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Frederick Douglass Project Writings: The Late Election

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Douglass' Monthly, December, 1860

Our last monthly paper announced the probable election of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, the Republican candidates for President and Vice President of the U.S. What was then only speculation and probability, is now an accomplished fact. Pennsylvania, in her State election of October, it is true, had made this result, to a degree, certain; but there were efforts and appliances resorted to by the enemies of the Republican party, which could not fail to cause doubt and anxiety in the minds of the most sanguine.—The deed is, however, now done, and a new order of events connected with the great question of slavery, is now fairly opening upon the country, the end whereof the most sagacious and far-sighted are unable to see and declare. No preceding election resembles this in its issues and parties, and none resembles it in the effects it has already produced, and is still likely to produce. It was a contest between sections, North and South, as to what shall be the principles and policy of the national Government in respect to the slave system of the fifteen Southern States. The broadest assertion of a right of property in man, holding such property equally innocent, sacred and legal under the Constitution, as property in houses, lands, horses, sheep, and horned cattle, and like the latter entitled to Congressional protection in all the Territories, and by parity of reasoning, in all the States of the American Union. The Southern candidate for the Presidency, Mr. Breckinridge, fully represented this broad assertion of what Lord Mansfield well declared to be so opposed to nature, that nothing short of positive law could support it, and Brougham denounced as the "wild and guilty fantasy" of property in man. Mr. Lincoln, the Northern Republican candidate, while admitting the right to hold men as slaves in the States already existing, regards such property as peculiar, exceptional, local, generally an evil, and not to be extended beyond the limits of the States where it is established by what is called positive law. We thus simply state the issue, more for the benefit of our trans-Atlantic friends and readers, than for those at home, who have heard and read little else during the last three or four months. The clamor now raised by the slaveholders about "Northern aggression," "sectional warfare," as a pretext of dissolving the Union, has this basis only: The Northern people have elected, against the opposition of the slave- holding South, a man for President who declared his opposition to the further extension of slavery over the soil belonging to the United States. Such is the head and front, and the full extent of the offense, for which "minute men" are forming, drums are beating, flags are flying, people are arming, "banks are closing," "stocks are falling," and the South generally taking on dreadfully.

By referring to another part of our present monthly, our respected readers will find a few samples of the spirit of the Southern press on the subject. They are full of intrigue, smell of brimstone, and betoken a terrific explosion. Unquestionably, "secession," "disunion," "Southern Confederacy," and the like phrases, are the most popular political watch words of the cotton-growing States of the Union. Nor is this sentiment to be entirely despised. If Mr. Lincoln were really an Abolition President, which he is not; if he were a friend to the Abolition movement, instead of being, as he is, its most powerful enemy, the dissolution of the Union might be the only effective mode of perpetuating slavery in the Southern States—since if it could succeed, it would place slavery beyond the power of the President and his Government. But the South has now no such cause for disunion. The present alarm and perturbation will cease; the Southern fire-eaters will be appeased and will retrace their steps.—There is no sufficient cause for the dissolution of the Union. Whoever lives through the next four years will see Mr. Lincoln and his Administration attacked more bitterly for their pro-slavery truckling, than for doing any anti-slavery work. He and his party will become the best protectors of slavery where it now is, and just such protectors as slaveholders will most need. In order to defeat him, the slaveholders took advantage of the ignorance and stupidity of the masses, and assured them that Lincoln is an Abolitionist. This, Mr. Lincoln and his party will lose no time in scattering to the winds as false and groundless. With the single exception of the question of slavery extension, Mr. Lincoln proposes no measure which can bring him into antagonistic collision with the traffickers in human flesh, either in the States or in the District of Columbia. The Union will, therefore, be saved simply because there is no cause in the election of Mr. Lincoln for its dissolution. Slavery will be as safe, and safer, in the Union under such a President, than it can be under any President of a Southern Confederacy. This is our impression, and we deeply regret the facts from which it is derived.

With an Abolition President we should consider a successful separation of the slave from the free States a calamity, greatly damaging to the prospects of our long enslaved, bruised and mutilated people; but under what may be expected of the Republican party, with its pledges to put down the slaves should they attempt to rise, and to hunt them should they run away, a dissolution of the Union would be highly beneficial to the cause of liberty.—The South would then be a Sicily, and the North a Sardinia. Mr. Lincoln would then be entirely absolved from his slave-hunting, slave-catching and slave-killing pledges, and the South would have to defend slavery with her own guns, and hunt her Negroes with her own dogs. In truth, we really wish those brave, fire-eating, cotton-growing States would just now go at once outside the Union and set up for themselves, where they could be got at without disturbing other people, and got away from without encountering other people. Such a consummation was "one devoutly to be wished." But no, cunning dogs, they will smother their rage, and after all the dust they can raise, they will retire within the Union and claim its advantages.

What, then, has been gained to the anti-slavery cause by the election of Mr. Lincoln? Not much, in itself considered, but very much when viewed in the light of its relations and bearings. For fifty years the country has taken the law from the lips of an exacting, haughty and imperious slave oligarchy. The masters of slaves have been masters of the Republic. Their authority was almost undisputed, and their power irresistible. They were the President makers of the Republic, and no aspirant dared to hope for success against their frown. Lincoln's election has vitiated their authority, and broken their power. It has taught the North its strength, and shown the South its weakness. More important still, it has demonstrated the possibility of electing, if not an Abolitionist, at least an anti-slavery reputation to the Presidency of the United States. The years are few since it was thought possible that the Northern people could be wrought up to the exercise of such startling courage. Hitherto the threat of disunion has been as potent over the politicians of the North, as the cat-o'-nine-tails is over the backs of the slaves. Mr. Lincoln's election breaks this enchantment, dispels this terrible nightmare, and awakes the nation to the consciousness of new powers, and the possibility of a higher destiny than the perpetual bondage to an ignoble fear.

Another probable effect will be to extinguish the reviving fires of the accursed foreign slave trade, which for a year or two have been kindled all along the Southern coast of the Union. The Republican party is under no necessity to pass laws on this subject. It has only to enforce and execute the laws already on the statute book. The moral influence of such prompt, complete and unflinching execution of the laws, will be great, not only in arresting the specific evil, but in arresting the tide of popular demoralization with which the successful prosecution of the horrid trade in naked men and women was overspreading the country. To this duty the Republican party will be prompted, not only by the conscience of the North, but by what perhaps will be more controlling party interests.

It may also be conceded that the election of Lincoln and Hamlin, notwithstanding the admission of the former that the South is entitled to an efficient Fugitive Slave Law, will render the practice of recapturing and returning to slavery persons who have heroically succeeded, or may hereafter succeed in reaching the free States, more unpopular and odious than it would have been had either Douglas, Bell or Breckinridge been elected. Slaves may yet be hunted, caught and carried back to slavery, but the number will be greatly diminished, because of the popular disinclination to execute the cruel and merciless Fugitive Slave Law. Had Lincoln been defeated, the fact would have been construed by slaveholders, and their guilty minions of the country, as strong evidence of the soundness of the North in respect to the alleged duty of hounding down and handing over the panting fugitive to the vengeance of his infuriated master. No argument is needed to prove this gain to the side of freedom.

