Do you remember Aditi Sharma who played the leading lady in the TV series Gangaa? Yes, the actress is now all set to give a strong performance in the forthcoming Punjabi film Subedar Joginder Singh. Even though the film has Punjabi superstar Gippy Grewal as the leading man, Aditi plays his wife. And mind you, this one is inspired by a real life character.
Yes, Aditi Sharma, who has played integral roles in Ladies vs Ricky Bahl and Mausam, will be playing Subedar's wife Bibi Gurudayal Kaur. And she is confident that it has been one of the strongest roles of her career. From changing her perspective towards the life of an army man's wife to how she was convinced to do the script, the film has been a life changer in her life.
Aditi Sharma in an exclusive chat with Bollywood Hungama speaks about her much awaited Punjabi film and also the kind of TV projects she is looking forward to.
The film is based on the life of Subedar Joginder Singh. How important has the role of Bibi Gurudayal Kaur been in his life?
We have taken some cinematic liberties and weaved it as a love story. We have tried to show how they both met by destiny and have bumped into each other often. Because it is a biopic of an army man, the wives generally have a major contribution. When I was reading the script, I realized how strong an army man's wife needs to be. I never thought of it before in my life. I started respecting them more because when their family member is going to fight a war, they have to be so strong because somewhere deep down they are aware that they may not come back. In fact, depicting it is a scene in the film which was also showcased in the promos where my character tries to stop Subedar Joginder Singh. Even though sub consciously you know that he is doing it for the country and it is a great honour yet the fact never changes that the army man is a husband too. He is family. Just like my character is aware that it is his duty to go to the battlefield yet.
Subedar Joginder Singh had always said that I will take care of the country and the country will take care of you [to his family]. However, I must say it is a rather sad plight to see that these promises have remained just promises. I have met army families including the real family of Joginder Singh. Many times, the commitments made by the government are never fulfilled. However, these are not a part of the film.
What characteristic of Bibi Gurdyal Kaur Banga were you attracted towards the most?
Her simplicity and bravery! No matter the kind of fear she feels within her heart, she always put on a smile. That courage is mesmerizing truly! These were some important elements that made me fall for the character.
After doing a progressive TV series like Ganga which breaks myths on child marriage and widow harassment, what kind of shows are you looking forward now?
Ganga wrapped up in June and in July I started with Subedar Joginder Singh. At the moment, I am concentrating on my forthcoming Punjabi films that will be releasing this year, within the next few months. When it comes to TV, it is all about the subject and it should excite me. Like in Subedar Joginder Singh, it is his biopic and I am a part of the film. Even though I am his wife in it, it is just a part. I have to like the overall story. I have to like it as an audience. Even for Ganga, the case was similar. Be it any medium whether it is film or theatre, the character and script is important. Typical saas-bahu stuff doesn't excite me. It has to be progressive in its approach.
You have shared screen space with Ranveer Singh [Ladies vs Ricky Bahl] who is now a superstar and also Shahid Kapoor [Mausam], which other current star would you love to act?
If there is one actor I really like to act with is Ranbir Kapoor… the way he approaches his role and portrays his character it is very exciting. Of course, Ranveer and Shahid are fantastic too. Every one of them are growing with time and getting better at their art.


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Preview: Redemption the agenda for both Dr. Crokes and Slaughtneil
Posted in: Kerry GAA , Derry GAA and Club
Something's got to give on St Patrick's Day.Not one of these players has lifted the Andy Merrigan Cup, though a great many have watched others hoist it aloft at their expense.
It's ten years since Dr Croke's were beaten after a replay by Crossmaglen Rangers on a day when John McEntee saw two yellows but no red.The player was taken off as a precaution with ten minutes to go and afterwards explained that one of those cautions was meant to be no more than a tick in referee Eugene Murtagh's notebook.
Either way, it was a miserable ending for the Kerry side, and Colm Cooper has no doubt agonised over that Paul Hearty penalty save in the years since. The Gooch set up David Maloney's goal but that was their only score of the second half as the Armagh men won 0-13 to 1-5.
It's been a long road back and not everyone has made it. Six starters from 2007 began the semi-final win over Corofin while injured Eoin Brosnan missed out against the Connacht champions.
For Slaughtneil, 12 of those who started the victory over St Vincent's also lined out from the beginning two years ago on March 17against the same Galway side. That's a lot of men with a lot of hurt going into this Friday.
Redemption will be the word in both camps. Learning from defeat, making sure eventual glory is its legacy.Ostensibly, Slaughtneil would be considered to be the more athletic team, and certainly their performance against St Vincent's would do little to convince otherwise.
Aristocrats from Kerry would often have seemed to be vulnerable against that type of team, and that shortcoming could be traced to big-day defeats to Crossmaglen and even Ballymun Kickhams.
Yet the win over a Corofin side that looked to be stacked with primed athletes — part greyhounds, part machines — suggests they can live with whatever is thrown at them now.
Chrissy McKaigue will throw himself at Croke's from the get-go, as he did to Diarmuid Connolly throughout the semi-final, as he also did with the opening score of the club hurling semi against Cuala. He's that sort. Christopher and Paul Bradley, not to mention Shane McGuigan, are rarely shy in front of the posts either.
Croke's have a wide range of threats in their attack. Daithi Casey won Munster club player of the year and that was largely down to his hat-trick in the provincial final win over The Nire.
In the semi-final, former Kerry captain Kieran O'Leary scored 0-5 from play, while Casey turned goal provider for Gavin O'Shea.
That's not to forget the primary attacking weapon, the Gooch. The versatility of the star man is a fascinating aspect of the final.How do you deal with arguably the greatest football in the history of the sport? McKaigue seems an obvious man but any man-marking job means Cooper can dictate what part of the field they occupy.
Not that Gooch would want to marginalise both his and McKaigue's effect on the game by taking him on a tour, but it would open that option if Croke's decided their other 14 players were the better team. It seems unlikely.
The flipside for Croke's, should Cooper go to centre-forward, is that McKaigue can drive from deep — offering his side forward thrust and the possibility of scores. We've seen Philly McMahon's athleticism cause Cooper trouble, and the Derry star is cut from the same cloth. Cooper would need to make every possession count if the 33-year-old is to go toe-to-toe with the Slaughtneil talisman.
There's often the talk of trying to hammer the hammer and for both sides, it will be about nullifying either Cooper or McKaigue. Special plans will be made, they have to be.
Maurice Deegan is the man in the middle and he'll be under the microscope. Both teams will wonder how to play him, if they should call him by his first name, shake his hand before throw-in — always trying to get the edge.
Croke's are fancied, but if Slaughtneil can turn over kingpins St Vincent's, they'll fear no one.
The Andy Merrigan Cup has got to go somewhere though, and we think it might just be to Kerry rather than Derry.
Dr. Crokes vs Slaughtneil, Friday March 17th, Croke Park, 5pm

