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What is it, exactly, about Van Gogh?
For those of us with a vested interest in contemporary art, who spend much of our time immersed in the work of artists most Americans have never heard of, it is an important question to ponder from time to time one that the Norton Simon Museum's temporary installation of an 1889 self portrait on loan from the National Gallery of Art calls again to the fore. The National Gallery portrait, painted three months after Van Gogh committed himself to a mental asylum in Saint Remy, in the south of France, and less than a year before his death at age 37, is one of the best known, and its front and center presentation here is sure to draw the requisite crowd.
It is, of course, a wonderful painting. The chiseled, penetrating face of the artist, fringed by red and ocher wisps of hair, all but glows against a field of breathtaking blue, set down in fervent, agile brush strokes.
It is, indeed, as if the blue got the upper hand, less a color than force, a kind of fever, that persisted beyond the completion of "Starry Night" several months earlier to colonize this canvas as well. The blue refuses to function as merely a backdrop and comes to physically envelop the subject, saturating his smock, bleeding into the palette he holds in his hand, and casting a hermes classic belt replica blue green tint across his skin.
A vivid painting in almost any reproduction, it is, like all of Van Gogh's work, particularly electrifying fake hermes brown belt whosale when seen in person, where the mad, groping humanness of his brush strokes can best be felt.
That said, the real value of the National Gallery loan and this is the third that the Norton Simon has received in the exchange lies less with the virtues of this painting in particular than the opportunity it brown hermes belt replica offers to consider the museum's other Van Goghs, arrayed with pride to either side of this surprisingly small canvas, through a lens of renewed appreciation.
And from there, perhaps, the Cezannes. And from there, perhaps, the Rembrandts. And from there, perhaps, the brilliant suite of Connor Everts prints on view in the project room. At a museum like the Norton Simon, happily, there is hermes men belt replica no such thing as an isolated masterpiece.
What is it, exactly, about Van Gogh?
For those of us with a vested interest in contemporary art, who spend much of our time immersed in the work of artists most Americans have never heard of, it is an important question to ponder from time to time one that the Norton Simon Museum's temporary installation of an 1889 self portrait on loan from the National Gallery of Art calls again to the fore. The National Gallery portrait, painted three months after Van Gogh committed himself to a mental asylum in Saint Remy, in the south of France, and less than a year before his death at age 37, is one of the best known, and its front and center presentation here is sure to draw the requisite crowd.
It is, of course, a wonderful painting. The chiseled, penetrating face of the artist, fringed by red and ocher wisps of hair, all but glows against a field of breathtaking blue, set down in fervent, agile brush strokes.
It is, indeed, as if the blue got the upper hand, less a color than force, a kind of fever, that persisted beyond the completion of "Starry Night" several months earlier to colonize this canvas as well. The blue refuses to function as merely a backdrop and comes to physically envelop the subject, saturating his smock, bleeding into the palette he holds in his hand, and casting a hermes classic belt replica blue green tint across his skin.
A vivid painting in almost any reproduction, it is, like all of Van Gogh's work, particularly electrifying fake hermes brown belt whosale when seen in person, where the mad, groping humanness of his brush strokes can best be felt.
That said, the real value of the National Gallery loan and this is the third that the Norton Simon has received in the exchange lies less with the virtues of this painting in particular than the opportunity it brown hermes belt replica offers to consider the museum's other Van Goghs, arrayed with pride to either side of this surprisingly small canvas, through a lens of renewed appreciation.
And from there, perhaps, the Cezannes. And from there, perhaps, the Rembrandts. And from there, perhaps, the brilliant suite of Connor Everts prints on view in the project room. At a museum like the Norton Simon, happily, there is hermes men belt replica no such thing as an isolated masterpiece.
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What if Edward Snowden was made to disappear? No, I not suggesting some future CIA rendition effort or a who killed Snowden conspiracy theory of a disappearance, but a more ominous kind.What if everything a whistleblower had ever exposed could simply be made to go away? What if every National Security Hermes birkin bags fake Agency (NSA) document Snowden released, every interview he gave, every documented trace of a national security state careening out of control could be made to disappear in real time? What if the very posting fake hermes bag of such revelations could be turned into a fruitless, record less endeavor?Am I suggesting the plot for a novel by some twenty first century George Orwell? Hardly. As we edge toward a fully digital world, such things may soon be possible, not in science fiction but in our world and at the push of a button. In fact, the earliest prototypes of a new kind of are already being tested. We are closer to a shocking, dystopian reality that might once have been the stuff of futuristic novels than we imagine. Welcome to the memory hole.Even if some future government stepped over one of the last remaining red lines in our world and simply assassinated whistleblowers as they surfaced, others would always emerge. Back in 1948, in his eerie novel 1984, however, Orwell suggested a far more diabolical solution to the problem. He conjured up a technological device for the world of Big Brother that he called "the memory hole." In his dark future, armies of bureaucrats, working in what he sardonically dubbed the Ministry of Truth, spent their lives erasing or altering documents, newspapers, books, and the like in order to create an acceptable version of history. When a person fell out of favor, the Ministry of Truth sent him and all the documentation relating to him down the memory hole. Every story or report in which his life was in any way noted or recorded would be edited to eradicate all traces of him.In Orwell's pre digital world, the memory hole was a vacuum tube into which old documents were physically disappeared forever. Alterations to existing documents and the deep sixing of others ensured that even the sudden switching of global enemies and alliances would never prove a problem for the guardians of Big Brother. In the world he imagined, thanks to those armies of bureaucrats, the present was what had always been and there were those altered documents to prove it and nothing but faltering memories to say otherwise.Government and Corporate Digital CensorshipIncreasingly, most of us now get our news, books, music, TV, movies, and communications of every sort electronically. print media combined. Even the venerable Newsweek no longer publishes a paper edition. And in that digital world, a certain kind of is being explored. The Chinese, Iranians, and others are, for instance, already implementing web filtering strategies to block access to sites and online material of which their governments don approve. government similarly (if somewhat fruitlessly) blocks its employees from viewing Wikileaks and Edward Snowden material (as well as websites like TomDispatch) on their work computers though not of course at home. Yet.Great Britain, however, will soon take a significant step toward deciding what a private citizen can see on the web even while at home. Before the end of the year, almost all Internet users there will be to a system designed to filter out pornography. By default, the controls will also block access to "violent material," "extremist and terrorist related content," "anorexia and eating disorder websites," and "suicide related websites." In addition, the new settings will censor sites mentioning alcohol or smoking. The filter will also block "esoteric material," though a UK based rights group says the government has yet to make clear what that category will include.And government sponsored forms of Internet censorship are being privatized. New, off the shelf commercial products guarantee that an organization does not need to be the replica hermes handbags outlet NSA to block content. For example, the Internet security company Blue Coat is a domestic leader in the field and a major exporter of such technology. It can easily set up a system to monitor and filter all Internet usage, blocking web sites by their address, by keywords, or even by the content they contain. Army to control what its soldiers see while deployed abroad, and by the repressive governments in Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Burma to block outside political ideas.In a sense, Google Search already material. Right now Google is the good guy vis whistleblowers. A quick Google search (0.22 seconds) turns up more than 48 million hits on Edward Snowden, most of them referencing his leaked NSA documents. Some of the websites display the documents themselves, still labeled Secret. Less than half a year ago, you had to be one of a very limited group in the government or contractually connected to it to see such things. Now, they are splayed across the web.Google and since Google is the planet number one search engine, I'll use it here as a shorthand for every search engine, even those yet to be invented is in this way amazing and looks like a massive machine for spreading, not suppressing, news. Put just about anything on the web and Google is likely to find it quickly and add it into search results worldwide, sometimes within seconds. Since most people rarely scroll past the first few search results displayed, however, being disappeared already has a new meaning online. It no longer enough just to get Google to notice you. Getting it to place what you post high enough on its search results page to be noticed is what matters now. If your work is number 47,999,999 on the Snowden results, you as good as dead, as good as disappeared. Think of that as a starting point for the more significant forms of disappearance that undoubtedly lie in our future.Hiding something from users by reprogramming search engines is one dark step to come. Another is actually deleting content, a process as simple as transforming the computer coding behind the search process into something predatory. And if Google refuses to implement the change over to searches, the NSA, which already appears to be able to reach inside Google, can implant its own version of malicious code as it has already done in at least 50,000 instances.But never mind the future: here's how a negative search strategy is already working, even if today its focus largely on pedophiles is easy enough to accept. Google recently introduced software that makes it harder for users to locate child abuse material. Now, for instance, when users type in queries that may be related to child sexual abuse, they will find no results that link to illegal content. Instead, Google will redirect them to help and counseling sites. will soon roll out these changes in more than 150 languages, so the impact will be truly global, Schmidt wrote.While Google is redirecting searches for kiddie porn to counseling sites, the NSA has developed a similar ability. The agency already controls a set of servers codenamed Quantum that sit on the Internet backbone. Their job is to redirect away from their intended destinations to websites of the NSA's choice. The idea is: you type in the website you want and end up somewhere less disturbing to the agency. While at present this technology may be aimed at sending would be online jihadis to more moderate