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Increase Police Budget – MPs
Members of Parliament have tasked Government to increase operational funding to the Uganda Police Force so as to both improve the welfare of officers and to renovate police stations across the country.
This followed the presentation of the report of the Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs by the Chairperson Hon. Judith Nabakooba (NRM, Mityana) , on the ministerial policy statements and budget estimates for the financial year 2018/2019.
Hon. Joseph Ssewungu (DP, Kalungu West County) noted that the Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces (UPDF) officers received increased salaries with new ranks which was not the case for Police officers saying, How can we expect them to work effectively if they are not well remunerated?
Legislators also called for increased budget allocations for fuel and oil products for upcountry stations to improve operations. The report states that fuel consumption was limited to the headquarters for departments like ICT and Human Resource amounting to shs500 million each.
When people in rural areas ask for support from police, they are told that there is no fuel. We need to budget for provision of fuel to police stations based in rural areas, said Hon. Francis Mwijukye (FDC, BUhweju County).
In the report, the Committee observed that the Ministry of Internal Affairs established the Police and Prisons Authorities to oversee and supervise Uganda Police Force and Uganda Prison Services respectively, but the budgetary provision for the two authorities remained inadequate.
The Committee recommends that shs2.65 billion and shs1 billion be reallocated from Vote 309 and 120 to the Police and Prisons Authorities respectively, so as to enable them effectively carry out their oversight functions as provided in the respective Acts, said Nabakooba.
State Minister for Internal Affairs, Hon. Mario Obiga Kania said Government had invested in improving the welfare of officers in the Police Force. We plan to complete four blocks of flats that will house over 1500 lower ranking police officers , Hon. Obiga Kania said.
He also noted the need to deploy more police officers in areas with a high refugee influx so as to maintain peace and order between locals and refugees.
MPs also noted with concern that veterans were not receiving the much needed financial support as expected and asked Government to screen recipients while disbursing money to the former service men.
The Committee observed that the Ministry of Defence and Veterans Affairs had accumulated pension and gratuity arrears worth shs503.4 billion and recommended that government considers amending the UPDF Act to include veterans' affairs concerns.
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I Saw the Devil is a shockingly violent and stunningly accomplished tale of murder and revenge. The embodiment of pure evil, Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. On a freezing, snowy night, his latest victim is the beautiful Juyeon, daughter of a retired police chief and pregnant fiancée of elite special agent Soo-hyun. Obsessed with revenge, Soo-hyun is determined to track down the murderer, even if doing so means becoming a monster himself. And when he finds Kyung-chul, turning him in to the authorities is the last thing on his mind, as the lines between good and evil fall away in this diabolically twisted game of cat and mouse.
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Kenny Rogers Announces Star-Studded Farewell ConcertMusic News July 19, 2017
Kenny Rogers will perform his final concert in Nashville. The event, billed as All In For The Gambler: Kenny Rogers' Farewell Concert Celebration, will be a star-studded event taking place at the Bridgestone Arena on October 25th. The show will feature Kenny's friends and fellow artists Dolly Parton, Little Big Town, Alison Krauss, The Flaming Lips, Idina Menzel, Jamey Johnson, Elle King and many other special guests to be announced in the coming weeks. Kenny and Dolly will close the show with a special duet. All In For The Gambler will be taped for later airing.
Kenny said, "As I'm bringing this chapter of my career to a close, this will be an unforgettable way to celebrate with my talented friends, who I'm so grateful to have crossed paths with. It means so much that they would feel compelled to do this for me. Of course, the night would not be the same without Dolly Parton being part of it. We've enjoyed a special friendship for decades, and I'll forever look back fondly on the many collaborations, performances, and laughs we've shared as some of the most extraordinary moments of my career. I know it will be a moving experience for us standing on that stage together for one last time."
Kenny held a press conference in Nashville yesterday (Tuesday, July 18th) to announce the news where he told reporters the event was Dolly's brainchild. "Well you know, Dolly it was her idea, we were talking and she said, 'You can't go on tour without me and you . . . I mean, you can't retire without me and you going on stage again and singing something together live for the very last time.' She said, 'You need to have a party.' And she said, 'You need to have it big enough so all of your friends can come.'" at 10 a.m.
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" Man needs, above all else, salvation. He needs to turn around and see that God is standing there with a rope ready to throw to him if only he will catch it and attach it to himself."
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Spend enough time in your city's Chinatown and you might come across a frenetic game called 9-man.
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international | economy | opinion / analysis Wednesday November 30, 2011 13:14 by Wayne Price - personal opinion drwdprice at aol dot com
What Marx Meant by Socialism and Communism
This is the 9th chapter of my serialized book, "Marx's Economics for Anarchists; An Anarchist's Introduction to Marx's Critique of Politiical Economy." It covers Marx and Engels' definition of socialism (communism), expressed in several works, how they thought workers would be rewarded for working, what they meant by the "dictatorship of the proletariat," and how Marx's views contrast with Kropotkin's anarchist-communism.
Marx's Economics for Anarchists - Chapter 9
What Marx Meant by Socialism and Communism
The earlier, utopian, socialists, such as Charles Fourier, Robert Owen, and Etienne Cabet, created very detailed instructions on how a new society should be organized. Marx deliberately rejected that approach. His descriptions of how a socialist (communist) economy would work are few and far between. (Marx used both socialism and communism for his goal, although he preferred the term communism; most revolutionary anarchists also called themselves both socialists and communists, while preferring the latterthis was before the term became associated with the dictatorships of the Communist Parties). It has been said that he was an economist of capitalism, but not an economist of socialism. Even what he did write on the subject tended to be limited.
