Cut the sweet potatoes into thin wedges. Cut them as thin as you can.
In a large bowl, mix the sweet potatoes, olive oil, salt, pepper and cayenne pepper.
Place the sweet potato fries on a foil lined baking tray.


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Q: Render objects based on zoom level in Azure maps I want to show a pop up on marker after a certain zoom level is it possible?

A: Data layers have a min/max zoom option that can be used to specify the zoom level range that layer should appear. Popups however don't have such an option, but such logic can be added by making use of the zoomend event. Here is a code sample.
var map;

function GetMap() {
    //Initialize a map instance.
    map = new atlas.Map('myMap', {
        view: 'Auto',

        //Add authentication details for connecting to Azure Maps.
        authOptions: {
            authType: 'subscriptionKey',
            subscriptionKey: '<Your Azure Maps Key>'
        }
    });

    //Wait until the map resources are ready.
    map.events.add('ready', function () {

        //Create one or more popups.
        var popup = new atlas.Popup({
            //Set the position.
            position: [-99.213191, 39.507909], //Middle of the USA

            //Add the content.
            content: '
Hello World
',

             //Likely don't want the user closing the popup if the map zoom level is managing this.
             closeButton: false
        });

        //Link some information to the popup that tells us the zoom level range.
        popup.metadata = {
            //In this case the popup will appear when the map is between zoom levels 3 and 8.
            minzoom: 3,
            maxzoom: 8
        };

        //Add the popup to the map.
        map.popups.add(popup);

        //Add an event to monitor the zoomend event.
        //If you are only using a small number of popups in your app you could use the "zoom" event which will fire as the map moves, but can quickly cause performance issues if there is a a couple dozen or more popups.
        map.events.add('zoomend', mapZoomed);
    });
}

function mapZoomed(e){
    //Get the zoom level.
    var zoom = map.getCamera().zoom;

    var popups = map.popups.getPopups();

    for(var i=0, len = popups.length; i < len; i++){
        var popup = popups[i];

        if(popup.metadata) {
            //Open/close the popup based on the zoom level range information.
            if(zoom >= popup.metadata.minzoom && zoom <= popup.metadata.maxzoom) {
                popup.open();
            } else {
                popup.close();
            }
        }
    }
}

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If you always keep your phone out of his reach or put a lock on it so he can't see your texts, he's going to wonder what you have to hide. Even if he'd never dream of reading through your messages, he'd feel more comfortable if you were willing to let him hold your cell. If you freak out when he gets close to it, he'll think something's wrong.
If you keep your man away from your friends and family, he's going to wonder why you're not eager to involve him in your life. He'll either think that you're embarrassed of him, or he'll think that he's not your only man. After all, you wouldn't want your family to meet him if they've already met another one of your boyfriends.
If he asks you where you're going and you just say "out," he's going to be suspicious. If he asks you who you're hanging out with and you say that you're not sure who will be there, he won't be happy, either. You wouldn't want him to go out and about without letting you know the details, would you? That's why you need to make sure you always keep him in the loop.
If you normally reply to his texts as soon as he sends them, but then go three hours without replying, he'll be suspicious. If he knows you're at work or at school, you have a valid excuse. But if you say that you just didn't hear the phone beep, he's going to think you're out with someone else.
If your boyfriend finds out about your promotion from Facebook, he's not going to be happy. If he's not the first person you're telling exciting news to, he'll wonder why. He'll end up assuming that you don't care about him as much as he cares about you, so make sure to keep an open dialogue.
If you love your partner, you'll make time for him, no matter how busy your schedule is. If you keep blowing him off, he's going to wonder if he's even important to you. He might even assume that you're spending your time with another man. So if you want to reassure him how much you care, set aside some time for him, even if it's only a few hours.
If you're always talking about your ex, or even about another guy that you're close friends with, your boyfriend will wonder what's so special about him. If you're always talking about someone else, that means you're always thinking about someone else, and your boyfriend isn't going to like that very much.
If you want your relationship to last a long time, you need to reassure your boyfriend that he's the only one for you. Has your boyfriend ever done any of these sketchy things?


For last year's Anime Expo, the staff did what I believe to be the first ever anime convention schedule smartphone app. Their iPhone app was indeed pretty cool, and there was much to like about it. Unfortunately their charging $1.99 for it (on top of all the other fee hikes associated with the convention) prevented me from giving a wholly glowing endorsement of it.
Well, if you're the proud owner of an Android smartphone or tablet, and will be attending Anime Los Angeles this weekend, there's an app for THAT as well. The ConDroyd for ALA 2011 app, to be precise. This app contains a full copy of the Anime LA schedule as well as the scheduled cosplay gatherings (something the official Anime LA program grid does not list). You can "star" any events that you are interested in seeing, and the app can be configured so that it alerts you any number of minutes before an event you're interested in.
It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the AX iPhone app (no maps, dealer's room listings, etc.) but one thing that it does have over the AX app is price – completely free.


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With C.J. Spiller still hobbled with a nagging ankle injury the Bills made a roster move to fortify their running back position promoting RB Ronnie Wingo to the 53-man roster. Spiller is listed as doubtful for Sunday's game in New Orleans.
Wingo (6'3" 231) is a big back with good athleticism. The Arkansas product was an undrafted rookie signing of the Atlanta Falcons this past spring, but was released during final cuts on Aug. 31st.
The rookie running back feels ready for the opportunity to get his first NFL carries this Sunday in New Orleans if it comes to that.
"I've been preparing every week like I'm going to play," Wingo told Buffalobills.com. "I've been working double time running scout team while studying for the Saints and all the other teams before that to stay ready."
Signed to the Bills practice squad on Sept. 2nd, Wingo has put in extra time to get a firm grasp of Buffalo's offensive system.
"What helps out a lot is having a group of older guys who already know what's going on," said Wingo of his fellow running back. "Me and (running backs) coach (Tyrone) Wheatley have been meeting extra ever since I got here. Some coaches really don't give the time of day to the guys on the practice squad. They just worry about the guys who are playing. But my relationship with him has grown and if I have a problem with the plays or anything we go over them."
Wingo said he meets with coach Wheatley every day for one-on-one coaching and study to master an offense he's only been immersed in for the past eight weeks.
"It's been a big help with me getting the feel for the offense," he said. "We'll sometimes have meetings in the morning. Sometimes after our post practice meetings at 3:15 if I have any questions I'll ask him and we'll go over things."
The rookie back rushed for almost 1,100 yards with eight touchdowns averaging 5.28 yards per carry in his career for the Razorbacks.

