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Ker starec ne poseka drevesa, mu ptica nanosi drv … Pripoveduje: Janez Starina. Turinska ljudska pravljica. Posneto v studiih Radiotelevizije Ljubljana 1977.

Zarasai įsikūrę ant kalvos virš septynių ežerų. Su gamta, kultūriniu ar Pirmojo pasaulinio karo paveldu galima susipažinti keliaujant pažintiniais maršrutais tiek sausuma, tiek vandeniu.Šį kartą renkamės vandenį! Po Zarasų ežeryną laivą plukdo ir pasakoja istorikas Ramūnas Keršys, su archeologiniais tyrinėjimų darbais, pažintiniu šventatakio taku supažindina istorikas ir archeologas Šarūnas Subatavičius. Abu darbuojasi Zarasų turizmo ir verslo informaciniame centre.Šuoliai į vandenį nuo tramplino Zarasaičio ežere! Pirmą kartą Lietuvoje ir Baltijos šalyse į Zarasus suvažiuos sportininkai iš Lietuvos ir pasaulio. Jie surengs nematytą šou pasirodymą. Taip pat vyks edukacijos apie saugų elgesį vandenyje. Šio renginio idėjos autorius Ignas Barkauskas, daugkartinis Lietuvos šuolių į vandenį čempionas. Gabija Veronika Barkauskė, renginio Kings of Platform organizatorė. Žiūrovams kocertuos Lietuvos atlikėjai.Zarasaičio ežero paplūdimio kavinės Tramplinas savininkai Darius Kilbauskas ir Augustė Grinytė-Kilbauskienė dalijasi verslo pradžia.Ved. Jolanta Jurkūnienė

Send us a textWe are getting closer to Starrcade 1997! But where is Sting? Listen in and see if he makes an appearance tonight on this absolutely amazing episode of Monday Nitro from Knoxville TN! Hogan almost punches a Granny!!!!Make sure to join Drew and Arnold every Wednesday at 7:30pm est on Twitch.tv/AEWRPOD for the weekly Pre-Show! Follow us on Twitter and IG and TikTok: @AEWRPodWatch us on Youtube "Attitude Era Wrestling Review Podcast" Heartfül of Kerøsene - Jeff The Second https://youtu.be/ZbyFsGMjfRg Creative Commons Attribution Free Download / Stream: https://www.audiolibrary.com.co/jeff-the-second/heartful-of-kersene-instrumental Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/y-tbE2FIA1o Music: Savage by Alex-Productions https://soundcloud.com/alexproductionsmusic License: Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://audiolibrary.com.co/alex-productions/savage Music promoted by Audio Library: https://youtu.be/pILVwyuW3jw AEWR logo art by Russ from @Infectious_Pod

Jayant Bhandari, a private strategic resource investor that consults many high-net-worth investors and institutions, joins me to share his outlook on both gold and copper demand, as well as 3 different arbitrage trade opportunities in resource stock mergers, and the value proposition he sees in 2 gold exploration companies.   We start off in a general discussion about the macroeconomic and geopolitical tensions underlying the consistent bid in the gold price to higher levels.  At these higher prices he is not adding to his gold positions, but he is holding his positions bought at lower levels and anticipates pricing to keep advancing higher in most global currencies for medium to longer term.     We also discussed the higher average pricing we've seen in copper (and this interview was recorded on Monday before Trump floated the plan to place a 50% tariff on copper coming into the US).  Jayant focused on the economic health in China being more robust that often covered in Western media outlets, and that despites the US/China tariff war, he still anticipates their internal growth will underpin consistent demand for copper and many other commodities.   The balance of the discussion focuses on value arbitrage setups in 3 resource stocks being acquired, and opportunities in 2 gold explorers that he holds in his own portfolio. The companies that we reviewed are:   Arbitrage trade in the merger of Mandalay Resources Corp (TSX: MND, OTCQB: MNDJF) and Alkane Resources Limited (ASX: ALK) Arbitrage trade in the merger of Granite Creek Copper Ltd. (TSX-V:GCX) (OTCQB: GCXXF) and Cascadia Minerals Ltd. (TSX-V:CAM) (OTCQB:CAMNF) Arbitrage trade in the merger of Nuclear Fuels Inc. (CSE: NF) (OTCQX: NFUNF) and Premier American Uranium Inc. (TSXV: PUR, OTCQB: PAUIF) Value proposition in the exploration strategy for Aztec Minerals Corp. (TSX-V: AZT), (OTCQB: AZZTF). Value proposition in the exploration strategy for Irving Resources Inc. (CSE:IRV)(OTCQX:IRVRF).   Wrapping up, Jayant shares more information about why listeners may want to attend his Capitalism and Morality conference on August 22-23rd this year in Vancouver.  KER listeners can use coupon code KEReport25 for 10% off admission.*   https://jayantbhandari.com/capitalism-morality-2025/

Miten mieli reagoi, kun naapurustoa pommitetaan?   Miten hävittäjien tekemät, kattoja hipovat pelottelulennot ja droonien jatkuva surina yötaivaalla vaikuttavat perheisiin ja yhteisöihin?   Jaksossa keskustelemme Nina Lyytisen kanssa psykologin työstä sotilaallisten kriisien keskellä. Nina on työskennellyt pitkään vapaaehtoisena kriisialueilla, auttaen mm. Libanonin palestiinalaisleireissä ihmisiä, jotka ovat joutuneet lähtemään kotimaastaan, ja jäämään pakolaisslummeihin asumaan sukupolvien ajaksi.   Mistä ihmiset saavat voimaa ja toivoa?   Mitä psykologi voi enää tehdä, kun suurvoimat päättävät alkaa tappelemaan, jättäen perheet - isät, äidit ja lapset - jalkoihinsa?   Nina oli Libanonissa keikalla syksyllä -24, kun Israel aloitti aggressiivisen pommituskampanjan alueella. Hän kertoi, että alueella ollessaan tuli totuttua ajatukseen, että jos valtava räjähdys tapahtuu 1-2 kilometrin päässä, se "ei ole lähellä".   Koulutukseltaan Nina Lyytinen on erikoistunut trauma- ja kriisipsykologiaan, sekä työ- ja organisaatiopsykologiaan. Hän on myös Psykopodiaa-podcastin juontaja. Ohjelma on yksi Suomen kuunnelluimmista.   Oli kunnia saada tällainen vieras!  Jos pidätte jaksosta, suositelkaa eteenpäin. Tämä auttaa. Kiitos!   Jos haluat tukea Psykologien Sosiaalisen Vastuun Azima-hankkeen työtä voit lahjoittaa haluamasi summa  tilille FI33 8000 1900 7035 30, viitenumero 1656, Keräyslupa RA/2020/1295. PSYKOLOGIA-Podcast.Jos haluat tukea podcastiani, paras tapa on antaa arvosteluksi 5 tähteä ja vinkata tutuille sosiaalisessa mediassa!Se näyttää algoritmeille, että sisällöstäni tykätään.Voit myös seurata PSYKOLOGIA-Podcastia Spotifyssa.Suuret kiitokset.TikTok: @oskarimaggaInstagram: @oskarimaggaVerkkosivut: oskarimagga.comLogon tausta: yksityiskohta Marianne Laitin teoksesta Pimeät Vedet 1.

A kari HÖK szerint nem bocsátja el a Pázmány a melegek kirekesztése ellen kiálló oktatóit Orbánék így vennének cégeket befektetők elől Így lett milliárdos a lila sporttáskás magyar fiú, aki ma egy brit fintech céget vezet Kötelezettségszegési eljárás indul az árrés miatt Magyarország ellen: vaklárma vagy valós diszkrimináció? Beérett a lágy hibrid? – Ez most a legjobb ár/érték arányú Peugeot 408 Úgy emelkedtek a piacok, mintha minden rendben lenne a világon Kerülnéd a turistaáradatot? Ide utazz! Ursula von der Leyen túlélte a szerinte ,,ororsz bábok" által kezedeményezett bizalmi szavazást "Ha két héttel később kerülök kórházba, meghaltam volna" – a pokolból tért vissza a klub-vb hőse Tizenegy éves a brazil válogatott történetének legnagyobb blamája Hónapok óta nem volt akkora esőzés, mint ami most jön A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

A kari HÖK szerint nem bocsátja el a Pázmány a melegek kirekesztése ellen kiálló oktatóit Orbánék így vennének cégeket befektetők elől Így lett milliárdos a lila sporttáskás magyar fiú, aki ma egy brit fintech céget vezet Kötelezettségszegési eljárás indul az árrés miatt Magyarország ellen: vaklárma vagy valós diszkrimináció? Beérett a lágy hibrid? – Ez most a legjobb ár/érték arányú Peugeot 408 Úgy emelkedtek a piacok, mintha minden rendben lenne a világon Kerülnéd a turistaáradatot? Ide utazz! Ursula von der Leyen túlélte a szerinte ,,ororsz bábok" által kezedeményezett bizalmi szavazást "Ha két héttel később kerülök kórházba, meghaltam volna" – a pokolból tért vissza a klub-vb hőse Tizenegy éves a brazil válogatott történetének legnagyobb blamája Hónapok óta nem volt akkora esőzés, mint ami most jön A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

Send us a textDrew and Arnold review this classic episode of WCW Monday Nitro live from Saginaw Michigan! The Steiners are in action, Disco Inferno gets an absolute beatdown! What more could you ask for?! Hogan putting the title on the line? Sure! Let's have some of that too! Plus all of the other fallout from WW3!!!Make sure to join Drew and Arnold every Wednesday at 7:30pm est on Twitch.tv/AEWRPOD for the weekly Pre-Show! Follow us on Twitter and IG and TikTok: @AEWRPodWatch us on Youtube "Attitude Era Wrestling Review Podcast" Heartfül of Kerøsene - Jeff The Second https://youtu.be/ZbyFsGMjfRg Creative Commons Attribution Free Download / Stream: https://www.audiolibrary.com.co/jeff-the-second/heartful-of-kersene-instrumental Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/y-tbE2FIA1o Music: Savage by Alex-Productions https://soundcloud.com/alexproductionsmusic License: Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://audiolibrary.com.co/alex-productions/savage Music promoted by Audio Library: https://youtu.be/pILVwyuW3jw AEWR logo art by Russ from @Infectious_Pod

Kollár Erik Péter, a Monarchia Operett művészeti igazgatója és táncos komikusa. Erik 15 éve hozta létre a Monarchia Operettet, egy különleges utazótársulatot, amelynek célja, hogy az operettműfajt ne csak megőrizze, de új energiával töltse meg. Missziója világos: „Szórakoztatni az embereket, hogy amikor elmennek az előadásról, minden porcikájukban ott maradjon a dallam, a történet, az élmény.”A társulat előadásai több földrészt is bejártak, a produkciók pedig bensőséges kapcsolatot alakítanak ki a közönséggel. A nézők énekelnek, jól érzik magukat, megélik az előadást. Ahogyan Erik fogalmaz: „Párok ülnek ott, nagymamák unokákkal, fiatalok, akik éneklik velünk a dalokat. Nálunk lehet énekelni, fotózni, vinni haza az élményt a telefonban és a szívben. Szuperprodukciójuk a „Sissi, a magyar királyné” című operett, amelyet június 28-án újra színpadra visznek a Városmajori Szabadtéri Színpadon. Huszka Jenő 1939-ben írt darabját teljesen újragondolták, modernizálták, és egy különleges kutatómunka eredményeként hozták vissza a színházi életbe. A produkció 200 jelmezt, nagy zenekart és tánckart mozgat, és három órás játékidejével is felejthetetlen élményt nyújt.„Egy másik polcra került a Monarchia ezzel az előadással” – mondja Erik. A darabot Kerényi Miklós Gábor rendezte, aki a mai napig jelen van a próbákon, az előadásokon, finomhangolja a "krimi-operett" minden részletét. A történet bonyolult, mégis könnyen követhető, és olyan klasszikus értékeket közvetít, amelyek ma is mélyen megérintik a közönséget. Erik saját története ugyanakkor arról is szól, hogyan lehet egy nagy álmot valóra váltani. Gyerekkora ikonikus élménye volt az Interoperett – amit később már művészként, szólistaként élhetett meg. Amikor a műfaj egyik nagy mestere, Kovács József elhunyt, Erik úgy döntött: „A műfaj nem szűnhet meg vele együtt.” Megteremtette saját színházát, ahol ma már új tehetségeket nevel, fiatalokat fedez fel, és teljes elhivatottsággal gondozza a műfaj örökségét.A Sláger FM-en minden este 22 órakor a kultúráé a főszerep S. Miller András az egyik oldalon, a másikon pedig a térség kiemelkedő színházi kulturális, zenei szcena résztvevői Egy óra Budapest és Pest megye aktuális kult történeteivel. Sláger KULT – A természetes emberi hangok műsora.

V prvem pregledu leta naše znanstvene oddaje se sprehajamo od menopavze do poznega starševstva in tveganj, povezanih s tem, veliko poudarka pa smo letos v Frekvenci X namenili tudi prehrani in prehranskim dopolnilom. Ker se je treba ob poplavi vseh informacij odločati informirano in preudarno, zato bomo ponovili osnove in še enkrat spomnili, da ni bližnjic, da je pot do dobrega počutja uravnotežena prehrana. Če še niste, vabimo, da prisluhnete še: Za starševstvo se odločamo vse pozneje, a biološka ura je neomajna Izdelkov za razstrupljanje jeter ne potrebujemo, jetra so prečiščevalni organ Krči v mišicah po športu so rezultat energijske krize, ne pa pomanjkanja magnezija Menopavze ne smemo enačiti s starostjo Mladi na Frekvenci 1/3: Energijske pijače nas dehidrirajo, ne odžejajo, imajo negativen vpliv na spanje in tudi duševno stanje

Zdravo. Tokrat dokažemo, da tudi če imaš v žepu kopijo Štoparskega vodnika, še ne pomeni, da razumeš svet. Ker kot pravi Ford: “Štoparski vodnik je stoodstotno točen. Resničnost pa žal ni tako zanesljiva.” Kar seveda ne pomeni, da nismo šli po diapazonu absurda do nemškega prijatelja, ki skriva stvari, do procesirane hrane! Vmes ne pozabimo niti na Korošice, omenimo humanoidne bivše predsednike, torbice z mamili bivših predsednikovih svetovalcev, pozdravimo tudi vse poslušalke in poslušalce v kempih na Hrvaškem. Straško reprezent. V 11. poglavju se Thor pripravlja na bitko, zgodi se pa tudi marsikaj drugega. Ne pozabite, če že moraš zaupati nečemu, zaupaj humorju, ker realnost te bo tako ali tako enkrat zaj*****. In še: če imate še kakšno zaroto, mikroplastično modrost ali teorijo o 5G svinčnikih, skočite na Discord in jo delite z nami.

