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Timeless: The Day Reagan Was Shot
by Meg Griffin
Posted on May 7, 2018 May 20, 2018
In my Timeless Season 1 recaps I talked about how Flynn was a bull in a chinashop when it came to messing with history; clumsy and not really caring how things changed, really, just that they did. I also mentioned wanting to see Rittenhouse be more sophisticated than he was, and this season has shown them to be just that. They have sleeper agents. They go for the scalpel, not the chainsaw. Last night's episode shows how that precision can have much more devastating consequences than say, having someone other than John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln.
The episode begins as usual, showing us history as we know it happened.
John Hinckley Jr. source: Biography.com
It's March 30th, 1981, and John Hinckley Jr. is writing his confession letter to Jodie Foster, explaining why he's decided to assassinate President Reagan before we see him try to do just that (and swiftly be caught).
We then quickly hop back to 2018 and see Agent Christopher and her family getting ready for the day. It's filled with complaints about screen time, talks about whether organic sugar is really better than conventional, and Christopher avoiding calls from her mother, who doesn't know her family even exists. It's nice to see more of Christopher's domestic side, but it doesn't bode well for her family that we're seeing it. I mean, the only time we saw Rufus's family was when they were in jeopardy.
Back at the bunker, Rufus is being weird and pulling away from Jiya, since he thinks he's gonna die and that by being a dickhead to her, he's making things easier in the long run. Jiya calls him on his shit, and so does Lucy. Wyatt agrees, once they catch him up on all the things he's been missing (like Jiya's visions) while he's been busy boinking his wife. Anyway, the alarm goes off and the team heads back, minus Flynn and Mason who were both alive in 1981, and plus Jiya, since she is a baby, although Rufus has to ruin the fun, saying she'll need to know how to work this shit once he's dead. Shortly after they leave Christopher shows up and when she hears where and when the team went, she ominously tells Flynn and Mason that they're not there to save Reagan. Guess they should have waited a couple minutes!
Back in 1981, Jiya is proving herself useful as a shoplifter and the team just barely makes it in time to see Reagan be shot. Wyatt notices that the sniper isn't actually aiming for Reagan, however, but is instead aiming at a young cop. Turns out that cop is none other than Officer Denise Christopher, which we find out when Wyatt tackles her. Turns out Rittenhouse doesn't care if Reagan is President (I mean, why would they? Reagan seems right up their alley), but they are hella interested in killing Agent Christopher before she rises through the ranks, eventually pulling a ragtag team of time travelers together to stop a terrorist who was wreaking havoc on history, and then eventually the shadowy cabal said terrorist was also trying to stop. Basically, they're trying to undo Season One. Maybe that was why the show was cancelled and then un-cancelled last year. Either way, without Christopher, the team wouldn't meet and Rittenhouse would 100% have the Lifeboat by now. Oh, and Hinkley got away. Minor hiccup, I guess.
TIMELESS — "The Day Reagan Was Shot" Episode 208 — Pictured: (l-r) Karen David as Young Denise Christopher, Matt Lanter as Wyatt Logan — (Photo by: Colleen Hayes/NBC)
Surmising that if Rittenhouse wanted to kill Christopher they'd keep trying, the team heads to the hospital to check on her and catch the sleeper agent, who was one of Reagan's Secret Service members. Wyatt recognizes the shooter and the team splits, with Jiya and Lucy checking on Christopher. Jiya is not great at the time travel thing, using her modern slang and calling herself and Lucy "Cagney and Lacey". They don't get much chance to talk to Christopher before her very worried mother walks in, and after begging Christopher to become a doctor, hauls in a nice boy (and his whole family) for Christopher to marry. Lucy and Jiya wait outside, where Lucy informs Jiya that Cagney and Lacey actually comes out that year, and before you can say Bob's your uncle, Christopher and the nice boy announce their engagement, which is awkward since Christopher is very much married to a woman in 2018. Lucy pulls Jiya to the side and tells her this before the two of them get Christopher alone and tell her that they're private investigators hired by Jodie Foster and that Hinkley is the one who shot Reagan, so Christopher can help catch him. They figure that it will help remind Christopher why she wants to be a cop in the first place, since a brush with death can make you do impulsive things. Like marry a dude when you're a lesbian.
In a whole other area of the hospital, Rufus and Wyatt are following the would-be assassin. I'm glad that NBC decided that they couldn't do a scene in a hospital without some sweet, sweet elevator action, but it's not quite the same as on Grey's. Once they're alone together, Wyatt and Sleeper Agent Man throw the fuck down. Rufus is basically useless, but eventually Wyatt disarms the agent and decides to take him somewhere for a chat after Sleeper Agent Man promises to tell them everything. Wyatt finds a nice quiet place to talk, but it turns out dude doesn't have much to say. He was only activated this morning, and the only reason he's here is because his Madoff-like dad lost a bunch of money and killed himself. Turns out Rittenhouse bailed them out, and this was the price they paid. Sleeper Agent Man isn't really that into it, but his brother bought the whole thing, hook, line, and sinker.
Wyatt, finally being suspicious like he's supposed to (Image Courtesy of NBC)
Wyatt asks about Jessica, but dude doesn't know shit. You'd think that Rittenhouse would have put their best on something this important, and hey maybe they have and the dude is just really good at his job, but this guy seems to only care about his family back home, and doesn't have much intel to offer, which begs the question: Why is he still alive? Apparently it's because Wyatt and Rufus are "the good guys" and don't just kill people. Who knew?
Meanwhile, Christopher, Lucy, and Jiya go to Hinkley's hotel and, after some awkward prodding, Lucy and Jiya get to the heart of the matter and casually drop that hey… some women dig other women, wink wink, nudge nudge. Christopher thinks Lucy is hitting on her, but after telling her that she's actually with Jiya and they just "got a vibe," Jiya talks about how hard it was for her to have parents with high expectations and how much she wishes she'd started making her own choices sooner.