Islamic material, in the future it could, for instance, be repurposed to redirect people seeking news to an Al Jazeera lookalike site with altered content that fits the government's version of events.However, blocking and redirecting technologies, which are bound to grow more sophisticated, will undoubtedly be the least of it in the future. Google is already taking things to the next level in the service of a cause that just about anyone would applaud. They are implementing picture detection technology to identify child abuse photographs whenever they appear on their systems, as well as testing technology that would remove illegal videos. Google's actions against child porn may be well intentioned indeed, but the technology being developed in the service of such anti child porn actions should chill us all. Imagine if, back in 1971, the Pentagon Papers, the first glimpse most Americans had of the lies behind the Vietnam War, had been deletable. Who believes that the Nixon White House wouldn have disappeared those documents and that history wouldn have taken a different, far grimmer course?Or consider an example that already with us. In 2009, many Kindle owners discovered that Amazon had reached into their devices overnight and remotely deleted copies of Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 (no irony intended). The company explained that the books, mistakenly on its machines, were actually bootlegged copies of the novels. Similarly, in 2012, Amazon erased the contents of a customer's Kindle without warning, claiming her account was "directly related to another which has been previously closed for abuse of our policies." Using the same technology, Amazon now has the ability to on your device with versions, the content altered. Whether you are notified or not is up to Amazon.In addition to your Kindle, remote control over your other devices is already a reality. Much of the software on your computer communicates in the background with its home servers, and so is open to that can alter content. The NSA uses malware malicious software remotely implanted into a computer to change the way the machine works. The Stuxnet code that likely damaged 1,000 centrifuges the Iranians were using to enrich uranium is one example of how this sort of thing can operate.These days, every iPhone checks back with headquarters to announce what apps you've purchased; in the tiny print of a disclaimer routinely clicked through, Apple reserves the right to disappear any app for any reason. In 2004, TiVo sued Dish Network for giving customers set top boxes that TiVo said infringed on its software patents. Though the case was settled in return for a large payout, as an initial remedy, the judge ordered Dish to electronically disable the 192,000 devices it had already installed in people's homes. In the future, there will be ever more ways to invade and control computers, alter or disappear what you're reading, and shunt you to sites weren't looking for.Snowden's revelations of what the NSA does to gather information and control technology, which have riveted the planet since June, are only part of the equation. How the government will enhance its surveillance and control powers in the future is a story still to be told. Imagine coupling tools to hide, alter, or delete content with smear campaigns to discredit or dissuade whistleblowers, and the power potentially available to both governments and corporations becomes clearer.The ability to move beyond altering content into altering how people act is obviously on governmental and corporate agendas as well. The NSA has already gathered blackmail data from the digital porn viewing habits of Muslims. The NSA sought to wiretap a Congressman without a warrant. The ability to collect information on Federal judges, government leaders, and presidential candidates makes J. Edgar Hoover's 1950s blackmail schemes as quaint as the bobby socks and poodle skirts of that era. The wonders of the Internet regularly stun us. The dystopian, Orwellian possibilities of the Internet have, until recently, not caught our attention in the same way. They should.Read This Now, Before It DeletedThe future for whistleblowers is grim. At a time not so far distant, when just about everything is digital, when much of the world's Internet traffic flows directly through the United States or allied countries, or through the infrastructure of American companies abroad, when search engines can find just about anything online in fractions of a second, when the Patriot Act and secret rulings by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court make Google and similar tech giants tools of the national security state (assuming organizations like the NSA don't simply take over the search business directly), and when the sophisticated technology can either block, alter, or delete digital material at the push of a button, the memory hole is no longer fiction.Leaked revelations will be as pointless as dusty old books in some attic if no one knows about them. Go ahead and publish whatever you want. The First Amendment allows you to do that. But what's the point if no one will be able to read it? You might more profitably stand on a street corner and shout at passers by. In at least one easy enough to imagine future, a set of Snowden like revelations will be blocked or deleted as fast as anyone can (re)post them.About now you should feel a chill. We watching, in real time, as 1984 turns from a futuristic fantasy long past into an instructional manual. There will be no need to kill a future Edward Snowden. He will already be dead.Peter Van Buren blew the whistle on State Department waste and mismanagement during Iraqi reconstruction in his first book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. A TomDispatch regular, he writes about current events at his blog, We Meant Well. His next book, Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the 99Percent, will be available April 2014.Follow TomDispatch on Twitter imitiaton hermes bag and join us on Facebook or Tumblr. Check out the newest Dispatch Book, Ann Jones They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return From America Wars The Untold Story.
What if Edward Snowden was made to disappear? No, I not suggesting some future CIA rendition effort or a who killed Snowden conspiracy theory of a disappearance, but a more ominous kind.What if everything a whistleblower had ever exposed could simply be made to go away? What if every National Security Hermes birkin bags fake Agency (NSA) document Snowden released, every interview he gave, every documented trace of a national security state careening out of control could be made to disappear in real time? What if the very posting fake hermes bag of such revelations could be turned into a fruitless, record less endeavor?Am I suggesting the plot for a novel by some twenty first century George Orwell? Hardly. As we edge toward a fully digital world, such things may soon be possible, not in science fiction but in our world and at the push of a button. In fact, the earliest prototypes of a new kind of are already being tested. We are closer to a shocking, dystopian reality that might once have been the stuff of futuristic novels than we imagine. Welcome to the memory hole.Even if some future government stepped over one of the last remaining red lines in our world and simply assassinated whistleblowers as they surfaced, others would always emerge. Back in 1948, in his eerie novel 1984, however, Orwell suggested a far more diabolical solution to the problem. He conjured up a technological device for the world of Big Brother that he called "the memory hole." In his dark future, armies of bureaucrats, working in what he sardonically dubbed the Ministry of Truth, spent their lives erasing or altering documents, newspapers, books, and the like in order to create an acceptable version of history. When a person fell out of favor, the Ministry of Truth sent him and all the documentation relating to him down the memory hole. Every story or report in which his life was in any way noted or recorded would be edited to eradicate all traces of him.In Orwell's pre digital world, the memory hole was a vacuum tube into which old documents were physically disappeared forever. Alterations to existing documents and the deep sixing of others ensured that even the sudden switching of global enemies and alliances would never prove a problem for the guardians of Big Brother. In the world he imagined, thanks to those armies of bureaucrats, the present was what had always been and there were those altered documents to prove it and nothing but faltering memories to say otherwise.Government and Corporate Digital CensorshipIncreasingly, most of us now get our news, books, music, TV, movies, and communications of every sort electronically. print media combined. Even the venerable Newsweek no longer publishes a paper edition. And in that digital world, a certain kind of is being explored. The Chinese, Iranians, and others are, for instance, already implementing web filtering strategies to block access to sites and online material of which their governments don approve. government similarly (if somewhat fruitlessly) blocks its employees from viewing Wikileaks and Edward Snowden material (as well as websites like TomDispatch) on their work computers though not of course at home. Yet.Great Britain, however, will soon take a significant step toward deciding what a private citizen can see on the web even while at home. Before the end of the year, almost all Internet users there will be to a system designed to filter out pornography. By default, the controls will also block access to "violent material," "extremist and terrorist related content," "anorexia and eating disorder websites," and "suicide related websites." In addition, the new settings will censor sites mentioning alcohol or smoking. The filter will also block "esoteric material," though a UK based rights group says the government has yet to make clear what that category will include.And government sponsored forms of Internet censorship are being privatized. New, off the shelf commercial products guarantee that an organization does not need to be the replica hermes handbags outlet NSA to block content. For example, the Internet security company Blue Coat is a domestic leader in the field and a major exporter of such technology. It can easily set up a system to monitor and filter all Internet usage, blocking web sites by their address, by keywords, or even by the content they contain. Army to control what its soldiers see while deployed abroad, and by the repressive governments in Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Burma to block outside political ideas.In a sense, Google Search already material. Right now Google is the good guy vis whistleblowers. A quick Google search (0.22 seconds) turns up more than 48 million hits on Edward Snowden, most of them referencing his leaked NSA documents. Some of the websites display the documents themselves, still labeled Secret. Less than half a year ago, you had to be one of a very limited group in the government or contractually connected to it to see such things. Now, they are splayed across the web.Google and since Google is the planet number one search engine, I'll use it here as a shorthand for every search engine, even those yet to be invented is in this way amazing and looks like a massive machine for spreading, not suppressing, news. Put just about anything on the web and Google is likely to find it quickly and add it into search results worldwide, sometimes within seconds. Since most people rarely scroll past the first few search results displayed, however, being disappeared already has a new meaning online. It no longer enough just to get Google to notice you. Getting it to place what you post high enough on its search results page to be noticed is what matters now. If your work is number 47,999,999 on the Snowden results, you as good as dead, as good as disappeared. Think of that as a starting point for the more significant forms of disappearance that