Piše Veronika Šoster, bereta Igor Velše in Eva Longyka Marušič. V tretji pesniški zbirki Vznožje Stanka Hrastelj tematizira bolečino in smrt, a to počne na izjemno svojstven, nepričakovan način. Zdi se, da je avtorica posebej za to zbirko ustvarila nov svet z novimi pravili, v katerem lahko vsaj za toliko časa, kot traja knjiga, prenese vso to težo. Zbirko prefinjeno dopolnjujejo črno-bele fotografije Nine Sotelšek, ki prikazujejo veliko opustelih pokrajin in skrivnostno moško postavo. Že na začetni fotografiji v zbirki ga vidimo na hribu sredi redkega rastja, po eni strani je podoba melanholična, njegova pojava je namreč osamljena, zamegljena, po drugi strani pa kar srhljiva, preteča, tako kot bo preteča nevarnost, da bo govorka podlegla bolečini. Ob prvem stiku z zbirko smo tako metaforično postavljeni ob vznožje hriba s pogledom, usmerjenim navzgor. Zbirka Stanka Hrastelj Vznožje je formalno razdeljena na pet ciklov, ki jih lahko beremo skoraj kot poglavja romana ali dejanja v drami, saj je zelo zgodbeno zastavljena. Začne se s Pričakovanji, ko se nekaj na tihem pripravlja in šušlja, ne vemo točno, kaj, a mora ostati skrivnost. Ker pa se kmalu zatem pojavijo prečrtane vrstice, postane jasno, da ne gre za neke splošne govorice, temveč bolj za zamolčano. Prečrtani verzi so misli, ki niso nikoli povedane na glas, ampak se le tiščijo in prerivajo v notranjosti, dokler ne postanejo že neznosne. V tem smislu je zelo učinkovita pesem o tem, kako se pesniška govorka zaveda, da bi se morala počutiti dobro, saj ji objektivno gledano prav nič ne manjka: »moje občutenje sveta in časa je taka globoka, gosta in temna žalost je taka trda, težka, groba stiska (o jaz, ki mi nič ne manjka) (o jaz, ubogi ateist) je kot kepa vlečenega testa ki jo nekdo tanjša in širi in vleče in razteguje in te zmelje in raztrosi po testu in te vanj zavije in si štrudl en tam scmarjen, zažgan štrudl ki ga nihče noče« Že na začetku smo tako soočeni z občutjem, ki ne bo kar tako izginilo, ampak bo vztrajalo do (morda bridkega) konca. A v ciklu Potovanje na srečo vstopi Rupert, pojavi se v vagonu, kjer sedi govorka, ki jo je potovanja zelo strah. Sede zraven nje, ker začuti njeno stisko, ona pa ga takoj imenuje »Rupert mirni / Rupert spokojni / Rupert svetli« in kar je še svetlejših, pozitivnih oznak. Označi ga tudi za tolažnika in odrešenika, kar se kasneje izkaže za ključno. Rupert pomaga tudi drugim potnikom in se izkaže za junaka, hitro in mimogrede zavzame pozicijo stebra družbe, nato pa sede k oknu in zadrema. Govorko popolnoma fascinira, komaj čaka kakšno njegovo pripoved, in res ji pove o kovčku, v katerem ni bilo nič posebnega, le neizrečene besede. V tem verzu se pokaže njegova dejanska modrost, saj je najtežje nositi prav neizrečene besede, medtem ko se njemu ne zdijo posebno breme, pravzaprav se zdi, da ga je pesnica postavila na to mesto prav zaradi tega, da ji jih bo pomagal spraviti na plan. Da bo z njegovo pomočjo lahko nehala črtati cele verze, cele misli. Rupert vse prenaša stoično, zanesljivo, postane metafora, s katero govorka potuje. A kljub vsemu se zdi, da je prepozno za metaforičnost, da bolečina neomajno vztraja, da ne bo šla nikamor, pa če si ona tega še tako želi. Na več mestih v zbirki najdemo neposredne navezave na religijo, na primer zapovedi, češčenje pa tudi paruzijo, tj. Kristusov drugi prihod, ki mu je posvečen celoten cikel. Vzpostavi se kompleksen odnos govorke do religije, saj jo po eni strani zavrača, po drugi pa se naslanja na njene podobe, da bi se lahko izrazila, celo iz besed ustvari človeka, postane stvariteljica. A teža ostaja, skozi verze postaja vedno bolj občutna, otipljiva, vseprisotna. Njena uteha je tako vera v Ruperta, ki tudi v odsotnosti oziroma zanikanju še vedno ostaja prisoten, se vpleta v dogajanje in njeno razmišljanje, ona ga nagovarja, se obrača nanj, postane ji uteha. Ves čas ga poskuša zadržati, mu poiskati nadomestek, ga pohvaliti, ga skratka udejanja skozi svoje videnje sveta, ki pa je zaznamovano z bolečino in trpljenjem. To udejanjenje gre tako daleč, da Rupert prestopi fiktivne meje in jo pokliče z imenom avtorice, prekine tihi dogovor, jo presune. In nato se prebudi upanje, ki je nalezljivo in se ga lahko daje dalje in dalje – tudi če se kdaj prikotali do vznožja, ga spodmakneš, pa gre naprej. Rupert se vedno bolj kaže kot religijska oseba, ki pa je obenem skupek različnih oseb oziroma njihov derivat; izvaja naloge, ki so usojene, a ga morijo, na dušo mu leže žalost. Stanka Hrastelj tako spretno in predvsem izjemno kompleksno komentira vpliv slepega nekritičnega sledenja, ki se lahko hitro sprevrže v nekaj drugega, kot je bilo obljubljeno. V pesmi vse bolj vdirajo smrt, obup, končanje, osamljenost, zapuščenost. Avtorica od nas zahteva, da zbirko beremo jasno narativno, ne samo zaradi oseb in tempa, ampak tudi zaradi širše pomenske slike, ki se vzpostavi in kontekstualizira prav skozi pesniško dogajanje. Boj z depresijo in smrtjo je iz vrstice v vrstico bolj na nož, bolj obupan, a paradoksalno tudi bolj poln upanja. Nenehno iskanje nadomestila, ko Rupert ni na voljo, tako spominja na večni boj z lastnimi demoni, ki se jih ne da nikamor pregnati, nikakor izničiti. A upanje se predaja naprej, kot tihi refren, kot majcena prečrtana vrstica, kot beseda, zašepetana v noč. In morda je to dovolj, vsaj za zdaj. Če ne, pa bomo spet in spet spodmaknili vznožje.

