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Essential EU Competition Law in Charts
The idea behind this “field manual” is for in-house lawyers, compliance professionals, consultants, attorneys, officers in European or national public administration and students to benefit from a comprehensive set of 75 charts illustrating the “core” of EU competition law together with a brief companion text that relates back to the charts. This concept was developed through the combined professional experience of the authors, in both legal practice and in academia.
Visualising law, as the authors are attempting to do in this book by means of charts, gives thereader some idea of what the blueprint of the edifice of EU competition law looks like. Not unlike architecture, the basic concepts seem misleadingly simple but the challenge lies in establishing the correct connections between those concepts. That is what this book seeks to achieve.
First, the charts are intended as a learning tool for practitioners as well as for students endeavouring to study EU competition law or to brush up on their skills in this field. Indeed most people understand and memorise complex or abstract content more easily if they have some form of visual aid at their disposal. Second, these charts are intended as a presentation tool. Whether the task is explaining an issue of EU law to a client, making a presentation before the board of directors of a company or lecturing on EU law in a university, visual tools can be highly useful.
This book is supplemented by a companion website, which comprises a number of exercises as well as a comprehensive set of reference legal texts which are available for download and it also informs readers about updates and corrigenda.
ISBN: 978-963-258-1187
Publisher: HVG-ORAC Publishing House Ltd.
Author: Christa Tobler, Jacques Beglinger, Wessel Geursen
Type: Paperback
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Essential EU Law in Charts
5th, “post-Brexit” edition
Visualising law, as the authors are attempting to do in this book, gives the reader some idea of what the blueprint of the edifice of European Union law looks like. The book contains 298 EU law-related charts (primary, secondary and case law) dealing with the following issues: introduction to the subject, the development of European integration, the institutions, competences of the EU, the adoption of secondary measures, the nature of EU law, introduction to substantive EU law, the internal market, competition law, social law, legal integration and enforcement.
Firstly, the charts are intended as a learning tool for students as well as for practitioners endeavouring to brush up on their EU law skills. Indeed, most people understand and memorise complex or abstract content more easily if they have some form of visual aid at their disposal. Secondly, these charts are intended as a presentation tool. Whether lecturing on EU law in a university, explaining an issue of EU law to a client or making a presentation before the board of directors of a company, visual tools can be highly useful.
Christa Tobler is a professor at both the Universities of Leiden (the Netherlands) and of Basel (Switzerland), where she teaches EU law. In her research, she places a particular emphasis on the issues of legal equality and discrimination, both in economic and in social law, as well as on the legal relationship between Switzerland and the European Union.
Jacques Beglinger is an attorney-at-law practicing in Zurich (Switzerland). He received his legal training in Switzerland, France and the United States. His background is in international business law with a specialisation in technology, digital economy and data protection. He has worked in private legal practice, Fortune 200 companies and public affairs.
This volume is associated to the Meijers series of the Meijers Research Institute and Graduate School of Leiden University, the Netherlands (https://www.organisatiegids.universiteitleiden.nl/en/faculties-and-institutes/law/faculty-bureau/department-of-research-e.m.-meijers-institute).
This book is a product of the “EUR-Charts – EU Law in Charts” project (www.eur-charts.eu). It is accompanied by “Essential EU Law in Text”, which is based on the charts and refers to them.
Companion website: http://www.eur-charts.eu/webcompanion
ISBN: 978 963 258 489 8
Author: Christa Tobler and Jacques Beglinger
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Essential EU Law in Text
This book is a companion text for “Essential EU Law in Charts”. Together with the charts, the book is intended as a learning tool for students as well as for practitioners endeavouring to brush up on their EU law skills, especially in view of the Lisbon revision and the fundamental changes that it brought about in the EU legal system.
The book contains a brief and simple text on the matters dealt with in the charts book and with references to the charts. It deals with the following issues: introduction to the subject, the development of European integration, the institutions, competences of the EU, the adoption of secondary measures, the nature of EU law, introduction to substantive EU law, the internal market, competition law, social law, legal integration and enforcement.
This volume is associated to the Meijers series of the Meijers Research Institute and Graduate School of Leiden University, the Netherlands (http://law.leiden.edu/research/publications).
This book is a product of the “EUR-Charts – EU Law in Charts” project (www.eur-charts.eu).
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Fiduciary Property Management and the Trust
Historical and Comparative Law Analysis
In the history of law, the English institution of the trust is one of the most original and least straightforward institutions in the theory of private law,which rests on the foundations of Roman law. On the other hand the legal institution of the trust and similar legal arrangements were introduced in several countries with civil law and mixed jurisdiction.
The book discusses the development of use and the trust and also examines other contemporary legal institutions that may have played a role in the development of the trust. It deals with the description of the rules of the trust, including variations in the definition of the trust, and its common classifications in literature and also works up questions concerning the adoption of the trust in civil law systems. It also raises issues that continue to particularly impede and prevent the full application of the rules of the trust in the legal systems of civil law to this day. The book provides an overview of legislative methods and legal practices in different countries with a potential to implement the trust or trust-like legal devices and discusses the main international efforts aimed at the unification of law too.
The author also describes the background and main rules of the fiduciary property management contract in Hungary. The work is perhaps unique in its choice of providing a detailed analysis of Hungarian regulation.
István Sándor is associate professor of law at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and he is also a practising lawyer. He visited several foreign universities and research centres as research fellow or visiting lecturer. He is member of the International Bar Association, Interlegal, International Federation of European Law, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Selden Society and numerous Hungarian law and scientific associations. He published several books and articles in trust law, company law, legal history and civil law.
Author: István Sándor
Handbook on the European Union
Previous editions of the Handbook on the European Union were published in tens of thousands of copies in English, French, Hungarian and Slovak. The European Commission, among others, granted financial assistance to its distribution and translations. It is used as reference volume at several universities and colleges, and is one of the books of first choice for people aspiring to become or already working as officials at EU institutions.
The book provides a comprehensive overview of the European Union and its functioning from a political, economic as well as legal perspective, outlining the EU’s institutions, policies and legal and decision-making mechanisms in simple language. It also contains a glossary of 400 terms, which can serve as a compendium on its own.
This book owes much of its success to the fact that it evolves together with the European Union, keeping its readers abreast of the latest changes in Europe’s architecture. One would be hard pressed to find many volumes that follow the EU’s development so closely, with subsequent editions published so frequently. This latest edition presents the post-Lisbon Union as overhauled by the Treaty of Lisbon, discussing the latest policy reforms from Europe’s response to the financial and economic crisis to agricultural policy reforms, from the EU as a global player to a revised European energy policy. As in the case of previous editions, the Handbook gives an exhaustive and up-to-date overview of the Union, making it an essential read for those who want to know more about the EU and how it works.
Professor Zoltán Horváth is the author of eight books on the European Union and international organisations. He studied in Hungary, France and the United Kingdom, and wrote his PhD thesis on EU decision-making. He has worked at the University of Economics of Budapest, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Hungarian National Assembly, and the Budapest Management College. In the last few years he has also led on behalf of the EU several capacity building and EU approximation projects in candidate and potential candidate countries. His last book was nominated for the European Book Prize in 2011.
Author: Dr. Zoltán Horváth
Manuel sur l’union européenne
Les éditions précédentes du Manuel sur l’Union européenne ont été publiées en plusieurs dizaines de milliers d’exemplaires en langues anglaise, française, hongroise et slovaque, ses traductions et sa distribution ont été soutenues entre autres par la Commission européenne. L’ouvrage fait partie du programme d’études de nombreuses universités et écoles supérieures et il est souvent utilisé par les fonctionnaires travaillant au sein des institutions européennes et les candidats participant aux concours de l’UE.
L’ouvrage fournit une vue d’ensemble claire sur l’Union européenne et son fonctionnement en présentant, dans un langage simple, son système institutionnel, ses différentes politiques, ses mécanismes juridiques et la manière dont elle prend ses décisions. De plus, le manuel est complété par un glossaire comprenant près de 400 expressions, consultable de manière totalement indépendante du manuel.
Ce livre doit son succès en grande partie à ses actualisations régulières qui suivent, quasiment en temps réel, l’évolution de l’Union européenne et tiennent ainsi le lecteur au courant des changements les plus récents de l’architecture européenne. La nouvelle édition présente le fonctionnement actuel de l’Union, modifiée par le traité de Lisbonne et présente les réformes récentes, entre autres les réponses données à la crise économique et financière, la réforme de la politique agricole, les composants du rôle plus important que l’Union s’attribue sur la scène internationale et la politique énergétique refondée sur de nouvelles bases. D’une manière similaire aux éditions précédentes, le manuel propose, dans la logique de présenter les évolutions les plus actuelles, un ensemble de connaissances fondamentales indispensables pour ceux qui souhaitent connaître et comprendre le fonctionnement actuel de l’Union.
Le professeur Zoltán Horváth, auteur de huit ouvrages sur l’Union européenne et les organisations internationales a poursuivi ses études en Hongrie, en France et au Royaume-Uni. Il a soutenu sa thèse de doctorat sur le système de la prise de décision au sein de l’Union européenne. Il a collaboré à l’Université de l’Economie de Budapest, l’Académie hongroise des sciences, l’Assemblée nationale hongroise et l’École supérieure de management de Budapest. Récemment, il a mené au nom de l’UE plusieurs projets de renforcement des capacités et de rapprochement à l’UE dans des pays candidats et candidats potentiels à l’adhésion. Son dernier livre a été nominé pour le Prix du livre européen en 2011.
ISBN: 978 963 258 1583
THE LAW OF THE EUROPEAN UNION IN HUNGARY: INSTITUTIONS, PROCESSES AND THE LAW
This book examines the impact of European Union law on the state and the law in Hungary. It focuses on the legal and institutional changes and the institutional adaptation processes induced by EU law and it gives an accurate and accessible account of this largely transparent process of legal and institutional transformation. It looks at the institutional responses in government to the direct adaptational pressures following from various areas of EU law and governance, in particular, the mechanisms and practices adopted for the harmonization of national law with EU law, including the external acquis, the application and enforcement of EU law in Hungary, and the protection by the Hungarian government of rights and Hungarian interests before EU courts. It also covers substantive legal changes in domestic law based on provisions of EU primary and secondary law and the general principles of the EU legal order. It examines the primary avenues of legal adaptation for the Member States under the EU framework including the modifications in domestic constitutional law required by EU membership, the interpretation and application of EU law by domestic courts and the application of EU (competition and state aid) law by Hungarian authorities.
Edited: Márton Varju and Ernő Várnay
Author: Márton Varju, Ernő Várnay, Flóra Fazekas, Angéla Juhász-Tóth, Réka Somssich, András Osztovits, Katalin Gombos, Tihamér Tóth, Mónika Papp, Ildikó Bartha
© 2012 HVG-ORAC Publishing House Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
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How an Approach to Fighting Poverty Is Transforming the Way Refugees Experience Displacement
byShoshana Hecker, Michael Karam
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The Graduation Approach Is Helping Refugees and Displaced People Become Self-reliant so They Are no Longer Dependent on Aid
Today, the world is facing a global migration crisis. The number of forcibly displaced people around the world is greater than the current population of the United Kingdom, having reached a record high of 68.5 million people. Of those displaced, 25.4 million are refugees, and their reasons for leaving their homes vary. Families flee due to persecution, violence, human rights violations, or climate change, and their process of displacement affects what label is assigned to them: refugees, asylum-seekers, returnees, internally displaced persons, stateless persons.
In the Photo: Homes in Meheba Settlement. Photo Credit: Trickle Up
Marie* and her family are refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Since 1993, they have lived in Meheba, a settlement in the northwestern province of Zambia, 430 km from the capital Lusaka and 41 km from the border of DRC.
Typically, photos of refugees, or displaced people in general, display a camp setting: tents and make-shift homes organized in over-crowded blocks mask the terrain, and people lay idly around. In these camps, refugees are usually reliant on food assistance programs and other types of support from international relief organizations such as UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, or World Food Programme. While Meheba looks nothing like that — single room houses built with sand stone blocks are spread across the bush — the cycles of dependence are no different and far from sustainable.
When they first arrived at the settlement, Marie’s family received a variety of aid for a year and half: food items, agricultural tools, three hectares of land, a water hose, and a tent. With what little they had, her family then built their own home from sand blocks traditionally collected from anthills. Afterwards, they struggled to make ends meet from the odd jobs they took, the fritters they occasionally sold, and the few plants they grew — like many Congolese refugees, Marie’s family had never farmed before. On the toughest days, they could not afford to eat even one meal a day. Marie, like the other 22,2089 refugees in the northwestern province, deserves better.
That’s why Trickle Up, a global poverty alleviation nonprofit, has been working with UNHCR and its local implementing partners to help them provide an economic development approach called Graduation in ten operations around the world, including Zambia. Developed over the past decade to address the unique needs of vulnerable people living in extreme poverty, the Graduation Approach has since been proven effective in humanitarian contexts, making it a powerful tool to help us achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Graduation Approach is community-centered and bottoms-up. Aiming, in a humanitarian context, to address the long-term dependence of displaced populations on aid, it presents an innovative approach to ending poverty in all its forms everywhere, the UN’s number one sustainable development goal (SDG 1), with a specific focus on target 1.5:
“By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations, and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social, and environmental shocks and disasters.”
With its unique, sequential, and time-bound components, the Graduation Approach overcomes many of the challenges faced by the current humanitarian system. Working with a coach who guides and tracks individual progress, families develop income-generating activities particular to their current environment. To help participants succeed, they sometimes receive a stipend to cover basic, immediate needs for a limited time. In some contexts, refugees are already receiving this stipend from the World Food Programme, for example. No longer forced to worry about where they will get their next meal or how they’ll pay for medical care, families can focus on long-term planning and growth. Once earning a steady income, they begin to save for the future. All along the way, coaches provide encouragement and support.
In the Photo: Marie (right) and her coach Aude* (left), who is also a refugee, chat about Marie’s business in the market. Photo Credit: Trickle Up
“I wasn’t a business woman. Now I’m a confident market woman,” Marie affirms at the market inside Meheba. Thanks to the business training Marie has received, she now sells dried fish here. On Monday mornings, she arrives early to meet the local supplier and purchase the best quality products. When she has enough money, she buys a goat as collateral that she can quickly sell when needed.
The comprehensive design of Graduation is key to building refugees’ resilience against shocks and independence from aid, especially as the amount of humanitarian funding continues to pale in comparison to the growing global need. In its 2019 Global Appeal, UNHCR asked for almost $8 billion of funding to address the crisis.
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In many situations, the reality of displacement is long-term. On average, refugees spend 26 years in displacement. Some refugees make it to their 20s, having known no life other than that inside their camp or settlement. In other words, these cycles of dependence are not simply day-to-day, rather year-to-year, and even intergenerational. While Marie recalls her life in the DRC, her youngest children have only known life in Zambia. Situations of displacement lasting more than five years are called protracted, and displaced populations imminently need long-term solutions that build independence from aid that could disappear one day. As situations last longer, media coverage decreases, and donor fatigue prevails. The money goes to the next more immediately urgent situation.
In the Photo: Because Marie is illiterate, Aude helps her track her savings. (numbers in Zambian Kwacha). Photo Credit: Trickle Up
Even before Marie started generating an income, she was saving money with a group of other refugees who are participating in Graduation as well. These savings can be used to expand her business, support her family, and cover her expenses in the case of a few bad days at the market.
Beyond the increased financial access and literacy, these savings groups also provide an avenue for Graduation participants to expand and build on their social networks. As heads of household meet other individuals whose families are facing similar situations, the hopelessness around loneliness fades.
While many refugees live in rural refugee camps, that is not always true. In many countries, refugees have no right to work or even own land and must seek opportunities in the informal economy. Word often spreads of potential economic opportunities in urban areas, and the informal labor markets of cities, which may allow for more creative income-generating activities, become an attraction. But these activities can be dangerous and include sex work, street-side vending, and under-the-table jobs with physical hazards. As they move to urban areas, some refugees choose not to register with UNHCR or an appropriate relief organization, leaving them without documentation critical to accessing benefits and avoiding arrest. In Zambia, if refugees are caught by authorities in the capital city of Lusaka without the proper identification, they are swiftly sent back to the settlement or arrested. Since urban neighborhoods are often more crowded and spread out, refugees become harder to identify and fall through the cracks of the system, missing out on key opportunities to receive various kinds of support.
Despite the rumors of opportunity in urban areas, life does not necessarily get easier for affected populations who have moved to the city or its outskirts. As families deplete whatever assets they managed to bring with them, the need for income pushes them to unconventional means. This puts family members at risk, exposing them to potential exploitation and harassment, often compounded by discrimination in the host community.
Eighty-five percent of the world’s refugees are received by host communities in developing countries where existing scarcity and an influx of distressed arrivals can inflame social tensions. Host community members tend to blame newcomers for perceived rises in national unemployment, for example, even if unemployment was high before the sudden arrival of labor. To combat xenophobia and build relationships between host and refugee communities (and among refugees of various identity groups themselves), Trickle Up always works with both displaced and local populations when designing and implementing Graduation programs in host communities.
By bridging the gap between seemingly disparate groups of people at such a micro-level, the Graduation Approach builds understanding, empathy, and compassion. Including the host community in all Graduation components is integral to ensure program sustainability and increase impact. Even beyond their savings group, the sense of solidarity expands to a participant’s daily life. “When you have nothing and are feeling hopeless, you feel gratitude for anything a neighbor gives you,” Marie explains, as she describes her newfound friendship with a neighbor of different nationality in her block.
In the Photo: “I am a changed one.” — Marie. Photo Credit: Trickle Up
Whether in a rural, urban, or settlement setting, families in displacement are less likely to report injustices to the authorities. Being unaware of their rights, fearing persecution, or worse, deportation, and lacking any kind of support system, vulnerable families find themselves alone in this unwelcoming new world. As a result, Graduation prioritizes awareness around social protection and access to basic services early on in the program. Through clearly communicating all available services as well as displaced peoples’ rights and responsibilities from the onset and in refresher trainings, individuals build their own core capacity to take their future in their own hands.
Adapting Graduation to displaced populations is a nascent phenomenon, so learning has been central to each one of these projects. By always starting with a small pilot and having a well-defined research and learning agenda, Trickle Up builds out smart and effective scale ups. Every iteration of Graduation for displaced populations leads to a more refined, holistic, and effective approach helping reach more people around the world. In 2013, Trickle Up started adapting Graduation for affected populations in coordination with UNCHR, in pilots in Egypt, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Zambia, and Burkina Faso. Today, five years later, Graduation has been implemented in 12 countries on three continents, in collaboration with local governments, UNHCR, and other NGO partners, thanks to a generous multi-million dollar grant from the US Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.
In December 2018, United Nations member states agreed to a Global Compact on Refugees, which aims to expand effective programming that enhances refugee self-reliance, measure refugees’ progress to build the evidence base, and advocate for funding and hosting environments that promote self-reliance. This compact and Trickle Up’s current and future work go hand in hand. By championing this compact and making it a reality through Graduation, Trickle Up, their allies, and women like Marie are restoring hope for those who are displaced and host communities alike. It is the only way to achieve SDG 1.5 for everyone, everywhere.
“I am a changed one,” concludes Marie, as she starts tidying up her stand in the market. Her face shifts from a soft smile to a focused gaze, and now more than ever, she understands that time is money.
Editors Note: The opinions expressed here by Impakter.com columnists are their own, not those of Impakter.com — Featured Photo Credit: Ross Savchyn
*All names changed to protect refugees’ confidentiality.
Tags: End PovertyGraduation ApproachRefugee AffairsSDG1SDGsTrickle UpUNHCR
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|| Shoshana Hecker || As Trickle Up’s Senior Director of Refugee Affairs, Shoshana Hecker leads the team in providing diverse technical assistance and building institutions and organizations’ capacities to deliver the Graduation Approach for refugees. She has over 20 years of broad range technical and management experience in international economic development, having managed and supported programs around the world, including in Chile, East Timor, Georgia, Honduras, Indonesia, Jordan, Kosovo, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. Based in Washington, D.C., Shoshana’s husband Eric and her one-year old Izidora (Izi) often accompany her on her numerous filed travels. She has an MBA from ESADE in Barcelona, Spain and completed her undergraduate studies at Grinnell College in Iowa. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ || Michael Karam || Michael Karam is Trickle Up’s Communications Associate for the Refugee Affairs team. In addition to documenting refugees’ journeys towards resilience and self-reliance, Michael curates and designs graphics and factsheets. He also maintains the Graduation for refugees microsite and manages the organization’s attendance at conferences and other external events. Previously, Michael interpreted in Arabic and French for refugees as they went through the green card process with HIAS PA. Originally from Lebanon, Michael studied Economics and International Relations with a Math minor at the University of Pennsylvania where he engaged in international and local social justice work, receiving the Ivy Day Bowl Award and the PennGALA Student Leadership Award.
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The Guess Who is a rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba that was one of the first Canadian groups to establish a major successful following both in their own country as well as abroad. In their late 60s and early 70s heyday, the guys took influence from late period British invasion bands as well as stuck alongside them on the charts. They were notably the first Canadian rock n roll group to have a #1 hit in the United States thanks to the success of 1970's "American Woman". The band evolved out of "Chad Allan and the Expressions" (often shortened to The Expressions), which was a pop rock group with a British Invasion feel fronted by Chad Allan and featuring guitarist Randy Bachman. Both of them had great potential as singer-songwriters. After their cover of "Shakin' All Over" sold well as a single, their record label released the band's album with "Guess Who?" written on the cover, hoping to mislead unsuspecting buyers into thinking it was a British group. The name stuck, however, and from then on they were 'The Guess Who'. The Who musician Pete Townshend later jokingly said that he allowed the Canadian group to take both their style and name, calling himself a fan. Singer and keyboardist Burton Cummings joined upon Allan's departure in 1966, and the band's classic line-up was born. The guys mixed some jazz-inspired sounds such as flute and electric piano playing into their sound, and they scored hits in Canada with tracks such as "These Eyes", "Undun", and "Laughing". Yet it was when they turned to psychedelic-influenced rock and rock with 'American Woman' (the third album with the Bachman/Cummings line-up) that they broke through in the U.S. The anti-war title cut (a song ironically embraced by some Americans as a patriotic anthem despite the cynical lyrics, though the band didn't complain as the record royalties came in) has received airplay on classic rock radio for years and years now. The Guess Who's success after that album came out proved to be hit and miss, however, and they would have members go in and out. After the release of 'Share the Land', their second album of 1970, Bachman left to form Bachman-Turner Overdrive, leaving Cummings as the band's leader and main songwriter. Though Bachman and his band-mates had achieved huge commercial success, the singer-songwriter felt like he wanted to go off into a whole other muscial direction. Afterwards, the Guess Who experimented in various styles through the 70s, including blues, down-home bluegrass, jazz fusion, and Cummings's trademark piano-based rock ballads. The novelty pop single "Clap for the Wolfman", a 1974 track made for the popular DJ Wolfman Jack that the band members were fans of, ended up being the Guess Who's last chart appearance. Various combinations of former members of the band have reunited at various times since their breakup in 1975. The Guess Who's classic songs remain radio staples, even into the new millennium. Various greatest hits and multi-artist collections featuring their music have also been released. See Guess Who for the Romanian rapper Laurentiu Mocanu.
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NBA Playoffs 2021: 'No panic set in': Doc Rivers lauds great team effort in 76ers' series-clinching comeback win without Embiid
Without Embiid, six different 76ers played finished in double figures - an effort that helped them overcome 32-point performance from Bradley Beal and a 24-point, 10-assist double-double from Russell Westbrook. Their 129-112 Game 5 win helps them advance to their third Conference Semifinals in the last four seasons.
With Embiid declared out for Game 5, the Philadelphia 76ers had the opportunity to close out their series without their best player - a league MVP finalist.
In the regular season without Embiid, the team went 10-11 in the 21 games and in the first half of Game 5, things weren't looking great with Philadelphia down for most of the first two quarters including their biggest deficit of eight.
However, led by the trio of Tobias Harris, Ben Simmons and Seth Curry, the East's top seed turned things around in the second half. Thus, clinching the game 129-112 and advancing to the Conference Semifinals for the third time in four years.
"It was really a great team win," 76ers head coach Doc Rivers said postgame. "I just love how they played. We got down early, no panic set in. I really believed that they believed they were the better today."
Curry had a game-high 30 points, 12 of which came in the third quarter, while Simmons recorded his third career playoff triple-double with 19 points, 11 assists, and 10 rebounds to go along with his two steals.
.@sixers @BenSimmons25 has his 3rd career playoff triple-double with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists.
Per @EliasSports, that breaks a tie w/ HOFer Charles Barkley and moves Simmons into second place all-time in 76ers playoff history, behind only HOFer Wilt Chamberlain (8).
- Sixers Stats (@SixersStats) June 3, 2021
Tobias Harris did a little bit of everything with 28 points, nine rebounds, six assists and three steals as the 76ers began separating themselves in the third quarter, where they outscored the Wizards 38-31 and then pilled it on in the final period by outscoring them 26-18.
"We didn't have a lot of time to work on a lot of stuff but they did it," Rivers continued. "I'm just really proud of all of them."
"Ben was incredible. Tobias was incredible. Seth, what can you say but everyone else was good. Tyrese came in, Furk gave us a big lift. I thought Dwight Howard in the second half was huge. It was what you would call a 'all-hands-in' team win for sure."
Without Embiid, six different 76ers played finished in double figures - an effort that helped them overcome a 32-point performance from Bradley Beal and a 24-point, 10-assist double-double from Russell Westbrook.
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Parenting harder now than used to be 20 years ago
Parenting has never been an easy task and has become harder with the advent of smart phones and social media. Two thirds of the Americans have said that parenting was harder than it was 20 years ago, according to a new study.
Majority of the parents (about 66 per cent) in the United States, who had at least one child under the age of 18, but who may also have an adult child or children, said that parenting was harder today than it was 20 years ago, said the Pew Research Center survey.
Most of the Americans attributed this hard task to technology. The survey also notes that only seven per cent had parenting easier. About 26 per cent believed that parenting was the same as it used to be 20 years ago. The survey was held among 3,640 US parents.
When 26 per cent of the parents said that the impact of digital technology had worsened the situation, 21 per cent said that it was social media that made the task harder. Changing morals and values and costs related to raising a child were other factors that made parenting difficult today, the survey said.
Most of the parents are worried about their children using mobile devices. Almost all the children have access to mobiles and the parents are in a dilemma if the children should use smarty phones and tablet computers. About 73 per cent of the parents said that the children can have their own phone only after they have reached at least the age of 12. About 45 per cent opined that children between the ages of 12 and 14 can own smartphones. Another 28 per cent say it was acceptable only between 15 and 17 years. However, only 22 per cent thought it was ok for children under 12 years of age to have a smart phone.
With respect to tablet, the survey found that 65 per cent of parents were for providing the children with a tablet before they reached 12 years of age.
The Pew Research centre said that 71 per cent of the parents said smartphone use by children aged 11 or younger will hurt their ability to learn effective social skills. They also think that children’s ability to fare in school will also be affected.
Parents of children (11 years and younger) say that their child watched videos on YouTube. Among them, 53 per cent say that their child watched videos daily and 35 per cent said their child watched these videos on the platform several times a day.
With respect to video sharing sites, 97 per cent of the parents whose child watched videos on YouTube say it kept their child entertained. Meanwhile 88 per cent said that it helped them learn new things, 75 per cent said the platform exposed their child to different cultures.
However, a majority of the parents are worried about the types of videos that surface on YouTube. About 46 per cent of the parents said that children who were 11 years old and younger had come across videos in YouTube that were inappropriate for their age.
A good majority of the parents surveyed said that they were concerned about their child ever being the target of online predators, accessing sexually explicit content, accessing violent content online or ever being bullied or harassed online.
The survey found that 86 per cent of parents of a child aged five to 11 years limited the time of day or length of time their child can use screens. About three quarters of parents having children in the above age group check the websites the child visits. They also check on the mobile apps they use and even use parental controls to restrict seeing the screens. About half of the parents said that they looked at call records or text messages on mobiles used by the child.
Struggles and experiences with smartphones and social media
About 56 per cent of parents who have at least one minor child, but who may also have an adult child or children, reported that their child spent too much time on their smartphone. Majority of the parents also said that their phone can get in the way of spending quality time with their children.
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Dr. Brian Moench: There Is No ‘Safe’ Exposure To Radiation
April 11, 2011 by Infinite
“Bioaccumulation is one reason why it is dishonest to equate the danger to humans living 5,000 miles away from Japan with the minute concentrations measured in our air. If we tried, we would now likely be able to measure radioactive iodine, cesium, and strontium bioaccumulating in human embryos in this country. Pregnant women, are you OK with that?”
By Brian Moench
Brian Moench is president of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment , a member of Union of Concerned Scientists and a former instructor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School.
Radiation from Japan is now detectable in the atmosphere, rain water and food chain in North America. Fukushima reactors are still out of control and hold 10 times more nuclear fuel than there was at Chernobyl, thousands of times more than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The official refrain is, “No worries here, perfectly harmless.” Our best scientists of the previous century would be rolling over in their graves.
In the 1940s many of the world’s premier nuclear scientists saw mounting evidence that there was no safe level of exposure to nuclear radiation. This led Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atom bomb, to oppose development of the hydrogen bomb.
In the 1950s, Linus Pauling, the only two-time winner of the Nobel Prize, began warning the public about exposure to all radiation. This opinion, ultimately endorsed by thousands of scientists worldwide, led President John F. Kennedy to sign the nuclear test ban treaty.
In the 1960s, Drs. John Gofman, Arthur Tamplin, Alice Stewart, Thomas Mancuso and Karl Morgan, all researchers for the Atomic Energy Commission or the Department of Energy, independently came to the conclusion that exposure to nuclear radiation was not safe at any level.
The government terminated their services for coming up with what Dr. Gofman called the “wrong answer,” that is, the opposite of what the AEC wanted to hear. The top Russian nuclear physicist in the 1960s, Andrei Sakharov, also a Nobel Prize winner, and Vladimir Chernousenko, who the Soviet Union placed in charge of the Chernobyl cleanup, are among other international experts who drew similar conclusions.
To distract from the danger of man-made radioactivity, we hear from nuclear cheerleaders that watching TV and airline travel also expose us to radiation. True, although they never mention that flight crews have higher rates of breast and skin cancer. Equating those very different types of radiation is like equating the damage of being hit with ping pong balls (photons) with being hit by bullets (beta particles). Your TV doesn’t shoot bullets at you.
Even if your TV only shot a few bullets per show, you probably wouldn’t watch much TV. Furthermore, the damage done by these radioactive “bullets” can vary tremendously depending on which organs are hit. To carry the analogy one step further, spraying a few bullets into a large crowd can hardly be considered harmless even if the ratio of bullets per person is very low.
Bioaccumulation increases the concentration of many contaminants as one moves up the food chain. Beef is much higher in dioxins than cattle feed and tuna fish have much higher mercury than their marine environment. Radioactive iodine, cesium, and strontium, all beta emitters, become concentrated in the food chain because of bioaccumulation. At the top of the food chain, of course, are humans, including fetuses, and human breast milk.
In 1963, one week after an atmospheric nuclear bomb test in Russia, our scientists observed the magnifying power of bioaccumulation when they detected radioactive iodine in the thyroids of mammals in North America even though they could not detect smaller amounts in the air or on vegetation.
Hermann Mueller, another Nobel Prize winner, is one of many scientists who would not have been OK with that. In a 1964 study, “Radiation and Heredity”, Mueller spelled out the genetic damage of ionizing radiation on humans. He predicted the gradual reduction of the survival of the human species as exposure to radioactivity steadily increased. Indeed, sperm counts, sperm viability and fertility rates worldwide have been dropping for decades.
These scientists and their warnings have never been disproven, but they are currently widely ignored. Their message is very clear: Virtually every human on Earth carries the nuclear legacy, a genetic footprint contaminated by the Cold War, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, the 400-plus nuclear power plants that have not melted down and now Fukushima.
Albert Einstein said, “The splitting of the atom changed everything, save man’s mode of thinking; thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophe.”
First published Apr 09 2011 01:01AM
Updated Apr 9, 2011 01:01AM
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
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Dannie Abse: A Sourcebook
Dannie Abse, whose career as a poet spans sixty years, has made a huge contribution to the literature and literary life of Wales and to poetry and prose in the English Language. The Sourcebook is an essential companion to the poetry, prose, drama and critical writings of this major poet.
Cary Archard has edited and written about Abse's work for over twenty years and collects here a marvellous representative selection of Abse's own writings, together with criticism of his work, which illuminates Abse's achievements for both students and general readers.
Biographical and critical introduction
Selection of Abse's criticism, autobiography and fiction
Reviews of Abse's poetry over sixty years
Critical essays of Abse's poetry, some newly commissioned
Dannie Abse practised for many years as a doctor in a London chest clinic. Among his many publications are a dozen books of poetry and five novels, the last of which, The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glas was longlisted for the Booker Prize. His most recent book of poems, Running Late, won the Roland Mathias Prize and his prose memoir, The Presence, was Wales Book of the Year 2008.
Cary Archard was born in south Wales, close to Aberdare, Alun Lewis's home town. The editor of Poetry Wales from 1980-86, and founder of Poetry Wales Press, he is the general editor of the uniform edition of Alun Lewis's works. Until recently he taught English and Philosophy in Bridgend.
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Voices at the World's Edge: Irish Poets on Skellig Michael
Skellig Michael (in Irish, Sceilig Mhichíl, or Michael’s rock) is the larger of the two Skellig islands, situated some 12 km off the coast of south-west Kerry. St. Fionan’s monastery stood there for some 700 years after its foundation in the 6th century, a climb of 670 steps and almost 230 metres above sea level, and one of the earliest of such settlements in Ireland. In 1996 it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Despite its proximity to the mainland, however, Skellig Michael remains virtually unknown, and yet its stark beauty holds a fascination for many. For Voices at the World’s Edge, Dublin-born poet Paddy Bushe, long since living within sight of the Skelligs, invited some of Ireland’s best-known poets to travel with him to Skellig Michael, to spend the night among bee-hive huts, puffins and gannets, and to write of their experience at what was once the edge of the world.
Contributors include John F. Deane, Theo Dorgan, Kerry Hardie, Biddy Jenkinson, Seán Lysaght, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Bernard O’Donoghue, Cathal Ó Searcaigh and Macdara Woods. Marie Heaney provides an introduction to this extraordinary anthology of poetry and prose that is part travel writing, part meditative day-book; part natural history, part response to the history of faith on this sea-encircled rock. World-famous photographer John Minihan, so often to be found among writers, records both his own and his companions’ journeys.
Paddy Bushe was born in Dublin in 1948. In 2008 Dedalus published To Ring in Silence: New and Selected Poems, which draws on all of his earlier collections and includes the author’s own translations of his own and a number of classic Irish lyrics. Described in The Irish Times as “a significant and necessary voice in Irish poetry”, he is the recipient of the Oireachtas prize for poetry and the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award, both in 2006. He lives in Co. Kerry.
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Living values in the legal technology world...
By: Nadaline Webster on 19-01-2021 15:29:39
What attracted you to Rightly as a company?
I believe that, to a degree at least, we create the world that we experience. The last few years have taught me that one of the most powerful ways in which we do that lies in choosing to live our values. We can enhance that by surrounding ourselves with others who are equally committed to those values and growth as an ideal.
Having retired in 2019, I had no intention of stepping back into a full-time role. But then Tiffany Valeriano called me and said "You've gotta meet these guys and see what they're doing!" I was hooked from that first meeting.
Product and people lie at the core of any successful legal tech company. You have to have intuitive tools that grant easy operational efficiencies and you have to have founders who care about the people who will use those tools. When I met Bjørn and Jeppe and saw the Rightly platform, I knew I really wanted to be a part of this story... because it's going to be big!
How do you envision your skills and experience supporting the Rightly mission?
I think that, generally, there is a very one-dimensional view of lawyers that I would really love to push back on. They're often seen as aloof, unimaginative creatures who shy away from technology and risk in equal measure. In my career, I have talked to thousands of lawyers in many law firms and countries and have yet to find a single one that meets the constraints of the stereotype!
It makes no sense to me to present lawyers as lacking innovation in their thinking. If this were true, case law would be deeply boring! I have found lawyers as a group to be intelligent, articulate and agile thinkers, open-minded about tech developments, realistic about the challenges of implementation and incredibly generous and entertaining with their knowledge and experiences. I'm really looking forward to bringing that perspective to life!
In a similar way, IP owners are not well-represented by either the 'big bad guys' or the 'naive but plucky startup' stereotypes. They care about their brands. They care about their products. They care about their customers. And the experience of infringement is rarely as straightforward for them as simply calculating a value in dollars. It is my hope that in being part of a movement to change how we talk about infringement, that we might play a role in driving a shift in public attitudes towards it.
What about the company culture at Rightly most appeals to you?
The most important factors in creating and maintaining a company culture are undoubtedly the founders. From the first meeting, I knew that Bjørn and Jeppe were not only creating a company culture but authentically living it too. They believe, as I do, in coming together to create positive change. That focusing on solutions instead of problems moves everyone forward. Their commitment to transforming IP management for lawyers and IP owners is not only about operational gains, although that's important. Here at Rightly, it's a 'whole life' issue and it is the application of technology in the very best of ways - empowering professionals to lead more creative, energetic, growth-orientated and fulfilling lives. I'm so excited to be a part of that culture.
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Five Fascinating Facts about Henry David Thoreau
Fun Thoreau facts: about his life, his work, and his links with American history
1. Henry David Thoreau was christened David Henry Thoreau; he reversed his first two names after graduating from Harvard. Nobody knows why. Fresh from university, Thoreau decided to change his forenames around and become known as Henry David, though he never formally had his named changed and remained, officially, David Henry. The young Thoreau was an avid reader at university (he studied classics and languages) and amassed some 5,000 pages of notes on the material he’d devoured. Later in life, he would translate Greek tragedy (notably Aeschylus’ play Seven Against Thebes) and write on everything from Indian literature to Sir Walter Raleigh.
2. Nobody is quite sure how to pronounce Thoreau’s name. Although it is most commonly pronounced ‘the-ROH’ but in Thoreau’s own lifetime it appears to have been pronounced ‘THOR-oh’, at least in the part of New England where Thoreau lived. Fellow inhabitant of Concord, Massachusetts, Amos Bronson Alcott (father of novelist Louisa
May Alcott), wrote that the name was usually pronounced like the word ‘thorough’ in American English, though ‘THOR-oh’ was more common in New England.
3. For a while, Henry David Thoreau worked in his father’s pencil factory. John Thoreau worked as a pencil-maker, and Henry David (as he by then was) worked in the family firm for a short while after his return to Concord. Henry David Thoreau’s grandfather on his mother’s side was Asa Dunbar, who had led the first ever student protest in America, the so-called ‘Butter Rebellion’ at Harvard in 1766. (The protest has triggered by the poor food given to students at the university; it was a piece of especially rancid butter that tipped Dunbar over the edge.) One can see where Thoreau got his spirit of ‘civil disobedience’ from.
4. Contrary to popular belief, he didn’t go to live in the wilderness. Thoreau’s most famous work, the 1854 book Walden, documents Thoreau’s time (more precisely two years, two months, and two days) living by Walden Pond, endeavouring to be self-reliant. It’s a quintessentially American move, a mini-declaration of independence, and one of the key texts in the American Transcendentalist movement. However, Thoreau did not go and live miles from civilisation, but just a couple of miles from his family home in Massachusetts. Walden sold slowly at first, and it was five years before it sold 2,000 copies. An online video game of Walden is reportedly in development. In 2012, the University of Southern California received a grant to develop an online game based on Thoreau’s book. The game has not yet appeared, but it sounds an intriguing idea.
5. Thoreau’s writing has influenced a number of key twentieth-century political figures. His essay on ‘Civil Disobedience‘ (1849) helped to inspire Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King. The essay, also known as ‘Resistance to Civil Government’, grew out of a lecture Thoreau gave after he’d spent a night in the cells for refusing to pay his poll tax. (He refused on ethical grounds, partly because he opposed slavery in the United States.) It has become, with Walden, Thoreau’s defining work.
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Lincoln Financial Group Named to Dow Jones Sustainability Index for Sixth Consecutive Year
Lincoln Financial Group (NYSE:LNC) today announced that the company has been named to the prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the sixth consecutive year. This index recognizes companies that demonstrate leadership in environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, and signifies Lincoln Financial’s continued commitment to corporate responsibility and sustainability.
“At Lincoln, integrity, optimism and a forward-thinking mindset are not only important, but integral to our culture,” said Dennis R. Glass, President & CEO, Lincoln Financial Group. “We embrace and advance responsible business practices in every aspect of what we do – in how we serve our customers, in how we care for our communities, and in how we support and develop our people.”
Lincoln Financial Group is committed as a leader on environmental, social and governance issues and continues to build on the company’s transparency through evolving public disclosure. Inclusion on this year’s index is recognition of Lincoln’s leadership in the life insurance sector, and confirmation of the company’s responsible business practices, achievement of environmental targets, and strong support of employee development and wellness.
“We are so proud to be recognized by the prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability Index for North America for the sixth consecutive year,” said Jen Warne, chief people officer for Lincoln. “Our employees go above and beyond to strengthen our communities, respect each other, care for the environment and serve our customers with integrity. They are such a major influence behind our consistent recognition for our corporate responsibility efforts and they inspire me daily.”
Lincoln continues to make advancements in thse areas that are considered especially important by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, including corporate governance, risk and crisis management, codes of business conduct, environmental strategy, human capital development and talent attraction and retention. Additionally, Lincoln remains committed to reducing their environmental impact in line with evolving best practices and scientific frameworks. Having successfully achieved initial targets set in 2014, Lincoln Financial set a new greenhouse gas reduction target in 2020: to reduce emissions by 25% from a 2019 baseline by the year 2025.
Originally launched in 1999, the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) comprises the most widely recognized global sustainability indices. Created jointly by S&P Dow Jones Indices and RobescoSAM, the DJSI criteria integrate assessment of economic, environmental, and social practices within large, publicly traded companies. Companies are invited to participate in the DJSI Corporate Sustainability Assessment on a yearly basis, with only the most sustainable market caps per industry – based on their sustainability scores – selected for final inclusion on the index.
More information on Lincoln Financial’s corporate responsibility program, can be found at on here.
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Lincoln Financial Group provides advice and solutions that help people take charge of their financial lives with confidence and optimism. Today, more than 17 million customers trust our retirement, insurance and wealth protection expertise to help address their lifestyle, savings and income goals, and guard against long-term care expenses. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Lincoln Financial Group is the marketing name for Lincoln National Corporation (NYSE:LNC) and its affiliates. The company had $322 billion in end-of-period account values as of September 30, 2021. Lincoln Financial Group is a committed corporate citizen included on major sustainability indices including the Dow Jones Sustainability Index North America and FTSE4Good. Dedicated to diversity and inclusion, we earned perfect 100 percent scores on the Corporate Equality Index and the Disability Equality Index, and rank among Newsweek’s Most Responsible Companies. Learn more at: www.LincolnFinancial.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Sign up for email alerts at http://newsroom.lfg.com.
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Iowa lawmakers focus on free speech on campuses, social media platforms
By: Katie Akin - February 26, 2021 3:13 pm
A member of an anti-government militia holds a copy of the U.S. Constitution at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters on Jan. 6, 2016 near Burns, Oregon. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
The Conservative Political Action Conference began Friday with a session called “Why the Left Hates the Bill of Rights … and We Love It.”
The four-day annual gathering of Republican politicians and activists started Thursday in Orlando, Florida. CPAC’s agenda included five events on free speech, including a Friday speech by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called “Bill of Rights, Liberty, and Cancel Culture.”
“Liberty is under assault, and what are we going to do? I will tell you. We will fight,” Cruz said, as a man within the crowd yelled “Freedom!”
Issues of free speech and cancel culture have become a pillar of the Republican platform, both nationwide and in Iowa. From “political correctness” to social media platforms banning politicians like former President Donald Trump, the party has identified free speech as a major issue in America.
Iowa lawmakers considered several bills this week that would introduce new free speech policies at Iowa’s universities and schools and would penalize tech companies that censor certain viewpoints. The Board of Regents also debuted a set of First Amendment policies for Iowa’s public universities.
“I would suggest that an educator in a position of authority over a child should not have the right to violate what is inherent to that child, and that is their beliefs and values and their abilities to express those,” said Iowa Sen. Amy Sinclair, R-Allerton.
Here’s what the First Amendment says
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Board of Regents adopts new free speech policies
The Board of Regents, a nine-member group that oversees Iowa’s three public universities, met Wednesday to consider recommendations to improve First Amendment protections. Among the recommendations were:
Require universities to include a statement on class syllabi that explicitly states that the First Amendment will be respected.
Reaffirm that school resources cannot be used for partisan activities.
Universities and upper-level administrators will not be allowed to take an “institutional position on policy matters.”
Universities will offer annual training on free speech to students, staff and faculty.
The board also agreed to establish a permanent Free Speech Committee to oversee the implementation of the policies and to review any complaints.
“Concerns that come up about free speech are addressed with passion,” board member Nancy Boettger, a former Republican state senator, said. “People care a lot about this.”
The Regents voted unanimously to approve the recommendations.
Wednesday’s meeting followed a tumultuous few months in which all three of Iowa’s public universities — University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa — had a free speech controversy. Although all three issues have been resolved, conversation and consequences surrounding the incidents linger.
David Johnsen, dean of the University of Iowa College of Dentistry, announced Thursday that he will leave his position this summer, a year before he planned to step down. The dentistry school was the focus of conservative ire in October after Johnsen sent a statement denouncing a President Donald Trump executive order and then called for a disciplinary hearing against a student who publicly defended the order.
“Upon further reflection, I came to realize that the pieces are in place for me to step away a year earlier and that after more than 25 years, I am ready for change of pace,” Johnsen said in a University of Iowa press release.
Rep. Dustin Hite, R-New Sharon, said Thursday that it was disappointing that the Board of Regents adopted new free speech policies only after several incidents.
“I appreciate what the Regents are doing,” he said. “It’s unfortunate that it took three very, very high-profile and, in my opinion, quite obvious things this year to make that happen.”
House and Senate committees consider First Amendment legislation for schools
Hite led his own free speech discussion Thursday as a House Judiciary subcommittee considered House Study Bill 237. The bill would require universities governed by the Board of Regents to educate teachers, faculty, administrators and other staff on First Amendment protections. Students would also be required to do annual training on free speech.
“There are circumstances where it is difficult to determine what free speech protects and what free speech doesn’t,” Hite said. “There are also times where it’s just blatantly obvious.”
The bill would also restrict the use of school funds toward partisan activities and would prohibit upper-level administrators from making public statements about policy matters. For K-12 school districts, it would require the board of directors to create free speech policies and a fair complaints process. The bill passed subcommittee in a 2-1 vote, with Rep. Christina Bohannan, D-Iowa City, voting against.
Lobbyists from the Iowa Association of School Boards and LGBTQ group OneIowa said Thursday that the House version of the bill was preferable to the Senate version, Senate File 478, proposed by Sinclair.
That version goes deeper into what First Amendment training must include, specifying that training should not teach that any race or sex is superior, that Iowa is inherently racist or sexist, or that any individual is racist, sexist or oppressive due to their identity.
It mirrors a Trump executive order from September — the same one that Johnsen denounced at the University of Iowa. That order defined “divisive concepts” using near-identical language to SF 478. An amendment to the bill also added references to the Iowa Civil Rights Act so all protected classes, including sexuality, age, gender identity and disability, are included in addition to race and sex. Both public universities and school districts would be prohibited from teaching the divisive concepts outlined in the bill.
Sen. Herman Quirmbach of Ames was the only Democrat on the committee to support the legislation.
“I can’t imagine anyone of good conscience saying that any of the things prohibited here should be allowed as part of the training of campus police or university administrators or people advising student clubs,” he said.
The bill passed the education committee by an 11-4 vote.
Two bills to take on technology censorship
Free speech legislation also went beyond campus this week, as some lawmakers in the House and Senate proposed bills to prohibit social media companies from censoring certain viewpoints.
On Wednesday, a Senate subcommittee led by Sen. Jake Chapman, R-Adel, considered Senate File 402. The bill would ban state and local government contracts with any tech company that wrongfully censors online content.
“It’s shameful,” Chapman said. “These liberal executives out of the Silicon Valley are not going to control what Iowans hear, what they see, and they aren’t going to censor them.”
Critics of the legislation argued that such measures would scare away tech companies from Iowa and could disrupt operations at schools and universities that utilize certain programs.
The bill advanced by a 2-1 subcommittee vote.
On Thursday, a House subcommittee considered a different bill, House File 633. The legislation would prohibit social media companies from censoring “constitutionally protected speech.” That includes restricting or limiting any content, or blocking certain users.
If a social media company does censor speech, it would have 30 days to send a notice to the user about why the speech was censored. The Attorney General would be responsible for prosecuting companies that censor protected speech.
Lynn Hicks, chief of staff at the Iowa Attorney General’s office, noted that in cases of censorship by tech companies, courts have widely found that private social media companies can censor speech on their own platforms.
Iowa already has lawsuits against Google and Facebook, Hicks said, cases which have evolved over multiple years and require dozens of attorneys and staff members to run. Under the new bill, the attorney general may have to launch lawsuits against several more companies.
“We’re looking at some considerable challenges, if this goes into law,” Hicks said.
Rep. Jon Jacobsen, R-Council Bluffs, said the law on social media networks was evolving as online communication became all-encompassing. He used Facebook as an example: users who advocated for hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment, he said, were wrongfully censored on the platform.
“That suppression of a therapy that was used in my metro area … this is the danger of a monopoly that has subsumed a public square, or worse yet, a state actor that is now absolutely quashing medical data that is truthful and scientifically proven,” Jacobsen said.
There is a lack of consensus in the medical community about the use of the drug for COVID-19. It’s allowed in some states but was not recommended as of September 2020 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Speaker of the House Pat Grassley told reporters Thursday he is interested in pursuing regulations for online censorship, although he did not endorse a specific bill.
“The bills that exist today, I think, will be the basis of what is something we would like to do,” he said.
by Katie Akin, Iowa Capital Dispatch
<h1>Iowa lawmakers focus on free speech on campuses, social media platforms</h1> <p class="byline">by Katie Akin, <a href="https://iowacapitaldispatch.com">Iowa Capital Dispatch</a> <br />February 26, 2021</p>
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Fighting Like Hell in Haiti
More than 50 groups recently declared their priorities, which include: "housing, environment, food, education, literacy, work, and health for all."
Beverly Bell
The pioneering labor organizer Mother Jones said, “Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living.”
That pretty much sums up Haiti’s priorities today.
The nation called the “pearl of the Antilles,” back when it was the wealthiest Caribbean colony, has always known how to fight like hell. The African slaves, who were brought to Haiti to generate wealth for France, launched a rebellion in the 1790s that merged subterfuge on the plantations with guerrilla warfare. They won in 1804, thus creating the only successful slave revolution ever and the world’s first black republic.
Though liberated from France and from slavery, neither the transported Africans nor their descendants ever truly became free. Self-proclaimed emperors and presidents-for-life exploited the poor, benefiting themselves, large landowners, and businesses. State neglect of citizens’ needs, feudal agricultural practices, and violent security forces kept people trapped in vicious poverty with their rights suppressed. The concentration of land and resources devastated the vast majority. Today, more than half of Haiti lives on less than $1 a day.
Foreign governments also played a role from the very beginning. After the rebellion, the French saddled Haiti with a crippling debt upon its independence, equal to $21 billion today (France threatened to invade if Haiti didn’t compensate it for the loss of “property”). And the United States slapped on a decades-long embargo to ensure that word of the revolution didn’t reach slaves over here.
The role of foreign powers in undermining Haiti hasn’t changed. Marines killed many Haitians during the 1915-1934 U.S. occupation of the country. Later, the U.S. strongly supported the brutal dictatorship of Papa and Baby Doc that ran from 1957 until 1986. Papa Doc’s security force, known as the Tonton Macoutes, was heavily influenced by the vicious U.S. troops put in place during the occupation. More recently, the U.S. government helped oust the democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide not once, but twice—in 1991 and 2004.
Contemporary U.S. economic policies, together with the actions of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, have aggravated what Haitians call the “development of underdevelopment.” Free trade has destroyed agricultural production, in turn contributing to a food crisis and growing a sweatshop economy, with farmers forced to migrate to Port-au-Prince in search of work. The original foreign debt to France has been replaced by $1.05 billion in debt to the IMF and others. The international financial institutions will surely never get back the capital, but their creditor role does allow them to largely control the Haitian government’s economic policies.
Throughout the constant political and economic oppression has run another constant: a highly organized grassroots movement that has never given up the battle its ancestors began more than 200 years ago. The movement is composed of women, peasants, clergy and laity, workers, and others. Its mobilization, protests, and advocacy have brought down dictators and staved off some terrible economic policies. Haitian society has been able to keep alive a rich culture and a solidarity economy, in which neighbors and strangers care for each other’s needs.
The Haitian people may not yet have gained the rights and economic justice they deserve, but neither have they given up. Yolette Etienne, Oxfam Haiti’s director, said years ago: “Bamboo symbolizes Haitian people to a T. Bamboo takes whatever adversity comes along, but afterwards it straightens itself back up.”
Already, after one of the worst natural disasters in world history, they’re straightening themselves back up. Grassroots organizations are planning their strategies. More than 50 groups recently declared their priorities, which include: “housing, environment, food, education, literacy, work, and health for all; a plan to wipe out exploitation, poverty, and social and economic inequality; and a plan to construct a society which is based on social justice.”
Lenz Jean-François, a coordinator of a grassroots organization in one of Port-au-Prince’s poorest neighborhoods, says, “The people have to become a principal actor in the future, to transform this earthquake into an opportunity from which we can reconstruct our country with justice and rights.”
You go, Haitians. Fight like hell for the living. As Mother Jones knew, we in the U.S. have much to learn from you.
Beverly Bell, an Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow, runs the economic justice group Other Worlds. She’s currently in Haiti. You can read her blogs on Michael Moore’s site. http://www.michaelmoore.com/blogger/BeverlyBell
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Carrie Underwood, Ludacris Rock 2018 Radio Disney Music Awards With ‘The Champion’ [Watch]
Cillea Houghton
Cillea Houghton Published: June 23, 2018
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Carrie Underwood and Ludacris hit the stage at the 2018 Radio Disney Music Awards on Friday night for the debut television performance of their collaborative single, "The Champion."
Underwood and Ludacris owned the stage as they delivered the empowering finale performance. Her voice captivating as always, the superstar showed off her incredible vocal gift with the fiery song before Ludacris joined her to deliver an equally important message that encourages perseverance, motivation and mindfulness through the lyrics.
The twosome made an even more inspiring statement by inviting the West Los Angeles Children's Choir to participate in the performance. Dressed in all white, the students filtered through the audience and made their way to the stage, lighting up the arena with their beautiful voices as Underwood and Ludacris let them take the lead on a reprise of the chorus, serving as living proof of the song's meaning.
The seemingly unlikely pair released "The Champion" in January. Underwood co-wrote the song with Brett James, Chris DeStefano and Christopher Bridges (Ludacris). The powerful anthem reached No. 1 on the iTunes Top Songs chart in 10 countries after it first aired during Super Bowl LII. It held the top spot in America throughout its release week, and then rose back to No. 1 for four consecutive days after the Super Bowl LII opening.
"The Champion" Carries a Powerful Message for Many Fans
Underwood was on hand to receive the Hero Award at the 2018 Radio Disney Music Awards, which took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Calif., on Friday night (June 22) and aired on the Disney Channel on Saturday (June 23).
Underwood's former American Idol judge Randy Jackson had the honor of presenting her with the award, citing her support for education initiatives, arts programs and animal shelters in her hometown of Checotah, Okla, in addition to her work with organizations including Make-A-Wish, Red Cross, ACM Lifting Lives and St. Jude as examples of her benevolent efforts, calling her "one of the greatest souls on the planet."
"We've all been blessed with gifts that we can use to make the world a place," a humbled Underwood said as she accepted the award. "Growing up in a small town in Oklahoma, I certainly never imagined that anybody anywhere would be giving me any kind of hero award...May we all use our gifts to help each other because that's what champions do."
She also hit the Radio Disney Music Awards red carpet, where she and fellow superstar Kelly Clarkson clowned around in front of the cameras in an impromptu American Idol champions reunion.
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Senate exposes a rogues' gallery of shady foreign associates behind Hunter Biden's lucrative deals
A joint-committee report provides a detailed roadmap to the Bidens' connections to hostile foreign governments and individuals, including convicted criminals. The main characters reportedly enriching the Bidens are from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and China.
By Seamus Bruner
Updated: September 25, 2020 - 5:39pm
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The U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Senate Committee on Finance released their highly anticipated report on Hunter Biden's extensive dealings with China, Russia, and Ukraine while his father Joe Biden served as vice president.
The joint report reveals that Hunter Biden received taxpayer-funded accommodations including transportation aboard Air Force Two and Secret Service security details while he traveled to make business deals with Chinese, Russian, and Ukrainian entities. According to the report, Hunter Biden received Secret Service protection on trips to multiple foreign locations, including Moscow, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, and dozens of other cities.
The joint committee investigation into the Bidens' potential conflicts of interest "began in August 2019, with Finance Committee Chairman Grassley's letter to the Department of the Treasury regarding potential conflicts of interest with respect to Obama administration policy relating to the Henniges transaction," a controversial deal linked to the Bidens.
The Senate report provides a detailed roadmap, exposing the Bidens' connections to hostile foreign governments and individuals, including convicted criminals. Quoted material below is from the joint committee report (except the quotes appearing within the report itself).
The main characters reportedly enriching the Bidens are from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and China:
Ye Jianming is a Chinese national with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese military, also known as the People's Liberation Army (PLA). He is the founder of China Energy Fund Committee and CEFC China Energy Co. Ltd. Ye allegedly wired massive sums of money through CEFC and related entities resulting in "millions of dollars in cash flow" benefitting the Biden family. Multiple transactions between Ye Jianming's enterprise and Hunter Biden were flagged by the U.S. Treasury Department for "potential criminal financial activity," and in February 2018 Ye Jianming was reportedly under investigation in China for "suspected economic crimes."
According to the report:
"Ye Jianming is a Chinese businessman and a frequent figure in Hunter Biden's financial dealings in China. Based on public reports that were available in 2015, when his contact with Biden began to ramp up, Ye was a founder of CEFC China Energy Co. Ltd (CEFC) and served as chairman of the board for its subsidiary, the China Energy Fund Committee (CE Fund). CEFC had a reported income estimated at $33.4 billion, according to 2013 figures that were available at the time. Although CEFC reportedly remained a private company until state-owned enterprises assumed control of it in 2018, reporting in 2017 indicated that it received financing from the China Development Bank, 'hired a number of former top officials from state-owned energy companies' and had 'layers of Communist Party committees across its subsidiaries — more than at many private Chinese companies.'
In addition to the Communist government, Ye also had reported connections and affiliations to the People's Liberation Army (PLA). For example, from 2003 to 2005, Ye reportedly served as deputy secretary general of the China Association for International Friendly Contacts (CAIFC), which is the public name for the PLA General Political Department's International Liaison Department. Additionally, in 2014, under Ye's leadership, CE Fund had co-organized events with the China Huayi Broadcasting Corporation (CHBC), a company incorporated by the PLA General Political Department. The CEO of CHBC, Wang Shu, was commander of the PLA General Political Department base 'at the forefront of applied psychological operations and propaganda directed against Taiwan,' which was managed by a training center that was funded by a subsidiary of CEFC….Wang reportedly attended the 2014 CE Fund and CHBC event along with Xu Jialu, a man who was associated with the PLA's CAIFC as well as CE Fund and China's Confucius Institutes. Huasheng served as executive director of CE Fund's China Institute of Culture Limited (CIOC), 'a nationally supported organization in charge of "promoting Chinese culture."' Accordingly, Ye and his associates had robust relationships with China's military units, some of which were involved in matters in direct opposition to U.S. policy in the region."
GongWen Dong is a Chinese national with deep ties to the Chinese communist regime and the Chinese military. GongWen Dong "was Ye Jianming's associate and reportedly executed transactions for his companies." As Ye Jianming's associate, GongWen Dong helped funnel millions of dollars to Hunter Biden and even facilitated a six-figure "global spending spree" for Hunter Biden and Joe Biden’s brother James Biden and James’ wife Sara Biden.
"On 09/08/2017, Hunter Biden and GongWen Dong applied online to Cathay Bank and opened a line of credit under the business name Hudson West III, LLC. The cards were collateralized by transferring $99,000.00 from a Cathay Bank account to the Hudson West III business account where the funds were held until the cards were closed. The authorized users of these credit cards include Hunter Biden, James Biden and Sara Biden and each used the cards around the world to purchase $101,291 worth of extravagant items to include airline tickets, multiple purchases at Apple Stores and pharmacies, as well as hotels and restaurants."
Patrick Ho is a Chinese national and close associate of Ye Jianming. He was also a reported client of Hunter Biden, personally, and was co-represented by Hunter Biden's former law firm Boies Schiller Flexner. Ho was convicted by the U.S. Justice Department for money laundering, conspiracy, and violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (which deals with international bribery schemes).
"In November 2017, Ye Jianming's associate and Hunter Biden's reported client, Patrick Ho, was arrested and charged with violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, international money laundering, and conspiracy to commit both. The first call that he reportedly made was to James Biden, who reportedly referred him to Hunter Biden. Ho was convicted in March 2019 on charges of money laundering, conspiracy, and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and was sentenced to three years in U.S. prison for his role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to bribe officials in Chad and Uganda in exchange for business advantages for CEFC, Ye's company. Department of Justice documents describe Ye as Patrick Ho's boss and, again, note that Ye's company supplied funding to the China Energy Fund Committee. Ho worked as the secretary-general of the committee during the period when he was carrying out his illegal schemes."
Elena Baturina is a billionaire Russian oligarch and the widow of the former mayor of Moscow. Baturina, who is reportedly close to Putin, has received hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit money through corruption schemes, according to the report. In February 2014, the Russian oligarch wired $3.5 million to a Delaware-based entity co-founded by Hunter Biden called Rosemont Seneca Thornton LLC.
"Hunter Biden and his associate, [Devon] Archer, had a financial relationship with Russian businesswoman Elena Baturina. Baturina is the former wife of the late Yuri Luzhkov, who was the mayor of Moscow and was fired in 2010 by then-Russian president Dmitry Medvedev over corruption allegations. Baturina became Russia's only female billionaire when her plastics company, Inteko, received a series of Moscow municipal contracts while her husband was mayor. According to reporting, 'Luzhkov used his position as mayor to approve over 20 real estate projects that were built by a Baturina-owned construction company and ultimately generated multibillion-ruble profits for his family.' In addition, a Russian investigation led to a criminal case against the former head of the Bank of Moscow, Andrey Borodin, who 'allegedly used money from the Moscow City Budget to lend money to shell companies, which ultimately transferred $443 million to Baturina.'"
Kenges Rakishev is a businessman and the son-in-law of a prominent Kazakh politician who has close ties to longtime Kazakh dictator, President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Rakishev is the sole shareholder of a company called Novatus Holding, which wired $143,300 to Rosemont Seneca Bohai (an entity controlled by Hunter Biden and Devon Archer). At the time of the transfer, Rakishev's father-in-law was the mayor of Kazakhstan's capital city, Astana.
"At the time of Vice President Biden's visit to Kyiv, there were divided opinions in Kazakhstan over Russia's annexation of Crimea and the international situation had produced tension in the region generally. Nazarbayev's government reportedly shifted positions over time, and Nazarbayev reportedly made some statements supportive of Russia's actions. Given Rakishev's close connection to political leadership in Kazakhstan, the tense political situation, Hunter Biden's longstanding relationship with Archer and involvement in transactions with Rosemont Seneca Bohai, and the fact that the payment was timed perfectly with Vice President Biden's visit to Kyiv to discuss U.S. sanctions against Russia for the invasion of Crimea, the April 22, 2014 payment from Rakishev to Rosemont Seneca Bohai raises serious questions. It is unclear why a foreign company, Novatus Holding, would purchase a $142,300 car for Rosemont Seneca Bohai when the company does not deal in vehicles."
Mykola Zlochevsky is the Ukrainian oligarch who founded Burisma. Zlochevsky has been accused of criminal activity amounting to massive corruption in multiple countries including Ukraine and the United Kingdom. Zlochevsky allegedly sought favor with the United States via the vice president by funneling money to Biden family associates — primarily Hunter Biden and Devon Archer.
"Hunter Biden was serving on Burisma's board (supposedly consulting on corporate governance and transparency) when Zlochevsky allegedly paid a $7 million bribe to officials serving under Ukraine's prosecutor general, Vitaly Yarema, to 'shut the case against Zlochevsky.' [U.S. diplomat George] Kent testified that this bribe occurred in December 2014 (seven months after Hunter joined Burisma's board), and, after learning about it, he and the Resident Legal Advisor reported this allegation to the FBI."
Devon Archer
Hunter Biden's Russian, Ukrainian, and Chinese business partners were not the only ones with criminal allegations against them. Hunter Biden's close friend and business partner Devon Archer was indicted for a massive fraud scheme (though Archer himself beat the charges).
"In May 2016, Hunter Biden's business partner, Archer, and five others were arrested and criminally charged in a scheme to defraud investors and a tribal entity of millions of dollars. Starting Jan. 25, 2016, Burisma began sending regular payments for Biden to his Washington law firm, Owasco PC (Owasco). Owasco was incorporated on Jan. 19, 2006, lists an agent address in Washington, and lists its executing officer and governor as Robert Hunter Biden. Payments from Burisma to Owasco continued throughout most of 2016 and ceased eight days after Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8, 2016 presidential election. Between Jan. 25, 2016, and Nov. 16, 2016, Burisma sent nine wires totaling $752,054.99 to Owasco with each of the nine transactions listing 'Owasco, PC/Robert Biden' as the recipient. Of the nine, two payments were for $83,333.33, five were for $83,333 one was for $84,992.33, and one was for $83,731.291 The records acquired by the Committees show the last documented payment was made on Nov. 16, 2016. Biden continued to serve on Burisma's board of directors until April 2019."
The joint-committee report states that the Senate committees experienced delays, including due to instances of "obstructive behavior," and that the transactions detailed within the report "raise criminal concerns."
The Biden campaign issued a statement before the report was released accusing Senator Johnson of pushing "a long-disproven hardcore right-wing conspiracy theory" and trying "to subsidize a foreign attack against the sovereignty of our elections with taxpayer dollars," referring to the foreign sources that Johnson and Grassley's report cited. However, the Biden campaign has not has not yet addressed the numerous allegations contained in the report that are based on non-partisan financial records called Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) issued by the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
Regarding his work in China and Ukraine, Hunter Biden has previously admitted to "poor judgement" but denied any "ethical lapse." After the Senate report was released, Hunter Biden's daughter, Naomi Biden, posted a series of tweets defending her father: "Here's a thread on my dad, Hunter Biden — free of charge to the taxpayers and free of the corrosive influence of power-at-all-costs politics. The truth of a man filled with love, integrity, and human struggles."
Spokespersons for Devon Archer and James Biden have not yet responded to requests for comment.
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Yoon Shi Yoon Talks About Wanting To Continue With “2 Days & 1 Night” For A Long Time
by SPark
Yoon Shi Yoon talked about his desire to continue appearing on KBS 2TV’s “2 Days & 1 Night.”
The actor was recently interviewed about the wrap of TV Chosun drama “Grand Prince.” During the interview, he also discussed his regular appearance on the KBS2 variety show.
After he was discharged from the military, Yoon Shi Yoon joined the cast of “2 Days & 1 Night” as a fixed member. It has already been two years since his first episode aired on May 1, 2016. Known by his former name “Dong Gu,” he has been appearing on the show as a new character.
Yoon Shi Yoon said that he grew a lot as an actor through the variety program. He explained, “I want to do ‘2 Days & 1 Night’ for as long as possible. I don’t know when it will be, but when the time comes for me to leave ‘2 Days & 1 Night,’ it will be when many people don’t want to see me anymore or because I can’t do both a project and a variety show at the same time.”
He continued, “I think laughter and enjoyment are different things. I’m envious of people like Kim Joon Ho and Jung Joon Young who have innate variety skills. However, I don’t think I was cast to be outshined by these members. I think my role is to be most like myself.”
Yoon Shi Yoon most recently appeared on “Grand Prince,” which was about a love triangle between two princes and a woman. It concluded with the highest viewership ratings in the history of TV Chosun with 5.627 percent. The cast will meet with fans on May 9 at Gwanghwamun Square for a free hug event.
Watch the latest episode of “2 Days & 1 Night” below!
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Visit Casper Launches Business Challenge, Offering $25K
Nick Perkins
Nick Perkins Published: August 20, 2021
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Visit Casper, the official destination management organization for Natrona County, announced that they are launching the 'Visit Casper Business Challenge.'
According to a press release from Visit Casper, this new challenge is being done in an effort to help boost Casper's visitor economy, as well as to drive destination growth for the city. It's also being done to empower business owners and big thinkers.
Per the Visit Casper website, "It’s no secret the tourism industry was one of the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. As a way to stimulate recovery of the visitor economy and drive new growth in the sector Visit Casper is pleased to offer an opportunity that could launch a few lucky entrepreneur’s dreams into reality. The Visit Casper Business Challenge seeks to catalyze tourism in the Casper area by providing seed money for existing or new businesses in the travel & hospitality industry."
To take part in the challenge, participants must complete an application, which will be followed by a semi-final and then final round of interviews by a panel of judges who will determine who might be eligible to apply to the $25,000 seed fund.
The release states that this is a new initiative, strategically designed to "serve as a catalyst for existing or new businesses in the travel and hospitality industry in Natrona County."
“This program is unlike anything we’ve done before,” said Jim Ruble, Chairman of the Natrona County Travel and Tourism Council. “While Casper is already an amazing destination, we know the tourism industry was one of the hardest hit by coronavirus. To continue to grow and have travel and hospitality remain as major economic drivers for Natrona County, we must be bold, creative and strategic. I cannot wait to see what Casper’s innovators bring to the table through this challenge.”
In addition to the $25K, the winner of the challenge will also receive a one-on-one mentorship and in-kind legal, financial and marketing support/services.
“Tourism is a vital part of Natrona County’s economy,” said Brook Kaufman, CEO of Visit Casper. “To continue to develop our destination, it’s imperative that we play an active role in bringing new ideas to the forefront. We’re looking forward to seeing what area entrepreneurs have in mind to help Casper grow.”
Per the release, to apply for the Visit Casper Business Challenge, applicants must meet the following qualifications:
You must reside in Natrona County, Wyoming.
You must have an existing business or idea for a business that would serve visitors and grow visitation in the area.
Product and service businesses are encouraged to apply, while submissions may be entered by individuals or teams.
Submit your idea no later than September 24, 2021.
The Visit Casper Business Challenge is made possible through CARES funding. The release notes that all seed fund disbursements will be awarded by December 20, 2021.
For more information, as well as the rules and regulations for the challenge, visit www.visitcasperbusinesschallenge.com
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Home > Christianity
WHEN SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WAS A CHRISTIAN RITE1
By ThosPayne
A Kiev art museum contains a curious icon from St. Catherine's Monastery on Mt. Sinai in Israel. It shows two robed Christian saints. Between them is a traditional Roman ‘pronubus’ (a best man), overseeing a wedding. The pronubus is Christ. The married couple are both men.
Is the icon suggesting that a gay "wedding" is being sanctified by Christ himself? The idea seems shocking. But the full answer comes from other early Christian sources about the two men featured in the icon, St. Sergius and St. Bacchus,2 two Roman soldiers who were Christian martyrs. These two officers in the Roman army incurred the anger of Emperor Maximian when they were exposed as ‘secret Christians’ by refusing to enter a pagan temple. Both were sent to Syria circa 303 CE where Bacchus is thought to have died while being flogged. Sergius survived torture but was later beheaded. Legend says that Bacchus appeared to the dying Sergius as an angel, telling him to be brave because they would soon be reunited in heaven.
While the pairing of saints, particularly in the early Christian church, was not unusual, the association of these two men was regarded as particularly intimate. Severus, the Patriarch of Antioch (512 - 518 CE) explained that, "we should not separate in speech they [Sergius and Bacchus] who were joined in life". This is not a case of simple "adelphopoiia." In the definitive 10th century account of their lives, St. Sergius is openly celebrated as the "sweet companion and lover" of St. Bacchus. Sergius and Bacchus's close relationship has led many modern scholars to believe they were lovers. But the most compelling evidence for this view is that the oldest text of their martyrology, written in New Testament Greek describes them as "erastai,” or "lovers". In other words, they were a male homosexual couple. Their orientation and relationship was not only acknowledged, but it was fully accepted and celebrated by the early Christian church, which was far more tolerant than it is today.
Contrary to myth, Christianity's concept of marriage has not been set in stone since the days of Christ, but has constantly evolved as a concept and ritual.
Prof. John Boswell3, the late Chairman of Yale University’s history department, discovered that in addition to heterosexual marriage ceremonies in ancient Christian church liturgical documents, there were also ceremonies called the "Office of Same-Sex Union" (10th and 11th century), and the "Order for Uniting Two Men" (11th and 12th century).
These church rites had all the symbols of a heterosexual marriage: the whole community gathered in a church, a blessing of the couple before the altar was conducted with their right hands joined, holy vows were exchanged, a priest officiatied in the taking of the Eucharist and a wedding feast for the guests was celebrated afterwards. These elements all appear in contemporary illustrations of the holy union of the Byzantine Warrior-Emperor, Basil the First (867-886 CE) and his companion John.
Such same gender Christian sanctified unions also took place in Ireland in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, as the chronicler Gerald of Wales (‘Geraldus Cambrensis’) recorded.
Same-sex unions in pre-modern Europe list in great detail some same gender ceremonies found in ancient church liturgical documents. One Greek 13th century rite, "Order for Solemn Same-Sex Union", invoked St. Serge and St. Bacchus, and called on God to "vouchsafe unto these, Thy servants [N and N], the grace to love one another and to abide without hate and not be the cause of scandal all the days of their lives, with the help of the Holy Mother of God, and all Thy saints". The ceremony concludes: "And they shall kiss the Holy Gospel and each other, and it shall be concluded".
Another 14th century Serbian Slavonic "Office of the Same Sex Union", uniting two men or two women, had the couple lay their right hands on the Gospel while having a crucifix placed in their left hands. After kissing the Gospel, the couple were then required to kiss each other, after which the priest, having raised up the Eucharist, would give them both communion.
Records of Christian same sex unions have been discovered in such diverse archives as those in the Vatican, in St. Petersburg, in Paris, in Istanbul and in the Sinai, covering a thousand-years from the 8th to the 18th century.
The Dominican missionary and Prior, Jacques Goar (1601-1653), includes such ceremonies in a printed collection of Greek Orthodox prayer books, “Euchologion Sive Rituale Graecorum Complectens Ritus Et Ordines Divinae Liturgiae” (Paris, 1667).
While homosexuality was technically illegal from late Roman times, homophobic writings didn’t appear in Western Europe until the late 14th century. Even then, church-consecrated same sex unions continued to take place.
At St. John Lateran in Rome (traditionally the Pope's parish church) in 1578, as many as thirteen same-gender couples were joined during a high Mass and with the cooperation of the Vatican clergy, "taking communion together, using the same nuptial Scripture, after which they slept and ate together" according to a contemporary report. Another woman to woman union is recorded in Dalmatia in the 18th century.
Prof. Boswell's academic study is so well researched and documented that it poses fundamental questions for both modern church leaders and heterosexual Christians about their own modern attitudes towards homosexuality.
For the Church to ignore the evidence in its own archives would be cowardly and deceptive. The evidence convincingly shows that what the modern church claims has always been its unchanging attitude towards homosexuality is, in fact, nothing of the sort.
It proves that for the last two millennia, in parish churches and cathedrals throughout Christendom, from Ireland to Istanbul and even in the heart of Rome itself, homosexual relationships were accepted as valid expressions of a [Christian] god-given love and commitment to another person, a love that could be celebrated, honored and blessed, through the Eucharist in the name of, and in the presence of, Jesus Christ.
"... in the evening the youth came to him [Jesus], wearing a linen cloth over his naked body. And he remained with him that night, for Jesus taught him the mystery of the Kingdom of God. And thence, arising, he returned to the other side of the Jordan." —The Secret Gospel of Mark, The Other Bible, Willis Barnstone, Editor, Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1984, pp. 339-342.
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2. Saints Sergius & Bacchus, Roman martyrs. Their Catholic feast day is October 7th. Catholic Encyclopedia [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13728a.htm ]
3. John Eastburn Boswell (American Council of Learned Societies); Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, Random House, June 1994
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Catch-22 Summary
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The actions happen on the fictional island Pianosa located in the Mediterranean sea, on the US Air Force base at the times of World War II. Despite the war raging around, every of the numerous character of this literature work fights their own war, in which they don’t spare neither themselves nor others.
Captain of the Air Force Yossarian, who is a bombardier on a said base, fights for a long time already. He is almost up to complete his norm set by Air Force of twenty-five flights and thinks about going back home. But his commander, Colonel Cathcart is obsessed with becoming a general and is ready to do anything to please his superiors even if he needs to raise the quantity of flights each of his men must complete. The dream of going home becomes a cruel mirage for Yossarian because every time he is close to the current norm of flights, Cathcart rises it again.
As a natural result, Yossarian gradually starts to fight worse and worse. Rising into the air, he sets himself the only goal: to return back alive, he even does not care at all where the dropped bombs fall - on the enemy object or into the empty sea. So do some other pilots, especially after they see the sheer inhumanity of their commanders’ orders and their neglect of people’s lives. The pilots are ordered to bomb the Italian mountain village where were no combatants just to slow down the potential movement of enemy’s military transport. No one bothers to warn the civilians, no one minds the amount of casualties.
The commanders fight each other for a place under the sun, they see the war as a chance for a quick promotion. General Peckem is plotting to take over General Dreedle’s position and these intrigues do not add efficiency to the overall work of the base. Cathcart joins the race, mercilessly exploiting his pilots and volunteering them to the most deadly and dangerous of missions. No one can stand against him because he is responsible for soldiers’ papers and it depends solely on him if the right paper will be delivered to right person or “accidentally lost”.
However, the generals are not the only people who are immersed into the power play on the base. Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder is responsible for supplies and he has built his own miniature criminal empire on the base. Having access to combat aircrafts, he buys and resells food, fabric, fuel and everything he can make profit of. He even engages Luftwaffe in transportations and trading operations, calmly explaining to his superiors that in this case the Germans are not the enemies but partners. Strongly determined to put the war on a commercial basis for him, he receives money from Americans to bomb the bridge controlled by Germans, and from Germans - even more money to prevent the bombing. After the first success, he gets a contract from Germans to destroy his own airfield and successes, betraying his country and his fellow pilots.
Lieutenant Sheisskopf (that is German for “shithead”) is, from the other hand, not a quick thinker and is rather awkward but has great passion for military parades. He is also unfortunate to have a wife who sleeps with his entire squadron (including Yossarian) without her husband’s smallest suspect. Nevertheless, these traits aren’t stopping him from incredibly quick rise from lieutenant to general.