undoubtedly lie in our future.Hiding something from users by reprogramming search engines is one dark step to come. Another is actually deleting content, a process as simple as transforming the computer coding behind the search process into something predatory. And if Google refuses to implement the change over to searches, the NSA, which already appears to be able to reach inside Google, can implant its own version of malicious code as it has already done in at least 50,000 instances.But never mind the future: here's how a negative search strategy is already working, even if today its focus largely on pedophiles is easy enough to accept. Google recently introduced software that makes it harder for users to locate child abuse material. Now, for instance, when users type in queries that may be related to child sexual abuse, they will find no results that link to illegal content. Instead, Google will redirect them to help and counseling sites. will soon roll out these changes in more than 150 languages, so the impact will be truly global, Schmidt wrote.While Google is redirecting searches for kiddie porn to counseling sites, the NSA has developed a similar ability. The agency already controls a set of servers codenamed Quantum that sit on the Internet backbone. Their job is to redirect away from their intended destinations to websites of the NSA's choice. The idea is: you type in the website you want and end up somewhere less disturbing to the agency. While at present this technology may be aimed at sending would be online jihadis to more moderate Islamic material, in the future it could, for instance, be repurposed to redirect people seeking news to an Al Jazeera lookalike site with altered content that fits the government's version of events.However, blocking and redirecting technologies, which are bound to grow more sophisticated, will undoubtedly be the least of it in the future. Google is already taking things to the next level in the service of a cause that just about anyone would applaud. They are implementing picture detection technology to identify child abuse photographs whenever they appear on their systems, as well as testing technology that would remove illegal videos. Google's actions against child porn may be well intentioned indeed, but the technology being developed in the service of such anti child porn actions should chill us all. Imagine if, back in 1971, the Pentagon Papers, the first glimpse most Americans had of the lies behind the Vietnam War, had been deletable. Who believes that the Nixon White House wouldn have disappeared those documents and that history wouldn have taken a different, far grimmer course?Or consider an example that already with us. In 2009, many Kindle owners discovered that Amazon had reached into their devices overnight and remotely deleted copies of Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 (no irony intended). The company explained that the books, mistakenly on its machines, were actually bootlegged copies of the novels. Similarly, in 2012, Amazon erased the contents of a customer's Kindle without warning, claiming her account was "directly related to another which has been previously closed for abuse of our policies." Using the same technology, Amazon now has the ability to on your device with versions, the content altered. Whether you are notified or not is up to Amazon.In addition to your Kindle, remote control over your other devices is already a reality. Much of the software on your computer communicates in the background with its home servers, and so is open to that can alter content. The NSA uses malware malicious software remotely implanted into a computer to change the way the machine works. The Stuxnet code that likely damaged 1,000 centrifuges the Iranians were using to enrich uranium is one example of how this sort of thing can operate.These days, every iPhone checks back with headquarters to announce what apps you've purchased; in the tiny print of a disclaimer routinely clicked through, Apple reserves the right to disappear any app for any reason. In 2004, TiVo sued Dish Network for giving customers set top boxes that TiVo said infringed on its software patents. Though the case was settled in return for a large payout, as an initial remedy, the judge ordered Dish to electronically disable the 192,000 devices it had already installed in people's homes. In the future, there will be ever more ways to invade and control computers, alter or disappear what you're reading, and shunt you to sites weren't looking for.Snowden's revelations of what the NSA does to gather information and control technology, which have riveted the planet since June, are only part of the equation. How the government will enhance its surveillance and control powers in the future is a story still to be told. Imagine coupling tools to hide, alter, or delete content with smear campaigns to discredit or dissuade whistleblowers, and the power potentially available to both governments and corporations becomes clearer.The ability to move beyond altering content into altering how people act is obviously on governmental and corporate agendas as well. The NSA has already gathered blackmail data from the digital porn viewing habits of Muslims. The NSA sought to wiretap a Congressman without a warrant. The ability to collect information on Federal judges, government leaders, and presidential candidates makes J. Edgar Hoover's 1950s blackmail schemes as quaint as the bobby socks and poodle skirts of that era. The wonders of the Internet regularly stun us. The dystopian, Orwellian possibilities of the Internet have, until recently, not caught our attention in the same way. They should.Read This Now, Before It DeletedThe future for whistleblowers is grim. At a time not so far distant, when just about everything is digital, when much of the world's Internet traffic flows directly through the United States or allied countries, or through the infrastructure of American companies abroad, when search engines can find just about anything online in fractions of a second, when the Patriot Act and secret rulings by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court make Google and similar tech giants tools of the national security state (assuming organizations like the NSA don't simply take over the search business directly), and when the sophisticated technology can either block, alter, or delete digital material at the push of a button, the memory hole is no longer fiction.Leaked revelations will be as pointless as dusty old books in some attic if no one knows about them. Go ahead and publish whatever you want. The First Amendment allows you to do that. But what's the point if no one will be able to read it? You might more profitably stand on a street corner and shout at passers by. In at least one easy enough to imagine future, a set of Snowden like revelations will be blocked or deleted as fast as anyone can (re)post them.About now you should feel a chill. We watching, in real time, as 1984 turns from a futuristic fantasy long past into an instructional manual. There will be no need to kill a future Edward Snowden. He will already be dead.Peter Van Buren blew the whistle on State Department waste and mismanagement during Iraqi reconstruction in his first book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. A TomDispatch regular, he writes about current events at his blog, We Meant Well. His next book, Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the 99Percent, will be available April 2014.Follow TomDispatch on Twitter imitiaton hermes bag and join us on Facebook or Tumblr. 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The party's leader, international provocateur Geert Wilders, saw his popularity surge in December, when he was found guilty of inciting racial discrimination against Moroccan immigrants.
Similar to rhetoric from Donald Trump and One Nation, Wilders' policies include a ban on headscarves, the Quran and Muslim immigration, the closure of Islamic schools and mosques, and withdrawal from the European Union.
Pulling support between 15 per cent and 20 per cent, the Party for Freedom has been the most popular among a crowded field for much of the campaign.
Wilders has only recently fallen behind the Prime Minister's center right party, itself only polling at 16 per cent.
Polling from the last 12 months shows Wilders' PVV has narrowly fallen behind Prime Minister Rutte's VVD, while the PvdA labour party remains stuck at 8%.
But while Prime Minister Mark Rutte is hoping to stay ahead and win the chance to form a coalition government, the race could be even closer than it looks says Carolienvan Ham, a UNSW politics lecturer and a Dutch voter herself.
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With the European migration crisis and a rise in terror attacks, the Netherlands is just one of numerous countries witnessing a growth in anti immigrant, anti Islam sentiment.
"The last election was largely about dealing with the economic crisis. Now that the economy has recovered, there is more room for cultural issues again," he said.
The focus on Dutch culture has sparked a debate on what Dutch values actually are.
On the right parties have referred to the country'sJudeo Christianheritage and national iconography, while on the left leaders haveemphasisedtolerance and empathy. Both sides have stressed the importance of Freedom.
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"Europe and America are seeing a rise of the far right and it will come to Australia I'm sure," she said.
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Matt Sherwood lead strategist at Perpetual Investments and one of the few to correctly predict Trump's victory says the rise of the far right is becoming a global phenomenon in established democracies.
"All around the world governments are struggling to find jobs for lower skilled workers but it's not an economic problem, it's a social problem," he said.
Voters bitter about globalisation and immigration are misdirecting their frustration, Sherwood says, and the prescription of closing borders isn't going to help.
"The jobs Trump and others talk about were lost to technology, so they won't be coming back," he said.
The Netherlands is often considered one of the most liberal and tolerant countries on the planet.
It's not just tourists flocking to Amsterdam for recreational drugs and legalised prostitution the country was also the first in the world to legislate for same sex marriage and takes a progressive approach to euthanasia.
But for most of the past 18 months the leading party in the polls has been the stridently anti immigrant, anti Islam, anti Hermes birkin bags fake EU Party for Freedom (the PVV).
The party's leader, international provocateur Geert Wilders, saw his popularity surge in December, when he was found guilty of inciting racial discrimination against Moroccan immigrants.
Similar to rhetoric from Donald Trump and One Nation, Wilders' policies include a ban on headscarves, the Quran and Muslim immigration, the closure of Islamic schools and mosques, and withdrawal from the European Union.
Pulling support between 15 per cent and 20 per cent, the Party for Freedom has been the most popular among a crowded field for much of the campaign.
Wilders has only recently fallen behind the Prime Minister's center right party, itself only polling at 16 per cent.
Polling from the last 12 months shows Wilders' PVV has narrowly fallen behind Prime Minister Rutte's VVD, while the PvdA labour party remains stuck at 8%.
But while Prime Minister Mark Rutte is hoping to stay ahead and win the chance to form a coalition government, the race could be even closer than it looks says Carolienvan Ham, a UNSW politics lecturer and a Dutch voter herself.
"Recent polling experiences with Brexit and in the US seem to indicate that support for populistright tends to be under estimated,"expert in political imitiaton hermes bag representation said.
"I think it's because there might still be a group of people who are polite, or don't dare to say they intend to vote for those parties."