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South Asian Stability & Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
This book review appeared in National Security Policy Proceedings, vol. 3 (Fall 2010), at pp. 75-79. In it, Dr. Ford reviews India, Pakistan, and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).
In India, Pakistan, and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia (Columbia University Press, 2010), Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur offer the reader a brief but valuable exploration of questions of Indo-Pakistani nuclear stability and the future of South Asian geopolitics. Unusually – and some of the attraction of this book lies in this non-standard format – they approach this question in a point-counterpoint fashion, for the two authors actually disagree about the role nuclear weapons have played (and are likely to continue to play) in the region.
Ganguly regards nuclear weapons as having been an important stabilizing force in Indo-Pakistani relations. Just as Samuel Johnson once mused that the prospect of hanging tends to concentrate the mind, so Ganguly feels the specter of mutual nuclear destruction has helped prevent that strategic rivalry from spiraling out of control, and argues that it is likely to continue to constrain escalatory possibilities in the future.
Kapur takes a different view. As he sees it, the Indo-Pakistani crises that have been successfully managed without full-scale war since the two countries each acquired nuclear weapons capabilities were resolved for reasons unrelated to nuclear weapons. In fact, he sees nuclear weapons as having destabilized the South Asian scene by leading Pakistan into more adventurous proxy provocations using Islamic militants on the assumption that India's responses will necessarily stop short of full-scale invasion, either for fear of Islamabad's nuclear arsenal or as a result of international pressure predicated upon the risk of nuclear escalation. According to Kapur, nuclear weapons thus raise the likelihood of conflict, increasing the number of crises the participants have to face and thereby placing dangerous escalatory pressures on their relationship. Kapur calls his interpretation "strategic pessimism," and sees it as a more fundamental challenge to "optimistic" theories of nuclear stability than accounts that emphasize the danger of miscalculation or accident, because it envisions nuclear weapons as creating incentives for states such as Pakistan to choose "aggressive, extremely risky policies" that destabilize the environment.
The book is structured as an ongoing dialogue between these competing "optimistic" and "pessimistic" interpretations. The issue is not resolved, it being left to the reader to assess which author has more persuasively marshaled his logic and his facts. Methodologically, however, their accounts agree in one important respect: that nuclear stability cannot be understood merely at the level of theory. Ganguly and Kapur stress their rejection of approaches to strategic analysis that deal with nuclear deterrence only on the basis of "logical and analytic exploration of the strategic consequences of proliferation." At that level, both sides of the traditional debate – between optimists who "stress the ultimately stable outcomes of past crises between nuclear powers" and pessimists who "focus on the potentially catastrophic processes by which … crises erupt and escalate" – make valid points: "nuclear weapons may both encourage the outbreak of conflict and encourage states to ensure that violence remains limited." The devil is in the details, however, and it matters enormously how and to what degree such dynamics play out in the specific circumstances of a particular nuclear relationship.
Ganguly and Kapur thus seek to provide a grounding for their respective conclusions by seeking to "merge both theory and data" in an examination of the circumstances of South Asia. This might limit the "portability" of lessons one might learn here, but the authors' insistence upon contextual rootedness itself offers a corrective to all of us who struggle with nuclear policy. Details matter, and wise nuclear weapons policy likely admits no "one size fits all" policy prescriptions.
Near the end of the book, Ganguly and Kapur depart from their point-counterpoint approach in order to outline three "points of agreement." First, they agree that proliferation to the region will not lead to "the deliberate outbreak of large-scale war" because neither "Indian nor Pakistani leaders wish to initiate a conflict that could end in catastrophic losses or, potentially, national annihilation." Second, they agree that India's acquisition of ballistic missile defense technology would be destabilizing in the particular circumstances of the Indo-Pakistani nuclear rivalry, because it would either tempt India to consider a first-strike or encourage Pakistani arms racing, or both. Third, they argue that Pakistan's strategy of encouraging aggression against India by non-state actors (i.e., radical Muslim groups such as Lashkar-e-Toiba) has created a "sorcerer's apprentice" problem, insofar as such provocations could easily lead Indo-Pakistani relations to spiral dangerously out of control, but it is no longer clear that Islamabad can control its jihadist creations.
The authors' discussion of these "points of agreement" is a strange appendage to the rest of the book, undermining the distinctness of their competing positions and returning their debate to a much more conventional dichotomy of the sort that they claim they are trying to transcend. At the end of the day, it turns out that they agree that nuclear weapons have (as Ganguly argues) precluded deliberate large-scale conflict between the two rival states. Moreover, they agree that nuclear weapons have (as Kapur argues) helped Pakistan make up for its disadvantage in conventional military power, emboldening Islamabad to support destabilizing provocations by non-state actors.
As a result of these points of agreement, Ganguly and Kapur end up back in a fairly conventional optimist/pessimist dialogue pitting the possible crisis-calming effect of mutual nuclear fear against the crisis-escalating effect of accident, miscalculation, and actions by uncontrollable third-parties. Nevertheless, their able and articulate treatments of these issues do the reader a service by crisply laying out the competing perspectives.
Indeed, the fact that Ganguly and Kapur offer the reader few clear conclusions on the basic question they address – the aggregate impact of nuclear weapons upon South Asian security – is in itself valuable. Nuclear weapons policy is an arena in which experts commonly profess all manner of absolute certainties, but such convictions almost invariably outrun the available evidence and argument. There is therefore something refreshing in the analysis offered in this volume, which lays out the debate clearly, offers many supporting facts, and then declines to pretend that it has "The Answer." Such modesty is rare, and should be encouraged.
A reader interested in the potential implications for proliferation beyond the subcontinent, however, should probably be troubled by the few conclusions Ganguly and Kapur do reach. As noted, they seem to agree that nuclear weapons are tools of special value to countries in asymmetric power relationships with a potential adversary, and that from Pakistan's perspective, nuclear weapons have been enormously valuable. India's decisive use of its conventional military predominance – even in response to notable Pakistani provocations – has in this account been decisively deterred. An imbalanced non-nuclear relationship, in other words, has been "balanced" by Islamabad's acquisition of The Bomb, to the point that Pakistan's nuclear capability has proven empowering, offering it a sort of strategic immunity – a shield from behind which to indulge a predilection for proxy Islamist provocations.
To observers of proliferation challenges in the contemporary Middle East, this particular South Asian conclusion raises interesting questions. Ganguly and Kapur say nothing in their book about Iran or about nuclear weapons proliferation more generally. Their account suggests, however, that even if we could "deter" direct weapons use by a nuclear-armed Iran, its clerical regime might be considerably emboldened and empowered in its regional and other troublemaking because it will feel—just as the authors recount Pakistan feeling—that possessing a nuclear arsenal immunizes it from decisive responses from more powerful adversaries.
This also suggests that nuclear weapons proliferation will prove dauntingly hard to stop by merely persuasive means. In Ganguly and Kapur's analysis, the saga of nuclear weapons proliferation in South Asia is a narrative of how a weaker power can level the playing field vis-à-vis a larger strategic adversary by acquiring nuclear weapons. We should not expect other countries around the world to miss this point. The most developed states may today be enthralled by dreams of nuclear weapons abolition, and one can only wish them luck, but if Ganguly and Kapur are right about South Asia, some may find such devices more attractive than ever.
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This blog by Thousand Currents Executive Director, Solomé Lemma, is a longer version of an article by the same title that appeared in the March 2019 issue of Alliance Magazine, which is focused on systems change and philanthropy.
Amidst Guatemala's civil war, a small group women in Santiago Sacatepéquez came together in 1988 to address chronic malnutrition and the lack of educational opportunities among children and women. A few years later, the Asociación Femenina para el Desarrollo de Sacatepéquez, or AFEDES, then developed a robust microcredit, savings and loans, financial management, and income-generating skills building program.
Fast forward to June 2016, AFEDES members are among a thousand women who descended on the steps of the Guatemala Constitutional (Supreme) Court. They were there in support of a case brought by the Movimiento Nacional de Tejedoras that would hold the Guatemalan government accountable for preventing global fashion companies from stealing Mayan textile designs.
A small community group of women from rural Guatemala evolved to ignite a nation-wide movement, about to set an international legal precedent for Indigenous Peoples' collective intellectual property around the world. How can funders accompany peoples' journeys towards self-determination and collective power to affect systems change? As a long-time funder of AFEDES and other grassroots organizations and movements around the world, we offer four insights from our journey with them.
Know that lasting change takes time.
Systems change is nonlinear, often unpredictable, and requires efforts at multiple levels. In order to accompany our partners responsibly through many cycles of change, we provide long-term support that follows mutually established goals and outcomes as opposed to an artificial timeframe. We began supporting AFEDES in 2005. This long-term approach enables us to build trusting and respectful relationships that extend beyond the time-bound transactions of resources and results.
Our partners take on big corporations to keep their communities safe from environmental hazards. They build women-owned cooperatives that hold millions of dollars in assets. They save local seeds and promote indigenous farming practices to sustain people and the land. All are long-term endeavors that defy strict project timelines.
Resist being directive. Trust grantees.
Our role as the funders of AFEDES is also to invest (without any strings or restrictions) in their vision and their evolution. Long-term social transformation presents many trials and obstacles to our grantees. Funders shouldn't present even more. Over the course of Thousand Currents' partnership with them, the women of AFEDES deepened their own political and social analysis. They concluded that women's oppression could not be solved by credit or even economic power. They shifted their primary goal from increased income to zero in on Utz 'K'aslemal (Buen Vivir, or life in fullness or, good living) for their families, their communities, and all of the living world. This process of deepening the understanding of the wisdom of their ancestry meant their analysis also widened to include issues of ethnicity and indigeneity, food sovereignty, disability – intersectionality lived and spread through person-to-person community organizing.
Giving money and getting out of the way is a radical departure from traditional philanthropy, where project budgets dictate almost all parts of a partnership. Knowing that the people closest to the problems have the most important insights about solutions is an approach that many more foundations can and should embrace as they get serious about affecting systems change.
View your grantees within the context of movement ecosystems.
At Thousand Currents, we consider that our partners are part of movement ecosystems, which include and gather more and more individual citizens, campaigners, formal and informal groups, policy analysts, civil society organizations, media makers, etc. – taking coordinated steps. As part of larger national, regional, and international community-led movements, our partners build momentum in response to specific needs or social conditions and are accountable to the communities that comprise them. They are focused not just on their communities' needs, but on moving systems, structures, and institutions towards justice and equity for all people.
principled, collective, direct action to create targeted strategic pressure.
Just as much as they may include joint efforts on policy advocacy, narrative shift, and most importantly community organizing or mobilizing popular support, movements are phenomena. Sometimes, however, they are standalone efforts working to push a new or excluded agenda forward.
Get uncomfortable and never stop learning.
Funders who want to affect systems change will do well to recognize that movements vary greatly around the world, as the context and the people determine the structure and strategies within each movement. They are made up of ideas and actions for social transformation that are fluid, complex, responsive, and dynamic, which is what makes traditional project funding mechanisms so ill-fitted to systems change.
For a 30+ year-old organization to shift its approach from first funding short-term projects, then organizations, and now movements, much humility was and is required. Thousand Currents has made mistakes and missteps, but an ever-deepening commitment to continual, reciprocal learning means our grantees have become and remain our teachers. Ultimately, our grantmaking and support strategies are dictated by what our partners have identified as their needs.
Thousand Currents is not a movement builder. To affect systems and deepen our own analysis, Thousand Currents intentionally builds diversified grantmaking portfolios that represent movement actors of many types, sizes, and strategies, as well as existing capacities, so that we can keep learning about how to support movements without imposing our ideas on them. By focusing on building relationships of mutual trust and mutual accountability, we can build our capacity to walk with movements, and then share insights from our partners to inform wider philanthropic practices.
When it comes to moving with movements to affect systems change, we as funders don't have to know everything. But we do have to be willing to change ourselves.


