Grzella is general manager/editor of the Courier News, Home News Tribune and MyCentralJersey.com. Call him at 908-243-6601 or email pgrzella@MyCentralJersey.com.
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Chile vegetable association seeks long-term UK trade deals
by Gill McShane
Hortach sees great potential to supply more vegetables to the UK between February and May
Chile's UK-bound vegetable exports are currently small, albeit regular
This time last year Chile's lesser-known vegetable industry established a dedicated producer organisation called Hortalizas de Chile (Vegetables from Chile), or Hortach in short, to unite growers across 13 producing regions in the South American country. Led by Cristián Muñoz, Hortach is looking for long-term relationships with UK buyers and aims to transform the market for Chilean vegetables by developing a "world-class production base". Produce Business UK speaks with Muñoz to find out more
Chile produces a range of vegetables for export, primarily onions, garlic, tomatoes, radicchio, peppers, celery and others such as lettuce, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussel sprouts and asparagus. There is also an emerging fresh-cut vegetable industry, with at least four senior-level companies involved in this production sector.
The South American nation exports these vegetables to markets including the UK, France and the US, and Cristián Muñoz, who is also general manager of grower Hortofrutícola Sudamericana, sees great potential to continue supplying the UK in particular, between February and May.
"In the long-term, we hope to turn the Chilean vegetable sector into a point of reference within Latin America," he explains. "The UK market is one of the most important [destinations] for Chilean vegetables. There are large companies within the fresh-cut industry who have bought some commodities from Chile for more than 15 years."
Long-term partnerships required
At present, however, Muñoz admits that Chile's UK-bound vegetable exports are small, albeit regular. Annual sales value never exceeds US$5m (£3.3m), according to data from ProChile. In order for the trade to expand, he claims Chile needs to find UK buyers – importers, foodservice operators and retailers – who are willing to establish longstanding and even exclusive relationships to give suppliers stability.
"The business varies considerably during periods of high production for our competitors, like Peru," he says. "This disincentivises Chilean producer-exporters from taking risks and producing exclusively for the UK market. Chile needs to work to the long-term with buyers who are interested in developing relationships over time. This is only way suppliers can permanently comply with all the certifications like GlobalGAP, Tesco Nature's Choice, Leaf and Sedex, since they have to be obtained from one year to the next."
The UK opportunity for Chilean vegetable suppliers therefore lies with long-term production agreements with buyers; starting with small volumes in order to develop the market in a coordinated and united approach.
"The spot market isn't an opportunity," points out Muñoz. "For those buyers, there are few possibilities. But for those that want to develop a 12-month vegetable supply, and make the most of Chile as a counter-seasonal supplier, the potential is enormous.
"Chile can count on a lot of air and sea trade flow to Europe between February and May, which means suppliers can also take advantage of existing logistics to deliver Chilean vegetables to the UK market."
Chile may seem like a faraway nation to trade vegetables with the UK when traditional suppliers like the Netherlands and Spain sit right on the doorstep, but Muñoz points out that Chile's appeal lies in its ability to fill counter seasonal windows that Europe cannot.
"We're in the opposite hemisphere, which awards us a great competitive advantage," he points out. "Chile can produce whatever vegetable is needed during the counter season when it's difficult for Europe to produce. Chile is the perfect partner to complete a year-round production supply of whichever vegetable."
Muñoz says another production benefit is the number of different microclimates that exist in Chile thanks to the nation's geography. "We have a Mediterranean climate – one of the few that exist in the southern hemisphere – with well defined seasons," he explains. "There's rainfall in winter and summers are dry, which guarantees the production of excellent fruits and vegetables with unique organoleptic qualities. These are Chile's competitive advantages over other countries and it's something we want to explore."
Thanks to Chile's unique phytosanitary position, Muñoz believes Chile can also be a trusted supplier for the UK where the demand for food safety is notoriously high. "Chile is basically an island, with the Atacama desert in the north, the Andes mountains in the east, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Antarctic in the south," he points out.
"For decades the government has insisted on clean production and food safety and these are standards which are impossible to violate today. Chile is also known for being a country that's open to the world. We have the most open economy in Latin America, and the vast number of free trade agreements and commercial ties have allowed the majority of our agricultural products to enter markets tariff-free.
"This all makes Chile an attractive supplier of fruits and vegetables," he continues. "The UK market has high standards when it comes to certification and clean production, and Chile has achieved this point of difference among its competitors."