In Capital, vol. I, he refers to a community of free individuals, carrying on their work with the means of production in common, in which the labor-power of the different individuals is consciously applied as the combined labor-power of the community .Production by freely associated men [note] is consciously regulated by them in accordance with a settled plan (pp. 90, 92).
Rather than presenting a new social system, Marx focused on the need for the working class to collectively take power, to replace the bourgeoisie as the (temporarily) new ruling class. The workers and their allies would get rid of the existing state and replace it with a radically democratic state, similar to the Paris Commune. It should essentially be the self-organized working class. This new state would expropriate the capitalist class. The workers would build a new economy based on the centralization, collectivization, and socialization of labor of the existing monopolized and statified capitalist economy. The means of production would be held in common (but not individual consumer goods). A common economic plan would be created (just how was never spelled out).
There would be no more law of value, because goods would not be bought and sold on the market. There will be no commodities. Human labor would be distributed among the various industries according to need, as determined by the plan. Established through revolution, the workers state, as a coercive social machine, would wither away or die out. It would evolve into a nonviolent public institution which coordinates the economy. Classes as distinct layers of society, specialized to either be workers or bosses, would also dissolve into a classless society.
Alienation and fetishism (as discussed in chapter 2) would die out. Labor would be unalienated because it would not be done for someone else. It would be done for the community of which each person was a free member. The social nature of all interactions would be transparent rather than fetishized, open to all to perceive. The very nature of work would change, ending the class-determined divisions of labor, as would the relations between town and countryside.
Program of the Communist ManifestoSection II of the 1848 Communist Manifesto is titled, Proletarians and Communists. At its end, Marx lays out a brief program. It is not a description of full communism, but a series of steps toward communism, a transitional program. First, he writes, the working class must take power. Then, the proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state, i.e., of the proletariat organized as the ruling class...by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property (in Draper, 1998; p. 155).
A 10 point program follows, including, 5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state 6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state. 7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state . 8. Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture . (same).
This leads to the end of distinct, specialized, classes, Marx claimed. It leads to the end of the state, that is, the end of a coercive instrument of one class over other classes. When, in the course of development all production has been concentrated in the hands of associated individuals, the public power loses its political character . In place of the old bourgeois society with its classes and class antagonisms there comes an association in which the free development of each is the precondition for the free development of all (same; p. 157).
Anarchists would distrust the chances of such free individual development, if the public power has all industry and agriculture centralized into its control and everyone is forced to (has liability to) work in industrial armies.
In any case, by 1872 Engels himself felt that this program has in some details become antiquated. He did not discuss specific points but instead wrote, One thing especially was proved by the [Paris] Commune, viz., that the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready made state machinery and wield it for its own purposes (in Draper, 1998; p.262).
Engels point was that it was not enough to radically democratize the bourgeois state. Instead, it was necessary to completely get rid of the capitalist state and replace it with an institution like the Paris Commune, the proletariat organized as the ruling class. Then it would be this workers state which would evolve out of its political character. Engels was quoting from Marxs writing on the Paris Commune. Engels felt this point was so important that he repeated it in his 1888 introduction to the Manifesto while making no other changes to the original.
In Marx and Engels writings, they portray the 1871 Paris Commune uprising as extremely democratic. In particular, the city council members were directly elected by the sections of the city and were subject to recall if their sections no longer agreed with them. The representatives were not paid more than average workers. All officials, such as judges and local police, were similarly elected and controllable. The regular army was replaced by an armed people (a volunteer militia). Marx expected that if the Commune had lasted it would have federated with similar city, town, and village communes throughout France.
This was an image of a very democratic representative democracy. But there was nothing in it of direct democracy, of the members of sections meeting and deciding how they would manage their neighborhood. Or of workers meeting face-to-face in the factory or shop or office each morning to decide what they would do that day. In general, anarchists are not against some degree of representation or delegation, in large, complex, societies. But anarchists seek to root this in a vibrant, lively, decentralized, direct democracy, where communities directly control their lives. Even at their most libertarian-democratic, Marx and Engels showed no understanding of this.
Critique of the Gotha ProgramIn The Critique of the Gotha Program, Marx described communism as a cooperative society based on common ownership of the means of production (1974; p. 345). He raised the notion of two phases of communism. In the first phase, we are dealing here with a communist society as it emerges from capitalist society still stamped with the birthmarks of the old society from whose womb it has emerged (CGP, 1992; p. 346).
For some reason, Lenin renamed Marxs first phase of communist society as socialism and only Marxs more advanced phase of communist society as communism proper. To Marx, they were both phases of communism. (They have no relation to the differences between Socialist and Communist parties.)
Of all the possible differences between the lower and higher phase of communism, Marx focused on the issue of remuneration of the workers (a highly contentious issue). In the first phase, the individual workers get back the equivalent of the amount of work they have contributed (minus deductions for an overall fund for maintenance and accumulation of production capacity, and for taking care of children, the sick, and older people). The ablebodied workers will be Marx predicted paid in certificates which register how many hours they worked or how hard (duration or intensity of labor); they were not to be rewarded according to how much they produced. Marx did not propose that more skilled or highly trained workers should be paid at a higher rate, or address this issue at all. The certificates would not be money; they could not be accumulated or exchanged for goods on a market. Instead, they are brought to the common storehouse to exchange for goods which took an equivalent amount of labor to produce. (10 hours of work earned the right to a shirt which took an average of 10 hours to make.) Only consumer goods can be withdrawn, not means of production.
