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- Trump's refusal to unambiguously condemn white supremacists who organised the Charlottesville rally reminded many of his reluctance to criticise Putin.
- Both Trump and his nationalistic base have found a natural ally in Russia's current zeitgeist, which perceives the US as a globalist, imperialist power working on behalf of liberal elites.
- White supremacy — manifested frequently as anti-Semitism — is inextricably linked to the worldview of many alt-right admirers of Putin's Russia.
President Donald Trump has faced heavy criticism for denouncing violence "on all sides" rather than explicitly condemning white supremacism in the wake of last weekend's deadly rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides," Trump said at a press conference on Saturday. "On many sides."
The comments were celebrated by neo-Nazis and white supremacists, who rejoiced in the president's refusal to call them out by name.
"He refused to even mention anything to do with us," wrote Andrew Anglin, founder of the neo-Nazi and white supremacist website Daily Stormer. "When reporters were screaming at him about White Nationalism he just walked out of the room."
Trump's refusal to unambiguously condemn the white supremacists who organised and marched at Friday's "Unite The Right" rally, which continued into Saturday, reminded many of his reluctance to criticise Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Your 5000th reminder," tweeted Republican strategist and fierce Trump critic Rick Wilson. "Donald Trump will go to Twitter war with anyone who displeases him. Except Putin, Nazis, and white-supremacists."
Trump's bromance with Putin reached new heights last week when he thanked the Russian leader for ordering cuts to the US embassy's staff in Moscow. But his flirtations with Putin, as with the white nationalists who form a core part of his base, predate his rise to the presidency.
Whether Trump feels an ideological connection to Putinisim or white nationalism — which are closely linked — is not totally clear. Just as Putin has used nationalism and a return to "traditional values" to consolidate power, Trump may have fanned the flames of xenophobia before and during his campaign to rile a predominantly white base that was already susceptible to racist rhetoric and a hatred of globalization.
In the US, the rise of the alt-right as a crusade against establishment politics coincided with Trump's political ascendance and was aided heavily by far-right news outlets like Breitbart, which was called "a platform for the alt-right" by Trump's chief strategist (and former Breitbart CEO) Steve Bannon.
Both Trump and his nationalistic base, however, appear to have found a natural ally in Russia's current zeitgeist, which perceives the US as a globalist, imperalist power working on behalf of liberal elites.
"Objectively, Trump's behaviour mirrors Putin's behaviour," Robert Amsterdam, an American lawyer who was once detained by Putin and formerly represented Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, said in an interview earlier this year. "The substantive areas of agreement between Putin and Trump, and between Bannon and Putin's aides, are really significant."
'Putin is supporting nationalists around the world'
White supremacy — manifested frequently as anti-Semitism — is inextricably linked to the worldview of many alt-right admirers of Putin's Russia.
David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who told reporters on Saturday that white-nationalist protesters were working to "fulfil the promises of Donald Trump," has travelled to Russia several times to promote his book "The Ultimate Supremacism: My Awakening on the Jewish Question."
The book has been sold openly in the main lobby of the State Duma (Congress) for the equivalent of about $US2.
White supremacist Matthew Heimbach, who said he identifies as a member of the alt-right, told Business Insider in an interview late last year that "Putin is supporting nationalists around the world and building an anti-globalist alliance, while promoting traditional values and self-determination."
"I really believe that Russia is the leader of the free world right now," added Heimbach,who was slated to speak at the "Unite The Right" rally.
Heimbach, whose Traditionalist Workers Party was deemed an extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, pushed back against claims that he is anti-Semitic. But he said he believes "the organised Jewish community" is heavily involved in "supporting movements that want to destroy nationalism."
He also described the US' current foreign policy as aggressive and imperialistic, and criticised NATO's military buildup in eastern Europe as an example of how the US is trying to promote a "global conflict" with Russia.
Trump, too, has warned that a hawkish Congress has forced the US' relationship with Russia to an "all-time and very dangerous low." He also criticised NATO, calling it "obsolete," and was slammed by Jewish organisations across the country for failing to mention Jews in a statement commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day.
For Heimbach, Putin's brand of orthodoxy, which opposes same-sex marriage, abortion, and globalism, "is the last institution standing for traditional values." And he's happy to see Putin working hard to export those values, even if that may be perceived as meddlesome and globalist in its own right.
Trump has hardly been a crusader for traditional social values. But he has never condemned Putin's many human rights abuses, at one point going as far as to tell former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly that the United States "kill[s] people, too."
Alt-right leader Richard Spencer, the head of the white nationalist think tank the National Policy Institute, has similarly argued that the US should dispense with its globalist policies by pulling out of NATO and resetting its relationship with Russia. Spencer helped organise last weekend's white nationalist protests.
Kevin MacDonald, who gave a speech at Spencer's NPI in late November about how "Jews remade America in their interests … to make white America comfortable with massive non-white immigration and its own dispossession," has written that the "demonization of Russia in Western media and political circles" is a Jewish campaign to undermine Putin.
Preston Wiginton, a white supremacist from Texas who sublets Duke's Moscow apartment when he travels to Russia, has written that his "best friends" in Russia — "the only nation that understands RAHOWA [Racial Holy War]" — are "leading skinheads."
Spencer's ties to Russia, which he has called the "sole white power in the world," go deeper. He was married until October to Russian writer and self-proclaimed "Kremlin troll leader" Nina Kouprianova, whose writing under the pen name Nina Byzantina regularly aligns with Kremlin talking points.
The webzine Spencer founded in 2010 called Alternative Right accepted contributor pieces from Aleksandr Dugin, the far-right, ultra-nationalist politician who encouraged Putin's incursion into Ukraine and whose work has been translated into English by Byzantina on her blog. (It does have a caveat: "The views of the original author do not necessarily reflect those of the translator.")
Dugin also recorded a speech titled "To My American Friends in Our Common Struggle" for a nationalist conference organised by Heimbach last year in California, and has been a guest on InfoWars, a far-right radio show hosted by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
"Your reputation's amazing," Trump told Jones when he was a guest on InfoWars in December 2015. "I will not let you down."
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U.S. 'locked and loaded' after Saudi attack
U.S. 'locked and loaded' after Saudi attack
U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. is "locked and loaded" after the attack on Saudi oil, and has "reason to believe that we know the culprit." Meanwhile, analysts are warning that if the price of oil stays at record highs it could further risk a global recession.
Michelle Hennessy reports.
"Locked and loaded," that's the message from President Donald Trump - who said the U.S. was primed after weekend attacks on the world's largest oil-processing facility in Saudi Arabia.
Trump tweeted on Sunday (September 15) saying "There is reason to believe that we know the culprit." U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also took to Twitter, blaming Iran for the attack on state oil giant Aramco, instead of Yemen's Houthi rebels who have claimed responsibility.
So far, Iran has denied involvement in the strikes, which have wiped out five percent of global oil production.
But have warned they're ready for full-fledged war.
It's inflaming investor concerns about the state of US-Iran relations, and stability in the middle east.
Satellite images released on Sunday showed huge plumes of thick black smoke over the Saudi facility.
The attacks pushed oil prices to four month highs on Monday (September 16) amid concerns over global supply.
Brent crude posted its highest percentage gain in a single day of trading in nearly three decades.
Aramco has not given a timeline for when they'll fully recover from the attack.
And analysts are warning over the effects that could have in the coming weeks and months.
An oil price hike could impact the entire economic chain of big importers like China.
One analyst told Reuters a disruption in oil supply could bring dire consequences to the global economy, and increase the chances of a world-wide recession.

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NEW HAMBURG, ON, September 24, 2015 – Pestell Group Inc. celebrated the grand opening of their warehouse expansion on Wednesday, September 23rd in New Hamburg, Ontario, Canada with a traditional ribbon cutting ceremony and barbeque. Owner, Don Pestell took the honourable duty of cutting the ribbon at the grand opening joined by special guests and Pestell employees.
The Pestell Group recently added 65,000 square feet of new space to support the growth of Pestell Minerals & Ingredients and Pestell Pet Products. The expanded 130,000 square foot distribution facility is HACCP/FeedAssure and Safe Feed/Safe Food Certified and supports the distribution of over 500 products utilizing 21 docks to help both companies efficiently serve customers.
This is the third facility expansion Pestell Group Inc. has undergone in the past 10 years at their New Hamburg location. The original 65,000 square foot packaging and warehouse facility was built in 2007 and was completed in 2010 with a high level automation system to take granular product delivered by rail. In total, Pestell Group has 200,000 square feet of warehousing and production facilities at the New Hamburg location as well as a network of warehouse facilities in strategic locations across North America.


