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The main purpose of this book is to show the contrasts between the peaceful city of London and the city of Paris, tearing itself apart in revolution. This is apparent in the very first line of the book, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...." This is a contrast of the two cities, London, the tranquil home of Mr. Lorry and the Darnays'; and Paris, the center of a bloody revolution. The author shows gentleness in these violent times in the persons of Dr. and Lucie Mannette, both gentle and peaceful. He also characterizes the evil side of the revolution in the apathetic and depraved Misuser and Mademoiselle Defarge, who go about their business while death carts roll-- as do heads-- through the streets of Paris. He does though, depict a ray of light amongst all this evil; the heroic Carton, who gave his life for his friend and a woman he knew he would never have. The biggest contrast of all, is in the person of Misuser Darnay, the gentle English family man, who is also related to the evil Marquis Evremonde. I personally like stories that use historical events as backdrops because it brings these seemingly distant events closer to us. This book definitely offers insight into life in the two cities at the time of the French Revolution. I think it does an excellent job of depicting just how totally involved some people became in the revolution. It shows how people were blinded by the desire for freedom from their former oppressors, so much so, that they attacked anyone and anything that was even remotely related to their past rulers. I think this was effectively done by excellent characterization, using each character to depict a different aspect of society, then contrasting them by making them rivals. I really took away a different view of that time period. Some of the language he used was definitely outdated. The language was exactly what you would expect for a novel of that time period. I was able to follow the story pretty well, although there were a few times, in switching back and forth between cities, that I got a little lost Still on the whole I liked the way the story flowed. Unlike some stories of that time, there wasn't really any profanity or taking of God's name in vain, which is always good to see. There are other Dickens books that I have liked more, but I still thought this was a very good example of his work. I thought the style was pretty consistent with other books by Dickens I've read. It seems he uses characters to symbolize traits of people quite often, like Tiny Tim symbolizing innocence in the Christmas Carol to contrast Scrooge's unkindness. I thought the setting, combined with the title and characterization, provided an in-depth look at the time period of the French Revolution and the events around it. It starts with the title, which is appropriate for obvious reasons, those being that the story shifts between London and Paris quite often. The description of the settings really added to the experience of the time period. The way he described the prison cells, the area around the guillotine, and beautiful house of the Darnays' helped promote the contrasts between the cities, as well as put you right into the story. As far as suspense goes, there really wasn't much, so if you're looking to be kept on the edge of your seat, then I wouldn't really recommend this. However, this book has an fantastically intricate plot, and a pretty good ending. Overall I liked this book a lot and would recommend it to anyone who likes Dickens and is also interested by the time period surrounding the French Revolution. However, if you're looking for a cliffhanger full of action, this isn't really the book for you. Bibliography:
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Breck shares his birthday with India's Republic Day (so he always had a school holiday when we lived in Mumbai) and (as I learned yesterday) Australia Day. So happy birthday to all of them.
He's having a Guy Party this weekend – he made up invitations that invited friends to "explore their inner guyness" as they play video games and watch PG-13 movies – so that's pretty exciting. Bookended between baseball games on Friday night and Sunday afternoon, he's got a full schedule.
For his birthday evening, we ordered in McDonald's, ate the birthday cake his sister made, opened presents, studied for his math test, and watched War of the Worlds. Not too shabby for a Thursday afternoon!
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In one (shiney new) place. Check out www.microsoft.co.uk/w8camps
Which includes information on:
One day camps:
One day UX Workshops:
And weekly on-line clinics
And is brought to you by this dodgy looking bunch
In one (shiney new) place. Check out www.microsoft.co.uk/w8camps
Which includes information on:
One day camps:
One day UX Workshops:
And weekly on-line clinics
And is brought to you by this dodgy looking bunch
Sell out the //build/ conference on Windows 8 development and more. Sweet.
If you are UK based, then do check out the many options we have to help you skill up on Windows 8 and other technologies over at http://uktechdays.cloudapp.net/ prior to //build/
we Tim O'Brien shared the following good news:
"For those unable to attend, there will be a world class online experience and local developer events throughout the world."
I have a few meetings coming up discussing porting Windows Phone applications to Windows 8.
The good news is both platforms use:
However… the devil is in the detail 🙂
Take a look at these tasters:
I will add anything else I find. Happy porting!
[Last updated 7th August]
My rough and incomplete walkthrough to registering as a company to publish applications to the Windows Store.
Please check the official documentation for the latest information but this is handy for me and the companies I am working with.
Ultimately the route you will likely (but not always) want to take is:
Visit https://appdev.microsoft.com/StorePortals/EN-US/Account/signup/Start and click Register
Now create a new Microsoft account (if you are a company you definitely want to avoid using an existing personal account)
Use an email address you have previously created within your company for this purpose
Now you will get a verify email
Which once you verify should then allow you to select company type
After that it should all be pretty straight forward. You enter info about the developer who will be submitting the app
Note: We allow only one developer account per company. This developer will be the only one that can upload apps for the company
And the company approver (which must be a different email address)
And accept the terms and conditions
And proceed to payment
I just stumbled upon touch mode in Office 2013.
After. Notice the whitespace around icons, folder listings etc. Nice.
Which is just the tip of the iceberg … plenty more details over on the Office blog.


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May 14, 2013, 08:30 ET
CHICAGO, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Female Health Company (NASDAQ-CM: FHCO - News), which manufactures and markets the FC2 Female Condom, today announced that it has named Andrew S. Love to be a member of its Board of Directors.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120712/MM39764LOGO)
Mr. Love is Chairman of Love Savings Holding Company, the holding company of Heartland Bank, headquartered in St. Louis. The Love Companies have been active in real estate, banking and finance since 1875. Mr. Love has more than 40 years of experience in the investment, banking and real estate communities. Previously, Mr. Love was a partner at the law firm Bryan Cave, LLP.
Mr. Love has been a long time investor in, and supporter of, The Female Health Company. Mr. Love was one of the original investors in the Phoenix Limited Partnership whose general partner identified the female condom as an investment opportunity, which ultimately resulted in the creation of The Female Health Company.
Mr. Love holds an AB degree from Harvard College and an LLB degree from the Harvard Law School. Mr. Love has served as a board member for many charitable organizations, including the St. Louis Symphony Society, St. Louis Country Day School, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, the Center for Plant Conservation, Webster University, and the Edward K. Love Conservation Foundation.
O.B. Parrish, Chairman and CEO of The Female Health Company said: "We are delighted to have Andy Love as a member on our Board."
About The Female Health Company
The Female Health Company, based in Chicago, Illinois, manufactures and markets the FC2 Female Condom® (FC2), which is available in the U.S. and approximately 139 other countries globally. The Company owns certain worldwide rights to the FC2 Female Condom®, including patents that have been issued in a number of countries around the world. The patents cover the key aspects of FC2, including its overall design and manufacturing process. The FC2 Female Condom® is the only available FDA-approved product controlled by a woman that offers dual protection against sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, and unintended pregnancy. The World Health Organization (WHO) has cleared FC2 for purchase by U.N. agencies.
"Safe Harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995:
The statements in this release which are not historical fact are "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information or future events, developments or circumstances. Such forward-looking statements are inherently subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties. The Company's actual results and future developments could differ materially from the results or developments expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the following: product demand and market acceptance; competition in the Company's markets and the risk of new competitors and new competitive product introductions; the Company's reliance on its international partners in the consumer sector and on the level of spending on the female condom by country governments, global donors and other public health organizations in the global public sector; the economic and business environment and the impact of government pressures; risks involved in doing business on an international level, including currency risks, regulatory requirements, political risks, export restrictions and other trade barriers; the Company's production capacity, efficiency and supply constraints; and other risks detailed in the Company's press releases, shareholder communications and Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including the Company's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2012. Actual events affecting the Company and the impact of such events on the Company's operations may vary from those currently anticipated.