Calm and shy chaplain Tappman is ashamed of his job and just doesn’t know how to approach the pilots and talk to them. His ruthless, manipulative and atheist assistant, Corporal Whitcomb, takes the duty instead, psychologically tormenting the chaplain in process. The alive and healthy doctor on the base is considered dead because the documents say so and his presence can’t prove anything to the officer, who signed the papers about his “death” in front of the doctor himself.
These absurdity, bureaucracy and ignorance are the usual way of life on Pianosa base and those who retained something humane in their souls perish one after another. The only people who feel good there are the ones who have the power and have no remorse.
Horrified by this madness, Yossarian comes to the conclusion that he is the only one who cares about himself. He desperately tries to avoid being praised for his service and wants to show that he is a miserable soldier who needs to be sent home. But it just doesn’t work. Neither constant “liver pain” nor even mental illness can be the arguments for the system. According to the mysterious Catch-22, a person who claims to be mentally ill to retire is actually healthy, because this decision requires logical thinking that mentally ill people are incapable of.
The final straw for him is death of his comrade pilot, Snowden. On the one of the missions Snowden was hit and Yossarian tried to dress his wounds and get him back to the base. But he missed one wound, small but lethal and Snowden bled to death in his arms. This episode haunts Yossarian long after it happened, like an obsessive nightmare, emerging before him in more and more detailed and eerie form.
After Snowden’s death, Yossarian takes off his military uniform, still stained with his blood, swearing never to wear it again. He walks around the military base naked, and the authorities don’t care so much that they give him a medal he deserved while Yossarian is still naked. Yossarian walks backwards carrying a loaded gun and mumbling about the great conspiracy - that is all the World War II - that was made to destroy him. Now the pilot is considered a psycho but that’s what he wanted. He hopes that now he will be dismissed but doctor Daneeka (the one who is considered dead) cites the same Catch-22 and does not allow him to go.
No one has ever read this Catch-22, it is unclear if it even exists on paper, but those who have power in their hands use it to do whatever they want. To question the existence of Catch-22 means to mark yourself as suspicious and unreliable potential traitor. It is necessary to believe in it and obey it.
Other honest and somewhat naїve soldiers and officers such as Nately, Clevinger and Major Danby, try to convince Yossarian that it is the wrong way and America still needs such a brave and skillful pilot here. But Yossarian is almost sure that war isn’t against Nazism, it serves to prosperity of superiors. In his opinion, all the patriotic speeches about duty and honor are empty lies that are needed to distract soldiers from the horrible death or even worse – from becoming “a soldier in white”, a stump without hands and legs, lying in the hospital poked with tubes and catheters, without name, without friends, without any hope.
Yossarian behaves worse and worse, he starts to drink and openly engages in sex. Meanwhile, his friend Orr prepares his plan much calmer and more methodically. To the surprise of other pilots, his plane always crashes, despite the fact that Orr is a very skillful pilot. But these accidents are not a result of pilot’s mistakes and aren’t consequences of unfavorable conditions. Orr is plotting a plan of desertion. Once again, having suffered an accident, Orr disappears without a trace to soon appear in neutral Sweden. He swam there on an inflatable boat from the Mediterranean Sea. This deed inspires hope in the hearts of those, who, like Yossarian, suffer from the ignorance of their superior and still have desire to resist.
Finally Yossarian also gets a chance to escape. His enemies, Colonel Cathcart and Lieutenant Colonel Korn, suddenly offer the pilot to go home. In their opinion, Yossarian’s behaviour influences badly other pilots of the regiment and if he is removed everyone will benefit from it. However, they ask a favor for this generosity. Korn says that Yossarian will have to love them, talk about them with ave and friendliness at home in the States. They offer him to become a liar like they are. If Yossarian refuses, they will give him to the tribunal, because they have a lot of evidence of his amoral behaviour. Yossarian has no other choice than to agree.
But then another trouble emerges. The friend and lover of Nately, an Italian prostitute who had a complicated relationship with Nately, suddenly decides that Yossarian is guilty of the former’s death. She pursues Yossarian with a knife after he made a deal with Cathcart and Korn and finally injures him, causing the pilot to return to the hospital (for the first time he has a good reason for it).
After Yossarian regains consciousness he understands that his wound is insignificant and his life is out of danger. But the rumor is spread around the base that he was stabbed while blocking the way for the Nazi assassin sent to kill both Korn and Cathcart. So his personal issues were used to forge another patriotic legend for propaganda. Yossarian is deeply ashamed and decides to break the deal, but Cathcart isn’t willing to let him go so easily. He tells the pilot than in this case he will be a hero of another rumor saying that he was stabbed by an innocent girl who he tried to molest and engage into illegal operations, sabotage and treason.
Yossarian is in a grave danger. His dilemma is to either make a deal with his own soul or to go to the prison as a traitor. There is nobody he can rely at. Milo Minderbinder is now united with Cathcart and rule his syndicate together and their monopoly now includes almost everyone on the base who has the slightest influence.
Yossarian makes a hard decision: to flee to Sweden too. His superior, Major Danby, finds no arguments to prove him wrong. The regimental chaplain wishes him luck. Every good person left on the base wants him to succeed but they are too terrified to actually help. Yossarian walks out of the door. His escape begins.
Author: Timmothy Bishop
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Dwight Howard: ‘Kobe Wanted To Win As Badly As I Did’
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The 2012-13 Los Angeles Lakers were built to win a championship. General manager Mitch Kupchak pulled out all the stops to bring in Steve Nash and Dwight Howard to play alongside Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol, but the superstar combination simply didn’t work out as planned.
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With Dwight on the verge of entering the playoffs for the second straight season with the Houston Rockets, the three-time Defensive Player of the Year talked about his relationship with Kobe from his only season with the Lakers. Howard continued to emphasize how the two stars were different in terms of their approach to the game and competing for championships, via Ben Golliver of Sports Illustrated:
“It wasn’t that I was uncomfortable with who [Bryant] was as a player or a person, that was never the issue to me,” Howard said. “I think that kind of gets twisted because of how things ended up. Everybody on that team got injured. I think we had five games together before somebody was injured. … I didn’t have an issue back then how Kobe was. Kobe wanted to win as badly as I did. Our personalities are different. I’m not a guy who is going to go off on my teammates. I tried that approach and for me it didn’t work. For Kobe, it works. He’s won a couple championships. He’s also played with some great talent. For the most part, it just wasn’t the time for us to win.”
As Dwight mentioned, the Lakers were unable to stay healthy during the 2012-13 NBA season with most of the prominent players on the team dealing with injuries throughout the entire season. This was one of the main reasons their championship aspirations never came to fruition and unfortunately it convinced Howard there was a better opportunity to win now with the Rockets.
As for Kobe’s combative attitude toward teammates to get the best out them, it obviously didn’t sit well with the veteran center. Howard couldn’t function the same way with the Lakers with the pressure of Bryant’s demands hanging over him.
The only problem is with five NBA titles to his credit, a “couple” according to Dwight’s quote, it be safe to say Kobe knows what he’s doing. Listening or attempting to adapt to a winning culture might of been a wise course of action for Howard who failed to win with the Orlando Magic and has regressed since leaving Los Angeles.
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Life Elsewhere
August 27, 2014 • By Joy Horowitz
“HOW DIFFICULT IS IT,” Andrew Lam asks in his hypnotic and hilarious short story collection Birds of Paradise Lost, “to let the past go?” Nearly 40 years after the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War, that question lurks in every corner of Lam’s beautiful book. Just as Vietnamese fairy tales are happy in the middle and sad at the end, this light-dark-light-dark-again collection reminds us that even optimism “is no fortress against the hunger of memories” for those refugees who fled their homeland via helicopters and boats with “sappy ideas of America” in their hearts. His answer, of course, is that it doesn’t matter how difficult it is to throw off the past, the past will have its way with you no matter what you do.
Lam’s real focus, in these stories, is somewhere along the intersection of freedom and bloodshed. Such a place is inherently chaotic, and you can look at these stories as a means of mediating the many contradictions therein. Reading them now — as we witness the fall of yet another US-backed regime, this one in the deserts of Iraq instead of the jungles of Saigon (not to mention the ongoing dispatches from Israel and the Gaza Strip) — reminds us that, from one generation to the next, war is the legacy that interrupts our dreams and defines our futures.
This is not the first time Lam has written about the Vietnamese diaspora. As a journalist and editor at New America Media, a collective of 3,000 ethnic news outlets founded by the nonprofit Pacific News Service in 1996, he has produced two nonfiction books on the subject: Perfume Dreams (2005) and East Eats West (2010). But Birds of Paradise Lost is Lam’s first attempt to engage the subject through fiction, and through fiction that brims with a particularly weird sense of absurdist humor. Whether the kids flash-freeze their dead Grandma till Mom and Dad get back from Vegas or a Vietnamese leathersmith learns about bondage in San Francisco, events spring from a wickedly funny imagination.
Still, the nightmares are never far away. In “Sister,” a numbed-out real estate agent is haunted by the beseeching image of her younger brother’s outstretched hands in a shipwreck. “This is life,” Lam explains. “If you belong to the losing side in a civil war, you become a boat person, a refugee, an exile — an enemy of history. You must remake your life elsewhere. She accepted that long ago.” And in “Hunger,” a single father, living in Section 8 housing after spending time in a refugee camp with his young daughter, struggles to overcome his wife’s death at sea. He can only comfort the girl at night with dancing shadows on the wall, convincing her that this is where her mother now resides.
It is in the small moments, like this one, that Birds of Paradise Lost comes most alive in its tenderness.
But the wacky and surreal moments abound, too. Take, for example, “Grandma’s Tales”: With parents off celebrating their anniversary in Vegas, a young brother and sister are left in the care of their elderly grandmother. She promptly dies. The kids, naturally, decide to stick her body in the freezer:
She was small enough that she fit right above the TV dinner trays and the frozen yogurt bars we were going to have for dessert. We wrapped all of grandma’s five-foot-three, ninety-eight-pound lithe body in Saran wrap and kept her there and hoped Mama and Papa would get the Mama-Papa-come-home-quick-Grandma’s-dead letter that we sent to Circus Circus […].
But then, Grandma rises from the dead. “I lost everything I owned when I left my beautiful country behind,” she explains before leaving her grandkids for a date in the afterlife with a famous novelist, “But now I have a second chance.” Off on her new adventure, she happily returns to her old home in Hanoi as her family mourns her loss in San Francisco. It is a deft turn: the topsy-turvy switch of perspective from one generation to the next; the realization of how intertwined they’ll always be.
If there is a unifying theme to this collection, it is belonging. It is why some immigrants can never escape the old Old World battles and inherited trauma, even though they never experienced their parents’ war firsthand. Lam explored the same idea earlier this year in his provocative Boom magazine essay “Give Me the Gun.” Inspired by the anniversary of the Boston marathon bombing, the essay examines what it means to remake a life, to adopt a new country as one’s own, to fit in or else remain a permanent outsider like the Tsarnaev brothers were. In the days leading up to this year’s marathon, as daffodils bloomed along the Charles River and local media buzzed with Boston Strong™, it was Lam’s essay that gave me pause and helped me finally see the bombings as they were: a strange collision of hope and memory.
“I am now seven years older than my father was when he came to California at the end of the Vietnam War,” Lam writes in the Boom essay. “I have been an American writer and journalist for over two decades. I am here to tell you that the war, though it ended so long ago, doesn’t end — and for children from war-torn countries, the Old World, its memories and turmoil, sometimes calls out for our blood.”
“I couldn’t help but wonder: how much of a scar does being a child of a war-torn country leave? And why do some old scars turn back into open, festering wounds?”
The answer, for Lam, is that history is never really far away. It seeps into our dreams, and when humiliation and nostalgia emerge for those who fail to succeed in their adopted homeland, the old memories take over along with fantasies of revenge.
The past, in other words, reappears in unpredictable ways, especially for those who think they can simply “move beyond” the nightmares of war and exodus. In Birds of Paradise Lost, the language of trauma is translated by the day-to-day heartbreak of surviving. It is in a classroom, when the bullied new kid stands up during show-and-tell and announces, “Hee, foock heads, leevenme olone!” It enters the Vietnamese restaurant as a Vietnam vet, or through the strange tics of a Tourette’s case. With each, the revelation is the same: the true immigrant narrative is not about turning rags into riches; it’s about fending off the ghosts of war.
Joy Horowitz, who is teaching at Harvard this fall, is a writer and author living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Joy Horowitz lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her books include Tessie and Pearlie: A Granddaughter’s Story and The Poisoning of an American High School.
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I want to create a culture and environment
where employees involved in XR technology
can work comfortably and flexibly.
Country manager Heng Chulsa
I graduated with Bachelor Degree in Teaching English as A Foreign Language from Institute of Foreign Languages, Royal University of Phnom Penh in 2003. I had worked as teacher of English, Translator/Interpreter and project manager for various NGOs back then. My passion for creative contents and entertainment had landed a job as writer and director for BBC World Service Trust in 2004. After that I have continued to involve deeply in computer modeling, animation and VFX for film and TV commercials in Cambodia, Singapore and Vietnam. VR, AR and MR are not new in other countries, but in Cambodia, it is a big deal. I am so blessed to join Lastmileworks Cambodia, I have both shared and learned a lot from the company. We have done a lot of projects for locals and international clients because we are more than ready to get your job done beyond your expectation, right here in the heart of Cambodia to the whole wide world.
Providing solutions to companies in Japan and Southeast Asia using VR technology
My name is Heng Chulsa, Country Manager for LASTMILE WORKS Cambodia. I take part in corporate branding, marketing, promotion and campaigns in Cambodia from the upstream process. Pioneering the use of VR technology in the Southeast Asian real estate market, we have provided solutions to the major real estate developers in Japan and Southeast Asia. I believe that the new technology we have cultivated can help our customers improve their business reformation and marketing framework. Through supporting the team technical aspect, we have striven to provide an environment in which young talents can be brought to their full potential. We regularly organize the opportunities to meet with students, start-up companies, and local technology-sensitive companies to share and exchange the latest ideas and technologies.
I feel the most satisfied with my work when I can provide the best
products or when I receive positive feedback from the students and children using our products There are several satisfying moments in my job. For instance, it is most satisfying when I deliver the finished product to a customer. VR technology is rapidly advancing, and we have to always keep up to date. Working with the client, hardware, or software is the same; therefore, we always have to think critically to provide the best solutions to the customers. There is an indescribable satisfaction when we are able to provide the best product through the lengthy process of consideration. Moreover, VR still is a new technology. New technology is less prevalent in Cambodia than in the developed countries; however, it makes us very happy to have our students and children experience the latest technology on our study tour. It is very precious when people experience or get inspired by new things. Being the provider of these experiences is also a great reward for me.
First 3D dome in Cambodia
The first project I joined was the 3D Dome Project. The 3D dome is not new in developed countries like Japan, but it was a first attempt in Cambodia. I still remember vividly when I assembled it with the members of the team and had customers experience them for the first time. This project attracted much attention in Cambodia and was well received by the people of Cambodia.
Construct new platforms and make new safety net
LASTMILE WORKS is Cambodia's first VR developer and the only company to offer the latest technology. We are aiming to be the No.1 tech company in Cambodia. If you are interested in various XR related technologies such as real estate, medical treatment, or entertainment, please knock on our door and don’t hesitate to join the team. Also, we are a company that values people. Just as said in our mission, constructing a new platform is the equivalent to making a new safety net. Social safety nets may not be so adequate in the developing countries, but we want to provide a culture and environment in which many employees can work comfortably.
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After joining LASTMILE, I began to think more about society. Before joining the company, I just wanted to create cool 3D content. But now, as a big vision, I am thinking of using leading technologies such as VR to change the current industry. For example, Cambodia is currently experiencing a period of high growth, with many buildings being built, while tradition and culture are being lost. I would like to use XR technology to preserve these important cultural assets of the country.
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US Code / 2018 US Code / Title 15. Commerce and Trade / Chapter 2b. Securities Exchanges / 15 U.S. Code §78h. Restrictions on borrowing and lending by members, brokers, and dealers
Chapter 2b. Securities Exchanges
15 U.S. Code §78a. Short title
15 U.S. Code §78aa-1. Special provision relating to statute of limitations on private causes of action
15 U.S. Code §78aa. Jurisdiction of offenses and suits
15 U.S. Code §78b. Necessity for regulation
15 U.S. Code §78bb. Effect on existing law
15 U.S. Code §78c-1. Swap agreements
15 U.S. Code §78c-2. Securities-related derivatives
15 U.S. Code §78c-3. Clearing for security-based swaps
15 U.S. Code §78c-4. Security-based swap execution facilities
15 U.S. Code §78c-5. Segregation of assets held as collateral in security-based swap transactions
15 U.S. Code §78c. Definitions and application
15 U.S. Code §78cc. Validity of contracts
15 U.S. Code §78d-1. Delegation of functions by Commission
15 U.S. Code §78d-2. Transfer of functions with respect to assignment of personnel to chairman
15 U.S. Code §78d-3. Appearance and practice before the Commission
15 U.S. Code §78d-4. Additional duties of Inspector General
15 U.S. Code §78d-5. Deadline for completing enforcement investigations and compliance examinations and inspections
15 U.S. Code §78d-6. Report and certification of internal supervisory controls
15 U.S. Code §78d-7. Triennial report on personnel management
15 U.S. Code §78d-8. Annual financial controls audit
15 U.S. Code §78d-9. Report on oversight of national securities associations
15 U.S. Code §78d. Securities and Exchange Commission
15 U.S. Code §78dd-1. Prohibited foreign trade practices by issuers
15 U.S. Code §78dd-2. Prohibited foreign trade practices by domestic concerns
15 U.S. Code §78dd-3. Prohibited foreign trade practices by persons other than issuers or domestic concerns
15 U.S. Code §78dd. Foreign securities exchanges
15 U.S. Code §78e. Transactions on unregistered exchanges
15 U.S. Code §78ee. Transaction fees
15 U.S. Code §78f. National securities exchanges
15 U.S. Code §78ff. Penalties
15 U.S. Code §78g. Margin requirements
15 U.S. Code §78gg. Separability
15 U.S. Code §78h. Restrictions on borrowing and lending by members, brokers, and dealers
15 U.S. Code §78hh-1. Effective date of certain sections
15 U.S. Code §78hh. Effective date
15 U.S. Code §78i. Manipulation of security prices
15 U.S. Code §78j-1. Audit requirements
15 U.S. Code §78j-2. Position limits and position accountability for security-based swaps and large trader reporting
15 U.S. Code §78j-3. Compensation committees
15 U.S. Code §78j-4. Recovery of erroneously awarded compensation policy
15 U.S. Code §78j. Manipulative and deceptive devices
15 U.S. Code §78k-1. National market system for securities; securities information processors
15 U.S. Code §78k. Trading by members of exchanges, brokers, and dealers
15 U.S. Code §78kk. Authorization of appropriations
15 U.S. Code §78l-1. Applications for unlisted trading privileges deemed filed under section 78l of this title
15 U.S. Code §78l. Registration requirements for securities
15 U.S. Code §78ll. Requirements for the EDGAR system
15 U.S. Code §78m-1. Reporting and recordkeeping for certain security-based swaps
15 U.S. Code §78m-2. Reporting requirements regarding coal or other mine safety
15 U.S. Code §78m. Periodical and other reports
15 U.S. Code §78mm. General exemptive authority
15 U.S. Code §78n-1. Shareholder approval of executive compensation
15 U.S. Code §78n-2. Corporate governance
15 U.S. Code §78n. Proxies
15 U.S. Code §78nn. Tennessee Valley Authority
15 U.S. Code §78o-1. Brokers deemed to be registered
15 U.S. Code §78o-10. Registration and regulation of security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants
15 U.S. Code §78o-11. Credit risk retention
15 U.S. Code §78o-2. Liabilities arising prior to amendment unaffected
15 U.S. Code §78o-3. Registered securities associations
15 U.S. Code §78o-4. Municipal securities
15 U.S. Code §78o-4a. Commission Office of Municipal Securities
15 U.S. Code §78o-5. Government securities brokers and dealers
15 U.S. Code §78o-6. Securities analysts and research reports
15 U.S. Code §78o-7. Registration of nationally recognized statistical rating organizations
15 U.S. Code §78o-8. Universal ratings symbols
15 U.S. Code §78o-9. Study and rulemaking on assigned credit ratings
15 U.S. Code §78o. Registration and regulation of brokers and dealers
15 U.S. Code §78oo. Federal National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Home Loan Banks
15 U.S. Code §78p. Directors, officers, and principal stockholders
15 U.S. Code §78pp. Investor Advisory Committee
15 U.S. Code §78q-1. National system for clearance and settlement of securities transactions
15 U.S. Code §78q-2. Automated quotation systems for penny stocks
15 U.S. Code §78q. Records and reports
15 U.S. Code §78qq. Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee
15 U.S. Code §78r. Liability for misleading statements
15 U.S. Code §78s. Registration, responsibilities, and oversight of self-regulatory organizations
15 U.S. Code §78t-1. Liability to contemporaneous traders for insider trading
15 U.S. Code §78t. Liability of controlling persons and persons who aid and abet violations
15 U.S. Code §78u-1. Civil penalties for insider trading
15 U.S. Code §78u-2. Civil remedies in administrative proceedings
15 U.S. Code §78u-3. Cease-and-desist proceedings
15 U.S. Code §78u-4. Private securities litigation
15 U.S. Code §78u-5. Application of safe harbor for forward-looking statements
15 U.S. Code §78u-6. Securities whistleblower incentives and protection
15 U.S. Code §78u-7. Implementation and transition provisions for whistleblower protection
15 U.S. Code §78u. Investigations and actions
15 U.S. Code §78v. Hearings by Commission
15 U.S. Code §78w. Rules, regulations, and orders; annual reports
15 U.S. Code §78x. Public availability of information
15 U.S. Code §78y. Court review of orders and rules
15 U.S. Code §78z. Unlawful representations
It shall be unlawful for any registered broker or dealer, member of a national securities exchange, or broker or dealer who transacts a business in securities through the medium of any member of a national securities exchange, directly or indirectly—
(a) In contravention of such rules and regulations as the Commission shall prescribe for the protection of investors to hypothecate or arrange for the hypothecation of any securities carried for the account of any customer under circumstances (1) that will permit the commingling of his securities without his written consent with the securities of any other customer, (2) that will permit such securities to be commingled with the securities of any person other than a bona fide customer, or (3) that will permit such securities to be hypothecated, or subjected to any lien or claim of the pledgee, for a sum in excess of the aggregate indebtedness of such customers in respect of such securities.
(b) To lend or arrange for the lending of any securities carried for the account of any customer without the written consent of such customer or in contravention of such rules and regulations as the Commission shall prescribe for the protection of investors.
AMENDMENTS 1996—Pub. L. 104–290 redesignated subsecs. (b) and (c) as (a) and (b), respectively, and struck out former subsec. (a) which related to borrowing in ordinary course of business as broker or dealer on any security, except exempted security, registered on national securities exchange. 1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–325 inserted "or a small business related security" after "mortgage related security" in last sentence. 1984—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98–440 inserted provision that no person shall be deemed to have borrowed within the ordinary course of business, within the meaning of this subsection, by reason of a bona fide agreement for delayed delivery of a mortgage related security under certain conditions. 1975—Pub. L. 94–29, §5(1), substituted "any registered broker or dealer, member of a national securities exchange, or broker or dealer who transacts a business in securities through the medium of any member of a national securities exchange" for "any member of a national securities exchange, or any broker or dealer who transacts a business in securities through the medium of any such member" in provisions preceding subsec. (a). Subsecs. (b) to (d). Pub. L. 94–29, §5(2), redesignated subsecs. (c) and (d) as (b) and (c), respectively, and in subsec. (c) as so redesignated inserted "or in contravention of such rules and regulations as the Commissioner shall prescribe for the protection of investors" after "written consent of such customer". Former subsec. (b), which covered the maximum allowable aggregate indebtedness of brokers, was struck out.CHANGE OF NAME Act Aug. 23, 1935, substituted "Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System" for "Federal Reserve Board".EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1975 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 94–29 effective June 4, 1975, see section 31(a) of Pub. L. 94–29, set out as a note under section 78b of this title.TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS For transfer of functions of Securities and Exchange Commission, with certain exceptions, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg. Plan No. 10 of 1950, §§1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1265, set out under section 78d of this title.
15 U.S.C. § 78h (2018)
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On the suggestion of the Council of Ministers, the President of India removed the Governors of Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh on July 2, 2004. As a result, a writ petition in the form of a Public Interest Litigation was filed, requesting the reinstatement of the abovementioned Governors of the States. A Governor of a State is appointed by the President of India and serves 'during the pleasure of the President,' according to Articles 155 and 156 of The Constitution of India, 1949. In most cases, a Governor can stay in office for a maximum of five years. However, Article 74 requires the President to act on the advice of the Council and the facts that led to the Governors' removal. Second, a Writ of Certiorari was filed, demanding the quashing of the same order, as well as a Writ of Mandamus, requesting the removal of Ministers, allowing the Governor to continue in office in accordance with the wishes of the Central Government in power. In the current case, the petitioner first demanded the production of papers and then that the four Governors be permitted to serve out the remainder of their five-year terms. This case was heard by a four-judge constitutional bench of India's Supreme Court.
Before independence, the commissioner system was in force during the British era. It was adopted by the Indian Police after independence. This system is presently applicable in more than 72 metros of the country. Under Part 4 of the Indian Police Act, 1861, the District Officer has certain powers to exercise control over the Police. In this, the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) gives certain powers to the Executive Magistrate for the smooth running of Law and order. Indore is the most populated city of M.P. with a population of 32.72 lakh, while Bhopal is the fifth most populated District with a population of 23.68 lakh as per the census of 2011. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on November 21 announced the implementation of a police commissioner system in the two cities of M.P., Bhopal and Indore, referring growing population and geographical expansion of the two cities and the accompanying administrative and Law & order problems. This blog explains the The Police Commissionerates System and procedure in brief.
The film industry has always been a helping hand regarding the pictorial presentation of some real incidents. The virtual vision always leaves a person’s mind in a state of clear images instead of imagination—the impact on the human mind’s last longer when they can see something rather than reading. Looking into the present scenario, the inclination of the filmmakers is more towards the depiction of real incidents with the idea of conveying knowledgeable and quality content to the general public. In the same row comes out a fantastic example of one of the most famous movies nowadays named “JAI BHIM”. This blog analyses the legal perspective of “Custodial Death” and “Police Torture” portrait in the movie.
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Home › Population Served › General/Unspecified Clients › A Report on Pennsylvania’s Access to Justice Act FY 2004-2011
A Report on Pennsylvania’s Access to Justice Act FY 2004-2011
By: Resource for Great Programs. Published by: Pennsylvania IOLTA Board (PAIOLTA), Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania State Government. Published in May 2013
In July 2002, Pennsylvania’s Access to Justice Act (AJA) was approved with strong, bipartisan legislative support and signed into law by then- Governor Mark Schweiker. The statute established a $2 surcharge on filings in state courts, with the resulting revenue designated to provide free civil legal assistance to low-income Pennsylvanians. In addition, effective December 2009 under the leadership of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, a $1 supplemental filing fee was enacted for the AJA to help offset a significant decline in state IOLTA funding. Unlike the original $2 filing fee surcharge, however, the supplemental fee was not applied to traffic citations.
People and Legal Cases: 117,632 cases handled (FY ’04-’11) 231,735 people directly benefited (FY ’04-’11) Economic Impact (FY ’04-’11):
2,245 jobs for Pennsylvania workers $66 million in cost savings to taxpayers and communities $162 million in direct federal benefit payments to residents $302 million economic multiplier effect on local and state economies $530 million in total income and savings for residents and communities This report, related to funding received as a result of the Access to Justice Act, was sponsored by the Pennsylvania IOLTA Board (PA IOLTA), with data provided by the Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network, Inc. (PLAN, Inc.). The report was produced for PA IOLTA by The Resource for Great Programs, Inc.
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Remembering the Violence against Women Act on International Women’s Day.
Posted on March 8, 2018 March 7, 2018 by Leighton Andrews
The Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act 2015, was really the legacy of our friend, Carl Sargeant, although it fell to me to take the Bill through the Assembly. As the Assembly’s official note of the Bill’s passage makes clear, I took over the Bill on coming back into government on the 12th September 2014.
I had served on the Assembly’s Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee which had started its examination of the Bill. I knew from the evidence coming in that there was a lot of unhappiness at the content of the Bill at that stage. I also knew that Lesley Griffiths and Carl Sargeant, whose work had led up to it, also wanted to see it strengthened, as did a variety of organisations in Wales. The Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales, Alun Michael, got in touch with me about it at an early stage. Carl and Lesley and I had informal chats about it. Leading Labour party figures like former Minister Sue Essex texted me to say that we could achieve something much more ambitious for Wales. Julie Morgan AM told me that Labour women in her constituency wanted to see it strengthened.
There was a coalition of women’s organisations campaigning to strengthen the Bill. Cathy Owens of the consultancy Deryn was acting as their spokesperson. She described the Bill to me in an email on my first day back in Cabinet as ‘ an absolute dog’s dinner.’ Cathy then sent me a three-page memo on the deficiencies of the Bill as she saw them. She was immensely complimentary about the work done by Carl and his special adviser, Sophie Howe, over several years, but very concerned that the Bill had been watered down. She was worried that the bulk of matters which women’s organisations in Wales had campaigned for had not been addressed in the Bill. These issues included the independence of an Adviser or Commissioner on violence against women and girls; the need to strengthen the educational proposals, and the need to improve what was said about the commissioning of services.
Amongst her many concerns, but only one of them, was the title of the Bill. Cathy explained why this was important:
‘Also, the name. Why are we banging on about the name? It’s important.
‘The officials think that they have to include everyone, and have become so all inclusive that they think by even mentioning women in the Bill, it will be against equality principles. Rubbish. With VAW being so prevalent, we have to start tackling VAW specifically, or we won’t make any progress.
‘Everyone else has VAW or VAWG policies. Even Theresa May and Boris Johnson have VAW policies.
‘As the strategies and the adviser will be called after the weird gender-neutral name, it means we are actually enshrining a position so that a future Welsh Government can never have a VAW strategy, never have an External Adviser on VAW, let alone a Commissioner.’
Cathy specifically asked me to see if I could challenge the advice from lawyers and others. She said:
‘Can you press back on the lawyers and officials about the gender-neutrality? Are they really saying you cannot legislate for women in this country, in the same way as you can for other groups like children, carers, older people, disabled people?’
I decided to see what I could do to strengthen the Bill, with the help of my special adviser, Alex Rawlin. I had meetings with officials and with lawyers. Some of these were rather tense and strained as I tried to get the lawyers to follow through ministerial intentions. I had a meeting with the First Minister on the issue on 25 September in which I outlined my plans. Following that meeting, the Head of the First Minister’s Office sent round a summary of our discussion, recently released to me under FoI, noting that I had told the FM that I was developing an amendment to the Bill specifically referring to violence against women and girls.
At my first appearance as Minister before the CELG Committee a week later on 1 October, I was able to announce:
The Welsh Government recognises that gender-based violence has a disproportionate impact on women and girls. I have spoken to the First Minister about this issue and I can confirm today that we intend to introduce a Government amendment at Stage 2 to add a new section to the Bill, which will probably be entitled ‘Violence Against Women and Girls’. This section would require those exercising the functions of the Bill across the bulk of its provisions, along with all other relevant matters, to have regard to violence against women and girls. The new section would apply to local authorities, local health boards, Welsh Ministers and the ministerial adviser.
Jocelyn Davies AM asked me about the title of the Bill at that meeting. I responded as follows:
You ask about the title of the Bill. I have not reached any final conclusions on that yet, but I am open to suggestions, and we will look at that. You will understand that the Presiding Officer has a clear view about titles of Bills, particularly once introduced. Therefore, there may be a conversation that we would all need to have with the Presiding Officer about that, were we to seek to make any changes to the title. The title, obviously, has to reflect the content of the Bill. However, we are only at Stage 1 at the moment, so there is plenty of time, it seems to me, to consider these matters further.
I had further discussions with the First Minister about the title of the Bll and its contents, and I was able to announce at the Bill proceedings in the Assembly on 25 November that we would be bringing forward an amendment to change the title of the Bill:
In view of the new section on violence against women and girls, I will also be considering a possible change to the short title of the Bill. This will need to adhere to the Presiding Officer’s determination on proper forms of Assembly Bills. I will update the committee on this in due course.
Despite this, I found a note from the FM’s Private Secretary in my ministerial box in early December saying that the FM wasn’t clear why a change in the title was being proposed – ‘he thought this was ruled out months ago’. I texted Carl Sargeant that evening. Like me, he thought the question had really been posed by someone in the FM’s office, not the FM himself. My entire private office helped me put together a reply to the FM’s question, going through past documents and pointing out that we had involved him in our thinking on this all the way through. Indeed, my speech for the 25 November debate had been contained in a Legislative Folder that he had seen. It was an example of the irritating and unnecessary internal obstructions we endured throughout this Bill. I have asked for the correspondence with the First Minister’s office to be released under FoI, but it is currently being withheld on the grounds that it refers to legal advice. The actual exchange between my office and the FM’s office was a political exchange, not a legal exchange, and does not in my view need to be withheld, so I have appealed that.
Subsequent proceedings saw us strengthening other sections of the Bill, including commissioning and the educational elements. Further discussions with Opposition Members, notably Plaid Cymru’s Jocelyn Davies, in the latter stages of the Bill, led to us strengthening it even more.
I am glad that in his recent New Statesman article, the First Minister praised the Violence against Women Bill as ‘ground-breaking’, even though, as he told the BBC in December last year, he had disagreed with the change of title when I proposed it:
The first minister said there had been “a dispute over the title of a bill, the Violence Against Women Bill, where he took one view and I took a different view”.
We should regard the passage of the Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act 2015 as one of the many legacies of Carl Sargeant, and I was pleased to see his son Jack referring to this legacy in the Assembly on Tuesday:
Jack Sergeant AM:
Thank you to the Government for bringing forward this statement today. With permission, I’d just like to put on the record that, four months ago today, we lost a true advocate for women’s rights and someone who stood up for women’s suffering, domestic abuse and sexual violence. I don’t think there’s any one of my dad’s suits that doesn’t have a white ribbon pin badge on, and I’m very proud to be standing here today in the Chamber wearing mine.
Getting the eventual Act right required a lot of negotiation, and it was a shame how much wasteful internal energy at times had to be spent on this. This was not ‘a petty dispute about the title of a Bill’, as the First Minister told Adrian Masters on ITV Wales on 5 December. The issue of the title itself was meaningful, not petty, and was regarded as significant by women’s organisations across the length and breadth of Wales. But we got there in the end, and my predecessors the late Carl Sargeant and Lesley Griffiths deserve great credit for their hard work and support.
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Press Release: Auto-Graphics, Inc. [November 13, 2020]
Agent Information Software (AIFS) publishes 2020 Third Quarter Financials
Rancho Cucamonga, CA -- November 13, 2020. The parent company of Auto-Graphics, Inc. (A-G), Agent Information Software (AIFS) released their earnings for the third quarter of 2020, ending September 30, 2020. AIFS' sub-company Auto-Graphics, Inc., is an industry-leading provider of library automation software. A-G was the first to provide Cloud-based library resource sharing solutions.
In spite of the increasing COVID-19 pandemic, AIFS reported a YTD net income of $250k with an EBITDA of $847k that represented 21.1% of sales at quarter end. Cash flow remained strong YTD as the company increased its focus on costs. AIFS reported EPS of $0.06 on weighted average shares outstanding of 4,474,577.
The company's versatile AGent Library Software Platform continues to provide solutions that empower libraries across North America, to provide more products and services to their communities. A-G had success in cross selling SHAREit, VERSO and MONTAGE to its existing base of customers who needed to provide enhanced services during the pandemic. In addition to company completed an important new implementation of SHAREit as part of another statewide resource sharing initiative.
About Agent Information Software
Founded in 1950 and operating under the name Auto-Graphics, Inc. since 1969, Agent Information Software, Inc. (AIS) came about in 2010 to become Auto-Graphics, Inc. parent company. AIS develops innovative information and data management solutions for multiple platforms that are standards-compliant, built on open systems architecture and available through the Software as a Service (SaaS) hosted delivery model.
AIS' technical ingenuity and reputation for service excellence make us a trusted partner to more than 11,000 libraries, throughout North America. Customers across multiple industries use their information and data management systems, including a range of library markets such as public, academic, school, special and consortia, and supports the needs of customers in the legal, financial, publishing, aerospace, and manufacturing markets. For more information, please visit www.agentinformationsoftware.com or www.auto-graphics.com.
The parent company of Auto-Graphics, Inc. (A-G), Agent Information Software (AIFS) released their earnings for the third quarter of 2020, ending September 30, 2020. AIFS' sub-company Auto-Graphics, Inc., is an industry-leading provider of library automation software. A-G was the first to provide Cloud-based library resource sharing solutions.
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Migrant Caravans Reforming as They Seek to Make Biden Keep His Promise to Them
January 20, 2021 January 19, 2021 ~ kingsjester ~ Leave a comment
Newsmax.com reports courtesy of the Associated Press that…
Joe Biden's disastrous border policies are already on display.
His plan for massive amnesty has caused new migrant caravans to head to the U.S.
This is on top of a pledge to halt the border wall.
I will be a ROADBLOCK to Joe Biden's radical agenda in Congress!
— Lance Gooden (@Lancegooden) January 20, 2021
Newsmax.com, via the Associated Press, reports that
Republican lawmakers and conservative groups opposed President-elect Joe Biden’s forthcoming immigration plan Tuesday as massive amnesty for people in the U.S. illegally, underscoring that the measure will face an uphill fight in a Congress that Democrats control just narrowly.
In a further complication, several pro-immigration groups said they would press Biden to go even further and take steps such as an immediate moratorium on deportations, detentions and new arrests. Their demands indicated the pressures Biden would face from his party’s liberal wing as four years of President Donald Trump’s restrictive and often harsh immigration policies come to an end.
“It simply wouldn’t have happened without us,” Lorella Praeli, co-president of the liberal group Community Change, said of Biden’s victory. “So we are now in a powerful position.”
Biden plans to introduce the legislation shortly after being inaugurated Wednesday, a move he hopes will spotlight his emphasis on an issue that’s defied major progress in Congress since 1986.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who will become Senate majority leader this week, said Trump’s impeachment trial, confirmation of Biden’s Cabinet nominees and more COVID-19 relief will be the chamber’s top initial priorities. He called an immigration overhaul “a very high priority” and said he was studying Biden’s proposal and “I look forward to working together with him” — a choice of words that might suggest changes could be needed for it to pass Congress.
Biden’s proposal would create an eight-year pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants, set up a processing program abroad for refugees seeking admission to the U.S. and push toward using technology to monitor the border. The measure was described by an official from Biden’s transition team who described the plan on condition of anonymity.
With an eye toward discouraging a surge of immigrants toward the U.S.-Mexico boundary, the package’s route to citizenship would only apply to people already in the U.S. by this past Jan. 1. But it omits the traditional trade-off of dramatically enhanced border security that’s helped attract some GOP support in the past, which drew criticism on Tuesday.
“It’s a mass amnesty for almost the entire population of illegal immigrants living in the United States — people who broke our laws to get here and stay here,” said Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He added, “A mass amnesty with no safeguards and no strings attached is a nonstarter.”
“There are many issues I think we can work cooperatively with President-elect Biden, but a blanket amnesty for people who are here unlawfully isn’t going to be one of them,” said Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who is often a central player in Senate immigration battles.
That view was shared by Mark Krikorian, executive director of the conservative Center for Immigration Studies, which favors curbing immigration.
“Past proposals at least accepted the concept of turning off the faucet and mopping up the overflow. This is nothing but mopping up and letting the faucet continue to run,” Krikorian said.
The top lobbyist for NumbersUSA, which also wants to limit immigration, agreed that without changes, the measure seemed destined to receive little if any GOP support.
“They’re just going straight-up amnesty,” said the lobbyist, Rosemary Jenks. She said that made the measure likely to fail in the Senate, where it would need at least 10 Republicans to join all 50 Democrats to overcome a filibuster that would kill the measure.
Under the legislation, those living in the U.S. as of Jan. 1, 2021, without legal status would have a five-year path to temporary legal status, or a green card, if they pass background checks, pay taxes and fulfill other requirements. From there, it’s a three-year path to naturalization if they pursue citizenship.
For some immigrants, the process would be quicker. So-called Dreamers, the young people who arrived in the U.S. illegally as children, as well as agricultural workers and people under temporary protective status could qualify more immediately for green cards if they are working, are in school or meet other requirements.
Biden is expected to take swift executive actions, which do not require congressional action, to reverse other Trump immigration actions. These include an end to the prohibition on arrivals from several predominantly Muslim countries.
As a candidate, Biden called Trump’s actions on immigration an “unrelenting assault” on American values and said he would “undo the damage” while continuing to maintain border enforcement.
Welcome to Obamaville, Part 2.
New President, as of today, Sleepy Joe Biden and the rest of the useful idiots who have been attacking those who protect and serve us at the Southern Border are not doing so out of concern for those “migrants” who are now heading this way by the thousands.
Those “migrants’, whom the Liberals refuse to call by their appropriate description as being ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, are nothing but a means to the end for the Democrats.
They are a political expediency…a way to grow the Democrat Voter Rolls.
Gentle readers, the Democrats really do not care about these “poor impoverished families”.
If they actually did, they would have protested ATEP under Obama.
Just like Obama used children as human political props after the Sandy Hook Massacre and Democratic Activists have been using children in school walkouts to try to achieve the taking away of guns from Americans, this sudden “concern” over the welfare of the children of those who wish to illegally enter our Sovereign Nation is nothing but a political ploy.
It is a plan born out of Democrats being drunk on newfound power.
The last bipartisan U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform wrangled with the hot topic of Illegal Immigration for six years. President Clinton appointed former congresswoman and Democratic icon Barbara Jordan as its chair. Jordan came from humble beginnings to become a lawyer and the first Southern black woman elected to the House of Representatives. A DEMOCRAT, she was a leader in the civil rights movement, a professor of ethics, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and a world-class orator (two of her speeches are considered among the greatest of the 20th century). Her appointment gave the commission instant credibility. According to Jordan, she believed her responsibility as the head of the commission was to restore credibility to the U.S. immigration system. On the issue of illegal immigration, Jordan was very clear and succinct:
Unlawful immigration is unacceptable. Those who should not be here will be required to leave.
I wonder what Rep. Jordan would think of her beloved Democratic Party, now that they have embraced and are not only welcoming that same illegality, which she was so clear about, but championing the “rights” of those illegals while attacking the United States Border Patrol?
I believe that she would have hung her head and wept over her political party having been taken over by a bunch of anti-American Marxists….including “Moderate” Sleepy Joe.
Trump to Sign EO “to Temporarily Suspend Immigration into the United States” to Further Fight COVID-19 and Boost the Economy
April 21, 2020 April 20, 2020 ~ kingsjester ~ Leave a comment
“Whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens or any class of aliens into the U.S. would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants, non-immigrants or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions that he may deem to be appropriate,”- 8 U.S. Code § 1182
President Trump announced late Monday he will soon sign an executive order “to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States” in a drastic escalation of his efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic and boost the economy.
The declaration came hours after U.S. equity markets crashed, with oil prices turning negative for the first time in history. Also on Monday, three states — Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina — revealed plans to begin reopening some businesses.
“In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!” the president tweeted.
The precise contours of the president’s planned executive order were not immediately clear. The U.S. recently agreed with both Canada and Mexico to extend border restrictions on nonessential travel for another 30 days, through May 16 and May 19, respectively.
And, the president already has blocked most travel from other hotspots, including most of Europe, Iran, South Korea, and China.
However, people with temporary work visas, students and business travelers were exempted, along with emergency personnel.
On Monday, the U.S. government said it will continue to quickly expel migrants it encounters along the border with Mexico for at least another month in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Jeanette Vizguerra wears a face mask during a car protest calling for the release of detainees at the GEO Immigration Detention Center because of the dangers posed by the new coronavirus Friday, April 17, 2020, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Under the U.S. policy change spurred by the virus, the U.S. government has sent some 10,000 Mexicans and Central Americans back to Mexico, according to data from the U.S.Border Patrol.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says that more than 100 migrants at 25 detention centers have tested positive for COVID-19. Guatemala claims that 44 migrants deported from the U.S. tested positive.
Monday’s immigration suspension was sure to draw fire from Democrats. On Jan. 31 Trump issued the “Proclamation on Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus,” blocking most travel from China — and at the time, Democrats harshly criticized the move.
Within hours, Joe Biden campaigned in Iowa and told the crowd that Americans “need to have a president who they can trust what he says about it, that he is going to act rationally about it. … This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia – hysterical xenophobia – and fearmongering to lead the way instead of science.”
Months later, Biden said he supported China travel ban.
President Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do I he was elected Presidet: he is putting America FIRST.
His job as president is to protect American citizens from enemies foreign and domestic.
By suspending immigration to our Sovereign nation, he is protecting us from those who, intentionally or unintentionally, might bring the Chinese Coronavirus to America with them.
He is also protecting American jobs from an influx of foreign workers.
There is nothing xenophobic or hysterical about protecting America from a disease which has already killed over 40,000 of our citizens.
Immigration bans are nothing new.
The Immigration Act of 1924 was passed because America had experienced an overwhelming flood of immigrants, which strained the resources of our nation.
This act allowed all of these immigrants to be assimilated into American Society and to actually become Americans, in thought, word, deed, and LOYALTY.
Ad, in April of 1980, during the Iranian Hostage Crisis, Liberal President Jimmy Carter stopped Iranians from immigrating, because, just like the situation we faced today with Radical Islam, we were AT WAR.
Today, we are at war, again.
This time, as President Trump says, we are at war with an invisible enemy, one which does not differentiate between man and woman or adult and child.
COVID-19 knows no race or sexual orientation.
For the safety of our Sovereign Nation and the stability of our economy, President Trump must temporarily suspend immigration.
And, by his political response to an situation which endangers ALL Americans, Joe Biden has provided another reason why his is not capable of handling the job of being President of the United Stated of America.
Pelosi and Dem Elite Blast Trump for Expanding Travel Ban to 6 More Countries…Why Don’t They Want to Keep America Safe?
February 2, 2020 February 1, 2020 ~ kingsjester ~ Leave a comment
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was one of a number of top Democrats to rip into President Trump’s decision to expand the travel ban to include six more countries on Friday — with Pelosi describing it as “discrimination disguised as policy.”
“The Trump administration’s expansion of its outrageous, un-American travel ban threatens our security, our values and the rule of law,” she said in a statement. “The sweeping rule, barring more than 350 million individuals from predominantly African nations from traveling to the United States, is discrimination disguised as policy.”
The Trump administration is expanding restrictions to include Burma, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Tanzania and Sudan. Those are added to the current seven countries already included in the ban: Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen.
The initial ban was branded by critics as a “Muslim ban,” noting that President Trump had promised such a ban during his campaign and that the initial countries (which did not include North Korea and Venezuela, but did include Chad) were Muslim-majority countries.
But after multiple court challenges, the Supreme Court upheld its constitutionality in 2018.
For Burma, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria, the restrictions will apply to immigrant visas — for those seeking to live or work in the U.S. permanently. For Sudan and Tanzania, the restrictions are being placed on diversity visas — that come from the controversial diversity lottery program that grants visas to prospective immigrants randomly each year.
The initial seven countries have restrictions on both immigrant and non-immigrant visas, but Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf told reporters that the six countries announced Friday are very different from the current seven, which is why the restrictions are lighter.
“These countries, for the most part, want to be helpful, want to do the right thing, have relationships with the U.S. and are in some cases improving relations, but for a variety of different reasons failed to meet those minimum requirements that we laid out,” he said.
Criteria considered when judging countries included to what extent the countries share information on passports and prospective bad actors, as well as whether or not the country poses an elevated national security risk in relation to crime, terrorism and illegal immigration.
But the more nuanced approach did not appear to soften Democratic complaints about the move.
“With this latest callous decision, the President has doubled down on his cruelty and further undermined our global leadership, our Constitution and our proud heritage as a nation of immigrants,” Pelosi said.
Pelosi pledged that Democrats will oppose the ban in the courts and in Congress. She said that the House Judiciary Committee will mark up and send the “NO BAN Act” to the House floor. That legislation prohibits religious discrimination in immigration-related decisions. It also imposes restrictions on the president’s authority to restrict immigration — forcing the administration to provide evidence of such a need to Congress for that restriction.
Ever since Pelosi regained the gavel of Speaker of the House after the 2018 Midterm Elections, she has viewed herself as a “co-president”, much like Hillary Clinton was billed as during Bubba’s presidency.
Thing is,,,she isn’t.
The President is the Commander-in-Chief, the Chief Executive whose job it is to protect the safety of our Sovereign Nation and the lives of American Citizens.
Nancy Pelosi, as Speaker of the House of Representatives is the chosen, privately elected, leader of one part of the Legislative Branch of our government.
And while it is her job to help create legislation which passes through the House to the Senate to be voted on, she does not have the last word on what becomes the “Law of the Land”.
The President stills holds Veto Power over any legislation which arrives on his desk from Congress.
Now, let’s talk about the “religion” part of her argument for a moment.
On February 5th, 2015 after then-President Barack Hussein Obama’s incendiary and decidedly anti-Christian remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, Reverend Franklin Graham spoke truth to power:
Today at the National Prayer Breakfast, the President implied that what ISIS is doing is equivalent to what happened over 1000 years ago during the Crusades and the Inquisition. Mr. President–Many people in history have used the name of Jesus Christ to accomplish evil things for their own desires. But Jesus taught peace, love and forgiveness. He came to give His life for the sins of mankind, not to take life. Mohammad on the contrary was a warrior and killed many innocent people. True followers of Christ emulate Christ—true followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.
As Rev. Graham said so eloquently, Islam and Christianity present two very different Deities, who may share some similarities, but who have different identities and ultimately different standards. To pretend they are the same is not only to be clueless of the faith of 76% of the citizens of this nation, but, to be ignorant of an integral part of our American Heritage, the legacy of Christian Faith, which our Founding Fathers bequeathed us.
During the Republican Presidential Primary, Republican Presidential Candidate Hopeful, Dr. Ben Carson, got a lot of attention from hang-wringing Liberals in the Main Stream Media, the Democratic Party, and among the Vichy Republicans, also, when he said that a Muslim should never be President of the United States of America., because Sharia Law is incompatible with The United States Constitution.
He was absolutely right.
I am not saying that every Muslim is on a jihad against “the infidels”, and, wish to invade our Sovereign Nation and over-throw our Government.
However, there is a difference between being an average Christian American and a Muslim, living in America.
In Islam, the way to “walk with God and escape his judgment on that final day of judgment” is through ‘falah’, which means self-effort or positive achievement. The faithful must submit to God and follow all of his laws as found in the Koran. Judgment day in Islam involves some sort of measurement of what the believer has done wrong and what they have done right. And, even then, you might not be let into heaven if Allah decides you’re not good enough.
This is the direct opposite of Christianity.
According to the Bible, no man can ever be good enough to deserve God’s favor, to win God’s heaven, because from birth we have Free Will. This Free Will may cause us to reject God and live our lives our own way. That’s why it was necessary for Jesus Christ to die for our sins, covering us in His blood of the New Covenant.
God’s Word tells us that what we need is not ‘falah,’ but faith. To have faith in, to trust, to rely on Jesus and his death as as “the expiation for our sins”. Those who have been Saved by Jesus Christ can be sure that in the future God will welcome them into heaven with wide open arms, because they have been washed by His blood.
Islam and Christianity present two very different Deities, who may share some similarities, but who have different identities and ultimately different standards. To pretend they are the same is not only to be clueless of the faith of 76% of the citizens of this nation, but, to be ignorant of an integral part of our American Heritage, the legacy of Christian Faith, which our Founding Fathers bequeathed us.
Now, I am not saying that every Muslim is on a jihad against “the infidels”.
When Christians become “radicalized”, we want to share the testimony of what God has done for us through His love, with everyone we meet. We get involved in our local church and we become better fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, and American Citizens.
When Muslims become “radicalized”, they want to “kill the Infidels” in the name of “Allah the Merciful”.
In the case of the Chechen Muslim brothers who bombed the Boston Marathon, their immersion into Radical Islam led them to “kill the infidels” that horrendous day.
In the case of the Radical Islamist Couple in San Bernadino, it let them to murder their neighbors and co-workers.
In the case of the barbarians of ISIS, it has turned them into doppelgangers of the Nazi Butchers of Dachau.
While we are told as Christians to “entertain strangers”, we are also told to
be wise as serpents and innocent as doves – Matthew 10:16
You can’t “be wise” if you lose your head.
And, that is what President Trump is trying to prevent.
Trump Asks Why We’re Letting in So Many People From S—hole Countries. Dems Cry “RAAACIIIST!”…Again.
President Trump lamented “s—hole countries” during immigration negotiations on Thursday with lawmakers in the Oval Office, Fox News has confirmed.
“Why are we having all these people from s—hole countries come here?” the president said, in comments first reported by The Washington Post.
The president was referring to people from Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and African countries in the temporary protected status program, a source in the meeting told Fox News.
About a dozen people, both Republicans and Democrats, were in the room at the time, including South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin.
Trump made the comments as Durbin was reading a list of temporary protected status countries.
The president also suggested the United States should admit more people from countries like Norway instead, the Post said. Trump had met with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg and held a news conference with her Wednesday.
In a statement, the White House did not deny Trump made the comments.
“Certain Washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries, but President Trump will always fight for the American people,” said Raj Shah, the principal deputy White House press secretary.
Democrats reacted by accusing the president of racism.
“As an American, I am ashamed of the president,” said Illinois Democratic Rep. Luis Gutiérrez. “His comments are disappointing, unbelievable, but not surprising. We always knew that president Trump doesn’t like people from certain countries or people or certain colors.”
Some Republicans also voiced their disapproval. Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, whose district includes Miami, responded: “Language like that shouldn’t be heard in locker rooms and it shouldn’t be heard in the White House.”
Rep. Mia Love of Utah, whose parents were Haitian immigrants, called on Trump to apologize, saying his comments were “unkind, divisive, elitist, and fly in the face of our nation’s values.”
The Trump administration announced Monday that as many as 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants living in the United States will no longer be allowed to stay because they have decided to end their protected status.
The administration’s decision to end special status for Salvadoran immigrants has emerged as a possible bargaining chip for the president as he works to strike a deal with Congress on immigration.
A bipartisan group of six senators said Thursday afternoon they reached “an agreement in principle” with each other on immigration, including a plan to shield illegal immigrations brought to the United States as children from deportation, though it’s unclear if Trump or others in Congress will go along with it.
“The President will only accept an immigration deal that adequately addresses the visa lottery system and chain migration – two programs that hurt our economy and allow terrorists into our country,” Shah said.
Shah added: “Like other nations that have merit-based immigration, President Trump is fighting for permanent solutions that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation. He will always reject temporary, weak and dangerous stopgap measures that threaten the lives of hardworking Americans, and undercut immigrants who seek a better life in the United States through a legal pathway.”
The comments followed a recent report in the New York Times that Trump said the people of Haiti “all have AIDS” and the people from Nigeria would never “go back to their huts” in Africa after receiving visas to enter the United States. But White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said at the time that the report was false.
Sanders said senior staffers who were “actually in the meeting deny these outrageous claims and it’s both sad and telling the New York Times would print the lies of their anonymous ‘sources’ anyway.”
What is it that makes a geographic area, whether it be an American City or a Foreign Country a “s—hole”?
Is it the color of the skin of the area’s population?
Or rather, it is the decades of poor political leadership, resulting from the avarice and lack of stewardship from those who have either been chosen or who have chosen themselves to be the leader of that area?
For example, the city of Detroit has been labeled a s—hole in the past because of decades of poor Democratic Leadership, which resulted in both businesses and taxpayers leaving the city.
Without a strong economic base, the revenue required to bring stability to an area, including providing for those in the population who can’t or won’t provide for themselves ceases to exist, resulting in an impoverished area unable to pick itself up by its bootstraps in order to be a strong and healthy city…or nation.
When it comes to the countries whom the president referred to as s—holes, it is reasonable that their citizens would want to leave them to make a better life for themselves and their families.
The problem is, as found during the previous Administration, these immigrants are coming to out country and taking advantage of our social programs, without, in many cases, contributing anything to the Sovereign Nation which welcomed them with open arms.
By ending the programs like protected status countries, Visa Lottery, and chain migration, the Trump Administration will be able to make it more difficult for those who have no wish to contribute to our nation, but rather to take advantage of or commit terrorist acts within it, to enter our borders.
Ever since Donald J. Trump announced that he was running for President of the United States of America, Liberals/Progressives/Democrats have attempted to paint him as a racist, oblivious to the fact that not only did he employ Americans of every ethnic background in his corporations, he had never been labeled a racist in his long and distinguished life….until he entered politics.
Unfortunately, this will not be the last time that Democrats attempt to portray the president as being racist.
However, have you noticed that they have not uttered a mumblin’ word about the fact that Black Unemployment in America is down to a record low under President Trump’s leadership?
About this Racism Thing…as Michael Jackson used to sing…perhaps Democrats should start with “The Man in the Mirror”.
Until He Comes
The Libs’ National Temper Tantrum Continues…NEWSFLASH: Donald Trump is STILL the President
January 31, 2017 January 30, 2017 ~ kingsjester ~ 1 Comment
The Liberal Sycophants of the Main Stream Media attacked President Donald J. Trump’s Press Secretary once again during his daily press briefing. And, once again, Spicer proved to be up to the task.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer accused the media Monday of overplaying and misreporting on a range of fresh administration controversies — specifically describing claims of a shakeup at the National Security Council as “utter nonsense.”
“There’s been a lot of misreporting,” Spicer said.
The press briefing on Monday saw a return to a more combative style for Spicer. While he spent much of the briefing chiding the media over their description of President Trump’s executive order on immigration, he opened with a point-by-point rebuttal — complete with visual aids — to critical reports about a separate action signed Saturday that restructures the NSC, a key advisory body.
Those reports claimed Trump had effectively downgraded the roles of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the director of national intelligence, while promoting adviser Steve Bannon to the principals committee – which is the National Security Council, only without the president.
The New York Times had labeled Bannon’s role “a startling elevation of a political adviser” and said it put him at the same level as National Security Adviser Mike Flynn. The Times also said the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and DNI chief are only to join the principals committee when directly affected.
Spicer shot back, saying, “The idea that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and DNI are being downgraded or removed is utter nonsense.”
In making his point, he presented a related 2001 memo by President George W. Bush and a related 2009 memo by President Barack Obama, and argued the relevant passages were virtually the same.
As for Bannon’s elevation, Spicer also downplayed its significance and noted that former Obama adviser David Axelrod had attended NSC meetings as well, though had not been given a formal promotion to the role.
“David Axelrod walked in and out of NSC meetings,” he said. “What this shows is that this administration is being rather transparent.”
He also suggested Bannon “won’t be at every meeting.” He added, “He’ll come in and out as needed, but we wanted to be up front about it.”
Spicer also reacted to a tweet by former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who had asked where the role of the CIA was in the memo. Spicer noted there was no mention of the CIA in Obama’s 2009 memo either. However, he said Trump had decided to amend his memo to add CIA Director Mike Pompeo to the top circle of national security advisers
Since taking the podium for the first time last week, Spicer has made a point to call out what the administration believes to be inaccurate or biased reporting. On Monday, he also doubled down on the administration’s defense of the controversial order suspending the refugee program and entry to the U.S. for travelers from certain countries. Spicer said it was one of a number of steps “to make sure that this country is as safe as it can be and that we’re ahead of every threat.”
Spicer further was asked to comment on a report in The Washington Post that said dozens of State Department staffers are ready to sign a memo opposing Trump’s travel restrictions, saying they are poorly conceived and against American values.
Spicer seemed unfazed by the memo: “I think that they should either get with the program or they can go,” he said. “This is about the safety of America.”
He also addressed the controversy surrounding a statement released by the White House on Holocaust Remembrance Day – which omitted any specific reference to Jewish people despite them being the overwhelming majority of victims in the genocide.
“By and large he’s been praised for it,” Spicer said of the statement. He said Trump was recognizing the suffering of those who endured the Holocaust, “whether they were Jews, Gypsies, gays, [people with a] disability, priests.”
“The idea that you’re nitpicking a statement that sought to remember this tragic event that occurred and the people who died in it is just ridiculous,” he said.
The Republican Jewish Coalition, among other groups, called the omission “unfortunate.”
The Main Stream Media remain the Vanguard of the National Temper Tantrum which America has witnessed from Modern Liberals since Donald J. Trump was elected the President of the United States of America.
The Liberal Democrats just cannot come to grips that their “perfect” candidate was, in fact, a lousy pick and a hateful, inept, downright mean individual whom they never should have nominated as their Presidential Choice.
One of their arguments has been that Trump did not win the Popular Vote, a “fact” which is suspicious at best and one which is being investigated even as I write this post, with illegal aliens have voted already being discovered in California.
As I have stated before, the Electoral College was put in place to prevent what the Liberals are still trying to accomplish, which is choosing a President based on the favored Political Ideology of isolated Metropolitan Areas with dense populations.
The Democrats, as a result of their own regional bias toward the major metropolitan areas on the East and West Coasts, which has been obvious to average Americans for the last several decades, effectively divorced themselves from the people whom they claimed in every previous election cycle to “love”…Average Working Class Americans.
To put it in Marital Terms, Average Working Class Americans and the Democratic Party are no longer “evenly yoked”.
The Democrats became the party of the “Upper Crust” and Special Interest Groups, who look down their noses at Americans who live here in “Flyover Country”.
The Democrats assumed, after reading their own press clippings, that all Americans wanted the Progressive/Marxist Political Ideology and style of governance which Barack Hussein Obama practiced during his time as President.
Well, we all know what assuming does, don’t we, boys and girls?
The American People overthrew the “Tyranny of the Minority”, which we have suffered under for the last 8 years on November 8th.
An article, recently written by a member of the Main Stream Media, strategically placed the word “mandate”, which Vice-President Mike Pence used while speaking about President Trump, in quotes, as a form of derision.
The Oxford Dictionaries define the word “mandate” as
the authority to carry out a policy or course of action, regarded as given by the electorate to a candidate or party that is victorious in an election.
Guess what, all of you “Special Snowflakes” who still throwing a National Temper Tantrum?
Trump won! Therefore, he does have a mandate.
It is to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
I dedicate the following song which I have written to each and every one of you.
AND, DONALD TRUMP IS STILL THE PRESIDENT
(sung to the tune of “The Times They Are Changing”)
Listen to me, you Liberals who are throwing a fit
On November the 8th your egos took a hit
Americans aren’t fooled yet you refuse to admit
Your political party has just failed you
It’s time you grew up, and go ahead and submit
Because Donald Trump is still the President.
Hey, Congressmen and Senators way up on the Hill
There’s a new Boss in town, this is no fire drill
Both Republicans and Dems should extend their goodwill
It won’t be business as usual
So you better get movin’ up in your anthill
Yes, Donald Trump is still the President.
Hey, MSM and George Soros, too
You can save your breath, America’s not listening to you
Try as you might, you won’t change our worldview
Americans just simply were outraged
So we took back our country after an 8-year miscue
And, Donald Trump is still the President.
The War Against America’s Safety: Soros Pays His “New Bolsheviks” to Stage Phony Airport Demonstrations
January 30, 2017 January 30, 2017 ~ kingsjester ~ 3 Comments
The year is 1903, The Russian Social Democratic Party is meeting in London. All the intellectuals in their party have been arguing since the end of the 1800’s as to the direction the party should take. One year earlier, in 1902, a man named Lenin, living in exile, wrote a paper entitled, “What Is To Be Done”.
The work was smuggled into Russia and spelled out his views regarding what the Social Democrats should be doing as a party. Lenin attacked party members who “were content to wait while history took its predetermined course.” Rather than wait, Lenin wanted to kick-start the issue he believed in to get things done rather than wait on intellectuals sitting around refuting each other’s ideas. The meeting resulted in a Party split creating the Mentsheviks and the Bolsheviks. The two factions reunited under Lenin in April 1905. Lenin went on to organize the November 1917 Russian Revolution on the Promise of “peace. bread, and land”.
Isn’t that like “sharing the wealth”?
Please allow me to share with you with some quotes from Vladimir Lenin. Their relevancy to the Presidential Leadership (or, lack thereof) of the last 8 years and the political situation in which we find ourselves now is amazing.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
Sometimes – history needs a push.The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
The goal of socialism is communism.
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
This last weekend, Breitbart.news reported the following…
TEL AVIV — Immigration lawyers from groups financed by billionaire George Soros, a champion of open border policies, were signatories to a lawsuit filed Saturday to block President Donald Trump’s executive order halting visas for 90 days for “immigrants and non-immigrants” from Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, Iran, and Iraq.
The executive order further suspended the entry of all refugees for 120 days, indefinitely blocks Syrian refugees from entering and lowers the ceiling to 50,000 for refugees allowed to enter the U.S. during Fiscal Year 2017 .
The New York Times first reported on the lawsuit:
At least one case quickly prompted a legal challenge as lawyers representing two Iraqi refugees held at Kennedy International Airport in New York filed a motion early Saturday seeking to have their clients released. They also filed a motion for class certification, in an effort to represent all refugees and other immigrants who they said were being unlawfully detained at ports of entry.
The suit was filed by lawyers from the International Refugee Assistance Project, the National Immigration Law Center, the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the International Refugee Assistance Project (formerly Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project) at the Urban Justice Center.
The ACLU is massively funded by Soros’s Open Society Foundations, including with a $50 million grant in 2014.
The National Immigration Law Center has received numerous Open Society grants earmarked for general support.
The Urban Justice Center is also the recipient of an Open Society grant.
Taryn Higashi, executive director of the Center’s International Refugee Assistance Project, which is listed on the Trump lawsuit, currently serves on the Advisory Board of the International Migration Initiative of Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
Over the last decade, Soros has reportedly provided some $76 million for immigrant issues.
In 2014, the New York Times credited “immigrant rights groups” financed by Soros and a handful of other donors for influencing President Obama’s immigration policy.
The newspaper reported:
When President Obama announces major changes to the nation’s immigration enforcement system as early as next week, his decision will partly be a result of a yearslong campaign of pressure by immigrant rights groups, which have grown from a cluster of lobbying organizations into a national force.
A vital part of that expansion has involved money: major donations from some of the nation’s wealthiest liberal foundations, including the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Open Society Foundations of the financier George Soros, and the Atlantic Philanthropies. Over the past decade those donors have invested more than $300 million in immigrant organizations, including many fighting for a pathway to citizenship for immigrants here illegally.
In August, Breitbart Jerusalem first reported hacked documents from Soros’s Open Society Institute boasted that the billionaire and his foundation helped to successfully press the Obama administration into increasing to 100,000 the total number of refugees taken in by the U.S. annually.
The documents revealed that the billionaire personally sent President Obama a letter on the issue of accepting refugees.
As anybody who has paid any attention to American Politics in the last couple of decades knows, George Soros has played the role of the “Evil Puppetmaster” behind the scenes for quite a while now.
MoveOn.org was formed in 1998 as a supposedly “bipartisan e-mail group” in order to send a petition to Congress to “move on” past the planned impeachment of President Clinton. It rose to national prominence for its strong disapproval of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
A Liberal Political Group based in the United States, MoveOn.org has played the role of a National Community Organizer and Democratic Propaganda Machine, whose “foot soldiers”, paid and unpaid, are estimated to number over 2,000,000. The group’s publicly stated mission was to promote “grassroots advocacy” through various political activities including running a PAC, voter registration drives, and political advertising (especially in swing states).
It’s covert mission is more nefarious.
MoveOn.org supported the Democratic nominees for the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and played a part in the failed attempt to stop George W. Bush’s re-election effort, raising millions of dollars for Democratic candidates. It is one of several 527 committees who supported John Kerry, the Democratic nominee in the 2004 U.S. presidential election; others include America Coming Together and the Media Fund.
Like numerous other Far Left Political Organizations, a major funder of MoveOn is Former Nazi Collaborator and Hedge Fund Billionaire, George Soros.
George Soros and a partner ponied up $5 million to MoveOn.org, bringing to $15.5 million the total of his personal contributions in the failed attempt to oust President George W. Bush.
In 2017, after funding the election of the worst United States President in History, Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm), the “Evil Puppetmaster” financed the racist movement known as Black Lives Matter, which has joined with MoveOn.org, in an effort to violate the First Amendment Rights of Donald J. Trump and to prevent him from becoming President of the United States of America.
He failed.
It should be noted that, according to various sources, during the Nazi Occupation of Hungary in the 1940s, Soros reported his own countrymen to the Nazis (National Socialist Party of Germany), facilitating their removal via “the long train ride from which very few ever returned”.
Soros began his modern “philanthropic activity” in 1979, establishing the Open Society Foundations in 1984. These “foundations” (i.e., political organizations), fund a range of global initiatives “to advance justice, education, public health, business development and independent media.”
It is through this “philanthropic activity” that Soros is funding the current “civil unrest”, the seeds of which were planted in Ferguson, Missouri.
An article published by the Washington Times, on January 14, 2015, titled “George Soros funds Ferguson protests, hopes to spur civil action”, reporter Kelly Riddell went into detail about Soros’ “Community Organizing”…
… Mr. Soros gave at least $33 million in one year to support already-established groups that emboldened the grass-roots, on-the-ground activists in Ferguson, according to the most recent tax filings of his nonprofit Open Society Foundations.
The financial tether from Mr. Soros to the activist groups gave rise to a combustible protest movement that transformed a one-day criminal event in Missouri into a 24-hour-a-day national cause celebre.
“Our DNA includes a belief that having people participate in government is indispensable to living in a more just, inclusive, democratic society,” said Kenneth Zimmerman, director of Mr. Soros‘ Open Society Foundations’ U.S. programs, in an interview with The Washington Times. “Helping groups combine policy, research [and] data collection with community organizing feels very much the way our society becomes more accountable.”
…Colorlines is an online news site that focuses on race issues and is published by Race Forward, a group that received $200,000 from Mr. Soros’s foundation in 2011. Colorlines has published tirelessly on the activities in Ferguson and heavily promoted the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag and activities.
…Mr. Soros gave $5.4 million to Ferguson and Staten Island grass-roots efforts last year to help “further police reform, accountability and public transparency,” the Open Society Foundations said in a blog post in December. About half of those funds were earmarked to Ferguson, with the money primarily going to OBS and MORE, the foundation said.
Just as was the case in the Russian Revolution, any “Democratic Socialist” nation we see around our Modern World, went through a course-altering revolution, whether through a violent overthrow of the Government or through a “radical change” in the political ideology of their nation and the way that their populace voted in the subsequent election.
I firmly believe that the mission of George Soros, from the moment he landed on our shores to this very day, has been exactly what his political puppet, Former (Thank God) President Barack Hussein Obama, said that his was during his first presidential campaign: to “radically change” our nation into something that every patriotic American will no longer recognize.
With citizenship and voting rights granted to illegal aliens by his Democrat Operatives, with Un-vetted Radical Muslim “Refugees” pouring in by the thousands, and with Soros’ covert and overt support of perpetually-grieved protesters, recently paid to stage organized demonstrations at metropolitan airports, thanks to Former President Obama, Soros has created his own version of Lenin’s Bolsheviks.
That is why the election of Donald J. Trump to the Presidency was so very important.
Someone has to stop George Soros and his paid “New Bolsheviks”.
America’s survival as a free nation depends on it.
Trump Suspends Immigration From Radical Islamic Countries. “We Don’t Want Them Here.” Dang Skippy, Boss.
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”- Theodore Roosevelt 1907
President Trump on Friday continued his crackdown on illegal immigration, signing sweeping new orders that tighten the country’s refugee and visa policies –suspending almost all refugee admissions for four months and indefinitely barring entry for some Syrians.
Trump signed the executive action at the Pentagon, where he met with the joint chiefs of staff and participated in the swearing-in ceremony for Defense Secretary James Mattis.
Trump said the new measure was intended “to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States of America.”
“We don’t want them here,” Trump said.
The executive order also suspends visa entry into the U.S. from seven countries that have predominately Muslim populations. They include: Syria, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Sudan and Yemen.
The order also creates an “extreme vetting” process for any and all immigrants and visitors to the U.S.
House Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, told Fox News, “It’s a safer day for America.”
American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero blasted Trump’s plan as unconstitutional.
“‘Extreme vetting’ is just a euphemism for discriminating against Muslims,” Romero said in a statement issued moments after the signing. “Identifying specific countries with Muslim majorities and carving out exceptions for minority religions flies in the face of the constitutional principle that bans the government from either favoring or discriminating against particular religions.”
Trump defended the executive order during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
“Right now, the FBI has over 1,000 [terrorism] investigations going on … and these are people that we let in,” Trump said from the White House Thursday. “We don’t need this. Some people have come in with evil intentions. Most haven’t, I guess, but we can’t take chances.”
Trump added that the U.S. has taken in tens of thousands of people.
“We know nothing about them,” he said. “They can say they vetted them. They didn’t vet them, they have no papers. How can you vet somebody when you don’t know anything about them and they have no papers?”
Civil rights and refugee advocates around the world have sounded the alarm over Trump’s executive order after a draft copy was leaked late Wednesday.
“These actions taken by Donald Trump are tantamount to a Muslim ban,” Abed A. Ayoub, the legal and policy director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. “This is the Muslim ban that was promised by him on the campaign trail.”
As president, Trump has the authority to set how many refugees are allowed in annually. He can also choose to suspend the program altogether. Following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush suspended refugee processing. It was later restarted.
In the last budget year, the U.S. has accepted 84,995 refugees of which 12,587 were from Syria. Former President Barack Obama set the refugee limit for the current budget year at 110,000.
Sources close to Trump tell Fox News he has plans to cut that by more than half to 50,000.
In an interview with CBN, Trump said persecuted Christians from Syria would get priority.
“They’ve been horribly treated. Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, at least very tough to get into the United States? If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that was so unfair, everybody was persecuted in all fairness, but they were chopping off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians. And I thought it was very, very unfair. So we are going to help them.”
Suspending immigration is not a new concept.
It’s been done before…for over 40 years.
The following information is courtesy of u-s-history.com…
During the Harding administration, a stop-gap immigration measure was passed by Congress in 1921 for the purpose of slowing the flood of immigrants entering the United States.
A more thorough law was signed by President Coolidge in May 1924. It provided for the following:
The quota for immigrants entering the U.S. was set at two percent of the total of any given nation`s residents in the U.S. as reported in the 1890 census;
after July 1, 1927, the two percent rule was to be replaced by an overall cap of 150,000 immigrants annually and quotas determined by “national origins” as revealed in the 1920 census.
College students, professors and ministers were exempted from the quotas. Initially immigration from the other Americas was allowed, but measures were quickly developed to deny legal entry to Mexican laborers.
The clear aim of this law was to restrict the entry of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, while welcoming relatively large numbers of newcomers from Britain, Ireland, and Northern Europe.
The 1921 law had used the 1910 census to determine the base for the quotas; by changing to the 1890 census when fewer Italians or Bulgarians lived in the U.S., more of the “dangerous` and “different” elements were kept out. This legislation reflected discriminatory sentiments that had surfaced earlier during the Red Scare of 1919-20.
Entering U.S.
Europe*
Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1957 (Washington, D.C.., 1960), p. 56.
A provision in the 1924 law barred entry to those ineligible for citizenship — effectively ending the immigration of all Asians into the United States and undermining the earlier “Gentlemen`s Agreement” with Japan. Efforts by Secretary of State Hughes to change this provision were not successful and actually inflamed the passions of the anti-Japanese press, which was especially strong on the West Coast.
Heated protests were issued by the Japanese government and a citizen committed seppuku outside the American embassy in Tokyo. May 26, the effective date of the legislation, was declared a day of national humiliation in Japan, adding another in a growing list of grievances against the U.S.
(The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 upheld the national origins quota system established by the Immigration Act of 1924, reinforcing these quotas.)
In 1965, the Hart-Cellar Act abolished the national origins quota system that had structured America`s immigration policy since the 1920`s, replacing it with a preference system that emphasized immigrants` skills and family relationships with citizens or residents of the United States.
Additionally, in April of 1980, during the Iranian Hostage Crisis, President Jimmy Carter cancelled all visas issued to Iranians for entry into the United States and warned that they would be revalidated only for “compelling and proven humanitarian reasons or where the national interest requires.”
If you were watching Saturday morning cartoons in 1977, during President Carter’s time in the White House, on ABC, you would have seen a Schoolhouse Rock musical cartoon titled The Great American Melting Pot. It extolled the unique greatness of our American Heritage.
During the Obama Administration, that heritage was under attack.
An Liberal President Jimmy Carter stopped Iranians from immigrating, because, just like the situation we faced today with Radical Islam, we were AT WAR.
Today, our country is at war on two fronts: We are at war against the Drug Cartels and those who would enter our country illegally to work, and those who are “escaping” a war-ravaged land, or so they claim.
This new batch of “immigrants” are unvetted and unwilling to assimilate into American Culture. Their loyalties remain with the country whose conditions were so horrible that they left.
The reason that Liberals are freaking out over President Donald J. Trump’s immigration Executive Order is that it is full of common sense, utilized in defense of our sovereignty.
And, Liberals, such as ex-President Barack Hussein Obama (Gosh, it feels good to write that), the Hollywood “Dancing Monkeys”, and the other Modern American Liberals, from Hillary Clinton to Colin Kaepernick, want to “radically change” this Sovereign Nation that God, through our Founding Fathers, bequeathed to us, into a Modern-day Tower of Babel, for their own ungrateful benefit, oblivious of the stupidity of giving Radical Islamists, who want to kill every one of us, carte blanche to do so, by bringing them here.
Their naiveté and ignorance were overruled on November 8, 2016.
We’re Making America Great (AND SAFER) again.
They Live Among Us: Mateen, the Irving, Texas “Clockmaker Kid”, and the Rise of Homegrown Radical Islamists
June 14, 2016 ~ kingsjester ~ 2 Comments
Yesterday, Presumptive Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump spoke to the nation about the horrific Saturday Night Massacre at a Gay Club in Orlando, in which 49 Americans were killed and 53 were injured by an Islamic Terrorist.
He said in this Presidential-sounding speech that
…If we don’t get tough, and we don’t get smart – and fast – we’re not going to have a country anymore — there will be nothing left.The killer, whose name I will not use, or ever say, was born to Afghan parents who immigrated to the United States. His father published support for the Afghan Taliban, a regime which murders those who don’t share its radical views. The father even said he was running for President of that country.
The bottom line is that the only reason the killer was in America in the first place was because we allowed his family to come here.
That is a fact, and it’s a fact we need to talk about.
We have a dysfunctional immigration system which does not permit us to know who we let into our country, and it does not permit us to protect our citizens.
We have an incompetent administration, and if I am not elected President, that will not change over the next four years — but it must change, and it must change now.
With fifty people dead, and dozens more wounded, we cannot afford to talk around the issue anymore — we have to address it head on.
I called for a ban after San Bernardino, and was met with great scorn and anger but now, many are saying I was right to do so — and although the pause is temporary, we must find out what is going on. The ban will be lifted when we as a nation are in a position to properly and perfectly screen those people coming into our country.
The immigration laws of the United States give the President the power to suspend entry into the country of any class of persons that the President deems detrimental to the interests or security of the United States, as he deems appropriate.
I will use this power to protect the American people. When I am elected, I will suspend immigration from areas of the world when there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies, until we understand how to end these threats.
After a full, impartial and long overdue security assessment, we will develop a responsible immigration policy that serves the interests and values of America.
