CHENZHOU, China, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Millions remained stranded in China on Monday ahead of the biggest holiday of the year as parts of the country suffered their coldest winter in a century.
Freezing weather has killed scores of people and left travellers stranded before the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival — the only opportunity many people have to take a holiday all year.
It has also brought China unwanted negative publicity six months before the Summer Olympics in Beijing.
President Hu Jintao chaired an emergency Politburo meeting on Sunday for the second time in a week to discuss rescue efforts.
"We have to be clear-minded that the inclement weather and severe disaster will continue to plague certain regions in the south," said a statement issued after Sunday's meeting. "Relief work will continue to face challenges, posing a tough task."
The China Meteorological Administration said the weather was the coldest in 100 years in central Hubei and Hunan provinces, going by the total number of consecutive days of average temperature less than 1 degree Celsius (33.8 degrees Fahrenheit).
But it expected brighter weather ahead, though fog could become a problem and temperatures at night would likely still be below freezing, slowing the thaw.
"The weather over the disaster-stricken regions is likely to turn better in the next several days, but it is still necessary to remain alert for possible low temperatures, frozen rain, snow, freezing and heavy fog," said administration head Zheng Guoguang.
He added the cold snap had caught the country off guard, in an area unprepared for such heavy snow. But climate change could see more extremes in weather in China, Zheng warned.
Four people died after a snow-laden roof collapsed at a fuel station in the eastern city of Nanjing on Sunday, Xinhua news agency said. One person was killed in a stampede at Guangzhou railway station in the south as people rushed to board trains.
Roads and railways, some of which have been blocked for days, have started to move again, and fewer flights were being cancelled, state media said, offering a glimmer of hope.
Authorities in the southern city of Guangzhou said their priority was to clear the backlog of travellers, having cajoled millions of migrant workers to stay put and skip the holiday.
Elsewhere, efforts turned to restoring power and water, which some cities, such as Chenzhou in the south, have been without for more than a week, causing some to question China's ability to handle emergencies months before Beijing holds the Olympics.
"Without power the only information we have been getting is by SMS from the government," said Chenzhou resident Zheng Ninghong, tending a fruit stall amid the slush.
"There was one, I think, that said it would get warmer, but what we need is electricity."
China has largely avoided unrest throughout the crisis, in part due to hundreds of thousands of soldiers and paramilitary police that have been deployed around the country to help with disaster relief and crowd control.
Mobilising the might of the state, China has deployed more than 300,000 troops and nearly 1.1 million militia and army reservists to get traffic moving and ensure power supplies.
Pictures from Wuhan, capital of the central province of Hubei and lying at the middle reaches of the Yangtze and Han rivers, showed cars blanketed not by snow, but by ice. Riverside barriers and trees were draped in huge icicles.
The China Daily quoted Li Pumin, spokesman for top planning body the National Development and Reform Commission, as saying power plants in Beijing and Shanghai had only enough coal for less than seven days.


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Manchester Organists' Association
We are very grateful that Marc Murray, Director of Music at Bury Parish Church, and President of the Association in the 2018-2019 Season, has agreed to take on the role of Association Secretary.
Kevin Drury, organist of St Paul's Church, Sale, was installed as President at the Annual General Meeting in May 2021.
A President-Elect (i.e. President for the 2021-2022 Season) will be elected in due course.
Ken Fayle remains Treasurer, with the additional role of Data Protection Officer, while George Housley remains Membership Secretary.
Confirmation of the syllabus arrangements will be updated on this website regularly and also in the regular newsletters to members.
Syllabus 2021 - 2022:
16 October at 2.30pm. A visit to St Chad's Church, Withington, Manchester, M20 4WH. The organ has recently been rebuilt.
20th November at 2.00pm
Demystifying the Organ
An introduction to the organ, aimed at pianists.
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Пётр Григорьевич Петровский (1899 — 1941) — российский революционер, партийный деятель, делегат VIII, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV и XV съездов партии, 5 и 6 конгрессов Коминтерна, профессор.

Биография
Сын Г. И. Петровского, брат Л. Г. Петровского и А. Г. Петровской (Загер). Член РСДРП(б) с 1916, в 1917 окончил гимназию.

С февраля 1917 по февраль 1918 помощник секретаря, член Рождественского комитета РСДРП(б) в Петрограде. В 1917 секретарь Выборгского райкома РСДРП(б) в Петрограде, участвовал в штурме Зимнего дворца. С октября по ноябрь 1917 в Красной гвардии в Петрограде. С марта по май 1918 председатель Агитационно-организационной коллегии городского районного комитета РКП(б) в Москве. В июле 1918 помощник комиссара штаба 4-й армии на Восточном фронте, до сентября 1918 председатель ЧК при политическом отделе штаба 4-й армии, товарищ председателя Самарской губернской фронтовой ЧК. С октября 1918 в 22-й стрелковой дивизии 4-й армии. С ноября по декабрь 1918 комиссар штаба 4-й армии на Восточном фронте. С декабря 1918 по январь 1919 председатель Самарской губернской ЧК, заместитель военкома 22-й стрелковой дивизии, член Уральского областного революционного комитета. С января 1919 военком, начальник политического отдела 22-й стрелковой дивизии. С февраля 1919 заведующий Уральским губернским отделом управления. С февраля 1919 по февраль 1921  газеты «Яицкая правда» в Уральске, также с апреля по сентябрь 1919 председатель Уральского городского комитета РКП(б), председатель Уральского городского революционного комитета, с июня 1919 по июль 1920 секретарь Уральского губернского комитета РКП(б), с сентября 1919 член Правления Уральского губернского Союза работников советских учреждений, с июля по октябрь 1920 комиссар Уральской боевой дружины, и до июля 1921 ответственный секретарь Уральского губернского комитета РКП(б). В марте 1921 участник подавления  Кронштадтского мятежа. С июля по декабрь 1921 председатель Тверского губернского СНХ. С 15 декабря 1921 по 23 марта 1922 ответственный секретарь Тверского губернского комитета РКП(б), также с марта по октябрь 1922 военком, начальник политического отдела 6-й Орловской стрелковой дивизии.

В 1922 начальник Главного управления высших учебных заведений Народного комиссариата просвещения РСФСР, в 1922—1925 член ЦК РКСМ. С ноября 1922 по декабрь 1923 заместитель заведующего Политико-просветительным отделом ЦК РКСМ. С декабря 1923 по апрель 1924 ответственный секретарь Московского комитета РКСМ. С 1923 по 1925 председатель делегации ЦК РКСМ в Коммунистическом Интернационале Молодёжи и  журнала «Интернационал молодёжи». С апреля 1924 по март 1926 слушатель Курсов марксизма-ленинизма при Социалистической академии.

С 1925 на нелегальной работе в Германии и Чехословакии, в том же году арестован в Нидерландах; в 1926 освобождён.

С февраля 1926 по март 1927 заместитель заведующего Агитационно-пропагандистским отделом Ленинградского городского комитета ВКП(б). С октября 1926 по декабрь 1928 ответственный редактор журнала «Звезда», член редакционной коллегии и ответственный редактор газеты «Ленинградская правда».

С декабря 1928 по январь 1929 в распоряжении ЦК ВКП(б). С января 1929 по май 1931 заместитель редактора журнала «Нижнее Поволжье» в Саратове. С мая по ноябрь 1931 заведующий Отделом кадров, заместитель директора Всесоюзного института зернового хозяйства в Саратове. С 1932 преподаватель политической экономии Саратовского института механизации и электрификации сельского хозяйства.

Репрессии
28 сентября 1932 арестован за подписание манифеста М. Н. Рютина «Ко всем членам ВКП(б)». 11 октября того же года осуждён к ссылке на один год в Актюбинск. С октября 1932 плановик Управления уполномоченного по сельскохозяйственным заготовкам по Актюбинской области. 18 февраля 1933 арестован и 19 апреля того же года осуждён к трём годам лишения свободы, однако уже в июле 1934 освобождён. С октября 1934 ответственный инструктор Объединённого государственного издательства.

23 февраля 1937 снова арестован. 10 ноября 1937 по обвинению в принадлежности к антисоветской организации осуждён к 15 годам лишения свободы и 5 годам поражения в правах. 11 сентября 1941 расстрелян около Орла по приговору  Военной коллегии Верховного суда СССР. Реабилитирован посмертно 19 сентября 1957 определением Военной коллегии Верховного Суда СССР.

