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This is the story of two retired couples who have found their little slice of paradise.
It's also about a famous Australian town; Deniliquin, they knew little about just a short while ago, but now love with a passion.
To start our story, let's provide some background.
Charlie and Lynnne Davis lived in Melbourne and had travelled extensively throughout Australia, both for work and leisure.
Like an increasing number of Melburnians, they discussed retirement living and decided this would not be in the 'big smoke'.
But where should they go? This was the quandary.
Charlie and Lynne sought the answer in their journeys across our vast nation – searching for a place that was 'just right'.
On a map, numerous towns were marked as possibilities yet none seemed to have the X factor for which they searched.
Perhaps it was Echuca/Moama, the historic paddle steamer towns which straddle the banks of the might Murray River?
In 2011, on one of their many visits to Echuca/Moama – "we loved Moama," Charlie says – they saw a brochure in their motel room providing information on Deniliquin and decided to take a trip north on the Cobb Highway to this southern Riverina town, which was a distance of 75kms.
"We had seen signs pointing to Deniliquin and knew it was mentioned in a Jade Hurley song called 'Down In The Riverina', but we'd never been there," Charlie said.
Their first port of call after driving into 'Deni' was the golf club, nestled on the edge of the Murray Valley National Park, yet almost in the centre of town.
The adage 'first impressions are important' has never been so accurate.
"Everyone there was so friendly," Charlie explained. "People were chatting away to us and genuinely interested in who we were and where we were from."
Charlie and Lynne were impressed.
They went to the Saturday market in the beautiful Waring Gardens and were overawed by the atmosphere and the penchant of total strangers – people they had never seen – to smile and say 'hello'.
They went to the bakery for a bite to eat, as well as the RSL Club, and on each occasion there was the same friendly, welcoming demeanour.
"We took some lovely photos and left Deni thinking 'this is a great little place'," Charlie enthused.
Charlie and Lynne had discussed moving from their suburban home in Croydon, without making any firm plans and locking in a timeframe.
However, their decision to move on was fast-tracked when the local council installed a speed hump in front of their house and effectively turned their street into a drag strip. It was noisy, especially on a Saturday night, and became even worse after a drop of rain (which is not uncommon in Melbourne).
A valuation was sought and two days after putting their house on the market Charlie and Lynne had sold for a very nice price and their minds quickly turned, in Charlie's words, to "gee, we have to get our act together and find somewhere else to live".
He jumped on the computer and started looking at houses in many towns they had short-listed as possibilities for retirement living and when he decided to check out a few in Deniliquin was pleasantly surprised at what seemed outstanding value for money.
"We sent off inquiries about houses in a number of locations, and the only person who made the effort to follow-up was Ashley," Charlie recalled. He was talking about Deniliquin Deputy Mayor and real estate agent Ashley Hall, who phoned Charlie and offered any assistance he could provide.
Before long, Charlie and Lynne were in Deniliquin inspecting a vast range of houses including a magnificent four bedroom brick veneer with a swimming pool and outdoor entertainment area.
It was perfect … and better still with the negotiated price they had lots of money left over from the sale of their Melbourne property to spend on fully enjoying their retirement.
"The same quality house would have cost us at least twice as much in Melbourne," Lynne said.
"We couldn't believe it. We had our dream home, plus money in the bank."
As Charlie and Lynne became acquainted with more local people their impression of Deniliquin as a friendly, welcoming town continued to be enhanced.
Everywhere they went, Deni was talked about in glowing terms.
"No-one was negative. Everyone spoke so highly of the town and we were blown away by the friendly country attitudes," Charlie said.
They went to see local removalist Wayne Dunbar, and enjoyed scones and cream with a cup of tea in his lounge room, before he showed them his trucks and gave an estimate of relocating their furniture from Melbourne to Deniliquin.
Like the other Deni business operators they had met, Wayne was efficient and helpful and Charlie recalled that "everything was perfect and ran so smoothly", all at a price that was well below the on-line estimates he had seen from city based removalists.
Charlie and Lynne settled into their new environment and went happily about the task of setting up their new home.
Whether it was at Harvey Norman, the supermarket, the pharmacist or any other store they visited as new customers the story remained the same – friendly, helpful service from genuine country people.
They needed a load of wood, so Charlie sourced a phone number and made a quick call.
"I had to leave a message, and simply said we had just moved to town, needed wood and gave the address."
At 8pm that evening there was a knock on the front door.
"Are you the bloke who wanted wood?" the caller asked, and received an affirmative response.
"Sorry, but for some reason my phone didn't keep your number so I couldn't ring back. If you want it, I've got the load here now."
Charlie and the wood man proceeded to unload the trailer.
"He even helped me stack it in the wood heap!"
When Charlie needed to visit a doctor he made one phone call and quickly had an appointment. He's been back to the same doctor several times, unlike many places today where you make a booking and get whatever doctor is available.
Lynne explained they investigated the availability of health facilities before moving to Deniliquin.
"We're not getting any younger, so it was important the town had a hospital and good medical facilities."
A new medical centre had not long been opened and they learned Deniliquin had a well-equipped hospital plus a vast range of ancillary health and community facilities.
They settled into their new home, with Charlie happy to look after his pool and gardens while Lynne was keen to get involved in community activities.
She was soon off to bingo sessions, playing lifeball – a game similar to netball but played at a slower pace – and invited to join other local organisations.
They became regulars at the RSL Club, enjoying a range of entertainment including shows by leading Australian performers.
"And every time we went to a show we met more friendly people," Charlie laughed. "It's just great. We went to the RSL Christmas party and paid only $20 which included our drinks, then booked into their Christmas lunch which was $50 and it was unbelievable."
Charlie knows what he's talking about when it comes to the food industry. He's reluctant to talk about his former working career for fear he might get 'roped in', though suffice to say it was in hospitality.
"The RSL Christmas lunch was Salon Culinaire standard, and that's coming from someone who was in the trade."
A journalist from the local newspaper, the Pastoral Times, attended one of these functions and the following week Lynne and Charlie had their photo on the social pages.
"We'd never been in a newspaper," Charlie said, adding he had been reading the paper on-line since they first became interested in Deniliquin and loved all the snippets of local information, including less significant activities which would not make the columns of city papers.
The enthusiasm Charlie and Lynne had developed for their new home town was so infectious that from phone conversations it rubbed off on Lynne's sister who was on the other side of the continent.
This is where Greg and Jenny Harrison take up the story. They have travelled extensively throughout Australia, in particular during Greg's career in the Army, before settling in Perth.
Jenny and Lynne are part of a family with 14 siblings who grew up in Melbourne.
Jenny explained they wanted to move back closer to Melbourne to be near family, but did not want to live in the city.
Lynne and Charlie spoke glowingly about the southern New South Wales town they now called home, and before long Greg and Jenny thought it might be an option for their relocation.
They had previously thought about moving to somewhere like Lilydale, on the outskirts of Melbourne, "but even it's just another suburb now".
"We had been to Deni a long time ago, so knew a little bit about the town, but we'd lived in Perth for 20 years so it would have changed a lot," Jenny said.
Before you knew it, Jenny and Greg had flown across, bought a house in Deniliquin and were soon preparing to move to their new home.
Soon after arriving, Jenny said they realised the zeal with which Charlie and Lynne spoke about the town was well founded.
"We moved soon after Christmas and realised everything they said was true. The people are just so friendly.
"I was browsing in Rockmans and nearly straight away was chatting to the lady there … it was wonderful. I went to the hairdresser and the service was fantastic.
"You walk down the street and people smile and say hello. You don't get that in the city."
Lynne added: "When you're out in the garden people drive by and wave. Not that we get much traffic; it's generally pretty quiet."
This 'quiet' is something else that has impressed Deni's new residents.
"You can almost hear the quiet at night," Jenny says. "It's country quiet … no noise from constant buses or cars."
Charlie remembered their many years in Melbourne and reflected, "it doesn't matter where you are, there is traffic noise. All we hear is the occasional sound from the rice mill, cows in the distance when there's a cattle sale and some shots from the gun club when there's a shoot on.
"Living here is like being in a soundproof room. It's magnificent.
"And there are the stars … we've had visitors from Melbourne who can't believe the number of stars in the sky at night."
Lynne and Charlie have had quite a few visitors, particularly friends and relatives from Melbourne who don't mind the leisurely 3½ hour drive.
Nor do they mind the friendly welcome when they arrive.
"It's such a relaxed atmosphere here. We're relaxed nearly all the time," Jenny says, acknowledging that is not the norm with city living.
"So that's our story. We've moved here and we're as happy as Larry."
Her husband Greg, sister Lynne and brother-in-law Charlie simply nod in agreement.
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Jenkins: It's time to drop the 'Capital of Silicon Valley' slogan
by Special to San José Spotlight
April 19, 2019April 9, 2020
"San Jose is the capital of Silicon Valley the way Arlington, Va., can claim to be the capital of the United States because the Pentagon is there." – Rob Morse, "San Jose: Small Town: Big Slogan." San Francisco Chronicle, May 22, 1996
In 1988, San Jose decided to call itself the "Capital of Silicon Valley" even though it didn't have much of a tech industry back then. According San Jose Political Scientist Terry Christensen, the name was championed by Mayor Tom McEnery as a sort of public relations campaign. Speaking truth to power worked, and San Jose eventually became a power player through companies like homegrown eBay and relocated Cisco, Adobe and PayPal.
However, any grasp San Jose had on the tech industry was taken away because other cities, like San Francisco under Mayor Ed Lee, became more aggressive in attracting tech companies.
Say what you want about his controversial mid-Market tax credit, but it worked to cause Twitter, Square and Uber to start their businesses in San Francisco, and now it's the default place to start a tech business. It's not a coincidence that nearly every tech company going public this year — Lyft, Uber, Pinterest, Slack, Airbnb — came of age in the Mayor Lee era.
Zoom, which began publicly trading on April 18, has been the first major San Jose IPO since PayPal went public in 2002.
This is not an article to debate the merits of whether San Jose is the Capital of Silicon Valley, how one defines Silicon Valley or which city is the Capital of Silicon Valley. The point of this article is to say that we shouldn't call ourselves the Capital of Silicon Valley, even if it is true.
As a practical matter, greatness is something best conferred by third parties.
Despite being one of the greatest boxers of all time, people thought Muhammad Ali was cocky and arrogant because he never missed an opportunity to tell you that he was the greatest. People regularly refer to Stephen Curry as the greatest shooter of all time, but if he were to call himself the greatest, he'd lose a lot of devoted fans.
Organizations fail when they think they can't be replaced. We should be streaming Blockbuster right now instead of Netflix, but Blockbuster couldn't fathom that people would want mail-in DVDs over a same-day brick and mortar experience.
You've heard the sayings "talk is cheap" and "actions speak louder than words." Our cheap talk is our city's slogan because it's hollow without actions to back it up. San Francisco took bold measures to build up its tech industry and it's going to take something equally bold to take it away.
The Google development will bring much-needed jobs to San Jose, but there's nothing bold about attracting a satellite campus, especially when the global headquarters is just 15 miles away. Further, tech hubs are formed around unicorns. Notably, none of the FAANG companies (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) are based out of San Francisco or Palo Alto and Silicon Beach was built around Snapchat and Tinder.
If we want to be taken seriously as tech hub and innovation center, we can't think like we're already there. Because there is no there. The only thing that's constant in life is change. Removing the proclamation that we're top dog both keeps us on our toes and helps us remain humble.
You may be thinking, "Okay, hotshot, what are we going to replace it with?"
Well, the answer is nothing. Most cities don't have slogans, and the ones that do are fairly abstract and not tied to an industry. Austin is "Keep Austin Weird" and Las Vegas is "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." And if you're going to be a city with an industry-specific slogan, like Dalton, Georgia, "The Carpet Capital of the World," your dominance has to be undisputed.
Some people may argue it's too late to change because we've had this slogan for over 30 years and it's now part of our tradition.
However, you can't call an aspirational slogan tradition. Moreover, we've been trying to get rid of it for at least 23 years. In 1996, a massive 32-member committee unveiled a $1.2 million (present value $1.9 million) marketing campaign with a logo and a new slogan: "Small Town Heart. Big City Soul."
You have to really hate "Capital of Silicon Valley" to gather a 32-person team and $1.2 million to try to replace it with "Small Town Heart. Big City Soul."
So how about this: Let's drop the slogan and become the slogan. Success speaks for itself.
A. Jarrod Jenkins is a tech policy expert and San Jose Downtown Association board member. He is passionate about using innovation and cultural experiences to create vibrant cities.
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Randy Apr 20, 2019 at 2:54AM
Absolute nonsense!
Silicon Valley Joe Apr 20, 2019 at 10:06AM
Totally disagree with this. Capital of Silicon Valley was a great slogan. The problem was that city leaders never believed in it. San Francisco liked it so much that it stole it.
San Jose has no identifier. That's why it is the least known big city in America. People have heard of Silicon Valley and know that it revolves around tech. Just like Gilroy is the garlic capital of the world, it's at least a starting point for knowing the history of the city.
Ed Lee took the title and ran with it and now, without much effort, has taken the only thing San Jose was known for. Instead of spending millions on lame marketing slogans like "big city soul" city officials could have taken an excellent slogan and built upon it. As usual, San Jose, gets crapped on by San Francisco.
nobody Apr 20, 2019 at 11:09PM
SF is more like the capital of BS tech companies that will never turn a profit.
Shelley Apr 21, 2019 at 12:04PM
SJ and SF have a lot in common: a lot of homeless encampments, a lot of garbage/trash piles strewn on city streets and freeway buffer zones, a lot of poop and urine odors, and a lot of graffiti tagging on overpasses and sound walls. Nice.
Edgenail Apr 21, 2019 at 8:32PM
David Cooper Apr 21, 2019 at 11:02PM
It's interesting that the author's opinion seems to be that San Francisco more rightly deserves the title. But San Francisco isn't in a valley, is it?
Maybe we can go back to the original "Valley of the Heart's Delight"? This would create jobs for people who can do creative writing and Photoshop work.
DTSJ Densification Apr 22, 2019 at 11:17AM
Very poor article. San Jose is the capital of Silicon Valley, it's not an aspiration.
Ever check where a majority of the FAANG employees live? It's San Jose.
What San Jose, and the region at large, need is more high rise dense office buildings in DTSJ so that the SJ residents don't have to commute 15min north for work. Offices like the one Zoom is in and like Adobe.
And by the way, if we're playing the silly game of going toe for toe with SF, Zoom crushed Pinterest after they IPO'd on the same day. And how is Lyft doing? And Uber?
Jarrod Jenkins Apr 22, 2019 at 1:27PM
"Ever check where a majority of the FAANG employees live? It's San Jose." I work at Facebook and we have like 3 buses that go to San Jose compared to nearly 30 that go to San Francisco. I don't know a single person who has left San Francisco to move to San Jose, but I know plenty who moved here for a tech job and moved to San Francisco.
I'm all for more density in DTSJ. I live in one of the DTSJ high rises. The reality is San Jose offers very little for young, single people. When are we going to realize that overselling San Jose does not help us. DTSJ champion Mayor Tom McEnery certainly agrees…
"Yet, such out-of-order boosterism and unwise decision-making is certainly known quite well at our City Hall; in fact, this type of inferiority complex-driven error is the calling card of the 'gang that can't vote straight.'" – Mayor Tom McEnery
https://www.sanjoseinside.com/2006/05/17/heh_were_number_10/
paul jameson Apr 30, 2019 at 12:50AM
san jose is the county seat of santa clara county, aka the capital of this county.the santa clara valley is now a days called silicon valley by mostly everyone in the bay area.saying san jose is not deserving because frisco is more tech than san jo is forgetting that san jose is still the county seat (capital) of santa clara county (silicon valley) regardless of any bay area city being more entitled to our capital title. geographically speaking the city is technically not apart of the valley and is not consider to be apart of silicon valley—-palo alto to milpitas—-then you are in the east bay or peninsula