For more information about the Female Health Company visit the Company's website at http://www.femalehealth.com and http://www.femalecondom.org. If you would like to be added to the Company's e-mail alert list, please send an e-mail to [email protected].
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Nieuwoudt Family | Wolseley
What a precious family!!
Adene and I met back in 2008 when we studied photography together in Durbanville.
Seeing her get engaged, married and starting a family, I will never forget that 7 years ago she mentioned that having a family of her own is her biggest dream.
She fell in love with the love of her life, Andrew. And Boy... a real Gentleman and amazing father for their two beautiful Children, Eva & Samuel.
I absolutely loved every bit of this special shoot and really enjoyed the afternoon with them!
Here is a little something from Adene.
"I recently decided that I definitely want to take family photographs once a year (maybe even more!?). My kids will only be small for a short time and these are the memories I want to treasure :) I am definitely more a jeans-kind-of-girl...but I realised quickly that Celesté will not accept any jeans wear!! So the planning opted for a mini styled shoot.
Celesté offered to come to our farm, Platvlei fruit farm, that is located just outside of Wolseley. Andrew my husband is the 3rd generation on the farm and we even stay in the old farmhouse that Andrew's grandfather, Chris Dicey build after the earthquake in 1969.
Eva (4) was very excited to wear her new outfit and then the flower crown - I think she definitely worked the camera :) But little Samuel (1), is a typical man and we only got a few good ones out of him before he became a little grumpy :)
Thank you Celesté for such a fun afternoon - we LOVE the photographs that we have seen - you are the BEST! I just want to thank Lisa Brown for making me gorgeous for the shoot and for Anli Wahl for the magnificant flower pieces.."
Special Thank You to:
Lisa Brown for Hair and Make-Up
Anli Wahl for the beautiful flower pieces.
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Audio | view transcript | Other talks from Tiratanaloka
The third talk in a five-part series from Tiratanaloka's retreat on the 'Four Mind Turnings' of the Tibetan tradition.
This is a beautiful piece on the hardest of subjects. Using zen poetry and a happily wide-ranging series of quotations (from Tibetan lamas to Ezra Pound), Vajradarshini explores her own father's death as a way to approach attitudes to death and dying. She considers death in the light of the four mind-turning reflections of Atisha: the result is an inspiring, funny, truly challenging look at the heartbreak of our mortality, and how the Dharma helps us to meet and be present with the ultimate experience.
Talk given at Tiratanaloka Retreat Centre 2005.
This talk is part of the series The Four Mind-Turning Reflections.


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Sunday morning, I'm helping put his shoes on for church and he says it. "Mama! N is for no and Y is for yes!" And I realize then that it's time. It's time to teach four-year-old to read. Those gentle ways of reading. He'll be the fifth one we'll teach.
Of course the three Rs are each subjects children need individual attention in. And each of our children have math, English and writing studies specific to their grade level that we work on each school day. However, there are ways to enjoy teaching multiple ages together in these basics as well. And they're fun!
The follow examples of reading, writing and math are only a few of many, many activities you can enjoy with all ages:
The Gentle Ways of Reading
- Older ones helping younger ones learn to read – I often ask the older children to read to the younger ones. Six-year-old loves to read to four-year-old. Mother Goose is not only good for the littlest ones, the rhyming is perfect reading practice. Plus just fun. When it was time for third child to read, she wasn't much interested in Dick and Jane. She loved Biscuit. She would go to bed with the Biscuit Storybook Collection. But here's the beauty – her brother and sister would still sit and read to her. Teach her all they'd learned. Read from Hey I'm Reading with a little spark in their eyes. They remembered what fun it was to have the reading light switch on in their heads. Full post: The Gentle Ways of Reading
- Read Alouds – of course this almost goes without mentioning but the benefits of reading aloud to the whole family are far-reaching. Even Mama learns something. Memories are made.
- Games like Scrabble and Boggle Jr. are phonics and language practice. We'll talk more about online games and apps next week.
Writing for an Age Range
- Making homemade books – this is a creative project for older children or for the one learning to read.
- Thank you notes – oh what a good practice this is – not only in letter writing but in gratitude. At Christmas we write a family thank you note – multiple ages – each one writing a line or two of thanks in one note to the recipient. The Art of Thank You Notes is full of simple ideas for gratitude, handwriting and art – for even the most reluctant writer.
- Dictation around the table – youngest ones can sketch, older ones write – each according to their skill level. The 10 Days series at Fruit in Season is Copywork and Dictation – many ideas we hope to incorporate in our day.
- Play-writing – sometimes for our Tapestry of Grace unit celebrations, the children write a play set in the time period we are studying. Some play a role, some perform the videography duties.
Math for Multiple Ages
Marvelous math lessons can be accomplished on many levels with multiple ages – in several ways. Take a recent morning of math manipulative fun from preschool to middle school. Kindergartener was creating 'some went away' stories with teddy bear counters. The teddy bears had chairs and were enjoying a movie at the movie theater. Well, her stories drew a crowd.
Mainly, some brothers. Little brother started stacking linking cubes. Great small motor skills for a four-year-old plus he was just having fun. Well, big brother joined in making several tall towers. Little brother had to make a size comparison. What started as math for Kindergartener ended up being a good time in math for our preschooler and middle-schooler too.
Living Math is for All Ages
- Estimating with popcorn. We have learned from Cindy West's Loving Living Math ebook that we can enjoy living math a few days a week too. (This resource gave us permission!)
- More living math ideas on Cindy's Living Math Pinterest board
- A list of living math books at Heart of the Matter
- Card game of war – this is Kindergartener's current favorite
So, while each child needs daily practice in the three Rs, you can enjoy these basics – all ages together. How about you? Are you incorporating any of these ideas in your day?
More on the 3 Rs:
Topics in this series:
- A Recipe for Teaching Multiple Ages {Day 1}
- Helpful Homeschool Habits for Multiple Ages {Day 2}
- The 3 Rs for Multiple ages {Day 3}
- How to Fit in All the Extras {Day 4}
- Afternoon Quiet Time for All Ages {Day 5}
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Imagine two women named Fran and Debra who each decide one afternoon to go for a three-mile trail run in the woods. They each plan to run by themselves. They are equally fast runners who are each capable of completing this distance in thirty minutes.
Fran gets changed at her office, warms up for five minutes and departs on her run at 2:00 p.m. She is in the zone the entire time and finishes even faster than usual, at 2:29 p.m.
Debra gets changed, warms up, and departs at the same time, but her run ends up quite different. Four minutes after she starts, she stops to respond to a text from a friend. Six minutes after that, she stops to speak with a co-worker who is also out for a run. Seven minutes after that, she stops to respond to an unexpected call from another co-worker. As a result, her run takes over an hour to finish.
Fran's run is your workday when you focus intensely on one task at a time. Debra's run is your workday when you multitask and allow yourself to be disrupted by incoming messages, office drop-ins, and unscheduled phone calls. Multitasking is the worst (and most common) work habit in today's workplace.
Why Is Multitasking So Bad For Your Productivity?
Despite what many people believe, multitasking decreases (not increases) your productivity. Research has proven this over and over.
For example, one study analyzed what happened when a group of Microsoft employees were interrupted by emails or instant messages. On average, the workers took fifteen minutes to get back to important tasks each time that they were disturbed, as the distractions generally led them to reply to other messages and/or to visit various web sites unrelated to the task that they had been focused on before the distraction [1].
Other research has demonstrated that multitasking could change your brain and make it even harder for you to be able to focus in the future. In other words, chronic multitasking trains your brain to be distracted.
A study by the University of Sussex compared the brains of "media multitaskers" (people who used multiple media devices at the same time) with the brains of those who only use one device occasionally. While the study demonstrated a link and not causality, they found the multitaskers had lower gray-matter density in a part of the brain that is responsible for various cognitive and emotional control functions [2].