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How to Train Your ConFusion is happy to present our 2020 Guests of Honor!
Pro Guest of Honor: Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley is the author of The Light Brigade (March 2019), The Stars are Legion and the essay collection The Geek Feminist Revolution, as well as the award-winning God's War Trilogy and The Worldbreaker Saga. Hurley has won the Hugo Award, Locus Award, Kitschy Award, and Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer. She was also a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Nebula Award, and the Gemmell Morningstar Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Popular Science Magazine, Lightspeed and numerous anthologies. Hurley has also written for The Atlantic, Writers Digest, Entertainment Weekly, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, Bitch Magazine,and Locus Magazine. She posts regularly at KameronHurley.com.
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Creative Guest of Honor: Brandon O'Brien
Brandon O'Brien
Brandon O'Brien (he/they) is a performance poet, science fiction and fantasy writer, media critic, teaching artist, and game designer living and working in Trinidad and Tobago. His short stories, essays and poetry has been published in in publications such as Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, and sx salon, as well as anthologies such as Sunvault, Ride The Star Wind, and New Worlds, Old Ways.
His work is focused on using speculative lenses to reframe marginalized and Atlantic realities, imagine radical futures, and prescribe togetherness, awareness, and rebellion as forces for positive change leading into uncertain times.
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Fan Guest of Honor: Bogi Takács
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Bogi Takács is a Hungarian Jewish agender trans person (e/em/eir/emself or they pronouns) and a resident alien in the US. E is a winner of the Lambda award for editing Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, and a finalist for the Hugo and Locus awards.
Eir debut poetry collection Algorithmic Shapeshifting is out now from Aqueduct, and eir debut short story collection The Trans Space Octopus Congregation is coming Fall 2019 from Lethe Press.
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Julie Lesnik is a biological anthropologist and author of Edible Insects and Human Evolution (2018). As a world leader in the insects-as-food movement, Lesnik argues that this nutritious resource has been consumed by billions of people all over the world for millions of years. In 2016, as an advocate for the sustainability of cultivating insects for food, Lesnik organized and hosted the first U.S.-based conference dedicated to edible insects, bringing together over 200 people with representatives from a dozen countries. Lesnik is also an active public scholar, communicating her research to broader publics through countless talks and interviews, including podcasts such as Ologies and news sources such as National Geographic and NPR.
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Gateau de semoule better than cream of wheat pudding!
This was another favorite of Mémé Marie-Louise always pushing for healthy desserts. This meets her criteria with lots of iron, low fat, and a delicious taste. Frankly, you could do worse than eat this for breakfast!
Soak 3/4 cup golden raisins in a cup with 1 tbsp rum and 3 tbsp water for at least half an hour stirring once in a while.
Bring one litre of milk with 1/2 tsp salt, 2 tsp vanilla extract and 3/4 cup sugar close to a boil in a 4 quart non-stick pot, turn the heat down and add slowly while stirring a cup of wheatlets or cream of wheat. Stir for 4 minutes, cool down. Stir into that four eggs beaten like for an omelette, the raisin mix, and the zest of half a lemon or orange.
For the caramel, clean a stainless steel pot thoroughly, add 4 tbsp sugar, 3tbsp water, 1 tbsp lemon juice and heat up to golden brown. If the sugar remains white and becomes crusty, your pot was not really clean, but the lemon juice helps. Watch like a hawk! As soon as it is barely golden brown, remove from the heat and add 4 tbsp water careful of splashing sugar on your hands. Right away pour this in a crown mold or a pie dish. Add the cream of wheat mix and smoothen. Bake for 40 minutes at 325. Cool down, refrigerate 3 hours, see if you can take out of the dish to serve with the caramel on top by flipping over a serving platter. Serve very cold. This pudding is enough for eight adults or six children at the most, trust me!
The wheat is wheat semolina also called wheatlets, fine to medium.
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I love that. My mother used to make this without the fancy caramel.


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120Km/Hr. es el tercer álbum de estudio de la banda mexicana Allison, el álbum fue publicado el 2 de octubre de 2012, tras casi 2 años de ausencia. El álbum cuenta con riffs más pesados incluyendo una colaboración de TTS de Here Comes The Kraken en la canción "Matar o Morir". Es el último trabajo de Manolín como bajista de la banda antes de su salida en 2013.

Lista de canciones
 120Km/Hr.
 16
 No Hay Distancia
 Lili
 Soy Lo Que Soy
 Luna Amarga
 Matar o Morir
 Conexión (Waiting & Waiting)
 Quiero Llegar a Ti
 Escapar
 Vamos Otra Vez
 Vete al Infierno
 Matar o Morir (feat. TTS de Here Comes The Kraken) (versión alternativa)

Créditos
 Erik Canales - Voz, Guitarra
 Abraham Isael Jarquín "Fear" - Guitarra
 Manuel Ávila "Manolín" - Bajo, Coros
 Johanan Lam Moreno - Batería

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Enlaces externos
 Allison Oficial Facebook
 Allison Oficial Twitter

Álbumes de 2012
Álbumes de Allison
Álbumes en español
Álbumes de pop-rock

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Роберто Габриель Грау (; 18 марта 1900, Буэнос-Айрес — 12 апреля 1944, там же) — аргентинский шахматист, национальный мастер.

Профессиональный журналист.

Биография
Чемпион Аргентины 1926, 1935 и 1938 гг. (в 1928 г. сохранил чемпионское звание, поскольку Д. Река, победивший в круговом турнире, уклонился от матча за титул; в 1936 г. защитил титул в матче с Хак. Болбочаном).

Чемпион Южной Америки 1922 и 1928 гг.

В составе сборной Аргентины участник неофициальной и пяти официальных шахматных олимпиад (трижды играл на первой шахматной доске). Общий результат: +79 −44 =42 (60,6 %).

Победитель турнира в Росарио (1929 г.).

Участник крупного международного турнира в Сан-Ремо (1930 г.).

На апрель 1939 года в международном рейтинге набрал 2580 баллов и, таким образом, занял 39-е место среди шахматистов мира.

Один из основателей шахматного общества Буэнос-Айреса и национальной шахматной федерации.

В 1924 г. от Аргентины подписал декларацию о создании ФИДЕ.

Участвовал в организации Международного турнира в Буэнос-Айресе в 1939 году. Постоянный представитель от Аргентины в ФИДЕ. Представлял страну на конгрессах в Париже, Лондоне, Варшаве, Стокгольме и Буэнос-Айресе.

Р. Грау — автор четырëхтомного труда под названием «Tratado General de Ajedrez» (Общий трактат о шахматах), впервые опубликованного в 1940 г.

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(Sec. 2) This bill amends federal bankruptcy law with respect to a "covered financial corporation" incorporated or organized under any federal or state law (other than a stockbroker, a commodity broker, or a domestic or foreign insurance company or financial institution meeting certain criteria) that is: (1) a bank holding company; or (2) a corporation that exists for the primary purpose of owning, controlling, and financing its subsidiaries, has total consolidated assets of $50 billion or greater, and whose annual gross revenues or consolidated assets meet specified tests.
(Sec. 3) The bill adds "Subchapter V - Liquidation, Reorganization, or Recapitalization of a Covered Financial Corporation," setting forth requirements and prohibitions regarding: (1) commencement of a case concerning a covered financial corporation; (2) a special trustee and bridge company; (3) special transfer of the property of the estate in bankruptcy; (4) treatment of qualified financial contracts and affiliate contracts; (5) licenses, permits, and registrations; (6) exemption from securities laws; and (7) inapplicability of certain avoiding powers.
A debtor holding company may transfer the assets (including executory contracts and unexpired leases) of a covered financial corporation, including the equity in all of its operating subsidiaries, to a newly-formed bridge company over a single weekend, during which a 48-hour stay of debt-collection proceedings (except payment and delivery obligations) shall apply.
The bill permits conversion to chapter 7 (Liquidation) of a case under subchapter V if certain conditions are met.
The Bankruptcy Court may not order an assets transfer unless it determines by a preponderance of the evidence that a transfer is necessary to prevent serious adverse effects on financial stability in the United States.
(Sec. 4) The judicial code is amended to require the Chief Justice of the United States to designate at least 10 bankruptcy judges to be available to hear a Subchapter V case in bankruptcy. Bankruptcy judges may request to be considered for such designation.


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Kestutis John "Ken" Bungarda (born January 25, 1957) is a former American football tackle who played college football for Missouri (1975–1978) and professional football in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Toronto Argonauts (1979) and in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco 49ers (1980).

Early years
Bungarda was born in 1957 in Hartford, Connecticut, and attended Livingston High School in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. He played college football for the Missouri Tigers from 1975 to 1978. He played as a defensive end , (10 tfl and 44 tackles in 1978), at Missouri and received the nickname "Tarzan". Missouri defeated Notre Dame ,3-0  the  defending National Champions at South Bend,Ind. the first game of the season 1978, at Nebraska ranked #2 for the last game of the 1978 season at Lincoln,Neb. Finishing the year with Liberty Bowl win vs LSU.

Professional football
He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the 11th round (278th overall pick) of the 1979 NFL Draft. He instead signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL, appearing in four games during the 1979 season. In 1980, he signed with the San Francisco 49ers and appeared in 15 games. He suffered a knee injury during the 1981 season as the Starting left Offensive Tackle for the San Francisco 49ers, 1981, SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS WON SUPER BOWL XVI that year 1981, has a Super Bowl Championship Ring XVI, San Francisco 49ers,.. next two years spent on the 49ers Injured Reserve, IR.