Quaranteam – Book 1: Part 19 Jade makes her request of Andy. Based on a post by CorruptingPower, in 25 parts. Listen to the Podcast at Explicit Novels. Chapter 33 Andy sort of cocked his head to one side, as Emily started to break down the camera and the microphones. "I'm almost afraid to ask what you mean by that, Jade," he said with a soft chuckle. "What does 'something else in mind' mean here?" Jade blushed a little, looking away for just a moment before turning back to look at him. "I've, I've been giving it a lot of thought, Andy," she said, pausing a bit in between the words, as if she was making sure she didn't chicken out of saying any of this. "And I've been talking with Lauren some, and she's been an utter sweetheart about all of this, and she's made me realize something,” "Stop," Andy said. "Before you go any further, I want you to make sure whatever it is you're about to ask for, it's what you want. Not what Lauren wants, or what someone else suggested. This is a once in a lifetime experience, and I don't want you to regret any aspect of it." "Oh. Oh! Oh, no! I wasn't,” she said, giggling a bit. "I wasn't going to suggest I wanted this to be my first time! No no no, not at all, Andy! Gosh! But, you remember I told you I wanted to record a video to send to my father, to show him that he couldn't control me any more, right?" "Oh," he said, understanding where this was going. "Sure, and you've changed your mind and don't want to do that any more, no I get that." "No!" Jade said, shaking her head quite determined. "I still super want to do that, but I realized, uh, I'm going to go a bit, no, a lot further than I think you're expecting me to. And I don't want it to come as any great shock to you when I do." Andy got a strange smile on his face, arching an eyebrow at her. "I mean, I'm glad you're telling me in advance, because it might've come as a surprise to me, but let's be real here, do you think you're going to go further than anyone in this house has?" Jade's eyes widened a little bit, then nodded with a little impish smile. "Kinda? I mean, I'm not going to do anything you haven't seen before, but I'm certainly gonna say some stuff that might shock you a bit." "Like...?" The blonde woman sighed a little bit, folding her arms over her ample chest. "So, in talking with Lauren a lot today, I realize that I've been so darn shy with boys because of my dad, because of all the stupid bull honk he told me over the years, because of all the expectations he put on me, and I need,” She looked away again, trying to find the words she wanted to say before looking back at him with those gorgeous green eyes of hers. "I need to make as much of a break from him as I can. I need to make him want to disown me, to get me out of his life, so he can't try and control me any more, can't try and control you because I'm with you." "This is starting to sound serious," he said, as Emily tucked the camera into the bag, pushing it to one side. "You don't need to do any editing with the footage from Tala?" The tiny Brit shook her head. "Framed it clean and only recorded what we needed, so no need to do any post work," she said. "Besides, I need to be here to help support Jade. What she's going to ask of you is, very brave." "Very brave?" Andy said, looking at Emily before looking back at Jade. "What are you going to ask of me?" "I'm going to,” she said, stopping then starting again. "I'm going to ask you to be okay with whatever I say during the whole imprinting process, to not interrupt me, to let me get all of this out onto film, that I'm going to send to my dad, so that he knows I don't want him in my life, I don't need him in my life, and that he's not welcome in my life." "He's still your father. Are you sure you want to kick him out for good?" Jade sighed a little bit, sitting down on the bed next to him. "That's just it, Andy. You don't know him like I do. You don't know what I've been through growing up. How much he stressed that I had to be a prim and proper lady. Proper forks, curtsying to the right depth, never speak at a party unless spoken to first. That I couldn't have any fun because fun reflected poorly on the family's legacy. He scared off every boy I tried dating in high school and even well into college. He tried to keep me in some protective bubble, where I would be reliant on him for everything, so that I would do whatever he wanted me to. Did I tell you yet that he wanted me to have an arranged marriage?" "What? No! Really? In this day and age?" "It gets worse," Emily said, taking the camera bag to the door of the bedroom, handing it off to Nicolette, who was standing there. "Take that downstairs and when Katie Couric's crew comes to pick it up, hand it off to them with our thanks." "Yes ma'am," Nicolette said, taking the bag from her before heading down the hallway. Emily closed the door after she went, leaving Andy in the room with four conscious women,  Jade, Emily, Sheridan and Lauren,  and three unconscious women,  Tala, Fiona and Moira. "Tell him who the person he wanted you to marry was, Jade," Emily said, annoyance plain on her face. "He won't believe it." "It won't mean anything to him," Jade said, "but okay. My father wanted me to get married to Benjamin Watkins. He's  " "I know who the fuck he is, Jade." Suddenly, Andy was furious on Jade's behalf. "You've got to be fucking shitting me," he said angrily. "He's almost a decade younger than you, he's an asshole and he's a selfish little prick. How could your father possibly think that would be a good idea?" "Wait, how do you even know who Benjamin is?" Jade said, looking at her hands nervously. Andy gave Jade the short version of the poker story, explaining how he had originally gone to protect some of Niko's friends, but had ended up winning even more people, and the last one, Deborah, had been claimed by Benny before she could be brought over to Andy, which was why Hannah had joined the family instead. Benny's awful behavior on his doorstep had left Andy with a very bitter impression of the boy too stupid to be called a young man. "I mean," Andy said, "I can't imagine Nathaniel, Benny's father, even going along with that. Had your dad talked about it with him?" "I think he wanted to convince me to go along with it first before talking with the Watkins family," she grumbled. "But I never agreed to it, because I wasn't going to let my father tell me who I could or couldn't love, the jerk. And a couple of years ago, he stopped talking about that entirely, and I think I finally figured out why." "So what do you need from me with all of this, Jade?" he said to her. She smiled warmly at him. "See, that right there is how I know I made the right dang choice, Andy," she said. "You're always just asking how you can help, what you can do to make other people happy first. It's never about what you want or need." "I'm surrounded by a large number of beautiful women all competing for my time and affection," he said with a laugh. "If I ever start complaining about that, people should start punching me in the kidneys." "But yer still doin' a bangup job of makin' sure such a diverse buncha Sheilas get along with one another, Andy," Lauren said to him. "It's the least I can do." "Anyway," Jade said, "what I need is for you to be okay with whatever I'm going to say in this video we're going to make. It's, it's not going to be what you expect from me, and honestly, it might be pushing your boundaries a little bit, but I need you to know that I'm okay with it, and just because it's stuff I'm saying in the video doesn't mean it's anything we have to actually do if you don't want to." He reached over and brushed a hand across Jade's face tenderly. "I mean, I only have a couple of complete hard passes in my repertoire, but nobody's come up against any of those yet." "Anything I should know about?" "You don't want to peg, pee or poop on me, do you?" Jade giggled intensely, shaking her head. "God no." "Then it's probably fine." "We'll see if you say that after you're done imprinting me," she grinned. "You won't hear anything I say right after I'm done imprinting you," he chuckled "How long does that last, anyway?" Jade asked. "Well, I expect Whitney woke up a couple of hours ago, and Tala will wake up tomorrow midday. Fi and Moira got it this morning, so technically they should wake up in the middle of the night, but because it'll be dark outside, they may just keep on sleeping until morning. You'll be out a little longer than Tala will. It'll screw up your sleep schedule for a few days, but before you know it, it'll be back to normal." "I think we're pretty far from normal, Andy," Jade said with a nervous laugh. "You know what I mean." "Sure sure, I know what you mean." Behind her, Sheridan and Lauren helped moved Tala up, laying her down next to Moira and Fiona's sleeping bodies. "Do you want us to leave her here tonight, Andy, or put her in her own bed?" Sheridan asked him, as they made sure that the three women were close to each other without overlapping too much. Women in the imprinting process made almost no movements when they were out, so it was important to position them so they didn't have muscle cramps when they awoke. "She said wanted to wake up in the main bed for her first morning after imprinting, so she can just stay here," he said. "Jade? What about you?" "I'd like to do the same, if that's okay." "Of course it's okay," he said, leaning in to give her a sweet kiss, his fingertips brushing against her face once more. "I'm trying to get you to relax." "I know. I know I know, and I appreciate it," she said with a shy smile. "You're so gosh darn sweet. But you don't know how far I'm about to go down a path of depravity." "You don't have “ " "Andy," she said, resolve strong in her voice. "I do have to do this, so just let me do it, okay?" "Sure, okay." "Should we, are you ready to get started?" she said, looking up at him. "Are you sure you don't want me to go hop through a shower first? I'm still kinda sticky from my time spent with Tala." "No no, that'll make this all the better," she said, moving to stand up. For her interview outfit, she'd chosen a long skirt that hung down past her knees, but wasn't quite long enough to be considered a dress, and a red silk blouse that hung loosely over her ample bosom. "Emily, are you ready to start filming?" "You're sure you want me to capture everything, Jade?" Emily said. "I know we talked about this, but, everything? Nudity and everything? To your father?" Jade nodded, her gaze resolved. "I need to do this, Em, so just film it all." Emily shrugged a little, grabbing Jade's phone from the nightstand next to the bed. "If you say so, love." "Andy, could you stand up?" Jade said, as Emily moved over towards Jade, getting ready to capture what was about to happen on the iPhone. He nodded, sliding up and off the bed, moving to stand, glad that someone had turned on the heat in the house earlier in the day so he wasn't cold, standing nude in the middle of his insanely large bedroom. "Don't say much during this, okay, Andy?" Jade asked him, imploringly. "I mean, if I ask you a direct question, and it doesn't feel rhetorical, maybe answer, but err on the side of not saying anything. I need this to be all about me rather than you, no matter how much I'm going to talk about you during all of this." "Okay, I'll try and be quiet as much as I can then." "Great. Super. Thank you. Oh, if you hear me calling myself Button, it was his nickname for me growing up. So that's where that comes from. Anyway, let's get to it. Em?" she said, looking over to Emily, who was framing all of Jade in the shot on the phone. "Aaaaand, action!" Emily said, just before she hit the record button. Jade offered a brief, almost reticent smile, and it was gone as quickly as it appeared. "Hi Daddy. Button here and this is going to be the last time I reach out to you." She started slowly unbuttoning her blouse, letting it fall open, to reveal an ornate black lacy bra on beneath. "I know you wanted me to move back home until the whole plague passed, but that's not going to happen. I'm done living by your rules, not just regarding this, but everything." Andy actually felt a little bit nervous, not about being seen naked on camera, but for what Jade was going to say. She'd been purposefully vague with him, but he trusted her that she was only doing whatever she thought was necessary. "You always wanted to keep your little Button under your thumb, didn't you Daddy?" she said, sliding the blouse entirely off, tossing it aside. "But a couple of years ago, around the five year anniversary of Mom's passing, the things you said to me changed and started getting creepy. You kept talking about how much I reminded you of Mom when she was my age, how much you missed her and how your needs weren't being met." Oh, Andy thought to himself. OH. Oh shit. "I tried to tell myself that you didn't mean it, that you didn't realize what you were saying, or how inappropriate it was to be talking about your own daughter that way, but the more I told myself that, the more you seemed to be doing it." She unhooked the waist of her skirt and then let it drop to her ankles, stepping out of it before kicking off her boots, leaving her in the black bra and a matching set of black panties. "But the more I thought about it, the more I realized you weren't looking at me thinking about Mom. You were looking at me thinking I could replace Mom, and that's fucking creepy, Dad." She was fit, more fit than Andy had realized when she'd shown up in the cheerleader outfit yesterday, and her body was as toned and lithe as Sheridan's was, although maybe a little more muscular. She was an athlete, more like Piper, and she took great pride in showing her body to Andy, it seemed, or maybe showing off to her father, lashing out at him for his actions. "You wanted me to move back into the mansion so you could get me imprinted to you, didn't you, you sick fuck? You wanted your own daughter bound to you by science, reliant on your cum to keep her alive? Do you know how disgusting that is? How much it horrifies me?" She unclasped her bra behind her back and pulled it forward and off, tossing it aside, exposing her tits to both Andy and the camera, large proud swells that were just the perfect size for her body, as tanned as the rest of her, although her nipples were a bright rosy pink. "But you've lusted after your own daughter, haven't you, you sicko? You thought your wealth would let you get away with the ultimate betrayal, to have a perversion that you should have never even thought about," she growled. Andy understood now why she'd been so angry when she'd talked to him earlier in the day. Jade had clearly been thinking about her father's actions in light of what she knew about the process now, and had put two and two together to get a pretty unpleasant four. And now she was making sure her father understood that he was dead to her. "It bothers you, doesn't it, Daddy, hearing your precious little Button talking like some dirty whore? Swearing so fucking casually when you tried to drill it into her head that she should always be ladylike? Never act like some kind of cheap slut, never let a boy see or touch her special places." Jade's face was one of rage now, as she grabbed her panties and shoved them down, stepping out of them, leaving her fully exposed. She had a large triangle shaped blonde bush, neatly trimmed but still of a decent size. She also had no tanlines of any kind, making it clear she tanned in the buff, her whole skin that golden shade, the perfect California girl. "I hope seeing this video gives you a fucking heart attack, you asshole, because you're going to witness me guaranteeing that you can never fucking have me," she said, her hands on her hips, not making any effort to hide or conceal any of her gorgeous body. Andy hoped that the video did the trick, but if his time in New Eden had taught him anything, it was that the super rich were capable of nearly anything, and there were no other words to describe Jade's father, Cormack Dillon, quite so succinctly as "super rich," and that meant the man stood every chance of continuing to be a problem. "I took the DuoHalo immunity treatment yesterday, which means I'm going to get imprinted onto a man, to get the other half of it, and I know you know what that means," she said, sliding one hand over one of her tits, cupping it, for both the camera's eye as well as Andy's. "That means I'm going to be imprinted onto a man, a man who isn't you." Jade's nipple stiffened to her touch, and Andy could hear Lauren and Sheridan moving a little behind him, making sure they were completely out of the path, but he also wondered if the two weren't starting to play with themselves at least a little, because Jade had gone from schoolmarm to raw sexual carnage faster than a Lambo went from 0 to 60. "You know what that means?" Jade said, a coy smile on her face as her tongue licked her lips. "He's going to be my new Daddy, a better Daddy, a good Daddy, and he's gonna reap all the benefits that a good Daddy deserves." Her other hand moved to rub between her thighs, stroking across her cunt quite nervously, but her smile was practically eager. "I laid awake so many nights, playing with my cunt, wondering what my life was going to be like when I finally gave my cherry to someone, your words ringing in my ears how I needed to choose carefully, to pick someone who would make the family proud over someone who made me feel all warm and wobbly." Andy could feel her slowly closing the distance between them, Emily doing her best to keep her framed in the shot the entire time. "But that was what you wanted, and you're dead to me now. So I'm gonna give my cherry to my new Daddy, to a man that I chose to be with. And I'm not gonna be prim and proper about it, oh no," she purred. "I'm gonna be every bit the slut you were afraid I would turn into and more." She was only a few feet away from him when she slowly moved down onto her knees, keeping her head tipped up proudly. "He wanted to wash his cock off before I sucked him off, but I told him no," Jade giggled, scooting on her knees closer to Andy now. "I liked the idea of his cock being slick from the cunt of some other girl he'd just fucked when I blew him for the first time, so I'd get my first taste of cunt with Daddy's cock." She reached forward and grabbed Andy's shaft, giving it a gentle stroke. "See how much bigger my Daddy's cock is than yours, you senile old fucker? See how slick it is with the juices of some bitch he just met yesterday, another slut who's going to tend to his needs just like I'm going to? God, it smells so fucking good. Can I have a lick, Daddy? Just a little one?" Her intense green eyes were looking up at him, so Andy just nodded in response, as Jade let out a thankful, eager moan. "Oh thank you Daddy," she purred. "I just can't wait to be a good little Daddy's girl." Andy was glad she'd had the talk with him before this, because she'd been right,  he might have been a little uncomfortable with this had she not given him some advance warning. But she seemed to be enjoying stroking his cock for the camera, and when she leaned in, he knew what was going to happen, even if she didn't, not entirely. She'd intended to drag her tongue from the base of his cock to the tip, but only got about half way up before the mix of his semen and Tala's juices sunk into her bloodstream enough to begin the priming process, and she suddenly leaned her head back, looking straight up at the ceiling with completely defocused eyes, an intensely shredded moan erupting from her throat, that priming orgasm exploding through her body. Jade was back on her haunches, practically sitting on her heels, as her entire body shivered and quaked, the intensity of the orgasm a surprise even to Andy, who'd seen this thing happen more than anyone. The imprinting process had affected Jade stronger than anyone he'd previously paired with. "Jesus Fucking Christ," Jade hissed, finally having recovered enough strength to pull her head forward again. "That was the most intense fucking thing I've ever felt, Daddy. And I'm just getting started, because I have to thank Daddy for the gift he's giving me by taking me into his family." She kissed along the length of his cock slowly, never once taking her eyes off of Andy's, Emily having moved in, standing on the bed behind him, so she could look down with the camera. He even felt one of Emily's hand on his shoulder, making sure she was balanced properly. "I'm gonna be such a good little slut for you, Daddy," she whimpered. "I can't wait to feel you inside my cherry cheerleader cunt, to be the first and only cock I ever have inside of my sweet snatch. God, you're gonna feel so good, aren't you, Daddy?" Andy couldn't help but smirk for a moment, because he could feel Emily's nipples were rock hard through her top, pressed against his back while she continued to film. Clearly, the Brit was getting turned on by what she was watching. "That's not all I'm gonna give you, Daddy," Jade said, licking the taste of him and Tala from her lips. "I'm gonna give you everything. I'm gonna do everything. After an entire life of saying no no no, all I'm gonna tell my new Daddy is yes yes yes." She was starting to cradle his balls now, and he felt like that was a warning that she was about to crank up the tempo on him. "If Daddy wants to fuck me, I'll ask what position while I'm spreading my legs to show him I'm already wet for him. If Daddy wants me to blow him, I'll start sucking on his cock right away, no matter where we are or who's around. If he wants to knock me up, I'll beg him to breed me like his good little bitch in heat, even if we aren't married." She shivered a little bit, looking down for a second before gazing back up. "If Daddy wants to fuck me in the ass, I'll hold my cheeks apart and beg him to do it to me hard and fast, just like a good little slut, just like his good little slut should." He couldn't help himself, and his cock throbbed at that, not just from her description of it, but from the look in her eyes as she said it, like she was revealing some hidden desire that she hadn't known she wanted until she spoke the words aloud, and now that she had, it was burrowing hold in her psyche, not for now, but something definitely to be revisited lately. The look on her face was one of eagerness, like she was reveling in who she was after hiding it for so long. "To keep boys from fucking me, I had to learn how to become not just a good cocksucker, but the best cocksucker, able to get a boy off within just a minute or two of wrapping my lips around his cock, but I don't want my new Daddy to feel like he's being rushed, so enjoy this Daddy." Jade wrapped her lips around the head of his cock and slowly pushed her face down onto it, her lustrous green eyes holding his gaze the entire time, until she had her lips down around the base of his cock, no sign of coughing or choking, like she'd managed to suppress her gag reflex entirely. She slowly drew her head back, sliding her mouth off his cock with a wet pop as she grinned up at the camera. "You see that, Cormack? That's the view you always wanted of your daughter, isn't it, you twisted asshole? Down on her fucking knees with her tits out, looking up at you, her lips wrapped around your cock? But it's not your cock, is it shithead?" As she pushed her head back down onto his cock again, Andy did everything he could to keep his moan quiet, but a little bit of it slipped out, and that made Jade smile as she pulled back from his cock once more. "Hear that, Cormack? That's my new Daddy, enjoying what a good little cocksucker he's got. I asked him to stay quiet, but I'm just too skilled at sucking cock that he can't keep still. So I hope you fuck off and die, because I'm gonna get what I want now, I'm gonna be happy without you, I'm gonna get bonded to this beautiful fucking stud of a man, and he's gonna be my Daddy forever, and you're just going to be dead to me, so the sooner you fuck off and die, the better. Goodbye forever Cormack." After she said that, she started thrusting her head down his cock over and over, going from tip to base time and time again, making as much noise as she could, as much performance as it was blowjob, but damn if she wasn't right, and it was the best blowjob he'd ever gotten. Jade had total control over when his orgasm was going to hit, and just when he thought he was about to pop, she backed him away from it, just to prove that she could, then when he thought she was slowing down to prolong the video, she attacked once more, and started bobbing her head across his shaft faster and faster, and there was no stopping the collision course they were headed on. He wanted to put his hands on her head, but Emily seemed to have the shot framed exactly as she wanted, and Jade was doing her best to keep her eyes on his face and the camera the entire time, and when the moment of his release happened, he wasn't even sure where she was looking, because the intensity of the orgasm was brutal, easily the hardest he'd ever come from a blowjob. His cock blasted a hot load of cum against the back of her throat, as her lips sealed in a vacuum lock around the head of his cock, sealing him in there, not letting a drop of it spill out, all of it pouring directly into her belly, as her green eyes finally rolled back in her skull. Her mouth finally popped off his cock as she started to fall backwards, and Lauren darted in suddenly to slide her arms beneath Jade's shoulders, catching her and cradling her to lower her down onto her back, pulling her away slightly to let her legs unfold from beneath her, as Emily moved off the bed, jumping to the floor, slowly crouching down to finish on Jade's face, as the bubbly blonde proudly said 'imprinting' over and over again, an accomplished smile wide on her face. Emily tapped the Stop Recording button on the phone, and then exhaled a deep breath. "Holy fuck!" she shouted, taking one of her hands to fan her face. "I know she said to expect it to be out of character for her, but can I once again reiterate, holy fuck!" She giggled wildly, licking her lips. "I can't tell if I should send her father this video first or do my best to convince you that you can handle another round right here and now, Andrew, because, in closing, holy fuck was that hot!" Andy laughed a little bit, shaking his head. "No more. No more rounds for today. The House of Rook is officially doing no more deliveries tonight!" He crouched down and scooped Jade up into his arms,  she was light, although Emily and Lauren helped him anyway,  as he lifted her up and onto the bed, laying her down next to Tala. Once there, he moved the four of them,  Jade, Tala, Fiona and Moira,  over to one side of the bed, not pushing them off, but making sure there would still be room for his usual group of people to crawl into the bed as well in a few hours time. "Well, at the very least, I can take care of you in the shower before you make your run to Target tonight," Emily said to him. "God, can't it wait until tomorrow?" he groaned, before raising his hand. "No no, I know, we need to do it, and I agreed to do it tonight. Okay, let's go shower, and then a handful of us can make the run out and pick up supplies." After a very nice shower with Emily and Sheridan, where both girls steadfastly avoided getting their hair wet, Andy felt cleaned up and ready to round out his day. He hadn't even had dinner yet, but he decided that could wait until after the Target run. One of the things he'd learned early on, before they'd even gotten to New Eden even, was that women who lived together didn't really sync their periods up, but with a typical period lasting about five days, the more women in a household, the more likely it was someone needed additional feminine supplies. With the size of household now, he'd learned they were the most vital supply the household needed, and never, ever ever to be without. Whenever he went on a supply run, the girls drew names from a hat to decide who would go with him, because inevitably whoever went found a handful of things they just had to have and brought them home, and going to a Target with his entire family was beyond unwieldy. So as Andy checked his shopping list, the girls did their little drawing. Hannah, Aisling and Sarah won, and so the four loaded up into the Tesla Model Y and headed down to the Target. There were many things he was appreciative of about the home in New Eden that the government had gifted him with, but the one he noticed the most was its completely self reliance. The entire roof of the mansion was covered in solar panels, and Andy had been told there was a small field of them further out on his property, in the middle of a natural glade, that ran back to his house, which had power walls, storing all of that excess power. The cars were all electric. Phil had joked around that if New Eden were hit by the worst possible of storms, the town would be self sustaining for a few months before food would be the eventual first issue. Target was one of the few well established brand stores within the walls of New Eden, but it was handy enough that everyone seemed to overlook it not being a local business. There were a handful of cars in the parking lot, but it looked far from crowded. Andy parked the car and then headed in, as Hannah grabbed them a shopping cart. Andy hoped they'd only need the one, but at least half of the time, these trips involved getting a second cart. Most of his list was relatively short,  cat food, cat litter, cleaning fluid for his electric shaver, vanilla Coke if he could find it,  but the girls had their own list, and it was compiled from all the girls in the house. They mostly didn't have to do groceries,  Jenny and Katie made their own weekly run to the grocery store to keep the house stocked,  but everyone had little things they wanted for themselves. Nicolette had toilet paper delivered in bulk and was trying to convince the household to bulk order feminine supplies as well, but it seemed like each of the women in the house had their own deeply held preferences. Andy suspected Nicolette would win out in the end, and that bulk deliveries in the near future would start including things like pads and tampons (as well as diapers and other such baby supplies) eventually. For now, though, everyone was still eager to get out of the house every chance they could, the fatigue of being quarantined to a single space, even one as wonderful as the Rook Manor, getting to each of them a little bit. "Okay girls, let's split up and cover ground a bit," Ash said to the other two, "and we can meet up with Andy back in the pet supplies." Sarah, Hannah and Aisling each put a hand on top of one of the others and then said in unison "Go Rookies!" And like that, they each went their own separate direction into the large Super Target, as Andy headed over to pick up his electric razor cleaning fluid. Since their arrival, both Sarah and Emily had been trying to convince Andy to move to disposable razor blades, or even a straight razor, for shaving, but Andy had been using an electric since college and found the convenience of it too great to give up. Jenny had assured the two actresses that once Alexis showed up, Andy would learn the joy of having his face shaven by a woman with a straight razor, and once he did, he'd never want to go back. But even when she showed up tomorrow, she'd need to convince him it was the right call, so until then, he would stick to his old ways. Before he could make his way out of the razor section, Sarah came bounding around the corner, a package full of pads in one hand, a handful of make up supplies in the other, tossing all of them into the cart. "Hey, like, did you know Nate Watkins was gonna be here tonight? I saw him and one of his partners coming in as I was heading here," she said, leaning in to kiss his cheek. "I didn't," Andy said, "but it's not that big a community, so people are bound to run into one another here." "Did Phil tell you how many households are here in New Eden?" she said, sliding her arm around his waist, her body taller than his, something he still hadn't fully gotten used to. "I asked him, and I think he said about 400, although it's pretty scattered out, and some of the households are way bigger than others. We're definitely one of the bigger ones, although there's pressure on everyone to grow a bit, considering the news that'll be hitting in a couple of days." The two of them headed over to the soft drinks, and Andy was delighted to find that not only did they have vanilla Coke, they also had vanilla cherry Coke and orange vanilla Coke, so he grabbed a twelve pack of each, sliding them on the flat tray beneath the main cart itself, knowing to leave as much of the basket open for the girls as he could. "I imagine that poor Lily's going to go mental when she hears she's going to have to share poor Eric with even more girls," Ash said, tossing her collection of things into the basket. She'd come from behind Sarah and Andy, so neither had seen her coming. "But she'll just have to cope like the rest of us have." "She'll be extra picky on Eric's behalf," Andy said with a quiet smirk. "He won't want to kick up a fuss about who they send, so she'll take over the whole process and make sure nobody rocks the boat over there." "I meant to ask," Sarah said. "How come Eric's got a Chinese last name when he's Japanese?" "Well, he's actually half and half," Andy said, "but he prefers to think of himself as Japanese first and foremost, I guess, so that's how I've always thought of him. His Dad's Chinese but his mom is Japanese. They met after they'd both immigrated here in the 70s to work for tech companies. It's kind of a cute love story. They met in a class to learn English as a second language, so his dad never learned any Japanese and his mom never learned any Mandarin or Cantonese, and they only ever spoke English to each other in the house. They're both very nice people. Eric sort of speaks all three languages, but none of them that well. His Japanese is better than his Cantonese, though, or so he tells me." "That's funny," Ash said. "Lily's story is pretty much the same, half Chinese half Japanese. I guess their kids will keep the same ratio then." "Once they get around to them," Andy said. "You heard Lily, love," Ash giggled. "She's gonna get a child out of Eric even if it kills him. Her clock isn't just ticking, it's pounding out a drum beat." "No no, that's just Lily taking him Amazon style," Andy said, and both Sarah and Ash descended into fits of laughter at that, as he smirked and pushed the cart onward. They kept walking as Sarah and Ash each picked up a few things here and there,  scented candles, Fabreeze, some picture frames,  as they headed towards the pet section. "Don't freak out, Andy," Sarah said, "but I'm going to be grabbing some dog food for Maya's two pups." Andy arched an eyebrow. "Not once did you or Emily ever mention that Maya had dogs," he said, trying to put on his most disappointed look. "Don't you think that's something you should've mentioned, what with me having a couple of cats?" "That's fair, completely fair, but hear me out, just for a moment, on a counter argument," Sarah said, talking slowly, as if she was struggling to think of what she wanted to say. "Ok,” Sarah glanced over at Ash, who offered a sympathetic shrug, then back at Andy, and suddenly she grabbed him and kissed him hard, wrapping her arms around him in a constrictive hug before she pulled from the kiss and clenched him more tightly. "Okay, so we totally didn't mention it, and that's totally on Emily and me, but they're just two little Pomeranians, and they're super cute, and they're named Stan and Ollie, and I know we should've told you, but we asked Ash, and she said you're not allergic, and she didn't think you'd be upset, and I don't know why we didn't mention it during the presentations, but we didn't, and then you said yes, and we were both just so excited, and at that point, you were into the idea, and it didn't even occur to us that you might not like dogs, because I mean who doesn't love dogs, am I right, and I wasn't even thinking about it because Emily said she was gonna tell you but then she put dog food on the list for me to grab and now here I am, trying to convince you that it would be criminal to turn those two sweet little adorable faces away or hide them out back or anything when they're super well trained and lovable and  " She suddenly pulled back, glanced over at Ash, who was desperately trying to keep from breaking out into laughter, then back at Andy, sighing. "And you totally knew the dogs were coming and were fucking with me, weren't you?" At that point, Andy could finally let out the laughter that had been building and building and building inside of him as Sarah had just kept talking and talking and talking and some part of him had wanted to let her off the hook right away, but it had just so much funnier with every word. Ash was leaning against the cart, she was laughing so hard, once she finally broke. Andy squeezed Sarah tightly then pulled back and kissed her softly. "Of course the dogs are okay, Sarah," he said. "But you two definitely should have told me during the pitch, just in case I was allergic to dogs, which I'm not. But Emily brought it up to me yesterday, and I gave her a bit of stick for it, and she suggested this was how I gave you stick for your part in the matter." "Emily knew you were gonna put me up to this?" Sarah said, tilting her head to look upward. "Oh, the shit I'm gonna give that bitch when I see her,” Andy swatted his hand on Sarah's ass with a loud slap, which made her jolt a little bit into him. "Now now, I said the matter's closed, and the matter's closed, got it?" "You're fucking lucky you're so damn lovable yourself, mister man," she joked, rolling her eyes. "But okay, I guess we earned that." "Oh, Ker rist I wish I'd recorded that," Ash said, finally easing off of her laughing. "I don't know how she let that sentence run that far, but I think it could have sprinted past Piper!" As they arrived in the pet section, Hannah came to meet up with them, Nathaniel and his female partner in tow. She saw that Ash was wiping tears from her eyes still and pouted. "Aw, I missed the whole dog food fake fight, didn't I?" she said. "Oh well, look who I ran into!" It didn't surprise Andy that Hannah had stopped to talk to Nathaniel Watkins and his partner, as Watkins had been the man to bring Hannah over to him originally, which meant he'd know the Asian cheerleader longer than he had. Watkins was dressed, as ever, in cargo shorts, a bright Hawaiian shirt, socks and sandals, his black hair drawn back into a man bun, a pair of thin spectacles over his eyes. The woman next to him looked five to ten years younger than him, in probably her early to mid thirties, with eastern European features, jet black hair in bangs that hung down to her collarbone, dressed in a large loose t shirt that said "Cal Poly" on the front of it, and baggy sweatpants. It was clear, both had just decided to run errands in whatever they'd been lounging around the house in, although Watkins himself hadn't looked all that different at the poker night, or either of the times he'd come over to Andy's house, so Andy couldn't help but wonder if that was the man's standard look. Chapter 34 Uncharacteristically, Andy woke up at around 6 a.m., noticing that Fiona wasn't in the bed with all of them. He'd suspected that both she and Moira would wake up sometime in the middle of the night, but he'd hoped that they'd still sleep in some and get accustomed to local time a bit more. Fi, it seemed, couldn't do that. As carefully as he could, Andy extricated himself from the pile of naked female bodies around him and slipped out of bed. When it had been just him, Ash, Lauren and Niko, in the early days, anyone trying to leave the bed would wake everyone up, but now, after the last month or so of constant additions, people had grown much more acclimated to people moving, sliding in and out of the bed during the night without waking up. Currently the bed held Moira, Niko, Sarah, Emily, Tala, Sheridan, Lauren and Jade. He'd been a little surprised the night before when both Sheridan and Lauren had crawled into the bed as everyone was shutting down for the night, but both women insisted they each wanted their friend to have a familiar face nearby when they woke up in the house for the first time. He said he completely understood and respected that. He grabbed one his big t shirts, this one for the Chapterhouse album "Whirlpool," pulled on some boxers and some sweatpants and went to go find where Fiona had gotten herself to. Andy didn't have far to look. When he pulled the shirt on, he could see motion on the covered balcony just outside of the master bedroom, and figured it had to be her. He opened the sliding door as quietly as he possible, hearing the sound of heavy raindrops falling just feet away from the balcony, the wind not heavy enough to force them beneath the overhang. Fiona was wearing a cable knit sweater and Lululemon yoga pants, leaning against the railing, it still cool enough outside for her breath to leave a telltale cloud in the air in front of her. "This is California," she said, her voice laying plain her amusement with the weather. "I was promised sunshine and warm weather all the damn time." "It's raining," he said, moving to stand beside her. "And we need it, so don't jinx it and make it stop. Besides, it was raining the day you asked me and Xander to move in with you." She laughed a little bit, shaking her head slightly. "I can't believe you remember that," she said. "And, for the record, I asked you to move in with me, and I knew that Xander came as part of the deal at the time, because you weren't going to leave him hanging. How's he doing, anyway? I haven't talked to him since college." "You can ask him yourself when he gets here in a while." Fi turned to look at him, arching one of her impeccably well kept eyebrows in his direction. "He is not moving into this house, Andrew. This isn't the old days." Andy laughed, shaking his head. "I didn't mean here here, as in Rook Manor, but he's moving into New Eden, so he won't be too far away." He went to slide an arm around her waist, just a little hesitation in his motion, but she immediately slid in firmly against him, pressing her body against his. "I knew that, Andy. I was fucking with you. Jesus, you're an idiot sometimes," she sighed with a wide smile on her face. "So it's lucky you're so damn cute." He rolled his eyes a little bit. "Nobody thinks I'm cute but you." "Bullshit. Moira thinks you're cute." "Fine. Nobody but you and Moira." "And Niko and Emily and,” "Okay, okay, I get the point," he laughed, leaning down to kiss her forehead. "God, I missed you, Fi." "Me too. So next time, maybe call, huh?" He smirked. "You're gonna hold this over my head for a while, aren't you?" She giggled a little, nodding. "Oh yeah, bigtime. But you know me. I'll get bored with it at some point, and tease you about something new, once I have something new." Her right hand rested on his left arm, which was folded and pressed against the railing. "How the hell did we get to here, Andy?" "I mean, there's all of my life before May of this year, and then there's this year, and one of them is a lot more boring than the other, but I'll tell you all about both, given enough time. I am sorry I didn't try and find you after you cut me out, but to be fair, I didn't think you wanted me to." She nodded, giving a little shrug. "I was angry and I was dumb, Andy. It wasn't a good combination. And when I was old enough to know better, I was too scared, thinking you'd just moved on and didn't ever think about me any more." He had a short bark of laughter, shaking his head. "Yeah, get that fucking idea right out of your head now. After we split, I only had one serious girlfriend, and that was because I was comparing them to you all the time and nobody ever lived up to you." "Not even the one serious girlfriend?" "Especially not the one serious girlfriend, but at that point, I thought maybe it was me, and I was the one doing things wrong, so I stuck with it longer than I should've. You'll end up meeting her at some point around New Eden and then you'll ask yourself how she and I ever dated as long as we did." "That bad, huh?" she said, giving his arm a squeeze. She always knew exactly the level of physical touch he needed to feel reassured or put at ease. "That bad and a whole hell of a lot worse." That hung in the air for a minute or two with nobody saying anything. "You seem to have done alright for yourself this year, though," she teased. "Two actresses, two cheerleaders, an Irish lass, an Aussie, a Native knockout, a couple of athletes, an Indian knockout and your own personal staff including an honest to god French maid. I'm shocked you could find time to pencil me and Moira in." "I certainly never intended  " She reached a fingertip up to his lips to stop him from talking. "I spent a great deal of time between my arrival at the base and my injection with the serum talking about you with Niko, and she assures me that you've done everything you can to be the best man anyone here can ask for, so whatever you intended, it doesn't really matter anymore, does it? What matters now is that you've got a wonderful, if a bit immense, family, and that you wanted me and Moira to be a part of it." "Speaking of Moira, how long have you two been together?" Fi grinned, leaning her head against his chest. "About four years now. It's the reason I didn't put anything about my relationship status on my Facebook page. Didn't want Mom and Dad throwing a shitfit about it. Well, mostly Mom, I think." "So it's been serious for a while now." "Very," she said. "And she's the one who's been bitching at me to reach out to you for the last couple of years, so don't worry about her being jealous of you or anything. On our way here, she was telling me that it's felt like the entire time we've been together, there's been a part of me missing, and how she was sure that you had the missing part of me. I'm surprised you never reached out to her." "I never got her contact information all those years ago," he chuckled. "Hell, I didn't even get her last name. I still didn't know it until Niko told me yesterday." "Oh my god, really?" Fi giggled. "I guess that makes sense, because I know you would've remembered it if you'd ever learned it. You loved that damn silly movie." "Madam, I will not permit you to impugn 'Highlander' on these grounds." "Oh hush," she said. "But yes, you're going to be taking a bride from the Clan MacLeod, but there cannot only be one. You owe me a ring as well, mister." "You think that'll satiate the bloodlust of Mr. & Mrs. Smith?" he said, referring to her parents. "They already know you're back in this picture and are ecstatic," she said, kissing his cheek. "I mean, Mom's a little less thrilled with how many wives you're going to have, but I told her with all the deaths, that's the way it's going to work in this country for our generation. She's still wrapping her head around it." "Everyone in your family okay? All your brothers?" "All three were smart and locked down immediately, so everyone's okay. I'm glad you asked." "And Moira's family?" "Her mom's all that's left, and Scotland's not had a lot of problems with DuoHalo, since they seemed to take lockdown extremely seriously in the smaller villages. You can talk to her about her mom when she's up. It'll mean a lot to her that you're asking." "So how did you two hook up again?" Fiona sighed again, slumping into his body a little more. "How much of my writing career did you follow after we split?" "Most of it?" he chuckled. "I set up a Google Alert to notify me whenever your byline appeared." "You stalker," she giggled, waiting just the perfect beat before speaking again. "It's okay; I had one set up on you as well. Uh, two, actually, one for your real name and one for your pen name, once I read an article about that. Thanks for making that hard on me." "I didn't expect anyone to be following my fiction writing, Fi. But carry on with your story." "Do you remember that story I wrote about about five years back on the Syrian civil war?" "I remember you wrote a whole series of them. What, seven or eight different pieces?" She smiled up at him. "Gold star for robot boy," she said with a smirk. "You really were paying attention. That's nice to know. Anyway, the one about the Doctors Without Borders that were crossing into the firefights to provide medical aid to civilians caught in the crossfire." "Oh yeah," he said. "Those people sounded amazingly brave." "Moira was one of those people," Fi said. "Running out into firefights, scooping up kids and pulling shrapnel out of them. One of the bravest people I'd ever met, but she's been doing it for a few years, and it was starting to take a real toll on her, so I invited her to come and visit DC. A few weeks later she'd gotten a job at a hospital in Georgetown. A couple of months later we started dating. Half a year later, she moved in with me. About two years ago, we decided we both wanted to get the fuck out of DC forever, but weren't sure where to go." "Around the time you added me and Xander on Facebook." "Actually, I have a confession to make,  Moira sent you the friend request from my account," she sighed. "I was convinced you didn't even think about me any more, so one day when we were fighting, she just sat down at my computer, found you on Facebook and sent you the friend request before I could stop her." "And then you and I played the biggest, dumbest game of virtual chicken ever, waiting for the other one to reach out first," he sighed. "God, we're fucking stupid some days." To be continued in part 20, by CorruptingPower for Literotica.