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June 27, 2011 /0 Comments/in Life Improvement Strategies, Making Money With WordPress, Simply Scott, WordPress Business Ideas I Was Thinking About /by Scott R Asher
Remember Woody Harrelson?
I came across this article posted on the deceiver.com about the White Men Can't Jump star, Woody Harrelson.
Woody Harrelson Has Lost His Damn Mind
He lives in a farming village in Hawaii where there are no shops and everyone uses solar power. A committed vegan, he eats mostly raw foods. He goes through a ton of weed, which may be his biggest carbon emission because his car runs on biodiesel fuel.
Now Woody Harrelson wants to take it to the next level: a forty-day fast during which he does nothing but surf all day. And probably smoke a lot of drugs.
"I know it's going to be really hard," the Kingpin actor says. "But can you imagine it? Eating nothing for 40 days? Swimming and surfing every day in a remote place? Where does the mind go?"
It goes away, probably.
Honestly, this plan is so extreme that I can't help but respect it. And wait for the epic failure. Harrelson, I'm watching.
Sounds like camp AWESOME!!… Sign me up now! Woody is a god-damn uber-genius! Wait five years from now, when all the marrow has been sucked out of our souls, people are going to be lining up around the block to pay $15,000.00 a person for an experience like this. This is the true essence of life.
I tell you who has lost their fuckin mind… People that sit on the fucking 405 for 2 hours a day, grinding out some stupid job for 30 years then they end-up dying from second hand smoke.
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My godparents have "adopted" me on January 2nd 2013.
And since then, I am living along with them in the nice town of Plochingen (in Germany ).
What a wonderful day! January 2nd 2013 will always remain a very special date to me, my godparents have "adopted" me today.
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With drug overdoses now the leading cause of death for Americans under 50, it's more important than ever to empower teens to help their friends and siblings who may be struggling with an opioid painkiller or heroin problem. Since those addicted to prescription painkillers are 40 times more likely to become addicted to heroin, the sooner teens can help, the sooner they can save a life from a fatal overdose.
"Many, many times, it's legitimate use of (opioid painkillers), whether it had been oral surgery or an accident or sports injury, but that's absolutely what we're seeing across the country, across the state, and here in our county," according to Becky Carlson, executive director Center for Prevention and Counseling in Sussex County, New Jersey.
Both New York State and New Jersey are cracking down on how much of a prescription painkiller supply can be prescribed, according to David Hoover, district attorney for Orange County, New York.
The problem is heroin is just as powerful as prescription painkillers, and it is much, much cheaper. On the street, a 30 mg oxycodone pill can sell for about $60, Hoovler said, but an equivalent dose of heroin costs between $5 and $10 — cheaper than a pack of cigarettes.
Another common misconception, Hoovler said, is that teens have to use syringes and shoot heroin intravenously. He said more and more, teens are snorting heroin.
If a teen suspects their friend or sibling has a problem with painkillers or heroin, the first thing they should do is try to talk to them.
"If they're their friend, they've seen changes, they've seen different things that are going on or they just might know because the person is telling them," Carlson said. "It's just being able to sit down with their friend and talking with them and see if they can work with them to get them help.
If the teen feels they can't have that conversation, the next step is to talk to a trusted, responsible adult. This can be a parent or a trusted adult at their school, such as a teacher or a coach.
Jessica Wright is a health teacher at Monroe-Woodbury High School, one of the largest high schools in Orange County. In their district, like in most school districts, there are guidance counselors, school counselors and social workers that students can turn to who can help their friend.
With 90 percent of prescription drug addictions starting in teenage years, and over 70 percent of teens say it's easy to get prescription drugs from their parents' medicine cabinets, the sooner a friend speaks up, the sooner they can help their friend avoid a switch to heroin, or worse, a fatal overdose.
If a teen still feels like they can't talk to a trusted adult at home or at school, there are local resources aimed at helping teens deal with this very situation.
At the Center for Prevention and Counseling, teens can call and ask for Jane, the Adolescent Youth Coordinator. There is also the Sussex County Division of Community and Youth Services and Newton Medical Center Behavioral Health.
In Orange County, teens can reach out to the Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Council, the Orange County Department of Mental Health or the Orange County Mental Health Association.
There are also anonymous hotlines that teens can call. The Orange County Youth Bureau and United Way have sponsored a "Text 4 Teens," hotline, where teens experiencing any problems in school, at home, or just need someone to talk to can text or call.
In New Jersey, teens can call Second Floor, an anonymous youth hotline for those who need assistance helping a friend, or need help dealing with other issues like cyberbullying, dating abuse or mental health.
Help and resources are available.
Taking medication to boost mood: If someone is taking medication to get high or to forget a bad day, that usage might be considered problematic.
Fatigue: Opioids are depressants and can often lead to drowsiness or fatigue. Pay attention to drastic changes in sleep patterns, red or glazed eyes, or a general lack of focus and concentration.
Faking illness to get a prescription: Opioid addicts often pretend that a specific body part is painful to score painkillers from a doctor.
Mood changes: Be aware of sudden mood changes, including irritability, personality changes or lack of interest in school, work, sports or other hobbies. Watch for isolation or withdrawing from friends or family.
Weight loss: Opioid addicts will tend to lose weight rapidly due to metabolic changes. Watch for a change in appetite and eating habits as well.
Stealing the drug: Someone deep in the throes of addiction might choose to raid the family medicine cabinet or go on real estate home tours to steal drugs from strangers.
Flu-like symptoms: If opioid addicts do not have a constant supply of drugs, withdrawal symptoms become evident. Common withdrawal symptoms may include nausea, fever and headaches.
Stealing money: A painkiller addiction is very expensive. Take note if a friend repeatedly asks for money, or suddenly is selling valuables to earn "extra cash." Buying prescription medications from a friend/dealer typically means that someone is willing to do anything to get drugs.
Symptoms become more prominent as the drug abuse continues. Larger doses are associated with more severe symptoms.