We cannot continue to allow thousands upon thousands of people to pour into our country, many of whom have the same thought process as this savage killer.
Again, common sense stuff, coming from a man who would be our President. Very Refreshing.
However, America’s problem is the fact that we have Second Generation Radical Islamists living among us.
According to an article found in The Washington Times,
While immigrants draw much of the attention, it’s their children who are proving to be the most fruitful recruiting ground for radical jihad in the U.S., accounting for at least half of the deadly attacks over the past decade.
The latest instance of the second-generation terrorist syndrome played out in Orlando, Florida, over the weekend when Omar Mateen, son of immigrants from Afghanistan, went on a jihad-inspired rampage, killing 49 people and wounding 53 others in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
Authorities said Mateen had flirted with other terrorist groups but declared his allegiance to the Islamic State on Sunday morning as he began his horrific spree.
He follows in the footsteps of Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the San Bernardino, California, terrorists who was the son of Pakistanis; Nadir Soofi, one of two men who attacked a drawing competition in Garland, Texas, last year and whose father was from Pakistan; and then-Maj. Nidal Hassan, the child of Palestinian immigrants whose shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009 set off the modern round of deadly lone-wolf attacks.
In other cases, attackers were immigrants brought to the U.S. as young children. They grew up in the U.S. but were besieged by questions of identity.
“Historically, the ‘high stress’ generation for American immigrants has been second generation,” said former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden. “Mom and Pop can rely on the culture of where they came from. Their grandchildren will be (more or less) thoroughly American. The generation in between, though, is anchored neither in the old or in the new. They often are searching for self or identity beyond self.”
The Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers were all foreigners who gained entry to the U.S. on visas, sparking a heated and still-running debate over the role of borders in trying to keep out would-be attackers.
But the second-generation killers pose a different issue: how to keep children of immigrants from abandoning the precepts of their adopted home.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Monday that the issues are one and the same.
“The bottom line is that the only reason the killer was in America in the first place was because we allowed his family to come here. That is a fact, and it’s a fact we need to talk about,” Mr. Trump said in a speech in New Hampshire.
He revised his call for a temporary ban on admitting Muslims to the U.S., saying it would apply only to travelers from regions connected to terrorism. He said the ban would end once the U.S. has a better idea of who is coming and what values they hold.
Mr. Trump said immigrants from Afghanistan — the home of Mateen’s parents — overwhelmingly “support oppressive Sharia law,” which he said is anathema to American values of diversity. Indeed, Mateen’s father suggested that the killer may have been set off by having seen two men kissing. Mateen’s massacre targeted a gay nightclub.
But some researchers suggest the link to religion is less important than the marginalization immigrants and first-generation Americans may feel. In a study last year funded by the Homeland Security Department, researchers said those who felt instances of discrimination, personal shame or humiliation had higher propensity toward radicalization.
Some policymakers bristle at connecting terrorist attacks to immigration, and it’s difficult to know the outlines of the connection.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, and Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, have repeatedly asked the Homeland Security Department for immigration information on those implicated in recent terrorist plots, but they said they have yet to get a “substantive” response.
That leaves the public blind, Mr. Sessions said in a statement Monday.
“While the vast majority of Muslims are law-abiding and peaceful, we must face the uncomfortable reality that not only are immigrants from Muslim-majority countries coming to the United States, radicalizing, and attempting to engage in acts of terrorism, such as in Boston and Chattanooga; but also, their first-generation American children are susceptible to the toxic radicalization of terrorist organizations,” Mr. Sessions said.
If you were watching Saturday morning cartoons in 1977 on ABC, you would have seen this Schoolhouse Rock musical cartoon titled The Great American Melting Pot. It extolled the unique greatness of our American Heritage.
For a while now, that heritage has been under attack. And, that attack by enemies foreign and domestic has been aided and abetted by President Barack Hussein Obama, the individual who is responsible for maintaining our nation’s safety, security, and sovereignty.
Remember the celebrated young Muslim kid named Ahmed Mohammed, who received a suspension from a school in Irving, Texas for building a clock, which resembled a bomb?
Liberals all of the nation were up in arms about this perceived “stereotyping”.
In fact, so much notoriety was generated that he and his family were invited to the White House by Obama himself.
Then, the plot sickened.
The young clockmaker’s father turned out to be a Muslim Activist, with a long history of getting his mug in front of the cameras.
Additionally, the fact that Barack Hussein Obama sent his congratulations tweet out before the photo of the actual device made the national headlines, was suspicious at best, and condemning at worst.
This would not be the first stunt like this that Obama had pulled, in order to make the American public more comfortable with Muslims living among us.
This sort of covert White House-sponsored charade has been par for the course during Obama’s tenure as president.
However, thanks to the World Wide Web, it is not as easy for him to pull the wool over Americans eyes as it used to be.
The most current example being his lame, un-presidential reaction to Saturday Night’s Terrorist Attack, in which America’s Dhimmi-in-Chief, blamed our Second Amendment Right to Bare Arms, instead of the Muslim responsible for savagely murdering 49 Americans.
Just like the young “clockmaker”, Mateen was raised to be loyal to Radical Islam, not the United States of America, the nation which graciously took him and his family in.
And, as far as Obama goes, the truth of the matter is, his blatant refusal to identify Radical Islam as our enemy does not make him look open-minded and magnanimous. Rather, it makes the President of the United States of America look close minded and duplicitous.
Americans are a very accepting people, but that acceptance hinges on those coming into our society, pledging their loyalty to our nation, and having respect for our Traditional Values and American Way of life.
Obama’s attempt to turn the Great American Melting Pot into the Tower of Babel, in the name of “diversity”…and Democratic Voters….has not only failed…it has turned the street of America into a “Killing Field”, reminiscent of the Cambodian Massacres under the brutal dictator, Pol Pot.
Later, Liberal President Jimmy Carter stopped Iranians from immigrating, because, just like the situation we faced today with Radical Islam, we were AT WAR.
In fact, Obama and his Administration are themselves actually restrictive in whom they allow to immigrate to America., refusing the entry of Middle Eastern Christians, who are attempting to escape for certain death at the hands of Radical Islamists.
The only reason that Obama, Clinton, and the rest of the Democrat Elite are mad at Donald J. Trump’s Proposal to restrict the immigration of those who would kill us, is that he is attempting to thwart their plans to rapidly import thousands of Muslims, and potential Democrat Voters, into our country.
They could care less about the results of their avarice.
Like all Liberals, they remain oblivious of their own callous hypocrisy.
It Takes a Radical: The Very Political Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton (An Unauthorized Biographical Analysis)
April 15, 2016 April 15, 2016 ~ kingsjester ~ 1 Comment
PROLOGUE: I researched the following information and recorded it as a 4 part series about the 2016 presumptive Democratic Presidential Candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton. I am offering it today, as a 5,500 word essay, because, with many still insisting that, despite all of the controversy concerning the impropriety involving her handling of Top Secret E-mails while Secretary of State, that she still remains the inevitable Democratic Candidate for President in the Elections of November 2016, I feel that it is imperative to share this information in a form where it will be easy for you , gentle readers, to share with your friends and family.
She is presently the Front-runner for the Democratic Nomination as their Candidate for the Presidency. Even though, she is constantly attempting to present herself as a “Moderate” Democrat, and “Woman of the People”, as a linchpin of her Campaign Strategy, the story of her life reveals someone quite different.
On October 26, 1947, Hillary Diane Rodham entered this world in Chicago, Illinois.Hillary Rodham, the oldest daughter of Hugh Rodham, a prosperous fabric store owner, and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham, was raised in Park Ridge, Illinois, a quaint little suburb located 15 miles northwest of downtown Chicago. Hillary has two younger brothers, Hugh Jr. (born 1950) and Anthony (born 1954).In her youth, the future Democrat was active in young Republican groups, even campaigning for the 1964 Republican Presidential Nominee, Barry Goldwater.According to Hil, she was inspired to work in some form of public service after hearing the Reverend Martin Luther King speak in Chicago. She became a Democrat in 1968.The young ingenue attended Wellesley College, where she was active in student politics, being elected Senior Class President before she graduated in 1969.After that, Hilary enrolled in Yale Law School, where she met Bill “Bubba” Clinton. Afer graduating with honors in 1973, she then enrolled at Yale Child Study Center, where she took courses on children and medicine and completed one post-graduate year of study, which explains her whole “It takes a village” philosophy.While a college student, Hillary worked several summer jobs. In 1971, she arrived in Washington, D.C. to work on U.S. Senator Walter Mondale’s sub-committee on migrant workers. The next summer found her out west, working for the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern.Then, in the spring of 1974, Rodham became a member of the presidential impeachment inquiry staff, advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives during the Watergate Scandal.Her boss back then, Jerry Zeifman, now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, tells a very revealing story concerning her work there.According to Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former Yale Law Professor, Burke Marshall, also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair.When the Watergate Investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation. That made the Future First Lady and Secretary of State one of only three people who earned that badge of dishonor in Zeifman’s 17-year career.Why?
According to Zeifman,
Because she was a liar. She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.
Zeifman claims that she was one of several individuals including Marshall, Special Counsel John Doar, and Senior Associate Special Counsel (and future Clinton White House Counsel) Bernard Nussbaum, who plotted to deny Richard Nixon the right to counsel during the investigation.
Zeifman believes that they were deathly afraid of putting the break-in’s mastermind E. Howard Hunt on the stand to be cross-examined by Counsel to the President. The reason being, Hunt had the goods regarding some dirty dealings in the Kennedy Administration that would have made Watergate look like a kid busting open his Piggy Bank…dealings which purportedly included Kennedy’s complicity in the attempted assassination of Fidel Castro.
Hillary and her associates were acting directly against the decision of top Democrats, up to and including then-House Majority Leader Tip O’Neill, who all believed that Nixon clearly had the right to counsel.
The reason that Hillary and the rest came up with the scheme is because they believed that they could gain enough votes on the Judiciary Committee to change House rules and deny counsel to Nixon.
In order to pull off this scheme, Zeifman says Hillary wrote a fraudulent legal brief, and confiscated public documents to hide her deception.
Hillary wanted to present in her brief that there was no right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding. Zeifman told Hillary about the case of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who faced an impeachment attempt in 1970….
As soon as the impeachment resolutions were introduced by (then-House Minority Leader Gerald) Ford, and they were referred to the House Judiciary Committee, the first thing Douglas did was hire himself a lawyer.
Douglas was allowed to keep counsel by the Judicial Committee in place at the time, which clearly established a precedent. Zeifman told Hillary that all the documents establishing this fact were in the Judiciary Committee’s public files.
That was a mistake, per Zeifman…
Hillary then removed all the Douglas files to the offices where she was located, which at that time was secured and inaccessible to the public.
Hillary then wrote a legal brief which argued that there was no precedent for the right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding…ignoring the Douglas case completely.
The brief was so laughingly fraudulent, Zeifman believes Hillary would have been disbarred if she had ever actually submitted it to a judge.
Zeifman says that if Hillary and her associates had succeeded, members of the House Judiciary Committee would have also been denied the right to cross-examine witnesses, and denied the opportunity to even be a part of the drafting of articles of impeachment against Nixon.
After President Richard M. Nixon resigned in August, rendering the matter of her deception moot, Hillary became a faculty member of the University of Arkansas Law School in Fayetteville, where her Yale Law School classmate and boyfriend Bill Clinton was also teaching.
Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton on October 11, 1975, at their home in Fayetteville. Before he proposed, Bubba had secretly purchased a small house that Hillary had previously said that she liked. When she accepted his marriage proposal, he revealed that they owned the house.
After she married Bill in 1975, Hillary Rodham Clinton worked on Jimmy Carter’s successful campaign for presidenti in1976, while Bill got elected Attorney General of the state of Arkansas.
Hillary joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock after Bill became Attorney General, and made partner only after he was elected governor, according to Former Clinton Confidante Dick Morris.
That event occurred in 1978.
President Carter appointed Mrs. Clinton to the board of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) in 1978. This was a federally funded nonprofit organization which was designed as a way to expand the social welfare state and grow social welfare spending. According to Dick Morris, the appointment was in exchange for Bill’s support for Carter in his 1980 primary against Ted Kennedy. Hillary went on to become board chairman in a coup in which she won a majority away from Carter’s choice to be chairman.
Hillary more than tripled LSC’s annual budget, from $90 million to $321 million, in taxpayer funds (OUR money). LSC used these funds in several different ways, most notable among them, the printing of political training manuals showing “how community organizations and public interest groups can win political power and resources,” and the financing of training programs that taught political activists how to harass their opposition.
While Hillary was running the LSC board, the Corporation also
1. Worked to defeat a California referendum that would have cut state income taxes in half
2. Called for the U.S. government to give two-thirds of the state of Maine to American Indians
3. Paid Marxist orators and folk singers to wage a campaign against the Louisiana Wildlife Commission
4. Joined a Michigan initiative to recognize “Black English” as an official language;
5. Sought to force the New York City Transit Authority to hire former heroin addicts so as to avoid “discriminat[ing]” against “minorities” who were “handicapped.”
When it became clear that Ronald Reagan was on the verge of beating Democrat President Jimmy Carter in 1980, LSC redirected massive amounts of its public funding into an anti-Reagan letter-writing campaign by indigent clients. After Reagan was elected in November 1980, LSC immediately laundered its assets — some $260 million — into state-level agencies and private groups so as to keep the funds away from the board that Reagan would eventually appoint. Hillary Clinton left LSC in 1981.
While Bubba was Governor of Arkansas from 1978 to 1980, and again from 1982 to 1992, Hillary was very active “behind the scenes”.
During these years, she continued her legal practice as a partner in the Rose Law Firm. In 1978 she also became a board member of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), and from 1986 to 1992 she served as chair of the CDF Board.
From 1982 to 1988, Hillary also chaired the New World Foundation (NWF), which had helped to launch CDF in 1973. While running the NWF, the Foundation made grants to such organizations as the National Lawyers Guild, the Institute for Policy Studies, the Christic Institute, Grassroots International, the Committees in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (which sought to foment a Communist revolution in Central America), and groups with ties to the most extreme elements of the African National Congress.
According to Dick Morris, when Clinton was considering not running for another term as Governor of Arkansas in 1990, Hillary said she would run if he didn’t. She and Bill even had Morris take two surveys to assess her chances of winning. The conclusion was that she couldn’t win because people would just see her as a seat warmer for when Bill came back licking his wounds after losing for president. So she didn’t run. Bill did and won. But there is no question she had her eye on public office, as opposed to service, long ago.
So, while Bill was the Front Man, Hil worked “the Back of the House”, in preparation for her “moment in the spotlight”.
During the Clintons’ time in Arkansas, they also both became involved in a little matter which later became known as “The Whitewater Scandal”.
In 1978, while Bubba was Attorney General of Arkansas, Hil and he partnered with James and Susan McDougal in a purchase 220 acres of land that would evolve into the Whitewater Development Corporation. The real estate venture tanked, costing the Clintons a reported $40,000 in losses. After that James McDougal went into the banking industry, forming Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan.
In 1986, federal regulators investigated another real estate investment backed by James McDougal. The investigation led to McDougal’s resignation from Madison Guaranty and the eventual collapse of the bank. Questions surrounding the Clintons’ involvement in the Whitewater deal grew during President Clinton’s first term in office and an investigation into the legality of the Whitewater transactions was launched.
All subsequent inquiries into the Whitewater land deal yielded insufficient evidence to charge the Clintons with criminal conduct. However, several of their associates were convicted as a result the investigations.
In July 1992, William Jefferson Clinton was nominated by the Democratic Party as their Candidate for the Presidency of the United States.
In August of that year, Daniel Wattenberg wrote the following prophetic statement in the opening of an article for “The American Spectator” titled, “The Lady Macbeth of Little Rock”…
Hillary Clinton has been likened to Eva Peron, but it’s a bad analogy. Evita was worshipped by the “shirtless ones,” the working class, while Hillary’s charms elude most outside of an elite cohort of left-liberal, baby-boom feminists-the type who thought Anita Hill should be canonized and Thelma and Louise was the best movie since Easy Rider. Hillary reckons herself the next Eleanor Roosevelt. But, standing well to the left of her husband and enjoying an independent power base within his coalition, Hillary is best thought of as the Winnie Mandela of American politics. She has likened the American family to slavery, thinks kids should be able to sue their parents to resolve family arguments, and during her tenure as a foundation officer gave away millions (much of it in no-strings-attached grants) to the left-including sizable sums to hard-left organizers. She is going to cause her husband no end of political embarrassment between now and November-and who knows how long afterward.
Mr. Wattenberg nailed that one, huh?
Bill Clinton was inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States of America on January 20, 1993. Standing right behind him…and pushing hard was Hillary Rodham Clinton, by now widely known as the more-driven, and politically ambitious one of the couple.
Billed as “the New Camelot” by the Main Stream Media, the Clintons strode arm-in-arm into their castle to preside over their new kingdom, where Progressivism in the name of “Moderation” would be the Law of the Land.
However, just as the reign of Arthur and Guinevere ended badly, into the Clintons’ storybook “Co-Presidency”, “a little rain” fell in the form of scandals and quite a few “Bimbo Eruptions” which brought about an inglorious end to all of their “peace and harmony”.
Rose Law Firm Billing – As I wrote previously, in 1978, while Bubba was Attorney General of Arkansas, Hil and he partnered with James and Susan McDougal in a purchase 220 acres of land that would evolve into the Whitewater Development Corporation. The real estate venture tanked, costing the Clintons a reported $40,000 in losses. After that James McDougal went into the banking industry, forming Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan.
After nearly two years of searches and subpoenas, the White House announced on the evening of January 6, 1996, that it had unexpectedlydiscovered copies of missing documents from the Rose Law Firm that describe Hillary Rodham Clinton’s work for a failing savings and loan association in the 1980′s.
Federal and Congressional investigators had issued subpoenas for the documents since 1994, and the White House claimed not have them. The originals disappeared from the Rose Law Firm, shortly before Bill Clinton was inaugurated as President.
The newly discovered documents were copies of billing records from the Rose firm. The originals were found under the Clintons’ bed in the White House, shortly after the statute of limitations ran out.
All subsequent inquiries into the Whitewater land deal yielded insufficient evidence to charge the Clintons with criminal conduct. However, several of their associates were convicted as a result of the investigations.
Death of Vince Foster – On July 20, 1993, Vincent W. Foster Jr., the deputy counsel to the president of the United States, and former partner with Hillary, in The Rose Law Firm, was found lying neatly face-up on a steep embankment in Marcy Park with his feet pointing down, dressed in expensive trousers and a white dress shirt, less than eight miles from the White House, with a single gun-shot wound to the head. Dead. Some of the blood on Foster’s face was still wet, but starting to dry. A trail of blood flowed upwards from his nose to above his ear. The man who found his body said there was no gun, but after he left to notify police, a gun appeared in Foster’s hand. President William Jefferson Clinton’s Arkansas childhood friend, First Lady Hillary Clinton’s Rose Law Firm partner, and White House confidante’s death was to become the subject of controversy.
Due to Foster’s involvement in Whitewater, both at Rose and in the White House, the Senate Whitewater Committee investigation’s conclusion revealed that there was “a concerted effort by senior White House officials to block career law enforcement investigators from conducting a thorough investigation” into Foster’s death, and recommended “that steps be taken to insure that such misuse of the White House counsel’s office does not recur in this, or any future, administration.”
So, was Vince Foster murdered? And, why?
In 1999, a book titled, “Bill and Hillary: The Marriage”, caused a lot of consternation among the Clintons and their supporters.
The author, Christopher Andersen, claimed that in 1977 she began an intensely passionate affair with Vince Foster.
The affair supposedly took place when the two were lawyers at The Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, while Bubba was governor.
Rumors of an affair first started buzzing around after Foster was found in Marcy Park. The book did not say when the relationship ended.
To this day, the circumstances surrounding the death of Vince Foster, remain a topic for conjecture.
Travelgate – In early summer of 1993, 6 employees of the White House Travel Office were fired, after Hil and Bubba determined that the Travel Office workers, who served at the pleasure of the president, could be fired and that the Travel Office business, and the commissions that came along with it, Coulee be taken over by a cousin of President Clinton’s, Catherine Cornelius, who already owned her own travel agency.
However, they could not just go ahead and hand over a governmental office to a relative, without a backlash, so the Clintons made up a story, claiming that the Travel Office was rife with corruption and the workers there had to be fired. An audit of the Travel Office ensued, and while the record-keeping at the office was found to have been pretty inadequate, no corruption or embezzlement were found. That did not matter to the Clintons, so they went ahead and pressured the FBI to make arrests, and the local US Attorney was given instructions to prosecute the employees for corruption.
Of course, the Clintons denied being behind any sort of scheme in the matter. However, leaks by those involved, led to a firestorm of media criticism. Most of the Travel Office employees were eventually given other government jobs or retired and the trial for corruption of the head of the Travel Office, Billy Dale, ended in a verdict of “NOT GUILTY”.
Clinton’s cousin was subsequently removed as new head of the Travel Office.
Afterward, Independent Counsel Robert Ray wrote a report that concluded that, while she did not make any knowingly-false statements under oath, First Lady Hillary Clinton had made a number of inaccurate statements concerning the firings and her role in them.
Bimbo Eruptions – Back in the Bill Clinton era, White House advisor Betsey Wright coined the term “bimbo eruptions” to describe a long list of presidential gal pals.
BIll “Bubba” Clinton’s Bimbo List” included, but is not limited to (I’m sure) Jennifer Flowers, Former Miss America Elizabeth Ward, Paul Corbin Jones, and, of course, Monica Lewinsky.
The Lewinsky scandal was a sensation that enveloped the presidency of Bill Clinton in 1998–99, leading to his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives and acquittal by the Senate.
Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state worker who claimed that Bill Clinton had accosted her sexually in 1991 when he was governor of Arkansas, had brought a sexual harassment lawsuit against the president. In order to show a pattern of behavior on Clinton’s part, Jones’s lawyers questioned several women believed to have been engaging in sex with him. On Jan. 17, 1998, Bubba took the stand, becoming the first sitting president to testify as a civil defendant.
During this testimony, Clinton denied having had an affair with Monica S. Lewinsky, an unpaid intern and later a paid staffer at the White House who worked in the White House from 1995–96. Lewinsky had earlier, in a deposition in the same case, also denied having such a relationship. Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel in the Whitewater case, had already received tape recordings made by Linda R. Tripp (a former coworker of Lewinsky’s) of telephone conversations in which Lewinsky described her involvement with the president. Asserting that there was a “pattern of deception,” Starr obtained from Attorney General Janet Reno permission to investigate the matter.
The president publicly denied having had a relationship with Lewinsky and charges of covering it up. His adviser, Vernon Jordan, denied having counseled Lewinsky to lie in the Jones case, or having arranged a job for her outside Washington, to help cover up the affair. Hillary Clinton claimed that a “vast right-wing conspiracy” was trying to destroy her husband, while Republicans and conservatives portrayed him as immoral and a liar.
In March, Jordan and others testified before Starr’s grand jury, and lawyers for Paula Jones released papers revealing, among other things, that Clinton, in his January deposition, had admitted to a sexual relationship in the 1980s with Arkansas entertainer Gennifer Flowers, a charge he had long denied. In April, however, Arkansas federal judge Susan Webber Wright dismissed the Jones suit, ruling that Jones’s story, if true, showed that she had been exposed to “boorish” behavior but not sexual harassment; Jones appealed.
In July, Starr granted Lewinsky immunity from perjury charges, and Clinton agreed to testify before the grand jury. He did so on Aug. 17, then went on television to admit the affair with Lewinsky and ask for forgiveness. In September, Starr sent a 445-page report to the House of Representatives, recommending four possible grounds for impeachment: perjury, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and abuse of authority.
On Dec. 19, Clinton became the second president (after Andrew Johnson) to be impeached, on two charges: perjury—in his Aug., 1998, testimony—and obstruction of justice. The vote in the House was largely along party lines.
In Jan., 1999, the trial began in the Senate. On Feb. 12, after a trial in which testimony relating to the charges was limited, the Senate rejected both counts of impeachment. The perjury charge lost, 55–45, with 10 Republicans joining all 45 Democrats in voting against it; the obstruction charge drew a 50–50 vote. Subsequently, on Apr. 12, Judge Wright, who had dismissed the Jones case, found the president in contempt for lying in his Jan., 1998, testimony, when he denied the Lewinsky affair. In July, Judge Wright ordered the president to pay nearly $90,000 to Ms. Jones’s lawyers. On Jan. 19, 2001, the day before he left office, President Clinton agreed to admit to giving false testimony in the Jones case and to accept a five-year suspension of his law license and a $25,000 fine in return for an agreement by the independent counsel, Robert W. Ray (Starr’s successor), to end the investigation and not prosecute him.
In a later interview, Hillary claimed that Bill suffered childhood abuse which may have caused him to philanderer and experience “bimbo eruptions” later in life. She described her philandering husband as “a hard dog to keep on the porch”.
The Clinton Co-Presidency ended with the Inauguration of President George W. Bush on January 20, 2001.
However, Hillary Clinton’s “time in the Spotlight” was just beginning.
On November 6, 2000, Former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected Democratic Senator for the State of New York, serving unremarkably until leaving Office on January 21, 2009.
During her undistinguished career in the U.S. Senate, Hillary Clinton voted on a variety of key pieces of legislation as follows:
in favor of a 2003 bill to ban oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
in favor of an October 2002 joint resolution to authorize the use of the U.S. Armed Forces against Iraq
against major tax-cut proposals in 2001 and 2003
in favor of a 2007 proposal to end the use of a point-based immigration system, (i.e., a system that seeks to ensure that people with skills that society needs are given preference for entry into the United States)
against a 2007 amendment designating English as the language of “sole legal authority” for the business of the federal government, and declaring that no person has a right to require officials of the U.S. government to use a language other than English
against a 2008 bill urging an expansion of the zero-tolerance prosecution policy for illegal aliens; calling for the completion of 700 miles of pedestrian fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border; allowing for the deployment of up to 6,000 National Guard members to the U.S. southern border; and encouraging the identification and deportation of illegal immigrants currently in the American prison system
in favor of the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 (McCain-Feingold Act), which put restrictions on paid advertising during the weeks just prior to political elections, and tightly regulated the amount of money which political parties and candidates could accept from donors
against separate proposals (in 2004 and 2005) to ban lawsuits against gun manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and importers for damages resulting from the misuse of their products by others
against a 2003 proposal to ban the late-term procedure commonly known as “partial-birth abortion”
against a 2004 proposal to make it an added criminal offense for someone to injure or kill a fetus while carrying out a crime against a pregnant woman
against a 2006 bill making it illegal to knowingly transport a pregnant minor across state lines in order to obtain an abortion, as a way to escape state laws requiring parental consent
One week after Barack Hussein Obama was elected President of the United States, on November 4, 2008, he called Hillary and offered her the job of Secretary of State, despite the fact that she had no Foreign Policy experience. It was a suspicious choice at best, considering that fact that when they were running against each other in the Democratic Primaries,Obama had specifically criticized Clinton’s Foreign Policy credentials and the initial idea of him appointing her had been so unexpected that she had told one of her own aides, “Not in a million years.”
The fact that she had campaigned unreservedly for Obama after he defeated her for the Democratic Nomination, led to speculation that the Secretary of State job was a “reward for her loyalty”.
Hillary accepted the position, and now, as speculation concerning a possible Presidential Campaign runs rampant, even the Main Stream Media is hard-pressed to come up with anything she accomplished as Obama’s First Secretary of State.
So, how did she do?
On January 26, 2013, after Hillary had stepped down as Secretary of State and was replaced by Senator John Kerry, the following conversation took place between Fox News Anchor Chris Wallace and Fox News Senior Political Analyst Brit Hume…
WALLACE: Yeah, I want to pick up on that, Brit, because during the hearing, what struck me was the Republicans were tough on Hillary, on Benghazi and the Democrats weren’t. But, both sides kept on saying what a great secretary of state she had been and to praise her service. And here’s some of the points that have been brought up, some of her accomplishments. She helped assemble the bombing campaign in Libya to topple Muammar Qaddafi. She helped assembly the coalition that imposed the toughest sanctions ever on Iran. And, she established diplomatic ties with Burma.
Question, Brit, how do you rate Hillary Clinton’s performance, record as our top diplomat?
HUME: I think those examples you cited would add up to a case for her competence. They do not add up to a case for greatness, after all, the groundwork on Burma had been done by the previous administration. And the administration properly followed through on it. You look across the world, now at the major issues. Are Arabs and Israelis closer to peace? How about Iran and North Korea and their nuclear programs? Have they been halted or seriously set back? Has the reset with Russia, which she so famously introduced with the photo-op in Moscow with the reset button, has they lead to a new and more cooperative relationship? Is there a Clinton doctrine that we can identify that she has articulated and formed as secretary of state? Are there major treaties that she has undertaken and negotiated through to a successful conclusion? I think the answer to all those questions is that she has not. And those are the kinds of things that might mark her as a great secretary of state.
She has certainly been industrious. She has visited 112 countries. Her conduct as secretary of state has been highly dignified. She does her homework. There have been no gaffes or blunders. So I think she has been a capable and hard-working secretary of state, but I think the case for her being a great secretary of state is exceedingly weak.
Brit was being gracious. Here are seven Foreign Policy Disasters, which happened under Hillary’s watch as the Architect of “Smart Power!”, in no particular order:
The decision to overthrow President Gaddafi in Libya – The short-sighted, ill-conceived action not only undermined an ally in the (now defunct) “global war on terror,” it also served to throw gasoline on the bonfire known as “Arab Spring.
The Afghanistan “surge”- A military campaign that fails to result in a desired political outcome is con only be considered a failure. What exactly was Obama and Hillary’s desired outcome when they called for this?
It is a fait d’accompli that the Karzai Government will be able to survive long once the U.S. completes its withdrawal of its combat forces from the country in 2014. This is can only be considered a failure, A failure which cost too many of our Brightest and Best.
Granting Afghanistan major non-NATO U.S. ally status – Why did Barry and Hill decide to grant Afghanistan the status of a major non-NATO ally? When we pull out, our enemied will pour in. And, with “friends” like these, you don’t need enemies.
Maintaining the status quo with Pakistan – Pakistan has a long history of sponsoring Sunni jihadists of various stripes. Following the 2001 attacks on the United States, they did an about-face, becoming a chief partner in the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan as well as its “global war on terror.”
10 years later, following the successful May 2011 raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan that resulted in the death of Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, Pakistan promptly denounced the U.S. and closed its vital supply routes to NATO-bound shipments to Afghanistan.
Hil and Barry got “played”.
The East Asia “pivot” – Strictly an exercise in containment,attempts at containing China will only fuel Chinese fears of foreign encirclement, that will encourage Chinese assertiveness, that will further encourage containment.
This pivot is only a bluff on behalf of the feckless purveyors of “Smart Power” to begin with.
As shown by the continued drawing of “Red Lines”, they will not stand up to our enemies.
Arab Spring – The Arab Spring was a series of protests and uprisings in the Middle East that began with unrest in Tunisia in late 2010. The Arab Spring has brought down regimes in some Arab countries, sparked mass violence in others, while some governments managed to delay the trouble with a mix of repression, promise of reform and state largesse.
Through this all Hillary and Obama have back the Muslim Brotherhood, the Godfather of Muslim Terrorist Organizations, in deposing Moderate Muslim Leaders.
Doesn’t make a while lot of sense, does it?
BenghaziGate – On September 11, 2012, Muslim Terrorists stormed the US Embassy Compound in Benghazi, Libya, slaughtered 4 brave Americans, including US Ambassador Chris Stephens, whose lifeless, sexually assaulted body they drug through the streets, while taking cell phone pictures of his corpse.
I have written several blogs about the Administration’s Cover-up of this atrocity, but the seminal moment, regarding Hillary Clinton came in January of 2013, during an exchange between her and Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin at a Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
Johnson asked her about the administration’s conflicting explanations for the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which killed the ambassador and three other Americans. Hillary, as we say down here in Dixie, “got on her high keys” and said,
With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator.
SUMMARY: When I first finished writing this unauthorized biography of Hillary Clinton, I considered the reality of Hillary Clinton running for President, and a great many thoughts entered my head…some of them even repeatable.
In fact, there are a lot of images that race dthrough my mind, right now, as I sit here at my computer.
I remembered the image of a lone terrorist, brandishing a machine gun, standing in front of the burning Benghazi Consulate.
I also remembered the image of Benghazi Barbarians dragging a murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens through the streets, taking pictures every few yards, with their cell phones.
My mind envisioned the image of two brave Americans, up on a roof holding off 100 Muslim Terrorists, trying desperately to hold out for help which was denied to them, until finally the overwhelming numbers which comprise the horde of barbarians, murdered them as well.
I imagined Ambassador Stevens’ elderly mother, making the trip from the West Coast to the East Coast to pick up the lifeless body of her abused and murdered son, whom she and her entire family were so proud of.
Finally, I remembered the show of hypocrisy involving members of this anti-American Administration, including then-Secretary of State Clinton, solemnly welcoming the bodies of those brave Americans home.
Former Secretary Clinton…the truth makes a big difference…even after all this time, to the families of those that were so savagely murdered that fateful night…and to the millions of Americans who still believe in this “Shining City on a Hill”.
Americans deserve the truth.
And, you should be ashamed to be running for the office of President of the United States.
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discoverthenetworks.org, investopedia.com, The American Spectator, The New York Times, canadafreepress.com,
bbc.co.uk, frontpagemag.com, theguardian.com, infoplease.com, discoverthenetworks.org,
realclearpolitics.com, policy mic.com,mideast.about.com, and wsj.com.***
Rubio Blasts Trump for Placing National Safety Over Political Correctness By Saying: “Islam Hates Us”
March 11, 2016 ~ kingsjester ~ 4 Comments
Republican Primary Front-runner Donald J. Trump continues to knock down the Walls of Political Correctness, which have threatened our American Freedom.
CNN.com reported that
Donald Trump said Wednesday that he thinks “Islam hates us,” drawing little distinction between the religion and radical Islamic terrorism.”I think Islam hates us,” Trump told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, deploring the “tremendous hatred” that he said partly defined the religion. He maintained the war was against radical Islam, but said, “it’s very hard to define. It’s very hard to separate. Because you don’t know who’s who.”
Asked if the hate was “in Islam itself,” Trump would only say that was for the media to figure out.
“You’re gonna have to figure that out, OK?” he told Cooper. “We have to be very vigilant. We have to be very careful. And we can’t allow people coming into this country who have this hatred of the United States.”
Trump made headlines in December when he called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S., “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.” Despite widespread condemnation of the remarks, Trump has stood by the proposal.
Speaking to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room” Thursday, Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said the real-estate magnate stood by the sentiment that many Muslims worldwide sympathize with ISIS, but said Trump should’ve used “radical Islam.”
“It is radical Islamic extremists that do participate in these types of things,” Pierson said, calling for a “broader perspective” of Muslims’ ties to terror. “We’ve allowed this propaganda to spread all through the country that this is a religion of peace.”
In speaking with Cooper, Trump added that “there can be no doctrine” when asked to outline how he would project power overseas.
That was Wednesday. Did the Front-running Republican Presidential Hopeful back down during last night’s Republican Debate?
If you have to ask that, you haven’t been paying attention.
According to ABCNews.go.com,
Donald Trump appeared to double down during the Republican debate Thursday on his earlier comments that “Islam hates us.”
“Did you mean all 1.6 billion Muslims?” Tapper asked. “I mean a lot of them,” Trump replied. “I will stick with exactly what I said to Anderson Cooper,” he said, referring to his remarks made to the CNN host Wednesday.
But Marco Rubio fired back. “The problem is presidents can’t just say anything they want. It has consequences here and around the world,” he said.
“There is no doubt that radical Islam is a danger in the world,” Rubio continued. “I can also tell you that if you go to any national cemetery, especially Arlington, you are gonna see crescent moons there.”
Trump has previously proposed a policy that would temporarily ban non-citizen Muslims from entering the United States, one that has found wide support among the Republican primary electorate so far.
After Trump cited his style of being politically incorrect and a “serious, serious problem of hate,” Rubio hit back again.
“I’m not interested in being politically correct. I’m interested in being correct,” he said.
When you look at what Trump is actually saying, and the reasons that he is saying it, he brings up a solid point.
The wife of the couple who were responsible for the massacre in San Bernardino, California WAS VETTED by our government. And, she turned out to be a Muslim terrorist.
Offi cials have admitted that it is a very strong possibility that Islamic State Members have embedded themselves in the Syrian refugees, whom Obama is hell-bent on bringing into our country.
Now, the number of the Syrian Refugees are going to total in the tens of thousands.
The San Bernardino Massacre proved that the Obama administration cannot properly vet a single Radical Islamist entering our country with one other person.
How in the world are they in going to properly vet tens of thousands of Muslims?
Let’s reflect upon the stats featured in Trump’s Press Release, which he issued, when he first announced his plan to half Muslim Immigration to our country, until we can figure all this out.
25% of those surveyed said that they approved of violent acts being perpetrated here in America in the name of global jihad. 25% of just 10,000 refugees would be 2500.
Are we willing to take the chance of that large of a number of potentially violent individuals being relocated into our country?
It only takes one individual strapped up with explosives to take out 100 people.
The other stat that the release gave was that 51% of those polled would like to see Sharia law here in America.
As I have written before, Sharia law is not compatible with the United States Constitution.
Not even close.
The Center For Security Policy has issued the following PDF, ” “Sharia Law Vs. The Constitution”, which outlines the differences. Please forgive the length, but I feel that it is important information, which needs to be shared.
Article VI: The Constitution is the supreme law of the land
Constitution: Article VI: “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby”
Shariah: “The source of legal rulings for all acts of those who are morally responsible is Allah.” (a1.1, Umdat al-salik or The Reliance of the Traveller, commonly accepted work of Shariah jurisprudence); “There is only one law which ought to be followed, and that is the Sharia.” (Seyed Qutb); “Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam regardless of the country or the nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a State on the basis of its own ideology and program.” (Seyed Abul A’ala Maududi)
First Amendment: Freedom of religion
Constitution: First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ”
Shariah: “Those who reject Islam must be killed. If they turn back (from Islam), take hold of them and kill them wherever you find them.” Quran 4:89 ; “Whoever changed his [Islamic] religion, then kill him” Sahih al-Bukhari, 9:84:57. In historic and modern Shariah states, Shariah law enforces dhimmi status (second-class citizen, apartheid-type laws) on nonMuslims, prohibiting them from observing their religious practices publicly, building or repairing churches, raising their voices during prayer or ringing church bells; if dhimmi laws are violated in the Shariah State, penalties are those used for prisoners of war: death, slavery, release or ransom.(o9.14, o11.0-o11.11, Umdat al-salik).
First Amendment: Freedom of speech
Constitution: First Amendment: Congress shall not abridge “the freedom of speech.”
Shariah: Speech defaming Islam or Muhammad is considered “blasphemy” and is punishable by death or imprisonment.
First Amendment: Freedom to dissent
Constitution: First Amendment: “Congress cannot take away the right of the people “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Shariah: Non-Muslims are not to harbor any hostility toward the Islamic state or give comfort to those who disagree with Islamic government.
Second Amendment: Right to self-defense
Constitution: Second Amendment: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Shariah: Under historic and modern dhimmi laws, non-Muslims cannot possess swords, firearms or weapons of any kind.
Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Amendments: Right to due process and fair trial
Constitution: Fifth Amendment: “no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime… without due process of law.” Sixth Amendment: guarantees a “public trial by an impartial jury.” Seventh Amendment: “the right of trial by jury shall be preserved.”
Shariah: Hadith Sahih al-Bukhari: Muhammad said, “No Muslim should be killed for killing a Kafir (infidel).” Non-Muslims are prohibited from testifying against Muslims. A woman’s testimony is equal to half of a man’s.
Eighth Amendment: No cruel and unusual punishment
Constitution: Eighth Amendment: “nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
Shariah: Under Shariah punishments are barbaric: “Cut off the hands of thieves, whether they are male or female, as punishment for what they have done – a deterrent from Allah.” Quran 5:38; A raped woman is punished:”The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication – flog each of them with a hundred stripes” (Sura 24:2).
Fourteenth Amendment: Right to equal protection and due process
Constitution: Fourteenth Amendment: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. “
Shariah: Under dhimmi laws enforced in modern Shariah states, Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims are not equal to Muslims before the law. Under Shariah law, women, girls, apostates, homosexuals and “blasphemers” are all denied equality under the law.
Given this incompatibility between Sharia Law and the Constitution of the United States of America, which our Freedom and our System of Laws are based upon, if given the choice, which would Muslims currently living in the Land of the Free and the home of the Brave choose to be faithful to?
In conclusion, I am not saying that every Muslim is on a jihad against “the infidels”, and, wish to invade our Sovereign Nation and over-throw our Government.
For Liberals, on both sides of the Political Aisle, including Pope Francis, to deny that, is disingenuous at best, and just plain dangerous at worst.
It becomes even more dangerous when that denier holds the power of the President of the United States of America.
Trump is right. We simply cannot take that chance.
The sovereignty of our country is at state.
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Fwd: Free Bassel
by Gregory Varnum
Reminder that the current discussion on the banner will be continuing on Meta-Wiki for another 12 hours: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_Bassel/Banner/Straw_poll <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_Bassel/Banner/Straw_poll> As of this email, 142 people have shown support for the banner campaign and 84 have opposed the banner campaign. Thank you to everyone that is participating in the poll and discussion. Given the scope of this list, I hope people will also review and consider taking action as suggested at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_Bassel -greg (User:Varnent) > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> > Date: November 26, 2015 at 12:55:57 AM EST > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel > > Hoi, > As this is not a Wikipedia article, it is more of an advertisement, a call > to action. Urgency is key. This is not about the well known patterns of a > Wikipedia article. > > This is not understood, it results at this late stage in an edit war. > Either we have a point and make it or we have a Wikipedia style article > which is to long to read. It will not be read because there is nothing > urgent, nothing that demands attention. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 25 November 2015 at 11:20, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com <mailto:gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>> > wrote: > >> Hoi, >> I have looked at the article. It does not have the necessary urgency. He >> is likely to have been sentenced to death and the article reads like a >> Wikipedia article. This is Meta, it is not Wikipedia and it needs urgency. >> We appeal to the world to get involved to let his death not happen. That is >> imho what the message needs to be. >> Thanks, >> GerardM >> >> On 25 November 2015 at 02:57, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >>> FYI: User:Odder has now created [[m:Free Bassel >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_Bassel>]], as a landing page to >>> link >>> from the banner. >>> >>> If anyone would like to help with a design for the banner (I concede not >>> everyone shares my taste for 10pt-black-on-white text), we would be able >>> to >>> move ahead. There is, so far, nothing but support. >>> >>> A. >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Katherine Maher <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> Thank you for raising this issue here on this list. I wanted to share >>> some >>>> more information about how we’ve been working to support Bassel to this >>>> point, in public and behind the scenes. Unfortunately, some efforts are >>>> sensitive, so can’t be shared in full on public mailing lists. But we’re >>>> committed to supporting next steps or decisions by the community, and >>>> keeping you updated going forward. >>>> >>>> Working with some other colleagues at the Foundation, we have been >>> tracking >>>> Bassel's case for some time now, in direct contact with the organizers >>> of >>>> the #FreeBassel campaign <http://freebassel.org> [1], and Bassel's >>> family. >>>> The actions we have taken to date have been in coordination and approval >>>> with the #FreeBassel campaign, including: >>>> >>>> - Coordination and communication with related organizations, such as >>> the >>>> Electronic Frontier Foundation and Amnesty International. (ongoing) >>>> - Regular contact and updates with senior human rights officials at >>> the >>>> U.S. State Department. (ongoing) >>>> - Outreach to the press around Bassel’s arbitrary detention and >>>> contributions to the free knowledge movement. Please see this WIRED >>>> story, “A >>>> Jailed Activist’s 3-D Models Could Save Syria’s History From ISIS >>>> < >>>> >>> http://www.wired.com/2015/10/jailed-activist-bassel-khartabil-3d-models-cou… >>>>> .” >>>> [2] (Although we did reach out to WIRED, we cannot say for certain if >>>> that >>>> story was the direct result of our efforts or others within the >>>> #FreeBassel >>>> coordination community). (10/21) >>>> - Raising Bassel’s case in public speaking opportunities, including >>>> Lila’s keynote to the Creative Commons Summit. (10/15) >>>> - Blog post #FREEBASSEL: Free culture advocate who built 3D >>> renderings >>>> of Palmyra missing in Syria >>>> <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/08/bassel-missing-syria/> [3]. >>>> (10/08) >>>> - Ongoing participation in #FreeBassel social media campaigns on >>>> Facebook and Twitter. >>>> >>>> Bassel is in a situation known as arbitrary detention >>>> < >>>> >>> http://en.alkarama.org/1763-syria-un-calls-for-the-release-of-freedom-of-sp… >>>>> >>>> [4]. Arbitrary detentions are characterized by uncertainty, lack of >>>> information, and volatility. They’re scary because we don’t know what’s >>>> happening, and often we are making decisions without a lot of >>> information. >>>> Our goal is always to support Bassel to make sure our efforts help him >>>> without putting him at greater risk. So we’ve been working with >>> experienced >>>> human rights campaigners, including the #FreeBassel campaign, to >>> understand >>>> the best actions to take at different times over the past two months. >>>> >>>> We’ve been in touch with Bassel’s family, who would support continued >>>> efforts to raise awareness about Bassel’s situation through a note on >>>> Wikipedia if that should happen. We can also join action letters (like >>> this >>>> < >>>> >>> http://www.amnesty.nl/nieuwsportaal/pers/syria-fears-life-free-expression-a… >>>>> >>>> [5]) where the community agrees it's appropriate. If the community >>> decides >>>> to move forward with an action, we are here to help. We are monitoring >>> the >>>> discussions and activity in >>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Banner:Free_Bassel as a place where >>>> community consensus can form. Please let us know if there’s anything >>> else >>>> we can do to support efforts to raise awareness for Bassel. >>>> >>>> Katherine >>>> >>>> [1] http://freebassel.org/ >>>> [2] >>>> >>>> >>> http://www.wired.com/2015/10/jailed-activist-bassel-khartabil-3d-models-cou… >>>> [3] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/08/bassel-missing-syria/ >>>> [4] >>>> >>>> >>> http://en.alkarama.org/1763-syria-un-calls-for-the-release-of-freedom-of-sp… >>>> [5] >>>> >>>> >>> http://www.amnesty.nl/nieuwsportaal/pers/syria-fears-life-free-expression-a… >>>> >>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Daniel Mietchen < >>>> daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yes, a CentralNotice would seem appropriate here. >>>>> Please help flesh it out at >>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Banner:Free_Bassel . >>>>> >>>>> Daniel >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Gerard Meijssen >>>>> <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> Hoi, >>>>>> I have started a text.. >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> GerardM >>>>>> >>>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Banner:Free_Bassel >>>>>> >>>>>> On 24 November 2015 at 15:25, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> +1 >>>>>>> Gerard, or Andrea, or anybody who knows better than myself, could >>> you >>>>> start >>>>>>> a draft on Meta Wiki with a proposed text for a banner, and where >>> it >>>>> should >>>>>>> link/what it should advise readers to do? >>>>>>> Pete >>>>>>> On Nov 24, 2015 3:13 AM, "Tito Dutta" <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Sad news. Agree with everyone here that we should do something. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 24 November 2015 at 16:38, Gerard Meijssen < >>>>> gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hoi, >>>>>>>>> Tomorrow we have a platform as well at the Erasmus award >>> ceremony >>>> in >>>>>>>>> Amsterdam. It is Wikipedia, its community that is receiving the >>>>> award.. >>>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>>> GerardM >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 24 November 2015 at 12:03, Cristian Consonni < >>>>>>> kikkocristian(a)gmail.com >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> 2015-11-24 10:47 GMT+01:00 Andrea Zanni < >>>> zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com >>>>>> : >>>>>>>>>>> Use the centralnotice. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> [...] >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> A Wikipedian, a member of our community sentenced to death >>> for >>>>>>>>> believing >>>>>>>>>> in >>>>>>>>>>> our Mission and Vision is something extraordinary. I >>>> understand >>>>> the >>>>>>>>>> caution >>>>>>>>>>> of setting a precedent, but I think it's worth it. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Also, remember: we have few days before we'll ask money >>> again >>>> to >>>>>>> all >>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>>>> English-speaking countries. >>>>>>>>>>> How could we ask for money when we are not using the power >>>> that >>>>> was >>>>>>>>>>> bestowed upon us by the very same spirit, love and courage >>>> that >>>>> is >>>>>>>>>>> condemning Bassel to death? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I strongly support this. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> As for the precedent, recall that the Wikimedia Foundation >>>>> supports >>>>>>>>>> the users, we did this with User:Diu in Greece: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/14/wikimedia-foundation-supports-wikiped… >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> This is much more than a lawsuit. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> A message I do not want us to send is that if you enough >>> force >>>> or >>>>> the >>>>>>>>>> threat is big enough, then we, as a movement, will be scared >>>> away. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> C >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>>>>>>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>>>>>>>>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>>>>>> Unsubscribe: >>>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>>>>>>>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org >>>>> ?subject=unsubscribe> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>>>>>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>>>>>>>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>>>>> Unsubscribe: >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>>>>>>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org >>>>> ?subject=unsubscribe> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>>>>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>>>>>>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>>>> Unsubscribe: >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >>>>> , >>>>>>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> ?subject=unsubscribe> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>>>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>>>>>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>>> Unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >>>> , >>>>>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org >>> ?subject=unsubscribe> >>>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>>>>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>> Unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>>>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >>> , >>>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Katherine Maher >>>> Chief Communications Officer >>>> Wikimedia Foundation >>>> 149 New Montgomery Street >>>> San Francisco, CA 94105 >>>> >>>> +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 >>>> +1 (415) 712 4873 >>>> kmaher(a)wikimedia.org >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Asaf Bartov >>> Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> >>> >>> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the >>> sum of all knowledge. 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Warning: Possible campaign against Wikimedia in the EU
Hello everybody, In the past weeks we have heard from more several unrelated sources (official, private sector & academia) that: *Google is funding Wikimedia *Google is actively promoting Wikipedia in search results *Therefore, Wikimedia and Wikimedia cannot be considered user-generated, crowd-funded and non-commercial projects As the wording and structure of these claims were extremely similar and they came within a short time period I am convinced that there someone is running a quiet smear campaign against us. These things are not uncommon and we do have a large network already, so there's not need to panic. I just wanted you to be warned. In responding to it I use the following key facts: *Cite the WMF Fundraising Report [1], which says that the average donation is 15USD and that 74% of revenue is from donation under 100USD. A dependency can thus not be asserted. *We provide content as freely is possible and there are almost no barriers to its re-use, including for commercial purposes. Anyone, be it Google, DuckDuckGo, Ask.com, apps or private blogs can freely integrate it. And they do! *We never pay for content on Wikimedia projects. It is edited by hundreds of thousands of users each year. [2] If you have other thoughts, feel free to share them. Cheers, Dimi [1]https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2014-2015_Fundraising_Report [2]https://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/active_editors#
Hello everyone, It is with some sadness that I write to let you know that I have moved on to pastures new, and finished working for Wikimedia UK in the middle of September. I am sorry that I didn't write sooner but have been away on a much needed holiday. Over the last three and a half years I have had the pleasure and privilege to work with some incredible people, both staff and volunteers. Being able to support the free and open knowledge movement in a professional capacity has been exciting, tiring, empowering, stressful, and the most incredible experience of my professional life. Being able to make a contribution to this movement, for which I care deeply, has been an honour. I will continue to be involved as a volunteer, in the realms of communications, policy and advocacy. There are too many people who have made such a positive impact on me personally and professionally to be able to name and thank them all individually. However, I do want to say a special thanks to my outstanding colleagues at Wikimedia UK who are the most talented and hard working group of people I have ever worked with. I want to also thank the volunteers and staff I have worked with closely over the years as Head of External Relations, especially in the areas of movement communications, campaigning, educational & IP policy, and digital democracy. I've been lucky enough to meet, and work with, many smart and thoughtful people outside our movement and I hope that I've made a strong enough case for free and open knowledge for them to remain involved in this mission. I'd love to continue to hear from you all so do feel free to email me – stevie.d.benton(a)gmail.com – or find me on Twitter or LinkedIn and thank you all once again for an amazing three and a half years. With thanks and regards, Stevie -- Stevie Benton Head of External Relations Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* <https://www.avast.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-em…> This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-em…> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
Wanted to make sure folks on this list saw this - just in case you are not on WM-l. TLDR, here are some pages worth visiting and weighing in on if you have a chance: - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_Bassel <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_Bassel> - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Banner:Free_Bassel <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Banner:Free_Bassel> -greg (User:Varnent) > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> > Date: November 24, 2015 at 8:57:21 PM EST > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel > > FYI: User:Odder has now created [[m:Free Bassel > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_Bassel>]], as a landing page to link > from the banner. > > If anyone would like to help with a design for the banner (I concede not > everyone shares my taste for 10pt-black-on-white text), we would be able to > move ahead. There is, so far, nothing but support. > > A. > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Katherine Maher <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Thank you for raising this issue here on this list. I wanted to share some >> more information about how we’ve been working to support Bassel to this >> point, in public and behind the scenes. Unfortunately, some efforts are >> sensitive, so can’t be shared in full on public mailing lists. But we’re >> committed to supporting next steps or decisions by the community, and >> keeping you updated going forward. >> >> Working with some other colleagues at the Foundation, we have been tracking >> Bassel's case for some time now, in direct contact with the organizers of >> the #FreeBassel campaign <http://freebassel.org> [1], and Bassel's family. >> The actions we have taken to date have been in coordination and approval >> with the #FreeBassel campaign, including: >> >> - Coordination and communication with related organizations, such as the >> Electronic Frontier Foundation and Amnesty International. (ongoing) >> - Regular contact and updates with senior human rights officials at the >> U.S. State Department. (ongoing) >> - Outreach to the press around Bassel’s arbitrary detention and >> contributions to the free knowledge movement. Please see this WIRED >> story, “A >> Jailed Activist’s 3-D Models Could Save Syria’s History From ISIS >> < >> http://www.wired.com/2015/10/jailed-activist-bassel-khartabil-3d-models-cou… >>> .” >> [2] (Although we did reach out to WIRED, we cannot say for certain if >> that >> story was the direct result of our efforts or others within the >> #FreeBassel >> coordination community). (10/21) >> - Raising Bassel’s case in public speaking opportunities, including >> Lila’s keynote to the Creative Commons Summit. (10/15) >> - Blog post #FREEBASSEL: Free culture advocate who built 3D renderings >> of Palmyra missing in Syria >> <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/08/bassel-missing-syria/> [3]. >> (10/08) >> - Ongoing participation in #FreeBassel social media campaigns on >> Facebook and Twitter. >> >> Bassel is in a situation known as arbitrary detention >> < >> http://en.alkarama.org/1763-syria-un-calls-for-the-release-of-freedom-of-sp… >>> >> [4]. Arbitrary detentions are characterized by uncertainty, lack of >> information, and volatility. They’re scary because we don’t know what’s >> happening, and often we are making decisions without a lot of information. >> Our goal is always to support Bassel to make sure our efforts help him >> without putting him at greater risk. So we’ve been working with experienced >> human rights campaigners, including the #FreeBassel campaign, to understand >> the best actions to take at different times over the past two months. >> >> We’ve been in touch with Bassel’s family, who would support continued >> efforts to raise awareness about Bassel’s situation through a note on >> Wikipedia if that should happen. We can also join action letters (like this >> < >> http://www.amnesty.nl/nieuwsportaal/pers/syria-fears-life-free-expression-a… >>> >> [5]) where the community agrees it's appropriate. If the community decides >> to move forward with an action, we are here to help. We are monitoring the >> discussions and activity in >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Banner:Free_Bassel as a place where >> community consensus can form. Please let us know if there’s anything else >> we can do to support efforts to raise awareness for Bassel. >> >> Katherine >> >> [1] http://freebassel.org/ >> [2] >> >> http://www.wired.com/2015/10/jailed-activist-bassel-khartabil-3d-models-cou… >> [3] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/08/bassel-missing-syria/ >> [4] >> >> http://en.alkarama.org/1763-syria-un-calls-for-the-release-of-freedom-of-sp… >> [5] >> >> http://www.amnesty.nl/nieuwsportaal/pers/syria-fears-life-free-expression-a… >> >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Daniel Mietchen < >> daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> Yes, a CentralNotice would seem appropriate here. >>> Please help flesh it out at >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Banner:Free_Bassel . >>> >>> Daniel >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Gerard Meijssen >>> <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hoi, >>>> I have started a text.. >>>> Thanks, >>>> GerardM >>>> >>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Banner:Free_Bassel >>>> >>>> On 24 November 2015 at 15:25, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> +1 >>>>> Gerard, or Andrea, or anybody who knows better than myself, could you >>> start >>>>> a draft on Meta Wiki with a proposed text for a banner, and where it >>> should >>>>> link/what it should advise readers to do? >>>>> Pete >>>>> On Nov 24, 2015 3:13 AM, "Tito Dutta" <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Sad news. Agree with everyone here that we should do something. >>>>>> >>>>>> On 24 November 2015 at 16:38, Gerard Meijssen < >>> gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com >>>>>> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hoi, >>>>>>> Tomorrow we have a platform as well at the Erasmus award ceremony >> in >>>>>>> Amsterdam. It is Wikipedia, its community that is receiving the >>> award.. >>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>> GerardM >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 24 November 2015 at 12:03, Cristian Consonni < >>>>> kikkocristian(a)gmail.com >>>>>>> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> 2015-11-24 10:47 GMT+01:00 Andrea Zanni < >> zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com >>>> : >>>>>>>>> Use the centralnotice. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> [...] >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> A Wikipedian, a member of our community sentenced to death for >>>>>>> believing >>>>>>>> in >>>>>>>>> our Mission and Vision is something extraordinary. I >> understand >>> the >>>>>>>> caution >>>>>>>>> of setting a precedent, but I think it's worth it. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Also, remember: we have few days before we'll ask money again >> to >>>>> all >>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>> English-speaking countries. >>>>>>>>> How could we ask for money when we are not using the power >> that >>> was >>>>>>>>> bestowed upon us by the very same spirit, love and courage >> that >>> is >>>>>>>>> condemning Bassel to death? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I strongly support this. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> As for the precedent, recall that the Wikimedia Foundation >>> supports >>>>>>>> the users, we did this with User:Diu in Greece: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>> >> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/14/wikimedia-foundation-supports-wikiped… >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> This is much more than a lawsuit. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> A message I do not want us to send is that if you enough force >> or >>> the >>>>>>>> threat is big enough, then we, as a movement, will be scared >> away. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> C >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>>>>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>>>>>>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>>>> Unsubscribe: >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>>>>>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org >>> ?subject=unsubscribe> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>>>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>>>>>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>>> Unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>>>>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org >>> ?subject=unsubscribe> >>>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>>>>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>>> Unsubscribe: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >>> , >>>>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org >> ?subject=unsubscribe> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>>>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> , >>>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Katherine Maher >> Chief Communications Officer >> Wikimedia Foundation >> 149 New Montgomery Street >> San Francisco, CA 94105 >> >> +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 >> +1 (415) 712 4873 >> kmaher(a)wikimedia.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > > > > -- > Asaf Bartov > Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > https://donate.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
RightsCon Silicon Valley - Submissions open!
by Deji Olukotun
Hi to All, I wanted to reach out and invite you to submit a proposal to organize a program session for this year’s RightsCon Silicon Valley 2016 (March 30-April 1, 2016). As you know, it's an amazing event that brings together hundreds of folks working in tech, human rights, and freedom of expression. This year’s event will be better than ever, with three days of programming, exciting satellite events like the Crypto Summit, and potentially 1000 participants from across sectors. It’s the best opportunity to showcase your work in digital rights, connect with other leading experts, and most importantly, develop outcomes, best-practices, and policies that help defend and extend the digital rights of users at risk around the world. You can submit your program session proposal on our website’s submission form <https://rightscon.org/submission>, and find more information about our session formats, the RightsCon style and our themes on the submission guide <https://rightscon.org/submissionguide>. I encourage you to submit a high quality proposal, as competition is steep, and we are developing a fantastic and compelling agenda for participants. That being said, organizers of program sessions will be eligible for discounts for tickets, so I highly encourage you to submit a proposal. Please let me know if you have any questions, or would like to connect to discuss. Best, -- Deji Olukotun Senior Global Advocacy Manager Access Now | accessnow.org tel: +1 415-935-4572 | @dejiridoo PGP: 0x6012CDA8 Fingerprint: 3AEE 4194 F70E C806 A810 857A 6AD5 8F48 6012 CDA8 *Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter on digital rights, the Access Express: accessnow.org/express <https://accessnow.org/express>*
Monday morning off-topic
by Marcin Cieslak
Hi, I had a dream today that I read on this list that Dimi was arranging a larger meeting with a Bulgarian MEP Paunova on 25 January 2016. Was it a dream only or is there something in the works? Marcin
policy debate and OER, copyright and education in the European Parliament on Nov 17
by Rebecca Kahn
Apologies for any cross-posts, but anyone in Europe, and Brussels specifically, with an interest in OER and public policy might find this interesting... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Alek Tarkowski* <atarkowski(a)centrumcyfrowe.pl> Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2015 Subject: [OER-advocacy] policy debate and OER, copyright and education in the European Parliament on Nov 17 Dear all, I am writing to inform you about a breakfast policy debate on copyright and education, which I am organising (on behalf of Centrum Cyfrowe and Communia, the European Association on the Digital Public Domain) with Michał Boni (a Polish member of the EuroParliament from the EPP Group) on the 17 November, in the European Parliament in Brussels If you are in Brussels next week, please join us. I will also be grateful if you could forward this message to any contacts that you have in Brussels, who might be interested in this event. Freedom to use educational resources in teaching is a fundamental issue in education. It can be ensured either by copyright rules or through sharing of Open Educational Resources (OER). The EC Communication on the modernisation of copyright rules has defined educational exceptions as an issue that requires action in the European reform planned for 2016. Also this month, OECD is publishing a new report on “Open Educational Resources. A Catalyst for Innovation”. The goal of our meeting is to highlight and discuss these two approaches. They are usually considered separately - I believe that in Europe, taking into account both the “Opening up Education” initiative and plans to reform copyright, it is important to formulate a strategy and recommendations for user rights in education that encompasses these two issues. The debate will take place on the 17 November at 8.00-9.30 in one of the MEP Private Salons. We would be honoured to have you as a participant. I hope that issues related to education, including open education and the effects copyright has on educators will be of interest to you. You can RSVP to Anna Stokowska (astokowska(a)centrumcyfrowe.pl <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','astokowska(a)centrumcyfrowe.pl');>). WWW: Please join us in Brussels for policy debate on copyright and education <http://oerpolicy.eu/please-join-us-in-brussels-for-policy-debate-on-copyrig…> Best, Alek Tarkowski -- dyrektor, Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska Twitter: @atarkowski WWW: centrumcyfrowe.pl / creativecommons.pl polecam: uwolnij.podrecznik.org / otwartawiedza.pl / otwartengo.pl / otwartezabytki.pl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OER Advocacy Coalition" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to oer-advocacy-coalition+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','oer-advocacy-coalition%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com');> . To post to this group, send email to oer-advocacy-coalition(a)googlegroups.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','oer-advocacy-coalition(a)googlegroups.com');>. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oer-advocacy-coalition. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Should we oppose the TPP with legislative policy advocacy?
by James Salsman
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/06/clock-ticking-time-bom… https://twitter.com/fightfortheftr/status/662747651431993344 Does the Foundation intend to lobby for at least reservations allowing the projects to survive and thrive?
Fwd: [Edri-ip] Leaked EU Commission draft - Copyright Framework
by Owen Blacker
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kirsten Fiedler <kirsten.fiedler(a)edri.org> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 at 16:07 Subject: [Edri-ip] Leaked EU Commission draft - Copyright Framework To: <edri-ip(a)mailman.edri.org> ... has been seen by the Register (no link to the document): http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/05/ec_copyright_framework_leak/ Best, Kirsten _______________________________________________ Edri-ip mailing list Edri-ip(a)mailman.edri.org http://mailman.edri.org/mailman/listinfo/edri-ip
Leaked draft for the December 9 Communication of the European Commission on copyright
by Mathias Schindler
Hi, a draft version of the communication is circulating: https://docs.google.com/document/d/124I-_hlVFYQe7RV7ZEgWrW0czq-IWyax8vSy4bo… You might find it interesting that the "panorama" exception (their words) has been used to highlight issues with cross border exchange of content. (Section 3) Mathias
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By Liverpool Offside Archives Jan 23, 2008, 12:06am GMT
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As Nick mentioned briefly on the Man Utd blog, the Red Devils have opened up their training facilities to visiting Havant & Waterlooville. That is just incredibly nice of Uncle Al to do that.
I had to do some research about this club who are making headlines.
This is one of those feel good stories that movies are made of: the non-league team that is given a chance in a tournament to do well and now gets a glimpse of the big time. So far, they have ousted York City, Notts County, and Swansea City.
This is not a Hollywood script, because of the writer's strike obviously, or else I would say they might actually have a chance. I hope the players at H&W enjoy the experience, because playing at Anfield is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Not just anyone gets a chance for a set of cranky world class players to smash them.
I almost want to root for the little guy. I almost think that maybe in this crazy world, they have half a chance. The logic in me, however, says otherwise. Liverpool will seal H&W's FA Cup dreams with a number of goals. The worst part is that it will be another big win that we can't get excited about. Even when we win, we still draw.
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Uses of Zinc
The metal that is key to preventing corrosion
Republished from United States Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2011-3016 by S.J. Kropschot and Jeff L. Doebrich
Zinc: Refined zinc metal is bluish-white when freshly cast; it is hard and brittle at most temperatures and has relatively low melting and boiling points.
Historic Uses of Zinc
Centuries before it was identified as an element, zinc was used to make brass (an alloy of zinc and copper) and for medicinal purposes. Metallic zinc and zinc oxide were produced in India sometime between the 11th and 14th centuries and in China in the 17th century, although the discovery of pure metallic zinc is credited to the German chemist Andreas Marggraf, who isolated the element in 1746.
Sphalerite: The Primary Ore
Sphalerite (zinc sulfide) is the primary ore mineral from which most of the world's zinc is produced, but a number of other minerals that do not contain sulfide contain zinc as a major component. Much of the early zinc production was from nonsulfide deposits; however, as these resources were exhausted, production shifted to sulfide deposits. In the past 30 years, advances in extractive metallurgy have resulted in renewed interest in nonsulfide zinc deposits.
Zinc galvanizing: About one-half of the zinc that is produced is used in zinc galvanizing, which is the process of adding thin layers of zinc to iron or steel to prevent rusting. This photo shows the surface of a sheet of metal with a galvanized zinc coating. The different color domains across the sheet are caused by zinc crystals in different crystallographic orientations reflecting different amounts of light.
Refined Zinc Metal
Refined zinc metal is bluish-white when freshly cast; it is hard and brittle at most temperatures and has relatively low melting and boiling points. Zinc alloys readily with other metals and is chemically active. On exposure to air, it develops a thin gray oxide film (patina), which inhibits deeper oxidation (corrosion) of the metal. The metal's resistance to corrosion is an important characteristic in its use.
Zinc alloys: The second-leading use of zinc is as an alloy; the zinc is combined with copper (to form brass) and with other metals to form materials that are used in automobiles, electrical components, and household fixtures. Brass fixture
Uses of Zinc Today
Zinc is currently the fourth most widely consumed metal in the world after iron, aluminum, and copper. It has strong anticorrosive properties and bonds well with other metals. Consequently, about one-half of the zinc that is produced is used in zinc galvanizing, which is the process of adding thin layers of zinc to iron or steel to prevent rusting.
The next leading use of zinc is as an alloy; the zinc is combined with copper (to form brass) and with other metals to form materials that are used in automobiles, electrical components, and household fixtures. A third significant use of zinc is in the production of zinc oxide (the most important zinc chemical by production volume), which is used in rubber manufacturing and as a protective skin ointment.
Zinc is also important for health. It is a necessary element for the proper growth and development of humans, animals, and plants. The adult human body contains between 2 and 3 grams of zinc, which is the amount needed for the body's enzymes and immune system to function properly. It is also important for taste, smell, and to heal wounds. Trace amounts of zinc occur in many foods, such as oysters, beef, and peanuts.
Zinc oxide: The third significant use of zinc is in the production of zinc oxide (the most important zinc chemical by production volume), which is used in rubber manufacturing and as a protective skin ointment. Zinc oxide
Where Does Zinc Come From?
Research to better understand the geologic processes that form mineral deposits, including those of zinc, is an important component of the USGS Mineral Resources Program. Zinc is commonly found in mineral deposits along with other base metals, such as copper and lead. Zinc deposits are broadly classified on the basis of how they are formed. Zinc is produced mainly from three types of deposits: sedimentary exhalative (Sedex), Mississippi Valley type (MVT), and volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS).
Zinc production map: World top zinc producers in percent of global supply produced in 2010. Image based upon data in the United States Geological Survey Mineral Commodity Summary, January 2011.
Sedimentary Exhalative Deposits
Sedex deposits account for more than 50 percent of the world's zinc resources and are formed when metal-rich hydrothermal fluids are released into a water-filled basin (usually an ocean), resulting in the precipitation of ore-bearing material within basin-floor sediments. The world's largest zinc mine, the Red Dog mine in Alaska, is developed in a Sedex deposit.
Mississippi Valley Type Deposits
MVT deposits are found throughout the world and get their name from deposits that occur in the Mississippi Valley region of the United States. The deposits are characterized by ore mineral replacement of the carbonate host rock; they are often confined to a single stratigraphic layer and extend over hundreds of square kilometers. MVT deposits were a major source of zinc in the United States from the 19th century through the mid-20th century.
Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits
In contrast to Sedex and MVT deposits, VMS deposits have a clear association with submarine volcanic processes. They also can contain significant amounts of copper, gold, and silver in addition to zinc and lead. The "black smoker" sea vents discovered during deep ocean expeditions are examples of VMS deposits being formed on the sea floor today.
Zinc Production and Reserves
Country Production Reserves
United States 720 12,000
Australia 1,450 53,000
Bolivia 430 6,000
Canada 670 6,000
China 3,500 42,000
India 750 11,000
Ireland 350 2,000
Kazakhstan 480 16,000
Mexico 550 15,000
Peru 1,520 23,000
Other Countries 1,580 62,000
Total (rounded) 12,000 250,000
Data is in thousand metric tons. Data from USGS Mineral Commodity Summary, January 2011.
Worldwide Supply of and Demand for Zinc
In 2009, zinc was mined in six different States; however, the United States imported 76 percent of the refined zinc used domestically, primarily from Canada, Mexico, Kazakhstan, and the Republic of Korea, in descending order. Worldwide zinc consumption remained steady in 2008, as increased consumption in countries with emerging markets (such as China, Brazil, and India) offset declining consumption in Europe and the United States, according to International Lead and Zinc Study Group statistics.
Although many elements can be used as a substitute for zinc in chemical, electronic, and pigment applications, the demand for zinc galvanized products remains strong, especially in regions where significant infrastructure projects are being developed. The dramatic increase in the world's production (supply) and consumption (demand) of zinc in the past 35 years reflects demand in the transportation and communications sectors for such things as automobile bodies, highway barriers, and galvanized iron structures.
1 Production and consumption of zinc
2 Assessment of undiscovered deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States
3 Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc deposit model
4 Sedimentary exhalative zinc-lead-gold deposit model
5 Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit model
Ensuring Adequate Supplies of Zinc for the Future
To help predict where future zinc supplies might be located, USGS scientists study how and where identified zinc resources are concentrated in the Earth's crust and use that knowledge to assess the likelihood that undiscovered zinc resources exist. Techniques to assess mineral resource potential have been developed and refined by the USGS to support the stewardship of Federal lands and to better evaluate mineral resource availability in a global context.
In the 1990s, the USGS conducted an assessment of U.S. zinc resources and concluded that twice as much zinc remained to be found as had already been discovered. Specifically, the USGS found that less than 100 million metric tons of zinc had been discovered in the United States and estimated that about 210 million metric tons of zinc remained undiscovered.
Mineral resource assessments are dynamic. Because they provide a snapshot at a particular time and level of knowledge, the assessments must be updated as better data become available and new concepts are developed. For example, during reconnaissance geologic investigations in the late 1960s, USGS geologists noted the presence of widespread iron-oxide staining in the drainages of the western Brooks Range, Alaska.
The Red Dog Lead-Zinc Deposit
Followup studies led to the discovery of the Red Dog lead-zinc deposit. In late 1990, after 10 years of exploration and development work, the Red Dog mine in Alaska went into production and has since contributed greatly to the global zinc supply. Subsequent investigations of the area have resulted in a better understanding of the complex factors that controlled the formation of Red Dog and other deposits and provide the basis for assessment of similar deposits in similar geologic environments elsewhere. Other current research by the USGS involves updating mineral deposit models and mineral environmental models for zinc and other important nonfuel commodities and improving the techniques used to assess for concealed mineral resource potential. The results of this research will provide new information and decrease the amount of uncertainty in future mineral resource assessments.
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Tawney, R. H. (Richard Henry), 1880-1962. In one of the classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices. He does this by a relentless tracking of the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, 1926. R.H. Tawney. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. Max WeberBoth are classics in the literature of economic social science.Tawney was born in 1880 in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and in 1960 was buried at Highgate Cemetery, North London, today a de facto nature reserve. He wore many hats: economic historian, social critic, ethical
URL: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AFY9568.0001.001 [unavailable for reprint] Religion and the Rise of Capitalism is more pertinent now than ever, as today the dividing line between the spheres of religion and secular business is shifting, blending ethical considerations with the motivations of the marketplace.
2/10/2015В В· In his 1926 book Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, Tawney, a lecturer at the London School of Economics, surveys late medieval and early modern justifications that reconciled a pious livelihood with financial gains. A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalism. In one of the true classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices.
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism is even more pertinent now than when it first was published; for today it is clearer that the dividing line between spheres of religion and secular business is shifting, that economic interests and ethical considerations are no longer safely locked in separate compartments. In one of the truly great classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices.
User Review - Flag as inappropriate. Selected by Raghuram Rajan: One of the books that has influenced my thinking on business is Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926) by R.H. Tawney, the British economic historian and social critic, whose most important work was done in the inter-war period. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism is even more pertinent now than when it first was published; for today it is clearer that the dividing line between spheres of religion and secular business is shifting, that economic interests and ethical considerations are no longer safely locked in separate compartments.
Richard Tawney was born in Calcutta, India, in 1880. He was a student at Rugby and at Balliol College , Oxford, obtained a degree in modern history. After university he worked at Toynbee Hall and in 1905 joined the executive committee of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA). Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926) was his classic work and made his reputation as an historian. It explored the relationship between Protestantism and …
2/10/2015В В· In his 1926 book Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, Tawney, a lecturer at the London School of Economics, surveys late medieval and early modern justifications that reconciled a pious livelihood with financial gains. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926) Practically, the Church was an immense vested interest, implicated to the hilt in the economic fabric, especially on the side of agriculture and land tenure.
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism R.H. Tawney. RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM A HISTORICAL STUDY (Holland Memorial Lectures, 1922) by R. H. TAWNEY Reader in Economic History, University of London; Sometime Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford A MENTOR BOOK Published by THE NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY, Tawney, R. (1998). Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. New York: Routledge. ABOUT THIS BOOK In one of the truly great classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices. He does this by a relentless tracking of the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle ….
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism is even more pertinent now than when it first was published; for today it is clearer that the dividing line between spheres of religion and secular business is shifting, that economic interests and ethical considerations are no longer safely locked in separate compartments. 4/07/2007В В· Tawney held several senior posts in the organisation including vice-president (1920-28) and president (1928-44). A member of the Union of Democratic Control in the First World War , Tawney became a lecturer at the London School of Economics in 1917.
The deaths of R. H. Tawney and Hugh Gaitskell occurred so close together that they provide an apt symbol for the end of a period in the history of the British Labour Movement. It was a period in which the Right wing of the Labour Party was hard put to it to provide a rationale […] In one of the truly great classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices.
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In Richard Henry Tawney …has also become a classic: Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926). It argued that it was the individualism and the ethic of hard work and thrift of Calvinist Protestantism that had fostered industrial organization and an efficient workforce in northern Europe. These included The Acquisitive Society (1921), Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926), and Equality (1931). Richard Tawney was also a prolific writer of articles (many of which were published in the Manchester Guardian).
8/03/2011В В· First talk on "The Social Organism," from Tawney's "Religion and the Rise of Capitalism" 4/07/2007В В· Tawney held several senior posts in the organisation including vice-president (1920-28) and president (1928-44). A member of the Union of Democratic Control in the First World War , Tawney became a lecturer at the London School of Economics in 1917.
Richard Tawney was born in Calcutta, India, in 1880. He was a student at Rugby and at Balliol College , Oxford, obtained a degree in modern history. After university he worked at Toynbee Hall and in 1905 joined the executive committee of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA). 2/10/2015В В· In his 1926 book Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, Tawney, a lecturer at the London School of Economics, surveys late medieval and early modern justifications that reconciled a pious livelihood with financial gains.
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism is even more pertinent now than when it first was published; for today it is clearer that the dividing line between spheres of religion and secular business is shifting, that economic interests and ethical considerations are no longer safely locked in separate compartments. In 1926 Tawney published his most popular work, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, in which he used his great knowledge of early seventeenth-century English Puritan literature to reformulate a thesis previously put forward by Max Weber.
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism is even more pertinent now than when it first was published; for today it is clearer that the dividing line between spheres of religion and secular business is shifting, that economic interests and ethical considerations are no longer safely locked in separate compartments. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926) Practically, the Church was an immense vested interest, implicated to the hilt in the economic fabric, especially on the side of agriculture and land tenure.
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney; Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney. £4.68. Availability: In stock. 1969. 334 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Min... Only 1 left. Qty: Add to Bag. OR. Add to Wishlist; Make an Enquiry; Description Details. 1969. 334 Tawney, R. (1998). Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. New York: Routledge. ABOUT THIS BOOK In one of the truly great classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices. He does this by a relentless tracking of the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle …
About Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalism In one of the true classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney investigates the way religion has moulded social and economic practice. These included The Acquisitive Society (1921), Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926), and Equality (1931). Richard Tawney was also a prolific writer of articles (many of which were published in the Manchester Guardian).
Kirby, J. E. (2016). R.H. Tawney and Christian Social Teaching: Religion and the Rise of Capitalism Reconsidered. The English Historical Review By any measure, R.H. Tawney’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926) is an extraordinary book. 1 Its principal subject was the secularisation of economic thought and policy which Tawney believed had taken place in England during the seventeenth century.
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About Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalism In one of the true classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney investigates the way religion has moulded social and economic practice. RELIGION & THE RISE OF CAPITALISM. A HISTORICAL STUDY, by TAWNEY R H, and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.co.uk.
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Read "Religion and the Rise of Capitalism" by R. H. Tawney with Rakuten Kobo. A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalism In one of the true classics User Review - Flag as inappropriate. Selected by Raghuram Rajan: One of the books that has influenced my thinking on business is Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926) by R.H. Tawney, the British economic historian and social critic, whose most important work was done in the inter-war period.