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[Apostle Heber J. Grant]
At seven thirty attended a meeting at the Gardo. The question of how far we would be justified in revealing the secrets of the Endowments to head off the attempts that are being made to show that there are oaths taken in the Endowments that are contrary to those that a good citizen should take was fully and freely talked over, and the general feeling was to say nothing about the endowments in Court and to suffer the consequences no matter what they would be.
[The First Presidency Office Journal entry for this day noted during a court hearing: " ... then Bro[ther] A. D. Thatcher, John Clark, W[illiam] W Riter, E[dwin] G Woolley, Frank Jennings & J H Anderson were asked some questions in point as to oaths & all of whom answered very well & pointedly. Bro[ther] Riter had formed an impression in regard to avenging the blood of the prophets & church when he got his endowments which had continued with him so that he was not clear as to other brethren.]
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]


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How Canada can be held together as a country. A sense of what the people of Canada want. Strengthening the spirit of Canada. Canada at risk: the crisis and the statistics that show the crisis. What the speaker sees as necessary to hold Canada together. What needs changed and why. Facing changes together. How Canadians can face the challenge of unity. Getting rid of complacency. The view from Quebec and Quebecers. Examples of how Canada, and regions within Canada have changed, but our vision of Canada and those regions has not. Canadians meeting Canadians: the need to know one another. The implications of partitioning the country, especially with regard to global markets. The cost to Canada of dealing with internal problems during a time of developing international markets. Fighting for our country.
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- The Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, President of the Privy Council and Minister of Constitutional Affairs
Introduction: John F. Bankes
President, The Empire Club of Canada
John Stuart Mill called it: "A means of assuring that depositories of power cannot misemploy it."
Justice Felix Frankfurter of the U.S. Supreme Court called it: "A way of ordering society."
Wilhelm I called it: "A scrap of paper."
A nation's constitution means different things to different people. This year, Canadians celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Constitutional Act of 1791--which created Upper Canada and Lower Canada from the old Province of Quebec--and the 124th anniversary of Confederation. Canada's Confederation in 1867, described by Northrop Frye as a "romantic and imperialistic idea, consolidating into a nation a group of British-controlled colonies and territories," has been a pivot around which our history has turned. It has been at the heart of political controversy since our birth as a nation.
As Gordon Fraser pointed out recently in The Globe and Mail: "The ... seemingly endless series of previous deals, accords and agreements sometimes makes the [Canadian Constitutional] debate as arcane and seemingly irrelevant as Old Testament geneology (...and Fulton-Favreau begat the Conference for Tomorrow, which begat Victoria, which begat Vancouver, which begat patriation, which begat Sept-Isles, which begat Meech Lake, which begat...)" For just over a year now, efforts to reform Canada's Constitution have been at a virtual impasse. Last June, Canada came within a hair's breadth of achieving a rendezvous with its unity before running into turbulent water. On the first anniversary of the Meech Lake Accord's demise, one journalist recently reflected back on the events of last summer and pointed out that two political leaders offered the same metaphor to characterize entirely different events. In July, the Emir of Kuwait claimed that threats from Iraq against Kuwait were just a summer cloud passing over the sun. In June, Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells said a rejection of Meech Lake would cause nothing more than a summer thunderstorm of discontent within Quebec. Some cloud, some storm!
There is an old seaman's saying that "skilful pilots gain their reputations from storms and tempests." Our speaker today, The Right Honourable Joe Clark, has taken on the difficult task of trying to chart Canada's constitutional direction through choppy seas. After serving as Secretary of State for External Affairs--dealing with the Gulf War, South Africa, and the upheaval in Eastern Europe--he was looking for a really tough challenge. Prime Minister Mulroney concluded that if Mr. Clark could get along with governments all over the world, regardless of ideology, he might just have a chance at working out something with all of Canada's provinces and territories and Aboriginal peoples.
Mr. Clark brings considerable experience as a negotiator to his new assignment as Minister of Constitutional Affairs. The unique nature of his responsibilities--as a kind of grand arbiter of intergovernmental diplomacy and a champion of national unity--is apparent from the job title itself. Other than Canada, I can't find a country anywhere in the world that even has a Minister of Constitutional Affairs. It reminds me of the Red Rose Tea commercial: "Only in Canada, you say?"
No one denies the importance of the job which Mr. Clark has undertaken. Given the circumstances which surround the issue, formulating constitutional reforms and winning their acceptance across the country has to be considered an urgent priority. This is the view of those who feel constitutional reform is an essential prerequisite for continued nation-building, and others who see it as a hurdle which has to passed so we can deal with other issues which should be commanding our attention.
Presently, the country's constitutional nerves appear frayed. Fortunately, the medicine chest is full of purported remedies to cure Canada's constitutional problem. The prescriptions available to Mr. Clark and his team are numerous and complex; the challenge is to select the right course of action. To borrow a quotation from my favourite Hebrew prophet, Woody Allen:
More than anytime in history, [we] face a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter helplessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
This constitutional challenge is a task to which our speaker today brings impressive credentials. Only the third person in history to have served both as Canada's Prime Minister and its Minister of External Affairs, Mr. Clark has spent virtually a lifetime in politics. Indeed, he was a leading force in the Conservative Party as far back as the mid-1960s, as President of the Young Progressive Conservatives. His survival on the battlefield of internal party politics has prepared him well for the risks of managing Canada's foreign affairs, and his achievements on that front have conditioned him for his current challenge. Like all of you, I look forward to hearing more about how he intends to meet it.
Please welcome The Right Honourable Joe Clark.
Joe Clark:
For six and a half years, I had the honour of representing this country abroad. During that time, I witnessed the positive and productive work Canadians do in this world, the unique values we bring to global affairs. And I saw the international changes which challenge all of us, changes we can't ignore, challenges we must meet.
That experience was exciting and a privilege for me. But the obligation and the opportunity to be here was even more compelling. For now is the time to be at home, to try and help heal the wounds which divide this country, to help find a new covenant by which Canada can continue.
I am under no illusions about the difficulties this country faces. And I have no pretensions about my part in the process which lies ahead. It is Canadians themselves who will decide whether they wish to keep their country. No minister, no party, no government will decide that for them. This country cannot be ordered together; it must be brought together. And bringing this country together is a job now for each and every one of us, from coast to coast to coast.
Our country will be held together only by will. Constitutions do not make countries; they reflect what those countries are. Constitutions do not create consensus; they report a consensus which exists. We do not have that consensus yet.
And so, I approach this job with humility and trepidation. But I also bring to it a profound optimism that the spirit which has carried Canada for generations is still here. It is a spirit which both dares and cares. It is a spirit which caused people to come to Canada from every comer of the globe--the English, the French, the men in sheepskin coats, the boat people. It is a spirit which prompted Barbara Ward to call Canada "the first international country." It is a spirit that led Canadians to build a country together where rich provinces help poor provinces, where people help their neighbours, where health care is a right and not a privilege and where the proud boast of our Armed Forces is that we are the best peacekeepers in the world.
When I talk to people across the country--in the North and South and East and West--I see that spirit growing again now. Our job together is to strengthen that spirit and to build a common sense of Canadian citizenship, which reflects that respect for difference which has characterized Canada since the decision, more than 200 years ago to maintain both the French and English languages, both the civil and common law systems.
The Cabinet committee I chair is preparing detailed proposals for the renewal of our Confederation. They will be published in the fall when we will start a broad public process to encourage every Canadian to discuss those proposals and to improve them.
Let us be clear. This remarkable country is at risk. This is not a game of chicken or some scam being run by any province or any region of this country. This is not another hiccup in our long history of difference and division. This crisis is real. And this crisis can be fatal.
When 70 per cent of Quebecers tell a pollster that they expect their province will separate from Canada, that is a prediction, not a bluff. And when 55 per cent of Canadians outside Quebec say that if Quebecers want to separate, "Let them go," that is a sober warning of angry attitudes.
This country is at the crossroads. There are two paths before us. One path leads to renewal. The other path leads to partition. That choice is straightforward. And that choice is ours.
Will we make the right choice? Will we do what is necessary to keep this country? Time will tell. But time is short. We must use this time well and wisely.
First, let us be rid of any complacency that all will be well in the end because Canada has stayed together in the past, that this storm is just a squall and that sunny days are just around the corner.
Don't take Canada for granted. Our success is not automatic. Earlier Canadians fought the odds to keep Canada together. We have fought the elements, fought geography, fought the always present pressure on the diverse regions of this country to go their own way. Canada has stayed together because Canadians have made it stay together. And Canada will only continue in the future if Canadians want it to and make the difficult decisions that national unity requires.
In the past two months, I have talked to people everywhere in this land and Canadians are beginning to turn from accusation to consideration, from condemnation to deliberation. They know this country is at risk and they want it to work.
But that process is only just beginning. The gentler wind beginning to blow is tentative. The wounds that have hurt this country remain, and in places they are deep. If Canadians are beginning to reject a corrosive complacency, that is positive, but it may not be permanent. It is up to us to build on that new attitude.
There is a second attitude we must also work to change. That is the attitude that anything which challenges the existing order is bad.
One of the virtues of this country--one of the reasons we have succeeded so well--is our capacity to adapt. When new provinces entered Confederation, new arrangements were made and Confederation changed. When those provinces grew in size and nature, new arrangements were made and Confederation changed. And when Canadian society progressed, and wanted pensions or medicare, new arrangements were made and Confederation changed. That has been our heritage, our foundation for success. In it lies our future.
We can never see existing arrangements as permanent arrangements. If we do, we will be through. If we don't change with the rhythm of this country, Canada will become brittle and break. Countries that stand still are countries that fall behind. The whole world is changing and adapting and competing. What will this country become if we remain rigid or let our differences break us?
Some people cringe from crisis. We cannot do that now. And we should not do that either--because I believe from the bottom of my being that these times of trouble can be times of opportunity too. We have the opportunity to change our institutions and the way they work. We have the opportunity to revise the apportionment of powers in this country, to make it more efficient and effective. We have the opportunity to remake our country in our own image as a modem people.
Are Canadians happy with our political system and the way it works? Clearly not. Let's change it together and make it better.
Do people believe that the provinces and the Federal Government are doing the right things in the right way for the people of this country? Clearly not. Let's change that together and make it better.
Are Canadians happy with the attitude and the treatment shown for decades and centuries to the aboriginal peoples of this country? Clearly not. Let's change that together and make it better.
And are Canadians satisfied that our Senate is one of the only second chambers in the world which is not an effective part of Parliament? Clearly not. Let's change that together and make it better.
This can be an historic opportunity. Not many countries have it. But we have it now.
I believe our chances are better than they might be if only one issue were on the table. All issues are on the table now--not just the place of Quebec in this country, but also the concerns of Westerners and Easterners and aboriginal Canadians, the concerns of all citizens who wish to see a new deal for ourselves and our neighbours. More issues may mean more difficulty. But the very fact that we must make progress on several fronts together--and do it in the open, knowing the consequences of failure--will increase our chance of success. The need for trade-offs and compromise and bargaining in good faith will be upfront and obvious. It will force every serious Canadian to face the hard choices ourselves.
There is an old phrase which says that where there is a will, there is a way. That applies to our lives. It applies to our country. What Canada needs now are not ways to move forward, so much as the will to move forward.
Finding that will is not going to be easy. Part of that search will depend on looking hard at how we see the diverse parts of this country and adapting those views to what this modem country has become, in this last decade of the 20th century.
Let me provide one example. In the 1980 referendum in Quebec, the key question asked by individual Quebecers was: "Why should I leave Canada?" But today, across that province, the more common question is: "Why should I stay in Canada?"
That shows how much Quebec has changed. Much of that is exciting and positive. It is the assertion of confidence and pride. It is the reality that in so many walks of life, Quebec is not just distinct, but distinguished.