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Anglo-Americans
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Gold, Agriculture, and the Pacific: How the Environment of California Led to Population Boom
California is the most populous state with 39.5 million residents and third largest in area after Texas and Alaska. Naturally resource rich, from the discovery of gold in the Sierra foothills, to the rich agricultural land of the Santa Clara and San Joaquin Valleys, through to the technological economies of the World War II Bay Area and modern Silicon Valley, this massive state which spans 770 miles north to south on the Pacific coast made it the wealthiest and most sought-after of all the states to settle. Natural resources like gold, fertile farm land and the coast line combined with waves of migrants from other parts of the United States, and immigrants from Europe and Asia, contributed the conditions to make California a diverse and cosmopolitan place that millions of people call their home.
California wasn't always this densely populated. Prior to Spanish contact, there were only about 310,000 indigenous people living throughout the state near waterways and the coast relatively isolated from each other (Brueck, VT Week 1). Different groups traded with one another but maintained their distinct culture and languages. They took advantage of the abundance of natural resources and lived in harmony with their environment (Brueck, VT Week 1). Technological advancements and evolution in social means of production changed encouraging a more seditary lifestyle which in turn, created opportunities for the spread of disease (Brueck, VT Week 1). These were the conditions under which the Spanish explorers found the native Californians. Seeking gold, silver and souls to convert, the Spanish encountered the native peoples who were already susceptible to foreign European diseases. Disease and the introduction of non-native species of plants and animals changed ecological conditions and brought the near total destruction of the native peoples (Brueck, VT Week 1).
This decimation of the indigenous laid the foundations for the first wave of migrants to California. Upon Mexican Independence and secularization of the missions, Mexico attempted to colonize what they called Alta California. Despite their best efforts, the "non-Indian population of Mexican California never exceeded 7,000 and only 1,000 of these were adult males" ( Brueck VT Week 2). Traders and mariners from New England arrived in California and established themselves in port cities. Many married into well-established Californio families, and seemed to know that California would soon be part of the Union (Brueck, VT Week 2). When gold was discovered outside of Sacramento on January 24, 1848 this discovery, once made public, would usher in waves of people seeking their fortunes. But not before California entered the Union as a state; on February 2, 1848, Mexico and the United States signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. President Polk delayed the official announcement to the nation that gold had been discovered in California until December. This announcement caused the sudden migration of tens of thousands of people to California from across the continent and from other places as well (Brueck VT Week 3).
In 1848, the population of California had been about 10,000 but within a year of Polk's announcement the population had swelled to 100,000 and within one more year had increased another 150 percent to 250,000 (Breuck, Week 3). People arrived to quench their thirst for the gold and silver that was found in rivers and creeks, but many stayed after the rush to settle in cities and the countryside. Indian, African American and Chinese laborers were in high demand because large scale operators could hire them to do back breaking work for low wages especially after hydraulic mining techniques were employed to extract gold from the mountainsides and riverbeds (Brueck, VT Week 3). Hydraulic mining required large amounts of water and "signaled the dominance of global capital over California's economy and, in many ways, its environment" (Brueck, VT Week 3).
The next population explosion came to the fertile farm lands of the Santa Clara and San Joaquin Valleys. First, Chinese, then Japanese and Filipino immigrants arrived in Santa Clara Valley to farm orchards, serve as unskilled labor and eventually settle and purchase their own property before being priced out by the Silicon Valley technological boom of the 1950s and 1960s. As Tsu explained, "the Santa Clara Valley in its horticultural heyday was undeniably beautiful, covered with row upon row of fruit trees that created a canopy of delicate, sweetly perfumed pink and white blossoms, flanked by hillsides awash in orange California poppies and other native wildflowers" (Tsu, 3). Once the word got out about the beauty and abundance produced by this land, Asian farmers mainly settled in this region and worked on middling sized family farms. As they gained economic success and were able to lease or purchase land of their own, they challenged the oft promoted ideal of the American family farm.
Farmers from the southwest migrated into the San Joaquin Valley seeking a better life. Driven out of their homes by ecological and environmental devastation, these "Okies," as they came to be called, packed up all their belongings and headed west to the San Joaquin Valley. In the introduction to The Harvest Gypsies, Charles Wollenberg tells us that from 1935 to 1938, between 300,000 and 500,000 Okies arrived in California (Wollenberg, xi). Okies fundamentally transformed the agricultural work force of California by changing the ethnic composition. Whereas farmers had relied on Mexican and Filipino immigrant laborers in the past, now there was a white labor force upon which they could call. Resistant to organizing and fiercely independent, Okies were migrants who wandered up and down the state from harvest to harvest (Steinbeck, 19). Due to federal assistance programs, Okies were eventually assisted in setting up subsistence farming communities which grown into towns in the Central Valley.
Upon entry into World War II, Okies eligible for military service enlisted or were drafted and the media largely forgot about them (Wollenberg, xvi). However, World War II brings us to the next great population boom for California. As the Pacific Coast became the manufacturing hub for the war effort, hundreds of thousands of workers from the South, including 150,000 African Americans and women from all over the nation came to California to seek employment in good paying industrial jobs (Brueck, VT Week 8). Murch quoted Sociologist Charles Johnson who explained, "To the romantic appeal of the west, has been added the real and actual opportunity for gainful employment, setting in motion a war-time migration of huge proportions" (Murch, 15-16). In northern California, it was the Pacific coast and the ports of Oakland and Richmond that provided the setting for these jobs. In southern California, it was the boom in aviation. According to Murch, "In less than a decade, the number of black residents [in Oakland] increased over 500 percent" (Murch, 16). This influx of population fundamentally changed the city of Oakland, but also profoundly impacted the economic, political and educational systems in the state.
What ties all these waves of migrants and immigrants to their California experience is the rich opportunities provided by the natural environment. Gold found in the streams and mountains provided the first economic boom and spurred development of cities like Sacramento and San Francisco and created ghost towns in the Sierra foothills. Fertile farm land nourished by the waters of the Sierra snowfalls and the Delta region made California an agricultural paradise. And finally, the proximity to Pacific Ocean provided ample ports and coastal waterways to support a vibrant wartime economy that brought migrants from other parts of the United States to our shores.
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Shark Tank season 9 episode 4 introduces professional football player Rob Gronkowski and his brothers pitch an insulated sports bottle; a tool that quickly soothes foot pain; a twist on a popular snack; an innovative way to keep belongings safe.
Season 9 Episode 4 in depth
Guest sharks this season include Spanx founder Sara Blakely, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, brand marketer Rohan Oza, TV personality Bethenny Frankel, and former MLB star Alex Rodriguez.
In this season 9 episode 4, the guest judge is Alex Rodriguez.
Alexander Rodriguez is an American former professional baseball shortstop and third baseman who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), as well as a businessman and philanthropist.
Alex Rodriguez joined ESPN in 2018 as a Sunday Night Baseball analyst.
In July 2020, it was announced that Rodriguez would be part of the judging panel for the Forbes' Next 1000 list, a franchise which focuses on entrepreneurs from marginalized communities.
Rodriguez formerly owned a Mercedes-Benz dealership in League City, Texas, and in his free time, Rodriguez buys and collects art. He is an investor for eSports team NRG Esports.
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We listed below every entrepreneur and business who has appeared on Shark Tank Season 9 Episode 4. Many scammers claim they've received big investments from the Sharks or they have been on the show. If you don't see a business on this list, they were not actually on Shark Tank. Some of the top places you can use to check are on Wikipedia and also ABC's episode guide.
List with all the appearances in season 9 episode 4:
BenjiLock – Padlock With Fingerprint Sensor
Solemender Cold Foot Massager
Delighted By Hummus – Sweet Dessert Hummus
Ice Shaker Insulated Protein Shaker Bottle
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$200,000 for 10% $200,000 for 15% Kevin O'Leary
Entrepreneurs: Robbie Cabral
Based in Los Angeles, CA, a company called Benjilock makes a unique key unlocking and padlock with a fingerprint. BenjiLock is the World's First Traditional Rechargeable Padlock with Fingerprint Technology.
According to the company, BenjiLock can last on a single charge up to a year. Just in case you're having trouble with the fingerprint reader, or you simply need someone to unlock it when you're not available, or the device runs out of battery, it also comes with a set of physical keys. If someone attempts to unlock it without your approval, the device will even automatically wipe your info and require keys.
The Benjilock comes with two traditional keys and can hold up to 10 fingerprints and. School, gym or on a backpack or any indoors where you might use a traditional padlock, are suitable for Benjilock use.
$75,000 for 10% NO DEAL NO SHARK
Entrepreneurs: Ehan Kamat and Vinay Kamat
Unlike traditional foot rollers and massagers on the market today, the Solemender uses an innovative design to treat painful foot conditions. The all-inclusive device massage the sole and heel, and utilizes a re-freezable and removable roller to simultaneously cool. To initiate treatment of foot pain, doctors typically recommend stretching and cold. Both treatments are offered in one portable unit by this patent-pending Solemender.
This new device Solemender that makes feet more comfortable is invented by Ehan Kamat and Vinay Kamat from St. Louis, MO. To alleviate foot pain, the entrepreneur behind Solemender has created a device with frozen metal rollers when users roll their feet across it as it massages it cools.
Angling the foot in different positions as well as applying varying degrees of pressure can also have benefits that target pressure and trigger points found in the feet and are often realized with reflexology.
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$600,000 for 12% $600,000 for 25% Mark Cuban
Entrepreneurs: Makenzie Marzluff
Delighted By Hummus is created by a certified nutritionist, Makenzie Marzluff. They have done $1 million in gross sales in the 13 months since they start selling in the stores.
Cinnamon and vanilla beans replaced the usual garlic and lemon of hummus. The product is not available for purchase online, but you can find it in big retailers like Whole Foods and Walmart. Another option is to use the store locator on the DelightedbyHummus website to find a store near you.
Delighted By Hummus currently offers 4 delectable flavors: Vanilla Bean, Snickerdoodle, Choc-o-Mint and Brownie Batter. They are all vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free and all-natural.
$100,000 for 10% $100,000 for 15% Mark Cuban and Alex Rodriguez
Entrepreneurs: Chris Gronkowski
Ice Shaker is a company from Dallas, TX, founded by an athlete that makes a new kind of shaker bottle designed to keep drinks cold.
The Ice Shaker can keep ice for up to thirty hours, thanks to its is a double-walled, insulated sports bottle. According to the entrepreneur who claims that besides keeping drinks cold, even when outside in hot weather it will not sweat. It's also claimed that it will not retain the taste or scent of previous beverages.
Ice Shaker's sturdy leakproof BPA-free pop top is easy to open while still being secure enough to close and shake. The Ice Shaker's double-wall vacuum insulated bottle will hold ice for over 30 hours in a 75-degree room.
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Every single thing, even the voting options, are repeats of previous deals in the sale. Tomb Raider is of note because it's been cheaper on Amazon during this Steam Sale.
Voting is all sports, so you'll have to ask Owen. It's also all repeats.
• Community Deal Super Meat Boy ($3.74) | Repeat, awesome game of course, you probably have 3 copies already.
• Flash Sale New Vegas ($2.49) | Repeat, buy the Ultimate Edition. Also the link seems to be broken.
• Flash Sale FTL ($2.49) | Repeat, easy buy.
• Flash Sale Hitman Absolution ($6.24) | Repeat, and not the cheapest the game has been.
• Flash Sale Star Conflict Elite Power Pack ($40) | Got nothing, but at least it's not a repeat.
Voting for Runner2 even though it's a repeat, because RCR and Meat Boy are on sale all the time.
• Community Sale Bully ($3.74) | Repeat. Buy it.
• Flash Sale Portal 2 ($5) | Game of the generation? Quite Possibly. Repeat? Yes. Been bundled for cheaper? Yes. Should you buy it anyway? Yes.
• Flash Sale Fable III ($5) | Where's the Fable II sale?
• Flash Sale Rayman Origins ($6.79) | Amazing game, good price, I might actually recommend getting a console version for couch co-op though. Update: You can in fact do couch co-op on the PC version if you've got the setup for it.
• Flash Sale Star Trek ($7.50) | The other white Aliens: Colonial Marines. I would have liked to have seen this for a $1 0r $2, because you know, this is supposed to be a Steam sale.
• Lead Deal Skyrim Legendary ($36) | Repeat, good deal.
• Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition ($5) | Has been this price many times, but go for it if you want it.
• Train Simulator 2013 ($11) | I've got nothing for you.
• Civ V ($7.50) | On sale constantly, but go for it.
• Trials Evolution Gold Edition ($10) | Probably the second most exciting sale today after Monaco.
• Monaco ($7.44) | It's the one everyone has been asking for.
• Metro: Last Light ($30) | Repeat, but go for it.
• Eve Online ($5) | This is actually a starter pack. The game has a subscription fee after the first month.