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Zadnje tedne nas je dosegla prijetna vest, da bodo odslej cene goriv na avtocestah enako regulirane kot tiste v notranjosti. Kar pomeni, da nižje. Vest je bila prijetna za veliko večino državljanov, neprijetna pa za delničarje in upravo Petrola.Ta se je v podobi visokih Petrolovih direktorjev tako razhudila, da je skoraj pljunila. No, na koncu ni, ampak so Petrolovi direktorji kot užaljeni otroci povedali, da bodo pač zamrznili sponzorska sredstva za kulturo in šport in da bodo investirali na trgih in v državah, ki so do Petrola bolj prijazne. Potem so Petrolovi direktorji govorili o maržah in o zmanjšanih profitih in sploh, kako se prodajanje bencina v Sloveniji skoraj ne splača. Javnost je bila posledično ogorčena, ker je mnenja, da je Petrol tako ali tako monopolist, za katerega veljajo druga pravila in da je recimo plastenka vode zaradi posvečenega statusa Petrola v njihovih prodajalnah še enkrat dražja kot v normalnih prodajalnah. In tako naprej in tako nazaj. Ampak da ne bomo prilivali bencina na ogenj, se lotimo teme, ki je manj atraktivna od nalivanja bencina, prodajanja športnih stav, sprejemanja paketov, prodaje higienskih pripomočkov, alkoholnih pijač, krofov, sendvičev in kave, rezanega cvetja in napolitank, ter kar je podobnih izdelkov, ki v Petrolovih prodajalnah zlahka dosežejo rekordne cene. Hočemo povedati, da zaradi vsega naštetega in pomanjkanja konkurence ni posebej zahtevno biti Petrolov direktor, kajti kljub vsemu glamurju navkljub: petrolovci so pač še eni trgovci več. Zato se posvetimo njihovi dejavnosti, ki je neatraktivna, v javnih občilih skoraj anonimna, a še kako pomembna. Posvetimo se lulanju, ali uriniranju, ki mu včasih pravimo tudi mala potreba. V tej pasji vročini je treba med potovanji veliko piti, kot nam svetujejo zdravstveni delavci in kar z lahkoto storimo na Petrolovih bencinskih servisih. Nihče pa se ne posveča dejstvu, da je čez čas treba vso to tekočino tudi spraviti ven. Iz telesa, natančneje mehurja. Gre za fiziološki proces, ki je manj atraktiven kot pitje osvežilnih pijač, za organizem pa prav tako potreben. Da ne zapišemo nujen. In to je na Petrolovih bencinskih servisih mnogo težje storiti, kot se rehidrirati. Lulanje je na Petrolu problem. Poznamo dva glavna principa dostopa do Petrolovih sanitarij. Prvega v pomanjkanju strokovne terminologije imenujmo: »ključ je pri prodajalcu«. Ta je značilen predvsem za manjše in primestne servise. Za tiste, ki jim po novem grozi zaprtje. Zaradi tega, ker se v straniščih, po ustnih zagotovili črpalkarjev, dogajajo tudi nefiziološke rabote, so stranišča ali stranišče zaklenjeni. In če ste natočili gorivo ali kaj kupili, ste upravičeni do ključa. Ki ga prevzamete pri črpalkarju, po navadi je navezan na daljši, delno vlažni vrvici in ga po uporabi vrnete na mesto pri blagajni. Drugi princip, veljaven na vseh teh prečudovitih in bleščečih Petrolovih servisih ob avtocestah, pa je uporaba stranišča proti plačilu. Se pravi, da po plačilu na avtomatu stopite skozi podobno zaporo, kot jih poznajo smučarske vlečnice, ali pač kopališča in stadioni. Lahko plačate s kovanci ali Petrolovo kartico. Obstaja tudi možnost nekakšnih bonusov pri vstopnini na stranišče, če ste pred tem kaj kupili, ampak je sistem zapleten in nikomur se s tem ne da ukvarjati. Če povzamemo; Petrol vam ne računa le za nalivanje, temveč tudi za izlivanje. Kar je enkraten primer krvosesnega, ali pač sodobnega urino kapitalizma. Zgodovina kapitalizma in stranišč na bencinskih črpalkah je pisana in starožitna in ko smo civilizacijsko presegli gospe, ki so čistile za vami ter poslušale trkanje kovancev ob krožniček, smo uvedli avtomatiziran in davčno mnogo bolj transparenten sistem. Vendar naša kritika ne gre samo proti izkoriščanju človeka po stranišču, kot se je dogajalo včasih; kajti tudi danes Petrolova stranišča nenazadnje še vedno nekdo čisti. V maniri radikalne levice se vprašajmo: »Ali za svoje stranke Petrol, ki kljub maržam pri plastenki vode računa dvojno ali trojno ceno od nabavne, ne bi razmislil o brezplačnem lulanju?« Ali je človeško izločanje in skrb zanj za korporacijo resnično takšen strošek, da nam tega ne bi zmogla častiti? Ker, če pogledamo bolj socialne in družbeno odgovorne pravne subjekte, je uriniranje v večini slovenskih gospodarskih družb brezplačno. In če lahko greš zastonj na stranišče v gledališčih, ki so mnogo bolj siromašna od trgovcev z nafto, ob tem pa bodo zdaj ostala še brez Petrolovih sponzorskih sredstev, potem bi si lahko zaposleno čistilko, ki jo plačujejo iz prodaje bencina, ne pa iz pol evra straniščnine, privoščili tudi na Petrolu. Ali pa nam, glede na to, da so tretjinsko v državni lasti, priznali triintridesetodstotni popust na malo potrebo. Pa še nekaj na pol preverjenega nam je prišlo na uho. V času, ko so Petrolovi managerji (beri kot piše) jockali na tiskovni konferenci, kakšna strahovita muka je prodajati bencin v Sloveniji, so imeli vsi zaposleni pod skakalnicami v Planici velik piknik, ali team bulding, ali pač zabavo, ob 80-letnici ustanovitve podjetja. Zaposlenih na Petrolu je skoraj šest tisoč, na brezplačni žur pa jih ni prišla niti polovica. Mogoče pa bi se Petrolovi direktorji najprej posvetili odnosom v kolektivu, nato straniščem, šele zatem pa maržam.

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Še ena pravljica iz bogate Krekove zbirke. Govori o malce prepostem fantu, Pavlihi, ki doživlja svet okoli sebe po svoje. Moti pa me nauk zgodbe o tem, kako je obogatel. Ker denar, ki ga je našel, je bil ukraden in pravzaprav bi moral poiskati lastnika in se zadovoljiti z nagrado. Prisluhni slovenski ljudski pripovedki o tem kako je Pavlihovo stanovanje pogorelo in kako je obogatel.Vir: Slovenske narodne pravljice in pripovedke, zbral B. Krek, bere Nataša Holy

Mindenki azt várja, mit lép Amerika Iránban, az ajatollah harcias üzenetet küldött Így verik át az államot és a betegeket a hibázó orvosok Velünk együtt váltottak rendszert, fényévekre vannak tőlünk, és már az óvodában tanítják a mesterséges intelligenciát Pénzveszélyes bombák az okostelefonok 87 magyar és egy amerikai állampolgárt hozott haza Magyarország Hiába Orbán Viktorék minden erőfeszítése? Ostobaság leírni a dízelmotort Kerényi Miklós Máté igényei megrémítik az Ingatlanvadászokat A kakaó magas ára miatt virágzik a csempészet, a kereskedők aggódnak Így költenek a szépségükre a magyarok Legendás kéziedzőjük előtt tisztelegtek az esztergomiak Wolff: Ez pitiáner lépés volt a Red Bulltól Két front között: 30 fok felett a hőmérséklet A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

Mindenki azt várja, mit lép Amerika Iránban, az ajatollah harcias üzenetet küldött Így verik át az államot és a betegeket a hibázó orvosok Velünk együtt váltottak rendszert, fényévekre vannak tőlünk, és már az óvodában tanítják a mesterséges intelligenciát Pénzveszélyes bombák az okostelefonok 87 magyar és egy amerikai állampolgárt hozott haza Magyarország Hiába Orbán Viktorék minden erőfeszítése? Ostobaság leírni a dízelmotort Kerényi Miklós Máté igényei megrémítik az Ingatlanvadászokat A kakaó magas ára miatt virágzik a csempészet, a kereskedők aggódnak Így költenek a szépségükre a magyarok Legendás kéziedzőjük előtt tisztelegtek az esztergomiak Wolff: Ez pitiáner lépés volt a Red Bulltól Két front között: 30 fok felett a hőmérséklet A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

Így verik át az államot és a betegeket a hibázó orvosok Egy év alatt 4600 dolgozót épített le a 15 legnagyobb magyarországi gyár Velünk együtt váltottak rendszert, fényévekre vannak tőlünk, és már az óvodában tanítják a mesterséges intelligenciát Pénzveszélyes bombák az okostelefonok 87 magyar és egy amerikai állampolgárt hozott haza Magyarország Ostobaság leírni a dízelmotort Hiába Orbán Viktorék minden erőfeszítése? Kerényi Miklós Máté igényei megrémítik az Ingatlanvadászokat A kakaó magas ára miatt virágzik a csempészet, a kereskedők aggódnak Így költenek a szépségükre a magyarok Legendás kéziedzőjük előtt tisztelegtek az esztergomiak Wolff: Ez pitiáner lépés volt a Red Bulltól Két front között: 30 fok felett a hőmérséklet A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

