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These suppositions are mistaken. Most FREs within ISIS have not been ideologically Baathists for a long time.
First, the ISIS-as-front-for-Baathists storyline relies on a misreading of ISIS’s revival after the 2007 Surge. It is true that after ISIS’s former leader was killed in April 2010, ISIS intensified its “Iraqization” process. (This began with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s effort in 2006 to reverse ISIS’s negative image as a foreign imposition on Iraqi Sunnis.) Within three months between April and June 2010, Iraqi and American forces picked off 34 of 42 senior ISIS operatives in the region. But the rise to predominance of the FREs was an internal shift in ISIS—not an external coup. It came about because ISIS—at its nadir and with a decreased flow of foreign-fighters—turned to its most militarily skilled members.
Second, the ISIS-as-front-for-Baathists storyline has a very serious timeline problem. One of the infamous FREs within ISIS was Haji Bakr (real name: Samir Abd Muhammad al-Khlifawi), a former colonel in Saddam’s army, who masterminded ISIS’s expansion into Syria; he was killed by Syrian rebels when they rose against ISIS in January 2014. What is noteworthy is that al-Khlifawi had joined ISIS in 2003 when it was a foreign-led organization with Zarqawi—the patron saint of the takfiriyeen (those who regard only Salafi-purists as Muslims)—as its emir. A “socialist infidel”—as ISIS refers to Baathists—was not going to pass muster in ISIS at that time.
Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi (real name: Adnan Ismail Najem al-Bilawi), a former captain in Saddam’s army and until his death in June 2014 the head of ISIS’s military council (believed to be the most important ISIS military institution), also joined ISIS in 2003. Abu Ali al-Anbari, the overseer of ISIS-held territory in Syria, joined ISIS in 2003 as well.
It’s no surprise that al-Khlifawi, al-Bilawi, and al-Anbari were already Islamic militants in 2003. From the mid 1980s, and with added intensity after the formal onset of Saddam’s “Faith Campaign” in June 1993, Saddam’s regime Islamized. This was “most likely a cynical step” on the part of Saddam, wrote Amatzia Baram, an expert on Iraqi Islam with the University of Haifa, but it gave Iraq “an extra push in the direction of an authentic Islamization process.” In other words, it took on a life of its own.
Saddam feared the Muslim Brotherhood, so he chose Salafism as a counterweight. With significant resources devoted to producing this regime-loyal Saddamist-Salafism, the Faith Campaign produced a more sectarian, Salafized population, with its focal points on clerics and mosques. Without this campaign, Zarqawi’s project could never have gotten off the ground in Iraq.
Indeed, the Faith Campaign worked almost too well. Saddam sent military and intelligence members of the Baath Party to mosques with the dual task of religious instruction and keeping tabs. “Most of the officers who were sent to the mosques were not deeply committed to Baathism by that point,” writes Joel Rayburn, a former U.S. military intelligence analyst in Iraq, in Iraq After America: Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance. “And as they encountered Salafi teachings, many became more loyal to Salafism than to Saddam.” The empowerment of long-standing anti-regime “pure” Salafists, alongside the Baathist-Salafists the regime wanted, led to some acts of terrorism, for which some Salafists were executed by Saddam. But the Faith Campaign went on, not least because the dictator himself had a kind of “born-again” experience.
Additionally, Saddam had instrumentalized the Islamists in his foreign policy from as early as 1983—and, as with the Faith Campaign, stuck with it despite significant internal opposition from the party. A most significant connection was with a Salafi-jihadist group, formed by Zarqawi loyalists with al-Qaeda seed money, in northern Iraq between 1998 and early 2000 that became Ansar al-Islam in late 2001. Ansar al-Islam received money and weapons from Saddam, and it seems that the actual decision-maker in the group was an agent of Saddam’s intelligence. Ansar, by then led directly by Zarqawi, fled to Iran during the invasion and then returned to Iraq with the help of the senior members of Saddam’s regime. Ansar is now formally part of ISIS.
The Faith Campaign was implemented by Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri, Saddam’s deputy. Douri was tasked with setting up what was effectively an organized-crime network whose goal was to evade the sanctions by smuggling across Iraq’s borders, and to provide for an internal patronage network that would give the regime some pillars of support. Patronage went especially to the Sunni tribes of western Iraq, and the removal of this income after the U.S.-led invasion was chief among the many reasons the tribes tactically sided with the Zarqawi’ists in an attempt to restore Sunni hegemony. Not just among the tribes, these networks largely passed to ISIS. This began early: In 2003, for instance, the stolen cars Douri imported through Jordan were put at the service of ISIS’s suicide bombers.
It is also notable that ISIS’s Syria strategy was not made up on the fly after the uprising began in March 2011. Haji Bakr was appointed to oversee operations in Aleppo in late 2010, and ISIS’s presence in Syria dates from 2002 and 2003 when Assad invited them in to wage war against the Americans and the constitutional government in Iraq. ISIS already had deeply embedded logistics networks in Syria that were easily “flipped” when ISIS wanted to move from Iraq into Syria, and ISIS already saw the potential of Syria, having run a low-level insurgency against Assad between 2007 and 2010. ISIS did send further agents into Syria in the summer of 2011 to form Jabhat an-Nusra, which would split from ISIS in April 2013 when ISIS tried to bring its covert subordinates under its command. By that time, however, ISIS had established itself well enough to weather the Nusra defection.
The FREs matter because they highlight the hybrid nature of ISIS—its fusion of elements of Baathism with Salafism—and also how difficult ISIS will be to defeat. The FREs are the products of a military-intelligence service trained by the KGB. They have brought to ISIS unique military and counterintelligence skills, directly in battle and in propaganda. Their skills are aiding ISIS’s military effort, bringing in fanatical foreigners to use as shock troops, and helping ISIS restructure the identities of local populations who have joined ISIS only out of necessity or convenience (as a means to restore order or against Iran’s proxies, for example).
The Iraqi nativism some detect within ISIS is probably a confusion borne of the fact that ISIS is also a hybrid of a locally and internationally focused organization. ISIS has more depth in Iraq because it has been there for decades in one way or another, and it has more popularity there because it is the vanguard of an attempt to restore Sunni dominion.
Even if ISIS was led by cynics, it has taken on a life of its own now, just like the Faith Campaign; there are too many true believers for the cynics to sideline. But, precisely because of the Faith Campaign, there is every reason to think that ISIS’s leaders mean what they say.


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Hello, all. Long time no talk to. I have to say, it was a good thing we decided to combine May and June and to just read one book over two months… phew! Life’s been busy!
Anyway… I did finish Ender’s Game a few weeks ago. And I have mixed feelings. Overall, I liked it. But I feel like my impression suffered a little from high expectations. I know this is a favorite for a lot of readers in my generation, and I can see why. But it didn’t quite hook me as strongly.
Mostly because I didn’t love the pacing. It felt to me a lot like the third book in the Hunger Game series… 200 pages were dedicated to some very slow-paced events, and then the remaining pages had years worth of action. It felt a little rushed.
And the list goes on… religion, hate, love, family, etc.
I did enjoy how prevalent and thoughtful these themes were. And I think it could make interesting required reading or kids in school with lots to discuss. I just wish Card had gotten to the point a little sooner rather than later.