Whether it is in business or the arts or the professions, the Quebec achievement is undeniable. The films of Quebec win Academy Awards. The authors of Quebec win the premier international literary prizes. The artists and architects and musicians of Quebec fill not only their province with excellence, but the world as well. And in business, Quebec companies have become major corporate players, not just in Canada, but throughout this continent and around the globe.
In a Canadian society which wants to be world-class, Quebec stands out.
Today, Quebecers who want Canada want a strong Quebec--but they want a strong Canada too. Part of their concern is that their large country does not have the same sense of confidence and community that Quebec has. Part of the challenge for all of us is to achieve in the whole of Canada the kind of transformation that was triggered in Quebec by the Quiet Revolution.
Quebec, in the 1950s, looked inward and backward. Today, it is confident of its place in the world, to the point where large numbers of Quebecers contemplate competing in that world on their own, apart from Canada. That change in Quebec has been fundamentally a change in attitude and pride. In fact, it is hard to think of another society, in recent history, that has made such a remarkable transformation in such a short time. Other Canadians have little to fear from Quebec's nationalism but we have a lot to learn. Our challenge is not to deny the self-confidence of Quebec, but to demonstrate that it can be fully expressed within Canada. And our challenge as well, if we are lucky and skilful, is to make that confidence contagious, so that every Canadian feels the pride in Canada that Quebecers feel in Quebec.
Sometimes it seems to me that the issue is not Quebec separating from Canada, but the rest of Canada separating from each other and from our own modern reality.
Part of the explanation is that we do not realize what we have become. We have based our assumptions about Canada on facts which have changed. Our country has changed, but our vision of it hasn't and often our institutions haven't either.
There are many examples. Too many Canadians still consider our society to be a white society drawn from immigrants from Europe or the United States. But for 13 years, Canada has drawn more new citizens from Asia than from Europe and that is reflected in the daily life of most of our communities. Yet there are only two people from visible minorities in the House of Commons and an embarrassingly low percentage in positions of leadership and government. We are beginning to do better at that, but we are still running a diverse society on assumptions that time has passed by.
And we look at the different parts of this country with antiquated optics. For too many Canadians, Maritimers fish, Westerners farm, Northerners mine and Central Canadians work for a bank Most of that has changed and so must our myths. We Canadians have lost sight of each other. And in so doing, we risk losing our country.
What Canadians need to do now is to talk to each other, not at each other or past each other. We need to get to know our neighbours in this land, for their neighbourhoods have changed and their needs have evolved. There are people in the West who deride Quebec and its desires without ever having stepped inside its borders and seen the vitality and the vision of that Distinct Society. There are people in Ontario who dismiss the grievances of Western Canadians without ever having wandered west of Manitoba.
It is a sad fact that there are Canadians who know Gettysburg without knowing Louisbourg, who know the palaces of Europe better than the places of Canada, who can tell you more about Florida than they can about Fredericton or the Fraser Valley or the foothills of Alberta.
It is one thing to disagree. It is another thing to assert disagreement when you haven't even met the people you say you disagree with.
There are alternatives. We should try them. One alternative was tried a couple of months ago by the people of Wainwright in my province of Alberta. That town welcomed a small group of French-Canadians from Marieville, Quebec. It was a return visit, an exchange. Almost no one from Wainwright had spent time in Quebec, and few of the visitors from Marieville were familiar with the West. And, like most Canadians, they had some difficulty with each other's language. But they talked, in small sentences and small words. They had never talked to each other before. They had never known each other's neighbourhood. They only knew the myths, the pictures others had drawn and told them to accept. They were surprised to find people--people like themselves with problems, often similar; people like themselves with dreams, many shared; Canadians with perspectives and opinions, some common, some different. That dialogue will not save this country. But the idea behind it will. For when we start talking and listening and seeing, this country looks different and better, and what separates us matters less.
I remember meeting outside Parliament last month with students from across Canada attending the Forum for Young Canadians. One young man from Montreal came to me and said: "Last week, I was a separatist but that was because I had never met anyone from the rest of Canada. I am not a separatist now."
Too many of us have not met people from the rest of Canada We see each other through filters that are often false. We keep our distance. We keep our counsel. We shouldn't.
People everywhere must work hard at understanding why other Canadians have priorities and preferences different from our own. Quebecers need to understand why Western Canadians feel that institutions like the Senate must be changed fundamentally. Western Canadians need to understand why Quebecers know they live in a Distinct Society. Central Canadians must gain some sense of the alienation that is still second nature to people growing up in the far parts of the country. And those of us whose ancestors came to Canada from somewhere else must try to understand that aboriginal claims are as much about respect as they are about money.
I believe we can do that. That will take luck and energy and imagination and above all goodwill. But Canadians everywhere are beginning to reach out and reach beyond the old attitudes, the old myths.
As part of that process, Canadians today want to base their decision on the future of their country on evidence and not ideology. They want to know what staying together will give them. They want to know what splitting up would leave.
I prefer to make the case for Canada, but we need to look hard at the implications of partitioning this country. Canada was not put together by accountants. This country is not some corporate convenience. And you cannot persuade any Canadian--in Quebec, in Alberta, in Ontario or anywhere else--to keep Canada together simply because some balance sheet says we should. But neither should Canadians assume that the modern economy we have built together would stay as strong if we came apart. And no one should deny that the consequences of partition would be serious for people outside Quebec, and inside Quebec.
We are living in a world of mega-markets, not mini-markets. A world where countries are coming together and tearing down barriers between them because they know that being bigger means being better.
The countries of Europe know that. Many of them are more powerful than Canada and are moving to a type of federation which Canada has enjoyed for over 100 years. The people of Asia know that and countries and companies there are integrating through trade and investment as never before. The people of Latin America know that where Brazil and Argentina are discussing free trade, where the countries of the Andes mountains are moving to integrate their economies and where Mexico is pursuing prosperity by talking free trade with Canada and the United States.
Are all those people wrong? Perhaps they are. Perhaps they are wrong to think that bigger markets and stronger regions mean more prosperity. But if they are right, we have to consider the cost to all of us of having this country turn inward and come apart when the rest of the world is reaching outward and coming together.
Can this country do more to preserve and promote our prosperity? Of course we can. And we must, in this new competitive global market. But we do not promote the prosperity of anyone by splitting this country into pieces.
There are people in every part of Canada who pretend that partition could be easy. They suggest we could come apart politically and come together economically. We could disunite and unite at the same time. We could tear up our common passport and retain our common market. Well, nothing is impossible. But surely, that cannot be taken for granted. If this country divorces, no one should believe that remarriage would come soon or smoothly. And no one should underestimate the psychological forces which can take hold in a time of tremendous trauma and change.
Ask the Germans if they knew before hand the cost and the consequences which unification has brought to that country. Ask them if they knew about the extremism and the emotion which have permeated that society since the Berlin Wall came down. Ask them if, with all their reason and all their studies and all their plans, they were able to predict the extraordinary shockwave of economic change and social stress which has descended. Germany-that powerful country with its strong history and strong culture--has been shaken to the core. Can we in Canada be confident that the disunion of this country would proceed more predictably than union has there?
And while we think about that, let's also think about how we are doing with those things that will matter for our prosperity and well-being in the future.
How are we competing with others, like Japan and the United States, which are far larger than we are and depend on trade less than half as much as Canada?
How are we doing with education, when over half the new jobs of this decade will require more than 12 years of education and training, and yet over 60 per cent of today's work force have not gone beyond high school?
How are we doing with productivity, the primary force for prosperity, when that growth rate over the past five years in the commercial sector has been the lowest of any country in the G7?
And are we on the leading edge of innovation when in virtually every single industrial sector, Canada spends far less on R and D than any of the leading industrial countries?
While we are fixated on the Constitution and re-fighting old battles, our competition is focused on the future and preparing to fight the new battles of the next century. Whatever differences we have had in the past, surely our advantage now is to be together.
Renewing the Canadian federation is not an end in itself. This is not some seminar in constitutional law. This is a tale of a people and the values they share, a tale of diversity and the unity diversity can build, a tale of hope, hope against the odds and hope for the future, a tale of prosperity and peace unlike any that I know.
Joseph Howe, Nova Scotia's great statesman, used to say. "Brag about your country, boys. " Well, Canadians don't much like to brag. But others know what we should brag about.
I remember meeting with a man named Danylo Shumuk--a Ukrainian nationalist who had spent most of his life in a Soviet prison. When he was finally free and came to this country on his way to relatives in British Columbia, he stopped in Ottawa and, one quiet day, I took him into the House of Commons, had him sit in the Speaker's Chair of our free Parliament, and then pointed out where the Leader of the Opposition and the Prime Minster sat. Through his interpreter, he said: "I know where the Prime Minister sits. He sits next to Mr. Mazankowski." I asked him how in the world he knew that, and he told me that, through his years in a Soviet prison, his relatives in Canada told him of the progress, in this country, of people with names like Mazankowski, and Hnatyshyn. In some systems, if you are a member of a minority, you go to prison. In Canada, you become Deputy Prime Minister, the Governor-General, a Justice of the highest court.
Danylo Shumuk knew what Canada has to brag about. The rest of the world knows that too. When the Japanese want to learn about peacekeeping, they come to Canada to see how we do it. When the brave democrats of the new Eastern Europe want to find our about banks or stock markets or privatization or legal systems, they come to Canada. When the Americans want to make their health system more effective and efficient, they come to Canada. When Mikhail Gorbachev was Minister of Agriculture in the Soviet Union and wanted to know how efficient farms worked, he came to Canada. And when South Africans--black and white--want to learn about elections that are fair, legal systems that are just, and a modem economy that works, they come to Canada.
Are those people all wrong? Are we as ordinary or as common or as disposable as some would have us believe? Have we not built something here which is special and deserves to be sustained?
I believe we have. And I am confident that most Canadians believe that too.
There will always be those who see Canada as a glass that's half empty. Our challenge today is to get the whole country to see it as a glass that's half full. And once we do that, to go on to fill it--as we have in the past, a country whose cup has runneth over, a country which has what so few others can even dream of, a community which is the best community in this world.
The rest of you can speak for yourselves. But my grandfather went West from Bruce County to be part of a big country, not a small one. My daughter is growing up in a wide world, not a narrow one. Our ancestors came here to build new dreams, not to have those dreams tossed aside. And the tens of thousands of men and women who have given their lives abroad for Canada did not die for the pieces of a country. They fought for a country which is whole. And they fought for a country with a future.
That is what we are here to do.
The appreciation of the meeting was expressed by George Hanson, President, The Royal Commonwealth Society.
Mr. Chairman, distinguished head table guests, members of The Empire Club of Canada, members of The Royal Commonwealth Society--Toronto branch--and friends. It is my pleasure to thank The Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, Minister of Constitutional Affairs, on behalf of The Empire Club of Canada and The Royal Commonwealth Society for taking the time to be with us today. His words today are vital and encouraging, outlining the many ramifications of constitutional change. The minister's job is a mammoth task, but Joe Clark is not an ordinary individual. He is a fighter with a positive attitude and outlook and must succeed in the discharge of his responsibilities. Our Commonwealth traditions of consultation, cooperation and consensus stand as a beacon to unite us. We have a great country and believe in the importance of a united Canada as a leader in the Commonwealth and in world affairs. In closing, Mr Minister, we thank you for bringing us up to date and for sharing your views on the need for Canada's unity. Your words were most informative and very much appreciated. Before leaving this lectern, I would like to assure you that those assembled in this room are all loyal Canadians who support your heavy responsibilities to endeavour to make Canada whole again as a dynamic, tolerant, united country. Finally, I would like to quote from a great Canadian, Stephen Leacock, in his 1937 essay Our Heritage of Liberty.
Seeking the basis of nationhood and failing to find it in race, religion, language or territory, he concluded that "the real bond of union, the underlying bedrock on which the structure of a nation rests, is the willingness to unite the unity of the heart that takes the opportunity that is given".
Mr. Minister, we wish you well in the carrying out of your responsibilities, we wish you every success.