Így verik át az államot és a betegeket a hibázó orvosok Egy év alatt 4600 dolgozót épített le a 15 legnagyobb magyarországi gyár Velünk együtt váltottak rendszert, fényévekre vannak tőlünk, és már az óvodában tanítják a mesterséges intelligenciát Pénzveszélyes bombák az okostelefonok 87 magyar és egy amerikai állampolgárt hozott haza Magyarország Ostobaság leírni a dízelmotort Hiába Orbán Viktorék minden erőfeszítése? Kerényi Miklós Máté igényei megrémítik az Ingatlanvadászokat A kakaó magas ára miatt virágzik a csempészet, a kereskedők aggódnak Így költenek a szépségükre a magyarok Legendás kéziedzőjük előtt tisztelegtek az esztergomiak Wolff: Ez pitiáner lépés volt a Red Bulltól Két front között: 30 fok felett a hőmérséklet A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

»Streljanje za osnovne šole« je naslov priročnika, ki ga je v šestdesetih letih dvajsetega stoletja izdala jugoslovanska strelska zveza z namenom popularizirati strelske krožke na osnovnih šolah. Hočemo povedati, da se je na osnovnih šolah streljalo že kdaj prej, vendar v tarče. Namen današnje analize je ugotoviti, kdaj so se otroci odločili, da bodo namesto v tarče v šolah streljali v sošolce. Po vsakem šolskem streljanju, tako tudi po zadnjem v avstrijskem Gradcu, slovenski mediji iz kabinetov izbrskajo šolske strokovnjake, ki povedo, kje tičijo vzroki in kje so doma povodi. Potem mediji ugotovijo, da je samo še vprašanje časa, kdaj se bo to zgodilo pri nas. Situacija je podobna oni, ko so vse države okoli nas že imele virus covida na svojih tleh, le v Sloveniji še nismo imeli nobenega primera. Nekakšen purgatorij, ki državljane pred prihajajočo katastrofo drži v strahu in pričakovanju, kar je za medijsko krajino vedno koristno. Ampak da ne bomo čakali, kdaj se dokončno utrga kateremu od slovenskih otrok, bodimo vsaj malo proaktivni in poskusimo najti ali predlagati rešitve, ki bodo pomagale preprečiti strelski pohod na slovenskih šolah. Poizkusimo se zgledovati pri računalnikih, ki so logično hladni, brezosebni in učinkoviti – kar se zdi dobra metoda pri soočenju s takšnim čustvenim vrtincem, kot je brezsmiselna izguba mladih življenj. V primeru, da se računalnik pokvari, so snovalci dodali modro rešitev, ki obupanega uporabnika odpelje nazaj, do zadnje še delujoče verzije. Se pravi, da se disfunkcionalni digitalni svet samodejno vrne nazaj v čas, ko je še deloval, in od tam nato uporabnika pospremi naprej v upanju, da ne bo storil istih napak, ki so ga navsezadnje vodile v katastrofo. Katera bi torej bila zadnja še delujoča verzija šolskega sistema, v kateri ni bilo nobenih možnosti, da bi učenci postrelili svoje sošolce? Zaradi nazornosti gremo nazaj stoletje in več, ko so bili učitelji popolni vladarji učilnic in so svoj status vzdrževali s strahovlado. Sodobno slovensko šolo torej vrnemo v leto 1910. Učenec se obnaša do učitelja neprimerno. Recimo, da noče pospraviti žvečilnega gumija v koš. Učitelj pristopi in: »svizzz« mu prisoli eno okoli ušes. Učenec zanalašč moti pouk. V kotu učilnice je dvajset storžev koruze in učenec mora na njih klečati preostanek pouka.Učenec ni naredil domače naloge. Ostati mora po pouku in jo narediti dvajsetkrat. Učenec ne zna pokazati, kje leži Južna Amerika. Dobi jih z ravnilom po prstih. In tako naprej in tako nazaj. Učenec ugovarja učitelju. Mora k ravnatelju, ki ga položi čez koleno in ga s šibo namlati po nagi riti. Seveda sedaj javnost ogorčeno protestira, da smo leta 2025 pa že presegli fizično kaznovanje otrok kot vzgojno metodo. Tako v šoli, kot v družini. In ne moremo se bolj strinjati, da je fizična kazen resnično nesprejemljiva. Ampak takšno je tudi streljanje otrok. Torej moramo kot družba na tehnico postaviti dve slabi, oziroma nesprejemljivi izbiri. Ali je slabša tepežka, ali so slabši mrtvi otroci? Ker nekaj je, spet s hladno logiko neprizadetega opazovalca, do danes že jasno. Med vrstniško nasilje, ustrahovanje in grožnje, tako v virtualnem kot v realnem svetu, bi se med mladimi občutno zmanjšali, če bi od drugega do šestega razreda osnovne šole intenzivno pela šiba. Seveda pa gre pri tem razmisleku samo za naivno in pobožno željo, kajti starši leta 2025 nikoli ne bi dovolili, da se njihove otroke v šolah pretepa. Starši, torej … V časih, ki smo jih opisali, so starši sodelovali z učitelji. Se pravi, da te je v šoli namlatil učitelj, doma pa še starš, ker si razjezil učitelja. Danes otrok na srečo nihče več ne mlati, mnogi starši pa mlatijo učitelje. Na simbolni ravni, seveda. Pa vendar – tako vsaj ugotavljajo otroški dušecelniki v informativnih oddajah – starši pri vzgoji otrok še vedno igrajo pomembno vlogo. Najpomembnejšo sicer igrajo računalniške igrice, internet in družabna omrežja, ampak staršev kljub vsemu še ni za odpisati. Za začetek so starši prepričani, da so njihovi otroci izjemni; ko se izkaže, da niso, so najprej razočarani otroci, nato pa še starši. Starši krivijo šolo, otroci pa gredo postrelit sošolce.Rešitev za nastalo absurdno situacijo je že v sedemdesetih letih – približno takrat, ko so strokovnjaki ugotovili, da so vzgojne metode iz devetnajstega stoletja nesprejemljive – predlagal prezrti genij svetovne literature Kurt Vonnegut. V noveli »Veliki vesoljski fuk«, ki je med drugim napovedala današnjo ekološko katastrofo, je predlagal ureditev, po kateri so starši do konca življenja odgovorni za otrokova dejanja. Oziroma lahko otrok, ko izvrši kakršenkoli prekršek, toži starše zaradi slabe vzgoje. Če bi v Sloveniji, kot prvi državi na svetu, v zakonodajo zapisali možnost, da lahko otrok pozneje v življenju zaradi neprimerne vzgoje sodno preganja svoje starše, bi se morda ti zamislili in začeli otroke ponovno vzgajati; ne pa jim samo plačevati maksimalen naročniški paket.

Škrat Kuzma je dolgo živel samo v knjigi. Ker pa se je otrokom tako priljubil, smo leta 1995 naprosili pesnico Svetlano Makarovič, naj ga priredi še za radio. Isti je, a vendar čisto drugačen. Kakšen, pa spoznajte sami … Režiser: Aleš Jan Dramaturg: Ervin Fritz Tonski mojster: Jure Culiberg Glasbena opremljevalka: Cvetka Bevc Škrat Kuzma – Robert Waltl Frizerski škrat – Boris Ostan Tiskarski škrat – Karli Brišnik Radijski škrat – Grega Čušin Zidarski škrat – Janez Škof Kuhinjski škrat – Zlatko Šugman Sraka – Nadja Vidmar Miška – Lara Jankovič Jež – Jernej Kunter Veverica – Nataša Barbara Gračner Palčica – Tina Gorenjak Medved – Iztok Jereb Škratka – Nina Valič Produkcija Uredništva igranega programa Posneto v studiih Radia Slovenija v novembru 1995

Send us a textDrew and Arnold are back reviewing the Attitude Era! And boy does this episode remind Drew of something! What? Just tune in and hear! This is the go home show for World War 3 1997, and I think the guys wish that they would have just gone home!Don't forget to tune into Twitch on Wednesdays at 7:30est pm for our interactive "Preshow".  www.twitch.tv/AEWRPodFollow us on Twitter and IG and TikTok: @AEWRPodWatch us on Youtube "Attitude Era Wrestling Review Podcast"Join our Patreon at Patreon.com/AttitudeEraWrestlingReview Heartfül of Kerøsene - Jeff The Second https://youtu.be/ZbyFsGMjfRg Creative Commons Attribution Free Download / Stream: https://www.audiolibrary.com.co/jeff-the-second/heartful-of-kersene-instrumental Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/y-tbE2FIA1o Music: Savage by Alex-Productions https://soundcloud.com/alexproductionsmusic License: Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://audiolibrary.com.co/alex-productions/savage Music promoted by Audio Library: https://youtu.be/pILVwyuW3jw AEWR logo art by Russ from @Infectious_Pod

Megnyílik az alagút Visegrád és Nagymaros között Guinness-rekorder lett Tom Cruise Itt a 10 legjobb új film a hétvégére Szuperhősök, balfék rendőrök és egy terhes társaság: ezt nézi most mindenki A szolgálólány meséjén túl: 4 kiváló Margaret Atwood-könyv Mégis zöld utat kaphat a Fűrész következő epizódja? "A gyerekeket nem a szivárványtól kell megóvni, hanem azoktól, akik ellopták a jövőjüket" – Művészek és politikusok a Pride-megnyitón Félig magyar volt Orson Welles utolsó múzsája Egyszer mindenkit elfog az ismeretlen utáni vágy – a tűzgyújtó The Wallkids Kardffy Aisha és Kerényi Miklós Máté: Minden este szakítanak A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

Send us a textDON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK! Just like that Drew and Arnold are back bringing you the goodness of the Attitude Era of Proffesional Wrestling! They are reviewing WWE Raw, WCW Nitro and all of the Pay Per Views! But for this episode they fantasy booked a PPV between WWF and WCW taking place in December of 1997! Listen in and see if you would have watched that PPV!! Then head over to Twitter and share your own card that you can create on Tier list! Create a WWF vs WCW Pay Per View 1997 Tier List - TierMakerFollow us on Twitter and IG and TikTok: @AEWRPodWatch us on Youtube "Attitude Era Wrestling Review Podcast"Join our Patreon at Patreon.com/AttitudeEraWrestlingReview Heartfül of Kerøsene - Jeff The Second https://youtu.be/ZbyFsGMjfRg Creative Commons Attribution Free Download / Stream: https://www.audiolibrary.com.co/jeff-the-second/heartful-of-kersene-instrumental Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/y-tbE2FIA1o Music: Savage by Alex-Productions https://soundcloud.com/alexproductionsmusic License: Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://audiolibrary.com.co/alex-productions/savage Music promoted by Audio Library: https://youtu.be/pILVwyuW3jw AEWR logo art by Russ from @Infectious_Pod

Rusi už na Ukrajine stratili takmer miliónov vojakov a Ukrajine vyšiel náročný plán. Husársky kúsok. V rámci operácie Pavučina udrela na štyri ruské vojenské letiská, tisíce kilometrov za frontovou líniou a úspešne zničila 12 lietadiel. Kým Ukrajinci ničia Rusom vojenské ciele, Rusko na Ukrajine cielene zabíja civilistov. V noci na dnes v meste Pryluky zabili Rusi dronmi päť ľudí, medzi nimi aj ročné dieťa.V Istanbule sa medzitým skončilo ďalšie kolo rokovaní ukrajinskej a ruskej delegácie, bez podstatných výsledkov.Aké bude reakcia Ruskov na zničené lietadlá a útok a ďalší nečakaný útok na Kerčský most? Aká je situácia na frontových líniách, môžu Ukrajinci chystať nejakú novú protiofenzívu? A prečo mierové rokovania neprinášajú posun, stojí to všetko na telefonátoch lídrov? O čom hovorili tentokrát?Braňo Závodský sa rozprával s bezpečnostným analytikom a odborníkom na obranné plánovanie Vladimírom Bednárom.

Prezident nevypíše referendum, je to dobrý krok? Šimkovičovú na Spišskom hrade vítali nespokojní ľudia. Kerčský most spadne, ide len o to, kedy.

Ukraina veiksmīgi īsteno operāciju "Zirnekļa tīkls". Polijas prezidenta vēlēšanās uzvarējis konservatīvās opozīcijas kandidāts Navrockis. Latvija debitē ANO Drošības padomē. Aktualitātes analizē atvaļināts vēstnieks un lektors Latvijas Universitātē un Juridiskajā augstskolā Gints Jegermanis. Sazināmies ar Nacionālās aizsardzības akadēmijas pētnieku vēsturnieku Valdi Kuzminu un politologu Kārli Daukštu. Trumpji Zelenska piedurknē Ne viens vien pasaules medijs 2. jūnijā savos virsrakstos piesauca kāršu spēles motīvus. Tehnoloģiski novatoriska un organizatoriski filigrāna Ukrainas Drošības dienesta operācija pret Krievijas stratēģiskās bumbvedēju aviācijas bāzēm dziļi agresorvalsts teritorijā tiek uztverta kā nepārprotams mājiens prezidentam Trampam, kuram tīk klāstīt, ka Ukrainai „neesot kāršu” pašreizējā spēlē, respektīvi, nav izredžu pretoties Krievijas agresijai. Ilgstoši un pamatīgi gatavotajā diversijas akcijā neko nenojauzdami kravas mašīnu šoferi nogādāja Krievijas aviācijas bāzu tuvumā konteinerus, kuros it kā atradās moduļu mājas. Kad vajadzīgās lokācijas bija sasniegtas, no konteineriem izlidoja desmitiem lidrobotu un devās uz mērķi. Pavisam triecienus saņēma četri objekti, no kuriem salīdzinoši tuvākie atrodas pie Rjazaņas un Ivanovas, attiecīgi nepilnu astoņsimt un apmēram tūkstoš kilometru attālumā no Kijivas, attālākais pie Murmanskas, apmēram divtūkstoš kilometru attālumā, bet vistālāko – Sibīrijā, Irkutskas apgabalā – no Ukrainas galvaspilsētas šķir apmēram 4300 kilometri. Uzbrukuma mērķis bija stratēģiskie bumbvedēji un radioizlūkošanas lidmašīnas, kas, cita starpā, ietilpst Krievijas kodolspēku sastāvā, bet tiek izmantotas arī raķešu triecieniem pa Ukrainas pilsētām. Sākotnēji figurēja visai atšķirīgi dati par nodarītajiem zaudējumiem, līdz vakar Ukrainas Drošības dienests paziņoja, ka pavisam esot trāpīts 41 lidaparātam un trīspadsmit no tiem padarīti nelietojami. Tas ir jūtams zaudējums, sevišķi ja ievēro, ka tādus lidaparātus kā Tu-95 un Tu-22M3 jau ceturtdaļgadsimtu vairs neražo, un izskan viedokļi, ka attiecīgo zaudējumu kompensēšanai varētu būt vajadzīgi gadi vai pat desmitgades. Tāpat šī operācija liek Krievijai domāt par savas stratēģiskās aviācijas izkliedētāku dislocēšanu, kas mazinās tās izmantošanas efektivitāti. Pasaule vēl aizgūtnēm turpināja apspriest svētdienas operāciju, kurai Ukrainas Drošības dienests devis nosaukumu „Zirnekļa tīkls”, kad agrā otrdienas rītā jaudīga zemūdens eksplozija satricināja Krievijas uzcelto tiltu pāri Kerčas šaurumam, plašāk pazīstamu kā Krimas tilts. Zemūdens eksplozija notikusi tuvu gruntij un pamatīgi bojājusi vienu no tilta balstiem. Pēc tam tilts uz laiku ticis slēgts, tad atkal atvērts, tad vēlreiz slēgts, un šobrīd nav īsti skaidrs, vai un kādā režīmā tas funkcionē. Latvija debitē ANO Drošības padomē 3. jūnijā Apvienoto Nāciju Ģenerālā asambleja ievēlēja piecas jaunas ANO Drošības padomes nepastāvīgās locekles ar mandāta termiņu 2026. un 2027. gadā. Viena no jaunievēlētajām loceklēm ir Latvija, pārējās – Bahreina, Kolumbija, Kongo Demokrātiskā republika un Libērija. Vēl piecas nepastāvīgās locekles, kas Drošības padomē ieņem vietas kopš šī gada sākuma ir Dānija, Grieķija, Pakistāna, Panama un Somālija. Kā vēsta statistika, pavisam balsojušas 188 dalībvalstis, pret balsojušo nav bijis, taču zināms skaits balsotāju attūrējušies. Visvairāk tādu bijis balsojumā par mūsu valsti – veseli desmit, kamēr, piemēram, Bahreinas gadījumā šādu pārliecības trūkumu paudušas vien divas delegācijas. Latvija ir arī vienīgā no ievēlētajām padomes loceklēm, kas šo prestižo pienākumu uzņemsies pirmoreiz. Drošības padomes kompetencē ietilpst jebkura drošības jautājuma izvērtēšana un attiecīgu lēmumu pieņemšana, aicinot ANO dalībvalstis vērst pret drošības apdraudētāju ekonomiskās vai diplomātiskās sankcijas, tāpat Drošības padome var lemt par militāru vai citu nepieciešamu līdzekļu lietošanu. Pagātnē ar šādu mandātu starptautiskās koalīcijas iesaistījās Korejas karā 1950. gadā, veica Kuveitas atbrīvošanu no Irākas okupācijas 1991. gadā un intervenci Lībijā 2011. gadā. Drošības padome ir tā institūcija, kas izvirza Apvienoto Nāciju ģenerālsekretāra kandidatūru un iesaka jaunu dalībvalstu uzņemšanu organizācijā. Kā zināms, bez desmit pārvēlamajām Drošības padomes loceklēm tajā ir arī piecas pastāvīgās locekles ar veto tiesībām – Savienotās Valstis, Lielbritānija, Francija, Krievija un Ķīna. Līdz nesenam laikam trīs Rietumu demokrātijas – ASV, Lielbritānija un Francija – tika apzīmētas kā „P3”. Tās tradicionāli ieņēma līdzīgu pozīciju visos būtiskākajos globālās politikas jautājumos. Taču kopš Baltajā namā saimnieko Donalds Tramps, šī ierastā kārtība jau vairākkārt tikusi izjaukta. Tāpēc katras uz tradicionālajām Rietumu vērtībām orientētas valsts klātbūtne Drošības padomē šobrīd iegūst papildu nozīmi. Par purna tiesu Nepilni 370 000 no apmēram 21 miljona jeb mazāk nekā divi procenti – tāds balsu apjoms izšķīra Polijas prezidenta vēlēšanu rezultātu. Pēc vēlēšanu pirmās kārtas 18. maijā sacīksti turpināja divi: valdošās labēji centriskās Pilsoniskās platformas kandidāts, Varšavas mērs Rafals Tšaskovkis un lielākās opozīcijas partijas, nacionālkonservatīvās „Likums un Taisnīgums” un tās sabiedroto atbalstītais neatkarīgais kandidāts Karols Navrockis. Negaidīti labi rezultāti pirmajā kārtā bija vēl diviem izteikti labējiem kandidātiem: Brīvības un neatkarības konfederācijas pārstāvis Slavomirs Mencens ieguva gandrīz 15% un monarhistiskās Polijas kroņa konfederācijas pārstāvis Gžegošs Brauns – vairāk nekā 6% balsu. Brauns aicināja savu elektorātu balsot par Navrocki, savukārt Mencens sarīkoja publisku pasākumu, kurā aicināja abus otrās kārtas kandidātus parakstīties zem viņa ierosinātās programmas astoņiem punktiem. Navrockis parakstīja, Tšaskovskis – nē. Vairāki centriski un kreisi kandidāti, tādi kā Šimons Holovņa no Polijas Tautas partijas vai Magdalena Bjejata no koalīcijas „Kreisie”, savukārt aicināja balsot par Tšaskovski, kaut arī kreisajiem ir pretenzijas pret Pilsoniskās platformas labējo sociālo politiku. Rezultātā ar gluži nelielu pārsvaru uzvaru svētdien, 1. jūnijā, svinēja Karols Navrockis. Vēlēšanu rezultātu kartes rāda Polijai jau ierasto ainu, kad par konservatīvo politiku balso vēsturiskās poļu zemes valsts centrā un dienvidaustrumos, savukārt par liberālāku pieeju – pēc Otrā pasaules kara pievienotās teritorijas rietumos un ziemeļos, kā arī Varšava un citas lielās pilsētas, izņemot Krakovu. Tā nu Polijā turpināsies līdzšinējā situācija, kad centriskai un proeiropeiskai valdības koalīcijai jāsadzīvo ar radikāli konservatīvu prezidentu. Navrockis tiek dēvēts par „Polijas Farāžu”, ciktāl ir kategoriski pret ciešāku Eiropas Savienības integrāciju, tai skaitā pret eiro ieviešanu Polijā, un arī skeptisks par savienības tālāku paplašināšanos, tai skaitā Ukrainas uzņemšanu. Tomēr jaunievēlētā prezidenta uzskati noteikti nav prokremliski, ciktāl Krievijas agresijas atturēšanu viņš uzskata par Polijas drošības politikas stūrakmeni, aicinot stiprināt NATO, sadarbību ar Savienotajām Valstīm un reģionālo sadarbību ar t.s. Bukarestes devītnieku – Čehiju, Slovākiju, Ungāriju, Rumāniju, Bulgāriju un Baltijas valstīm; tāpat ar Somiju un Zviedriju. Polijas prezidenta pilnvaras nav sevišķi plašas, taču pašreizējā situācijā konservatīvam prezidentam faktiski ir likumdošanas veto iespējas. Prezidenta veto Sejms var atcelt ar 60% balsu, bet centriski liberālajiem spēkiem šāda pārsvara likumdevējā nav. Sagatavoja Eduards Liniņš.