Image Courtesy of NBC
That has some weight with Christopher, but not as much as her mom throwing a huge engagement party for her and the traditions and pressure of her culture do. We don't get to see more, though, because they head up to Hinkley's room, which is just as creepy and weird as you'd think it was. They find his letter, his plans, and a bloody straight razor in the bathroom. Christopher surmises that he must want to "see his work" and the only way into the ER when the President is there is to have an emergency, so she puts in a call and they head to the hospital. Once they make it there and Hinkley is caught, Lucy asks Christopher if she's going to keep working after she's married or not. While tragic, Agent Christopher not marrying her wife or having the family we saw her have wouldn't have the overarching consequences of Christopher giving up police work. She tells them that her future in-laws are really traditional, so she would probably stay home once she got married, and that is the tipping point for Lucy. She tells Jiya they need to go to the Lifeboat quick, and then they have to stop Christopher from getting married.
Now, in case you were wondering what all is going on in the bunker all this time, Christopher is trying to take her mind off her possible past death and the disappearance of her entire family by doing paperwork, when Flynn finds her and asks what the hell she's doing. Christopher gets defensive, and says there isn't anything to do to prepare for not existing, and Flynn calls her out. He tells her about the night his daughter was killed, and how she begged to stay up just a few more minutes, but like a good parent, he made her go to sleep. He's so clearly full of heartbreak and deep regret when he tells Christopher that there isn't anything he wouldn't give or do to have even a second back. And, given what he has done, I think it's safe to believe him. He tells her to go home and be with her family while she still can, and so she leaves. It's a great scene, and honestly I'd take a hundred more with Flynn and Christopher.
Back in '81, Wyatt is still working Sleeper Agent Man over, and hey it turns out it wasn't for nothing! Sleeper Agent Man tells them that his super believer bro is still in '81, and has Christopher's address. Since he couldn't get the job done, his brother is gonna have to do it. Wyatt and Rufus decide to just leave him there because that always works out, and rush to Christopher's house.
Lucy and Jiya get there first, and are way underdressed for the event. Christopher is gorgeous in her Sari, but that isn't why we're here. Lucy and Jiya get her alone and come clean about Time Travel. She obviously thinks they're nuts, but once Jiya pulls out her laptop and Lucy shows her the flash drive that Christopher gave her way back when to literally save her family, Christopher is convinced. The hopefulness in her face when she sees that two women can get married is enough to get Lucy to give her that last push. Though she doesn't talk about Rittenhouse, Lucy tells Christopher that she can't marry this man and that she has to tell her mother the truth about herself. Meanwhile, Believer Bro is outside with a gun, getting ready to destroy our show. While he's taking aim, and Christopher is taking steps towards a better life by telling her mother the truth, the scene is intercut with Christopher in 2018, going home to see her family. Believer Bro can't get a good shot from inside his car, though, so he gets out… and is promptly run over by Wyatt. EEP! Inside the house, Christopher asks Lucy what she should do now, and after giving her the flashdrive, Lucy tells her to take the job with the FBI and the rest will fall into place, and the team heads back to 2018.
Once they're home, Christopher thanks them all for their help and it's emotional all around. Turns out her mom eventually came around and, while she's still a pain in the ass and it was hard sometimes, Christopher couldn't imagine her life without her mother in it, and all is well in the Christopher family. YAY!
Things are still a bit tense between Rufus and Jiya, but after talking to Lucy about her visions, Jiya is convinced that knowing what happens can help change it. Rufus tells her he loves her, and Jiya vows to save him.
Meanwhile, Lucy heads to Flynn's room and asks to know about how and when he got her journal. He tells her that it was two weeks after his family died, and she was maybe five years older than she is now (but still looked good, which okay why wouldn't she still look good?). She found him in Brazil, where he was drinking his life away and told him everything. He tells Lucy that she said she had the way to stop them and he would need her help. So it looks like at some point, they're gonna be able to travel in their own timelines and I'm not sure how I feel about that. I do know that I want to see more of Lucy and Flynn together, and that I desperately want to know what she told him when she gave him the journal. There are so many interesting dimensions to this relationship, and it's one I'm anxious to see delved into more, should the show be granted another season.
Speaking of shit I'm not sure how to feel about, let's see what's up with Wyatt and Jessica! Turns out not everything about Wyatt's training has been lost through fluid depletion, and there has been a niggling question in the back of Wyatt's head about how or why Jessica is connected to Rittenhouse. The answer comes when she shows him picture of her brother in Instagram. Her brother who was supposed to die of Leukemia when he was two, but who was cured through "cutting edge" technology. When Wyatt tries to get more information from Jessica, she announces that she's pregnant and hey I know how to feel about that, but if I roll my eyes any harder I won't be able to type!
Jessica's face is my expression upon hearing this shit. (Image Courtesy of NBC)
This episode was another mixed bag for me. I loved seeing more of Christopher and learning about her life, but at the same time, what is there to stop Rittenhouse from going further back and killing her mother? Or was her dad's murder supposed to be her as well? This episode made it very clear that no one is safe and could vanish at any moment, and that is very scary, indeed.
Things I want more of:
Jiya on missions
Hell, Mason, too
Lucy and Flynn's future relationship (the journal and whatnot)
The people outside the team
Things I don't care about:
Jessica's pregnancy*
Wyatt moping around and generally not knowing what is happening with his team.
*Unless it's something that comes and goes with each trip, so every time Wyatt or the team goes on a mission, he's not sure if she'll be pregnant or not when he comes back, because that would be scarlarious!!!
What did you think of The Day Reagan Was Shot? Did you like seeing more of Christopher? Are you excited about the "twist" at the end?? Do you think Jessica is *actually* pregnant?