Polls show that concern about the preservation Dutch culture is one of the most dominant political issues but Dr van Ham pins the surge in far right sentiment on voter dissatisfaction, and a failure of mainstream parties to represent their interests.
With the European migration crisis and a rise in terror attacks, the Netherlands is just one of numerous countries witnessing a growth in anti immigrant, anti Islam sentiment.
"The last election was largely about dealing with the economic crisis. Now that the economy has recovered, there is more room for cultural issues again," he said.
The focus on Dutch culture has sparked a debate on what Dutch values actually are.
On the right parties have referred to the country'sJudeo Christianheritage and national iconography, while on the left leaders haveemphasisedtolerance and empathy. Both sides have stressed the importance of Freedom.
But Dr van Ham says the underlying issues driving voting behaviour are not confined to the Netherlands.
"Europe and America are seeing a rise of the far right and it will come to Australia I'm sure," she said.
"There are several clear causes of that First there's a rise in economic inequality and the impact of globalisation, that's led to voters feeling as if their national politicians can't properly represent their replica birkin handbags interests."
"Then, there's the failure of the Labour replica hermes handbags outlet parties on the left to represent the interests of those voters they've shifted to the centre and embraced neoliberalism, letting go of the welfare state a little bit."
"There's a feeling among some citizensthat national politicians are losing control to multinational corporationsand to the European Union."
Matt Sherwood lead strategist at Perpetual Investments and one of the few to correctly predict Trump's victory says the rise of the far right is becoming a global phenomenon in established democracies.
"All around the world governments are struggling to find jobs for lower skilled workers but it's not an economic problem, it's a social problem," he said.
Voters bitter about globalisation and immigration are misdirecting their frustration, Sherwood says, and the prescription of closing borders isn't going to help.
"The jobs Trump and others talk about were lost to technology, so they won't be coming back," he said.
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How happy and excited are you when you celebrate something?
You celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, holidays all kinds of personal and special occasions. You give a card or gift, call the person, throw a party, go to lunch or dinner and surprise someone with your love. You think and feel so deeply for the person or people, and it gives you out and out, crashing joy. I had to call right away to wish you happy anniversary!" It was 100 percent lush, open gratitude.
The power of celebration is this you are grateful and happy.
Celebration and gratitude are one and the same.
When you celebrate someone's birthday you're saying "I'm grateful you were born."
An anniversary "I love you. I'm grateful for our marriage."
Holidays Thanksgiving, the Forth of July and Bastille Day, all hail gratitude "We're independent. We celebrate living free of tyranny."
All religions celebrate a higher being. something larger than us. a mighty force that created Hermes belt replica paris the world. Terms don't matter. Call it God, reality or the universe.
Art is a celebration Music like Mozart's, "Alleluia," is utter praise of the world in one word, sung in many different ways.
The musical group, Three Dog Night, sings "Celebrate, celebrate, dance to the music. "
Modern dance icon Martha Graham expresses it this way,
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
Vincent Van Gogh painted "Starry Night" and "Sunflowers" out of love.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Poet, Walt Whitman said,
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Parades, customs, prayer, shows, rites, biographies, commemorations, forgiveness, traditions, flower blossoms, friendship. are all an intricate part of gratitude and celebration.
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Look around you right now. There is something to celebrate; many things to celebrate. Pick one and start an active moment of celebration, an object of gratitude, a taste of celebration, a touch of gratitude, a smell of celebration or a sound of gratitude.
There's the sun. It rises each day and celebrates with light, heat and growth. We depend on the sun for life. Its brilliance and warmth is a celebration. The power is amazing and gratifying all at once.
Doing the things you love is a way of celebrating and participating in the power and love of gratitude.
For me it's meditation, gardening, writing, music, being in love and playing with my dog, Tulla. She wakes up every day and replica Hermes belts france always has celebration in her spirit. She's not moody or tired. She looks forward to breakfast, going outside, and then brings a toy to play. racing and fetching. She shares her happy self. That's gratitude.
Also don't limit your love to just an intimate circle of friends and family. What about spreading celebration to other people, heading into universal love and appreciation? Just like Earth Day.
Where's the celebration and gratitude in struggle and pain?
Things can be tragic and unbearable in life sometimes, but when you get through it there is tremendous relief. You're changed. You learn and grow and become strong. The relief is celebration and gratitude for living through hell.
Even in death, we celebrate a person's life and meaning. Pain and loss have celebration because you feel so much, no matter fake hermes belt price how bad it may seem. The agony and hurt comes from loving and missing. When we remember and honor the life of someone, their memory is a celebration. You have gratitude to them for being in your life and your loving memories are a personal celebration and tribute to them.
Wikipedia says, "A funeral is a ceremony for celebrating, respecting, sanctifying, or remembering the life of a person who has died."
How happy and excited are you when you celebrate something?
You celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, holidays all kinds of personal and special occasions. You give a card or gift, call the person, throw a party, go to lunch or dinner and surprise someone with your love. You think and feel so deeply for the person or people, and it gives you out and out, crashing joy. I had to call right away to wish you happy anniversary!" It was 100 percent lush, open gratitude.
The power of celebration is this you are grateful and happy.
Celebration and gratitude are one and the same.
When you celebrate someone's birthday you're saying "I'm grateful you were born."
An anniversary "I love you. I'm grateful for our marriage."
Holidays Thanksgiving, the Forth of July and Bastille Day, all hail gratitude "We're independent. We celebrate living free of tyranny."
All religions celebrate a higher being. something larger than us. a mighty force that created Hermes belt replica paris the world. Terms don't matter. Call it God, reality or the universe.
Art is a celebration Music like Mozart's, "Alleluia," is utter praise of the world in one word, sung in many different ways.
The musical group, Three Dog Night, sings "Celebrate, celebrate, dance to the music. "
Modern dance icon Martha Graham expresses it this way,
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
Vincent Van Gogh painted "Starry Night" and "Sunflowers" out of love.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Poet, Walt Whitman said,
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Parades, customs, prayer, shows, rites, biographies, commemorations, forgiveness, traditions, flower blossoms, friendship. are all an intricate part of gratitude and celebration.
Celebration is active, specific and abundant, as you hermes mens belt replica can see from these examples. Gratitude is simply another word for it. Celebration is gratitude.
Look around you right now. There is something to celebrate; many things to celebrate. Pick one and start an active moment of celebration, an object of gratitude, a taste of celebration, a touch of gratitude, a smell of celebration or a sound of gratitude.
There's the sun. It rises each day and celebrates with light, heat and growth. We depend on the sun for life. Its brilliance and warmth is a celebration. The power is amazing and gratifying all at once.
Doing the things you love is a way of celebrating and participating in the power and love of gratitude.
For me it's meditation, gardening, writing, music, being in love and playing with my dog, Tulla. She wakes up every day and replica Hermes belts france always has celebration in her spirit. She's not moody or tired. She looks forward to breakfast, going outside, and then brings a toy to play. racing and fetching. She shares her happy self. That's gratitude.
Also don't limit your love to just an intimate circle of friends and family. What about spreading celebration to other people, heading into universal love and appreciation? Just like Earth Day.
Where's the celebration and gratitude in struggle and pain?
Things can be tragic and unbearable in life sometimes, but when you get through it there is tremendous relief. You're changed. You learn and grow and become strong. The relief is celebration and gratitude for living through hell.
Even in death, we celebrate a person's life and meaning. Pain and loss have celebration because you feel so much, no matter fake hermes belt price how bad it may seem. The agony and hurt comes from loving and missing. When we remember and honor the life of someone, their memory is a celebration. You have gratitude to them for being in your life and your loving memories are a personal celebration and tribute to them.
Wikipedia says, "A funeral is a ceremony for celebrating, respecting, sanctifying, or remembering the life of a person who has died."
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The Kinder Morgan road show came to Colwood's Juan de Fuca rec centre Thursday, the latest stop in a three month, 30 city series of info sessions on the company's proposal to twin its 59 year old Trans Mountain pipeline from imitation hermes belt on sale Alberta to Burnaby.
The Kinder Morgan proposal is often portrayed as Northern Gateway Lite, slightly less controversial than Enbridge's dream of a pipeline to Kitimat. If you were to bet on one of the two being approved, the smart money would be on the former. It would mostly follow an existing route, not carve a new path like Northern Gateway.
The tankers' passage from terminal to open water is more established, too, though the Vancouver Victoria corridor is obviously much more heavily populated. That's the bit that has Islanders asking what's in it for them.
The attraction for oil companies is obvious.
They already fill five or six tankers a month at Burnaby's Westridge terminal, 80 per cent of them heading for California, another 10 per cent off to Asia.
That number would rise to 25 tankers a month under the expansion plan, with half the ships Asia bound.
Kinder Morgan talks about stringent safety measures: Double hulled tankers, tethered to tugs from Vancouver through Haro Strait, two pilots on board until they clear Race Rocks. The extra tankers would boost the number of large vessels in Juan de Fuca Strait by just six per cent.
But that's hardly reassuring to opponents. To them, it just highlights how vulnerable our waters are to the oil equivalent of the Big One. It would only take a single spill to Exxon Valdez our shores.