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RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM- A HISTORICAL STUDY by R. H. TAWNEY. Originally published in 1922. From The Holland Memorial Lectures. PREFATORY NOTE: THE friends of the late Henry Scott Holland founded alectureship in his memory, the Deed of Foundation laying it down that a course of lectures, to be called the Holland Memorial Lectures 8/03/2011В В· First talk on "The Social Organism," from Tawney's "Religion and the Rise of Capitalism"
Religion And the Rise of Capitalism (Pelican) by Tawney, R.H. and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.co.uk. RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM A HISTORICAL STUDY (Holland Memorial Lectures, 1922) by R. H. TAWNEY Reader in Economic History, University of London; Sometime Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford A MENTOR BOOK Published by THE NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY
URL: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AFY9568.0001.001 [unavailable for reprint] In one of the true classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices. He tracks the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle Ages, shedding light on the question of
18/06/2008В В· Written in 1926, it is an important work in the fields of sociology, history, economics and religion. The book is filled with quotes from maybe hundreds of primary sources, and relates all the majore political, economic, and religious events from 1500-1700 26/12/2016В В· Religion and Art should not be mixed: Umer sharif on Amir Khan issue 13:20 Dr. Zakir Naik Excellent Reply to Questions About Different Religions Raised in PK Film
Résumé Religion and the Rise of Capitalism In one of the truly great classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney addresses the question of how religion has affected social and economic practices. By any measure, R.H. Tawney’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926) is an extraordinary book. 1 Its principal subject was the secularisation of economic thought and policy which Tawney believed had taken place in England during the seventeenth century.
4/07/2007В В· Tawney held several senior posts in the organisation including vice-president (1920-28) and president (1928-44). A member of the Union of Democratic Control in the First World War , Tawney became a lecturer at the London School of Economics in 1917. In 1926 Tawney published his most popular work, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, in which he used his great knowledge of early seventeenth-century English Puritan literature to reformulate a thesis previously put forward by Max Weber.
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney; Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney. ВЈ4.68. Availability: In stock. 1969. 334 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Min... Only 1 left. Qty: Add to Bag. OR. Add to Wishlist; Make an Enquiry; Description Details. 1969. 334 Religion and the Rise of Capitalism is even more pertinent now than when it first was published; for today it is clearer that the dividing line between spheres of religion and secular business is shifting, that economic interests and ethical considerations are no longer safely locked in separate compartments.
THE LIFE OF R H TAWNEY Download The Life Of R H Tawney ebook PDF or Read Online books in PDF, EPUB, and Mobi Format. Click Download or Read Online button to THE LIFE OF R H TAWNEY book pdf for free now. Read "Religion and the Rise of Capitalism" by R. H. Tawney with Rakuten Kobo. A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalism In one of the true classics
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Cabo Verde attends 24th Macau International Fair with 22 companies
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Cabo Verde plans to attend the 24th Macau International Fair (24MIF) from 17 to 19 October, with 22 private companies exhibiting their products, services and seeking new partnerships and business opportunities, the president of Cabo Verde Trade Invest said in Praia on Thursday.
Ana Barber noted that Cabo Verde was the “partner country” of this year’s edition of MIF and that the invitation had been made by the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), which aims to take advantage of the platform and explore business opportunities between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries (PLP), focusing on Macau’s advantages as a Platform for Trade Cooperation Services between China and the PLP.
The chairman of the Cape Verdean trade and investment promotion agency said that during the event Cabo Verde, which will have a 140 square metre pavilion, will present business opportunities in the archipelago, promote “Made in Cabo Verde” products and services and look for new partnerships.
Barber said this year there was a strong commitment by private companies to this mission, “which means that entrepreneurs and the private sector are being active and working to find new markets, solutions, new opportunities and new partnerships,” according to the Inforpress news agency.
The companies present at MIF are linked to the agribusiness, commerce, services, cosmetics, textile, food and beverage industry and the islands of Boa Vista, which is participating with one company, São Vicente with two, Santiago 16, Sal two and Fogo with one company.
On the sidelines of the event, higher education cooperation protocols will be signed between Cabo Verde Trade Invest and the China Recovery and Development Fund for the PLP and between the National Association of Cabo Verde Travel and Tourism Agencies and its Macau counterpart. (Macauhub)
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Home Medicine Viruses & Vaccines How Effective was the Flu Vaccine in the 2015-2016 Season?
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How Effective was the Flu Vaccine in the 2015-2016 Season?
The exact composition of the flu vaccine changes from year to year. A group of researchers from the United States determine the effectiveness of the flu vaccine for the 2015-2016 season.
Influenza, commonly called the flu, is a common illness experienced during cold months. Flu vaccines have been developed in order to reduce the incidence of this viral infection. However, in 2014, the Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Network reported that the available quadrivalent live attenuated flu vaccine was ineffective against certain strains of influenza among children.
In an article recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a group of researchers in the United States did a study to determine the flu vaccine effectiveness during the 2015–2016 flu season. A total of 6,789 participants aged at least six months presenting with cough of fewer than seven days duration at ambulatory care clinics in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, and Washington were included in the study. Records of all participants were reviewed to determine the history of influenza vaccination. Researchers also obtained combined oropharyngeal and nasal swab specimens to confirm infection with influenza virus. Influenza virus-positive specimens were then sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to determine the strain responsible for the infection.
The results show that out of 6,789 participants, 19% tested positive for influenza virus, with 11% from the virus strain A(H1N1)pdm09 and 7% from Influenza B. Overall, flu vaccine effectiveness against all strains of influenza was determined to be 48%. Among children aged 2-17 years, the live attenuated vaccine was not found to be effective against influenza while the inactivated vaccine was observed to be 60% effective.
Overall, the inactivated flu vaccine was found to be effective during the 2015-2016 season. However, the live attenuated vaccine was not found to be effective in children. Because of these findings, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made an interim recommendation not to use the live attenuated vaccine for 2016-2017 influenza season.
Written by Karla Sevilla
Resource: Jackson, M., et al. (2017). Influenza vaccine effectiveness in the United States during the 2015-2016 season. The New England Journal of Medicine. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1700153
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May 29, 2019 May 29, 2019 by John Walters
Tweet Me Right
This is one of the craziest lightning strikes you’ll ever see. pic.twitter.com/KPjA0U7auq
— Kansas City Media (@KansasCityMedia) May 27, 2019
Climate Change Gonna Necessitate Primate Change
–In the past 30 days, federal weather forecasters have logged reports of 500 tornadoes from the Great Plains states eastward to Ohio. And even if those numbers may be inflated due to multiple reports of the same tornado occasionally, that’s quite the alarming figure.
–The past year was the wettest on record in some cities in the northeast.
–Meanwhile, as the Arctic Circle thaws, China is not viewing that development as alarming but rather as an opportunity to find new sources of energy and for a top of the world maritime route. Greeeeeaaaaaat.
–And then there’s the White House, which has gone from refuting arguments of scientists to now not even funding the types of reports that allow scientists to demonstrate what the effects of climate change and and a rapidly warming planet will be. Nothing to see here.
He’s screwed now. Your kids will be screwed in 30 years.
It’s absolutely fascinating, and also severely depressing, to be witnessing these developments while also watching HBO’s Chernobyl. What did the nuclear engineer who was in charge of the room that initiated the error that caused the explosion say to the investigator who insisted that she was not aiming to assign blame but only find out the truth? “There is no truth,” he said, which is basically the first rule of being a Trump apparatchik.
At least in Chernobyl they got religion, so to speak.
In the mid-1980s the Soviet Union, one of the world’s two most truth-averse and totalitarian nations (along with China), was finally compelled to act on the devastation its own workers had wrought for the good of its people. To watch the show is to see a lone nuclear physicist, played by Jared Harris, stand up to both General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and the KGB because he knew that he knew, far better than they did, what the catastrophic effects of nuclear radiation were.
So you’re saying we were negligent?
And give Gorbachev a little credit, too. As much as he hated to do so, he listened. And he committed the resources to cleaning up as much as was possible.
No such leadership exists in the United States today. We could tender a guess as to the reason: oil money. Look at the two foreign governments to whom the president and, by extension, the Republican party, are most beholden to: Saudi Arabia and Russia. What’s that all about? Oil money.
The moment you admit climate change is a problem that must be dealt with, you are pinning the blame on oil. And if you’re going to do something about that problem, really attempt to solve it, you’re going to have to find an alternative source of energy, which is to say that you’re going to pull your mouth away from the teat you’ve been sucking on for decades.
So the world will slowly burn, tornadoes and hurricanes will become more commonplace, federal money will be sent to those places (because tornadoes and flooding seem to happen a lot in rural areas that have a major boner for Trump, if you hadn’t noticed), produce and livestock prices will go up, the economy will dive and eventually the catastrophe will be so horrible that America will put a Democrat in the White House and demand, “Do something about these dire circumstances!”
Haven’t we all seen this movie before? And wasn’t it not that long ago? Except that climate change is far worse than a global financial crisis.
Call me an optimist, but I’m somewhat heartened by the words of Harris’ character Valery Legasov, who notes that the devastastion they’ve wrought could last for 24,000 years. Is that all? Seems a small punishment to pay for mankind spoiling the beauty of the planet. If you could wipe out mankind but pledge that the earth could make a fresh start in less than 25 millennia? I’d take that deal. You know why? Because we all know the nature of man, and in particular the nature of the man in the White House: man (and the president) will not act to solve a problem until it’s far past time to solve that problem.
Just ask Stormy Daniels.
As details emerged about the sale of Sports Illustrated to the same company that owns Juicy Couture, there was an undeniable touch of melancholy and regret among those of us who were lucky enough to work there before the internet. After Jamie Salter, the founder and CEO of the Iowa-based company that bought SI, said that he envisioned a wide-ranging array of possibilities for branding that even included “medical clinics,” one former SI scribe quipped, “They do realize that Dr. Z wasn’t a real doctor, don’t they?”
Also, Dr. Z., a.k.a. Paul Zimmerman, is dead.
It’s funny. When I arrived at SI in the summer of 1989 I was introduced to a computer system (I’d never spent more than a few minutes on a computer prior) that had an ATEX feature. What ATEX was, and we loved it, was a way for us to send messages back and forth to one another on a computer. We didn’t even have to pick up the phone!
The world was already changing, but unlike ATEX, most advances in technology would only come at a steep price for the publication that was celebrating its 35th anniversary that summer. ESPN’s SportCenter was picking up momentum, replacing your local TV sports guy. SportsCenter showed highlights from every game, not just the ones your hometown team played.
Then the internet came along. The idea of waiting until Thursday to read about the most important sporting event (The Masters, the Super Bowl, the Olympics) that had taken place the previous week ending Sunday suddenly became as preposterous as it must sound to you reading this if you were born after 1990.
And so, as for SI, we must ask the question the magazine has asked every July for more than 20 years: Where are they now?
We plucked this telling item from The Washington Post:
Asked specifically whether Sports Illustrated would prioritize investigative stories, Salter wrote: “Sports Illustrated will continue to be a resource for its readers, providing up-to-the-minute sports news and coverage, thoughtful analysis, and entertaining stories. Our partnership with Meredith is key in continuing to re-build Sports Illustrated into a global platform while disseminating information with integrity and respect.”
That’s not a yes.
You cannot serve two masters. There’s a reason Time-Life publications such as SI used to bang the “separation of church and state” drum so frequently and fervently. Yesterday, SI took its latest step, and perhaps its last, in crossing over to church and state being one and the same.
All Over Again In The Family
We missed last week’s live All In The Family episode, but it got us to thinking about the lyrics and how, 49 years after the series premiered, so little has changed. Remember, these characters are parents who came of age during the Depression and World War II singing these words (we’ve added some updated edits to demonstrate the timeliness of the song in 2019):
Boy the way Glen Miller played, (Elton? Billy Joel?)
Songs that made the hit parade, (American Top 40 with Casey Kasem)
Guys like us we had it made, (“Guys like us” = white males)
Those were the days,
And you know where you were then,
Girls were girls and men were men, (No transgender bathrooms)
Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again, (Ronald Reagan)
Didn’t need no welfare states (farming subsidies)
Everybody pulled his weight, (or inherited their wealth)
Gee our old Lasalle ran great, (Dodge Dart)
Far Hampton*
*The judges enthusiastically approve all references to “How I Met Your Mother”
From Little Elm in east Texas to New Zealand in the south Pacific. Why not? R.J. Hampton, a 6’4″ 5-star guard who was poised to choose between the Longhorns and Kansas, has instead announced that he’ll be playing for the New Zealand Breakers next winter in the National Basketball League.
The NBL has 9 teams, eight of which are based in Australia. The closest NBL city to Auckland, where the Breakers are based, is Sydney, which is more than 1,300 miles away. Kinda like flying from New York to New Orleans. The furthest is Perth, which is located about 3,500 miles away. Kinda like flying from Dallas to Honolulu.
Who’s to say whether Hampton is making the right move or not? It’s certainly going to be an adventure, and the NBL season roughly corresponds to a Division I season both in terms of number of games played and time of year. Hampton just won’t have as many of his sweet dimes appear on SportsCenter‘s “Top Plays.”
Oldie But A Goodie
If you find yourself in Las Vegas over the next two weeks, you have a chance to catch Postmodern Jukebox, Scott Bradlee’s rotating band of talented vocalists and musicians who put more classic spins on popular music, perform live. Bradlee, the pianist in most every PMJ video, the sum of which have garnered more than one billion views, was a struggling jazz pianist from New Jersey living in Queens when he hatched the idea for these incredibly addictive videos. We’re hooked.
PMJ has been doing these videos for more than seven years now, but here’s a favorite: Invited by Cosmopolitan mag to come to their offices and do a mash-up of the most popular songs from 2013, Bradlee and friends (including the very popular “Tambourine Guy”) rendered this in just one take.
PMJ definitely has a following, but we won’t rest until we’ve made you sick of us heaping praise on the outfit.
(One of our favorite examples of PMJ’s genius. There are dozens of PMJ covers on YouTube.)
2 thoughts on “IT’S ALL HAPPENING!”
I would be distraught over SI right now but that role is, er, “being played” at the moment by the ENDING of my co-beloved MONEY magazine! Also owned by HEINOUS MEREDITH CORP. The final issue arrived in my mailbox yesterday. I immediately called their “Customer Service” to find out when I’d receive a REFUND check for my now-defunct subscription & get this, they WERE going to just “transfer” the subscription to another one of their magazines! Without asking! I said “HELL NO, SEND ME MY MONEY!” I’m to get a check in 3 weeks.
At least SI is supposedly going to continue as an actual magazine for 2 years…. I guess what is happening is actually WORSE than for Money mag, as that is to continue as an online version, with many of their writers continuing while SI has been sold to a complete non-publishing entity who really only cares about whoring the name out to the highest bidders. OMG, it MAKES ME WEEP! For a lifelong mag junkie such as myself, this turn of events had me wishing all last night I could go back in time (sorta like in The Terminator movies) &, ahem, “remove” all those involved in the birth of the internet! Yes, I realize the irony of writing such a wish ON THE INTERNET! sigh.
I BLAME MILLENNIALS! Would it KILL them to take their eyes off their phones & instead, enjoy the sweet sensation of flipping the glossy pages of a magazine or two? BTW, did you know that they are to pass the Boomers this year in population? Yep, my “tribe” is dying off, day after day, POSSIBLY due to all the angst & grief caused by the Millennials! 😉
If not for the fact that my beloved Sweet Pea WILLINGLY adjoined himself to that hated clusterf*k of a team (oh my gawd, why, WHHYYYYY?!), I’d have been thoroughly enjoying the past 6 weeks of publicized proof that the Lakers are the ‘Titanic of the Hardwood’. Arrogance? check. Hubris? check. Refusing to believe that the ship is goin’ down even when the stern is 100 feet up in the air? check. Heck, they’re ALL a bunch of liars! And piss-poor at their jobs! And back-stabbers! That Mr “I don’t make mistakes” Tragic Johnson (LOL!) whines about “back-stabbing” when he has REPEATEDLY stuck the knife into his supposed beloved “sister” Jeannie Buss would take the prize if not for the “mistakes” quote. Just in that one job, the list of his mistakes is almost too numerous to count. And then there’s all his PREVIOUS FAILURES : coach (terrible), talk-show host (dreadful), TV NBA “analyst” (as ‘penetrating’ as he is shallow).
I realize many of the anonymous sources in the most recent article have agendas & to believe all would make one naïve if not downright stoopid, but do I believe Magic Johnson would be a HEINOUS boss? Absolutely. Not only is he a screamer & a bully behind closed doors but a guy who will grab ALL THE GLORY of a job well done & accept NO responsibility for minor mistakes let alone total failure. The WORST kind of boss (well, excluding sexual harassers). Once upon a time, I liked Magic Johnson; for his basketball skills but also his personality which SEEMED in minute TV flashes & sound bites as an all-around, super-enthusiastic nice guy. Well, the more I saw & listened to him on TV in his NBA-analyst role several years ago, the more I saw his image was fake.
Anyhoo, what are the chances ,er, LBJ blows that popstand? If they don’t get a BIG star to join him this summer? I’m thinking 90%! Would he really want to live thru that hell AGAIN?
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COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic has a natural origin
By: Scripps Research Institute
Website: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200317175442.htm
The novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that emerged in the city of Wuhan, China, last year and has since caused a large scale COVID-19 epidemic and spread to more than 70 other countries is the product of natural evolution, according to findings published today in the journal Nature Medicine.
The analysis of public genome sequence data from SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise engineered.
"By comparing the available genome sequence data for known coronavirus strains, we can firmly determine that SARS-CoV-2 originated through natural processes," said Kristian Andersen, PhD, an associate professor of immunology and microbiology at Scripps Research and corresponding author on the paper.
In addition to Andersen, authors on the paper, "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2," include Robert F. Garry, of Tulane University; Edward Holmes, of the University of Sydney; Andrew Rambaut, of University of Edinburgh; W. Ian Lipkin, of Columbia University.
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that can cause illnesses ranging widely in severity. The first known severe illness caused by a coronavirus emerged with the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in China. A second outbreak of severe illness began in 2012 in Saudi Arabia with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
On December 31 of last year, Chinese authorities alerted the World Health Organization of an outbreak of a novel strain of coronavirus causing severe illness, which was subsequently named SARS-CoV-2. As of February 20, 2020, nearly 167,500 COVID-19 cases have been documented, although many more mild cases have likely gone undiagnosed. The virus has killed over 6,600 people.
Shortly after the epidemic began, Chinese scientists sequenced the genome of SARS-CoV-2 and made the data available to researchers worldwide. The resulting genomic sequence data has shown that Chinese authorities rapidly detected the epidemic and that the number of COVID-19 cases have been increasing because of human to human transmission after a single introduction into the human population. Andersen and collaborators at several other research institutions used this sequencing data to explore the origins and evolution of SARS-CoV-2 by focusing in on several tell-tale features of the virus.
The scientists analyzed the genetic template for spike proteins, armatures on the outside of the virus that it uses to grab and penetrate the outer walls of human and animal cells. More specifically, they focused on two important features of the spike protein: the receptor-binding domain (RBD), a kind of grappling hook that grips onto host cells, and the cleavage site, a molecular can opener that allows the virus to crack open and enter host cells.
Evidence for natural evolution
The scientists found that the RBD portion of the SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins had evolved to effectively target a molecular feature on the outside of human cells called ACE2, a receptor involved in regulating blood pressure. The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein was so effective at binding the human cells, in fact, that the scientists concluded it was the result of natural selection and not the product of genetic engineering.
This evidence for natural evolution was supported by data on SARS-CoV-2's backbone -- its overall molecular structure. If someone were seeking to engineer a new coronavirus as a pathogen, they would have constructed it from the backbone of a virus known to cause illness. But the scientists found that the SARS-CoV-2 backbone differed substantially from those of already known coronaviruses and mostly resembled related viruses found in bats and pangolins.
"These two features of the virus, the mutations in the RBD portion of the spike protein and its distinct backbone, rules out laboratory manipulation as a potential origin for SARS-CoV-2" said Andersen.
Josie Golding, PhD, epidemics lead at UK-based Wellcome Trust, said the findings by Andersen and his colleagues are "crucially important to bring an evidence-based view to the rumors that have been circulating about the origins of the virus (SARS-CoV-2) causing COVID-19."
"They conclude that the virus is the product of natural evolution," Goulding adds, "ending any speculation about deliberate genetic engineering."
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THURSDAY, Dec. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Quitting smoking is especially important during pregnancy, and now a new study suggests that when it comes to kicking the habit, cash may be just the incentive some women need.
The study results suggest progressive financial rewards for smoking abstinence "could be implemented in the routine health care of pregnant smokers," the French researchers said. Dr. Ivan Berlin of Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière-Sorbonne Université in Paris led the study.
Despite the health risks to both mother and baby, previous research suggests that less than half of women who are daily smokers quit during pregnancy.
Berlin's team assessed whether financial incentives led to higher quit rates among 460 pregnant smokers (average age 29).
Before 18 weeks of pregnancy, women were assigned to either a financial incentive group or a control group.
During six 10-minute in-person visits, all participants were encouraged to set a quit date, given motivational counseling, and supported to prevent relapse.
Women in the control group received a $23 (U.S.) voucher at the end of each visit, but quitting smoking was not rewarded, so the most each could earn was about $138 (U.S.) after six visits.
Women in the incentive group could earn up to $587 (U.S.) in vouchers if they quit smoking. Abstinence was confirmed by measuring carbon monoxide levels in participants' breath at each visit.
Compared to the control group, each woman in the incentive group smoked 163 fewer cigarettes, on average. The incentive group also had a much higher continuous smoking abstinence rate (16% versus 7%), and their visit-by-visit abstinence rate was four times higher.
In addition, the financial incentive group had a much longer time to smoking relapse, lower tobacco craving and a lower rate of poor neonatal outcomes (2% versus 9%), according to the report published Dec. 1 in The BMJ.
After the babies were born, the investigators found that those in the financial incentive group were about twice as likely have birth weights of 5.5 pounds or more than those in the control group.
The researchers said future studies "should assess the long-term effectiveness of financial incentives on smoking abstinence after delivery."
An editorial that accompanied the findings said the study adds to growing evidence that financial incentives should be part of standard practice to help pregnant women stop smoking. It was written by Dr. Leonieke Breunis and Dr. Jasper Been of University Medical Centre Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
The March of Dimes has more on smoking and pregnancy.
SOURCE: The BMJ, news release, Dec. 1, 2021
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Hall received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, summa cum laude, from the University of Houston in 1978. He followed this degree with two years of graduate work in the religious studies department at Rice University in Houston, Texas, before attending law school and receiving his juris doctorate, cum laude, from the University of Texas Law School in 1983. While in law school, he served as articles editor of the Texas Law Review and was selected for membership in the Order of the Coif, the nation’s leading legal honor society. Following a year as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Will Garwood, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, Hall joined the firm of Hughes & Luce in Austin, Texas, where he was a trial lawyer for five years. Subsequently, Hall served as a law professor and later as associate vice chancellor of academic affairs at the University of Mississippi from 1989 to 2007. In 2005, he was asked to assume additional responsibilities as executive director of a campaign to raise $50 million for a new law school facility at the University of Mississippi.
Both during his years as a law teacher and later as an academic administrator, Hall has been active as a scholar. He is the author of several well-known books, including Separating Church and State: Roger Williams in America (University of Illinois Press, 1998); Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary (Facts on File, 2001); American Religious Leaders (Facts on File, 2003); and Religion in America (Facts on File, 2007). He recently contributed a chapter titled “Making College Better: For Whom?,” to Joseph Devitis, ed., Making College Better: Views from the Top (Peter Lang Publishing, 2017).
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The global dance music community comes together ‘For Beirut’
Beatport ReConnect and Electronic Labor Day team up for a 12 hour fundraising live stream this weekend
Zita Chan
The aftermath of the fourth biggest explosion in history, that erased a large part of Lebanon’s history, is still being dealt with, and now with the support of the international dance music community. On top of the impact the country (and the world) has faced from COVID-19, the explosion that happened on 4 August has accumulated collateral damage that’s estimated at over $15 billion.
As they often and should do, the global dance music community has come together in a collaboration with Beatport ReConnect and Electronic Labor Day (ELD) to raise funds for rebuilding homes and humanitarian needs, as well as raise awareness for Beirut’s nightlife industry — the initiative is called ‘For Beirut’ and it takes place this weekend.
About a 100 international artists are on the line-up, with a roll call that includes Amelie Lens, Carl Cox, Danny Howard, Danny Tenaglia, Dennis Ferrer, Junior Sanchez, Derrick May, Kolsch, Luciano, Nastia, Pete Tong, Roger Sanchez and Skream. Lebanon’s connection to dance music is strong — Beirut is the home to arguably one of the best clubs in the world, an underground war bunker called B018. The 100-odd artist line-up will be programmed over 12 hours this Sunday, with the ultimate goal of raising money for three dedicated relief funds that include the Beirut Emergency Fund, Impact Lebanon and Bew’shebbek, a grassroots organisation that focuses rebuilding homes — their objective is to fix 3,000 damaged homes.
The 12 hour fundraiser aims to collect up to $500,000 that would be shared across the three aforementioned charities, which in turn support a network of locally run organisations. Having Beatport ReConnect supporting the initiative brings high hopes — the world’s largest online record store has helped raise over $350,000 since launching it’s series in March this year, while racking up 35 million views on streams.
You can start donating now, or wait till the stream kicks off at 1:58pm (Beirut Time) with a moment of silence to mark the timing of the tragic blast 40 days prior. The stream runs for 12 hours until 1:58am (8:58pm CST). Tune in and support ‘For Beirut’ here.
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President’s Column: Fun Ain’t Free
Published by Minnesota Atheists on September 26, 2014 September 26, 2014
By Eric Jayne
Fun is good. That is the mantra of Mike Veeck who co-owns the local minor league St. Paul Saints baseball team along with “team psychologist” Bill Murray. Thanks to the support and feedback from members and board officers the Minnesota Atheists offered a heaping amount of summer fun for the third year in a row by re-branding the St. Paul Saints baseball team to the secularized “Mr. Paul Aints”. We also co-sponsored another regional conference—this time with the Humanists of Minnesota.
Countless hours went into the planning of these two events. The conference planning committee consisted of Audrey Kingstrom and Scott Lohman from Humanists of Minnesota along with Stephanie Zvan, August Berkshire, and me from the Minnesota Atheists. Without their commitment and time-consuming efforts the conference would not have been possible.
Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) and Center for Inquiry provided financial support for the conference and FFRF split the St. Paul Saints sponsorship fees with the Minnesota Atheists. FFRF also helped with advertising.
The business partnership with the Saints proved to be especially helpful this year because the tweets on their Twitter page caught the attention of a few national blogs including the popular Raw Story. The Pioneer Press also featured our sponsored Night of Unbelievable Fun with the St. Paul Saints twice. One article was predominantly featured on the front page in August (after the game was over). Some other local papers – including La Crosse, WI and St. Could — picked up the front page August Pioneer Press article. After all the time and hard work that went into planning the July 11-12 weekend of unbelievable fun it was satisfying to see it all unfold with great success.
I think that Mike Veeck is right when he said “fun is good.” It’s good because it helps build community (people are drawn to pleasurable things like fun). Fun is also good because it invokes passion and creativity in groups and organizations.
If you think fun is good and you want the Minnesota Atheists to continue this trend of positive atheism please consider becoming a member, or renew your membership. Your financial support is the only thing that sustains our not-for-profit non-prophet.
If a financial contribution isn’t in your budget I hope you consider joining one of our committees. You don’t need to be a dues paying member to be on a Minnesota Atheists committee. We have a radio committee, cable TV committee, public relations committee, building committee, membership committee, and a few more.
Another idea is to attend one of our monthly volunteer service projects. A group of us pack and sort food at the Emergency Food Shelf Network (EFN) food bank in New Hope, MN. We also prepare meals at the Family Place Shelter in St. Paul which serves families without permanent housing. We will be expanding our volunteer service projects so look for more opportunities to come in the near future.
Our membership level ranges from $10 per year for a full-time student all the way to $600.00 for a lifetime member — although $666.00 would be a more fun donation.
It’s been a privilege to serve as president of Minnesota Atheists for the past two years. I couldn’t be prouder to be in this leadership position. Our unpaid, all-volunteer 501c3 organization is one that exists out of pure passion for a cause: Separation of church and state, and to promote the positive contributions of atheism.
Thank you for supporting Minnesota Atheists, and God-less America.
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President’s Column: Iconic Resolution By Alyssa Ehni Happy New Year to my fellow heathens! I hope the holiday season treated you well and that you had a very merry whatever it is that you and Read more…
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By Eric Jayne A group from Minnesota Atheists visited the Church of Scientology this past Memorial Day weekend. It was the second time we toured their building after first visiting shortly after it opened in Read more…
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Panic Stricken
in Adult Mental Wellness,Child and Adolescent Mental Wellness,Stress Coping Strategies
It all began when I was 9 years old and I choked on a piece of meat.
Fortunately, my Dad, sprang into action and dislodged the obstruction from my throat. Having now been turned off the rest of my dinner, I was excused from the table.
Consciously I was a little shaken up by the incident, but the days and weeks to follow revealed a deep trauma that had actually occurred within me. When I attempted to eat anything solid, my throat clamped shut like a spring-hinge. Feeling not terribly hungry anyway, I resorted to liquids (juice, water, and creamy soups with no big lumps). After about three weeks of this, I began to be quite hungry, and the notion came over me that I could handle boiled chicken.
“Boiled chicken?” my Mom questioned back. “Who eats boiled chicken!” But she knew that anything crispy, hard or dry would be simply repelling to me, so she boiled me up some tender chicken, which I mashed a little and managed to swallow without too much difficulty. Eventually I must have eased back into eating anything and everything, but I was soon to discover that a change had come over me, outside of eating, that would paralyze and immobilize me unexpectedly for the next 19 years to come.
I grew up always fearful of being focused on and picked on publicly, and had always felt uneasy in situations where there was the potential for someone to point and laugh at me. I had been the butt of jokes and the recipient of public mockings at the hand of someone I had trusted deeply to protect me. I had not realized, at the time, the degree to which I had become petrified of being singled out and put down. Following the choking incident, panic started coming over me in certain situations, when I was out in public. It didn’t happen all the time, and so I never could predict its arrival, which made it all the scarier for me.
The panic attacks continued, ninja-style, unannounced, throughout all of my teens and most of my twenties, until I was twenty-eight years of age.
By that time, I had built up a significant wall (no, it was more like a fortress) behind which to hide, so that no one could see the real me. I was unaware of this wall, but took every measure, sub-consciously, to have it on duty at all times. It was not a conscious decision I had come up with, to conceal myself. It was a built-in, natural defense mechanism to protect me from future public, verbal scourgings. My psyche had determined that protecting me was of life-or-death importance, so the stakes were very high.
Now, to a rational, self-aware human being, it would appear logical that being embarrassed publicly would not result in death or anything near death. After all, what is the worst that could happen? You’d feel like an idiot and then move on, right? Pretty simple.
The trouble was, I was not self-aware, and so lived in the grip of terror, not knowing what was inducing the fear, or why. Panic Disorder involves the triggering of the body’s autonomic system, releasing adrenalin and other hormones into the system in preparation for the body’s fight-or-flight from a perceived perilous situation. When real danger is present, the body needs to be able to react with beyond-normal speed, strength and intuitiveness. Yet when the danger is merely perceived, the body receives the same signal from the brain, that triggers the same amount of adrenalin as in a truly perilous situation, but because it is not really needed, the amount of the hormone arrives in overdose quantity, sending a chain reaction to all the body systems, elevating the heartrate, and sending power to all the extremeties, so that the person can run, kick, fight, and in any way, get away. Blood, and hence, oxygen, are borrowed from the brain, the heart, the lungs and from any organ that can surrender it temporarily, leaving pounding heart, shortness of breath, and the inability to think straight in the moment.
And all this, because of a perceived danger, that the unconscious mind has picked up on, but to which the conscious mind is not privy.
One thing is certain: the unconscious mind, responsible for all of this, believes there is something HUGE at stake, that is life-threatening. My task was to figure out what that was, so I could reprogram my mind to process the same situation as non-life-threatening.
The answer for me came about all quite by accident. I had sat with several Christian women to whom I had grown very close and trusted deeply, and during one of our times together, we were sharing about how transparency in relationships enables the iron closet of hidden secrets to be purged, the conscience to be cleansed, forgiveness to be sought, and relationship bonds to be strengthened. We all shared, one by one, about the deepest, darkest, most rotten, dirty little secrets we had stored up in ourselves throughout our lives. Assured that this was how I could deepen my relationship with God and find forgiveness for what I had done not only to humans but also to Christ, I poured out every last detail I could think of, of every single moment I had lived. The cleansing felt unbelievably scary, but I had no idea at the time that the reward would be as monumental as it turned out to be.
It was perhaps months down the road before I began noticing that certain settings that would have triggered a panic attack in the past, were no longer doing so. I continued to walk in my new mindset of transparency, allowing who I truly was to be seen, so nothing new would get stashed away, guarded inside any locked and hidden pressure-cooker like before. Miraculously, no panic attack every struck again.
What I will say, though, is that there have been moments when I have felt the precursors to a panic attack….that uneasy, tense and guarded feeling of high-alert and an unreasonable sense of fear (in comparison to the real danger at hand) when I have been in certain public situations. As soon as I picked up on those signals, I stopped immediately and consciously removed the protective guard, that mask that I hid behind for so many years, and allowed myself to be consciously vulnerable to potential embarrassment and even deep humiliation. What if someone laughs at me? What if I make a complete moron of myself? What if people look down on me and gossip about me? What is the worst that will happen?
This self-awareness and willingness to be completely transparent now calms me profoundly. I let the embarrassment in, picturing myself opening the front door and letting the wind flow right through me, and right out the open back door. I no longer lock and latch and press on that front door, trying with everything in me to keep the intruder of humiliation out. I now invite it in, like a best friend, to come an linger inside me and spend time with me. The more I invite it, though, the less power it has over me, and it slips quietly out the back door.
If you or someone you know has ever existed in the prison of fear, dread or panic, whether fear of heights, fear of flying, fear of anything perceived or real, I welcome you to visit the site of Dr. Reid Wilson, who has a free program on overcoming fear, Panic Disorder, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. You can work on the online program at home, at your own pace. I applaud him for continuing to make this resource free. It speaks of his commitment to being a great humanitarian first and foremost, by helping as many fear-crippled people as he can. His site, anxieties.com, is located at www.anxieties.com.
Tagged as: Anxiety, Life Crisis, Mindfulness Meditation, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Panic Attack, Stress
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Edgard Varèse
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Ionisation for Percussion Ensemble of 13 Players, PDF.
"The Liberation of Sound", ed. & notes Chou Wen-chung, Perspectives of New Music 5:1 (Autumn-Winter 1966), pp 11-19, PDF, HTML; repr. in Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music, eds. Elliott Schwartz and Barney Childs, New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1967, pp 195-208, PDF; abridged repr. in Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, eds. Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner, New York: Continuum, 2004, pp 17-21, PDF. Excerpts from lectures given in 1936, 1939, 1959 and 1962.
Entretiens avec Edgar Varèse par Georges Charbonnier (1954-55), ed. Pierre Belfond, 1970. (in French)
Écrits, ed. Christian Bourgois, 1983. (in French)
Henry Cowell, "The Music of Edgar Varese", Modern Music 5:2 (1928), PDF.
Chou Wen-Chung, "Varèse: A Sketch of the Man and His Music", Musical Quarterly 52 (1966), pp 151-170.
Frank Zappa, "Edgard Varese: The Idol of My Youth", Stereo Review (Jun 1971), pp 61-62, HTML.
David Reed Bloch, The Music of Edgard Varèse, Yale University, 1973. Ph.D. dissertation.
Florence Ann Parks, Freedom, Form, and Process in Varèse, Cornell University, 1974. Ph.D. dissertation.
Sherman Van Solkema (ed.), The New Worlds of Edgard Varèse: A Symposium, New York: Institute for Studies in American Music, 1979, Log.
Alejo Carpentier, Varèse vivant, Paris: Le Nouveau Commerce, 1980. (in French)
Heinz-Klaus Metzger, Rainer Riehn (eds.), Edgard Varèse. Rückblick auf die Zukunft, 2nd ed., exp., Munich: Text + Kritik, 1983. (in German)
Keith Tedman, Edgard Varèse: Concepts of Organized Sound, University of Sussex, 1983. D.Phil. dissertation.
John Davis Anderson, The Influence of Scientific Concepts on the Music and Thought of Edgard Varèse, University of Northern Colorado Graduate School, 1984. Ph.D. dissertation.
Jonathan W. Bernard, The Music of Edgard Varèse, Yale University Press, 1987.
Takashi Koto, "Basic Cells and Hybridization in Varese's Ionisation", SONUS 7, 1987, PDF.
David Harold Cox, Thematic Interrelationships Between the Works of Varese", Music Review 49:3 (1988), pp 205-217, PDF.
Helga de la Motte-Haber, Die Musik von Edgard Varèse. Studien zu seinen nach 1918 entstandenen Werken, Hofheim: Wolke, 1993. (in German)
Alan Clayson, Edgard Varese, London: Bobcat Books, 2002.
Dieter A. Nanz, Edgard Varèse. Die Orchesterwerke, Berlin: Lukas, 2003. (in German)
Jean-Claude Risset, "The Liberation of Sound, Art-Science and the Digital Domain. Contacts with Edgard Varese" [1991], Contemporary Music Review 23:2 (Jun 2004), pp 27-54, PDF.
Felix Meyer, Heidy Zimmermann (eds.), Edgard Varèse: Composer, Sound Sculptor, Visionary, Boydell & Brewer, 2006, 500 pp. [1]
Anne Jostkleigrewe, „The ear of imagination“. Die Ästhetik des Klangs in den Vokalkompositionen von Edgard Varèse, Saarbrücken: Pfau, 2008. (in German)
Fernand Ouellette, Edgard Varèse, Paris: Seghers, 1966; new ed., rev. & augm., Paris, Christian Bourgois, 1989. (in French)
Edgard Varèse, trans. Derek Coltman, New York: Orion Press, 1968, 270 pp; repr. as Edgard Varèse. A Musical Biography, London: Calder and Boyars, 1973, 270 pp; Da Capo Press, 1981.
Louise Varèse, Varèse: A Looking-Glass Diary. Vol. 1, 1883-1928, New York: Norton, 1972. Biography, written by his second wife.
Hilda Jolivet, Varèse, Hachette, 1973. (in French)
Ruth Julius, "Edgard Varèse: An Oral History Project, Some Preliminary Conclusions", Current Musicology 25 (1978), pp 38-49.
Odile Vivier, Varèse, Paris: Seuil, 1987. (in French)
Varese: The One All Alone, dir. Frank Scheffer, 89 min, 2009.
Entry on Varèse on IRCAM's website
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Animals and turbines, Destruction from turbines, harm to wildlife, US Wind
Wind Power Is Brought to Justice -Wall Street Journal
November 30, 2013 alt Leave a comment
By Robert Bryce November 28,2013
The Justice Department announced late last week that a subsidiary of Duke Energy has agreed to pay $1 million for killing golden eagles and other federally protected birds at two of the company’s wind projects in Wyoming. The guilty plea was a long-overdue victory for the rule of law and a sign that green energy might be going out of vogue.As Justice noted in its news release, this is the first time a case has been brought against a wind company for violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The 1918 law makes it a federal crime to kill any bird of more than 1,000 different species. Over the past few decades, federal authorities have brought hundreds of cases against oil and gas companies for killing birds, while the wind industry has enjoyed a de facto exemption. By bringing criminal charges against Duke for killing 14 golden eagles and 149 other protected birds, Justice has ended the legal double standard on enforcement.
While it is heartening to see the Obama administration finally following the law, Justice’s decision might also indicate that the green bubble is about to burst.
Consider data from the American Wind Energy Association, an industry group. In 2012, when federal subsidies were flowing, wind companies installed a record 13,131 megawatts of new capacity—about 6,500 turbines. But installations have tanked this year amid uncertainty over the extension of the federal production tax credit, which offers companies a hefty 2.3 cent per kilowatt-hour subsidy. During the first three quarters of 2013, the domestic wind industry installed a mere 70.6 megawatts of new capacity. Wind-industry lobbyists are desperately trying to get the production tax credit extended again before it expires at the end of the year. The Duke case won’t endear them to the public.
The renewable-energy craze may also lose its lustre as the public discovers how expensive “green jobs” are. Texas is the top wind-energy state in the nation. But in January Texas Comptroller Susan Combs reported that each wind-related job in the Lone Star State is costing taxpayers $1.75 million.
There is also a public backlash against ruining scenic countryside with giant wind turbines. The outrage spans from the United Kingdom to Wisconsin. Last year, to cite just one example, about five dozen landowners in Herkimer County, New York filed a lawsuit against the owners of the Hardscrabble Wind Power Project. Their many complaints included reduced property values and excessive noise. To judge from news reports, suburban and rural residents don’t want 130-meter-tall windmills in their neighborhoods. They also don’t want the constant noise the turbines produce, or the relentless blink of the turbines’ red lights all night, every night.
Definitive proof that the green energy bubble has burst will come when the government brings more legal action against renewable companies for violating U.S. law. That may be happening: The Fish and Wildlife Service has 18 active investigations into bird kills at various wind-energy projects. Seven have been referred to Justice for prosecution.
And it may not be limited to wind energy. Last week, Chris Clarke of the California public television station KCET reported that the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, a new solar-thermal plant in the Mojave Desert, killed 52 birds in October. Many of the birds were apparently killed by the intense heat generated by the project’s mirrors. It appears that the project is attracting birds, which means the deaths may increase when the facility reaches capacity. Mr. Clarke went on to opine that the solar-thermal projects now being built in the California desert “could well depress bird populations from the Arctic to the Panama Canal.”
Apologists for wind and solar power insist that wind turbines only kill a few birds while climate change is the real threat. Last month, in a letter to The Wall Street Journal, an official from the American Wind Energy Association said that wind energy “enables the U.S. to develop a diverse energy portfolio better equipped to fight climate change—the number one threat to wildlife, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.”
Perhaps that’s true. But everyone is threatened when the law is not applied equally, and so the Justice Department should continue ruffling the feathers of lawbreakers in the green-energy business.
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2176416/wind_turbine_bird_deaths_company_pays_1m_fine.html
https://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/2013/11/23/finally-one-bird-slaughterer-brought-to-justice/
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Raw [Grave]
Link posted on April 13, 2017 July 22, 2017 by moviebloke
(France/Belgium 2016)
“An animal that has tasted human flesh is not safe.”
To borrow a phrase from Morrissey, meat is murder, which is a lesson that goody-two-shoes strict vegan Justine (Garance Marillier) learns the hard way when she goes away to join her older sister, Alexia (Ella Rumpf), at veterinary college. Like a lot of young people away from home for the first time, Justine is lost and wants to fit in. She’s she’s got her work cut out for her: she’s nerdy, sheltered, and a total virgin.
Like a lot of other schools, the upperclassmen at this one have a hazing ritual to break in newbies. It’s pretty aggressive. Prompted by her sister, Justine goes along with it without objection—that is, until she’s pushed to eat raw rabbit kidney (never mind the blood splattered all over her and her “fresh meat” first year classmates). Alexia is the one who ultimately cajoles her to eat it; it’s nasty and it makes Justine sick. Not long after, she develops a gross and severely itchy rash brought on from food poisoning.
Soon, Justine finds herself craving meat. Her impulses are irresistible. First, she eats raw chicken. Then her own hair. Eventually, she works up to human flesh—after developing a fetish for car crashes, of course. As she gives in to her carnivorous urges, her lust for her cute and easygoing gay roommate, Adrien (Rabah Naït Oufella), gets stronger—and Alexia appears to be turning into a greater and greater adversary.
Screenwriter/director Julia Ducournau has a lot on her mind here: peer pressure, body image, sexuality, sibling rivalry, the food we eat. She’s gutsy, and for the most part her risks pay off. It’s not the same story, but Raw has something in common with Goat (https://moviebloke.com/2016/09/24/goat/), another histrionic college drama that gets at kids, tribalism, and cruelty. Raw is very Lord of the Flies. Ducournau paces the story well and picks interesting things—a bikini wax, a horse being sedated—to make us squirm.
I love Ducournau’s sense of humor: it’s dry, icky, and sadistic. The indignation of Justine’s parents over a piece of sausage in her mashed potatoes when they’re eating in a cafeteria as the film begins brilliantly sets up what follows. Marillier seems to have some fun with her role, playing Justine as a creepy, awkward junkie who maybe bites off more than she can chew. Rumpf has fun with her role, too, playing Alexia as a Heathers-like mean girl. They do a nice job working the love and the hate in their relationship. Smartly, they’re both restrained, carefully steering clear of camp.
Visually, Raw reminds me a lot of David Cronenberg and David Lynch, but it still has its own unique look and feel. There are a lot well done scenes here—one under Justine’s sheets, another on a campus plaza with a horde of students moving like zombies, and another at a rave in a morgue all stand out in my mind. Cinematographer Ruben Impens uses lots of bright colors that work nicely with all the dim light to make the school look like a nightmare or a drug trip. There’s a definite sense of this not being real.
Raw is bloody and gory, but nothing here made me want to pass out or call an ambulance (http://www.indiewire.com/2016/09/raw-tiff-2016-toronto-film-festival-pass-out-cannibal-julia-ducournau-1201726575/). I liked it, but I have one beef: I wish it was a little less predictable.
With Laurent Lucas, Joana Preiss, Bouli Lanners, Marion Vernoux, Thomas Mustin, Jean-Louis Sbille
Production: Frakas Productions, Petit Film, Rouge International, Wild Bunch, Canal+, Ciné+, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), La Wallonie, Bruxelles Capitale, Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), VOO, BE TV, Arte/Cofinova 12, Torino Film Lab
Distribution: Wild Bunch (France), O’Brother Distribution (Belgium), Focus World (international), Canibal Networks (Mexico), Cinemien (Netherlands), Seven Films (Greece), United International Pictures (UIP) (Singapore), Universal Pictures International (UPI) (UK), Monster Pictures (Australia)
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Posted in 2016, April 2017, B-, belgium, college, coming of age, dark comedy, drama, france, french, gore, horror, suspense, weird Tagged Arte/Cofinova 12, BE TV, Bouli Lanners, Bruxelles Capitale, Canal+, Canibal Networks, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Centre National de la Cinématographie, Ciné+, Cinemien, CNC, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Ella Rumpf, Focus World, Frakas Productions, Garance Marillier, Goat, Grave, Heathers, Jean-Louis Sbille, Joana Preiss, Julia Ducournau, La Wallonie, Laurent Lucas, Lord of the Flies, Marion Vernoux, meat is murder, Monster Pictures, Morrissey, O'Brother Distribution, Petit Film, Rabah Naït Oufella, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone, Raw, Rouge International, RTBF, Ruben Impens, Seven Films, Thomas Mustin, Torino Film Lab, UIP, United International Pictures, Universal Pictures International, UPI, VOO, Wild Bunch Leave a comment
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Kids for Cash
A look into the judicial scandal that rocked the nation.
Currently Kids for Cash is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Apple iTunes
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Jerry Stein
Robert May
Lauren Timmons
John Weekley
Michael Brook
Jay Gillespie
Ed Marritz
Poppy Das
Kids for Cash is a 2013 documentary film about the "kids for cash" scandal which unfolded in 2008 over judicial kickbacks in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Two judges were found guilty of accepting kickbacks in exchange for sending thousands of juveniles to detention centers when probation or a lesser penalty would have been appropriate. Some juveniles were sent to detention centers for incidents as minor as theft of a CD from Walmart.
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Cr; Ni
Reed and others (1978, locality 23) locate this occurrence in the southwest quarter of Section 33, T. 31 N., R. 14 W., of the Seward Meridian adjacent to the Dall Glacier on a ridge at about 5000 feet within Denali National Park and Preserve.
Reed and others (1978) report massive and disseminated chromite within sheared ultramafic rock at this locality. This is one of several chromite occurrences in a 25-mile long belt of alpine-type ultramafic bodies that are discontinuously exposed from the Dall Glacier northeast to the Lacuna Glacier which is part of the Dall Trend, described by C.C. Hawley and Associates, Inc. (1978, Fig. 4.1-(C)3 and Fig. 4.0-B). These chromite- and magnetite-bearing dunite and peridotite sills are shown by Reed and Nelson (1980) in a narrow belt of middle to upper Paleozoic sedimentary rocks that are exposed between the middle Tertiary (38 m.y.) Foraker pluton and the northwest trending fault which places the Paleozoic rocks over Mesozoic marine sedimentary rocks (KJs). Foley and others (1997, p. 431) suggest that these ultramafic bodies may be genetically related to the composite plutons (Tcp) of Reed and Nelson (1980) in the upper Yentna River.
Reed and others (1978) describe the occurrences in this belt of ultramafic rocks as magmatic segregations of podiform and disseminated chromite hosted in dunite sills. Chromite occurs as: (1) disseminated rounded grains 1-3 mm in diameter, (2) streaks and lenses, (3) irregular pods up to 6 feet long and (4) lens-like bodies up to 6 feet thick and 60 feet long throughout the dunite. Chromium content of 0.7 to 1% from typical dunite is given in Reed and others (1978). The average of 3 microprobe analyses of one sample: 58.4% Cr2O3, 21.1% FeO, 8.9% MgO, and 9.7% Al2O3. Other chromite occurrences in this trend are described in TL002, TL003, TL008, TL010 - 012, and TL055.
Mesozoic and (or) Paleozoic (Reed and Nelson, 1980) or Late Cretaceous/early Tertiary (?) (Foley and others, 1997).
Reconnaissance mapping, stream silt and rock sampling are all that have been done here. Chromium content of 0.7 to 1% from typical dunite is given in Reed and others (1978). The average of 3 microprobe analyses of one sample: 58.4% Cr2O3, 21.1% FeO, 8.9% MgO, and 9.7% Al2O3.
Mineral occurrences in the Dall Trend are all within Denali National Park and Preserve.
C.C. Hawley and Associates, Inc., 1978, Mineral appraisal of lands adjacent to Mt. McKinley National Park, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 24-78, 277 p., 12 sheets.
Foley, J.Y., Light, T.D., Nelson, S.W., and Harris, R.A., 1997, Mineral occurrences associated with mafic-ultramafic and related alkaline complexes in Alaska, in Goldfarb, R.J., and Miller, L.D., eds., Mineral Deposits of Alaska: Economic Geology Monograph 9, p. 396-449.
MacKevett, E.M., Jr., and Holloway, C.D., 1977, Map showing metalliferous and selected non-metalliferous mineral deposits in the eastern part of southern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-169-A, 99 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.
Reed, B.L., and Nelson, S.W., 1980, Geologic map of the Talkeetna quadrangle: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Map I-1174, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reed, B.L., Nelson, S.W., Curtin, G.C., and Singer, D.A., 1978, Mineral resources map of the Talkeetna quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-870-D, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Madelyn A. Millholland (Millholland & Associates)
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The Call of the Wild short summary & analysis
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The Call of the Wild Analysis
The Call of the Wild takes place at a time when wolves are seen with some changes in their hair. The history of a strong, imagined dog, from which the traps are broken and the animals are being stolen are told. When they are stuck in the ice when they are sledding in the poles, they must run around the fire as their hair was about to burn to avoid dying, or they have no choice but to wait for their frosting to discharge all the blood. It is the only way of survival for dogs in the face of a tame dog being more hateful than a wolf. The biggest witness to this is Buck.
While reading the book with a background in the search for gold, it goes from mastery to slavery; you will take a journey with a sociological side. Each time, you will not believe that the most lethal side of this bloody journey and cold is human ambitions with scenes full of human cruelty and ambition.
The Call of the Wild Short Summary
The dog, who is sold as a house dog and is engaged in various circumstances, may seem to be because of the wild nature conditions, but it will be much more painful when met with people. They are trained with a stick. He feels his helplessness in the face of a stick. Until the first man ripped off his carotid artery... And then John Tornton's killers don't even have the pleasure of playing with the victim in the face of death.
The dog Buck's all aggression is nothing but loyalty to the owner and his urge to live. Difficult conditions in winter and people starving the dogs will change them in time.
He goes into a battle of leadership with an aggressive dog named Spitz when he is deported to the mail cradle. Because the dogs cannot eat enough; Dogs who eat fast can eat the food of others. They're afraid of a dog named Spitz, they never make any noise. Because he is the leader of the herd and to this day he is the unbeaten dog. He sees Buck as a rival and threatens his food and place. Every time he growls, he doesn't do anything. Someday Buck's going into his nest under the snow will change things. Buck wounding Spitz with fake moves will make him go away. Since then, he is now a leader.
The Call of the Wild has some very cruel parts at times. Buck 's owners cut off their heads with an ax because they are not eating enough food and they are weak. It is not appropriate for children to read this book in periods when it is difficult to perceive death as a concept. You must be at least in high school to read this book, because of the gruesome parts. After John Tornton, he and Buck crosses paths. Buck’s owner falls to the ground when the he tries to separate the fight. Buck protects him. Buck, who earns a bet later, sets out for gold and death with the drive of victory, which attracts him and his owner.
In this time, Buck is transformed into a monster that is used to killing. Comes to the power to kill rabbits and other animals. Sometimes he plays with his prey as a toy. As the dogs who died due to cold, he almost want them to suffer...
Then he hears a sound. This voice is Call of the Wild. It comes from the depths of the forest. His eyes are visible and hidden in the dark at the same time. He hears this voice even more so when death turns a gentle cat into a killer. It is the voice of a future that has been erased from your memories. Coming from the deep and he cannot stop, Buck learnt this sound from the mankind. He learns from a master who has an eye to eye law to which a weak person with a stick is killed. He has to go through death, and near death many times.
The journey to the bottom is unknown, but Buck is the day to show loyalty. Tornton is attacked. Buck kills some of those who attack him. Buck's in the woods. And there remains of a legend left behind to the reader.
Although the divine narrator tells the reader to kill the curiosity, you find yourself in an idyllic picture. You impressively read the battle for a sociological life in which the cold and human ambitions are criticized in a subtle way. The adventure offered to the reader in sections has many memorable memories.
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Websites that Changed the Internet World
Todd R. Brain May 12, 2021
These days, birds don’t ‘chirp’ but human beings often ‘tweet.’ This article contains information on the most influential websites that redefined the Internet world. Find out how various websites have changed the Internet world forever.
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Web sites, the main component of the Internet, have radically changed how we lead our lives today. Many websites have made our life simple and easier, but some have revolutionized the concept of social life. The concept of ‘worldwide web’ (www) was launched in 1990 by the physicist Tim Berners-Lee, and since 1993, it was made available to all common users. Isn’t it quite surprising that it had a colossal impact on our information environment within a few years only? Websites that changed the Internet world have also had a great impact on our lifestyle.
Today, we use computers as easily as telephones. We cannot imagine spending a single day without using at least one of the several Google applications like Gmail, Google News, Froogle, Google Maps, Google Book Search, Google Talk, Google Earth, etc. Certain websites have changed the Internet world. We can find answers to our queries on discussion forums like WikiAnswers. We can express our thoughts with the help of a website like ‘blogger.com.’ We can choose any educational course from any university located in any part of the world. It is quite easier to acquire an international degree now. Online banking, online booking, online shopping, etc., have completely changed the way we lead our lives. We can pay bills, tolls, taxes, insurance, or loan installments online and save a lot of time. We can earn/save money by advertising and promote ourselves on different websites. We can check the opening and closing times, weekly holidays of any famous museum in Paris or Rome, despite our location. We need to sit in front of the computer, and everything is available right at our fingertips now.
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Websites that Changed the World
The top 10 websites regarding traffic and influence would keep changing, but we can enlist a few websites that redefined the Internet world. Certain websites that changed the Internet world completely include social networking sites or community sites like ‘Orkut’ and ‘Facebook,’ microblogging sites like ‘Twitter,’ information sites like ‘Wikipedia’ and other sites like ‘eBay,’ ‘YouTube,’ ‘Amazon.com,’ etc. I am sure you would like to browse Internet facts for more information. The convenience and comfort that we are enjoying today can be attributed to certain popular websites that redefined the Internet.
Founded by: Mark Zuckerberg and his friends Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
Launched in: February 2004
Users: more than 800 million; had more than 138.9 million monthly unique U.S. visitors in May 2011.
Facebook was originally introduced as a site to connect the students of Harvard University. Still, soon its rise led to the decline of several other social networking sites like Friendster and MySpace. In the computer world, ‘Friendster’ is recognized as the ‘granddaddy of social networks.’ Today, Facebook is the most popular website in the world. In June 2011, Facebook recorded one trillion page views! Facebook allows you to create your profile. You can add other users as your friends, and you can join common-interest groups like ‘close friends,’ ‘family tree,’ ‘people from work,’ etc. You can upload photos and videos, you can chat with your friends, you can send private or public messages, you can write on somebody’s wall, or you can even poke. Your updated status promptly provides information on your whereabouts and actions.
Founded by: Jack Dorsey
Launched in: July 2006
Users: more than 200 million
Twitter is a microblogging service through which you can read and send posts of up to 140 characters. The posts are text-based and are known as ‘tweets.’ The concept of sharing thoughts and views has now gained tremendous popularity worldwide. The subscribers are known as ‘followers, ” and follow (subscribe to) other users’ tweets.
Several other sites like ‘MySpa,’ ‘Friendster,’ etc., were in the list of ‘Top 10 popular websites’ before ‘Facebook’ was launched. Websites like ‘LinkedIn,’ where you can develop new contacts, search jobs, post your resume, and design your career, are also quite popular today.
Information Sites
Founded by: Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger
Launched in: January 2001
Wikipedia is a free, user-generated multilingual encyclopedia. It contains over 20 million articles, and it provides information on everything that you need. For the latest events, too, people search on Wikipedia for reliable information. It is well-known for reliable and perfect information. Today, about 90,000 active contributors write for Wikipedia regularly, and the articles are available in 282 languages! According to the statistics, about 2.7 billion are from the United States alone out of its total monthly page views. It is and will remain among the ten most visited websites worldwide.
Forum websites like Answers.com, where people can discuss various topics, government sites, which support tourism or provide information on food and drugs, medicines, etc., like nal.usda.gov, cancer.gov, nlm.nih.gov or sites launched by educational and nonprofit institutions, etc., come under this category.
Mailing and Communication Sites
Founded by: Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith
Users: nearly 364 million users in August 2010.
Hotmail was initially launched as ‘Hotmail,’ keeping in mind the ‘HTML.’ It can be called ‘the pioneer of web-based email services.’ Microsoft presented it as a part of ‘Windows’ applications. It is now available in 36 different languages. According to the statistics, in Aug 2010, ‘Windows Live Hotmail’ was the world’s largest e-mail service.
Service: provided by Google
Launched in: April 2004 and was made available to the general public in February 2007
Users: more than 260 million users in October 2011
Gmail offers a 1 GB storage capacity per user. A message with an attachment can be up to 25 MB (quite large compared to other mail services). Gmail is an e-mail service provided by Google. It is an advertising-supported service, so you may see relevant advertisements on your page when you open your mailbox. Google video and voice chat are quite popular today. ‘Gmail Mobile’ service is available in 40 languages.
FastMail, Yahoo Mail, Rediffmail, etc., are some other popular mailing sites. ‘Skype’ has brought the world into a single room. It helps communicate with people away from you. Skype is known for video chatting. You can interview on Skype, and you can choose your life partner or easily interact with your children away from home.
Video Sharing Sites
Founded by: Three former PayPal employees; Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim
Users: more than three billion views per day as of May 2011
YouTube has gained tremendous popularity as one can upload, view, and share videos here. It is a subsidiary of Google now. According to the Alexa records, it is ranked third today. You can even upload 3D videos here. The simple, user-friendly procedure attracts more and more visitors.
Sites like Flixya, Pandora, Google Video, Metacafe, MySpace, etc., are popular for video sharing. Flickr, an image hosting and video hosting website, helps upload or download photos and videos.
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How to Find Answers About Google AdSense
Finding Answers About Adsense Online Ads Č As anyone who works in the Internet marketing industry will know, Google has been one of the most dominant search engines in the world. Yet only Google itself knows details about the inner workings of the system, largely because the system is practically a secret, because Google would rather keep their most closely guarded secrets a secret – to ensure that they are able to make more money from advertisers through its system, users pay to get access to the system.
There is, however, a site where ad sense host is free to start-up with Google AdSense accounts – and is not full of complaints about the system from users who have tried their hand at it. คลิปดัง Those who are interested to earn from their efforts can have a look at the AdSense site at ReviewErie.com.
Google has developed a community advertising model to ensure the advertisers get the most from their advertising budget. In simpler terms, when users click on one of the ads on a website or blog, this ad registers as a click. This is then recorded in the campaign with a unique ID, so the advertiser can tell how many clicks the ads have generated in the period of that period.
AdSense utilizes Pay Per Click advertising – which means that the advertiser only pays when its ad is clicked on. This way, the advertiser does not risk a large amount of money in the advertisement, unless it is clicked.
What is the system and how does it work?
I have to admit I was quite confused when I first found out about the system, almost as if no one had ever told me about it. Indeed, the whole concept was so foreign to me that at first, I thought it was some leprechaun secret that the men of Google use to make them money. When I finally decided to sign up and try to make some sense of it all, it gradually became clear that this Internet marketing system much different from other online advertising systems, เว็บดูหนังออนไลน์ where maximum visibility is required and advertisers pay according to the number of times their ads attract feedback.
Google, upon completion of your application, begin to query your computer in order to find suitable blogs that are relevant to your site’s content and ads. Again, this is a process called Search Engine Optimization or SEO. Search engine spiders ( Detroit Free Clickers) crawl the Internet by following links from page to page. They regard every page as a potential site to visit, and places it in the appropriate category.
Google then reviews all of the websites that it has found, and places them in the appropriate category. This should happen in the first instance (not the second, which is like being in a queue), where all the sites are available to the user being a member of Adsense. ครางดัง In other words, if a user chooses to use Google AdSense at ReviewErie.com, ReviewErie can choose to be one of the sites that reside at ReviewErie.com. In other words, the winner of the selection is awarded with a greater position on the main page of the Apply Page of Google. One of my ReviewErie sites was listed high under the image of “Best Result” category, which placed it in the highest spot on the top of the page of ReviewErie.com.
Based on the chosen category, all the websites where reviewed will be gradually increased or decreased in importance, depending on the number of advertisers that opt-in to the Google program.
The greatest benefit of it is that the ads are targeted and the advertiser pays only when his ad is clicked (no payment is required in to the advertisers in terms of money).
If you have a site which is popular and receives a considerable amount of traffic, you can expect to earn a significant amount of money from the Google AdSense program.
So, what next?
Once you have signed up for the Google AdSense program, you have to work on your website. ลีลาเด็ด Make sure that you place the ads in such a way that they add value to your site. How much time do you spend for just inserting one of these ads on your site?
If you are not a very good writer, then search for ghostwriters who can write ads for you. Offer your services for a fee, but only on the condition that you will be allowed to include your signature at the bottom of the ad.
All ads should have a strong call to action, which requires the user to take some definite action. ดูหนังใหม่ In my case, I request you to visit ReviewErie.com then click on “Review” at the bottom of the ad, then visit the site of ReviewErie.com then click on “Review” at the bottom of the ad then click on “Browse”.
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Kyle Larson fastest in Friday’s sole Sprint Cup practice at Loudon
By Jerry BonkowskiJul 17, 2015, 1:21 PM EDT
It was the Kyle and Kyle show in Friday’s sole Sprint Cup practice session at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Kyle Larson led all drivers with a top speed of 133.708 mph, followed by Kyle Busch (133.666).
Third-fastest was Jamie McMurray (133.469), followed by Carl Edwards (133.431) and Brad Keselowski (133.399).
In his second full season in the Sprint Cup Series, Larson is still in pursuit of his first win on the circuit.
Qualifying for Sunday’s 5-Hour Energy 301 Sprint Cup race will take place later this afternoon at 4:45 pm.
Also on tap for today, Xfinity Series practice sessions from 1 to 1:55 pm ET and again from 3 to 4:25 pm ET.
Here’s how the first Sprint Cup practice played out:
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NRM Staff
We should start by making it clear that the album selection process went a little differently than the “Best Single” process. For one, not everyone was involved in this stage. Time was definitely a factor. When we decided to go forward with this, we had to move quickly. Asking folks who are up to their eyeballs in family and professional lives to listen to at least five years’ worth of records was kind of a lot. For what it’s worth, as we move forward, we plan to be more immediately responsive, listening to each single, EP, and album release over the course of 2020 as they come out. So…thanks for your patience.
We also took a different approach aesthetically as well. We made it a POINT to look at each album as a complete work, not a collection of individual singles. We considered all the factors one being thematic value. Even “non-concept” albums have such an element to them. We also considered “listener commitment level.” By that we mean: is this a record you can easily spend an hour listening to? Records defined by a lot of “skipping to my favorite tune” produced a different experience than records which felt like “full engagements” from the dropping of the needle to that clunky movement of the rocker-arm 18 minutes later.
The results may seem illogical at a glance. Wait…? some might ask. “None of this record’s songs made the ‘Best Singles’ list, but the album itself did…?” Or, “This band’s ‘Best Single’ nomination is from Album X, but you guys picked Album Z?”
Here we shrug our shoulders. Different criteria. And we’re talking about different criteria which we care about. So yeah…that happened, and we’re cool with it.
Like the “Best Singles” process, this was hard. Some records were on the list, then slipped off. Others were just under the cut, then clawed their way onto the list. The goal, of course, isn’t to say “these are the only five albums worth listening to.” The real goal is: “Here are five great records, and there are dozens more like them, totally worth your time.”
The lifeblood of the music industry isn’t happening on the Grammys, anymore. The future of music is local and regional. The talent is good. The songs are good. The recording quality is often very good. The future is your neighbor who slings a six-string, tosses out some brilliant alternating rhyme schemes, and knows how to run an extended metaphor through a hard four-count beat.
#5 Open Up Your Eyes by Brandon Tinkler
[dropcap]“W[/dropcap]hen I sit down on a hot summer day and soak in that Hoosier humidity, I find myself repeatedly turning to Brandon Tinkler’s Open Up Your Eyes. I stare into the emptiness of the deck around me and imagine my parents and their friends, grilling burgers, drinking Blatz, and talking about Nixon. Everyone talks about how the music of the 60’s influenced them, but nobody actually tries to replicate it. Brandon Tinkler did. It’s a hell of an achievement, and the record is worth a few hundred listens.”
NRM Founder, Donovan Wheeler
Ever the taskmaster, ever the frugal budget-master, when Brandon Tinkler walked into Postal Recording’s studios he knew exactly what he wanted. It was something he had constructed painstakingly for years. So when he plunked down his hard-earned cash for that precious time behind the microphone he was ready to make it count.
As we said of the record back in the summer of 2018:
“The degree to which Tinkler’s endeavor wins over listeners will depend largely where they’re coming from when they hit ‘play.’ A Baby Boomer who grew up listening to the British Invasion catalogue in ‘real time’ may admire the work, but hold off on Beatles or Stones comparisons.
That, however, is the wrong way to look at it. For all of the album’s retro panache, Open up Your Eyes is still a 21st century production. And here…in this century…in this indie music landscape, Brandon Tinkler has decided to set aside worn down labels such as ‘Americana’ and ‘cross-genre’ and instead create that record all his musical friends urged him to do for years. By those standards, the album is a refreshing change of style, pace, mood, and content. It’s a project worthy of a $15 CD purchase, worthy of a trip to a live performance, and most definitely worthy of respect.”
Hat’s off to Brandon Tinkler. Number five on our Roadie Award, Album of the Decade.
Author: NRM Staff
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Canucks Get Off To Fast Start, Hold On To Beat Rangers
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NEW YORK (AP) — Vancouver captain Bo Horvat wanted to set the tone early after a tough loss the previous day. He got the Canucks started with a needed power-play goal and they bounced back with a big road win.
Brock Boeser and Jay Beagle scored late in Vancouver’s three-goal first period and the Canucks held on to beat the New York Rangers 3-2 on Sunday.
Elias Pettersson added two assists for Vancouver, which bounced back from a 1-0 loss at New Jersey on Saturday to win for the fifth time in six games.
“I took that onus on myself to be the guy to get the boys going,” Horvat said. “I was really upset about the last game, we should have scored more power-play goals and we should have at least gotten a point out of that. … When we do lose games we’re not ones to want to lose three straight, four straight and get on these losing skids. We want to bounce back and have a great game and continue winning.”
Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist makes the save as Vancouver’s Bo Horvat looks for the rebound during the second period at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 20, 2019. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
Jacob Markstrom, playing for the first time since Oct. 12, stopped 38 shots to win his third straight start after losing his first two.
“A little bit of redemption, but our team played amazing, we really did,” Beagle said. “Marky stood on his head. It was just a good overall win.”
Jesper Fast had a goal and an assist, and Artemi Panarin also scored for New York, which has lost four straight — including three in four days after playing just three times in the previous 14 days. Henrik Lundqvist finished with 40 saves.
“We should be so eager to get out there,” Lundqvist said. “But sometimes it’s hard to get going. That desperation should always be there. Especially losing three in a row.”
Rangers coach David Quinn shook up his lineup during Friday’s 5-2 loss at Washington, moving Chris Kreider to the top line with Panarin and Mika Zibanejad. Pavel Buchnevich was dropped to the second line, and rookie Kaapo Kakko down to the third. Buchnevich ended up on the fourth line during the second period but was back on the second later in the game.
Down 3-1 after 40 minutes, the Rangers came out aggressive in the third and controlled much of the play while outshooting the Canucks 17-6 in the final period.
“We knew they like to play wide-open,” Beagle said. “They have a lot of guys that run and gun. They love to go east-west and hardly ever dump it. … We got the job done.”
Panarin got the Rangers to 3-2 as he got a pass from Fast from behind the net, and quickly put it past Markstrom for his fourth at 5:31.
New York had several flurries of chances at the tying goal, pulling Lundqvist for an extra skater with 1:51 to go, but couldn’t get another one past Markstrom.
“We’ve got to play smarter,” Zibanejad said. “And it just shows you can’t just play for 25, 30 minutes. … You’ve got to play all 60 minutes. The whole game is not going to look perfect; it’s not going to be all good stuff, but we’ve got to learn to manage the game a little bit more.”
The Rangers finished 0 for 3 on the power play to fall to 1 for 17 with the man-advantage over the last four games.
With the Rangers trailing 3-0 after a lackluster first period, Fast got them on the scoreboard late in the second. Standing in front of Markstrom, Fast deflected Jacob Trouba’s hard point shot past the goalie for his second.
The Canucks got off to a fast start with three goals in the first period while outshooting the Rangers 20-13. Vancouver scored on the power play, at even strength and short-handed.
Horvat took a pass from Pettersson and beat Lundqvist on a power play from the inside edge of the left circle for his second of the season and 100th of his career at 6:01. The Canucks came in with the league’s worst man-advantage and were 0 for 12 the previous two games.
Boeser made it 2-0 with 6:26 left in the opening period as he got a pass from Pettersson between the circles and fired a shot that went off Lundqvist’s glove and in for his second.
Then, with Tyler Myers off for hooking, Beagle brought the puck up the right side and beat Lundqvist on the glove side for his first of the season and fourth career short-handed goal.
NOTES: Horvat joined Calgary’s Sean Monahan, Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon and Florida’s Aleksander Barkov as the only players from the 2013 draft to reach the 100-goal mark. … The teams will conclude their season series Jan. 4 at Vancouver. … Lundqvist appeared in his 861st game, moving past Hall of Famer Gump Worsley for sole possession of 11th place on the NHL’s all-time list. He is seven away from tying former goalie Grant Fuhr for 10th place. Lundqvist also tied Jean Ratelle for sixth place on the Rangers’ franchise list. … New York has given up at least one power-play goal in five of its six games.
Canucks: At Detroit on Tuesday night to finish a four-game trip.
Rangers: Host Arizona on Tuesday night to continue a five-game homestand.
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Home / News / Osinbajo: 250,000 Barrels of Oil per Day Being Lost in Niger Delta
Osinbajo: 250,000 Barrels of Oil per Day Being Lost in Niger Delta
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said at the weekend that pipeline vandalism in the Niger Delta was causing Nigeria huge revenue losses and preventing the country from meeting its daily crude oil production plan. Osinbajo made the assertion on Friday in Warri after an assessment of the damage to pipelines at the Forcados Terminal in Delta State. He said the federal government was weighing several options in an attempt to tackle the menace, including dedication of a special anti-vandalism security force to the oil producing areas.
The Navy has already commenced a massive operation in the Niger Delta to secure oil facilities.
In a related development, THISDAY has learnt how International Oil Companies operating in the country acquiesced to a request by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, to support petrol marketers with more foreign exchange to import premium motor spirit. PMS, the most consumed petroleum product in Nigeria, is mainly imported. Shortfalls in the product’s supply in the last three months owing to foreign exchange shortages have engendered a scarcity that is threatening both economic activities and living standards.
But in recent meetings with the IOCs, Kachikwu was said to have appealed to them to show greater commitment to the country, particularly, by helping the federal government’s effort to resolve the protracted petrol scarcity.
Nigeria recently lost its Africa’s top oil producer status to Angola following vast drops in crude oil production. According to the latest data from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Nigeria’s daily crude oil production fell by 67,000 barrels per day last month. In its Monthly Oil Market Report for April, which was released on Wednesday, OPEC said Nigeria produced 1.677 million barrels per day in March, down from 1.744 million bpd in February, while the Angolan oil output rose from 1.767 million bpd to 1.782 million. It was the second time in four months that Nigeria would be pushed to the second position by Angola in the continental crude oil production profile.
Lamenting the damage to Nigeria’s production capacity due to the destruction of oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta by pipeline vandals, Osinbajo said the federal government was considering deploying more sophisticated military machinery in the region to protect the oil infrastructure.
Fielding questions from newsmen, he said the country was “losing thousands of barrels of production. We are not able to produce as much as we ought to. About 250,000 barrels are lost per day. We are losing large sums of money daily. We look for alternatives while we look forward to repairing the pipelines.”
Osinbajo said vandalism was also affecting gas supply to the country’s power stations.
“The damage done has led to low supply of gas and most of the power plants are not functioning to maximum capacity. We went to Forcados to see for ourselves the sabotage done to our pipelines. We have seen the alternative steps that the NNPC is taking in order to ameliorate the damage that has been done and the problem associated with getting gas from that terminal to all of our plants.”
The vice president, who was accompanied on the visit by the Delta State governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, and some senior federal and state government officials, added, “There is a lot of effort being made by the federal government and (Delta) state government as well as communal help. We must meet current vandalism challenges but also look into what we can do in the future.
“We would have to deploy even sophisticated weapons to ensure we contain the vandalism, overhaul security, and a permanent pipeline security force might also be an option to look at.”
He likened pipeline vandals to “any type of terrorists or saboteurs,” saying President Muhammadu Buhari’s position on confronting vandals with the severest measures possible should be supported by all and sundry. “I agree entirely that pipelines vandals should not be tolerated under any circumstances,” he said.
Meanwhile, a top official of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, who did want to be mentioned because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, told THISDAY yesterday that the foreign oil companies had agreed to aid the petrol marketers with foreign exchange. He said the arrangement was not a profit hunt by the IOCs, but basically a mission to help Nigeria resolve its crippling fuel problem.
The official said Kachikwu had to bring his relationship in the industry to bear on the deal, having worked in the upstream sector with ExxonMobil.
He said under the deal, the IOCs would sell their dollars at current Central Bank of Nigeria exchange rate to the marketers, stressing, “It was a huge sacrifice they were willing to make for Nigeria.”
Kachikwu had recently announced a $200 million forex package negotiated with the IOCs and the CBN to ease the forex challenges of petrol marketers. The package, he explained, would see individual IOCs tied to select fuel marketing companies to help them with forex to meet their Quarter-2 importation lot.
The source explained, “That’s the sector that he used to work in and so what he did first was to leverage on the relationship he had built over the years to salvage the current circumstance when we don’t have enough to go round everybody.
“The truth is that it is a lot of sacrifice for them because these companies are also under a lot of pressure and they are going through challenging times with oil prices, but they could turn around to do this for Nigeria.
“We needed to think out of the box and so he went to them, sat with them and talked with them individually to try and get commitment because, no doubt, everybody would want to hold on to their dollars. But he got them to agree to support this in the interest of the country.
“It is better for everybody to get involved in this and that was the driver for the initiative. He has matched each of the IOCs to every local player so every one of them is linked to the players they will support at this period.”
Asked about possible objections by the boards of the IOCs to the request, the NNPC official said, “It is down to the same will and more than maximising shareholders returns. Unless you are not a player who has come to stay here, then you will step aside and say you really don’t care.
“‘It is goodwill and emotive connection that made them support the initiative and this was more than the usual boardroom bureaucracy and thinking.”
He also said the minister did not agree to any form of concession with the IOCs on the forex deal, adding, “There was no concession; you could almost look at it from a CSR stand.
“They do business here and they get value and they have invested good money here too. But in times like this it is fair for them to show a long-term commitment to this country. That is what they have done.”
The source also disclosed that as part of the compromise, the IOCs would exchange their dollars at extant CBN rates to the marketers while the CBN will in turn exchange the naira for dollar whenever they need it for procurements and other forex denominated expenses.
He said other upstream operators in the country that were initially left out of the arrangement had begun to turn up and ask to be included.
In the meantime, the NNPC has been urged to urgently lift the suspension it placed last month on product allocation to credit marketers to ease the current scarcity in the country.The marketers alleged that NNPPC’s ban on petrol allocation to credit marketers in March coincided with aggravation of the now three-month-old acute shortage of petrol.
One of the marketers, who is a member of the Association of Credit Marketers of Petroleum Products in Nigeria (ACMPPN), told reporters that credit marketers had not been allocated products by the NNPC since last month. The marketer who spoke anonymously explained that the decision of the NNPC to deny them products had contributed to the shutting down of about 1,000 filling stations across the country
He noted that the argument that credit marketers were hugely indebted to NNPC was not true because the marketers had bank guarantees to back their purchases.
He stated, “Each credit marketer has a bank guarantee and that means the credit is secured. So why is NNPC asking the major marketers to go back to business and we that have bank guarantees you are shutting us out.
“What is happening is nothing short of sabotage because the credit marketers have the best distribution business not only in the big cities like Abuja and Lagos but across the country.”
He noted that the credit marketing framework worked well during the time of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, adding, “NNPC knows that without our participation it will be very difficult to end the scarcity and so the big question is, why are they still not allowing us to do our business. In all the depots across the country no marketer is loading product.”
When contacted to clarify the development, the national president of ACMPPN, Mr. Samuel Nwoga, said the group was already in talks with the NNPC and the situation was being looked into. He, however, insisted that the credit marketers were not indebted to the NNPC.
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Embodied memory: The influence of body posture on autobiographical memory
In cognitive science, everyone seems to be talking about embodied cognition; a concept involving the claim that states of the body modify states of the mind [1]. It has been observed that body posture can affect, at least briefly, our subjective feelings of power, our physiology with regards to hormone levels, and also our behavior [2].
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May 12, 2021 by Lidia García Pérez Leave a Comment
This finding supports the embodied cognition hypothesis by showing the short-term effects of postural change. But what about long-term effects? Could body posture influence a cognitive system such as autobiographical memory?
Can body posture influence autobiographical memory?