Multitasking reduces your performance on virtually every kind of task … including your ability to multitask!
Dr. Clifford Nass (a deceased Stanford university sociologist) studied this topic before he passed away. As he said during an interview in 2013, "People who multitask all the time can't filter out irrelevancy. They can't manage a working memory. They're chronically distracted. They initiate much larger parts of their brain that are irrelevant to the task at hand … they're even terrible at multitasking. When we ask them to multitask, they're actually worse at it." [3]
If Multitasking is So Bad, Why Do We Do It?
Today's work environment and social environment encourages excessive multitasking. Laptops, smartphones, and other forms of technology clearly make our lives better in many ways. However, they also discourage us from concentrating on one task at a time. For example, a 2013 study commissioned by Nokia found that the average person checks his or her cell phone 150 times a day [4]. That's once every six to seven minutes, on average, during waking hours. Social media, personal email accounts, and instant messaging platforms just make matters even worse.
If you are a chronic multitasker, it's not because of some inborn trait. It's because you have merely formed a negative "Habit Loop" around multitasking.
The #1 Way to Stop Multitasking
Keep your email and social media accounts closed, and keep your phone off, on airplane mode, or not accessible when you want to concentrate. Few incoming emails and calls need to be handled within seconds. You could still check your inboxes and devices every thirty or sixty minutes, if you feel compelled to do so. What you do not want to do is leave them open, buzzing, notifying, and interrupting you all day long.
Keeping your social media, inboxes, and devices closed, off, or not easily accessible is an example of removing the cue. This is a habit-breaking strategy that I wrote about here. In this case, the cue is an incoming email, text, notification, or call that triggers a bad habit to break your concentration and deal with the message immediately. Rather than try to resist the temptation to deal with an incoming message, why not remove the temptation altogether?
More than once while finishing the manuscript for my second book (Work Stronger), my brother left me a voicemail complaining that my phone was off. He said this made it impossible to reach me live. Each time that I called him back, I reminded him that was the point.
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References for this article:
- Steve Lohr, "Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don't Read This in Traffic," New York Times, March 25, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/business/25multi.html?mcubz=3.
- Jacqui Bealing, "Brain scans reveal 'grey matter' differences in media multitaskers," University of Sussex, September 25, 2014, http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/26540.
- "The Myth Of Multitasking," NPR, May 10, 2013, http://www.npr.org/2013/05/10/182861382/the-myth-of-multitasking.
- Stephen Willard, "Study: People Check Their Cell Phones Every Six Minutes, 150 Times A Day," Elite Daily, accessed on August 5, 2017, http://elitedaily.com/news/world/study-people-check-cell-phones-minutes-150-times-day/.


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The Houston Chronicle, TX, has an article about the Girl Scouts' White Oak Service Unit. The volunteer unit comprises six women dedicated to providing the Girl Scout troops it serves with information, resources and support.
"What I've gotten out of it is friendship," said Debra Lewis of the service unit, in which she has been serving for two years. "I love the relationships I've formed with these leaders. You're sharing your talents." White Oak Service Unit serves 44 Girl Scout troops in the areas served by Jersey Village High School, Cook Middle School and Post, Gleason and Bang elementary schools. As of last May, the unit's troops had 471 girls and 180 volunteers.
These days, the Girl Scout experience is not limited to participating in a troop.
Girls can do that, but they also have the option of choosing other Girl Scout Pathways, according to Mariana Almanza, a membership manager with the Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council. "The Girl Scouts really want to engage girls of all ages, kindergarten through 12th grade, and of all backgrounds; so we're offering a more flexible experience."
A Girl Scout can try one or more of any of the organization's Pathways: camp, troop, event, travel program, series - which could include a class or multiday workshop - and online. Girls also can choose the Pathways' program opportunities, including horseback riding, sailing, drill team, archery, backpacking, rifling and health and safety.
"If they want to be in Scouts, girls and volunteers can do it for a weekend, or for a lifetime," Almanza said. "I like that it is girl-focused," she said. "For me, that really was the selling point. The whole point of the program is to guide girls."
Girl Scouting could not exist without adult volunteers. Do you have an adult volunteer you would like to give a shout out to?


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SATURDAY EVENING - July 7, 2018 - 7:00 pm to Close
WHERE: Join us on the patio; pool will be open
WHO: Bring the family and join the fun . . . regular guest rates will apply. This is a BYO event – we'll be providing dessert and fruit. You bring the snacks and drinks.
WHAT: Music, good friends and lots of fun. DJ Pete the Greek will be joining us; activities throughout the night . . . can you say limbo!
WHY: Why not, it's five o'clock somewhere.


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Looking to re-enter the field of Anesthesia?
If you are an ASA-Endorsed Simulation Center that would like to share your re-entry training program details, submit them here.
Mount Sinai HELPS Center
|Program Name
|Mount Sinai HELPS Center Clinical Anesthesia Reentry (CARE) Program
|Contact Person:
|Tariq Nabeel
|Alternate Contact:
|Adam Levine
|Phone Number
|(212) 241-6426
Street Address: 1450 Madison Avenue
City: New York
State / Province: NY
Postal / Zip Code: 10029
Country: United States
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We offer 2 separate and distinct reentry programs; a simulation-based retraining program of 1, 2, 4 and 6 weeks duration and a simulation-based competency assessment program.
The Simulation-Based Retraining Program is a one on one retraining program. The simulations occur daily Monday Tuesday Thursday and Friday for approximately 1.5 -3 hours/day. The remaining portion of the day is spent in OR observation. Participants may proctor any educational activity conducted in the department including daily conferences, case based discussions and bi-weekly journal club during the retraining. The topics covered in the simulated environment include anesthetic induction , emergence, perioperative hypoxia, hypotension, ACLS and PALS protocols, Difficult Airway Management including the use of video-assisted devices and flexible bronchscopic intubations. The New York State Department of Health Office for Professional Medical Conduct (OPMC) accepted our 6 week simulation-based retraining program as a prerequisite for the re-licensure of physician who was non-clinical for a protracted time (>10 years)
Our Simulation-Based Assessment Program has been used by state licensing bodies such as NY state licensing body, NJ state medical board, Vermont Medical Board, academic and private institutions. The assessment occurs over 2 days and includes 6-8 simulated scenarios and 2 standardized examinations.
In addition to top of the line adult, child and infant mannequin based simulators we also have a virtual fiberoptic simulator and a virtual TEE simulator for your education.
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"The Fast and The Furious" is one of my all-time favorite car-flicks. In my opinion, it ranks right up there with Steve McQueen's "Bullit" and Nicholas Cage's "Gone in 60's Seconds" (both the latter featuring Ford Mustangs, but I won't hold that against them). Pure old-school muscle, torque, and rage under the hoods of those classic, late 1960's beasts, man! Somewhere in the middle of The Fast and The Furious film, the two anti-heroes (Brian and Dominic) exchange some candid dialogue that only the car enthusiast can truly appreciate. They're seen standing in front of an iconic1970 Charger.
Dom: "It's a beast. Know what she ran at Palmdale?"
Brian: No. What'd she run?"
Dom: "Nine seconds flat. My Dad was driving. So much torque, the chassis twisted coming off the line. He barely kept it on the track."
Brian: "So what's your fastest time?"
Dom: "I've never driven her?"
Brian: "Why not?"
Dom: "Scares the $#*! out of me."
I had a full understanding of that respectful fear, the moment that line was dropped. I'm the oldest of three children born to Chuck and Laura Smith, but I have a big sister grafted into the family long before I was born; my Dad's 1968 Charger. This gold-leaf painted, metallic hulk struck fear and reverence in my heart for as long as I can remember, well into my adult life. My Dad bought her a few years before my birth, and maintained her upkeep over the years. The transmission was modified, the engine was tweaked, the suspension was adjusted, wider rear tires were equipped, and the fuel injection got an upgrade over the span of 39 years. Her paint job, however, never changed. It never dulled or blemished because my dad was (and still is) a master at maintaining her beauty.