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A Filipino worker carries a yellowfin tuna in a port in General Santos City, Southern Philippines, in 2013. (© Ezra Acayan/NurPhoto/Corbis/Getty Images)
Mary Jane Maxwell
Local fishers in Southern Mindanao, Philippines, can now sell their catch for a higher price without threatening fish stock in the area, thanks to a U.S.-Philippines partnership.
Dozens of small fishing vessels in the region are using monitoring equipment provided by a Philippines-based technology company called the Futuristic Aviation and Maritime Enterprise and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The transponders capture and transmit "traceability data" such as where the fish are caught and the weight and type of fish.
Armed with documentation showing their fish were caught in a legal and sustainable manner, the fishers can now meet the strict requirements that allow them to sell on the international market and earn a higher price for their catch.
The transponders also have a safety feature that allows fishers to message friends and family onshore and permits family members to track their location while out at sea.
"For many years, vessel-tracking technology has had numerous benefits for governments and nongovernmental organizations, with far fewer direct and tangible benefits for the fishers themselves," the head of Futuristic Aviation and Maritime Enterprise, Arcelio Fetizana, told USAID in 2018.
"FAME has worked hard to incorporate features into our transponders that benefit the fishers that use them," said Fetizana.
For more fish, 'Fish Right'
A fish market south of Manila in 2014. Around 60 percent of the Filipino population lives in coastal zones and depends on coastal resources for their livelihoods. (© Ezra Acayan/NurPhoto/Corbis/Getty Images)
The transponders are just one recent example of a long-standing U.S.-Philippines partnership to combat overfishing and protect the South China Sea and other waters. In fact, for more than 20 years the U.S. has supported the Philippines' marine conservation, resulting in a 24 percent increase in the number and size of fish in the area.
This matters to an island nation where more than half of the population relies on the country's enormous fishing industry for their livelihood.
In November 2018, USAID launched a $25 million project called Fish Right that aims to improve marine biodiversity, strengthen fish management and governance, and increase the number and weight of fish in the Calamianes Islands, the Visayan Sea and the South Negros region of the Philippines.
"We are at the forefront of the country's fight against illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, which to this day continues to imperil marine and aquatic resources and the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of fisherfolk," said Eduardo B. Gongona, an official with the Philippines Department of Agriculture, at the launch of the project with U.S. Embassy officials in November 2018.
"The U.S. government is committed to work alongside you in this crucial endeavor," said U.S. Embassy in the Philippines Deputy Chief of Mission John Law.
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Hey Europe, What about Structural Adjustment?
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
The EU and the Troika now apply structural adjustment to Greece, a policy with a record of disaster, 'lost decades' in Africa and Latin America and worsening the Asian crisis of the 1990s. The Berlin/Brussels consensus has come in the place of the Washington Consensus.
The IMF and World Bank abandoned structural adjustment programs (SAP) because of massive failure and resistance. SAP was never a development program but a disciplinary regime used by creditors and hegemons. After 2008 the US opted for stimulus, not austerity. Against economic advice Germany, and the EU, press on with austerity.
Germany proclaims the motto of Ordo-liberalism—Follow the rules; Merkel's message is 'the EU is based on rules'. One of the rules is that debtors must pay. Along with this positon comes technocracy, self-righteousness and moral binarism—the rules über alles and one is either in or outside the rules. The Netherlands and Finland (while itself constrained in its recovery by the euro) and rightwing governments such as Poland and Spain back Germany.
Why resurrect a thoroughly defunct disciplinary mechanism—long past its sell-by date, tested in the form of the Washington consensus and repudiated even in Washington? Why reinvent 1930s Ordo-liberalism now? Applying this serves multiple purposes.
Repayment of German, French and other banks exposed to Greek debt. Debt repayment comes first, as in the Washington consensus of the 90s. ECB policies have served this purpose. Unlike the European Development Bank (EBRD) the ECB is a bankers' bank, not a development bank.
The cost of austerity is disproportionally borne by weak social strata including the young, pensioners and minorities, so just as SAP it serves as class realignment.
In the US a major root of structural adjustment is Dixie capitalism—plantation capitalism, high-exploitation capitalism, as it existed already in the American South, turned into national policy by Reagan. The US has been slowly inching away from low wage/low tax capitalism (with Obamacare, stimulus policies, quantitative easing) while Britain has embraced it. During past years austerity policies in Britain have drastically cut social services. George Osborne's aim is to establish a 'low tax, low wage' economy.
Austerity State Local authorities across Britain have scrapped access to vital services for 150,000 pensioners and cut child protection spending by 8 per cent since 2010, as cash-strapped councils scramble to cope with George Osborne's austerity drive. Services have been abandoned and entitlements altered as the chancellor has conducted one of the developed world's most aggressive exercises in deficit reduction. (Financial Times 27.7.15)
The cuts to British local authority budgets amount to £18bn, equivalent to 19 percent of spending. Germany is becoming more like Britain and in joining Germany's train the EU follows. Establishing the Berlin consensus as Brussels hegemony serves to discipline France and Mediterranean economies, thus curtailing unruly varieties of European capitalism under a single umbrella—the outline of which was already set in the 1991 Maastricht Treaty.
Thus, Nordic countries and firms reap the advantages of the euro (large common market, relatively low currency, low export and transaction cost) while weaker economies carry the burden of uneven development. Concealing or turning to advantage (of Nordic banks and enterprises) European North-South uneven development is embedded in the Maastricht Treaty. Schäuble's threat of Grexit, a political ploy, serves to discipline unruly eurozone economies—follow the rules, or you're out.
Mediterranean capitalisms are distorted (patronage state, oligarchies, clientelism, social spending unrelated to productivity, tax evasion), but so is the Germany economy—with wage repression to boost exports and a growing precariat. In Germany worker wages have risen by no more than 1.4 percent since the early 90s, in a policy initiated after reunification. With the help of Bild and other media, German workers now take their frustration out on the Greeks.
Compare the world's two leading export economies, China and Germany. Both hold vast external surpluses. By buying US Treasuries China boosted American debt; Germany bought Greek debt. China has since changed gear from export-led to investment-led growth and is now externalizing its investment-led approach in One belt, One road projects, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the Silk Road Fund, the BRICS' New Development Bank and loans to and investments in developing countries. This is China's surplus recycling mechanism. Germany, by contrast, lacks a surplus recycling mechanism (as Yanis Varoufakis notes in The Global Minotaur). The European Investment Fund (€315 billion over three years from 2015) is puny compared to China's expansive investment projects.
There's no class analysis in the austerity picture—or rather, the project is recovery of the strong on the backs of the weak. There's no class analysis of Greece either—bailouts went to banks, and then back to German and French banks, not to the Greeks. Missing in the picture is historical awareness—Germany has received debt relief more than once (as Piketty and several others point out). Missing in the picture is awareness of how Germany has benefitted from the euro—enormously, so giveback or at any rate surplus recycling is appropriate, also as an investment in future common prosperity.
Structural adjustment and conditionalities only affected indebted developing countries (surplus economies such as China were never affected). Likewise in Europe externally imposed austerity programs only affect indebted countries. Scandinavia, the Netherlands and other Nordic countries are not affected, other than by 'creeping liberalization'. The alternative of Nordic capitalism (combine economic dynamism with social policies) can remain intact; yet in following Germany's lead in the EU it is losing rather than gaining ground.
Along with Greece, this puts several cards on the table. The euro as a scrooge's currency, tied to structural adjustment, isn't sustainable and will unravel at the edges because over time it deepens and doesn't solve uneven development. The EU as Germany writ large, short of reflexivity and awareness, inward looking and bumbling in relation to Ukraine, Russia and Turkey, is losing legitimacy.
The EU was about achieving scale and leverage by burden sharing and development (as in the infrastructure fund). The Maastricht Treaty and the euro are the opposite of the EU. They push the eurozone into the cul de sac of the banker's paradigm (sound money, never mind the economy), enhanced by risk-free banking (with politically enforced bailouts). Having made a comeback after 2008, the IMF is back with conditionalities (as if the 90s never happened) while it is hostage to the American veto and the Republicans in Congress.
The euro is no help in debt and recession, but renegotiating the Maastricht Treaty isn't a realistic option (also in view of 'Brexit'). Europe as an alternative to Anglo-American capitalism is losing ground. The Maastricht Treaty, creeping liberalization and austerity, in overdrive since the 2008 crisis, slowly eviscerate social market economies. The upshot is that the international field shifts more and more to emerging developing countries.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at University of California Santa Barbara. He holds the Pok Rafeah Distinguished Chair at Malaysia National University, 2014-2015. He specializes in globalization, development studies and cultural studies. He is the author/editor of 22 books. https://www.jannederveenpieterse.com
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Selling a home does not depend on the price that it will fetch as much as it does on the lifestyle that you have adopted. For example, you could have added a kid or two, or even adopted one, and you are feeling that the space is a bit cramped. That alone is enough to tell you it is time for a move. Maybe you have started working from home, and so you need an extra room to use it as your home office. It is time to sell and buy a bigger home.
This is enough reason for you to sell your home. Your children are all grown and the doctor has advised you to move to a warmer climate, maybe to California. That is a sure sign that you should spruce up your home and sell it, and go live in another place altogether after your retirement.
If you have too much room, then it is all going to waste. Maybe it is time to sell the home for some good cash and then buy a smaller one. In fact, many people say they sold their home because they felt it was too big for them.
Price can determine whether you sell your house or not. If you have a big beautiful house, has added some features and improvements that can fetch you a good amount of money, well, it is time to sell. Keep an ear to the ground all the time and if you hear that a local house sold for a good amount of money, you can decide to put yours on the market. You can even ask a realtor how much your home would fetch and if you feel it is right, just sell.
When your spouse has died, you have been divorced or ill, well, it may be time for you to sell that home and look for a cheaper place to live in. This is a hard decision though but someone has to make it. If you lose your job and you have looked for another one for months, well, just concede that making mortgage payments will be a problem and sell the home. There is no need to wait for the bank to come calling. Maybe you can just need a larger home and you can afford that. So, selling the old house make sense.
Home equity means that whatever mortgage you owe can be subtracted from the current value of the home and you remain with some money … that is positive equity. However, you should wait until the equity is enough to pay the down payment for another home. The recommended amount of home equity is that one which can pay a 20% deposit for a new home.
These are some good signs you should look out for and decide if you should sell your home or not. These are the right times you can either quickly sell your house or have the best price for your property.