Литература
 Генке В. Ровесники века. — М.: Молодая гвардия, 1960.
 Зенькович Н. А. Самые секретные родственники. — М.: Олма-Пресс, 2005. — ISBN 5-94850-408-5

Примечания

Ссылки
 Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898—1991
 Сокращённая биография
 Память о бесправии

Участники Гражданской войны в России (красные)
Персоналии:Кронштадтское восстание (1921)
Преподаватели Саратовского государственного аграрного университета
Делегаты VIII съезда РКП(б)
Делегаты X съезда РКП(б)
Делегаты XI съезда РКП(б)
Делегаты XII съезда РКП(б)
Делегаты XIII съезда РКП(б)
Делегаты XIV съезда ВКП(б)
Делегаты XV съезда ВКП(б)
Члены правой оппозиции в ВКП(б)
Репрессированные в СССР
Расстрелянные в Медведевском лесу
Посмертно реабилитированные в СССР

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Few things are more intimidating for a choreographer than redoing a master's work. Luckily for Joshua Bergasse, when he was first asked to update Jerome Robbins' choreography for On the Town, he had no idea the production would become a major hit destined for Broadway. It was supposed to be a summer show in Massachusetts. The stakes were low. So he was unafraid to take the risk—and it paid off in a major way: This month On the Town will mark Bergasse's choreographic Broadway debut. In our cover story, he shares how he's gone about celebrating Robbins' movement, while refreshing it with a slightly grittier, more grounded, 21st-century energy.
For this issue's special focus on Broadway, we also sat down with Steven Hoggett as he choreographed Sting's new musical, The Last Ship. In many ways, Hoggett's the furthest thing from your typical Broadway choreographer: He doesn't do song-and-dance numbers or set routines with kick-ball-changes. But he has an incredible reverence for movement. In his shows, everything—whether a character cracks his knuckles or slides his hands in his pockets—is choreographed with a deliberate intention. "You can't just make a casual gesture onstage," he tells writer Zachary Whittenburg. "That's as mindless as opening your mouth and letting any old words come out."
Right: "When you give dancers that kind of freedom, watch out! They have an innate creativity that is endless."—Hubbard Street Dance Chicago artistic director Glenn Edgerton on his company's anything-goes collaboration with sketch-comedy troupe Second City. Photo by Quinn Wharton.
It's an artistic philosophy that many dancers know well, but maybe none more so than those who perform in immersive theater. We spoke to dancers in shows like Sleep No More to learn how they juggle choreography with carefully calibrated moments between themselves and audience members. As the interactive trend grows in both popular dance theater productions and downtown postmodern dance pieces, more and more dancers are being asked to fine-tune audience interplay as precisely as they would a pirouette. And many find the experience brings out a whole new side of their artistry. Performances become less about trying to show off virtuosity, and more about sharing something personal—and truly making every movement in every moment their own.
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'Incredible News for Bees': Court Rejects EPA Pesticide Approval
Neonicotinoid known as sulfoxaflor may not be used in the U.S. until EPA obtains necessary scientific research
Nadia Prupis, staff writer
'Save the Bees, Please.' (Photo: Canopic/flickr/cc)
A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) approval of a controversial pesticide, saying the agency violated federal law by giving a green light without obtaining or reviewing reliable studies on the neonicotinoid's impact on honeybees.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal's ruling (pdf) in the case, which was brought by environmental law firm Earthjustice, means that the pesticide in question—a neonicotinoid known as sulfoxaflor—may not be used in the U.S. unless the EPA re-approves it after obtaining the necessary analysis of its effects on pollinators.
Other neonicotinoids, such as clothianidin, imidacloprid, and thiamethoxam, have been linked to population declines among honeybees, bumblebees, and other insects, which environmental activists say threatens food security.
"Our country is facing widespread bee colony collapse, and scientists are pointing to pesticides like sulfoxaflar as the cause," Greg Loarie, Earthjustice's lead counsel in the case, said Thursday. "The Court's decision to overturn approval of this bee-killing pesticide is incredible news for bees, beekeepers, and all of us who enjoy the healthy fruits, nuts, and vegetables that rely on bees for pollination."
Earthjustice brought the case on behalf of the environmental nonprofits Center for Food Safety, the Pesticide Action Network, and Beyond Pesticides. It also represented a coalition of groups including the Pollinator Stewardship Council and National Honeybee Advisory Board, among others.
Michele Colopy, program director of the Pollinator Stewardship Council, said on Thursday that the EPA's "decision process to unconditionally register Sulfoxaflor was based on flawed and limited data.... We can protect crops from pests and protect honey bees and native pollinators."
"To do this EPA's pesticide application and review process must receive substantial scientific evidence as to the benefits of a pesticide, as well as the protection of the environment, especially the protection of pollinators," Colopy said.
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A Brief History of Isolation and Infectious Disease
Posted on August 4, 2011 August 18, 2020 by Museum of Health Care
Drawing about the Cholera in Le Petit Journal, c. 1912
Contagious disease has challenged society throughout human history. Quarantine and isolation was practiced in response to the pandemics of bubonic plague and cholera, beginning in the Middle Ages. In the 18th and 19th centuries, smallpox led to smallpox hospitals in some large urban communities. At the same time, citizens lived with the fear of outbreaks of typhus, typhoid fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever and influenza. The effectiveness of isolation was often limited due to the lack of knowledge of the cause and transmission of these infectious diseases.
The germ theory of infectious disease was formulated during the second half of the 19th century. In the absence of specific treatment, isolation became the principle strategy to prevent the transmission of contagious disease. The Ontario Public Health Act in 1884 provided for the expropriation of land for isolation hospitals and required separate facilities for smallpox. Kingston established a Board of Health and created high standards of quarantine with a freestanding isolation hospital and the isolation of contagious disease in the home.
Plans for the Nickle Wing. Image: KGH Archives
The Nickle Wing of the Kingston General Hospital, one of the earliest isolation facilities in Canada, served the community from 1892 until 1922. The chair of the Board of Health found the structural precautions to isolate this wing from the main building good but not as efficient as where contagious cases are cared for in separate buildings. This was achieved with the opening of the freestanding isolation hospital in 1923.
The Board of Health required quarantine with isolation in the home by 1899. Whenever a case of smallpox, cholera, scarletina, diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, mumps, or other contagious diseases existed in any household belonging to which were persons attending school, no member of such household was to attend school until a certificate had been obtained that infection no longer existed in the house.
The introduction of public health defenses included improved sanitation and safe water to prevent cholera and typhoid fever; vaccines that lowered the incidence of smallpox, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, rubella, measles, mumps and polio; and the discovery of antibiotics to treat specific infectious disease. Extrapolating from these dramatic advances, many concluded that infectious disease could be prevented or easily managed. During the 20th century, the practice of isolation in hospital and the home declined.
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In recent years, even developed countries have discovered that they remain painfully vulnerable to infectious disease. The reemergence of antibiotic resistant organisms such as staph aureus, c. difficile, and tuberculosis particularly in the immune deficient contribute to nosocomial infections in hospitals, nursing homes and the community, while epidemics of cholera occur due to failure of sanitary conditions. The emergence of mutations of the influenza virus leading to pandemics such as the SARS outbreak for which there is little or no specific treatment are annual concerns.
These infections again require isolation in hospital and the community. The lessons learned in the 19th century are particularly relevant to these present day challenges.
A version of this blog post is also available as an hour-long video presentation.
Posted in History of Current Healthcare Issues, History of HealthcareTagged antibiotics, bubonic plague, cholera, contagious disease, history of health care, hospital, infectious disease, Kingston General Hospital, quarantine, sanitation, smallpox, vaccine
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Vincent Pippet says:
I live in a sea side town, on the outskirts there is a ruined cottage known as 'The Cholera House' I am starting to research when it was built and how long it was used for!
Any suggestions would be welcome
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Thank you for your enquiry regarding the "Cholera House"
A series of major world wide pandemics occurred in the nineteenth century. From its first appearance in 1832 until 1873, cholera aroused fear in British North America and United States. In 1831, Britain, during the first major pandemic, acted on the assumption that cholera was contagious requiring quarantine. Cholera was reported from the quarantine station in Quebec from a ship bringing emigrants from Ireland on 8 June,1832.
It was rare for communities to have facilities to care for the many cholera patients. Most communities would create a temporary facility or take over an existing building for these patients.
Two seminal references are:
John Snow, On mode of communication of Cholera. London: John Churchill, 1855
Robert Koch, An address on cholera and its bacillus. Brit Med J. 1884; 2: 403-407
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Stories need conflict, and one of the best ways to add conflict is through the characters and their personalities, motivations, goals, and backstories.
This is because with characters you can have 2 kinds of conflict, external and internal.
Writing characters that have personality traits that don't fit together well can be a fun way to add drama and conflict within your story. Our personalities also influence the way we act, so conflicting personalities can even impact the plot.
One of the best ways to do this is to give characters personality traits that are different, but not complete opposites.
The key with creating external conflict with characters' personality traits is to push the characters to their limits, both with the extent of their traits and how much they can tolerate each other's personalities.
Giving characters conflicting goals is a great way to create conflict, especially if both characters are very driven to achieve those goals.
I find this conflict even juicier if the characters are on the same side in the story, rather than on opposing sides.
For example, 2 characters could have the same motivation (like doing what's best to protect innocent civilians) and have different, even opposite, goals on how to achieve that.
They could still be working together because they have the same motivation, but the different goals will add conflict.
Or you could do the opposite, and go for different motivations, but the same goals.
While this is used a lot with characters who are on the same side or team of a story, I think it would be very interesting to see this done more with characters who are on opposite sides of the story.
You can give a character conflicting personality traits. Humans are strange beings, and often we have contradictory traits within our own personalities.
For example, I would consider myself to be a lazy yet driven person. This is because I have goals, and I work hard to achieve them, but I'm always trying to find the path of least resistance.
I use this lazyness to my own advantage and make things so that the path of least resistance is working. Just disconnecting the wires from my video game console will keep me from playing for a few weeks, because I can't be bothered to reconnect them.
And I'm not the only one who has contradictory personality traits; I've met people who are simultaneously narcissistic and self-deprecating. I've met others who are relaxed, but obsessive.
Most people have conflicting personality traits, as that's what makes us human.
It is also entirely possible for one person to have multiple goals that conflict with each other. In fact it's very common.
This doesn't have to be because one character has forced their goals onto another character. Sometimes a person will want different things, and that's okay.
Sometimes backstories, especially ones that involve trauma, bad mental health, and poor physical health, can create lots of conflict for a character.
Even though I am doing much better with my mental health than I was 2 years ago, there are still times where I remember things that happened to me during my rough year and I just crumble.
There are lots of ways to create conflict using characters, so if you're currently planning out a story, try planning out your characters so that they add conflict to the story.
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Work That Value – What is R.E.V. & How to Shop Like a Pro!
When every penny counts, it's nice to know that Oliver's Real Everyday Values – a.k.a. R.E.V. – flyer is chockablock full of three entire months of savings! Keep reading to learn how to shop the R.E.V. ad and get the prices you need on the products you want.
Ever since our start, we at Oliver's have gone out of our way to make sure that our customers get the best savings on the best products, and the glorious culmination of this ideal is our Real Everyday Values Flyer, also known as R.E.V. Now, you may be thinking "That's odd, doesn't Oliver's already offer great discounts storewide in their weekly ad?" and you'd be right, but R.E.V. is so much more than just an ad. Through R.E.V., we seek to honor the time-tested agreement we have with our customers to provide a variety of products at honest-to-goodness everyday savings; R.E.V. features more than 200 products from every department, and we work with our community of vendors to provide discounts you can't find anywhere else. Not only that, but R.E.V. prices are guaranteed for a full three months!
While R.E.V. may be an Oliver's institution today, it wasn't always the case – in fact, R.E.V. is a relatively recent addition to the Oliver's brand. Originally, R.E.V. was actually known as "Direct to You", as the goal of the flyer was to provide exclusive deals through the connections fostered between our buyers and the vendors who provide the product directly, thereby cutting out the middle man. The flyer was also focused on promoting the more niche and specialty items we carried, as they were often either too expensive or off the popular radar to flourish by themselves. Unfortunately, we realized "Direct to You" was a bit of a misnomer, given that we still had to go through distributors to get product; with our integrity in mind, the decision was made to change the name to something that instead emphasized the value we were providing for our customers. After a few name changes, we finally settled on "Real Everyday Values", and the name stuck. Nowadays, our R.E.V. flyer does still contain a lot of specialty products, but it also contains a great deal of conventional items and pantry staples, meaning you get even better deals on the items you use everyday as well as items you may only use once in a while!
Our R.E.V. process starts the day the quarter starts, so while you're enjoying the fresh deals at the start of a new R.E.V. quarter, we're already working behind the scenes to put together next quarter's flyer. This means different things for different people – for our buyers, it means they begin reaching out to our vendors and seeing what kind of deals they can get. Not only this, but they also will often use our R.E.V. flyer as a way of debuting new products, as the level of exposure it provides allows them to quickly gauge whether or not a product will succeed in the store long-term. Our buyers also look for items that are seasonal, which can complicate things, particularly with regard to produce – our produce coordinator has to guarantee that the produce items he picks can be sold at a consistent price for 90 days, which as you may know is nigh on impossible under normal circumstances. However, when it comes down to the nitty gritty, we're all about making sure our customers are getting the deals they deserve, and if we have to take a small loss to make sure we can guarantee our R.E.V. products, then we do what we have to do. Every department contributes something unique to the flyer, and every buyer has a slightly different process to how they select their products; that being said, the end result is the same, a great price on a great product for three months.
Keeping all this in mind, there isn't a wrong way to shop R.E.V., but there's definitely things you can do to make it as easy as possible and to take full advantage of the potential savings.
While you're more than welcome to carry around a R.E.V. flyer with you while you shop, it is significantly easier to simply check the tags. In fact, the easiest way to tell if a product is on any kind of sale is to simply check the tag! We make our R.E.V. tags easy to spot too – if it's on R.E.V., there will be a bright blue tag that say's "Real Everyday Values" slapped on the shelf to the left of the product! The only time this isn't true is if the product in question happens to be gluten-free; in that case, while the tag will still call the product out as being a R.E.V. flyer item, it will be purple instead of blue. This will come in particularly handy when an entire line of products goes in the R.E.V. flyer versus something that's a standalone product, you can see at a glance which items are discounted, what the savings are, and even how long that item will be on R.E.V. for! And these tags stay on the shelf for as long as the R.E.V. flyer lasts, so even if you skip the flyer, you can know exactly what's on sale just by looking at the tag.
We're referring to actual cases, of course, and case-buys in particular! Fun fact: Did you know that you get 10% off the price of a product when you buy it by the case? Double fun fact: Did you know that case discount is good for R.E.V. items as well? That's right, not only do you get your R.E.V. products at a super fantastic discount, but you can get a bonus discount for buying by the case! Now, when taking advantage of a double discount, there are still a few things to keep in mind. First off, case discounts only count if the case is full, and not only does the case have to be full, but you have to make sure that it's full of one product only. For instance, if you're trying to buy blueberry yogurts by the case, you have to make sure that every single yogurt in that case is the same brand and that they're all the same blueberry yogurt – even one interloper means we can't give you the extra 10% off, and that's no fun for anyone. Second, make sure the item is one that isn't also on ad. We'll occasionally feature an item that's already on R.E.V. in our weekly ad, either at the same R.E.V. discount or at an even better price; in fact, items in our weekly ad are so steeply discounted, we'd effectively be giving them away if we offered a case discount as well! Like the R.E.V. items, we call out our weekly ads with tags, so if you notice an item in the R.E.V. flyer is marked with a yellow tag one week, that may not the time to buy it by the case. Luckily, the weekly ad changes every Wednesday, while R.E.V. prices are good for a full three months! Finally, use your case buy judiciously, you'll typically want to pick items that you use frequently and/or that have a long shelf life. For example, if you and everyone else in your household eat at least one yogurt daily, that might be a good item to get as a case; however, if you only eat yogurt a couple times a week and have no one to share them with, that might not be the best item to use your case discount on.
From start to finish, our R.E.V. flyer truly sums up our mission as a company – to provide a range of quality, conventional and natural products at prices that result in real savings for our customers, all while featuring Sonoma County front and center. This week, come in and check what's new with R.E.V., but don't feel like you have to rush. You do have the next three months, after all!
Want more great tips on getting the most bang for your buck? Check out our Oliver's shopping guide HERE!


Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker Son Chhay has appealed to National Assembly President Heng Samrin to take measures against the destruction of Prey Lang forest by a Vietnam-based rubber company.
Son Chhay is part of a growing number of people and organisations who have condemned Prey Lang deforestation by CRCK Rubber Development Company.
The Vietnamese firm was awarded a 6,044 hectare land concession in Kampong Thom province's Sandan district last year.
Kampong Thom Deputy Governor Uth Sam An said today he had not seen Son Chhay's letter.
However, he said CRCK could not be stopped because they had a government-issued licence to use the land for business purposes.
Villagers from Preah Vihear, Kratie, Stung Treng and Kampong Thom provinces – all of which border the 200,000 hectare forest – have protested the destruction of Prey Lang, which they say they depend on for their livelihoods.
Uth Sam An has denied their claims that the forest is community-protected land, saying it belongs to the government.
Villagers who attended a protest last month alleged last week at an NGO Forum press conference that local police in Sandan district collected their names on behalf of CRCK.
Son Chhay's appeal comes at a time when investment in rubber plantations is on the rise.
The Vietnamese Rubber Enterprise Federation invested US$600 million to grow rubber in the Kingdom when it was awarded 100,000 hectares of concessions in Kampong Thom, Kratie, Stung Treng, Ratanakkiri and Mondulkiri provinces in 2009.
Last June, the 14-company federation invested an additional $200 million in rubber plantations.
VREF's 14 companies expect to plant rubber on 30,000 hectares in 2011, and an additional 40,000 hectares in 2012.
Le Quang Thung, VREF's chief of governing council, told The Post last June that VREF might expand its rubber plantations in Cambodia pending future discussions.
"We will invest more on growing rubber in Cambodia if the country is able to give more economic land concessions," he said.
Prime Minister Hun Sen told a group of graduating university students that the government would strive to protect its forest land against the overdevelopment of rubber plantations.


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Florence Jepkemoi Barsosio, née le  dans le district de Keiyo, est une athlète kényane spécialisée dans la course de fond. Sa sœur Sally Barsosio est aussi athlète de haut niveau.

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Née en 1976, elle est la sœur de Sally Barsosio, née en 1978, première athlète féminine kényane à remporter un titre mondial senior, dès 1997, sur  lors des Championnats du monde d'Athènes. Un de ses oncles, Paul Koech, né en 1969, est aussi un spécialiste des courses de fond, champion d'Afrique en  en 1996, et champion du monde de semi-marathon en 1998.