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If you don't know I have been gluten-free since 2012, it has become a lot easier now to get GF products and food in restaurants, most places have gluten-free menus. However, I always find going abroad a lot harder and one place I have been a lot is Disneyland Paris. Every year I tend to research to see if they have added any more detail to information about allergies but it just seems to be the same. I thought I would share my tips, experiences and my Best and Worst Restaurants.
First things first breakfast, most restaurants are buffet styled. The fruit and veg are gluten free and most of the meat plus you get hard boiled eggs and omelettes. If you ask one of the waiters they will come out with a basket of free-form food, Cake, bread, and crisps bread. My mum had an omelette on the bread, it isn't the best bread but its something.
I actually put ham on the crisps bread, took some fruit and ate this for lunch.
Which leads me on to inside the park, obviously the waffles and crepes are off limits, however, the popcorn is gluten free as well as the toffee apples at that time of year. Most of the crips are gluten-free just like the chocolate. You just have to check, lucky for us gluten is gluten in French.
One really great thing is that Disney's ice cream they use is Ben & Jerry's, so it was really easy to work out what was GF, just ask it without the wafer. I went with Peanut Buttercup, which was heaven!!
I would say, nevertheless, take food from breakfast and bring snacks with you just in case.
Planet Hollywood- This is the one of the best! They have an actual GF menu. I would avoid the pizza if you don't like frozen pizzas, however, they have amazing Gluten free buns/rolls that can be put on any burgers. I went with the chicken burger which was yummy!! The menu is great and has a wide selection.
It is however quite pricey and it's not excluded in any half-board offers. But in my opinion, it is so worth it!
Restaurants De Stars- We did a little more research this year and found this place was great. It is a buffet and we were a little worried as buffets can be hit or miss, but this was a major hit.
They have a great range of salad, but also rice, stew and the best part was the meat. They had the chef cut the meat for you. My mum and I went with the ham, rice and veg.
They also had a range of deserts, trifle and the floating island was the winner for us.
We actually went 2/4 days as we loved it so much, this is included in the half board deal.
Inventions- Disneyland Hotel: This is a buffet style restaurant, just like breakfast, however, there is a lesser choice to eat. If you like rice and simple veg then it's the place for you.
They weren't as clued up as Restaurants de Stars, no-one really knew what we were saying and it was just awkward. They had fruit and sweets for dessert and that was it.
I feel like most restaurants will be the same, I would just ask. Not the worst, but not worth the money!
Rainforest Cafe- They don't have a gluten-free menu, but they are a bit more clued up. The steak and salmon are GF as well as the Cobb Salad. I have also had the Ceasor salad without dressing and croutons.
If you like that they bear that in mind, it is very expensive though so maybe not worth it either.
Walts Diner- This is a recent find, this restaurant is located on Main Street. Again they don't have a GF menu but they are willing to try, just like Rainforest they have salads. Ask without croutons and it is perfectly fine, again maybe not worth all that money for some leaves and chicken.
McDonald's: If you want a cheap simple meal, then maccy dees is the way to go. You can only eat the chips, plain salad and burger without the bun but like I said it is cheap and quick!
Annettes Dinner: One of the worst, if you have looked up gluten-free in Disney then you'll know that they have an allergy meal. Annettes never even tried to make anything for us, they gave us the allergen meal, and I would highly recommend avoiding! It is a microwave meal, and not great at all.
Lastly any burger places, ie Videooplis: They just sell burgers and have no GF product.
My biggest advice is to do your research, take snacks and just don't worry!
Thank you for providing such a comprehensive guide, Emma! I had no idea that you were gluten free, and it sounds like you still had a fair few options at the Disney Park, although those microwave meals from Annette's diner sound vile! Ugh! The Restaurant De Stars sounds fantastic with great clued-up staff, that's very important! Your photos are gorgeous and I'm always happy to see more pics from the most magical place on earth!
I'm not gluten free but this is a great and informative post for those that are and are thinking about visiting Disneyland Paris! I've been Disneyland Paris a few times and haven't eaten in many of the restaurants because they're so expensive but I've been to Annette's Diner and the Rainforest Cafe.
Thankfully I don't have to worry about gluten-free as none of my family are gluten intolerant. But I'm surprised that a resort such as DLRP doesn't cater properly for you across all of its eating venues. I've not been but I do havw friends that want to go so I've bookmarked your post to show them. Great review and thank you!
This is so interesting! I never thought how hard this must be for someone who is gluten free or has other allergies when they go away! I’m actually going to Paris in a couple of weeks and almost booked to go to Disney Land but as it’s our first time in Paris and we’re only there for a few days we decided to wait another time. Luckily I don’t have any allergies though!
Thankfully I do not have any food intolerance's or allergies. I've seen family members struggle when going out to eat. I hope more place becomes aware of the struggles and make it easier.
Omg, what a VERY interesting post. You did a great job with this and its honestly something I would have never thought to write so for someone else that is GF and need to prepare beforehand and know whats available this post is PERFECT. I know with me, as a vegetarian I like to prepare myself when going out with friends for meals and stuff so I don't panic on the spot if I can't pin together a meal thats suitable so I can't imagine what its like for people with other food requirements, this will hopefully make that trip a little bit easier. Good on you and great post!
They have a very little selection of GF places to go, but Restaurants De Stars is your best bet and one of the best places? What hotel are you staying at?