Going forward and by working as an organisation Hortach plans to focus mainly on food safety and the rational use of soils and water in Chile's vegetable production. In addition, the initiative seeks to strengthen and harness the transfer of technical information, as well as improve access to projects and new markets. In particular, Hortach is keen to explore further niche, high value and quality-driven markets both within Europe, North America and Asia, as well as across South America.
Currently, the organisation, together with Fedefruta (the Chilean association of fruit producers), is working on a clean production project with close to 100 growers to improve the growing conditions for fresh vegetables. Under the plan, the duo are encouraging better systems of irrigation and use of water, enhanced control over critical points of contamination, and the construction of appropriate packhouses with sanitation systems and food safety protocols.
Hortach operates under the auspices of Fedefruta and was relaunched in 2014 following its original inception in 2004 to encourage Chilean vegetable growers to group together. Since then, the organisation has been well received by the country's vegetable industry and already comprises approximately 60 growers; primarily medium-sized producers for supermarkets and processors in the fresh-cut sector. The vast majority have GlobalGAP accreditation.
More information on Chilean vegetables:
Read the other articles in PBUK's Sourcing Spotlight on Chile:
Chile is not about to forget importance of UK fruit buyers
The UK remains an important market for Chilean fruit
Blueberries from Chile looks for convenient boost in UK
Chilean kiwifruit breeding programme looks to supplement Hayward strength
Chilean walnuts and prunes have UK niches in sight
Gesex to offer varietal and quality improvements for UK buyers
Chile's grape sector looks to expanded UK future with fresh varieties
Northern Chile looks to water conservation to beat drought


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Agreement offers chemical engineering degree path for Alaska students
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Current: Agreement offers chemical engineering degree path for Alaska students
The University of Alaska Anchorage and University of Alaska Fairbanks have joined forces with Washington State University to make it easier for Alaska students to earn chemical engineering degrees.
The 2+2 agreement allows Alaska students to fulfill the first two years of core requirements at UAA or UAF, then complete the final two years of study in Pullman, Wash., at Washington State University's Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering. Students would earn their degrees from WSU. The program comes with no additional cost to UAF and UAA and will begin accepting students immediately.
"We are pleased to be able to make use of existing resources on all three campuses to offer new opportunities and bright futures for our students and our state," said Fred Barlow, dean of the UAA College of Engineering.
Industry partners have demonstrated strong support for a chemical engineering program in Alaska, in part to reduce the need to recruit outside the state. Hiring graduates with existing ties to Alaska helps reduce expensive turnover.
"We know that Alaska industry needs chemical engineers, and a full four-year program is part of UAF's long-term plan to meet that need," said Doug Goering, dean of the UAF College of Engineering and Mines. "Until that's a reality, the agreement with WSU offers our students an immediate option to earn this high-demand degree and then return home to live and work."
The program is designed to encourage Alaskans to return after graduation through incentives such as Alaska-based internships. This collaboration opens up more opportunities for Alaskans and demonstrates the university's cooperation with the state and engineering industry to help fill gaps in Alaska's workforce.
"This collaborative program recognizes the historically strong linkages between Washington and Alaska, and we're pleased to be able to help meet the need for a chemical engineering program for students from Alaska,'' said Candis Claiborn, dean of the WSU Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture.
The three universities, along with industry and community partners, will celebrate the collaboration at a ceremony on Friday, Feb. 26, at 3:30 p.m., in the 2nd floor atrium of the UAA Engineering & Industry Building.
Information about UAA College of Engineering collaborative degree programs


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New Delhi, 26th April 2018: India has the fourth highest number of malaria cases and deaths in the world as per recent reports. Malaria exists in all Indian states and about 95% of the people are at risk. Most cases are reported from Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha. Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura also have high transmission. There is an urgent need to document cases and take integrated action at the earliest.
India has set a target of being malaria-free by 2027 and eliminating the disease by 2030.However, there are many challenges before this can be achieved. What is needed is large-scale detection of cases and major awareness campaigns.


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Jeremy Hunt: EU will do a new Brexit deal with me
Published at 08:48 pm June 10th, 2019
Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt arrives in Downing Street, London, Britain, December 18, 2018 Reuters
Hunt, who is foreign secretary, said that with a 'more aggressive Russia' and a 'more autocratic China', he would boost defence spending if he became prime minister
Jeremy Hunt, one of the leading candidates vying to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May, said he would leave the European Union without a deal but with a heavy heart and that he hoped the bloc would engage with a new British leader.