Florence participe elle aussi à plusieurs finales de championnats du monde sur des épreuves de courses de fond, et de cross-country. Elle remporte ainsi en 1996 le cross de Vallagarina, le tour de Montefortiana et le Giro de Castelbuono. Mais c'est en course sur route, et notamment en marathon qu'elle remporte la majorité de ses succès : elle a ainsi remporté le marathon de Turin en 2000, mais également ceux de Paris, en 2001 devant sa compatriote Ruth Kutol, de Madrid en 2004, de Florence en 2004 toujours, et de Vienne en 2005.

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Naissance en août 1976
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 Zweifel, R. & Price, D. 2004. Austrochaperina blumi. Llista Vermella d'Espècies Amenaçades de la UICN 2006.  Accedit a data 1 de febrer del 2008.

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Shutting Down the Federal Government? It Might Take the RICO Laws to Ever Do It
In this blog post, Jacob Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation refers to "shutdown anxiety," what all those pathetic statists in Washington and throughout the land are experiencing in regards to the federal government's possibly shutting down.
In fact, if we're lucky, the government shut-down will be permanent and all those non-essential personnel will be permanently laid off.
No longer would American taxpayers be burdened by the taxes needed to fund those non-essential people and their non-essential functions. Equally good, all these non-essential people would find jobs in the private sector, making them productive citizens rather than parasitic citizens living off the taxes that the private sector pays.
Thus, a government shutdown would be doubly positive. It would leave more savings in private hands and increase the number of productive people in the private sector. Increases in savings and productive capital are the key to rising standards of living for people in a society.
Will it happen? Unfortunately, no. Republicans are as committed to statism as Democrats are.
That's because Republicans are as FOS as Democrats. Republicans aren't interested in increasing the standard of living of the rest of the population, they're interested in increasing their power-grabs, their little fiefdoms and their bank accounts (from the loot stolen from the actual workers and producers of America).
And Hornberger is right about the Republicans' love for health care socialism. They won't touch Medicare or Medicaid, or medical licensure and all the horrible regulations the feds impose on every aspect of the medical care industry which reduce the quality of medical care in America.
But Republicans do care about the lobbyists taking them out to lunch, the pharmaceutical and insurance industries' contributions to the Republicans' election campaigns and so forth, just like the Democrats.
ObamaCareless will of course make things even worse, and after that fails which it already is, then "single-payer" or Obama's SovietCare will further turn the U.S. into a full police-state dictatorship, just like the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
While Justin Raimondo and Dave Lindorf understand that America is now a police state, even with the NSA revelations there are many people who are still in denial. They just don't want to believe that Americans could consider such a way of life. As Larken Rose put it in this lengthy video documentary, yes, it can happen here. It IS happening here, for crying out loud!
And yes, this ObamaCare or "single payer," whatever it's going to be, these extremist means of aggression inflicted by the State against the people and call it "health care" — yes, this is all part of America's police state future.
And yes, it is "extremist" to give the government the power to forcibly make you report your private medical matters to the government, to allow government bureaucrats to have the "authority" over what doctors you may or may not see or patients you may or may not have, or how one wants to pay one's doctor. Those who give the government the power to order you to have to buy a health insurance policy are extremists. Ya hear that, Roberts? (So what caused the Chief Bureaucrat to go so far off the deep end? Was it the NSA snoopy-pooping? Too much caviar? Or too many visits to the Supreme Hot Tub, perhaps?)
Roberts went to Harvard, you know. Maybe that was it. But I digress.
So now, Washington's Blog has a post detailing how the government psychopaths are labeling even peaceful, harmless people as "terrorists." One item that caught my eye was this link to an article stating that if you don't have a Facebook page then you are "suspicious." Like not having one of those things means you are a psychopath. The article points to accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes who didn't have a Statebook page (but he did have psycho-meds, thanks to Big Psychiatry). And the Norwegian loony-tunes Anders Breivik who killed 77 people but didn't have a Statebook page, is also cited as an example.
And it isn't just the gubmint with these kinds of irrational spewings. It's non-gubmint civilians, like bosses who are considering job applicants. "You don't have a Facebook page? You must be a psychopathic murderous monster! Next?"
But much of this increasing nonsense in our society mainly has to do with America's increasing dependence on the government — federal, state, and local — for EVERYTHING! But as the lazy, infantilized, public school-brainwashed, high fructose corn syrup-addicted and texting zombie Americans out there continue to let the real monsters of society — government bureaucrats and their armed enforcers — intrude upon, invade and rape their lives, the country will devolve even further into chaos and ruin.
If we had any sense, we would let the government shut down and stop worrying about it. Think of all the freedom we would have (like in the old days).
Now, as the feds commit one incompetent or criminal act after another, Karl Denninger of Market Ticker explains that he is fed up, and is going on strike. He will legally stop "contributing" to the feds, after all the wealth that has been taken from him via "taxation." He is saying that he is just going to stop making an income so that there won't be anything for the government to take from him in tax-thefts. I am not exactly sure how he will be able to feed himself and his family, however. While Denninger will not concentrate on financial issues on his website (which apparently has been the content by which he derives an income), he will continue to write about the political goings on, about the shenanigans our Congressfelons are up to. Denninger writes:
I hope, pray for and encourage others to also peacefully withdraw their consent. If enough of us who are the producers in this nation do so then government will have no choice but to bow to our will or collapse. My decision in this regard, if ratified by concurrence of just a small percentage of the population, represents what I believe is the only remaining lawful and peaceful way to accomplish that goal.
If there are an insufficient number of others willing to also participate then my personal conviction that it is unacceptable to fund the screwing of others, whether it be financially or through actual acts of violence, will be demonstrated to be that of a tiny minority.
I accept that this is not only possible, it's likely.
But should that be the case then this nation does not deserve to survive as a Constitutional Republic — and in the end, it will not, becoming something much darker, uglier and unworthy of any of my support.
There is only one way to know which of the two possibilities is true — and that is to act, and see who also acts. To lead not through exhortation (or worse, extortion) but rather by example. To see who chooses to not only continue to consent but actively supports the murder of others, physical violence served upon those who simply wish to enjoy their unalienable rights and the financial******of our own citizens en-masse – especially our children and young adults.
If and when things change I will reconsider my position and lower my middle finger.
But not before.
I therefore choose to reduce the ability of our government to tax my income to as close to an effective zero as I can reasonably achieve in keeping with what I enjoy doing, which is putting before the people a chronology of lies, frauds and scams in the hope that others wake up.
But I just can't see very many people participating in that form of activism and going on strike. Just how the hell is someone who refuses to produce and do labor (for the government) going to be able to sustain one's own life in any meaningful and healthy way? But then, with ObomberCare and being subjected to government doctor bureaucrats, pretty soon none of us will be healthy, so I guess it won't matter.
The Importance of Non-Aggression
Walter Block explains that non-aggression is the essence of libertarianism.
Some More Misc. Items
Here are a few items from the past week.
At the Future of Freedom Foundation, Jacob Hornberger has a commonsense approach to the border checkpoints. And Steve Horwitz asks if libertarians are individualists.
Ron Paul writes about the anti-small business Internet sales tax, known bureaucratically as the "Marketplace Fairness Act" and rammed through the Senate in May in the dead of night, which is when U.S. Senators usually ram through dishonest legislation. (What legislation isn't dishonest?) No big surprise: The big cronies sales outlets with both brick-and-mortar and online presence support this anti-small business crony-crap. And House Republicans, led by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, will conjure up their own House alternative, but will not reject the idea as it should be rejected. It's never enough for these covetous, voracious parasites, it's never enough for them.
If you think that calling your congressman or senator will really do any good, to defeat the Internet sales tax or ObamaCareless, Larken Rose has this video on how those people in Washington see you.
More cronyism: Adan Salazar of Infowars has these charts of how the big insurance companies' stocks are already rising thanks to ObomberCare.
Sheldon Richman gives us Lysander Spooner's take on the national debt. It's not our debt, as we didn't participate in the contracts which went into incurring such a monstrosity. Those acts of irresponsibility are with the gang who have occupied the smelly chambers of the U.S. Congress.
Like the the Internet tax thieves, the tax-eating judicial hacks also look for ways to steal from the people, including from the victims of the police terrorists in blue. Here is William Grigg on that.
Here is the ACLU on Nazi Bloomberg's "stop-n-frisk" policy expanding nationwide.
Jon Rappoport has this one on psychiatry targeting college students for destruction. And here is yet another exposé from Natural Society on how the mental health industry creates "disease"on behalf of the greedy scum of Big Pharma.
Melissa Melton has this article on another doctor testifying that the HPV vaccine does not protect against cancer.
And Eric Margolis writes about Switzerland and guns. Switzerland probably has fewer police terrorists than the U.S. per 100 citizens, no?
Washington's Blog notes how NSA "metadata" collecting and storing violates people's freedom of association.
Judge Andrew Napolitano has this article on the constitutionality or unconstitutionality of the FISA court.
And here is a great interview of Seymour Hersh on the phony bin Laden raid, the NSA and the sycophantic news media.
Philip Giraldi on the NSA and Israel.
Glenn Greenwald has another piece on how the NSA "repeatedly deceived the American people," according to Sen. Ron Wyden.
J.D. Tucille has this from Reason on the screwed up FBI.
And Kurt Nimmo of Infowars says that government itself is the "suicide bomber."
Finally, on All Things Considered yesterday, there was a report on many homeowners in coastal areas being in shock over their skyrocketing flood insurance rates now, especially because the U.S. government phased out flood insurance subsidies. You can listen to the report here:
And that reminded me of Peter Schiff's testimony last year before a House subcommittee on whether or not the government should extend to multi-family homeowners the same loan guarantees that they provided for single-family homeowners. The issue of flood insurance came up. And, frankly, if you don't want skyrocketing flood insurance, then don't live in flood-prone areas, or in a city near the coast which is below sea level! (Like, duh!)
"Congress Shall Make No Law … Abridging the Freedom of Speech, or of the Press"
While the Rulers debate raising the debt ceiling because they can't control their selfishness, and attempt to terrify the masses of a possible government shutdown (like that's a bad thing?), and as the Republicans led by Speaker John Boehner Keynes go on to cave and vote to fund and not repeal ObamaCare, there are other issues being debated in the murder capital of the world.
For those who have been hearing about the U.S. CONgress's proposed shield law for journalists, no, it is not to protect journalists. It is to protect the government.
It has to do with suppressing dissent.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein wants to define who a "real journalist" is, and she says that she won't support a shield law that covers "everyone who has a blog." What she means is that elitists such as she do not like alternative media investigative reporters and bloggers who are actually doing the real reporting that the mainstreamers won't do, and practicing real journalism: actually asking the who, what, how, why, when and where, actually digging into an issue to get the story behind the story.
In contrast, the mainstream media reporters, writers and editors who merely unthinkingly repeat what government bureaucrats tell them — these are the ones who Feinstein et al. want to "protect."
They certainly don't want to "protect" investigative journalists such as Michael Hastings and Andrew Breitbart, and they don't want to protect other alternative media journalists such as Glenn Greenwald and Alex Jones. Of course not.
Because these Establishment politicians want to protect the secrets of the Regime, the criminality, the corruption. Obviously, they don't want to protect media outlets such as WikiLeaks, or whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, William Binney or Sibel Edmonds.
No, only protect the propagandists of the MSM, the ones who take the word of government bureaucrats as The Truth, without question and act as stenographers for the State.
Here is my post listing many of Glenn Greenwald's articles on the mainstream media government-propagandists, by the way.
But the First Amendment exists to protect an already pre-existing right: the right to freedom of speech and thought, freedom of conscience, the freedom of the Press. And yes, Dianne, the First Amendment protects "anyone who has a blog." That 17-year-old blogger down the street from you, Dianne, who may get some sort of tip from an insider on the latest act of criminality by you and your fellow Senators, yeah, that blogger has as much right to protect his source as do Glenn Greenwald and Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Only fascist elitists think otherwise.
In my view, the right to "petition the Government for a redress of grievances," as it is written in the First Amendment, is a part of our freedom of the Press. In other words, each and every individual has a right to "freedom of the Press," and it is not up to some government bureaucrat to define who is a member of the Press, who is a real "journalist," because anyone who wants to be a member of "the Press" has a right to do so. No "credentials," no licensure or fee, no government approval!
So, on the Dianne Feinstein "shield law" proposals, the Tenth Amendment Center's Mike Maharrey wrote:
Congress cannot pass a law removing any substance from the right to free speech or freedom of the press. And "the press" did not mean "news organizations" in the founding era. According to UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, it literally means the printing press. In other words, the technology to create the printed word.
And of course, printing press would extend to modern technologies that serve the same purpose, such as the Internet.
Freedom of speech and freedom of the press link together. Essentially, freedom of the press protects the dissemination of "speech" via the press, and both apply to the people, not a select few picked out by Congress.
St. George Tucker wrote the first systematic commentary on the Constitution. He argued that the protecting the people's right of free speech and freedom of the press was essential for keeping government restrained:
"It being one of the great fundamental principles of the American governments, that the people are the sovereign, and those who administer the government their agents, and servants, not their kings and masters, it would have been a political solecism to have permitted the smallest restraint upon the right of the people to inquire into, censure, approve, punish or reward their agents according to their merit, or demerit. The constitution, therefore, secures to them the unlimited right to do this, either by speaking, writing, printing, or by any other mode of publishing, which they may think proper. This being the only mode by which the responsibility of the agents of the public can be secured, and practically enforced, the smallest infringement of the rights guaranteed by this article, must threaten the total subversion of the government." [Emphasis added]
So, Congress has no authority to define "journalist," and it doesn't even have the power to pass a "shield law." The First Amendment already provides one. Clearly, federal power to compel those engaging in free speech through the press to disclose sources or documents would abridge that fundamental right.
This bill not only violates the First Amendment, but it assumes undelegated powers.
And, the more feisty Esquire columnist Charlie Pierce had this to say:
Hey, Dianne, here's the thing on that First Amendment business. I get to define what you do for a living. And if I decide to define what you do for a living is to be a mewling apologist for the national-security community and a lapdog for the surveillance state, I get to do that, and I get to do it in a newspaper, or video, or on-line, or on a pamphlet stapled to a telephone pole outside your door, if I so choose. You get to sit there, collect your government salary, raise money from plutocrats, and shut…the…hell…up.
Which part of "Congress shall make no law…" do you not understand?
There must be something of a cognitive deficiency going on with today's politicians (and their Goebbels in the media).
Related: A. Barton Hinkle has more on how the Rulers need to control the people's speech and suppress dissent.
Right to Bear Arms: How the Black Panthers Understood What Ronald Reagan Did Not
Anthony Gregory has this piece on some gun control history and its racist roots, how gun control was meant to deny black people their 2nd Amendment-protected right to bear arms and defend themselves.
Keynesianism: Policies of Selfishness, Irresponsibility and Immediate Gratification
Copyright 2013 LewRockwell.com (Link to article)
Our fanatically Keynesian President Barack Obama believes that governments should spend money they don't have and put the country into debt. So he is whining to Republicans to continue raising the debt ceiling so the federal government can continue on its wild spending spree.
And Obama has the nerve to say that the opposing Party's not wanting to do the President's bidding by irresponsibly raising the debt ceiling is "extorting" the President. He claims that it is extortion when some of the people's representatives tell the Dear Leader to stop stealing from our grandchildren!
This Obama person is just as bad as the Bush that preceded him. And the power-grabbers of the Federal Reserve and the banksters are just as dishonest and irresponsible.
But they are merely reflecting the general population now, the selfish, impatient and id-oriented population of America.
And some people are speculating that Janet Yellen, Vice Chairman of the Fed's Board of Governors, will be picked to be the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve System, replacing Ben Bernanke.
Like Bernanke, Ms. Yellen apparently believes in using the apparatus of government intervention to control economic matters. And she certainly favors Keynesian policies, "easy money" and continuing with the self-indulgent spending habits.