To Marx, this was better than capitalism but still limited. It was only the first phase of communism. Receiving in goods the equivalent of the amount of labor a worker did is still in principle a bourgeois right, although one which capitalism never lived up to. Workers have different amounts of strength and ability some can work longer hours or harder than others. Workers have different needs and wants, regardless of how hard they work. Therefore this equality remains unequal and unfair. Society is not yet completely unalienated.
In a more advanced phase of communist society, when labor is no longer just a means of keeping alive but has itself become a vital need; when the all-round development of individuals has also increased their productive powers and all the springs of cooperative wealth flow more abundantly only then can society wholly cross the narrow horizon of bourgeois right and inscribe on its banner: From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs! (same; p. 347).In the CGP, Marx made further political predictions. He asked, In a communist society what social functions will remain that are analogous to the present functions of the state? (same; p. 355). He did not answer his question; he implied that there may still be a need for social coordination and other tasks in a stateless society. Then he wrote,
Between capitalist and communist society lies a period of revolutionary transformation from one to the other. There is a corresponding period of transition in the political sphere and in this period the state can only take the form of a revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat (same).What exactly Marx and Engels meant by the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is a matter of controversy. With the development of Marxism-Leninism it has come to mean the dictatorship of one person, or a small group, or, at most, one political party. Marxs ideas of a transition between capitalism and communism, and of a lower phase of communism, etc., have been used as excuses for Stalinist totalitarianism. They have been used as rationalizations to justify regimes which were not, in fact, moving toward stateless, classless, associations of free individuals, but were moving away from that.
None of these meanings would have been acceptable to Marx or Engels democratic priniciples. In their day, dictatorship was sometimes used to mean the domination by a parliament or by a popular class. As best as can be determined, what they meant by dictatorship of the proletariat, was neither more nor less than the rule of the working class. They pointed to the ultra-democratic Paris Commune as an example of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Some libertarian Marxists have used it to mean the stateless rule of the self-organized working class. Lenin, in his State and Revolution, claimed that Marx and Engels had meant a semi-state which, from the moment of its creation, would immediately begin to wither away as popular participation increased (this was before he set up his own one-party dictatorship). Today, we can no longer use the phrase given what it has come to mean.
It is unclear to me whether, for Marx, the period of revolutionary transformation in the political sphere takes place before the lower phase of communism or if it includes the lower phase. Presumably the working class must first seize power before it can begin to create even the lower phase! (For anarchists, seizing power is not necessarily the same as seizing state power, that is, creating a new bureaucratic-military state machine.) This has become an issue relevant to the poorer, oppressed, nations of the world. As in Marxs day, most of the countries of the world are too poor to get to even the lower phase of communism on their own. But, unlike Marxs day, the world as a whole is ready, and over-ready, to establish a prosperous international communism.
What then are the options for an oppressed nation in Africa, Asia, or Latin America? What is possible is for the workers, peasants, and other oppressed sections of the countries, to seize power and set up their own federation of workers and peasants councils (I leave out for now the question of whether this is a state). The federation can take steps toward communism, but these will be limited internally. Markets and the law of value could not be immediately abolished. But the federation can do all it could to spread the revolution to other oppressed nations and to the imperialist nations. These last nations have the wealth to help the poor countries develop in their own way, toward liberatory communism. This is the strategy of the Permanent Revolution, applied internationally.
Permanent Revolution is not a two-stage strategy (as advocated by Maoists or Mensheviks): first the capitalist revolution, then the proletarian revolution. It says that the workers and their allies should take power and carry out, at the same time, tasks of both the bourgeois-democratic revolution and the proletarian socialist revolution. The first includes land to the peasants who use it, freedom of speech, election of officials, national self-determination, etc., and the second includes also public ownership of the land and industry, worker management and planning of industry, international revolution, etc.
A Technological RevolutionMany interpret Marxism to mean that modern technology and social organization, just as it is arranged under semi-monopolized capitalism, will continue under socialism -- except that, on top, instead of corporate boards of directors and the bourgeois state, there will be a centralized workers state. But Marx and Engels were aware that much of technology was developed for no reason but to increase the exploitation of the workers. Engels wrote,
Society cannot free itself unless every individual is freed. The old mode of production must therefore be revolutionized from top to bottom, and in particular the former division of labor must disappear. Its place must be taken by an organization of production in which productive labor, instead of being a means of subjugating men [note], will become a means of their emancipation, by offering each individual the opportunity to develop all his [note] faculties, physical and mental, in all directions and exercise them to the full in which, therefore, productive labor will become a pleasure instead of being a burden (Anti-Duhring, 1954; p. 408).So Marx had described the more advanced phase of communist society, when the enslaving subjugation of individuals to the division of labor and thereby the antithesis of intellectual and physical labor is over (CGP; p. 347).
The most alienating division of labor, then, was between intellectual and physical labor, between decision-making and decision-carrying-out, between order-giving and order-taking. The utopians had developed the idea of integrating labor, and the anarchists were to develop it further, but it was important to Marx and Engels.
This concept of technical integration included the synthesis of agriculture and industry, of town and farm. This was social but also necessary for ecological health. Engels wrote, The present poisoning of the air, water and land can be put an end to only by the fusion of town and country (Anti-Duhring, p. 411).
The 10-point program of the Communist Manifesto included, 9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries: gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of population over the country (p. 155).