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Budva may be 3,500 years old but it as an exemplary modern tourist destination. Sitting on the eponymous Budvanska Riviera, the town is the most visited area of Montenegro, Not surprising - it fully deserves its label as a Riviera. It has all the beauty of the similarly named areas of France and Italy, including cashmere soft sandy beaches, safe crystal clean waters, great sightseeing, and vibrant nightlife. It is so popular, it is often called the Miami of Montenegro.
The beaches of the Budva coastline are the draw card, and there are 17 to choose from. Budva town sits to the north of the bay, so most beaches lie southwards, except the notable Jaz Beach. Each beach has its own charming personality, including those on the little island of Sveti Nikola: Blinding white sands, lapus lazuli waters, rocky headlands, small bays, sweeping stretches, cedar trees, lines of sun beds and umbrellas, and kiosks and cafes, are all just some of the ingredients in varying combinations. Queen's Beach is considered one of the best in Europe.
True to the tradition of offering all the fun of a fabulous string of beaches, there are plenty of water sports all along the Budvanska Riviera. From diving and snorkelling under it, sailing, riding, boarding and surfing on it and swimming in it, there's a way for everyone to enjoy the water. For novices, and beginners, there are schools offering lessons and courses.
The roots of Budva are still easily found. The old town (Stari Grad) is a charming labyrinth of narrow passages and interesting stone buildings which tell their own story of Budva's development through the ages. This area of the town is enclosed by walls, defensive towers and city gates that date back to the 15th century. Within the fortified area is the citadel, inviting little squares, inspiring religious buildings, monuments, and statues, including the Dancing Girl – a popular inclusion in holiday photographs. Among the most significant churches is that of Saint John. It holds precious icons and important libraries and archives, and The Chronicle of Budva. Other items and exhibits of import can be viewed in the Budva Archaeological Museum.
Day and night, there's plenty of entertainment in Budva. The old town has plenty of little boutiques and the foreshores of most beaches are lined with stores, outdoor stalls, and of course a mass of bars, restaurants, and nightclubs.
If you're looking for antique charm with modern facilities, Budva is the place.
Check out our accommodations section if you're planning to stay in Budva.