The Economic Collapse Blog's Michael Snyder notes how Ms. Yellen was totally clueless in 2007, really believing that those artificial housing and other stimulus would be "still likely to achieve a relatively smooth adjustment path." And then in 2010 she testified that she did not see the meltdown and collapse coming, as the current Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke, also did not see it coming.
However, those of the Austrian school way of thinking, such as Ron Paul, did see it coming, as I have noted before.
And in response to The Bernank's recent "no taper" announcement, Ron Paul asked, morally what right does Bernanke have "to take away 2% of our purchasing power deliberately? What right does he have to punish the elderly who save money?"
Dr. Paul warned against further destruction of the dollar and malinvestment caused by artificial interest rates.
Actually, as long as any kind of economic activity is artificial, or artificially "stimulated" by monopolistic and unaccountable governmental intrusions, there's a good chance that that will cause malinvestment.
And the other part of that is the intrusions are coming from some central planner, such as the Fed and its high-and-mighty Chairman or from an act of Congress, for that matter. What you will then have is "planned chaos," as Ludwig von Mises pointed out.
In contrast, with freedom and free markets consumers and producers are left free to plan their own economic matters. In a system of more freedom and randomness, you have less chaos because such a system is freed from the destructive intrusions of those bureaucratic buffoons and parasites and their "fatal conceit" that guides them.
But sadly, the majority of people in America do not appreciate that freedom, independence and responsibility, in our modern age of decadence and covetousness.
America has become a society in which irresponsibility and immediate gratification are institutionalized, praised and rewarded. And that is exactly what the Keynesian economics of Janet Yellen, Ben Bernanke, Paul Krugman and millions of others promotes.
The truth is, those folks of the Keynesian way of thinking don't even practice economics — their love is for politics and in strengthening the political class.
You see, at some point private economic matters in America became politicized. And it was the politicians who exploited crises, panics and economic downturns and they then sold a bunch of snake oil to the desperate masses as a means of the politicians grabbing more and more political and police power over the people.
And, coinciding with the decline of critical thinking in America, the politicians' minions in academia and the Press supported the ideas of deficit spending and promoting debts as a way to get out of recessions and depressions.
Reflecting the mental laziness reinforced by government schooling, it makes the unthinking academics and pundits feel good when they are relieved of having to make any effort in solving the problems that caused those recessions and depressions in the first place, and instead they can just get their monetary meds right away. (Hmmm. Can we get Big Pharma in on this?)
But these kinds of irresponsible, immediate gratification habits are like drug addictions, and like drug addicts the spending addicts put their entire family into the poor house. And this is what the power-grabbing politicians want, encouraging the people to then beg them for more "easy money" and other wealth-redistribution schemes to bail them out.
As long as they are further enriched and empowered over others, the politicians and bureaucrats get what they crave with each new power-grabbing vote in Congress, just as the Fed's manipulations empower the banksters to get new money to fund their bonuses while the politicians' Fed-stimulated inflation steals even more from the people.
However, America's immediate gratification society can be seen in other areas now. For example, the cops and prosecutors, and "national security" bureaucrats who get away with warrantless searches and stopping and frisking innocent people. Why wait for a judge to sign a warrant? That takes too long. They crave to do their searches immediately. And even when there's no suspicion of specific individuals they want to search anyway. And why go through the trouble of coming across some actual individual who is suspicious to then do searches of his emails or phone records? Instead let's search through and collect and keep a database of all Americans' emails and phone records, and that way we can then find our needle in the haystack.
So that is a current example of the kind of immediate gratification mindset that Americans have developed in many areas of life — not just economic — over the past century, especially since the implementation of the income tax and the Federal Reserve System.
But such behaviors are those of irresponsibility, and only promote the satisfying of one's immediate desires with total disregard for ethics and for the future (or for the rights of innocent people in the case of the "security" fanatics).
People want "easy money," and they want it now. (Especially the banksters.) Don't wait until you have enough money saved or have enough of an income to afford to buy a house — get a loan NOW and get a mortgage now anyway, and get that house. And spend as much as you can on your credit card, and put yourself in debt. Who cares about your family's future, as long as you get that stuff you want now.
And the banksters want easy money and bailouts, because they know that regardless how irresponsible their lending practices and their investments are (with their customers' money, just as Congress is with taxpayers' money), they are guaranteed by the government to be free from bankruptcy. And they will keep their jobs (while you lose yours).
You see, such a Keynesian mindset is especially thriving in those who want to have some central authority, the Fed or Congress, to act as "stimulator" of the population's prosperity, and to dish out food stamps and other goodies, as well as artificially-stimulated interest rates and "easy money" (for the banksters).
Sadly, the masses are being fed the false belief that they are benefiting from these government bureaucrats and those monetary central planners like Helicopters Ben and Janet who hand out the easy money like candy.
But, as Lew Rockwell recently noted, it is the State and its agents who are enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else, while the advocates of freedom and independence, such as Ron Paul, are the ones who want the people liberated from the State's tentacles and from its exploitation of the people's labor and livelihoods.
It would be easier to get more people to see that, if only they could overcome their long-ingrained habits of short-sightedness, and their blind faith in the State as a savior.
Getting Closer to Obama's Beloved SovietCare
Each day that goes by there is yet another news item telling us of yet another employer that is converting its (or some of its) full-time employees into part-time, or about the new delay in small business insurance exchanges being delayed because of software problems. The problems are mainly because of government's incompetence and inefficiency and the parasitic and impoverishing effects of the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. "ObamaCare."
Robert Wenzel of Economic Policy Journal has had many posts on these problems. And yesterday Robert Murphy pointed out the obvious, that it was planned this way.
Given how devious and cynical in nature our Rulers are, these sociopaths, gangsters, misfits and unemployable law school graduates-turned-bureaucrats, it should be of no surprise that they would encourage insurance and pharmaceutical industry lobbyists to write this ghastly legislation as they did, and have congressional committee staffers write up conflicting crap that will confuse businesses and insurers.
The real reason tyrants like Obama want to give the government complete control over everyone's medical matters is this: When government commissars and apparatchiks have access to all the details of your private medical information, it is easier for them to weed out the "undesirables." It is easier to "take care of" those who are known dissidents and opponents of the Regime's agenda.
When there is the complete government control over everyone's medical matters which the control freaks desire so much, there will be a two-tier system: GoodCare for the Rulers and their minions, and BadCare for the rest of us schnooks. Here are two articles on the kind of SovietCare craved by Barack Obomber:
What Soviet Medicine Teaches Us by Yuri Maltsev; and Socialized Health Care: The Communist Dream and the Soviet Reality by Anna Ebeling
America is becoming more and more oppressive, like the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, whether the naive deniers out there want to admit it or not. We have a 100-mile border and coastal "Constitution-Free Zone," with searches of your laptops and phones and private effects without probable cause, and the government's trying to make it more and more difficult for Americans to leave this prison state. And we have the NSA illegally eavesdropping on millions without warrants or suspicion, the bureaucratic Berlin Wall, the "FEMA camps," Jamit Napolitano's "If you see something, say something" campaign, and more.
ObamaCareless is going to be part of that stasi-brownshirt censorship agenda. Like Britain, the Amerikan government doctors will report on you to the government. Remember, now that ObamaCare is making the good doctors who don't want to be slaves of the government leave their practices in droves, the ones who don't mind being government employees and snitches will remain and more will be recruited.
So it won't be merely a reduction in quality of medical care. In fact, the whole ObamaCare-pathway-to-"single-payer" scheme has nothing whatsoever to do with medical care. It has to do with control.
Right now we have a Bradley Manning (now known as Chelsea Manning) having been railroaded to prison by a kangaroo military trial. And we have an Edward Snowden who is in disguise and in hiding in Russia, hiding from Obama, Eric Holster and James Claptrapper, all anti-American fascists who want to get him. You can see now as America really is turning into the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Here is Wikipedia's list of Soviet dissidents, in case anyone is interested in reading about them: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sakharov, Yelena Bonner, Joseph Brodsky, Natan Sharansky, Pyotr Grigorenko, Yuli Daniel, Vasili Aksyonov, Mstislav Rostropovich, Galina Vishnevskaya, Aleksandr Galich. This is only the beginning.
Some people look at my blog and articles and they think I'm "paranoid," a "conspiracy nut," and so on. That's because they don't know or understand history, and human nature.
And I've linked to these before, but some related articles regarding our Soviet America-Gestapo-Stasi "If you see something, say something" stuff:
Paths of Resistance (I): The Refusal to Identify and Reject Evil by Arthur Silber
Creating a Culture of Denunciation by Wendy McElroy
New Jersey's "Anti-Bullying" Law by Wendy McElroy
Law Would Encourage Americans to Report on Each Other by Paul Joseph Watson
Washington's Blog on Nazi Germany-like "If you see something, say something"
Video documentary by Larken Rose: "It Can't Happen Here"
As the wimpy Rethuglicans prepare to cave and vote for ObamaCareless, and as the U.S. CONgress votes to "reform" the NSA, all in the name of "preventing the government from shutting down," (Let the government shut down!), Jacob Hornberger has this post today: Permanently Lay off the Parasitic Sector. I couldn't agree more!
"Conspiracy" Alert: Power Grid Drill in November
Daisy Luther of the Organic Prepper has this article with information on what to do in preparation of a power grid outage. The reason this is coming up is because the imbeciles who rule over us are preparing to do a power grid drill on November 13-14. It is a simulated outage drill. But if the power grid goes down, that could be a huge disaster with no electrical power and that would affect running water and food storage and cooking. It has a huge domino effect.
However, there seems to be a pattern in which a "drill" has coincided with some disaster or terrorist attack, at least in recent years. Some people believe, based on past events, that TPTB may actually cause an actual attack on the power grid at the same time, whether it is an EMP or cyber attack or direct physical sabotage, or blame it on solar flares.
Well, I believe the Rulers are probably aware that if the grid goes down, then so does much of their ability to continue doing the surveillance and their other criminal activities that gives them purpose in their precious, pathetic lives.
But there really has been a pattern of questionable past "drills" coinciding with attacks.
For instance, on September 11, 2001, the National Reconnaissance Office had scheduled a "simulated accident" consisting of a plane crashing into a building in Washington, but cancelled the event when news of the 9/11 attacks broke that morning. (AP report, same report on PrisonPlanet, more)
On the day of the Sandy Hook school shooting, an active shooter drill was being conducted only a few miles away, and many police and emergency personnel just happened to be nearby, ready and available at the time of the real shooting at Sandy Hook.
On the day of the 7/7 London subway bombings, an underground bombing drill just happened to be going on at the same time and at the same locations. Former Scotland Yard Anti-Terror Branch official Peter Power and his crisis management consultancy agency with 1,000+ people were involved in the drill.
And on the day of the Boston Marathon bombings, witnesses stated that there were far more security personnel and bomb-sniffing dogs, etc. at the start and finish lines of the marathon than any past marathon, including ones in other cities. One witness, a cross country coach from Alabama, had said that officials were saying that participants should not worry and that it was just a training exercise, and that he believed there must have been some kind of threat made. (More)
So anyway, if during the November 13-14 power grid drill, the drill that will "simulate a knockout blow," the power grid really does go out, I think we can make an accurate guess as to what the real cause will be.
You know, if I were an outsider looking in, like an alien from another planet, and seeing that these beings on "Earth" keep their energy needs and thus their very lives as vulnerable as a "power grid" keeps us, I'd think these Earthlings were nuts. You know, really loony-tunes.
This grid drill stuff is yet another reason why there really shouldn't be a "grid," an interconnected electrical grid of centralized dependence over which government bureaucrats have ultimate control. That is why we need to decentralize our energy so that each neighborhood, each parcel of property or household can provide its own energy needs.
Reforming the State? (Good Luck.)
Arthur Silber has this post on reforming the NSA and the spy scandal.
Economic Governmental Entanglements vs. Free Markets and Free Trade
Walter Williams discusses the importance of honesty and trust in society. We shouldn't tolerate dishonesty especially in economic matters.
David Gordon reviews Hunter Lewis's new book on Crony Capitalism. When cronies are getting special deals by using governmental powers at the expense of others, that is not particularly honest. We need to give crony capitalism the heave-ho, in my opinion.
And Jacob Hornberger discusses government-controlled "fair trade" vs. free trade.
First, NAFTA and other "free-trade agreements" aren't free-trade agreements at all. They are negotiated trade agreements between the governments of two nations that entail thousands of rules and regulations affecting private trading transactions between the two nations.
That's about as far from genuine free trade as one can get. Genuine free trade is trade that is free of government rules, regulations, and control.
What should a government do to achieve genuine free trade? Simply lift all trade restrictions on its own citizens. Unilateral free trade.
In other words, don't negotiate with anyone. Don't enter into any "free-trade agreements." Just liberate the citizenry to trade with anyone anywhere in the world.
Doesn't that mean that foreign governments might still impose trade restrictions on their citizens? Sure, but why should that matter? As soon as the people of that nation see the wisdom of lifting trade restrictions, trade will immediately flow. No agreements have to be negotiated.
Second, there is no way to objectively determine what is fair. Fairness is personal and subjective. (More…)
Will the Real Libertarian Please Stand Up?
Walter Block has this post questioning the legitimacy of Reason Foundation's claims of being a "libertarian" institution. Perhaps it began as such, but now not so much. And Dr. Block also has this article today on the libertarian solution to the inner-city crises of gangs and violence.
And Lew Rockwell has this piece on how it is the libertarians who are the champions of the common man. (Certainly not the Left. They are the champions of the State. And certainly not the conservatives and neocons. They are the champions of the State.)
Not particularly related to libertarianism, but EPJ has this post on how easily hackable the Apple Touch ID fingerprinting stuff is.
Christopher Calabrese and Matthew Harwood have this very good piece on how it isn't just the NSA who are criminally invading your security and privacy. Meanwhile, John Knefel at Rolling Stone asks if the FBI's domestic spying is out of control. Of course it is. And Radley Balko has this piece on the nameless, faceless and unaccountable S.W.A.T. teams who are terrorizing Americans all across the country.
This whole security police and drug police stuff is nuts. It is entirely a criminal racket, and certainly has nothing to do with protecting Americans' security, or enforcing drug laws. If you want to prevent terrorist attacks, then tell your government to stop provoking foreigners — yes, it's that simple. e.g. the Kenya shopping mall attacks. That is supposedly more blowback. And the thing that is causing al-Qaeda to expand as it has been is the U.S. government's own expanding provocations of people on their lands overseas. Cut it out with starting wars of aggression against countries that had nothing to do with 9/11, like Afghanistan and Iraq, and stop occupying their countries, stop murdering thousands of their innocent civilians, and cut it out with the damn drone terrorism and murders against foreigners. Duh! And if the government tyrannizes you because of using drugs, then really the government owns your body. If you own your own body, then the government should cut it out with this fascism stuff!
Thomas Sowell has this great piece on minimum wage madness. It's just a matter of common sense. If you force me to pay you at a wage which is higher than what your labor is worth (to me), and if I can't afford to pay an entry-level worker at that price, then I won't even provide that job. Yes, it's that simple. No wonder there are so many unemployed people whose skills are the very entry level variety that won't get them employed because the government (and unions) have forcibly eliminated those jobs through minimum wage laws!
James Bovard has this article on destroying freedom in the name of equal opportunity. (Is it me, or does it seem like everything the government does or imposes destroys freedom, and destroys prosperity as well?)
And Jacob Hornberger says we should ditch the war on poverty forever. It's really a war on freedom (and prosperity).
Get the government out of the security business, and get the government out of the economic business. Government sucks at everything.
And Mike Adams of Natural News has this on TED who is aligning itself now with Monsanto. Apparently, TED is censoring out discussions of natural medicines and GMOs. Who knew?
Saudi Regime Threatens AP Reporter
Infowars has this story on how a Saudi intelligence apparatchik has threatened AP reporter Dale Gavlak for a story on the Saudi regime's arming Syrian rebels with the chemical weapons used in the now well-known August 21st attacks on civilians. The story was not for AP but for a different news source, Mint Press News, and was by another reporter who actually interviewed rebels there, although Gavlak contributed to the report. The other reporter was also threatened. Apparently, they were not threatened physically but their "careers" were threatened. Yet, the Saudis did not claim the report to be false. So really the threats were mainly the Saudis' stupid way of admitting to the truth of the allegations.
And now the NYT has this update on the in-house fighting going on amongst Gavlak, the AP and Mint Press News.