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import com.google.cloud.recommendationengine.v1beta1.InputConfig;

public class SyncImportCatalogItemsStringStringInputconfigImporterrorsconfig {

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      String parent = CatalogName.of("[PROJECT]", "[LOCATION]", "[CATALOG]").toString();
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A full moon is an opposition. Oppositions are about balance. Think of a line drawn between the two points. Which side do you need to be on to find your own balance? Tonight we have the Moon in Leo opposite the Sun in Aquarius. Do you need to be more on the Leo side- me, me the individual wanting recognition for our individuality? Or do you need to slide a bit over to the Aquarius side-protecting the needs of the group?. Remember that you are not bound by either. You may choose to slide back an forth on your own teeter totter, or come to a point that feels just right. Life changes minute to minute. The time of the Full Moon is a time to pause and consider actions, attitudes, goals, projects etc formed during the New Moon in Capricorn on Jan 8th. Go outside and bask in the Moon, Take three conscious breaths to re-center and come clearly into the present. What does that Moon say?


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6 matches on "Willoughby (Ohio)"
Andrews Institute photograph
Andrews Institute photograph Save
Description: This photograph shows the Andrews Institute in Willoughby, Ohio. The Andrews School for Girls was founded by Margaret St. John Andrews and her husband Wallace C. Andrews to provide girls with the opportunity for an affordable secondary vocational education. It first opened in 1910 at the home of Dr. O.S. St. John, but later moved to its present location with the Willoughby School of Fine Arts in 1923. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers' Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers' Project became the Federal Writers' Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers' Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_003_1
Subjects: Architecture; Education; Education, Secondary; Girls' schools; Andrews School for Girls (Willoughby, Ohio)
Places: Willoughby (Ohio); Lake County (Ohio)
Chargin River East Branch
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Description: Stone bridge spanning the East Branch of the Chagrin River. The East Branch starts in Geauga county, continues through Lake County and ends in Willoughby, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F17_032
Subjects: Bridges--Ohio; Chagrin River (Ohio); Ohio--History; Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Kirtland (Ohio); Willoughby (Ohio); Lake County (Ohio); Geauga County (Ohio)
Springfield Metallic Casket Company casket welding
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Description: Reverse reads: "Welding an air sealed vault, Metallic Casket Co." This photograph shows an unidentified man welding an air sealed vault at the Springfield Metallic Casket Company in Springfield, Ohio. The Springfield Metallic Casket Company was located on the northeast corner of Main and Mechanic (now Lowry) streets in Springfield, Ohio. The company was founded in 1884 by A. A. Baker, D. R. Hosterman, Ross Mitchell, Scipio E. Baker, and Edgar N. Lupfer. The company grew to become one of the nation's largest manufacturers of metal caskets and burial vaults. By 1959 it had 230 employees. In the early 1960s, the company became a division of Springfield Greene Industries, Inc., which also owned Springfield's Thermometer Corporation of America. Later, it became a subsidiary of A-T-O Corporation of Willoughby, Ohio. The casket company finally had to close its doors on November 30, 1974 after almost 100 years of continuous production. It was one of the largest producers of burial vaults and metal caskets in the country, and some rumors claim that caskets were built there for Al Capone, President John F. Kennedy, and Buffalo Bill Cody. View on Ohio Memory.
Subjects: Business and Labor; Welding--1930-1940; Vaults (Strong rooms); Works Progress Administration of Ohio (U.S.)
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
Springfield Metallic Casket Company
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Description: Reverse reads: "500 ton double casket press. Metallic casket ('bliss')". This photograph shows three unidentified men loading a metallic casket lid into a double action press machine called "Bliss" at the Springfield Metallic Casket Company in Springfield, Ohio. The Springfield Metallic Casket Company, was located on the northeast corner of Main and Mechanic (now Lowry) streets in Springfield, Ohio. The company was founded in 1884 by A. A. Baker, D. R. Hosterman, Ross Mitchell, Scipio E. Baker, and Edgar N. Lupfer. The company grew to become one of the nation's largest manufacturers of metal caskets and burial vaults. By 1959 it had 230 employees. In the early 1960s, the company became a division of Springfield Greene Industries, Inc., which also owned Springfield's Thermometer Corporation of America. Later, it became a subsidiary of A-T-O Corporation of Willoughby, Ohio. The casket company finally had to close its doors on November 30, 1974 after almost 100 years of continuous production. It was one of the largest producers of burial vaults and metal caskets in the country, and some rumors claim that caskets were built there for Al Capone, President John F. Kennedy, and Buffalo Bill Cody. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F06_012_001
Subjects: Business and Labor; Welding--1930-1940; Industries--Ohio--Clark County; Coffins; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Starling Medical College stereograph
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Description: Stereograph of Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1887. The Willoughby Medical College in Lake County, Ohio, was reorganized and moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1849. At that time it was renamed Starling Medical College in honor of Columbus benefactor Lyne Starling. The building was located at State Street and 6th Street, now the site of Grant Medical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Subjects: Education--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and Colleges; Medicine--History; Grant Medical Center (Columbus, Ohio)
Old tavern at Tymochtee photograph
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Description: This photograph shows the old tavern in Tymochtee Township known as the "Gier House," and later as the "Long Tavern and Dance Hall." According to information accompanying the original, Henry P. Willoughby was born in the tavern on February 19, 1900. He lives today in Tiffin, Ohio. His mother's maiden name was Long. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of nearby Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV30_B04F05_04
Subjects: Taverns (Inns); Business enterprises--Ohio; Bars (Drinking establishments)
Places: Tymochtee Township (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio);

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Slack Chat
Troop Withdrawl
Why The Domestic Political Fallout From The Afghanistan War Is So Hard To Assess
August 19, 2021 RSS Feed
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight's politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited.
sarah (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): In April, President Biden announced that it was time to end the "forever" war in Afghanistan by sending home the roughly 2,500 Americans troops that remained there.
It wasn't apparent at the time, but that decision now appears to have set in motion the collapse of the Afghan government. Over the weekend, the Taliban, the ousted militant group that came to power in the country in the mid-1990s, seized control of the capital, weeks before the U.S. was set to withdraw its remaining troops.
The Afghanistan War has spanned four presidencies now, so it's hard to blame Biden entirely for what's happened there (and it's not clear at this point that Americans will). But Biden's exit strategy certainly has people asking what the last 20 years were for.