It all started when my daughter asked me to build her a play mailbox out of wood. She and I went to Home Depot and purchased some cheap plywood and some basic tools. She quickly lost interest in the project, and I thought it was fun to cut, nail, and sand the rough little piece... I think I made some little wood craft about forty years ago at summer camp - that was my prior experience.
Anyway, the construction remained fairly primitive, though I enjoyed imagining that it might evolve into something a bit finer...I began to countersink the little finish nails, fill in the rough surfaces with putty, and smooth the whole thing with ever-finer sandpaper.
I put the box aside for a few weeks and got a crazy idea to finish it in the style of a traditional Swedish folk art called "Kurbits..." I also decided to complete the craft by Christmas and give it to my wife as a gift. Why, in god's name, would I paint a wooden box Banner Red in a high gloss finish with white flowery looking things all over it?
My wife and I come from two very different worlds in certain ways, and I have rarely withheld my very low opinion of traditional Swedish folk decor with her... On a good day, we laugh about our different tastes - she's the Swedish "Country Bumpkin"and I'm the "Big City East Coast Art Snob..."
The decorations associated with that holiday have always been profoundly irritating to me, and my wife was practically born at the North Pole! She grew up in a part of Sweden where I think they invented the damned holiday, and Santa Claus lives in the next town over.
She's always loved all the...you know...STUFF!!!
How will this marriage ever work you may wonder? OK - enough drama and hyperbole... The truth is that I've been working on being less selfish, my wife and kids love Christmas as much as anything, and I love them even more... Soooooo - I figured I'd make my wife a pretty red box and try to enjoy the holiday ...and that's just what I did.