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Unlike all the other books, Chronicles was a mostly a rehash of other books. All the women mentioned in the first book (for the most part) are mentioned in First or Second Samuel. Some exceptions are the women of the Genealogies but you can find them in that post. The other two posts on 1 Chronicles are Exploits of David and David's last... Continue Reading →
Reflections on 2 Chronicles
Much like I mentioned back in the Reflection post on 1 Chronicles, this is primarily a rehash of those events, this time without the inclusion of the kings of Israel alongside the kings of Judah. The women mentioned in this book are also in both 1 Kings and 2 Kings and you can find them... Continue Reading →
2 Chronicles 29-36: Into ruins
While this set of chapters start off well with a few kings who do the right thing, they're eventually succeeded by a set who do all the wrong things and get so bad that God allows Nebuchadnezzar to come in and take them all away and destroy everything. But as with the rest of the... Continue Reading →
2 Chronicles 17- 20: Jehoshaphat
Back in 1 Kings, Jehoshaphat was in just the one chapter and only had one battle mentioned but this has so much more about him. Chapter seventeen Jehoshaphat is introduced as Asa's son and the new king upon his death. We did see him back in 1 Kings 22 but nothing so in depth as... Continue Reading →
2 Chronicles 10-16: Rehoboam, Abijah, and Asa
2 Chronicles carries on recounting or simply giving a parallel account of what happened in 1 Kings but it's not as straightforward as the last few. There are some extras in some chapters and other things that are glossed over or not mentioned at all, like the kings of Israel. Yep, the split happens in... Continue Reading →
2 Chronicles 1-9: King Solomon
As with 1 Chronicles, this seems to mostly be a rehash of events we already heard about. This time the stories being retold are from 1 Kings. Chapter one Most of the chapter surrounds Solomon's request for wisdom that was also featured in 1 Kings 3. It's worded a little different, but the sentiment is basically... Continue Reading →
Reflections on 1 Chronicles
So, normally I try to break a reflection post down into some major parts of the book and mention some notable women, but this book is different for that. Mainly because there are two other sources already made for this. All the women mentioned in this book (for the most part) are mentioned in First or Second... Continue Reading →
1 Chronicles 10-22: Exploits of David
I know, we've covered most of this ground already so this is going to be a quick recap of most of 2 Samuel and some extras that weren't an essential part of that story. Chapter ten This chapter recounts the events of 1 Samuel 31, when Saul takes his own life after losing a battle. Chapter... Continue Reading →
1 Chronicles 1-9:Genealogies
Genealogies are typically long lists of men who fathered sons who fathered sons and so on. This is true of the first nine chapters of 1 Chronicles, but a few women made their way in there. Some we know because of prior stories, some are included with exploits, but most are simply named as a... Continue Reading →