What Americans think about ending the war in Afghanistan
So let's talk about how the Afghanistan War became a 20-year conflict in the first place; how Americans feel about the Afghanistan War and whether Americans' thoughts on war are changing; and finally, the potential domestic political repercussions of the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan.
First, how did the war last for 20 years? And how different were our perceptions of the war from what was happening on the ground?
tanisha.fazal (Tanisha Fazal, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota): One reason the war lasted as long as it has is because most Americans don't grasp the costs of war. Less than 1 percent of the population serves in the military, meaning most people don't know someone who serves. The human costs of war have also changed. U.S. military medicine has improved dramatically over time, especially since the start of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. What this means is that most U.S. casualties today are nonfatal casualties, so a lot of the human consequences of war are less visible to Americans.
Also, the way the U.S. pays for war has changed. As political scientist Sarah Kreps has written, we used to finance wars via taxes, but today, we finance wars by adding to the national debt. Put all this together, and you have a very small group paying the most immediate, visible costs of war. The rest of us are also paying those costs, but they're much harder to see.
adam.berinsky (Adam Berinsky, professor of political science at MIT): As a public opinion scholar, I would also add that ongoing military action — even war — just isn't something that's super important to most Americans. We saw this with the Iraq War, and it was true with Afghanistan as well. This kept a lot of things that were happening in Afghanistan off the American public's radar.
tanisha.fazal: Consider, too, that the military is now an all-volunteer force. There was a draft for the Vietnam War, requiring many young men to serve, which is at least one reason why that war saw so many protests compared to Afghanistan, which saw relatively few.
adam.berinsky: I think you got a little of the dynamic that Tanisha is talking about during the Iraq conflict, when National Guard units were called into service. But as she notes, widespread direct involvement in military action is much lower today relative to the Vietnam War era.
geoffrey.skelley (Geoffrey Skelley, elections analyst): Right, Afghanistan wasn't really on most Americans' radars. Weekly polls from the Economist/YouGov used to ask people regularly how important they thought the Afghanistan War was: As recently as February 2020, only 29 percent of Americans thought it was "very important," whereas 69 percent said the economy was very important.
However, this doesn't mean Americans didn't necessarily care about terrorism — the direct catalyst for the war back in 2001 — more broadly, as 53 percent did say terrorism was "very important" in that same poll. It's just that the concern didn't necessarily connect with the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan.
sarah: Another thing that stood out to me from the Washington Post's 2019 investigation into the Afghanistan War was all the ways in which the military and various presidential administrations weren't honest with the American people about the war, routinely saying things were going far more smoothly in Afghanistan than they actually were.
So there's the fact that the Afghanistan War wasn't an important issue for most Americans as you've all mentioned, but it's hard for me to disentangle that from the flawed public perception of how things were going in Afghanistan.
nrakich (Nathaniel Rakich, senior elections analyst): I also thought this stat from Marquette Law School pollster Charles Franklin was telling:
I can find only 15 survey questions concerning Bush's handling of Afghanistan in the entire 2001-2009 Bush presidency.
There were 628 questions about his handling of Iraq.
— Charles Franklin (@PollsAndVotes) August 15, 2021
adam.berinsky: To Nathaniel's point, in researching my book on American public opinion and war, I found that after the end of 2002, pollsters basically stopped asking questions about Afghanistan. There was some polling done in 2003 and after, but very few polls were conducted compared to the early stages of the war.
sarah: Why was the Iraq War polled more than the Afghanistan War?
adam.berinsky: I think in part it was because Afghanistan seemed at first to be a "settled" public issue. The Taliban government fell quickly after the 2001 invasion, and the international community turned to trying to establish a democratic government in Afghanistan soon after. Support for the Afghanistan War also stayed above 80 percent through all of 2002, while support for the Iraq War never reached those levels. The Afghanistan War simply seemed to have more of an "over and done with" perception even though U.S. troops were still in the country.
The media also moved onto other domestic and foreign policy issues. And even when support for the Afghanistan War fell, it still hovered around 60 percent for several years.
nrakich: Yeah, and Iraq was obviously more in the headlines during the later years of the Bush administration as it became clear that there were no weapons of mass destruction and as violence among Iraqis increased.
tanisha.fazal: The "mission accomplished" slogan in Afghanistan speaks to what Sarah said earlier about the Post's "Afghanistan Papers" investigation. The reasons for Afghanistan War appear to have shifted over time and, in the end, were ultimately quite unclear.
sarah: We've touched on this a bit already, but how have Americans' thoughts on the Afghanistan War changed? Do Americans think the war was broadly worth it?
geoffrey.skelley: Gallup has asked Americans since 2001 whether they thought it was a mistake to send troops to fight in Afghanistan. Initially, most Americans didn't think the war was a mistake, but the latest poll (taken in July) found the country about evenly split on it.
adam.berinsky: You can see in the chart that from 2007 to 2014 increasing numbers of Americans thought their country made a mistake in sending troops to Afghanistan, but other polls show that there hasn't been a lot of movement after that span. Rather, most polls show American support for the war has been relatively flat.
nrakich: The most recent poll, from YouGov/The Economist on Aug. 14-17 (so after it was clear Kabul would fall to the Taliban), found that 38 percent of Americans thought it was a mistake for us to intervene in Afghanistan in the first place. But only 28 percent thought it was not a mistake — so plenty of Americans aren't really sure.
adam.berinsky: It's also important to remember, though, that most people, most of the time, don't pay much (if any) attention to issues of foreign policy — even war.
That means even though there have been a lot of dramatic images this week of Afghans trying to flee for safety, with many Americans now reconsidering their opinions of the war, that will likely be short-lived. Within a few weeks, I'd guess interest will return to the low levels we've seen in the last decade.