Engels refered to the utopians ideas of collective townships which integrated agriculture and industry. It only becomes realizable, he believed, with a centralized plan. Only a society which makes it possible for its productive forces to dovetail harmoniously into each other on the basis of one single vast plan can allow industry to be distributed over the whole country . (Anti-Duhring, p. 411).
Comparisons of Marxs Communism and Anarchist CommunismMarx and Engels deliberately did not give details about what a socialist/communist society would look like. We get some ideas from what they wrote. They were committed to a democratic society, self-managed by the freely associated producers. They saw it as being a centrally-planned economy, with industry and agriculture integrated and owned by the democratic workers state. This had replaced the bourgeois state. The workers state would begin to die out as soon as it was established. This would be due to increasing participation of the working people and the increase in unalienated labor.
The ex-state would evolve into a non-coercive public institution for coordination and planning.
Presumably it would still be centralized. The problem with centralization is that it is more than unification or coordination. It means that there is a center and a periphery. Even if the centers officials are popularly elected, the center is managed by a few people who get information from the many at the periphery, who in turn carry out the directions given them from the center.
This vision may be contrasted with that of Kropotkin. His anarchist vision is of a pluralistic and decentralized federalism. Peter Kropotkin also did not draw up a detailed program, but he discussed in several books how free working people might reorganize a city and its region after a revolution (e.g., Fields, Factories , and Workshops and The Conquest of Bread). He wrote,
Voluntary associations would substitute themselves for the state in all its functions. They would represent an interwoven network, composed of an infinite variety of groups and federations of all sizes and degrees, local, regional, national, and international temporary or more or less permanent for all possible purposes: production, consumption, and exchange, communications, sanitary arrangements, education, mutual protection, defense of the territory, and so on . for the satisfaction of an ever-increasing number of scientific, artistic, literary and sociable needs .Kropotkin did not believe in a workers state, an institution which somehow represented the working class but which as a state -- was separated from it and above it. As in the above quotation, he proposed that there be federated associations for mutual protection [and] defense of the territory; he believed that such tasks would still be necessary for a period, but that they did not require a state.
Kropotkin rejected the concept of two phases of communism. He thought that a revolution should be immediately followed by full communism, but that ablebodied adults would be expected to work a half-day, perhaps 5 hours, to earn a guaranteed minimum of food, clothing, and shelter. They would be free to do voluntary work for luxuries. Bakunin, who came before Kropotkin, had believed in two phases, according to his friend, James Guillame. The higher phase would be full communism, From each according to their ability to each according to their need, based on a high level of productivity. In the meantime, each community will decide for itself during the transition period the method they deem best for the distribution of the products of associated labor (in Bakunin, 1980; p. 362).
Anarchist and Marxist visions are not absolute alternatives. Kropotkins federated associations could democratically work out an overall economic plan. On the other hand, in The Civil War in France, Marx, for once, described a non-state vision of self-governing industries (he was making a point, not advocating a program). He remarks that there are bourgeois ideologists who declare that communism is impossible, but who also advocate producer (worker-managed) cooperatives. Sounding like an anarchist-syndicalist, Marx responded,
The [Paris] Commune aimed at transforming the means of production into mere instruments of free and associated labor. But this is communism, impossible communism! If co-operative production is to supercede the capitalist system; if united co-operative societies are to regulate national production upon a common plan, thus taking it under their own control what else, gentlemen, would it be but communism, possible communism? (1971; pp.75-76).What else, indeed?
Chapter 10 will be the concluding chapter: "An Anarchist's Critique of Marx's Political Economy." It will review strengths and weaknesses of Marx's economic theory, as Kropotkin saw it and as I see it.
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On Monday, December 1, a SWAT team with semi-automatic rifles entered the private home of the Stowers family in LaGrange, Ohio, herded the family onto the couches in the living room, and kept guns trained on parents, children, infants and toddlers, from approximately 11 AM to 8 PM. The team was aggressive and belligerent. The children were quite traumatized. At some point, the "bad cop" SWAT team was relieved by another team, a "good cop" team that tried to befriend the family. The Stowers family has run a very large, well-known food cooperative called Manna Storehouse on the western side of the greater Cleveland area for many years.
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Google has unveiled a new and improved version of WebP, an image format, designed to reduce the image size on the Web and speed up browsing.
The WebP format, which is a still-image version of Google's royalty free, open source WebM video technology, was introduced by the company last year in 2010.
Thanks to its reduced size, if Google can truly persuade users to use the WebP format instead of JPEG, it is likely to result in a faster browsing speed.
"WebP's compression algorithms have been significantly improved while remaining completely compatible with the previous releases," Google product manager Richard Rabbat and programmer Pascal Massimino revealed in a blog post last week.
"On the decoding side, we have integrated a fancy upsampler. Fancy upsampling reduces the pixelation of strong edges. You can see this feature when you zoom in," the blog post added.
The improved version of the format will also be equipped with a technology that will allow the image-data to be internally decoded during its download. With this feature, users won't have to wait for the entire file to download before being able to watch it. This feature, however, is already available in Google Chrome 12.


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Many Ticos seem to have so much less than North Americans (by "material standards"), in fact most Ticos do not make a lot of money and live on very little; but yet they seem to be very happy. "Pura vida" is said a lot here – but it's also meant a lot. "Life is good" seems to be everyone's motto and true outlook on life.