I have vivid memories of my early childhood, spent riding around town in the backseat of the beast. Often times, I picture myself plastered against the tan leather upholstery, screaming at the top of my lungs, and hanging on for dear life, as my dad floored the gas pedal. Yet, I was never in any real danger, because he always had complete control of her. That knowledge never swayed my fear, however.
My dad once accidentally caught my fingers in the shutting driver's-side door, when I was…five, maybe six. I remembered that being the day I grew terrified of that car. Somehow, I knew it was out to get me. There was once a time when I actually watched from a distance, as my father outran the local police, up Salliotte Road. The exhaust pipes were so loud and distinct, I could hear him running and bending corners for blocks. Then, just like in the chase movies, I saw the Charger drift around the corner, rear wheels spinning and screeching asphalt, the tail end of her swaying around the bend, before leveling out. He parked that car on a dime in front of the house, hopped out with folded arms and crossed legs while leaning against her, as if nothing had happened. My ten-year old friend, Keith, exploded.
"Whoa! Did you see that? That was sweet! Your Dad is bad!"
My dad; my hero. He and the car became the talk of my fifth-grade class for the next week, as the news of his driving hit the streets. And my fear and respect for that car grew stronger.
In my teenage years, my dad and I sort of drifted away from one another, not by his doing. It was more so my rebellion toward anything fatherly in nature. Rides in the Charger were few and far in between, but I still loved to hear her start up and rumble in idle. Every once in a while, my dad would have me open the gates to the backyard, so that he could drive her straight out, from the garage to the street. I'd swagger out to the sidewalk in time to catch a glimpse of him light up the tires on take-off. So much torque, the rear tires thinned out lifting the back end, just like watching competition drag races on television. I'd run out into the street to watch my dad, bend the right onto Outer Drive, at the end of the block. Once he was out of view, I listened as the engine of the beast ran through its gear changes, screeching asphalt between 1st, 2nd, and DRIVE. I would smile, because I always loved the sound of that car running full out.
"WE EAT VETTES" was the custom plate fastened to the front chrome bumper of the beast. In my young adult years, the car became something more than a car to me. Away at college, anything that remotely sounded like the guttural rumble of the '68 Charger, made me homesick for my dad and his car. Sometimes, when I would come home on the weekends, I would make my way out to the garage, and gently run my hand across her perfect paint coat. It was my show of respect for her. I never sat behind her wheel, because she was bigger than life to me. She was more than a car. She was something that demanded my reverence.
In my early thirties, I had a young family of my own. Every so often, Poppa (as my dad came to be known by my children) would bring his '68 Charger over to the house. For a long time, I refused to ride in it, and I think my children followed my lead. I was still afraid of her, after so many years. As time passed, my children began taking rides in Poppa's car. He was always careful to drive civil with his grandchildren secured in the backseat. Following their lead, I found my way back into the passenger side of the beast, with my children in the backseat. Riding with my dad, was awesome again. It took me back to days long gone, when I used to be too small to see over the brown dashboard, but big enough to watch him shift the gears, hear the tires screech between shifts. Being in that seat was like coming home after a long hiatus. I loved the beast all over again.
Today, I'm 39 years old. My dad is 64 and still racing her around town. She's just as loud and fearsome as I've ever known. This morning, I visited my dad. He had the beast propped up, preparing to bleed air from her brake lines, on all fours. I jumped right in and helped out. It was amazing to wrench on the beast with my dad. Sure, the job was simple, but the time was well spent. We laughed about the past; he taught me techniques to keep her running; and once we were done, he fired her up and we hit the streets for a ride.
Oh, how wonderful and terrifying, the guttural sound of the engine; how awesome, the kick of the seat into the back, between gear shifts; how exhilarating, the sheer speed of 0 to 50 in no time flat. My dad never really opened her up too wide, to let her run wild. I guess those days are behind him. Or maybe…he was protecting his son? He looked over at me as the wind blew past us; two Smiths just enjoying the ride.
"It's hard to believe, I used to drive this thing with you sitting right here in my lap," he said.
I smiled, reminiscing on times passed; times in the back seat, holding on for dear life. Good times.
We made a quick stop over to my sister's to pay a short visit. On the way out the front door, my dad said something to me I will never forget.
"You wanna drive her home?"
I glanced at the beast, and for a split second, she looked larger than life; more than a mere car.
"Sure," I replied, masking my fear. It was frightening and wonderful at the same time, just to think about sliding behind the wheel of her. The beast had always been God-like in my mind.
It was surreal, watching my dad slide into the passenger seat of the '68 Charger. I didn't let my excitement get the best of me, choosing instead to look at her like any other car. I shoved the key into the ignition and turned. Nothing happened.
"Okay, here's the trick to starting her. First you gotta flip that red switch, for the pump. Then release the emergency brake. Good, now take her out of park, while you're holding down on the brake petal. Now, turn the key."
I followed his instructions and turned the key again. The beast roared to life, and adrenaline dumped into my bloodstream. I slowly backed her out of the driveway. Once on the street, I gently wrenched her silver slotted shift-arm, at my side, into 1st gear. The beast bucked, ready to be let loose and run wild.
'Scares the $#*! out of me,' I thought.
I slowly applied weight on the gas pedal and we were off. I smiled wide. I couldn't help it! I was really here, in the driver's seat of the Charger, with my dad sitting next to me. He ran me through the shifting sequence, as we began to pick up speed.
"The important thing to remember," he said, "is don't push the button while you're shifting! If you push that button on the shifter, while you're upshifting, you'll throw her into reverse, and she'll buck you right through the front windshield. I guarantee you that."
Roger that, dad. No pressure, I thought.
"Got it. Hands off the button. Check," I repeated as I shifted.
After a block or two, my dad said, "Okay, I think you got the hang of it now."
I settled into a groove of shifting and driving while watching the scenery roll by. Driving the beast was fantastic.
"Dad, why do the gears operate this way, anyway? I've never seen a car setup like this."
"That's because I modified the transmission for racing. I did that to the gears box."
I suddenly recalled watching him out run a cop car all those years ago. I was simultaneously aware of the raw power I was currently commanding. I glanced over at my dad, and caught him actually digging the ride, from the passenger seat. A smile lit the corners of his mouth. And there it was. That one moment in time I'll always take with me, wherever I go, until the day I die. That magical snapshot: My dad riding shotgun, while his son drove the beast. He seemed so proud. I fought against a lump in my throat.
Once we turned off of Southfield road, onto Pepper road, I coasted her nice and easy to the stop sign. 12th street was roughly a quarter of a mile ahead of me. I just sat there at the sign. There was no traffic, and my dad didn't say a word. He didn't need to. He knew what was about to happen. My right hand gripped down on the shifter. My left hand squeezed the leather steering wheel tight. I leaned forward to counter the kick that was coming. My foot stomped the gas pedal, and the beast took flight! Her engine roared, set free to run wild finally. Everything blew past us in a blur of seconds. She moved so fast, I had just enough time to shift up into 2nd, then DRIVE, and then back down through the gears to 1st, before we were on top of the 12thstreet stop sign, and bending the corner headed home. As we coasted up the block, ever muscle in my body shook, drunk off adrenaline. I pulled the beast into the driveway, shifted into park, killed the engine, set the emergency parking brake, and flipped the fuel pump switch off. Then I exhaled long and slow.
"Good job," my dad said.
I looked at him and smiled. As we walked into the house, I grabbed my dad around the waist and hugged him tight. He laughed and told me to let him go, but I held on anyway.
"Thanks dad." I said.