"Our failure to deliver Brexit has put our country and our party in grave peril. The leadership I offer is based on one simple truth: without Brexit there will be no Conservative government and maybe no Conservative Party," he said.
"If we want a deal we are going to have to engage seriously with Brussels. From my conversations with European leaders, it is clear to me there is a deal to be done, they want us to come up with proposals."
Hunt, who is foreign secretary, said that with a "more aggressive Russia" and a "more autocratic China", he would boost defence spending if he became prime minister.
"Peace comes through strength," Hunt said. "With a more aggressive Russia and a more autocratic China I pledge to increase the proportion of our GDP we spend on defence."
EU urges Moscow to continue to respect nuclear missile treaty pull-out
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THE Prime Minister's proposal of building another Endeavour for around $7 million to circumnavigate Australia would be a great April Fools Day lark as it will cost $10 million and $1 million a year to maintain unless the PM's Sharks rugby team don't fit it out with pokies at La Peruse Beach. My teaching was that Captain Cook discovered the east coast of Australia, which today is a known as Australia was not lost and the first boat peoples were around 60,000 years ahead of him. Cook's claim could be he was the first captain to run aground in Australian eastern waters. The Dutch may have been first on the west coast to run aground and the Arab spice traders on our southern coast. A good lesson is to realise, today's Maoris appear to have come to New Zealand long before Cook did his sail around and before that, Melanesians were the inhabits. Of note, the Polynesian fleet that arrived in New Zealand was only part of the floating nation as another part landed and integrated in the Mekong Delta area of what is now Vietnam, living DNA evidence remains in this region. Please, Prime Minister, forget this Trump-like induce folly and turn refugee camps and army camps into basic-needs housing, letting these people organise themselves as a community to survive the heat and freezes ahead with programs of available schooling, university and hands-on trades or IT. The maximum stop to be two or three years and rent paid will be reimbursed to those leaving who have commenced waged work and obtained housing in society. These communities to be alcohol and illicit drug-free. My understanding is there are specific trails for these people to use. Apparently they choose not to take advantage of these. So why did myself and other drivers coming up to Trevallyn from Kings Bridge (a very narrow roadway) have to cross onto the wrong side of the road with no view of oncoming traffic to avoid this idiot cyclist? How about banning them on such potentially dangerous roads? And they should be registered so drivers can record their behaviour when it puts people's lives at risk. I commend Rod Stone (The Examiner, February 5) for all his work over the years retaining history and ensuring that the wonderful men of the 2/40th AIF are never forgotten. In remembering the brave and strong men of the 2/40th AIF we must also acknowledge the women who supported them upon their return 1941-45. Because as Mr Stone said, behind every good man, there's a good woman. Upon their return these wives and partners cared and supported their men through health and mental health issues which stayed with them for life. We have a strong military history in Tasmania and are incredibly proud of the 2/40th. Thank you Rod Stone for keeping the memory alive and being a driving force behind the establishment of the 2/40th Battalion Memorial Garden at Kings Park. This battalion of brave, strong and true blue Aussies, and their families and relatives are not forgotten. Right-wing conservatives oppose allowing health providers to test pills at music festivals because they say it "sends the wrong message" about illegal drugs. The corollary of this is that when people die unnecessarily from drug overdoses, that must be a good thing because it has sent the right message. The problem with this conservative attitude is that not only is it heartless and does not work in deterring illegal drug use, but it's also hypocritical. Most people take mind-altering drugs in the form of caffeine, alcohol and nicotine. There is no logical reason why these drugs should be legal while MDMA (ecstasy) is not. MDMA, when taken in a pure and controlled dose is actually safer than alcohol or tobacco. British neuropsychopharmacologist David John Nutt calculated that the risk of death from horse-riding is greater than taking ecstasy. We need to adopt a more rational approach if we want to minimise the harm drugs cause. Glennis Sleurink in her letter (The Examiner, February 5) asked the question as to who actually voted for Clive Palmer as a living National Treasure. If you do an internet search on the subject you will find that Clive is number 62 on the list of 100 with a notation stating he was "placed on the list after his staff were instructed to vote for him". He is the only one on the list with a clarifying statement. Enough said I think. Labor and the Greens leaders Rebecca White and Cassy O'Connor are both bagging the Liberal Party for such large undeclared amount of monetary donations before the last election. But when the figures came out both Labor and the Greens had huge sums of undeclared monetary sums themselves. So Rebecca and Cassy, where is your so called transparency? With President Donald Trump announcing he will run for a second presidential term, the people of the United States becoming disunited under the aforementioned President, may keep in mind a quote. "Electoral insanity – electing the same people, but expecting a different result".