Even now, with interest in Afghanistan high, the share of "not sure" responses is still pretty high, suggesting that this issue will fail to resonate strongly with many Americans.
geoffrey.skelley: Bingo. As Nathaniel discussed last year, based on Adam's work, Americans often take their cues on foreign policy from leaders in their party because they aren't as informed on it and don't have obvious ideological corners to run to.
nrakich: To your point, Adam, when Afghanistan has gotten cable-news attention in the past, it has just as quickly faded from the headlines. Check out these numbers from Robert Griffin, a senior research advisor at Democracy Fund:
For anyone with Takes about the political consequences Biden will face, I ask that you fill in the rest of this figure.
I don't take joy in saying that Americans will quickly ignore what is happening in Afghanistan, but I think it's fairly obvious that it's going to happen. pic.twitter.com/RE998NVJFh
— Robert Griffin (@rp_griffin) August 16, 2021
tanisha.fazal: I do think, though, that Americans' general relationship to war has changed in that the immediate costs of war are just a lot less visible, as I said at the outset.
In thinking about the broader foreign policy context, the withdrawal from Afghanistan also signals a greater shift in where America is focusing its international strategy: China. And any military conflict with China would look very different from the Afghanistan War.
sarah: That's a good point, Tanisha. One thing we wrote about in 2019 was how Americans don't think recent military conflicts have been justified, starting with the Vietnam War. So I do think, to your point, the American public's relationship to war is changing. There's just less support for military conflict, broadly speaking.
But as you point out, China is increasingly where America is focusing its attention abroad, and at least right now, both Democrats and Republicans seem to view China negatively. I do think, then, that any potential military conflict would be thought of differently.
Turning back to Afghanistan, do we have any sense for how Americans are reacting from the events over the weekend?
nrakich: Overall, Americans are unhappy with how the withdrawal was handled. According to Morning Consult/Politico, only 25 percent of registered voters believed the Afghanistan withdrawal was going "very well" or "somewhat well," and 57 percent thought it was going "not too well" or "not well at all."
There was also a drop in the share of Americans who support withdrawal — from 69 percent in April to 49 percent this month. But more Americans still support withdrawal than oppose it, 49 percent to 37 percent.
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sarah: What has this meant for Biden's approval rating so far?
nrakich: Reuters/Ipsos found that Biden's approval rating dropped 7 points between Friday and Monday. It seems likely that that was due to the Afghanistan news. But his approval rating was also dropping before the weekend, so his current low point definitely isn't all because of what's happened in Afghanistan.
adam.berinsky: It's going to be really hard to peel apart what's happening to Biden's approval rating because of Afghanistan and what's happening because of COVID-19.
tanisha.fazal: Yeah, that's right, Adam. In the longer term, I would guess that any relationship between Biden's approval rating and Afghanistan (insofar as you can disentangle from everything else, like COVID-19) is going to depend on whether there are terrorist attacks against American citizens, especially on U.S. soil.
It's interesting that the Taliban have been signaling that they will be more restrained when it comes to international terrorism; they seem to want to be able to engage with the rest of the world. That said, they're not exactly trustworthy, and I worry Afghans are in for a really horrible time, as the chances for human rights violations under this regime are very high. But the Taliban do have incentives to try and restrain themselves, and are also under some pressure from Russia and China. So we'll see.
To Nathaniel's point on the withdrawal question, it seems that we'll want to be careful in distinguishing responses on "should we withdraw" from "what do you think of the withdrawal." Lots of people supported withdrawal but still recognize that this process is going terribly.
geoffrey.skelley: Yeah. I'm curious, though, if the fact that a plurality of voters still supported withdrawing troops suggests that number will bounce back up after the overwhelming news coverage of Afghanistan fades.
At the same time, the issue might not fade that quickly if there continue to be new developments and disturbing images coming out of Afghanistan, so perhaps people's opinions will be more sticky.
sarah: The threat of terrorism, as Tanisha mentioned, strikes me as the biggest unknown here. Obviously, Adam's and others' research shows that foreign policy isn't often a super important issue for voters, but I imagine we'll see an uptick in the share of Americans who are concerned about a terrorist attack.
Consider that earlier this year, the Pew Research Center's annual poll on policy priorities found that 63 percent of Americans thought defending the nation against terrorist attacks should still be a high priority.
nrakich: According to this week's YouGov/The Economist poll, though, just 19 percent of Americans believe a terrorist attack against the U.S. is "very likely" in the next 12 months; 29 percent think it is "somewhat likely"; 19 percent think it is "not very likely"; and 8 percent think it is "very unlikely."
geoffrey.skelley: Adam and Tanisha, in my article about public opinion and Afghanistan, I noted that we might see sharper partisan divides over policy in Afghanistan given it's in the news and Republican leaders in Congress — and outside the Capitol — are hammering Biden on it. But previously, there hadn't been as much of a split on the issue of withdrawal. Do you think that will change?
adam.berinsky: I think that's right, Geoffrey. Republican politicians are criticizing Biden for what happened, so I expect that Republican voters would also say that this week's events are a disaster. And if Democratic politicians jump on board as well in their criticism of Biden, we could see a real drop in his approval. Although, I'd caution that things are much more locked in today when it comes to a president's approval rating, given how polarized our politics are.
But if both Democratic and Republican elites criticize Biden, we would essentially move to what political scientist John Zaller calls a one-sided information flow — or that when elites from both sides speak the same message, the public largely unifies behind them. Think of it as a sort of reverse "rally around the flag" effect.
tanisha.fazal: I do wonder how the arrival of Afghan refugees might play into all of this, especially given polarization around immigration and, frankly, race.
nrakich: Right now at least, support for accepting Afghan refugees is very high. According to YouGov, Americans support accepting Afghan refugees who worked with Americans into the U.S. 65 percent to 15 percent. And the numbers are similar if you ask respondents about accepting Afghan refugees who backed the U.S. military to "[their] own state," although there does seem to be a small "not in my backyard" contingent. But I definitely think there is potential for former President Donald Trump and other nativist politicians to racialize that issue as you hinted at, Tanisha.
sarah: To what extent will the withdrawal from Afghanistan affect Biden's presidency? Do we have a sense yet of what this means for Biden?
nrakich: I think the questions for his legacy are interesting, Sarah. But in the short term, my bet is that Afghanistan will quickly fade from the headlines and this won't affect the 2022 midterms or Biden's reelection campaign.
adam.berinsky: Think back to the Iran coverage in early 2020 and its possible effect on the 2020 election — and how that never materialized.
tanisha.fazal: I agree with Nathaniel and Adam. The one caveat is if there's a terrorist attack. Otherwise, I think COVID-19/the economy will have a much bigger effect on Biden's presidency.
nrakich: Polarization has made presidential approval ratings extremely steady, as we've written repeatedly. And I think you can bet on about 10 major news stories breaking between now and November 2022, each of which will be touted as a "game changer" and then promptly forgotten about.