"Thank you. I appreciate you helping me out this morning." He said.
I left the house, and walked down the driveway, toward my car. Running my hand gently across the paint of the beast, I whispered to her.
"Thank you, girl. Thank you for all the years, you've been with me. Thank you for taking care of me today. Thanks for the ride."
I walked to my car then, turned to look at the beast again. She didn't seem so scary anymore. She seemed normal sized. She wasn't a monster anymore; no horrid or frightening abomination out to do me in. She was nothing more than a car. She was…and is…my dad's '68 Charger. And for one brief moment in time, the beast allowed me to tame her.


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The truth about the First World War remains hidden. Serious historians, researchers and interested members of the public have been thwarted in their attempts to find out what really happened. In 1914 the first casualty of war was the truth and even a century later members of the British Establishment persist in disseminating their lies and myths. They have much to hide. We will demonstrate that facts about the causes of the war, the questionable events during it, and ludicrous claims made afterwards, were all subjected to rigid censorship, misinformation, propaganda, carefully selected documentary 'proofs', unsubstantiated 'evidence' and complicit, officially approved histories. The Secret Elite not only caused the war but dictated afterwards how it was recorded and translated into history. It was their war, and we are taught their history. Professor Quigley warned of the inherent danger of the Secret Elite's 'triple-front penetration' of politics, the press and education. 'No country that values its safety' he declared, should allow what this cabal of elites accomplished:
'that is, that a small number of men would be able to wield such power in administration and politics, should be given almost complete control over the publication of documents relating to their actions, should be able to exercise such influence over the avenues of information that create public opinion, and should be able to monopolize so completely the writing and the teaching of the history of their own period. [1]
The Secret Elite dictated the publication of official documents, not only their own sources, but also those of the defeated nations. Their control of the historical record was absolute. They decided what would or would not be allowed into the public domain. For example, the British Blue Book, which contained the diplomatic exchanges in the weeks preceding the war, was presented to Parliament on 6 August, 1914, supposedly to prove Britain's good intent and absolve her from any responsibility. Arranged in chronological order, the telegrams appeared to be complete, candid and convincing: a studied confirmation of Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey's 'determined efforts to preserve peace'. [2] Years later evidence released from Moscow in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution clearly showed that three of the telegrams Grey had presented to Parliament as crucial proof of his attempts to prevent war had never even been sent. The claim by the British ambassador in St Petersburg that, with one exception, all of the diplomatic exchanges between him and the Foreign Office were included in the Blue Book [3] was a scandalous lie. Professor Sydney Fay of Harvard found that 'more than a score' had not been included and that important passages from telegrams and letters had been judiciously cut. [4]
The Russian Orange Book contained 79 documents that emphasised her efforts for peace, but it concealed the truth about Russia's general mobilisation that led directly to war, and falsely blamed Austria and Germany. [5] The Orange Book omitted the conciliatory proposals that had been made by Kaiser Wilhelm II during the July crisis, and all evidence of the aggressive Franco-Russian policies that had been agreed between President Poincare of France and the Czar. [6] The long-delayed French Yellow Book likewise suppressed incriminating telegrams altogether and altered others to imply the French desire for peace and German responsibility for the war. The Secret Elite were ruthless in their manipulation of official documents like the British Blue Book. The French Yellow and Russian Orange Books were likewise riddled with omissions and misinformation to conceal the truth and were faithfully portrayed by their propaganda machines as evidence of German war guilt. With the advantage of evidence not available at the time, their collusion is now obvious. In 1914, only the Secret Elite's trusted agents knew of the diplomatic and foreign office connivance between Britain, France and Russia throughout the month of July 1914. [7]
The Secret Elite went to great lengths to cover all traces of their conspiracy. Letters to and from Alfred Milner, their undisputed leader, were culled, removed, burned or otherwise destroyed. [8] Milner's remaining papers, held in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, bear witness to the zeal with which much evidence of wrongdoing has been obliterated. Secret dispatches that he sent to his friend Lord Selborne have disappeared. Milner burned private and personal telegrams [9] and what remains of the cull undertaken by his wife after his death represents only the bare rump of his voluminous correspondence.
Incriminating letters sent by King Edward VII, himself a member of the inner-core of the Secret Elite, were subject to an order that on his death they must be destroyed immediately. Admiral Jacky Fisher, erstwhile First Sea Lord, noted in his Memories that he had been advised by Lord Knollys, the king's private secretary, to burn all letters sent to him by the king. Fisher consequently burned much of his royal correspondence but couldn't bear to part with it all. [10] Lord Nathaniel Rothschild, leading international banker and founder member of the secret society, likewise ordered that his papers and correspondence be burned posthumously lest his political influence and interventions became known. As his biographer commented, one can but 'wonder how much of the Rothschilds' political role remains irrevocably hidden from posterity'. [11] If anything, the systematic conspiracy of the Secret Elite's place-men in the British government to cover all traces of their devious machinations was far worse.
Even if we assume that the surviving records of the Committee of Imperial Defence were accurate, what remains tells us more about what is missing. Cabinet records for the July Crisis, covering the 4th to the 21st, relate almost exclusively to Ireland. [12] Discussion about the Balkans? None. Fears about the dangers implicit in the Austro-Serbian dispute? Nowhere. Belgium? No mention. No papers remain that raised concerns about a German invasion of Belgium. It had to appear that this conundrum had suddenly been sprung on Britain. While the official notice in the Public Record Office List of Cabinet Papers warns that 'the papers listed … are certainly not the whole of those collectively considered by Cabinet Ministers', the gap is breathtaking, and no effort has been made to explain why crucial records are missing or what happened to them. No Cabinet Papers whatsoever, from 14 July until 20 August, survived the cull. By which time the First World War had entered its third week. It beggars belief that so much has disappeared, [13] and the logical question is, why?
Much is missing in Britain's official record of the First World War, but in fairness to the librarians and custodians of the Public Record Office, they could only catalogue what they were given. The British public has a right to know the full extent of what has been secretly retained, hidden, or gone 'missing'. In the early 1970s, the Canadian historian Nicholas D'Ombrain began researching War Office records. He noted: The Registry Files were in a deplorable condition, having suffered the periodic ravages of the policy of 'weeding'. One such clearance was in progress during my foray into these files, and I found that my material was being systematically reduced by as much as five-sixths.' [14]
Astonishingly, a large amount of 'sensitive' material was actually removed as the academic went about his business. Where did it go? Who authorised its removal? In addition, D'Ombrain noted that minutes of the Committee of Imperial Defence and 'circulation and invitation lists' together with much 'routine' correspondence had been destroyed. [15] What still required to be hidden from historians and researchers in 1970? That D'Ombrain found five-sixths of the total files melting away in front of him demonstrated clearly that others still retained a vested interest in keeping the evidence of history hidden. D'Ombrain is but one of a number of historians thwarted by the 'disappearance' of documentation.
Official memoirs covering the origins of the First World War were very carefully vetted. Sir Edward Grey's Twenty-Five Years is an appalling excuse for a record of fact, and the convenience of his failing memory rings hollow. Lloyd George's War Memoirs contain numerous pieces that suggest a censor's pen. Instead of detailing the help he received from Lord Rothschild at the very start of the war, Lloyd George restrained his comment to 'it was done', [16] leaving the reader to wonder precisely what 'it' was. He does however draw attention to the controversial and self-glorifying diaries written by Sir Douglas Haig, Commander of the British Army, and radically altered by Lady Haig to the extent that there were two versions of the supposedly same record. Haig's re-written and frequently altered diaries were liberally used by his biographer, and family friend, Duff Cooper to glorify him. [17] The version that Haig sent directly to King George V criticised many of his fellow commanders, but these were removed by Lady Haig lest Sir Douglas's reputation be affected. [18] A great deal more will be said at appropriate times about Sir Douglas Haig. When Sir George Buchanan, the British ambassador at Petrograd, an important player in the Secret Elite's trusted diplomatic corps, penned his memoirs, My Mission to Russia and other Diplomatic Memories, it contained information that the Establishment considered too revealing for publication. His daughter Meriel stated that he was obliged to omit passages from his book on pain of losing his pension. [19] Take care. Memoirs have been tampered with.