Researcher Katinka Dijkstra and her research group at Florida State University wanted to test if autobiographical memory could be, to some extent, embodied or influenced by body posture [3]. To this end, Dr. Dijkstra and her colleagues carried out a study [3] in which participants were asked to retrieve memories from specific past experiences while adopting certain body positions. When deciding which memories from events in the past participants were to retrieve, researchers chose six everyday situations that are often associated with typical body postures and that were likely to have been experienced by all participants. Thus, participants were asked to remember a time they…
… went to the dentist office,
…played sports,
…opened the door for a visitor,
…were at a concert and clapped their hands,
…waved at someone,
…placed their hand on their heart.
In this way, participants were placed in a certain body position and, while maintaining this position, were asked to retrieve a memory either congruent or incongruent with the posture in which they were placed (for example, in a congruent body position, researchers told participants to lie down in a recliner for the dentist memory; on the contrary, in an incongruent body position, participants were told to stand up with the hands on the hips for the dentist memory).
Two filler items were included so that participants could not predict the purpose of the study, as well as to make subsequent recall more difficult: participants were asked to retrieve a memory of an event that happened yesterday, and an imaginary event.
Each participant was asked to retrieve three memories in a congruent body position and three other memories in an incongruent body position (filler items were always prompted in the same body position). The order of memories and the order of congruent vs. incongruent positions was randomized so as to avoid possible order effects, and sessions were recorded on audio and video tape to assess response times.
In addition, two weeks later, participants were asked unexpectedly about the memories they had talked about in the experiment in a free recall task.
On the one hand, researchers observed that responses for retrieved memories in the congruent condition were faster than those in the incongruent condition because response timesere significantly shorter when the posture was consistent with the implied position of the memory than when it was not. On the other hand, they also confirmed that the amount of retrieved memories two weeks later was significantly greater for congruent memories than for incongruent memories.
With these results, researchers concluded that when the body position adopted during the experiment was congruent with the one in the original experience, there was easier access to and long-term retention of autobiographical memories, and that these findings provided evidence for embodied cognition.
Implications for clinical practice
As mentioned in an earlier post, given that body posture seems to be a factor that can modulate cognitive performance [3,4], it is then also an important aspect to take into account when conducting an accurate assessment of the cognitive status of the patients, and also when improving cognitive rehabilitation processes to their maximum potential. Findings like these can be very useful to improve neuropsychological assessment and stimulation of patients in clinical practice.
By: Lidia García Pérez
Translated by Silvia Duque
Wilson & Golonka (2013). Embodied cognition is not what you think it is. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 58. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00058
Carney, D.R., Cuddy, A.J.C. and Yap, A.J. (2010). Power posing: brief nonverbal displays affect neuroendocrine levels and risk tolerance. Psychological Science, 21(10) 1363-1368.
Dijkstra, K., Kaschak, M.P. & Zwaan, R.A. (2007). Body posture facilitates retrieval of autobiographical memories. Cognition, 102, 139-149.
Smith, P.K., Jostmann, N.B., Galinsky, A.D., & van Dijk, W.W. (2008). Lacking power impairs executive functions. Psychological Science, 19, 441–447.
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autobiographical memory, Embodied memory
About Lidia García Pérez
Degree in Psychology (UCM), Master in Neuroscience (UAM), Master in Neuropsychological Assessment and Rehabilitation (UCJC) and Master in General Health Psychology (UNED). PhD candidate in Psychologywith thesis on memory, emotion and executive functions (UCM). Writer of specialized articles and divulgation articles on neurological disorders and neuropsychology for the blog of the cognitive neurorehabilitation platform NeuronUP.
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Study signals a limit to cancer’s complexity
Faith-based approach in battling malaria
"For the first time we see a light at the end of the tunnel," says Professor Martin Nowak.
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Findings on driver mutations may prove advance for targeted therapy
By Peter Reuell Harvard Staff Writer
Date October 10, 2018 October 10, 2018
Discoveries in cancer research have included everything from genes that can transform healthy cells into tumor cells to advances related to tumor immunology, but those breakthroughs have often led to new complexities, leaving researchers with additional questions.
Now, the limits of those complexities may be coming into view.
Evidence uncovered by a team of researchers that included Martin Nowak, a professor of mathematics and of biology, suggests that, within individual patients, the majority of driver mutations — genetic mutations that help create or sustain cancerous cells — are shared by both the primary tumor and metastases. The study was described in a paper published last month in Science.
That finding is critical because it creates hope for targeted combination therapy against metastatic cancer, said Nowak, also the director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. Rather than trying to combat the effects of dozens of different genes, clinicians might only have to design treatments for a handful of cancer drivers for an individual patient, he said.
“Whenever cells divide in the body, mutations occur,” Nowak said. “Most of those mutations don’t cause problems, but some mutations are steps toward cancer. We call them drivers. If we want to use precision medicine against the disease, we need to know what those driver mutations are.
“One outcome of our study could have been that we found different driver mutations in different metastases,” he continued. “That would have been a real problem, because the hope is that, in a few decades from now, precision medicine will allow a doctor to identify those driver mutations in a patient and then target them using specific treatments. But if they were different for every metastasis, that would be impossible.”
Though personalized cancer therapies are still years away, the study offers an important signal that they might one day be reality, Nowak said.
“The finding gives us hope that such treatment is possible. Because if metastases share the same driver mutations, then if we target those mutations, it may be possible to control metastatic disease.”
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A shared set of driver genes, Nowak added, would also make diagnosis far easier. Rather than having to identify specific mutations in every metastases of a patient, doctors would need to perform just a single biopsy of the primary tumor.
To begin to understand which mutations are found in metastases, the researchers — including Johannes Reiter of Stanford University, Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University, and Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — had to obtain samples from metastatic cancer patients before they were treated for the disease.
“Most cancer studies analyze the primary tumor,” Reiter said. “There are not many cases where we have genetic information from the primary tumor and several metastases and moreover in patients that have not been treated with chemotherapy. Such treatment could induce many additional mutations.”
The team found 20 patients who matched the criteria, Reiter said, and analyzed genetic sequencing data from 76 metastases in those patients. The cancers were breast, colorectal, endometrial, gastric, lung, melanoma, pancreatic, and prostate.
Nowak cautioned that researchers still face challenges in designing drugs to target driver mutations and in overcoming challenges related to drug resistance in cancer cells.
“There are many challenges that remain,” Nowak said. “But in some sense now, hope is possible. There is hope because it appears there is a limit to cancer’s complexity … for the first time we see a light at the end of the tunnel.”
This research was supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research, the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Fund for Cancer Research, an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship, a Landry Cancer Biology Fellowship, and the Office of Naval Research.
"We don’t go there to condemn a traditional healer, because as soon as you do that, you create a gap,” said Anglican Bishop David Njovu of Zambia (center) in describing his approach, which includes education and acknowledging the role of faith. Panelists Professor Dyann Wirth and Bishop André Soares are also pictured.
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Class of 2021: Terrell Jana ‘Always Sat in the Front Row’
April 27, 2021• By Laura Longhine, Laura Longhine,
Laura Longhine,
Jana, here standing in from of UVA’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, helped create the football team’s community outreach group, called Groundskeepers. (Photo by Sanjay Suchak, University Communications)
Growing up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Terrell Jana had never heard of the University of Virginia; he barely knew where Virginia was. But as his fourth year at the University comes to a close, the football star reflected on how UVA has helped him find his calling, both on and off the field.
“I got really lucky to be able to come here and be part of this community,” he said.
Recruited from the Woodberry Forest School (where he’d landed after meeting a Woodberry student at a summer football camp), Jana became co-captain of the Cavalier football team and will graduate this May with a bachelor’s degree in public policy and leadership from the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and an impressive record of leadership in student activism. His passions came together in a yearlong independent study project, presented at a recent Batten Hour, on how athletes can shape public policy – work he hopes to carry forward into a professional football career.
The path wasn’t always so clear. Jana had long dreamed of playing professional football, but academically, “I was wandering around UVA like a little lost pup,” he laughed. Then, in the spring of his second year, he enrolled in his first Batten class: “Public Policy Challenges of the 21st Century,” with professor Gerald Warburg. It proved to be transformative.
Jana “always sat in the front row,” Warburg recalled recently. “That’s how we got to know each other.”
That happened almost by chance, Jana said. Seats in the classroom were tightly packed, and Jana was in football camp at the time. “I would come after practice, so I’d would be really tired, my legs would be tired, and I couldn’t sit in those tight seats because I would cramp up,” he said. In the front row, he could stretch his legs out.
The proximity paid off. Jana, who’d been fascinated by American politics, began to realize that policy could be a more effective way of creating change and helping others. He started lingering after class to chat with Warburg, who introduced him to other Batten faculty members. “Once I understood what the Batten School stood for, [I thought], ‘This is exactly what I want to do,’” he said.
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Football team meetings, which had been happening daily over Zoom, shifted from conversations about “football and motivation and beating Tech and all that” to “more comprehensive and deep conversations into how we were feeling.”
He and other team members eventually formed a community outreach group, called Groundskeepers, to keep those conversations going. “It’s about providing a space for student athletes to have these tough conversations, but also how can we impact the community and be a service to them,” he said. The group held a “Take Back Our Grounds” march in August, from Heather Heyer Way to the UVA Rotunda, and has planned several other projects.
That same summer, Jana drew national and international media attention for his decision to play the 2020 season without his name on his jersey, in homage to the enslaved laborers who had worked at UVA. The idea grew out of a visit to the University’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, he said.
“The one thing that hit me was that many of the names on the memorial … were just a first name or an occupation,” he told UVA Today. “It was not only their last names that were taken away from them, but their roots, their culture, their tradition, their family.”
Throughout the year, Jana studied ways for athletes to move from activism to advocacy. As part of his project, he created a model for athletes who want to influence public policy, including the need to understand the history of an issue and connect with stakeholders who have already been doing the work. It’s a model he hopes to follow himself, as he awaits the NFL Draft this week.
If he doesn’t sign with an NFL team, Jana, the recipient of the 2021 UVA International Studies Office Graduation Award, hopes to play in the Canadian Football League, and he also sees law school in his future. But wherever he goes, he’ll build on what he’s learned at UVA about creating change.
“It’s clear the impact you can have through simple and small initiatives with local groups,” he said. “I learned that change is more accessible than I thought it was, and that’s promising for me.”
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Irish victorious in Hockey East playoff opener against Boston University
Sam Gans | Saturday, March 8, 2014
No. 11 Notre Dame burst out to a fast start and held on late for a 3-2 win over Boston University in the first round of the Hockey East playoffs on Saturday night at Compton Family Ice Arena.
Junior forward Peter Schneider put the eighth-seeded Irish (21-12-2) up 3-1 with a top-shelf finish over the right shoulder of Boston University sophomore goaltender Matt O’Connor 3:07 into the third period. The ninth-seeded Terriers (10-21-4) pulled within one with 5:38 left in regulation when freshman forward Robbie Baillargeon scored on the power play, but Irish senior goaltender Steven Summerhays was able to shut the door the rest of the way.
Schneider’s goal gave the Irish their second two-goal lead of the game. Irish senior forward and captain Jeff Costello made the score 2-0 midway through the second period with a shot through O’Connor’s five hole just after an Irish power play concluded. But Terrier junior forward Evan Rodrigues put Boston University on the board shortly before the second intermission.
“I think we were kind of sitting back on our heels a little bit once we got the lead instead of going at it more,” Costello said. “They pressured us hard and came at us hard which caused some turnovers and they were getting chances off those, and we can’t do that when we have that 2-0 lead.”
The Irish opened the scoring 6:28 into the game with a goal from senior forward Bryan Rust. After a Terrier turnover in the Notre Dame offensive zone, Irish senior forward T.J. Tynan fed Rust alone in front, who made a move to beat O’Connor and finish the backhand goal.
Rust’s goal set the stage for play that was largely controlled by Notre Dame until the game’s latter stages. The Terriers earned a five-on-three with 6:40 left in the third, and Baillargeon scored just seconds after the first penalty’s expiration. Boston University had just 14 total shots in the first two periods before firing 13 in the final 20 minutes.
“We had a little bit of a breakdown there in the second period for a couple of shifts where we turned pucks over and they ended up scoring, and then obviously giving them a five-on-three, that’s not a healthy thing,” Irish head coach Jeff Jackson said. “Other than that, I thought we had good control of the game for the most part.”
The win over the Terriers was Notre Dame’s fifth straight in the midst of a seven-game unbeaten streak, which includes a pair of 2-0 wins over Boston University in Compton on Feb. 21 and 22. The victory also marked the last home game for Notre Dame’s 11-man senior class.
“It’s a fitting way to go out with the class we have here,” Costello said. “We enjoyed every game we had in the Joyce [Fieldhouse] and here, so it’s definitely exciting to get the win.”
Sixth-seeded Maine and seventh-seeded Vermont were both victorious in their opening round contests. As a result, the Irish will travel to top-seeded Boston College — who had a bye — for a quarterfinal series next weekend. The Irish defeated the Eagles (25-5-4) on the road 2-1 in overtime on March 1. Unlike the first round, which was single elimination, the quarterfinals are a best-of-three series.
“To us, I don’t think it really matters who we play next,” Schneider said. “BC’s obviously an excellent team, but we’ve got to play our game, and we won there last week and we’re going there to win again.”
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Registered Nurse April 2009
RNs in Office:2 4/22/09 5:47 PM Page 15 Albany was recognized as the greenest city in California by a University of California Los Angeles Green Market Geography study. But Lieber is most proud of his protection of public health when, in 2008, he helped lead his city's successful campaign to lobby the state to stop aerial spraying of controversial apple moth pesticides over Albany and the San Francisco Bay Area. In place of the pesticides, Albany adopted a program called integrated pest management, an organic way to control the winged pests. Max Anderson, an RN also working at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center and a member of the Berkeley City Council, is attuned to the role government can play in bridging inequalities among patients in healthcare. "My education and experience as an RN has helped me to play an important role in shaping policies toward health disparities between African Americans and Latino communities and the more affluent white population," he said. As an RN, he helped push to open in 2007 a drop-in hypertension clinic for the southern and western areas of the city. As at the bedside, RNs holding office sometimes have to make hard choices. In 2007, Rogers had a difficult vote to make. The giant hospital corporation Sutter Health agreed to build a new hospital to replace the one that it was operating for the district, but wanted as part of the agreement for the board to step down from governance of the medical center. Rogers was the lone voice on the board publicly criticizing Sutter for trying to shut out public governance of a community institution. "I got a phone call every other day from [State Senator] Ellen Corbett," said Rogers. "Ellen told me there were a lot of times she was the only no vote and it was okay." In the end, Rogers was the only board member to vote against the contract with Sutter. Once in office, RNs can also be in a position to help the profession. Tim Driscoll, the RN member of the Maine House of Representatives, is involved along with several other RN legislators in policymaking that impacts healthcare at the state level. This year, Driscoll introduced a bill to increase funding for nursing programs. "We have a large wait list of people wanting to get into these nursing programs," noted Driscoll. "It's the unavailability of faculty and space that prevents them from getting into the program. It's a nationwide problem and it's only going to get worse as people are living longer with better quality of lives." Driscoll participates in a state healthcare workforce committee that includes individuals from academia, nursing schools, community colleges, physician groups, dental groups, and hospital administrators. The committee assesses how to best provide for healthcare needs in Maine. "I felt like I should be involved and if there are things that need to be moved ahead legislatively, I can help focus on them in the House," said Driscoll. The only problem with RNs in office is that there aren't more of them. If RNs want to achieve their goal of seeing guaranteed healthcare for every American and developing healthy communities, in every sense of the word, they will have to start campaigning to take their rightful places in healthcare district boardrooms, city halls, state legislatures, and at the U.S. Capitol. "It's a lot of responsibility," acknowledged Anderson. "But I had to put it into perspective. Taking care of people is a lot of responsibility, too." I "When you go to work as an elected official on a board, the entire community is your patient," said Rogers. "When they talk about infection control, standards of care, things of that genre, you have a ground-floor experience." Charlene Anderson, a San Diego RN, recently won a seat on the Tri-City Hospital District board. CHARLENE ANDERSON PHOTO: SHALANA POHLMAN O f course, registered nurses bring a valuable, muchneeded perspective on public health and the healthcare system to political office. Just as a case management or home health RN may consider the totality of socioeconomic and cultural factors at play – not just medical condition – while developing a care plan for a patient, nurses in office tend to look at the big picture as well. "When you go to work as an elected official on a board, the entire community is your patient," said Rogers. "When they talk about infection control, standards of care, things of that genre, you have a ground-floor experience." Robert Lieber understands that well. Lieber, an RN at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, was first elected in 2004 to the city council of Albany, Calif. on an environmental platform and has subsequently served two terms as mayor. Early in his service on the council, a corporation had plans to build a mega-mall on the San Francisco Bay waterfront, a picturesque area in Albany. Lieber believed the mall would have contributed more pollution and a lower quality of life for Albany residents. "It would have increased traffic in the area," says Lieber. "Why would you put a mall there? It's insane." Lieber, along with community groups such as the Sierra Club, successfully blocked the large-scale mall development plan. During his tenure as mayor, APRIL 2009 Sarah Clark is an Oakland-based writer and political activist. W W W. C A L N U R S E S . O R G REGISTERED NURSE 15
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2.1 Father-child relationship
2.2 Authority figure
2.3 Determination of parenthood
2.4 Categories
2.4.1 Non-biological (social / legal relationship between father and child)
2.4.2 Fatherhood defined by contact level with child
2.5 Non-human fatherhood
1. a. The attribute of being a father; the relation of a father to a child; paternity. Also in spiritual sense.
b. applied to God in his relation to mankind.
c. with especial reference to Eph. iii. 15 after the Vulgate rendering (paternitas).
d. confused use. The attribute of having a certain father.
e. The position of being the ‘father’ or oldest member of a society
2. The relation of an author, originator, or perpetrator. rare.
3. Authority of or as of a father in various senses; paternal authority, headship. Obs.
4. The personality of a father; in thy, your, etc. fatherhood(s, a form of address, denomination, or title given: :a. to ecclesiastics, esp. those of high rank. His Holy Fatherhood, the Pope. Obs.
b. to God.
c. to a literal father; hence gen. to persons having a claim to respect.
For lessons on the topic of Fatherhood, follow this link.
A father is defined as a male parent of any type of offspring.[1] The adjective "paternal" refers to father, parallel to "maternal" for mother.
Father-child relationship
The Father-child relationship is the defining factor of the fatherhood role.[2][3] The majority of Fathers are naturally protective and supportive responsible parents who are able to engender a number of significant benefits for themselves, their communities, and most importantly, their children.[4] Involved fathers offer developmentally specific provisions to their sons and daughters throughout the life cycle and are impacted themselves by their doing so.[5] Active father figures have a key role to play in reducing behavior problems in boys and psychological problems in young women.[6] For example, children who experience significant father involvement tend to exhibit higher scores on assessments of cognitive development, enhanced social skills and fewer behavior problems.[7][8][9] An increased amount of father-child involvement has also proven to increase a child's social stability, educational achievement, and even their potential to have a solid marriage as an adult. The children are also more curious about the world around them and develop greater problem solving skills.[10] Children who were raised without fathers perceive themselves to be less cognitively and physically competent than their peers from father-present families.[11] Mothers raising children without fathers reported more severe disputes with their child. Sons raised without fathers showed more feminine but no less masculine characteristics of gender role behavior.[12]
According to the anthropologist Maurice Godelier, the parental role assumed by human males is a critical difference between human society and that of humans' closest biological relatives - chimpanzees and bonobos - who appear to be unaware of their "father" connection.[13][14]
Authority figure
The father is often seen as an authority figure.[15][16][17][18] According to Deleuze, the father authority exercises repression over sexual desire.[19] A common observation among scholars is that the authority of the father and of the political leader are closely intertwined, that there is a symbolic identification between domestic authority and national political leadership.[20] In this sense, links have been shown between the concepts of "patriarchal", "paternalistic", "cult of personality", "fascist", "totalitarian", "imperial".[20] The fundamental common grounds between domestic and national authority, are the mechanisms of naming (exercise the authority in someone's name) and identification.[20] In a patriarchal society, authority typically uses such rhetoric of fatherhood and family to implement their rule and advocate its legitimacy.[21]
In the Roman and aristocratic patriarchal family, "the husband and the father had a measure of political authority and served as intermediary between the household and the polity."[22][23] In Western culture patriarchy and authority have been synonymous.[24] In the 19th century Europe, the idea was common, among both traditionalist and revolutionaries, that the authority of the domestic father should "be made omnipotent in the family so that it becomes less necessary in the state".[20][25][26] In the second part of that century, there was an extension of the authority of the husband over his wife and the authority of the father over his children, including "increased demands for absolute obedience of children to the father".[20] Europe saw the rise of "new ideological hegemony of the nuclear family form and a legal codification of patriarchy", which was contemporary with the solid spread of the "nation-state model as political norm of order".[20]
Determination of parenthood
Since Roman times fatherhood has been determined with this famous sentence: Mater semper certa; pater est quem nuptiae demonstrant ("The [[[identity]] of the] mother is always certain; the father is whom the marriage vows indicate"). The historical approach has been destabilised with the recent emergence of accurate scientific testing, particularly DNA testing. As a result, the law on fatherhood is undergoing rapid changes. In the United States, the Uniform Parentage Act essentially defines a father as a man who conceives a child through sexual intercourse.
Like mothers, human fathers may be categorised according to their biological, social or legal relationship with the child.[27] Historically, the biological relationship paternity has been determinative of fatherhood. However, proof of paternity has been intrinsically problematic and so social rules often determined who would be regarded as a father, e.g. the husband of the mother.
The most familiar English terms for father include dad, daddy, papa, pop and pa. Other colloquial expressions include my old man.
Natural/Biological father - the most common category: child product of man and woman
Birth father - the biological father of a child who, due to adoption or parental separation, does not raise the child or cannot take care of one.
Surprise father - where the men did not know that there was a child until possibly years afterwards
Posthumous father - father died before children were born (or even conceived in the case of artificial insemination)
Teenage father/youthful father - associated with teenage sexual intercourse
Non-parental father - unmarried father whose name does not appear on child's birth certificate: does not have legal responsibility but continues to have financial responsibility (UK)
Sperm donor father - a genetic connection but man does not have legal or financial responsibility if conducted through licensed clinics
Non-biological (social / legal relationship between father and child)
Stepfather - wife has child from previous relationship
Father-in-law - the father of one's spouse
Adoptive father - a father who has adopted a child
Foster father - child is raised by a man who is not the biological or adoptive father usually as part of a couple.
Cuckolded father - where child is the product of the mother's adulterous relationship
Social father - where man takes de facto responsibility for a child (in such a situation the child is known as a "child of the family" in English law)
Mother's partner - assumption that current partner fills father role
Mother's husband - under some jurisdictions (e.g. in Quebec civil law), if the mother is married to another man, the latter will be defined as the father
DI Dad - social / legal father of children produced via Donor Insemination where a donor's sperm were used to impregnate the DI Dad's spouse.
Fatherhood defined by contact level with child
Weekend/holiday father - where child(ren) only stay(s) with father at weekends, holidays, etc.
Absent father - father who cannot or will not spend time with his child(ren)
Second father - a non-parent whose contact and support is robust enough that near parental bond occurs (often used for older male siblings who significantly aid in raising a child).
Stay at home dad - the male equivalent of a housewife with child
Where man in couple originally seeking IVF treatment withdraws consent before fertilisation (UK)
Where the apparently male partner in an IVF arrangement turns out to be legally a female (evidenced by birth certificate) at the time of the treatment (UK) (TLR 1 June 2006)
A biological child of a man who, for the special reason above, is not their legal father, has no automatic right to financial support or inheritance. Legal fatherlessness refers to a legal status and not to the issue of whether the father is now dead or alive.
Non-human fatherhood
For some animals, it is the fathers who take care of the young.
Darwin frog (Rhinoderma darwini) fathers carry eggs in the vocal pouch.
The female seahorse (hippocampus) deposits eggs into the pouch on the male's abdomen. The male releases sperm into the pouch, fertilizing the eggs. The embryos develop within the male's pouch, nourished by their individual yolk sacs.
Male Emperor Penguins alone incubate their eggs; females do no incubation. Rather than building a nest, each male protects his egg by balancing it on the tops of his feet, enclosed in a special brood pouch.
Wolf fathers help feed, protect, and play with their pups. In some cases, several generations of wolves live in the pack, giving pups the care of grandparents, aunts/uncles, and siblings, in addition to parents.
Dolphin fathers help in the care of the young.
A number of bird species have active, caring fathers who assist the mothers.
Most species though, display little or no paternal role in caring for offspring. The male leaves the female soon after mating and long before any offspring are born. It is the females who must do all the work of caring for the young.
A male bear leaves the female shortly after mating and will kill and sometimes eat any bear cub he comes across, even if the cub is his. Bear mothers spend much of their cubs' early life protecting them from males. (Many artistic works, such as advertisements and cartoons, depict kindly "papa bears" when this is the opposite of reality.)
Domesticated dog fathers show little interest in their offspring, and unlike wolves, are not monogamous with their mates and are thus likely to leave them after mating.
Male lions will tolerate cubs, but only allow them to eat meat from dead prey after they have had their fill. Some are quite cruel towards their young and may hurt or kill them with little provocation.[citation needed] A male who kills another male to take control of his pride will also usually kill any cubs belonging to that competing male. However, it is also the males who are responsible for guarding the pride while the females hunt.
Finally, in some species neither the father nor the mother provides any care
This is true for most insects and fish
Father can also refer metaphorically to a person who is considered the founder of a body of knowledge or of an institution. In such context the meaning of "father" is similar to that of "founder".
"WordNet". https://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=father. Retrieved 2007-12-14.
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study 2006. "Measuring Father Involvement in Young Children's Lives." National Center for Education Statistics. Fathers of the United States children born in 2001.
Minnesota Fathers & Families Network. "Do We Count all the Fathers in Minnesota?" (Saint Paul, MN: Author, 2007). 51.
Minnesota Fathers & Families Network. "Fathers to the Forefront: A five-year plan to strengthen Minnesota families." (Saint Paul, MN: Author. 2007).[1]
Diamond, M. J. "My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout The Life Cycle." NY: Norton, 2007
Children Who Have An Active Father Figure Have Fewer Psychological And Behavioral Problems
Pruett, K. "Fatherneed: Why father care is as essential as mother care for your child," New York: Free Press, 2000.
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What Are the Best Universities in Iowa in The United States?
Iowa State University in Ames
Iowa, the Heart of America, is a unique and picturesque place where completely unusual factors come together. There are green fields with cute farmhouses, and windmills as a tribute to an alternative method of energy production. It’s a unique Amish settlement, seemingly frozen in time, and the progressive annual Des Moines Art Festival. In this place, the development of society in step with the times and the veneration of traditions convey the spirit of real, non-screen America. Iowa is also one of the safest states to get a quality education for reasonable money.
Read on to learn more about the universities in Iowa. Below is a list of the best universities prepared by essaysadvisor.com experts.
Iowa’s Most Interesting Universities in the United States
Iowa State Universities, USA
One of the largest and most respected universities in the state. In addition, it is among the top 300 best institutions of higher education from around the world. The education received here is valued quite highly. The university was established in 1858 and today it has grown to the size of a true campus. The leading fields of study at the University of Iowa are technology, medicine, natural and exact sciences, economics, and business. Curiously enough, it’s pretty easy to get in – 90% of applicants get a chance to study there, with tuition ranging from $7,000 to $9,000 per year, depending on the degree. It’s more expensive at the master’s level.
The university is large, with up to 32,000 students at a time. It is possible to get a distance education, as well as to cover some of the costs through the university’s student aid program.
Buena Vista University
A private, non-profit university of Iowa, founded in 1891. It is not as large as the previous university, with up to 4,000 students. And considerably more expensive – tuition per year starts at $20,000. How big is the competition for admission? About 70% of applicants get in, so the biggest issue is usually tuition funding. Whether the university has student benefits, funding programs, or grants can be found on its official website. If you need to write a scholarship essay, you can turn to specialized companies such as cheapwriting.services. They will prepare the paper according to all the requirements.
The university is also active on social media, where there are basic information and university staff answer questions from prospective students.
Drake University (Drake)
Another ancient educational institution. This is a non-profit and non-governmental university whose history began in 1881. Tuition is about the same as the previous University of Iowa on our list, which is about $20,000 per year. The competition statistics for admission are also the same in numbers, but there is a big difference in that the more popular majors here are also more demanding. That is why 70% of the 100% enrollment is a generalized figure for all majors. 15,000 students are the maximum for this University. Foreigners are readily admitted. The university is located in the state capital, Des Moines. Therefore, professional education may well be a miserable immersion in modern American culture.
University of Nothern Iowa
The beautiful University of Iowa in the United States. It is almost the same age as the previous universities – it has been operating since 1876. It is a public and quite a large institution, designed to educate up to 19,000 students annually. For a foreign citizen, the price of tuition will be about $17,000-$20,000 per year.
William Penn University
William Penn University is an ancient university of Iowa that was only granted university status in 2000, though it was founded two centuries earlier in 1873 as a college. You can get your bachelor’s and specialist degrees here. Tuition is the same for all students, ranging from $17,000 to $20,000 a year.
Small, expensive, and respectable. Year of establishment – 1857. The competition is 50/50. At any one time in a year, it teaches up to 6,000 students. Pay from $30,000. Among the features of the university are athletic programs.
Ashford University
This is the younger university of Iowa. It was founded just a century ago – in 1918 as a college – and only gained university status in 2005. It is located in the small town of Clinton and invites anyone interested in enrollment to visit its website for more information.
Graceland University
Graceland University was founded in 1895 in the city of Lamoni. The fine arts are taught here, along with more common areas of study. The university belongs to the private and commercial, so tuition is the same for all.
Wesleyan University of Iowa
The university opened its doors to students in 1842, which is earlier than other institutions of higher learning in this region of America, and therefore rightly bears the title of the oldest in the state. Costs start at $28,000 + room, board, and other possible expenses. However, this institution is in demand and puts science and progress at the forefront.
This institution closes our list of 10 Iowa universities in the USA. The founding date is 1847. The norm of the university is considerable scholarly activity. Approximately 32,000 students are enrolled each year. Has a good ranking and is a member of the Association of American Universities. Fees are from $20,000 per year.
In summary, Iowa is a good choice for studying abroad. Note that every single university has many years of experience, which inspires confidence and clearly demonstrates the quality level of education there. So all who wish to study in the USA – good luck! And if your choice is one of this list, we can only be happy for you! And remember, if you’re having trouble with your college assignments, you can always turn to online homework help websites and pay for essay cheap.
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Chapter 6 005. Imperial Prince is Busting Heads -1
Chapter 6: 005. Imperial Prince is Busting Heads -1
This couldn’t be anything simple at all.
In just a single night, the village was decimated, leaving behind 100 or so survivors.
They all crowded into the narrow and dilapidated monastery. Kids, old folks, housewives and the likes were busy offering desperate prayers inside the building. Meanwhile, men were helping me lug around the dead in the cemetery.
Once things had calmed down sufficiently enough, the representative of the village, the village chief, came up to me. “Thank you for aiding us, your highness.”
I was flustered. The village was decimated even before the holy water could be distributed? I had a mountain of things to do now thanks to this development.
“Wasn’t there a Paladin stationed in the village?” said I, remembering that there was a Paladin residing in the biggest village here tasked with monitoring me.
“After the incident happened, we sought him out. However, his current whereabouts are a mystery,” said the village chief as his response.
“What about sending the word out to the Theocratic Empire?”
Sure, it might have been a banishment, but still, an Imperial Prince was staying here. Paladins promptly showed up just because the owner of this body rampaged around a bit, so there was no way the higher-ups would ignore the advent of a zombie wave.
At the bare minimum, they should dispatch a knight order or something.
“T-that is… we tried to send a messenger, but…”
“But?”
“He must’ve been killed by the zombies during his journey.”
“There are zombies hiding along all of the roads leading to Ronia. Even the contact with the nearest sentry post has been cut off too…”
The zombies of this world were pretty amazing then.
The Paladin in the village monitoring me went missing. Thus, the zombies seized this opening and attacked, and they even managed to cut off the exit. Did that mean they could use their heads?
If this was true, then these bastards were even scarier than the ones from the movies, those that were capable of running around like marathon runners.
Also, finding the origin of this plague would be next to impossible if it turned out there was a separate entity with enough intelligence that commanded the others.
“How many zombies are there?”
“T-there were about 30 of them. That’s how many we saw when we were running away.”
The village near the monastery actually consisted of four separate satellite villages. I went to an already-decimated village yesterday, so this meant that in just one night, the remaining three had basically been wiped off the map.
If there were 30, did that mean there were around ten in each village? Or, maybe they worked together to attack the villages instead. It wasn’t as if we were dealing with a zombie den or something, so there was no real need to get scared by an undead that couldn’t run and were only capable of flailing about ungainly. Also, you wouldn’t turn into an undead just because you got bitten once too.
“Okay, so what now?”
“W-we’d like you to contact the Imperial Palace, your highness.”
“But didn’t you say that all roads have been blocked?”
“Wouldn’t offering a prayer be sufficient? Like, with some sort of magic…?”
How unfortunate, but I didn’t know any convenient skills like that one.
The villagers were looking at me with hopeful eyes, but it was my job to break the bad news for them, “Such a thing is obviously impossible. You said that a wave of zombies showed up, right? In that case, we don’t have any choice but to pull our socks up until Paladins come to rescue us. If not, we’ll all be dead meat.”
I didn’t want to get their hopes up, so I honestly told them our current position and options. Thanks to that, they all fell into panic. Some became really pale, while some wailed uncontrollably. Hell, some of them even began screaming too.
The villagers were in despair.
This was quite obvious really, since they were about to die from the plague, or become the next meal for the zombies.
Even if I enjoyed similar ‘attributes’ with the undead, the continuous appearance of zombies would still be dangerous for me in the long run. If I managed to survive alone when everyone else perished, it would look rather peculiar to other people, wouldn’t it?
This meant that the current situation remained unfavourable whether it was for the villagers or for myself.
“Please help us! Your highness! Aren’t you the grandson of the Holy Emperor?”
Even if that’s true, I was but a mere regular person now.
I stared at the village chief. These villagers seemed to be taking the banished Imperial Grandson for granted here.
A banished member of the Imperial Family was no different than a ‘commoner’ who lost all of their ‘status’. The exiled people who arrived in places like these would have to work as lowly gophers running errands for the villagers, and they wouldn’t even receive any compensation in return. There was no prior case of an exile taking revenge on the villagers either.
They probably thought that they found themselves a nice little servant here.
I wasn’t that unhappy about their request, though. The villagers seemed to be willing to help me out too.
It was just that… If these folks were shameless enough to think that I should ‘obviously’ do it for them, then I wasn’t planning to smile and bear it all out.
In that case, I should put forward a beneficial condition for me. I smirked and stared at the village chief while using my [Mind’s Eye] to confirm his Status Window.
[Name: Parok.
Speciality: Snitching, farming, petty tricks.
+ Currently in a scared state.]
My smile became one filled with contentment as I studied him. “Fine. I’ll help you.”
The two farmers from the night before were smiling brightly now. On the other hand, though, the remaining men carried unmistakably bleak expressions.
Their reactions were rather lukewarm at best. Even if I pounded on my chest and declared, “Who am I? I’m none other than Holy Emperor’s grandson!”, I wouldn’t be able to convince anybody.
Because, I was the mangnani Imperial Prince after all.
I used my royal background to beat up servants and sexually assault maids. Hell, I even tried to rape a lady-in-waiting too, who in their right minds would trust me?
The village chief hesitated greatly before opening his mouth, evidently having decided to grasp at straws with no other options available. “T-then, we shall be in your care.”
He probably figured that it was better than nothing and they might as well believe the ‘Priest’ and follow his lead.
It sure was a rather arrogant attitude.
I guess one could attribute his shamelessness to all those times he ordered around exiled formerly high-ranking ‘gophers’ as he pleased. Such a habit must’ve been deeply ingrained in his bones by now.
Well, it didn’t really matter.
Helping them out was the only way I’d be able to spend some peace and quiet myself. Besides, I wasn’t going to ‘personally’ deal with the zombies, anyway.
“However, I have a condition.”
The village chief flinched before tilting his head. With a confused expression on his face, he asked me a question, “When you say a condition…”
“I want you to start handing over some necessary funds. It’s rather unfair that I’ve been performing free services until now, right? Don’t you agree with me?”
“A-are you asking me to pay you wages? B-but, everyone who was exiled here so far were…”
I quietly stared at the village chief.
The silent pressure I gave off forced him to shrink back and nod his head. “I-I understand.”
“Don’t rat on the Paladins later, got it?”
As long as I stayed in the monastery, I’d get a bit of food and water for free. However, that was pretty much it. I had no funds to spend for myself right now.
Once every month, a traveling merchant would show up in the village, so it’d be a good idea to fix up the monastery with the funds I’m going to receive later. The Theocratic Empire had already given up on me anyways. I might end up spending the rest of my life here, so shouldn’t I try to spruce up the place with a few decent pieces of furniture?
“Oh, and one more thing.” I pointed at the dilapidated monastery. “I want you to fix that while you’re at it too.”
The village chief looked at the building. Although it was quite old and worn-down, the building was still large enough to house 100 or so of his fellow villagers. This meant that repairing it would require a considerable sum.
After a lengthy deliberation, the village chief finally spat out a groan and nodded his head. “I understand. Within my limits I’ll…”
“And, you need to periodically provide supplies for free.”
“…I’ll see what I can do within our means.”
Nice! With that, all my problems had been sorted out.
You see, rain water that leaked into the monastery had been causing me a lot of grief for a long while.
Not only that, the provisions I received as compensation for maintaining the cemetery were only potatoes and vegetables. I should be able to get myself some meat now, and since winter was coming, I might as well get the villagers to diligently bring me my deserved rewards so that I wouldn’t have to go get firewood personally.
“Your highness! Imperial Prince-nim!”
While I was in the middle of my ‘chat’ with the village chief, a man hurriedly ran over towards us. He shouted out with a pale expression, “The zombie horde is here!”
I was stunned to hear this.
Zombies were actually coming here?
This meant there was no need to go over where they were personally, judging from how they were gathering here in order to prey on the living. They’re pretty loyal to their base instincts, then.
This was a relief, actually–I didn’t have to search around and purify them one by one this way now. The amount of work I had to do decreased because of this.
“Nice! All of you, get your tools ready!”
The villagers, including the village chief, all began to tilt their heads. Their confused, dazed gazes were focused on me.
“What are you, uhm, talking about, your highness…?”
I shrugged my shoulders after hearing the chief. “What’s up with your expressions? Didn’t you ask me to sort this crisis out for you?”
“Y-yes. But, why…?”
His voice trailed off with the words, “…Why are you throwing around such an ugly word like ‘tools’ at us…?”
The corners of my lips arched up. “It should be obvious, right?”
Yup, so bloody obvious.
I had four ‘jobs’ as it were.
One, the Imperial Prince of the Theocratic Empire.
Two, a gravekeeper.
Three, a Priest, at least nominally.
And finally, a Necromancer.
None of these were the kind of professions where you’d march to the frontlines and perform a sword dance or something.
“From now on, you lot are going to do some zombie hunting, that’s why.”
The village chief and his fellow villagers stiffened up in an instant.
“Don’t you worry. It’s not like you’ll become a zombie just because you get bitten by one. It’ll just sting a bit and you’ll run some high fever for a few days, that’s all that will happen. You can rest easy because my heart shall ache alongside your pain too.”
The village chief forced out a smile as cold sweat trickled down his forehead. “Y-your highness. This is no time for jokes. You said you’d help us earlier, so…”
I shifted my gaze over to him and grinned refreshingly. “Did it sound like a joke to you just because I smiled?”
He openly formed an expression that cried out, ‘What kind of a dogsh*t is this…?!’
Well, if you don’t like it, you can forget about it, then.
I stared at him and cackled loudly in a rather evil manner.
Well-built men gathered in front of the monastery; there were about 50 of them in total. Each one was armed with farming tools, logging axes, saws, or hunting bows and arrows.
They were all built rather sturdily, perhaps owing to the fact that they were farmers, woodsmen, or hunters during their daily lives.
Nice! They didn’t forget to pack their weapons before running away despite the urgency of the situation. The survival instincts of this world’s denizens were pretty outstanding, indeed.
“Oh. About the equipment you took out from the monastery, make sure you don’t damage them, alright? I’ll be charging you money if you break even one.”
The villagers were now carrying fed-up expressions.
I cleanly ignored them and simply nodded my head in satisfaction. “Nice. This should suffice. They might be zombies, but as long as we aren’t dealing with animal types, we should have no problems as they are all very slow.”
Also, even if there were animal types mixed in, their attack power should still be limited overall, so it didn’t really matter either.
“Alright, everyone. Let’s take our time with this. Your safety should be your top priority. So don’t be too tense about hunting zombies. If it gets too tough, just help each other out. As long as we pace ourselves, no one will get hurt, and…”
It was then–I reflexively blocked my nose in a hurry. A truly horrendous stench was wafting out from the distance. Demonic energy was reverberating within the air like the disgusting stench of death.
I cautiously shifted my gaze towards the forest. Eyes glowing in crimson hue were slowly surrounding the perimeter of the monastery. Soon, the staggering zombies marched out of the dense fog. Their numbers were in the several hundreds.
“Why the hell…”
…Are there so many?!
I called out to the village chief, who happened to be backing away from sheer terror at the moment, “Oiiii, Mister Village Chief.”
“Y-yes??”
He looked back at me with a pale face.
“Didn’t you say that there were only around 30 or so back in the village?”
“T-that is… That’s what we saw…”
Even the chief himself looked confused, evidently not understanding what was happening here.
I began massaging my forehead. “Four… No, one of the villages was completely decimated, so… What’s the total populace of the three villages combined?”
The village chief hurriedly counted by raising and folding his fingers. “W-well, that is… the biggest village has over 200 folks, while the other ones have between 50 to 100. It should be at least over 300.”
“Okay, so… since there are 100 survivors here with us, and you saw about 30 zombies. In that case, where are the rest of them?”
The chief flinched and stiffened up as he dazedly stared back at me, then muttered out helplessly, “I don’t know for sure. We were too busy running away, so…”
“…With this, it’s pretty clear to me now.”
A portion of the escaped villagers must’ve been hunted down, it seemed. Or maybe, these creatures simply wandered into the ‘Land of the Dead Spirits’. Well, the very distant northern tip of the frontier wasn’t called the haven for the undead for nothing, after all.
My eyes twitched as I observed the slow, lumbering march of the zombie horde heading towards us. The villagers were crying out to me in sheer panic now.
“Y-your highness, what should we do?!”
“Imperial Prince-nim!!”
“Should we run away?”
The village chief butted in at the end and asked me.
I couldn’t help but massage my temples even harder. “Is there any other way to deal with zombies?”
“Even when a horde like this is coming?”
The chief wiped away his cold sweat as he replied, “An event like this one rarely occurs, you see. If we’re faced with such a crisis, we simply inform the feudal lord and wait until he dispatches his troops.”
I couldn’t help but form a miserable expression upon hearing that. “Why did my workload have to increase like this?! Hang on a minute, could it be that I’m paying for all the blasphemous crap the previous owner of this body committed in the past?”
Although I was just kidding now, I couldn’t help but feel a bit bitter after thinking about it. It was possible that my situation was exactly the result of that.
Since magic existed for real in this world, I couldn’t discount the possibilities of gods really existing too. Not that I was religious or anything, but if gods really did exist, then there was no way they’d do nothing when a supposed believer cussed them out, right?
‘You dumba*s grandson!’
I facepalmed grandly.
The crime of blasphemy this body’s former master committed was pretty damn hefty, to say the least. If I was really paying for his transgressions, then hell, I was neck-deep in trouble here.
“Ahh! The Goddess of love and mercy, Gaia!”
When I shouted this out, the village chief and the men all looked at me. Was it because I offered a ‘prayer’ just now? Their eyes seemed to have a renewed light in them.
They probably found Priests using divine powers in front of the undead rather reassuring. Indeed, the holy men and women of this world did pray before gathering their divinity to cast their magic, didn’t they?
However, I was different.
I refreshingly trampled on the expectations the villagers held of a Priest like me.
“Love and mercy, my ass! If you’re putting me through a wringer just because I cussed you out once, then Imma cuss you out even more! You cheapskate stinker of a Goddess!!”
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Iodine is a hot topic of debate in the thyroid conversation.
Here are the facts behind the iodine/thyroid connection.
Bring up the relationship between iodine and thyroid disorders, and people inevitably put the gloves on and get scrappy—not just an intellectual back and forth banter, supported by exchange of peer-reviewed scientific studies and empirically validated literature—but a throw-down, knock-out fight, where claims are made on the basis of anecdotal evidence based on what so-and-so blogger said, without a single primary or secondary source citation. This, I cannot endorse.
Despite clear trends in the scientific literature, there is rampant misinformation in the integrative medical community when it comes to iodine supplementation for Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in particular. I have heard many high profile functional medicine leaders advocate consumption of iodine-rich seaweed or high dose iodine supplementation for those of us with Hashimoto’s…without a single evidence-based resource to substantiate their recommendation. Because one autoimmune condition can beget another, it is reckless and irresponsible to give recommendations to autoimmune cohorts without so much as a literature search. Thus, a disimpassioned examination of the science is warranted.
Iodine, the heaviest of the halogens, is required in proper quantities as an essential precursor to thyroid hormone synthesis. The thyroid gland converts the amino acid tyrosine into thyroglobulin, and attaches one to four iodine atoms to create T4 (thyroxine), the inactive storage hormone, T3 (triidothyronine), or metabolically active thyroid hormone, and two thyroid hormones whose clinical significance is less known, T2 and T1.
Mandatory salt iodization programs, to which 70% of the world’s population are subject, have by and large eliminated iodine deficiency in most industrialized countries (1). For instance, after the development of the universal salt iodization initiative in China, median urinary iodine escalated from 164.8 μg/L in 1995 to 238.6 μg/L in 2011, well beyond the 100.0 to 199.0 μg/L levels recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) from prevention of iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) (2). Meanwhile, however, “The spectrum of thyroid diseases has undergone a significant change ranging from simple goiter to toxic nodular goiter, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and thyroid cancer accompanied by the increase in iodine intake, especially for thyroid cancer with an annual increase of 14.51% in China” (3).
The Epidemic of Thyroid Cancer
While increased incidence of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, the autoimmune disease responsible for the majority of cases of hypothyroidism, is part of a larger epidemic of autoimmune disorders, the skyrocketing rates of thyroid cancer are likely a consequence of over-diagnosis due to an unprecedented increase in thyroid imaging. Most of these thyroid cancers are being re-classified as benign morphological variations, or papillary lesions of indolent course (PLICs), “which do not evolve to cause metastatic disease or death” (4). According to Brito and colleagues (2014), the majority of these growths constitute the most indolent type of thyroid cancer, called small papillary cancers, with a mortality of less than 1% after 20 years of post-surgical follow-up (4). The researchers elucidate, “Now new risk factors, but one, can completely explain the surge of these lesions: the exponential increase in the use of diagnostic imaging” (4, p.1).
Volmer (2014) concluded similarly that, “The results of this study support the notion that many thyroid cancers are part of a reservoir of nonfatal tumors that are increasingly being overdetected and overdiagnosed” (5, p. 128). Devastatingly, standard of care for patients with these conditions is thyroidectomy—surgical removal of one of the most essential glands in the body—followed by carcinogenic radiation, lifelong synthetic thyroid hormone replacement, and surveillance for ‘cancer’ recurrence. Brito and colleagues (2014) state that, as evidenced by autopsies, many of us harbor these thyroid ‘cancers’ in our thyroid glands (4). In fact, studies suggest that if all thyroids were subjected to biopsy, pathologists would find these microscopic thyroid ‘cancers’ to be ubiquitous in the population (6). The authors of these post-mortem studies state that these occult papillary carcinomas (OPCs), which arise from normal follicular cells, should be “regarded as a normal finding which should not be treated when incidentally found” (6, p. 531). Researchers further state that, “The great majority of the tumors remain small and circumscribed and even from those few tumors that grow larger and become invasive OPCs only a minimal proportion will ever become a clinical carcinoma” (6, p. 531).
Iodine and the Epidemic of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
On the other hand, iodine may be one of the potential culprits in the dramatic surge in diagnoses of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, also known as autoimmune thyroiditis or chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, which has occurred in recent years.
With respect to certain constructs, the natural medicine community often adopts a group-think mentality and becomes an echo chamber of reverberating ideas, a choir with one unanimous voice and little substantive discourse. However, as Benjamin Franklin stated, “If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking”. Thus, the assertion that is frequently cited in alternative medical communities that we are in the midst of a massive iodine deficiency due to inundation with chlorinated, fluoridated, and brominated compounds, which displace iodine in the thyroid gland, is worthy of examination.
While these halogens are indisputably cause for concern, this theoretical iodine deficiency in Western nations does not materialize in the literature. According to a 2013 study, 10 countries have iodine excess, 111 countries have sufficient iodine intake, 9 countries are moderately deficient, 21 are mildly deficient, and none are considered severely deficient, as defined by a median urinary iodine concentration of 100-299 μg/L in school-aged children (1). According to studies, approximately 71% to 74% or more of the world’s population is now iodine sufficient, illuminating that the risk of iodine deficiency is overstated (1, 7). The most recent Food and Drug Administration’s Total Diet Study also revealed that the U.S. population has adequate dietary iodine, with estimated average daily iodine intake ranging from 138 to 353 micrograms per person (8). Canada and Mexico are likewise iodine sufficient (1).
Importantly, iodine is a narrow therapeutic index or “Goldilocks” nutrient. It exhibits a biphasic U-shaped dose-response curve, where too much and too little is problematic for the thyroid. Iodine deficiency can create endemic goiter, growth retardation, neonatal hypothyroidism, intellectual impairments, cretinism, pregnancy loss, and infant mortality (9). On the other hand, excess iodine can induce hypothyroidism in euthyroid patients who have had previous episodes of subacute thyroiditis, in patients with a history of postpartum thyroiditis, in euthyroid patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and in some patients with chronic, systemic diseases (10). The Jod-Basedow phenomenon, also known as iodine-induced hyperthyroidism or thyrotoxicosis, can also occur in those with a history of autonomous multinodular or non-toxic goiter (1).
Evidence that Iodine Can Induce Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
Although iodine prophylaxis programs may decrease goiter prevalence, epidemiological research in China and Denmark has elucidated that excess iodine increases incidence of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and hypothyroidism (11). Slovenia likewise showed an increase in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis incidence in the ten years after it became an iodine-replete country (12). Similarly, salt iodization was associated with increased frequency of thyroid autoantibodies and hypothyroidism in Great Britain, Denmark, and Iceland (13, 14, 30). Another study demonstrated an increased incidence of Hashimoto’s and positive thyroid autoantibodies when Italy improved its low iodine intake between 1995 and 2010 (15). Hypothyroidism and increases in serum thyroid autoantibodies also occurred with the introduction of iodine prophylaxis in Pescopagano (15). Furthermore, mean thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), a biomarker for hypothyroidism, escalated significantly after a mandatory salt iodization program was implemented in a longitudinal DanThyr study (16). Astonishingly, in one study, 42.8% of subjects tested positive for thyroid autoantibodies after just three and six months of treatment with iodized oil (17).
In individuals with anti-thyroid peroxidase (TPO) or anti-thyroglobulin (TG) antibodies, the incidence of elevated TSH increased with greater levels of iodine intake (18). In addition, TG antibodies have been found more frequently in users of iodized salt (19). Zhao et al. (2014) found a significant correlation between excess iodine intake and thyroid disease incidence (3). Thyroid autoantibodies, specifically TG and TPO, were statistically higher in those with greater iodine intake (3). Researchers concluded that excess iodine intake can induce production of TPO and TG antibodies, both of which have positive predictive value for Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (3). In fact, positive anti-thyroid antibodies equate to an odds ratio of 8 for women and 25 for men for development of clinical hypothyroidism (13).
Lastly, the effect of iodine in Hashimoto’s is most dramatically demonstrated by a study by Yoon and colleagues (2003), where 78.3% of patients with Hashimoto’s regained euthyroid status (reversing their Hashimoto’s thyroiditis) after three months of restricting iodine to less than 100 micrograms/day (versus 45.5% who recovered in an iodine non-restriction group) (24).
Molecular Mechanisms For Iodine-Induced Hashimoto’s
At a mechanistic level, thyroid autoimmunity induced by iodine is associated with synthesis of TG antibodies and the unmasking of a cryptic epitope of thyroglobulin, which is normally sequestered and unavailable to the immune system (19). According to Fiore, Latrofa, and Vitti (2015), “Thyroglobulin (TG) is an important target in iodine-induced autoimmune response due to post-translational modifications of iodinated TG,” as thyroglobulin is the only self-antigen subject to post-translational alterations resulting from exogenous iodine supply (9, p. 26). Enhanced iodination of TG alters its antigenicity and up-regulates presentation of its cryptic peptide to antigen-presenting cells (20; 21). Iodinated thyroglobulin is more antigenic because T cells that pass thymic selection, the process whereby self-reactive T cells are deleted, only recognize non-iodinated thyroglobulin motifs as belonging to self (22). Animal models strongly support this pathophysiological mechanism whereby iodine induces thyroid autoimmunity, as, “Excessive iodine intake can precipitate spontaneous thyroiditis in genetically predisposed animals, by increasing the immunogenicity of thyroglobulin (TG)” (19).
According to Topliss (2016), “Iodine supplementation is believed to increase the prevalence of circulating anti-TPO. The underlying mechanism is yet to be elucidated; however, more highly iodinated TG is more antigenic in experimental autoimmune thyroiditis” (11, p. 494). Experimental models of autoimmune thyroiditis have underscored that loss of B-cell self-tolerance occurs first for thyroglobulin and then secondarily for thyroid peroxidase, in line with these observations (23). Moreover, at a biochemical level, iodine may inhibit thyroid hormone synthesis and secretion, which is known as the Wolff-Chaikoff effect (10). According to Markou and colleagues (2001), “It is proposed that iodopeptide(s) are formed that temporarily inhibit thyroid peroxidase (TPO) mRNA and protein synthesis and, therefore, thyroglobulin iodinations. The Wolff-Chaikoff effect is an effective means of rejecting the large quantities of iodide and therefore preventing the thyroid from synthesizing large quantities of thyroid hormones” (10, p. 501).
The authors clarify that, “The acute Wolff-Chaikoff effect lasts for a few days and then, through the so-called “escape” phenomenon, the organification of intrathyroidal iodide resumes and the normal synthesis of thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) returns” (10, p. 501). However, in euthyroid patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, this escape phenomenon from the inhibitory effect of iodine is impaired, resulting in subclinical or clinical hypothyroidism (10).
Another potential mechanism through which iodine exacerbates or induces Hashimoto’s is by up-regulating Th17 cells, the immune cell subset responsible for tissue destruction in autoimmune disease, and by suppressing development of regulatory T cells, the population that invokes oral tolerance to arrest autoimmune responses (31). Duntas (2015) articulates, “In susceptible individuals, iodine excess increases intra-thyroid infiltrating Th17 cells and inhibits T regulatory (Treg) cells development, while it triggers an abnormal expression of tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) in thyrocytes, thus inducing apoptosis and parenchymal destruction” (31, p. 721). Also relevant to this phenomenon is the ratio of iodine to selenium, since selenoproteins mediate antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and redox-related processes (31). “Selenostasis”, which is found to be compromised in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and Graves’ disease, is critical to counterbalance iodine, because “Selenium enhances CD4+/CD25 FOXP3 and T regulatory cells activity while suppressing cytokine secretion, thus preventing apoptosis of the follicular cells and providing protection from thyroiditis” (31, p. 721).
Caveats for Iodine Supplementation
Based on a review of the literature, the only people who should be supplementing with iodine are those with lab-validated iodine deficiency. 90% of ingested iodine is excreted via renal pathways, such that median spot urinary iodine concentrations (UIC) will serve as a biomarker for recent dietary iodine intake (1). Iodine sufficiency is defined as median UIC of 100-299 micrograms per liter in school-aged children and greater than or equal to 140 micrograms per liter in pregnant women (32). However, some authors maintain that these tests are sufficient only at the population level and should not be applied to individuals due to the large day-to-day variation in iodized salt intake (1).
According to Konig and colleagues, (2011), “~10 repeat spot urine collections are needed to estimate individual iodine intakes with acceptable precision” (29, p. 524). On the other hand, the World Health Organization recommends urine iodine concentration (UIC) to monitor an individual’s iodine status (2). Because a single measurements serves only as an isolated snapshot in time, and may not be reflective of total body iodine status, repeat testing may be necessary before conclusions about iodine deficiency can be drawn.
Moreover, because thyroid hormone is critical for fetal and infant neurodevelopment in utero and post-partum, and since iodine deficiency can result in neurological and psychological deficits, using a multivitamin containing iodine may be indicated during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Although Prete, Paragliola, and Corsello (2015) caution against use of iodine in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis at levels above 100 micrograms per day, they note that one exception is use of iodine supplementation during pregnancy to avoid damage to the newborn (25). Topliss (2016) also mentions, “Discouraging iodine mega-supplementation may not preclude appropriate physiological supplementation in pregnancy to a total intake of 250 µg/day” (11, p. 495). The post-partum period is a high-risk time for the development of thyroid autoimmunity due to Th1 dominance; however, researchers discuss that the risk of developmental retardation and intellectual deficits outweighs the risk of Hashimoto’s onset.
Conclusions Regarding Iodine Supplementation in Hashimoto’s
When it comes to iodine, I have no dog in the fight. If the literature demonstrates that any natural food or nutraceutical helps Hashimoto’s, I’m all for it, having the condition myself—but this is just not the case with iodine. Barring any lab-validated iodine deficiency, restriction of iodine seems to be warranted in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and use of iodized salts and supplements containing high doses of iodine would appear to be contraindicated. Thus, if your functional medicine practitioner, nutritionist, naturopathic doctor, or alternative medicine provider recommends that you supplement with supra-physiological doses of iodine—or that you incorporate massive sea vegetables into your diet to boost thyroid function—ask them for the peer-reviewed study supporting this practice. My bet is that they will come up empty.
So, why are people so invested in iodine? According to the Thyroid Pharmacist, Dr. Isabella Wentz, people may experience a short-term artificial increase in energy after beginning an iodine supplement (26). Dr. Wentz fleshes out a probable mechanism, whereby their newfound energy is derived from iodine-induced thyroid tissue destruction and the liberation of thyroid hormone into the circulation (26).
In summary, an across-the-board recommendation for iodine supplementation in people with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is not evidence-based. Studies have rather supported the contrary notion, that, “high iodine intake [is] likely to lead to occurrence of thyroid diseases, such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, nodular goiter, and hyperthyroidism, through a long-term mechanism” (3). In fact, groups with the aforementioned thyroid diseases, as well as individuals with positive TG or TPO antibodies, have been demonstrated to exhibit significantly higher levels of urinary iodine, the main indicator of iodine nutritional status, compared to healthy controls (3).
What’s more, individuals with a family history of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis should be especially cautious about iodine intake, since the autoimmune reaction induced by iodine is particularly likely in genetically susceptible individuals. Besides promoting immunogenicity of the thyroglobulin molecule, dietary iodine can enhance levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which lead to expression of cell adhesion molecules (ICAM-1) that are crucial to the early phases of thyroid follicular inflammatory responses (3). Lastly, excessive iodine can generate high levels of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), which damages thyrocytes and perpetuates thyroid autoimmunity (27).
The role of iodine in triggering Hashimoto’s thyroiditis should not be taken lightly, as an increased prevalence of thyroid autoantibodies was discovered even after cautious iodization programs were implemented (14, 28). According to researchers, this data cumulatively substantiates the notion that even small increases in supplemental iodine may increase risk for thyroid autoimmunity (9).
Caution should therefore be heeded before adding supplemental iodine to the regimen of any patient with thyroid autoimmunity, since, “Iodine intake modulates the pattern of thyroid diseases, even in cases of slight differences in intake and doses below 150 μg daily recommended for preventing IDD” (9).
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3. Zhao, H. et al. (2014). Correlation between iodine intake and thyroid disorders: a cross-sectional study from the South of China. Biological Trace Elements Research, 162(1-3), 87-94. doi: 10.1007/s12011-014-0102-9.
4. Brito, J.P. et al. (2014). Papillary lesions of indolent course: reducing the overdiagnosis of indolent papillary thyroid cancer and unnecessary treatment. Future Medicine, 10(1), 1-4.
5. Volmer, R.T. (2014). Revisiting overdiagnosis and fatality in thyroid cancer. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 141(1), 128-132. doi: 10.1309/AJCP9TBSMWZVYPRR.
6. Harach, H.R., Fransilla, K.O., & Wasenius, V.M. (1985). Occult papillary carcinoma of the thyroid: A ‘normal’ finding in Finland. A systematic autopsy study. Cancer, 56, 531-538.
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16. Bjergved, L. et al. (2012). Predictors of change in serum TSH after iodine fortification: an 11-year follow-up to the DanThyr study. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 97, 4022–4029.
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18. Teng, W. et al. (2006). Effect of iodine intake on thyroid diseases in China. New England Journal of Medicine, 354, 2783–2793.
19. Latrofa, F. et al. (2013). Iodine contributes to thyroid autoimmunity in humans by unmasking a cryptic epitope on thyroglobulin. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 98, E1768-E1774.
20. Dai, Y.D., Rao, V.P., & Carayanniotis, G. (2002). Enhanced iodination of thyroglobulin facilitates processing and presentation of a cryptic pathogenic peptide. Journal of Immunology, 168, 5907-5911.
21. Saboori, A.M., Rose, N.R., & Burek, C.L. (1998). Iodination of human thyroglobulin (Tg) alters its immunoreactivity. II. Fine specificity of a monoclonal antibody that recognizes iodinated Tg. Clinical Experiments in Immunology, 113, 303-308.
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Brazil’s Souza gets life ban for match-fixing
Brazilian Joao Souza has been banned from tennis for life after being convicted of multiple match-fixing and other corruption offences, the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) said on Saturday.
A TIU investigation found that the 31-year-old had committed several anti-corruption breaches between 2015 and 2019 including fixing matches at ATP Challenger and ITF Futures tournaments in Brazil, Mexico, the United States and Czech Republic.
“The player is permanently ineligible to compete in or attend any sanctioned event organised or recognised by the governing bodies of the sport,” TIU said in a statement.
Souza, who had been provisionally suspended since March 2019 pending completion of the investigation, was also fined $200,000 following a disciplinary hearing in London on Jan. 14.
The TIU said Souza had not reported corrupt approaches, had failed to co-operate with their investigation, including destroying evidence, and “solicited other players to not use best efforts” in matches.
Souza reached a career-high singles ranking of 69 in 2015 and is currently ranked 742. As a doubles player, he achieved his highest ranking of 70 in January 2013.
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PRO Team Field Notes: At Oakland, We’re All About that “Base”
Ashley Shares
The most common material we use at Oakland Cemetery is… Concrete?!
In the world of cemetery preservation, the use of Portland cement, the main component in concrete mixes, is considered taboo, and with good reason. Many historic headstones have been damaged beyond help because of the use of cement in repairs and resetting. It used to be common practice to set tombstones in a pool of wet cement. The well-intentioned persons who did this were confident that the stone would then stick straight up out of the ground forever. And this was often the case… for the bottom half of the stone. But as the ground shifted and pressure built over time, those headstones often snapped in half. Unfortunately, they were then impossible to repair because the bottom half was embedded in inches of concrete. Concrete is tough to remove from stone, and it’s nearly impossible to do so without damage.
At Oakland, we avoid damaging practices like these. However, we do use concrete on a weekly basis for something else: building new bases, also known as “footers”. Historically, when large monuments were placed over a new grave they were often simply set on the soil or on stacked brick and rubble. Over time as grave shafts collapsed or erosion occurred, these monuments would begin to lean. Sometimes, the lean is insignificant. Other times the monument becomes a critical concern because the more severe the lean, the harder gravity is working to bring the monument down. A leaning monument is a hazard to visitors. That is why the PRO Team has a policy for large monuments that will ensure that such a lean is unlikely to reoccur any time soon:
Over the course of an average year, the PRO Team uses about 500 bags of concrete.
Every monument that requires more than manpower alone to re-set requires a new spread footer. A spread footer is wider than the base of the monument and therefore distributes the weight over a greater area, reducing its tendency to shift. The larger the monument, the deeper the concrete pad. We wait at least 24 hours to re-set a monument on the new base, ensuring that the stone doesn’t stick.
Over the course of an average year, the PRO Team uses about 500 bags of concrete. That’s enough for a 100-foot sidewalk! You could say that at Oakland, we’re all about that “base”.
Projects like building new bases for large monuments are complex, time-consuming, and can become expensive, but they are necessary if we are to retain the historic character of Oakland Cemetery. Please help the PRO Team by donating to our critical restoration fund.
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New IPO search facility
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the official UK government body responsible for intellectual property (IP) rights including patents, designs, trademarks and copyright.
The IPO has launched a new service that allows users to search for the goods and services they intend to use their trade mark on before they apply.
Intellectual Property Offices worldwide use a trade mark classification system that groups together similar goods or services into 45 different classes. This is referred to as the Nice Classification.
While a member state of the EU, the IPO contributed to and shared a common classification system called TMClass. TMClass is a classification search tool provided by the EUIPO. With the transition period relating to the UK’s exit from the EU ending on 31 December 2020, a new UK specific database was required.
The search UK trade mark classes service is available from the GOV.UK website.
Source: HM Government Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0100
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Farrell was born and raised on the island of Aruba in the Lesser Antilles. He left after finishing school at 15 and was a sailor for two years before moving to Norway. He then went to the Netherlands, where he found occasional work as a DJ before finding better opportunities in Germany.In Germany, he worked mostly as a DJ until producer Frank Farian spotted him for his new Boney M. group.
Farian, who also produced most of the vocals for the group, was later the producer for the group Milli Vanilli and caused controversy when he admitted that the guys who fronted the group did not actually sing the songs.Farrell became the sole male singer in Boney M, although Farian later revealed that Bobby made almost no vocal contributions to the group’s records, with Farian himself performing the male parts on the songs in the studio. Liz Mitchell claimed that only she, Marcia Barrett and Farian had sung on the hit recordings. Farrell did, however, perform live in some of the various incarnations of Boney M, including the main 1970s incarnation.During 1978, Boney M. made a much publicized promotional visit to the Soviet Union, one of the very few Western acts along with Elton John to do so, although tracks like “Rasputin” were not released in the Soviet Union due to their lyrics.Farrell left the group in 1981, after clashes with Farian.
He was replaced by Reggie Tsiboe. He re-joined in 1984, and continued as a member until it finally split in 1986.Farrell’s daughter Zanillya Farrell claims that Farian deprived Farrell of his rights over Boney M.’s hits, which caused her father to lose all his income after the band split: “When Dad asked Farian for 100,000 marks he was told to sign some papers. He signed away everything – image rights, royalties, the lot. My father lost everything. We had to move in with my grandmother in the Netherlands and live on welfare. After that, Dad started getting angry a lot. But Mum was very smart and realized if you own the name you can use it. Farian had not registered Boney M all over the world. So that’s why Dad could perform in certain countries.”He subsequently toured with his own group performing the band’s hits under the name “Bobby Farrell’s Boney M.”.
He also appeared as a dancer in late 2005 in the Roger Sanchez video clip of “Turn on the Music.”Farrell lived for many years in Amsterdam, in the neighborhood of Gaasperdam in the borough of Amsterdam-Zuidoost.In 1981 he married Macedonian Romani Jasmine Shaban. They had daughter Zanillya Farrell in 1983 and son Zanin. They split in 1995.He died in a hotel in Saint Petersburg, of heart failure. His agent John Seine said Farrell was complaining of breathing problems after performing with his band the evening before. Farrell’s body was reportedly discovered by hotel staff after he failed to respond to an alarm call. He was buried at Zorgvlied cemetery.His daughter Zanillya Farrell is a rapper. In December 2011, she won the national music prize Grote Prijs van Nederland in the hip hop category.
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This view from a Former CIAer is Disturbing
by Ugh
Vox has an interview with "a 23-year veteran of the CIA and a former deputy officer on the National Intelligence Council." I picked this up in my twitter feed, that person describing it as "chilling." But I think they meant chilling from an "isn't Trump a horrible threat?" perspective, although perhaps not. But my take away is that the intelligence community - or at least this person who spent more than two decades working in it - is full of themselves (and "it") and feels entitled to undermine the President of the United States if they view him as sufficiently not to their liking.
He starts out with:
What's happened is that the organs of government sworn to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States have been trying to do their jobs. Intelligence professionals take their responsibilities seriously. Whatever they do, they do it because they believe it is necessary, because they believe duty demands it. They’re not playing political games.
This is such chest-beating horsesh1t I can hardly believe it. Not the least of which he seems to think that only portions of the government swear this oath and take it seriously, but the idea that "intelligence professionals" only do things because they believe it necessary and duty demands is plainly laughable. As is the idea that they are not playing political games. John Brennan's spat with the Senate Intelligence Committee being a notable recent example of the opposite of this statement
We are facing the gravest threat to our institutions and our government since 1861, since the country broke in half. This is a graver crisis than Watergate, which was about corruption, not the usurpation of our laws and our checks and balances.
Holy crap is this nonsense. Watergate was much much more than merely simple corruption and was precisely about the "usurpation of our laws and checks and balances." Indeed, I don't see how the current crisis implicates checks and balances at all - other than the GOP-led congress has decided it's not going to act (at least so far). Indeed, he seems to think that the intelligence community is a check and balance against the President. That's... not correct.
And, on top of that, [Trump's] team appears to have been colluding with Russian intelligence services. This is a massive crisis for our norms and our Constitution, and we have to say so.
(emphasis in original) And yet this first statement contradicts what he said earlier in the interview, which was that "Trump and his entourage, for a long period of time, have been associating with, meeting with, involved with, or working somehow with Russian intelligence." Well which is it? He also claims to have "figure[d] this out" - but then immediately backtracks. I guess I would agree this is crisis for our norms.
These sorts of accusations [by Rep. Nunes that leaks are retaliation by the intelligence community] are outrageous and part of the problem. It's shocking to see such a betrayal of the oaths these people took to serve the nation.
This is him, and given his experience I would say at least some portion of the intelligence community, being the sole arbiter of what it means to "serve the nation." Apparently, in his and part of the IC's view, if they determine POTUS is not serving the nation then actively undermining him - via anonymous leaks of secret information - is fully justified. In fact necessary to save the nation and Constitution.
So no, we should not — and cannot — trust this man [Trump].
Again, this is not acceptable from the intelligence community w/r/t the President of the United States. If a large portion of the IC thinks POTUS is a clear and present danger to the United States, they can resign en masse, go to the press, and then dare the FBI and DOJ to arrest and prosecute them. To paraphrase something from twitter - it is rather ominous that our government is being yanked hither and yon by anonymous selective leaks of vague classified information.
I have publicly talked about the crisis that this circumstance poses to the national security establishment. What do you do if you think the officer in charge of you is the one who's betraying the oath and the obligations to protect the Constitution and the country?
If you resign, then someone else will take your place. If you report the information, it will be tabled or used against you rather than acted upon. If you go in-house, you risk having the information passed up the chain of command. So if I were put in this dilemma, I would do what I thought was necessary to protect the nation's secrets.
Leaks are the only option that one has in this existential crisis to protect the Constitution.
I do have sympathy for the lack of whistle-blower avenues and subsequent protection, but this is rather rich coming from the IC. Notably he doesn't mention going to Congress (Sen. Feinstein anyone? Or McCain, at least on Russia issues). Notably he thinks resignation merely means you will be replaced. Most important: he speaks of a crisis for "the national security establishment," and with that he inadvertently gives away the game ISTM - Trump is a threat to the national security apparatus. So of course the interviewee thinks leaks in these circumstances are just fine, but did he have that view under Obama? Or perhaps more to the point, under Bush when the CIA was happily torturing people in secret prisons around the world and then stuffing them in Gitmo under orders from the President and legal cover from the DOJ? Where was this kind of view then? Or perhaps torture and secret prisons were "necessary" and "duty demand[ed] it." Chilling, indeed.
Maybe Trump is sui generis and thus this is a one-off thing for the intelligence community, but I have serious doubts about that (e.g., why wasn't this all coming out during the campaign in such an explicit manner, or did the IC - which in my mind includes the FBI - think Trump would be great for them and when it turns out it's the exact opposite they're having buyer's remorse?).
Posted by Ugh at 09:07 AM | Permalink
I've been working on a post on this very topic, Ugh, and I think a lot of this attitude from the IC is coming from the Trump White House's general disrespect for security.
It's not horseshit if you realize that, for many purposes, the US currently has no national security. The reason it's coming out now (rather than before the election or during the transition) is that the IC didn't imagine it would be this bad.
But this past weekend at Mar-a-Lago proved it, publicly. Classified and sensitive material given to the White House will *not* be treated with respect.
They also have growing evidence that there is actual treason taking place, collusion between people in the White House and foreign powers.
Why didn't they have it before the election? Because a) they're mostly Republicans, so they didn't look very hard, b) like everybody else, including Trump & Putin, they didn't think Trump would win so they didn't think it mattered.
I'll put up my post by early afternoon.
Posted by: Doctor Science | February 16, 2017 at 10:05 AM
But doesn't the complaint from the guy in the interview go beyond Trump's disrespect and lack of care/security protocols for classified information? Because if that's their complaint then all this hyperventilating about constitutional crisis and worst thing since the Civil War looks more like the IC is feeling "disrespected" and their feelings are hurt.
Which as you note it does go beyond that w/r/t potential treason and Russia. But again, wasn't that sort of thing (as opposed to sharing classified information with the dinner guests) "this bad" before the election and during the transition?
Not that it can't be all of those things. I'd have greater respect for the IC's views if they came out and admitted they were actively/passively rooting for Trump to win - even if they think he wouldn't - and now are mea culping their way out of it through leaks, but then they wouldn't have any defenders on Capitol Hill or in the White House, but perhaps that's the way it should be.
Posted by: Ugh | February 16, 2017 at 10:53 AM
Well which is it?
The two things are not mutually exclusive. Associating, meeting, communicating, working with, are not necessarily collusion. But, they have or at least could have, the appearance of collusion.
Is the guy being interviewed still in intel? Or is he retired? If he's retired, he's a private individual, and I think is allowed to say whatever he wants, short of divulging classified or otherwise protected information.
If he's still inside, the interview is perhaps not appropriate.
Your guess is as good as mine about WTF is actually going on. I basically assume that I'm just along for the ride at this point. I have some access to things via my House rep and Senators, and also at a local level via those folks.
But big picture, I have no freaking idea. I just hope we don't all get killed.
Posted by: russell | February 16, 2017 at 10:58 AM
Rambling marginally relevant anecdote: back around the turn of the century, during my last year as an undergrad, I got a conditional offer of employment from a three-letter agency. I did the processing for the required clearance (as discussed in the other thread recently, and then some), but it was a competitive offer and multiple candidates were concurrently clearing because of the clearance attrition rate. Another one cleared before I did (protip: if you're undergoing a time-sensitive clearance process, and finishing your degree includes a 6-week study abroad during that period, figure out how to change that - also, somehow try not to have a lazy case officer handling your clearance who gets terminated 8 months or so into it), and I really regretted that... for a whole year or so. It didn't take long post-2001 for me to be actively glad that I wasn't in the IC...
(This was the period where I decided I needed to wake up politically, because if I was gonna work in that profession, I needed to be truly aware of what we were doing in the world. I may not of gotten the job, but going the process did turn me into the jaded, fervent pinko I am today. I can't even begin to imagine who I'd be psychologically and politically if I'd've spent the last decade and a half in that job...)
Posted by: Nombrilisme Vide | February 16, 2017 at 10:59 AM
Argh, mouse is still doubleclicking...
russell - I believe he is retired and of course he can say anything he wants, if it wasn't clear I was using his views as a proxy for what the IC, or a significant portion of it, is thinking.
DocSci - when you get your post up I'll close comments on this one so any discussion can go on in a single thread.
Retired, so this is not as big a deal as it might be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Carle
Posted by: Nigel | February 16, 2017 at 11:06 AM
NV - FYI, deleted your double comment.
I must say Ugh it looks from the outside as if this (the whole Trump situation, including intelligence) is unprecedentedly serious and dangerous. Nobody would deny that the IC has done, and colluded in, a lot of heinous stuff over the years, but I guess they could always fool themselves that it (torture, rendition etc) was in the security interests of the nation. But here they (and we) are, faced with an incompetent Presidency and regime which is nakedly interested only in self-enrichment, probably involves treasonous behaviour, and damn the consequences to the nation. I agree with your point about why they didn't take this to e.g. McCain, and I can see that sensible people must be very worried about the precedent, but personally I'd be inclined to give them a pass for now.
Posted by: Girl from the North Country | February 16, 2017 at 11:12 AM
GftNC - part of the interview I didn't quote was:
We're dealing with a man in Trump who doesn't accept a fact-based reality, who only acts for his own self-aggrandizement, and who views any action that does not serve him as a threat that must be destroyed.
That's not really what you want in a POTUS, but in my mind that's not a reason for the IC to actively undermine him either. I view it as another indication that the IC's real complaint is about Trump's contempt for them. If that's true (and again it doesn't have to be the only complaint), well, too bad.
My view is also colored by a friend of mine who's a reporter based in Istanbul who covers Central Asia/Russia and in his view, and those he follows, (a) the public reporting supporting some sort of Russia/Trump conspiracy is vague and based mostly on anonymous sources and (b) even if true Russia is much less powerful than it is comically (to them) being portrayed in the US media.
One question - why the apparent certainty that it wasn't someone in the White House who leaked ?
Also note that to the extent the IC wanted Trump to win, they agreed with Putin!
From the front page of the WSJ today:
The [intelligence] officials' decision to keep information from Mr. Trump underscores the deep mistrust that has developed between the intelligence community and the president over his team's contacts with the Russian government, as well as the enmity he has shown toward the U.S. spy agencies.
My emphasis. In my view, you don't get to do this, Intelligence Community.
I am not happy about any segment of the executive branch, IC or otherwise, actively subverting the orders from the President. Not at all.
I have somewhat less concern about at least some leaks. Lots of people are involved in lots of government actions, but are not among those "authorized to speak for the agency." Having them, whether thru established whistle-blower mechanisms or otherwise, tell us what our government is doing can be a problem. Or not.
But I have a caveat due to my own history. One of the things I once learned (I think officially in the military, although it was a lot of years ago) was the concept of an "illegal order." And what you could/should do about it. Note that, if you are in the military, the easy "just resign en masse" option is not available.
Consider this scenario. Which, unfortunately, does not seem as unthinkable as it would have a year ago.
The President decides that he is being disrespected by some (small, for this purpose) group of US citizens. And orders up a Seal team or two to pick them up (from US soil) and pack them off to some facility.
That is, if memory serves, illegal. Do they do it anyway, because -- orders? Or do they point out that it is an illegal order and refuse? I would hope that they do refuse. I would also hope that they would take the information about those orders to Congress, since the standard process for protesting illegal orders is not available when it's the CinC who is giving them.
Posted by: wj | February 16, 2017 at 11:43 AM
And when you say "Congress", wj, to whom? One of their Senators or Reps? Do they pick a Democrat or a Republican?
What if they say something to their Republican Senator, and he tells them they're traitors for disobeying POTUS and has them arrested? Or plain refuses to see them?
What if they say something to their Democratic Senator, and their charges get nowhere because they're obviously partisan and trumped-up?