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Q: How to write to HTTP body message parameters AND a zip file? I can not figure out how to correctly post parameters in the request body along side with a zip file.
This is what I have done so far:
    HttpsURLConnection connection = openConnection(requestURL);
    connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
    connection.setDoOutput(true);
    connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + boundary);

    Map<String, String> keyValueMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
    keyValueMap.put("method", "1");
    keyValueMap.put("apiKey", "2");
    keyValueMap.put("merchantUUID", "3");
    keyValueMap.put("batchNotifyURL", "4");
    keyValueMap.put("fileHash", "5");
    keyValueMap.put("urlHash", "6");

    PrintWriter writer = null;
    try {
        writer = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(connection.getOutputStream(), "UTF-8"));

        for(String key : keyValueMap.keySet()) {
            writer.println("--" + boundary);
            writer.println("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"" + key + "\"");
            writer.println("Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8");
            writer.println();
            writer.println(keyValueMap.get(key));
        }
        writer.println("--" + boundary);
        writer.println("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"batchFile\"; filename=\"" + fileName + "\"");
        writer.println("Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8");
        writer.println();

        BufferedReader reader = null;
        try {
            reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(fileToUpload), "UTF-8"));
            for (String line; (line = reader.readLine()) != null;) {
                writer.println(line);
            }
        } finally {
            if (reader != null) try { reader.close(); } catch (IOException logOrIgnore) {}
        }
        writer.println("--" + boundary + "--");
    } finally {
        if (writer != null) writer.close();
    }

The error message that I receive is:
The file submitted is not a valid zip archive.
Is there other way I could do this? Am I missing something?
Thank you.

A: Problem fixed.
Below is my solution:
    OutputStream outputStream = connection.getOutputStream();
    PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(outputStream, CHARSET), true);
    try {
        for(String key : keyValueMap.keySet()) {
            writer.append("--" + boundary).append(CRLF);
            writer.append("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"" + key + "\"").append(CRLF);
            writer.append("Content-Type: text/plain; charset=" + CHARSET).append(CRLF);
            writer.append(CRLF).append(keyValueMap.get(key)).append(CRLF).flush();
        }
        // Send binary file.
        writer.append("--" + boundary).append(CRLF);
        writer.append("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"batchFile\"; filename=\"" + fileToUpload.getName() + "\"").append(CRLF);
        writer.append("Content-Type: " + URLConnection.guessContentTypeFromName(fileToUpload.getName())).append(CRLF);
        writer.append("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary").append(CRLF);
        writer.append(CRLF).flush();
        Files.copy(fileToUpload.toPath(), outputStream);
        outputStream.flush(); // Important before continuing with writer!
        writer.append(CRLF).flush(); // CRLF is important! It indicates end of boundary.
        writer.println("--" + boundary + "--");
    } finally {
        if (writer != null) writer.close();
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I was actually home today...I took my first FMLA day...everything on me hurt this morning...even my toe joints and that was a first! I was achey a bit on Sunday and more on Monday...but I woke this morning and all my joints hurt....it's better now, but my knees and my fingers still ache....the Hubs said to me last night..."You didn't knit?" and I said, "I hurt too much." That is not going to be fun to look forward to.....but I'm going to keep track and see if I can figure out possible triggers...one thing I read was that after an infection, a flareup is a possibility, and since I have been fighting sinus and ear infections since August, I wonder if that contributed to this flare-up. Or, I read, it could happen after a burst of energy...say, my mad organizing session this weekend? It's all new territory for me.
The weather's freaky here, too. A good high this time of year is around 70. The highs have all been over 80 for a couple of weeks. Bizarre.
I have been making some leg warmers, I finished one pair and am on the second - Christmas knitting! I love knitting gifts for people but then I never knit anything for myself!