Here are a few examples of how the Ticos live more simply. These things struck me as very odd at first, but now… they actually make plenty of sense (well, most of them).
baby changing table
Seriously – who needs a super duper fold-down gourmet baby changing table? All you really need is an old folding card table with a simple "baby" plastic table cloth over it! This would never fly in the litigious States – where everyone is out to make a dime on suing someone else…
solar water heater
Many Tico houses here do not have hot water. Here is how one house gets hot (or warm) water in their showers: they leave hoses laying out on the roof with water in them, and let the sun warm the water. Another note: we have a 3 gallon water heater at our house which gives us enough hot water for 2 long showers (sometimes more) and washing dishes once or twice a day. When I think of our Dallas house having a 100 gallon water heater… wow.
solar clothes dryer
Most Ticos only have a washer, and not a dryer for their clothes (well, they do have a dryer, a SOLAR dyer). It is VERY common to see clothes hanging outside at all times. They hang them everywhere and anywhere – on clotheslines, draped over bushes, hung over the edge of the roof, and sometimes even laid out on the lawn. Whatever gets the job done (or dried, in this case), and is so much cheaper on the electric bill.
solar hair dryer
I see Ticas all the time, getting on the bus with their long hair freshly washed and still wet. They brush it and fix it while on the bus… letting it air dry (and it always seems to look great, after it's dried, too!).
raised garbage bins
Ticos do not spend money on garbage bins or trash barrels, instead everyone has a little "stand" such as this near the road (or they share with their neighbors): This serves the purpose of raising it from the ground, and the cage around it protects it from animals getting to it. Simple, cost efficient, and again – gets the job done. Also, Greg & I have noticed how much LESS garbage we produce living here in Costa Rica. In the states, we would empty our 13 gallon kitchen garbage can every other day. Here – we empty a 3 gallon recycled grocery bag just twice a week, mainly because we are eating less processed foods with less packaging.
natural fence posts
There's a type of tree here that the Ticos use ALL the time as a fence post. It grows, but typically grows straight up – which works perfectly for this purpose! They plant these trees, and attach the fence or barbed wire, and when the tree grows, it grows around the wire, encompassing it and creating a permanent fence post.
natural steps
We see lots of dirt steps, like these, while out on our hikes. Sometimes leading to coffee fields, sometimes houses. I guess, if they wash away, they just make them again? Easy, simple, and serves a purpose.
carry a machete
Wouldn't life be easier if we all carried a machete around with us? Well, it is here. Men and women and boys and girls are seen with them, working with them in the yard or sides of roads, cutting down brush and sometimes even cutting the lawn with them (not kidding!). They walk down the roads with them, or take them on the buses. Can you imagine if someone walked on the bus in the states with a machete? People would freak out and the police would be there in no time. Odd as it sounds here, it is just their way of life, and is not out of the norm, nor does it seem to be taken advantage of at any time (as far as I have seen, in my own little sheltered world here in Grecia)…
a motorcycle built for 3
I've said before that the motorcyclists are crazy here. They are almost always young boys/men – who obey no traffic laws at all, weaving in and out of cars WORSE than I've ever seen in the states (if you can imagine that). I've heard that 30% of all traffic accidents here involve a motorcycle. They're always popping a 'wheely' or doing an 'endo' (yes, I got these words from my hubby):
And I guess sometimes it's just simpler and easier to throw a kid on the front or back of your motorcycle! No one would be caught dead doing this in the states, but I've seen a woman walk out of her house carrying her toddler and set him in front of her husband on the motorcycle, and away they go! No helmets. I've also seen as many as 3 (my friend has seen 4!) people riding on one motorcycle together! Here's a woman (pretty much unheard of) with her child:
That's all for now folks! Peace! — Jen
- What are we doing now? - May 11, 2019
- I Love You, Costa Rica - September 26, 2016
- Grecia, Costa Rica – the book - August 16, 2016


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EP299: Batman vs. Superman, Krampus, Dirty Grandpa Reviews, Magnificent 7
April 12, 2016
Episode two-hundred and ninety-nine. Join hosts Trevor and Jason as they discuss the latest in movie news, box office numbers and trailers.
Trivial Trivia: Q: What Guiness Book of World Records does Lord of the Rings claim?
Reviews: Batman vs. Superman Krampus The Revenant Dirty Grandpa Ride Along 2 Creed 5th Wave
Streaming Online Pick of the Week: Team Foxcatcher
Trailer Addict: Deepwater Horizon The Magnificent Hands of Stone
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Malcolm Smith didn't factor in the mayor's race, but his scandal may
Six people were arrested in connection with an alleged bribery and corruption scheme revealed by the U.S. attorney in Manhattan yesterday.
State Senator Malcolm Smith and Councilman Dan Halloran released statements saying they'll be vindicated.
That Smith thought he could be a legitimate mayoral candidate, for either party, is still a difficult notion for many political reporters to comprehend. (A question about Smith's political viability prompted laughter from reporters during U.S. attorney Preet Bharara's press conference yesterday.)
The impact that the accusations against Smith and Halloran will have on the actual mayor's race is unclear.
Citizens Union said that reforms Council Speaker Christine Quinn put in place would have blocked Halloran from steering member items the way he allegedly promised to.
John Catsimatidis removed one arrestee, Republican operative Vince Tabone, from his mayoral operation, and pointed out that other people arrested were supporters of Joe Lhota.