Well, taken in combination, the two bold phrases seem to me to define a someone who can order life-threatening actions based on fantasy, and a conception of his own self-interest, not to mention (because Carle doesn't) if he is being blackmailed. This to me verges on dangerously mentally impaired and compromised. And if the IC is complaining about Trump's contempt for them, given that he is not even listening to what they try to tell him (doesn't accept a fact-based reality) in favour of getting his info from Fox News, their complaint is justified. Nobody says he should *just* listen to them, but to *not even* listen to them?
Regarding Russia being "much less powerful than it is being portrayed", and the conspiracy stuff "vague and based mostly on anonymous sources" it depends how you look at it. Christopher Steele seemed quite a reliable source, and stuff in his dossier is still being confirmed. The Russian economy is certainly dire, and Putin's popularity is questionable, but his projection of power in Ukraine and Syria has achieved many of his aims, domestic and foreign, and his long-term project of destruction of the EU etc also seems to be proceeding nicely. So OK, not the powerful cold-war adversary, but still a wily, amoral actor who means no good to the US or the west generally.
Dr S, I was thinking more in terms of going simultaneously/jointly to the Chairman and the ranking minority member of the relevant committee. Say, in this case, the Armed Services Committee.
Maybe to their own Senators or Representatives as well, but definitely to the folks responsible for their part of the Executive.
Posted by: wj | February 16, 2017 at 12:01 PM
It is just AMAZING how much trouble some people cause when they're feeling "disrespected".
Posted by: Snarki, child of Loki | February 16, 2017 at 12:19 PM
Here's another report on the view from the (ex-)IC community:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/02/16/why-trumps-rant-against-leaks-wont-help-him/?utm_term=.3ea46e40c5f3
I spoke to multiple former intelligence and national security professionals. To a person, each said such information picked up from monitored calls [of Flynn and other Trump campaign officials to Russians] would be classified, and in the normal course of an administration would not be leaked. One former senior intelligence official said, “Certainly not appropriate. Certainly with the investigation still ongoing.”
Note that the lady is a NeverTrump conservative. For whatever that says about her prejudices.
The ODNI denies that intelligence has been withheld:
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/office-director-national-intelligence-trump-intel-wsj-235080
It strikes me that people are rushing to judgment on this before there is any certainty about who did what.
I won't even comment on Trump's latest eructations.
Posted by: Nigel | February 16, 2017 at 12:29 PM
This is also interesting, and murky:
http://europe.newsweek.com/allies-intercept-russia-trump-adviser-communications-557283?rm=eu
Josh Marshall weighs in on this issue (in part).
Posted by: Ugh | February 16, 2017 at 12:43 PM
Do they do it anyway, because -- orders?
If you're talking military officers, they do not. Their oath is to protect and defend the Constitution, not to obey the POTUS.
Enlisted people take an oath to obey chain of command.
Posted by: russell | February 16, 2017 at 12:46 PM
What Josh says.
Agreed. Excellent piece, bringing much-needed clarity.
Posted by: Girl from the North Country | February 16, 2017 at 01:03 PM
This jumped out at me:
As a purely constitutional matter, as unfortunate as it may be, if the President decides he wants to share information with Russia, that is a call which his election gives him the power and authority to make. Of course, Presidents can also be impeached. But the President also doesn't have to tell anyone what he's done, certainly no one who would have the power to impeach him. As you can see, there are some situations which our constitutional structure doesn't provide easy remedies for.
IOW, FUBAR.
My takeaway from the Marshall piece is that's it's one thing to bring someone down with inconsequential bullsh1t (e.g. Comey-Clinton), and it's another thing to bring someone down with very consequential non-bullsh1t (alleged IC leakers-Trump).
Neither, however, is desirable. But it looks like there is no desirable outcome from a Trump presidency.
Posted by: hairshirthedonist | February 16, 2017 at 01:09 PM
I grant that it's hard for Congress to impeach a President for something they don't know that he's done. OTOH, they (or at least the intelligence committees) do get regular intelligence briefings where an unhappy IC can make their views know, presumably (and maybe I'm wrong).
Enlisted people take an oath to obey chain of command
...and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice...
So yes and no. The guidance I consistently received was fairly clear that we were only bound to obey lawful orders, and an order was not lawful if it was illegal, immoral, or unethical. Ofc, we were also expected to accept orders at face value, and if we refused to obey "the order was unlawful" would be a defence we could then raise as exculpatory or mitigating at our Court Martial or other disciplinary proceedings... but there would be a presumption of wrongdoing in re: our refusal, and it would be treated accordingly. Which is entirely in keeping with notions of good order and discipline.
Posted by: Nombrilisme Vide | February 16, 2017 at 02:28 PM
Of course, from reports I've read from Trump's press conference a little bit ago, perhaps anything that gets him to resign/impeached should be okay.
I still haven't got over this, from his press conference with Netanyahu yesterday:
Question: Mr. President, since your election campaign and even after your victory, we’ve seen a sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents across the United States. And I wonder what you say to those among the Jewish community in the States and in Israel and maybe around the world, who believe and feel that your administration is playing with xenophobia and maybe racist tones?
Trump: Well, I just want to say that we are, you know, very honored by the victory that we had. Three hundred and six Electoral College votes. We were not supposed to crack 220. You know that, right? There was no way to 221 but then they said there’s no way to 270. And there’s tremendous enthusiasm out there. I will say that we are going to have peace in this country. We are going to stop crime in this country. We are going to do everything within our power to stop long simmering racism and every other thing that’s going on. Because a lot of bad things have been taking place over a long period of time. I think one of the reasons I won the election is because we have a very, very divided nation. Very divided and hopefully, I’ll be able to do something about that. And I — you know, something that was very important to me.
As far as people, Jewish people — so many friends, a daughter who happens to be here right now. A son-in-law, and three beautiful grandchildren. I think that you’re going to see a lot of different United States of America over the next three, four, or eight years. I think a lot of good things are happening and you’re going to see a lot of love. You’re going to see a lot of love. Okay? Thank you.
if the President decides he wants to share information with Russia, that is a call which his election gives him the power and authority to make.
Is this actually true? True for all information and circumstances?
That seems unlikely to me, but IANAL.
The guidance I consistently received was fairly clear that we were only bound to obey lawful orders
Yes, and thank you for the correction, I think my original comment was not accurate.
My intent was to contrast the oaths taken by officers vs enlisted military - the officers' oath is specifically to protect and defend the Constitution, without any reference to the POTUS.
The enlisted military oath does refer to chain of command, including the POTUS as CiC. But you are correct, no military person is required to, or is expected to, follow unlawful orders.
Thanks NV.
There are levels. I have used tactics such as delay and obfuscate, request studies, etc. To 'win' a battle with a senior officer. Sometimes it just waits someone out. Sometimes it was because I really felt my way was safer and accomplished the mission better. Sometimes I found ways to keep that officer from needing my services. I never lied, and never refused information. But I didn't make it easy to do something I thought was dumb.
Posted by: Jrudkis | February 16, 2017 at 03:46 PM
Question: Mr. Trump, it appears your left shoe is on fire, any comment?
A: You know, you are really dishonest people. So negative, nasty. Just ugly. I know your ratings are down, really dying to be honest, so sad. I'd be a good journalist you know, but sad. I will say that this country is the best, and I will fix it, what a mess Obama made, and I beat Hillary, what, by, by 3,000 electoral votes, on this paper information I have. Biggest landslide. So good.
As far as burning shoes, so many brands, some burn better, others not so much, you'll see a lot of that in the coming days, with winning, the phenomenal programs we're going to roll out, on the taxes, the people, just really great. The best.
San Dimas High School Football rules!
"I grant that it's hard for Congress to impeach a President for something they don't know that he's done."
Impeachment would be proceeding apace in both houses and the entire media would be kissing lying Republican ass to get a piece of it were Hillary Clinton had been elected the President of the United States.
The New York Office of the FBI, at Comey's urging, would be dishing furiously to fan the flames, the anti-American filth.
In November 10th, 2016, violent bloody riots would have broken out in the streets of every American city with the angry, armed republican trump sociopaths, who spent the past year and a half attacking innocent people at Trump rallies and threatening violent retribution if the election went against them, laying waste to everyone swarthy, everyone Muslim, everyone wearing pink .. everyone not them, the scum.
Trump, Flynn, Bannon, Spicer, Conway, any number of republican officeholders at all levels of government, would be bullhorned up and leading the bloody chaos.
The Secret Service would have by now contracted out to hire private security forces to augment their protection of Clinton, her Vice President, her Cabinet, and her appointees, if some of them weren't already gunned down.
The Russian media, some it based here, would be counseling "strong leadership" from trump and that he "hold the line" against the illegitimate election of Clinton. Brietbart, FOX, and numerous fascist republican internet trolls would be carrying "reportage" with Russian bylines.
The entire stinking Republican edifice, in and out of government, would have to contract out to rent every parking garage in the Nation to have enough places to meet Breitbart and FOX "reporters" for their nightly clandestine leaking, and believe me, the savvy punk businessmen running the rest of the traditional media would know which side their advertising dollars were buttered on and join in with both feet.
They would have nothing, of course, but when did that ever stop the conservative movement from trying to f*ck up every normative institution in my country, just to get their way.
Meanwhile Paul Ryan would grin his murderous grin and tell us that well, you never know how anger might take its unruly course, and geez, he doesn't condone what's going on, after all, there are legitimate concerns that some guy in Nebraska may have voted twice for the wrong person when he should have been voting twice for the RIGHT person, but if you'll excuse me, I have some f*cking Obamacare recipients to kill.
Yes, so, this right here is all bad, sure. Bad, real bad. I don't like it either.
It's going to get much worse.
Step back and look at who is fighting whom. All of them are conservatives and republicans, on all sides of this. nearly to a man. It's like trying to get a bead on which "side" I should arm in Syria.
As Marshall points out, despite lame, whining filth in the Republican Party who want to make us think the CIA and FBI are Democrats and liberals, please, they are ex-military, many of them have deep ties to the neo-conservative movement.
Add in all of the crypto religious nutcases, your mainstream racists like Sessions and plenty of others, and every wackadoodle sociopathic mouthbreather hanging on to the "conservative movement" for dear life urging on its worst, subhuman impulses, and I'd say what we have here is a monstrosity that needs to f*cking die.
ALL of it.
The rest of us are bystanders at best, beggars at worst. Oh please, we beg, don't hurt our institutions, we might need them some day.
Too late. I mean, Clarence Thomas dumbass wife has just been caught out organizing against immigrants with the worst of the worst, thereby, in a normal polity, causing danger to any of trump's anti-immigrant "laws' that might be taken to the Supreme Court. You know, conflict of interest and all that, like he will give a sh*t, the scum.
I hope all of them kill each other. And I hope the institutions die along with them.
That will the monument over the mausoleum housing the steaming remains of the so-called conservative movement where we can meditate far in the future on how to ever again let such a monstrosity rise again.
Let me get this right? Michael Ledeen ... Michael f*cking Ledeen ... has emerged from his coffin once again? What, are we in the midst of yet another "The Exorcist" sequel?
Michael Flynn and his son, with plenty of help from the usual suspects, sicced a gunman on a fucking pizza shop and its owner via social media, that technology for hopeless romantics, as all of them tried to catch Hillary Clinton and whomever the hell else diddling little children.
That f*cking happened. And this guy was named National Security Advisor to the President of the United States, with nary a peep from so-called traditional fucked up conservatives.
I hope the rest of the world is watching us to learn how to kill their conservative* movements as well.
*Yeah, conservative. If you no longer like the word "conservative" applied to yourselves, get a new title. I don't blame you. I won't hold it against you. Most people named Mussolini rushed down to the Registry offices and changed their names too, once Benito's viscera hit the pavement.
I don't think Putin is using the Republican Party and Trump. It's the other way around. These ilk aren't victims.
They are going to be though.
Posted by: Countme-In | February 16, 2017 at 03:54 PM
I'm with Girl from the North Country here. (Maybe it's less troubling for non-Americans, since it's not our spooks or our president, but it still feels like our problem because of the empowerment of Russia.)
Seems to me you have a deliberately complex multi-dimensional system of checks and balances - created not just by the Founders but in the centuries after, especially in the years after WW2 when nukes appeared and so the power of the presidency was vastly increased - and that some of that system at least is working. The IC is clearly terrified because they think the Russians have some significant measure of control over the President and perhaps access to confidential national security information. That would be extremely perilous, for the US and the world, and under those circumstances, time is of the essence because he is likely working to shut them down. Leaking seems a pretty good way of making it hard for him to do that.
Of course personal and institutional politics will play a part in any such decision. That's not ideal, but if you're gonna compare the CIA to Nazis and then turn up there with rentacrowd to dupe people into thinking they're cheering you, when you already know they suspect you're a traitor, well... welcome to management.
Posted by: Adam Rosenthal | February 16, 2017 at 04:13 PM
http://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2017/02/04/stephen-feinberg-private-equity-billionaire-trump-administration/#6d40bb983403
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Feinberg
'Feinberg has been described as "secretive" in The New York Times.[12] In 2007, Feinberg told Cerberus shareholders, "If anyone at Cerberus has his picture in the paper and a picture of his apartment, we will do more than fire that person. We will kill him. The jail sentence will be worth it." '
One of the operatives who engineered Putin's operation to enable trump and the republican party to steal the 2016 Presidential election and all of the downmarket elections as well (corrupt coattails disqaulify filth from holding office), doubles down:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2017/02/trumps-close-buddies.html
As calls for trump's impeachment from all directions are ignored by republican filth in Congress, expect the Justice Department under Sessions to bring charges against Hillary Clinton and numerous of her aides, as a diversion like the black ops, so-called terrorist attacks on American soil now being planned by trump operatives to further his foreign policy and immigration sociopathies, and military sabre-rattling by Putin around the world each time trump seems vulnerable.
Sure, trump SAID he'd lay off Clinton.
I read the transcript of his press conference today. He'll say anything.
It was like this:
Oh, shit, it's Mr Creosote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Bs1ZZ-7b8
Meanwhile, among the downmarket violent republican filth:
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/16/1634356/-Congressman-looks-forward-to-his-armed-militia-pals-attending-town-hall-to-counter-women-protesters
“I need all patriots in attendance to protect Congressman Gaetz from any potential disruption of his speech,” Geoff Ross, the purported militia leader, wrote in a call-out on his private Facebook page. “Concealed carry permit holders most welcome - don’t forget your ammo.”
The women and their children need to bring their guns too. Don't forget the ammo, ladies.
I can't wait until a Republican threatens me with gun at a political function. To paraphrase trump, there will be so much dead, you'll get bored with dead.
Live in the full of shit country you have created republicans. Die in it too.
"JAKE TURX, A REPORTER FOR A SMALL ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEWISH PUBLICATION: Despite what some of my colleagues may have been reporting, I haven’t seen anybody in my community accuse either yourself or anyone on your staff of being anti-Semitic. We understand that you have Jewish grandchildren. You are their zaidy. However, what we are concerned about, and what we haven’t really heard being addressed, is an uptick in anti-Semitism and how the government is planning to take care of it... There has been a report out that 48 bomb threats have been made against Jewish centers all across the country in the last couple of weeks. There are people who are committing anti-Semitic acts or threatening to...
TRUMP: he said he was gonna ask a very simple, easy question. And it’s not, its not, not — not a simple question, not a fair question. OK sit down, I understand the rest of your question.
So here’s the story, folks. Number one, I am the least anti- Semitic person that you’ve ever seen in your entire life. Number two, racism, the least racist person....See, he lied about — he was gonna get up and ask a very straight, simple question, so you know, welcome to the world of the media. But let me just tell you something, that I hate the charge, I find it repulsive.
I hate even the question because people that know me and you heard the prime minister, you heard Ben Netanyahu yesterday, did you hear him, Bibi? He said, I’ve known Donald Trump for a long time and then he said, forget it. So you should take that instead of having to get up and ask a very insulting question like that."
well played ugh!
i just think of Trump's public statements as drunken frat boy rambles, run through a Bill Burroughs cut-up editing process.
As far as Trump buddies, Robert and Rebekah Mercer are of interest, purely because nobody's really heard of them. Big hedge fund money. They put Trump and Bannon together. Either they or Bannon brought in Cambridge Analytica.
I march around in my pussy hat like a good citizen, but I don't have too many illusions about who's got juice and who doesn't. There's some serious shit going on that not one of us has a freaking clue about. Chumps like me are just along for the ride.
Members don't get weary. This mess is gonna land somehere, sooner or later, and somebody's gonna have to tidy up. Hopefully there will be something left to work with when the dust settles.
This mess is gonna land somehere, sooner or later, ...
Perhaps in a Friedman Unit...
Posted by: CharlesWT | February 17, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Since Trump became president, three high-ranking FSB members have been arrested for spying for the U.S. I have to wonder whether the real issue with the intelligence community is that their assets' identities might have been revealed in briefings involving the highest levels of Trump's circle. If so, even a largely Republican intelligence community would find it necessary to act, especially if Trump was informed of it and did nothing.
At any rate, if I were writing a thriller, that would be the plot. Real life tends to make less sense.
Posted by: John M. Watkins | February 17, 2017 at 01:55 AM
If you're talking military officers, they do not.
I'd have said that myself, until about 2003.
When I was in the Army, we took a special training unit on the Geneva Convention.
Torture was right out.
I knew for a fact that the US military would never stoop so low.
But when Cheney and Yoo and Rumsfeld said "torture them", enough officers saluted and complied to produce Bagram and Abu Ghraib and the black sites and waterboarding and things too horrible to relate. Only poor Lyndie England had to pay for those sins. General "Gitmo-ize" Miller -- scot free. Rumsfeld ditto.
So I no longer believe that the US military is incapable of following a blatantly illegal order, or will even put up meaningful resistance.
It's worth noting that Adam Silverman and Omnes Omnibus over at Balloon Juice strongly disagree with me, but they have never offered an actual rebuttal to the above observation.
Milgram experiments. Banality of evil.
Posted by: joel hanes | February 17, 2017 at 05:10 AM
The real question is whether the lesson the US military learned from its great adventure in torture in 2003 with Dick John & Don was (i) don't torture, or (ii) don't take pictures of it.
"Or perhaps more to the point, under Bush when the CIA was happily torturing people in secret prisons around the world and then stuffing them in Gitmo under orders from the President and legal cover from the DOJ? Where was this kind of view then?"
Just heard a podcast from the Lowy Institute talking this week to Mike Morello, former acting CIA director. Asked whether they'd torture again* part of Morello's answer was that they were hung out to dry last time, and were very unwilling to be put in that position again. IOW they were doing what the administration wanted and repeatedly said was legal, then when it went bad Intel people were left to defend it, or face the consequences.
(He also said it wasn't torture, per def, at the time because torture is illegal, per def, and the people who say what the law is had said this wasn't).
It was a good discussion. Worth a listen.
Posted by: Shane | February 17, 2017 at 08:51 AM
Pardon my French, but it's deja vu all over again:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-cyber-idUSKBN15S192
Why, it was just yesterday that Putin helped steal an entire Presidential election in another country in support of fascist, conservative, murdering scum like La Pen.
Posted by: Countme-In | February 17, 2017 at 08:54 AM
"hung out to dry"? It is to laugh.
If they were "hung out to dry", there would have been prosecutions up and down the chain of command.
Now, "slightly disapproving frowns at DC cocktail parties", yeah, I guess so. Clearly that is a harsh punishment for Crimes Against Humanity, amirite?
Posted by: Snarki, child of Loki | February 17, 2017 at 09:01 AM
the autumn of the patriarch, live on the tv
By the way, trump's attack on the Jewish reporter during his press "conference" and his complete ignorance of the death threats against synagogues and other Jewish community organizations was a direct signal to the violent Republican (they didn't f*cking vote for Clinton, so shut the f*ck up!) right wing that helped sweep him into power to have at it.
Unlike Hitler, trump knows some the "good" Jews, but his bannonites intend to intimidate the "bad" ... read liberal ... Jews, scare the living f*ck out of them, into coming around to their side on the coming martial crackdown of Muslim Americans and other immigrants.
Notice how those remarks dovetail with the order from the White House for government anti-terror units to ignore all domestic white nationalist terror suspects in the "Homeland" and concentrate solely on Muslim suspects.
That's a tip off to who will carry out the actual attacks on Jewish and other targets when they start.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/02/evening-roundup-16-february-2017
This is, was, and always will be the CIA's defense: DOJ said it was legal and how can we be expected to second guess them?!!? It conveniently ignores that CIA was more than happy to do this, whether with encouragement from the WH or not, that when CIA got its asked for opinion from Yoo at OLC they then went beyond what Yoo claimed was OK and had to go back to get a second OLC opinion from Bybee. And even then CIA did things that were not authorized by the second opinion and still no consequences.
It was very much an agreement between CIA and DOJ (with WH blessing/encouragement/demand) of "we will lie to you about the facts if you lie to us about the law."
And if everything was hunky dory why are they still resisting, e.g., declassification of Senate torture report, why were the video tapes of interrogation destroyed, why the whining that they were "hung out to dry" if everything was perfectly legal?
This is a big reason why I'm not thrilled with this former CIA agent's perspective on things.
Further, if you are asking OLC for an opinion regarding whether what you're doing is torture or not, that's a pretty good clue that you shouldn't be doing it.
Interesting article on the face of Republican resistance:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/mark-sanford-profile-214791
His politics are a million miles from mine, but at least he's making the argument against sheer unreason.
Michael Morell. Here he is advocating covert killing of Russians last summer
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ3fTFHQ0KA
Posted by: Donald | February 17, 2017 at 09:28 AM
And slightly off topic, but here is a tape of Kerry talking to Syrian activists. The NYT did a story on this, but left out the really interesting parts where Kerry admits the US watched the rise of Isis and hoped it would pressure Assad, but instead the Russians intervened to save Syria from Assad. Kerry also says the US poured tremendous amounts of weapons into Syria, but that it just led to escalation on the other side.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e4phB-_pXDM
The interesting Kerry parts start around minute twenty five. My iPad keyboard froze up so I can't get to the number keys. No idea why it does this, so I had to spell the number.
Anyway, the war in Syria is a big part of this Russia obsession we have and there is a lot of mainstream dishonesty about this, including the claim that we stood by and let Assad do what he wanted. In fact Syria has been a proxy battle between the Saudi Gulf Arab and US vs Iran and despite some of the crap you read in the MSM, the Russian motivation to intervene directly was to stop ISIS. Kerry says that. The NYT story was exclusively on how frustrated Kerry and the Syrian activists were that we did not do more.
Hitler too had a few Jewish favourites, e.g. he protected the Jewish family doctor that had taken care of his mother (which is ironic since some wannabe historians claim that his anti-semitism rose from the suspicion that the guy had caused her death). The man died of natural causes before the final solution was put in motion.
Göring famously said "Wer bei mir Jude ist, bestimme ich." (It is I who decides who is a Jew around here) when one of his close associates turned out to have Jewish relatives.
So even the top Nazis could be quite flexible on the matter.
As far as Trump is concerned, I do not think that he cares about Jews as a group one way or another or religion in general either. Jews will get insulted on occasion of course as any other group will (an equal opportunity offender, The Donald).
Posted by: Hartmut | February 17, 2017 at 10:02 AM
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-administration-considers-using-national-guard-to-round-up-unauthorized-immigrants-report-2017-02-17?siteid=bigcharts&dist=bigcharts
Regarding Morell, only in America does a guy go on national TV/Youtube and announce that we should kill Russians and Iranians, and then when asked by the host, "Covertly?", answers "Yes".
If I know about it, it's not covert.
We're not only wrong, we're wrong in the dumbest way.
The best.
My take-away quote from the Josh Marshall piece (which struck me as wise, in a depressing way):
This is not a normal situation. Even what we know is all but incomprehensible and the issue is what we don't know.
Whatever the truth is, if it gets covered up on the grounds that the IC shouldn't act this way - even if that is legally and morally the case - we'll never know.
And that worries me. More than Watergate (which I lived through) in which the question of whether Nixon personally approved the shenanigans or merely asked "Who will rid me of these pestilent Dems?" struck me as less pressing.
Posted by: dr ngo | February 17, 2017 at 11:17 AM
Thanks for this, Ugh.
I have the impression that this kind of behavior from the IC was what turned Obama in to a reluctant hawk. I think we only hear about the Trump stuff because Trump et al are so inept, and the press has gone to war with them.
I thought Trump would get rolled quickly by this crew; still kind of surprised how fast it has happened. Or perhaps not surprised, given how clumsy these folks are.
Posted by: Yama | February 17, 2017 at 12:01 PM
I don't know. I have two equal sides warring within me:
1. He has to be got rid of, as soon as possible, by almost any means necessary, leaks or otherwise leading to impeachment or invocation of 25th Amendment. He is a dangerous lunatic, and the catspaw of truly evil men, who could endanger millions of lives by various means, domestic and foreign.
2. There is almost no situation which cannot be made worse, contrary to immediate appearances (see assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd, deposing of Saddam Hussein etc). Pence as President might efficiently enact mainstream, rightwing republican agenda, harming probably millions of Americans in the process. I think JanieM and/or wonkie in particular have made this argument.
I'm leaning heavily towards 1. but terrified by 2. Is there a third alternative? Please? Someone?
To paraphrase Monty Python's Bruces sketch, there is Nooooooooooooo, option 3.
I mean, I don't see a scenario getting us to a potential Democratic House and/or Senate in January 2019 that doesn't involve Trump and/or Pence doing horrible things. Perhaps there will be so much chaos that nothing gets down on the legislative front. It already looks like tax reform is dead (or at least anything a neutral observer would call "reform," there may still be a big tax cut) and (hopefully) we can get there on ACA repeal as well.
But that still leaves Trump Bannon and Miller time to rampage through the Executive Branch domestically via the immigration laws and foreign policy.
Maybe there's a tiny chance Trump throws his alt-righters overboard and we get some normalcy with reasonable people helping him, but it doesn't seem likely.
Objectively, they may not have been. But if they feel that way about what happened, it can impact how they react in the future.
If dr ngo is watching, I don't know if you read my last post re Sebastian Gorka in the other thread. (I believe there has been some controversy recently about his wearing of a Nazi-sympathiser-instituted decoration/medal). Anyway, my interest was rekindled last night when he gave an appalling defence of the Trump press conference to BBC's Newsnight, probably our premier current affairs program. His particular shtick, when asked an inconvenient question, is to attack and condescendingly and in a faux-worldly, weary way call it all fake news. It's a completely different tack to Kellyanne Conway, who seems hors de combat at the moment, presumably because people have stopped booking her.
So I was suspicious of his academic credentials, and no mention of which college of London University, and today Wikipedia suddenly reports that he graduated from Heythrop College with a 2.2 in Philosophy and Theology. This sounds very low-level to me, but I have questions out to my academic informants. I suppose this is really a displacement activity, and a way to scoff and sneer at a Trump spokesman on the principle of like master like servant. So sue me.
My academic informants have just got back to me after checking his twitter feed to ask if I am absolutely sure Sebastian Gorka is not really Sacha Baron Cohen! However, they confirm that Heythrop College was a perfectly respectable Jesuit College until it closed. Still, a 2.2 for someone who is posing as some kind of impressive intellectual theoretician?
Sucking up to liberal professors for grades is for losers. It is a badge of honor.
I have no idea what to make of all this, bad spy novel stuff?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-big-shoe-just-dropped
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/learning-eye-popping-details-about-mr-sater
All of these killers, Gorka, Miller, Sater et al seem very chicken-farmerish to me.
"Goebbels then returned home and worked as a private tutor. He also found work as a journalist and was published in the local newspaper. His writing during that time reflected his growing antisemitism and dislike for modern culture."
Lived in his mother's basement with his deformed foot, apparently, before Hitler plucked him from obscurity, but like Richard III, thought himself a spidery, sticky-webbed charmer of the ladies.
"dislike for modern culture."
A true anti-cosmopolitan conservative. He'd fit with our current Bannonish Death merchants.
Could it be that Russia somehow funded Trump's campaign or a large portion of it? He was talking about how much $$ he was going to spend and then not only did he not hit that target the money hadn't to be dragged out of him.
Milo the teenaged boy kneels in the sacristy and give thanks to the Church that honed his communion skills.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/milo-cpac-welcomes-pederasty-advocate/
I'll bet he scored higher than Gorka's 2.2 grade point in theology.
No wonder Milo is dick deep into the conservative anti-woman gamer/rapey culture.
(re: Torturers 'hung out to dry', yet never actually prosecuted)
"But if they feel that way about what happened, it can impact how they react in the future."
I am strangely lacking in tender regard for the precious fee-fees of torturers and their higher-up enablers.
So 'how they react' might well be 'GOOD, no worries, we can get away with it!'.
A careful reading of the Convention Against Torture allows "2nd Amendment Remedies" when the regular governmental mechanisms face-plant. As they have.
Ugh, I'd not read too much into Trump boasting about how much he'd spend and then not spending it. He kinda has a pattern of doing that, and it fits with him being both an unfiltered (and unreflective) braggert and a grifter. It's possible Russia was paying for his campaign, sure, but absent more substantial evidence this particular behavior probably reflects him blowing hot air up the nethers of everyone in earshot... He, Trump Himself most certainly included.
Very true. Trying to figure out WTH is going on with the NYTimes article Josh Marshall links to and his gloss on it.
Separately, this story, if true (the part about Miller calling the US attorney), is horrific, outrageous and shows we are in very much more deep doo-doo (legal term of art) with Sessions running DOJ than we may have thought.
I'm not at all sure that Sessions as AG is shown to be part of the problem. Unless, of course, he called the US Attorney and told him to follow Miller's lead.
That is to say, I think Miller would behave the same regardless of who was AG. You could have the previous AG still in place, and I bet Miller would have done exactly the same.
Miller might have but such a hypothesized AG would have shut it down (IMO). Here, since Miller is Sesssions' former top aide, Sessions is likely to validate it and/or collaborate in the process, making it that much more "official" DOJ policy.
Even then, the idea that there is supposed to be some sort of DOJ independence from the WH on these kinds of matters has completely been done away with in way that it hasn't been before. It's nuts.
It's a small point, but in the interests of accuracy: I don't understand your degree levels, grade point averages etc. However our degrees are usually awarded in 4 categories above Fail. They are: a first (which I think is your summa cum laude, although one hears about a starred first, or a congratulatory first, but they are very rare), a 2.1 (pronounced "two one" which I have thought is your magna cum laude, although I am not sure), a 2.2 ("two two" which I doubt is a cum laude because it is pretty mediocre, although not the worst) and a third, which is the lowest, and is considered pretty dire. There are some universities who award Pass below third, but I think not many. More detail here, but I lost the will to live before finishing it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_undergraduate_degree_classification
"I'm not at all sure that Sessions as AG is shown to be part of the problem."
Your compartilization is impressive, wj.
Come now, jump in with both feet. ;)
A 2.20 in the U.S. would be pretty mediocre here too, if not deplorable.
But in trump's america, the full of sh*t profit from grade inflation and everyone gets a trophy or a certificate below a certain level. trump, for example, graduated very, very, I mean crazy very cum loud, so cum loud they grew bored of cum loud from Wharton.
Anyone above a 2.2 is shut out of the loop. Then the loopy take over.
After the experts weigh in and disappear down a trapdoor into a chute for confusing the issues with facts, trump turns to his staff and says "OK, my stupids, f*ck it up good and hard?"
You'll know them by their mushroom clouds.
That would be "compartmentalization".
Poor milo:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/milo-yiannopoulos-disinvited-from-cpac-amid-pedophilia-comments
To quote Josh from twitter: "Imagine you invite a respected racist hatemonger to address your conference and it just all goes wrong"
CPAC, like UC Berkeley, is crushing dissent! Who will save free speech now? Where will Mr. Yiannopoulos be able to spread his message about how a Catholic priest taught him how to give "such good head"? Whither the marketplace of ideas?
CPAC, like UC Berkeley, is crushing dissent! Who will save free speech now?
I'd say the cognitive dissonance might make a few heads explode, but some folks just seem immune to it.
I'll ask the same thing I asked when the Berkeley College Republicans invited him on campus: what does Milo Y. have to say that is so interesting that CPAC needs to hear it (or needed him to say it)?
I mean, I don't think they're going to hear anything particularly innovative from Ted Cruz, but at least he's a US Senator and runner up in the GOP race for POTUS in 2016, whereas Milo is a douchebag.
Your compart[menta]lization is impressive, wj.
I didn't say Sessions wasn't part of the problem. I just said that this particular incident didn't prove that he was.
I think he was a terrible choice for AG. And that he will be a problem on a wide variety of issues. But that doesn't make him responsible for everything that gets done wrong.
Maybe they all trained as underage victims at the feet of the same hopelessly romantic priests, even the spit-shined Protestants among them.
I demand Milo's First Amendment rights not be censored by CPAC.
Unlike the politically correct Berkeley liberals, those free-speech haters, at least the CPACers would be carrying weapons into the hall to protect themselves from incoming spittle from the podium.
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In Memory of George Pavel
Graveside Memorial Service
St. John's Lutheran Cemetery
Spring Valley Wisconsin
Graveside Visitation
George Emil Pavel, age 87, of River Falls, Wisconsin, formerly of Elmwood, died April 3, 2020, at Comforts of Home in River Falls.
George was born on March 31, 1933, in Loyalton, South Dakota; the son of Frank and Julia (Kolecka) Pavel. As a young child, his family moved to Brook Park, MN where he attended elementary school before graduating from Mora High School.
After graduating from high school, George enlisted in the armed forces where he proudly served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. He was stationed in Okinawa and Japan as a Radar Maintenance Technician. His military decorations included the Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Korean Service Medal, and the United Nations Service Medal.
Upon his discharge from the Air Force, George resided in California where he rekindled his relationship with a former Minnesota neighbor, Donna Marie Weast, whom he later married. While married to Donna, they were blessed with three children: Kim, Jeff, and Sue.
George worked as a Toll Testman for Pacific Bell telephone company while living in California. Having been raised on a farm, George appreciated the farming lifestyle and it remained in his blood during his entire life. George eventually moved his family from California to the family farm in Elmwood, Wisconsin in 1971 while transferring to Wisconsin Bell in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and later to Hudson, Wisconsin.
Being raised on a farm, George learned the craft of being a mechanic. When he wasn’t tending to the fields, George could be found tinkering with his tractors and farm equipment or overhauling the automobiles that he enjoyed buying. He took great pleasure from deer hunting, especially with his son Jeff. He also enjoyed reading history and travel publications as well as getting caught up with current events. One of his favorite pastimes was going to local auctions to find treasures that he simply couldn’t live without. He was raised having great respect for his church which was reflected throughout his entire life.
George is survived by his daughters Kim Pilarski of Hudson, and Sue (Kevin) Swanson of River Falls. George will also be remembered by his grandchildren E.J. (Liz), Matt, and Nick Pilarski; Chelsey and Treston Koehler; and Tim (Katie) and Sam Pavel. He is preceded in death by his son Jeff and his sister Hattie Shea.
A memorial service celebrated the last chapter of his Christian journey and a public celebration of life will be be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday, August 29 at St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery in Spring Valley. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the cemetery. Burial with military honors will be in the cemetery.
Memorials and/or flowers may be sent to; O’Connell Family Funeral Home, 520 S. 11th Street, Hudson, WI 54016
George's Tribute Wall
Katie Kaul says:
Sue and family,
I am holding you all in my heart during this time of grief and remembrance. Sending you love and virtual hugs!
Gayle Couch says:
Sending condolences to the family. I worked with your dad at Wisconsin Bell in Hudson many years ago and remember him as a very pleasant guy. RIP George Pavel.
Jackie Sailer says:
Sue and Family – I just saw this and wanted to send my condolences to all of you.
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Relocate Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 173 Fl G 2.5s 18ft 5M "173" N 36° 08' 42.490" W 075° 53' 32.930" LNM 21/19, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/30/2019 5/23/2019
Delete Currituck Sound Research Platform E Fl Y 4s 16ft "E" Army N 36° 10' 44.450" W 075° 46' 01.680" LNM 04/19, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/7/2019 2/7/2019
Delete Currituck Sound Research Platform D Fl Y 4s 16ft "D" Army N 36° 10' 02.450" W 075° 49' 08.010" LNM 04/19, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/7/2019 2/7/2019
Delete Currituck Sound Research Platform B Fl Y 4s 16ft "B" Army N 36° 10' 41.350" W 075° 47' 29.390" LNM 04/19, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/7/2019 2/7/2019
Delete Currituck Sound Research Platform A Fl Y 4s 16ft "A" Army N 36° 05' 38.580" W 075° 45' 58.710" LNM 04/19, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/7/2019 2/7/2019
Relocate Oregon Inlet Approach Lighted Whistle Buoy OI RW "OI" Mo (A) WHIS N 35° 48' 38.152" W 075° 30' 55.786" LNM 50/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/20/2018 12/20/2018
Relocate Oregon Inlet Channel Light 50 Fl R 4s 18ft 4M "50" N 35° 46' 56.426" W 075° 34' 30.373" LNM 43/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/25/2018 11/1/2018
Change Oregon Inlet Channel Light 50 Fl R 4s 18ft 4M "50" N 35° 46' 56.426" W 075° 34' 30.373" LNM 43/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/25/2018 11/1/2018
Add Scripps Lighted Data Buoy CDIP 243 Y "CDIP 243" Fl (5) Y 20s Priv N 36° 00' 00.000" W 075° 25' 12.000" LNM 30/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/26/2018 7/26/2018
Delete Wimble Shoals Lighted Buoy 10 R "10" Fl R 4s N 35° 35' 42.676" W 075° 19' 22.519" LNM 24/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/21/2018 6/21/2018
Add Kitty Hawk Landing Light 1KHL Fl G 10s 11ft "1KHL" Priv N 36° 03' 25.620" W 075° 44' 29.280" LNM 23/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/14/2018 6/14/2018
Relocate Roanoke Sound Channel Light 33 Fl G 4s 15ft 5M "33" N 35° 55' 55.388" W 075° 39' 18.070" LNM 22/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/7/2018 6/7/2018
Change Long Shoal Light 2LS Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "2LS" N 35° 33' 33.584" W 075° 43' 11.605" LNM 21/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/31/2018 5/31/2018
Change Oregon Inlet Channel Light 52 Q R 18ft 4M "52" N 35° 47' 11.887" W 075° 34' 21.248" LNM 19/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/17/2018 5/10/2018
Relocate Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Daybeacon 151 G "151" N 36° 16' 13.184" W 075° 57' 10.549" LNM 13/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/5/2018 3/29/2018
Add Manteo Channel Lighted Buoy 6 R "6" Fl R 4s N 35° 54' 43.987" W 075° 39' 22.643" LNM 08/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/1/2018 3/1/2018
Delete Manteo Channel Light 6 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "6" N 35° 54' 44.020" W 075° 39' 23.027" LNM 08/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/1/2018 3/1/2018
Relocate Manteo Channel Buoy 4 R N "4" N 35° 55' 03.917" W 075° 39' 01.318" LNM 06/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/15/2018 2/15/2018
Relocate Roanoke Sound Channel Buoy 29C G C "29C" N 35° 55' 06.272" W 075° 38' 59.063" LNM 06/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/15/2018 2/15/2018
Delete Manteo Channel Daybeacon 5 G "5" N 35° 54' 54.093" W 075° 39' 08.113" LNM 06/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/15/2018 2/15/2018
Add Manteo Channel Buoy 5 G C "5" N 35° 54' 54.072" W 075° 39' 08.086" LNM 06/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/15/2018 2/15/2018
Relocate Croatan Sound Oyster Sanctuary Buoy A W Or C "A" N 35° 48' 17.000" W 075° 38' 20.200" LNM 06/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/15/2018 2/15/2018
Relocate Croatan Sound Oyster Sanctuary Buoy D W Or C "D" N 35° 48' 17.000" W 075° 38' 27.500" LNM 06/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/15/2018 2/15/2018
Relocate Croatan Sound Oyster Sanctuary Buoy C W Or C "C" N 35° 48' 11.500" W 075° 38' 27.400" LNM 06/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/15/2018 2/15/2018
Relocate Croatan Sound Oyster Sanctuary Buoy B W Or C "B" N 35° 48' 11.500" W 075° 38' 20.200" LNM 06/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/15/2018 2/15/2018
Change Depth Legend - Stumpy Point Entrance Channel to: 4 1/2 FT AUG 2017 4 1/2 FT AUG 2017 N 35° 40' 38.480" W 075° 44' 57.670" LNM 05/18, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/25/2018 1/25/2018
Change Old House Channel Junction Light OH Fl (2+1) G 6s 15ft 4M "OH" N 35° 45' 41.985" W 075° 35' 26.370" LNM 52/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/11/2018 1/11/2018
Relocate Crab Hole Oyster Sanctuary Buoy D W Or C "D" Priv N 35° 43' 40.900" W 075° 40' 45.000" LNM 51/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/4/2018 1/4/2018
Relocate Crab Hole Oyster Sanctuary Buoy B W Or C "B" Priv N 35° 43' 30.000" W 075° 40' 30.500" LNM 51/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/4/2018 1/4/2018
Relocate Crab Hole Oyster Sanctuary Buoy A W Or C "A" Priv N 35° 43' 40.900" W 075° 40' 30.500" LNM 51/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/4/2018 1/4/2018
Relocate Wanchese Channel Buoy 1 G C "1" N 35° 50' 34.502" W 075° 36' 25.636" LNM 51/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/4/2018 1/4/2018
Relocate Wanchese Channel Buoy 2 R N "2" N 35° 50' 36.082" W 075° 36' 27.547" LNM 51/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/4/2018 1/4/2018
Add Fort Raleigh Artificial Reef Buoy AR-197C W Or C "AR-197C" Priv N 35° 57' 06.200" W 075° 42' 04.400" LNM 49/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/14/2017 12/14/2017
Add Fort Raleigh Artificial Reef Buoy AR-197B W Or C "AR-197B" Priv N 35° 57' 19.000" W 075° 42' 03.900" LNM 49/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/14/2017 12/14/2017
Add Fort Raleigh Artificial Reef Buoy AR-197A W Or C "AR-197A" Priv N 35° 57' 19.400" W 075° 42' 19.700" LNM 49/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/14/2017 12/14/2017
Add Fort Raleigh Artificial Reef Buoy AR-197D W Or C "AR-197D" Priv N 35° 57' 06.600" W 075° 42' 20.000" LNM 49/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/14/2017 12/14/2017
Change Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light S Fl 4s 15ft 5M "S" N 36° 01' 04.754" W 075° 57' 36.610" LNM 43/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/2/2017 10/26/2017
Change Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 167 Q G 15ft 4M "167" N 36° 10' 29.574" W 075° 53' 23.150" LNM 43/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/2/2017 10/26/2017
Change Currituck Sound Light 1 Fl G 6s 15ft 4M "1" N 36° 02' 37.320" W 075° 45' 31.414" LNM 38/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/28/2017 9/28/2017
Change Tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS Tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS N 35° 41' 30.000" W 075° 50' 40.000" LNM 34/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/17/2017 8/17/2017
Relocate Alligator River Light 1AR Fl G 2.5s 15ft 5M "1AR" N 35° 58' 09.868" W 075° 58' 46.338" LNM 27/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/20/2017 7/20/2017
Change Roanoke Island West Side Light 2 Fl R 2.5s 15ft 4M "2" N 35° 50' 24.108" W 075° 40' 07.524" LNM 25/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/29/2017 6/29/2017
Delete NC Artificial Fishing Reef Buoy AR160 Y C "AR160" Priv N 35° 43' 56.520" W 075° 26' 46.260" LNM 14/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/13/2017 4/13/2017
Change Dangerous Wreck (Chart No. 1: K28) N 35° 43' 07.020" W 075° 24' 21.780" LNM 13/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/6/2017 4/6/2017
Add Submerged Obstruction Obstn PA (Chart No. 1: K40) N 35° 43' 07.020" W 075° 24' 21.780" LNM 12/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/30/2017 3/30/2017
Change Oregon Inlet Channel Light 54 Q R 15ft 4M "54" N 35° 47' 21.013" W 075° 34' 16.883" LNM 09/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/9/2017 3/9/2017
Change Roanoke Sound Channel Light 30 Fl R 2.5s 15ft 4M "30" N 35° 54' 50.634" W 075° 38' 47.784" LNM 07/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/2/2017 3/2/2017
Change Roanoke Sound Channel Light 30A Q R 15ft 4M "30A" N 35° 55' 05.230" W 075° 38' 57.689" LNM 07/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/2/2017 3/2/2017
Change Tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS Tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS N 35° 41' 30.000" W 075° 50' 40.000" LNM 07/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/9/2017 2/9/2017
Change Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 143 Q G 18ft 4M "143" N 36° 17' 06.407" W 075° 56' 48.140" LNM 05/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/9/2017 2/9/2017
Delete NC Artificial Fishing Reef Buoy AR140 Y C "AR140" Priv N 35° 56' 45.622" W 075° 31' 58.608" LNM 03/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/2/2017 1/26/2017
Change Chicamacomico Channel Light 5 Q G 15ft 4M "5" N 35° 35' 56.782" W 075° 28' 58.343" LNM 02/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/19/2017 1/19/2017
Add Wavebreak Warning Lights (3) 3 Fl 2.5s Priv N 35° 45' 17.305" W 075° 35' 13.696" LNM 01/17, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/12/2017 1/12/2017
Delete Wanchese Channel Buoy 2A R N "2A" N 35° 50' 32.297" W 075° 36' 34.954" LNM 50/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/22/2016 12/22/2016
Relocate Wanchese Channel Buoy 2 R N "2" N 35° 50' 35.674" W 075° 36' 25.215" LNM 49/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/15/2016 12/15/2016
Relocate Wanchese Channel Buoy 1 G C "1" N 35° 50' 33.464" W 075° 36' 26.556" LNM 49/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/15/2016 12/15/2016
Change Tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS Tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS N 35° 41' 30.000" W 075° 50' 40.000" LNM 49/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/8/2016 12/8/2016
Add Bridge Construction Note CAUTION Fixed and floating obstructions, some submerged, may exist within the magenta tinted bridge construction area. Mariners are advised to proceed with caution. N 35° 46' 59.200" W 075° 45' 56.100" LNM 49/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/8/2016 12/8/2016
Change Bridge Construction Label HERBERT C BONNER FIXED BRIDGE Bridge under construction (see note) N 35° 45' 13.800" W 075° 45' 55.000" LNM 49/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/8/2016 12/8/2016
Change Bridge Construction PT 3 OF 3 Chart No. 1: D.d, with magenta screen extending 500 feet from bridge N 35° 46' 00.360" W 075° 31' 36.780" LNM 49/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/8/2016 12/8/2016
Relocate Wanchese Channel Buoy 2A R N "2A" N 35° 50' 32.297" W 075° 36' 34.954" LNM 42/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/20/2016 10/27/2016
Change Oregon Inlet Channel Daybeacon 47 G "47" N 35° 46' 44.160" W 075° 34' 39.660" LNM 41/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/20/2016 10/20/2016
Change Oregon Inlet Channel Daybeacon 46 R "46" N 35° 46' 37.860" W 075° 34' 41.700" LNM 41/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/20/2016 10/20/2016
Add Pea Island Oyster Sanctuary Daybeacon D W "D" Priv N 35° 40' 05.220" W 075° 37' 03.480" LNM 39/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/6/2016 10/6/2016
Add Pea Island Oyster Sanctuary Daybeacon C W "C" Priv N 35° 39' 53.580" W 075° 37' 03.480" LNM 39/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/6/2016 10/6/2016
Add Pea Island Oyster Sanctuary Daybeacon B W "B" Priv N 35° 39' 53.580" W 075° 36' 49.260" LNM 39/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/6/2016 10/6/2016
Add Pea Island Oyster Sanctuary Daybeacon A W "A" Priv N 35° 40' 05.220" W 075° 36' 49.260" LNM 39/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/6/2016 10/6/2016
Relocate Oregon Inlet Channel Daybeacon 48 R "48" N 35° 46' 37.860" W 075° 34' 41.700" LNM 35/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/15/2016 9/15/2016
Relocate Oregon Inlet Channel Daybeacon 43 G "43" N 35° 46' 44.160" W 075° 34' 39.660" LNM 35/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/15/2016 9/15/2016
Change Croatan Sound Light 10 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "10" N 35° 50' 21.330" W 075° 42' 31.377" LNM 34/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/1/2016 9/1/2016
Change Croatan Sound Light 8 Fl R 4s 15ft 5M "8" N 35° 53' 09.330" W 075° 43' 04.998" LNM 34/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/1/2016 9/1/2016
Change Roanoke Sound Channel Light 10 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "10" N 35° 49' 05.560" W 075° 35' 35.512" LNM 09/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/10/2016 3/10/2016
Change Old House Channel Light 15 Fl G 2.5s 15ft 4M "15" N 35° 43' 12.601" W 075° 37' 25.451" LNM 09/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/10/2016 3/10/2016
Relocate Whale Head Bay Light 2 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "2" N 36° 22' 17.670" W 075° 50' 10.578" LNM 06/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/18/2016 2/18/2016
Change Whale Head Bay Light 2 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "2" N 36° 22' 18.571" W 075° 50' 10.703" LNM 05/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/11/2016 2/11/2016
Change Roanoke Sound Channel Light 16 Fl R 2.5s 15ft 4M "16" N 35° 50' 36.500" W 075° 36' 22.676" LNM 04/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/11/2016 2/4/2016
Change Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 123 Q G 17ft 4M "123" N 36° 21' 17.638" W 075° 56' 44.006" LNM 03/16, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/4/2016 1/28/2016
Change Tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS Tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS N 35° 41' 30.000" W 075° 50' 40.000" LNM 50/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/10/2015 12/10/2015
Change Oregon Inlet Jetty Light Fl 2.5s 28ft 7M N 35° 46' 25.914" W 075° 31' 30.012" LNM 47/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/10/2015 12/10/2015
Change Depth Legend - RODANTHE HARBOR to: 5 FT OCT 2015 N 35° 35' 43.400" W 075° 28' 17.700" LNM 47/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/26/2015 11/26/2015
Change Depth Legend - Stumpy Point Entrance Channel to: 6 FT OCT 2015 N 35° 40' 38.480" W 075° 44' 57.670" LNM 47/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/26/2015 11/19/2015
Change Depth Legend - State Ferry Channel & Basin to: 4 FT SEP 2015 N 35° 41' 46.500" W 075° 46' 10.800" LNM 47/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/26/2015 11/19/2015
Relocate Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 138 Q R 15ft 4M "138" N 36° 17' 16.567" W 075° 57' 55.067" LNM 46/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/26/2015 11/26/2015
Add Currituck Sound Research Platform E Fl Y 4s 16ft "E" Army N 36° 10' 44.450" W 075° 46' 01.680" LNM 45/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/19/2015 11/19/2015
Add Currituck Sound Research Platform D Fl Y 4s 16ft "D" Army N 36° 10' 02.450" W 075° 49' 08.010" LNM 45/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/19/2015 11/19/2015
Add Currituck Sound Research Platform C Fl Y 4s 16ft "C" Army N 36° 15' 30.370" W 075° 50' 51.870" LNM 45/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/19/2015 11/19/2015
Add Currituck Sound Research Platform B Fl Y 4s 16ft "B" Army N 36° 10' 41.350" W 075° 47' 29.390" LNM 45/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/19/2015 11/19/2015
Add Currituck Sound Research Platform A Fl Y 4s 16ft "A" Army N 36° 05' 38.580" W 075° 45' 58.710" LNM 45/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/19/2015 11/19/2015
Change Long Shoal Light 2LS Fl R 4s 15ft 5M "2LS" N 35° 33' 33.584" W 075° 43' 11.605" LNM 45/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/19/2015 11/19/2015
Relocate Croatan Sound Light 10 Fl R 4s 15ft 3M "10" N 35° 50' 21.330" W 075° 42' 31.377" LNM 42/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/29/2015 10/29/2015
Relocate Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 153 Q G 15ft 4M "153" N 36° 15' 58.344" W 075° 57' 39.420" LNM 41/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/29/2015 10/22/2015
Change Tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS, NC Tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS, NC N 35° 41' 30.000" W 075° 50' 40.000" LNM 42/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/22/2015 10/22/2015
Relocate Walter Slough Light 13 Q G 15ft 4M "13" N 35° 47' 42.215" W 075° 32' 57.706" LNM 37/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/24/2015 9/24/2015
Change Walter Slough Light 13 Q G 15ft 4M "13" N 35° 47' 42.500" W 075° 32' 57.750" LNM 36/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/17/2015 9/17/2015
Change Tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS Tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS N 35° 41' 30.000" W 075° 50' 40.000" LNM 39/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/22/2015 10/1/2015
Add Wanchese Channel Buoy 2A R N "2A" N 35° 50' 34.621" W 075° 36' 29.995" LNM 32/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/13/2015 8/13/2015
Change Depth Legend - RODANTHE HARBOR to: 4 1/2 FT JUN 2015 N 35° 35' 43.400" W 075° 28' 17.700" LNM 27/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/2/2015 7/2/2015
Change Depth Legend - RODANTHE HARBOR to: 5 FT BY 100 FT JUN 2015 N 35° 35' 52.100" W 075° 28' 47.400" LNM 27/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/2/2015 7/2/2015
Change Oregon Inlet Channel Light 37 Fl G 2.5s 15ft 4M "37" N 35° 45' 50.592" W 075° 35' 19.744" LNM 24/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/25/2015 6/25/2015
Delete Walter Slough Light 5 Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "5" N 35° 47' 29.031" W 075° 33' 50.591" LNM 23/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/18/2015 6/18/2015
Relocate Wells Creek Light 1 Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "1" N 36° 17' 13.230" W 075° 49' 37.896" LNM 22/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/11/2015 6/11/2015
Add Regulated Navigation Area label: REGULATED NAVIGATION AREA 165.520 (see note A) N 35° 46' 31.520" W 075° 32' 25.790" LNM 22/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/11/2015 6/4/2015
Add Regulated Navigation Area extending 100 yards from the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge PT 8 OF 8 (Chart No. 1: N1.2) N 35° 46' 00.000" W 075° 31' 35.590" LNM 22/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/11/2015 6/4/2015
Change Tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS Tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS N 35° 41' 30.000" W 075° 50' 40.000" LNM 22/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/11/2015 6/4/2015
Change Depth Legend - Stumpy Point Bay to: 5 FT APR 2015 N 35° 41' 46.500" W 075° 46' 10.800" LNM 21/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/28/2015 5/28/2015
Change Depth Legend - Stumpy Point Bay to: 7 1/2 FT APR 2015 N 35° 40' 38.480" W 075° 44' 57.670" LNM 21/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/28/2015 5/28/2015
Change Roanoke Sound Channel Light 4 Fl R 2.5s 15ft 4M "4" N 35° 47' 53.236" W 075° 34' 54.974" LNM 20/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/4/2015 6/4/2015
Relocate Chicamacomico Channel Daybeacon 5A G "5A" N 35° 35' 50.175" W 075° 28' 41.010" LNM 14/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/16/2015 4/16/2015
Relocate Roanoke Sound Channel Light 4 Fl R 2.5s 15ft 3M "4" N 35° 47' 53.236" W 075° 34' 54.974" LNM 14/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/16/2015 4/16/2015
Relocate Kitty Hawk Bay Light 2KH Fl R 4s 15ft 5M "2KH" N 36° 01' 10.675" W 075° 45' 36.142" LNM 14/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/16/2015 4/16/2015
Change Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light N Iso 6s 21ft 8M "N" N 36° 06' 06.711" W 075° 54' 44.840" LNM 03/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/29/2015 1/29/2015
Relocate Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light N Iso 6s 21ft 8M "N" N 36° 06' 06.711" W 075° 54' 44.840" LNM 03/15, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/29/2015 1/29/2015
Change Stumpy Point Channel Light 10 Fl R 2.5s 15ft 4M "10" N 35° 41' 38.604" W 075° 46' 10.074" LNM 49/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/18/2014 12/18/2014
Change Croatan Sound Light 3CS Fl G 4s 15ft 5M "3CS" N 35° 56' 42.227" W 075° 46' 40.480" LNM 44/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/13/2014 11/13/2014
Change Manns Harbor Canal Light 1 Fl G 2.5s 15ft 4M "1" N 35° 54' 25.799" W 075° 46' 00.595" LNM 44/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/13/2014 11/13/2014
Change Old House Channel Light 8 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "8" N 35° 44' 37.516" W 075° 36' 23.109" LNM 44/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/13/2014 11/13/2014
Change Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 141 Q G 15ft 4M "141" N 36° 17' 24.516" W 075° 57' 18.522" LNM 44/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/13/2014 11/13/2014
Relocate Whale Head Bay Light 1 Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "1" N 36° 21' 52.926" W 075° 50' 56.820" LNM 42/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/30/2014 10/30/2014
Relocate Stumpy Point Channel Light 7 Fl G 2.5s 15ft 4M "7" N 35° 40' 54.483" W 075° 45' 19.394" LNM 40/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/16/2014 10/16/2014
Relocate Manns Harbor Canal Light 1 Fl G 2.5s 16ft 3M "1" N 35° 54' 25.799" W 075° 46' 00.595" LNM 40/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/16/2014 10/16/2014
Change Old House Channel Light 4 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "4" N 35° 45' 18.296" W 075° 35' 46.188" LNM 37/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/2/2014 9/25/2014
Change Stumpy Point Channel Light 6 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "6" N 35° 40' 13.776" W 075° 44' 25.782" LNM 37/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/2/2014 9/25/2014
Delete NC Artifical Fishing Reef Buoy AR130 Y C "AR130" Priv N 36° 00' 18.615" W 075° 31' 58.613" LNM 35/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/11/2014 9/11/2014
Change Depth Legend - Stumpy Point to: 6 FT MAY 2014 N 35° 40' 28.360" W 075° 44' 47.070" LNM 28/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/17/2014 7/17/2014
Change Kitty Hawk Bay Light 2KH Fl R 4s 15ft 5M "2KH" N 36° 01' 10.570" W 075° 45' 35.943" LNM 27/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/17/2014 7/17/2014
Relocate Great Bridge to Albermarle Sound Buoy 168 R N "168" N 36° 09' 36.648" W 075° 53' 31.266" LNM 19/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/22/2014 5/22/2014
Relocate Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 170 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "170" N 36° 09' 23.784" W 075° 53' 32.700" LNM 19/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/22/2014 5/22/2014
Relocate Wanchese Channel Buoy 2 R N "2" N 35° 50' 36.271" W 075° 36' 26.786" LNM 19/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/22/2014 5/22/2014
Relocate Pasquotank River Warning Daybeacon A W "A" N 36° 09' 22.519" W 075° 58' 40.004" LNM 18/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/15/2014 5/15/2014
Change Depth Legend - Rodanthe Harbor to: 5 FT FEB 2014 N 35° 35' 43.400" W 075° 28' 17.700" LNM 16/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/17/2014 4/17/2014
Relocate Roanoke Sound Channel Daybeacon 2 R "2" N 35° 47' 35.704" W 075° 34' 33.372" LNM 12/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/10/2014 4/3/2014
Relocate Oregon Inlet Channel Daybeacon 53 G "53" N 35° 47' 15.413" W 075° 34' 22.023" LNM 12/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/10/2014 4/3/2014
Relocate Roanoke Sound Channel Daybeacon 24A R "24A" N 35° 53' 49.553" W 075° 38' 12.576" LNM 11/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/27/2014 4/3/2014
Change Roanoke Sound Channel Light 22 Fl R 2.5s 15ft 4M "22" N 35° 53' 04.295" W 075° 37' 32.946" LNM 10/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/20/2014 3/13/2014
Relocate Roanoke Sound Channel Light 22 Fl R 2.5s 15ft 3M "22" N 35° 53' 04.295" W 075° 37' 32.946" LNM 09/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/20/2014 3/13/2014
Relocate Manteo Channel Daybeacon 10 R "10" N 35° 54' 23.669" W 075° 39' 53.604" LNM 09/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/20/2014 3/13/2014
Change Depth Legend - RODANTHE HARBOR to: 6 FT BY 100 FT DEC 2013 N 35° 35' 52.100" W 075° 28' 47.400" LNM 07/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/20/2014 2/20/2014
Change Depth Legend - RODANTHE HARBOR to: 4 1/2 FT BY 100 FT DEC 2013 N 35° 35' 52.100" W 075° 28' 47.400" LNM 06/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2014 2/13/2014
Change Depth Legend - RODANTHE HARBOR to: 4 1/2 FT DEC 2013 N 35° 35' 43.400" W 075° 28' 17.700" LNM 06/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2014 2/13/2014
Change Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 164 Q R 15ft 4M "164" N 36° 12' 29.694" W 075° 55' 27.864" LNM 03/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/6/2014 2/6/2014
Relocate Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 164 Q R 15ft 4M "164" N 36° 12' 29.694" W 075° 55' 27.864" LNM 03/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/6/2014 2/6/2014
Relocate Chicamacomico Channel Buoy 2A R N "2A" N 35° 36' 13.936" W 075° 29' 51.517" LNM 51/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/23/2013 1/9/2014
Change Depth Legend - Rodanthe Harbor to: 5 FT OCT 2013 N 35° 35' 43.400" W 075° 28' 17.700" LNM 01/14, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/9/2014 1/9/2014
Add Chicamacomico Channel Buoy 2A R N "2A" N 35° 36' 13.701" W 075° 29' 50.170" LNM 50/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/13/2013 12/16/2013
Change Roanoke Sound Channel Light 40 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "40" N 35° 57' 07.757" W 075° 42' 33.529" LNM 48/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/2/2013 12/2/2013
Change Roanoke Sound Channel Light 36 Fl R 2.5s 15ft 4M "36" N 35° 56' 25.500" W 075° 39' 29.160" LNM 48/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/2/2013 12/2/2013
Change Roanoke Sound Channel Light 19 Fl G 2.5s 15ft 4M "19" N 35° 51' 40.875" W 075° 37' 04.158" LNM 48/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/2/2013 12/2/2013
Relocate Wanchese Channel Buoy 1 G C "1" N 35° 50' 34.083" W 075° 36' 26.002" LNM 48/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/2/2013 12/2/2013
Relocate Oregon Inlet Channel Light 54 Q R 15ft 3M "54" N 35° 47' 21.013" W 075° 34' 16.883" LNM 44/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/4/2013 11/4/2013
Change Old House Channel Light 12 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "12" N 35° 44' 01.102" W 075° 36' 53.328" LNM 42/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/21/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 154 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "154" N 36° 15' 41.399" W 075° 57' 49.714" LNM 42/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/21/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Daybeacon 137 G "137" N 36° 17' 24.040" W 075° 57' 58.553" LNM 42/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/21/2013 10/29/2013
Change Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 173 Fl G 2.5s 18ft 5M "173" N 36° 08' 29.349" W 075° 53' 35.423" LNM 42/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/21/2013 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Stumpy Point to: 2 1/2 FT JUL 2013 N 35° 41' 43.390" W 075° 46' 19.030" LNM 43/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/17/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Croatan Sound Light 7 Q G 15ft 4M "7" N 35° 53' 11.948" W 075° 43' 02.082" LNM 40/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/3/2013 10/29/2013
Change tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS N 35° 41' 00.000" W 075° 50' 50.000" LNM 42/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/7/2013 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - RODANTHE HARBOR to: 3 1/2 FT JUL 2013 N 35° 35' 43.400" W 075° 28' 17.700" LNM 35/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/29/2013 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - RODANTHE HARBOR to: 5 FT BY 100 FT JUL 2013 N 35° 35' 52.100" W 075° 28' 47.400" LNM 35/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/29/2013 10/29/2013
Change tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS N 35° 41' 30.000" W 075° 50' 40.000" LNM 34/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/12/2013 10/29/2013
Add Submerged Pile Subm pile Chart No. 1: K43.1 N 35° 46' 18.670" W 075° 34' 06.350" LNM 29/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/16/2013 10/29/2013
Change Croatan Sound Light 4 Fl R 4s 20ft 5M "4" N 35° 54' 35.819" W 075° 44' 27.797" LNM 27/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/10/2013 10/29/2013
Add Approximate Landmark Sign Chart No. 1: E 27 N 35° 46' 09.131" W 075° 34' 07.717" LNM 27/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/26/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Chicamacomico Channel Light 5 Q G 15ft 3M "5" N 35° 35' 56.782" W 075° 28' 58.343" LNM 23/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/10/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Chicamacomico Channel Daybeacon 5A G "5A" N 35° 35' 49.621" W 075° 28' 41.186" LNM 23/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/10/2013 10/29/2013
Change Chicamacomico Channel Light 5 Q G 15ft 3M "5" N 35° 35' 56.372" W 075° 28' 58.467" LNM 23/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/10/2013 10/29/2013
Change Chicamacomico Channel Daybeacon 5A G "5A" N 35° 35' 49.782" W 075° 28' 40.305" LNM 23/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/10/2013 10/29/2013
Change Alligator River Light 1AR Fl G 2.5s 15ft 5M "1AR" N 35° 58' 09.498" W 075° 58' 46.027" LNM 23/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/10/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Roanoke Sound Channel Light 10 Fl R 4s 15ft 3M "10" N 35° 49' 05.560" W 075° 35' 35.512" LNM 22/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/30/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Oregon Inlet Channel Light 54 Q R 15ft 3M "54" N 35° 47' 23.760" W 075° 34' 18.240" LNM 22/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/30/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Roanoke Sound Channel Light 22 Fl R 2.5s 15ft 3M "22" N 35° 53' 04.434" W 075° 37' 33.068" LNM 20/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/20/2013 10/29/2013
Add tabulation - Pamlico and Roanoke Sound Channel Depths tabulation - Pamlico and Roanoke Sound Channel Depths N 35° 41' 30.000" W 075° 50' 40.000" LNM 24/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/6/2013 10/29/2013
Delete tabulation - Pamlico and Roanoke Sound Channel Depths tabulation - Pamlico and Roanoke Sound Channel Depths N 35° 44' 30.000" W 075° 47' 00.000" LNM 24/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/6/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Roanoke Sound Channel Light 1 Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "1" N 35° 47' 33.978" W 075° 34' 35.608" LNM 19/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/10/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Powells Point Daybeacon 2PP R "2PP" N 36° 02' 59.636" W 075° 50' 17.511" LNM 17/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/30/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Daybeacon 132 R "132" N 36° 18' 24.885" W 075° 58' 16.713" LNM 17/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/30/2013 10/29/2013
Add Long Shoal Oyster Sanctuary Daybeacon D W Or "D" Priv N 35° 33' 51.590" W 075° 49' 53.990" LNM 17/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/30/2013 10/29/2013
Add Long Shoal Oyster Sanctuary Daybeacon C W Or "C" Priv N 35° 33' 45.060" W 075° 49' 53.990" LNM 17/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/30/2013 10/29/2013
Add Long Shoal Oyster Sanctuary Daybeacon B W Or "B" Priv N 35° 33' 45.060" W 075° 49' 46.010" LNM 17/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/30/2013 10/29/2013
Add Long Shoal Oyster Sanctuary Daybeacon A W Or "A" Priv N 35° 33' 51.590" W 075° 49' 46.010" LNM 17/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/30/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Daybeacon 169 G "169" N 36° 09' 49.702" W 075° 53' 24.736" LNM 17/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/30/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Wanchese Channel Daybeacon 4 R "4" N 35° 50' 30.235" W 075° 36' 43.739" LNM 14/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/8/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Oregon Inlet Channel Lighted Buoy 55 G "55" Q G N 35° 47' 20.365" W 075° 34' 19.540" LNM 14/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/8/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Oregon Inlet Channel Light 54 Q R 15ft 3M "54" N 35° 47' 21.457" W 075° 34' 17.194" LNM 14/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/8/2013 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - RODANTHE HARBOR to: 1 1/2 FT FEB 2013 N 35° 35' 43.300" W 075° 28' 18.500" LNM 16/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/9/2013 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - RODANTHE HARBOR to: 3 1/2 FT BY 100 FT FEB 2013 N 35° 35' 54.300" W 075° 28' 54.000" LNM 16/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/9/2013 10/29/2013
Change tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS N 35° 44' 30.000" W 075° 47' 00.000" LNM 14/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/8/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Walter Slough Light 3 Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "3" N 35° 47' 22.435" W 075° 33' 59.820" LNM 10/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/7/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Old House Channel Light 12 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "12" Ra Ref N 35° 44' 01.102" W 075° 36' 53.328" LNM 10/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/7/2013 10/29/2013
Change tabulation - Pamlico and Roanoke Sound tabulation - Pamlico and Roanoke Sound N 35° 44' 30.000" W 075° 47' 00.000" LNM 14/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/2/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Oregon Inlet Approach Lighted Whistle Buoy OI RW "OI" Mo (A) WHIS N 35° 48' 37.210" W 075° 30' 37.670" LNM 05/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/31/2013 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Rodanthe Harbor to: 2 1/2 FT NOV 2012 N 35° 35' 44.000" W 075° 28' 14.000" LNM 05/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/23/2013 10/29/2013
Change Roanoke Sound Channel Light 29 Fl G 2.5s 15ft 4M "29" N 35° 54' 32.257" W 075° 38' 39.429" LNM 52/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/3/2013 10/29/2013
Relocate Old House Channel Junction Light OH Fl (2+1) G 6s 15ft 3M "OH" N 35° 45' 41.985" W 075° 35' 26.370" LNM 52/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/3/2013 10/29/2013
Change tabulation - Pamlico and Roanoke Sound tabulation - Pamlico and Roanoke Sound N 35° 44' 30.000" W 075° 47' 00.000" LNM 04/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/15/2013 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Stumpy Point to: 6 1/2 FT NOV 2012 N 35° 40' 30.300" W 075° 44' 48.100" LNM 05/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/23/2013 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Stumpy Point to: 6 FT NOV 2012 N 35° 41' 47.000" W 075° 46' 10.700" LNM 05/13, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/23/2013 10/29/2013
Edition 38, Print Date Dec. /2012
Change Wanchese Channel Light 6 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "6" N 35° 50' 25.256" W 075° 36' 58.337" LNM 49/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/6/2012 10/29/2013
Change Stumpy Point Bay Channel Light 2SP Fl R 2.5s 15ft 5M "2SP" N 35° 39' 11.882" W 075° 43' 08.758" LNM 48/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/29/2012 10/29/2013
Change Old House Channel Light 16 OH Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "16 OH" N 35° 43' 00.948" W 075° 37' 39.746" LNM 48/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/29/2012 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Chicamacomico Channel to: 4 FT BY 100 FT AUG 2012 N 35° 35' 55.000" W 075° 28' 55.000" LNM 40/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2012 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Stumpy Point Bay Entrance Channel to: 7 FT JUL 2012 N 35° 40' 30.300" W 075° 44' 48.100" LNM 40/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2012 10/29/2013
Add Stumpy Point Buoy 8A R N "8A" N 35° 41' 19.170" W 075° 45' 45.183" LNM 33/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/22/2012 10/29/2013
Add Stumpy Point Buoy 7A G C "7A" N 35° 41' 16.758" W 075° 45' 46.251" LNM 33/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/22/2012 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Rodanthe Harbor to: 2 FT MAY 2012 N 35° 35' 44.000" W 075° 28' 14.000" LNM 32/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/6/2012 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Chicamacomico Channel to: 3 1/2 FT BY 100 FT MAY 2012 N 35° 35' 55.000" W 075° 28' 55.000" LNM 32/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/6/2012 10/29/2013
Relocate Oregon Inlet Channel Daybeacon 36A R "36A" N 35° 46' 00.370" W 075° 35' 12.899" LNM 31/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/6/2012 10/29/2013
Add Label (see note B) N 35° 47' 03.070" W 075° 33' 35.060" LNM 27/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/2/2012 10/29/2013
Delete Oregon Inlet Channel Buoy 37A G C "37A" N 35° 46' 09.609" W 075° 35' 10.336" LNM 27/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/2/2012 10/29/2013
Delete Walter Slough Lighted Buoy 9 G “9” Fl G 2.5s N 35° 47' 32.082" W 075° 33' 29.128" LNM 27/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/2/2012 10/29/2013
Delete Walter Slough Buoy 8 R N "8" N 35° 47' 30.402" W 075° 33' 34.258" LNM 27/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/2/2012 10/29/2013
Delete Walter Slough Buoy 12 R N "12" N 35° 47' 40.398" W 075° 33' 04.164" LNM 27/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/2/2012 10/29/2013
Delete Label (see note B) N 35° 46' 09.750" W 075° 33' 50.870" LNM 27/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/2/2012 10/29/2013
Delete Old House Channel Buoy 11 G C "11" N 35° 43' 55.780" W 075° 36' 53.205" LNM 27/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/2/2012 10/29/2013
Delete Walter Slough Lighted Buoy 11 G "11" Fl G 4s N 35° 47' 40.962" W 075° 33' 04.870" LNM 27/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/2/2012 10/29/2013
Delete Walter Slough Buoy 7 G C "7" N 35° 47' 32.958" W 075° 33' 41.096" LNM 27/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/2/2012 10/29/2013
Delete Walter Slough Buoy 2A R N "2A" N 35° 47' 15.540" W 075° 34' 14.040" LNM 27/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/2/2012 10/29/2013
Change Powells Point Daybeacon 4PP R "4PP" N 36° 06' 32.784" W 075° 52' 24.739" LNM 24/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/13/2012 10/29/2013
Change Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Buoy 171 G C "171" N 36° 09' 11.939" W 075° 53' 30.574" LNM 24/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/13/2012 10/29/2013
Change Beasley Bay Light 2 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "2" N 36° 17' 16.398" W 075° 48' 41.952" LNM 15/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/12/2012 10/29/2013
Relocate NC Artificial Fishing Reef Buoy AR160 Y C "AR160" Priv N 35° 43' 56.520" W 075° 26' 46.260" LNM 15/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/12/2012 10/29/2013
Substitute Sounding in Feet 6 ft sounding for 10 ft sounding N 35° 46' 28.000" W 075° 34' 48.300" LNM 12/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/14/2012 10/29/2013
Add UNC - Chapel Hill Lighted Data Buoy P Y "P" Fl Y 4s Priv N 35° 45' 00.000" W 075° 19' 48.000" LNM 11/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/14/2012 10/29/2013
Change Stumpy Point Channel Light 7 Fl G 2.5s 15ft 4M "7" N 35° 40' 54.609" W 075° 45' 19.344" LNM 10/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/12/2012 10/29/2013
Change Roanoke Sound Channel Light 42 Fl R 6s 15ft 5M "42" N 35° 56' 19.816" W 075° 44' 34.799" LNM 10/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/12/2012 10/29/2013
Change Roanoke Sound Channel Light 39 Fl G 4s 15ft 5M "39" N 35° 56' 49.475" W 075° 41' 28.267" LNM 10/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/12/2012 10/29/2013
Change Old House Channel Light 12 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "12" Ra Ref N 35° 44' 00.489" W 075° 36' 51.871" LNM 10/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/12/2012 10/29/2013
Change Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 153 Q G 15ft 4M "153" N 36° 15' 58.509" W 075° 57' 39.311" LNM 10/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/12/2012 10/29/2013
Change Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 138 Q R 15ft 4M "138" N 36° 17' 16.207" W 075° 57' 55.190" LNM 10/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/12/2012 10/29/2013
Relocate Great Bridge To Albemarle Sound Light 121 Fl G 4s 19ft 4M "121" N 36° 22' 37.449" W 075° 56' 57.804" LNM 08/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/23/2012 10/29/2013
Delete Chicamacomico Channel Lighted Buoy 4A R "4A" Q R N 35° 35' 50.798" W 075° 28' 50.907" LNM 08/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/23/2012 10/29/2013
Relocate Walter Slough Buoy 7 G C "7" N 35° 47' 32.958" W 075° 33' 41.096" LNM 07/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/16/2012 10/29/2013
Relocate Walter Slough Lighted Buoy 9 G "9" Fl G 2.5s N 35° 47' 32.082" W 075° 33' 29.128" LNM 07/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/16/2012 10/29/2013
Relocate Walter Slough Buoy 8 R N "8" N 35° 47' 30.402" W 075° 33' 34.258" LNM 07/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/16/2012 10/29/2013
Change Chicamacomico Channel Daybeacon 4 R "4" N 35° 36' 00.620" W 075° 29' 14.208" LNM 02/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/12/2012 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Stumpy Point Bay Entrance Channel to: 6 1/2 FT SEP 2011 N 35° 40' 27.000" W 075° 44' 44.000" LNM 01/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/3/2012 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Stumpy Point Bay State Ferry Channel to: 7 FT SEP 2011 N 35° 41' 47.000" W 075° 46' 10.700" LNM 01/12, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/3/2012 10/29/2013
Relocate Bodie Island Lighted Buoy 8 R "8" Fl R 4s N 35° 55' 48.628" W 075° 27' 34.596" LNM 51/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/28/2011 10/29/2013
Relocate Old House Channel Buoy 11 G C "11" N 35° 43' 55.780" W 075° 36' 53.205" LNM 48/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/5/2011 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - RODANTHE HARBOR to: 5 FT BY 100 FT SEP 2011 N 35° 35' 55.000" W 075° 28' 55.000" LNM 48/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/21/2011 10/29/2013
Add Chicamacomico Channel Lighted Buoy 4A R "4A" Q R N 35° 35' 50.798" W 075° 28' 50.907" LNM 36/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/13/2011 10/29/2013
Change Chicamacomico Channel Light 4 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "4" N 35° 36' 00.620" W 075° 29' 14.208" LNM 36/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/13/2011 10/29/2013
Change Chicamacomico Channel Lighted Buoy 5 G "5" Q G N 35° 35' 55.938" W 075° 28' 56.205" LNM 36/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/13/2011 10/29/2013
Relocate Chicamacomico Channel Lighted Buoy 5 G "5" Q G N 35° 35' 56.372" W 075° 28' 58.467" LNM 36/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/13/2011 10/29/2013
Add Stumpy Point Harbor Lighted Wreck Buoy WR1SP G "WR1SP" Q G N 35° 41' 19.663" W 075° 44' 29.332" LNM 35/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/31/2011 10/29/2013
Delete Stumpy Point Harbor Light 1 Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "1" N 35° 41' 19.429" W 075° 44' 29.398" LNM 35/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/31/2011 10/29/2013
Relocate Wimble Shoals Lighted Buoy 10 R "10" Fl R 4s N 35° 35' 42.676" W 075° 19' 22.519" LNM 34/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/29/2011 10/29/2013
Add Chicamacomico Channel Buoy 5A G C "5A" N 35° 35' 49.782" W 075° 28' 40.305" LNM 33/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/17/2011 10/29/2013
Add Chicamacomico Channel Buoy 5 G C "5" N 35° 35' 55.938" W 075° 28' 56.205" LNM 33/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/17/2011 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Rodanthe Harbor/Chicamacomico Channel to: 4 FT BY 100 FT JUN 2011 N 35° 35' 55.000" W 075° 28' 55.000" LNM 33/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/10/2011 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Rodanthe Harbor Turning Basin to: 4 FT JUN 2011 N 35° 35' 44.000" W 075° 28' 14.000" LNM 33/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/10/2011 10/29/2013
Relocate Whale Head Bay Light 1 Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "1" N 36° 21' 52.964" W 075° 50' 57.040" LNM 29/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/25/2011 10/29/2013
Change Fixed Bridge Label FIXED BRIDGE HOR CL 80 FT VERT CL 44 FT N 35° 55' 09.600" W 075° 44' 50.200" LNM 31/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/1/2011 10/29/2013
Relocate Old House Channel Daybeacon 10 R "10" N 35° 44' 11.316" W 075° 36' 43.791" LNM 27/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/11/2011 10/29/2013
Add Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Buoy 168 R N "168" N 36° 09' 36.756" W 075° 53' 32.024" LNM 26/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/5/2011 10/29/2013
Relocate Pasquotank River Entrance Light PR Fl 2.5s 23ft 12M "PR" N 36° 09' 22.711" W 075° 58' 38.453" LNM 25/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/28/2011 10/29/2013
Change Pasquotank River Entrance Light PR Fl 2.5s 23ft 12M "PR" N 36° 09' 22.375" W 075° 58' 38.944" LNM 24/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/15/2011 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Stumply Point Bay 4 FT MID 50 FT FEB 2011 N 35° 41' 47.000" W 075° 46' 10.700" LNM 22/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/26/2011 10/29/2013