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American football tackles
Toronto Argonauts players
San Francisco 49ers players
Missouri Tigers football players
Players of American football from Hartford, Connecticut


Established in 2015, the Replica Motors Centre is a full scale vehicle crash test laboratory servicing a range of customers, including local and international car OEMs, government legislators, insurance providers, universities, and consumer rating bodies.
The Test Centre is NATA accredited to perform ADR, ECE, FMVSS, JIT, and ISO compliance testing and is registered with the Department of Transport (DOTARS TFI #: T2741). Since 2015, the Test Centre has performed side, pole, and off-set frontal impact testing for the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP).
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Airlines and airports to spend $33 bn on cyber security in 2017
Airlines and airports worldwide will spend an estimated $33 billion in 2017 as additional investments in cyber security and cloud services.
5% of revenues earned by airports around the world will be spent on upgrading their IT systems and Cloud applications.
The SITA Air Transport IT Trends Insights 2017 has revealed some encouraging news as far as cyber security investments by airlines and airports are concerned. The report states that in the current calendar year, airlines around the world will spend a total of US$24.3 billion, or 3.3% of their revenue on cyber security and cloud services.
Even though airports will spend a considerably lesser sum of US$8.43 billion on cyber security, they will still spend a healthy 5.05% of their revenue on the same. The report adds that 70% of airlines and 88% of airports will either increase their investments in cyber security and cloud services next year or will keep their investments at the same level as it is now.
'The air transport industry is going through a digital transformation and focusing its attention on protecting the business and passengers; making it more efficient; and improving the passenger experience. Cyber-attacks are a very real threat in the highly interwoven air transport industry so building solid defences is essential,' said Ilya Gutlin, President, Air Travel Solutions at SITA.
In fact, airlines and airports have now identified cyber security as their number one priority. Around 95% of airlines and 96% of airports will be pouring money on cyber security initiatives over the next three years. At the same time, 95% of airlines and 85% of airports will also invest in cloud services over the next three years.
'When it comes to IT investment, airports and airlines are aligned to provide better, more secure service to customers. The interdependencies built into air transport systems mean investments and improvements in all these areas, by airlines and airports alike, will continue to contribute to a strong global industry,' Gutlin added.
Major airlines across the world have been targeted by hackers in the recent past. In 2015, Malaysian Airlines announced that a hacker group named Lizard Squad had compromised its Domain Name System (DNS) and redirected the airline's visitors to a different page owned by the hackers.
In June, British Airways also suffered a major IT glitch that affected operations and left 75,000 passengers stranded. It later turned out that the glitch was caused by human error after a systems engineer mistakenly switched off the power supply to the airline's IT systems.


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Q: Export to PDF and Prompt User for Folder Path and File Name to Save I can't figure out how to prompt the user for a folder path and the save name. Below is the code I have gotten to work.
Sub PrintToPDF

ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet 1","Sheet 3").Select

ActiveSheet.ExportAsFixedFormat _
Type:=xlTypePdf, _
Filename:="test.pdf",
Quality:=xlQualityStandard, _
IncludeDocumentProperties:=True, _
IgnorePrintAreas:=False, _
OpenAfterPublish:=True

Sheets("Sheet 1").Select

End Sub

Thanks for the help!

A: The code below will prompt the user to select a location and filename to save the pdf as.
Dim file_name As Variant
file_name = Application.GetSaveAsFilename(FileFilter:="Adobe PDF File_ (*.pdf), *.pdf")

If file_name <> False Then
  ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:=file_name
  MsgBox "File Saved!"
End If