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A policeman was patrolling near midnight at a local parking spotoverlooking a golf course. He drove by a car and saw a couple insidewith the dome light on. Inside there was a young man in the driver'sseat reading a computer magazine and a young lady in the back seatcalmly knitting.He stopped to investigate.He walked up to the driver's window and knocked. The young man lookedup, obligingly cranked the window down, and said, "Yes, Officer?""What are you doing?" the policeman asked."What does it look like?" answered the young man. "I'm readingthis magazine."Pointing towards the young lady in the back seat, the officer thenasked, "And what is she doing?"The young man looked over his shoulder and replied, "I think she'sknitting a sweater."Confused, the officer asked, "How old are you, young man?""I'm nineteen," he replied."And how old is she?" asked the officer.The young man looked at his watch and more...
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Twisted-weave Flower Basket by Iizuka Shokansai
Iizuka Shokansai / 飯塚小玕斎
Twisted-weave (Hineri-gumi) Flower Basket
7.5 x 11 x 10 in
This basket does not have its original box
Original lacquered water container
This basket is no longer available
Iizuka Shokansai was the first son of Iizuka Rokansai (1890-1958), a brilliant artist whose aesthetic vision and powers of concentration defined bamboo art in Tokyo, at least. As Rokansai's only son, Shokansai must have felt a special burden. Like his father, in his early years Shokansai looked beyond the family vocation, studying painting, and showed promise in that field before returning to the family studio. In bamboo, Shokansai of course had the benefit of immediate and sustained contact with his father's special genius, and was able to explore Rokansai's novel designs from within, and in his own way. Thanks to those efforts, in 1982 Shokansai was designated as National Living Treasure in bamboo art, after Shono Shounsai (1904-1974), the second of only five bamboo artists ever to receive such recognition.
Shokansai created especially inspired mat-plaited works, such as the document box included in the Abbey Collection of Bamboo art now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Less eye-catching, perhaps, but also very compelling, are his organic twisted-weave flower baskets, as seen here. Again, Rokansai provided important examples of this kind, such as the baskets entitled Yadokari (Plate 58 in Iizuka Rokansai: Master of Modern Bamboo Crafts (Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, 1989) and Chidori (Plate 49 in Masterpieces of Bamboo Art in Tochigi (Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, 2014).
Such baskets are perhaps inspired by roughly woven folk baskets, though in quality and processing of material, color, texture and form, these should be considered a different species. Their raw look is composed from extremely finely-worked lengths of nemagaridake, the richly-colored, vital bamboo found throughout the Iizuka home territory of Tochigi. Here, two lengths of nemagaridake are finely split so as to feature the thin outer-skin. Placed back-to-back, the color and shine of the bamboo skin remains on the basket's outer surface even as the lengths twist through the basket's warp. And at the same time that this deeply textured weave advances from the base, the basket wall folds back on itself dramatically before rising again to form an irregular, internal mouth. The basket seems to stand up in spite of itself, as if it were made of distressed cloth or cordage, or as did the great ceramic vats that collapsed in the kiln, revealing wholly unintended, dynamical shapes and patterns prized by collectors ever since.


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Q: Tkinter: Canvas create_line screen drawing math Does anyone have any idea how is tkinter/tcl actually drawing the line on the screen? I'm interested in actual math used to, for example, draw a line of width 9 diagonally with start point at (a,b) and end point at (c,d).
That is, without any smoothing, so with jagged edges and warts! I tried googling and finding this info in tcl docs, but to no avail.
Here's what I noticed by using the magnifier tool to see pixels clearly: line of width 1 just follows the mouse motion when drawing it. Width 2 adds pixels with an offset of -1 to the width 1 line (now this depends on the line direction, so it can mean either to the left of mouse motion, or below it). Width 3 adds pixels with an offset of +1 (right/above mouse motion) to the pixels of line with width 2. Etc. But I have absolutely no idea what calculations tkinter/tcl is doing for diagonals.
I need this info to be precise, so that I know exactly which pixels are being influenced on the canvas (which holds an image in the background, so I'm using create_line to actually form a mask for selecting pixels that are going to be influenced in some way).


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Bargain hunters pleasantly surprised that National Road Yard Sale returned
Sam Blackburn Times Recorder USA TODAY NETWORK
ZANESVILLE — That the National Road Yard Sales are even occurring at all was something Sheryl Hartman saw as good fortune.
The Hopewell resident annually sells home decorative items at her yard sale off Jasper Drive, a bustling neighborhood on Muskingum County's west side that sits in the heart of the old National Road.
Her location, within eyesight of U.S. 40, was one of the few busy spots early on a pleasant, sun-splashed Wednesday, the first that passerbys could stop and see what locals had to offer. The event lasts until Sunday and stretches through several states.
Hartman usually has a booth at Backwoods Fest and other summertime marketplaces, but COVID-19 restriction put a damper on most every activity in Ohio. That included the annual yard sale, which doesn't just bring out local residents but travelers from other counties.
That Gov. Mike DeWine allowed them to continue surprised many, Hartman included.
"I didn't think they would," Hartman said. "I didn't think they would want people out running around, but I am glad they did."
Customer traffic was mostly sparse early on Wednesday, when most sites were still setting up shop. Customer traffic gathered steam closer to noontime, however, including a handful of shoppers at Hartman's site that purchased items.
She hopes it's a trend that continues. The loss of Backwoods Fest alone cost her between $18,000 and $20,000 in business, she said.
"It was a big hit," Hartman said. "Between all of my shows that have been canceled I've lost between $30,000 and $40,000. It's a big hit. At least I can get my supplies back out."
Zanesville native Phil Wymer and his wife are veterans of yard sales, traveling as far as Indiana a few years ago. A local historian, he said he is usually seeking items and memorabilia from Zanesville Speedway.
Once in a while gets lucky. Hopewell was their first stop of the day.
"We're going to Newark for lunch," Wymer said. "It gets us out of the house."
Like Hartman, Wymer had his doubts that the yard sales would be permitted in 2020.
"I was, but most of the people wear their masks," Wymer said. "It's the people that don't wear their masks that keep this (virus) going. That's how I feel anyway."
Wymer used to buy and sell antiques before the market plunged in the late 2000s. He still likes to see what is out there, however. These days, he's trying to find items for his grandchildren.
"You'd be surprised the stuff you can find at yard sales," Wymer said.
A few miles west at the Christian Life Center in Brownsville, Robert Wess, wife Patricia and Rich and Kim Mease were holding their first yard sale in an effort to provide for several local charities. They were representing Helping Hands Community Church in Glenford.
Wess, now 76, is retired after formerly operating a towing company for 40 years. Among the items he was selling were a rollback, a full size motor home and a pair of lawn mowers. He also had several smaller items in the basement of the Life Center.
Among those browsing his items was Roseville resident Robert Garcia, who made a stop while passing through. He feels the yard sales would have done better during its normal time, but he's happy they got the opportunity given the current landscape.
"I'm not going to get into politics, but I do believe it has hurt yard sales as well as businesses," Garcia sad. "We can point point fingers at government and politicians, and I know things are what they are. You can't control everything. You just have to make the best of what you've got."
He was impressed with Wess' selection. He usually looks for tools and collectibles.
"He's got a lot of stuff down there," Garcia said. "There was something for everybody. I try and help smaller people. A lot of times you pick up something you don't even know you're looking for."