But chief among the benefits of the election, has been the canvass itself. Notwithstanding the many cowardly disclaimers, and miserable concessions to popular prejudice against the colored people, which Republican orators have felt themselves required, by an intense and greedy desire of success, to make, they have been compelled also to recur to first principles of human liberty, expose the baseless claim of property in man, exhibit the hideous features of slavery, and to unveil, for popular execration, the brutal manners and morals of the guilty slavemasters.—The canvass has sent all over the North most learned and eloquent men to utter the great truths which Abolitionists have for twenty years been earnestly, but unsuccessfully endeavoring to get before the public mind and conscience. We may rejoice in the dissemination of the truth by whomsoever proclaimed, for the truth will bear its own weight, and bring forth its own fruit.

Nevertheless, this very victory threatens and may be the death of the modern Abolition movement, and finally bring back the country to the same, or a worse state, than Benj. Lundy and Wm. Lloyd Garrison found it thirty years ago. The Republican party does not propose to abolish slavery anywhere, and is decidedly opposed to Abolition agitation. It is not even, by the confession of its President elect, in favor of the repeal of that thrice-accursed and flagrantly unconstitutional Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850. It is plain to see, that once in power, the policy of the party will be only to seem a little less yielding to the demands of slavery than the Democratic or Fusion party, and thus render ineffective and pointless the whole Abolition movement of the North. The safety of our movement will be found only by a return to all the agencies and appliances, such as writing, publishing, organizing, lecturing, holding meetings, with the earnest aim not to prevent the extension of slavery, but to abolish the system altogether. Congress should be at once memorialized for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, and the slave trade between the States. The same zeal, activity, energy and earnestness should be displayed in circulating petitions, as in the earlier stages of the movement. We have the pen, voice and influence of only one man, and that man of the most limited class; but with few or many, in whatever vicissitudes which may surround the cause, now or hereafter, we shall join in no cry, and unite in no demand less than the complete and universal abolition of the whole slave system. Slavery shall be destroyed.


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“My baby”

Dear Dan,

I was listening to a story on CNN about how hospitals are prohibiting children to visit because children are most susceptible to H1N1. It made me think of stories mom tell about when I was born. You and Scott were chasing through traffic in the hospital parking lot. Mom was scared to death that one of you would get hit by a car so she wouldn’t let dad stay long.

Once I came home, you were still running all over, tearing up the house. You were our own little Tasmanian Devil. You could see a cyclone leaving a path of destruction and you were at the center. However, when you came to my playpen or crib, you would reach in, gently pat me and say “My baby.” That was your one moment of calm. Then you’d continue on your path of destruction.

I wish for those days again when you were my big brother protecting me from the big, bad world. I wish for the days when I was your baby.

I love you still, my Danny Boy.

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Sunday, 18 December 2016

How wrong may we be?

Consider these propositions:
1.        Mandatory licensing of professional services increases the prices of those services.
2.        Overall, the standard of living is higher today than it was 30 years ago
3.        Rent control leads to housing shortages.
4.        Third World workers working for American companies overseas are not exploited.
5.        Free trade does not lead to unemployment
6.        Minimum wage laws raise unemployment
Do you think they are true or false?

There is a strong and wide consensus among economists that these propositions are all true. Yet according to a recent research[1] non-economists tend to get these, and a further 15 economic propositions, wrong. Moreover, there is a significant difference in what proportion of people get them wrong on the left and the right. Roughly 60% get them wrong on the left whereas roughly 20% get them wrong on the right. Nor is this a matter of economists ideological bias, since the average economist is slightly on the left, and in any case, the propositions chosen are ones for which the consensus spans from left wing to right wing economists.

Clearly economic facts are important for political decision making and false beliefs about those facts are likely to result in bad policies. Given that in a democracy the rule of the political class is somewhat tuned to our approval, if we have false economic beliefs we are likely to approve of policies which we would not approve of give true economic beliefs. Furthermore, because policy and law are imposed on us all by coercion, our misplaced approval and disapproval has (indirectly) bad effects on others.

So an important question arises of how wrong, that is to say, how much in error, is it permissible for our economic beliefs to be and how wrong is it to be in error. Given our general ignorance of economics, I suspect that most of us are massively overconfident in our economic beliefs and the our overconfidence is a significant wrong because of the harm it contributes to.

Take only the minimum wage law: we tend to think this is good because we think of the people whose wages are increased. Politicians bluster about a living wage leads us to ignore the jobs that are lost and that are never created because they are not productive enough to be paid the minimum wage. These are jobs that the least skilful and the poorest among us would have were it not for the minimum wage law. We also know that for such individuals who are young and perhaps have done poorly at school, a low paying job may be an important first stepping stone into the employment market, giving them job specific training that can increase their productivity and thereby lead them to better paid work. A minimum wage law removes that stepping stone. The numbers of people harmed here may not be a large proportion of the working population. Nevertheless, the minimum wage law benefits a similar proportion who are just slightly more able at their expense. So the law is capriciously harmful and discriminatory. It harms the most economically vulnerable in the population.

The politicians who advance minimum wage laws bear the largest part of the blame for this harm, since I believe they know that the laws are harmful but advance them anyway in pursuit of their interest in remaining in power. Nevertheless, I doubt very much that we would have such a law were it not that very many people have overconfident false beliefs about minimum wage laws. Were they not overconfident the politicians promoting such laws would not easily survive the exposure of the truth about them and hence we would not have the laws. So our overconfidence is harmful and thereby wrong.

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Reading Sourdough by Robin Sloan will make you want to bake bread

I always enjoy how Sloan’s books (like Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore) features tech and the tech world.

In Sourdough, Lois works as a software engineer at a robotics company in the Bay Area and one day her favourite sandwich and spicy soup shop closes and the owners leave her with their sourdough starter. It’s an unusual starter as it requires music and lots of love. Lois doesn’t know anything about breadmaking but she sets out to learn and starts making these amazing sourdough breads and somehow they have these strange faces on them.

Reading this requires some suspension of disbelief but if you’re up for it, it is a fun quirky romp.

Baking, by contrast, was solving the same problem over and over again, because every time, the solution was consumed. I mean, really: chewed and digested. Thus, the problem was ongoing. Thus, the problem was perhaps the point.

Sourdough made me both crave spicy soup and freshly made bread.

However I am not a fan of sourdough bread although I was tempted to try making a sourdough starter to see how that works.

In the end I decided to try making a fougasse, which I had first seen on Great British Bake Off, a wheat-shaped bread that looked simple enough.

I used this recipe from PBS which supposedly is a Paul Hollywood recipe.

It’s an easy enough recipe but maybe not for beginners as the dough isn’t the easiest to handle. I would recommend following the recipe and using a mixer or bread machine to knead the dough as it’s a bit of a sticky dough.

The recipe calls for various fresh herbs like rosemary, thyme and sage. And of course I had none of them. So instead I put together a blend of what I had around my kitchen – some dried Italian herb mixture and some Ras El Hanout. On hindsight, I should have added some sliced olives in, but as I hadn’t made this (or eaten) this bread before, I wasn’t sure what the addition of a damp ingredient would do to the dough.