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Citizens United Decision Threatened by Supreme Court "Technical Error"
A significant "technical error" in the wording of a petition now before the U.S. Supreme Court may force the Court to issue a ruling as early as June that will effectively negate their 2010 decision in the controversial election financing case commonly known as Citizens United.
Citizens United may be effectively reversed, right now, within two months, for this 2012 election...but quick public action is needed to help make this happen.
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The Eleventh Amendment Movement (TEAM, http://www.11thAmendment.org), a non-partisan political action association based in Hawaii, will argue the "technical error" among other 11th Amendment constitutional issues in a court filing in the current case of American Traditions Partnership vs. Bullock (Montana). That case involves a recent Montana Supreme Court decision that upheld the state's own anti-corruption election finance laws in defiance of the federally mandated Citizens United ruling that allows for unlimited corporate spending in state elections. Montana's decision has now been petitioned for appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court has not yet decided whether it will hear the appeal.
"Montana said 'NO WAY!' to Citizens United and the 11th Amendment to the Constitution says the Supreme Court has no constitutional authority to hear any appeal," said Adam Furgatch, a spokesman for TEAM, in an interview. "The 11th Amendment says that the Court may only hear cases involving a state government under very specific circumstances, and those circumstances are clearly not present in the Montana case. The Court should refuse to accept the Montana case, and then Montana's anti-corruption election laws will stand and Citizens United will be effectively negated, right here, right now."
Carl Mayer, a prominent New York civil liberties attorney acting as lead counsel for TEAM added, "Contrary to recent news reports, the Court has not yet agreed to take this Montana appeal. They must recognize the 11th Amendment restrictions placed upon them and deny the petition and refuse jurisdiction."
Mayer explained that, "TEAM's position includes comprehensive 11th Amendment arguments to deny the Court jurisdiction, but there's also a technical error which, by itself, could get the case thrown out." The technical error in the appeal petition is how Montana is named as a defendant. The state's Attorney General (Steve Bullock) or other officers may not be named as defendants in their official capacity, yet the Citizens United petitioners did just that and made an "important blunder", according to Mayer.
Mayer also confirmed that a refusal by the Supreme Court to hear the Montana case would allow the state to continue enforcing its strict anti-corruption election laws and to ignore Citizens United's provisions for virtually unlimited corporate election spending. "The Court's refusal would also serve as precedent for other states to enforce their existing anti-corruption election laws or to enact similar laws, with some confidence that the Supreme Court will not overturn them," Mayer said.
"Citizens United may be effectively reversed, right now, within two months, for this 2012 election," Mr. Furgatch emphasized. "But quick public action is needed to help make this happen, as there are imminent May 8th and May 18th Court filing deadlines. Despite the time-crunch, TEAM has an action plan to get this done."
TEAM's website urgently calls on the Attorneys General of all other states to support Montana with an 11th Amendment "friend-of-the-court" legal brief that all states may file with the Court. TEAM's primary message says that "all states have a unique opportunity to stand in solidarity and resist an unconstitutional power-grab by the Federal Judiciary, and to reject Citizens United according to the will of the majority of their citizens." The public is also strongly encouraged to get involved, and TEAM's action plan provides simple steps an individual can take in support.
Mr. Furgatch stressed that support for TEAM's message is coming from across the political spectrum. "This is a non-partisan effort that may be endorsed by all those opposed to the Citizens United ruling," he said. "Political leaders as diverse as President Obama and Senator John McCain agree that the Supreme Court made a huge error, and polls show that an overwhelming majority of voters think it was a bad decision."
He summed up TEAM's efforts, "Enforcing the 11th Amendment to deny the Supreme Court jurisdiction in the Montana case will allow Montana's election laws to stand. It will be a huge blow to those who would profit from unlimited election spending, and be a huge step towards getting corrupting money out of politics."
Case Citations from this story:
1. Citizens United v. FEC, 130 S.Ct. 876 (2010)
2. Montana Supreme Court decision: Western Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Attorney General, ___P.3d___, 363 Mont. 220 (Mont. 2011)
3. Petition for a Writ of Certiorari: American Tradition Partnership, Inc., fka Western Tradition Partnership, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Steve Bullock, Attorney General of Montana, et al. – U.S. Supreme Court Docket # 11-1179
Contact: Lia Martin: 310-464-6225
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Posted bySeek-the-truth February 28, 2022 March 1, 2022 Posted inCOVID
I start by posing a question in the tradition of the ancient great Socrates. Where do you think this picture is from? It looks like it could be in the Ukraine, but it is not. It is Canada instead. What could be the reason for the assault on this pickup truck? Is there a terrorist or one of the ten most wanted loose in Canada? Alas, it is only a public protestor, one who objects to government policy, policy which many of us consider tyrannical. COVID tyranny, it appears, has reached a frightening new level.
COVID tyranny has spread around the world the last two years as if it itself is a virus. As COVID has diminished in severity, as we have learned more about COVID: who it impacts, what its effects are, how to treat it, etc, as the deaths per every 1,000 new cases have continued to drop, the fear and the sense of desperation emanating from Western democratic governments has only increased. Why do these governments move in the direction opposite the one which logic should lead us? Why are so many of their citizens following their lead, often without much serious thought or questioning?
One would think as we learn more about the COVID virus itself and as we become more adept at treating COVID patients, the rhetoric and assault on freedoms would be ratcheted down. We have seen a bit of that downward ratcheting of restrictions as elections draw near (and a brand new narrative is written), but in most places around the world, there is no other other reason for backing off that I can discern. Politicians who take a chance on freedom and have supported freedom the last year are doing well. Florida Governor DeSantis is up for re-election this year. His policies towards more freedom and a more open society are obviously popular and turning Florida into a solidly red state, so why aren't more following his lead? The most recent polls show the race to be a runaway at this early stage:
Contrast these numbers with Biden's. Biden is in the opposite COVID camp and his numbers are cratering fast. Do you think there is a link between COVID policy and popularity?
Too many governments around the world, especially the Western, more affluent ones, who don't have enough real problems to solve apparently, believe they have all the "experts" in their employ, experts our politicians can direct to tell everyone else how to live their lives, from cradle to grave. When people object to COVID policy as mild-mannered Canadian truckers finally did, they threaten their government's stranglehold of power over our lives and the government reaction is not what we would expect from a free and open society.
Former American president and founding father John Adams issued the following warning a couple hundred years ago:
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. (John Adams, October 1798)
His words have become more profound recently.
First, what about the value of life, our most basic right protected by the Consitution? Nearly fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the "right" to abortion throughout the country (abortions had been allowed only in certain states before that time). Former President Bill Clinton famously said a few years later that abortions should be "safe, legal, and rare". They are some sort of necessary evil in his estimation. Does this Clinton statement still hold today? Abortions are still legal, albeit with some often-ignored restrictions. Whether or not they are safe is debatable (watch the movies Unplanned or Gosnell and tell me what you think), but they are certainly no longer rare. Today, any threat to reduce, limit, or restrict access to even a single abortion is met with an outrage usually reserved for events like attacks on our country. Take such a position and you are declared a misogynist for opposing women's rights, never mind any discussion about the child's most basic right of life. I also wrote on this topic previously: A-child-is-not-a-choice; Never-again
The point is that the respect for life, not just the lives of mothers at certain points in time, but the lives of all individuals, the unborn and the living, has declined dramatically throughout my lifetime. In the last two years, COVID has clarified so much of what people really think. In the U.S. today, there are many who do not care about the lives of their political opponents (they should all go to Hell and don't deserve the same rights as those of us who are "in the know") as well as those who advocate for no medical treatment for the unvaccinated (I have shared many such examples in the past; see below as well). They see no moral problems with this type of thinking.
They want to believe they are saving us all from ourselves. Who made them God? We often object to God's terms of salvation. How do you think we will react when our politicians, our school boards, our colleagues and our neighbors try to save us instead?
Stop judging, so that you will not be judged. For with whatever standard you judge, you will be judged, and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. Why do you focus on the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not consider the beam that is in your own eye? How will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye,' when, in fact, you have a beam in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. (Matthew 7:1-5)
Why is it folks who want to deny treatment for the unvaccinated cannot see that the overweight, the out-of-shape, the drunk driver, the drug-addicted, the smoker, and so many others are accountable for their own poor health as well? We do not hold these folks accountable for deliberate mistakes that impacted their own health. Such a standard is not sustainable. I have been vaccinated and that makes me a good person, and so by extension, if you have not been vaccinated, you are a bad person and you must be made to pay for your stubbornness–at least until you think exactly like me. That's a horrible standard. Where is the compassion? Where is the attempt to understand someone else's unique circumstances? Where is the concern for those who are caught up in bad situations? Is there any logic or thought at all in this point of view?
Would these folks deny medical care to the drunk driver injured in an accident because he is most likely to blame for his own situation? We have never thought in those terms before, so why now judge the unvaccinated person by a different standard than the drunk driver?
Or maybe they want to extend their judgment to all those who lack the foresight and good judgment they believe they have themselves and have (hopefully) followed? That's a really scary place to be if you ask me; you just might be wrong or maybe you made a mistake yourself once or twice. Furthermore, we are warned such judgment will come back to us in another form some day. Attempt to correct your brother or sister when they go astray, but do not condemn them. Of course, folks who think this way may not accept the words of Matthew or the other gospel writers; they see Christianity as just one of the many alternate paths in a sophisticated modern world, a wide world of wonderful choices (many of which are less restrictive and less demanding than Christianity), or if they are Christians, they do not truly understand the teachings of their own faith, and that is the real problem.
The decline of our national pride in religious, Constitutional, and moral values, the problem that Adams warned of, gained traction more than fifty years ago, but that decline has gained considerable momentum during the last fifty years; more people accept the alternative points of view and choices this world offers them. The nihilistic "tear down the past and all its icons" view is now institutionalized (in education, government, news media, social media, and corporate America) and is no longer restricted to a few fringe folks. The past was not perfect, yet this crowd's plan is to throw the baby out with the bath water; they cheer themselves on for success in doing so, and think little of what comes next. Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
Religion, which our founders, for the most part, thought very important, seems not-so-important to many today. Billy Graham, the famous American evangelist, spoke about Canada many years ago. Graham was much more optimistic about Canada's prospects in 1978, but he clearly recognized their lack of church attendance back then. Go to the 1:30 mark to listen to his comments about Canadian church attendance.
He didn't say it, but I will: first, the religious fervor departs, then we leave our churches, and then we find our nations in awful situations with no moral compass and no purpose, like Western culture today.
My parents said similar things about Europe when they lived there off and on in the 1950's and 1960's: beautiful places with beautiful churches which are mostly empty. What has happened to their values since their churches emptied? You can say church attendance is not a good measure of our future problems. You can also say that there are good people who do not attend church and that church does not necessarily make you a good person. You can say spirituality and belief in God is more important than attending church. Your conclusions would be wrong on all points. When we move away from community worship, we lose our perspective and judge our own actions through our own distorted lenses. We need our fellow parishioners to hold us accountable and to help us stay in touch with our common values.
From what I can tell today the Christian Church is more alive in Africa and places where Christians are still persecuted than it is in first world countries in Europe, along with Canada, Australia, and the U.S. These so-called Christian, freedom-loving, nations are looking for new problems to solve and leave their mark upon, problems like climate change and systemic racism, largely made-up problems that less affluent societies with much more substantial problems cannot afford to focus on. The West is focused on the wrong game and will eventually pay a reckoning for it. Let's just return to God and the basics. We need revival.
So, collectively we abandoned organized religion (perhaps you call yourself "spiritual" or something nice sounding like that), then gradually we abandoned societal values, and today we all shake our heads as we watch the moral decay, increasing failures, and lack of common purpose from the most successful, affluent and richest countries in all of human history.
Many folks still don't see the connection among these events because enough time lapses in between so they cannot remember what life used to be like (nor can they look to history either because they probably do not know it either). They lament the problems we all see, but still do not see the need for revival nor how the neglect of God, Church, and communal worship is linked to so many of our problems. They look for new solutions to what they see as new problems, but many problems were solved by others long ago.
Human nature has not changed since time began, and we're not collectively smarter than all those who came before us. Accept that fact, please. We should look to past solutions for the future (this is why we are called "conservatives"). Don't rely solely on the past, but carefully prune and build upon the knowledge our ancestors provided us. Do not abandon it because you believe you live in a more enlightened age. Chesterton said this about 100 years ago:
"Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead . . . Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father." (from Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton)
Canada Tyranny
When COVID-19 became a household name in 2020, the initial overreaction was understandable. We learned more, yet countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Austria, and Germany stayed with such extremes, even after solutions and the data became clearer. California, New York, New England, and other U.S. states were no better. COVID was an opportunity to finally accomplish things we had never been able to do before–if only we could convince everyone the crisis must continue for a little longer. Leaders lectured us on the rules, but were caught time and again not following the rules themselves.
The last two years have been a nightmare, not so much because of COVID itself and the grave damage it has wrought. COVID has revealed the ills of our current culture: that we do not think logically or clearly and that we are being led more and more by our emotions. We are led by folks who call themselves experts, but are not all that smart themselves. What happens when something more life-changing than COVID impacts our culture? COVID is a big thing for sure, but it is not as much as we have been led to believe. It is not on the scale of World War II or other trying events in our history.
We are doomed if we don't wake up. Future events will impact us more deeply and we will not be prepared if we can't cope with events like COVID. Freedom disappeared in Afghanistan last year and Hong Kong the year before. These folks understand what they have lost. This year Russia invaded Ukraine and will likely install a puppet government soon. I expect it is inevitable China will invade Taiwan soon. These events should remind us of the lead up to WWII and how the West tried to appease the aggressors. Joe Biden tells us this week that liberty will win out in the end, but his empty words provide no solace for folks who have lost freedom yesterday. Think about this: how will we in the West handle the massive changes that could come from these future events? How will we respond to the loss of Western power that will diminish our current charmed status? We must be stronger than we have been to this point.
In any case, the past two years especially tell us we are ignoring the founding principles of our own Constitution, the document that has been a beacon to folks coming to our country from around the world. Folks who simply want to destroy the current system, are killing the golden goose; they don't seem to care about the future, unless it is their own short-term political one.
The last two years were bad, and then the tyranny got worse in 2022, the year it was supposed to all get better, the year we supposed to get back to normal. Canada has taken us to that new low.
Interestingly, my sampling of Canada's media show it is no longer sympathetic to its own government's increasingly strict policies.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/manning-canadas-increasingly-autocratic-government
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/kelly-mcparland-complacent-canada-is-changing-and-our-politicians-havent-a-clue
we've just learned that 400 trucks are enough to bring Ottawa to a standstill for three weeks. Taken separately they may not amount to much but at their core they share something potent: a belief in a wholly different world. Malcontents have always been there, but something — blame Donald Trump if you want, or the pandemic, or impatience with obvious injustices — has encouraged a determination to be heard, while the internet and social media has given them the means to challenge the beliefs with which we've so long insulated ourselves.