"But both of those front pages make it look like Smith said it when it was Halloran." — Paul DeBenedetto
The dumbest plot ever. [Juan Gonzalez]
Actually, it's quite logical for someone who navigated Albany well. [Jim Dwyer]
Albany's not so clean after all. [Fred Dicker]
City Council reforms would have blocked Halloran from steering discretionary money they way he promised in the indictment, said Citizens Union's Dick Dadey. [Andrew Hawkins]
Rep. Carolyn Maloney said she received death threats for supporting gun control legislation. [Jennifer Fermino]
From Capital
The U.S. attorney in Manhattan said the scandal shows there is a crisis in New York. [Azi Paybarah]
Catsimatidis said the scandal "helps" his campaign, and shoves the whole mess toward his rival, Joe Lhota. [Azi Paybarah]
Catsimatidis suspended Tabone from his company and removed him from the campaign. [Azi Paybarah]
Bloomberg said the scandal bolsters the case for having nonpartisan elections. [Dana Rubinstein]
Headline: "New York schools chancellor says Altanta's test scandal couldn't happen here" [Dana Rubinstein]
The Times has some changes in store for its European bureaus. [Joe Pompeo]
8:15 a.m. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, former Comptroller Bill Thompson, and others attend the National Action Network's 15th Annual National Convention, at the Sheraton Towers, 811 7th Avenue, Manhattan. @NationalAction @TheRevAl @ChriscQuinn @BillThompsonNYC #NAN2013
10 a.m. On Brian Lehrer's show: Common Cause's Susan Lerner and Citizens Union Dick Dadey discuss "How Corrupt is NY State politics?" [WNYC] @BrianLehrer @CommonCauseNY @DickDadeyCU #MalcolmSmith #DanHalloran #JaySavino #VinceTabone
10 a.m. On Fred Dicker's show: "More on the stunning Malcolm Smith indictment." Guests include former state Republican executive director Brendan Quinn, and the lead lawyer challenging Cuomo's gun control law. [Talk1300] @FUD31 #MalcolmSmith #DanHalloran #JaySavino #VinceTabone #NYSafeAct
10:30 a.m. Quinn and Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer discuss a library proposal at the New Amsterdam Library, 9 Murray Street, Manhattan. @ChriscQuinn @JimmyVanBramer
11 a.m. Governor Andrew Cuomo has a ceremonial bill signing for the 2013-14 state budget, at Sheldon Hall on the SUNY Oswego campus, at Washington Boulevard and Sheldon Avenue, in Oswego. @nygovCuomo #NYRising #NYSafeAct #NYBudget
11 a.m. Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivers the keynote address at the National Rx Drug Abuse Summit at the Omni Orlando Resort at Championsgate, 1500 Masters Boulevard, in Orlando, Florida. @MikeBloomberg #DrugAbuse
6 p.m. The Brooklyn Reform Coalition hosts a mayoral candidate forum at St. Francis College, 180 Remson Street, Brooklyn. #Reform2013
7 p.m. On "The Road to City Hall:" Rev. Jesse Jackson. Plus, the political rundown with Curtis Sliwa and Gerson Borrero. [NY1] @RoadToCityHall @CurtisSliwa @GersonBorrero #MalcolmSmith #DanHalloran #JaySavino #VinceTabone #NYSafeAct
The scandal
"The 28-page document reads like a film-noir screenplay." [Michael Howard Saul, Sean Gardiner and Andrew Grossman]
Investigators are hoping to turn some defendants into "government witnesses in order to catch bigger fish." [CBS Local]
Pillifant was in the scrum in White Plains. [Adrees Latif]
Smith's arrest "is a public relations catastrophe for [Jeff] Klein and his conference" since the IDC was formed out of frustration over corruption an incompetence in the Democratic conference. [Thomas Kaplan]
Public advocate candidate and State Senator Daniel Squadron called on Smith to resign, regardless of the outcome of the charges. [Dan Rivoli]
Smith, no stranger to controversy. [Tom Liddy]
"Smith has been linked to so many dubious schemes the FBI must have had an entire branch on his tail." [New York Post]
"Smith's alleged plot was an act of terminal stupidity." [New York Daily News]
Smith's arrest leads Rev. A.R. Bernard to enter the race? [Morgan Pehme]
"[Halloran] was once a police cadet, according to the Police Department, but never a police officer." [Michael Wilson and William Rashbaum]
Two candidates running to oust Halloran weigh in. [Nick Powell]
"Savino was canned from his job in the town attorney's office in Clarkstown, which includes Spring Valley." [Josh Margolin, Carl Campanile and Bob Fredericks]
The next court appearance for the defendants is April 23. [Grace Rauh]
Local reporters analyze the scandal. [NY1]
A history of the Wilson-Pakula, which Smith allegedly tried buying. [Sam Roberts]
A parody account. [@WilsonPakula]
Smith and company should talk. [amNewYork]
Fallout from the scandal could affect Quinn, Lhota and Catsimatidis. [Erin Durkin, Jennifer Fermino and Jonathan Lemire]
"The indictments could also upend the Republican primary for mayor." [Andrew Hawkins]
City Hall / City Council
New York City will open 78 new schools in 2013-14. [Tim Herrera]
Trying to boost tourism in the Bronx. [Ivan Pereira]
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Film and Cinematography in Atlanta
Film and cinematography studies in Atlanta are offered by 4-year institutions. Based on school type, student population and ranking, Georgia State University can be considered a top school in Atlanta for programs in film and cinematography. Georgia State University is the only public school and the largest school in terms of student enrollment that offers film and cinematography studies in Atlanta.
Students can pursue an undergraduate degree or graduate degrees in this field of study. Internships, hands-on learning, study abroad opportunities and teaching assistantships are also offered.