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Opeth – Pale Communion
Review by Raymond Westland
On Heritage, the previous Opeth album, Mikael Åkerfeldt and his companions decided to break completely with the past death metal leanings of their older material and morph into a full blown progressive rock act altogether. Not everyone appreciated this bold move but it certainly breathed new life into their patented style. Three years after the release of their most controversial album to date, Opeth is back with a brand new album, entitled Pale Communion.
In many interviews, Åkerfeldt mentioned his dislike for metal and his preference for seventies prog music in general, so it doesn't come as a surprise that Pale Communion is very much a continuation of what the band has done on the previous album. This will be quite a disappointment for long-time Opeth fans who were anticipating a return to the good ol' Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries days. The new album does feature some heavier tracks in the form of 'Eternal Rains Will Come' and 'Cusp Of Eternity', but both tracks would be considered ballad-type stuff in comparison to 'The Leper Affinity', 'Bleak' and 'The Baying Of The Hounds'.
But then again, Pale Communion has a habit of working its way in the mind of the unsuspecting listener if given half a chance. Opeth's trademark darkness is still very much around and Mikael Åkerfeldt's warm singing voice is as inviting as ever. Songs like 'Elysian Woes', 'Goblin' and 'Voice Of Treason' may be pretty straightforward at first, but when you pay more attention to the details, you'll notice there's a lot going on in terms of arrangements and other proggy twists and turns. Compared to Heritage the new album has a more contemporary feel, due to the much improved production values.
The song material on Pale Communion is much stronger compared to its controversial predecessor. Also, sound-wise the new album is quite an improvement. It may not bring some of disenchanted fans back to the fold, however Pale Communion is living proof that Opeth is as vibrant as ever and they're one of few bands left in rock and metal that actually dare to evolve and grow into their own.
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Cusp Of Eternity
Moon Above, Sun Below
Elysian Woes
Voice Of Treason
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Naas 11/05/19 G.F. Carroll Michael Mulvany Hcp 6f 4 9-10 81 Royal Ascot Trials Day May 19th H'cap €600
Naas 29/04/19 G.F. Carroll Michael Mulvany Hcp 6f 18 9-2 82 Newbridge Bad Lippspringe Twinning H'cap
Galway 30/07/18 G.F. Carroll Michael Mulvany Hcp 7f 1 9-6 72 Claytonhotelgalway.ie H'cap €10,625
Down-Royal 27/07/18 G.F. Carroll Michael Mulvany Hcp 7f 5 9-10 72 Magners Light H'cap €275
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Bellewstown 04/07/18 G.F. Carroll Michael Mulvany Hcp 7f 187yds 2 9-7 73 McCabes Mitsubishi H'cap €2,500
Listowel 03/06/18 G.F. Carroll Michael Mulvany Hcp 7f 3 9-5 75 George Fitzmaurice H'cap €1,200
Sligo 22/05/18 C.D. Hayes Michael Mulvany F 6f 200yds 1 8-9 70 Printfix Ltd. Rated Race €7,813
Navan 19/05/18 C.P. Hoban Michael Mulvany Hcp 5f 2 8-8 68 Meridian Security H'cap €1,875
Tipperary 14/05/18 G.F. Carroll Michael Mulvany Hcp 5f 5 9-12 68 www.tipperaryraces.ie H'cap €275
Gowran-Park 09/05/18 G.F. Carroll Michael Mulvany Hcp 7f 6 9-8 68 Paulstown H'cap
Dundalk 18/04/18 G.F. Carroll Michael Mulvany Hcp 6f 1 9-0 65 Hen & Stag Packages At Dundalk H'cap €6,875
Fairyhouse 20/09/17 D.P. McDonogh Michael Mulvany Hcp 6f 9 8-10 70 Become A Member At Fairyhouse Nurs H'cap
Down-Royal 08/09/17 G.F. Carroll Michael Mulvany Mdn 5f 5 9-5 62 Irish Stallion Farms EBF M'dn €375
Bellewstown 30/08/17 G.F. Carroll Michael Mulvany Mdn 5f 5 9-5 57 Collierstown M'dn €300
Roscommon 08/08/17 R.P. Whelan Michael Mulvany Hcp 7f 70yds 9 8-10 61 J.F. Hanley Nursery H'cap
Galway 31/07/17 G.F. Carroll Michael Mulvany Mdn 7f 6 9-5 Claregalwayhotel.ie (C&G) Irish EBF M'dn
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Mitchell (Mitch) Watt (Bendigo, 25 maart 1988) is een Australische atleet, gespecialiseerd in het verspringen. Hij heeft bij de wereldkampioenschappen drie keer een medaille gewonnen: eenmaal indoor en tweemaal outdoor, maar geen van de keren won hij de wereldtitel. Hij is daarnaast Oceanisch recordhouder verspringen. Hij nam eenmaal deel aan de Olympische Spelen en won bij die gelegenheid één medaille.

Carrière

Rugby
Watt beoefende al als kind atletiek, waar hij op de lange afstanden na bijna al zijn wedstrijden won. Zo werd hij bij verschillende nationale jeugdkampioenschappen, waaronder bij de D-junioren, kampioen. Op veertienjarige leeftijd besloot hij echter te gaan rugbyen, omdat een teamsport hem op die leeftijd veel meer aansprak dan een individuele sport. Ook dacht Watt, dat het met de in Australië populaire sport eenvoudiger was een carrière te maken waarvan hij kon leven, vergeleken met atletiek. Watt lukte dat aardig: hij speelde mee in het team van de Australische deelstaat Queensland. Eind 2007 maakte hij weer de overstap naar de atletiek, na overgehaald te zijn door onder andere verspringer, Chris Noffke. Door diezelfde verspringer kwam hij bij zijn huidige coach Gary Bourne terecht. Binnen een paar maanden sprong hij richting de acht meter, wat hem bijna de limiet opleverde voor de Olympische Spelen van Peking. Ondanks dit succes was Watt nog niet zeker van een loopbaan als verspringer en stopte hij er zelfs mee. Zijn coach Bourne haalde Watt na twee maanden over om toch door te gaan met de sport, wat hem al snel succes opleverde.

Tweemaal brons
Het jaar 2009 begon Watt met een zilveren medaille bij de Australische kampioenschappen met een afstand van 8,10 m, wat een verbetering was van de 7,97 die hij het seizoen ervoor had behaald. Deze afstand verbeterde hij verder naar 8,43. Tijdens de wereldkampioenschappen van 2009 in Berlijn veroverde Watt verrassend de bronzen medaille bij het verspringen. Hij sprong zich in de kwalificaties als vijfde naar de finale, wat hem al tevreden stelde. In die finale sprong hij naar 8,37, wat hem vóór zijn landgenoot Fabrice Lapierre een plek op het ereschavot opleverde.Een half jaar later, op de wereldindoorkampioenschappen in Doha, sleepte de Australiër wederom de bronzen medaille in de wacht. Hij sprong bij deze wedstrijd, die minder goed bezet was dan in Berlijn, 8,05 en moest dit keer wel zijn landgenoot voor zich dulden. Het zomerseizoen moest Watt aan zich voorbij laten gaan door een blessure.

Successen in 2011
Na het teleurstellende seizoen van 2010 kwam Watt sterker terug het jaar daarop. Hij pakte zijn eerste Australische titel en vervolgde zijn tocht met verschillende overwinningen bij de IAAF Diamond League, waardoor hij het klassement won. De meest in het oog springende overwinning was bij de DN Galan, waar hij zijn persoonlijke en het continentale record verbeterde tot 8,54. Deze prestatie gaf hem hoop en motivatie voor de gouden medaille bij de WK van 2011 in Daegu. Hij moest hier echter in Dwight Philips zijn meerdere erkennen; hij legde uiteindelijk beslag op de zilveren medaille met een afstand van 8,33. Watt zocht de oorzaak van het voor hem teleurstellende verlies bij een achillesblessure in de weken voorafgaand aan de wereldkampioenschappen.Watt liet in 2011 ook zijn sprintkwaliteiten zien. Tijdens een wedstrijd in Gold Coast sprintte hij op de 100 m naar 10,31 s.

Olympisch jaar
Watt sloeg het Australische verspringseizoen 2011-2012 en de WK indoor van 2012 over met het oog op de Olympische Spelen van Londen en zijn kwetsbare achillespees. Hij kon zich dit veroorloven, doordat de medaille bij de wereldkampioenschappen van 2011 hem een automatische kwalificatie had opgeleverd voor de Spelen. Watt begon zijn seizoen daarom pas in juni, met onder andere een overwinning bij de Adidas Grand Prix. Bij de Olympische Spelen eindigde hij achter de verrassende winnaar Greg Rutherford als tweede met een afstand van 8,16. Een week voor het einde van de Spelen, na de verspringfinale, had Australië slechts één gouden medaille behaald, waardoor het land, ondanks twaalf zilveren medailles, negentiende stond in het medailleklassement. Watt stelde dat de media te negatief waren over de prestaties van het Australische team. Hij zei tevens dat "als mensen zich niet kunnen realiseren dat een zilveren medaille een geweldige prestatie is, er iets mis met hen is."