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VA providers select Availity engagement portal
Here is Health Data Management's weekly roundup of new health IT contract wins and go-lives.
* TriWest Healthcare Alliance, which supports a network of 200,000 providers serving the healthcare needs of military veterans in 28 states, has selected and is implementing the provider engagement portal of Availity. The vendor's portal is among the most widely-used in the industry, says David McIntyre, Jr., President and CEO at TriWest. The portal facilitates seamless electronic exchange of information between providers and third-party administrators. The portal is designed to help providers complete clinical and administrative transactions, electronically submit and edit claims and attachments, and validate demographic information in accordance with TriWest business rules.
* Barnes-Kasson County Hospital, 120 miles northwest of New York City, is a client of American Health Tech, a subsidiary of electronic health records vendor CPSI. Barnes-Kasson is returning to AHT to put an EHR into a cloud-hosted environment for its skilled nursing facility. The hosted records system will support acute, ambulatory and post-acute care settings. American Health Tech has previously helped the organization meet increasing government regulations, which played a role in the company getting the new business, says Michelle Taylor, administrator for the nursing facility.
* Health Share of Oregon, the largest coordinated care organization serving Medicaid members, is an existing user of the enterprise data warehouse of Health Catalyst. Now, Health Share is expanding its relationship with the vendor and adding the Data Operating System platform that includes data warehousing, clinical data repositories and health information exchanges to simplify secure sharing, analytics and availability of information from multiple data systems. Health Share also is implementing the vendor's behavioral health software and co-developed a risk tool for opioid prescribing that calculates a member's risk of opioid addiction and overdose.
* University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is buying new pharmacy management products from Omnicell. UPMC is adding the XR2 Automated Central Pharmacy System, IVX Workflow sterile compounding software and the i.v.STATION for non-hazardous robotic compounding to pharmacy operations at flagship hospitals UPMC Presbyterian and UPMC Shadyside.
* Horizon Health Network in New Brunswick, Canada, has been an Allscripts client for more than two decades and now has extended its contract through 2024 as it furthers clinical enhancements to its electronic health records software to enhance the care experience of patients. Horizon Health operates 12 hospitals and has more than 100 ancillary medical facilities. The Allscripts Sunrise EHR offers a highly flexible platform to meet Horizon's strategic plan, says Jennifer Sheils, CIO at Horizon.


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Tiny Harris' latest video that she posted on her social media account is a really funny one. It's with Bresha Webb who impersonates Tiny while she's invited to The Breakfast Club. Take a look at the video below:
'Got to know @breshawebb doing "Meet The Blacks" movie… I phuckin love her! Her Tiny impression & all. Since then she blew the hell up!! Congratulations sis on all your success! #IToldThesePpl #INeedToBeDoingVoiceOvers lol but fr tho? ?❤?' Tiny captioned her video with the hilarious Bresha.
Someone said that '@breshawebb u are too funny….keep up the great work sis…[email protected] thank u for being a classy lady and not being upset over the impression….it really is a good one too…'
Another follower recalled something: 'I met @breshawebb at the Tom Joyner Family reunion about five years ago, and she was so down to Earth. I love her on the Marlon show.'
Someone else also gushed over Bresha 'I love it She's very Funny she's pretty, and I know thatTiny ain't tripping, The Harris Family are winning anyway ❤???'
One other commenter praised Tiny, saying that 'Tiny is the coolest and humblest celeb on the planet and R&B royalty salute to you sis.'
Other than this, latest rumors claim that Tiny and T.I. might be considering having another baby but not quite right now.
But it seems that Tiny has decided to visit a fertility expert, hoping to freeze her eggs and eventually like Kenya Moore do IVF to have baby number eight.
The news of the IVF treatment comes just days after it was revealed that Tiny, who has been celebrating both her birthday and wedding anniversary with her husband, had a pregnancy scare just recently.


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Have you ever had a day where everything has just clicked?
You've woken up ten minutes before your alarm goes off but you feel more refreshed than usual. You hit every green light on the way to work. You nonchalantly snag the last doughnut.
Stretch this day out to five months, scrap the doughnuts, and you have Suat Serdar's season so far.
The 22-year-old German international is in his second season with Schalke and has more goals than the likes of Son Heung-min and Alexandre Lacazette, from midfield.
He notched his seventh league goal of the season already against Borussia Mönchengladbach on Friday evening as Schalke ran out 2-0 winners.
That win, against the side who had led the Bundesliga table for almost half the season, saw Schalke maintain their fifth-place position.
Under David Wagner, the man who somehow avoided relegation with Huddersfield Town in the Premier League, Schalke have snuck their way into one of the most exciting Bundesliga title races in recent years, thanks in no small part to the performances of their midfield dynamo, Suat Serdar.
Born to Turkish parents, Serdar came through Mainz's academy before being lured to
He was given time, playing more than half of Schalke's Bundesliga minutes, but joined the Ruhr giants in one of their worst campaigns in recent history, losing 17 league matches and flirting with relegation the entire season.
While showing glimpses of his talent in his debut term, Serdar's emergence in 2019/20 has been a joy to watch for anyone of a Schalke persuasion. The midfielder is not only the team's top scorer, but he ranks third in the entire division for tackles per game, dispossessing the opposition three times per match thus far.
It's no coincidence that Serdar's arrival coincided with the departure of Schalke's former number eight, Leon Goretzka, to Bayern Munich.
This work ethic has seen him thrive under Wagner's stewardship at the club so far. The former Dortmund youth-team coach was tasked with revamping Schalke's style and lifting this mammoth institution of German football out of the malaise last season's struggles induced.
Putting an emphasis on pressing the opposition has been a staple at any of Wagner's previous sides and his time with Schalke has been no different.
Wagner drew inspiration from former Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson to help get the players into shape for the upcoming campaign. With Serdar in particular, a
The 7.1 miles he covered in the Royal Blues' 3-1 win over RB Leipzig at the end of September, the league leaders' first defeat of the season, was symptomatic of a Schalke side surprising many in their quest for a return to Europe next season.
Serdar's form in front of goal is unlikely to continue at the astonishing rate his efforts currently fly into the net (the 22-year-old is currently sitting on a conversion rate of 24%, which is frankly unsustainable unless you are Jamie Vardy). But as we've seen, goals are not all of his game
And while he is unlikely to finish the season with more strikes than Lacazette or Son, he still poses a superb attacking threat for a central midfielder.
With Son in mind, Serdar could prove to be an adequate replacement for his teammate, Christian Eriksen, should his impending move to Inter ever go through. The Schalke man isn't anywhere near as creative as the Dane in possession, but is much more mobile, defensively sound and can offer a goal threat either in a double-pivot or as the shuttler in a three-man midfield.
Manchester United could also be viable destination for the German midfielder, given their desperation for warm bodies in that area of the field has seen the reintroduction of a Chicago-bound Nemanja Matić.
However, the best fit for Serdar on these shores may lie with Wolves.
With super-agent Jorge Mendes intertwined with the club, Wolves are no strangers to recruiting star players from abroad. One such signing, Raúl Jiménez, is perhaps the most indispensable player in the Premier League.
No player in the division can boast a higher percentage of both his team's expected goals and expected assists, with around 25% of Wolves' output for each. While this is impressive, it also highlights a worrying reliance upon the Mexican forward.
Recruiting Serdar, a player who has spent considerable time playing in a back-three with Mainz and Schalke, may relieve some of the strain put upon their main man's shoulders, slotting into their midfield alongside Ruben Neves and Joao Moutinho.
However, it's unlikely Wolves will be able to prise him away from Schalke in January, as Serdar looks to continue his remarkable form and guide the Royal Blues into Europe, and maybe even a shock Bundesliga title.