Georgia State University at a Glance
|Georgia State University
|School Type
|4-year, public
|Atlanta, Georgia
|#2 Most Innovative Schools (2020)*
|The university offers a Digital Arts Entertainment Laboratory, a leading media production center in the Atlanta region that includes a production studio, media editing suite and screen testing lab
|Film and Cinematography Degrees Offered
|Bachelor's, master's and doctoral
|Film and Cinematography Bachelor's Degrees Awarded in 2017-2018
|Undergraduate Graduation Rate (in 150% of normal degree time) for 2017 Entering Class
|Tuition & Fees (2015-2016)
|Undergrad: $9,112 (in state); $23,971 (out-of-state)**
Sources: *U.S. News and World Report; **NCES College Navigator
Film and Cinematography Programs
Georgia State University is a research-oriented university. The College of Arts and Sciences features nearly 25 degree-granting departments, schools, and institutes, one of which provides undergraduate and graduate students with an opportunity to study film and video production. The Department of Communication awards a Bachelor of Arts in film and video, a Master of Arts in film, video and digital imaging, and a Ph.D. in moving image studies.
The Bachelor of Arts in film and video program allows students to take courses from areas of film history, screenwriting, and critical studies. These courses address such topics as film and television production, postproduction, American and international film histories, film theory and film genres. Other electives can be chosen in lighting, animation, acting and computer graphics.
The Master of Arts in film, video and digital imaging offers tracks in production, screenwriting and moving image studies. In the production track, courses in the first year provide a broad discourse in film criticism, production, and theory, while those in the second year classes emphasize digital production and postproduction as well as the study of live action digital cinematography and narrative film principles. The final year culminates in a video or film project, which students defend before a thesis committee. Those in moving image studies focus on film theory, textual analysis, new media and television studies, and screenwriting students will learn about writing adaptations and short screenplays as well as study digital editing and film theory.
The Ph.D. in moving image studies provides study in media history, narrative theory, visual style and media reception. Students must also complete seminars and a dissertation.
Georgia State University is a 4-year public school in Atlanta, Georgia that offers students the opportunity to study film, cinematography, and video production through bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs.


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5 good strategies to increase wholesale sales
Customer trends and expectations are changing rapidly in the B2B wholesale industry. Wholesale customers are demanding the higher level of service they were used to getting as individual B2C consumers. Of course, the advancements in technology and the competition amongst businesses support this on-demand economy. Nowadays, wholesale companies lose customers if their business cannot put up with the latest customer demands.
Fortunately, there are ways to improve customer loyalty and to increase B2B wholesale sales.
Below are 5 good strategies to increase sales for your wholesale business.
#1 Advanced Wholesale Pricing: Move your pricing one step forward
Have you ever offered pricing tiers? It may be a good idea to use this pricing strategy in your wholesale business.
For example:
If you buy 10 units, you pay $10/unit.
If you buy 50 units, you pay $8/unit.
If you buy 100 units, you pay $5/unit.
You can apply this pricing strategy to your business. As you see, the idea behind this is to encourage your retailers to buy more units. This would enable you to get more sales and revenue.
#2 Incentivize Retailers: Consider referrals and allow your retailers to dropship
In business, it is all about your network. The more people you know, the better chance you have to increase your wholesale sales. But, do not ignore the fact that your customers have their own networks, too. Why don't you offer your customers to bring their friends into your business? Many wholesale owners benefit from a referral system.
Dropbox increased signups by 60% thanks to its referral system. PayPal's refer-a-friend program is also a very good example. Wholesale businesses can use this kind of system to increase their sales. The reward you offer to your customers should be special to your company.
Another way to increase your wholesale sales is to allow other online retailers to dropship your products. The idea is that their customers buy your products from their websites and you ship them to their customers. By doing so, you increase your sales and avoid marketing exercises. This might be a complicated system to implement, but it is worth spending time on a spreadsheet to find out if this is a profitable business decision. If you have a dropship program, you might have the opportunity to meet many online shop owners who will gladly sell your products.
#3 Create a Good Delivery System: Offer fast shipping and on-time delivery
Customers have become accustomed to services like Amazon Prime, which delivers products within two days. The good news is that customers are ready to pay for services like Amazon Prime as long as they get their products fast. If you are able to offer quick delivery options, your customers can choose them, even if they are more expensive.
You can consider using a software like Metrobi, which enables you to control delivery processes and automate them in such a way that you can track your fleet and products in real time and be notified when a delay occurs. The system also records travel data from each vehicle in your fleet to guarantee there won't be any conflicts in the distribution schedules. In this way, you can deliver more properly and increase your wholesale sales.
#4 Provide Great Customer Service: Learn more about your customer
Your customers may have unique needs, demands and priorities. You can't serve your customers best until you know what these are. You can provide them with specific promotions and avoid offering them products that do not interest or meet their requirements if you know what your customers are looking for.
You should also make sure you give the assistance to your customers when and wherever they need it. Customer care is one of the key points in wholesale sales. Encourage your sales and customer care team to communicate nicely and professionally with your customers while motivating the team to make decisions in a way that puts customers first.
#5 Target New Customers: Get more wholesale buyers
Another strategy to increase your wholesale sales is to find new wholesale buyers. But, how do you target new customers?
One of the best strategies to acquire new wholesale customers is by offering special promotions and campaigns. For example, you can encourage your customers to buy from you by offering "no minimum order" on their first purchase.
It is known that there usually are some minimum-order limitations in wholesale. But if you offer no minimum order amount for your new customers, that would encourage them to buy from you. Please be aware that it might be a better idea to run this campaign for a limited time; the execution of this offer is up to you.