Change Walter Slough Lighted Buoy 11 G "11" Fl G 4s N 35° 47' 40.962" W 075° 33' 04.870" LNM 18/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/9/2011 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - STUMPY POINT BAY to: 3 FT MID 50 FT JAN 2011 N 35° 41' 47.000" W 075° 46' 10.700" LNM 15/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/11/2011 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - STUMPY POINT BAY to: 4 FT MAR 2009- JAN 2011 N 35° 40' 27.000" W 075° 44' 44.000" LNM 15/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/11/2011 10/29/2013
Relocate Walter Slough Light 11 Fl G 4s 18ft 4M "11" N 35° 47' 40.962" W 075° 33' 04.870" LNM 10/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/14/2011 10/29/2013
Relocate Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 149 Fl G 4s 16ft 4M "149" N 36° 16' 17.854" W 075° 57' 00.166" LNM 08/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/8/2011 10/29/2013
Relocate Currituck Sound Daybeacon 1 G "1" N 36° 02' 37.320" W 075° 45' 31.414" LNM 07/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/18/2011 10/29/2013
Add Oregon Inlet Channel Light "37A" G C "37A" N 35° 46' 09.609" W 075° 35' 10.336" LNM 05/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/2/2011 10/29/2013
Change Oregon Inlet Channel Light "37" Fl G 2.5s 15ft 3M "37" N 35° 45' 50.592" W 075° 35' 19.744" LNM 05/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/2/2011 10/29/2013
Relocate Chicamacomico Channel Daybeacon 4 R "4" N 35° 36' 00.620" W 075° 29' 14.208" LNM 04/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/31/2011 10/29/2013
Relocate Chicamacomico Channel Light 1CC Fl G 4s 18ft 4M "1CC" N 35° 35' 53.492" W 075° 31' 09.152" LNM 03/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/21/2011 10/29/2013
Relocate Roanoke Sound Channel Light 4 Fl R 2.5s 15ft 3M "4" N 35° 47' 53.922" W 075° 34' 55.746" LNM 02/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/12/2011 10/29/2013
Relocate Chicamacomico Channel Light 6 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "6" N 35° 35' 42.269" W 075° 28' 23.003" LNM 02/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/12/2011 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Stumpy Point Bay Entrance Channel to: 5 FT MAR 2009 - SEP 2010 N 35° 40' 27.000" W 075° 44' 44.000" LNM 02/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/7/2011 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Stumpy Point Bay Channel to: 3 FT SEP 2010 N 35° 41' 42.000" W 075° 46' 16.000" LNM 02/11, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/7/2011 10/29/2013
Relocate Oregon Inlet Channel Light 54 Q R 15ft 3M "54" N 35° 47' 20.972" W 075° 34' 18.659" LNM 51/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/22/2010 10/29/2013
Relocate Old House Channel Daybeacon 7 G "7" N 35° 44' 46.744" W 075° 36' 07.914" LNM 51/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/22/2010 10/29/2013
Change Walter Slough Lighted Buoy 9 G "9" Fl G 2.5s N 35° 47' 31.260" W 075° 33' 30.240" LNM 44/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/5/2010 10/29/2013
Change Walter Slough Buoy 8 R N "8" N 35° 47' 30.282" W 075° 33' 30.116" LNM 44/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/5/2010 10/29/2013
Change Walter Slough Buoy 10 R N "10" N 35° 47' 34.939" W 075° 33' 17.418" LNM 44/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/5/2010 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Chicamacomico Channel to: 3 FT BY 100 FT SEP 2010 N 35° 35' 55.000" W 075° 28' 55.000" LNM 43/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/22/2010 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Chicamacomico Channel to: 2 FT SEP 2010 N 35° 35' 44.000" W 075° 28' 14.000" LNM 43/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/22/2010 10/29/2013
Add Old House Channel Buoy 11 G C "11" N 35° 43' 57.667" W 075° 36' 50.161" LNM 39/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/29/2010 10/29/2013
Relocate Stumpy Point Channel Daybeacon 13 G "13" N 35° 41' 48.499" W 075° 46' 22.850" LNM 39/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/29/2010 10/29/2013
Relocate Stumpy Point Bay Channel Light 2SP Fl R 2.5s 15ft 4M "2SP" N 35° 39' 11.882" W 075° 43' 08.758" LNM 39/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/29/2010 10/29/2013
Relocate Roanoke Sound Channel Light 19 Fl G 2.5s 15ft 3M "19" N 35° 51' 40.875" W 075° 37' 04.158" LNM 39/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/29/2010 10/29/2013
Relocate Kitty Hawk Bay Light 2KH Fl R 4s 16ft 4M "2KH" N 36° 01' 10.570" W 075° 45' 35.943" LNM 39/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/29/2010 10/29/2013
Add NC Artificial Fishing Reef Buoy AR160 Y C "AR160" Priv N 35° 44' 40.648" W 075° 27' 18.580" LNM 32/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/18/2010 10/29/2013
Add Stumps Stumps PA N 35° 53' 47.800" W 075° 58' 48.500" LNM 32/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/5/2010 10/29/2013
Relocate Roanoke Sound Channel Daybeacon 2 R "2" N 35° 47' 35.029" W 075° 34' 34.240" LNM 29/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/22/2010 10/29/2013
Relocate Pamlico Sound North Light N Fl 2.5s 27ft 6M "N" N 35° 41' 49.284" W 075° 40' 40.388" LNM 25/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/30/2010 10/29/2013
Add Channel Limits PT 8 OF 8 Chart No. 1 I20 N 35° 41' 38.500" W 075° 46' 10.400" LNM 24/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/16/2010 10/29/2013
Add Depth Legend - State Ferry Channel to: 5 FT MID 50 FT NOV 2009 N 35° 41' 47.000" W 075° 46' 10.700" LNM 24/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/16/2010 10/29/2013
Add Depth Legend - Stumpy Point Bay to: 3 1/2 FT JUN 2009 N 35° 41' 42.000" W 075° 46' 16.000" LNM 24/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/16/2010 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Stumpy Point Bay to: 5 1/2 FT MAR-NOV 2009 N 35° 40' 27.000" W 075° 44' 44.000" LNM 24/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/16/2010 10/29/2013
Add Sounding in Feet 5 N 35° 47' 32.000" W 075° 33' 26.600" LNM 22/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 6/2/2010 10/29/2013
Relocate Manteo Channel Buoy 4 R N "4" N 35° 55' 04.489" W 075° 39' 01.200" LNM 19/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/20/2010 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Chicamacomico Channel to: 4 FT MAR 2010 N 35° 35' 44.000" W 075° 28' 14.000" LNM 18/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/13/2010 10/29/2013
Relocate Walter Slough Daybeacon 8 R "8" N 35° 47' 30.282" W 075° 33' 30.116" LNM 17/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/13/2010 10/29/2013
Relocate Colington Cut Entrance Light 2C Fl R 2.5s 15ft 4M "2C" N 35° 59' 50.179" W 075° 41' 38.813" LNM 11/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/24/2010 10/29/2013
Add Wreck in Feet 33 Wk N 35° 46' 24.240" W 075° 31' 46.080" LNM 09/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/10/2010 10/29/2013
Relocate Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 170 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "170" N 36° 09' 23.949" W 075° 53' 34.223" LNM 07/10, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/24/2010 10/29/2013
Add Crab Hole Oyster Santuary Buoy H W Or C "H" Priv N 35° 43' 40.998" W 075° 40' 37.740" LNM 49/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/16/2009 10/29/2013
Add Crab Hole Oyster Santuary Buoy G W Or C "G" Priv N 35° 43' 35.520" W 075° 40' 45.000" LNM 49/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/16/2009 10/29/2013
Add Crab Hole Oyster Santuary Buoy F W Or C "F" Priv N 35° 43' 30.000" W 075° 40' 37.740" LNM 49/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/16/2009 10/29/2013
Add Crab Hole Oyster Santuary Buoy E W Or C "E" Priv N 35° 43' 35.520" W 075° 40' 30.498" LNM 49/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/16/2009 10/29/2013
Add Accurate Landmark R TR Chart No. 1: E 29 N 35° 47' 45.240" W 075° 33' 01.380" LNM 41/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/15/2009 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - STUMPY POINT BAY to: 3 1/2 FT MAR 2009-JUN 2009 N 35° 40' 29.800" W 075° 44' 47.500" LNM 41/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/15/2009 10/29/2013
Relocate Walter Slough Buoy 7 G C "7" N 35° 47' 30.735" W 075° 33' 40.571" LNM 39/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/15/2009 10/29/2013
Add Crab Hole Oyster Sanctuary Buoy D W Or C "D" Priv N 35° 43' 40.998" W 075° 40' 45.000" LNM 35/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/10/2009 10/29/2013
Add Crab Hole Oyster Sanctuary Buoy C W Or C "C" Priv N 35° 43' 30.000" W 075° 40' 45.000" LNM 35/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/10/2009 10/29/2013
Add Crab Hole Oyster Sanctuary Buoy B W Or C "B" Priv N 35° 43' 30.000" W 075° 40' 30.498" LNM 35/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/10/2009 10/29/2013
Add Crab Hole Oyster Sanctuary Buoy A W Or C "A" Priv N 35° 43' 40.998" W 075° 40' 30.498" LNM 35/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/10/2009 10/29/2013
Add Croatan Sound Oyster Sanctuary Buoy D W Or C "D" Priv N 35° 48' 17.052" W 075° 38' 27.450" LNM 35/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/10/2009 10/29/2013
Add Croatan Sound Oyster Sanctuary Buoy C W Or C "C" Priv N 35° 48' 11.508" W 075° 38' 27.450" LNM 35/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/10/2009 10/29/2013
Add Croatan Sound Oyster Sanctuary Buoy B W Or C "B" Priv N 35° 48' 11.508" W 075° 38' 20.160" LNM 35/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/10/2009 10/29/2013
Add Croatan Sound Oyster Sanctuary Buoy A W Or C "A" Priv N 35° 48' 17.052" W 075° 38' 20.160" LNM 35/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/10/2009 10/29/2013
Delete Doughs Creek Light 2 Fl R 2.5s 15ft 3M "2" N 35° 54' 35.198" W 075° 39' 48.431" LNM 34/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/3/2009 10/29/2013
Change Tabulation - Pamlico and Roanoke Sound Channel Tabulation - Pamlico and Roanoke Sound Channel N 35° 44' 30.000" W 075° 47' 00.000" LNM 33/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/20/2009 10/29/2013
Relocate Walter Slough Light 9 Fl G 2.5s 18ft 3M "9" N 35° 47' 31.260" W 075° 33' 30.240" LNM 30/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/6/2009 10/29/2013
Relocate Stumpy Point Channel Light 7 Fl G 2.5s 15ft 3M "7" N 35° 40' 54.609" W 075° 45' 19.344" LNM 30/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 8/6/2009 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Chicamacomico Channel to: 3 FT APR 2009 N 35° 35' 44.000" W 075° 28' 14.000" LNM 27/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/6/2009 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Chicamacomico Channel to: 5 FT BY 100 FT APR 2009 N 35° 35' 55.000" W 075° 28' 55.000" LNM 27/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/6/2009 10/29/2013
Change Tabulation - Pamlico And Roanoke Sound Channel Tabulation - Pamlico And Roanoke Sound Channel N 35° 44' 30.000" W 075° 47' 00.000" LNM 27/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 7/6/2009 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Stumpy Point Bay to: 4 1/2 FT MAR 2009 N 35° 40' 27.200" W 075° 44' 44.400" Not Published 527 12204_1 7/6/2009 10/29/2013
Add Shallowbag Bay Club Channel Daybeacon 3 G "3" Priv N 35° 54' 06.000" W 075° 39' 48.000" LNM 16/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/30/2009 10/29/2013
Add Shallowbag Bay Club Channel Daybeacon 2 R "2" Priv N 35° 54' 06.000" W 075° 39' 54.000" LNM 16/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/30/2009 10/29/2013
Add Oregon Inlet Channel Light 54 Q R 15ft 3M "54" N 35° 47' 20.778" W 075° 34' 16.904" LNM 12/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/2/2009 10/29/2013
Relocate Oregon Inlet Lighted Buoy 55 G "55" Q G N 35° 47' 20.848" W 075° 34' 21.109" LNM 12/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/2/2009 10/29/2013
Change Oregon Inlet Lighted Buoy 55 G "55" Q G N 35° 47' 20.848" W 075° 34' 21.109" LNM 12/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/2/2009 10/29/2013
Relocate Wanchese Channel Daybeacon 3 G "3" N 35° 50' 29.997" W 075° 36' 40.020" LNM 12/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 4/2/2009 10/29/2013
Delete Stumpy Point Channel Light 11 Fl G 6s 15ft 3M "11" N 35° 41' 44.134" W 075° 46' 21.509" LNM 11/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/26/2009 10/29/2013
Delete Doughs Creek Junction Daybeacon GR Bn N 35° 54' 23.744" W 075° 39' 47.717" LNM 11/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/26/2009 10/29/2013
Add Powells Point Warning Daybeacon A W "A" Priv N 36° 09' 34.900" W 075° 52' 07.000" LNM 10/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/19/2009 10/29/2013
Change Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 173 Fl G 2.5s 18ft 4M "173" N 36° 08' 29.349" W 075° 53' 35.423" LNM 10/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/19/2009 10/29/2013
Change Colington Cut Entrance Light 2C Fl R 2.5s 15ft 4M "2C" N 35° 59' 50.075" W 075° 41' 38.561" LNM 10/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/19/2009 10/29/2013
Change Oregon Inlet Channel Light 55 Q G 15ft 3M "55" N 35° 47' 21.540" W 075° 34' 19.788" LNM 07/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/25/2009 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - STUMPY POINT BAY to: 3 1/2 FT SEP 2008 N 35° 40' 27.200" W 075° 44' 44.400" LNM 01/09, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/7/2009 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Chicamacomico Channel to: 5 FT AUG 2008 N 35° 35' 44.000" W 075° 28' 14.000" LNM 53/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/3/2009 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Chicamacomico Channel to: 6 FT BY 100 FT AUG 2008 N 35° 35' 55.000" W 075° 28' 55.000" LNM 53/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/3/2009 10/29/2013
Change Duck Lighted Research Buoy 1 Y "1" Fl Y 4s N 36° 11' 21.030" W 075° 44' 37.146" LNM 52/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/3/2009 10/29/2013
Change Duck Pier Light Fl 4s 38ft N 36° 11' 01.320" W 075° 44' 45.000" LNM 52/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 1/3/2009 10/29/2013
Relocate Oregon Inlet Channel Daybeacon 48 R "48" N 35° 46' 44.184" W 075° 34' 37.330" LNM 50/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/18/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Croatan Sound Light 3CS Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "3CS" N 35° 56' 42.227" W 075° 46' 40.480" LNM 48/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 12/4/2008 10/29/2013
Change Tabulation - PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS PAMLICO AND ROANOKE SOUND CHANNEL DEPTHS N 35° 44' 30.000" W 075° 47' 00.000" LNM 45/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 11/5/2008 10/29/2013
Add Walter Slough Buoy 2A R N "2A" N 35° 47' 15.540" W 075° 34' 14.040" LNM 42/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/24/2008 10/29/2013
Delete Dare County Lighted Research Buoy A Y "A" Fl Y 4s Priv N 36° 04' 41.136" W 075° 40' 49.338" LNM 41/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/16/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Stumpy Point Harbor Light 1 Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "1" N 35° 41' 19.429" W 075° 44' 29.398" LNM 40/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/8/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Old House Channel Light 8 Fl R 4s 15ft 3M "8" N 35° 44' 37.516" W 075° 36' 23.109" LNM 40/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/8/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Old House Channel Light 16 OH Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "16 OH" Ra Ref N 35° 43' 00.948" W 075° 37' 39.746" LNM 40/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/8/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Great Bridge to Albemarle Sound Light 173 Fl G 2.5s 18ft 4M "173" Ra Ref N 36° 08' 29.349" W 075° 53' 35.423" LNM 40/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 10/8/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Manteo Channel Daybeacon 10 R "10" N 35° 54' 23.688" W 075° 39' 53.472" LNM 35/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Croatan Sound Approach Daybeacon 2 R "2" N 35° 57' 39.094" W 075° 47' 31.409" LNM 35/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Old House Channel Light 4 Fl R 4s 15ft 3M "4" N 35° 45' 18.296" W 075° 35' 46.188" LNM 35/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Old House Channel Daybeacon 9 G "9" N 35° 44' 19.696" W 075° 36' 31.741" LNM 35/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Change Triaxys Lighted Directional Wave Buoy Y Q Y Priv N 36° 15' 30.000" W 075° 35' 30.000" LNM 29/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Delete Triaxys Lighted Directional Wave Buoy Y Fl Y4s Priv N 36° 11' 52.980" W 075° 42' 58.800" LNM 29/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Manns Harbor Light 2 Fl R 4s 18ft 4M "2" N 35° 54' 35.956" W 075° 46' 00.070" LNM 28/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Add Triaxys Lighted Directional Wave Buoy B Y "B" Q Y Priv N 36° 15' 30.000" W 075° 35' 30.000" LNM 28/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Walter Slough Buoy 12 R N "12" N 35° 47' 40.398" W 075° 33' 04.164" LNM 28/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Add Shoaling reported Shoaling rep to 5ft PA N 36° 09' 30.600" W 075° 53' 31.800" LNM 27/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Change Tabulation - Pamlico and Roanoke Sound Pamlico and Roanoke Sound N 35° 44' 30.000" W 075° 47' 00.000" LNM 27/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Old House Channel Daybeacon 13 G "13" N 35° 43' 39.844" W 075° 37' 03.421" LNM 26/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Change Old House Channel Junction Light OH Fl (2+1) G 6s 15ft 3M "OH" N 35° 45' 41.940" W 075° 35' 26.520" LNM 26/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Change Old House Channel Light 16OH Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "16 OH" Ra Ref N 35° 43' 00.949" W 075° 37' 39.744" LNM 26/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Change Old House Channel Light 15 Fl G 2.5s 15ft 3M "15" N 35° 43' 12.601" W 075° 37' 25.451" LNM 26/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Change Old House Daybeacon 14 R "14" N 35° 43' 37.684" W 075° 37' 10.207" LNM 26/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Change Old House Channel Daybeacon 13 G "13" N 35° 43' 39.844" W 075° 37' 03.421" LNM 26/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Change Old House Channel Daybeacon 10 R "10" N 35° 44' 11.277" W 075° 36' 43.610" LNM 26/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Change Old House Channel Daybeacon 9 G "9" N 35° 44' 19.687" W 075° 36' 31.646" LNM 26/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Change Old House Channel Light 8 Fl R 4s 15ft 3M "8" N 35° 44' 37.508" W 075° 36' 23.113" LNM 26/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Change Old House Channel Daybeacon 6 R "6" N 35° 45' 05.107" W 075° 35' 57.980" LNM 26/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 9/26/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Croatan Sound Warning Daybeacon W Bn N 35° 49' 04.832" W 075° 42' 28.327" LNM 18/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 5/7/2008 10/29/2013
Change Walter Slough Buoy 12 R N "12" N 35° 47' 40.515" W 075° 33' 04.828" LNM 09/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/18/2008 10/29/2013
Change Walter Slough Buoy 7 G C "7" N 35° 47' 30.450" W 075° 33' 38.313" LNM 09/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 3/18/2008 10/29/2013
Change Tabulation - Pamlico and Roanoke Sound Channel NONE N 35° 44' 30.000" W 075° 47' 00.000" LNM 03/08, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Great Bridge Albemarle Sound Light 123 Q G 17ft 3M "123" N 36° 21' 17.638" W 075° 56' 44.006" LNM 52/07, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add Manteo Channel Buoy 4 R N "4" N 35° 54' 55.206" W 075° 39' 08.658" LNM 45/07, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Change Tabulation - Pamlico and Roanoke Sound NONE N 35° 44' 30.000" W 075° 47' 00.000" LNM 41/07, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Great Bridge Albemarle Sound Light 135 Fl G 4s 16ft 4M "135" N 36° 17' 29.377" W 075° 58' 02.590" LNM 36/07, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add Dare County Lighted Research Buoy A Y "A" Fl Y 4s Priv N 36° 04' 41.136" W 075° 40' 49.338" LNM 35/07, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Change Oregon Inlet Channel Light 54 Q R 15ft 3M "54" N 35° 47' 21.540" W 075° 34' 19.788" LNM 29/07, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Change Oregon Inlet Channel Light 37A Fl G 2.5s 15ft 3M "37A" N 35° 45' 50.592" W 075° 35' 19.744" LNM 22/07, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Change Oregon Inlet Channel Daybeacon 36A R "36A" N 35° 46' 00.106" W 075° 35' 12.731" LNM 22/07, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Change Oregon Inlet Channel Daybeacon 36 R "36" N 35° 45' 45.292" W 075° 35' 20.428" LNM 22/07, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add Oregon Inlet Channel Light 35A Q G 15ft 3M "35A" N 35° 45' 41.940" W 075° 35' 26.520" LNM 22/07, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Delete Old House Channel Light 8 Q R 15ft 3M "8" N 35° 45' 41.940" W 075° 35' 26.520" LNM 22/07, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Delete NOAA Lighted Data Buoy COLOS5 Y "COLOS5" Fl (4) Y 20s N 36° 11' 42.000" W 075° 42' 54.000" LNM 21/07, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Change Tabulation - Pamlico and Roanoke Sound Channel Depths NONE N 35° 44' 30.000" W 075° 47' 00.000" LNM 21/07, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add Sounding in Feet 3 N 35° 45' 55.100" W 075° 34' 27.700" LNM 21/07, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Roanoke Island Cut Through Light 1 Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "1" N 35° 48' 18.096" W 075° 37' 04.140" LNM 13/07, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Change TRIAXYS Lighted Directional Wave Buoy Y Fl Y4s Priv N 36° 11' 52.980" W 075° 42' 58.800" LNM 02/07, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add NOAA Lighted Data Buoy COLOS5 Y "COLOS5" Fl (4) Y 20s N 36° 11' 42.000" W 075° 42' 54.000" LNM 52/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Walter Slough Daybeacon 10 R "10" N 35° 47' 34.939" W 075° 33' 17.418" LNM 50/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Walter Slough Daybeacon 7 G "7" N 35° 47' 30.450" W 075° 33' 38.313" LNM 50/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Walter Slough Light 3 Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "3" N 35° 47' 22.370" W 075° 33' 59.702" LNM 50/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add TRIAXYS Lighted Directional Wave Buoy Y Q Y Priv N 36° 11' 52.980" W 075° 42' 58.800" LNM 48/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Delete Duck ACOE Lighted Data Buoy Y Fl (3) Y 15s Priv N 36° 12' 00.560" W 075° 41' 39.690" LNM 48/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Duck Lighted Directional Waverider Buoy Y Q Y Priv N 36° 11' 58.440" W 075° 42' 59.600" LNM 48/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Change Cable and Pipeline Area label Cable and Pipeline Area N 36° 05' 05.000" W 075° 46' 01.000" LNM 50/06, 1st Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Roanoke Sound Channel Daybeacon 16A R "16A" N 35° 51' 00.025" W 075° 36' 37.492" LNM 30/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Roanoke Sound Channel Daybeacon 12 R "12" N 35° 49' 36.659" W 075° 35' 51.417" LNM 30/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Delete Oregon Inlet Research Buoy A Y C "A" N 35° 45' 50.557" W 075° 30' 15.932" LNM 29/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Great Bridge Albemarle Sound Light 154 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "154" N 36° 15' 41.535" W 075° 57' 49.481" LNM 23/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add Duck Lighted Directional Waverider Buoy Y Q Y Priv N 36° 10' 01.560" W 075° 42' 02.100" LNM 18/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add Duck Pier Light Fl 4s 38ft Priv N 36° 11' 01.320" W 075° 44' 45.000" LNM 18/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add Duck Lighted Research Buoy 3 Y "3" Fl Y 4s Priv N 36° 11' 09.048" W 075° 44' 32.364" LNM 18/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Delete Duck Coastal Lighted Research Buoy E Y Q Y Priv N 36° 10' 36.500" W 075° 43' 56.900" LNM 18/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Delete Duck Coastal Lighted Research Buoy D Y Q Y Priv N 36° 10' 36.680" W 075° 44' 34.908" LNM 18/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Delete Duck Coastal Lighted Research Buoy C Y Fl (3) Y 15s Priv N 36° 11' 08.880" W 075° 44' 36.422" LNM 18/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Delete Duck Coastal Lighted Research Buoy B Y Q Y Priv N 36° 11' 17.880" W 075° 43' 56.460" LNM 18/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Delete Duck Coastal Lighted Research Buoy A Y Q Y Priv N 36° 11' 17.600" W 075° 44' 35.200" LNM 18/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Delete Roanoke Sound Channel Daybeacon 32A R "32A" N 35° 55' 29.036" W 075° 39' 05.518" LNM 08/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Delete Albemarle Sound Entrance Light AS Mo (A) 16ft 6M "AS" N 36° 03' 44.278" W 075° 56' 08.491" LNM 06/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Old House Channel Light 8 Q R 15ft 3M "8" N 35° 45' 41.940" W 075° 35' 26.520" LNM 04/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Change Tabulation - Pamilco and Roanoke Sound NONE N 35° 44' 30.000" W 075° 47' 00.000" LNM 04/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add Hurricanes and Tropical Storms Note Hurricanes, tropical storms and other major storms may cause considerable damage to marine structures, aids to navigation and moored vessels, resulting in submerged debris in unknown locations. Charted soundings, channel depths and shoreline may not reflect actual conditions following these storms. Fixed aids to navigation may have been damaged or destroyed. Buoys may have been moved from charted positions, damaged, sunk extinguished or otherwise made inoperative. Mariners should not rely upon the position or operation of an aid to navigation. Wrecks and submerged obstructions may have been displaced from charted locations. Pipelines may have become uncovered or moved. Mariners are urged to exercise extreme caution and are requested to report aids to navigation discrepancies and hazards to navigation to the nearest United States Coast Guard unit. N 36° 19' 01.000" W 075° 19' 21.000" LNM 01/06, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Delete Roanoke Sound Channel Buoy 10A R N "10A" N 35° 49' 16.152" W 075° 35' 40.938" LNM 51/05, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Powells Point Daybeacon 2P R "2P" Ra Ref N 36° 03' 00.092" W 075° 50' 17.790" LNM 44/05, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add Tabulation - Pamlico And Roanoke Sound Channel Depths NONE N 35° 44' 30.000" W 075° 47' 00.000" LNM 43/05, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add Roanoke Sound Channel BY 10A R N "10A" N 35° 49' 16.152" W 075° 35' 40.938" LNM 39/05, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Delete NOAA LB 44DUK Y "44DUK" Fl (4) Y 20s N 36° 11' 16.521" W 075° 44' 07.253" WNM 31/05, NGA 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Great Bridge Albemarle Sound LT 170 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "170" N 36° 09' 23.762" W 075° 53' 34.399" LNM 29/05, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Change Currituck Sound Approach DB 1 G "1" N 36° 02' 35.666" W 075° 45' 31.845" LNM 21/05, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Currituck Sound Approach DB 1 G "1" N 36° 02' 35.666" W 075° 45' 31.845" LNM 21/05, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add Wreck in Feet 6 Wk N 35° 47' 12.360" W 075° 31' 00.540" LNM 21/05, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Great Bridge Albemarle Sound LT 125 Fl G 4s 16ft 4M "125" N 36° 19' 23.264" W 075° 57' 56.201" LNM 20/05, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Delete Sounding in Feet 5 N 35° 46' 29.000" W 075° 34' 50.000" LNM 15/05, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Oregon Inlet Approach LWB OI RW "OI" Mo (A) WHIS N 35° 47' 19.477" W 075° 30' 23.213" LNM 13/05, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Durant Island DB 3D G "3D" N 36° 00' 10.125" W 075° 55' 17.579" LNM 12/05, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Manteo Channel LT 6 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "6" N 35° 54' 44.020" W 075° 39' 23.027" LNM 11/05, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Long Shoal LT LS2 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "LS2" N 35° 33' 33.584" W 075° 43' 11.605" LNM 04/05, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Change Depth Legend - Croatan Sound 7 FT FOR A WIDTH OF 200 FT JUL 2000 - SEP 2004 N 35° 52' 01.840" W 075° 42' 48.620" LNM 03/05, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Beasley Bay LT 2 Fl R 4s 15ft 3M "2" N 36° 17' 16.398" W 075° 48' 41.952" LNM 48/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Roanoke Sound Channel DB 24A R '24A" N 35° 53' 50.478" W 075° 38' 13.470" LNM 48/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Roanoke Sound Channel DB 8 R "8" N 35° 48' 34.670" W 075° 35' 18.224" LNM 48/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Roanoke Sound Channel DB 5 G "5" N 35° 48' 16.646" W 075° 35' 10.311" LNM 48/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Wells Creek LT 1 Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "1" N 36° 17' 13.170" W 075° 49' 37.734" LNM 48/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Lone Oak Channel LT 1 Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "1" N 36° 17' 37.116" W 075° 51' 28.278" LNM 48/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate Poplar Branch LT 1 Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "1" N 36° 17' 13.524" W 075° 52' 56.946" LNM 48/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Edition 36, Print Date Nov. /2004
Revise GRT BRIDGE ALB SD LT S Fl 4s 15ft 6M "S" N 36° 01' 04.754" W 075° 57' 36.610" LNM 43/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate OREGON IN JTY LT Iso 6s 28ft 7M N 35° 46' 25.913" W 075° 31' 30.012" LNM 41/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add PAMLICO & ROANOKE SND TAB APPLIED NEW TAB AUG 2004 N 35° 44' 30.000" W 075° 47' 00.000" LNM 41/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise NOAA WEATHER RADIO BROADCASTS NOTE ADD: Mamie, NC WWH-26 162.425 MHz N 35° 45' 15.000" W 075° 53' 05.000" LNM 39/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate MANNS HBR CANAL LT 1 Fl G 2.5s 16ft 3M "1" N 35° 54' 25.932" W 075° 46' 00.373" LNM 36/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate MANNS HBR LT 2 Fl R 4s 18ft 4M "2" N 35° 54' 36.602" W 075° 46' 00.644" LNM 36/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate CROATAN SD DB 3A G "3A" N 35° 56' 10.006" W 075° 46' 05.105" LNM 36/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate BEASLEY BAY LT 2 Fl R 4s 15ft 3M "2" N 36° 17' 12.579" W 075° 48' 28.691" LNM 35/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate WHALE HEAD BAY LT 1 Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "1" N 36° 21' 54.581" W 075° 51' 04.692" LNM 35/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate LONE OAK CH LT 1 Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "1" N 36° 17' 36.576" W 075° 51' 28.701" LNM 35/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate WHALE HEAD BAY LT 2 Fl R 4s 15ft 3M "2" N 36° 22' 18.571" W 075° 50' 10.703" LNM 35/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate DURANT I DB 3D G "3D" N 36° 00' 11.576" W 075° 55' 19.785" LNM 35/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise GRT BRIDGE ALB SD LT NR Fl 4s 15ft 6M "NR" N 36° 01' 04.754" W 075° 57' 36.610" LNM 29/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise STUMPY PT BAY LT 11 Fl G 6s 15ft 4M "11" N 35° 41' 44.134" W 075° 46' 21.509" LNM 27/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise STUMPY PT BAY LT 7 Fl G 2.5s 15ft 3M "7" N 35° 40' 54.456" W 075° 45' 19.296" LNM 27/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise STUMPY PT BAY LT 2SP Fl R 2.5s 15ft 4M "2SP" N 35° 39' 11.766" W 075° 43' 08.784" LNM 27/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate WALTER SLOUGH DB 8 R "8" N 35° 47' 30.393" W 075° 33' 30.366" LNM 25/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise COLINGTON CUT ENT LT 2C Fl R 2.5s 15ft 3M "2C" N 35° 59' 50.075" W 075° 41' 38.561" LNM 19/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate NOTE B-OREGON INLET SEE LNM 17/04 FOR NOTE TEXT N 35° 40' 50.000" W 075° 49' 30.000" LNM 17/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate OREGON IN LT 41 Q G 15ft 4M "41" N 35° 46' 31.412" W 075° 34' 47.518" LNM 15/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add PAMLICO & ROANOKE SND TAB APPLIED NEW TAB MAR 2004 N 35° 44' 30.000" W 075° 47' 00.000" LNM 15/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate WANCHESE CH DB 3 G "3" N 35° 50' 29.274" W 075° 36' 39.127" LNM 12/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate WALTER SLOUGH DB 2 R "2" N 35° 47' 15.930" W 075° 34' 07.200" LNM 10/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add OLD HOUSE DB 7 G "7" N 35° 45' 45.292" W 075° 35' 20.428" LNM 10/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add OLD HOUSE LT 6 Fl R 2.5s 15ft 3M "6" N 35° 45' 50.592" W 075° 35' 19.744" LNM 10/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate CHICAMACOMICO DB 2 R "2" N 35° 36' 04.647" W 075° 30' 29.250" LNM 10/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Delete OREGON IN LT 35 Fl G 2.5s 15ft 4M "35" N 35° 45' 50.763" W 075° 35' 19.799" LNM 10/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Delete OREGON IN DB 36B R "36B" N 35° 45' 53.555" W 075° 35' 15.496" LNM 10/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate LONG SHL R DB 3 G "3" N 35° 34' 24.619" W 075° 52' 04.648" LNM 10/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate LONG SHL R DB 2 R "2" N 35° 34' 04.470" W 075° 51' 36.480" LNM 10/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate CHICAMACOMICO DB 4 R "4" N 35° 36' 00.726" W 075° 29' 17.268" LNM 10/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate CHICAMACOMICO LT 3 Fl G 4s 17ft 4M "3" N 35° 36' 16.692" W 075° 29' 52.110" LNM 10/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate CHICAMACOMICO LT 6 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "6" N 35° 35' 42.480" W 075° 28' 22.986" LNM 10/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate CHICAMACOMICO CH LT 1CC Fl G 4s 18ft 4M "1CC" N 35° 35' 53.706" W 075° 31' 08.832" LNM 10/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate GRT BRIDGE ALB SD LT 161 Q G 15ft 3M "161" N 36° 13' 50.080" W 075° 55' 54.831" LNM 07/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise GRT BRIDGE ALB SD LT 170 Fl R 4s 15ft 4M "170" N 36° 09' 23.490" W 075° 53' 34.778" LNM 07/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate GRT BRIDGE ALB SD DB 137 G "137" N 36° 17' 23.884" W 075° 57' 58.910" LNM 06/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise GRT BRIDGE ALB SD LT 135 Fl G 4s 16ft 4M "135" N 36° 17' 28.827" W 075° 58' 02.902" LNM 06/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate GRT BRIDGE ALB SD DB 151 G "151" N 36° 16' 12.847" W 075° 57' 10.730" LNM 06/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate GRT BRIDGE ALB SD LT 141 Q G 15ft 3M "141" N 36° 17' 24.516" W 075° 57' 18.522" LNM 06/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Delete OREGON IN DB 36C R "36C" N 35° 45' 45.340" W 075° 35' 20.566" LNM 05/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate PAMLICO SD N LT N Fl 2.5s 27ft 6M "N" N 35° 41' 49.069" W 075° 40' 40.478" LNM 05/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate GRT BRIDGE ALB SD LT N Iso 6s 21ft 6M "N" N 36° 06' 06.223" W 075° 54' 45.285" LNM 05/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise GRT BRIDGE ALB SD LT 123 Q G 17ft 3M "123" N 36° 21' 17.725" W 075° 56' 43.899" LNM 04/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate GRT BRIDGE ALB SD LT 125 Fl G 4s 16ft 4M "125" N 36° 19' 23.347" W 075° 57' 56.030" LNM 04/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate PASQUOTANK R ENT LT PR Fl 2.5s 23ft 11M "PR" N 36° 09' 22.375" W 075° 58' 38.944" LNM 04/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Add PAMLICO & ROANOKE SND TAB APPLIED NEW TAB OCT 2003 N 35° 44' 30.000" W 075° 47' 00.000" LNM 03/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate OREGON IN DB 43 G "43" N 35° 46' 38.628" W 075° 34' 42.888" LNM 01/04, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate STUMPY PT BAY DB 8 R "8" N 35° 40' 55.878" W 075° 45' 17.988" LNM 50/03, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate STUMPY PT BAY LT 7 Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "7" N 35° 40' 54.456" W 075° 45' 19.296" LNM 50/03, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate STUMPY PT BAY DB 5 G "5" N 35° 40' 15.690" W 075° 44' 32.136" LNM 50/03, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate STUMPY PT HBR LT 1 Fl G 4s 15ft 4M "1" N 35° 41' 19.656" W 075° 44' 28.962" LNM 50/03, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate STUMPY PT BAY LT 2SP Fl R 4s 15ft 5M "2SP" N 35° 39' 11.766" W 075° 43' 08.784" LNM 50/03, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate WALTER SLOUGH DB 7 G "7" N 35° 47' 29.995" W 075° 33' 38.234" LNM 50/03, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate STUMPY PT BAY DB 13 G "13" N 35° 41' 48.354" W 075° 46' 22.854" LNM 50/03, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate STUMPY PT BAY LT 10 Fl R 2.5s 15ft 3M "10" N 35° 41' 38.604" W 075° 46' 10.074" LNM 50/03, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate STUMPY PT BAY LT 6 Fl R 4s 15ft 3M "6" N 35° 40' 13.776" W 075° 44' 25.782" LNM 50/03, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate OREGON IN APP LWB OI RW "OI" Mo (A) WHIS N 35° 47' 38.377" W 075° 29' 54.363" LNM 46/03, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate ROANOKE SD DB 13 G "13" N 35° 50' 04.787" W 075° 36' 09.625" LNM 44/03, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise CROATAN SD LT 8 Fl R 4s 15ft 3M "8" N 35° 53' 09.330" W 075° 43' 04.998" LNM 44/03, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise OREGON IN LT 35 Fl G 2.5s 15ft 4M "35" N 35° 45' 50.763" W 075° 35' 19.799" LNM 42/03, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Relocate POWELLS PT DB 4P R "4P" Ra Ref N 36° 06' 32.784" W 075° 52' 24.739" LNM 41/03, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate GRT BRIDGE ALB SD LT S Fl 4s 15ft 6M "S" N 36° 01' 04.754" W 075° 57' 36.610" LNM 41/03, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
Revise & Relocate OREGON IN DB 36C R "36C" N 35° 45' 45.340" W 075° 35' 20.566" LNM 39/03, 5th Dist 527 12204_1 2/13/2008 10/29/2013
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1731 Spring Lake Drive
MULTIPLE OFFERS RECEIVED! NO MORE SHOWINGS AFTER 6-7. OFFERS PRESENTED AT NOON ON FRIDAY 6-8. Come check out this hidden GEM in Arlington. Heavily wooded area with great views from large deck, which is great for entertaining. Nicely updated kitchen, new paint throughout, nice new laminate flooring on top level and parts of bottom level. This home features plenty of storage and great natural light in all areas of the read more house. Large flex room with two closets could be used as bedroom, game room or playroom with a balcony to the fenced in yard. Master suite also features dual sinks, updated bath and separate shower. This home is a rare find in Arlington giving you that peaceful country vibe only minutes from I-30.
School District: Arlington ISD
Elementary School: Wimbish
High School: Lamar
Subdivision: Spring Lake Add
1731 Spring Lake Drive Arlington, Texas 76012
Arlington is a city in Texas, west of Dallas. It's home to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), whose campus has a modern planetarium. In River Legacy Parks, trails cut through hardwood forest rich in wildlife. The park also has the River Legacy Living Science Center, with aquariums, terrariums and interactive exhibits. The Dallas Cowboys football team plays at AT&T Stadium, which also hosts concerts.
By 1925 the city's population was estimated at 3,031—well under the population of Dallas and Fort Worth at the time. In 1929, a horse-racing track called Arlington Downs was constructed by W.T. Waggoner close by to the speakeasy. Gambling was still illegal, but people were making bets regardless. Waggoner and his sons campaigned to make parimutuel betting legal, and in 1933 the state issued its first legal gambling permit to Arlington Downs. The track was immensely profitable at that point, making a daily average of $113,000 before inflation with a daily attendance average of 6,700 people. At the end of the 1937 season, the state legislature repealed their parimutuel gambling laws, and the Downs were sold to commercial developers.
In the 1940s, the Arlington Downs was used as a rodeo and event venue. Top O' Hill Terrace evaded the police until 1947, when famous Texas Ranger M. T. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas caught the gambling operation in full-swing and had the place shut down. The 1940s brought World War II to the forefront of the United States, and many families from around Texas moved to Arlington to find jobs. Before World War II, the city's population had grown to over 4,000. The war kick-started a manufacturing revolution in Texas. Arlington was between the biggest aerospace engineering hubs in Texas at the time, Dallas and Fort Worth.
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Autor: The Jewish Publication Society
Narrador: M.D. Laufer
Editor: Jewish Publication Society
The JPS TANAKH: The Jewish Bible, audio version is a recorded version of the JPS TANAKH, the most widely read English translation of the Hebrew, or Jewish, Bible. Produced and recorded for The Jewish Publication Society (JPS) by The Jewish Braille Institute (JBI), this complete, unabridged audio version of the Book of Micah features 20 minutes of readings by 1 narrator.
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How I Fell in Love with Elvis – and Married Caitlyn Jenner: Linda Thompson's Fascinating Life
Linda Thompson was a 22-year-old virgin when she fell in love with Elvis Presley
By Lindsay Kimble and Elizabeth Leonard Updated October 04, 2016 07:40 PM
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At only 22 years old, Linda Thompson fell in love with the King of Rock and Roll. In the 44 years that followed, Thompson would meet, marry and divorce Caitlyn Jenner, launch a television career and become an award-winning lyricist.
For the first time, Thompson, now 66 and single, is sharing intimate stories and life lessons from her romances in a stunning new memoir, A Little Thing Called Life, excerpted exclusively in this week’s issue of PEOPLE.
A Southern belle, Thompson was newly crowned Miss Tennessee Universe when she was invited to a Memphis movie screening hosted by Elvis Presley. Sparks immediately flew and Thompson, who was a virgin when they met in 1972, found herself in a captivating romance with Presley.
“From our first moments together, our relationship was all-encompassing,” she writes in her memoir, adding, “The first year of the four and half we would share, we were together 24 hours a day.”
Still, Thompson says, Presley was “needy.” She writes, “Gosh, to be the greatest sex symbol in the world, and yet he’s so insecure he can’t stand to hear about anybody I ever dated.”
Their love ultimately fell victim to Presley’s well-documented struggles with prescription pill abuse, coupled with his multiple affairs.
For more of Linda Thompson’s relationships with Elvis Presley and Caitlyn Jenner, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE
In 1976, and as Presley’s drug dependence intensified and he grew increasingly unfaithful, Thompson knew she had to move out.
It was in her heartbreak from Presley’s death just eight months later, that Thompson met Olympic champion Jenner (known at the time as Bruce). Thompson, then a new addition to TV’s Hee Haw, fell fast for the “masculine, virile” Jenner. They married in 1981, and went on to have two sons, Brandon and Brody.
Two years after Brody’s birth in 1983, Jenner stunned Thompson and told her she was “a woman trapped in a man’s body,” Thompson explains in the book.
Despite trying to work through Jenner’s transition plans with therapy, Thompson says she couldn’t sustain the new situation. She ended the marriage, but the star, ever protective of Jenner, always kept her ex’s secret.
Related Video: The Caitlyn Jenner Story: From Olympic Icon to Transgender Hero
She writes, “I felt such an obligation to keep Bruce’s gender dysphoria his secret that I did not even tell my sons until they were 31 and 29 years old, respectively.”
Thompson has publicly supported Jenner before and does so again in her book.
With her stories – which also cover her marriage to composer and producer David Foster – Thompson says, “I want people to know we are all in this together and we are all fallible. We’re all do diverse and so complex, but most of all, we’re all human.”
By Lindsay Kimble and Elizabeth Leonard
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Surrogate Mom Gives Birth to 'Twins' — Then Learns One Baby Is Her Own Biological Child
Jessica Allen gave birth to two children as a surrogate for a Chinese couple, but learned weeks later that one of the infants was her biological son
By Char Adams October 30, 2017 12:27 PM
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Jessica Allen became pregnant with her own son while carrying a baby as a surrogate for a Chinese couple — launching an “emotional” battle to get her baby boy back.
“I didn’t even know I was pregnant with [him],” Allen, of California, said through tears during an interview with ABC News. “I carried my own child and I didn’t know he was mine.”
Allen, who already had two children, was surprised to learn that she had gotten pregnant with her own child while carrying as a surrogate due to a medical phenomenon known as superfetation — when a woman continues to ovulate after becoming pregnant.
Doctors initially believed the babies were simply twins.
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“The chance of an embryo splitting is very small, but it does happen,” Allen told ABC. “I was very surprised.”
She gave birth to the pair last December and handed the babies over to the couple. However, Allen said she was perplexed when she saw a photo of the growing boys.
“I did notice that one was much lighter than the other,” Allen said of the babies — one is Chinese and the other is black and white. “You know, obviously they were not identical twins.”
She and her husband, Wardell Jasper, later learned that one of the boys belonged to them, and a DNA test confirmed the news, ABC reports.
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They then fought to get their son back in a legal battle they described as “emotional.” They were granted custody of the little boy in February.
“He’s just so smart, so intelligent,” Allen told ABC of the baby they named Malachi. “He’s learning fast. He’s got two big brothers to run after and learn from.”
Allen first shared her story with the New York Post, and told the outlet that “Wardell and I, who got married in April, weren’t planning to expand our family so soon, but we treasure Malachi with all our hearts.”
“I don’t regret becoming a surrogate mom because that would mean regretting my son,” she added. “I just hope other women considering surrogacy can learn from my story.”
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SCHOLARLY SANITY ON A MAJOR AREA OF INDIAN WORRY
IRFAN AHMAD
Islamism and Democracy in India
The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is the most influential Islamist organization in India today. Founded in 1941 by Syed Abul Ala Maududi with the aim of spreading Islamic values in the subcontinent, Jamaat and its offshoot, the Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), has been watched closely by Indian security services since 9/11. In particular, SIMI has been accused of being behind terrorist bombings.
Islamism and Democracy in India is the first in-depth examination of India’s Jamaat-e-Islami and SIMI. It explores political Islam’s complex relationship with democracy and gives us a rare window into one immensely significant Islamic trajectory in a Muslim-minority context.
Irfan Ahmad conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork at a school in Aligarh, among student activists at Aligarh Muslim University, at a madrasa in Azamgarh, and during Jamaat’s participation in elections in 2002. He deftly traces Jamaat’s changing position towards India's secular democracy and the group’s gradual ideological shift in the direction of religious pluralism and tolerance. He demonstrates how the rise of militant Hindu nationalism since the 1980s—evident in the destruction of the Babri mosque and widespread violence against Muslims—led to SIMI’s radicalization, its rejection of pluralism, and its call for jihad.
Islamism and Democracy in India argues that when secular democracy is responsive to the traditions and aspirations of its Muslim citizens, Muslims in turn embrace pluralism and democracy. But when democracy becomes majoritarian and exclusionary, Muslims turn radical.
IRFAN AHMAD is an anthropologist and assistant professor of politics in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University in Australia, where he helps lead the Centre for Islam and the Modern World.
THIS BOOK IS PUBLISHED IN PERMANENT BLACK'S 'THE INDIAN CENTURY' SERIES, OF WHICH THE GENERAL EDITORS ARE RAMACHANDRA GUHA AND SUNIL KHILNANI
For an interview of the author in THE HINDU, copy-paste-click this link in your browser:
http://www.thehindu.com/mp/2010/02/08/stories/2010020850300100.htm
“This is an outstanding historical and ethnographic account of one of the most influential Islamist movements in South Asia. It is the result of courageous fieldwork at a time of increased Hindu-Muslim tension in India. The book's thesis that even a radically antisecular Islamist movement can be transformed into supporting secular democracy is an extremely important contribution to today's global discussions. It is essential reading for political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and students of Islam.”—Peter van der Veer
“Irfan Ahmad's book could not be more timely or important. At a time when clichés about ‘Islamists’ and ‘Islamic terrorists’ abound, he demonstrates the ideological transformation of one of the twentieth century’s most important Islamist movements, India’s Jamaat-e-Islami, in support of active participation in a secular, plural democracy. Ahmad’s work is essential reading not only for scholars, but for policymakers and concerned citizens alike.”—Barbara D. Metcalf
“This is the most important book written on Muslims in India in the last three decades. Ahmad traces the incremental shift of most adherents of Jamaat-e-Islami to moderation and participation in Indian democracy, showing that from its inception the movement has been thoroughly modern. He deals with an aspect of India that is frequently neglected and engages the main debates concerning the relation of Islam to democracy.”—Dale F. Eickelman
HARDBACK / 328PP / Rs 695 / ISBN 81-7824-269-9 / SOUTH ASIA RIGHTS / Publishing in January 2010 / Copublished with Princeton University Press
"Every nationality has its own distinct stench": by G. Kanato Chophy
A wonderfully written and deeply moving new book on society and history in Nagaland over the past couple of centuries has just been published by Permanent Black and Ashoka University in collaboration with the New India Foundation. Its young author, G. Kanato Chophy, is one of the brightest Naga scholars on the Indian horizon from the north-east. Permanent Black asked Kanato to reflect on what’s in his book and why he wrote it. For some time now I’ve been wanting to work on a book called “constitutional Indians” – a concept that I have briefly touched upon in the conclusion of the book you’ve just published. My argument in it is that, for a putatively renegade ethnic community like the Nagas, the “idea of India” hangs precariously in the balance, supported by a piece of paper, the Indian Constitution, which we have until recently understood as a guarantee of equal rights to Indian citizens irrespective of religion, ethnicity, class, and gender. I belong to an emerging class of educated
PARTHA CHATTERJEE: THE TRUTHS AND LIES OF NATIONALISM as narrated by Charvak
"While the Covid-19 pandemic was still raging in the autumn of 2020, I found, one evening, placed outside the door of my home in Kolkata, a sealed packet. Apparently, it had been left there sometime during the day. It did not come by post or any of the courier services that usually deliver mail because, if it had, someone would have rung the bell and I was home all day. In fact, the parcel did not bear any seal or inscription except my name and address written in English script in a confident cursive style rarely seen these days. My curiosity was aroused because the package did not look like a piece of junk mail. The thought that it might contain something more sinister did strike my mind – after all, the times were not exactly normal. But something in the look of the packet persuaded me that it should be examined. After dutifully spraying the packet with a disinfectant, I unwrapped it and found, within cardboard covers and neatly tied in red string, what looked like a manuscript
Four Recollections of Sunil Kumar (1956–2021)
by Muzaffar Alam, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Nayanjot Lahiri, Rukun Advani WATCH: Sunil Kumar speaking on Delhi RUKUN ADVANI Fourteen years ago, Sunil Kumar held a copy of his first big book in his hands: The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate (Permanent Black, 2007). He hadn’t bothered trying to publish it with any of the big American or British university presses, though they’d all have taken it like a shot. It had been very long since anything substantially new and eye-opening had been written on the Delhi Sultanate, and Sunil, reckoned a dilatory perfectionist whose motto was much too fervently “Better Never Than Now”, was known to have been writing it for more than a decade. He could have had his pick of publisher. Some years later, he emailed saying he’d had enough of being a Reader at SOAS. He could have been in London forever, or moved on from there to the redder-leaved pastures of the Ivy League. By this time his book had brought him recognition as a s
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Laurel Mountain Ski Resort Open After Years Of False Starts
By Ross Guidotti December 21, 2016 at 9:25 am
Filed Under:Laurel Mountain Ski Resort, Ligonier, Ross Guidotti, Seven Springs Mountain Resort, Westmoreland County
LIGONIER (KDKA) — It’s been more than a decade since skiers hit the slopes at Laurel Mountain Ski Resort in Ligonier, but today it opened once more to improved facilities and near perfect conditions.
Laurel Mountain, the name stokes nostalgic memories for long-time skiers in Western Pennsylvania.
“I learned how to ski here,” said Ligonier Borough Mayor Butch Bellas. “I taught my whole family how to ski here back in the ‘70s.”
“Last time I was here, I was 12. It was terrifying when I was 12,” said skier Caroline Arnone.
Starting Wednesday afternoon, new lifts were moving skiers up slope as the resort reopened under Seven Springs management. More than $7 million in improvements were made before the grand reopening.
“It’s a small hometown mountain that skis big. It’s truly a skier’s mountain,” said Mayor Bellas.
What makes the mountain what it is – a well-known and formidable slope, the Lower Wildcat.
“Wildcat’s crazy,” said Arnone.
“Well, it’s one of the steepest around,” skier Eric Larson added. “It’s why people come here.”
KDKA’s Ross Guidotti: “Keep you on your toes?”
Larson: “Oh yeah, the whole way down.”
But for Mayor Bellas, who’s a long-standing member of the region’s ski patrol, Wildcat is just a part of this place that’s deep in his heart.
“I’m probably one of the more happier people in the Ligonier Valley today,” he said. “I might start crying. It is great.”
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To Metaphorically Go Where the Weathermen Have Gone Before
By Ed Driscoll May 21, 2011 3:34 PM ET
“Metaphor Abuse” is one of those things that make blogger Dr. Weevil go “hmmm:”
Prof. Pecinovsky of the University of Missouri thinks (perhaps not quite the right verb) that the United States is “the belly of the beast” (þ InstaPundit), yet he continues to live here, when there are undoubtedly other countries to which he could emigrate. If he chooses to live in the belly of a beast, and to accept sustenance from it (a salary paid for by the taxpayers of Missouri), doesn’t that make him a metaphorical tapeworm?
Not to mention not-so-boldly going where Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn have metaphorically gone before, including this quote from Dohrn in 2007:
It was an incredible thing for him to say [Martin Luther King’s assertion that the US was “the greatest purveyor of violence” in the world], the greatest purveyor of violence on this earth is my own country. There were certainly other purveyors of violence. I think that’s still true today. If we think it’s true today, that has incredible implications for all of us right now. We who are, as we used to say, in the belly of the beast … It again means not that we are the only purveyor of violence in the world, but that we have an extraordinary, special responsibility, not necessarily the most enviable one, of how to act here, inside the heart of the monster.
Video of Dohrn’s remarks here; the above passage comes about the five minute mark:
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That’s Some Gaydar!
Diane E. Dees
Jason Pickel and Darren Black Bear were looking for a reasonably priced place to stay for a while, so they went to Affordable Suites of America in Sumter, South Carolina. At the desk, they asked about rates, deposits, and things of that nature, and then were cut short by the clerk, who said “We don’t rent to multiple people of the same sex.” “So you don’t rent to gay couples?” Pickel asked her. “No,” she said, “we don’t rent to gay people at all.”
There is no law in South Carolina that protects gay citizens from housing discrimination, so Affordable Suites of America has broken no law. But the clerk’s comments beg analysis:
If the hotel does not rent to “multiple people of the same sex,” that means that a mother and daughter or two sisters traveling together, two women on a vacation, or two businesswomen traveling together cannot stay at the Sumter Affordable Suites of America. They must turn away quite a few people.
“We don’t rent to gay people at all” means that a gay person traveling alone could not rent a suite at the hotel. But how do the clerks determine who is gay? Is there a test? And if a presumably heterosexual person is traveling with a gay person, does the heterosexual person get the room and the gay person sleep in the hall? What about bisexual people? Can the clerks determine who they are, too? And do they get to stay?
Aside from the ugly bigotry involved, the “regulation” is absurd. Fortunately, there is at least a chance this nonsense may soon be a thing of the past: A bill in the South Carolina senate seeks to expand the Lodging Establishment Act to include a ban on housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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The Advanced Guide to Omicron Vs Other Variants – What do we know?
Uncategorized / By prebuuk
Vaccination rates are improving around the world. We are happy to say that India has seen a slight improvement, but still has a long way to go to get up to the average of 55%. Recently, WHO designated Omicron – a variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus – as a Variant of Concern.
Since Delta, we have all been on the lookout for what will come next. Experts are saying that Omicron is the next major threat. What does this mean for the future of India and the rest of the world? Let’s discuss what we know so far.
What Is The Omicron Variant?
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is always evolving. That’s because viruses are always mutating. Most of these mutations don’t change how the virus interacts with humans. It’s important to note that viruses can change over time and become better at infecting us. For example, the virus may find a way to invade our immune system more efficiently than it used to. It would be impossible and ineffective to track every change that occurs. That’s why the WHO takes a methodical approach and only monitors those that need to be tracked.
Variants of Concern are a category of variants that can spread more easily, can cause serious illnesses, or are difficult to diagnose with existing methods. One example is the Omicron Variant, which was first detected in South Africa and has spread to at least 30 other countries worldwide by December 2021. The first cases of the Omicron Variant were discovered in India in Karnataka.
What is it called Omicorn?
The World Health Organization created a naming convention for variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to simplify matters and help reduce stigma. Variants of Interest and Concern are now named simply after letters in the Greek alphabet.
Technically, the variants that we watch over all have long-winded names. Delta’s scientific name is B.1.617.2, while for Omicron, it’s B.1.1.529. The World Health Organization uses Greek naming to make things easier to understand.
A big reason to provide a timeline of a new strain is to avoid a blame game on a world scale. When a new variant is discovered, the country where it first appears often gets an unfair association with that outbreak. For example, Delta is commonly thought of as India’s variant.
The previous variants of this virus were Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta. The newest variant was expected to be called Nu. However, the Greek letters Nu and Xi were skipped and Omicron was chosen as the name for this new virus.
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Omicron Vs Delta, Beta, and Others
Omicron has more mutations than previous variants. However, this could make the virus stronger or weaker. It is now Omicron’s turn to be discovered by the world. Even so, with early detection comes more work to do. There just isn’t much information on Omicron available yet. Scientists and epidemiologists are working together tirelessly to compile more information that can help with our research.
Based on initial reports from the WHO, people who’ve had COVID-19 in the past might have a higher risk of catching the Omicron variant. The WHO’s report is preliminary, though. More research is needed before they can make a full statement on the matter.
It is unknown whether transmission rates are higher with Omicron vs Delta or other variants. This is something we will know in the coming weeks if the genome sequence of the new variant causes more severe symptoms.
We know that RT-PCR tests are still able to detect the Omicron variant, but unlike previous variants, one gene of Omicron is not detected in this test (out of three targeted genes). This can be used to detect the variant quickly. The variant type can only be confirmed after genome sequencing.
Lastly, the WHO also reports that vaccination is our best tool for fighting off this disease. The organization is still trying to figure out how this variant may affect vaccines, but vaccination is one of the leading forces in limiting the severity of symptoms and death.
There’s not much that we can know until the initial studies are complete and more data is collected. For new information always use trusted sources such as the WHO or government websites. Don’t trust unverified information like that found through messaging forwards and social media posts. We don’t need to panic, but we do need to keep following the standard COVID-19 protocols.
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Is Marx Back?: An Interview with Leo Panitch
The economic crisis, as many commentators and critics are quick to point out, has rekindled interest in—and anxieties over—Marxism. Although many on the Left hope this renewed curiosity marks the beginning of a radical turn, similar revivals of anti-capitalist politics in the 1930s, 1960s, and 1990s failed to achieve the revolutionary transformations they sought.
Has Marxism returned as a significant political force? How might this translate into the possibility for a revitalized Left? Will the resurgence of Marxist theory provide opportunities for social change—or merely the opportunity to fail again?
An interview with Dr. Leo Panitch conducted on February 19th, 2010, at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Leo Panitch is Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto, and coeditor of the annual Socialist Register.
Transcript in Platypus Review #23:
The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and “Resistance:” The Problematic Forms of “Anticapitalism” Today [Media Recording]
A moderated panel discussion and audience Q-and-A on problems of strategies and tactics on the Left today, held on November 6, 2007, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Panelists: Michael Albert (Z Magazine, author of Parecon: Life After Capitalism), Chris Cutrone (Platypus), Stephen Duncombe (Gallatin School of New York University, editor of Cultural Resistance Reader), Brian Holmes (Continental Drift and Université Tangente), and Marisa Holmes (new Students for a Democratic Society).
"After the failure of the 1960s New Left, the underlying despair with regard to the real efficacy of political will, of political agency, in a historical situation of heightened helplessness, became a self-constitution as outsider, as other, rather than an instrument of transformation. Focused on the bureaucratic stasis of the Fordist, late 20th Century world, the Left echoed the destruction of that world by the dynamics of capital: neoliberalism and globalization.
The idea of a fundamental transformation became bracketed and, instead, was replaced by the more ambiguous notion of 'resistance.' The notion of resistance, however, says little about the nature of that which is being resisted, or of the politics of the resistance involved.
'Resistance' is rarely based on a reflexive analysis of possibilities for fundamental change that are both generated and suppressed by the dynamic heteronomous order of capital. 'Resistance' is an undialectical category that does not grasp its own conditions of possibility; it fails to grasp the dynamic historical context of capital and its reconstitution of possibilities for both domination and emancipation, of which the 'resisters' do not recognize that that they are a part."
— Moishe Postone, "History and Helplessness: Mass mobilization and contemporary forms of anticapitalism" (2006)
Transcripted in Platypus Review #4 (Click below):
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Intel, in Show of Support for Trump, Announces Factory in Arizona
February 9, 2017 by Michael Stumo
SAN FRANCISCO — Intel, the world’s largest computer chip manufacturer, will invest $7 billion to finish a factory in Arizona, adding 3,000 jobs, the company’s chief executive said on Wednesday after meeting with President Trump at the White House.
[VINDU GOEL| February 8, 2017 |The New York Times]
The completion of the factory, which will complement two other Intel semiconductor plants in Chandler, Ariz., had been under consideration for several years.
Standing beside Mr. Trump in the Oval Office, Brian Krzanich, Intel’s chief executive, said the company had decided to proceed now because of “the tax and regulatory policies we see the administration pushing forward.”
Mr. Trump said: “The people of Arizona will be very happy. It’s a lot of jobs.”
He said Intel called the White House several weeks ago to coordinate the announcement. That outreach illustrates the tightrope that Silicon Valley companies are walking as they deal with a president most of them did not want to see in office.
Intel was one of nearly 130 companies that signed a legal brief challenging Mr. Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order temporarily blocking the entry of all refugees and of immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations. Earlier, Mr. Krzanich criticized the order on Twitter, declaring, “As a company co-founded by an immigrant, we support lawful immigration.” (Intel’s third employee and longtime chief executive, Andrew S. Grove, survived the Holocaust and arrived in the United States after fleeing the Soviet invasion of his native Hungary in 1956.)
Yet Intel, like Apple and other large technology companies, also supports the Trump administration’s plans to reduce corporate taxes and regulations. During the presidential campaign, Mr. Krzanich planned and then canceled a fund–raiser for Mr. Trump.
Stacy J. Smith, the executive vice president who oversees manufacturing and sales, said Intel considered itself apolitical. “Intel engages, whatever the administration,” he said in an interview after Wednesday’s announcement. “We focus on the issues that we care about.”
Intel said it agreed with Mr. Trump’s desire to improve the investment climate for American manufacturers. “In places where we believe the policies are in the best interest of the company, we lean in,” Mr. Smith said.
In other areas, such as Mr. Trump’s desire to curb immigration and end free-trade agreements, Intel disagrees, and it is telling the White House so. “We care about hiring the best and brightest people around the world,” Mr. Smith said. “We care about exporting our products all over the world.”
Mr. Krzanich said in a message to employees that he had chosen to announce the expansion at the White House to signal his support for the administration’s efforts to make American manufacturing more competitive.
“When we disagree, we don’t walk away,” he wrote. “We believe that we must be part of the conversation to voice our views on key issues such as immigration, H1B visas and other policies that are essential to innovation.”
Intel’s strategy of engagement mirrors that of Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, who serves on a presidential advisory council. Other Silicon Valley leaders, such as Travis Kalanick of Uber, have distanced themselves from the administration under pressure from employees and customers.
Intel’s political action committee gave about equally to Democratic and Republican candidates during the last election cycle. Individual employees donated far more to Hillary Clinton’s campaign than to Mr. Trump’s. But over all, the company is not a major political donor.
New chip plants are tremendously expensive, requiring large tracts of land, reliable electricity and water, and a skilled work force that includes people with doctorates in chemistry and technicians who can repair a malfunctioning robot. Sophisticated equipment is necessary to deposit and etch microscopic layers of material on silicon wafers, which are then cut and packaged into the microprocessors that run personal computers, servers, smartphones and, increasingly, other electronic devices.
Countries compete to land such plants, especially modern factories that produce the most valuable chips and bring high-paying research and development jobs. Government subsidies are common, with China vowing to spend tens of billions of dollars to expand its domestic chip industry.
While most technology manufacturing, such as computers and smartphones, has moved overseas, American factories still account for about one-seventh of global chip production and produce many of the most valuable computer chips, including Intel’s flagship processors. Seventy-six chip plants are scattered across the United States, from South Portland, Me., to Newport Beach, Calif., according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.
The industry is seeking corporate tax cuts and incentives for research and development. In addition, chip makers would like to see the United States government relax longstanding national security restrictions on the export of new chip technology. In Intel’s case, the regulations forbid the company from making its high-end processors in China.
Mr. Smith said Mr. Trump had offered Intel no financial incentives to complete the Arizona factory.
The plant was conceived in 2011. President Barack Obama visited the site in 2012, when construction had just begun, and he praised the plant as an example of “an America where we build stuff and make stuff and sell stuff all over the world.”
But it was mothballed in 2014 after sales of personal computers — and the Intel chips that go into them — started to slide. Intel restructured its business and announced last year that it was laying off 12,000 people, including 560 in Chandler. The company now employs about 50,000 people in the United States and 106,000 worldwide.
As Intel looks beyond servers and personal computers to new markets like other Internet-connected devices, cars and tablets, sales are growing again, and it will need the new factory when it is completed in a couple of years. “We’re building it for our own business reasons,” Mr. Smith said.
The plant will build ultradense chips that Intel refers to as seven nanometer, with transistors packed more closely together than in the chips the company now builds. The tighter spacing allows for faster, more energy-efficient chips. “This factory will produce the most powerful computer chips on the planet,” Mr. Krzanich said.
Intel, one of the original chip companies, from which Silicon Valley gets its name, is based in Santa Clara, Calif. But most of its chip production is in Oregon and Arizona. It also has factories in China, Ireland and Israel.
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Oprah Winfrey Fires 30 Employees At Struggling OWN
Mar. 19 2012, Published 10:00 a.m. ET
Oprah Winfrey’s underperforming OWN network is staring to feel the squeeze, as the media legend Monday had to lay off 30 people -- or, 20 percent of the workers she hired for the endeavor that launched last year.
“It is difficult to make tough business decisions that affect people’s lives,” Winfrey, who personally addressed the workers at OWN’s Los Angeles office, said in a statement. "As CEO, I have a responsibility to chart the course for long-term success for the network. To wholly achieve that long-term success, this was a necessary next step.”
In addition to the layoffs, there will be a corporate restructuring at the network’s offices in New York and Los Angeles; the responsibilities of the laid-off workers will be absorbed by partners in the operations, Discovery Communications and Winfrey's Harpo Studios.
Discovery -- who says they’ll be taking a more hands-on approach moving forward -- has sunk more than $300 million into the network, and there’s chatter the network could pull the plug if losses continue to mount (though the network has steadfastly said it will continue to support OWN).
"We're as committed now as we've ever been,” said Discovery Senior Executive Vice President David Leavy, “and are bullish about the long-term value we are building."
The big moves come just weeks prior to OWN’s programming presentations to ad execs in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.
In related news, Rosie O'Donnell’s talk show was cancelled last week after the media personality could not make a fraction of the ratings impact she made in the 90s with her syndicated talk show.
"I thank Rosie from the bottom of my heart for joining me on this journey,” Oprah said in announcing the cancellation. “She has been an incredible partner, working to deliver the best possible show every single day.
“As I have learned in the last 15 months, a new network launch is always a challenge and ratings grow over time as you continue to gather an audience. I'm grateful to Rosie and the dedicated Rosie Show team for giving it their all."
Rosie’s last episode will be taped Tuesday and the show will air on Friday, March 30 on OWN.
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Random Railways
Rail and transport writing, photography and other random stuff
The Portadown to Armagh railway
The transport consultants Aecom have been appointed by Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council to carry out a study into the reopening of the Portadown to Armagh railway according to a report on Belfast Live
The current Dublin-Belfast line is shown in purple, disused lines in light blue. From Rail Map Online
This comes as part of the wider All Island Strategic Rail review, currently being discussed by the Northern Ireland Local Government Association (NILGA). There’s a current consultation on the Strategic Rail Review which can be found here.
The line was opened by the Ulster Railway in 1848, linking Armagh to Belfast, and continued further south, reaching Monaghan in 1858 and Clones in 1863. With the partition of Ireland in 1922 the section between Keady and Castleblayney that crossed the new border was closed in 1923.
The line finally closed in 1957 and left Armagh with no connection to the Irish Rail Network. The ten mile stretch of trackbed is mostly complete, but has some bridges missing, and a car park has been built over the site of the rail depot in Portadown. There’s a drone flyover of the line on Youtube.
The former Armagh Station
There’s an active campaign group pushing for the reopening, they have a Facebook group. Last November the line was featured in Channel 5’s series “Walking Britain’s Old Railways” with Rob Bell, which can be watched online.
The study will be carried out this year, with findings expected to be released by the autumn. Here’s hoping that the £60,000 estimated cost of the study actually shows some benefit. There were consulations on the feasibility of reopening back in 2013/14 and in the UK there’s a tendency to spend vast amounts on feasibility studies that have incomplete or inconclusive results. The Ivanhoe line is a prime example, at least 7 studies over 20 years, all of which have excluded vital data and statistics that would have shown the reopening to be viable. The Borders Railway in Scotland was another case, where the consultants showed the BCR – benefit cost ratio – to be lower than needed for it to be reopened. However it did get opened and passenger numbers greatly exceeded all expectations. However it seems that many of the decision makers in the UK haven’t taken this on board. If only public transport received the same level of strategic investment and long term vision as roads…
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Home Wold News British government issues bill to activate Brexit
British government issues bill to activate Brexit
The British government has published a bill to start Britain’s departure from the European Union, Brexit’s Minister David Davis said on Thursday.
This brief bill will allow Prime Minister Theresa May to receive Parliament’s permission to activate Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the starting point of two years of negotiations to leave the bloc.
On Tuesday, the British Supreme Court ruled that the government must seek parliamentary approval before launching the legal separation process known as Brexit.
May repeatedly said he would fire Article 50 before the end of March. With the legal defeat, she now needs to seek parliamentary approval, which means that her plans can be altered or delayed.
Britain’s top legal authority dismissed the argument that Theresa May could only use her executive powers known as a “royal prerogative” to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty and begin discussions on separation with the other 27 members of the group, according to Reuters.
The play had its first reading in the House of Commons, but without debate, and the MPs could discuss it in the second reading, which is scheduled for two sessions on Tuesday (31) and Wednesday (1st), second To Efe.
According to the established timetable, the bill will later enter the committee stage, and the parliamentary process in the House of Commons is expected to end on February 8, before moving to the House of Lords for debate.
Opposition parties have expressed their intention to make amendments to the bill, especially the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP), which has estimated to table up to 50 amendments.
The British government has indicated that although the bill has yet to be approved by parliamentarians, it will maintain the timetable set for kicking off the European bloc at the end of March.
Brexit passed a referendum in June 2016 for more than 1.2 million votes of difference. However, the dispute was vicious. The “exit” won with almost 51.9% of the votes, with 17,410,742 votes for the exit against 16,141,242 votes for the permanence.
Shortly after the outcome of the referendum, the country plunged into a deep political crisis that led to the downfall of then-prime minister David Cameron, an enthusiastic defender of the stay.
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The Anatomy of a Search Engine
By admin April 11, 2021 Blog, High PR Links 0 Comments
The Anatomy of a Search Engine Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page {sergey, page}@cs.stanford.edu Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems. The prototype with a full text and hyperlink database of at least 24 million pages is available at http://google.stanford.edu/
To engineer a search engine is a challenging task. Search engines index tens to hundreds of millions of web pages involving a comparable number of distinct terms. They answer tens of millions of queries every day. Despite the importance of large-scale search engines on the web, very little academic research has been done on them. Furthermore, due to rapid advance in technology and web proliferation, creating a web search engine today is very different from three years ago. This paper provides an in-depth description of our large-scale web search engine — the first such detailed public description we know of to date.
Apart from the problems of scaling traditional search techniques to data of this magnitude, there are new technical challenges involved with using the additional information present in hypertext to produce better search results. This paper addresses this question of how to build a practical large-scale system which can exploit the additional information present in hypertext. Also we look at the problem of how to effectively deal with uncontrolled hypertext collections where anyone can publish anything they want. Keywords: World Wide Web, Search Engines, Information Retrieval, PageRank, Google
(Note: There are two versions of this paper — a longer full version and a shorter printed version. The full version is available on the web and the conference CD-ROM.)
The web creates new challenges for information retrieval. The amount of information on the web is growing rapidly, as well as the number of new users inexperienced in the art of web research. People are likely to surf the web using its link graph, often starting with high quality human maintained indices such as Yahoo! or with search engines. Human maintained lists cover popular topics effectively but are subjective, expensive to build and maintain, slow to improve, and cannot cover all esoteric topics. Automated search engines that rely on keyword matching usually return too many low quality matches. To make matters worse, some advertisers attempt to gain people’s attention by taking measures meant to mislead automated search engines. We have built a large-scale search engine which addresses many of the problems of existing systems. It makes especially heavy use of the additional structure present in hypertext to provide much higher quality search results. We chose our system name, Google, because it is a common spelling of googol, or 10100 and fits well with our goal of building very large-scale search engines.
1.1 Web Search Engines — Scaling Up: 1994 – 2000
Search engine technology has had to scale dramatically to keep up with the growth of the web. In 1994, one of the first web search engines, the World Wide Web Worm (WWWW) [McBryan 94] had an index of 110,000 web pages and web accessible documents. As of November, 1997, the top search engines claim to index from 2 million (WebCrawler) to 100 million web documents (from Search Engine Watch). It is foreseeable that by the year 2000, a comprehensive index of the Web will contain over a billion documents. At the same time, the number of queries search engines handle has grown incredibly too. In March and April 1994, the World Wide Web Worm received an average of about 1500 queries per day. In November 1997, Altavista claimed it handled roughly 20 million queries per day. With the increasing number of users on the web, and automated systems which query search engines, it is likely that top search engines will handle hundreds of millions of queries per day by the year 2000. The goal of our system is to address many of the problems, both in quality and scalability, introduced by scaling search engine technology to such extraordinary numbers.
1.2. Google: Scaling with the Web
Creating a search engine which scales even to today’s web presents many challenges. Fast crawling technology is needed to gather the web documents and keep them up to date. Storage space must be used efficiently to store indices and, optionally, the documents themselves. The indexing system must process hundreds of gigabytes of data efficiently. Queries must be handled quickly, at a rate of hundreds to thousands per second.
These tasks are becoming increasingly difficult as the Web grows. However, hardware performance and cost have improved dramatically to partially offset the difficulty. There are, however, several notable exceptions to this progress such as disk seek time and operating system robustness. In designing Google, we have considered both the rate of growth of the Web and technological changes. Google is designed to scale well to extremely large data sets. It makes efficient use of storage space to store the index. Its data structures are optimized for fast and efficient access (see section 4.2). Further, we expect that the cost to index and store text or HTML will eventually decline relative to the amount that will be available (see Appendix B). This will result in favorable scaling properties for centralized systems like Google.
1.3 Design Goals
1.3.1 Improved Search Quality
Our main goal is to improve the quality of web search engines. In 1994, some people believed that a complete search index would make it possible to find anything easily. According to Best of the Web 1994 — Navigators, “The best navigation service should make it easy to find almost anything on the Web (once all the data is entered).” However, the Web of 1997 is quite different. Anyone who has used a search engine recently, can readily testify that the completeness of the index is not the only factor in the quality of search results. “Junk results” often wash out any results that a user is interested in. In fact, as of November 1997, only one of the top four commercial search engines finds itself (returns its own search page in response to its name in the top ten results). One of the main causes of this problem is that the number of documents in the indices has been increasing by many orders of magnitude, but the user’s ability to look at documents has not. People are still only willing to look at the first few tens of results. Because of this, as the collection size grows, we need tools that have very high precision (number of relevant documents returned, say in the top tens of results). Indeed, we want our notion of “relevant” to only include the very best documents since there may be tens of thousands of slightly relevant documents. This very high precision is important even at the expense of recall (the total number of relevant documents the system is able to return). There is quite a bit of recent optimism that the use of more hypertextual information can help improve search and other applications [Marchiori 97] [Spertus 97] [Weiss 96] [Kleinberg 98]. In particular, link structure [Page 98] and link text provide a lot of information for making relevance judgments and quality filtering. Google makes use of both link structure and anchor text (see Sections 2.1 and 2.2).
1.3.2 Academic Search Engine Research
Aside from tremendous growth, the Web has also become increasingly commercial over time. In 1993, 1.5% of web servers were on .com domains. This number grew to over 60% in 1997. At the same time, search engines have migrated from the academic domain to the commercial. Up until now most search engine development has gone on at companies with little publication of technical details. This causes search engine technology to remain largely a black art and to be advertising oriented (see Appendix A). With Google, we have a strong goal to push more development and understanding into the academic realm.
Another important design goal was to build systems that reasonable numbers of people can actually use. Usage was important to us because we think some of the most interesting research will involve leveraging the vast amount of usage data that is available from modern web systems. For example, there are many tens of millions of searches performed every day. However, it is very difficult to get this data, mainly because it is considered commercially valuable.
Our final design goal was to build an architecture that can support novel research activities on large-scale web data. To support novel research uses, Google stores all of the actual documents it crawls in compressed form. One of our main goals in designing Google was to set up an environment where other researchers can come in quickly, process large chunks of the web, and produce interesting results that would have been very difficult to produce otherwise. In the short time the system has been up, there have already been several papers using databases generated by Google, and many others are underway. Another goal we have is to set up a Spacelab-like environment where researchers or even students can propose and do interesting experiments on our large-scale web data.
2. System Features
The Google search engine has two important features that help it produce high precision results. First, it makes use of the link structure of the Web to calculate a quality ranking for each web page. This ranking is called PageRank and is described in detail in [Page 98]. Second, Google utilizes link to improve search results.