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Why You Should Visit Munnar After The Floods?
Kerala has seen the worst flooding in nearly a century, leaving behind a lot of destruction and discomfort. One of the worst affected tourist destinations was the beautiful hill station of Munnar. Even after the floods receded, tourists refrain from visiting Munnar considering the connectivity and safety issues. We have been receiving questions from a lot of potentional travels "Is Munnar safe to visit?" Let us tell you, Munnar is now absolutely safe to visit and it still retains its charm.
In spite of all the destruction, the nature’s rage hasn’t killed the spirit of people in Kerala. The Kerala Government along with locals, hotel and restaurant owners, local residents, etc. have conducted several mass cleaning drives to clean the roads and the entire state. The roads have been repaired and power and communication facilities have all been resorted. The series of initiatives like cleaning, waste disposal and disease prevention in the flood affected areas has proved to be successful.
Kerala’s busiest and biggest airport at Kochi is now functioning as normal. More than 1000 people worked extensely to ensure that Cochin international airport opens by 29th August and around 35 flights landed in Kochi on the same day. Moreover, over 18,000 volunteers came up to clean Alleppey and Munnar for 3 continuous days.
As on 20th September 2018, the Chief Ministers Relief Fund received over 1400 crores donation from around the world against primary estimated loss of 20,000 crores. A part of this amount is already put to use for improving the roads and overall infrastructure of the entire state.
The current road conditions between important tourist destinations in Kerala have also improved. The places where landslides happened are also cleared for vehicles to pass by.
• The road from Thekkady to Madurai / Munnar / Kochi / Kumarakom is open.
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You will be happy to hear that all the National Parks in Munnar are now open for the tourists. All the sightseeing places are accessible and retain their original charm. You will find greenery all over the place. You can plan your trip to Munnar and visit The Tea Museum, Mattuppetty Dam, Kundale Dam, Cheyyappara, Valara Waterfalls, Flower Garden, Top Station, Echo Point, etc.
In fact the resorts at every tourist places in Kerala is now open with new and fresh look and waiting to receive tourists with a warm welcome.
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I came out at University and it was great. I was out to friends, family, lecturers, doctors just about everyone and I was much happier for it.
However when I started my first full time job for a large bank I went back in the closet. This felt different. It was a job. This was how I paid my bills. More than that, it was the prospect of a career and I didn’t want mess it up. When I first started it was legal to sack someone for being gay. One of the first things I did on joining was check the bank’s Diversity and Inclusion policy. I was relieved to see they were committed to equality. However, although I knew they couldn’t sack me, I was worried that if my colleagues were homophobic then my job might become so unbearable I’d have to leave. Some of my colleagues had made derogatory remarks about lesbians and although I now know my colleagues were not homophobic, there was a lot of homophobic ‘banter’. So I hid my sexual orientation and I hid my relationship. My colleagues would share information about their families and partners but I didn’t share much at all for fear of ‘letting slip’. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried playing the pronoun game (not using ‘him/her’ or ‘he/she’) but if you haven’t, try it. Just for an hour - it’s exhausting! I guess my colleagues thought I was being evasive and not sharing personal info back must have made me look cold and uninterested when nothing could be further from the truth. Ironically the thing that I was doing to bond with my colleagues was preventing me from doing exactly that.
Eventually I had enough and I decided to bite the bullet and come out. Nothing bad happened. The sky didn’t fall in and my worst fears weren’t realised. It was OK. But it was just……OK. Not hiding and being yourself are different things. So I joined the bank’s LGBT network. I assumed my experiences were common place and my ideas of what we could do better were obvious. I quickly realised that they were only obvious to me because they were my ideas. It turns out no one else had thought of them or if they had, they hadn’t voiced them.
One day we had a focus group where LGBT employees were asked if the bank should do an advert featuring an LGBT couple. Of course we all said yes and I asked if we could use a female couple as people tend only to think of the ‘G’ in LGBT and there is a real lack of visibility for bi and lesbian women. Just a few weeks later I was speaking to a colleague and she informed me that the bank were producing an advert with an LGBT couple in, our feedback had been taken on board. I asked if the couple were male or female and she confirmed that we were using a female couple. Imagine how I felt at this point. I had shared my views as a lesbian employee and I had been listened to. Not only listened to but a large corporation was spending time and money on an advertising campaign which incorporated the feedback of my LGBT colleagues and me.
The advert was a success. One viewer wrote a heartfelt letter about how rare it is to see normal, everyday portrayals of lesbian and bisexual women in adverts and how we had ‘made the proverbial closet a less dark and isolating place’. She was considering becoming a customer so it would seem that LGBT customers were feeling valued and that meant the bank was getting business out of the advert and enhancing its reputation too. My colleagues and I were really pleased to know that our experiences were being heard and were being used to make the bank a more inclusive place for colleagues and customers alike. The advert even won an award!
From there I went from strength to strength. I became the Global Co-chair of the network which involved leading 1,400 volunteers from all over the world. I found myself in discussions with the bank’s executives, gave a talk in Japan and really enhanced my leadership skills. It turns out that the thing that I had been hiding, far from being a problem, was making a positive contribution. The customers were happier, my colleagues were happier, the bank was happier and I benefited hugely- a win win win win!
As an individual: What kind of life do you want? Will you take the thing that makes you different and chose to hide it or will you allow it to be the thing that makes you stand out in the best possible way?
As friends: What environment do your words and actions create? One where people feel the need to hide or one where they can be themselves?
I’m pleased to say the law on discrimination has changed to making sacking people on the grounds of sexual orientation illegal. However laws don’t change society, we do. Only when we act differently do things really change.

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I know I say this a lot, but this Pumpkin Spice Cinnamon Roll Cake is seriously one of my favorites. It's Fall comfort food at it's finest. Seriously, this is DIVINE.
I usually wait until September to start posting pumpkin recipes, but we are close enough, right? I couldn't wait any longer to share this with you.
This Cinnamon Roll Cake is ooey, gooey, soft and chewy. Pretty much everything you could ask for in a cinnamon roll, but instead of individual rolls, you get one giant cinnamon roll cake. With each bite you get a hint of clove, cinnamon, nutmeg and pumpkin. It tastes incredible on day one and it's even delicious on day two. On day two, just pop a slice in the microwave for 15 seconds and you are good to go. Add this to your must make list immediately.
Roll out dough ball into roughly a 17''x11'' rectangle. It doesn't have to be exact, similar measurements will work. Brush softened butter over dough and then sprinkle with pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon and brown sugar mixture. Cut dough into roughly 6 (1 3/4-inch) strips, cutting lengthwise.
Take the next strip and wrap around the roll, pinching the ends together to seal. It will get a little messy, but it's okay.
This post is sponsored by Rhodes Bread. I have always been a fan of Rhodes Rolls and all opinions are my own. Thanks for allowing me to work with the brands that I love and use in my own kitchen.