Stand on the beach and you can already see a steady stream of tankers, roughly one a day, carrying Alaska crude to four refineries in Puget Sound. They're among the roughly 9,000 big ships transiting Juan de Fuca Strait each year, burning heavy bunker fuel.
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A smattering of sign waving protesters huddled at hermes black belt knockoff the entrance to the Juan de Fuca fieldhouse, where 49 people attended Thursday's open house, but there was no sequel to Wednesday's little drama at the Cedar Hill rec centre. Company reps ended that information session early after protesters took down Kinder Morgan's signage and replaced it with their own (Saanich's version of total anarchy).
Kinder Morgan expects to make a formal application to the National Energy Board late next year. If approved, the expanded line would begin operating in 2017.
After replica Hermes belt france all the enviro alarm bells, after all the corporate spin, theessential question remains: Is the Kinder Morgan pipeline worth the risk?
Or, to be more precise (and perfectly parochial), is it worth the risk to Victoria, which would see another 20 oil tankers a month slide by its front door?
The Kinder Morgan road show came to Colwood's Juan de Fuca rec centre Thursday, the latest stop in a three month, 30 city series of info sessions on the company's proposal to twin its 59 year old Trans Mountain pipeline from imitation hermes belt on sale Alberta to Burnaby.
The Kinder Morgan proposal is often portrayed as Northern Gateway Lite, slightly less controversial than Enbridge's dream of a pipeline to Kitimat. If you were to bet on one of the two being approved, the smart money would be on the former. It would mostly follow an existing route, not carve a new path like Northern Gateway.
The tankers' passage from terminal to open water is more established, too, though the Vancouver Victoria corridor is obviously much more heavily populated. That's the bit that has Islanders asking what's in it for them.
The attraction for oil companies is obvious.
They already fill five or six tankers a month at Burnaby's Westridge terminal, 80 per cent of them heading for California, another 10 per cent off to Asia.
That number would rise to 25 tankers a month under the expansion plan, with half the ships Asia bound.
Kinder Morgan talks about stringent safety measures: Double hulled tankers, tethered to tugs from Vancouver through Haro Strait, two pilots on board until they clear Race Rocks. The extra tankers would boost the number of large vessels in Juan de Fuca Strait by just six per cent.
But that's hardly reassuring to opponents. To them, it just highlights how vulnerable our waters are to the oil equivalent of the Big One. It would only take a single spill to Exxon Valdez our shores.
Stand on the beach and you can already see a steady stream of tankers, roughly one a day, carrying Alaska crude to four refineries in Puget Sound. They're among the roughly 9,000 big ships transiting Juan de Fuca Strait each year, burning heavy bunker fuel.
We haven't seen a significant fuel spill since the Japanese fish processor Tenyo Maru collided with a Chinese freighter off the entrance to the strait in 1991, but there have been hermes belts Knockoff recent near misses.
In November 2009, the bulk carrier Hebei was blown onto a reef near Mayne Island. Little was made of the incident at the time, but the Pacific States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force a creation of government later said we dodged a bullet, that there was a high risk of a fuel tank rupture that would have gunked up both sides of the strait.
In 2010, a South Korean captain was jailed after getting caught drunk driving a freighter just west of Port Angeles.
A smattering of sign waving protesters huddled at hermes black belt knockoff the entrance to the Juan de Fuca fieldhouse, where 49 people attended Thursday's open house, but there was no sequel to Wednesday's little drama at the Cedar Hill rec centre. Company reps ended that information session early after protesters took down Kinder Morgan's signage and replaced it with their own (Saanich's version of total anarchy).
Kinder Morgan expects to make a formal application to the National Energy Board late next year. If approved, the expanded line would begin operating in 2017.
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largest hunting and fishing organization said Thursday it expects the province to require hunters to remove edible portions of a grizzly bear carcass. The regulation is already in place for black bears and other large game animals. Wildlife Federation, said in an interview Thursday. that the unifying theme, the big picture we pushing. How do we make sure we have grizzlies 80 years from now? said that based on talks with provincial officials, the regulation should be adopted later this year. auditor general office is going to investigate grizzly bear management in the province. said the federation supports more frequent inventories of grizzly populations as well as studies into cumulative impacts on the species, including habitat loss and traffic and railway related deaths.
A requirement to remove edible portions of a grizzly bear carcass from the field, touted by Green party MLA Andrew Weaver in a private member bill in 2015, is not expected to carry much weight with long standing opponents of the grizzly bear hunt.
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Premier Christy Clark has stood by the grizzly hunting despite repeated polls showing widespread public opposition to the blood sport. Thomson, minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, said in a written statement that the province all wildlife, including grizzly bears, on the principle of conservation first followed by First Nations needs. is closed to grizzly hunting, he said, adding the province has created three grizzly bear management areas in the Great Bear Rainforest totalling 1.16 million hectares, 470,000 of which were previously open for hunting.
bear hunting is the most carefully monitored hunt in the province, administered entirely through limited hunts for residents and a quota for guide outfitters, he said.
The province estimates the current grizzly population at 15,000, with an average 272 bears killed annually in the past five years by licensed hunters just under two per cent annually of the total replica hermes handbags outlet estimated population."We hope this investigation will answer troubling questions we've raised about failed government policy that is allowing trophy hunters to kill too many grizzlies," Moola said.
The study by scientists from fashion cheap hermes handbags Raincoast Conservation Foundation, Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria and the Hakai Institute was published in the peer reviewed journal PLOS ONE and analyzed 35 years of grizzly bear mortality data in the province. due to the trophy hunt.
"Decisions to expand the hunt in 2013 ran counter to our conclusions, casting doubt on the assertion that this is a science based hunt," added Kyle Artelle, a biologist with Raincoast. because of human impacts on habitat and other pressures. At least nine grizzly sub populations in the province, including the North Cascades grizzly population east of Vancouver, are now on the verge of elimination, they add. on where and how many grizzlies are shot in the province should be clear and available to anyone. epaper, Digital Access, Subscriber Rewards), please input your Print Newspaper subscription phone number and postal code.
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A requirement to remove edible portions of a grizzly bear carcass from the field, touted by Green party MLA Andrew Weaver in a private member bill in 2015, is not expected to carry much weight with long standing opponents of the grizzly bear hunt.
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motivated to shoot a grizzly for the thrill of it, I can understand how putting an additional replica birkin handbags obligation on them to remove the carcass is going to dissuade them from the practice. This is nowhere in line with the expectations of the vast majority of British Columbians to end the grizzly hunt. said he knows of resident grizzly hunters who eat the meat. call it grizzly bear hunting, he said. ham and pepperoni are phenomenal. He noted the meat must be well cooked to avoid contracting trichinosis, a roundworm infection. because it is world class. was involved in a 2009 study that showed that only about two per cent of resident limited entry hunters listed trophy hunting as their prime motivation for shooting wild game.
Premier Christy Clark has stood by the grizzly hunting despite repeated polls showing widespread public opposition to the blood sport. Thomson, minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, said in a written statement that the province all wildlife, including grizzly bears, on the principle of conservation first followed by First Nations needs. is closed to grizzly hunting, he said, adding the province has created three grizzly bear management areas in the Great Bear Rainforest totalling 1.16 million hectares, 470,000 of which were previously open for hunting.
bear hunting is the most carefully monitored hunt in the province, administered entirely through limited hunts for residents and a quota for guide outfitters, he said.
The province estimates the current grizzly population at 15,000, with an average 272 bears killed annually in the past five years by licensed hunters just under two per cent annually of the total replica hermes handbags outlet estimated population."We hope this investigation will answer troubling questions we've raised about failed government policy that is allowing trophy hunters to kill too many grizzlies," Moola said.
The study by scientists from fashion cheap hermes handbags Raincoast Conservation Foundation, Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria and the Hakai Institute was published in the peer reviewed journal PLOS ONE and analyzed 35 years of grizzly bear mortality data in the province. due to the trophy hunt.
"Decisions to expand the hunt in 2013 ran counter to our conclusions, casting doubt on the assertion that this is a science based hunt," added Kyle Artelle, a biologist with Raincoast. because of human impacts on habitat and other pressures. At least nine grizzly sub populations in the province, including the North Cascades grizzly population east of Vancouver, are now on the verge of elimination, they add. on where and how many grizzlies are shot in the province should be clear and available to anyone. epaper, Digital Access, Subscriber Rewards), please input your Print Newspaper subscription phone number and postal code.
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Some of the world's greatest leaders, from Napoleon Bonaparte and Winston Churchill to Bill Clinton and Margaret Thatcher, are said to have managed on just four to six hours' sleep a night, whereas the typical teenager finds it difficult to get out of bed in less than 10.
Newborn babies can sleep for up to 18 hours admittedly at irregular intervals whereas an elderly person may find it hard to sleep longer than six, although they often have to resort to the odd afternoon nap to make up for what they lacked at night.
Sleep is the quintessential ingredient of life. Every animal does it at some point in the 24 hour cycle and people who are forcibly deprived of sleep are effectively undergoing torture. But the big unanswered question is how much sleep do we actually need?