The Prospectus is defended before the Dissertation Committee in public during a PhD Faculty/Student Seminar. The entire student body and the faculty of the Department are invited to the Prospectus Defense.
The draft prospectus should be handed in to the committee for feedback by June 15th of the first year, and a final version by September 15.
The prospectus should be defended by October 15th of the second year (or the 3rd year for students on an extended track).
One week before the scheduled defense at the latest, the student must receive confirmation by email from all the committee members that the student is ready for a defense, which must be forwarded to the program coordinator (Gyorgyi Puruczky) before a defense will be confirmed. The External Committee Member must submit written comments on the prospectus two to four working days before the defense. The student will have access to these comments and be able to consider them before the defense.
The Prospectus Defense may result in any of the following outcomes: pass without amendments; pass with minor amendments; pass with major amendments to satisfaction of committee; or re-defend. In case of the need for revisions or a new defense, students will be informed by the Committee of the timeframe in which the changes need to be made or the new defense scheduled.
After the dissertation prospectus has been successfully defended, the student moves from probationary status to doctoral candidate and the main focus is on conducting research, writing and subsequently defending the doctoral dissertation.
b) that a concrete plan is in place for how to achieve these objectives, which can be executed given the time and resources available.
The prospectus examining committee must be composed of at least 3 members, of whom one must be the student's supervisor and another an internal (departmental) dissertation committee member. It is also a requirement that the prospectus must be judged by at least one person external to the department.
At the defense the student is expected to give an up to 30 minute presentation of his/her prospectus. After that the examining committee members will ask questions/give comments, to which the student has a chance to reply. Finally, the "public" is able to raise questions/comments. Once the proceedings are complete (usually after c. 1 hour) the examiners retire to reach a judgement on the prospectus.
The prospectus can either be passed as it is; or passed with a requirement for corrections, with or without a second defense; or rejected. Additionally/alternatively, the examiners may require that the student undertakes certain additional steps, e.g. make a report on preliminary research findings. In addition to any required changes/tasks, the examiners may also make non-binding suggestions and will usually make comments on any major strengths and weaknesses of the prospectus as they see them.


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Q: High impedance opamp attenuator Is it possible to design a single-op-amp schematic to attenuate a high impedance signal? The designs that I know have these limitations:

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*Non-inverting with input directly going into op-amp, has gain ≥1

*Inverting op-amp draws current from the input.

The input is a pressure sensor (probably Wheatstone bridge based) but the impedance is in the area of 100kΩ.
The output goes into a low-pass filter (out of my control) which has non-negligible impedance, and ADC, so it needs to be driven hard.
If possible I don't want to use a voltage follower to buffer the signal. My feeling says it should be possible with one op-amp but I can't think of a way, and searching led me to nothing. Inverted-ness doesn't matter.
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The resistance of the filter measures 5.1kΩ at DC. The bandwidth is non-existant (pressure changes take multiple seconds). Accuracy is not important as long as it's repeatable, the min and max are defined, and the domain is monotonic. Input min/max ~2V-12V. Output min/max ~1V-5V. Opamp is rail-to-rail, single-rail powered with 0V/12V.

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab

A: Normally it's no problem at all if the output signal you want to feed into the low pass filter has some non-zero impedance. It's just important to know what impedance it has.
Therefor you can use a voltage divider after a voltage follower (upper subcircuit).
It's Thévenin equivalent (lower subcircuit) is a voltage source \$v_{th} = v_{in} \frac{R2}{R1+R2}\$ with series resistance \$R_{th} = R_1 || R_2\$.

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab


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April Senior Events: Meet the State Rep., Nature, Music History & More
By Guest Writer | April 1, 2021
Town of Watertown
Watertown Senior Center
The Watertown Senior Center has a variety of events coming up in April. See some below, and more in the senior newsletter.
The Senior Center provided the following information:
GUEST SPEAKERS via Zoom
The Secret Lives of Backyard and Migratory Birds with Sean Kent, Education Manager, Museum of American Bird Art.
Friday, April 9, at 1 pm
Spring is a great season for bird watching with migrants returning from their winter grounds in all their breeding finery. This illustrated lecture will feature birds that are commonly seen through out the spring and give you a glimpse into the secret life of birds.
Meet-and-Greet with Steve Owens, State Representative
Tuesday, April 6, at 11 am
Representative Owens will discuss what he will be doing in the upcoming legislative session around various issues and there will be time for a Q&A afterwards. Steve Owens represents the 29th Middlesex District which consists of North and West Cambridge and most of Watertown. He was elected this past November and believes in taking bold action to reduce the impact of climate change, solving our transportation crisis and making sure that every family has access to affordable housing.
Technology for People with Hearing Loss with Kathleen Krefethen
Thursday, April 8 at 2 pm
Hearing Loss is an additional challenge to coping skills and adaptation during this time of masks and social distancing. Even a mild hearing loss can deepen the impact of communication challenges and
feelings of isolation. Mask use has made many people with mild to severe hearing loss realize the skills they had developed in lip reading can no longer be used to assist understanding of others. Mask ear loops have lead to hearing aides falling out, sometimes to be lost. Technology, such as Zoom, has
helped many to maintain connections. Zoom is usually not captioned, and can be frustrating for those with hearing loss. If you have hearing loss, think you have a hearing loss, or care about someone with a hearing loss, please join us. This meeting will be on zoom and IT WILL BE CAPTIONED! Being with others who have similar concerns, and who can relate empathetically, is one proven way to increase feelings of well-being. Together, specific issues can be clarified and strategies shared.
Zoom Book Club
Wednesday, April 14, at 9 am
We will be discussing The Last Castle, by Denise Kiernan. In her well-researched and captivating book, Kiernan tells the fascinating, true story of how a phenomenally wealthy Vanderbilt scion transformed a
rural North Carolina town by building the ultimate rich man's folly and reveals the eccentricities, heartaches, and even money problems of these Social Register denizens. It traces George Vanderbilt's construction of his European style estate, the grandest residence ever built in the United States, and the efforts of his bride, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, to become its protector in the face of changing fortunes and times. The story of Biltmore spans World Wars, the Jazz Age, the Depression, and genera ons of the famous Vanderbilt family, and features a captivating cast of real-life characters including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Teddy Roosevelt, John Singer Sargent, James Whistler, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Upcoming: May Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann; June The Splendid and the Vile, by Erik Larsen.
Earth Day Grab-n-Go from Maria's
Wednesday, April 14 at 11:30 am
We are offering a special grab-n-go boxed Earth Day Lunch from Maria's. The lunch box includes Chicken, Ziti and Broccoli in a Garlic Cream Sauce, and Garden Salad with Italian Dressing on the
side. It will also have Italian Min Pastry in a separate box. The Council on Aging will be sharing the cost to offer this dinner to you for $5.00. Order by April 6 by calling the Senior Center.
Music History: Big Band Swing, Part One with John Clark
Thursday, April 15 at 2 pm
The Big Band era officially started in the summer of 1935 but the transition from hot jazz and Dixieland had begun much earlier in the decade. We'll trace the roots of Big Band music, including the back story of the King of Swing himself, Benny Goodman. The last third of the program will be devoted to the most popular bandleader of this period, Glenn Miller with 22 chart topping songs from 1939 to 1943. You'll learn the origins of the unmistakable Glenn Miller sound heard in his theme song, Moonlight Serenade and see performances of his biggest hits like In the Mood and Chattanooga Choo Choo. There's even
footage of Glenn leading the 50-piece Army Air Force Band in the summer of 1944, just months before he boarded the flight to France that took his life. For ten years jazz became America's popular music and you're invited to experience two of its biggest stars.
Coffee with Director Anne-Marie
Monday, April 12 at 2 pm
Join our Director to discuss programs of interest for the Summer season.
Readers Advisory Circle with Emily Levine, Reference Librarian
Wednesday, April 21 at 11 am
Emily from the Watertown Free Public Library will continue providing help with finding your next favorite read by reviewing popular titles. We will talk about the resources the library has "always available" via their e-book collection, as well as some of the other books that are available in Watertown specifically.
Zoom Pet Lovers' Group
Wednesday, April 21 at 9 am
We are inviting all pet owners to meet and share their stories, experiences, and skills with a group of like-minded people. Please bring your pet!
Zoom Knitting Group
Wednesday, April 21 at 2 pm
Are you missing a freely floating conversation over knitting? Would you like to share and discuss new patterns and yarn types? Join our Monday Zoom Knitting Group.
Zoom Presentation The Charles River Path and Its Wildlife with Carol Berney
On Earth Day (April 22), Watertown nature photographer Carole Smith Berney will take us on a virtual but colorful walk along the Charles River pathway, welcoming spring with its warmth and beauty. Please join her in a wonderfully stunning celebration of the Charles River and its tremendous diversity of wildlife: the birds, wildflowers, turtles, frogs, muskrats, herons, fish and more. Carole's interesting narrative, including some poetry, and her beautiful color images accompanied by meditative music have
received great praise from her audiences.
Zoom Tour at the Armenian Museum of America with Susan and Gary Lind-Sinanian
Friday, April 23 at 1 pm
Gary Lind-Sinanian is the curator at the Armenian Museum of America, located at 65 Main Street in
Watertown Square. The museum is one of the largest ethnic museums in the Commonwealth and
moved into the former Coolidge Bank building in 1990. Gary will talk about the museum, its history,
and the collections, and why it is was placed in Watertown. A 15 minute question and answer session
will follow the presentation.
Zoom 55+ and Ready to Move? With Jennifer Van Campen, Executive Director
In this one hour conversation we will talk about downsizing, housing choices, "Affordable" housing,
and planning housing situation. More information available at: www.metrowestcd.org
Zoom LGBTQI Support Group with Marci Shapiro-Ide, Social Worker at the Arlington Senior Center
Marci has been building her relationships with the members of the LGBTQI community in Metro Boston
Area for last nine years. She is holding regular LGBTQI group meetings at the Arlington Senior Center. Marci will talk about her experience during those years and will tell us about her cooperation with the
LGBTQI centered agencies in the Metro West Area.
Read more in the April 2021 Watertown Senior News by clicking here.