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Letters to the editor | February 10, 2019
THE Prime Minister's proposal of building another Endeavour for around $7 million to circumnavigate Australia would be a great April Fools Day lark as it will cost $10 million and $1 million a year to maintain unless the PM's Sharks rugby team don't fit it out with pokies at La Peruse Beach.
My teaching was that Captain Cook discovered the east coast of Australia, which today is a known as Australia was not lost and the first boat peoples were around 60,000 years ahead of him.
Cook's claim could be he was the first captain to run aground in Australian eastern waters. The Dutch may have been first on the west coast to run aground and the Arab spice traders on our southern coast.
A good lesson is to realise, today's Maoris appear to have come to New Zealand long before Cook did his sail around and before that, Melanesians were the inhabits.
Of note, the Polynesian fleet that arrived in New Zealand was only part of the floating nation as another part landed and integrated in the Mekong Delta area of what is now Vietnam, living DNA evidence remains in this region.
Please, Prime Minister, forget this Trump-like induce folly and turn refugee camps and army camps into basic-needs housing, letting these people organise themselves as a community to survive the heat and freezes ahead with programs of available schooling, university and hands-on trades or IT.
The maximum stop to be two or three years and rent paid will be reimbursed to those leaving who have commenced waged work and obtained housing in society.
These communities to be alcohol and illicit drug-free.
Mike Grey, Margate.
Road Cyclists
My understanding is there are specific trails for these people to use. Apparently they choose not to take advantage of these.
So why did myself and other drivers coming up to Trevallyn from Kings Bridge (a very narrow roadway) have to cross onto the wrong side of the road with no view of oncoming traffic to avoid this idiot cyclist?
How about banning them on such potentially dangerous roads?
And they should be registered so drivers can record their behaviour when it puts people's lives at risk.
F.O'Sullivan, Riverside.
2/40th AIF
I commend Rod Stone (The Examiner, February 5) for all his work over the years retaining history and ensuring that the wonderful men of the 2/40th AIF are never forgotten.
In remembering the brave and strong men of the 2/40th AIF we must also acknowledge the women who supported them upon their return 1941-45. Because as Mr Stone said, behind every good man, there's a good woman. Upon their return these wives and partners cared and supported their men through health and mental health issues which stayed with them for life.
We have a strong military history in Tasmania and are incredibly proud of the 2/40th. Thank you Rod Stone for keeping the memory alive and being a driving force behind the establishment of the 2/40th Battalion Memorial Garden at Kings Park. This battalion of brave, strong and true blue Aussies, and their families and relatives are not forgotten.
Helen Polley, Labor Senator for Tasmania.
Pill Testing
Right-wing conservatives oppose allowing health providers to test pills at music festivals because they say it "sends the wrong message" about illegal drugs.
The corollary of this is that when people die unnecessarily from drug overdoses, that must be a good thing because it has sent the right message.
The problem with this conservative attitude is that not only is it heartless and does not work in deterring illegal drug use, but it's also hypocritical.
Most people take mind-altering drugs in the form of caffeine, alcohol and nicotine. There is no logical reason why these drugs should be legal while MDMA (ecstasy) is not. MDMA, when taken in a pure and controlled dose is actually safer than alcohol or tobacco.
British neuropsychopharmacologist David John Nutt calculated that the risk of death from horse-riding is greater than taking ecstasy. We need to adopt a more rational approach if we want to minimise the harm drugs cause.
Tom Nilsson, Lutana.
Clive Palmer
Glennis Sleurink in her letter (The Examiner, February 5) asked the question as to who actually voted for Clive Palmer as a living National Treasure.
If you do an internet search on the subject you will find that Clive is number 62 on the list of 100 with a notation stating he was "placed on the list after his staff were instructed to vote for him".
He is the only one on the list with a clarifying statement. Enough said I think.
Tony Foy, Grindelwald.
Labor and the Greens leaders Rebecca White and Cassy O'Connor are both bagging the Liberal Party for such large undeclared amount of monetary donations before the last election.
But when the figures came out both Labor and the Greens had huge sums of undeclared monetary sums themselves.
So Rebecca and Cassy, where is your so called transparency?
David Parker, West Launceston.
With President Donald Trump announcing he will run for a second presidential term, the people of the United States becoming disunited under the aforementioned President, may keep in mind a quote.
"Electoral insanity – electing the same people, but expecting a different result".
Kenneth Gregson, Swansea.