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Premier Windows, Doors & Conservatories Ltd is a long established company operating throughout the South East and has built a reputation for providing quality products at value for money prices.
Premier is unusual, in that, unlike over 98% of companies in this market we manufacture our products 'in house' in our Brighton factories. This gives us greater control over the specification and quality of the product, which is designed to meet the harsh weather conditions experienced on the South Coast.
Our surveyors each have over 30 years experience in surveying these products. This experience is invaluable in spotting any potential building problems and ensuring that measurements are taken accurately to ensure a smooth installation for our fitters. Our surveyors also need to ensure that the installation meets all the current Building Regulations requirements – which we self certify to provide the necessary documentation for our customers, through FENSA, the industry regulatory body.
Our standards of fitting are very high in comparison to the industry as a whole, where this is, unfortunately, all too often not the case. These fitting standards are achieved by carrying out work very professionally, showing great care for our customers' properties and the quality of finish required. The bar we have set in this department is high – as it needs to be.
An investment of this sort requires to be looked after and we provide a full and comprehensive 10 Year Guarantee. We have a Service Department to deal with any problems that may occur during the Guarantee period. Any problem that does occur is dealt with speedily, efficiently and professionally, as it should be – again, this is often not the case in the industry as a whole.
Before any of this work can take place – before surveying, manufacturing and installation can be carried out; our estimators have to provide costings for the work.
Our estimators are experienced, with years of training – their job is to visit properties, listen to what our potential customers require and suggest designs and those products that might meet requirements. No two jobs are quite the same, but with years of experience we are able to suggest sound options – whether it is a bathroom window or a substantial portal framed conservatory, rest assured our advice will be sound. Rest assured also that there will be no high pressure selling – it is not our policy to put any pressure whatsoever on potential customers – we will visit, discuss, advise and provide a quotation for your consideration.
Last but not least is our Administration and Accounts department where your order is acknowledged, monitored, invoiced and post installation registration and paperwork dealt with again correctly and professionally.
In other words you are dealing with an experienced TEAM. Everyone in this Premier Team plays their part, with the end goal being to really impress our customers with the quality of the product and service and leave them very satisfied that their investment has been made wisely.