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Honeymoon heartache has hit a Dundee bride who was hoping to celebrate her wedding with a special holiday a year on.
Jenna and Nik Galazzi got married on September 22 last year.
The couple were forced to bring their wedding forward so Jenna, 27, could honour her dying dad's final three wishes.
When John Farrell, 77, from Birkhill, was diagnosed with terminal cancer he had three aims – to walk his daughter down the aisle, dance with her at her wedding and die at home.
Jenna and Nik pulled out all the stops and John was able to give her away two weeks before he died with his family by his side at a relative's home in Kirkton.
At the time the couple, from Inchture, weren't able to fit in a honeymoon.
They had hoped to travel to Amsterdam at the weekend to celebrate their honeymoon.
However, fate stepped in and, despite all their planning, bad weather got in the way.
Jenna said: "We had everything booked and were really looking forward to a break away together.
"This was to have been our honeymoon because we didn't manage one at the time with everything else that was going on.
"It was also to have been our first ever break away together on our own without our two sons Rio, 6, and Chase, 1.
"Everything was looking great and we were all set to fly out to Amsterdam on Friday morning. Then it all came crashing down when we got a message telling us our flights had been cancelled due to bad weather.
"We couldn't believe it. We were gutted. Nothing seems to be going our way."
Jenna said she had a look at other flights but they were going to be too expensive.
She added: "This was also the only time we had off work so it's not possible for us to reschedule.
"We were only going to be going away for two nights, but with an early flight so we would have as long as possible away.
"We were really looking forward to our trip.
"I'm still getting over the loss of my dad and it's such a shame this has happened."
Jenna and Nik had been together for eight years before their wedding.
At the time she said: "We always planned to get married but my dad's illness forced our hand."


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As my good friend, LTC Craig Geis (retired) has point out, the enemy came into our rocket, mini gun and grenade launcher sights at various levels of professionalism, training and expertise.
But the most dangerous enemy were the civilians who lived just outside the gates. These were men, women and children either sympathetic towards the Viet Cong's purpose or who were forced into performing various activities from compromising our initiatives to simply becoming suicide bombers.
By day, this kind of enemy would smile at you and perform a wide variety of tasks at Camp Eagle. At night, they'd cut your throat from ear to ear without blinking an eye.
Now, that's not to say that all Vietnamese were bad guys or bad people. They weren't. We, too, had soldiers who played both sides.
Indeed, some of our own soldiers did a really good job of injuring and/or killing fellow soldiers.
Anytime you have a situation where both sides have enough time on their hands to play out all the various game plan possibilities, opportunists are going to exploit all of them.
In previous posts, I've pointed out that this wasn't a war or a conflict and, therefore, you couldn't pin a win or loss to it. If you stick a pencil in the middle of a bunch of hungry termites, would you say the pencil lost the war to the termites?
You might if you had the IQ of the pencil eraser. What a mature conclusion would be is that your experiment with a bunch of hungry termites was a success because the pencil wood was, indeed, eaten by the wood eating termites.
Did anyone ever see the movie the Green Berets? They did, essentially, the same thing. Put themselves in the middle of a a bunch of Charlie Cong, let themselves get over run and then blew the crap out of them.
We did the same thing -- it wasn't a movie but real -- when we evacuated fire base Ripcord.
Hard to tell exactly how many enemy you killed when there wasn't enough pieces of them left to count.
A pencil can't win against termites if it were made out of wood and was not able to fight back against the termites. One is alive -- the termites -- and the other is made from dead trees -- the pencil.
On the other hand, it could if it was filled with nytro glycerin and blew the termites into kingdom come. Perhaps, too, if we made the pencil out of plastic, it wouldn't have been of interest to the termites at all.
So, if we weren't there at all, none of the 500,000 names would have been on a wall and I would have nothing to talk about.
So, you stick a unit like the 101st Airborne Division (Air Mobile) in the middle of an environment where American soldiers were the pencil and all others were the termites, what kind of conclusion can you derive from that?
I'm hoping that you will come to the same conclusion most of us who served in Vietnam came to. We simply had no business being there in the first place. But because we were, America lost a lot of men to a bunch of termites whose only mindset was to kill us at all costs.
I just realized that termites are killed with pesticides. And we sprayed allot of foliage with Agent Orange. And like the pencil, we weren't in Vietnam with a sufficient size force to go toe to toe with the Viet Cong or anyone else who wanted to kill us.
In fact, the truth is, neither were the South Vietnam soldiers. And if the South Vietnamese soldiers were at the level of forces equal to the North Vietnamese and fought like them, it would stand to reason that we would have been more protected by them, would have been able to learn from them -- since they should have been the jungle warfare experts -- and we would have had a better time at not being the pencil and more time being focused on applying our newest technology against their North Vietnam enemy hot spots.
Unfortunately, the South Vietnam soldiers weren't at that level of training or skill.
Simply put, the South Vietnamese army was suffering from identity issues and was relying on outside help -- such as the French and American advisers. They simply weren't aggressive enough or capable enough to stand on their own without outside support.
You can't teach an Army to win when they have their tail tucked b etween their legs.


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Walton legacy honoured by Australian Aviation Hall of Fame
November 28, 2017
In an era when women were discouraged from wearing pants, let alone flying planes, Nancy Bird Walton's achievements are nothing short of remarkable.
Defying the 'traditional role' of females in the 1930s, Walton became a qualified pilot at the age of 19 before going on to help set up the Royal Flying Doctor Service and train women pilots during the Second World War.
This month, some 84 years since Walton first took to the skies, her grandson and Boeing employee, Baron Walton, accepted Nancy Bird Walton's induction into the Australian Aviation Hall of Fame.
"It is a great honour to stand among colleagues of the aviation industry and accept this significant accolade on behalf of my grandmother Nancy," said Baron Walton.
"My grandmother relentlessly pursued her passion and continues to inspire generations of female aviators across the nation.
"It gives me great pride to tell my daughter that she can do anything she sets her mind to… just look at your great grandmother."
After receiving her commercial aviation license, Nancy purchased her first plane - a Boeing heritage company de Havilland Gipsy Moth.
During World War II, Nancy established and was commandant of an Australian Women's Air Training Corps. She founded the Australian Women Pilots' Association in 1950, and remained its president until 1990. In 1966 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1990.
Nancy held her pilots licence until three years before her death, aged 93, in 2009. The terminal at Bourke Airport is named after her, and an annual sponsorship for young female adventurers was set up in her name by the Australian Geographic Society.


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Sound designer Jeroen ten Brinke has specified Yamaha DM1000 digital mixing consoles for the latest production of Holiday on Ice. Since its inception in America 70 years ago, the show has entertained over 230 million visitors around the world. Nowadays, the production based in Amsterdam and owned by one of Europe's leading live entertainment companies, Stage Entertainment. Jeroen, one of Europe's top sound designers, was asked to design the audio system for Platinum – the latest Holiday on Ice production that celebrates the format's 70th anniversary.
"There are only two sound crew with Platinum and they are constantly busy. So I designed an audio setup that is practical, easy and quick to use, as well as being failsafe," says Jeroen. "I know the DM1000 very well and have never had a problem with one in the many years I've used it. It sounds great, can deliver 96kHz sound and is used worldwide, meaning many people can easily operate it." Jeroen's sound design is fully redundant, comprising two independently-powered front of house systems, A and B, each including a DM1000, playback computers and wireless equipment. "Because the ice rink changes in size, depending on the venue, we sometimes need to add or take out a few bars of the music. Because of this we use a DAW for playback," he said. "There is always the risk of a problem with the DAW, so a backup system is essential." The A system is fully digital, the DM1000 running at 96kHz and fitted with two MY8-AE96 AES/EBU interface cards for inputs and outputs. The B (backup) system is analogue, so the DM1000 is fitted with two MY8-ADDA96 analogue i/o cards. Both systems use the same PA and amplifiers, so Jeroen produced a custom device to switch the amplifier inputs from digital to analogue if the B system is ever needed. To ensure continuity, the systems are identical in use with MIDI synchronisation ensuring program changes and playback run simultaneously on both. If the operator needs to switch to the B system, they just throw the custom amplifier inputs switch and continue mixing the show on the B console. www.yamahaproaudio.com


