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POLICING in Cambridgeshire is likely to cost Council Tax payers 5 per cent more. Members of Cambridgeshire Police Authority's finance and resource committee say the increase means a 13 pence-a-week increase for a Band D property. The committee has been to
POLICING in Cambridgeshire is likely to cost Council Tax payers 5 per cent more. Members of Cambridgeshire Police Authority's finance and resource committee say the increase means a 13 pence-a-week increase for a Band D property. The committee has been told that the Government would cap any rise above 5 per cent. Authority chairman Michael Williamson said that working out the budget had been complex as it is being worked out on a two-year plan. He said: "We have had to keep an eye on the budget for 2007-08 which we realise will cause us serious concerns while trying to stay below the capping threshold for 2006-07." Mr Williamson said the authority had worked hard to identify savings which will not have any "perceptible effect" on front-line services. "We can assure everyone that our priorities in the light of a tight budget reflect our determination to invest in front-line policing services," he said. Investments will include continuing having Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and wider neighbourhood policing. Mr Williamson said the authority would be taking some cash from its reserves to pay for growth in areas which it sees as essential. These include staff training and improving communications. The authority has recently examined its reserves and believes that between £5-£7 million can be released. - The Home Office has withdrawn £1.9 million from the authority for 2006-07.


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When Can a Taxpayer Face Civil Fraud Penalties?
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Crimes like tax evasion often capture most of the public's attention, however, it is essential to realize that while tax evasion penalties are harsh and typically include a prison sentence, tax consequences become serious even before criminal charges are justified. Depending on the facts and circumstances present, the IRS auditor or agent may decide to seek the civil fraud penalty. As its name suggests, the civil fraud penalty is civil rather than criminal in nature. However, a prison sentence is still a distinct possibility as the evidence needed to assert the civil fraud penalty is the same evidence necessary for a criminal conviction.
The civil fraud penalty can allow the IRS and prosecutors to seek enormous penalties that can leave a taxpayer in a seemingly unsurmountable financial hole. For taxpayers who may implement aggressive tax positions or questionable tactics, the civil fraud penalty can easily erase the benefit of the aggressive strategy and much more.
What Is the Civil Fraud Penalty Rate?
The Civil Fraud penalty is set forth in IRC 6663. Section 6663(a) provides that when any part of an understatement of tax can be attributed to fraud, then a penalty equaling 75 percent of the underpayment of tax can be imposed. Subject to the exception, Section 6663(b) holds that when any portion of a tax underpayment can be attributed to fraud, then the entire underpayment is attributed to fraud. Essentially, taxpayers who are found liable for the civil fraud penalty will owe back taxes on the original underpayment, interest on the unpaid taxes, and the civil fraud penalty. Taking actions that can justify the imposition of a civil fraud penalty can significantly increase an individual's tax liability.
What Can I Expect when the IRS Seeks the Civil Fraud Penalty?
When taxpayers begin to fear that he or she may have made an error or staked out too aggressive of a tax position, they often begin to worry about the audit and enforcement process they will face. Such considerations and damage control planning are wise. Taxpayers who reach out and engage with a tax lawyer in the earlier stages of a tax controversy can often strategically plan to avoid a worst-case tax enforcement scenario from both a civil and criminal tax perspective.
Unfortunately, there is no single path to a tax proceeding that seeks to impose the civil fraud penalty. The IRS Internal Revenue Manual specifically instructs agents that, "A civil fraud penalty case may be developed on the facts and circumstances of a civil examination or on the result from the completion of a criminal tax prosecution." Thus, the civil fraud penalty can arise as a civil revenue agent, or agent out of the criminal investigation division, works a case. The civil fraud penalty can also be sought after the civil side of the IRS makes a referral to the IRS Criminal Investigation division and subsequently pursued civilly after IRS-CI declines to bring criminal tax charges.
If the IRS agent and the agent's manager determine that the penalty is appropriate, he or she will complete either Form 5344 or Form 5599. Furthermore, IRS Form 3198 will also be completed to set forth the actual penalty amount.
For What Types of Tax Violations Can I Face the Civil Fraud Penalty?
First the good news: If you fail to file a tax return in any form, then you cannot face the civil fraud penalty. This is because Section 6664(b) of the Internal Revenue Code holds that the penalty applies only when a return has been filed by the taxpayer. However, this is not a recommendation to avoid filing one's taxes. The failure to file taxes can carry an array of penalties. Furthermore, when the failure to file tax returns appears to be part of a scheme to willfully conceal income or evade taxes, serious tax charges can be advanced including tax evasion especially if Spies factors are present.
Generally, the civil fraud tax penalty is applicable to any and all civil tax enforcement actions when certain elements are present. These elements include a material misrepresentation and knowledge of the fact that what was being purported as true was, in fact, false. Thus, acts like intentionally misrepresenting the character or nature of income, concealing income, or engaging in an array of other fraudulent tax acts can justify the imposition of a civil fraud penalty.
Concerned About Facing Civil or Criminal Tax Penalties Due to an Audit or Returns you have Filed in the Past?
If you are concerned that overly aggressive tax positions will haunt you or your business when it comes time for an audit, or worse yet criminal tax investigation, the tax lawyers and tax professions of the Tax Law Office of David W. Klasing may be able to help. David Klasing is a dually certified tax attorney and CPA, with a master's degree in taxation, who can put his vast experience as a public auditor to work for you. The tax lawyers of the Tax Law Office of David W. Klasing can develop a customized legal strategy that is responsive to your concerns and preferences. To schedule a confidential, reduced cost initial consultation, please call our tax law office or see our YouTube video on what to do if you cheated on your taxes and face an audit.
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Textron Aviation's to debut SETP cabin mockup at EAA AirVenture 2016
By Izzy Kington on	 20th July 2016 Airframes
Textron Aviation will publicly debut a cabin mock-up and announce additional product details of its new single-engine turboprop (SETP) aircraft (pictured) at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2016, to be held on July 25-31 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Joining the SETP will be an extensive static display of nearly a dozen of the company's commercial jet, turboprop and piston products.
"We've heard from so many customers who are eager to learn more about our new SETP, and we're excited to reveal the name and branding as well as debut the cabin mock-up for this exceptional aircraft," said Kriya Shortt, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Textron Aviation. "Textron Aviation's continued investment and focus on innovation in products and services will be on display at this year's exhibit, and we are ready to tap into the valuable feedback we get from our customers and the general aviation community at Oshkosh."
The SETP cabin mock-up will be accompanied by a mock-up of GE's new turboprop engine. The SETP will be designed to have cruise speeds of up to 28kts, a full fuel payload of 1,100 lb, and a planned range of 1,600 nautical miles at high-speed cruise with one pilot and four passengers. The program is targeting first flight in 2018.
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Annual Report 2010 : Family helps educate a community
BY Sara Farris
Pat and Heather Taylor, along with their daughter Madison, help other MD Anderson families facing cancer. Photo: Mike Hulsey
Dance classes, reading, being a big sister and having a princess birthday party — this is the life of 8-year-old Madison "Madi" Taylor. No one would know that only five years ago this bright-eyed, curly-haired girl full of giggles was fighting for her life.
Madi's father, Pat, remembers clearly the day his daughter was diagnosed at MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital.
A pain in Madi's arm and a fever that wouldn't go away turned out to be acute lymphocytic leukemia, the most common childhood cancer.
"When Madi was first diagnosed, Dr. Patrick (Zweidler- McKay) sat down and talked with our family. He spent several hours discussing what was happening to Madi and what her treatment would include," Pat says.
"He allowed us plenty of time to ask questions. I'll never forget that. The care team has been there each step of the way."
Pat and his wife, Heather, clung to each other as they supported their daughter, then 3 years old, through three years of chemotherapy. Despite not feeling well, Madi always seemed to carry a smile, Heather recalls.
With her "Sassy Kitty" doll accompanying her to each appointment and activity, Madi made friends with fellow pediatric patients and mimicked Zweidler-McKay by giving her doll check-ups each day.
Her favorite activity at the hospital was the weekly bingo games hosted by MD Anderson volunteers.
With Madi in remission, the Taylors now use their experience to help other MD Anderson families facing cancer.
Pat serves on the Family Advisory Council, a group of parents and staff who meet monthly to discuss ways to improve every child's experience at the Children's Cancer Hospital.
He also is parent liaison on the children's hospital Advisory Group that consists of Board of Visitors members and others interested in childhood cancers.
Meanwhile, Heather serves on the Anderson Network Steering Committee, supporting and developing programs to benefit patients and caregivers at MD Anderson.
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After forums sprang up in support of Deepa Jayakumar, the niece of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, more such outfits in the state have appealed to her to take the political plunge.
After forums sprang up in support of Deepa Jayakumar, the niece of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, more such outfits in the state have appealed to her to take the political plunge. Such forums named after Deepa have pledged support to her and urged her to enter politics to fill "the vacuum" caused by the passing away of her aunt and former AIADMK supremo last month.
Deepa had on January 5 told her supporters that "My entry into politics cannot be stopped", and indicated she would let know of her decision soon.
The new outfits, including "Engal Amma Jayalalithaa Deepa Peravai, (Our Mother Jayalalithaa Deepa Peravai)," and "Ilaya Puratchi Thalaivi Deepa Peravai" (Younger Revolutionary Leader Deepa Peravai) have been found in areas including Perambalur, Salem and Erode.
The Executive Committee meeting of 'Ilaya Puratchi Thalaivi Deepa Peravai' would be held at Dindigul on January 22, said the outfit's functionaries Sagayam, Mutharasan and Rajan.
They said they would now focus on coordinating all the supporters of Deepa.
In Erode, Deepa's supporters have launched a forum MGR- Jayalalithaa Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam with images of MGR and Jayalalithaa embossed on the outfit's flag.
They claimed the support for "Deepa amma" was rising. The launch of the party was held at the house of Matesh, the Vice- President of the Erode town MGR Fans' Association.
'State coordinator' of the new party, Dindigul, Ramachandran alleged that his outfit's functionaries were being "threatened," without elaborating.
"But we will not be cowed down by such empty threats," he said adding the membership enrollment and other party related goals would be announced "in the presence of Deepa" on Feb 24, coinciding with the birth anniversary of Jayalalithaa on that day.
At Kottapatti village in Dindigul, banners have come up supporting Deepa.
Recently, a group of AIADMK cadres launched a forum in Tiruchirapalli district in support of Deepa following the inauguration of a similar outfit in Coimbatore claiming that she was the "real political heir" of late Jayalalithaa.
Some banners and posters put up by AIADMK across Tamil Nadu hailing V K Sasikala as the heir of Jayalalithaa in towns including Cuddalore were either torn or defaced by unidentified persons who were suspected to be disgruntled party elements.