Titels
Australisch kampioen verspringen - 2011

Persoonlijke records
Outdoor

Indoor

Palmares

verspringen
Kampioenschappen
 2009:  WK - 8,37 m
 2010:  WK indoor - 8,05 m
 2011:  WK - 8,33 m
 2012:  OS - 8,16 m

Diamond League zeges
 2011: Shanghai Golden Grand Prix - 8,44 m
 2011: DN Galan - 8,54 m (AR)
 2011: London Grand Prix - 8,45 m
 2011:   Diamond League - 12 p
 2012: Adidas Grand Prix - 8,16 m
 2012: London Grand Prix - 8,28 m

Australisch atleet
Australisch olympisch deelnemer
Verspringer
Sprinter (atletiek)

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Letter to Secretary of State for the Environment: more needed than "environmental champion" to prove case for "Green Brexit"
"This follows your article in The Sunday Telegraph about what you call a Green Brexit and proposing a statutory environmental champion. You do not, of course, need Brexit to deliver such a champion and Parliament could not bind its successors regarding its remit.
It was a step forward in the 1990s when the Conservative Government established the Environment Agency. After an uncertain start it then matured, with Barbara Young as Chief Executive, as an environmental regulator and there are perhaps two immediately pertinent issues:
1 it combined the roles of environmental regulator, environmental advocate and undertaker of major public works. While the founding Secretary of State in creating a strong unified body for the environment might have made a step forward at the time, there is a case - with a Member State committed to the acquis - for disaggregating these functions; but
2 the Agency has not since 2010 proved effective at holding HMG at arm's length: its operations have been more integrated with DEFRA's. This is not exactly reliable evidence of enduring intent as regards your proposed champion.
The terms in which you refer to EU policies do not mitigate doubt. Indeed, it is hard to resist the suspicion that you propose a champion now to try to disarm the EU in the context of Brexit by appearing to neutralise comments of those of your closest colleagues who make no secret of their ambition to de-regulate and to undermine the precautionary principle.
Nor does talking down the EU's environmental acquis constitute evidence of your Government's wish and ability to do better. The practical reality has too often been of the UK government privately resisting environmental advance: might it perhaps be wiser not to provoke a reaction by disparaging the European Commission's performance? That said, we would lobby for enhancing the power of the European Environment Agency so that it annually publishes audits of Member States' environmental regulators in delivering compliance with the environmental acquis.
It is a fairly typical chronology that in 2013 your party resisted the EU's proposed ban on neonicotinoids but now, following your recent announcement (which does not extend to opposing glyphosate), Conservative Party propaganda hails HMG as the bees' saviour. The UK has too often struggled to attain EU environmental standards long regarded as a basic minimum by our most comparable EU neighbours.
To demonstrate that a Brexit Britain would be anything other than a return to a Dirtier Britain requires satisfying a very much higher evidential burden than proposing an advocate."
Speech by Dirk Hazell to Sevenoaks & Swanley Together in Europe
We can win the war against Brexit if we fight battles for hearts and minds simultaneously on three fronts: left, centre and right leaning voters.
In the 1980s, the Conservative Group for Europe, keenly supported by local MP Michael Fallon by the way, was the dominant force in the European Movement.
Conservative governments tried to make Britain safer, stronger and more prosperous.
Conservative governments led in building up the world's most successful ever peace project, our shared EU, which is now the world's largest and most sustainable economy, the world's leading social market and the world's leading soft power.
So it's really weird to see people I thought I'd known for more than a third of a century - Theresa May, Damian Green - going so far so fast in reverse.
Conservative voters frankly don't expect Tory governments to:
trash the economy,
slash the police and armed forces,
make Britain a laughing stock on the world stage,
risk breaking up the UK and creating difficulty in Ireland,
put today's interest of the Tory party ahead of tomorrow's interest of Britain,
prioritise ideology over practical solutions for Britain's current problems.
The Tory train is heading off the rails and over the cliff!
So long as we can stop Brexit before it happens, this Brexit fiasco as an opportunity to rebuild the British centre-right in a more traditionally moderate way offering Britain's successor generations the best possible opportunities as European Citizens.
Brexit ideologues either fabricate a reactionary and inaccurate concept of sovereignty or pursue a largely concealed agenda of political authoritarianism and economic neoliberalism for which there is not the slightest hint of a political mandate in Britain.
These people are a blip, not the future.
The Conservative Party which I joined - and supported for a third of a century - unambiguously saw its main duty as defence of the realm from threats at home and abroad.
It accepted the distinctively European post 1945 settlement: the social market with a competitive economy and a safety net for all who needed it so everyone could become the best they could be.
It understood that its role was not to project divisive ideology but to be a balance against, and not for, ideologies of the moment.
It understood that it should promote economic growth on a basis promoting civil harmony.
An enduring if not always endearing feature of Toryism was also its resolutely magnetic attraction to power, yes supporting hierarchy at home, clinging to the USA as the Empire slipped away, but also within Europe working constructively within the leading political family, the EPP, and leading the rebuilding of Europe's economic and geopolitical strength and unification of free Europe.
All this today is subordinated to an ideological quest for Brexit after an over-interpreted and poorly conducted advisory referendum.
Not surprisingly, given his experience as wartime PM, Winston Churchill - Conservative - wanted a United States of Europe and said in 1948 We cannot aim at anything less than the Union of Europe as a whole.
Our opponents say he didn't want Britain to join in, but they're factually wrong. He expressly supported Macmillan's government in applying for membership.
And Macmillan - Conservative PM - said in 1962 that Britain wanted to be part of Europe together moving forward from an economic to a political union.
It was never just a market. This was always about rebuilding, as fellow democracies in partnership, Europe's geopolitical capacity after devastating European civil war.
Edward Heath - Conservative PM - of course took Britain in.
Thatcher - Conservative PM - got Europe to agree our blueprint for a single market but perhaps even more significantly said that the main reason for being in Europe was peace and security.
She said The more closely we work together … the better our security will be from the viewpoint of the future of our children.
She also noted that being in Europe gave Britain a world role.
This is so … Tory!
And also, after the first direct elections to the European Parliament in 1979, it was Tory MEPs who strengthened the Parliament by, for example, reproducing Parliamentary Questions on the Westminster model.
Even Theresa May, before the referendum, stated that Britain would be more prosperous, more secure and more influential inside Europe.
Her speech of 25 April 2016 while unhelpful on human rights was in some ways a classic Conservative statement about Europe. It's available on the Home Office website. It's worth reading.
She spoke approvingly of the need to be in the EU to access the European Arrest Warrant and she claimed credit for the Passenger Name Records Directive, boasting that it could not have happened without British leadership and influence.
She spelled out Britain's opportunities in the single market, noting that outside the EU London's position as the world's leading financial centre would be in danger.
She went into some detail about how difficult it would be to negotiate remotely acceptable trading agreements outside the EU.
And there were two other Tory themes:
But if Brexit isn't fatal to the European Union, we might find that it is fatal to the union with Scotland.
But it shouldn't be a notable exception when Britain leads in Europe: it should become the norm.
I believe the case to remain a member of the European Union is strong she concluded.
She's become a PM who spends her time and our money obsessing on what she knows to be wrong for Britain.
Her "Brexit means Brexit" faustian pact to get into No 10 is her personal tragedy.
It must not become Britain's tragedy.
With the help of events and with heroic effort we - local people leading locally across Britain - have a chance to turn this round.
I'll conclude if I may with a more partisan observation.
After the referendum, our intuition was that Tory MPs would become vulnerable to a pro-EU centre-right challenge in constituencies which are both Conservative and pro-Europe.
We did our own opinion polling before the General Election and, without going into more detail, that confirmed our intuition. We believe this effect will get stronger and spread through 2018.
So I end by returning to my first sentence.
If there's a General Election next year, Stop Brexit should be top priority.
We can and must win!