Some people seem happy with four or five hours, although most people would feel sleep deprived on less than six. Others need a good seven or eight hours of sleep and adolescents are renowned for extended kips.
So how much sleep is necessary for a healthy mind and body, and does this amount truly need to vary between people and age groups?
The latest study into sleep may help to resolve the issue with the discovery that certain people in the population carry the smallest of genetic mutations in a gene that appears to play a significant role in deciding just how much sleep human beings need.
Scientists studied an extended family in California and found that a mother and her daughter shared a life long habit of rising in the very early hours of the morning with no apparent ill effects. They routinely went to bed between 10.30pm and 11pm and got up between 4am and 4.30am.
The researchers Hermes birkin bags fake took blood samples from all members of the family and analysed their DNA for any signs that could explain this unusual behaviour. The tests revealed that the mother and her daughter did in fact share a tiny "point mutation" in a gene known as hDEC2, which is known to affect the regulation of other genes and has been implicated in the control of sleeping patterns fashion cheap hermes handbags in animals.
Other members of the family who followed a more conventional sleeping pattern were not found to have inherited the same mutation. These family members typically required the normal eight hours or so of sleep a night instead of the five to six hours of the mother and daughter.
Just to make sure that the hDEC2 mutation was truly involved in this unusual sleeping pattern, rather than a coincidental occurrence in the two women, the scientists went on to create genetically engineered mice with the same point mutation to the same gene. These mice also exhibited unusually short patterns of sleep, a feature not seen in ordinary mice.
"The implication from the study would be that there is a genetically wired system in our body to tell us how much sleep do we need," explained Ying Hui Fu, Professor of Neurology at the University of California in San Francisco, the study's head.
"Yet, we really don't know anything about how this is done. This discovery provides an opportunity for us to begin to probe into the pathway regulating our sleep quantity and need," said Professor Fu, whose study is published in the journal Science.
"It is not clear at the present time how this mutation can lead to short sleep quantity. This is one of the areas that we are pursuing actively," she said.
The scientific evidence suggesting that different people are genetically wired to require shorter than average periods of sleep goes back many years.
In 1999, for instance, scientists identified the existence of a gene or more specifically an inherited mutation within a gene that appeared to confer something called familial advanced sleep phase syndrome.
This is an inherited condition where people tend to go to bed early and get up early, which can also happen when people abandon normal sleeping routines, such as at the weekend and when on holiday. People who exhibit this all the time are known as "morning larks", to distinguish them from "night owls" at the other extreme who routinely go to bed late and get up late.
The scientists in this study, led by Christopher Jones of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, did not actually find the gene or its mutation they could only show that it must exist in the 29 people from three different families that they had studied.
People with advanced sleep phase syndrome, however, still sleep for the usual seven and a half to eight hours a night, it's just that their daily routine or "circadian rhythm" is shifted. Scientists believe that genetic mutations can also occur in the genes influencing this aspect of the 24 hour sleep wake cycle.
Sleep is a product of both circadian rhythm and another controlling factor that, put simply, measures the amount of sleep we have had. When we need sleep, this "homeostatic" mechanism makes us sleepy; when we've replica hermes handbags outlet had enough sleep, it tells us to wake up.
Professor Fu and her team suspect that the mutation they have found plays a role in the homeostatic mechanism that helps to control the amount of sleep we need. What the latest study tells us is that the actual quantity of sleep needed is partly under genetic control and that is the result of who our parents were, rather than what we do each day.
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Some of the world's greatest leaders, from Napoleon Bonaparte and Winston Churchill to Bill Clinton and Margaret Thatcher, are said to have managed on just four to six hours' sleep a night, whereas the typical teenager finds it difficult to get out of bed in less than 10.
Newborn babies can sleep for up to 18 hours admittedly at irregular intervals whereas an elderly person may find it hard to sleep longer than six, although they often have to resort to the odd afternoon nap to make up for what they lacked at night.
Sleep is the quintessential ingredient of life. Every animal does it at some point in the 24 hour cycle and people who are forcibly deprived of sleep are effectively undergoing torture. But the big unanswered question is how much sleep do we actually need?
Some people seem happy with four or five hours, although most people would feel sleep deprived on less than six. Others need a good seven or eight hours of sleep and adolescents are renowned for extended kips.
So how much sleep is necessary for a healthy mind and body, and does this amount truly need to vary between people and age groups?
The latest study into sleep may help to resolve the issue with the discovery that certain people in the population carry the smallest of genetic mutations in a gene that appears to play a significant role in deciding just how much sleep human beings need.
Scientists studied an extended family in California and found that a mother and her daughter shared a life long habit of rising in the very early hours of the morning with no apparent ill effects. They routinely went to bed between 10.30pm and 11pm and got up between 4am and 4.30am.
The researchers Hermes birkin bags fake took blood samples from all members of the family and analysed their DNA for any signs that could explain this unusual behaviour. The tests revealed that the mother and her daughter did in fact share a tiny "point mutation" in a gene known as hDEC2, which is known to affect the regulation of other genes and has been implicated in the control of sleeping patterns fashion cheap hermes handbags in animals.
Other members of the family who followed a more conventional sleeping pattern were not found to have inherited the same mutation. These family members typically required the normal eight hours or so of sleep a night instead of the five to six hours of the mother and daughter.
Just to make sure that the hDEC2 mutation was truly involved in this unusual sleeping pattern, rather than a coincidental occurrence in the two women, the scientists went on to create genetically engineered mice with the same point mutation to the same gene. These mice also exhibited unusually short patterns of sleep, a feature not seen in ordinary mice.
"The implication from the study would be that there is a genetically wired system in our body to tell us how much sleep do we need," explained Ying Hui Fu, Professor of Neurology at the University of California in San Francisco, the study's head.
"Yet, we really don't know anything about how this is done. This discovery provides an opportunity for us to begin to probe into the pathway regulating our sleep quantity and need," said Professor Fu, whose study is published in the journal Science.
"It is not clear at the present time how this mutation can lead to short sleep quantity. This is one of the areas that we are pursuing actively," she said.
The scientific evidence suggesting that different people are genetically wired to require shorter than average periods of sleep goes back many years.
In 1999, for instance, scientists identified the existence of a gene or more specifically an inherited mutation within a gene that appeared to confer something called familial advanced sleep phase syndrome.
This is an inherited condition where people tend to go to bed early and get up early, which can also happen when people abandon normal sleeping routines, such as at the weekend and when on holiday. People who exhibit this all the time are known as "morning larks", to distinguish them from "night owls" at the other extreme who routinely go to bed late and get up late.
The scientists in this study, led by Christopher Jones of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, did not actually find the gene or its mutation they could only show that it must exist in the 29 people from three different families that they had studied.
People with advanced sleep phase syndrome, however, still sleep for the usual seven and a half to eight hours a night, it's just that their daily routine or "circadian rhythm" is shifted. Scientists believe that genetic mutations can also occur in the genes influencing this aspect of the 24 hour sleep wake cycle.
Sleep is a product of both circadian rhythm and another controlling factor that, put simply, measures the amount of sleep we have had. When we need sleep, this "homeostatic" mechanism makes us sleepy; when we've replica hermes handbags outlet had enough sleep, it tells us to wake up.
Professor Fu and her team suspect that the mutation they have found plays a role in the homeostatic mechanism that helps to control the amount of sleep we need. What the latest study tells us is that the actual quantity of sleep needed is partly under genetic control and that is the result of who our parents were, rather than what we do each day.
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When the Customer Won't Pay
Chances are most of your customers pay you within a reasonable amount of time. But sooner or later you will have to deal with a customer who pays very slowly or not at all. What can you do? And just importantly, what can't you do to collect the money owed you? Here is what you need to know.Fend off collections problems from the start by running credit checks on new clients and by discussing your prices, service fees and payment requirements with new customers before you do their work.If you work on a retainer basis or provide services under a contract, make it clear what services you will charge for, what deliverables the customer will get for the fee, and what work will incur additional charges. Be sure to let the customer know how often you will bill and how long they will have Hermes belts replica paris to pay each bill. Put it all in writing and be sure to include a section about your rights and responsibilities regarding ownership of products, intellectual property or records of work you perform if bills are not paid. (Have your attorney draw up a boilerplate agreement that will work for most customers or clients.)Related: Creative Cash Flow StrategiesKeep an eye on receivablesSend out your invoices promptly at regularly scheduled intervals. Be sure the client can tell that your mailing is not just another routine reminder. You may want to stamp the envelope "Invoice Enclosed" so it doesn't accidentally get thrown out.Send out reminder notices promptly to any client who doesn't pay within a predetermined time frame usually ten to 30 days.If a client still doesn't pay after reminders are sent, have someone from your accounts receivable department call the late payer and try to determine the cause. If you don't have an "accounts receivable department" have a spouse, secretary or bookkeeper play the role. If the customer is one you want to keep and is worth keeping, using such an intermediary will make it easier to maintain a good working relationship with the customer after the bills get paid.If the company or individual is having a financial problem, offer them a chance to pay you in installments.If those initial attempts at collecting do no good, consider imitation hermes mens belt more aggressive means to collect what you are owed:File suit in small claims court. You don't need to hire an attorney to sue in small claims court, so if the client is nearby (you have to go court where the client is located), this can be a low cost way of pursuing your claims.Contact a collection agency in your state and let the collection agency tackle collection. Find out in advance what the collection agency will charge for its services and call the Better Business Bureau to make sure there are no unresolved complaints against the collection agency you plan to deal with.Have the collection agency report the debtor to credit reporting agencies.Retain the services of an attorney if the amount is significant enough to warrant the attorney's fees and attention.RELATED: Small Business Collection Strategies That WorkWhat NOT to doDon't tell your friends at the weekly Rotary meeting that the customer is a deadbeat, hermes classic belt replica and don't post to Facebook and Twitter that Hermes belt replica your customer is a bad credit risk. If you do things like that, you can get yourself sued. You can also get yourself into legal hot water by making threats, using harassing or abusive language, making collection calls at odd hours or too often, or by making false statements about what will happen if the debtor doesn't pay.