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Q: GCC not performing loop invariant code motion I decided to check the result of loop invariant code motion optimization using g++. However, when I compiled the following code with -fmove-loop-invariants and analysed its assembly, I saw that k + 17 calculation is still performed in the loop body.
What could prevent the compiler from optimizing it?
May be the compiler concludes that it is more efficient to recalculate k + 17?
int main()
{
    int k = 0;
    std::cin >> k;

    for (int i = 0; i < 10000; ++i)
    {
        int n = k + 17; // not moved out of the loop
        printf("%d\n", n);
    }

    return 0;
}

Tried g++ -O0 -fmove-loop-invariants, g++ -O3 and g++ -O3 -fmove-loop-invariants using both g++ 4.6.3 and g++ 4.8.3.

A: EDIT: Ignore my previous answer. You can see that the calculation has been folded into a constant. Therefore it is performing the loop invariant optimization.

Because of the as-if rule. Simply put, the compiler is not allowed to make any optimizations that may affect the observable behavior of the program, in this case the printf. You can see what happens if you make n volatile and remove the printf:
for (int i = 0; i < 10000; ++i)
{
    volatile int n = k + 17; // not moved out of the loop
}

// Example assembly output for GCC 4.6.4
// ...
        movl    $10000, %eax
        addl    $17, %edx
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61 kilograms of THC extract seized at US border crossing south of Winnipeg
March 28, 2021 | Staff | Law Enforcement
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations officers at the Pembina Port of Entry about one hour south of Winnipeg seized a shipment of THC extract totaling 61 kilograms on March 18.
The shipment was sent to the United States on an express consignment carrier and was manifested as non-alcohol disinfectant. Physical examination of the shipment revealed eight containers of a brown, liquid substance.
Assistance from U.S. Border Patrol K-9 unit resulted in the alert for the presence of an odour that the dog was trained for. The odour was traced back to the shipment labeled disinfectant. Samples of the substance were sent to a CBP laboratory for analysis. The analysis determined the product was THC extract.
Although the CPB report does not mention the country of origin, given the remote location of this border crossing and its proximity to Canada it's likely it originated in Canada.
"CBP officers and Border Patrol agents work to safeguard the United States," said Pembina Area Port Director Jason Schmelz. "This seizure represents the successful partnership of these agencies to prevent contraband from entering the United States and into our communities."
The US has seen a significant uptick in seizures of cannabis products at the US/Canada border over the last year. The US seized more than 20,000 pounds of cannabis at the Canadian border in 2020.


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Zeichen auf dem Weg () ist ein Buch des ägyptischen Islamisten Sayyid Qutb (1906–1966). Die 160-seitige Schrift wurde im Jahre 1964 veröffentlicht. Sie skizziert den revolutionären Plan des Autors und ruft zu einer strikten Anwendung der Gesetze des Islams in den arabischen Ländern auf. Dabei werden die Demokratien, die Entwicklung des Liberalismus und des Kapitalismus kritisiert und verurteilt. Ziel ist der Kampf gegen die weltweit herrschende Ignoranz, insbesondere aber gegen diejenigen, die sich anmaßen, Muslime zu sein, und somit den Islam in seiner Existenz bedrohen.

Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte
Das Buch wurde im Gefängnis geschrieben, nachdem Qutb wegen der Teilnahme an einer Verschwörung gegen den Staatspräsidenten Gamal Abdel Nasser im Jahre 1954 zu einer mehrjährigen Haftstrafe verurteilt worden war. Nach den Worten Qutbs entstammen vier der insgesamt zwölf Kapitel seinem Korankommentar Im Schatten des Korans, und zwar:
 "Die Natur der Methode des Qur'an"
 "Islamisches Gedankengut und islamische Kultur"
 "Der Jihad für Allah"
 "Die Wiedergeburt der muslimischen Gemeinschaft und ihre Charakteristika."

Nach seiner Hinrichtung 1966 wurde Qutb in den Augen vieler Muslime zum Märtyrer, und Zeichen auf dem Weg wurde in der ganzen arabischsprachigen Welt ein Bestseller. In den 1980er Jahren diente das Buch der ägyptischen militanten Bewegung al-Dschamāʿa al-islāmiyya als Standardlektüre bei der Kaderausbildung. Das Buch erlebte mindestens 2000 Auflagen.

Bedeutung und Rezeption
Das Buch gilt als eines der einflussreichsten Werke auf Arabisch in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Es ist wohl das bekannteste Werk von Qutb und eines der einflussreichsten Beispiele der islamischen Literatur. Zudem ist das Buch ein Manifest der Ideologie des Qutbismus.

Der Autor vertritt ein dichotomisches Weltbild, er unterscheidet zwischen der islamischen Kultur, die auf dem islamischen Gedankengut aufgebaut ist, und der Jahiliyya-Kultur, deren Ausprägungen dem menschlichen Denken den Status des Göttlichen geben, so dass die Wahrheit oder Unwahrheit nicht nach Allahs Rechtleitung entschieden wird. Qutb sieht die Versuche, den Islam mit dem Sozialismus oder Nationalismus zu verbinden, als gescheitert an. Zudem habe der Prophet Mohammed zu Beginn der Geschichte des Islams nicht versucht, ein Zusammengehörigkeitsgefühl auf ethnischer oder nationaler Ebene zu schaffen. Die englische Übersetzung des Buches erschien unter dem Titel Milestones, persische Übersetzungen stammen von Ali Chamene'i und vom afghanischen Politiker Burhanuddin Rabbani.

Während einige Kritiker aus dem Buch die Inspiration eines Helden und Heiligen herauslesen, bemängeln andere die fehlende Logik, Selbstmitleid und Paranoia, und bemerken einen weitreichenden Einfluss auf den islamistischen Terror. Von einigen Politikwissenschaftlern wird der Qutbismus als totalitäre Ideologie in eine Reihe mit dem Nationalsozialismus und dem Marxismus gestellt.

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 Navid Kermani: Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid: Ein Leben mit dem Islam. Herder, Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-06870-6. (Online-Teilansicht)

Weblinks
 Deutsche Übersetzung aus dem Englischen, von Muhammad Shukri Mit einem Vorwort von Muhammad Rassoul
 Muslimbrüder-Schriften : Einst geschätzt, jetzt verfemt (Joseph Croitoru)

Literarisches Werk
Literatur (20. Jahrhundert)
Literatur (Arabisch)
Sachliteratur (Theologie)
Islamische Literatur
Islamismus