2.1 PageRank: Bringing Order to the Web
The citation (link) graph of the web is an important resource that has largely gone unused in existing web search engines. We have created maps containing as many as 518 million of these hyperlinks, a significant sample of the total. These maps allow rapid calculation of a web page’s “PageRank”, an objective measure of its citation importance that corresponds well with people’s subjective idea of importance. Because of this correspondence, PageRank is an excellent way to prioritize the results of web keyword searches. For most popular subjects, a simple text matching search that is restricted to web page titles performs admirably when PageRank prioritizes the results (demo available at google.stanford.edu). For the type of full text searches in the main Google system, PageRank also helps a great deal.
2.1.1 Description of PageRank Calculation
Academic citation literature has been applied to the web, largely by counting citations or backlinks to a given page. This gives some approximation of a page’s importance or quality. PageRank extends this idea by not counting links from all pages equally, and by normalizing by the number of links on a page. PageRank is defined as follows:
We assume page A has pages T1…Tn which point to it (i.e., are citations). The parameter d is a damping factor which can be set between 0 and 1. We usually set d to 0.85. There are more details about d in the next section. Also C(A) is defined as the number of links going out of page A. The PageRank of a page A is given as follows:
PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + … + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))
Note that the PageRanks form a probability distribution over web pages, so the sum of all web pages’ PageRanks will be one.
PageRank or PR(A) can be calculated using a simple iterative algorithm, and corresponds to the principal eigenvector of the normalized link matrix of the web. Also, a PageRank for 26 million web pages can be computed in a few hours on a medium size workstation. There are many other details which are beyond the scope of this paper.
2.1.2 Intuitive Justification
PageRank can be thought of as a model of user behavior. We assume there is a “random surfer” who is given a web page at random and keeps clicking on links, never hitting “back” but eventually gets bored and starts on another random page. The probability that the random surfer visits a page is its PageRank. And, the d damping factor is the probability at each page the “random surfer” will get bored and request another random page. One important variation is to only add the damping factor d to a single page, or a group of pages. This allows for personalization and can make it nearly impossible to deliberately mislead the system in order to get a higher ranking. We have several other extensions to PageRank, again see [Page 98].
Another intuitive justification is that a page can have a high PageRank if there are many pages that point to it, or if there are some pages that point to it and have a high PageRank. Intuitively, pages that are well cited from many places around the web are worth looking at. Also, pages that have perhaps only one citation from something like the Yahoo! homepage are also generally worth looking at. If a page was not high quality, or was a broken link, it is quite likely that Yahoo’s homepage would not link to it. PageRank handles both these cases and everything in between by recursively propagating weights through the link structure of the web.
2.2 Anchor Text
The text of links is treated in a special way in our search engine. Most search engines associate the text of a link with the page that the link is on. In addition, we associate it with the page the link points to. This has several advantages. First, anchors often provide more accurate descriptions of web pages than the pages themselves. Second, anchors may exist for documents which cannot be indexed by a text-based search engine, such as images, programs, and databases. This makes it possible to return web pages which have not actually been crawled. Note that pages that have not been crawled can cause problems, since they are never checked for validity before being returned to the user. In this case, the search engine can even return a page that never actually existed, but had hyperlinks pointing to it. However, it is possible to sort the results, so that this particular problem rarely happens.
This idea of propagating anchor text to the page it refers to was implemented in the World Wide Web Worm [McBryan 94] especially because it helps search non-text information, and expands the search coverage with fewer downloaded documents. We use anchor propagation mostly because anchor text can help provide better quality results. Using anchor text efficiently is technically difficult because of the large amounts of data which must be processed. In our current crawl of 24 million pages, we had over 259 million anchors which we indexed.
Aside from PageRank and the use of anchor text, Google has several other features. First, it has location information for all hits and so it makes extensive use of proximity in search. Second, Google keeps track of some visual presentation details such as font size of words. Words in a larger or bolder font are weighted higher than other words. Third, full raw HTML of pages is available in a repository.
3 Related Work
Search research on the web has a short and concise history. The World Wide Web Worm (WWWW) [McBryan 94] was one of the first web search engines. It was subsequently followed by several other academic search engines, many of which are now public companies. Compared to the growth of the Web and the importance of search engines there are precious few documents about recent search engines [Pinkerton 94]. According to Michael Mauldin (chief scientist, Lycos Inc) [Mauldin], “the various services (including Lycos) closely guard the details of these databases”. However, there has been a fair amount of work on specific features of search engines. Especially well represented is work which can get results by post-processing the results of existing commercial search engines, or produce small scale “individualized” search engines. Finally, there has been a lot of research on information retrieval systems, especially on well controlled collections. In the next two sections, we discuss some areas where this research needs to be extended to work better on the web.
3.1 Information Retrieval
Work in information retrieval systems goes back many years and is well developed [Witten 94]. However, most of the research on information retrieval systems is on small well controlled homogeneous collections such as collections of scientific papers or news stories on a related topic. Indeed, the primary benchmark for information retrieval, the Text Retrieval Conference [TREC 96], uses a fairly small, well controlled collection for their benchmarks. The “Very Large Corpus” benchmark is only 20GB compared to the 147GB from our crawl of 24 million web pages. Things that work well on TREC often do not produce good results on the web. For example, the standard vector space model tries to return the document that most closely approximates the query, given that both query and document are vectors defined by their word occurrence. On the web, this strategy often returns very short documents that are the query plus a few words. For example, we have seen a major search engine return a page containing only “Bill Clinton Sucks” and picture from a “Bill Clinton” query. Some argue that on the web, users should specify more accurately what they want and add more words to their query. We disagree vehemently with this position. If a user issues a query like “Bill Clinton” they should get reasonable results since there is a enormous amount of high quality information available on this topic. Given examples like these, we believe that the standard information retrieval work needs to be extended to deal effectively with the web.
3.2 Differences Between the Web and Well Controlled Collections
The web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents. Documents on the web have extreme variation internal to the documents, and also in the external meta information that might be available. For example, documents differ internally in their language (both human and programming), vocabulary (email addresses, links, zip codes, phone numbers, product numbers), type or format (text, HTML, PDF, images, sounds), and may even be machine generated (log files or output from a database). On the other hand, we define external meta information as information that can be inferred about a document, but is not contained within it. Examples of external meta information include things like reputation of the source, update frequency, quality, popularity or usage, and citations. Not only are the possible sources of external meta information varied, but the things that are being measured vary many orders of magnitude as well. For example, compare the usage information from a major homepage, like Yahoo’s which currently receives millions of page views every day with an obscure historical article which might receive one view every ten years. Clearly, these two items must be treated very differently by a search engine.
Another big difference between the web and traditional well controlled collections is that there is virtually no control over what people can put on the web. Couple this flexibility to publish anything with the enormous influence of search engines to route traffic and companies which deliberately manipulating search engines for profit become a serious problem. This problem that has not been addressed in traditional closed information retrieval systems. Also, it is interesting to note that metadata efforts have largely failed with web search engines, because any text on the page which is not directly represented to the user is abused to manipulate search engines. There are even numerous companies which specialize in manipulating search engines for profit.
4 System Anatomy
First, we will provide a high level discussion of the architecture. Then, there is some in-depth descriptions of important data structures. Finally, the major applications: crawling, indexing, and searching will be examined in depth.
Figure 1. High Level Google Architecture
4.1 Google Architecture Overview
In this section, we will give a high level overview of how the whole system works as pictured in Figure 1. Further sections will discuss the applications and data structures not mentioned in this section. Most of Google is implemented in C or C++ for efficiency and can run in either Solaris or Linux.
In Google, the web crawling (downloading of web pages) is done by several distributed crawlers. There is a URLserver that sends lists of URLs to be fetched to the crawlers. The web pages that are fetched are then sent to the storeserver. The storeserver then compresses and stores the web pages into a repository. Every web page has an associated ID number called a docID which is assigned whenever a new URL is parsed out of a web page. The indexing function is performed by the indexer and the sorter. The indexer performs a number of functions. It reads the repository, uncompresses the documents, and parses them. Each document is converted into a set of word occurrences called hits. The hits record the word, position in document, an approximation of font size, and capitalization. The indexer distributes these hits into a set of “barrels”, creating a partially sorted forward index. The indexer performs another important function. It parses out all the links in every web page and stores important information about them in an anchors file. This file contains enough information to determine where each link points from and to, and the text of the link.
The URLresolver reads the anchors file and converts relative URLs into absolute URLs and in turn into docIDs. It puts the anchor text into the forward index, associated with the docID that the anchor points to. It also generates a database of links which are pairs of docIDs. The links database is used to compute PageRanks for all the documents.
The sorter takes the barrels, which are sorted by docID (this is a simplification, see Section 4.2.5), and resorts them by wordID to generate the inverted index. This is done in place so that little temporary space is needed for this operation. The sorter also produces a list of wordIDs and offsets into the inverted index. A program called DumpLexicon takes this list together with the lexicon produced by the indexer and generates a new lexicon to be used by the searcher. The searcher is run by a web server and uses the lexicon built by DumpLexicon together with the inverted index and the PageRanks to answer queries.
4.2 Major Data Structures
Google’s data structures are optimized so that a large document collection can be crawled, indexed, and searched with little cost. Although, CPUs and bulk input output rates have improved dramatically over the years, a disk seek still requires about 10 ms to complete. Google is designed to avoid disk seeks whenever possible, and this has had a considerable influence on the design of the data structures.
4.2.1 BigFiles
BigFiles are virtual files spanning multiple file systems and are addressable by 64 bit integers. The allocation among multiple file systems is handled automatically. The BigFiles package also handles allocation and deallocation of file descriptors, since the operating systems do not provide enough for our needs. BigFiles also support rudimentary compression options.
4.2.2 Repository
Figure 2. Repository Data Structure
The repository contains the full HTML of every web page. Each page is compressed using zlib (see RFC1950). The choice of compression technique is a tradeoff between speed and compression ratio. We chose zlib’s speed over a significant improvement in compression offered by bzip. The compression rate of bzip was approximately 4 to 1 on the repository as compared to zlib’s 3 to 1 compression. In the repository, the documents are stored one after the other and are prefixed by docID, length, and URL as can be seen in Figure 2. The repository requires no other data structures to be used in order to access it. This helps with data consistency and makes development much easier; we can rebuild all the other data structures from only the repository and a file which lists crawler errors.
4.2.3 Document Index
The document index keeps information about each document. It is a fixed width ISAM (Index sequential access mode) index, ordered by docID. The information stored in each entry includes the current document status, a pointer into the repository, a document checksum, and various statistics. If the document has been crawled, it also contains a pointer into a variable width file called docinfo which contains its URL and title. Otherwise the pointer points into the URLlist which contains just the URL. This design decision was driven by the desire to have a reasonably compact data structure, and the ability to fetch a record in one disk seek during a search
Additionally, there is a file which is used to convert URLs into docIDs. It is a list of URL checksums with their corresponding docIDs and is sorted by checksum. In order to find the docID of a particular URL, the URL’s checksum is computed and a binary search is performed on the checksums file to find its docID. URLs may be converted into docIDs in batch by doing a merge with this file. This is the technique the URLresolver uses to turn URLs into docIDs. This batch mode of update is crucial because otherwise we must perform one seek for every link which assuming one disk would take more than a month for our 322 million link dataset.
4.2.4 Lexicon
The lexicon has several different forms. One important change from earlier systems is that the lexicon can fit in memory for a reasonable price. In the current implementation we can keep the lexicon in memory on a machine with 256 MB of main memory. The current lexicon contains 14 million words (though some rare words were not added to the lexicon). It is implemented in two parts — a list of the words (concatenated together but separated by nulls) and a hash table of pointers. For various functions, the list of words has some auxiliary information which is beyond the scope of this paper to explain fully.
4.2.5 Hit Lists
A hit list corresponds to a list of occurrences of a particular word in a particular document including position, font, and capitalization information. Hit lists account for most of the space used in both the forward and the inverted indices. Because of this, it is important to represent them as efficiently as possible. We considered several alternatives for encoding position, font, and capitalization — simple encoding (a triple of integers), a compact encoding (a hand optimized allocation of bits), and Huffman coding. In the end we chose a hand optimized compact encoding since it required far less space than the simple encoding and far less bit manipulation than Huffman coding. The details of the hits are shown in Figure 3.
Our compact encoding uses two bytes for every hit. There are two types of hits: fancy hits and plain hits. Fancy hits include hits occurring in a URL, title, anchor text, or meta tag. Plain hits include everything else. A plain hit consists of a capitalization bit, font size, and 12 bits of word position in a document (all positions higher than 4095 are labeled 4096). Font size is represented relative to the rest of the document using three bits (only 7 values are actually used because 111 is the flag that signals a fancy hit). A fancy hit consists of a capitalization bit, the font size set to 7 to indicate it is a fancy hit, 4 bits to encode the type of fancy hit, and 8 bits of position. For anchor hits, the 8 bits of position are split into 4 bits for position in anchor and 4 bits for a hash of the docID the anchor occurs in. This gives us some limited phrase searching as long as there are not that many anchors for a particular word. We expect to update the way that anchor hits are stored to allow for greater resolution in the position and docIDhash fields. We use font size relative to the rest of the document because when searching, you do not want to rank otherwise identical documents differently just because one of the documents is in a larger font.
Figure 3. Forward and Reverse Indexes and the Lexicon
The length of a hit list is stored before the hits themselves. To save space, the length of the hit list is combined with the wordID in the forward index and the docID in the inverted index. This limits it to 8 and 5 bits respectively (there are some tricks which allow 8 bits to be borrowed from the wordID). If the length is longer than would fit in that many bits, an escape code is used in those bits, and the next two bytes contain the actual length.
4.2.6 Forward Index
The forward index is actually already partially sorted. It is stored in a number of barrels (we used 64). Each barrel holds a range of wordID’s. If a document contains words that fall into a particular barrel, the docID is recorded into the barrel, followed by a list of wordID’s with hitlists which correspond to those words. This scheme requires slightly more storage because of duplicated docIDs but the difference is very small for a reasonable number of buckets and saves considerable time and coding complexity in the final indexing phase done by the sorter. Furthermore, instead of storing actual wordID’s, we store each wordID as a relative difference from the minimum wordID that falls into the barrel the wordID is in. This way, we can use just 24 bits for the wordID’s in the unsorted barrels, leaving 8 bits for the hit list length.
4.2.7 Inverted Index
The inverted index consists of the same barrels as the forward index, except that they have been processed by the sorter. For every valid wordID, the lexicon contains a pointer into the barrel that wordID falls into. It points to a doclist of docID’s together with their corresponding hit lists. This doclist represents all the occurrences of that word in all documents.
An important issue is in what order the docID’s should appear in the doclist. One simple solution is to store them sorted by docID. This allows for quick merging of different doclists for multiple word queries. Another option is to store them sorted by a ranking of the occurrence of the word in each document. This makes answering one word queries trivial and makes it likely that the answers to multiple word queries are near the start. However, merging is much more difficult. Also, this makes development much more difficult in that a change to the ranking function requires a rebuild of the index. We chose a compromise between these options, keeping two sets of inverted barrels — one set for hit lists which include title or anchor hits and another set for all hit lists. This way, we check the first set of barrels first and if there are not enough matches within those barrels we check the larger ones.
4.3 Crawling the Web
Running a web crawler is a challenging task. There are tricky performance and reliability issues and even more importantly, there are social issues. Crawling is the most fragile application since it involves interacting with hundreds of thousands of web servers and various name servers which are all beyond the control of the system.
In order to scale to hundreds of millions of web pages, Google has a fast distributed crawling system. A single URLserver serves lists of URLs to a number of crawlers (we typically ran about 3). Both the URLserver and the crawlers are implemented in Python. Each crawler keeps roughly 300 connections open at once. This is necessary to retrieve web pages at a fast enough pace. At peak speeds, the system can crawl over 100 web pages per second using four crawlers. This amounts to roughly 600K per second of data. A major performance stress is DNS lookup. Each crawler maintains a its own DNS cache so it does not need to do a DNS lookup before crawling each document. Each of the hundreds of connections can be in a number of different states: looking up DNS, connecting to host, sending request, and receiving response. These factors make the crawler a complex component of the system. It uses asynchronous IO to manage events, and a number of queues to move page fetches from state to state.
It turns out that running a crawler which connects to more than half a million servers, and generates tens of millions of log entries generates a fair amount of email and phone calls. Because of the vast number of people coming on line, there are always those who do not know what a crawler is, because this is the first one they have seen. Almost daily, we receive an email something like, “Wow, you looked at a lot of pages from my web site. How did you like it?” There are also some people who do not know about the robots exclusion protocol, and think their page should be protected from indexing by a statement like, “This page is copyrighted and should not be indexed”, which needless to say is difficult for web crawlers to understand. Also, because of the huge amount of data involved, unexpected things will happen. For example, our system tried to crawl an online game. This resulted in lots of garbage messages in the middle of their game! It turns out this was an easy problem to fix. But this problem had not come up until we had downloaded tens of millions of pages. Because of the immense variation in web pages and servers, it is virtually impossible to test a crawler without running it on large part of the Internet. Invariably, there are hundreds of obscure problems which may only occur on one page out of the whole web and cause the crawler to crash, or worse, cause unpredictable or incorrect behavior. Systems which access large parts of the Internet need to be designed to be very robust and carefully tested. Since large complex systems such as crawlers will invariably cause problems, there needs to be significant resources devoted to reading the email and solving these problems as they come up.
4.4 Indexing the Web
Parsing — Any parser which is designed to run on the entire Web must handle a huge array of possible errors. These range from typos in HTML tags to kilobytes of zeros in the middle of a tag, non-ASCII characters, HTML tags nested hundreds deep, and a great variety of other errors that challenge anyone’s imagination to come up with equally creative ones. For maximum speed, instead of using YACC to generate a CFG parser, we use flex to generate a lexical analyzer which we outfit with its own stack. Developing this parser which runs at a reasonable speed and is very robust involved a fair amount of work.
Indexing Documents into Barrels — After each document is parsed, it is encoded into a number of barrels. Every word is converted into a wordID by using an in-memory hash table — the lexicon. New additions to the lexicon hash table are logged to a file. Once the words are converted into wordID’s, their occurrences in the current document are translated into hit lists and are written into the forward barrels. The main difficulty with parallelization of the indexing phase is that the lexicon needs to be shared. Instead of sharing the lexicon, we took the approach of writing a log of all the extra words that were not in a base lexicon, which we fixed at 14 million words. That way multiple indexers can run in parallel and then the small log file of extra words can be processed by one final indexer.
Sorting — In order to generate the inverted index, the sorter takes each of the forward barrels and sorts it by wordID to produce an inverted barrel for title and anchor hits and a full text inverted barrel. This process happens one barrel at a time, thus requiring little temporary storage. Also, we parallelize the sorting phase to use as many machines as we have simply by running multiple sorters, which can process different buckets at the same time. Since the barrels don’t fit into main memory, the sorter further subdivides them into baskets which do fit into memory based on wordID and docID. Then the sorter, loads each basket into memory, sorts it and writes its contents into the short inverted barrel and the full inverted barrel.
The goal of searching is to provide quality search results efficiently. Many of the large commercial search engines seemed to have made great progress in terms of efficiency. Therefore, we have focused more on quality of search in our research, although we believe our solutions are scalable to commercial volumes with a bit more effort. The google query evaluation process is show in Figure 4.
Parse the query.
Convert words into wordIDs.
Seek to the start of the doclist in the short barrel for every word.
Scan through the doclists until there is a document that matches all the search terms.
Compute the rank of that document for the query.
If we are in the short barrels and at the end of any doclist, seek to the start of the doclist in the full barrel for every word and go to step 4.
If we are not at the end of any doclist go to step 4.
Sort the documents that have matched by rank and return the top k.
Figure 4. Google Query Evaluation
To put a limit on response time, once a certain number (currently 40,000) of matching documents are found, the searcher automatically goes to step 8 in Figure 4. This means that it is possible that sub-optimal results would be returned. We are currently investigating other ways to solve this problem. In the past, we sorted the hits according to PageRank, which seemed to improve the situation.
4.5.1 The Ranking System
Google maintains much more information about web documents than typical search engines. Every hitlist includes position, font, and capitalization information. Additionally, we factor in hits from anchor text and the PageRank of the document. Combining all of this information into a rank is difficult. We designed our ranking function so that no particular factor can have too much influence. First, consider the simplest case — a single word query. In order to rank a document with a single word query, Google looks at that document’s hit list for that word. Google considers each hit to be one of several different types (title, anchor, URL, plain text large font, plain text small font, …), each of which has its own type-weight. The type-weights make up a vector indexed by type. Google counts the number of hits of each type in the hit list. Then every count is converted into a count-weight. Count-weights increase linearly with counts at first but quickly taper off so that more than a certain count will not help. We take the dot product of the vector of count-weights with the vector of type-weights to compute an IR score for the document. Finally, the IR score is combined with PageRank to give a final rank to the document.
For a multi-word search, the situation is more complicated. Now multiple hit lists must be scanned through at once so that hits occurring close together in a document are weighted higher than hits occurring far apart. The hits from the multiple hit lists are matched up so that nearby hits are matched together. For every matched set of hits, a proximity is computed. The proximity is based on how far apart the hits are in the document (or anchor) but is classified into 10 different value “bins” ranging from a phrase match to “not even close”. Counts are computed not only for every type of hit but for every type and proximity. Every type and proximity pair has a type-prox-weight. The counts are converted into count-weights and we take the dot product of the count-weights and the type-prox-weights to compute an IR score. All of these numbers and matrices can all be displayed with the search results using a special debug mode. These displays have been very helpful in developing the ranking system.
4.5.2 Feedback
The ranking function has many parameters like the type-weights and the type-prox-weights. Figuring out the right values for these parameters is something of a black art. In order to do this, we have a user feedback mechanism in the search engine. A trusted user may optionally evaluate all of the results that are returned. This feedback is saved. Then when we modify the ranking function, we can see the impact of this change on all previous searches which were ranked. Although far from perfect, this gives us some idea of how a change in the ranking function affects the search results.
5 Results and Performance
The most important measure of a search engine is the quality of its search results. While a complete user evaluation is beyond the scope of this paper, our own experience with Google has shown it to produce better results than the major commercial search engines for most searches. As an example which illustrates the use of PageRank, anchor text, and proximity, Figure 4 shows Google’s results for a search on “bill clinton”. These results demonstrates some of Google’s features. The results are clustered by server. This helps considerably when sifting through result sets. A number of results are from the whitehouse.gov domain which is what one may reasonably expect from such a search. Currently, most major commercial search engines do not return any results from whitehouse.gov, much less the right ones. Notice that there is no title for the first result. This is because it was not crawled. Instead, Google relied on anchor text to determine this was a good answer to the query. Similarly, the fifth result is an email address which, of course, is not crawlable. It is also a result of anchor text.
All of the results are reasonably high quality pages and, at last check, none were broken links. This is largely because they all have high PageRank. The PageRanks are the percentages in red along with bar graphs. Finally, there are no results about a Bill other than Clinton or about a Clinton other than Bill. This is because we place heavy importance on the proximity of word occurrences. Of course a true test of the quality of a search engine would involve an extensive user study or results analysis which we do not have room for here. Instead, we invite the reader to try Google for themselves at http://google.stanford.edu.
5.1 Storage Requirements
Aside from search quality, Google is designed to scale cost effectively to the size of the Web as it grows. One aspect of this is to use storage efficiently. Table 1 has a breakdown of some statistics and storage requirements of Google. Due to compression the total size of the repository is about 53 GB, just over one third of the total data it stores. At current disk prices this makes the repository a relatively cheap source of useful data. More importantly, the total of all the data used by the search engine requires a comparable amount of storage, about 55 GB. Furthermore, most queries can be answered using just the short inverted index. With better encoding and compression of the Document Index, a high quality web search engine may fit onto a 7GB drive of a new PC.
Storage Statistics
Total Size of Fetched Pages 147.8 GB
Compressed Repository 53.5 GB
Short Inverted Index 4.1 GB
Full Inverted Index 37.2 GB
Lexicon 293 MB
Temporary Anchor Data
(not in total) 6.6 GB
Document Index Incl.
Variable Width Data 9.7 GB
Links Database 3.9 GB
Total Without Repository
Total With Repository
Web Page Statistics
Number of Web Pages Fetched 24 million
Number of Urls Seen 76.5 million
Number of Email Addresses 1.7 million
Number of 404’s 1.6 million
Table 1. Statistics
5.2 System Performance
It is important for a search engine to crawl and index efficiently. This way information can be kept up to date and major changes to the system can be tested relatively quickly. For Google, the major operations are Crawling, Indexing, and Sorting. It is difficult to measure how long crawling took overall because disks filled up, name servers crashed, or any number of other problems which stopped the system. In total it took roughly 9 days to download the 26 million pages (including errors). However, once the system was running smoothly, it ran much faster, downloading the last 11 million pages in just 63 hours, averaging just over 4 million pages per day or 48.5 pages per second. We ran the indexer and the crawler simultaneously. The indexer ran just faster than the crawlers. This is largely because we spent just enough time optimizing the indexer so that it would not be a bottleneck. These optimizations included bulk updates to the document index and placement of critical data structures on the local disk. The indexer runs at roughly 54 pages per second. The sorters can be run completely in parallel; using four machines, the whole process of sorting takes about 24 hours.
5.3 Search Performance
Improving the performance of search was not the major focus of our research up to this point. The current version of Google answers most queries in between 1 and 10 seconds. This time is mostly dominated by disk IO over NFS (since disks are spread over a number of machines). Furthermore, Google does not have any optimizations such as query caching, subindices on common terms, and other common optimizations. We intend to speed up Google considerably through distribution and hardware, software, and algorithmic improvements. Our target is to be able to handle several hundred queries per second. Table 2 has some sample query times from the current version of Google. They are repeated to show the speedups resulting from cached IO.
Initial Query Same Query Repeated (IO mostly cached)
CPU Time(s)
Total Time(s)
CPU Time(s) Total Time(s)
al gore 0.09 2.13 0.06 0.06
vice president 1.77 3.84 1.66 1.80
hard disks 0.25 4.86 0.20 0.24
search engines 1.31 9.63 1.16 1.16
Table 2. Search Times
Google is designed to be a scalable search engine. The primary goal is to provide high quality search results over a rapidly growing World Wide Web. Google employs a number of techniques to improve search quality including page rank, anchor text, and proximity information. Furthermore, Google is a complete architecture for gathering web pages, indexing them, and performing search queries over them.
6.1 Future Work
A large-scale web search engine is a complex system and much remains to be done. Our immediate goals are to improve search efficiency and to scale to approximately 100 million web pages. Some simple improvements to efficiency include query caching, smart disk allocation, and subindices. Another area which requires much research is updates. We must have smart algorithms to decide what old web pages should be recrawled and what new ones should be crawled. Work toward this goal has been done in [Cho 98]. One promising area of research is using proxy caches to build search databases, since they are demand driven. We are planning to add simple features supported by commercial search engines like boolean operators, negation, and stemming. However, other features are just starting to be explored such as relevance feedback and clustering (Google currently supports a simple hostname based clustering). We also plan to support user context (like the user’s location), and result summarization. We are also working to extend the use of link structure and link text. Simple experiments indicate PageRank can be personalized by increasing the weight of a user’s home page or bookmarks. As for link text, we are experimenting with using text surrounding links in addition to the link text itself. A Web search engine is a very rich environment for research ideas. We have far too many to list here so we do not expect this Future Work section to become much shorter in the near future.
6.2 High Quality Search
The biggest problem facing users of web search engines today is the quality of the results they get back. While the results are often amusing and expand users’ horizons, they are often frustrating and consume precious time. For example, the top result for a search for “Bill Clinton” on one of the most popular commercial search engines was the Bill Clinton Joke of the Day: April 14, 1997. Google is designed to provide higher quality search so as the Web continues to grow rapidly, information can be found easily. In order to accomplish this Google makes heavy use of hypertextual information consisting of link structure and link (anchor) text. Google also uses proximity and font information. While evaluation of a search engine is difficult, we have subjectively found that Google returns higher quality search results than current commercial search engines. The analysis of link structure via PageRank allows Google to evaluate the quality of web pages. The use of link text as a description of what the link points to helps the search engine return relevant (and to some degree high quality) results. Finally, the use of proximity information helps increase relevance a great deal for many queries.
6.3 Scalable Architecture
Aside from the quality of search, Google is designed to scale. It must be efficient in both space and time, and constant factors are very important when dealing with the entire Web. In implementing Google, we have seen bottlenecks in CPU, memory access, memory capacity, disk seeks, disk throughput, disk capacity, and network IO. Google has evolved to overcome a number of these bottlenecks during various operations. Google’s major data structures make efficient use of available storage space. Furthermore, the crawling, indexing, and sorting operations are efficient enough to be able to build an index of a substantial portion of the web — 24 million pages, in less than one week. We expect to be able to build an index of 100 million pages in less than a month.
6.4 A Research Tool
In addition to being a high quality search engine, Google is a research tool. The data Google has collected has already resulted in many other papers submitted to conferences and many more on the way. Recent research such as [Abiteboul 97] has shown a number of limitations to queries about the Web that may be answered without having the Web available locally. This means that Google (or a similar system) is not only a valuable research tool but a necessary one for a wide range of applications. We hope Google will be a resource for searchers and researchers all around the world and will spark the next generation of search engine technology.
7 Acknowledgments
Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg have been critical to the development of Google. Their talented contributions are irreplaceable, and the authors owe them much gratitude. We would also like to thank Hector Garcia-Molina, Rajeev Motwani, Jeff Ullman, and Terry Winograd and the whole WebBase group for their support and insightful discussions. Finally we would like to recognize the generous support of our equipment donors IBM, Intel, and Sun and our funders. The research described here was conducted as part of the Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project, supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement IRI-9411306. Funding for this cooperative agreement is also provided by DARPA and NASA, and by Interval Research, and the industrial partners of the Stanford Digital Libraries Project.
[Abiteboul 97] Serge Abiteboul and Victor Vianu, Queries and Computation on the Web. Proceedings of the International Conference on Database Theory. Delphi, Greece 1997.
[Bagdikian 97] Ben H. Bagdikian. The Media Monopoly. 5th Edition. Publisher: Beacon, ISBN: 0807061557
[Chakrabarti 98] S.Chakrabarti, B.Dom, D.Gibson, J.Kleinberg, P. Raghavan and S. Rajagopalan. Automatic Resource Compilation by Analyzing Hyperlink Structure and Associated Text. Seventh International Web Conference (WWW 98). Brisbane, Australia, April 14-18, 1998.
[Cho 98] Junghoo Cho, Hector Garcia-Molina, Lawrence Page. Efficient Crawling Through URL Ordering. Seventh International Web Conference (WWW 98). Brisbane, Australia, April 14-18, 1998.
[Gravano 94] Luis Gravano, Hector Garcia-Molina, and A. Tomasic. The Effectiveness of GlOSS for the Text-Database Discovery Problem. Proc. of the 1994 ACM SIGMOD International Conference On Management Of Data, 1994.
[Kleinberg 98] Jon Kleinberg, Authoritative Sources in a Hyperlinked Environment, Proc. ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 1998.
[Marchiori 97] Massimo Marchiori. The Quest for Correct Information on the Web: Hyper Search Engines. The Sixth International WWW Conference (WWW 97). Santa Clara, USA, April 7-11, 1997.
[McBryan 94] Oliver A. McBryan. GENVL and WWWW: Tools for Taming the Web. First International Conference on the World Wide Web. CERN, Geneva (Switzerland), May 25-26-27 1994. http://www.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/mypapers/www94.ps
[Page 98] Lawrence Page, Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, Terry Winograd. The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web. Manuscript in progress. http://google.stanford.edu/~backrub/pageranksub.ps
[Pinkerton 94] Brian Pinkerton, Finding What People Want: Experiences with the WebCrawler. The Second International WWW Conference Chicago, USA, October 17-20, 1994. http://info.webcrawler.com/bp/WWW94.html
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[TREC 96] Proceedings of the fifth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-5). Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 20-22, 1996. Publisher: Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Editors: D. K. Harman and E. M. Voorhees. Full text at: http://trec.nist.gov/
[Witten 94] Ian H Witten, Alistair Moffat, and Timothy C. Bell. Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994.
[Weiss 96] Ron Weiss, Bienvenido Velez, Mark A. Sheldon, Chanathip Manprempre, Peter Szilagyi, Andrzej Duda, and David K. Gifford. HyPursuit: A Hierarchical Network Search Engine that Exploits Content-Link Hypertext Clustering. Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Hypertext. New York, 1996.
Sergey Brin received his B.S. degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1993. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Stanford University where he received his M.S. in 1995. He is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. His research interests include search engines, information extraction from unstructured sources, and data mining of large text collections and scientific data.
Lawrence Page was born in East Lansing, Michigan, and received a B.S.E. in Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor in 1995. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Stanford University. Some of his research interests include the link structure of the web, human computer interaction, search engines, scalability of information access interfaces, and personal data mining.
8 Appendix A: Advertising and Mixed Motives
Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is “The Effect of Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver Attention”, a study which explains in great detail the distractions and risk associated with conversing on a cell phone while driving. This search result came up first because of its high importance as judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on the web [Page, 98]. It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.
Since it is very difficult even for experts to evaluate search engines, search engine bias is particularly insidious. A good example was OpenText, which was reported to be selling companies the right to be listed at the top of the search results for particular queries [Marchiori 97]. This type of bias is much more insidious than advertising, because it is not clear who “deserves” to be there, and who is willing to pay money to be listed. This business model resulted in an uproar, and OpenText has ceased to be a viable search engine. But less blatant bias are likely to be tolerated by the market. For example, a search engine could add a small factor to search results from “friendly” companies, and subtract a factor from results from competitors. This type of bias is very difficult to detect but could still have a significant effect on the market. Furthermore, advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results. For example, we noticed a major search engine would not return a large airline’s homepage when the airline’s name was given as a query. It so happened that the airline had placed an expensive ad, linked to the query that was its name. A better search engine would not have required this ad, and possibly resulted in the loss of the revenue from the airline to the search engine. In general, it could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want. This of course erodes the advertising supported business model of the existing search engines. However, there will always be money from advertisers who want a customer to switch products, or have something that is genuinely new. But we believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm.
9 Appendix B: Scalability
9. 1 Scalability of Google
We have designed Google to be scalable in the near term to a goal of 100 million web pages. We have just received disk and machines to handle roughly that amount. All of the time consuming parts of the system are parallelize and roughly linear time. These include things like the crawlers, indexers, and sorters. We also think that most of the data structures will deal gracefully with the expansion. However, at 100 million web pages we will be very close up against all sorts of operating system limits in the common operating systems (currently we run on both Solaris and Linux). These include things like addressable memory, number of open file descriptors, network sockets and bandwidth, and many others. We believe expanding to a lot more than 100 million pages would greatly increase the complexity of our system.
9.2 Scalability of Centralized Indexing Architectures
As the capabilities of computers increase, it becomes possible to index a very large amount of text for a reasonable cost. Of course, other more bandwidth intensive media such as video is likely to become more pervasive. But, because the cost of production of text is low compared to media like video, text is likely to remain very pervasive. Also, it is likely that soon we will have speech recognition that does a reasonable job converting speech into text, expanding the amount of text available. All of this provides amazing possibilities for centralized indexing. Here is an illustrative example. We assume we want to index everything everyone in the US has written for a year. We assume that there are 250 million people in the US and they write an average of 10k per day. That works out to be about 850 terabytes. Also assume that indexing a terabyte can be done now for a reasonable cost. We also assume that the indexing methods used over the text are linear, or nearly linear in their complexity. Given all these assumptions we can compute how long it would take before we could index our 850 terabytes for a reasonable cost assuming certain growth factors. Moore’s Law was defined in 1965 as a doubling every 18 months in processor power. It has held remarkably true, not just for processors, but for other important system parameters such as disk as well. If we assume that Moore’s law holds for the future, we need only 10 more doublings, or 15 years to reach our goal of indexing everything everyone in the US has written for a year for a price that a small company could afford. Of course, hardware experts are somewhat concerned Moore’s Law may not continue to hold for the next 15 years, but there are certainly a lot of interesting centralized applications even if we only get part of the way to our hypothetical example.
Of course a distributed systems like Gloss [Gravano 94] or Harvest will often be the most efficient and elegant technical solution for indexing, but it seems difficult to convince the world to use these systems because of the high administration costs of setting up large numbers of installations. Of course, it is quite likely that reducing the administration cost drastically is possible. If that happens, and everyone starts running a distributed indexing system, searching would certainly improve drastically.
Because humans can only type or speak a finite amount, and as computers continue improving, text indexing will scale even better than it does now. Of course there could be an infinite amount of machine generated content, but just indexing huge amounts of human generated content seems tremendously useful. So we are optimistic that our centralized web search engine architecture will improve in its ability to cover the pertinent text information over time and that there is a bright future for search.
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(Republican Party News) – A second grader from the state of Florida, who has been suspended a whopping 38 times from school for refusing to wear a face mask, recently confronted her local school board, where she made the assertion they all should be tossed in jail.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is how you raise a child right.
According to a new report from Gateway Pundit, Fiona Lashells (pictured here), who just celebrated her 8th birthday, recently told the folks at the Tampa Bay School board exactly how she feels about their “rules.”
We have ourselves a little patriot in the making here.
The girl’s mother, Bailey Lashells, told The Free Press that her daughter is “on a mission to take back, not only her rights but every American child’s constitutional rights from the tyrant school board.”
Fiona is not just laying down and taking these suspensions. She has spoken at two school board meetings, directly confronting the individuals who are in the process of ruining her education.
School board speech by Florida 2nd grader who was suspended 36 times for not wearing a mask:
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During her second appearance at a school board meeting, the elementary school student stated that she thinks masks are dirty and pointless.
Fiona went on to say, “ok yeah, I hope you all go to jail for doing so to me,” which resulted in a huge round of applause from the crowd in attendance. The young girl then went on to add that her family is proud of her and that the rules “suck.”
“You can keep suspending me… I still have the right not to wear a mask,” Fiona went on to say, during her comments, standing firm in the fight for her freedom, “It is not fair that I’m getting punished because you guys, the school board, are not following the law. That is not fair, it just isn’t right, I’m still going to stand up for what I believe in and nothing’s gonna change my mind.”
I’m doing it for other kids and just myself,” Fiona said to Fox 8.
Fiona’s mom also stated that her daughter has been told that she’s going to fail the second grade, despite the fact she’s completed all of her assignments.
“Fiona is a strong-minded and fearless young girl who was ready to conquer the world at 7,” she went on to tell the newspaper. “Unfortunately, the blows just seem to not stop as she was recently told after completing every assignment her teacher will provide that she is not only failing 2nd grade but that there is no way she could catch up, per her teacher.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis passed an executive order that makes face masks optional in schools. But, true to liberal form, there have been a few districts where school boards have continued to enforce mask mandates.
Fiona’s district falls into the latter category.
A new report from NewsNation has revealed that Fiona’s school district is all set to lift the mask mandate on Nov. 15.
There never should have been a mask mandate in the first place, especially since Gov. DeSantis signed that executive order. It’s preposterous that this little girl was suspended this many times. It’s even more aggravating that they are telling her she’s not going to pass the grade, despite the fact she’s done all of the necessary work to do just that.
Fiona’s right. These folks deserve to be in the clink.
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Divina November 11, 2021 At 8:15 pm
Good for this little girl. I am all the way with her. She knows how to stand up against these tyrannical dictatorial power-hungry school boards. She is definitely right, the school board members should all go to jail, better yet to hell where they can be burned to smithereens. This really makes my blood boil.
Onyx November 12, 2021 At 4:07 am
Just wish more kids & adults too could be as brave, fearless, and undaunted in holding up their convictions. She’s certainly not a “sheep nor cattle to the slaughter” like some adults are & they could take some lessons from her…..”and a little child shall lead them”Isaiah 11:6, she “stands as a banner to the people”Isaiah 11:10.She’s right about those masks being dirty. God created all living things & humans to breathe in Oxygen from the plant kingdom, Carbon Dioxide to be breathed out back to the plants to be converted back to Oxygen. Re breathing one’s own Carbon Dioxide for hours is like plugging up the exhaust of your motor vehicle causing return of Carbon Monoxide, a poison inside the vehicle.
D'Annie November 17, 2021 At 12:14 pm
Wait until she takes this attitude with her parents. It won’t be so brave and admirable then.
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Do negative clinical trials change practice?
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One of the central themes of this blog from the very beginning is that all medicine, regardless of where it comes from or how it was developed, should be held to a single science-based standard with regards to efficacy, effectiveness, and safety. I tend to focus primarily on “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM), now more commonly known as “integrative medicine,” (1) because I believe it to be undermining the scientific basis of medicine and allowing outright quackery (or, as I like to refer to it, quackademic medicine) to infiltrate medical academia, which is fast becoming medical quackademia and (2) because when it comes to the other threats to the scientific basis of medicine as it is practiced today, such as pharma influence and various medical dogmatism, there are a whole host of active critics better equipped and more energetic than I am who can do the job (usually) better. That is why, whenever I hear advocates of CAM/”integrative medicine” attack us for not spending enough time on various corruptions of clinical trial processes or the perfidy of big pharma, I tend to gently tell them in my characteristically diplomatic manner that that’s what I like to call the “Why don’t you blog about what I think is important and interesting instead of what you think is important and interesting?” criticism, then I refer them to my posts on John Ioannidis, overdiagnosis and overtreatment, the shortcomings of mammography, or any number of other posts I’ve done through the years pointing out where current medical practice falls short.
In particular, though, I like to point out a post I did on vertebroplasty as a treatment for vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) due to osteoporosis. Basically, I discussed then recent evidence showing how vertebroplasty for such fractures is, basically, placebo medicine, no better than acupuncture. Indeed, I even called it “modern acupuncture,” in which small, pilot studies appear to be positive, but then the follow-up rigorous randomized clinical trials fail to find a benefit greater than that of placebo. It turns out that a rather telling study regarding vertebroplasty was published earlier this year that I somehow missed that addresses a problem we have in “conventional” medicine.
I became aware of this new study when I was perusing the latest issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS), hot off the presses. (OK, in reality it wasn’t the latest issue. It was the September issue; I’m more than a month behind in my perusing of the medical literature.) This study, however, had been published online back in April. It must not have gotten much news coverage then, but it’s an important study, because it is one of the few studies out there that look explicitly at the effect of randomized clinical trials with negative results. The study is by Fabrice Smieliauskas, PhD, Sandi Lam, MD, MBA, and David H. Howard, PhD, and is entitled “Impact of Negative Clinical Trial Results for Vertebroplasty on Vertebral Augmentation Procedure Rates.” Smieliauskas et al. set the stage by describing what vertebroplasty is. Basically, it’s a procedure that’s done by either spine surgeons or radiologists in which bone cement (polymethelmethacrylate, or PMMA) is injected into the fracture site under radiologic guidance. The intent is to stabilize the fracture and relieve the pain. Kyphoplasty is a variant of vertebroplasty in which a device, such as a balloon, is inflated or expanded in the vertebral body. In theory, this restores vertebral body height and creates a cavity for the PMMA to enter. These procedures are considered similar enough that they are often referred to as “vertebral augmentation procedures” (VAPS).
Now here’s the real issue:
In August 2009, the New England Journal of Medicine published 2 randomized controlled trials testing vertebroplasty vs sham surgery for patients with osteoporotic VCFs. Both found that patients randomized to vertebroplasty did not experience decreases in pain or disability relative to patients in the placebo arm. In these studies, both groups showed improvement over time, suggesting a natural history for reduced pain and/or placebo response. The trials were covered in the lay press in newspapers, internet articles, and television news reports. In September 2010, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) issued a guideline that advised against the use of vertebroplasty for patients with osteoporotic VCFs. The guideline listed kyphoplasty as a treatment option but noted that evidence to support its use is “limited.” Many payers have restricted coverage of VAPs to patients whose symptoms have failed to resolve after a course of optimal medical therapy, but these types of coverage restrictions can be difficult to enforce in practice.
These are the studies that I blogged about five years ago, as well as four years prior to that, when I used the whole question of VAPS as an example of a scientific delusion in reference to earlier studies of VAPS and the anecdotal evidence used to justify it, which I characterized as testimonials not unlike alternative medicine testimonials. Of course, given that randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are the “gold standard,” what’s of most interest is whether practice changes after major negative RCTs, like the two negative RCTs (linked to here and here). I discussed them in detail at the time. Suffice to say, taken together, they were pretty definitive evidence that VAPS for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures do not work. Besides having been published in a journal with as high a visibility as the NEJM , these two RCTs got a lot of publicity in the lay press, including a major article in the New York Times . The question that remained to be answered is whether physicians changed their practice in response to two resoundingly negative clinical trials that capped off a series of smaller studies questioning the value of VAPS.
The answer is: Yes and no, at least in Florida. Also, as they say in Facebook status updates, it’s complicated, as you will see.
So what did Smieliauskas et al. do? They examined quarterly trends in VAPS use using the Florida hospital inpatient discharge and ambulatory surgery databases from 2005 to 2012, which capture a 100% sample of surgical spine procedures performed in the state in hospitals, hospital surgery centers, and freestanding surgery centers. They chose Florida because it is large and sociodemographically diverse. Discharge data was supplemented with data on physician specialty from the Florida Practitioner Profile, and population counts were obtained from the 2000 and 2010 Censuses and US population counts from the 2012 Census Population Estimates. This allowed the investigators to adjust for population growth during that period. So, yes, one weakness of this study is that it only covers Florida, and, as already mentioned, there is a huge regional variation in the use of VAPS throughout the US. The investigators also cautioned that it’s possible that some of the decline in some procedures was due to the recession due to the financial meltdown that occurred in 2008, but if that’s true, then these results would look even worse.
First up, we see that the average age of patients was 76 years, with Medicare being the primary payer in 85% of cases. Procedures were done by interventional radiologists (27.9%); orthopedic surgeons (32.2%); neurosurgeons (22.3%); other specialties (7.1%) and “unidentified” (10.6%). Interventional radiologists performed 57% of vertebroplasties and 18% of kyphoplasties, while orthopedic surgeons performed 13% of vertebroplasties and 38% of kyphoplasties. A little more than half of the vertebroplasties were performed on an outpatient basis, while most kyphoplasties were performed in an inpatient setting.
Here’s the money figure. The TRIALS line indicates quarter before publication of vertebroplasty trials in the NEJM . The AAOS line indicates quarter before release of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons statement on vertebral augmentation procedures:
Looking at the graph, it looks as though VAPS rates did decline after the studies. Indeed, as the authors reported:
The interrupted time series estimates of the effect of the trials generally confirm the observations in the figures (Table 2). Overall, the vertebroplasty rate declined by 51.5% (column 1) and the kyphoplasty rate declined by 40.0% (column 2). Both results were statistically significant (p < 0.010). Similar declines (53.8% and 38.9%; columns 3 and 4, respectively) were observed for these procedures when restricting the sample to patients with osteoporotic fractures only. The change in the vertebroplasty rate was driven by a time trend effect, while the change in kyphoplasties was driven by a level effect and a time trend effect.
The interesting observation really comes when the investigators break down declines in VAPS by specialty:
The striking differences by physician specialty were confirmed in the regression results. Interventional radiologists responded to the trials (column 7) with an increase in time trend of the vertebroplasty rate (+0.019, p = 0.046) and a percentage change after the trials that was not significantly different from 0. This was very different (p < 0.010) from physicians in other specialties, whose vertebroplasty rate declined by 73.1% after the trials (column 8). Interestingly, radiologists exhibited a greater decline in the kyphoplasty rate (−46.9%) than did other specialists (−21.7%, p < 0.010) (columns 9 and 10).
Remember, according to this database, interventional radiologists do far more vertebroplasties than they did kyphoplasties, while surgeons do more kyphoplasties than vertebroplasties. Also, kyphoplasty is viewed as a more “invasive” procedure than vertebroplasty, mainly because of the inflation of the balloon in the vertebral body. So it might be that radiologists were more willing to shy away from kyphoplasty, leaving that to surgeons, than they were vertebroplasty. Moreover, surgeons, viewing the “more invasive” kyphoplasty procedure as more “surgical” in nature, might be less willing to give it up, given that the two studies didn’t directly address kyphoplasty. However, it is disturbing that the rates of vertebroplasty done by interventional radiologists haven’t declines in Florida at all since these 2009 studies, while among other specialties have decreased their use of vertebroplasty markedly.
So, yes, as I’ve described before, physicians really do abandon the use of procedures that are shown to be ineffective in large randomized clinical trials, but the process is messy and often arguably takes longer than it should. One other aspect of this process is that specialty society recommendations matter. Note that it took only a year for the AAOS to issue its guideline that strongly advised against the use of vertebroplasty for patients with osteoporotic VCFs. And so vertebroplasty use among specialties other than interventional radiology (the vast majority of whom were orthopedic surgeons or neurosurgeons) declined by nearly three-quarters. However, the guideline noted that evidence to support the use of kyphoplasty is “limited” but still retained it as an option for the treatment of osteoporotic VCFs. As a result, the decline in use of kyphoplasty was much more modest among surgeons. The authors note that:
Perhaps not coincidentally, the specialty societies’ practice guidelines after the trials interpreted the clinical trial evidence differently. The AAOS guidelines strongly recommended against vertebroplasty for osteoporotic VCFs, implying that physicians should follow the recommendation “unless a clear and compelling rationale for an alternate approach is present.” In contrast, kyphoplasty was described as a treatment option with a limited strength of recommendation. Other professional specialty organizations such as the North American Spine Society, the Society of Interventional Radiologists, and other groups did not issue recommendations against vertebroplasty or vertebral augmentation.
There are also practice patterns to consider, as the authors note. Interventional radiologists invented vertebroplasty, while orthopedic surgeons invented kyphoplasty, with each specialty retaining their dominance in the practice of the procedures they each invented. Indeed, for a time, for a time kyphoplasty training was restricted to surgeons. History, turf, and politics all too frequently intrude to prevent the rapid widespread adoption of guidelines, particularly for procedures that just seem so damned plausible. However, as I said in my article in Trends in Molecular Medicine last month and mentioned in my recent article in Nature Reviews Cancer on integrative oncology, although a prior plausibility that is clearly close to zero (as for homeopathy, for example) is a good predictor that a treatment will not be shown to work in RCTs, plausibility by itself is not anything close to a guaranteed that a procedure will be shown to work in RCTs.
Also, physicians practicing science-based medicine are human beings as well. They’re just as prone to biases and not wanting to admit that something they believed in before isn’t helping patients. This leads to a phenomenon described by the authors, but not explicitly addressed:
Although publication of the trials and the AAOS guideline influenced the use of vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty, our results indicate that both procedures are still widely used to treat patients with osteoporotic spinal fractures. Both trials were subject to criticism over their design and execution, and the appropriateness of vertebral augmentation continues to be widely debated. Multiple studies, analyses, and systematic reviews have been published since 2009 without consensus. In light of the controversy of the trials’ design and conflicting evidence from other studies, many physicians may feel free to ignore the “inconveniently negative” results from the trials and continue to offer VAPs to patients with osteoporotic spinal fractures.
You’ll note a similarity here. Remember what happened in response to the report of the Canadian National Breast Screening Study (CNBSS), which failed to find a benefit in terms of breast cancer survival due to mammographic screening. I put it all into context as best I could, but when I did that I not well-grounded in science and nearly all of it coming from radiologists and their societies
Like CAM practitioners, some have even argued that the placebo response is a legitimate endpoint for these procedures. If you don’t believe me, check out this article in Radiology by authors of one of the VAPS trials in the NEJM entitled “Vertebroplasty and the placebo response“, where such arguments are actually described. The authors conclude:
In conclusion, our interpretation of the evidence for vertebroplasty has distinctive implications for clinical practice and health policy. If the benefits of vertebroplasty derive from the placebo response, it is difficult to justify the continuing use of this procedure in clinical practice. The reason for this is not that benefit from the placebo response is lacking in therapeutic value; rather, it is doubtful that the placebo response benefits from vertebroplasty are sufficiently large to justify the risks. Moreover, although it is unknown what the outcomes would be for patients who are candidates for vertebroplasty and informed about the evidence that this procedure is no different from a sham intervention without injection of cement, they are likely to be lower than the benefits observed in clinical practice or in the Vertos II trial. Hence, on the basis of the placebo response hypothesis, the risk-benefit ratio of vertebroplasty does not appear favorable. Finally, whether continued evaluation of vertebroplasty within clinical trials might be justified is debatable—indeed, we are not in consensus on this issue.
What is being described here is the justification of a procedure that has no specific benefits but has a placebo response, which the authors refute. How many times have we here at SBM refuted the exact same sorts of arguments? It just goes to show that even ostensibly evidence-based physicians can fall prey to such arguments. Indeed, even the authors of one of the VAPS studies have implicitly accepted such arguments. The reason they reject them is not because they are not clinically significant but rather because they deem the risks of vertebroplasty not to be worth the placebo benefit.
I’ve been following the vertebroplasty story intermittently since 2005. It struck me an example of just how easily we in “conventional” medicine can fall prey to the same sort of fallacious thinking that drives the advocacy of modalities such as homeopathy or acupuncture. It’s an example that helped me in my journey towards skepticism and science-based medicine. We all like to assume that negative well-designed RCTs will result in physicians abandoning a procedure, and in general they do. However, the lesson of VAPS tells us that the process is…complicated. It’s not straightforward, and it’s messy. (There are still radiologists out there advertising vertebroplasty as if it were a miracle cure.) Still, five years on, the process for VAPS procedures appears to be well under way. Just try comparing that to the continued use of acupuncture, where no amount of negative evidence causes its abandonment, even after a period of time much, much longer than five years.
As I said, it’s complicated. But medicine does eventually eliminate practices that are not supported by evidence. It’s a huge contrast to alternative medicine.
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3 replies on “Do negative clinical trials change practice?”
You have convinced me to persist with what I call the ‘Oblomov’ approach to avoiding vertebral collapse, i.e. staying horizontal in bed as much as possible.
I’m having trouble reconciling y understanding of the graph with the text of the article.
It looks like the docs who do the redline Kyphoplasties read the clinical trials resulting in a rapid drop in the number of procedures, which then plateaued with rate remaining high.
In contrast it looks like the docs who do the blueline Vertebroplasties were not affected by the publication of the trials, but once the AAOS came out, the rate of procedures went into steady decline and is headed toward the bottom of the chart.
Thus, if: “interventional radiologists do far more vertebroplasties than they did kyphoplasties,” and ” the rates of vertebroplasty done by interventional radiologists haven’t declines in Florida at all since these 2009 studies” doesn’t mean the number of interventional radiologists doing any kind of procedure has to have been very small all along?
I’m confused….
Daniel Corcossays:
Only two comments. It seems that people are more interested by quacks!
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Why are there more anti-vaxxers on the left?
Posted on February 1, 2015 by riverdaughter
Sometimes the pod people you need to be careful of are the ones on your own side.
Ok, slight diversion before I get to why I think there are more anti-vaxxers on the left.
Back in 2006, I went to the first YearlyKos event. I was a latecomer to the whole DailyKos… thing… but my particular concerns had to do with the Iraq War and its immense costs and the attacks on Social Security, and women’s and GLBT rights. Plus, people around me were going mad, MAD!, I say! More and more right leaning people began to lean more and more right. They were getting religious, self-righteous, judgmental. They took it upon themselves to police social activities, making sure everyone stuck to a unnerving and suffocating conservative viewpoint. These pod people were everywhere in the suburbs and it was difficult to find people who were more rational, less militaristic and willing to think for themselves.
So, I went to YearlyKos I because I thought I had finally met my cohort. I’m pretty sure we were love bombed there by the media, the organizers and the politicians. (If you were there, tell me what you think in the comments) We love bombed each other as well. We went home thinking we were the smartest, most enlightened people on the planet and no one else in the world was as savvy as we were. That all changed at YearlyKos II in 2007 for me. As I sat in that convention hall in Chicago watching John Edwards film-flam the crowd like PT Barnum and watching the people around me falling for it lock, stock and barrel, I felt that familiar tinge of alienation.Yep, the left can get suckered in just like the right if you use the right words. The next morning at breakfast, my membership in the corporate R&D industry made me no longer welcome. But that was OK in a way because the last thing I wanted was to spend too much time with yet another group of people who could be flattered into losing their minds.
Yesterday, as I read some of the comments on the NYTimes article on anti-vaxxers reaction to the measles epidemic, I was struck by how many commenters were identifying anti-vaxxers with the left. I guess the left is starting to lose its shine as being the people most likely to spot a con when they see it. Some of these commenters made the link to anti-vax attitudes and the lack of trust in pharmaceuticals in general. I think I touched on that yesterday from the perspective of “physician, heal thyself”. Big Pharma has to clean up its act as a greedy, irresponsible purveyor of things that make you sicker. Except, drugs can actually make you well. I know and the pharma industry knows that it’s one of the best regulated industries in America. Of course, it won’t stay that way if the FDA isn’t kept in tip-top shape. Maybe we can take that up with the Republicans running the government right now. If the FDA ability to function effectively goes sharply down hill in the next two years, you can blame it on them. But I digress.
Big Pharma shares only part of the blame. The other part of the blame is caused by the class action industry. There has never been a side effect that they didn’t love. The class action industry has been responsible for many drugs being pulled from the market. Maybe you think that’s a good thing. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But there have been some medications that have had profound quality of life benefits for patients that are no longer available because the class action industry has made it sound like every time a patient takes them, they’re risking heart attacks or cancer. We saw the front page banner headlines and those of us who can actually evaluate risk were shocked by how badly information was interpreted and distorted. Sometimes, this is in the pursuit of a story, sometimes, it’s in pursuit of monetary award.
It is worth noting that Andrew Wakefield, the British doctor who discovered the fictitious link between the MMR vaccine and autism, wrote his infamous, retracted paper at the behest of class action lawyers who were hoping to cash in big when terrified parents sued vaccine manufacturers. Says BMJ author Brian Deer, a journalist hired to investigate the Wakefield claim:
Deer said Wakefield “chiseled” the data before him, “falsifying medical histories of children and essentially concocting a picture, which was the picture he was contracted to find by lawyers hoping to sue vaccine manufacturers and to create a vaccine scare.”
To head off suits like these, the number of ADME/T models that groups like mine had to create and run to try to weed out bad early stage drug candidates grew enormously over the past two decades. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, although, as I said the other day, the models have their limitations. And there were many times I saw promising projects killed because the animal model had a borderline liver assay or some other anomaly. Ok, fine, cancel the project early so that no harm comes to anyone down the line and the company doesn’t lose billions in lawsuits.
But the publicity surrounding these suits can make the general public think that the industry is putting out dangerous products. And the legal industry has an interest in keeping that fear going. It suits them very well, thank you very much.
It would be naive for the people on the left to think that the interest groups on their side don’t use fear, uncertainty and dread to get what they want- just like interest groups on the right. I’m all in favor of regulation but I am not in favor of using fear of harm as a bludgeon to reach into what are considered “deep pockets” whenever a drug interaction isn’t perfect.
That fear, uncertainty and dread has been reaching a crescendo for a couple of decades now. It is becoming increasingly more difficult to get drugs approved by the FDA. That’s part of the reason why so many of us are out of work right now. The block buster drugs discovered in the late 80’s and 90’s went off patent and couldn’t be replaced by newer drugs. The FDA insisted on an ever higher number of safety profiles and drug companies became skittish when the drugs that did get approved were quickly taken off the market for adverse reactions. It has crippled the industry, caused the price of drugs to soar and driven up the fear levels in people on the left who were influenced by the Ralph Nader crusaders.
I’m not going to say that there haven’t been imperfect drugs. But the idea that every adverse interaction is a result of negligence or malice is deliberately misleading and is now getting into the heads of people who can’t evaluate risk. Couple this with the helicopter parenting frenzy that makes every mother personally responsible for any harm that happens to a child once the umbilical cord is cut and you have a perfect storm for anti-vax activity.
Your status as a parent depends on the lengths to which you will go to protect your child- from everything. You don’t let them out of your sight for a moment, don’t let them ride their bikes to school, don’t let them eat anything with sugar, and you don’t put vaccines in their bodies that were manufactured by the sleazy, careless drug lords. It’s a competition of sorts, as any mother in the suburbs will tell you. How far will you go to protect your child from harm? Is it enough to keep vaccines out of their blood stream? Is anything good enough, protective enough, safe enough??
Parents are going to be naturally untrustworthy these days. You can get arrested for letting your kid play outside by herself. Now, add to that the fear of science and medicine that has been planted by the advocates of the class action industry that everything that goes into your body is designed to kill you for excess profit. Measles are just the tip of the iceberg.
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Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Emmy Vrieling, Iselinge University, the Netherlands; Open University, the NetherlandsFollow
Theo Bastiaens, Open University, the Netherlands; FernUniversität in Hagen, GermanyFollow
Sjef Stijnen, Open University, the NetherlandsFollow
Effects of Increased Self-Regulated Learning Opportunities on Student Teachers’ Motivation and Use of Metacognitive Skills
10.14221/ajte.2012v37n8.6
This intervention study focused on the relationships between primary student teachers’ self-regulated learning (SRL) opportunities, their motivation for learning and their use of metacognitive learning strategies. The participants were 3 teacher educators and 136 first-year student teachers. During one semester, teacher educators and student teachers were monitored by questionnaires measuring opportunities for SRL offered by the program. Questionnaires were also administered monitoring student teachers’ motivation and metacognition. During data collection, teacher educators participated in training courses and tutorial conversations aimed at increasing student teachers’ SRL opportunities in the curriculum. At the end of the research period, all teacher educators and a sample of student teachers were interviewed. Results indicate that student teachers’ use of metacognitive skills increased significantly in learning environments with increased SRL opportunities. Student teachers’ motivation for learning was also enhanced, although to a lesser degree. Finally, significant correlations were found between the metacognitive study process construct and the motivational constructs measured.
Vrieling, E., Bastiaens, T., & Stijnen, S. (2012). Effects of Increased Self-Regulated Learning Opportunities on Student Teachers’ Motivation and Use of Metacognitive Skills. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 37(8).
http://dx.doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2012v37n8.6
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Select Committee on Deregulation Fourth Report
Further letter from the Office for National Statistics (dated 26 April 2001).
The Deregulation (Correction of Birth and Death Entries in Registers or Other Records) Order 2001
I refer to your telephone request for further clarification on the appropriateness of the use of the powers under section 1 (1) (a) of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (the Act) in respect of the above Order. More specifically you asked whether section 1 (1) (a) of the Act applied in seeking to remove a burden from an individual acting in a private capacity.
The advice we have received from Cabinet Office lawyers supports the view that section 1 (1) (a) of the Act does extend to such a case. This advice is based on two factors:
1. The debate on the relevant provisions during the Bill stage of the Act clearly indicate that it was the intention of Parliament that orders should be capable of removing burdens affecting individuals in their private capacity - (Standing Committee F, 17 February 1994, cols. 62 and 63 refer).
2. Section 5(2) of the Act states that "no order shall be made under this section in any case where the sole of main effect which the restriction, requirement of condition may be expected to have on each person on whom it is imposed is an effect on him in his personal capacity and not as a person carrying on a trade, business or profession". This specific limitation on section 5 implies that, conversely, an order under section 1 extends to the removal of a burden from an individual acting in a personal capacity.
I trust that this helps to clarify the point raised. I am copying this letter to the Regulatory Impact Unit and DH solicitors.
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Scrutiny of Arms Export Controls (2011): UK Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2009, Quarterly Reports for 2010, licensing policy and review of export control legislation - Foreign Affairs Committee Contents
4 The Performance of the Export Control Organisation
24. The Export Control Organisation (ECO), which is based within BIS, is responsible for "assessing and issuing (or refusing) export licences for a wide range of controlled so-called "strategic" goods. These include military and dual-use items."[36] There are two main types of export licences: Standard Individual Export Licences (SIELs) and Open General Export Licences (OGELs). SIELs allow shipments of specified goods to a specified consignee up to the quantity specified by the licensee. OGELs are blanket approvals for certain goods which are intended to reduce administrative burdens on subsequent shipments. OGELS "allow the export of specified controlled goods by any exporter. They remove the need for exporters to apply for an individual licence, providing the shipment and destinations are eligible and the conditions are met."[37]
25. In written evidence to us, EGAD highlighted delays in processing of export licence applications by the ECO. They complained that the poor performance of the ECO had led to contractual penalty clauses being enforced against UK companies and, "the situation does appear to be getting worse and is affecting the reputation of companies within the UK".[38] EGAD considered that the ECO was "understaffed and overworked;"[39] and that it was receiving far more licence applications than it had capacity to process. Some 17,000 licence applications were expected for 2010 by the ECO, compared with some 15,000 that were processed in 2009.[40] According to EGAD, the ECO was resourced to process between 9,000 and 10,000 Standard Individual Export Licence (SIEL) applications per year.[41]
26. We asked EGAD to elaborate on their concerns about the performance of the ECO. They told us that the ECO faced problems with their workload for two main reasons. First, there was greater awareness amongst firms, especially those selling dual-use items,[42] which are more likely to be dual-use than arms, of the need to apply for an export licence. Second, the new generation of open general export licences had been made "incredibly complicated" and instead of reducing administrative burdens, had increased the bureaucratic workload for firms.[43] As a result, instead of applying for the open licences, firms were applying for separate individual export licences, partly to avoid the complexity of the OGEL application process.[44]
27. EGAD noted that "it will be difficult to have an export-led recovery if the licensable element of that recovery is hampered by the fact that companies cannot obtain licences in a timely and efficient manner."[45] They were therefore pleased that the "forthcoming review of the open general licensing system will probably have the effect of reducing the number of individual licences" and hence, the workload for companies and the ECO. It was hoped that the process for applying for an OGEL would be simplified with less exceptions and caveats. EGAD requested that the Government produce a "model undertaking" that would clarify what compliance officers would accept as meeting the requirements of the licence.[46]
28. EGAD highlighted more general grievances with the work of the ECO. Mr Fletcher commented that the ECO was "putting obstacles in the way of UK exports."[47] It was suggested that the ECO was applying regulations to goods, which were not intended to be covered by the various agreements and regulations;[48] and that export regulations were being applied too liberally to "dual-use" goods such as laptops, modems and routers, which was "not the intention" of the negotiated export controls.[49]
29. BIS told us that it was aware of the increase in the number of licence applications, but, while there was "room for improvement" it was confident that the ECO performed well. The Head of ECO, Mr Tom Smith, told us that:
I've looked at our main competitor systems—for example, in the USA, France and Germany. Our customers tell us that we compare very well; ... I think we're a world leader.[50]
He conceded that the average time for processing applications had increased from "about 13 days to 19 days", but he disagreed with EGAD's figures that the ECO was resourced to handle only between 9,000 and 10,000 applications.[51] He said that overall the ECO "coped very well" and went on to dispute many of the complaints levelled by EGAD against the OGEL system.[52] While he agreed that there were problems around the "complexity and ease of use" he felt that the new open general licence was, on balance, "very successful".[53] He also confirmed that the review of the OGEL system would include a rewriting in plain English of the licence application and the use of more standardised conditions of compliance. His overall assessment was that the system was "quite impressive".[54]
30. We asked whether there were plans to introduce charging for licences: EGAD had asked for a "statement that they [the Government] have no intention of charging for export licences. That would be a great help to the industry, which is extremely worried about the rumours that there may be charges for licences."[55] The BIS Minister, Mr Mark Prisk, would not give an assurance that charges for licences would not be introduced. Instead he said that:
It is not the intention of the Government to do anything that would be any more than seeking to look at the possibility of charges for the costs of the service. This is not intended to be some sort of back-door charge over and above that, and we would want to consult industry. We must look at the balance of these issues to see whether, in fact, there is a different finance model which would make more sense.[56]
31. We conclude that a well-functioning licence application system is vital to the promotion of arms exports and that the system should impose the least possible administrative burden on exporters, consistent with an effective control regime. We further conclude that it is a matter of concern that a prominent industry representative body, such as the Export Group on Aerospace and Defence (EGAD), has such a low opinion of the performance of the Export Control Organisation (ECO). We recommend the Government reviews the performance of the ECO and provide us with the results of this Review in its response to this Report. We further recommend that the Government reports to us the results of its review into the workings of the Open General Export License system.
36 ECO Website: http://www.bis.gov.uk/exportcontrol Back
37 Department of Business Innovation and Skills, "Introduction to the Export Control Organisation and to Export Controls", March 2010 http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/eco/docs/intro-to-eco.pdf Back
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42 Dual-Use items are goods, software or technology (documents, diagrams etc) which can be used for both civil and military applications. See www.businesslink.gov.uk and also Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009. Back
46 Q 37-Q 38 Back
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Chemical Society Reviews
Supramolecular materials
David B. Amabilino, a David K. Smith b and Jonathan W. Steed c
a School of Chemistry & The GSK Carbon Neutral Laboratories for Sustainable Chemistry, The University of Nottingham, Triumph Road, Nottingham NG7 2TU, UK
b Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, UK
c Department of Chemistry, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
Molecular material properties depend upon the contacts between and the arrangement of the component parts, and therefore supramolecular chemistry has developed a highly important role in this area. This Tutorial Review, after briefly introducing the history of the field, discusses some of the most exciting and inspiring recent achievements, with special focus on soft materials, particularly gels and liquid crystals.
This article is part of the themed collections: Primer and Supramolecular chemistry anniversary
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CS00163K
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Chem. Soc. Rev., 2017,46, 2404-2420
D. B. Amabilino, D. K. Smith and J. W. Steed, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2017, 46, 2404 DOI: 10.1039/C7CS00163K
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In England, it was introduced at the court of Mary II in the late 17th century. Queen Mary taught it to her ladies-in-waiting.
Long history
The knot was developed into an art form during the Tang (AD 618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties and fully flourished in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties.
Knot craft is characterized by the beauty achieved by the trinitarian union of Kkeunmok (made by twisting several silk threads together that have been dyed with natural pigments), Maedeup (a piece knotted with two strands into various organic symmetrical patterns) and Sul (a tassel at the end freely hanging down …
While most think of macramé as a craze of the 1970s, the craft reached peak popularity in Victorian England. … After fading in popularity, macramé saw a resurgence in the 1970s. It came to symbolize the Bohemian style and was used to make wall hangings, plant hangers, accessories, and clothing.
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Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP : Form 8.3
Posted on May 24, 2021 by ericadminchia
Inside the Race to Avert Disaster at China’s Biggest ‘Bad Bank’
(Bloomberg) — It was past 9 p.m. on Financial Street in Beijing by the time the figure inside Huarong Tower there picked up an inkbrush and, with practiced strokes, began to set characters to paper.Another trying workday was ending for Wang Zhanfeng, corporate chairman, Chinese Communist Party functionary—and, less happily, replacement for a man who very recently had been executed.On this April night, Wang was spotted unwinding as he often does in his office: practicing the art of Chinese calligraphy, a form that expresses the beauty of classical characters and, it is said, the nature of the person who writes them.Its mastery requires patience, resolve, skill, calm—and Wang, 54, needs all that and more. Because here on Financial Street, a brisk walk from the hulking headquarters of the People’s Bank of China, a dark drama is playing out behind the mirrored façade of Huarong Tower. How it unfolds will test China’s vast, debt-ridden financial system, the technocrats working to fix it, and the foreign banks and investors caught in the middle.Welcome to the headquarters of China Huarong Asset Management Co., the troubled state-owned ‘bad bank’ that has set teeth on edge around the financial world.For months now Wang and others have been trying to clean up the mess here at Huarong, an institution that sits—quite literally—at the center of China’s financial power structure. To the south is the central bank, steward of the world’s second-largest economy; to the southwest, the Ministry of Finance, Huarong’s principal shareholder; less than 300 meters to the west, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, entrusted with safeguarding the financial system and, of late, ensuring Huarong has a funding backstop from state-owned banks until at least August.The patch though doesn’t settle the question of how Huarong makes good on some $41 billion borrowed on the bond markets, most incurred under Wang’s predecessor before he was ensnared in a sweeping crackdown on corruption. That long-time executive, Lai Xiaomin, was put to death in January—his formal presence expunged from Huarong right down to the signature on its stock certificates.The bigger issue is what all this might portend for the nation’s financial system and efforts by China’s leader, Xi Jinping, to centralize control, rein in years of risky borrowing and set the nation’s financial house in order.“They’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t,” said Michael Pettis, a Beijing-based professor of finance at Peking University and author of Avoiding the Fall: China’s Economic Restructuring. Bailing out Huarong would reinforce the behavior of investors who ignore risk, he said, while a default endangers financial stability if a “chaotic” repricing of the bond market ensues.Just what is going on inside Huarong Tower? Given the stakes, few are willing to discuss that question publicly. But interviews with people who work there, as well as at various Chinese regulators, provide a glimpse into the eye of this storm.Huarong, simply put, has been in full crisis mode ever since it delayed its 2020 earnings results, eroding investor confidence. Executives have come to expect to be summoned by government authorities at a moment’s notice whenever market sentiment sours and the price of Huarong debt sinks anew. Wang and his team must provide weekly written updates on Huarong’s operations and liquidity. They have turned to state-owned banks, pleading for support, and reached out to bond traders to try to calm nerves, with little lasting success.In public statements, Huarong has insisted repeatedly that its position is ultimately sound and that it will honor its obligations. Banking regulators have had to sign off on the wording of those statements—another sign of how serious the situation is considered and, ultimately, who’s in charge.Then there are regular audiences with the finance ministry and the other powerful financial bureaucracies nearby. Among items usually on the agenda: possible plans to hive off various Huarong businesses.Huarong executives are often kept waiting and, people familiar with the meetings say, tend to gain only limited access to top officials at the CBIRC, the banking overseer.The country’s apex financial watchdog—chaired by Liu He, Xi’s right-hand man in overseeing the economy and financial system—has asked for briefings on the Huarong situation and coordinated meetings between regulators, according to regulatory officials. But it has yet to communicate to them a long-term solution, including whether to impose losses on bondholders, the officials said.Representatives at the People’s Bank of China, the CBIRC, Huarong and the Ministry of Finance didn’t respond to requests for comment.Focus on BasicsA mid-level party functionary with a PhD in finance from China’s reputed Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Wang arrived at Huarong Tower in early 2018, just as the corruption scandal was consuming the giant asset management company. He is regarded inside Huarong as low-key and down-to-earth, particularly in comparison to the company’s previous leader, Lai, a man once known as the God of Wealth.Hundreds of Huarong staff, from Beijing division chiefs to branch employees in faraway outposts, listened in on April 16 as Wang reviewed the quarterly numbers. He stressed that the company’s fundamentals had improved since he took over, a view shared by some analysts though insufficient to pacify investors. But he had little to say about what is on so many minds: plans to restructure and shore up the giant company, which he’d pledged to clean up within three years of taking over.His main message to the troops: focus on the basics, like collecting on iffy assets and improving risk management. The employees were silent. No one asked a question.One employee characterized the mood in his area as business as usual. Another said co-workers at a Huarong subsidiary were worried the company might not be able to pay their salaries. There’s a widening gulf between the old guard and new, said a third staffer. Those who outlasted Lai and have seen their compensation cut year after year have little confidence in the turnaround, while new joiners are more hopeful about the opportunities the change of direction offers.Others joke that Huarong Tower must suffer from bad feng shui: after Lai was arrested, a bank that had a branch in the building had to be bailed out to the tune of $14 billion.Dark humor aside, a rough consensus has begun to emerge among senior management and mid-level regulators: like other key state-owned enterprises, Huarong still appears to be considered too big to fail. Many have come away with the impression—and it is that, an impression—that for now, at least, the Chinese government will stand behind Huarong.At the very least, these people say, no serious financial tumult, such as a default by Huarong, is likely to be permitted while the Chinese Communist Party is planning a nationwide spectacle to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding on July 1. Those festivities will give Xi—who has been positioning to stay in power indefinitely—an opportunity to cement his place among China’s most powerful leaders including Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.Huarong is “n
owhere near” defaulting, the managing editor of Caixin Media wrote in an opinion piece on Saturday. Neither the Ministry of Finance nor Chinese regulators would allow it, Ling Huawei wrote.What will come after that patriotic outpouring on July 1 is uncertain, even to many inside Huarong Tower. Liu He, China’s vice premier and chair of the powerful Financial Stability and Development Committee, appears in no hurry to force a difficult solution. Silence from Beijing has started to rattle local debt investors, who until about a week ago had seemed unmoved by the sell-off in Huarong’s offshore bonds.Competing InterestsHuarong’s role in absorbing and disposing of lenders’ soured debt is worth preserving to support the banking sector cleanup, but requires government intervention, according to Dinny McMahon, an economic analyst for Beijing-based consultancy Trivium China and author of China’s Great Wall of Debt.“We anticipate that foreign bondholders will be required to take a haircut, but it will be relatively small,” he said. “It will be designed to signal that investors should not assume government backing translates into carte blanche support.”For now, in the absence of direct orders from the top, Huarong has been caught in the middle of the competing interests among various state-owned enterprises and government bureaucracies.China Investment Corp., the $1 trillion sovereign fund, for instance, has turned down the idea of taking a controlling stake from the finance ministry. CIC officials have argued they don’t have the bandwidth or capability to fix Huarong’s problems, according to people familiar with the matter.The People’s Bank of China, meantime, is still trying to decide whether to proceed with a proposal that would see it assume more than 100 billion yuan ($15.5 billion) of bad assets from Huarong, those people said.And the Ministry of Finance, which owns 57% of Huarong on behalf of the Chinese government, hasn’t committed to recapitalizing the company, though it hasn’t ruled it out, either, one person said.CIC didn’t respond to requests for comment.The banking regulator has bought Huarong some time, brokering an agreement with state-owned lenders including Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. that would cover any funding needed to repay the equivalent of $2.5 billion coming due by the end of August. By then, the company aims to have completed its 2020 financial statements after spooking investors by missing deadlines in March and April.“How China deals with…
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Assessing the Impact and Equity of an Integrated Rural Sanitation Approach: A Longitudinal Evaluation in 11 Sub-Saharan African and Asian Countries
Few rural sanitation programmes have documented large increases in sanitation coverage or have assessed whether interventions equitably increase sanitation coverage for vulnerable groups.
This article reports results of a study of the impact of the Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All (SSH4A) approach on key water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) indicators. The study also assessed if increases in WASH coverage were equitably reaching vulnerable and non-vulnerable groups.
The SSH4A approach was administered in 12 programme areas in 11 countries, including Bhutan, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Repeated cross-sectional household surveys were administered over four annual follow-up rounds, from 2014 to 2018. Surveys were conducted in 21,411 households (on average) at each round of data collection.
Overall, sanitation coverage increased by 53 percentage points between baseline and endline (95 per cent CI: 52 per cent, 54 per cent). We estimate that 4.8 million people gained access to basic sanitation in these areas during the project period. Most countries also demonstrated movement up the sanitation ladder, as well as increases in handwashing stations and safe disposal of child faeces.
When assessing equity — if sanitation coverage levels were similar between vulnerable and non-vulnerable groups — we observed that increases in coverage over time were generally comparable between the two. However, the increase in sanitation coverage was slightly higher for wealthier households compared to less well-off households.
Results from this study revealed a successful model of rural sanitation service delivery. However, further work is needed to explore the specific mechanisms that led to success of the intervention.
Publisher International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Country Bhutan, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
Themes Gender and equity, Leave no one behind, Monitoring, evaluation and learning
Paschal Apanga, Joshua Garn, Zoe Sakas & Matthew Freeman
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We use a range of research approaches, which aim to draw attention to urgent knowledge gaps, blind spots and emerging questions, often at a critical point in time, to support policy-makers, practitioners and partners in navigating and responding swiftly.
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