Bad as this is, it is of relatively minor importance compared to the Secret Elite's outrageous theft of the historical record from across Europe. In the immediate post war years, hundreds of thousands of important documents pertaining to the origins of the First World War were taken from their countries of origin to the west coast of America and hidden away in locked vaults at Stanford University. The documents, which would without doubt have exposed the real perpetrators, had to be removed to a secure location and hidden from prying eyes.
Herbert Hoover, a future US President, was the Secret Elite agent charged with the mammoth task of removing incriminating documents from Europe. During the war, Hoover played a major role for the Secret Elite in operating an emergency food-supply organisation that was allegedly created to save starving Belgian civilians.
No government gave official sanction to the removal of historical documents. It was theft dressed as a philanthropic act of preservation for the benefit of future historians. Indeed, like the thief in the night, stealth was the rule of thumb. Ephraim Adams, professor of history at Stanford University and a close friend of Hoover from their student days, was called to Paris to coordinate the great heist and dress it in a cloak of academic respectability. Hoover recruited a management team of 'young scholars' from the American army and secured their release from military service. They used letters of introduction and logistical support from Hoover to collect the documentary evidence and establish a network of representatives throughout Europe. [20] They made the right contacts, 'snooped' around for archives and found so many that Hoover 'was soon shipping them back to the US as ballast in the empty food boats'. [21]
Hoover recruited an additional 1,000 agents whose first haul amounted to 375,000 volumes of the 'Secret War Documents' of European governments. [22] Hoover's Secret Elite controllers were primarily interested in material relating to the war's origins and the workings of the Commission for Relief of Belgium. Other documents relating to military aspects of the war itself were ignored. The secret removal and disposal of incriminatory British and French material posed little or no problem for the Secret Elite, and, surprisingly, once the Bolsheviks had taken control, access to Russian documents proved straightforward. Professor Miliukov, foreign minister in the old Kerensky regime, informed Hoover that some of the Czarist archives pertaining to the origins of the war had been concealed in a barn in Finland. Hoover later boasted that 'Getting them was no trouble at all. We were feeding Finland at the time.' [23]
The Secret Elite thus took possession of a mass of evidence relating to the old Czarist regime that undoubtedly contained hugely damaging information on the top secret negotiations which went on between the Russian Foreign Office and Paris and London before the war started. They had to remove the evidence of Russian mobilisation because it proved that Germany acted in self defence. It might at first appear strange that the Bolsheviks cooperated so willingly by allowing Americans to remove another 25 carloads of material from Petrograd. [24] According to the New York Times they bought the Bolshevik documents from a 'doorkeeper' for $200 cash, [25] but clearly there were darker forces at play.
The removal of documents from Germany presented few problems. Fifteen carloads of material were taken, including 'the complete secret minutes of the German Supreme War Council' – a 'gift', according to Hoover, from Friedrich Ebert, first president of the post-war German Republic. Hoover explained this away by claiming that Ebert was 'a radical with no interest in the work of his predecessors', [26] but the starving man will exchange even his birthright for food. Hoover's people also acquired 6,000 volumes of documents covering the complete official and secret proceedings of the Kaiser's wartime conduct of the German empire. [27] Where then is the vital evidence to prove Germany's guilt? Had there been proof it would have been released immediately. There was none. Taking possession of the German archives was especially crucial since they would have proved conclusively to the world that Germany had not started the war.
The 'Hoover War Library' became so packed with documentary material that it was legitimately described as the largest in the world dealing with the First World War. [28] In reality, this was no library. While the documents were physically housed within Stanford, the collection was kept separate and only individuals with the highest authorisation and keys to the padlocks were allowed access. In 1941, 22 years after Hoover began the task of secreting away the real history of the First World War, the first carefully selected documents were made available to the public. What was withheld from view or destroyed will never be known. Suffice to say that few if any First World War historians have ever reproduced or quoted any controversial material from that source. Indeed, it is a startling fact that no war historian has ever written about this illicit theft of European documents to America: documents that relate to arguably the most crucially important event in European and world history. And so the theft of history remains a crime for which no-one has ever faced trial, because no government has ever laid formal charges. Perhaps they should.
[1] Carroll Quigley, The Anglo American Establishment, p.197.
[2] Sidney B. Fay, Origins of the World War, vol.I, p.5.
[3] George Buchanan, My Mission to Russia, vol.1, p.100.
[4] Fay, Origins of the World War, vol.I, p. 29.
[5] Ibid., p.5.
[6] Barnes, Genesis of the World War, p.40.
[7] Docherty and Macgregor, Hidden History, pp.252-300.
[8] A.M. Gollin, Proconsul in Politics, p.551, in footnote.
[9] Milner Papers, Milner to Selborne, 5 April 1899, Bodleian Library, Ms.Eng.Hist. c.688.
[10] Baron John Arbuthnott Fisher, Memories and Records, vol.1, p.21.
[11] Niall Ferguson, House of Rothschild, vol.II, p.319.
[12] Cabinet Papers, CAB 37/120/ 69, 81, 90.
[13] List of Cabinet Papers, 1880–1914. PRO booklet.
[14] d'Ombrain, War Machinery and High Policy, preface, p.xiii.
[15] Ibid.
[16] David Lloyd George War Memoirs, Vol.1, p.70.
[17] David Lloyd George, War Memoirs, Vol.II, pp.2011-2015.
[18] Nikolas Gardner, Trial By Fire, pp.228-230.
[19] Meriel Buchanan, The Dissolution of an Empire, pp.192–207.
[20] Charles G. Palm and Dale Reed, Guide to the Hoover Institution Archives, p.5.
[21] Whittaker Chambers, Hoover Library
[22] New York Times, 5 February 1921.
[23] Whittaker Chambers, Hoover Library
[24] Ibid.
[25] New York Times, 5 February 1921.
[26] Whittaker Chambers, Hoover Library
[27] New York Times, 5 February 1921.
[28] Hoover Institution, Stanford University


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Nanaimo RCMP rushed to the Doric Avenue home, near First Street, shortly before 8 a.m. when, according to police, a woman called saying she was in a residence with a man brandishing a firearm.
One witness reported she and her husband came out of their home to go to work and encountered an RCMP officer with her firearm drawn who told them to get off the street.
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"The United States government's rhetoric on human rights puts them at a pedestal for hypocrites. Its overt and covert attacks on oppressed peoples of the world and in the Philippines, mostly exposed through its military funding and poison-laced aid for governments and State fascist machines such as the military and the police, betray their direct role and complicity in abetting violations on people's rights," said Cristina Palabay, Karapatan Secretary General, on the recently released 2016 US State Department Report on Human Rights Practices which includes views on the human rights situation in the Philippines.
"Throughout different regimes, such as the Arroyo, Aquino and the Duterte administrations, the US State Department reports included state-perpetrated violations and continuing impunity, but what the US government conveniently left out was the US' role in enabling such rights abuses," she stated.
Karapatan has repeatedly scored the interventionist projects of the US government in the Philippines, through military aid, and training, advising and directing US troops in the country, during the Arroyo and Aquino governments.
According to the Philippine Department of National Defense, in 2016 congressional budget deliberations, there are around 107 US military personnel in Mindanao conducting various surveillance and drone operations. They include 50 US Marines, 17 US Army, 20 US Special Forces, plus Navy and civilian personnel.