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For this third post on my experience I’m pulling together a number of thoughts about the process of overcoming depression and of ‘getting better’, as it has been for me. As this is a long article I’ve divided it into sections, to make it easier to digest.
Alongside the treatment for depression my GP started a series of tests to establish if there were any physical conditions for which I needed treatment. I’m overweight, so there were some obvious possibilities. I was given one of those cards to take to the hospital for blood tests – it felt like I’d hit the jackpot, every box had been ticked and a few other tests had been written in the blank space too! I was also referred for an ECG, as my GP had noted some irregularity in my heartbeat, which she thought might have been a contributory factor in the sleep problems. And my blood pressure was apparently very high, well into the range of being treatable, although she didn’t tell me that at the time! Fortunately it was back down to a more normal level within a couple of weeks, so treatment wasn’t required, and amazingly most of the tests were OK. Cholesterol was low to normal, not sky high as might have been expected, and there was no diabetes or anything else to worry about. But the tests showed something odd with my liver, so I was then sent for a liver scan. Again, fortunately, this showed no abnormalities.
Ironically, I think, I work for an NHS Trust which provides mental health services. I’m not a clinician, but I know how much emphasis we place on caring for patients’ physical wellbeing as well as their mental health. I now see why. Just to be reassured that there was nothing to worry about with my body was good for my mental health – at least there were no other problems to worry about. I still have my sleep problems, but this is a big subject so I’m intending to do a separate piece about it.
Despite those ongoing sleep issues I seem to be getting by sufficiently well to function in the real world again, albeit slowly and carefully. The depression is more difficult to pin down. I feel better and since I’ve been back at work many people have told me I’m looking well, and that they can even see an improvement in the time I’ve been back. But I know that I’m not ‘cured.’ I’m not sure if that is even possible. I have to accept that this may be something I’m going to be fighting for the rest of my life.
I have what Winston Churchill called ‘black dog’ days. These manifest themselves as a sudden, severe downward shift in mood, which usually happens for no reason, and out of nowhere. They only last a day or two, and at the time of writing it is six weeks since the most recent one. I am very vulnerable at such times, as I can give the outward impression of functioning well, but inside I know how much of an effort I have to make. I think I’ve had three or four of these since going back to work, but haven’t missed a day’s work from them. But they play havoc with my emotions and with my ability to interact with people, particularly those to whom I feel close. I can behave stupidly, I can behave badly, and on one occasion the damage has not been possible to repair, although I hope that it might at some point. However, I am learning from experience. I can now recognise the signs of the sudden mood changes, and when I am in a dark place again. But it is this level of self-awareness which is in itself a sign of getting better, I think. This view is shared by all of the professionals, and I now have to turn the ability to recognise those signs into the ability to exercise more control over my emotions and actions, until the black dog has gone.
Something else I have experienced for the first time in my life is a panic attack. A couple of weeks after I went back to work I was in a large crowd outside the local station, which was closed for safety reasons while a smoking train was hosed down further up the line. Although of course it wasn’t, I gradually came to feel that the crowd was pressing in on me, like a large, shapeless monster, and as this feeling got worse I felt progressively less able to cope. It got to the point where all I could do was get out of it, and as I live close to the station I went home and emailed work to say I wouldn’t be in. Apparently, this is quite normal for someone coming out of depression, as you adjust to being back in the world again, and I’ve been told that it may well happen again. All part of the experience!
I have been on the second highest level of medication possible for the past ten months. Both my psychiatrist and my GP think it is too early to reduce the dosage, as my ‘recovery’ may be put back. I’m disappointed at this, but recognise that they are professionally qualified to make that assessment, and they are doing it because they believe it to be right for me. I know I’m still fragile and vulnerable – even on days when the black dog hasn’t come to visit, little things can upset me when I know that they shouldn’t, but I feel powerless to stop them. An unkind or insensitive word or action that wouldn’t normally hurt me can now assume huge importance. So I know that they are right: I’m not ‘100%’ yet, if I ever will be. And how is ‘100%’ defined anyway, in relation to mental health?
After initially seeing my GP fortnightly, she began to see me for a monthly review instead. I felt this was a sign I was getting better, and each time I went to see her I thought ‘this is my time; I can go back to work now’. And for three or four months I came out of the surgery disappointed. But I now realise that depression isn’t an easy thing to overcome, and identifying the right time to go back to work isn’t easy, either. Being realistic, I was the last person to be able to judge that for myself! When my GP felt that I might be able to cope with work again, I was referred to the Employee Health Service (EHS) for an assessment. This resulted in a staggered return, working mornings to begin with, leading into some full days, over a four week period until I was full-time again. But the EHS was also able to arrange for me to have counselling, much more quickly than the local service to which I had been referred when I first saw the psychiatrist eight months earlier, and I started counselling a week after my first assessment with the EHS. This then led to a suggestion from my counsellor that I start using the hospital gym service too. At the time of writing I’m just coming to the end of my fourth month back, and generally I’m feeling good. I still feel very tired, partly due to my sleep difficulties and partly, I think, to the mental pressure of functioning regularly in the work setting, but I’ve learned not to expect too much of myself. I am working more regular hours than before I was ill, when I almost always did an hour more than standard every day. People have been lovely to me; I’ve enjoyed getting back into a routine and having regular contact with the world around me. I am even finding it easy to get into work at least an hour earlier than before I became ill, so things are looking up! But I still feel fragile and vulnerable, knowing that something could set me off. I don’t cry as much as I was doing, but it does still happen. I just dread the thought that it could happen in public, either at work or somewhere else.
I’ve never had any counselling before, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. Contrary to popular misconception, there weren’t any questions about what my mother did to me while I was in the womb to make me the way I am! The focus has been on picking out things in my life and my character, which if addressed can help me improve. My counsellor was able to read me well after just a couple of sessions, and was very adept at knowing which buttons to press to make me think about myself in new ways. As I have said, this is being written at his suggestion, both to help me work out what has happened to me and also to share it in the hope that it helps others. And I can see that it does help me. Whilst I’ve always been able to talk a lot about myself it has been about the superficial, everyday things, not my innermost thoughts and feelings, which I have, I think, hidden away and not given enough thought to throughout my life. We agreed at our most recent session, yesterday, that we had taken this as far as we could and I’ve therefore been discharged from this part of my treatment. I know that the door is always open if I feel the need for help in the future, which is comforting. But the one thing I would say about the whole counselling process is that if you are in the same situation I was, do give it a chance. Many people see it as pointless: they think you just talk aimlessly about yourself. It is far from being that! I have been challenged, made to think and write about some quite deep thoughts and emotions, and have surprised myself at my response. I am now thinking and, I hope, feeling, in ways that had lain hidden all those years. If you get the opportunity, go for it too, it can make such a difference.
I don’t have many close friends; I’ve never really been any good at keeping in touch. It sometimes amazes me that I ever got married, as I don’t think I’m good at relationships. But this last year has made me realise that we all need a support network around us, not necessarily there every day, but just to have people you know you can rely on for help and support when you really need it, and who will come to you for help and support when they need it. But you can’t just create that, can you? I guess what I’m trying to say is that we should all value our friends and those who care, and be positive about it. In other words, be proactive – don’t always wait until someone gets in touch with you, call them to see how they are. It can help, believe me. This is also a theme I’ll be developing in a later post.
Am I the best person to answer this? I certainly feel different from a year ago, but is that just a continuing recovery from being in a very bad place? Am I ‘different’ from the way I was? Am I a changed person? I’m trying to answer all of these questions, but it’s a work in progress. My recent experiences and the support I’ve received have made me think more about myself, what kind of person I am, but not in a self-centred way (I hope!). They have taught me to question myself and challenge myself more, as it was all too easy before to settle into a routine which in effect became a kind of trap, and getting out of it was difficult. I’d like to think that, by developing, understanding and using my greater sense of self awareness I am being a ‘better person’, whatever that is! I hope others in situations like mine feel the same.
I don’t know, can I? I’d like to think so. I don’t think I’ve been good at supporting other people in the past, and would like to feel that I could be better at it from now on. Maybe this is a start. I don’t think I’m offering any deep insights – I know I’m not qualified to do that. But I hope that anyone who reads this and recognises something of her or himself in it can take it as a stimulus to look at the person they are. If that helps even one person it will have been worth sharing my experiences. I know it sounds trite to say it, but if I can change things around, so can anyone – with the right treatment, support, mindset and determination.
To follow this up, I plan on doing the occasional short post in the future on ‘tips’, small points I’ve learned along the way which may help others. Nothing professional, just things I’ve picked up which have helped me cope, and which may work for others.
I retire when I reach 60, in September 2013. As my daughters are both grown up and have their own lives, I don’t necessarily need to stay where I live now. Of course I want to see them as often as I can, but there’s more than one way of doing that. I won’t be able to afford to live on my pension within London commuting range, so I’m thinking about moving back to my Kentish homeland. I haven’t decided anything yet, but I’d hope that would give me a retirement which would include getting out and about enjoying nature and the landscape, and supporting Kent CCC and my home town football team, the mighty Dover Athletic! Until now, I don’t think I could have done that properly – so I’m aiming to keep up the exercise, a healthy diet and generally thinking more about life, so that everything comes together and I can have the kind of retirement I’d like.
I hate phrases like ‘he’s been on a long journey’ but have to admit that it does feel a bit like that, although I’m not stupid enough to think I’ve arrived anywhere yet. I have had, and still have, some wonderful support and I’d like to close by acknowledging those who have contributed to this. No names though, they will know who they are, both on the professional and personal fronts. Thank you all. I hope I do justice to your support and kindness.
And thank YOU for reading. I hope these three pieces have perhaps informed, helped, maybe even amused you in places. I’d love to hear your views and what else you might think I have to tell that may assist and/or entertain. I’ll be posting fairly regularly now, on a wider range of subjects, and I hope you stay with me – let’s face it, there wouldn’t be much point posting this just to myself!