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Hey heeeey! Hope your weekend was great!
I got SO MUCH DONE in the family room over the weekend – so much that I'm crazy sore today. Me thinks I'm getting too old for the days of nonstop DIY. We've been living with our family room half way done for a couple weeks now – I've gotten very little done up till now. I was out of town for a trip three days, then I was sick for most of last week with a crappy cold. I didn't feel like doing anything.
It was really a mess, as you can see. My first plan of action yesterday was to finish up extending the crown molding. This is a little trick I use to make the crown appear thicker. You all know how I love me some chunky trim!
You can find it at Lowe's and Home Depot. I just place it about an inch below the current crown. You can use a piece of wood or something as a spacer so you have the same distance around the room – I just use my level as I go around so it's fairly consistent.
Caulk and spackle people. Caulk and spackle.
It hadn't been painted yet, obviously. We had to patch a few holes from the TV hanging there before and the darker rectangles on the wall were from the molding I had had up there forever. Nearly eight years – I've been ready for a change for awhile.
And I LOVE IT. Whoa, I LOVE how the white looks against our floors and the furniture. Yummy.
The door trim in the background still needs to be finished and painted. And the biggest thing is caulking and painting all the boards on the wall.
But the wall looks a ton better and I'm SO excited about the direction of this room. I still need to patch a few spots on the other wall, finish up the board and batten on the other side of the room (there's not much) and then I'm putting all of my attention on the fireplace. I want this space done by the end of September – that's my goal. Sooner would be awesome!
**To see my how to install the board and batten look, go here.
Holy cow. Girl, it looks gorgeous. I wish that would magically appear in our family room. You always make things look beautiful.
What color is that paint? Love it!
Beautiful Sarah! love the table, lamps and of course the molding and board and batten is amazing. If I had done all of that in a weekend I wouldn't be able to get out of bed for a week lol, you go!
wow. amazing. it looks fantastic!
Love it...looks wonderful. And I really like the wall color.
Wow, you really were on a roll. It looks amazing. Love all the trim and the wall treatment is fabulous.
OMG, I looooove it! It looks so clean and crisp Sarah! Great job!
It looks so pretty and I love the colors you chose.
It looks so great! For the mirror you want to paint, might I suggest Sherwin Williams Greys Harbor? It's the yummiest shade of blue/grey sent straight from heaven, and I think it would go great with your other colors! I can't wait to see your holiday decorations this year with all this new space!
I've nominated you for a fun little blog award, since I've really enjoyed reading your all of your posts. I love your decorating style!
It's soooo pretty!!!! I love, love love it.
Looks absolutely amazing! Can't wait to see the entire room finished. I was wondering how you painted your speakers? I'm planning to paint my living room and I have the same ones.
It looks so pretty! I just noticed we have the same batten board, but you did a much better job cutting around the light switches. I can't believe you did so much in one weekend!
So so so Stunning! It really looks amazing...all that hard work will pay off when you can sit back and enjoy this room sooner than later.
GOSH!! How nice was it!! Talented Home Decor!!
Wow! You are amazing. I can't believe you did all that in one day! You are a true inspiration. It looks beautiful.
Oh it looks SO wonderful!!!! I followed your whole board/batten idea a couple of years ago and put it in our son's bathroom. i still swoon over it.
hhmm, the 1st color that came to my mind about that mirror was an orangey-red--for fall.
Love, Love! We did board and batten in our girls room and we love it!
Please stop by my 7 Year Itch link up and add this (and other projects you have) to the link.
I always love the idea of crown molding, however the thought of installing it terrifies me, but I do it anyway then caulk the heck out of it! I love this idea...I too have existing crown that I wanted to "add to"...my only question is, are your walls textured? Any suggestion for textured walls? Thanks!
That looks amazing! And it would look great in my house!
You know I don't really clean them often. ;) Sometimes I'll just wipe them down with a cloth but I tend to ignore them -- they don't get too bad for us.
Okay, cool. Good to know, thanx!


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Celebrate at Historic Castle Farms in Charlevoix
One of the most unique and spectacular locations found in the Charlevoix area is historic Castle Farms. Built in 1918 by Albert Loeb (acting president of Sears, Roebuck & Company), Loeb Farms (as it was known then) was designed as a working model dairy farm to showcase products available in the Sear's catalog. 35 European craftsmen worked with local men and local field stone to fashion this Northern Michigan castle based on the architecture of the soaring stone towers found in barns and castles of Normandy, France.
For 10 years, Loeb Farms flourished; then came the Great Agricultural Depression. Following the family's 1927 decision to close the farm, the buildings were used for storage purposes, and eventually fell into disrepair. In 1962, John VanHaver purchased 100 acres of the original Loeb Farms, hoping to create an artist's Mecca. After restoring some of the buildings, he renamed the property Castle VanHaver and in 1962 opened to the public for tours. By 1969, financial concerns forced him to sell the property to Art and Erwina Reibel, who changed the name to Castle Farms. A massive concert stage was built, and from 1976-1993, Castle Farms played host to more than 100 different rock groups, including Aerosmith, the Doobie Brothers, Chicago, Willie Nelson, and The Beach Boys.
Following Art Reibel's death in 1999, Castle Farms was put up for sale. In 2001, Linda Mueller of Long Beach, Mississippi, became the fourth owner. Her restoration of the buildings, faithful to the original designs, occurred over a period of four years, and by 2005, Castle Farms welcomed visitors for weddings, tours, and other events. Today, Castle Farms of Charlevoix is one of the Midwest's premier wedding venues.
Along the way, visitors can play a game of gigantic chess, feed the fish in the rainbow trout pond, wander through the hedge maze, and search for gnomes and fairies that make the Enchanted Forest home.
Railroad buffs, plus kids of all ages, love the Outdoor Model Railroad, the largest in Michigan, which includes 2,500 feet of track and 70+ trains operating at one time. The lines include 1890s era steam and 1950s era diesel locomotives with six different tracks on three levels. Built in 2008 and expanded in 2010, this garden railroad is easily one of the largest (if not THE largest) working model railroads in the State of Michigan!
History is alive at Castle Farms of Charlevoix with antique trains, castles, and toys displayed throughout the buildings, along with memorabilia from royal families worldwide. A museum showcases items from 1918, the era when The Castle was built.
Garden lovers will appreciate the magnificent garden settings found throughout the grounds--from the whimsical Alphabet Garden, formal English gardens set amidst backdrops of stone walls and soaring towers, and gentle flowing lawns leading into romantic cobblestone courtyards. The extensive gardens at The Castle of Charlevoix come into bloom in varying stages throughout the year, providing a constant background of color.
Blending old-world charm and modern-day elegance, Castle Farms offers a spectacular glimpse of Northern Michigan history in a beautiful place to celebrate and explore.
5052 M-66 North
Charlevoix, MI 49720
www.castlefarms.com
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Learning Chinese – Mandarin or Cantonese?
Yang Yang | February 8th, 2015
There are many Chinese people who now live in the U.S., Canada, and many other countries, and China is becoming a powerful economic force in the world today. For this reason, learning Chinese is becoming increasingly important and a popular foreign language to study in high schools and universities.
If you're thinking of studying Chinese, you may be contemplating whether it would be better to learn Mandarin or Cantonese.
With about 1.2 billion speakers, Chinese is more widely spoken than any other language in the world. However, to think of Chinese as a language is a bit of a misconception, as there are multiple dialects. Some are so different from one another as to be unintelligible to speakers of other dialects. In fact, there has been some debate among linguists as to whether some of these dialects should be considered separate languages.
Language Diversity in China
Mandarin dialects are widely spoken on mainland China and in Singapore and Taiwan. Mandarin is the official language of the People's Republic of China and is the language most used in government, education, and media.
However, there are variations of Mandarin. People in Beijing, Chengdu, and Nanjing all speak different dialects of Mandarin. They would all be able to carry on a conversation with one another, but there would be significant differences in pronunciation, grammar, and syntax. Similar to how British and American English speakers can understand one another, despite differences in their languages.
There are other Chinese dialects, such as Cantonese (spoken in Guangdong and Hong Kong) and Wuyu (spoken in Shanghai and Suzhou), that are so different from Mandarin, that speakers of the dialects are unable to understand or converse with each other. These would be more like an American and a German trying to converse.
Mandarin or Cantonese?
In many high schools and colleges, limited budgets or staff may mean students have little choice. In these cases, Mandarin is frequently the dialect taught.
When you do have a choice, the decision is usually based on your goals from learning the language. If you want to communicate with Chinese government, media, or educational institutions, you will want to learn Mandarin. If, however, you're more interested in working in Guangdong or with the villages near Hong Kong, you will want to go with Cantonese.
Written Chinese uses the same characters, regardless of dialect, and the grammar is very similar. Mandarin uses fewer intonations, making it somewhat easier to learn than Cantonese for some students. Because of this, some students will study Mandarin for a couple of years to get a good foundation on the language before studying other dialects.
No matter what Chinese dialect you decide to study, with more and more Chinese migrating to the U.S. and other countries, and the growing influence of China around the world, learning Chinese is becoming more important than ever before. You will not regret your efforts.
Feel free to visit www.learnmandarinnow.com for more Mandarin learning tips.
Tags: Cantonese, Expats in China, Foreigner, Language, Learn Chinese, learning, Mandarin
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Gelly says:
I say learn Cantonese first, there are lots of rich cultural things you'll miss out on otherwise. Meanwhile, because there is a huge population of Mandarins speakers, and so many of them are becoming fluent in English, Mandarin stuff will be available in English easily.
Learn Cantonese and you will never get in to the UK.
Bigstar says:
There are still many people speak Cantonese oversea and in Southern China. However, Mandarin is a bit easier to learn.
Charles Enivila says:
Learn Hakka! It sounds more polite and connects to Korean and Japanese and North Vietnamese. And also to lots of Chinese scattered around SE-Asia and the carribean.
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The Bucknellian is Bucknell's online/weekly print student newspaper, published 12 times per semester on Fridays. Originally named The Orange and Blue, The Bucknellian was started in 1896, making it one of the oldest student activities on campus. Today, the paper has a print circulation of 2000, runs two 6-page sections each with color on the front and back, and appears in this web version.
The Bucknellian serves a readership that includes students, faculty, administrators, trustees, parents, alumni and local residents. Students run the editorial and business sides of the paper; they make all decisions about policy, editorial content, advertising and marketing, and they manage their own budget. Students design and lay out the paper at The Bucknellian offices in the newly renovated student media space, Stuck House. The paper is printed in Sunbury, PA at the printing press of The Daily Item.