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Jul 20, 2015 A magical evening with Neil Young
Until last month, rarely did I blog less frequently than twice weekly. My blogging frequency first reduced last month because doing otherwise resulted in strange symbols getting inserted into my prior blog entries due to a bug in my blog's WYSYWIG option (standing for "what you see is what you get") as my thousands of prior blog entries get migrated to my new WordPress website that I expect to go live within two weeks. My webmaster offered a solution, by letting me send her my blog entries for her to launch by the ideal HTML format (hypertext markup language), but I have needed to get accustomed to temporarily losing the instant gratification of seeing a new blog entry live, and the losing the ability to update or edit a blog entry any time I wish.
On November 6, 2006, I blogged about "If Neil Young Were a Trial Lawyer." (Today, I am offsite at a hotel computer that does not enable me to copy and paste links and text: I will be back at the office and in court on July 21.) Last Thursday night at the Camden, New Jersey, performance center, I learned all the more how much Neil would be able to persuasively disarm without manipulating jurors and everyone else. Backed up by the Promises of the Real band (which includes two of Willie Nelson's sons), Neil Young mesmerized me for over three hours of dynamic, excellently-presented music with barely a bathroom break.
Just like a trial lawyer needs to do with his or her audience, Neil paid total focus on the audience and gave his performance and the audience every bit of his devotion and energy. His voice remains superb after all of these decades.
When I bought the block of tickets for me and my friends just fifteen rows from the stage, I was hoping that this would not be a pontificating performance saturated with Neil's new album "The Monsanto Years". My hope came true. Neil mixed masterful executions of such classics as "Heart of Gold", "Old Man" and his encore "Cinnamon Girl" with songs from his new album about genetically modified organisms, Monsanto's domination over agriculture, and corporatations and the "Citizens United" Supreme Cort decision (which decision I support on First Amendment grounds, and because of the heavy First Amendment damage that would have been sustained with an opposite outcome). Few musicians can keep me mesmerized non-stop. Neil did.
Recently in an interview about his recent stories surrounding cars and on Howard Stern, Neil addressed his adversities of his father's leaving the family when Neil was at a young age and his mother's smashing music records on the ground in anger, as merely his hurdles on life's path, as everyone has their hurdles. That viewpoint is a great way neither to ignore nor to get permanently debilitated by adversity.
On Howard Stern this year, Neil also spoke of sharing a basement apartment with Rick James in the 1960's and their escapades together. Neil survived those wild days intact, when so many music greats from that time did not.
Neil had me in the moment. Next to me was one of my best college friends; I felt like we were transported back decades ago when we attended our first concert together.
Thanking and bowing deeply to Neil Young.


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Over the past few months, we have invested our time & resources into improving many of our Re-TRAC Connect solutions to ensure that your user experience, management tools, and analytical reports are optimized.
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A shamed university lecturer from Newcastle who had sex with a 13-year-old schoolgirl has been jailed.
Biomedicine lecturer Trevor Jackson used the internet to seduce the teenager, who he then went on to meet several times for sex in a luxury hotel on Jersey.
The 47-year-old's crime was discovered only years later, when the teenager confessed in a letter to her mother what had happened.
Police who raided Jackson's home found a pair of the girl's knickers and child pornography pictures and films stored on his computer.
Jackson, of Lyndhurst Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle, admitted five counts of meeting a child following sexual grooming and five counts of sexual activity with a child. The plea was made on the basis that full sexual intercourse only took place twice, after the girl turned 14 in 2006.
Jackson also admitted two charges of making indecent photographs of a child and three charges of the possession of indecent photographs of a child.
Prosecutor James Adkin said the lecturer, who resigned from his post at Newcastle University last October, met the teenager, who was then aged 13, on an internet chatroom for adults interested in making sexual contacts online. He was excited by the risk of pursuing the teenager, who knew he was a man much older than herself.
They met at The Grand Hotel, Jersey, to have sex after exchanging pictures, emails, and using an instant messaging service online. Mitigating, Tony Hawks said Jackson was a troubled man who had ``laid waste" to a ``glittering academic career" and who felt deep remorse for his actions.
Jailing him for four years and nine months, Judge Tony Lancaster said Jackson was a man who had a ``longstanding, unhealthy and perverted interest in teenage girls". He said: ``This case sadly shows dangers of unsupervised use of internet chatrooms by young persona and demonstrates how easy seduction of a child by an adult can be, and how easy it is for a man such as you to contact young females who would otherwise show no interest in them."
Jackson was ordered to sign on the sex offenders register for life.


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A top aide to President Donald Trump says he won't release his tax returns, insisting that voters aren't concerned about the issue. "The White House response is he's not going to release his tax returns," said Trump's senior adviser, Kellyanne Conway, on ABC's "This Week." "We litigated this all through the election. People didn't care," Conway added. Maybe people demanding President Trump releasing his tax returns should of passed a law demanding incoming Presidents are required to release their tax returns, however there is no such law...So by law President Trump by law does not have to release them. However with everyone demanding Trump's tax returns, don't you think as Americans we should demand the release of their tax returns and forms? America has already figured out that Senator John Lewis a person demanding President Trump's tax returns didn't pay taxes on his almost one million dollar home in Washington, so do these idiots that are begging for Trump's tax returns really want to go down that road? With these people demanding Trump's tax returns if they were to release their tax returns, how much do you want to bet they didn't pay their fair shares of taxes or that they would totally fake their tax returns? This is why Liberal morons demanding the release of President Trump's tax returns is silly, because you can bet these people calling on President Trump to release his tax returns are unwilling to release theirs...Because America would likely discover these people don't pay taxes or they lie on their tax forms to get more return on taxes.
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Spring Budget 2017 – Impact on Women
We've done a bit of a round-up on the early reaction and analysis by national commentators on what the latest budget announcements might mean for women. Some of the things that grabbed headlines on the day included £20m more funding for ending Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG), £5m funding for women returning to work and £5m funding to celebrate the centenary of some women having the vote.
Sam Smethers from the Fawcett Society welcomed the £2bn funding for social care, investment in apprenticeships, £20m extra for VAWG and £5m to celebrate women's suffrage. However, she noted that 'many of the structural barriers to women in work and making work pay for women were not addressed, there was no additional funding for childcare and no reversal of universal credit cuts which penalise single parents.'
Polly Neate from Women's Aid broadly welcomed the £20m extra funding for VAWG following a recent survey showing that over a third of domestic abuse organisations were operating with no dedicated funding and she anticipates positive changes from the forthcoming Domestic Violence and Abuse Act. However, she cautions that these alone will not achieve the step-change that the Prime Minister seeks unless there is support available for women much earlier and services that deliver specialist support for survivors are protected.
The Women's Equality Party leader Sophie Walker welcomed the government's commitment to ending VAWG and the investment in social care but was critical of 'piecemeal investments that fail to address the inequalities faced by women' and 'offering spare change to women after years of taking pounds from their wallets'.
On the funding for returners to work she argues that 'token one year investment will support some women, but the evidence still shows that the best 'return to work' scheme available is investment in truly shared parental leave followed by quality childcare for all'.
On the funding to celebrate the centenary of women's suffrage, she asks 'celebrating women's historic emancipation is important, but perhaps the Chancellor could invest in our future freedoms?'
Much of the media coverage of the budget has been dominated by the increase in National Insurance Contributions of those who are self-employed, stereotyped as 'white van man', ignoring the increasing numbers of women who are classed as self-employed. Sophie Walker suggests that 'While many women choose self-employment a vast majority of them have been forced to do so as a result of the toxic combination of sky-high childcare costs, a lack of flexible working and a dearth of good quality part-time jobs.'
The Women's Budget Group are an independent think-tank of feminist economists, policy experts, researchers and campaigners who scrutinise government policy from a gendered perspective. They believe that women will carry on bearing the brunt of continued austerity.
'While the £2bn investment in social care is a welcome start, there was nothing in this budget to address the unfair impact of tax and benefit changes since 2010 that has seen women on the lowest incomes suffer the biggest cuts.'
They have carried out a distributional impact assessment of the Budget announcements by income, gender and ethnicity, which found that 'by continuing with planned freezes and cuts to in-work and out-of-work benefits the poorest women will be £1581 worse off a year, on average, by 2020 compared to if policies in place in 2010 had continued'. Their cumulative distributional analysis of tax and benefit changes since 2010 shows that:
- Women are hit harder than men across all incomes groups, with BAME women particularly hard hit. Asian women in poorest third of households will be £2,247 worse off by 2020, almost twice the loss faced by white men in the poorest third of households (£1,159). White men in the richest third of households, by contrast, lose only £410. Black and Asian lone mothers stand to lose £3,996 and £4,214, respectively, from the changes, about 15 and 17% of their net income.
- Tax and benefit policies of this government are more regressive than those of the Coalition government, with men in the richest 50% of households actually gaining from tax and benefit changes since July 2015. Men in the 10% richest households are £564 better off.
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Other criticisms that have been made following the budget are:
- The pension crisis among women over 50 has still not been addressed (WASPI campaign).
- The Government has failed to address the child maintenance tax, which leaves women paying a 4% charge to access their child support.
- The 'rape clause' is still in place meaning that women will have to prove that their third or fourth child is a product of rape if they wish to claim extra child benefits beyond the second child.
- The Chancellor did not repeal the 'tampon tax', which means that tampons are treated as a luxury item, taxed and the money spent by the UK Government on women's services. Opponents state that this is forcing women to pay extra for a necessity to fund vulnerable women's services.
- £5m is not enough to tackle the 'motherhood penalty' faced by women having children, which needs to be addressed by tackling discrimination and offering flexible working.
- The gender pay gap and segregation by occupation are not addressed.