It turns out that there are recipes for olive fougasse and other fougasse with more than just herbs in them. So that’s an experiment for another time. Meanwhile, the fougasse was a great accompaniment to a bowl of soup. Or just something to snack on at teatime as it’s quite a light bread.

While doing some Googling about fougasse, I learnt that fougasse was traditionally used to check the temperature of ovens – how long it would take to bake would give a rough estimate of the temperature.

I definitely need practice when cutting out the slits in the dough!

  1. I think that fougasse looks good. I’m not sure that you are allowed to say you don’t like sourdough in the trendier parts of England. I think it’s OK, interesting, but I don’t like to eat that much bread. The problem with that kind of bread is that you need a lot of butter to make the hard knobbly bits palatable, or you need to eat the whole loaf straightaway before it’s turned hard.

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Chicken salad is great to use with any leftover chicken or turkey that you might have in your fridge! So don’t throw it out because it can be put to good use! This salad is easy and is a healthier option compared to a mayo based salad. The avocado provides richness and creaminess that you would normally find in a mayo based salad. Additionally, the avocado provides healthful nutrients such as unsaturated fats, fiber and potassium! Sometimes I like to buy the cooked rotisserie chicken at my local supermarket and I use that for my chicken base. Chicken salad is also convenient to use for any chicken that is overcooked, dry or has a bad taste. This recipe can help mask flavor or texture problems and prevents food waste at the same time!

2 pounds of chicken-shredded or cubed

1 Lime-juiced

1 T cilantro-rinsed and chopped

1/2 purple onion-chopped

1 C fresh tomato-cubed

1 Avocado-cut into chunks

1 T Olive Oil

1/2 tsp garlic powder

salt and pepper to taste

Hot sauce or red pepper flakes (for additional spice)

1.Shred or cube chicken and put into a medium sized bowl.

2. Add all ingredients and mix well. Add more lime or olive oil to achieve desired texture. Should be slightly creamy once mixed thoroughly.  Add any additional spices you want to make it your own!

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How Mindfulness Benefits Children In and Out of School

Kids today are growing up in a much different world than their parents. It wasn’t that many years ago that children spent a significant portion of their day involved in free play, both inside and outside. Their time was unstructured, and they used their imaginations and whatever else they had at their disposal to play, learn, and grow.

Our world is nearly unrecognizable from a few decades ago. We are more connected than ever, primarily through technology, and we are increasingly less connected with the here an now. People are extremely busy, working full-time while raising children and running from appointment to appointment. This hectic lifestyle is transferred to our children — they not only pick up on our anxiety and hurried lifestyle, but they have their own lessons, sports, and scheduled playdates. Children have less and less time to simply “be” and to connect with themselves and the world around them in a conscious way.

This is where the idea of “mindfulness” comes in. Realistically, our lives are not going to get less hectic. So, it’s beneficial to train ourselves and our children to process our experience a bit differently and mindfulness is one way to do that.

What is Mindfulness?

You may have heard or read about mindfulness, but have never fully grasped its purpose. It’s actually a very simple concept — mindfulness means being aware of the given moment and recognizing (and accepting) our body and our mind’s process during that moment. Emotions, thoughts, reactions, and feelings are all acknowledged and accepted without judgment. Mindfulness means that we are present in the moment and accepting of everything that it brings.

How Mindfulness Benefits Children

Using breathing and grounding techniques, mindfulness benefits children in a variety of ways. Research has shown that mindfulness increases a child’s attention, memory, and decision-making skills. It increases self-awareness, social awareness, and confidence. It also significantly increases a child’s empathy. A child who practices mindfulness is more resilient and better able to cope with everyday stressors and more capable of self-regulation.

Mindfulness gives children the tools to recognize and control how they deal with nearly anything they are faced with. When faced with a potential stressor, they are able to calmly step back and control their emotional response.

According to research conducted by the University of California in partnership with Mindful Schools, a program focuses on mindfulness in classrooms, benefits of mindfulness practice for young children include:

  • Improved focus
  • Improved grades
  • Decreased stress
  • Emotional regulation
  • Increased compassion
  • Increased conflict-resolution skills

Teaching mindfulness at a young age gives children the opportunity to develop certain life skills earlier, along with the opportunity to increase the benefits of those skills as they get older. Mindfulness is just one more piece of the puzzle that is raising a well-rounded young person. Contact us to learn more about how we incorporate mindfulness practice into our curriculum at Red Door Early Learning Center.


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The debate within the global health community about the impact of dedicated HIV/Aids funding on general public health services has been taken a step further with a study showing that funding dedicated to HIV/Aids does not undermine health funding for other diseases.

A six-year long study in Rwanda published in the May 2012 issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, found that when rural health clinics expanded Aids services, these efforts had no adverse effects on other types of health care.


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Dear Mr Obama

Dear Mr Obama

This is my first letter to you. I have to confess, I didn’t much care when you won the election. It may have been history in the making but it was American history and I live too far away to care. I didn’t wear Obama T-shirts. I didn’t read the book. I didn’t buy the ‘Change’. Call me cynical. Goes with the job description.

But today, I feel compelled to write to you. You’re having a problem with oil spills. I don’t know how you’re going to deal with it but you’ve been promising compensation and not just ‘nickel and dime’ stuff. Which is good. By and large, the US seems to take accidents, the disabling of human beings and monetary compensation pretty seriously.

I also read about some plans to compensate veterans, those who worked to test nuclear weapons. It says here that the compensation could be pretty generous.

But your people have always fought for proper compensation and establishment of liability. One of your worst disasters was the Texas City Disaster of 1947, in which 581 people died. I don’t need to tell you why etc. But compensation claims were filed against the USA and – I’m wiki-quoting here – “the district court found the United States responsible for a litany of negligent acts of omission and commission by 168 named agencies and their representatives in the manufacture, packaging, and labeling of ammonium nitrate, further compounded by errors in transport, storage, loading, fire prevention, and fire suppression, all of which led to the explosions and the subsequent carnage. On June 10, 1952, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned this decision, finding that the United States maintained the right to exercise its own “discretion” in vital national matters. The Supreme Court affirmed that decision.”

But, “Congress acted to provide some compensation after the courts refused to do so… When the last claim had been processed in 1957, 1,394 awards, totaling nearly $17,000,000, had been made.”

Are you counting the zeroes, Mr Obama? That was the year 1957.

Before that, when the South Fork dam burst in 1889, “victims suffered a series of legal defeats in their attempt to recover damages from the dam’s owners. Public indignation at that failure prompted a major development in American law—state courts’ move from a fault-based regime to strict liability.”

More recently, the 2008 Chatsworth train collision caused 25 deaths. Wikipedia tells me “Lawyers quickly began filing claims against Metrolink, and in total, they are expected to exceed a US$200 million liability limit set in 1997… An attorney representing two of the victims agreed, saying payouts could range from $5 million to $10 million per death or serious injury.”

You people are talking $5 million per death. And here, in my country, we are talking 55 cents per death.

I recognize that this is a failure of our justice system. Ours, not yours. But I pose to you a moral question. Is it okay to shield a wanted man in a case of this kind? Warren Anderson might be a US citizen. But we’re talking over 22,000 lost lives. Enough zeroes, Mr Obama, what do you say?