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Flowers Starting With The Letter H
Flowers Starting With The Letter H… Many people who enjoy gardening find themselves drawn to flowers that start with the letter H.
Hydrangeas, for example, are a popular option since they come in a variety of hues and forms.
Other popular choices include Hollyhock, which is a worldwide favourite. Honeysuckle (Lonicera) is a wonderful choice for a garden because it's hardy and loves the sun.
Flowers have an air of mystery about them, but they come in a variety of shapes and sizes! There's sure to be one or two we've never seen before, so we've only included a handful. Are you seeking flower names to assist you in your search? If that's the case, the list of flower names below may be useful
This article will explore different types of flowers that start with the letter H:
Heather (Erica)
The heather flower's meaning derives from its genus name, Calluna, which is derived from the Greek word kalluno and means "to cleanse or decorate." This is fitting, given that heather plants were once used to create brooms.
Hebe 'Showy Speedwell' (New Zealand Native)
Hebe speciosa is a flowering plant in the plantain family known by the English names New Zealand hebe, showy hebe, showy-speedwell, and Titirangi and Napuka. It is native to New Zealand, but it has become naturalized in other parts of the world where it is cultivated as an ornamental for its spectacular blooms.
Helenium (Sneezeweed)
The genus name for this flower is derived from the Greek word helios meaning "sun" and refers to its sun-like blossoms. This makes sense because sneezeweed derives part of its common name from an old superstition that says if you touch or smell it, you'll get a bout of sneezing.
Heliotrope (Cherry Pie Plant)
This flower's name is derived from the Greek words helios, meaning sun and tropos, meaning "turn." This refers to how Heliotrope turns its blossoms toward the sun.
Hellebore (Winter rose)
The name of this flower comes from the Greek word ereos, which means "a wild animal" and refers to how its poisonous flowers resemble fangs.
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (Rose Mallow)
This flower's name is derived from the Malaysian word for "flower," hibiscus.
Hollyhock(Alcea Rosea)
This flower's name is derived from the Middle English word hok, which means "a hook" and refers to how its leaves are shaped like hooks.
The common name for this plant comes from the Old English holegn, meaning "holy," because it was used in church decorations during Easter. These flowers grow best when planted near a fence or trellis so their vines can climb up them easily.
Honesty (Lunaria)
Honesty (Honest Plant) The genus of Honesty is Lunaria annua, which derives its naming origins back to Ancient Rome where people believed honesty would bloom on moonlit nights if left untouched by human hands.
Honeysuckle (Lonicera)
This flower's name is derived from the Greek words lonos, meaning "a molar" and kerkis, which means a "stick." This refers to how its roots look like a toothbrush.
Hosta (Plantain Lily)
The genus name for this flower is derived from the Greek word hostis, which means "stranger." This refers to how these flowers were originally called plantain lilies because they weren't native to Greece.
Hyacinth (Asparagus Family)
The genus name for this flower is derived from the Greek word huakinthos, which means "spur." This refers to how its stem resembles a spur.
Hydrangea (Hortensia)
This flower's name derives from the Greek words hydro and chainein meaning "water" and "to gape or open up," respectively. The flowers of hydrangeas resemble gaping mouths with their light blue petals spread wide apart.
Hypericum (St. John's Wort)
This flower's genus name is derived from the Greek words hyper and eikon meaning "over an apparition." This refers to how people used Hypericum in medieval times to exorcise evil spirits.
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Bryan Daugherty (Co-Founder and CEO of SmartLedger Solutions) talked about how SmartLedger is dedicated to solving governmental problems through custom-made blockchain solutions. SmartLedger helps organizations understand the intricacies of the technology
Utilizing Scalable Blockchain Solutions to Empower Environmental Sustainability, Economic, Infrastructure, and Social Development in UAE and Surrounding Regions
We are thrilled to be a part of the blockchain ecosystem in Dubai. This expansion represents a significant milestone for our company as we continue to grow and expand."
— Eva Porras, PhD, CEO of Blockchain Smart Technologies
TAMWOTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA, December 30, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Smartledger the World's leading blockchain distribution channel is excited to announce the opening of a new subsidiary, 'Blockchain Smart Technologies' in Dubai, UAE which will serve the North Africa, Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia regions.
Dubai has emerged as a global leader in the adoption and implementation of innovative technologies such as blockchain. The city has made significant investments in the development and implementation of blockchain-based solutions across various sectors, including finance, transportation, and government services.
With the UAE's goal of becoming a global platform for innovative industries and a choice destination for international companies seeking an integrated and favorable environment for growth and sustainability, as well as Dubai's vision of becoming a knowledge-based, sustainable, and innovation-centric global hub by 2030, Blockchain Smart Technologies is excited to play an integral role in this new era of advancement. This may include improving manufacturing and supply-chain efficiencies, airport safety, identity management, nano-technologies, I-gaming, ESG initiatives, and Sharia compliant blockchain services.
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"We are thrilled to be a part of the blockchain ecosystem in Dubai. This expansion represents a significant milestone for our company as we continue to grow and expand our presence in the Middle East and beyond.� said Eva Porras, PhD, CEO of Blockchain Smart Technologies.