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Before the rafting starts, you will pass a short training on how to behave in a boat and what to do in certain situations. Skippers ride the boat and instruct you during the ride. These rubber boats are made especially for rafting and they carry 8-10 persons, All the skippers are licensed by the International Rafting Federation.
All the boats have special bags for your devices and all the bungalows have power sockets so you can charge phones and other devices.


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This is for the mamas! One of my favourite handbag designers Rebecca Minkoff has collaborated with Baby-G on a watch for the “everyday woman that wants both function and fashion”.
Featuring a black ion-plated stainless steel bracelet and a pink champagne dial, the device is water resistant up to 100 meters and includes an LED light, 48-city world time, five daily alarms, 1/100th second stopwatch, countdown timer and 12/24-hour formats.
Looking for a last minute holiday gift? Minkoff’s Baby-G will retail for $200 and is set to hit fine jewellers, select department stores and boutiques this month!
Adventures by Disney Announces Two New Family Travel Tours - Greece & France!
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Midnight Research Labs has just published a new tool. Depant will scan your network and check to see if services are using default passwords. It starts by performing an Nmap scan to discover available services on the network. It organizes these services by speed of response. Using Hydra it does brute force password checking of these services with a default password list. The user can supply an alternate list for the first phase or an additional list to be used in a followup check. Depant has many different options for configuring your scan and will certainly help you find that rogue piece of hardware on your network that someone failed to set up securely.
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I have a customer who has a website she updates using front page, and I had front page extensions installed for that domain. (not my choice about front page extensions, I hate them) But anyways, front page extension are installed and therefore DH doesn’t make it’s lovely automatic backups any more, nor can you access the files via FTP or a shell account (becuase of ownership stuff according to the KB). So I’ve been working on setting up a system where I keep a local back up all my website files and MYSQL databases localy through an automagic cron job. I was wondering if anybody knew of a way to do somethign similar to this for this domain? I’d prefer to have some easier way then loading into gasp front page on my own computer and importing the web site.
Thanks in advance for your sigguestions!
using the wget utility in mirror mode which basically pulls down the index file of the site, then gets all of the images and other stuff it links to, then follows the links and pulls those pages and images. It should keep directory structure as well. the --domains= part tells it to stick with my domain and not follow links to other sites I don’t want backed up.
–non-verbose is rather noisy though. It writes a single line for every file it downloads. And that will get E-mailed to you by cron. Not the best, hmm? you can change that to --quiet and that will make wget shut up entirely. The only problem, and the reason I’m using --non-verbose, is that quiet turns off errors too.
Lastly I clear out the files after the tar is created so every thing’s nice and clean for next week.
“That’s great”, you say, “but I don’t want to have to login with a ftp program every week and download the archive”. I solved that one too, because I’m lazy like that.
save that as download.bat (whatever really as long as it ends in .bat) select the save as type to be “all files” so you don’t get the txt extension. This batch file just opens up a dos box and runs Microsoft’s command line ftp program. the “-i” option just turns off interactive mode, so it won’t prompt you if you want to download the file. “-s” tells ftp to use that file for the commands to run. The “pause” command simply tells it to leave the dos-box open after FTP completes until you press any key. When downloading the files ftp will tell you how big the file was, how long it took to download it, and based upon those two figures, the average data transfer rate. If you don’t want that, just remove the entire command.
For the ftp commands, Use notepad again, and pop this into a new file.
Save that as ftp.txt (or whatever you want, just remember to change the batch file to reflect the proper name). This part is pretty simple, you just establish the connection to your ftp account - and provide the user/pass. Next my command moves into the directory below the one containing the archive so I can download the entire directory, not just one file. I’ve got cron running other scripts that put archives from different sites in there too.
Anyways, next the script downloads all files in the archives directory saving them to the current working directory on you local machine (wherever the batch script is run from). Once the download is finished it clears out the directory so next week it only downloads the new archive. Finally the quit command is passed and you log out of the ftp server.
Once you’ve got these files saved, just click Start > Control Panel > Scheduled Tasks > New. Just set it up to run your batch file a bit after cron finishes making the archive, and when you wake up in the morning a black box will be waiting for you to let you know that everything went OK (or not!).


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Christmas Tree Jar Soy Candle has the scent of Pine trees and fresh Lime with hints of Cardamom and Pepper. Perfect for those who want that real Christmas Tree smell all over the house!
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It has been almost two decades since Galería San Patricio was constructed on Calle Tabonuco in Guaynabo, with an investment of 1.1million dollars. The first phase of this project, inaugurated in 1991, consisted of eight stores with an already established clientele; among these were Sterling House, Kitchen Craft and Marisol Freyre. The first level was dedicated to stores, while the second was used for office space. This shopping center was constructed by remodeling an old storage space located behind the famous theme park, Felicilandia, and was worked on by the Carrerá Arquitectos firm.
In 1994, Galería San Patricio received its first expansion. With the creation of this new area, came four new spaces for stores. In 2003, another expansion phase began for the entire shopping center, and was finished by early 2005, connecting Galería San Patricio to Santander’s Tower lobby. In addition to becoming a much more ample, pretty and welcoming place, this new phase added more space for the restaurants, shops, jewelry stores and personal care salons that were already there. Through the years and its great remodeling, visiting Galería San Patricio has become a tradition for its clients, since it’s strategically located and offers a personal and relaxing environment where clients can find unique and exclusive services for everything they’re looking for.
Today, Galería San Patricio is composed of establishments that compliment each other perfectly to offer modern and different options, while giving a complete service to its clients. These are: Banco Santander, La Estrellita Café, Meson Sandwiches, Esteban Montes Salon, First Bank, Modérnica, Prestige Jewelers, ROMA, Santiago Couture, Marella Boutique, Joyería Riviera & Delgatto, Scrapbook Gallery, Thomasville, Pack n’ Go, SPACE Art Center, Nilo Watch Boutique, Red Mango, Biothecare Estétika, Chophouse, Cayo Caribe, Bottles, The Bar, Wilo Creative Eatery & More (Coming Soon), and other professional office spaces.