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Q: Client Certificate and Key for Azure Database for MySQL I want to use an SSL connection for my MySQL databases in Azure, but I can't find out how to get a Client Certificate and Key. Is there a way to get those?
I found this article, but this is for a Server Certificate and is not the solution I am looking for:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/mysql/howto-configure-ssl
For example, in MySQL Workbench where can I get the files needed for these two items (see screenshot):

A: If you want the connection between your client and the server to be encrypted, the description in the link you posted is the way to go. It tells your MySQL client to trust the CA certificate which was used to sign the server certificate the MySQL server uses. If you'd connect to the MySQL server and capture the packages, you would see the TLS handshake taking place, I just did that with one of my MySQL instances on Azure:

The option to provide a TLS client key/cert file like you show in your screenshot would enable mutual authentication or simply put: Your server would be able to use a client certificate and key to authenticate the user (e.g. instead of a password). To enable that, you would have to store a CA certificate which was used for signing your client certificate on the MySQL server - this is not possible when using the hosted Azure MySQL instance. The closest you get is to see where on the server the CA certificate is stored but there is no way to upload your own CA or server certificate.
mysql> show variables like '%ssl%';
+----------------------+------------------+
| Variable_name        | Value            |
+----------------------+------------------+
| azure_ssl_early_init | OFF              |
| have_openssl         | YES              |
| have_ssl             | YES              |
| ssl_ca               | c:\work\ca.pem   |
| ssl_capath           |                  |
| ssl_cert             | c:\work\cert.pem |
| ssl_cipher           |                  |
| ssl_crl              |                  |
| ssl_crlpath          |                  |
| ssl_key              | c:\work\key.pem  |
+----------------------+------------------+

If you want this, you have to host MySQL on your own, for example on a VM. Then you can follow for example this guide to create your own keys + certificates and this description to copy the CA certificate to the right place on your server.

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but this is for a Server Certificate

In this context, there's no difference. But since you can provision your own CA cert you can go buy a certificate from a provider as described here, or get a letsencrypt certificate (if you have a webserver on the internet or control over a DNS domain) or even roll your own certificate authority.


Trump has mental shutdown during El Paso rally. Tells crowd two completely different things.
President Donald Trump had a supposed mental breakdown during his rally in El Paso on Monday night when he claimed midway through that people in the crowd needed to be saying "finish that wall," instead of "build that wall, because we've built a lot of it" already.
That goes directly against what he said at the beginning of the rally, which officially kicked off his 2020 presidential campaign, when he stated to the entire world: "tonight we started a big, beautiful wall" ... right smack on the Rio Grande."
Reports from the Rio Grande aren't fully in yet to confirm but we do know that the wall hasn't been built anywhere else along the southern border.
Even Ann Coulter, a far-right media person that frequently defends the president, has called out Trump for lying about the wall's construction. She called Trump out on the issue, saying that zero miles have been done so far.
The most that has been completed is fencing. And, that's so minimal, it's not even a discussion. We're talking mere miles of construction that don't even come close to covering the ground needed to build a barrier with Mexico.
It's possible that Trump could be talking about fencing when he makes his claim but that's intellectually dishonest. Fencing is not a wall and his supporters are wanting what they were promised.
Right now, at the time of Trump's rally, it is being reported that a tentative deal on avoiding another governmental shutdown has been reached between negotiators and it includes a mere $1.375 billion for "pedestrian fencing," but no funding for a wall. It also reduces overall ICE detention beds by 17.4 percent.
This is far less than Trump has demanded, and if Trump signs it will be a major victory for Democrats.
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, who approved the Senate negotiations says that he and Trump are on the same page, which signals Trump could be in agreement, as well.
"He wants more robust funding. We want more robust funding. But we have to look at it as a border system, and we talked about that a lot with him, so I would characterize his response as frustrated that it's not higher, but we're telling him and we believe that this is part of a process and we need his support because we're on the same team," Capito said.


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O nervo óptico é o segundo dos doze pares cranianos presentes no cérebro humano.

De função sensitiva, este nervo capta as informações através dos cones e bastonetes presentes na retina que são estimulados pela luz projetada em objetos. As informações visuais são captadas e enviadas ao lóbulo occipital do cérebro para as áreas 17,18,19 e 20 que são responsáveis de processar esta informação, gerando resultados de cor, forma, tamanho, distância e noções de espaço.

Este nervo está formado por um conglomerado de fibras nervosas que nascem nas células ganglionares da retina. Todas estas fibras agrupadas convergem o disco óptico, atravessam a coróide e a esclera e constituem na sua emergência do globo ocular, um cordão voluminoso arredondado chamado Nervo Óptico.

Trajeto, Direção e Relações

O nervo óptico se desprende do globo ocular a 3 mm medialmente e 1 mm inferiormente do pólo posterior do globo ocular. Deste ponto se dirige posterior e medialmente, atravessa sucessivamente a órbita, conduto óptico e penetra na cavidade cranial e termina no ângulo anterolateral correspondente do quiasma óptico.

Na órbita, o nervo óptico ocupa o eixo do cone do músculo aponeurótico formado pelos músculos retos do olho e suas expansões aponeuróticas.
Este nervo ele se relaciona com: (a) o corpo adiposo da órbita; (b) com a artéria oftálmica que cruza próximo ao vértice da orbita; primeiramente em sua face lateral e posteriormente em sua face superior; (c) com as veias oftálmicas que passam superior e inferior ao nervo; (d) com os nervos nasociliar, oculomotor e abducente; (e) com o gânglio ciliar localizado em sua face lateral; (f) e com os vasos e nervos ciliares.

Neuroanatomia

VIA ÓPTICA

1º. Neurônio: Corresponde aos neurônios fotoreceptores da retina, cujas prolongações dendríticas periféricas se conectam aos cones e bastonetes, e suas prolongações axônicas se dirigem ao encontro das dendritas do segundo neurônio da via óptica.

2º. Neurônio: Localizado também na retina, representado pelos neurônios bipolares que conectam os fotorreceptores diretamente com as células ganglionares.

3° Neurônio: Representado pelas células ganglionares que com  suas prolongações axônicas formam o nervo óptico. Existem cerca 1,2 milhões de axônios de células ganglionares formando o nervo óptico.

Os axônios dos neurônios ganglionares têm o seguinte comportamento: As fibras da retina nasal se cruzam em sua totalidade no quiasma e passam a formar o que chamamos de trato óptico ao lado oposto de sua origem. As fibras que se originam na retina temporal e as fibras musculares do mesmo lado não cruzam a linha média e passam pelo lado externo do quiasma óptico, aonde chegam para formar parte do trato óptico do mesmo lado, onde se juntam com as fibras da retina nasal oposta. As fibras do trato óptico por sua vez, fazem sinapse com os neurônios do corpo geniculado lateral.

4º. Neurônio: Este neurônio encontra-se alojado no corpo geniculado lateral, de onde se desprende o último enlace da via óptica principal. O conjunto axônico dos neurônios do corpo geniculado lateral constitui as Radiações Ópticas de GRATIOLET, que em sua origem se localizam no segmento retrolenticular da cápsula interna, localizada por fora da prolongação occipital dos ventrículos laterais, que termina sua conexão sináptica com os neurônios do córtex visual primário ou área 17 de BRODMANN.

Esta informação que chega à área 17 se dirige as áreas 18 e 19 também chamadas de áreas de associação visual ou perceptiva.

VIA DO REFLEXO FOTOMOTOR OU REFLEXO PUPILAR (MIOSE)

Quando projetamos um feixe de luz em direção da pupila ocular, ambas pupilas reagem em uma resposta de constrição chama de miose.  Esta constrição ou contração do esfíncter pupilar se classifica em duas respostas: Ao olho estimulado, chamamos de reflexo direto, e ao olho que não recebeu o feixe de luz, chamamos de reflexo consensual.

Receptores: São os cones e bastonetes da retina que estimulam o contato com o primeiro neurônio.

1º. Neurônio: Corresponde com as células ganglionares da retina. Seus axônios formam o nervo óptico e chegam à área pré-tectal de RANSON (é uma região de neurônios encontrados entre o tálamo e mesencéfalo), através do braço anterior da cápsula interna.

2º. Neurônio: Situado nos neurônios da área pré-tectal de RANSON, localizado por diante dos tubérculos quadrigêmeos anteriores. Seus axônios chegam diretamente ao mesmo lado, e parte destes, chega ao lado oposto através da comissura posterior aos núcleos viscero-motores ou parassimpáticos de EDINGER-WESTPHAL (em inglês). Este compartimento cerebral das fibras pupilares explicaria o reflexo consensual.