It’s a mess you’ve inherited, I know. But what would your legal stand be if your daughters, 26 years later, were giving birth to deformed kids, all because Anderson wanted to save a few dollars ($37.68 to be precise, on one critical process)? What would you have done with blinded babies?

Could it be that you are too busy to know that your government has not lifted a finger to extradite a certain Mr Warren Anderson even though there’s a new you, heading a government of ‘change’.

Take a look at this: “On 20th July official sources from the government of India announced that the May 2003 extradition request had been turned down on “technical grounds”. A month later the State Minister for External Affairs, E. Ahmed, claimed the request had been rejected because it failed to satisfy some clauses of the India-US extradition treaty… Warren bhai, who first ignored an Interpol summons to the Bhopal courts some sixteen years ago is, as ever, as silent as the gas cloud released from the factory that a ‘high standard of evidence’ shows the company he ran was at such pains to control. We examine some of the evidence and speculate on how it can be that the world’s most infamous corporate accused is still getting away with culpable homicide…”

And yes, culpable homicide it is.

“After Ashraf’s death (from a chemical poisoning accident at the factory), Union Carbide management sent a team of US engineers to conduct a ‘business confidential’ safety audit. The May 1982 report identified 61 hazards, 30 of them major and 11 in the dangerous phosgene/MIC unit. Safety measures were improved at Carbide’s MIC plant in West Virginia, but not in Bhopal, where, incredibly, Carbide responded to the death of Ashraf Khan by intensifying its cost-cutting in the most dangerous areas of the plant.”

Do I need to spell it out for you, Mr Obama? Just read the bold lettering if you are short on time. US engineers conduct a safety audit. They see a dangerous situation at their chemical factory. They go about making arrangements to cut risks to American lives. They go about increasing the risk to Indian lives.

Should we just spell it out now, Mr Obama. Its called racism. R-A-C-I-S-M.

Your guys – American citizens whom your government is unwilling to arrest and hand over to my country’s law system – knew what they were doing. And I want them punished, sir. Ideally, with imprisonment. But most certainly with a big, fat fine. Not nickels and dimes, sir.

Now look at this: “Dow set aside $2.2 billion to meet Carbide asbestos liabililities in the US. However it bluntly refuses to accept Carbide’s liabilities in Bhopal – or even admit that they exist.”

You know, there is a famous Hindi film dialogue that I quote often. Roughly translated, it is this question: Is your blood, blood, and our blood water?

So Mr Promised Change, how much my life is worth? Is it worth as much as an American life? White, brown, black, whatever. You choose. Decide how much criminal culpability can be established, and what you – as the first representative of the the USA to the rest of the world – should do about this mess. Let Anderson negotiate his own way to freedom if he can. Let him decide how much his freedom is worth. Don’t let him decide how much poor Indians are worth. Dow has said they would prefer to stand trial in India, after all. Send the officials over. They’ve a lot to answer for, and whole lot to pay for.

Warm regards

P.S. Separately, would you consider passing a law that forbids Dow/Union Carbide from leaving the USA? A kind of business internment? In the interest of world peace, security and human rights, it would be helpful if those guys were forbidden from doing business in developing countries. While you’re at it, you could intern Monsanto too. We’ve got enough sh*t to deal with and would appreciate not having to deal with your sh*t. We can’t afford it. If you can, you keep it.

(originally posted here)

2 Responses to Dear Mr Obama

  1. ash says:

    very moving my dear friend. makes the point so well.

  2. blue2mrrw says:

    Wow … I hope ur voice is heard … ur doin a gud job !!

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В настоящий момент с превеликим трудом верится, что мобильный аппарат изначально предназначался для поддержания быстрой коммуникации между абонентами. По первоначальной задумке пользователи сотовых телефонов должны были попросту разговаривать при помощи них, безотносительно от непосредственного местоположения. Современные гаджеты стали кроме главной опции могут выполнять и другие операции: записывать звук на диктофон и видеофайлы на камеру, проигрывать аудио и видео, выходить в Internet. Еще смартфон может быть органайзером, фотокамерой, калькулятором, адресной книгой. Кроме этого, с помощью специализированных агрегаторов (Play Market, App Store) возможно дополнительно скачать полезные и интересные приложения.

Помимо разнообразных приложений сделать устройство функциональнее и удобнее в эксплуатации помогают принадлежности. Принадлежности для коммуникаторов — это огромная группа товаров разнообразного предназначения. Допустим, с помощью специального футляра можно защитить свой гаджет от царапин. Всевозможные колонки, гарнитуры (беспроводные и классические) дают возможность прослушивать любимую музыку в любом месте. С помощью стильных цветных панелек, возможно поменять внешний вид любимого устройства, а автомобильные зарядные аппараты помогут забыть о незапланированной разрядке телефона.

Самым актуальным атрибутом для телефона является чехольчик для защиты. Он поможет сохранить телефон в идеальной форме на долгие годы. Для защиты экрана от повреждений превосходно подойдет специальная клеящаяся пленка. Такие пленки бывают универсальными (подстраивать ее под размер дисплея придется самостоятельно) и выпущенными под конкретную модификацию телефона (покрытие идеально будет соответствовать размерам экрана). Специально для владельцев смартфонов часы оптом.

Для воспроизведения mp3, радио, лекций, просмотра видео потребуются наушники. С некоторыми моделями телефонов наушники идут в комплекте, однако их качество весьма посредственное. Каждый пользователь может приобрести для себя гарнитуру самостоятельно, исходя из индивидуальных финансовых возможностей и пожеланий.

Гарнитуры бывают дистанционными и проводными. Беспроводные наушники подсоединяются к аппарату с помощью Bluetooth, соответственно данная опция должна присутствовать на аппарате. Наушники могут быть в виде таблетки, специальных затычек либо быть накладными.

Помимо воспроизведения mp3, просмотра видеофайлов и звонков друзьям, нынешние смартфоны используют и для редактирования разнообразных текстов. Для быстрой работы с ними можно приобрести специальную клавиатуру. Такая клавиатура подключается к смартфону через Блютус и помогает быстро вводить в смартфон длинные тексты (записи во время путешествия, сочинения). Обычно подобные клавиатуры универсальны и подойдут для любых моделей смартфонов.

Телефонная зарядка – это наиболее известный аксессуар, входящий в комплектацию к любым без исключения устройствам. Пользователям, которые всегда за рулем, потребуются автомобильные зарядки. Зарядки обычно производятся для конкретной модели смартфона. Подсоединение зарядок данного типа осуществляется в прикуриватель.

Live Chat How it Works

The work of a chat agent is to present your company’s products and services in such a manner so that your customers are impressed by your work. In return, they will look forward to work with you and as a result there will be an increase in your sales. But in turn to get all these advantages it is pretty obvious that you hire a professional and educated live chat agent to assist your customers. Only a professional chat agent can help you have positive results.

There are endless benefits to hire live chat agents if compared with other old ways of communication. If you are communicating with the help of an email then there is no surety that whether you will get a response or not. On the other hand a telephonic conversation can also be a time consuming affair. But a chat agent can always prove beneficial for you. In this modern period, the internet plays a very pivotal role. Moreover, almost all the customers like to prefer search about important products and services on the internet only. In a way, the internet is the first choice for people. But have you ever thought that while they are searching for a particular product and they fail to gather important information on that. What will your customers do after that? Well, in such cases the live chat solution proves to be a great help.