Chances are most of your customers pay you within a reasonable amount of time. But sooner or later you will have to deal with a customer who pays very slowly or not at all. What can you do? And just importantly, what can't you do to collect the money owed you? Here is what you need to know.Fend off collections problems from the start by running credit checks on new clients and by discussing your prices, service fees and payment requirements with new customers before you do their work.If you work on a retainer basis or provide services under a contract, make it clear what services you will charge for, what deliverables the customer will get for the fee, and what work will incur additional charges. Be sure to let the customer know how often you will bill and how long they will have Hermes belts replica paris to pay each bill. Put it all in writing and be sure to include a section about your rights and responsibilities regarding ownership of products, intellectual property or records of work you perform if bills are not paid. (Have your attorney draw up a boilerplate agreement that will work for most customers or clients.)Related: Creative Cash Flow StrategiesKeep an eye on receivablesSend out your invoices promptly at regularly scheduled intervals. Be sure the client can tell that your mailing is not just another routine reminder. You may want to stamp the envelope "Invoice Enclosed" so it doesn't accidentally get thrown out.Send out reminder notices promptly to any client who doesn't pay within a predetermined time frame usually ten to 30 days.If a client still doesn't pay after reminders are sent, have someone from your accounts receivable department call the late payer and try to determine the cause. If you don't have an "accounts receivable department" have a spouse, secretary or bookkeeper play the role. If the customer is one you want to keep and is worth keeping, using such an intermediary will make it easier to maintain a good working relationship with the customer after the bills get paid.If the company or individual is having a financial problem, offer them a chance to pay you in installments.If those initial attempts at collecting do no good, consider imitation hermes mens belt more aggressive means to collect what you are owed:File suit in small claims court. You don't need to hire an attorney to sue in small claims court, so if the client is nearby (you have to go court where the client is located), this can be a low cost way of pursuing your claims.Contact a collection agency in your state and let the collection agency tackle collection. Find out in advance what the collection agency will charge for its services and call the Better Business Bureau to make sure there are no unresolved complaints against the collection agency you plan to deal with.Have the collection agency report the debtor to credit reporting agencies.Retain the services of an attorney if the amount is significant enough to warrant the attorney's fees and attention.RELATED: Small Business Collection Strategies That WorkWhat NOT to doDon't tell your friends at the weekly Rotary meeting that the customer is a deadbeat, hermes classic belt replica and don't post to Facebook and Twitter that Hermes belt replica your customer is a bad credit risk. If you do things like that, you can get yourself sued. You can also get yourself into legal hot water by making threats, using harassing or abusive language, making collection calls at odd hours or too often, or by making false statements about what will happen if the debtor doesn't pay.
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Who will reign in Flanders
The race around the region of Flanders in northern Belgium has almost a mythical status in road cycling. Many races take in the area and it's a staple of any preparation for the monument to include the cobbled semi classics. Races like E3 Harelbeke, Gent Wevelgem and Omloop het Nieuwsblad take on extra significance as indicators for the 'Ronde van Vlaanderen'.
The 2017 Tour of Flanders will be broadcast 2 April on SBS Viceland and streamed live on Cycling Central from 9.20 pm AEDT.
All the climbs that make up the Tour of Flanders route have been seen before already and the course has largely remained the same from last year's race. The final 75 kilometres is exactly the same as last year and again, it looks like the double punch of the Oude Kwaremont and Paterberg is again set to be the scene of a lot of the action. It is the Tour of Flanders though and attacks can come at any moment and inattention is punished severely.
It seems crude and simplistic to break down a race that contains 18 climbs, 260 kilometres total distance covered and 202 riders as a race between two. Nonetheless, the dominant narrative heading into the Ronde has been the anticipation of the rivalry between the Olympic champion Greg van Avermaet (BMC) and World champion Peter Sagan (Bora Hansgrohe).
Sagan will clip in at the start as defending champion after out duelling Fabian Cancellara last year in a performance for the ages and as always comes into the race seemingly in a great position to win. Of course he is a perennial contender to win any race that he lines up in and it seems that he has been feeling that pressure more in recent weeks.
At Milan San Remo, he remarked that Michal Kwiatkowski (Team Sky) owed him a beer after sitting on his wheel in the final kilometres to take the final victory in the sprint before getting worked up over Niki Terpstra's (QuickStep Floors) lack of cooperation at Gent Wevelgem when van Avermaet and Jens Keukeleire (Orica Scott) made the race winning move.
Van Avermaet is a very different character to the bombastic Slovak, as reserved as Sagan is out going, but he comes into the race with supreme confidence after taking out a unique triptych of semi classic races. Omloop het Nieuwsblad, E3 Harelbeke and Gent Wevelgem have all ended up in wins for the Belgian star and he's coming into the Ronde van Vlaanderen with arguably the best form of his life.
Last year's race ended in tears by the side of the road, nursing a broken collarbone and shattered dreams. He'll get a chance to make amends this year and looks in supreme shape to do so. Going up against Sagan won't faze van Avermaet, he is one of a select few that will back himself in a sprint after 250 hermes mens belt replica kilometres against the world champion and by no means will he just sit back and wait for a bunch kick.
The problem that both the favourites will share is that they are 200 other riders on the startlist equally keen to see themselves win the race and they don't have the strongest teams to support their bid. Other riders will feel that they have a great chance at causing an upset as van Avermaet and Sagan can't afford to chase down every move and it could well be a surprise winner that spoils the party for the big names.
Luke Durbridge (Orica Scott) is the great Australian hope in the race, his form in the last month of classics has been nothing short of outstanding and he's confirmed that he deserves to be mentioned in the top echelon of contenders for the race. A sixth at Strade Bianche was followed by two fourths in Dwars dor Vlaanderen and E3 Harelbeke and his form is topping off nicely with a series of strong showing in Drieesdage de Panne over the last few days.
The power which once saw Durbridge regarded as one of the top time triallists going around has been put to good use with his improved grit and endurance and it's got to the point where he could spring a surprise over the more established classics stars. He will have to arrive at the finish solo, the Australian has never been renowned as having a great turn of pace in a sprint.
The strongest team in the race will be the Belgian squad QuickStep Floors who boast former three time winner Tom Boonen along with a squad of hopefuls. Boonen is reaching the end of his career but still has plenty of fight left in him and it would be folly to expect anything less than a full gas effort from 'Tommeke'.
He will be aided by Niki Terpstra, who finished second in 2015 and has been in the Top 10 four times in the past five editions. Terpstra is arguably the most consistent rider in Flanders, a race where ill chance and missed opportunity mar even the most blessed riders. Yves Lampaert, Zdenek Stybar and Phillipe Gilbert are all other potential winners and the QuickStep Floors squad will be very unhappy if they aren't at the pointy end of the race with multiple options for the win.
The other Belgian squad, Lotto Soudal, will be keen to show their numbers in any final split as well. They don't quite have the pedigree or sheer numbers of QuickStep but they have a bit more of the surprise factor about them and an aggressive mindset that should serve them well. 23 year old Tiesj Benoot came from nowhere in 2015 to finish fifth as a neo pro and will deservedly take leadership into the race here after consistent showings so far this season. With names like Jurgen Roelandts, Andre Greipel and Jens Debusschere alongside him, expect the red colours of Lotto Soudal to have a significant impact in shaping the race, particular if they work with QuickStep.
2015 winner Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) may not be the rider everyone is talking about heading into the race but that is when the big Norwegian performs at his best. He surprised to win his first monument at Milan San Remo then caught everyone except Niki Terpstra napping with a superb attack in Flanders to win in convincing fashion.
He looks Hermes replica belt paris to be coming into good form, his fourth at Milan San Remo has been franked with good showings at Drieesdage de Panne and he'll be a dark horse. He's said in the past that he prefers the hellingen of Flanders over the pave of Roubaix in a week's time, so it would be little surprise if Kristoff is aiming to peak his form here.