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ITS STRANGE TO cry after the last page, when you already know the end of a book. After all, the death of Treya is in the subtitle. Although written as a combination of journal entry and commentary, like a good novel Grace and Grit drew me in to participate in its story. Treya Killam Wilber is Terry Killam when you first meet her. She is a kind of a sixties earth woman, in search of an eclectic spirituality. She spent 3 years with the Findhorn environmental community in Scotland. She meets and falls in love with Ken Wilber in a classic but somewhat bizarre romance. She discovers a cancerous tumor on their honeymoon. Against the backdrop of marriage and dealing with cancer, the real drama in the story is how both Terry and Ken learn to relate to God.
What struck me most was the process through which Treya came to live detached and yet deeply involved in life. She calls is Passionate Equanimity. She has a fairly positive attitude at the beginning (her and Ken joke about "Fun with Cancer"). But the aggressive tumor and treatment test this side of her "to the max". From the beginning to when she chooses to die (it wasnt an assisted suicide), she meets each step with honesty, finding a way towards trust. She deals with anger, rage, bitterness, self-pity, depression, as well as laughter, humor, trust, and love. I know her relationship with Ken helped her experience and deepen her understanding of and trust in. And so her healing isnt about getting rid of cancer, but of relinquishing a controlling grasp on life. Halfway through her struggle, around the time she changes her name to Treya, she starts the Cancer Support Community with another Cancer survivor. Somehow this crystallizes a movement in her of choosing Life, regardless of whether she herself will die before her time or not.
Because she shares this process in frank journal entries, you get the sense of getting to know her. Part way through the book I sensed both that she was an extraordinary person, and that I could have been her friend (in other words, shes quite ordinary). As she becomes more accepting of whatever course the disease takes, she also becomes much more diligent in treatment disciplines, in her personal growth and spiritual practice. And yet she writes about it with such honesty, you see that this could be a path for all persons. To find ways to live passionately, and yet with a detachment that trusts a Bigger sense in the universe somehow seems to capture the essence of being human. Being a part of Treyas life for awhile and observing how she modeled this path in her particular incarnation, was a real gift. In becoming so ordinary, she taught me something.
One of the themes of her writing is her own sense of vocation. At the beginning of the book shes 36, and still trying to figure out what her calling in life is. By this time shes spent several years at the Findhorn environmental community in Scotland, helped set up and teach at an alternative college, taught at the Windstar foundation, and has her own counseling practice. But she still has a deep sense of feeling she isnt doing enough. Somehow during the course of her illness, she comes to understand that Being and Doing are equally important aspects of her life, and begins to sense a vocation as being an amorphous creator of environment. Treya comes to understand that she can Do more effectively when she deeply enters her Being. This also has taught me something; Im not quite sure how it will incarnate in my life, but she encourages me to take my own life seriously from an inner perspective.
Kens story is just as moving. Hes a classic intellectual type, with a great sense of humor. Some of the cracks he makes are rich especially because theyre at Cancers expense (i.e. Fun with Cancer was his idea). He comes into this relationship a famous, well-published, successful psychologist and authority the Perennial Tradition and Buddhism. And you come to understand how much he needs to grow himself. As Treyas cancer quickly evolves into a radical illness, he chooses to put his career on hold and serve her daily needs. He gets caught in the cost of this, and it tears him apart. He too is very honest, courageously sharing how this process confronts his isolationism and eventually calls him to a different kind of surrender. He is completely in love with Treya; she is God for him. And in this relationship he comes to understand serving God. Their relationship reflects something of our relationship to God, even while still communicating the human limitations of both of them. In some ways the "famous" Ken Wilber becomes ordinary as well, in spite of his brilliant mind. He is incredibly vulnerable in how he responds to Treyas death; I couldnt help opening my heart to him. His desire to love God, to love Treya as pure as he could somehow revealed the fragile human soul in him, the best of what people can be. He just found himself in this context and after searching his heart and soul lived the only life he could.
The commentary on the Perennial Tradition, woven throughout the book, is a counterpoint to the human drama, showing how spirituality and daily life are interwoven. Both of them practiced different forms of Buddhist meditation. I found myself being open to how Buddhism offers a good corrective to my own sense of Pelagian working out my own salvation. The theme of suffering is of course the major one, and how being open to your suffering can lead you to compassion. Spirituality, a lived relationship with God or Universe, can lead one to trust in any situation, to be honest and yet not chained by suffering. Because both Ken and Treya show that accepting life as it is is the starting point for any spiritual path.
They also give the great gift of redefining healing. The medical world (and even sometimes the homeopathic world) too often limits healing to getting rid of disease. While physical health is part of any healing, Treyas life challenges Emersons assertion that physical well-being is essential to spirituality. True, physicality can shape your spiritual perceptions. But healing isnt just getting rid of disease; its a reconnection to ones wholeness, (compensation in Emersons terms). Ultimately trust allows you to surrender even both our physical and spiritual perceptions, since we cant know with certitude this side of Death. Treya showed me that you can be healed, and therefore free, regardless of whether you are disease-free or not. It may be an arduous, excruciating process, one that may require many incarnations to realize, but ultimately Spirit shapes matter, not the other way around. God lives within us, and Love seeks to become actualized in ordinary, human lives of passionate equanimity.
Thanks Treya and Ken, for being humble teachers. I wish, Treya, you could have lived. Your cancer still seemed cruel at the end. But you fought the good fight.


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Agency will represent new brand in the Far East, Middle East and India.
Withit Licensing has appointed AI Licensing as it looks to further expand the reach of its Joey and Joy brand.
The three-year deal will see AI India represent the property in the Far East, Middle East and India.
AI India will be looking to secure new licensees for Joey and Joy across the three markets, as well as take on international distribution and manufacturing in the markets in which it operates and where Withit has presence.
Lifestyle brand Joey and Joy launched last year, featuring two monkey characters. There are two key design interpretations to give appeal to a broader audience.
AI India is aiming to launch products before the end of October in all three markets.
"It’s great to have AI India on board and we’re looking forward to launching Joey and Joy in the Far East, Middle East and India," said Dolph Zahid, president of Withit Licensing. "AI India has a breadth of knowledge in these markets which we know will be useful when developing the brand, exploring new opportunities and taking it into retail."
Nitan Kalra, director of AI India, added: "We’re looking forward to working with Withit Licensing and believe the Joey and Joy brand has huge potential. We’ve already had great interest and are on the brink of securing several deals."