To hire live chat support is always a good option for all businesses and entrepreneurs. To have an e-commerce website is always a great thing. The best aspect is that your customers don’t have to call you to know about your products and services. Just by simply clicking on an option of chat option they can get answers for all their questions. This is something which a customer is looking in your website.

Quality WordPress Themes

Quality WordPress themes allow you to give a professional touch to your site. One has the option to choose from the 3 column WordPress themes or the more widely used 2-column themes. It completely depends on the functionality aspect. A 3 column gives more space for ads, whereas the 2 column layout gives a bigger blog section.

If you are planning to make a blog with quality WordPress GPL themes, then make sure that the appearance of the blog helps the reader to immediately identify the content. Many people go by the look of the site, and a number of 3 column WordPress themes can help make your blogging process easier. For example, political blogs require to give a newspaper look on a white background. Business sites need to be precise. They are well bordered, simple but must contain all the matter in a very subtle way. Personal blogs go as per the lifestyle and nature of the person e.g. pink, animated and flowery for the optimistic ladies.

There are a number of more technical tricks for achieving maximum WordPress SEO success. Your talented designer will know them, and will put them to good use. Titles can be optimized, links need to checked as well, and image optimization is very important to WordPress SEO. There are ways to limit duplicate content in archives which helps greatly with WordPress SEO.

Magazine WordPress Themes

Magazine WordPress template makes creating a great online magazine website so much easier. A typical magazine WordPress template comes with a strong layout filled with beautiful photos and interesting headlines. WordPress allows you to publish new articles and insert photos easily to your theme.

Depending on the niche of your topic, finding WordPress landing page themes that relates to your audiences is very important. Once your theme is installed, remember to install web 2.0 social bookmarking plugins to allow your readers to submit the stories to popular social bookmarking websites.

WordPress 3.0 Menu – Allows you to fully control the main navigation to add pages and posts
Featured Slideshow – Photos or images can be added and featured on the homepage
Widget Ready – Allows you to add and remove widgets in the sidebar
Advertisement Ready – It allows you to place ads on your site to monetize your blog

The advantage that Telegraph Magazine WordPress Template will bring your website is unlimited. This professional premium theme is just the right type of theme for magazine websites that are content-rich and prefers a more conventional type of layout. Telegraph is hassle-free when modification is talked about. This is possible since you can modify it through Theme Options questions and pages, plus it is powered by WPZoom.

CadabraPress is a wordpress theme that enables a full control with the various template features. It is viewed as an elegant and revolutionary theme which is best for both content and imagery. This premium theme comes in a user-friendly form through WPZOOM.

You can definitely have a say with your blogging and your website once you use Lifestyle Magazine WordPress Template. The design this premium theme takes is a best choice for news, fashion, gossip and celebrity blog sites. You will never make that mistake with Lifestyle since this wordpress extends an extravagantly brilliant elements of a website.

There is Certainly Mod APK

There will be many different files within an Android deal like possessions, manifest documents, application code files, investments and reference files, and so forth You do not require the net connection to mount an APK if you have previously downloaded the android offer file. You may install the android program via the laptop, plus the process is recognized as sideloading. Modded APKs happen to be files which have been apps or perhaps Android Imod Games that happen to be modified by simply other users just for various causes. It is the broke mod application, and it will incorporate some minor alterations always. The Mod APK may be the be a cheater version of any game where you have got to something hacked or no cost like infinite coins or perhaps free gold coins, unlimited cash, cash, and gold.

You will have unlocked flights as well. The Mod Apk can feature endless supply that otherwise costs money or perhaps has to be earned as advantages in the game. The Mod APK will have minimal or key changes which are not there inside the original APK file. Inside the original variant where the video game offers gold and silver coins that you have to make by completing several task, in Mod APK, you will get a limitless coins, funds, gold and unlocked devoir freely with no doing virtually any tasks. Since the majority of gadgets are pre-configured to use one of the major software stores, the function to download Imod APK is definitely disabled automatically. It is the important security characteristic Android COMPUTER ITSELF takes against preventing the device having affected by destructive software.

Use Quotes to Express Yourself

We all know how important famous quotes are in our daily life. It is truly said that quotations make it easy for us to explain things in more detail. There are a lot of other uses of famous quotes in our daily life as well. We use them in greeting cards, calendars, examinations, and to advice or motivate someone. Some famous quotes are also used to enhance the humor in something.

You must understand that love is immense sensation which takes one on the top of the world and the beautiful love quotes about being afraid of love will inspire you to care your loved one with happiness. The great words of the author will be remembered forever and they become remarkable tool for spicing up your love relationships. Though these love quotes and sayings sound simple, but they are able to create a deep sense of love that goes beyond words and touches your lover’s heart deeply.

Famous quotes have a lot of uses but recently they have appeared as an amazing trick to increase your online social network. Ever since Orkut, Facebook, Twitter and other social networking websites came into existence, what people want to have is more friends, more followers and a huge social network with whom they can stay connected twenty four seven. Whether you are a businessperson, a student, a house wife or related to any other profession using different quotes works well for you in increasing your social network.

According to a research more than 70 percent of literate people all around the world think that people who use different quotes and like to read them are more serious about life, have more knowledge than others and are really interesting. This makes it obvious that people who use quotes have greater chances of enhancing their social network easily on difference social networking websites.

Cheap Hotels in Monaco

Citizens here are rich and came from different roots. Monaco Hotels became the center of nightlife along the principality. Monaco has some of the popular nightlife attractions around Monaco. Monaco Hotels is a spectacular country in Europe which is located between the Mediterranean and foot of the Southern Alps. Monaco is the place where a number of cheap hotels are located and is the world’s smallest French speaking country so you will get the best Cheap Hotel Deals. One of its administrative areas is Monaco Hotels. Monaco Hotels, an ideal destination for a romantic vacation where many tourists choose to stay on cheap hotels but with superb accommodation. Monaco Hotels are plenty to choose from when it comes to real Monaco partying.

It will be a good time for the businesses in the Monaco. In today’s economy, the Monaco Hotels will be full and nearly all are already at full capacity for the weekend, charging full rate. For the celebrities both the Hotel de Paris and Metro pole are five stars and there should be no shortage of first class rooms available for the wedding guests. To avoid being disappointed, check that you’re getting one of the best rooms for your money. The Monaco Hotel’s rooms are split into four groups, all based on view, luxury and decoration, Exclusive City View, Superior Courtyard, Exclusive Sea View and Exclusive Casino. A number of suites available in Monaco Hotels that offer even more luxury including single, double, Courtyard, Casino suites and one extra special Presidential suite.

All rooms of Monaco Hotels provide a mini bar, jetted tub and room service of course. The hotel’s restaurants offers rooftop dining for lunch and dinner with views overlooking Monaco harbor, watch out however with the prices also a bottle of wine from the cellar could cost you a small fortune. Monaco Hotels is the more formal restaurant with the more casual eatery. Where, mostly buffet lunches are offered. Hotel facilities also include free parking and even babysitting with a business centre and conference rooms available for those visiting on business. Monaco Hotels has direct access to the Aqua fitness complex at Monte Carlo Spa that boasts a huge heated seawater pool, sauna and cardio training centre with panoramic sea view. When customers arrive, all of them receive a complimentary package. This usually includes free admission to the Monte Carlo Casino, The Beach Club and discounts for many more VIP amenities.