The Canadian government has determined that protesting is the problem. They don't like the protestors scrutiny of their policies. Some protests lead to riots and violence, so shutting down such out-of-control protests may make sense, but not these protests.
the "national crisis" in Ottawa, where no one's life was endangered and a major issue was what to do with all the kids the protesters brought with them. If the protesters had parked their pickups in some smaller, distant burg, would they have earned the same saturation coverage?
A few protesters lingered south of the blocked-off area. Tara Smyth said she had been at the protests all weekend and was now on her way home to Barry's Bay, Ont., with her dog. She said she understood the police needed to clear the streets but said it's not "right" they "have taken away people's rights to speak up for themselves."
"We have the right to come back once the roads are clear. We should be able to come back and stand on Parliament Hill and express our desires," she said.
Smyth said she wasn't concerned about the police potentially pursuing her for participating in the protests after she left Ottawa. "I haven't done anything illegal. I haven't caused any trouble," she said. "I followed all the orders of the police, and I'm not worried about any repercussion of me being here."
The Canadian leader, Trudeau, sought and quickly obtained authorization from Parliament to use the "Emergency Powers" act to shut down these protests. Maybe it makes sense to clear bridges and traffic routes that have been blocked, but you do not need an act of Parliament to do so. You also don't need to destroy protestors livelihood to clear the streets.
Trudeau was losing the public relations battle and his options were either to negotiate or to use force to expel protestors. He chose the latter. But it is not a just action. I would have thought negotiation would have been the only option for a truly democratic society. Canada's government is not so different than the U.S.; I thought they still believed in the sovereignty of the people. I never would have imagined two years ago that expelling legitimate and peaceful protestors would be chosen by any democratic, freedom loving nation. What's gone wrong in Canada?
Again, a clear and obvious double standard stands out in this action:
New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh made the answer to that pretty clear when he announced his willingness to grant the government the extraordinary powers it sought to clear the laneways around Wellington Street, but stipulated they must never be used against "Indigenous land defenders, climate change activists, workers fighting for fairness." Insisting that the rights of some Canadians deserve greater protection than others isn't normally a position you associate with Singh's party.
Did you catch that? The New Democratic Party Leader says this power must never be used against "Indigenous land defenders, climate change activists, workers fighting for fairness." Why protect the rights of some but not others? It is acceptable to use these tough measures against truckers and their financial supporters, but not against the other groups, groups that are more aligned with you politically? Imagine such a bill passing the U.S. Congress, one which perhaps said it is okay to shut down Black Lives Matter protests but not other protests, not protests for groups and issues that are more near and dear to our hearts. If honestly reported (that is a stretch at times), such a proposal would never be put to a vote. If anything, we want our government to treat everyone fairly and this Emergency Act is anything but fair.
Imagine too now that our own government went after your bank account because you participated in or perhaps simply just donated to a protest, and a peaceful protest at that. The U.S. Declaration of Independence guarantees "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness". "Pursuit of Happiness" was originally termed "Property", something a bit more tangible and easier to define. This attack on the livelihood (i.e. the property) of those not breaking the law is a dangerous precedent, but one that was clearly on the horizon the last few years. As mentioned earlier, the promise of Life has been under attack for more the last fifty or more years and the promise of Liberty is slowly being dismantled as well the last few years. Now, we are seeing attacks on Property, the last of these three major pillars provided by God and guaranteed by our system of government.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bank-accounts-of-some-freedom-convoy-supporters-will-remain-frozen-canadas-finance-minister/
TTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — Canada's Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland admitted Wednesday that the reason some Freedom Convoy supporters' bank accounts were frozen under the Emergencies Act (EA) was to "convince" them to "listen to reason," adding that some accounts will stay locked.
"These accounts, bank accounts, were frozen to convince people who took part in the occupation and illegal blockades to listen to reason," said Freeland, as translated from French during a press conference announcing the end of the EA.
What do we draw from this commentary other than it may not be acceptable to peacefully protest in Canada? Why do they continue to hound these folks? The emergency has ended, yet the beatings will continue apparently:
At the same time, Freeland noted some accounts will remain frozen. "I'd just like to stress that there are bank accounts that will remain frozen but not because of the emergency measures. There will be other orders, court orders, and others, and because of these orders the bank accounts may be frozen."
On Wednesday at the same press conference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he was ending the EA, saying "the situation is no longer an emergency."
Wow. What else can I say? The emergency has ended but the police, as well, will continue to track folks down. Why?
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/we-will-actively-look-to-identify-you-ottawa-police-chief-warns-departed-protesters
OTTAWA — Downtown Ottawa seemed eerily calm Sunday after the tumult of weeks of occupation, but as the last of the protesters headed away from streets now controlled by police, they were warned criminal charges could follow them home.
"If you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges," Ottawa police tweeted Sunday. A day earlier, interim Police Chief Steve Bell was asked whether police would continue to go after those protesters who had remained in Ottawa, even if they chose to go home at some point.
"The simple answer is yes," he said, adding the investigation would go on for "months to come."
"You have my commitment that that investigation will continue and we will hold people accountable for taking our streets over," Bell said.
Not only are they going after protestors in Canada, but they are going after folks in the U.S. as well, folks who supported these truckers financially. Supporting peaceful protestors is a problem? Kamala Harris actively and openly supported freeing BLM protestors, some of whom turned violent and were arrested in 2021. Contrast those folks with truckers who object to being vaccinated, object to obtaining a vaccine that has proven to have limited capability the last six months, and against a virus that is now in decline, and in a country which is already overwhelmingly vaccinated. Mr. Trudeau, sir: what is the problem?
But West noted in an email that even when the powers under the Emergencies Act expire "that doesn't mean that other tools, like the ones we saw used in provincial courts, won't apply." That includes the court order that put a freeze on U.S. Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo distributing the more than $8 million it has raised for the protesters.
I am concerned that COVID tyranny could continue spread as we grow accustomed to it. They are relenting in some places, maybe only because their game is up, but in Canada, the tyranny lives on. We must speak out against this.
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/ottawa-police-clear-streets-around-parliament-hill-bringing-weeks-long-protest-to-an-end
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said the act had allowed them to cut off significant funding for the protest, to help bring it to an end.
"This is another example on how the concrete and targeted measures under the Emergencies Act are being put into effect. We have been able to freeze at least 76 accounts, representing $3.2 million that were attributable to illegal blockades."
Something is very wrong here. Most Canadians supported vaccines and vaccine policies the last couple years. They have been more compliant than U.S. citizens it seems. But the most recent reactions from the Canadian government have gone too far even for Canadians. They recognize they are vindictive and more in-line with an autocratic government, even more so than the restrictions of the last two years.
The Canadian government towed these protestors' trucks after three weeks in Ottawa (by the way, private companies in Canada refused to tow them). Now, the government says they may be auctioning them to pay for the government's expenses. Governments never care about costs, at least not costs on this small scale, except when they use it as pretext for something else. They are attempting to put the protestors out of business, perhaps send them into homelessness, after the protests have ended? Why? Truckers who travel thousands of miles, mostly alone in their cabs are a threat to the future stability of the country? Are you kidding me? All this is for a virus that is clearly in decline at the moment. More on the numbers below.
Will they have elections in Canada soon? I don't know much about their election process, but Trudeau would likely be out as his party is falling in the polls. He survived this crisis, but for how long will he be able to maintain power? Why not follow the DeSantis method instead? It is clearly working in Florida. Don't politicians love to copy others' success?
I hope the Conservatives are better than the U.S. Republicans, but Canadian media is doubtful of them as well. If the Conservatives displace Trudeau's Liberal party it will be mainly because of Trudeau's failures not any positive message of their own, but at least discrediting such tyrannical policies would be a start.
While Canada may have changed, it's painfully obvious our political leadership is lagging woefully behind. None of the three major parties shows any indication of understanding what's happening around them, much less adapting accordingly, fixated instead on whatever immediate gain they can squeeze from the commotion. Our prime minister is an increasingly grumpy and distant figure who prefers insulting and disparaging opponents while defining which views he deems "acceptable." Conservatives spend more time hunting for leaders than searching for solutions and seem intent on plunging deep into the pool of eternal outrage.
https://thepostmillennial.com/conservatives-up-10-points-in-new-poll-amid-trudeaus-anti-freedom-fiasco
The poll asked respondents whom they'd vote for if a federal election were held at that moment. 39 per cent of leaning and decided voters chose the Conservative party, while 31 per cent of respondents chose the Liberals.
In my last COVID post (Covid-is-still-Trending-Down), I mentioned Ontario Governor Doug Ford; Ontario is the province of the federal capital, Ottawa. I know nothing about Ford or his party or what he or it have stood for in the past. I know his party is not as large as the Conservatives or Liberals, but I can discern he at least has a head on his shoulders and is listening to his voters. He is doing the right thing at the moment. Why is it so hard for others to follow this lead?
Ontario-Governor-says-we-are-done-with-this
"We also know that it doesn't matter if you have one shot or 10 shots, you can catch COVID. See the prime minister; he has triple shots, and I know hundreds of people with three shots that caught COVID. We just have to be careful."
Ford added, "We can't stay in this position forever."
"We've got to learn to live with this and get on with our lives. I bet if I asked every single person in this room, 'Do you want these damn masks on or do you want them off?' They want them off. They want to get back to normal. They want to be able to go for dinner with their families, " he said.
"Ontario will also lift proof of vaccination requirements for all settings at this time. Businesses and other settings may choose to continue to require proof of vaccination," the government said.
U.S. COVID deaths were down by almost 25% the past week. They are now a little above 1,550 per day (as of February 28), much less than a month ago. However, we've not done that well overall. The U.S. still ranks 18th world-wide in per capita deaths. Do you think it might be because we have ignored, not followed, science? Maybe that will change now.
Still, I would say things are looking up at the moment. Cases have fallen to below 62,000 per day (and they are still falling quite rapidly). This a drop of 760,000 from six weeks ago on January 13, a 92% drop in cases. We are lower than we were at the same time a year ago, even after the remarkable rise in cases in December and January.
UPDATE NUMBERS
Last summer, it looked like we might be nearing COVID's end, but it was not to be. The Delta variant struck over the summer and then Omicron this past winter. In addition, we thought vaccines were the silver bullet, but we have learned vaccine immunity wanes over time. It could not stop the spread of COVID during this past Fall and Winter. It helped some, but really not that much.
But this year could be better, or so some doctors tell us. Dr. Campbell in the videos below explains why we are in a good position now and what to expect:
Campbell-natural-immunity-questions-answered
Campbell-natural-immunity-explained
He notes both symptomatic and asymptomatic infection are offering good levels of protection and says it is remarkably fortunate that Omicron came and came at this time. He added that 98% of the people in the UK have some level of protection, either from vaccines or natural immunity. In addition, every time we get infected, we boost our immunity, so he concludes COVID will be endemic for a long time. Why do folks continue to tell us otherwise?
Our pediatrician in his newsletter also adds to this testimony.
8) Immunity post natural infection lasts considerably longer than post 2 dose mRNA vaccination. Antibody related immunity last roughly 6 months post vaccine only. Natural infection plus a vaccine dose lasted well north of a year. (Hall et. al. 2022) Again, this is only antibody related. T cell activity lasts much longer and with better mutational specificity. The bottom line remains that in multiple studies now, natural infection once vaccinated or the other way around vastly trumps vaccine alone. Again, it is highly unlikely that repeated boosters makes any sense for the vast majority of us. Only, the high risk groups appear to need boosters 4 and on.
In his video from this past Sunday, Dr Campbell laments why our politicians don't understand natural immunity.
Natural-versus-Vaccine-Immunity
God love you man. You are just trying to be honest and share your knowledge with us, but let me tell you about politics. The smarter politicians know the truth about natural immunity, but they think it is in their interest to mete out the information only to further their interests and not ours.
Australia has been quite a dumpster fire throughout the COVID era. For the last half of 2021, we started talking more about the limitations of the COVID vaccines, but Australia continued to rely solely on vaccines. Maybe it was not such a good decision. Omicron, which has been the least serious of all, the least pathogenic, impacted Australia more than any of the other strains. In the first two months of 2022, they experienced almost 90% of their cases (323K of 3.2M total) and 57% of their deaths (2,982 of 5,171 total). That does not look like they are improving and learning from mistakes, does it?
What a disaster, and what an overwhelming empirical case against their policies of 2020 and 2021.
Across the world things are moving in the right direction now as well.
On The Queen, COVID Tests and More
In the UK, Boris Johnson has lifted all COVID restrictions. The British seem on the right track at least. The Queen also got COVID, and you know what? It turns out the Queen is a right-wing, horse-medicine loving, conspiracy nut too, or at least her doctors are as they decided to treat her with Ivermectin. It appears to have sustained the 95-year-old throughout this ordeal. How much more could Ivermectin have done if shared more widely with all, not just well-known 95-year-olds in the UK?
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/queen-elizabeth-ii-has-covid-everything-we-know/
Back home, our family received our 'free' COVID tests from the Biden administration. We ordered them before we contracted COVID and the day they were available (which was exactly one year after Joe Biden promised he would begin shutting down COVID). The package took four weeks to arrive, and arrived three weeks too late to be of any use to us, a microcosm of American COVID policy, if you ask me. In fact, more than half the tests that were made available have not even been claimed by citizens, another microcosm of how out-of-touch our government is.
Our pediatrician also had a few interesting responses to his survey questions in this week's newsletter. Folks in our locale, at least, have moved on:
Are you going maskless now that the rules are loosening?
77 % say Yes
Are you planning natural infection from now on if you have no risk factors?
I am in agreement. Being low risk, my family will be mask-less and naturally infected from now on pending any changes in variants necessitating a differential response. For the higher risk among us, masking and vaccinating makes complete sense
In his newsletter, he also discusses risk of heart disease post-COVID. We should be aware of such things, especially if at risk:
11) Heart disease risk increases after Covid disease. In a massive Veterans Affairs study, Dr. Xie and colleagues noted that veterans who had recovered from SARS2/COVID-19 had dramatic increases in cardiovascular problems during the year post infection. . . . It remains critical from now on that all individuals that have genetic risk factors for these diseases get vaccinated and maintain an anti-inflammatory lifestyle. This disease is not going away according to current realities, therefore, self care is the only best option. If Covid eventually becomes a common cold, then great. If not, then prepare for your eventual infection.
I end with one final link from Senator Ron Johnson. I have not had chance to preview this myself but have heard it has a lot of good information. If you have not seen it already, take time over the weekend to carefully review and ponder. Senator Johnson has been a leading advocate for common sense with COVID, one of the few politicians who has stood up consistently for the regular folks like us.
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We developed transgenic plants overexpressing artificial microRNA designed to silence BdCAD1 or BdCOMT4. Both transgenes caused altered flowering time and increased stem count and weight. Downregulation of BdCAD1 caused a leaf brown midrib phenotype, the first time this phenotype has been observed in a C3 plant. While acetyl bromide soluble lignin measurements were equivalent in BdCAD1 downregulated and control plants, histochemical staining and thioacidolysis indicated a decrease in lignin syringyl units and reduced syringyl/guaiacyl ratio in the transgenic plants. BdCOMT4 downregulated plants exhibited a reduction in total lignin content and decreased Maule staining of syringyl units in stem. Ethanol yield by microbial fermentation was enhanced in amiR-cad1-8 plants.
These results have elucidated two key genes in the lignin biosynthetic pathway in B. distachyon that, when perturbed, may result in greater stem biomass yield and bioconversion efficiency.