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What These Famous Economists Had To Say About Silver
Silver is the second most popular investment metal in the world (after gold). For investors, silver often serves as a source of diversification or easy entry into tangible assets. We reviewed statements about silver or silver investing from some of the most famous economists, and there is certainly a common theme: silver holds incredible potential and, as a medium of exchange, is vastly superior to fiat paper.
James "Jim" Grant, best known for his widely distributed and anticipated Grant's Interest Rate Observer, believes that silver rivals gold as the best hedge against monetary instability. "Gold is a better monetary asset than silver, but silver has better supply-and-demand characteristics than gold. Since the Silver Institute began keeping track in 1990, silver consumption has annually outpaced silver production, and not by a little," said Grant.
Grant also sees silver going much, much higher. Writing in an article entitled "The Case for Silver," Grant concluded with "In 1980, in an epic miscalculation by the Hunt brothers, the price of silver peaked at $49 an ounce. I am counting on the serial epic miscalculations of the Fed and the Treasury to push the price, if not back to $49, at least closer to it."
Perhaps the most famous American economist of all time, Milton Friedman was neither the strongest friend of metals nor the most consistent. Friedman took a historical review of silver and thought that its value was obvious. "The major monetary metal in history is silver, not gold," Friedman said.
While not an advocate for returning to a hard-money standard, Friedman understands that silver is much more practical than gold or other precious metals (at least in terms of money usage).
Economist David Morgan, owner of The Morgan Report website and author of The Silver Manifesto, is one of the best-known silver advocates. He is well-known for his concern about the state of monetary policy, stating that "we understand that all fiat systems have always failed." Morgan takes to heart the long-game approach to silver investing. He writes "Forget about the current price of silver…it's only a matter of time before the debt and derivative markets crash, catapulting precious metals prices exponentially higher…The spillover into silver will be phenomenal."
Finally, compared to other precious metals, Morgan said "If you look at that value proposition again, it's screaming at listeners right now. Silver—of all the four precious metals, and I love them all—has the absolute best value proposition."
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"It is a great boon that gold and silver are scarce and are costly to increase in supply." —Murray Rothbard, "Taking Money Back," 1995
Murray N. Rothbard, one of the most influential American economists of the 20th century, was a strong proponent of hard-money standards (e.g. the historical U.S. gold standard or the U.K. sterling silver standard). While many economists have, over time, seen the value in holding or transacting in gold or silver, none have been as friendly to precious metals or as antagonistic to the inflationary tendencies of the Federal Reserve.
Indeed, Rothbard's writings helped lay the theoretical and practical foundation for today's precious metals investing** (as well as other hedges against inflation, such as foreign currencies and real estate).
Rothbard, commenting on the borrow-and-spend path of the U.S. government, wrote, "I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate."
**While it cannot be held in a precious metals IRA, the Ludwig von Mises Institute offers a one-ounce silver coin bearing the likeness of Rothbard. It should be noted that this coin sells at a significant markup to other silver coins, such as the one-ounce American Eagle silver coin.
Marx, the infamous author of The Communist Manifesto, is not the most likely advocate of silver or silver investing. Yet, Marx knew the value of silver in an economic sense, writing that "Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver."
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Unemployment Recipients May Want To Wait To File Their 2020 Tax Returns
The latest Covid relief bill just blew some minds.
Congress just put another twist in the never-ending saga that is the 2021 filing season. Democrats are considering a deal to reduce the federal supplemental unemployment benefits in the next Covid relief bill from $400 to $300 per week in return for a slightly longer benefit period (benefits will end in October rather than August) and, of more immediate significance, making the first $10,200 in 2020 unemployment benefits tax free at the federal level. That high-pitched sound you are hearing is the collective screaming of thousands of tax professionals.
Tax professionals have been watching and worrying over this issue coming to pass ever since Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) and Representative Cindy Axne (D-Iowa) introduced a bill to make the first $10,200 in unemployment exempt from federal income tax. Many tax professionals decided to recommend that clients wait to file their 2020 tax returns while Congress decided whether or when to take up their bill. When the provision did not get included in the House version of the current Covid relief package, many decided that if unemployment benefits did eventually end up being excluded it would be 2021 benefits, thus kicking the tax reporting can into the 2022 filing season. Many tax professionals decided that the costs of waiting outweighed the benefits for their offices and their clients and went ahead and filed returns as usual.
For other tax professionals holding returns was not an option due to in office return volume or because their clients needed their refund money and could not afford to wait. Helen O'Planick, an enrolled agent who owns HELJAN Associates in Manchester, PA, has already seen more than 200 clients who have received unemployment benefits. All but two of those clients were expecting refunds. It was simply not feasible for her to delay processing of hundreds of returns on a maybe. Other tax professionals, many of whom are seasonal and are not quite so plugged into pending legislation, may not have even been aware of the possibility that some unemployment benefits could potentially be non taxable and just proceeded as usual with their 2021 filing season.
Unfortunately, legislation that was a maybe when this shortened filing season opened on February 12 is now looking like a reality. Taxpayers who received unemployment benefits during the year should wait to file until the current bill becomes law. At a 10% marginal tax rate the savings will be a little over $1,000 in tax. Taxpayers who are unwilling to wait should recognize that they may have to correct their return to take advantage of the new law. Taxpayers should also remember that most paid professionals do not file amended returns for free and it is unlikely that many will be willing to prepare an amended return until after the 2021 filing season ends (assuming it ever does end, the jury is still out on when the 2020 filing season "ended"). If your tax professional is asking or recommending that you wait, do yourself and your taxpro a favor and wait. One excellent reason not to wait to file is if your 2020 income is low enough to qualify you for the next round of stimulus payments when your 2019 income was not. Get that return filed now! Especially if there is more than one person in your household who is eligible for the stimulus money.