WordPress CMS It Is The Best

The most important piece of information is often the first one given: which versions of WordPress the theme is compatible with. Generally, themes will be forward compatible and themes which you purchase will be compatible with the latest versions of WordPress. Any easy way to check for your WordPress version to ensure compatibility is to log in to the administration panel and look at the bottom of the screen where the version is often indicated. For example, if your WordPress says version 3.2.1 and the theme says that it is compatible with 3.1+, then your theme will be compatible with your WordPress and should install easily.

Another important piece of information is whether or not the theme has an auto-installer. If it has an auto-installer, the installation procedure will take just a few clicks and a few pieces of information. Some themes may even install through your web host’s CPanel. If it does not, you will need an FTP client or your web host’s upload tool, an FTP username, and an FTP password.

If the theme does not have an installer, you will need to find your wp-content/themes directory. This directory should contain several sub-directories that relate directly to the themes that you currently have installed and is the directory in which you will place your premium WordPress flat blog themes. Upload the full folder containing the theme to this directory.

With plugins available for customizing the security features for your WordPress website, you can easily ensure hacker-free nature of your website. Since hackers can steal your username from forum posts, blog posts, article submission site etc, it becomes quite essential for you to equip your website with features that can ascertain its hacker-proof nature. Once you choose to convert HTML to WordPress, it’ll become easier for you to install and activate several website security plugins that’ll allow you to keep your website’s access restricted. You may choose to update your WordPress website on a regular basis and observe the IP addresses of all the unsuccessful login attempts. SSL secured nature of your WordPress website will restrict all the non-members from accessing your website’s inner pages.

How to Stop Smoking

There are a lot of nicotine junkies who’ve seriously considered breaking their nasty nicotine habit at some stage in their lives. But they’re typically afraid of the thought of living life without tobacco. It is true that cigarette smoking becomes a great part of the life of a long-term nicotine user, and this is one of the main reasons why it is really tough for most of them to defeat their habit permanently. There’s loads of information about how to quit smoking cigarettes using the web.

Each and every calendar year, a lot of courageous people choose to give up smoking and have a healthy life. Most of them have relapsed and taken another crack at it, and eventually became successful. These folks would do everything in order to get rid of their longtime dependency. More often than not, they asked for assistance from their family and friends, tested numerous smoking cessation tactics and did their research. One thing that cigarette smokers should bear in mind is that there are lots of resources that will give help and advice for the folks who wish to beat their dependency. The online world is a very good reference and it’ll provide them with all of the assistance and data that they need.

A lot of websites center primarily on tobacco use and its background. A lot of individuals think that they have to check out the past in order to grasp their present circumstance. Carrying out research on smoking will help smokers find out exactly how its image slowly changed from stylish to detrimental, and they have to take a look at authoritative sites and also read through all the provided information and facts. Having enough information about tobacco use and its drawbacks might help people quit smoking cigarettes for good.

Lots of nicotine junkies don’t have to be convinced to kick their nicotine habit, and are actually focused on having a much healthier life and some need a push like smoking hypnosis . These folks may have attempted to quit using tobacco not that long ago but were unsuccessful. They may take advantage of the Internet to get advice and guidance when they quit smoking cigarettes. There are various webpages that give specifics on both medical and drug-free stop smoking approaches; smokers could then read through them and decide on which particular quit smoking tactic or mix of treatments would suit them.

Aside from giving cigarette smokers advice regarding how to quit, these websites would also offer information on how the habit impacts their physical and psychological health. Write-ups and also debates on cigarette smoking-related diseases and disorders are found all over the internet, which will help individuals dislike smoking and encourage other folks to quit smoking, too.

Folks who’ve smoked for so many years often believe that they don’t have the capacity to stop; they may say that it is way too difficult to do and they may be better off continuing to smoke. Nicotine users need to change their attitude toward their dependence and understand that even though the process of quitting is definitely hard, the gains are all worth it but still there are nicotine withdrawal symptoms too. This recognition spells the difference between success and failure.

Additionally, it would be useful for smokers who would like to overcome their dependency to remember that in the past, they did not smoke cigarettes. When a tobacco user can admit that a vice that was once pleasurable has transformed into a full-blown detrimental dependence and that it’s possible to live without cigarettes, they’ll realize that they could give up smoking cigarettes and keep away from it forever.

It’s a fantastic idea to look for stop smoking online tools in order to prevail over the tobacco habit. A good portion of the population has web access, which will greatly benefit them when they require details on cigarette smoking, the numerous quit smoking techniques that they could utilize, how to choose the right stop smoking aid, the consequences of cigarette smoking and why it is crucial to pinpoint the benefits of living tobacco-free.

High Quality Backlinks

Nobody knows what the exact formula is that the search engines use to produce their search results, but it is a well-known fact that links to your website make up a big percentage of a site’s popularity and how the website or blog is ranked. So one way links can produce better search engine results that give more visitors to your site and the more traffic you have the more chance you have of making better money.

The success of your website in most niches depends on how good you are in one way link building. If you think of search results as a popularity contest with the website with the most links as the most popular, you will understand why one way link building is so important to success.

The way that websites benefit from one way building of links is, for one, a rise in search engine ranking. Many search engines take into account the number of links that are pointing to a website. Search engines look at one way links when deciding the rank that a website will be given. If you have a company to build one way links for your website, you can increase the ranking of your website, thus creating more visibility and more traffic.

Buy High Quality Backlinks

When you have one way links pointing to your website, you are more likely to find new sources of traffic. If your website’s link is on a popular website, you will naturally get some of that sites traffic as at least some of the people on that site will be interested in what your site is about. You can also benefit by having your brand promoted. A lot of people will see the name of your website when you get one way links built, so even if they don’t click through to the link, your name is out there. This is a really inexpensive way to provide some exposure for your brand.

While one way building of links is important to helping improve your website’s rankings, it is not a task that you have to do. As a site owner you are busy enough without having to worry about finding places to do a one way link to your website. You can hire a firm to build links for this task and see the benefits that one way building of links provides to your sites ranking.

A link building SEO Company will use advanced and complex techniques such as article prisms to improve your link network. Of late, comments left on various blogs and websites are also a great way of generating links and traffic to your website. There are dozens of other ways to build links for your website. A good service provider will typically combine one or more techniques to achieve faster results for your website.

It is possible for you to do this job yourself. However the job is so tedious and technical that you might really want to outsource it to some reliable link building services. When choosing a SEO provider, it is important that you know whether they are using the right methods or not. Black hat techniques could get your website banned by the search engines


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Outwood Academy Ripon

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Clotherholme Road, Ripon, North Yorkshire, HG4 2DE

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Most outstanding schools are exempt from routine inspection. We formally carry out a risk assessment of exempt schools three years after their most recent full inspection and regularly thereafter, but do not publish a report.