A big blowup in a relationship is not usually what kills it. People argue. Some fight passionately. But if both are committed to the each other and also committed to truth, there is understanding and restoration. What is deadly to any relationship, however, is a gradual deadening of the heart. A slow death is much more difficult to turn around.
Amazing that what can be intimate can grow so deeply estranged. In a spiritual sense, this is what happens, more than not, to the children of God toward their Heavenly Father. No wonder there are so many songs about returning to your first love, about stirring the cold embers of your heart. Erosion can happen so slowly that the gradual decline is inconspicuous.
To make sure that it doesn't happen to me, I want to think about this more intently this morning. What would happen that might show I've turned my face away from God to tiptoe in the other direction?
I fail to take the sins of my heart seriously.
I keep the reading of the Word technical and intellectual.
I lose the lump in my throat when I talk about Jesus.
The mercy He showed to me becomes a casual thought.
God's wooing is easily ignored.
I play it safe to live in unbelief instead of by faith.
I used to believe that some 'thing' would happen that would kill my faith. I guess I was wrong. Nothing can do that for me. Isaiah says that God's children have turned themselves back into foreigners. Circumstances don't make or break a relationship. It's whether two people choose to walk together or not. It's commitment. It's nurturing the love that exists and never allowing any other priority to eclipse it.
Oh, that God might always say that we are intimate.


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News :: Social Welfare
Why do we deny the superiority of the swedish model?
by Havin' a meatball!	 10 Nov 2005
Modified: 11 Nov 2005
Like most intelligent, aware US citizens I'm tired of Dubya, Condi, Fox Channel and the rest of the Disney Family telling us, the american public, everything's going our way.
It isn't.
I live, since 18 months, in Sweden and I can tell.
Recently, according to statistical devolpment I've been following for some time, the EU in general now has surpassed the US in most important economical aspects.
France, Germany and Italy are said to be in states of economical crises, but hey, what are WE then?
This is the truth about the performance of the US economy compared to the "recessing" EU economy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_countries_by_gdp
(choose either measure)
But let's forget the issue of EU vs USA in pure GDP figures and similar problems.
More interesting to me is to report on something important I have learnt from living in Scandinavia, mostly in Sweden, for some time now.
The whole thing is about how scandinavians manage to invest in society as well as individuals in a very plain, yet sublime, intelligent and unparalleled manner.
According to the statistics above, Sweden is now a little bit poorer than the US. Last time the swedes were richer according to (I confess I don't remember which) one of the original sources.
Read the following unscientific drivel and you'll probably be able to grasp what I'm trying to raise awareness of. If you are not able to, you're most likely a statistician.
I live in the "poorest" part of Sweden, up north (near a city called Umea).
Lots of people here, far more than in the richest parts of the US, drives a SAAB, Beamer, Mercedes or a Volvo. Nontheless public transport is well developed and subsidised for students, unemployed and elderly!
Most people under the age of 50 or so have studied till the age of 18 (they don't have our kinds of high schools and colleges, it's completely different, at least from what I've found out). All regular education is free for everyone in Sweden.
Most people round 20 attend university which, of course, is also free. As an appealing consequence, your parents can easily afford that big Volvo SUV!
Petty crime does exist, but compared to the US in general - it's like..you wouldn't belive it.
Health care isn't free in fact, although people on social welfare (which aren't many as most unemployed get generous payments from a joint trade union-government fund) have it for free.
Many employees are, at least once during their career, allowed to take a full year off work with retained salaries!
By the way, Sweden is not in the NATO, still it has one of the worlds strongest armies (measured in the conventional terms of mobility x firepower).
These public expenditures has to be financed somehow, right?
So the swedes are by and by quenching their private business sector to death, enforcing a Soviet-like system on themselves?
Hell they aren't!
In fact all swedish administrations since the early 90's, I've been told, have run austerity programmes, redistributing resourses from unefficient parts of the public sector and have been cutting down on unwise, unfulfilling financial arrangements earlier made for the public sector.
- So, they're smart in financing, big deal.
Let's have a look at things like swedish corporations and brands compared to ours!
- Yeah, let's do that.
Where do we stand, as a nation, in business matters, compared to this tiny nation of 9 million, bordering on the uninhabitated tundra of northern Asia?
This is what I've had to find out MYSELF through sources like Forbes etc, it's not what everyone here's been telling me all day long as swedes aren't exactly prone to boast in the company of foreigners (like, for instance, aussies and unsober germans are), although they do like keeping track of things and have a very international outlook:
We're something like 299 million in the US.
We've got IBM, Microsoft, Coke, McDonald's, Disney, GM, Ford (bought personal vehicle division of Volvo!), Chrysler-Daimler, Boeing and Pepsi, and we could sure continue...
- Well, they've got Ericsson, Electrolux, ABB (bought Westinghouse!), Volvo Truck Division(bought Mack!), IKEA, Absolute Vodka, SAAB, H&M and THEY could scontinue for sure...
Honestly, I got kind of annoyed, all because of these circumstances and challenged myself to find a walk of life, of some importance, where they didn't make such a stunning David vs. Goliat impression.
Sports? They've achived nothing in the fields of football, basketball or baseball. True.
Icehockey? Hrrm..Hrrm..
Boxing? We B Da Best! However, one of the few europeans to rule supreme in heavyweight, taking down the best american around was a certain swede named Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson round 1960.
Let's try Tennis: - McEnroe, Connors and Agassi, no, they'll just name Bjorn Borg, Wilander and Edberg.
- Entertainment? Let's line up Elvis, Scorsese, Marlon Brando, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Jack Nicholson, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, all of them are bigger than anything swedish, aren't they?
Perhaps, but Roxette, Greta Garbo, The Cardigans, Eagle Eye Cherry, Max von Sydow, ABBA, Ingemar Bergman, Ace of Base and Ingrid Bergman aren't exactly unheard of outside of Thule.
But didn't we at least win WW2?
Yes! Together with some others, like the Soviet Union who took on 80% of the nazi forces (yes they recieved several Shermans etc. but also, obviously, produced T32's in a raging tempo and so on).
Sweden were "neutral", but, among other things, did supply the finns (their eastern neighbor country) with weapons and also men in order to battle off a Soviet onslaught early in the course of WW2. This first Soviets invasion was a total fiasco.
We could go on talking about things like, for instance, the UN and find out that Sweden (and the other scandinavian countries) for a long time has been finacing the UN to a great deal, as several of Europe's largest and richest countries as well as the US have neglected to pay their share for a long, long time.
We americans DO lead the world, in many ways, like in space technology, several fields of science etc, but in certain areas other countries are superior, like the swedes are in building a society getting maximum performance out of each and every one of its citizens.
That's my point here!
Re: Why do we deny the superiority of the swedish model?
by Tim the Enchanter
(No verified email address)	 11 Nov 2005
I would never deny the superiority of Swedish Models. Most are tall, blonde and blue eyed. The Swedish Super Models are rich, beautiful, and have HUGE ....tracts of land.
by Svea Eppler
SEppler (nospam) MassArt.edu (verified)	 11 Nov 2005
My family is swedish and I must admit, they are some of the most loving, supportive, open minded and welcoming people I have ever known. As a 3rd generation American on that side of the family, I can say for a fact that some of the more progressive politics in our family have been handed down through the generations.
This article forgets to mention the bizarre and often amazing smorgasbord that is swedish food!
Oh yes Swedish Models. Yum.
And they're beautiful and have a great culinary tradition as well..
by Havin' a meatball!
I don't know much about swedish models, but sure, Victoria Silvstedt, Emma Sjoberg and a newcomer called Natacha Peyre are beautiful women indeed. A male model many swedish, as well as foreign, women (and gay men too, I guess) appreciate is Marcus Shenkenberg.
Why are swedes beautiful? I asked some swedish friends for an answer and one of them replied that hoards of beautiful women were brought to Sweden through viking raids and invasions like the one of Germany in the 17th century (Sweden occupied large parts of present Germany for over 15 years) and of Denmark, Poland and Russia in the 18th century (The danes, poles and russians formed an alliance against Sweden and it's young monarch Charles XII only to be crushed one by one in several battles until Russia finally got the best of the swedish invaders in a big battallion at Poltava in the Ukraine). This particular friend continued by explaining Swedes have enjoyed peace for nearly 200 years having all the wealth, glory and beautiful women anyone could ever dream of.
According to www.viamichelin.com, there are some outstanding restaurants in especially Stockholm and Gothenburg.
Swedish chefs, perhaps the one in the Muppet Show too, are always among the best in international contest, even those being held in France.
I myself haven't been to any of the most celebrated establishments among swedish restaurants, but I sure do appreciate swedish cooking and I've been to great restaurants in both Umea (closest city from where I live) and Stockholm. Just like in London or NYC You'll find all kinds of food in Sweden.
I just love swedish dishes like sill (pickled herring), janssons's temptation (anchovies, onion, cream and potatoes gratinated in the oven) and of course meatballs (which are even better when competent swedish chefs made them than they are at IKEA).
Internationally, Sweden is not in the culinary ranks of say France or Italy, but I would say swedish cooking is facing a bright future as I've found out swedes are getting more and more keen on rediscovering their tradtions of eating and Sweden has a growing tourist sector - and for sure, people from all parts of the world are beginning to realize what a great nation Sweden is.
The western european countries all have copied the Swedish concept of the welfare state since the end of the second world war, instead of going in our direction.
I see why..
by Leon Trotsky
ltrotski (nospam) redarmy.mil.ru (unverified)	 12 Nov 2005
Down with Swedish Imperialism!
How can we fight their imperialism?
by Havin' a meatball
If there seriously exists any "swedish imperialism" it would be in the competition of global business.
In international trade, I fear it will be difficult to fight swedish corporations down, as free trade's the name of the game and the swedes produce superior products. Compare the products of Sony Ericsson (which is a joint venture between Sony and Ericsson) to the ones of Motorola, or the ones of Chevrolet and Ford to SAAB and Volvo and you'll see why.
However, what we can do is to cooperate with them - if you can't beat 'em, join 'em - as swedes always have welcomed american influence in their business sector. Apart from Ford and GM having taken over the already exellent activities of Volvo's and SAAB's personal vehicle divisions (as these were in need of capital for developing new products which is getting more and more expensive these days), Microsoft has formed an alliance with Sony Ericsson. That alliance includes the best of three continents in the IT world. Wise americans, like Bill Gates, have already understood what I'm talking about. Maybe he's a bit annoyed that the owner of IKEA, Ingvar Kamprad, now is the richest man alive and not he (by the way, there's a phony controversy - between Forbes and swedish Veckans Affarer - over this topic as Forbes, in patriotic grudging towards Kamprad, claims that IKEA isn't longer owned by Kamprad personally as he has made some financial arrangements through some funds etc. in order to avvoid taxation - so it's like he's given it all away or what? To whom then? Get real!).
I don't know in what other ways than in economic matters Sweden can be said to have an "empire". Sooner, my impression is that they've been wise enough to use their diplomatic skills instead of brute force since the end of the napoleon wars.
Of course you could accuse Sweden of double dealing and profiting on conflicts (an example is their successful arms industry, producing among other things advanced fighter planes like JAS and "stealth" destroyers, "stealth" submarines etc, etc), but on the other hand, which country hasn't?
I guess Leon Trotsky isn't all that serious, but there are undeniably some americans who view europeans as being all leftist hypocrite crackpots, applauding the WTC attack and so on.
That notion doesn't exist among americans in touch with european society and european debate.
No one I've met in Sweden wants Saddam back in power or have high regards of Bin Ladin, especially not immigrants from the Middle East who've been given asylum in Sweden, fleeing from terror regimes like the former one in Iraq or the present one in Iran. Furthermore, I've been told by friends here in Sweden that, as a response to the attack on WTC, all of Sweden stood sill - public transport, factories, schools - for one minute in 2001, honoring the innocent victims of September 11th. Single swedish debaters suggesting the US has itself to blame for the attack on WTC, have aroused rage and animosity among the majority of intellects more sound. Most swedes view the US as an ally in the struggle for a more democratic Globe.
Despite the swedes appreciation of many things american, from Hollywood to the Declaration of Independence, Washington, Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Lincoln and Martin Luther King, they are opposed to our present downsizing of social security. They feel they've proved to the world that a government/society that provides a future for all citizens, invest in proper education etc will also boost economy and produce succesful corporations. Apparentely we too have produced a lot of succesful, inventive businesses, but in proportion to population, the swedes make us and ALL other nations look pathetic.
I still wonder why some people are denied a future in America and who the hell gains something out of these sad circumstances? Maybe we should question ourselves why swedes who have difficulties getting a job - as such persons do actually exist in Sweden - do not to turn to crime and gangbanging? Maybe because instead, they are provided educational and other opportunities?
Why were we early inspired by french political theory of liberty, but never by the swedish model of producing success? The only time we've adapted a "swedish" policy was back in the days of FDR:s "New Deal". It got us out of the Depression and helped us win WWII.
by Garth
Swedish Models....SCHWING!!!!