3º. Neurônio: Localizado no núcleo de EDINGER-WESTPHAL do terceiro (III) par craniano (Oculomotor). Seus axônios saem do mesencéfalo juntamente com o nervo oculomotor (motor ocular comum), em direção ao quarto neurônio.

4º. Neurônio: Encontrado no gânglio ciliar ou oftálmico, dentro da cavidade orbitária. Seus axônios mediantes aos nervos ciliares curtos, penetram no globo ocular e inervam o músculo liso esfincteriano (constritor da pupila), como também ao músculo ciliar. O músculo esfincteriano é responsável pela resposta sensível a luz, chamada de miose.

Nervos cranianos
Oftalmologia


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Q: How to display image result processing in Flask? So, I had an image grayscale I uploading on my web(I've done it), and I want to return show the result (mask from my model). How can I show it up on my flask web app?
I've tried my self and the result still like this:

which is, the result (mask) image not show up, but saved on my upload file not returning on the web.
and here is my coding for uploading the image:
@app.route('/predict', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def upload():
    if request.method == 'POST':
        # Get the file from post request
        f = request.files['file']

        # Save the file to ./uploads
        basepath = os.path.dirname(__file__)
        file_path = os.path.join(
            basepath, 'uploads', secure_filename(f.filename))
        f.save(file_path)

        # Make prediction
        preds = model_predict(file_path, model)
        imageio.imwrite(file_path.replace('_z_','_z_mask_'), np.uint8(preds*255)[0, :, :, 0])

        # Process your result for human
        # pred_class = preds.argmax(axis=-1)            # Simple argmax
        #pred_class = decode_predictions(preds, top=1)   # ImageNet Decode
        #result = str(pred_class[0][0][1])               # Convert to string
        result = ""
        return result
    return None

and here is my code on html for the result:

        <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg " id="btn-predict">Predict!</button>


When warmer summer temperatures cause spinach to bolt, it's time to replace it with the heat loving Malabar spinach. Although not technically a spinach, Malabar leaves can be used in place of spinach and make a lovely vining edible with bright fuchsia leaf stems and veins. The question is, how and when to pick Malabar spinach?
Both Basella rubra (red-stemmed Malabar) and its less colorful relative B. alba are herbaceous vines that can grow up to 35 feet in length in one season. Native to Southeast Asia and sensitive to cold, both can be grown as an annual in temperate climates.
Malabar spinach grows well in soils ranging in pH from 5.5-8.0 but, ideally, moist, well-draining soil high in organic matter is preferred. It thrives in full sun but will tolerate light shade.
Start seeds indoors 6-8 weeks before the last frost date for your area and then transplant outside when nighttime temps are at least a consistent 50 degrees F. (10 C.).
When can you begin harvesting Malabar spinach? Begin checking on the vine everyday beginning in the early summer. When the main stalk is strong and growing well, you can begin picking Malabar spinach.
There's no trick to Malabar spinach harvesting. Just snip leaves and tender new stems 6-8 inches long with scissors or a knife. Malabar takes to aggressive pruning and it will not harm the plant in any way. In fact, picking large amounts of Malabar spinach will only signal it to become even bushier. If you don't want or don't have the room for a lengthy vine, just harvest aggressively.
Malabar spinach harvesting has a lengthy season since snipping it back will only encourage more growth. You can continue to pick Malabar spinach as long as the plant is actively producing new shoots, all summer and into the fall, or until it begins to flower.
Flowers make way for profusion of dark purple berries. They can be used as a food coloring for whip cream or yogurt.
The leaves and shoots from Malabar spinach picking can be eaten fresh or cooked as spinach. The flavor of Malabar is not as bitter as that of spinach, however, due to its lower levels of oxalic acid. Most people who like spinach, kale, and Swiss chard will like Malabar, although others may not find it as appealing.
Younger leaves and stems are the most palatable. The older foliage has more high fiber mucilage, the same thing that gives okraits slimy character.


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AULD LANG SYNE, GUANTANAMO, MEGA, VERITY, NAZIS, ISRAEL
Parallel Worlds/Universes
The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), that President Biden signed on Monday, includes amendments that block him from taking steps to close the notorious prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
NDAA Includes Provisions Blocking Biden From Closing Gitmo
Despite widespread reporting of the Maxwell trial the MSM failed to report on the MEGA espionage / blackmail network...
According to Victor Ostrovsky, a former Mossad case officer: Mossad was financing many of its operations in Europe from money stolen from Maxwell's newspaper pension fund. They got their hands on the funds almost as soon as Maxwell made the purchase of the Mirror Newspaper Group with money lent to him by Mossad.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2021/12/30/mega-group-maxwells-and-mossad-the-spy-story-at-the-heart-of-the-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/
Dame Alun Roberts@ciabaudo
·18 Nov
TED VERITY, Daily Mail editor, was in a relationship with Jane Andrews, convicted murderer of her boyfriend, dresser to Sarah Ferguson and friend of Randy Andy. Just the man to expose Epstein and his pimp Ghislaine Maxwell.
Adolf Hitler and Emil Maurice together in 1924. There is a belief that Mein Kampf was written by Hitler's Jewish lover Emil Maurice.
Weimar Germany to Weimar UK: the Britain we once knew no longer exists
Rolf Mengele and Josef Mengele. There is a belief that Josef Mengele, the Nazi, was Jewish. According to Marc Berkowitz, a survivor of Auschwitz, Josef Mengele had a certain love for the Jewish people, was very knowledgeable about Judaism and even spoke Yiddish.
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But the Germans in Lola's prison were slapped and whipped. And I'm so sorry to have to say it, but they were also tortured.
The boy scout: the guards poured gasoline on his curly black hair and set it on fire. The boy went insane.
The men: they were beaten with a Totschläger, a "beater-to-death." It's a long steel spring with a big lead ball at the end. You use it like a racketball racket. Your arm, your wrist, the spring: they deliver a triple hit to a German's face.
Lola didn't tell me, but the Germans in her prison were dying. I found their death certificates in Gleiwitz city hall. One of Lola's guards told me, "Yeah, the Germans would die." He told me, "I'd put the bodies in a horse-drawn cart. I'd cover them with potato peels so no one would see. I'd ride to the outskirts and, after I threw the potato peels out, I'd take the Germans to the Catholic cemetery. To the mass grave."
www.ihr.org/jhr/v20/v20n1p-9_Sack.html
Latvia: Year of Horror, 1940 – The Year Assimilated Jews Turned on Their Neighbours.
www.chuckmaultsby.net/id299.html
Reinhard Heydrich, the mastermind of the Holocaust, is believed to have been Jewish. Walter Schellenberg in his Memoirs (p. 207) writes: "Canaris told me after Heydrich's death that he possessed proof of Heydrich's Jewish ancestry."
HITLER'S JEWISH NAZIS - PART 2 / HITLER'S JEWISH NAZIS - PART 1
JEWISH NAZIS? - Aangirfan
Erik Hanussen
Erik Hanussen, born Hermann Steinschneider, was a Jewish occultist. 'He instructed Adolf Hitler in performance and the achievement of dramatic effect.' He enjoyed the company of Germany's elite, becoming close with members of Ernst Rohm's Brownshirts (SA). 'He was a supporter of the Nazis despite his Jewish ancestry, which was an open secret.'
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Mishko 31 December 2021 at 04:49
Diederik Gommers (NL):"This whole Covid is peanuts."
https://youtu.be/oLW11yLFQug -English subtitles available
.... pay peanuts get monkeys?
It is safe to posit that there were a lot of Hitlers doing Hitlering.
Like the Hitler that kept offering truce and peace but was turned down
again and again.
Julie B 31 December 2021 at 20:44
Joanna Lumley on depopulation: "I don't think there's any denying the fact that there are too many people in the world. I know that's an awful thing to say, and people say you're Hitler if you say it, but the human population is growing now so fast, and they need so much more to keep themselves alive — and indeed in developing nations, to reach a standard they would like to reach, i.e. with more cars, more TV sets. Which is completely understandable. But if a hundred people want a new car, that's one thing — but if a million people want a new car… So I think the green issues — which is the cutting down of forests to make more room to graze more cows to make into more beef burgers — that comes from the quantity of people. And we've never addressed that."
But why wouldn't Lizzie give out special prizes to those doing her bidding? Of course she would!
Queen Elizabeth II (born 1926)
"One must remember that (St. Vincent's) resources are finite and cannot accommodate indefinite population growth. Families must plan their families just as the Government has to plan the Nation's development. There can be no long-term stability when the rate of population growth exceeds the rate of job creation."
And as for those who still don't quite get the "depopulation is climate change" issue:
James Lovelock, scientist and environmentalist (born 1919)
"Those who fail to see that population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are either ignorant or hiding from the truth. These two huge environmental problems are inseparable and to discuss one while ignoring the other is irrational."
So, as you walk through your local Sainsburys (or most other chainstores or various types) and see the following displayed up on their walls as they virtue signal their "Sustainability" credentials, remember what that sustainability is all about: Sustaining the earth's population at a level they want (and so many of you think you want because it's been programmed into you that we're overpopulated) in relation to how much land and resources they wish to use. https://earthlinggb.wordpress.com/2021/12/31/think-carefully-about-fighting-this-depopulation-agenda/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59824916
https://www.globalresearch.ca/truth-about-missionaries-kidnapped-haiti/5765936
Federal prosecutors quietly DROP their case against Jeffrey Epstein jail guards who falsified records
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10357641/Federal-prosecutors-quietly-dropped-case-against-Jeffrey-Epsteins-jail-guards.html
Sooo... the 1st of januari will be arriving soon: the god Janus
exhorting us to reflect on our past and future.
...the UK Column. I greatly admire them for what they do and how
they do it.
But: what is up with their unrelenting hard on for the military?
Shenanigans!
Anon 31 December 2021 at 09:37
KI commented -
It's what they don't say. But if you criticise them, you will be accused of spreading dissent among the "Truth community." ... New Year's blessings to you.
https://us.yahoo.com/finance/news/gm-heralded-plant-model-electric-162746562.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnaAcMcC_N8
https://transhumanist-party.org/
BBC criticised for giving Ian Maxwell airtime to defend sister Ghislaine
"Is this service to be made available to all convicted sex offenders?"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/31/ian-maxwell-bbc-radio-4-today-interview-sister-ghislaine
Yet more disgrace for the Maxwell Broadcasting Corporation
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fauci-goes-there-finally-admits-kids-not-being-hospitalized-covid
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/bertrand-russell-impact-science-society
Happy Hogmanay to all at aanirfan don't let The Sturgeon get you down LOL.
Pier Dole
@pier_dole
If anyone lives in Bristol can you pop to the Hilton. Allegedly Mark Drakeford the Welsh FM is staying there for NYE. We need a photo as he's told people not to go to England. Please RT so we get someone
Bernie's Tweets
@BernieSpofforth
I trust guests of the Hilton Garden Inn Bristol will provide excellent photographic evidence of Mark Drakeford in England to avoid his own Welsh lockdown and celebrate New Year.
Retweets for every single image!
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1476957207908565002?s=20
Anon 1 January 2022 at 00:28
HAPPY HOGMANY to you.
At the request of jews in USSR, the British agent Gerry Adams even had the IRA train ANC members to make bombs in South Africa.
https://youtu.be/otVBrSBavvo
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/newsmax-tv-robert-malone-covid-19/2021/12/30/id/1050536/
Why are leaders of the Labour Party members of the same anti-democratic, elitist organisation that child abuser Jeffrey Epstein belonged to?
https://labourheartlands.com/why-are-leaders-of-the-labour-party-members-of-the-same-anti-democratic-elitist-organisation-that-child-abuser-jeffrey-epstein-belonged-to/
31 December 2021 - Israel's first case of FLURONA. At a time when the world is grappling with Delta and Omicron variants, and the combination of both called 'Delmicron' variant of coronavirus, Israel has reported its first case of 'flurona'— a simultaneous coronavirus and flu infection.
The first 'flurona' virus was found in a woman who recently gave birth in a hospital in Petah Tikva city, in central Israel, Ynet news portal reported on Thursday.https://www.wionews.com/world/after-delmicron-its-flurona-israel-reports-first-double-infection-of-covid-and-flu-441504?fbclid=IwAR0Vr9TE2UhFEJJeT8wWBeh3999optOgm0PuDwSsVtRAeQLM5n17y8QvVX4
@wopthedo:
... Mandelson used to share same hotel as Ted Heath on Isle of Wight & we know the latter was ....
https://twitter.com/wopthedo/status/605054221264809984?s=20
Happy New Year Aangirfan and to all your readers.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find you on the New Years' Honours List. I thought (wrongly) that your efforts for journalism may have finally be recognised.
Never mind, there's always next year.
Happy New Year. You'll find our name, under BEM, next to that of ....