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We normally give notice on the afternoon of the working day before an inspection. We can also inspect schools without notice.

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Step in the right direction : Scott Fraser Collection.

It’s taken quite some time for me to get these trousers into production, but they’re live and limited (10 pairs in each fabric). After perfecting the pattern and deliberating over pleat position and direction along with other things, launching these trousers is something that is holding the direction of the Scott Fraser Collection.

Reminiscent of the golden-era actors and artists from the 40s and 50s. Wide legged – (20-inch hem), high-waisted, with double inward- facing British-style pleats. When worn, to fall from the hip-line.

Mid-weight wool fabric, perfect for all-round season wear. Subtle coffee brown fleck cloth, with enough hold in the fabric to give an elegant drape.

Other details –
Waist-line hidden coin pocket
Dropped belt loops
Tab-button single back pocket

Waist measurement – Due to the nature of the fit of these trousers, a correct waist measurement should be taken at the top of your hip line (horizontal to your naval).

Leg length – to be altered once purchased, to allow for accuracy and personal expression. We recommend a 1 3/4″ inch turn-up to finish and a small break to fall over the shoe.

Pair it with one of our pocket chains.

Limited edition (fabric) – 10 – 12 pairs only. Each piece is made on a per-order basis, please allow 7 – 10 days for your hand-made item to be dispatched.

Made in London, England.

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Clearwater Living Completes Acquisition of Welbrook Senior Living South Bay an Assisted Living & Memory Care Community

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IRVINE, Calif. - Nov. 15, 2018 - Rezul -- Clearwater Living, announced that is has completed the acquisition of the 109-unit Welbrook South Bay assisted living & memory care community located in the heart of Torrance, California.  With this transition comes a new name, Clearwater at South Bay, yet the beautiful community's character, ambience and lovely residents will remain the same.

Clearwater at South Bay is conveniently situated nearby the Redondo Beach Pier, Del Amo shopping mall, Torrance library and numerous restaurants and entertainment venues.

"While Clearwater Living currently manages eight other senior living communities and operates three of its own; Closing this acquisition is an exciting addition to our portfolio," said Tony Ferrero, chief executive officer of Clearwater Living. "We're thrilled to continue our strategic growth plan by pursuing acquisition and development opportunities in senior housing throughout the western United States."

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The senior living community will allow residents to live a purposeful life while offering meaningful services, compassionate caregivers and specialized programs.

Clearwater at South Bay will continue to provide assisted living and memory care services such as; monthly wellness visits with a licensed nurse, medication management, assistance with activities of daily living, short-term stays as needed, as well as, our Clearbrook neighborhood offering memory care services for individuals with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.

Known for its innovative approach to senior living, Clearwater Living delivers a tailormade atmosphere to fit everyone's needs. The Empowered Living® lifestyle is designed with six dimensions of wellness to encourage residents to pursue their passions and successfully age in a positive environment. In addition, Clearwater Living takes pride in their Savor culinary program which focuses on seasonal menus and fresh ingredients in every meal.

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Our associates are committed to delivering best-in-class services to our residents, said Danielle Morgan, president & chief operating officer. "We invite you to join our community in Torrance for an exceptional living experience."

To learn more, call 424-250-8472, go online to

Clearwater Living® is committed to providing the most superior customer service and living experiences that celebrates individual relevance, from our residents and their families to our family of associates.  Clearwater is growing through strategic acquisitions, development and operational management of senior living communities throughout the western United States. Every Clearwater Living community includes cutting-edge technologies and care practices that improve the daily lives of residents. To learn more about Clearwater Living, visit

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Tag Archives: cinema

Surprises and Cinema Trips

I was sat playing a pub quiz recently, nattering away and paying what can only be described as minimal attention to proceedings, when of the questions was ‘Which of Steven Spielberg’s films – his highest grossing – has been re-released in cinemas this week following its twentieth anniversary?’. Now, none of my team had any idea what the answer was so, as always happens in these situations, we just plumped for our favourite film, hoping that it would be right. And unequivocally, undeniably, unarguably, Jurassic Park is his finest work to date and that was what we subsequently scribbled down as the answer.

Fast forwards half an hour and imagine our surprise, the magnitude to which my gob was smacked, when that turned out to be the right answer. Our plans for Friday had been made. At the tender age of twenty-two I never saw Jurassic Park during its original release window – at least, I assume I didn’t – and I wasn’t about to squander the opportunity to do so now.

On Friday, as me and a friend walked into the cinema, my whole body was tense with excitement and I’m not ashamed to say that, as the lights lowered and the curtains slowly rustled their way open, I clapped my hands together like a small child. And my excitement turned out to be fully justified.

Every epic scene you remember from the film, be it Samuel L. Jackson’s disembodied arm flopping gently onto the leading lady’s shoulder or the scene where the children are chased through the kitchen by velocoraptors, the entire experience is enhanced by the simple fact that your seeing it in a cinema. The difference from television is palpable. The size and quality of the picture, the thundering soundtrack; it’s the step up between black and white and colour, between beta-max and blu-ray; indescribable to someone who has only experienced one of the two.

Which brings me onto my real point. Now don’t get me wrong, as a member of ‘the digital generation’ – loathe as I am to use the phrase – I have pirated things in the past. I even own special eye-patch to wear while I do so. But increasingly I fail to see the point, particularly in respect to films. Yes I can can go online and download a film the day it’s released in America, but it’ll be shakily shot by someone holding a camera in their lap, people will stand up in front of the screen and the sound quality will be terrible. And even if it wasn’t, nothing can really compare to the experience of going to the cinema, of sitting through the adverts, paying over the odds for a snack that’s ninety per cent air but having an amazing time anyway.

So if you’ve got eight or so pounds going begging, and two and a half hours to kill, I don’t know where you’re not already on your way to watch dinosaurs tear it up like it’s 1991.

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Studyanki Map: 4 Versions in SP

there are currently 4 versions of the Polish map Studyanki in supertest:

And I have a question for you:

I personally like the forth version, mostly because it would fix the issues I found on this last article:

17 comments on “Studyanki Map: 4 Versions in SP

  1. Amazing Ace says:

    Forth one looks nice, don’t want the Heavy Tank players getting nervous looking at the map and not seeing a city.

  2. helldix says:

    Are there some terrain changes or its all about buylding positioning?

  3. Sturmi says:

    To me, there are too many maps with either an open center, which you get sniped in, an those with impassable centers (like lakes and mountains). Those maps, demanding some tactical thoughts since you have to split up your team, are not much fun to play with a “less-than-casual”-players’ team.
    This is just Murovanka/Prokhorovka/etc all over again. Those maps just deny you any sort of exciting tank-action, since people are just too careful and passive (or suiciding right at the start).

    There has to be a way to make a map which actually promotes and encourages mobile battles. Otherwise, we could just replace all the tanks with static fortifications.

    Overlord the one map they did just right, in my opinion. And of course, my beloved Port. May you rest in pixelpiece.

    • 1n_Soviet_Russia says:

      Well I like Overlord, the beach is completely irrelevant, we need to make maps that don’t have lakevillesque valleys and make all sections of the map reletively viable. I have a feeling this map will play like steppes, fighting along the edges and the middle being used lategame.