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Insurance agents: If your customers drive their cars to Mexico, don't tell them to purchase their Mexican auto insurance at the border!
Mexican auto insurance, sometimes called Mexico 'tourist' auto insurance, is not only a great product for earning some extra commissions. Mexican auto insurance can also be a wonderful tool for attracting new customers and for building customer loyalty with your existing clientele. With the help of the internet, writing Mexican auto insurance has never been easier. So if you have customers who drive to Mexico, your agency needs to get appointed to offer Mexican auto insurance.
How to get appointed to sell Mexican auto insurance
There are a number of US based MGAs (managing general agents) who will appoint independent insurance agents to sell Mexican insurance. If you have a valid property casualty insurance license and a current Errors and Omissions insurance policy, most MGAs will gladly appoint you to sell their Mexico insurance products. The appointment paperwork is usually very simple, and the appointment procedure can usually be finalized in less than 24 hours. Some of the better MGAs who have their offices streamlined can have you signed up and ready to sell in less than an hour. Many MGAs have no production requirements, so agents should not feel any pressure to meet sales volume commitments.
How to write a Mexican insurance policy
Mexican auto insurance is one of the easiest products for insurance agents to write. Now that most of the decent MGAs have internet based agency websites, agents can issue Mexico insurance policies in less than 5 minutes. Most Mexico insurance agency websites will allow you to login to your online account using and agent code and password. Once logged in, agents can generate quotes or issue policies in real time. Most agents find that writing Mexican insurance through the internet is as easy as buying an airplane ticket online.
Agents who can benefit from selling Mexican insurance
Many agents incorrectly assume that only agents who are located near the Mexico border will benefit from selling Mexican insurance. Although many Mexican insurance policies are still sold at the border, the vast majority of policies are now being purchased by customers well in advance of their Mexico road trip. In fact, many of the most successful agents who sell Mexican insurance are located in states that do not even share a border with Mexico. Agents in states such as Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and Illinois, are responsible for producing a large percentage of sales for the Mexico 'tourist' auto insurance industry. If you have any customers or potential clients who drive their cars to Mexico, you are doing yourself a disservice by not being able to offer this product.
Commission potential
Many of the Mexico insurance MGAs offer between 20%-30% commissions to agents for written policies. For many agents not located near the Mexico border, their clients tend to take longer trips to Mexico ranging from a few weeks to a few months. A three week Mexico insurance policy can easily generate a $200-$400 premium which would result in a $60 to $120 agency commission. Although you may not be able to retire on this revenue, 5 to 10 policies per month would certainly pay more than the electric bill for your office. Some agents may also elect to enhance their commission with a broker fee. And remember, each policy usually takes less than 10 minutes to issue and requires almost no servicing once the policy is issued.
Advantages of offering Mexican auto insurance
Mexican auto insurance can also work as a great marketing tool for your agency. Many agents find Mexican auto insurance to be a great product for attracting new customers. Once the word gets out that your agency can provide Mexican auto insurance, you may find new customers stopping by your office prior to their road trip to Mexico. Once you solve their Mexico insurance need, most customers are happy to discuss the possibilities of working with you for their domestic insurance needs as well. Mexican auto insurance is also a great tool for building customer loyalty and retaining your clients. If you offer Mexican insurance, your customers are less apt to visit your competitor who does offer Mexico insurance.
In summary, if you are looking to grow your insurance agency, or just retain your existing clients, you should seriously consider getting appointed to sell Mexican 'tourist' auto insurance. You will most likely find it to be one of the easiest and most advantageous products your have ever sold.


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Ever since their existence, there has been an everlasting arms race between viruses and their host cells. Host cells have developed numerous strategies to silence viral gene expression, whereas viruses always find ways to overcome these obstacles. Accordingly, viruses have evolved to take full advantage of existing cellular chromatin components to activate or repress its own genes when needed. In fact, host epigenetic modifications of the herpesviral genome chromatin play a key role in the transcriptional control of latent and lytic genes during a productive viral lifecycle. Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is a ubiquitous herpesvirus that establishes a life-long persistent infection in humans and is associated with Kaposi's sarcoma and several lymphoid malignancies. During latency, the KSHV genome persists as a multicopy circular DNA assembled into nucleosomal structures. While viral latency is characterized by restricted viral gene expression, reactivation induces the lytic replication program and the expression of viral genes in a defined sequential and temporal order. Our preliminary study demonstrates that (1) the latent and lytic chromatins of KSHV are associated with a distinctive pattern of activating and repressive histone modifications whose distribution changes upon reactivation in an organized manner in correlation with the temporally ordered expression of viral lytic genes. Furthermore, (2) the evolutionarily conserved Polycomb group proteins and histone deubiquitinases also play a critical role in the regulation of KSHV latency and reactivation by regulating the viral chromatin structure. Thus, the epigenetic program of KSHV is at the crux of restricting latent gene expression and the orderly expression of lytic genes. The goal of this study is to better understand how epigenetic modifications of the KSHV genome affect viral latency and lytic replication, to thereby contribute to the development of a persistent infection and subsequent pathogenic events in vivo. Based on our preliminary studies, we hypothesize that the proper epigenetic regulation of the KSHV genome is critical for viral persistency during latency and reactivation, and for pathogenesis in KSHV infected lesions. This proposal is highly innovative, utilizing well-established comprehensive genome-wide ChIP array, BAC genetics, and in vivo experimental conditions.
Kaposi sarcoma (KS) is the leading cause of cancer in patients with HIV infection. While there is a reduction in the incidence of KS among patients receiving HAART, an increasing concern is the development and spread of drug resistant HIV-1 strains, which in turn leads to reoccurrence of KS complication. Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is an etiological agent to induce KS tumors, pleural effusion lymphomas and multicentric Castleman's disease. We have recently developed a new primate model that significantly recapitulates the important aspects of the KSHV infection and pathogenesis of humans, thus providing a unique tool for understanding KSHV infection. The goal of this study is to better understand how epigenetic modifications of the KSHV genome affect viral latency and lytic replication, to thereby contribute to the development of a persistent infection and subsequent pathogenic events in vivo. The proposed study is highly innovative by utilizing the well-established in vitro and in vivo experimental conditions and a successful outcome should be a major discovery that significantly impacts the understanding of KSHV persistent and pathogenic infection.
|Lee, Myung-Shin; Yuan, Hongfeng; Jeon, Hyungtaek et al. (2016) Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells of Diverse Origins Support Persistent Infection with Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus and Manifest Distinct Angiogenic, Invasive, and Transforming Phenotypes. MBio 7:e02109-15
|Lee, Hye-Ra; Mitra, Jaba; Lee, Stacy et al. (2016) Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Viral Interferon Regulatory Factor 4 (vIRF4) Perturbs the G1-S Cell Cycle Progression via Deregulation of the cyclin D1 Gene. J Virol 90:1139-43
|Liang, Qiming; Chang, Brian; Lee, Patrick et al. (2015) Identification of the Essential Role of Viral Bcl-2 for Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Lytic Replication. J Virol 89:5308-17
|Bowman, James; Rodgers, Mary A; Shi, Mude et al. (2015) Posttranslational Modification of HOIP Blocks Toll-Like Receptor 4-Mediated Linear-Ubiquitin-Chain Formation. MBio 6:e01777-15
|Jung, Jae; Münz, Christian (2015) Immune control of oncogenic ?-herpesviruses. Curr Opin Virol 14:79-86
|Seo, Gil Ju; Yang, Aerin; Tan, Brandon et al. (2015) Akt Kinase-Mediated Checkpoint of cGAS DNA Sensing Pathway. Cell Rep 13:440-9
|Brulois, Kevin; Wong, Lai-Yee; Lee, Hye-Ra et al. (2015) Association of Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus ORF31 with ORF34 and ORF24 Is Critical for Late Gene Expression. J Virol 89:6148-54
|Cheng, Fan; Sawant, Tanvee Vinod; Lan, Ke et al. (2015) Screening of the Human Kinome Identifies MSK1/2-CREB1 as an Essential Pathway Mediating Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Lytic Replication during Primary Infection. J Virol 89:9262-80
|Lee, Hye-Ra; Amatya, Rina; Jung, Jae U (2015) Multi-step regulation of innate immune signaling by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus. Virus Res 209:39-44
|Liang, Chengyu; Oh, Byung-Ha; Jung, Jae U (2015) Novel functions of viral anti-apoptotic factors. Nat Rev Microbiol 13:7-12
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Upcoming Webinar: Intro to Box APIs (July 18, 2019 @ 11am PT)
On July 18th at 11am PT (1pm CT, 2pm ET, 7pm BST), we'll be hosting a free live webinar to walk through everything you need to know in order to start working with the Box APIs.
As we cover topics, we'll also discuss best practices around architecture and security. Topics that we'll be discussing during the session will include:
- Common use cases with Box Platform
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Our little Yorkie requires surgery and the customer service rep. suggested we get a pre-authorization for the procedure so we would know exactly what would be covered. I took the forms to the vet and they faxed them over to Trupanion. By the time I got home, I had the approval! Talk about super fast!
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