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Some of the common symptoms of scoliosis include intense pain, reduced range of motion, reduced lung function, and reduced heart function. Psychological problems including decreased self-esteem are also a common issue with people that have scoliosis. Around 80 percent of people with scoliosis have a curvature of less than 20 degrees, but since it occurs most often during adolescence, it is possible to see large increases in curvature within a short period. Scoliosis is usually diagnosed through physical evaluation and x-rays to determine the extent of the spinal curvature.
Some of the most effective treatments performed by Brick chiropractors for scoliosis include spinal manipulation, electric muscle stimulation, and therapeutic exercise. This is an area that hasn't received a lot of attention or research, but many patients with scoliosis that have had chiropractic treatment report an improvement in their condition.
Even if the spinal curvature is not completely corrected, any associated pain or issues that have been adding to the scoliosis discomfort will be addressed. Sometimes the change in posture and gait created by scoliosis causes other areas to overcompensate, causing pain and leading to new issues. Your chiropractor at Dr. Christopher Kawa, Discover Chiropractic will search for the underlying cause of all your structural aches and pains and find the solution that works best for your specific situation.
At Dr. Christopher Kawa, Discover Chiropractic our team is here to help answer your questions. Please feel free to contact us today.


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Scinax humilis es una especie de anfibios de la familia Hylidae. Es endémica de Brasil.
Sus hábitats naturales incluyen bosques tropicales o subtropicales secos y a baja altitud, montanos secos, pantanos, marismas intermitentes de agua dulce y zonas previamente boscosas ahora muy degradadas
Está amenazada de extinción por la destrucción de su hábitat natural.

Referencias
 Potsch de Carvalho-e-Silva, S. & Telles, A.M. 2004.  Scinax humilis.   2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.   Consultado el 22 de julio de 2007.

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humilis
Anfibios de Brasil