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Ko se v že tako ali tako prepirljivem narodu začnejo prepirati pop zvezde, je čas, da izostri uho tudi analitična oddaja, kot je naša. Kajti ustvarjalci, umetniki in kreativci naj bi s svojo duhovno rastjo ob ukvarjanju z lepim presegli nizkotnost prepira, ki je rezervirana za politike in običajneže. Ker pa so se v zadnjem tednu spoprijeli Nika, Aleš in Marjetka, ki skupaj predstavljajo velik odstotek slovenskega popa, se bomo v prepir zakopali tudi mi. Najprej in na začetku; s slovenskim popom se nam na srečo ni treba vsakodnevno ukvarjati. Z njim se morajo ukvarjati glasbeni uredniki, ki pa zaradi tega dobijo dodatek k plači in imajo beneficiran delovni staž. Ob zadnjih prepirih na slovenski pop sceni pa je bil na svet RTV podan predlog, da bi lahko bili glasbeni uredniki, vsaj v službi, tudi oboroženi. Toliko prahu, strasti in natolcevanj se je namreč pojavilo v javnem prostoru, ko sta Aleš in Marjetka Vovk zahtevala umik videospotov Nike Zorjan s pretočne platforme, češ da sta avtorja glasbe in besedil. Skratka, spor se je vrtel okoli pogodb in avtorskih pravic. Ker pa so mediji dandanašnje šlampasti, so se samo naslajali nad prepirom, nihče pa se ni poglobil v materijo samo. Vse do danes, ko je na sporedu vaša priljubljena obrekovalska oddaja. Ker ste melodijam in kontrapunktu slovenskega popa izpostavljeni vsakodnevno, se danes posvetimo le besedilni komponenti, ki se skriva v jabolku spora. Torej, okoli česa so se sprli Aleš, Marjetka in Nika in kaj je temni predmet poželenja, ki toženim in tožečim obljublja na desettisoče evrov odškodnine. Vzeli smo javno dostopno besedilo pesmi, ki nosi naslov "Zate dovolj …" Avtorja glasbe in besedila sta Aleš in Marjetka, oz. Raay in Maraya, poje pa Nika. Objavili bomo, v upanju da ne bo padla tožba, le prve tri kitice. Oz. dve kitici in refren. Vem, nisem vsak dan dobra družba, včasih zmanjka mi besed, včasih zmanjka mi besed. Le ti, ti me vidiš v srce in stopiš me kakor led in stopiš me kakor led. Vedno sem zate dovolj, v meni vidiš le lepó. In ti, ti me nasmeješ, me ogreješ, ko me pogledaš, tako je topló. Potem smo, samo za kontekst, naprosili umetno inteligenco, naj poskusi napisati besedilo ljubezenske pop pesmi o neprilagojeni junakinji, ki naj vsebuje topljenje ledu. V petnajstih sekundah smo dobili tole: Ni vedno glas razuma, včasih raje gre po svoje, z vinom v roki, z vetrom v laseh – beži pred prazne dvoje. V očeh ji gori upor, na ustih tiha kletev, a v srcu skriva nevihto, ki jo le on lahko razplete. Prijatelji bežijo stran, pravi: "Ne maram pravil," v njej žari svoboda, a ne ve, kaj bi z njo storila. Ko stopi on v prostor, vse se v njej spremeni, kot da bi jo sonce poljubilo – in noč postane dni. Ob njem se ne pretvarja, nežna je in bosa, ledene stene v njej razpadejo – brez glasu, brez joka. Na svetu ni popravnega, a v njegovem objemu ve: čeprav je vihar v njej doma, zanj je vedno spet dekle. Potem smo prosili učenko šestega razreda OŠ, zaradi ortodontskega aparata socialno anksiozno, če nam napiše besedilo pop pesmi z danimi parametri. To smo dobili: Stopil si v moj svet tišine gluhe, uhodil stare si poti Kot pomlad zimski led stopi Srce se te moje veseli. Vem, da sem včasih tuja, Divja plešem vse noči A ne boj se, ne bom za vedno taka Ko mine puberteta, se mi oko zbistri. Le ti me čutiš In poznaš moj pin Le ti si v nočeh obupa, Moj tihi sotrpin Potem smo naprosili še delno uveljavljenega pesnika starejše generacije, gospoda Franca iz Vrbe, če nam lahko on pošlje nekaj verzov, ki bi se lepo podali pod naslov: »Zate dovolj«. Zanimivo, da je stari lisjak med besedama zate in dovolj, postavil vejico. Alešu vedno Nika laže, hrast, ki led na tla Ga zimski trešče On živi in umrje brez dnarja. Zdaj nam je približno jasno, okoli česa so se sporekli in okoli česa se tresejo vsi ti desettisoči evrov avtorskih pravic, odškodnin in gaž od špilov. Je pa ena resnica oz. dve. Če bi zaprosil Aleša, Marjetko in Niko, da napišejo pesem o recimo –"poletni noči, ki bila je najin dom", bi za raven, na kateri so bili popevkarji pred pol stoletja, potrebovali približno dvesto let. In če si sedanji slovenski pop glasbeniki za svoja skrpucala resnično delijo na tisoče evrov, bi morala Elza Budau živeti v graščini, obkrožena s služabniki.

Pieaug Donalda Trampa administrācijas konfrontācija ar vairākām prominentām Savienoto Valstu augstskolām. Pagājušajās brīvdienās Ukraina piedzīvoja lielāko Krievijas uzlidojumu, kāds vien pieredzēts. Britu karaļpāris – karalis Čārlzs III un karaliene Kamilla – apmeklējis Kanādu. Aktualitātes ananlizē Austrumeiropas politikas pētījumu centra valdes loceklis, pētnieks Mārcis Balodis, Latvijas Radio Ziņu dienesta vadītājs, Ārpolitikas institūta pētnieks Uģis Lībietis. Sazināmies ar militāro apskatnieku Mārtiņu Vērdiņu. Ierakstā viedokli izsaka Ukrainas politologam Dmitro Levus. Trampa „frontē” pārmaiņas Britu iknedēļas laikraksts „The Guardian” kā Donalda Trampa administrācijas šīsnedēļas galveno iekšpolitikas aktualitāti akcentē konfrontāciju ar vairākām prominentām Savienoto Valstu augstskolām. Šī prestāvē jau nodēvēta par „Efejas līgas karu”, jo Savienoto Valstu Ziemeļaustrumu universitāšu grupa, ko mēdz apzīmēt ar šādu nosaukumu, izpelnījusies prezidenta Trampa sīvāko nepatiku un niknāko gānīšanu. Universitātes, kā izsakās prezidents, esot viens vienīgs „marksistisku maniaku un plānprātiņu” perēklis. Konkrētie pārmetumi saistīti ar universitātēs pagājušajā gadā notikušajiem protestiem pret Izraēlas īstenoto karadarbību Gazas joslā, kurus valdība traktē kā antisemītiskus. Par pirmo uzbrukuma objektu kļuva Kolumbijas universitāte, kurai tika pārtraukts valdības līdzfinansējums apmēram 400 miljonu dolāru apmērā. Lai arī universitāte piekāpās varas prasībām, finansējums tā arī līdz šim nav atjaunots. Turpinājumā līdzīgu finansējuma pārtraukšanu piedzīvoja vēl vesela virkne augstskolu, starp kurām vairākas ir pasaules augstskolu reitingu pirmajā desmitniekā. Visnepakļāvīgākā izrādījās Hārvarda universitāte, kuras vadība pārsūdzēja tiesā valdības lēmumus par finanšu atņemšanu un atļaujas atsaukšanu ārzemju studentu uzņemšanai. Ārzemju studentu lietā tiesa valdības lēmumu pagaidām ir apturējusi, taču šonedēļ administrācija veica jaunu gājienu – Savienoto Valstu konsulāti visur pasaulē saņēma rīkojumu pārtraukt studentu un apmaiņas programmu vīzu pieteikumu pieņemšanu. Process tikšot atjaunots pēc tam, kad būšot ieviesta pretendentu tīmekļa aktivitāšu pārbaudes sistēma. Tikām plašumā vēršas spekulācijas par prezidenta Trampa līdzšinējā līdzgaitnieka Īlona Maska iespējamo attālināšanos no Baltā nama varas virsotnes. Pats Masks pagājušā mēneša nogalē paziņoja, ka krietni mazināšot savu darbošanos Valdības efektivitātes birojā, kura neformāls vadītājs viņš ir. Pirms dažām dienām viņš nāca klajā ar vēl vienu paziņojumu, proti – turpmāk viņš ziedošot daudz mazākas summas politiskajām kampaņām, nekā darījis līdz šim. Tās nav labas ziņas republikāņiem, kuru lielākais sponsors ir Masks. Tāpat daudzi ir ievērojuši, ka Maska vārds pēdējos pāris mēnešos ir tikpat kā pazudis gan no prezidenta Trampa, gan citu republikāņu sociālo tīklu ierakstiem. Tiek spriests par to, ka multimiljardiera reputācijas lejupslīde izraisījusi varas nesēju atsalšanu pret viņu. Savukārt pašam Maskam liela vilšanās droši vien bija nesen notikušās Viskonsīnas pavalsts Augstākās tiesas vēlēšanas, kurās viņš ieguldīja rekordlielu summu – trīs miljonus dolāru – tomēr republikāņu kandidāti cieta sakāvi. Ukraina – pagurusi, bet nepadevīga Pagājušajās brīvdienās Ukraina piedzīvoja lielāko Krievijas uzlidojumu, kāds vien pieredzēts. Naktī uz svētdienu, 25. maiju, Kremlis raidīja pret Kijivu un citām pilsētām pavisam 367 lidrobotus un raķetes, nogalinot vismaz divpadsmit cilvēkus, savukārt naktī uz pirmdienu – 355 lidrobotus un deviņas spārnotās raķetes, laupot dzīvību vēl sešiem. Beidzot skarbāki toņi Krievijas diktatora Putina sakarā ieskanējās arī Savienoto Valstu prezidenta Donalda Trampa sacītajā. „Kaut kas ir noticis ar Putinu! Viņš ir kļuvis pilnīgi traks!” paziņoja Trmps. Bet tūdaļ viņš nekavējās pārmest arī Ukrainas prezidentam Zelenskim, kurš pārāk asi esot pēlis Rietumus par bezdarbību. Šo Trampa teiktā daļu īpaši akcentējuši Krievijas mediji, savukārt viņa teikto par Krievijas vadoņa mentālo stāvokli Kremļa runasvīrs Peskovs pasludinājis par emocionālas spriedzes rezultātu. Pavisam cits svars ir paziņojumam, ar kuru pirmdien nāc klajā Vācijas kanclers Frīdrihs Mercs. Viņš paziņoja, ka Vācija, Francija, Lielbritānija un arī Savienotās Valstis vairs nenosakot nekādus ierobežojumus Ukrainai triecieniem ar tās rīcībā nodotajām rietumu ražojuma raķetēm pa Krievijas teritoriju. Jau šobrīd Ukrainas arsenālos ir britu un franču ražojuma „SCALP/Storm Shadow” raķetes ar piecsimt kilometru darbības rādiusu, un teorētiski tās jau šobrīd nav liegts raidīt uz mērķiem Krievijā. Tāpēc kanclera Merca paziņojums izraisījis spekulācijas par to, ka Kijiva beidzot varētu saņemt arī jaudīgās vācu raķetes „Taurus”, kas varētu būt sevišķi efektīvas pret Kerčas tiltu. Skaidri nepasakot, ka Vācija piegādās „Taurus”, Mercs izpelnījies savu partijas biedru kritiku, taču, cik var noprast, lēmumam joprojām pretojas kanclera pārstāvēto kristīgo demokrātu koalīcijas partneri – sociāldemokrāti. Jācer, ka vairāk skaidrības varētu viest prezidenta Zelenska šodienas, 28. maija, vizīte Vācijā. Tikām turpinās minējumi par to, vai pašreizējās norises frontē uzskatāmas par gaidītās Krievijas vasaras ofensīvas sākumu. Par galveno agresora aktivitātes virzienu tiek uzskatīta Pokrovska Doņeckas apgabalā, savukārt Krievijas spēku koncentrēšanās pie robežas ar Ukrainas Harkivas un Sumu apgabaliem ir domātas Ukrainas spēku saistīšanai. Kanāda nav nekāda pavalsts, bet gan suverēna monarhija Šīs nedēļas sākumā britu karaļpāris – karalis Čārlzs III un karaliene Kamilla – apmeklēja Kanādu. Kanāda, līdz ar Austrāliju, Jaunzēlandi, Papua-Jaungvineju, Jamaiku un vēl astoņām kādreizējām britu kolonijām ir Britu nāciju sadraudzības personālūnijas statusā, proti, šo suverēno valstu nominālais galva ir britu monarhs. Otrdien, 27. maijā, viņš Otavā uzstājās ar troņa runu Kanādas Parlamentā. Tas ir visai rets notikums. Parasti šo ceremoniālo pienākumu izpilda karaļa oficiālais pārstāvis – Kanādas gubernators. Iepriekšējo reizi britu monarhs, toreiz karaliene Elizabete II,  ar tādu Otavā uzstājās 1977. gadā, savukārt šī ir pirmā reize, kad Vindzoru dinastijas galvas runa atklāj jaunievēlētā Kanādas Parlamenta sesiju. Šis notikums, protams, nav nejaušība, ievērojot pēdējo mēnešu izlēcienus no Kanādas dienvidu kaimiņvalsts vadītāja Donalda Trampa puses – izrunāšanos par „51. pavalsti” un Kanādas premjerministra dēvēšanu par gubernatoru. Jaunais Kanādas premjerministrs Marks Kārnijs, pēc kura uzaicinājuma karaļpāris viesojas savā nominālajā valdījumā, norādījis, ka šī vizīte nepārprotami uzsver Kanādas suverenitāti. Kā pauž raidsabiedrība BBC, karalim kā nominālajam valsts galvam nākas vairīties no tiešiem politiskiem paziņojumiem, tā vietā „sūtot kodētus signālus un veicot simboliskus žestus”. Vairāki tādi jau tikuši raidīt līdz šim, svinīgā ceremonijā parādoties ar Kanādas valsts apbalvojumu komplektu un iestādot kļavu Bekingemas pils dārzā. tagad, uzrunājot Kanādas parlamentāriešus Senāta Karaļa zālē, Čārlzs bilda: „Ir iemesls lielam lepnumam, ka pagājušajās desmitgadēs Kanāda ir turpinājusi demonstrēt pārējai pasaulei piemēru savā rīcībā un vērtībās kā labas gribas spēks. Kā mums atgādina himna: „Īstenie ziemeļi patiesi ir stipri un ir brīvi!” Sagatavoja Eduards Liniņš.