      • stormcrow99 says:

        What do you mean valley isn’t viable, half the team goes to die every game there so it must be a great choice.

  4. Havoc199 says:

    Hard to tell. Only a map view. Can’t tell what the ridgelines, level of land etc looks like.

    More open. More bushes. More scouting spots. As long as it has that I’m fine. Couldn’t care about heavy tanks. 2 of 3 maps are corridor / city anyway. They have enough maps.

    More prok / Malinovka plz.

    • stormcrow99 says:

      “Couldn’t care about heavy tank” In what way exactly is it good to have a map that is favorable to some type of tank and unfavorable to some?
      Obviously urban maps are an exception, they’re such a huge type of map only a moron would ignore them, and some tanks like artillery are bound to be at a disadvantage.
      You can’t just decide to go and make maps where heavy tanks will die within the first minute, and tell them “get a real tank fuckface”

      • Havoc199 says:

        Well I’m only saying that because of the current situation of the game.

        Maps are all corridors and cities. Anything except a heavy or heavy TD is pointless to play on almost any map with a couple of exceptions.
        All I’m saying is it would be a nice to have a map for once that favours soft td and especially scouts.

        However if WG pull their fingers out their arseholes and balance the exiting maps. Then sure balance this one too for all tank classes.
        As it stands there are 2 maps for scouts. Prok and Mali. That’s it.

        My comment was only meant to say that it would be nice to finally have some maps that favours something else than a heavy. Nothing against heavies or heavy tank drivers.

  5. StumpyDaPaladin says:

    I like a new open map.
    I would favor any map that actually gets to keep its trees and bushes.

    I DONT like that the playerbase would find a way for 10 heavy tanks in a match to “brawl” around the one indestructable building that may only be a bit bigger than a Maus. And spend the whole time bitching about how OP any vehicle “that has a bigger gun/bullet” is whether its Arty oneshot. auto loading TD one clips you, Mediums spamming heat Lights w/too much pen

    No amount of map design will fix this. Because no one wants to play heavies as any thing other than two tanks playing PeekKaBoom around a solid piece of cover until one runs out of Hit Points

    As long as the buildings are as eventually destructible as the village in prokharovka then it really doesnt matter what shape they take. eventually you can just shoot through them or drive over the rubble pile they become.

  6. Tom Johnston says:

    I voted for map #2, but could i have it with serving of building like #4 on the side? 😉

  7. Superfly says:

    Its funny…players and developers complain about corridor and city maps…yet….all kids vote for the city version. The WoT community/players will for some reason always vote for the map has the most city in it. When will the developers finally get the balls (and brains) to do a game without listening to the grey sea of players….

  8. Silvio I says:

    Reminds me of Dragon’s Ridge

  9. Anonymous says:

    nearly got me there

  10. mike t says:

    Vote for Superfly thoughts as its much as I’m thinking with WG very retarded simple ‘children’s’ eye view of direction that WOT should go
    which sadly is ~ City maps, for heavy tanks only, awful corridor maps, and Open maps zero cover and 50% map wasted deliberately to create simple no thinking 1 sided fast slaughter fest of 4 min games

    btw WG, children or teenagers don’t have a Bank account so CANT buy anything unless mummy or daddy gives them there credit card to use, like duh! WG think please

    *would actually vote But I have to REGISTER and get a DOMAIN?

    I don’t want to register or run a website! just to click on a ‘LIKE BUTTON’
    not ‘LIKE’ friendly is it?
    I’m sure Rita will fix these minor but annoying issues in time (I hope lol

  11. mike t says:

    Anyone know the Map size?
    is it 1000 x 1000 – so flanking is al least possible
    800 x 800 or smaller – so brawling only mode

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If you’re interested in whitening your teeth, there are many options available to you. From toothpastes to strips to rinses to professional whitening, how are you supposed to know what will work best? The general rule of thumb is that the stronger the whitening agent, the more dramatic the results will be. The only problem is that many at-home teeth whitening systems are not very strong and therefore the results are not always very noticeable.

When your goal is to whiten your teeth several shades, we recommend that you look into other whitening options aside from drugstore products that you can use at home. Today we are going to share 3 alternatives to at-home teeth whitening that will help you achieve the whitening results you desire!

1. Professional Whitening At Your Dental Practice

Most dental practices offer an in-office professional whitening procedure. At Rusnak Family Dentistry, we utilize the Opalescence Whitening System. This procedure involves the professional application of a very strong whitening agent and produces results almost immediately. In-office whitening typically produces the most dramatic results, whitening your teeth up to 8 shades in a single application.

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If getting immediate results isn’t as important to you, you may want to consider take home professional whitening from your local dentist. This involves the production of custom whitening trays, which are similar to flexible retainers. Then we’ll provide you with the professional strength whitening gel which you’ll load into the trays and wear until you achieve the whitening results you desire.

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Anyone remember the Crest commercial where they exclaimed, “If you’re not whitening, you’re yellowing”? While this may not be true for everyone, if your diet includes foods such as coffee, tea, or dark fruit juices, then it may be the case for you. One of the best ways to naturally whiten your teeth is to eliminate this pigment-rich foods from your diet. If you regularly consume pigment-rich foods, you can at least make a habit of rinsing with water afterwards. This won’t completely eliminate their staining potential, but it should help dilute the stain a little bit.

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  1.   Deanna R. Jones

    I also remember the phrase, “If you’re not whitening, you’re yellowing.” That seems like to be a true statement to some extent, mainly concerning the foods that you eat. Whitening teeth by avoiding foods that can cause stains in enamel seems like a good point that more people should keep in mind to have whiter teeth. I’ve heard that any sugary drinks can yellow teeth, so does that mean that any type of fruit juice will yellow teeth rather than just dark fruit juices? It seems like the amount of sugar in any type of juice would cause as much damage to teeth as dark fruit juices.

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Whitby RNLI were paged last night after a fishing vessel had fuel problems five miles off Whitby.

The vessel, with two people on board, had been travelling from Scotland to Whitby when it ran into problems.
The volunteer crew launched the all-weather lifeboat at 8.25pm and towed the vessel into harbour, returning at 21.20pm.

Coxwain Mike Russell said: "It was a straightforward tow but the conditions weren't great, poor visibility due to the heavy rain and fog"

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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is the charity that saves lives at sea. Our volunteers provide a 24-hour search and rescue service in the United Kingdom and Ireland from 238 lifeboat stations, including four along the River Thames and inland lifeboat stations at Loch Ness, Lough Derg, Enniskillen and Lough Ree. Additionally the RNLI has more than 1,000 lifeguards on over 240 beaches around the UK and operates a specialist flood rescue team, which can respond anywhere across the UK and Ireland when inland flooding puts lives at risk.

The RNLI relies on public donations and legacies to maintain its rescue service. As a charity it is separate from, but works alongside, government-controlled and funded coastguard services. Since the RNLI was founded in 1824 our lifeboat crews and lifeguards have saved at least 140,000 lives. Volunteers make up 95% of the charity, including 4,600 volunteer lifeboat crew members and 3,000 volunteer shore crew. Additionally, tens of thousands of other dedicated volunteers raise funds and awareness, give safety advice, and help in our museums, shops and offices.

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