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Q: Error when using cmake on vk_chopper So, I wanted to install Vulkan on ubuntu 16.10.
I decided to follow this guide
Unfortunately at step 9 get to the choppa, I got an error.
cmake .. did not work for me ; this is what happened
Log
ra141@ra141:~$ cd ~/vulkan
ra141@ra141:~/vulkan$ cd gl_vk_chopper
ra141@ra141:~/vulkan/gl_vk_chopper$ cd build
ra141@ra141:~/vulkan/gl_vk_chopper/build$ rm -rf ./*
ra141@ra141:~/vulkan/gl_vk_chopper/build$ export VK_SDK_PATH=/home/ra141/vulkan/VulkanSDK
ra141@ra141:~/vulkan/gl_vk_chopper/build$ cmake ..
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 6.2.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 6.2.0
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done

-- Processing Project gl_vk_chopper:
-- BASE_DIRECTORY = /home/ra141/vulkan/gl_vk_chopper/..
-- CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR = /home/ra141/vulkan/gl_vk_chopper
-- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXext.so
-- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXext.so - found
-- Looking for gethostbyname
-- Looking for gethostbyname - found
-- Looking for connect
-- Looking for connect - found
-- Looking for remove
-- Looking for remove - found
-- Looking for shmat
-- Looking for shmat - found
-- Found X11: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so
-- Found OpenGL: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so
-- Found GLEW: /home/ra141/vulkan/shared_sources/glew/include
-- Could NOT find GLFW (missing:  GLFW_INCLUDE_DIR GLFW_LIBRARY)
-- found Glew source code. Using it instead of library
-- VulkanSDK search paths:
-- VulkanSDK version:
CMake Warning at /home/ra141/vulkan/shared_sources/cmake/FindVulkanSDK.cmake:133 (message):
    VULKANSDK not found.
    either env. VK_SDK_PATH should be set directly to the right version to use (C:\VulkanSDK\1.0.1.1)
    or you can specify in cmake VULKANSDK_LOCATION to the folder where VulkanSDK versions are put (C:\VulkanSDK)

Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /home/ra141/vulkan/shared_sources/CMakeLists_include.txt:341 (find_package)
  CMakeLists.txt:44 (_add_package_VulkanSDK)
-- Vulkan Root : VULKANSDK_ROOT_DIR-NOTFOUND
-- Vulkan include : VULKANSDK_INCLUDE_DIR-NOTFOUND
-- Vulkan Library : VULKAN_LIB-NOTFOUND
-- Could NOT find VULKANSDK (missing:  VULKANSDK_INCLUDE_DIR VULKAN_LIB)
-- --> NOT using package VulkanSDK
-- --> using package AntTweakBar
-- Found ANTTWEAKBAR: /usr/include
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
X11_Xcursor_LIB (ADVANCED)
    linked by target "gl_vk_chopper" in directory /home/ra141/vulkan/gl_vk_chopper
    linked by target "gl_vk_chopper" in directory /home/ra141/vulkan/gl_vk_chopper
    linked by target "shared_sources" in directory /home/ra141/vulkan/shared_sources
X11_Xinerama_LIB (ADVANCED)
    linked by target "gl_vk_chopper" in directory /home/ra141/vulkan/gl_vk_chopper
    linked by target "gl_vk_chopper" in directory /home/ra141/vulkan/gl_vk_chopper
    linked by target "shared_sources" in directory /home/ra141/vulkan/shared_sources
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/ra141/vulkan/gl_vk_chopper/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
ra141@ra141:~/vulkan/gl_vk_chopper/build$
some help please?

A: Before running cmake, run the following command export VK_SDK_PATH=/path/to/vulkanSDK/version
Note, that is shall be full path (starting with /)
Be careful to run cmake .. from build folder. From the log, seems you start cmake from subfolder of the build folder. Better yet, clean it before reruning cmake:
cd build
rm -rf ./*
cmake ..


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CRISPR Treats Genetic Disorder in Adult Mammal
January 4, 2016 | By Ken Kingery
Duke University researchers deliver gene-editing system to mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Researchers have used CRISPR to treat an adult mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This marks the first time that CRISPR has successfully treated a genetic disease inside a fully developed living mammal with a strategy that has the potential to be translated to human therapy.
Researchers from Duke University had previously used CRISPR to correct genetic mutations in cultured cells from Duchenne patients, and other labs had corrected genes in single-cell embryos in a laboratory environment. But the latter approach is currently unethical to attempt in humans, and the former faces many obstacles in delivering treated cells back to muscle tissues.
Another approach, which involves taking CRISPR directly to the affected tissues through gene therapy techniques, also faces challenges, particularly with delivery. In the new study, Duke University researchers overcame several of these obstacles by using a non-pathogenic carrier called adeno-associated virus, or AAV, to deliver the gene-editing system.
The paper appears on December 31, 2015 in Science.
"Recent discussion about using CRISPR to correct genetic mutations in human embryos has rightfully generated considerable concern regarding the ethical implications of such an approach," said Charles Gersbach, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University. "But using CRISPR to correct genetic mutations in the affected tissues of sick patients is not under debate. These studies show a path where that's possible, but there's still a considerable amount of work to do."
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is caused by problems with the body's ability to produce dystrophin, a long protein chain that binds the interior of a muscle fiber to its surrounding support structure. Dystrophin is coded by a gene containing 79 protein-coding regions, called exons. If any one exon gets a debilitating mutation, the chain does not get built.
Without dystrophin providing support, muscle tends to shred and slowly deteriorate.
Duchenne affects one in 5,000 newborn males. Most patients are wheelchair-bound by age 10 and don't live beyond their 20s or early 30s. The mutation is on the X chromosome so female children with two X chromosomes should have at least one functioning copy of the gene.
Gersbach has been working on potential genetic treatments for Duchenne with various gene-altering systems since starting his lab at Duke in 2009. His lab recently began focusing on CRISPR/Cas9—a modified version of a bacterial defense system that targets and slices apart the DNA of familiar invading viruses.
While Gersbach has had success in cultured patient cells by using a jolt of electricity to punch holes in their membranes to deliver the CRISPR system, this strategy was not practical in a patient's muscle tissues.
"A major hurdle for gene editing is delivery. We know what genes need to be fixed for certain diseases, but getting the gene editing tools where they need to go is a huge challenge," said Chris Nelson, the fellow in Gersbach's laboratory who led the work. "The best way we have to do it right now is to take advantage of viruses, because they have spent billions of years evolving to figure out how to get their own viral genes into cells."
Nelson and Gersbach began working on packaging gene editing tools into AAV—the most popular virus for delivering genes today. They were assisted through collaborations with AAV experts Aravind Asokan, associate professor at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill School of Medicine, and Dongsheng Duan at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Duan also provided significant expertise from a long history of work on gene therapy for neuromuscular disorders.
To use viruses as delivery vehicles for gene therapy, researchers take all the harmful and replicative genes out of the virus and put in the therapeutic genes they want to deliver. While early virus types didn't work well for various reasons, such as integrating into the genome and causing problems or triggering immune responses, AAV thus far has proven special. It's a virus that many people are exposed to anyway and is non-pathogenic, but still exceptionally effective at getting into cells.
AAV is in use in many late-stage clinical trials in the United States, and has already been approved for use in one gene therapy drug in the European Union. There are also different versions of AAV that can preferentially go to different tissues, such as skeletal and cardiac muscle, so researchers can deliver them systemically.
But there's always a catch, and for Gersbach it was a matter of size.
"AAV is a really small virus and CRISPR is relatively large," said Gersbach. "It simply doesn't fit well, so we still had a packaging problem."
The solution came from Feng Zhang, an investigator at the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard. Earlier this year, Zhang described a CRISPR system from a different bacterium than the one commonly used.
In the natural bacterial immune system, CRISPR is the mug shot that helps identify the target DNA, and Cas9 is the blade that slices the strands. The large Cas9 protein typically used by researchers comes from the bacterial species Streptococcus pyogenes. After scouring the bacterial kingdom, Zhang discovered the much smaller Cas9 protein of Staphylococcus aureus.
Small enough to fit comfortably inside of AAV.
In the study, researchers worked with a mouse model that has a debilitating mutation on one of the exons of the dystrophin gene. They programmed the new CRISPR/Cas9 system to snip out the dysfunctional exon, leaving the body's natural repair system to stitch the remaining gene back together to create a shortened—but functional—version of the gene.
Besides being much easier and more efficient than replacing the dysfunctional exon with a working copy, simply snipping out the weak link is a strategy that would be effective in a larger swath of the patient population.
Gersbach and his team first delivered the therapy directly to a leg muscle in an adult mouse, resulting in the restoration of functional dystrophin and an increase in muscle strength. They then injected the CRISPR/AAV combination into a mouse's bloodstream to reach every muscle. The results showed some correction of muscles throughout the body, including in the heart—a major victory because heart failure is often the cause of death for Duchenne patients.
"There is still a significant amount of work to do to translate this to a human therapy and demonstrate safety," said Gersbach. "But these results coming from our first experiments are very exciting. From here, we'll be optimizing the delivery system, evaluating the approach in more severe models of DMD, and assessing efficiency and safety in larger animals with the eventual goal of getting into clinical trials."
The work at Duke was supported by the Muscular Dystrophy Association, The Hartwell Foundation, the March of Dimes Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Duke-Coulter Translational Partnership, and the Duke/UNC-Chapel Hill Clinical and Translational Science Awards Consortium.
"In vivo genome editing improves muscle function in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy." Christopher E. Nelson, Chady H. Hakim, David G. Ousterout, Pratiksha I. Thakore, Eirik A. Moreb, Ruth M. Castellanos Rivera, Sarina Madhavan, Xiufang Pan, F. Ann Ran, Winston X. Yan, Aravind Asokan, Feng Zhang, Dongsheng Duan, Charles A. Gersbach. Science, December 31, 2015. DOI: 10.1126/science.aad5143