From 2011 and 2016, the US provided the Philippine military and police with at least $242.65 million, including $9.2 million for International Military Education and Training, and excluding the additional $42 million from the new US Southeast Asia Maritime Initiative, which included implementation of counter-insurgency programs. The US State Department said that "it is committed to providing $180 million in assistance to the Philippines in fiscal year 2017, provided that security units who commit rights violations do not get aid."
Karapatan documented 1,538 political killings from the Arroyo to Aquino regimes, through counter-insurgency programs designed and driven by the US government.
"The US government has kept to its rhetoric of refusing aid to State security forces that violate human rights, yet for decades, it has tolerated, funded and enabled the military in a rampage of abuses in the framework of US-driven counter-insurgency measures such as Oplan Bantay Laya and Oplan Bayanihan. The most recent of such programs, Oplan Kapayapaan, has already left twenty (20) civilians and political activists dead. The latest of victims are two peasant and environmental activists, Leonila and Ramon Pesadilla," said Palabay.
On March 2, 2017, Leonila and Ramon Pesadilla were gunned down in their house in Brgy. Osmeña, Compostela, Compostela Valley. Their five-year-old grandson, who witnessed and survived the incident, narrated that two men knocked on their home at around 9pm and shot his grandparents after entering the house. Leonila sustained five (5) gunshot wounds while Ramon sustained six (6).
The Pesadilla couple were both active members of the Compostela Farmers Association (CFA), a local peasant organization known to be very vocal in opposing mining firms in Compostela Valley, including the Agusan Petroleum and Mineral Corporation. The CFA has long been targeted by the military and tagged as an NPA organization. Its members were the object of attacks, perpetrated by the 66th IBPA. Last year on October 10, the organization's secretary general, Jimmy Saypan, was also gunned down.
"The reality is that progressive organizations, political activists, and civilians who have stood as genuine opposition, such as the Pesadilla couple, have become legitimate targets under Oplan Kapayapaan, a US government-directed program," Palabay continued.
Palabay added that "it is preposterous for the US to claim any moral high ground on the respect and upholding of human and people's rights. Their poison-laced assistance has been an instrument to repress the Filipino people and crush opposition that attempts to subvert the country's neo-colonial relations with the US and alter the semi-feudal character of the economy. Initiatives to develop the country through genuine land reform and national industrialization, as well as assert our sovereignty through the removal of US troops have been continuously impeded by the US, in collaboration with those in power."
"The presence of US troops in our country in direct violation of our national sovereignty, the continuing unfair trade agreements which furthered the exploitation of our natural and human resources, and the foreign military assistance that suppresses political dissent – all this in light of the US' righteous rhetoric on human rights puts them at a pedestal for hypocrites," concluded Palabay.


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The storm, now a three-day South-eastern Spain, gets underway, it will also ongemeend is in the province of Murcia. In the resort, La Torre Golf, Roldan, all the roads are closed, the pools are re-created, in part, and there is drinking water nor electricity. Even in the hospitals, and the airport are all close by. 'Extremely, will never happen", say the people that live there. In the meantime, there are five deaths were reported due to the storm.
"See, look what happens to our little paradise, rest," is the Wetterse family, by Van Der Gucht. "There is no drinking water, no electricity, and more. On a flight back to Belgium is not in, the near airport of Corvera is to be closed. Passengers and aviation personnel to get it even. Tourists and local residents are in urgent need of to go to the hospital to sit too deep in the problems, which can also be closed until further notice. What we are complaining about the flood waters in the streets or in our swimming pool, which is completely washed out by the water and mud?', tell the father to Peter, John, and a daughter Annelien Van Der Gucht.
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A few of the remaining Samsung Galaxy S3 and Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Android 4.3 Jelly Bean updates have hit a snag as one carrier has unfortunately had to delay them due to issues found during the testing process. The bugs have now pushed the updates out to the month of January, meaning some Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2 users will be left out of 2013's Android 4.3 party.
A majority of Samsung Galaxy S3 and Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Android 4.3 Jelly Bean updates have already rolled out. Roll outs in the United States, for instance, started in the month of November. We've seen all major Android 4.3 updates roll out and smaller carriers like MetroPCS have also deployed their Android 4.3 updates. There are, however, devices that have yet to receive their upgrades to Android 4.3, leaving users searching for information.
While many carriers remain silent on their progress, French carrier SFR has been extremely vocal about its work on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean for the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2. Originally, the company had hoped to deploy these updates this year but it looks like issues will prevent the carrier from pushing out some of these updates until January.
Thanks to bugs, the carrier has pushed back Android 4.3 Jelly Bean updates for the 4G variants of the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2. Those who own those devices will see the updates roll out in January. SFR did not provide specific dates only that it plans to have the software validated by tomorrow, December 27th.
This is good news for those on SFR though it doesn't help those on carriers like Telstra, for instance, where the Galaxy S3 just received another Android 4.2 update and still doesn't have Android 4.3 in its sights.
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Samsung Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2 Android 4.4 KitKat updates are rumored for 2014 with whispers circling around the month of April. Samsung itself has not confirmed updates for either device which means that millions of users remain in limbo.
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Mine is downloading now. Galaxy Note 2 T-Mobile UK.
when will it comes to india???
When will it come to 3UK?????
Still no signs of update in India
Metro PCS in CA. Hasn't put it out yet. I knew we would be one of the last ones to get it because of Metro putting so damn much bloatware on these phones. This is ridiculous!!!
Updated in Malaysia on 27 Dec 13.
Got my 4.3 update in Bangkok, Thailand for my Note 2 today, 12/27/2013. All went well.
what about orange for the s3 LTE?
Waiting for s3 4.3 update on Three UK
This patch still unavailable here so long
Still waiting for the 4.3 update in UAE , dubai didn't reach us yet :(
I hate samsung now.. ive been dealing with problems from bugs for almost a year now and they gonna push us 4g people off even longer.. ill NEVER buy another samsung phone!!!
i got the update in the morning and am from sweden
but a saw a problems
I got my update this morning and I hate it. Is there a way to update it?
Still no update for Samsun Galaxy SIII in Thailand. Slow roll out and useless. Can't beat Apple in this case. When they have an OS roll out its swift and global.
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Here's what I'd love to see propagate across the old school blogs: an example or two like the one I posted above about orcs. I love hearing how referees have made the raw materials D&D offers their own, especially if doing so draws on longstanding information or images associated with the game. The examples don't have to be long, unless you want them to be; all I ask is that they reveal a little bit of that do-it-yourself spirit I think is so representative of our corner of the hobby.
Now this isn't really an old-school blog, and I have an on-again-off-again relationship with D&D itself, so I'm probably not qualified to comment, but I do have one hat to throw into this ring.
I've never been happy with the traditional fantasy elf. They seem too easy somehow; they're fast, intelligent, better at magic than everyone else, and are usually immortal. It's Superman Syndrome, and like Superman, there's no edginess to them, nothing to grab and twist and make interesting; the closest you get is some ill-defined malaise, like the ennui which affects Tolkien's elves, the harmful decadence of Games Workshop's Eldar, or Moorcock's Melnibonéans -- though not elves per se -- which combine both. This is of course a sweeping statement, and I'm not nearly well-read enough to identify the exceptions, of which I'm sure there are many.
Even so, it's difficult to translate these social and psychological aspects into a game about kicking in doors and killing stuff, so my thoughts have tended to follow a different, more practical, path. Taking the forest-dwelling aspect as my starting point, I've expanded that along somewhat realistic lines, influenced in no small part by an old White Dwarf article -- in #69, by Peter Blanchard -- about how underwater societies would develop without access to metalworking (no fires, see) and other such markers of civilisation.