El Shazly's tour included stories of artifacts recovered outside in trash cans during the 2011 looting of the museum and the painstaking effort to fix damaged pieces, including an exhibit of King Tut statues that now included a petri dish of pieces that couldn't be put back onto the smashed artifacts.
As she gave the tour, she, like many Egyptians, looked for answers in the country's past that would offer solutions to a nation that's wracked by instability and too polarized to embrace a sense of nationalism. Even now, some Egyptians are attempting to forget their most recent history, trying to all but eliminate from the collective memory Morsi's yearlong presidency and the free election that had brought him to power.
It's a situation repeated throughout Egypt's cultural icons. At the Great Pyramids, tourism is so low that residents jump on taxis that approach the site and beat them with sticks in an effort to lure the few visitors into their shops.
Since Morsi's ouster, tour guides at the pyramids said, no more than three buses come each week. So empty is the only-still-intact place among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that the nearby residents who once harassed visitors to take photos with their camels and horses no longer stake out the site.
At the museum, there's no longer any money to care for the building or the artifacts it houses. Employees shell out their own money for materials they need to do their jobs. One woman was so disturbed by the dirt on the window-paned roof – the same roof the looters climbed through during the 2011 uprising to steal 54 artifacts – that she climbed up herself to clean it.
El Shazly sent out a call to friends on Facebook for her tour. The only price was a willingness to buy an admission ticket to the building. As her friends gathered, the tour guides stared at her group of nine with jealousy: It was the largest of the day.
El Shazly paid 75 Egyptian pounds, about $11 – the rate non-Egyptians once paid to visit the museum – and asked her friends to do the same. The lonely man at the ticket counter thanked each visitor for purchasing a ticket.
El Shazly began the tour at the Namer Palette, which dates to 3100 B.C. and contains one of the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions, describing the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt.
"Morsi was not from Upper Egypt," a friend chimed in, referring to the former president's divisive tenure.
At the time of Mubarak's ouster, Egypt was building a new museum near the pyramids so that more artifacts could be displayed. El Shazly estimated that at least half the museum's artifacts are in storage.
"I work here, and I have not seen everything," she said.
As she walked her friends through the Old, then the Middle and New kingdoms, one friend asked how officials could transfer the objects to the new site safely, in light of the rampant violence and some attempts to loot the artifacts.
Another friend asked whether the new museum would be air-conditioned to better preserve the artifacts. The current museum is not, and the objects are displayed behind glass. El Shazly didn't know.
Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt for 17 years in the 14th century B.C., attempted to change how Egyptians practiced religion. He eliminated polytheism and called for the worship of Aten, the sun, instead. Like Morsi's, who tried three millennia later to infuse Egyptian politics with the beliefs of the Muslim Brotherhood, Akhenaten's efforts triggered a backlash.
Nearby was a limestone statue of Akhenaten holding an offering tray. The statue was one of 25 artifacts that were recovered after the looters stormed the museum during the uprising. Protesters at nearby Tahrir Square found it in a trash can, el Shazly said. The tray had been smashed on the museum floor, and el Shazly's colleagues rebuilt it.
"It was the most important piece stolen," she told her friends, a look of sadness coming over her.
In 1922, Howard Carter uncovered King Tut's tomb, the largest discovery of an undisturbed Egyptian burial site. A huge part of the museum's second floor is devoted to the find, including a gleaming mask made of 24 pounds of gold. Visitors once lined up by the hundreds for a glimpse of the famous mask, but during el Shazly's tour only a dozen came by.
Nearby, two statues sat in a simple glass case, a petri dish of shards nearby. Looters left the two pieces behind, museum officials think, when they realized that the wooden statues were only gold-plated. But the damage was done, and the shards are a reminder of the impossibility of repairing it.
El Shazly's love of Egyptian history came through as she walked the exhibits. "I love these," she often began as she explained an artifact. She talked of the celebrities she'd once guided through the museum.
With tourism money so low, el Shazly has started a "Friends of the Egyptian Museum" group on Facebook, so that those who love the works as much as she does may help preserve them. She hopes that one day people will sponsor the protection of particular artifacts, such as the 3-inch statue of Khufu, who ruled Egypt around 2850 B.C. and for whom the largest of the Great Pyramids was built.
"For our future, we must protect our history," she said.


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Oscar Mammì (ur. 25 października 1926 w Rzymie, zm. 10 czerwca 2017 tamże) – włoski polityk i ekonomista, deputowany, minister w kilku rządach.

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Z wykształcenia ekonomista, pracował w sektorze bankowym. Zaangażował się w działalność polityczną w ramach Włoskiej Partii Republikańskiej. W 1968 po raz pierwszy został wybrany do Izby Deputowanych. Sześciokrotnie z powodzeniem ubiegał się o reelekcję, sprawując mandat poselski do 1994 w okresie V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X i XI kadencji.

W latach 1970–1971 był podsekretarzem stanu w resorcie przemysłu, handlu i rzemiosła. W randze ministra wchodził w skład pięciu włoskich rządów. Był ministrem bez teki odpowiedzialnym za kontakty z parlamentem (między 1983 a 1987), a także ministrem poczty i telekomunikacji (od 1987 do 1991). Był inicjatorem uchwalenia w 1990 przepisów dotyczących konkurencji na rynku nadawców radiowych i telewizyjnych.