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Stoneman Douglas student Emma Gonzalez rips Trump's response to Parkland shooting in powerful speech
By Eric Lutz
In an emotional speech Saturday, Emma Gonzalez — a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — torched President Donald Trump, Republicans and the National Rifle Association over their response to the deadly mass shooting that left 17 dead and more than a dozen wounded on Wednesday at the Florida high school.
"The people in the government who are voted into power are lying to us," Gonzalez said at an anti-gun rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Saturday. "And us kids seem to be the only ones who notice and are prepared to call B.S."
"Politicians who sit in their gilded House and Senate seats funded by the NRA telling us nothing could have ever been done to prevent this, we call B.S."
On Wednesday, Nikolas Cruz — a 19-year-old who had been expelled from the Broward County high school — allegedly used a legally purchased AR-15 to gun down his former classmates, as well as several school employees.
The shooting immediately spurred renewed calls for gun control, but Trump — who received millions of dollars from the NRA in 2016 — said in an address Thursday that the tragedy demonstrated the need to "tackle the difficult issue of mental health."
He didn't say the word "gun" once.
Gonzalez slammed Trump for that response, saying that Cruz "wouldn't have harmed that many students with a knife."
The student also called out Trump for a tweet he sent out the day after the shooting, in which Trump seemed to blame the suspected killer's classmates for failing to warn law enforcement about him.
"So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from the school for bad and erratic behavior," Trump tweeted. "Neighbors and classmates knew he was a big problem. Must always report such instances to authorities, again and again!"
"We did," Gonzalez said Saturday. "Time and time again."
"How about we stop blaming victims for something that was the shooter's fault?" she continued. "The fault of the people who let him buy the guns in the first place?"
Students, parents and faculty of the Florida high school have spent days demanding that politicians finally take action to prevent tragedies like the one they experienced Wednesday.
In a powerful interview with CNN, Lori Alhadeff — the mother of victim Alyssa Alhadeff — pleaded for Trump to take "action" in response to the shooting.
"I just spent the last two hours putting the burial arrangements for my daughter's funeral, who's 14," the mother shouted. "President Trump, please do something. Do something. Action. We need it now. These kids need safety now."
On Saturday, Gonzalez picked up those calls for action, blasting Trump and other politicians who have accepted money from the powerful gun lobby and rolled back regulations.
She called particular attention to Trump's rollback of an Obama-era regulation designed to make it tougher for individuals with mental illness to obtain guns — a reversal that was supported by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who on Thursday said, "We have not done a very good job of making sure that people that have mental reasons for not being able to handle a gun getting their name into the FBI files."
"You took that opportunity away last year," Gonzalez said Saturday.
The student said that Wednesday's tragedy would be a turning point in the gun debate and that Stoneman Douglas would be "the last mass shooting."
"To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you," she said, leading a chant of "shame on you."
She wasn't the only student to speak at the anti-gun rally on Saturday.
Delaney Tarr, a Stoneman Douglas senior, said in a stirring speech that she has gone from worrying over grades, college acceptance and her social life to "funerals, gun control and whether or not I'm going to be shot wherever I go."
"My innocence, our innocence, has been taken from us," Tarr said. "I'm 17, but in a matter of days I have aged decades."


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title: "Geeks Guide To Small Talk"
subtitle: "No I do not mean the programming language. I mean the social ritual hackers are stereotypically bad at."
date: 2016-05-28 05:20:26
author: "Shikher Verma"
header-img: "img/posts/smalltalk-bg.jpg"
comments: true
tags: [ Life ]
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After reading this guide you won't ever feel like this.

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I used to be a guy who hated talking for the sake of talking.
I always believed that talking should be for a purpose not for the sake of doing the act itself. My perspective on small talk
changed when I met my roommate at IIT Kanpur. Now when I look back and wonder how I got so good at small talk,
I like to jokingly say *"Labhansh happened"*! Labhansh is by far, the most talkative person I have ever met till date.
I got to notice first hand how small talk can help you build a humongous social network. In fact Labhansh's network
is so huge, that if I walk up to a total stranger in college campus, 9 out of 10, he would know who Labhansh is. Over
the period of two years I have collected notes and compiled them in a list of what I like to call "Labhansh Talk Strategies".
These are some tricks that you can use now and again to spark up a dying conversation or escape the awkward silence
 when you meet your distant acquaintances. I will share some of his best tricks with you today.

## The "Meta data"
What is meta? Every data that you have, has some meta data attached with it. Like any file that you computer has, will
have a name, a last modified date, size information. That is, data about data. Remember the time when you finished
discussing something and you had nothing else to talk about ? Well you could have easily extended the conversation
by talking about META.
This is the best strategy anyone can learn to get good at small talk. While having a conversation we actively decide what
is relevant to the conversation context and what is not. Most of us think that meta data of what we are talking about is
irrelevant to the conversation. This is where we are mistaken. And this is where most of the small talk happens. When ever
you get in a conversation with someone, think about what you are talking about. Mentally list the things you consider
are meta i.e. not the data itself but data about data. Like if you are talking about how hard hiking is. Then be sure to talk
about that one time when you went hiking with your friends. Now when you are done with that. **Repeat the process**.
Think about what is the meta data for that hiking trip. Maybe you bought new shoes for that trip. Talk about what brand it
was of. Now start talking about why you think that brand is better that others. This last part brings me to our second strategy.

## The "Opinion Man"
Most of the time we try to omit any opinion from our conversation. That may be necessary for controversial topics like
politics or religion. But people won't be offended if you share your opinion about some trivial thing like the brand of shoes you
prefer. Whats better, facebook or twitter ? Coffee or tea ? vim or emacs ? Okay maybe not the last one. Although everyone
knows vim rocks :P
"Meta" will only get the conversation going. "Opinion man" on the other hand has to potential to rekindle a dying
conversation by getting a response.

## The "Daily News"
Just assume the other person has subscribed to your daily update feed. Don't wait for them to ask "How was your day?"
They are standing right in front of you, aren't they? Thats sufficient. Start talking about how you woke up early today and
though of going for a run but ended up snoozing and dozed off again. Or how you couldn't find the other matching sock
and had to wear two different ones. Anything about your day. The "Daily News" is your ace conversation starter. However I
must warn you that it won't work as a ice breaker, it will only work with people you already know. Then of course apply the
 "Meta" and get the conversation going.

This was all about one part of a conversation; speaking. Now comes the part about listening. Its difficult to imagine how you
can control the conversation when not speaking but there are some neat tricks you can apply here too.

## The "Curious Investigator"
Most of the people don't like to listen to long speeches. But everyone loves to talk about themselves. All you would have to
do is keep asking questions. If they are talking about something cute that they saw a dog do. Ask them about if they ever had
or though of having keep a dog ? Don't stop at the answer you get. Like the "Meta", here too the key is too do this recursively.

## The "Lousy Listener"
This one is pretty straight forward. When you are stuck and can't apply any of the strategies above, just say,
"What did you say ?". Some time you aren't that alert and the conversation comes to a halt unexpectedly.
You weren't attentive enough to use the "Curious Investigator". You can't think of any "Meta". What you can do in these
situations is to deliberately hear only part of what the other person said and ask for clarification. Or even ask them to explain
an underlying assumption that they though would be known to you. Doesn't matter if you know it or not, thats not the point.

With these five strategies you will gain the super power to keep the conversation going with or without the other person's will.
:evil laugh: Most of the people will try to reach a closure before leaving a conversation. However with your awesome talking
strategies its you who decides when a conversation ends. But remember a great uncle once said, "With great power comes
great responsibility." Don't bore someone just because you can. Seriously learn to detect when its too much and stop.
Over time I have also discovered how to counter a small talk junkies. Maybe I will write a blog about that in future. Whats
your strategy for small talk ? Do you have a trick ? Do share it in the comments :)

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