In conclusion, there are several ways to increase wholesale sales. To sum up, in order to increase your B2B wholesale sales, you can think of implementing new wholesale pricing, incentivizing retailers, creating a good delivery system, providing good customer service and targeting new customers.
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Virtue Mart is one other platform from the already so many platforms available to set up your online store. It is an open source eCommerce shopping cart well attuned with the Joomla Content Management System (CMS). It is a cakewalk to add Virtuemart by using the most accessed Joomla CMS. Its best qualities are that it is light weight and is perfectly designed for average sized of online stores.
After the release of VirtueMart, Joomla developers have been using only this to create an eCommerce website. It is one of the best solutions with its extra-ordinary ability to work wonderfully without any complaints in its performance and/or service problems regardless the number of products one has, to be sold online. The installation is quick and simple, letting the owner flaunt his/her creativity in designing the website. A few of its advantageous features are a wide range of products within its assorted categories along with the Meta Tags for SEO purpose, display and description of products, management of customers,executing numerous prices for a single product, overseeing discount offers, tracking the functions of the inventory, display of the price based on the customer's selected currency, multiple currency option, it being search engine friendly, allowing complete charge of the back office and customer orders, the integration of the credit card usage and the benefit of 24/7 customer support.
VirtueMart is an only plugin for Joomla or Mambo which is why it has to have the same system requirements. This PHP platform is a resort to many online shopping communities. You can be a popular part of it too!


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Chili Peppers for Peace
September 26, Miranda, Cauca, Colombia – 20,000 chili pepper plants with a production potential of 55,000 pounds valued at $21,400 have been sown at the Rural Alternative School (ERA) in Miranda, Cauca. This undertaking is thanks to the Commercial Collaborative Alliance among PASO Colombia, Hugo Restrepo & Co., and the two cooperatives of peasants and ex-combatants participating in the ERA.
Hugo Restrepo & Co. exports chili peppers to the United States, the European Union, and Saudi Arabia. This partner of PASO Colombia provides the seeds, training, technical assistance, and transportation for the product and has provided a mill to be installed at the ERA, and is committed to buying all the production output of these plants during the 14 months of their productive lifespan. This commercial agreement can be renewed with new sowing.
This partnership will generate two permanent jobs for 14 months and 15 temporary jobs during the course of eight months. Profits will be distributed among those in the two participating cooperatives of peasants and ex-combatants.
The ERA of Miranda operates in an area ceded by the ASPROZONAC Peasant Farmer Reserve Zone in order to develop pedagogical and productive projects in partnership with ex-combatants who are in the reincorporation process. Now, with the support of PASO Colombia, peasants belonging to this community are applying for credit with the Agrarian Bank to facilitate new agreements with Hugo Restrepo & Co. to sow 60,000 additional chili pepper plants. In this way, the Rural Alternative School's model, together with the Commercial Collaborative Alliance generated, not only provide income and training for ex-combatants but also contribute to building broader governance networks that make peace sustainable in the long term.


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22nd September 2015, Fine Art. Valie Export, Body Configurations.
In these works, EXPORT, a self-proclaimed feminist, used her body as a measuring and pointing device, encircling the curve of a curb or conforming to the angle of a corner—actions designed to defy the conformist culture of her native Austria in the postwar period. Most of the pictures from this series, Körperkonfigurationen (Body Configurations), are accentuated with black or red lines added in ink to the print. The failed conformity with the architectural structures, the geometric lines applied to the photographs, and the figure's uneasy gymnastics emphasize the tension between the individual and the ideological and social forces that shape urban reality, registering the psychological effects of the built and natural environments.
"Since 1972, my drawings, photographs, and actions have been concerned with the presentation of postures as the expression of inner states, represented both in nature and in architecture as adaptation, assimilation, imposition, etc. in or on the environment. Parallels such as landscape and mind, architecture and mind, are mediated by the body, partly because the parallels have their origin in every extreme opposition of body and mind, and partly because the body is a revelation, as is landscape. Landscape is a revelation of space and time, or, more precisely, the arrangement of its elements, such as trees, rocks, hills, etc. are that. Arrangements of the body's elements are postures, revelations, or expressions of inner states; this analogy between arrangements of landscape and body, these common forms of revelation, have served visual art from the beginning as surfaces for projecting expression: external configurations, whether in the landscape or in a picture (which thus becomes landscape) serve as an expression of internal states. This is why landscape is no less common as a motif in painting (and film) than the body. This is why people speak of "scenic atmospheres." A landscape represents an atmosphere, just as body posture expressions do. Expressions are formed not only by the face. So a state of mind can be expressed first by the configuration of landscape components, secondly by the configuration of body components and thirdly—which is the innovation in my work— by the configuration of body elements in the landscape. In a second stage, the expression manifested in certain postures is examined in its historical forms. In the paintings of past times, unobserved, an archive of bodily postures has been collected which is of great expressive and informative value in examining the emotional states and mythologies of their eras. It turns out that these frozen motions of the body represent a canon, a doctrine. When I imitate these old postures I try more or less to perform an operation to draw out the expression, to make it independent, by assembling the postures with contemporary materials, thus trying to reveal these expressions. (Critical activity). At present I am mainly treating female postures from a feminist point of view and dealing with materials from the female environment, in order to thaw the imposed norms of the female bodily gestures, body language, and the associated function of the female body in our culture". Valie Export.
Valie Export uses her body as the sculptural element within her work. Using her figure she mimics random shapes in a city. The transformation is in her behaviour, she asks us to consider what is normal behaviour? And encourages us to be mindful of the everyday rules and agreements that we willingly obey.