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Zmarli w 2017


As Paint Township nears the day that it will run out of money for its police department, state police are monitoring the situation and will respond to calls in the area if needed.
"The state police will always respond to calls for assistance that require the state police services," state police Cpl. Ed Thomas said. "This includes requests for assistance from citizens who have no municipal police available to their community."
In addition to the township, the police department covers Paint, Windber, Benson, Central City and Scalp Level boroughs. The township is having a cash-flow problem. Solicitor Dennis Stofko said at a township meeting Wednesday that supervisors will need to decide what to shut down if additional funding is not available.
Paint Township asked Windber Borough for a cash advance of $90,000 to help fund the police force. Windber made a counter offer that called for the resignation of township treasurer Andy Tvardzik, who refused to leave his post.
Thomas said state police have been keeping an eye on the situation.
"We've basically been paying attention to what's going on so if the need arises we can be as prepared as possible," he said.
Paint Township has not made a formal request to the state police for coverage. Somerset County Control has not been notified of any changes.
"We would like as much notification as possible so we could consider planning and analyze the number of incidents to know how much more manpower would be needed," Thomas said.
Not having a municipal police force can impact other emergency services. Windber fire department Battalion Chief Bob Haddad said that having state police instead of municipal police leads to delays in response times to an emergency. He said police protect the fire department and ambulance members during different types of calls. The police department helps with traffic control at fires and obtaining tow trucks at accidents. Haddad said not having local coverage could cause extended waiting times at incident scenes.
"It certainly is a benefit to all communities to have their own police department, especially a department that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week," Haddad said.


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100 Ultimate Soul, Funk and R&B Grooves for Alto Saxophone and Eb Instruments Book/MP3 files
Format: Book/MP3
Product Code: USFRG-E
Author: Andrew D. Gordon
Publisher: A.D.G. Productions
Series: 100 Ultimate Soul, Funk and R&B Grooves
Publisher SKU: ADG178
Instrumentation: E Flat Instruments
Andrew D. Gordon, world renowned music educator, author of over 60 music educational products, has previously written numerous books on flute styles such as: "100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Saxophone", "100 Ultimate Jazz Riffs for Saxophone", "The Blues Scale for Saxophone" as well as another book that A.D.G. Productions publishes "Ultimate Funk Grooves for Saxophone" authored by Ben Tompsett which have all been well received by students, teachers and musicians all over the world.
As playing funk styles is a passion of Andrew's, he has written this instructional book "100 Ultimate Soul, Funk and R&B Grooves" based on the influences of the great Funk, Soul and R&B artists such as: James Brown, Herbie Hancock, The Crusaders, Average White Band, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Ramsey Lewis, Booker T and The MG's, MFSB, Billy Preston etc. Besides the afore-mentioned styles Andrew has also added a few grooves that are Afro-Caribbean such as: Latin, Reggae and Calypso.
Each of the 100 grooves have been recorded with the Saxophone part playing along with a rhythm section of guitar, bass, drums, keyboards and in many of the grooves, percussion. There is also a three minute Play-A-Long track for each of the 100 grooves minus the Saxophone part so that you can practice along with the rhythm tracks adding up to over 5 hours of Play-A-Long tracks.
A Spotify playlist containing the songs that have influenced the grooves can be listened to. https://open.spotify.com/user/adgpro/playlist/7qb2ijcpIvl1D9AULTU5Ei
Tons Of Runs For The Contemporary Pianist - By Laverne


These are some lies we made up about Starke.
A huge toad has every now and then been seen mounted on a motorcycle on a shadowy road near Starke.
William Shakespeare is every now and then perceived in a home in Starke.
An extraterrestrial from deep space has been said to have been spotted on several instances in a Starke home.
A giant aardvark can every now and then be observed pulling a dead body from the freezing water of Alligator Creek before sunrise.
A minotaur is frequently seen showing up in a bathroom mirror.
A giant basilisk has allegedly been made out on one or two occasions frightening people down at Heilbronn Spring around midnight.
A space man can regularly be spotted having a seat on a couch in a residence right next door to Starke.
An martian voyager from the cosmos may be noticed very frequently late in the night rushing after a passing car on a dark highway close to Starke.
A frightening skeleton has now and then been perceived in the backseat of a Ford by the driver setting eyes on the ghost in his rear view mirror late in the night.


While there are countless brands of matcha available that claim to be "premium top quality matcha" you'll want to check their tests and certifications. Many of the matcha products available on the market are made from poor quality leaves and contaminated by lead. Our matcha is made from 100% USDA certified organic green tea leaves sourced from the finest tea plantations in Japan. We also have our matcha tested by a third-party lab for product quality and purity, so you can be sure you're not ingesting harmful chemicals. We maintain the highest standard, and all our product test results are available to the public.
Generally, the leaves undergo an oxidation (often termed "fermentation" in common tea processing terminology). This process produces the distinctive reddish-brown colour of rooibos and enhances the flavour. Unoxidised "green" rooibos is also produced, but the more demanding production process for green rooibos (similar to the method by which green tea is produced) makes it more expensive than traditional rooibos. It carries a malty and slightly grassy flavour somewhat different from its red counterpart.
In Canada, green tea is defined as a dry-based mixture and the sale of it is regulated by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). It is one of the foods for which a standard of identity is specified according to the Food and Drug Regulations. It should contain not less than 33% water-soluble extractive (determined by official method FO-37 which is the determination of water-soluble extractive in tea) and the total ash should between 4% to 7%.
I wasn't a tea drinker before getting this tea, and I have to admit, I really like it. I have about 2-3 glasses per day with just a little bit of honey...very good. I bought this tea to see if it would help with my allergies. I doing some research that was one of the claims from several web sites, and it has to be true if it's on the web....right? :) I'm skeptic, but I thought even if it helped a little it would be worth it. So...I don't know if it was a matter of timing and the allergens all dropped the day I started drinking this tea, but I haven't taken an allergy pill in 7 days. I was taking them daily, sometimes twice a day. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't call this a miracle cure. There are days where I've had some issues with allergies, but congestion has been far less than before. So I have to say that for me, I did seem to help. So even if all the health claims are only 25% true....it's probably worth it. If you're looking for tea that has a nice flavor and no caffeine, give this one a try, I don't think you'd be disappointed.