OAKLAND — At the taxi staging area outside Oakland International Airport, dozens of cars lined up in neat rows. Drivers stood or sat in small groups, chatting, watching videos or talking on their phones.
All were waiting for the intercom to ring out, signaling a few drivers at a time to head to the airport and, hopefully, catch a fare. But since the Port of Oakland, which operates the airport, began allowing ride-booking services, including Uber, Lyft and Wingz, to pick up and drop off passengers last year, those calls have been getting fewer and farther between.
In the past year, the number of trips by ride-booking services at the Oakland, San Jose and San Francisco airports has skyrocketed.
In Oakland, the number of ride-booking trips surpassed taxis by the second month of operation. Ride-booking consumed less than 2 percent of the total ground transportation market, excluding BART, in July last year but had 57 percent of the market by March, the last month for which data were available.
The numbers mirror similar gains at San Francisco International Airport, where ride-booking drivers took 9 percent of the market before the airport first permitted drivers in October 2014 to operate. Ride-booking services now have nearly 58 percent of the market. And data from the Mineta San Jose International Airport, which opened doors to ride-booking in November 2015, show that ride-booking services went from having less than 1 percent of the market to controlling 49 percent in May.
Meanwhile, at all three airports, the number of taxi trips are down an average of 23 percent, while the number of flights and airline passengers have increased.
On Thursday, the Port of Oakland's Board of Commissioners voted to extend contracts that were signed as part of a pilot program in July, August and September last year with Lyft, Uber and Wingz, respectively. As in San Francisco, the Oakland airport charges ride-booking drivers a $3.85 fee — $3.15 for Uber — to pick up and drop off passengers.
Uber's per-ride fee is lower at the Oakland airport, but it must meet a minimum annual fee guarantee. Ride-booking drivers in San Jose pay a $2.30 fee to pick up, but not to drop off, passengers. The airports each use different methods to track ride-booking trips, including self-reporting, "geofencing" around airport property, and an app that tracks ride-booking.
Operations managers at the airports said overwhelming customer demand and requests from ride-booking operators necessitated the creation of a permitting system for the services to operate. Passengers waiting outside the Oakland terminal for an Uber or Lyft to arrive overwhelmingly said price was the biggest factor in their decision to book a ride via an app, rather than just hop in a readily available cab.
Although the fare in a ride-booking fluctuates depending on demand, an average midday ride from Oakland airport to City Hall is $16-$20 on Uber; $13-$20 on Lyft; and $37-$38 in a Friendly cab.
Others said they liked the fact that they didn't need to pull out cash or a credit card and that they know how much the fare will cost in advance. Emeryville resident Sabine Lowrey said the ride-booking system removed the uncertainty of knowing whether the driver was following the best route home or jacking up the price of the meter.
"As a longtime resident of the Bay Area, I can attest to the fact that, with a cab, you never know what you're going to get," she said.
Still, the decision to allow ride-booking at the airport in San Jose came after months of debate and a two-day strike by cabdrivers, who said they wanted to see the ride-booking services regulated in the same way as taxi companies. But airport officials in San Jose said they were losing out on potential revenue — which they estimated to be roughly $630,000 per year from just Uber and Lyft. The city has since added Wingz, and together, drivers from the three companies generated $507,296 in fees in the first six months of operations, far surpassing expectations, said San Jose airport spokeswoman Rosemary Barnes.
"It's significant," Barnes said, despite the airport receiving fewer fees from other ground transportation services, such as limos, shuttles, shared vans and others.
The biggest challenge, said representatives from each airport, has been where to stage all the ride-booking drivers. Barnes said the San Jose airport is considering options to manage curbside congestion caused by ride-booking services. San Francisco has a staging area that allows the drivers to park nearby between a drop-off and pickup.
Doug Bloch, the political director of the teamsters' Joint Council 7, has been working to organize ride-booking drivers, and wants the Oakland airport to provide some staging areas for them. Currently, the drivers have to leave airport property after dropping someone off before returning to accept a new ride.
But cabdrivers in Oakland were hoping for a different outcome. They want to see Uber and Lyft subjected to the same stringent requirements as cab operators, said Oakland taxi driver Mansour Alhemiari. In most cities, cabs are required to be inspected every year, and drivers must be fingerprinted and go through background checks, pay business fees, pay for a taxi medallion and purchase commercial insurance, among other requirements.
As a concession, the San Jose City Council in November reduced the fees cabdrivers pay, removed one inspection requirement and removed requirements for fingerprinting and vehicle age and condition limits. Kirpal Bajwa, president of the Taxi Workers Alliance of Silicon Valley, said those changes didn't do much to help drivers because the costs of operating a cab are still much greater than the cost of operating a ride-booking vehicle.
Silva was hopeful, however, that a bill pending in the state Legislature, AB 650, would enable statewide regulation of the taxi industry, as is the case with ride-booking services. That way, Silva said, cabs could operate throughout California, rather than having to get individual operating permits for each city.
In Oakland, drivers were skeptical about whether deregulating the cab industry would allow them to compete effectively with other ride-booking services. Taxi driver Haroon Hayat said the only way to compete would be to increase the regulations on ride-booking drivers, and he plans to tell the Oakland City Council so on Tuesday.