Pieaug Donalda Trampa administrācijas konfrontācija ar vairākām prominentām Savienoto Valstu augstskolām. Pagājušajās brīvdienās Ukraina piedzīvoja lielāko Krievijas uzlidojumu, kāds vien pieredzēts. Britu karaļpāris – karalis Čārlzs III un karaliene Kamilla – apmeklējis Kanādu. Aktualitātes ananlizē Austrumeiropas politikas pētījumu centra valdes loceklis, pētnieks Mārcis Balodis, Latvijas Radio Ziņu dienesta vadītājs, Ārpolitikas institūta pētnieks Uģis Lībietis. Sazināmies ar militāro apskatnieku Mārtiņu Vērdiņu. Ierakstā viedokli izsaka Ukrainas politologam Dmitro Levus. Trampa „frontē” pārmaiņas Britu iknedēļas laikraksts „The Guardian” kā Donalda Trampa administrācijas šīsnedēļas galveno iekšpolitikas aktualitāti akcentē konfrontāciju ar vairākām prominentām Savienoto Valstu augstskolām. Šī prestāvē jau nodēvēta par „Efejas līgas karu”, jo Savienoto Valstu Ziemeļaustrumu universitāšu grupa, ko mēdz apzīmēt ar šādu nosaukumu, izpelnījusies prezidenta Trampa sīvāko nepatiku un niknāko gānīšanu. Universitātes, kā izsakās prezidents, esot viens vienīgs „marksistisku maniaku un plānprātiņu” perēklis. Konkrētie pārmetumi saistīti ar universitātēs pagājušajā gadā notikušajiem protestiem pret Izraēlas īstenoto karadarbību Gazas joslā, kurus valdība traktē kā antisemītiskus. Par pirmo uzbrukuma objektu kļuva Kolumbijas universitāte, kurai tika pārtraukts valdības līdzfinansējums apmēram 400 miljonu dolāru apmērā. Lai arī universitāte piekāpās varas prasībām, finansējums tā arī līdz šim nav atjaunots. Turpinājumā līdzīgu finansējuma pārtraukšanu piedzīvoja vēl vesela virkne augstskolu, starp kurām vairākas ir pasaules augstskolu reitingu pirmajā desmitniekā. Visnepakļāvīgākā izrādījās Hārvarda universitāte, kuras vadība pārsūdzēja tiesā valdības lēmumus par finanšu atņemšanu un atļaujas atsaukšanu ārzemju studentu uzņemšanai. Ārzemju studentu lietā tiesa valdības lēmumu pagaidām ir apturējusi, taču šonedēļ administrācija veica jaunu gājienu – Savienoto Valstu konsulāti visur pasaulē saņēma rīkojumu pārtraukt studentu un apmaiņas programmu vīzu pieteikumu pieņemšanu. Process tikšot atjaunots pēc tam, kad būšot ieviesta pretendentu tīmekļa aktivitāšu pārbaudes sistēma. Tikām plašumā vēršas spekulācijas par prezidenta Trampa līdzšinējā līdzgaitnieka Īlona Maska iespējamo attālināšanos no Baltā nama varas virsotnes. Pats Masks pagājušā mēneša nogalē paziņoja, ka krietni mazināšot savu darbošanos Valdības efektivitātes birojā, kura neformāls vadītājs viņš ir. Pirms dažām dienām viņš nāca klajā ar vēl vienu paziņojumu, proti – turpmāk viņš ziedošot daudz mazākas summas politiskajām kampaņām, nekā darījis līdz šim. Tās nav labas ziņas republikāņiem, kuru lielākais sponsors ir Masks. Tāpat daudzi ir ievērojuši, ka Maska vārds pēdējos pāris mēnešos ir tikpat kā pazudis gan no prezidenta Trampa, gan citu republikāņu sociālo tīklu ierakstiem. Tiek spriests par to, ka multimiljardiera reputācijas lejupslīde izraisījusi varas nesēju atsalšanu pret viņu. Savukārt pašam Maskam liela vilšanās droši vien bija nesen notikušās Viskonsīnas pavalsts Augstākās tiesas vēlēšanas, kurās viņš ieguldīja rekordlielu summu – trīs miljonus dolāru – tomēr republikāņu kandidāti cieta sakāvi. Ukraina – pagurusi, bet nepadevīga Pagājušajās brīvdienās Ukraina piedzīvoja lielāko Krievijas uzlidojumu, kāds vien pieredzēts. Naktī uz svētdienu, 25. maiju, Kremlis raidīja pret Kijivu un citām pilsētām pavisam 367 lidrobotus un raķetes, nogalinot vismaz divpadsmit cilvēkus, savukārt naktī uz pirmdienu – 355 lidrobotus un deviņas spārnotās raķetes, laupot dzīvību vēl sešiem. Beidzot skarbāki toņi Krievijas diktatora Putina sakarā ieskanējās arī Savienoto Valstu prezidenta Donalda Trampa sacītajā. „Kaut kas ir noticis ar Putinu! Viņš ir kļuvis pilnīgi traks!” paziņoja Trmps. Bet tūdaļ viņš nekavējās pārmest arī Ukrainas prezidentam Zelenskim, kurš pārāk asi esot pēlis Rietumus par bezdarbību. Šo Trampa teiktā daļu īpaši akcentējuši Krievijas mediji, savukārt viņa teikto par Krievijas vadoņa mentālo stāvokli Kremļa runasvīrs Peskovs pasludinājis par emocionālas spriedzes rezultātu. Pavisam cits svars ir paziņojumam, ar kuru pirmdien nāc klajā Vācijas kanclers Frīdrihs Mercs. Viņš paziņoja, ka Vācija, Francija, Lielbritānija un arī Savienotās Valstis vairs nenosakot nekādus ierobežojumus Ukrainai triecieniem ar tās rīcībā nodotajām rietumu ražojuma raķetēm pa Krievijas teritoriju. Jau šobrīd Ukrainas arsenālos ir britu un franču ražojuma „SCALP/Storm Shadow” raķetes ar piecsimt kilometru darbības rādiusu, un teorētiski tās jau šobrīd nav liegts raidīt uz mērķiem Krievijā. Tāpēc kanclera Merca paziņojums izraisījis spekulācijas par to, ka Kijiva beidzot varētu saņemt arī jaudīgās vācu raķetes „Taurus”, kas varētu būt sevišķi efektīvas pret Kerčas tiltu. Skaidri nepasakot, ka Vācija piegādās „Taurus”, Mercs izpelnījies savu partijas biedru kritiku, taču, cik var noprast, lēmumam joprojām pretojas kanclera pārstāvēto kristīgo demokrātu koalīcijas partneri – sociāldemokrāti. Jācer, ka vairāk skaidrības varētu viest prezidenta Zelenska šodienas, 28. maija, vizīte Vācijā. Tikām turpinās minējumi par to, vai pašreizējās norises frontē uzskatāmas par gaidītās Krievijas vasaras ofensīvas sākumu. Par galveno agresora aktivitātes virzienu tiek uzskatīta Pokrovska Doņeckas apgabalā, savukārt Krievijas spēku koncentrēšanās pie robežas ar Ukrainas Harkivas un Sumu apgabaliem ir domātas Ukrainas spēku saistīšanai. Kanāda nav nekāda pavalsts, bet gan suverēna monarhija Šīs nedēļas sākumā britu karaļpāris – karalis Čārlzs III un karaliene Kamilla – apmeklēja Kanādu. Kanāda, līdz ar Austrāliju, Jaunzēlandi, Papua-Jaungvineju, Jamaiku un vēl astoņām kādreizējām britu kolonijām ir Britu nāciju sadraudzības personālūnijas statusā, proti, šo suverēno valstu nominālais galva ir britu monarhs. Otrdien, 27. maijā, viņš Otavā uzstājās ar troņa runu Kanādas Parlamentā. Tas ir visai rets notikums. Parasti šo ceremoniālo pienākumu izpilda karaļa oficiālais pārstāvis – Kanādas gubernators. Iepriekšējo reizi britu monarhs, toreiz karaliene Elizabete II,  ar tādu Otavā uzstājās 1977. gadā, savukārt šī ir pirmā reize, kad Vindzoru dinastijas galvas runa atklāj jaunievēlētā Kanādas Parlamenta sesiju. Šis notikums, protams, nav nejaušība, ievērojot pēdējo mēnešu izlēcienus no Kanādas dienvidu kaimiņvalsts vadītāja Donalda Trampa puses – izrunāšanos par „51. pavalsti” un Kanādas premjerministra dēvēšanu par gubernatoru. Jaunais Kanādas premjerministrs Marks Kārnijs, pēc kura uzaicinājuma karaļpāris viesojas savā nominālajā valdījumā, norādījis, ka šī vizīte nepārprotami uzsver Kanādas suverenitāti. Kā pauž raidsabiedrība BBC, karalim kā nominālajam valsts galvam nākas vairīties no tiešiem politiskiem paziņojumiem, tā vietā „sūtot kodētus signālus un veicot simboliskus žestus”. Vairāki tādi jau tikuši raidīt līdz šim, svinīgā ceremonijā parādoties ar Kanādas valsts apbalvojumu komplektu un iestādot kļavu Bekingemas pils dārzā. tagad, uzrunājot Kanādas parlamentāriešus Senāta Karaļa zālē, Čārlzs bilda: „Ir iemesls lielam lepnumam, ka pagājušajās desmitgadēs Kanāda ir turpinājusi demonstrēt pārējai pasaulei piemēru savā rīcībā un vērtībās kā labas gribas spēks. Kā mums atgādina himna: „Īstenie ziemeļi patiesi ir stipri un ir brīvi!” Sagatavoja Eduards Liniņš.

Welcome to Mysteries to Die For and this Toe Tag.I am TG Wolff and am here with Jack, my piano player and producer. This is normally a podcast where we combine storytelling with original music to put you at the heart of mystery. Today is a bonus episode we call a Toe Tag. It is the first chapter from a fresh release in the mystery, crime, and thriller genre.Today's featured release is The Whisper Legacy by Tj O'ConnorThe Whisper Legacy is a political thriller. Private detective Lowe Curran (pronounced Ker-in) is doing a data recovery job for his best client when he inadvertently gets a little extra…and that extra is the proverbial Pandora's box. With national security on the line, Curran's new job is to protect the data and the hacker who stole it. Yeah…good luck with that.Bottom line: The Whisper Legacy is for you if you like private detectives up to their eyeballs in intrigue and trickery. The Whisper Legacy was released from Level Best Books and is promoted by Partners In Crime Tours and is available from AMAZON LINK and other book retailers.About Tj O'ConnorTj O'Connor is an award-winning author of mysteries and thrillers. He's an international security consultant specializing in anti-terrorism, investigations, and threat analysis—life experiences that drive his novels. As a government agent and years as a consultant, he has lived and worked throughout many countries in the European Union and the Americas. In his spare time, he's a Harley Davidson pilot, a man-about-dogs (and now cats), and a lover of adventure, cooking, and good spirits (both kinds). tjoconnor.comWondering what to read after you finish The Whisper Legacy? Partners in Crime Tours is your ultimate destination for all things mystery, crime, thriller, and cozy! Since 2011, they've been working to fill bookshelves with gripping and heart-pounding reads. Discover new mystery series and connection with other fans with Partners in Crime. Look up Partners in Crime Tours on the web or your favorite social media www.partnersincrimevbt.com.And Authors, whether you're looking to promote your latest thriller, discover a new mystery series, or connect with fellow fans of the genre, PICT has you covered. Check out their promotion options that come with the personal attention of a dedicated coordinator.Join us next week for Season 8 Anything but Murder. Join us for Graciela's Gifts by KM Rockwood where organized theft is where our murderless crime.

Po skoraj dveh letih od pripravljenih izhodišč za nov pokojninski sistem naj bi vlada danes obravnavala eno od ključnih reform te vlade - pokojninsko reformo. Ker napovedane novosti ne posegajo obsežno in drastično v pokojninski sistem, je dobila ime mini pokojninska reforma. Glavna ugotovitev je, da bomo delali dlje, a načeloma za boljšo pokojnino. Nova zakonodaja naj bi prinesla višjo in pravičnejšo odmero pokojnin. Največje presenečenje reforme je stalni zimski dodatek. Drugi poudarki: - Pakistan obljublja maščevanje po indijskih raketnih napadih, v svetu se vrstijo pozivi k umiritvi napetosti. - Iz Sikstinske kapele v Vatikanu se je sinoči pokadil črni dim, kardinali bodo glasovanje o novem papežu nadaljevali danes. - V finalu nogometne lige prvakov se bosta pomerila milanski Inter in pariški PSG.

Navigating the US-China Trade Wars with Ker GibbsWelcome to the latest edition of the Asia Business Podcast blog, where we delve into pressing economic issues and challenges. In this episode, we're joined by Ker Gibbs, an esteemed former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, and an expert with deep insights into U.S.-China trade relations. Ker shares his perspectives on the ongoing trade tensions, the geopolitical landscape, and the role of multinational businesses amid evolving global strategies.Introducing Ker GibbsConnect with KerKer Gibbs brings a wealth of experience from his tenure as the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai. An executive in residence at the University of San Francisco and a partner at Foresight Restructuring, Ker has also co-authored "Selling to China," offering an in-depth exploration of foreign business adaptations within China.Understanding Trade Disputes and the Geopolitical LandscapeKer and Art discuss the ever-changing trade disputes between the U.S. and China, emphasizing the fluidity and complexity of negotiations. Ker highlights how changing U.S. strategies, particularly during the Trump administration, contributed to the tensions around tariffs and broader trade issues. The conversation delves into key obstacles in the bilateral relationship, including questions of sovereignty, economic supremacy, and military containment.The Role of Made in China 2025The discussion shifts to China's "Made in China 2025" initiative, which Ker notes has been less publicly discussed in recent times. However, the ambitions to dominate in areas like robotics and artificial intelligence continue to influence perceptions and policies in Washington, contributing to trade tensions. Ker explores how such initiatives may appear threatening to the U.S., given differing historical and economic perspectives.Multinationals Navigating Decoupling ChallengesAs the conversation continues, Ker offers insights into how multinational companies are adapting to the challenges of decoupling and increased self-sufficiency. He discusses the restructuring required for global businesses to operate in a siloed model, emphasizing the resilience and adaptability needed by companies in these complex scenarios.The Symbiotic U.S.-China RelationshipThe podcast also covers the intricate and symbiotic economic relationship between the U.S. and China. Ker and Art debate how both nations face significant domestic political pressures, affecting global trade and decision-making processes. They examine how multinational companies might engage with these political landscapes, providing potential pathways for future cooperation.Bridging the Policy and Business DivideKer stresses the importance of multinational companies playing a role in bridging policy and business divides, especially in the context of globalization. He argues that while businesses are inherently driven by profit motives, they can still contribute to societal solutions by understanding the broader policy implications of their operations.Conclusion: Optimism and Future OutlookIn closing, Ker Gibbs remains optimistic about reaching a trade agreement, considering the potential economic harms that could arise from prolonged disputes. The podcast ends with a reflection on the importance of continual dialogue and foresight in restructuring global strategies to enhance resiliency and cooperation between the U.S. and China.Listeners interested in further information can connect with Ker via LinkedIn, Facebook, or Instagram, where he shares continued insights on U.S.-China business dynamics. Thank you for joining us in this insightful conversation on the Asia Business Podcast. Stay tuned for more episodes that navigate the complexities of international trade and economics.Timestamps00:00 Introduction and Guest Introduction00:53 Current US-China Trade Obstacles02:04 Trump's Trade Strategy and China's Response04:51 Geopolitical Tensions and Historical Context08:00 Made in China 2025 and Self-Sufficiency14:05 Business Community's Role in US-China Relations26:46 Conclusion and Final Thoughts ProducerJacob ThomasFollow UsLinkedInApple Podcasts