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August 17, 2015 August 17, 2015 Fiction, zines Leave a comment blake's 7cometbuscross club praguegreen day
Cometbus Portal Deluxe
I don't like doing reviews, so here are my thoughts on the cometbus//green day zine that you can still buy at microcosm publishing [should still be in stock]
In the spirit of the Gupter Puncher zine, I added Blake's 7, zine shop portals and prague into this thing to try and hold your attention…
Lisbon London Zagreb Ljubljana none of them had cometbus on tour with green day in china so I ended up at the cross club in prague with Joanna.
Avon's book said it was famous for creatives & socialists & sometimes anarchists and if you went at the right time of day they might have the cometbus zine you're looking for.
I didn't go there first – I trusted Avon, he wasn't moral, he was going to shoot Vila and dump his body off the ship just to reach escape velocity in season 4 episode 11, and he did shoot Blake [at his most Mexican-looking], but he had no reason to lie this time – I went to another place that sold zines but that was closed so I left one of my mega man zines under their shutter blind and headed to the cross club.
The other zine place never got back to me, fuckers, even though I left my e-mail. I try not to dwell on things like this but it's hard, especially when I wrote the word 'e-mail' in Czech.
The Cross Club…
it was well-designed and the floor was sticky from the night before and I guess it was the right time cos they had the cometbus zine, issue 54, and more than that, they had a portal in one of the back rooms that led to other zine stores including one in Hong Kong that I'd never heard of, and from that portal you could even go further, to all the planets in Blake's 7, which never looked that Continue reading →
July 31, 2015 Fiction, horror stuff Leave a comment horror slovenewentworth miller euro sex tour
Wentworth Miller [Michael from Prison Break] in Ljubljana
Plane lands. Airport no bigger than a post office. Walk around a little, but nowhere really to walk to. Get the bus into Ljubi…Ljubla…fuck it, into Loobylana. Mountains in the distance look like they have snow on top, but could just be white rock.
Mountains don't go away. Lean in close to the window and really think about what that stuff is. Nothing to confirm it, but come up with theory: dirty snow sometimes looks like white rock.
Get bored and look at seats around me. All empty. Think of Anna. 'Europe's creepy. You should go to Seattle instead.'
Try not to think of Anna.
Mountains leave and Loobylana appears. Lots of buildings, none of them more than four storeys. This is the capital?
The hostel is bleak. Looks like a military barracks. No cushions or beanbags…only so many hard-edge surfaces I can take.
Check phone – still no word from Anderson about the script. Beginning to think he prefers to write his own.
Go for a walk by the river and see lots of French people. Lots of Germans too. Had always thought this, but now I know – all Germans look like Billy Fichtner.
Take a path up to the castle on the hill at 11pm. No lights, no people. Feel a little scared, but keep going, hoping the environment will provoke ideas.
The castle walls are covered in red light. Makes me think of Ninth Gate, Polanski, Depp. Walk over a wooden plank bridge and expect something to pull me under. Nothing does. It's creepy quiet up here.
Idea – Tenth Gate? Unrelated character from original goes up to Loobylana castle at night and crosses into different dimension. Use red light a lot. Put something scary under the plank. Beggars maybe. Continue reading →
July 16, 2015 January 31, 2019 blake's 7 redux, Fiction, sci-fi stuff, [movies] thoughts + spoilers 2 Comments blake's 7redux episodeswelsh perm = mexican revolutionary
Blake's 7 [Redux] // S01E01 – The Way Back
INT: DOME, FAR FUTURE WITH 1970'S SET BUILDERS
Reluctant Perm on head follows man and woman who may or not be main characters outside of a dome in that forest near Southampton .
'I don't know where we're going,' says Perm.
'To a new set,' says nameless female.
'Will there be plot?'
'There will.'
Reluctant perm increases reluctance by a few per cent because they're outside and the Federation – without Riker or Sisko or Picard, only those corrupt admirals who cropped up every now and then – do not tolerate perms wandering outside the dome, especially welsh perms playing fanatics based on Mexican revolutionaries that most people don't know about.
INSERT:
Emilio Zapata, a Northern Mexican, shot rich people and never dropped poor people in the shit just so he could go and poke drunk college students in Cancun.
Cancun Census 1917: Population: a lot, many rich, but zero zapatas
END INSERT
'I've been what?'
'Brainwashed,' said the old-ish man.
'I don't remember that.'
'Welcome to brainwashing.'
'[Welsh swearword].'
'I wish I had longer to explain,' said the old-ish man who had hoped this role would stretch out for more than a single episode [stay longer in the dome, Terry, copy Reds, remember Reds? Yeah, they talked a lot, about socialism, revolution, people liked it, copy that, no, you're sticking with the perm, fuck you then], 'but we're about to be massacred.' Continue reading →
July 10, 2015 July 10, 2015 Fiction, horror stuff, Oli Johns Leave a comment don't shoot Nick Noltenick nolte of horrorrussian killer
The Deterritorialisation of Nick Nolte
Nick Nolte the wildman drunk woke up after a long night of reading, drinking and smoking and [with light storming in] realised he was no longer Nick Nolte.
'Shit…'
As he brushed his teeth in the bathroom he further realised he hadn't been Nick Nolte for a long time.
'Shit, padre…'
He showered, put his contacts in and tried to figure out some kind of time scale.
Twenty years?
Longer?
That cop film…the Eddie Murphy thing…was that it?
He walked into his second living room, in the beach pad bought by Nick Nolte the mad scientist in that green monster film, and thought about what he should do next.
A few seconds later he went sideways and thought about why he'd come to think of this in the first place.
There were all those books he'd been reading. The ones Walter said would give him trouble.
But, shit…just fiction and philosophy, he thought.
Cela and the Life of Pascal Dirty. Camus and the third man. Celine and the long journey through the night. Malaparte and…what was it…Virus? Disease? Sartre and the nausea. Takahashi and the Sayonara Gangsters. Hesse and those two guys…Nazi and Goldman.
Shit, just fiction and ideas…
He shrugged and went back to thinking of that other thing, the plan, what he should do next.
Nick Nolte the wildman drunk stood in front of the bathroom mirror and combed his hair. He brushed his teeth again, whiter than white, then smiled to the other.
'Beautiful,' he said. 'A Goddamn Philandropist.'
In the police station the first arrestee smirked and said, 'no reason, man.'
He was slapped twice then put back in the cell.
The second arrestee smirked and said, 'fuck you.'
He was given a 'fuck you' back, slapped and put back in his cell.
The seven arrestees that came next were all pretty much the same way. Continue reading →
July 6, 2015 Fiction, sci-fi stuff 1 Comment new trek seriesstar trek pitch
Pitch for new Star Trek series – Part 3 [Episode list]
We've done the general outline in Part 1 and the character bios in Part 2, now for some of the episodes of the first season…
Picture above taken from random Trek comic, looks like Chris Pine from the movies with no brain.
These are just vague ideas without much flesh.
The doctor seems to get a lot of episodes, so could just hold one or two of them back for later seasons.
Needs more focus on the two captains, especially the captain who's been demoted. Actually, there's a parallel there…I didn't notice it before…the other captain has been promoted due to the deaths of its superiors, whereas the female captain has gone the other way, equally fast. Should do something with this, though not sure what. It can't be too overt whatever it is…
They get captured by aliens and are forced to play on a giant snakes & ladders board?
The new alien race doesn't feature much. Too understated? Don't want to frontload everything and turn into another 'Heroes', but too much slow burn and we might not get a second season…
Pilot episode
It starts with a Federation ship in orbit, making third or fourth contact with the new alien race that will become more involved as the series progresses. The female captain meets the alien envoy and answers/avoids questions about all the terrible things Starfleet has done over the last 50 years or so. Some of it will be from other Trek series, like ignoring the occupation of Bajor, and other stuff will be new, like the alliance with the Klingons and looking the other way when they did some immoral things.
They go around the ship for the first 20 minutes, introducing the security chief and the doctor and a boy genius who is the son of the first officer. Then the Romulans appear and say it's their turn to talk to the new aliens. A standoff ensues until one of the new aliens is revealed to be a spy and the female captain is shot. The boy genius tries to stop the spy beaming off but his incompetence causes a power surge in the console and blows half his face off. Continue reading →
June 26, 2015 June 26, 2015 Fiction, sci-fi stuff 2 Comments new star trek seriesstar trek pitch
Pitch for new Star Trek series – Part 2 [Characters bios]
Note: for Part 1, see the post below
Part 3, with the episode bible, will be up soon-ish…
Notes: it's important, I think, to have the characters played by fresh faces. Give new blood a chance, especially minority actors/actresses who otherwise wouldn't have a chance in Hollywood. E.g. don't cast Denzel Washington as the female Nigerian Captain.
Diversity is important, but don't make it a plot point unless it's relevant. Trek has always been a utopic vision, so modern politics should stay out of it.
Exceptions will probably be made for the following topics: religion, drugs, non-binary gender, gay rights, racism, sexism, socialism, wealth distribution, punishment of criminals vs rehabilitation, gender equality, animal welfare, the environment, corruption, classism, nepotism, censorship and safe sex.
Don't fall back on sexual tension.
Don't fabricate conflict where there is none. The characters are either varied/ideologically opposed or they are not.
Don't let all the characters believe Starfleet is best.
Don't make everyone perfect.
Add more sex.
And conflict.
Captain/ensign [Nigerian] – At the start of episode one, she's the captain defending [unconvincingly] the Prime Directive and her ship against renegades from the new alien race. By mid-episode, four years later, she's been demoted to ensign and is serving on a different ship. What the hell happened to this woman?
She was born in Lagos, home of the Institute of Quantum Physics & Other Stuff, the most prestigious institute in this field on Earth. One of the episodes might have her going back there to see their new discovery, which turns out to be a mini-black hole that can talk.
The idea behind showing Lagos as an advanced super-city is to make a counterpoint to people who think Africa is accurately represented by that naked guy shaking a spear at the fallen alien ship in Independence Day.
What else… Continue reading →
June 23, 2015 Fiction, sci-fi stuff 2 Comments new star trek seriesstar trek pitchtrek in Brighton
Pitch for new Star Trek series [featuring Brighton]
Note: this is the first of three parts. Next up will be the character bios and then the episode bible…
Image taken from a Trek comic, not sure which
The greatest threat to the Federation is not an opposing culture like the Borg, Klingons, Romulans etc.
It's death by homogeny and blandness and everyone being almost exactly the same and standing around starships without any dialogue while the main cast talk about plasma manifolds and dilithium sex dolls and…
It's a similar culture, exaggerated.
It's an alien race that gives a shit about other races and is willing to interfere, no matter what stage of development they're at.
It's an enemy/friend that also believes the first rule of the Prime Directive is wrong.
What do these new aliens actually believe?
They believe that any race, no matter how primitive, should be contacted and assisted. They believe in education and improvement. They believe a species should not have to suffer war after war for centuries before enlightenment and Space travel.
They believe alien girls living on volcano planets should not be left to die or talked about like objects in Picard's living room.
Basically: Any species is ready for the stars. It's just a matter of education.
Their approach: Aggressively socialist [similar to Chavez or Cuba – they're clearly a bit nuts, and stubborn, but they're also moralistic towards the poor]
The dilemma for the Federation: Should they try and stop them?
So when is the series set?
The concept is adaptable, so it could be either:
i] 10-20 years after the Dominion War – The Federation, the Klingons and most of the Alpha Quadrant are a mess – the only ones who aren't completely depleted are the Ferengi and the Romulans [it turns out they didn't commit as much of their military to the war as they claimed, added to the fact that they were in the war for a shorter length of time]. The Federation is looking for new members/resources and explores a new area of Space where the new aliens have already set up a mini-alliance of 4-5 systems. Continue reading →