When it comes to healthy love relationships, we just may be cheating ourselves out of a lifetime of romance and passion. This article is going to help you get back on track!.Nothing is as exciting as New Love! The sunshines even when it's raining and every minute you spend with your beloved is filled with energy and excitement.
You just can't get enough of each other. Well, what happened? Why and when did Mr./Ms. Perfect, turn into Mr./Ms. Okay?.
Beyond serious dysfunctions such as abuse or addictions, I'm about to let you in on some secrets that will put Relationship Counselors out of business. Even myself, but I'm willing to take that risk! First we are going to look at where you've allowed your life to go. We'll get to your partner later.When you first fell in love, you were also in love with the way you felt. Putting your best face forward was a high priority. You took time preparing yourself to be with your beloved.
Your self-esteem was heightened in the process. It wasn't the other person improving your self-esteem. You were doing it for yourself by taking time to take very good care of you.
Spend some time reflecting on those days, reliving those feelings, especially how you were feeling about yourself at the time.When you are done with your reflections, answer the following questions. No one will see your answers, so you can be brutally honest with yourself:.·	When did you start cheating on yourself?.·	When did you allow the care you were taking of yourself to slip into the daily doldrums?.·	Did you start gaining weight, or otherwise begin to let yourself go?.
·	Did you start losing your manners?.·	Did the cold reality of life edge out the fantasy and flowers?.·	Did that self-esteem you felt for yourself get lost somewhere along the line?.
·	How are you treating yourself and others today?.How do you feel about the questions you answered? Did you find an area that you might want to focus on for self-improvement?.It's time to start falling in love with you all over again; this is one of the biggest secrets. There are no worthy excuses. Even if you have kids, two jobs, pets, and a busy social calendar, you still have time for yourself ? make it! Even an extra ten minutes in the morning to spend time on your appearance or to meditate will work wonders.
Start touching yourself more, explore your whole body, caress it, and hug it. Pamper it with lotions and massages, and make sure you look your best every day. If you are upset about your body image, that's fixable. Find one thing you can do today to start adoring your body. Do that a little each day, you will see a difference soon and that will help you appreciate your body more.
Fill your senses with pleasure, good smelling things, good looking things, and tasting and feeling good things too. Play music that you love and allow yourself to really enjoy it. No matter where you are, or what you're doing, find something that delights your senses. Even the small things count!.Start looking for anything you can think of to allow yourself pleasure in your life. Let it bubble up from deep inside of you.
If you aren't hurting yourself or other people, then do it! Self-care is never selfish and we all deserve the best!.As you are working at finding joy in yourself and life once again, make a couple of lists. The first list is everything you love about your life right now.
Breathing, listening to birds in the morning, no matter how simple, if you love it, write it down. Next, write down everything you want to do or have in your life, and why. Even if it seems totally impossible, write it down anyway.One list is to remind you that life is beautiful even when you're having a bad day. Carry it with you and use it. The other list is for you to focus on giving yourself everything you want in this lifetime.
Even the impossible things might become possible in the future. Working towards them will help you get ready for the possibilities. You can also find valuable treasures on the way whether you reach the end results the way that you have them listed or not.
When you are ready, share these things with your partner. Share your wants and your fantasies and let him/her know you intend on fulfilling them and would enjoy his/her company. This is the time you can invite your beloved back into your life as a treasured guest, and treat them that way too, always. Let them know lovingly what you need from them too.
A romantic, passionate life is yours, be fearless about living it! Share it with your partner in delicious bite size morsels and watch what blooms and grows! Remember, you are welcome to email me at anytime if you would like more suggestions or have any ideas of your own to add to this article.
.Tracy Togliatti is a Registered Reiki Master through the Global Reiki Association and an Energy Psychology Practitioner. Tracy is also acting Director of http://www.
happyher.com, where she offers a Free Advice service and free email Reiki lessons. You may contact her anytime here http://www.happyher.com/advice/contact.


SAVE in International Print Media!
SAVE has featured in various international media. Links to the electronic versions (audio / video) of interviews are not available with us. Not all links to online news articles are available, as well.
Here we mention a few of such articles (linked to the original article - external links open in new tab).


This paper relates to the experimental draft of the model of collaborative management of ICT practices for use in SME, developed as part of a project of the Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor. This model aims to propose to SME an optimized management of their respective information system in terms of quality, reliability and cost. It is currently being experimented with SME partners. The results are promising and should allow at the end of the project to validate the model in its final release.
IT Service Management, e-management, collaborative model, SME, improvement.
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I am trying to export maximum flooding extents on the 2D domain to GIS to incorporate into a report. I have tried the Results>Export Maximum to GIS (and selecting all of the tick boxes, however it doesnot export the 2D flood extents. Any ideas how to export these maximum extents?
Try going under Tools, XP2D Utility Interface, 2D Results to GIS (tab). I usually change the output properties format to ESRI ASCII grid (you'll get a raster which you can change to a polygon in GIS - I've tried to export to shapefile type before but it never worked for me), select type Depth, and check the Max box. You can also change the grid size if you want/need to.
FYI: I am going to move this thread to the Wastewater forum as it is more relevant to that forum.


The Marketing Group (MKG) is a marketing think tank that provides the organisation with strategic advice on promotion and marketing related aspects. It acts as a forum for ETC members and partners to share information and best practices in the field of destination marketing to facilitate benchmark analysis.
The MKG liaises with other Operations Groups of the ETC, such as the Marketing Intelligence Group (MIG) and the Overseas Operations Groups (OGs) to broaden the dialogue about the organisation's strategy and assit with recommendations.
Marketing experts from NTOs member of ETC.