So my forest elves would be agile and stealthy, as comfortable in the canopy as they are on ground, somewhere between the alien in Predator and your average wuxia showoff. They probably wouldn't have metalworking, since mining seems out of character and you don't want to be setting up furnaces if you live surrounded by trees; so there's no elven steel, no mithril, or any of that extraneous bling. There might be the odd item that they've stolen or traded, but for the most part these elves are using sharpened stone, bone, the odd bamboo spear here and there, and probably their fists too, as unarmed combat seems a logical consequence of a dearth of proper weaponry. On a similar note, they'd probably be nomadic, as carving homes into the trunks of trees seems too destructive, and the typical Ewok village type treetop construction would be saved for the odd meeting place rather than each and every settlement. I want them to wander the forests and not be tied down, so that when outsiders come into the woods, the elves seem like ghosts, difficult to pin down and predict.
So essentially my elves would be barbarians -- with a touch of monk -- in D&D terms, one part archetypical jungle savage, one part Princess Mononoke.
I'd keep the immunity to ghoul paralysis though, as I've always liked how strange and unexplained it is.
Oh, and no dark elves, sorry. The idea that you can tell the a "good" elf from an "evil" one just by looking at them appals me -- yes, even in a game about kicking in doors and killing stuff -- and I won't have it. You can tell my good elves from the evil ones by seeing whether they frighten off the loggers, or just skin them alive on the spot.


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Chanu had not beaten her yet. He showed no signs of wanting to beat her. In fact, he was kind and gentle. Even so, it was foolish to assume he would never beat her. He thought she was a "good worker" (she had overheard him on the telephone). He would be shocked if she lapsed.
"She is an unspoilt girl. From the village."
She had got up one night to fetch a glass of water. It was one week since they married. She had gone to bed and he was still up, talking on the telephone as she stood outside the door.
"No," said Chanu. "I would not say so. Not beautiful, but not so ugly either. The face is broad, big forehead. Eyes are a bit too close together."
Nazneen put her hand up to her head. It was true. The forehead was large. But she had never thought of her eyes being too close.
"Not tall. Not short. Around five foot two. Hips are a bit narrow but wide enough, I think, to carry children. All things considered, I am satisfied. Perhaps when she gets older she'll grow a beard on her chin, but now she is only eighteen. And a blind uncle is better than no uncle. I waited too long to get a wife."
Narrow hips! You could wish for such a fault, Nazneen said to herself, thinking of the rolls of fat that hung low from Chanu's stomach. It would be possible to tuck all your hundred pens and pencils under those rolls and keep them safe and tight. You could stuff a book or two up there as well. If your spindle legs could take the weight.
"What's more, she is a good worker. Cleaning and cooking and all that. The only complaint I could make is she can't put my files in order, because she has no English. I don't complain, though. As I say, a girl from the village: totally unspoilt."
Chanu went on talking but Nazneen crept away, back to bed. A blind uncle is better than no uncle. Her husband had a proverb for everything. Any wife is better than no wife. Something is better than nothing. What had she imagined? That he was in love with her? That he was grateful because she, young and graceful, had accepted him? That in sacrificing herself to him, she was owed something? Yes. Yes. She realized in a stinging rush she had imagined all these things. Such a foolish girl. Such high notions. What self-regard.
The bleeding seemed to have stopped. Nazneen turned off the tap and wrapped a piece of kitchen roll around her finger. Who had Chanu been talking to that day? Perhaps it was a call from Bangladesh, a relative who did not come to the wedding. Perhaps it was Dr. Azad. Tonight he would see for himself the big forehead and too-close-together eyes. Blood spotted through from the cut. She discarded the kitchen roll and watched the red drops fall on the silver sink. The drops slid together like mercury and rolled down the drain. How long would it take to empty her finger of blood, drop by drop? How long for the arm? And for the body, an entire body? What she missed most was people. Not any people in particular (apart, of course, from Hasina) but just people. If she put her ear to the wall she could hear sounds. The television on. Coughing. Sometimes the lavatory flushing. Someone upstairs scraping a chair. A shouting match below. Everyone in their boxes, counting their possessions. In all her eighteen years, she could scarcely remember a moment that she had spent alone. Until she married. And came to London to sit day after day in this large box with the furniture to dust, and the muffled sounds of private lives sealed away above, below, and around her.
Nazneen examined her finger. The bleeding had stopped again. Random thoughts came now. She would speak to Chanu about another sari. Abba had not said goodbye. She thought he would come in the morning, before they went to Dhaka, to the airport. But when she rose, he had already gone to the fields. Was it because he cared too much or because he cared too little? She needed more furniture polish. And bleach for the lavatory. Would Chanu want his corns cut again tonight? What was Hasina doing?
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Zimbabweans traveling to South Africa and those staying there have been caught up in fierce election related violence that has erupted in South Africa's governing capital city of Pretoria ahead of local government elections on the 3rd of August this year.
Disgruntled members of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) went on a rampage blockading roads and burning buses including an Eagle Liner bus that was carrying twenty-one Zimbabweans heading to Johannesburg on Tuesday.
The twenty-one Zimbabwean passengers lost all their belongings when their bus was blocked and looted by the angry protesters just outside Pretoria on Tuesday morning.
After the looting the protesters set the Eagle liner bus on fire leaving only frames to tell the tale.
Angry members of the ruling ANC in three Pretoria suburbs of Mamelodi, Attridgeville and Hamanskraal brought the three suburbs to a standstill starting Monday night.
They were protesting against the ANC's decision to sideline the current mayor Kgosientso Sputla Ramakgopa by electing a new mayoral candidate Thoko Didiza to contest the coming elections.
Roads were blockaded with burning tyres, stones and all sorts of rubbish leaving thousands of people stranded. About twenty-three buses and several cars were burnt.
A woman protester, who masked herself before talking to the media, said they will keep Pretoria on fire until the ANC withdraws the name of Didiza and replace her with their preferred candidate Ramokgopa.
"We are sitting in the RDP houses and now Sputla is helping us with everything and now they want to take Sputla away from us," said the woman.
Journalists were also not spared by these protesters. Some were insulted while others had their cellphones forcibly taken and pictures of the protesters deleted. Lenyaro Sello is a reporter with ENCA, a private television station in South Africa.
"There was about 15 men who jumped out of the vehicle. They got to our cars banging all the cars that are around that circle near Shell garage. Pushing out. Telling us to get out. No body is allowed to be in Attridgeville. No body is allowed to get out, said," said Sello.
Police had to use rubber bullets to disperse numerous groups of protesters who stoned passing cars and looted shops owned by foreign nationals.
Pretoria Metro Police Spokesperson Isaac Mahamba on Tuesday mid-day described the situation as serious but said the police were doing their best to bring calm to the affected areas.
"Most of the streets are barricaded. All the streets that are leading into the CBD have been blockaded with burning or barricaded objects. We just received reports that buses have been burnt.
And we are investigating that yes they could be a possibility that there is a criminal element involved in all this," said Mahamba.
Meanwhile an ANC member who was shot last week over the mayoral candidate issue died in hospital. The ANC has distanced itself from the violent protests describing them as the work of criminals.
The government has also condemned the destruction of property in the area and is calling on law enforcement agencies to bring those responsible to book.


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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned 712 prisoners, the state news agency MENA said on Wednesday, and security sources said many of those freed were youth jailed for anti-government protests.
A full list of those pardoned was not immediately available.
Since coming to power in 2014, Sisi has presided over a sweeping crackdown on Islamist opponents and liberal activists that rights groups say is the worst period of political repression in Egyptian history.
Egypt in 2013 passed a law requiring interior ministry permission for any public gathering of more than 10 people, effectively ending the mass protests that helped unseat two presidents in the span of three years beginning in 2011.
Sisi is a former military chief who toppled elected Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in 2013 after mass protests against his rule. Critics say public dissent continues to be suppressed as matter of policy under Sisi.
Sisi denies that there are political prisoners in Egypt.
He was sworn in for a second term as Egyptian president on Saturday amid a crackdown on opponents after a landslide victory in a March election from which all serious opponents had withdrawn.