The other sprinter come classics specialist is John Degenkolb (Trek Segafredo). Conversely to Kristoff, he's a bigger fan of the Northern France cobbles than the ones in Belgium but it wouldn't be smart to hermes brown belt imitation write him off either way. His comeback from the horrific collision with a car in early 2015 has been slowly gaining momentum and this will be the first proper peak of form for the German. He'll be utterly determined to make up for lost time and there are few as gritty and determined as Degenkolb in the hard races.
The 153.3 kilometre women's event will have its own live stream and hopefully the host broadcaster switches over to live pictures whilst the men's race is still getting going to watch the decisive kilometres in the finale. From an Australian perspective, it Hermes belts replica paris should prove to be great viewing as Orica Scott has been racing with a very attacking mindset over the spring classics season.
The field is without a standout favourite this year, Boels Dolmans haven't been the dominant powerhouse of previous years and there isn't the domination of a name like Marianne Vos (WM3 Energie) or Lizzie Deignan (Boels Dolmans).
Elisa Longo Borghini (Wiggle High5) probably deserves top billing as a former winner and one of the most consistent performers in Flanders over recent seasons. Her dramatic Strade Bianche win was a while ago however, and she hasn't been in quite the same form since.
That will open the race up for names like Katarzyna Niewiadoma (WM3 Energie), Ellena Cecchini (Canyon SRAM) Ellen van Dijk and Lucinda Brand (both Sunweb). Maybe even a strong sprinter like Lotta Lepisto (Cervelo Bigla), Amalie Didereksen (Boels Dolmans), Chloe Hosking (Ale Cippolini), Jolien D'Hoore (Wiggle High5) or Coryn Rivera (Sunweb) can survive the cobbled climbs and make everyone else in the field nervous about taking them to a reduced bunch finish.
Regardless of the name that crosses the line first, the Ronde van Vlaanderen always throws up action, melodrama and nail biting racing and is rightly regarded as one of the best days of racing on the calendar.
The race around the region of Flanders in northern Belgium has almost a mythical status in road cycling. Many races take in the area and it's a staple of any preparation for the monument to include the cobbled semi classics. Races like E3 Harelbeke, Gent Wevelgem and Omloop het Nieuwsblad take on extra significance as indicators for the 'Ronde van Vlaanderen'.
The 2017 Tour of Flanders will be broadcast 2 April on SBS Viceland and streamed live on Cycling Central from 9.20 pm AEDT.
All the climbs that make up the Tour of Flanders route have been seen before already and the course has largely remained the same from last year's race. The final 75 kilometres is exactly the same as last year and again, it looks like the double punch of the Oude Kwaremont and Paterberg is again set to be the scene of a lot of the action. It is the Tour of Flanders though and attacks can come at any moment and inattention is punished severely.
It seems crude and simplistic to break down a race that contains 18 climbs, 260 kilometres total distance covered and 202 riders as a race between two. Nonetheless, the dominant narrative heading into the Ronde has been the anticipation of the rivalry between the Olympic champion Greg van Avermaet (BMC) and World champion Peter Sagan (Bora Hansgrohe).
Sagan will clip in at the start as defending champion after out duelling Fabian Cancellara last year in a performance for the ages and as always comes into the race seemingly in a great position to win. Of course he is a perennial contender to win any race that he lines up in and it seems that he has been feeling that pressure more in recent weeks.
At Milan San Remo, he remarked that Michal Kwiatkowski (Team Sky) owed him a beer after sitting on his wheel in the final kilometres to take the final victory in the sprint before getting worked up over Niki Terpstra's (QuickStep Floors) lack of cooperation at Gent Wevelgem when van Avermaet and Jens Keukeleire (Orica Scott) made the race winning move.
Van Avermaet is a very different character to the bombastic Slovak, as reserved as Sagan is out going, but he comes into the race with supreme confidence after taking out a unique triptych of semi classic races. Omloop het Nieuwsblad, E3 Harelbeke and Gent Wevelgem have all ended up in wins for the Belgian star and he's coming into the Ronde van Vlaanderen with arguably the best form of his life.
Last year's race ended in tears by the side of the road, nursing a broken collarbone and shattered dreams. He'll get a chance to make amends this year and looks in supreme shape to do so. Going up against Sagan won't faze van Avermaet, he is one of a select few that will back himself in a sprint after 250 hermes mens belt replica kilometres against the world champion and by no means will he just sit back and wait for a bunch kick.
The problem that both the favourites will share is that they are 200 other riders on the startlist equally keen to see themselves win the race and they don't have the strongest teams to support their bid. Other riders will feel that they have a great chance at causing an upset as van Avermaet and Sagan can't afford to chase down every move and it could well be a surprise winner that spoils the party for the big names.
Luke Durbridge (Orica Scott) is the great Australian hope in the race, his form in the last month of classics has been nothing short of outstanding and he's confirmed that he deserves to be mentioned in the top echelon of contenders for the race. A sixth at Strade Bianche was followed by two fourths in Dwars dor Vlaanderen and E3 Harelbeke and his form is topping off nicely with a series of strong showing in Drieesdage de Panne over the last few days.
The power which once saw Durbridge regarded as one of the top time triallists going around has been put to good use with his improved grit and endurance and it's got to the point where he could spring a surprise over the more established classics stars. He will have to arrive at the finish solo, the Australian has never been renowned as having a great turn of pace in a sprint.
The strongest team in the race will be the Belgian squad QuickStep Floors who boast former three time winner Tom Boonen along with a squad of hopefuls. Boonen is reaching the end of his career but still has plenty of fight left in him and it would be folly to expect anything less than a full gas effort from 'Tommeke'.
He will be aided by Niki Terpstra, who finished second in 2015 and has been in the Top 10 four times in the past five editions. Terpstra is arguably the most consistent rider in Flanders, a race where ill chance and missed opportunity mar even the most blessed riders. Yves Lampaert, Zdenek Stybar and Phillipe Gilbert are all other potential winners and the QuickStep Floors squad will be very unhappy if they aren't at the pointy end of the race with multiple options for the win.
The other Belgian squad, Lotto Soudal, will be keen to show their numbers in any final split as well. They don't quite have the pedigree or sheer numbers of QuickStep but they have a bit more of the surprise factor about them and an aggressive mindset that should serve them well. 23 year old Tiesj Benoot came from nowhere in 2015 to finish fifth as a neo pro and will deservedly take leadership into the race here after consistent showings so far this season. With names like Jurgen Roelandts, Andre Greipel and Jens Debusschere alongside him, expect the red colours of Lotto Soudal to have a significant impact in shaping the race, particular if they work with QuickStep.
2015 winner Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) may not be the rider everyone is talking about heading into the race but that is when the big Norwegian performs at his best. He surprised to win his first monument at Milan San Remo then caught everyone except Niki Terpstra napping with a superb attack in Flanders to win in convincing fashion.
He looks Hermes replica belt paris to be coming into good form, his fourth at Milan San Remo has been franked with good showings at Drieesdage de Panne and he'll be a dark horse. He's said in the past that he prefers the hellingen of Flanders over the pave of Roubaix in a week's time, so it would be little surprise if Kristoff is aiming to peak his form here.
The other sprinter come classics specialist is John Degenkolb (Trek Segafredo). Conversely to Kristoff, he's a bigger fan of the Northern France cobbles than the ones in Belgium but it wouldn't be smart to hermes brown belt imitation write him off either way. His comeback from the horrific collision with a car in early 2015 has been slowly gaining momentum and this will be the first proper peak of form for the German. He'll be utterly determined to make up for lost time and there are few as gritty and determined as Degenkolb in the hard races.
The 153.3 kilometre women's event will have its own live stream and hopefully the host broadcaster switches over to live pictures whilst the men's race is still getting going to watch the decisive kilometres in the finale. From an Australian perspective, it Hermes belts replica paris should prove to be great viewing as Orica Scott has been racing with a very attacking mindset over the spring classics season.
The field is without a standout favourite this year, Boels Dolmans haven't been the dominant powerhouse of previous years and there isn't the domination of a name like Marianne Vos (WM3 Energie) or Lizzie Deignan (Boels Dolmans).
Elisa Longo Borghini (Wiggle High5) probably deserves top billing as a former winner and one of the most consistent performers in Flanders over recent seasons. Her dramatic Strade Bianche win was a while ago however, and she hasn't been in quite the same form since.
That will open the race up for names like Katarzyna Niewiadoma (WM3 Energie), Ellena Cecchini (Canyon SRAM) Ellen van Dijk and Lucinda Brand (both Sunweb). Maybe even a strong sprinter like Lotta Lepisto (Cervelo Bigla), Amalie Didereksen (Boels Dolmans), Chloe Hosking (Ale Cippolini), Jolien D'Hoore (Wiggle High5) or Coryn Rivera (Sunweb) can survive the cobbled climbs and make everyone else in the field nervous about taking them to a reduced bunch finish.
Regardless of the name that crosses the line first, the Ronde van Vlaanderen always throws up action, melodrama and nail biting racing and is rightly regarded as one of the best days of racing on the calendar.
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