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The Bitcoin Holy War — Who Will Win?
In the past week, the value of bitcoin has crumpled. It’s gone from $9,500 per coin to under $7,500 a coin in roughly five days.
We’ll cover why the downturn occurred…and predictions on how long it’ll last…in a moment.
But first — two short updates.
Ruatoria-based Hikurangi Cannabis is a company that we’ve followed closely, simply for the fact that they’re one of New Zealand’s most advanced cannabis producers preparing for the legalisation.
For now, much of the talk has been just that — talk. Lots of chatter between investors and the directors, but nothing too concrete (Except that Hikurangi owns one of NZ’s first medicinal cannabis licences).
That being said, the word is spreading quickly…with the New York Times spotlighting the story most recently.
While this is great publicity for Hikurangi…it means that this company has hit the mainstream, even before retail investors had a shot to get in. That may end up making it harder to lock in early-investor returns if Hikurangi ever goes public.
The other quick update has to do with the minimum wage.
Migrants who come over on a skilled-migrant or essential-skills visa must be paid a minimum wage of $21.25 starting next week. For high-skilled migrants, that floor starts at $37.50.
For reference, the minimum wage for your average Kiwi is only $16.50.
Now, at first glance, you might think that’s unfair — why would foreigners deserve nearly $5 more an hour over me?
The idea — in theory anyways — is to tighten the inflow of migrants…so that the ones who do come here need to work in high-demand, high-skill jobs appropriate for the higher-wage threshold.
Less immigration should mean better wage power for Kiwi workers…and eventually higher wages…especially in the lower-skilled sectors.
In other words, Kiwi businesses need more workers, not fewer…and tightening immigration through a higher migrant wage floor only makes the problem worse. This move could have negative consequences for small to medium businesses, as well as industries that rely on lower-skilled labour like construction.
Enough of that. Let’s jump to something wholly more exciting — bitcoin.
In the last 11 months, the price of bitcoin to the Kiwi dollar has fallen dramatically — from a high of $27,746 per coin to about $7,100 today.
In the last two months of 2017, the bitcoin market took on a flood of speculators, which caused the near-vertical price leap peaking around Christmas.
It quickly re-stabilised around the $10,000 mark after most of the yellow-bellied trend followers jumped ship…and that’s where it sat for the next 10 months.
So most of your mainstream talking heads will look at this data, take the very tip-top of the bubble in December and compare it today…which is roughly 75% down.
But that’s not a smart way to look at the data, is it?
You wouldn’t look at an anomaly and treat that as your baseline?
The spike in December is clearly an abnormal moment in bitcoin’s history…if you stick your thumb over those two months, you’d see a positive trend line (albeit a bit choppy).
That being said, we have seen a steep drop-off this week — from $9,500 to about $7,100. Let’s zoom in on the last seven days.
There’s clearly a slide, and I reckon there are three reasons why it’s happening now.
First, there’s a war going on between two rival factions in the cryptocurrency world. One side, bitcoin cash ABC is the more established, larger force. On the other side, bitcoin SV — a more radical, conservative group committed to returning bitcoin to the original vision of Satoshi Nakamoto.
Bitcoin SV threatened to use their significant computing power to attack and destroy the other side.
And last week, there was a ‘hard fork’…meaning that bitcoin cash split into two separate currencies: bitcoin cash ABC and bitcoin SV.
Sounds more like jihad than reality, which is a bunch of computer geeks typing away in dark server rooms.
But the words spooked investors. The fork happened, and it all added a downward pressure to the price of bitcoin.
At the same time, in Hong Kong, an exchange called OKEx made an unusual move that ticked off investors.
The exchange is quite large. It claims to handle over US$1 billion of crypto trades daily. Many Asian financial institutions use it as their large-scale trading platform.
When the hard fork occurred between ABC and SV, the exchange decided to force the early settlement of its bitcoin cash contracts.
In other words, it pulled the rip-cord on the whole party, sending investors reeling.
On the other end of the industry — in the mining department — many crypto miners are finding that the low price of cryptos don’t make the electricity usage worth it.
At $7,100 a coin, their operations are in the red…and falling deeper.
They’re shutting down their computers and stepping off to the sidelines.
They’ll wait until the bitcoin algorithm automatically adjusts for fewer miners, making it easier/quicker to mine, meaning less electricity is used for each mined coin. Mathematically, this will change in a matter of weeks.
And lastly, this all ties into PTSD from last year. It was around this time that prices started picking up…that the bubble began inflating.
Here at Money Morning New Zealand, we trust that there’s at least some value in the technology. That under the layers of speculators and gamblers, there’s an idea worth investing in.
We’ll just have to wait and see where this shake-up bottoms out.


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New Delhi, Feb 5: One Rank One Pension ‘OROP’ implies equal amount of pension for having served in the same rank and also having rendered the same length of service.
For an example, a Sepoy who retired in 1995 would get the same amount of pension as the one who retired in 1996.
Pay commission makes thing worse Discontent among ex-servicemen is largely because of the reason that with every successive pay commission the gap between past pensioners and their younger equivalents grows further.
According to Lt Gen Raj Kadyan, who is the chairman of Indian Ex Servicemen Movement, “The stark difference can be seen after implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission”.
He further says, “for equal service, a Sepoy, who retired prior to 1996, gets 82% lower pension than a Sepoy who retires after 2006. Similarly, among officers, a pre-1996 Major gets 53% lower pension than his post 2006 counterpart”.
The OROP is not easy as it seems to some. There are several big hurdles to achieve this ambitious task. When a country has ‘zero’ GDP In a country which has zero GDP growth. A worker, who wants pension wealth at the age of 60, buys annuity, needs to pay a fixed amount of money every year into his pension account that will help him purchase a annuity post retirement. The magnitude of his annuity must be half his last salary.
Let assume, if the person pays Rs A (for annuity) which eventually pays him Re 1 per month, post retirement. In such a case his pension at the time of retirement will be half his final wage, Aw/2; where w is the person’s wage.
This is how all ordinary pension schemes work. If one wants an unfunded, or a `defined benefit’ pension, then the taxpayer will have to pay Aw/2 for each person.
In India today, A is roughly Rs 4000.
In simple words, if a person wants a fixed cash flow of Rs 1 per month until he/she dies, then the annuity market will charge him/her a sum of Rs A. This will be the lowest price of an annuity or simple unindexed nominal annuity.
Now suppose, if a person wants an inflation indexed Rs 1 per month instead of getting nominal Rs 1/month. Then it becomes an inflation indexed annuity, which will cost a lot higher than A. In order to get nominal annuity, the provider invests in nominal bonds to produce a stream of cash.
But in case of an inflation-indexed annuity, the provider will have to invest in inflation-indexed bonds, which yield a lower stream of cash.
Therefore, a person needs to pay much more than A to get an inflation indexed stream of Rs 1/month. In such a case the price is B, and as we know B >> A.
If a government promises an unfunded inflation-indexed annuity, it is placing an expense of Bw/2 on the tax payer.
In a country with high GDP growth, where per capita growth is say 6%. In such a country GDP doubles every decade and that is where the difference emerges.
Suppose a person’s age is 60 but his wage was half of those who are getting 59-years-old. His pension remains constant when he’s 70 but those who were 59 have roughly got their wage doubled. In such a scenario, a pensioner is no match to a worker.
This was not a big deal in Western countries as they have a slow growth rate but in case of a high GDP the gap becomes a mammoth one.
A person who is at the 90th percentile of the income distribution at 60 years of age will end up at perhaps the 70th percentile of the income distribution at the age of 70.