Te dni, ko je vse v znamenju pomladi, dela in konca druge svetovne vojne, mora imeti človek železne živce, da se ga kaj od naštetega ne dotakne. Če pa ima srečo ali smolo, da je recimo druga svetovna vojna vplival nanj tudi s premoženjsko ali kakšno drugačno škodo, bo po zakonu, ki ga je koalicija vložila v proceduro, dobil 8000 evrov. Škoda je bila, rajtamo, sicer storjena hipno, kot se za vojno spodobi, izplačilo pa bo po obrokih. Junaški koalicijski poslanci so razložili, da se s tem dejanjem druga svetovna vojna pri nas simbolično končuje. S simboličnim koncem druge svetovne vojne ima razmišljujoči težavo, ker je simbolični konec očitno premalo za dejanski konec. Simbolično drugo svetovno vojno končujemo že trideset let, pa ni videti, da bi bili koncu kaj bližje, kot smo bili leta 1945. Vse tiste lipe, govori, novinarski članki in spravne slovesnosti so bile namenjene simboličnemu koncu druge svetovne vojne, ki pa danes – takoj ko odpremo katerega internetnih forumov ali pa podpremo katerega predmestnih šankov – še vedno traja. Ker so se očitno simbolični prvoborci iz devetdesetih izpeli, se je nova generacija simbolistov zatekla k edinemu, kar zna. Za simbol, ki bo končal drugo svetovno vojno, je izbrala keš. Če simbolično niso znali končati vojne pozivi k spravi in religiozni koncept odpuščanja, ali pa gerontološki fenomen pozabljanja, jo bodo končala nakazila. Sicer v obrokih, a kljub temu. Vojna škoda je bila od nekdaj zanimiva tema, reparacije tudi, a vse te zadeve so urejene in urejane z zakoni, tako da čudi, od kot zdaj takšna vnema po povrnitvi vojne škode. In ko gremo nekoliko bolj v globino novice o vloženem zakonu, uvidimo, da je poteza koalicije vsaj malo cinična. Je pa res absolutno simbolična. Kot pravijo predlagatelji, bodo izplačila dobili upravičenci, ki imajo status žrtve vojnega nasilja. Se pravi izgnanci, interniranci, taboriščniki in ukradeni otroci. Zdaj pa ciničen, ali pač butasti del zakona. Očitno ni koalicijskim poslancem nihče povedal, da praznujemo osemdeset let od končanja vojne in da žrtev vojnega nasilja ni več. Ker bi bili danes stari nekje od sto do sto dvajset let. Žrtve vojnega nasilja so večinoma že pomrle. In ker tako odškodnin, pa čeprav v obrokih, zakon ne bo mogel izplačati, ker jih nima komu, imajo poslanci v skrajni konsekvenci prav. Ker bo izplačilo, ki ga ne bo – simbolično, se bo tudi vojna, ki je ni – simbolično končala. Ampak se ne bo. Za to pa bodo, kot za toliko stvari v naših življenjih, poskrbele srednješolske učiteljice slovenščine in mojstri, ki urejajo slovensko maturo. Za letošnji maturitetni esej so slovenisti v svoji brezkrajni modrosti izbrali vojno tematiko. Ker je toliko vojn okoli nas in ker eno menda pričakujemo zdaj zdaj tudi na naših tleh, je dobro, da osemnajstletniki o njih malo razmišljajo. In so maturanti fasali Jančarja in Kocbeka. Z uravnotežnega stališča bi človek, ki ni komparativist, zapisal, da tema ni zgledno ideološko uravnotežena in da partizani na maturi simbolično izgubljajo vojno, ampak kdo smo mi, da dvomimo v srednješolsko slovenistično pamet. Menimo pa, da slovenisti in slovenistke z nenehnim obnavljanjem medvojne travme – s katero otroci, rojeni nekje leta 2008, nimajo popolnoma nič – skrbijo, da plamen druge svetovne vojne in slovenskega razkola vsaj na simbolni ravni nikoli ne ugasne. Večji del teh zaslug si seveda pripisujemo mediji, ampak tudi šolstvo ob politiki nima čistih rok. Če se človek nad tem priduša, mu šolniki nemudoma očitajo sindrom Trnuljčice. Češ, kako naivno je gledanje, da vojn ne bi bilo, če se o njih ne bi pogovarjali. Najbrž imajo prav, in človeška bestialnost je inštalirana sui generis, ampak vseeno se zdi vojna na maturi pretirana tema. Sicer pa je res, da slovenisti in primerjalni knjižničarji menijo, da je visoka literatura le tista, ki vsebuje travmo. Večja je travma, kakovostnejše je pisanje. Tako so pred desetletjem ob Alamutu maturantom naložili razmišljanje o samomoru; tudi letošnja tema, ko partizani, Nemci in domači izdajalci mrejo v snopih, ni daleč od ultimativne zateženosti. Ker če že otroci morajo razmišljati o vojni in če jih mora v meditativno stanje spraviti literatura … kaj pa, če bi jim dali brati Švejka? Gre za ultimativno protivojno knjigo. Ali pa Kavelj 22, prav tako. Ali pa Zbogom orožje. Ali pa Mladi levi. Razmišljujoči se ne more znebiti vtisa, da sta Jančar in Kocbek zapovedana izključno zaradi tega, da se nalaga nove generacije na kres narodovega razkola in je teza o mladini, ki si bo z razmišljanjem o vojni primerno trasirala pot v odraslost, približno tako manipulativna in dnevnopolitično motivirana, kot je izplačilo osmih jurjev desetim stoletnikom.

Travelling on foot is the ultimate slow travel and you can have some amazing experiences when incorporating a walk, hike or run into your travel plans. In this episode I start by chatting with Chelsea Gruber, a big fan of solo travel who's had quite a few active adventures on her trips and when we spoke was in training to run the Paris marathon. I then chat with Patrick Nash who spent time some decades back travelling through many parts of Africa, and his story centres on a long walk through the Congo, or what was then Zaire. Finally, Amy Willis shares some of her active travels, starting off with her experience on the Rim to Rim to Rim at the Grand Canyon, and then going on to tell me about a recent experience running in northern Kenya. Links: Chelsea Gruber - https://www.chelseasolotravels.com/ Chelsea's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/chelseasolotravels/ Patrick Nash - https://www.patricknash.co.uk/ Patrick’s book Shots Across the Water: Tales of a Journey Through Africa - https://amzn.to/4cMl0UQ Amy Willis from Ker & Downey https://kerdowney.com/ Amy's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/amynwillis/ Ep 253 Walking the World https://notaballerina.com/253 Ep 175 Walking and Hiking Travels https://notaballerina.com/175 Ep 308 My trip report from hiking the Basho Trail with Walk Japan in 2023 https://notaballerina.com/308 Join our Facebook group for Thoughtful Travellers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers Join our LinkedIn group for Thoughtful Travellers - https://notaballerina.com/linkedin Sign up for the Thoughtful Travellers newsletter at Substack - https://thoughtfultravel.substack.com Show notes: https://notaballerina.com/347 Support the show: https://thoughtfultravel.substack.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ekonomsko-socialni svet bo danes pregledal najnovejši predlog sprememb pokojninske zakonodaje. S potekom priprave zakonodajnih sprememb se je včeraj seznanila vlada. Čas za javno razpravo in zbiranje pripomb je potekel v začetku tedna, a ni pričakovati, da bi se doslej usklajena vsebina bistveno spremenila. Ker se kot družba staramo, bomo delali dve leti dlje. Na eni strani se bo odmerni odstotek za izračun pokojninske osnove postopno zvišal na 70 odstotkov, na drugi strani pa se bo podaljšalo obdobje za izračun osnove in upočasnilo usklajevanje pokojnin z rastjo plač. Minister za delo Luka Mesec je že večkrat ponovil, da novi pogoji prinašajo vzdržnost pokojninske blagajne. V oddaji tudi: - Združeno kraljestvo si tudi zaradi napetosti v Ukrajini želi več obrambnega sodelovanja z Evropsko unijo. - Na srečanju Prijateljev Zahodnega Balkana v Ljubljani pozivi k pogumnemu pristopu k širitvi. - Celje se bo po zmagi nad Olimpijo v finalu nogometnega pokala za svojo drugo lovoriko pomerilo s Koprom.

Michael Belkin, a long-time market strategist and editor of the Belkin Report and Belkin Gold Stock Forecast, joins us for an in-depth conversation on why gold and gold stocks may be the last assets standing in an increasingly volatile and overvalued global market.   In this interview, Michael shares his evolving thesis since our last discussion in February, highlighting a parabolic move in gold, growing central bank demand, and how the supposed “most crowded trade”, as labeled in the recent Bank of America Global Fund Managers Survey, is still largely under-owned by institutional investors.   Key Topics Discussed: Why the "crowded trade" label on gold may be misleading - and actually bullish. How central banks are steadily de-dollarizing and reallocating into gold. The disconnect between rising gold prices and underperforming gold equities. Top stock picks: Newmont (NEM), Kinross (KGC), Iamgold (IAG), Harmony Gold (HMY), and B2Gold (BTG). Michael's silver favorites: First Majestic (AG) and Endeavour Silver (EXK). Whether generalist fund managers will be forced into large-cap gold stocks as earnings surge. A bleak outlook for global equities, AI bubble stocks like Nvidia, and international markets like the DAX and China's FXI. Why gold equities may diverge positively from the broader market even in a downturn. Gold Stock Forecasts are available at: BGSF  Discount Coupons are available upon request for KER listeners. Contact Marc at marcb@hyperpyron.com.

Danes pa poglejmo k našim dragim prijateljem reklamarjem. Ljudje, ki teoretično in praktično posedujejo, usmerjajo in določajo vso globalno medijsko krajino, se ljudsko imenujejo reklamarji, sami sebi pa pravijo kreativni direktorji. Ker se to sliši bolj fino. Ampak saj niso edini. Kar nekaj je poklicev, ki se z imenitnimi nazivi poskušajo vzdigniti iz povprečnosti običajne službe. Kuharji se imenujejo chefi, mi navadni pisuni pa si pravimo kolumnisti. Je pa sorazmerno preprosto; če so reklamarji cvet kreative in kreativni direktorji, kaj je potem Tolstoj? Tako gre to. In kaj so reklamarji spet zakuhali? V oglasu za restavracijo hitre prehrane, ki je ne smemo omeniti – če pa bi nam plačali, bi jo pa omenjali kar naprej – so zapisali: "Nisi bil ti. Jaz sem bila kriva. Plis, pokliči me." "Vem, da sem te razočarala. A se lahko pogovoriva?" Oglas govori o novem okusu sladoleda, ki ima dodano pistacijo. Pokonci so skočili iz organizacije za zaščito žensk, češ da je oglas seksističen in kar je podobnih izrazov, ker žensko – oziroma v tem primeru samostalnik ženskega spola z obrazilom na a, ki je v bistvu orešček – ponižuje v stereotipno vlogo žrtve moške prevlade, pogosto nasilja. Kreativni direktorji se proti tem obtožbam branijo, češ da gre za kreativno oglaševanje, o tem, kdo ima prav, pa bo razsodilo reklamarsko sodišče, ali pač reklamarsko krivosodje. Odvisno s katere strani marketinga bo pihal veter. Dokler se ne izkaže marketinška pravica, pa nam – ki smo ena redkih medijskih vsebin brez neposrednega sponzorja, kar je dobro za javni servis, slabo pa za žepe avtorjev – ostaja prostor za nekaj pojasnil. Najprej o tem, kako bi se lahko reklamarji izognili vsej tej šlamastiki. Na prvem mestu si tega oglasa kreativno sploh ne bi izmislili, kot drugo pa bi dodali sladoledu še okus lešnika. Ali oreha. Ki oba spominjata na moško semenišče, in oglas bi se glasil tako: "Nisi bila ti. Jaz sem bil kriv. Plis, pokliči me." "Vem, da sem te razočaral. A se lahko pogovoriva?" Oglas je praktično enak, en a dodamo in tri izbrišemo, pa dobimo enakopravnost spolov in uravnoteženo oglaševanje. Ker če resnično in nepotvorjeno pogledamo to in jamrajočo naracijo, kako deluje v praksi … tudi moški po prepiru ali razhodu jokajoče pošiljajo sporočila, v slogu: "Plis, pokliči me, ne bom te razočaral, nikoli več."           Razmerje med temi čustvenimi izlivi je tako prek palca vsaj pol pol, če pa poslušaš balkanske popevke, ki so tako zelo priljubljene v Sloveniji, se to razmerje celo nagiba v koristi moškega cmizdrenja. Hočemo povedati naslednje; ko govorimo o čustvenih razočaranjih, razhodih, ločitvah in podobnih samomorih človeškega srca, je stereotipna vloga spolov pač fluidna. Odvisna od prizadetosti in realnih okoliščin. Da so se reklamarji odločili v oglasu uporabiti in stereotipno prikazati samo žensko prizadetost, ranljivost in šibkost, je prav tako neumno, kot gre z marketinškega stališča za izgubljeno priložnost. Z moškim oglasom bi nagovorili še vse jokajoče moške in maščevalne ženske. Naslednje, o čemer se moramo pogovoriti, pa je pistacija, ki stoji v osrčju oglasa … Jasno je, da je pistacija na pohodu, saj jo je moč najti skoraj v vsem, kar se da použiti. Cinik bi dodal, da zadnji čas, kajti proteinov smo se naužili že prek vseh meja in naj se prevlada, ko so začeli proteine dodajati še v šampone za lase, konča z vstajenjem pistacije. Pistacija v sladoledu se morebiti sliši bizarno, a pravkar beremo, da je čokolada s pistacijo, ki so jo izumili v Dubaju, povzročila akutno pomanjkanje na pistacijskem trgu in v slovenskih pregovorih pistacija pravkar zamenjuje žafran in kafro. In če smo tudi mi sodelovanje pistacije in potiskanje žensk v mizogine stereotipe znotraj reklame za sladoled, označili kot neprimerno, vendarle obstaja spolni stereotip, ki pa preizkušeno in dokazano živi. Če in ko moški lušči pistacijo med recimo nogometno tekmo lige prvakov, se do polčasa vedno prikaže ženska z nezmotljivim stavkom na ustnicah: "Po koncu boš tole posesal!"

Sraka povabi v goste fazana. Ker nima toalete, zaprosi kukavico za obleko … Pripoveduje: Stanislava Bonisegna. Kitajska basen. Prevedla: Maja Lavrač. Posneto v studiih Radia Slovenija 1995.

Ker večino informacij iz okolja prejmemo prek oči, je več kot pomembno, da nam te dobro služijo. Solzenje, srbečica, pekoč občutek, dvojni ali meglen vid ter občutljivost za svetlobo so nekatere izmed pogostejših težav, ki jih imamo s tem organom. Kako pomagati in zakaj se sploh pojavijo? Jih lahko s preventivo preprečimo? O vsem tem v torkovem Svetovalnem servisu, ko bo tudi na vaša vprašanja odgovarjala dr. med., specialistka oftalmologije z Očesne klinike UKC Ljubljana, Nataša Vidovič Valentinčič.

Kaj imajo carinske stopnje s Trumpovo ritjo? Šele ko mu jo je, po njegovih besedah, začel poljubljati ves svet, jih je zamrznil. Ker je najboljši pogajalec. S Kitajsko pa igra carinski pingpong, rezultat je ta hip 145:84. Ljubljanski župan Jankovič, nesojeni predsednik vlade pri nas, pa morda postane premier v Srbiji.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 13, 2025 is: curfew • KER-fyoo • noun Curfew refers to a law or order that requires people to be indoors after a certain time at night, as well as to the period of time when such an order or law is in effect. Chiefly in the United States, curfew is also used to refer to the time set by a parent or caregiver at which a child has to be back home after going out. // No one is allowed on the streets during the curfew. // Lana has a 10 o'clock curfew, so we need to bring her home right after the movie. See the entry > Examples: “[Lew] Alcindor narrowed his college choice to Michigan, Columbia, St. John's, and UCLA. He liked Columbia as the chance to attend school walking distance to Harlem and a subway ride to the jazz clubs he had to leave early as a high schooler to make curfew.” — Scott Howard-Cooper, Kingdom on Fire: Kareem, Wooden, Walton, and the Turbulent Days of the UCLA Basketball Dynasty, 2024 Did you know? Curfews set by parents (and kept or broken by their offspring) do not echo the origins of the word curfew in any discernable way—if they did, they'd need to at least hint at the sound of a bell. When curfew was first used in the 14th century, it referred to the sounding of a bell at evening to alert people that they should cover their hearth fires for the night—a necessary warning, as many European houses in the Middle Ages were close enough to each other that fires could spread easily from one to the next. The word came to English from Anglo-French, in which the signal was called coverfeu, a compound of covrir, meaning “to cover,” and feu, “fire.” Even when hearth fires were no longer regulated, many towns had other rules that called for ringing an evening bell, including one that required people to be off the streets by a given time, a development that granted curfew permission to go out and about with a broader meaning.

Jón Arason was the last Catholic bishop in Iceland before it became a Lutheran country. His story involves a lot of gory details in this story including a pretty gruesome beheading. Research: Buck, Thomas. “An Icelandic Martyr: Jón Arason.” Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 46, no. 182, 1957, pp. 213–22. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30103574. Accessed 8 Jan. 2025. Cunningham, Jack. “Jón Arason, ‘the last Icelander’ and the Coming of the Reformation to Iceland,” Reformation & Renaissance Review, 11:3, 245-273, DOI: 10.1558/rrr.v11i3.245.” Gunnarsson, Gisli. “Question: Is it really true that all Icelanders are descended from Jón Arason, the last Catholic bishop of Iceland, who was executed in 1550?” The Islandic Web of Science. 3/5/2005. https://www.why.is/svar.php?id=4789 Ker, W.P. “JÓN ARASON.” Saga-Book, 1913-1914, Vol. 8 (1913-1914), pp. 149-171. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/48611694 Kristjánsdóttir, Steinunn. “The Dissolution of the Monastic Houses in Iceland.” Religions 15: 771. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15070771 Oleson, Tryggvi J. “A Note on Bishop Jón Arason.” Speculum , Jul., 1954, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Jul., 1954), pp. 535-536. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2846795 Oleson, Tryggvi J. “Bishop Jón Arason 1484-1550.” Speculum , Apr., 1953, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Apr., 1953). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2849686 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.