What if your return has already been filed? The most obvious answer is that you may have to file an amended return either on paper or electronically using Form 1040-X. It's an answer that begs the question of how can the IRS, which is currently in the middle of the 2021 filing season and still has a large backlog of unprocessed 2019 tax returns, process potentially hundreds of thousands or maybe over a million amended 2020 returns. Electronic submission does not guarantee electronic processing. For example, even though authorization forms such as Forms 2848 and 8821 (which allow tax practitioners to access client information) can now be submitted electronically, for processing they go into a first-in, first-out pile of the same types of forms that have been submitted by mail or by fax. If that is what happens with electronically submitted amended returns, the processing delays will be staggering.
It is possible that (after filing season ends) the IRS could use the algorithms it uses to detect math errors on returns to solve this problem more automatically. It could, for example, find a way to identify returns with information in Forms 1099-G, Box 1 and automatically reverse up to $10,200 of income, make the adjustments, and issue a notice and a refund to affected taxpayers. It's possible. I don't know if it's likely.
Also unlikely is the possibility that the IRS could make this programming change and push the changes out to tax software providers in the middle of an already challenging filing season. The possibility of a mid-season programming change is even more unlikely, given IRS Commissioner Rettig's continued assertions that the April 15 filing deadline will not be extended. By the time this bill is finally signed into law there will only be four or five weeks left in the current filing season. No matter what happens, this tax season is already one bumpy ride. Be as patient as possible and wait to file if you can.
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Q: Will a parallel capacitor short a resistor?
In the configuration above, SOL_IN is the rectified output of a solar panel (so dc).
What's more important is R1, which is a low resistance sense resistor used to measure the current from the solar panel. I'm concerned that the capacitor will charge to the voltage at SOL_IN and hence short circuit the resistor since there will be no voltage drop across it.
Is this reasoning correct?
(R1 = 0.15 Ohms, C1 = 1 uF)
EDIT: Line is going to load, not GPIO as originally stated.

A: The GPIO pin of your micro-controller is an high-impedance input. It will allow little to no current to flow through the circuit. On average, the capacitor will not let the current go through either. As drawn, your circuit will only measure the current used to charge or discharge the capacitor, a pulse that will last: $$\tau = R \cdot C = 150 ns$$ (the RC time constant), when the voltage change. To measure the current with M1, you need to add a load to the ground where you connect the GPIO.

A: The capacitor will charge to the voltage you have on the load (including the wiring). The resistor R1 will create an additional voltage drop (that's the whole purpose of a shunt resistor).
So on the right side of the resistor you will have the load voltage \$V_{load} = V_{C1}\$ and on the left side of the resistor you will have \$V_{load} + V_{R1}\$.
This means, that the voltmeter M1 will measure the voltage drop over the resistor \$V_{R1} = R_1 \cdot I_R\$.
You should be aware, that you want to choose your shunt quite small to reduce power losses and heating of the resistor. This will make the voltage drop quite low, so you will need a sensitive voltage measurement.

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The Boston College men's lacrosse season starts this week when they open their season on a road trip and will face the reigning champion Colorado Buffaloes. I caught up with assistant coach Dan Hettler to discuss the season.
Marisa: How do you feel about the season starting?
Dan: Couldn't be more excited for the season to get going. We had a great start in the fall but it's been tough lately with all of the snow we've been getting, making practice times and field availability harder to come by. We have an extremely talented and dedicated group of guys that have been committed to our system and making the best of what we have. We're counting down the days to February 28th to get a chance to go against someone other than ourselves.
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Dan: Being ranked in the top 10 going into the season is great. Nothing really matters till we get outside and play though. We're ready to get out and show everyone who we are and where we're going.
Marisa: How tough is this west coast trip?
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Q: Python: Extracting Set of Values from JSON I have a set of data I am pulling from an API for stock market history. The history is then stored in a file "history.json". I need to get all recurring sets of the key "4. close". There are between 100 days & 10 years of data in a call. The data is formatted like so:
{
    "Meta Data": {
        "1. Information": "Daily Prices (open, high, low, close) and Volumes",
        "2. Symbol": "SPY",
        "3. Last Refreshed": "2018-01-10",
        "4. Output Size": "Compact",
        "5. Time Zone": "US/Eastern"
    },
    "Time Series (Daily)": {
        "2017-08-18": {
            "1. open": "242.9000",
            "2. high": "244.1900",
            "3. low": "242.2000",
            "4. close": "242.7100",
            "5. volume": "136748000"
        },
        "2017-08-21": {
            "1. open": "242.6400",
            "2. high": "243.2000",
            "3. low": "241.8300",
            "4. close": "242.9000",
            "5. volume": "65469700"
        }

Preferably I would like the output in order as a list with the values excluding the keys as a list. It can be called into memory or converted into another file to open - it does need to retain order as it will be used sequentially in the algorithm. (I try to figure things out on my own, I am new to programming though so if you could simplify things as much as possible I would appreciate it.)

A: Michael
You can ckeck this url https://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html
With the function "loads" you can parse your json and you get a list as return
I hope it helps

A: One can consider this data as nested dictionaries and use it:
outlist = [v["4. close"]   for v in mydict["Time Series (Daily)"].values()]
print(outlist)

Output:
['242.7100', '242.9000']

Data:
mydict = {
    "Meta Data": {
        "1. Information": "Daily Prices (open, high, low, close) and Volumes",
        "2. Symbol": "SPY",
        "3. Last Refreshed": "2018-01-10",
        "4. Output Size": "Compact",
        "5. Time Zone": "US/Eastern"
    },
    "Time Series (Daily)": {
        "2017-08-18": {
            "1. open": "242.9000",
            "2. high": "244.1900",
            "3. low": "242.2000",
            "4. close": "242.7100",
            "5. volume": "136748000"
        },
        "2017-08-21": {
            "1. open": "242.6400",
            "2. high": "243.2000",
            "3. low": "241.8300",
            "4. close": "242.9000",
            "5. volume": "65469700"
        }}}


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>Do you know anyone who likes the smell of cooking seafood? If you do then they must be psycho. Sorry, but…gross.
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