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text: So, so true. I am so sad, but he lived a good life. And his video “Lazarus” just continues to astound me. Genius, true genius. By the way, you rock also, Scott:) I mean that with all sincerity. I have read everything you have written, plus watched your documentary, “Living With Lew” and cannot get you out of my mind. I thought living with this damn chronic pain was enough until my daughter who is a registered nurse introduced me to your website. Words fail me. Your mind and will to continue to be such a positive influence on people puts me to shame. I may not write to you much, but boy are you ever in my thoughts and prayers now, and always. I wait for your next writings. God bless you and talk to you later!


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"Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You," from 1915. Unfortunately, it is human nature to resent one's benefactors. Thank God dogs aren't like that.
It always seemed to me that new immigrants have a better chance of appreciating the uniqueness of America than do those of us who have been here for many generations and tend to be spoiled and to take it for granted. However, my family has been here since the 1600s, and I take this blessing not at all for granted. Freedom from the State (and my genes) are my most precious heritage.
Barrister, my friend ... It was a delight to hear this old song again. My Daddy taught it to me when I was very young, and it sticks tightly in my memory. And how appropriate it is today! "So don't act like the cur in the story, and bite the hand that's feeding you!" But a lot of them do.
Gratitude is not a prominent feature in today's immigrants, many of whom immediately go about trying to change our country into the one they just fled from. Last week the Houston Chronicle reported on one Mid Eastern refugee who had been admitted because he was fleeing "persecution" in his homeland, and was whining to a credulous young reporter, that the Texas Department of Transportation was dragging its feet on renewing his driver's license, thus forcing him to take the bus to work. My, my -- you have to take the bus, young man? At least you can pretty much count on it not being blown up while you're on it.
You see this happening in Europe every day. It's especially noticeable in England. The immigrant parents know how bad it was in old country, but their kids, who grew up in England, have no memory; just stories. And what teen believes their parents?
All the boys know is that Kerry Katona and Charlotte Church won't sleep with them, and they don't have a way cool job running a hedge fund. Then the guy from the mosque says, "hey, it's not your fault. It's THEM who are the problem. You just need to get right with God and everything will be fine."

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Fifa have handed Nigeria and Ghana stern warnings to fix their issues or they risk being hit with suspensions.
The tussle for power in the Nigeria Football Federation is still ongoing with Chris Giwa and Amaju Pinnick factions yet to settle their differences – a consequence which led to the delay in resumption of the Nigeria Professional Football League.
According to Fifa, Pinnick is the legitimate head of the NFF following his triumph in the election held on 30 September 2014, hence, Giwa must staff off before August 20, 2018.
However, Nigeria U20 women who have progressed to the last eight of the U20 Women’s World Cup will be allowed to carry on provided they make the semi-final.
“Two decisions of the Bureau of the Fifa Council in relation to undue influence in the affairs of the Nigeria Football Federation and the Ghana Football Association have been notified on 13 August 2018,” read a statement from Fifa.
“In line with art. 16 par. 1 of the Fifa Statutes, the Bureau of the Fifa Council decided that if by Monday, 20 August 2018, at 12:00 (CET), the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) offices are not handed back to the legitimate NFF executive committee under President Amaju Melvin Pinnick, who was duly elected on 30 September 2014, the NFF will be suspended with immediate effect for contravening art. 14 par. 1 i) and art. 19, as well as art. 14 par. 1 a) of the Fifa Statutes. The suspension would be lifted only once the NFF, under President Amaju Melvin Pinnick and General Secretary Mohammed Sanusi, confirms that it has been given back effective control of the NFF and its offices.

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Oh, I see what you mean. A previous commenter was asking what it was made out of, I don't think the parts diagram gives that information. I'm supposed to be picking it up today, I'll ask again, probably get a different answer.
Car has been in the shop for almost 2 weeks, still no answer from Kia or the dealer. Pretty sure I won't ever be buying a Kia vehicle again.
i really hope they gave you a free loan vehicle.
They did after a few days, but the lack of information from them is very frustrating. I've called a few times, and just gotten the "we're working on it" answer. You'd think after 2 weeks they would have some sort of answer other than that, but what do I know.
My service experience has been abysmal and I certainly won't be buying another Kia vehicle again. First they tried to blame this problem on not having the oil changed with them (a $40-50 visit) then they said there wasn't any noise, then the noise was normal, then it was the tensioner, then the computer, and now it's taken them 7 business days to ship something via UPS/FedEx? Unless it went back to Korea, I could have driven it to Kia and back in less time.
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they could swap the engine in a few hours..
I'm expecting to get the vehicle back and the problem still be there, and then another 3-4 days in the shop to replace the tensioner. Hopefully I'm wrong, but I won't be surprised to get back in the car, pull onto the road outside the dealer and have the exact same noise occur.
Is the following item relevant?
Kia has issued a Technical Service Bulletin to its dealership network detailing the steps necessary to inspect and potentially replace engines on a number of its 2013 Rio subcompacts.
At fault is a defective timing chain and guide, which could create a clattering sound as it essentially chews up the inside of an engine. Instead of repairing the faulty timing chains and guides, a TSB released last month indicates that Kia wants its dealers to entirely replace the engine sub assembly and long block.
EDIT: The tensioner replacement apparently solved the problem, hopefully this situation is over. I'll report back after I pick up the car if I'm able to reproduce the noise.
Post Pickup Edit: The tensioner replacement appears to have solved the problem, I've not been able to replicate the noise under the same conditions as before, and the car is not longer surging when under load. Hopefully my problem is solved.
A new problem has appeared recently, there is a rattling sound coming from the driver's side air vent that is effected by the speed of the AC system. Probably not worth bringing up.
Final edit: To the previous poster, the tensioner is metal, not plastic.
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I might be having a similar issue with my 2012 Rio sedan with 29k miles.
I was driving to work today on the highway at about 65mph. All of a suddenly I started losing acceleration. The car also was making different levels of rattling/vibration noise. At highway speeds, I even shifted manually to 4 or 5 and I didn't get much power out of it. There are no idiot lights on or anything.
I limped it to work (About 6 miles). At a stop, I didn't hear anything...it sounded normal. But once trying to accelerate, the noise was noticeable and didn't accelerate fast.
The dealer it was towed to said they don't know what the issue is and they need to have the division parts manager approve or something prior to them beginning to work on the car. They said I would not have it for at least the weekend and they don't know how much longer. This sounds strange to me.
Also, what is with Kia not providing a rental when under warranty either?! That's what Kia Assistance is telling me.

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