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Anticipation for UFC 202 has reached a fever pitch; Conor McGregor vs Nate Diaz 2 is a matter of hours away. The main event of this card is possibly the biggest money fight in UFC history to-date. The rest of the card is not too shabby either. I thought I would give you my predictions for the seven fights that I am most excited about.
'Rocky' Raquel Pennington has been on a roll lately, she is coming into this bout from a decision win over Bethe Correia and a submission of Jessica Andrade. Both of those women are big names in the women's bantamweight division and Pennington will look to continue that success against Phillips.
Compared to Correia and Andrade this is a relatively easy win. Elizabeth Phillips is definitely aggressive but I think Pennington will weather the storm and her technique will help her achieve a unanimous decision.
This bout involves a rising star taking on an accomplished veteran. Garbrandt is the next superstar coming up in the UFC and the company clearly know it. The more first round knockouts he brings them, the more they push him.
The talk now is that Garbrandt could be on the way to a title shot against bantamweight champion, Dominick Cruz. Personally, I think Garbrandt picks up another knockout in the first round and goes on to challenge the champion.
Lorenz Larkin is a really fun fighter to watch. His flashy offence often makes for a really exciting bout. With that being said, Magny's explosive power is overwhelming. He recently beat Hector Lombard via brutal TKO.
My prediction for this fight is that Larkin's speed and movement causes Magny problems to begin with, but Magny ultimately gets the finish in round 2.
The rivalry between team Diaz and Straight Blast Gym goes beyond the main event. We have another bout on the card that involves members of the two camps as Artem Lobov from SBG faces Diaz's teammate, Chris Avila.
Chris Avila is definitely a wildcard with some very impressive submission and knock out victories. He is as aggressive as the famous brothers that he trains with. However, Artem Lobov is far more experienced and is a very big threat in the stand-up aspect.
Lobov methodically picks apart his opponents with unrelenting pressure; maintaining a consistently powerful and precise level of striking throughout. I do not think Lobov will finish Avila but I see him winning via unanimous decision. Avila will be unable to put Lobov away and he will slowly pick him apart with combinations.
As we saw in his encounter with Patrick Cote, Cerrone has it in him to be extremely aggressive. He can strike at any moment with devastating results. He isn't just skilled in striking though, he is also a high-level practitioner of jiu-jitsu.
Rick 'The Horror' Story is someone with serious knockout power, charging in and trying to finish his opponent with wild flurries. Story's stand-up is such a problem that if 'Cowboy' tries to trade with him he may get clipped.
He could therefore elect to take it to the ground and get the submission. Although this would be after he has initially softened him up with striking.
This light heavyweight championship match is sure to be a barnstormer. We have two hard-hitting fighters here with the added incentive that, if they win, they will likely get the next shot at Daniel Cormier's title.
Glover Teixeira is being seen as the underdog in this fight but he is my pick to win. He can probably match Johnson's stand-up game and has a stronger pedigree on the ground. This is why he edges 'Rumble'. Glover Teixeira wins by submission but I predict that this will come after some crazy exchanges.
It is fair to say that this is the most anticipated MMA bout in years. The first encounter was as dramatic as it gets. MMA fans are now gripped to see what would happen when both fighters have had a full camp.
I feel like the UFC want Conor McGregor to get his mojo back by beating Diaz in this second fight. McGregor is the company's biggest star and draw, they need him to get that loss back so that his star is not diminished. This would also benefit them as it would set up a lucrative third fight.
Nate Diaz will have other ideas. I believe Nate will flip the plans on their head and defeat 'The Notorious One' again. Conor is definitely looking sharp so it certainly won't be a beat-down.
Ultimately, Diaz will get it done, benefiting from the full fight camp. If he beat McGregor on ten days notice when he was barely in fighting shape, what is he going to do to him with a full camp?
Nate would become an even bigger star, potentially moving back down to lightweight to challenge for the championship. I say this because lightweight champion, Eddie Alvarez has claimed he will be there to call out the winner.
All due respect to Conor, he would not lose the super-stardom he has already acquired. He moves back down to featherweight to defend his belt against Jose Aldo regardless. Either way this is a seriously exciting fight.
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Discussion in 'Games, Movies & Sports' started by quinnmac000, May 10, 2018.
Queen Poppy and Branch make a surprising discovery — there are other Troll worlds beyond their own, and their distinct differences create big clashes between these various tribes. When a mysterious threat puts all of the Trolls across the land in danger, Poppy, Branch, and their band of friends must embark on an epic quest to create harmony among the feuding Trolls to unite them against certain doom.
Coming out 2020 with more musical genres explored during this film.The film is produced by Gina Shay, directed by Walt Dohrn and co-directed by David P. Smith. The all-new installment of the franchise expands the series' music genres to represent everything from pop, country, and hip-hop, to hard rock, funk, and EDM
First casting released:
'Trolls 2': Sam Rockwell, Chance The Rapper Join DreamWorks Animation Sequel | Deadline
quinnmac000, May 10, 2018
rhino4evr Veteran Member
Nilbog.
rhino4evr, May 10, 2018
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Galaxy Defender Premium Member
I cringed when I heard about the first movie. Then I saw the trailer and was hooked. First movie did okay at the box office but the merchandising has done very well.
If this movie is more successful than the first one that definitely boosts the chances for seeing a Trolls attractions in the parks.
Galaxy Defender, May 10, 2018
Continuing where the first film left off, it's all glitter and happiness in Troll Town until Queen Poppy and Branch make a surprising discovery -- there are other Troll worlds beyond their own, each defined by a different genre of music. When a mysterious threat puts all the Trolls across the land in danger, Poppy, Branch, and their band of friends must embark on an epic quest through unfamiliar terrain to do the impossible: create harmony among the diverse Trolls to unite them against certain doom.
Set for release April 17, 2020, the film boasts an all-star cast that includes returning cast members Kendrick (Poppy), Timberlake (Branch), James Corden (Biggie), Caroline Hjelt (Chenille), Aino Jawo (Satin), Ron Funches (Cooper) and Kunal Nayyar (Guy Diamond), who are joined by recently announced Sam Rockwell, Chance the Rapper, Anthony Ramos, Karan Soni, Flula Borg and Jamie Dornan, who will voice new characters.
The film, which is produced by Gina Shay, directed by Walt Dohrn and co-directed by David P. Smith, follows in the footsteps of the first film, once again providing a musical showcase for original songs and re-recordings of classic favorites -- which are woven into the narrative of the film as story-telling elements. The all-new installment of the franchise expands the series' music genres, representing a variety of songs from pop, country, and hip-hop, to hard rock, funk, K-pop and EDM -- as well as everything in between.
quinnmac000, Jun 17, 2018
Joe aka TestTrack321 Staff Member Moderator
I wonder if the McElroy brothers will be in it.
The McElroy Brothers Will Be In Trolls 2
Joe, Jun 17, 2018
Joe said: ↑
GUESS WHAT YALL
The Unbelievable True Story of How Three Podcasters Trolled Their Way into Trolls 2 | Vanity Fair
Joe, Sep 11, 2018
Quint likes this.
Kelly Clarkson Joins 'Trolls 2' & Will Perform Original Song | Deadline
quinnmac000, Oct 4, 2018
Justin Timberlake Confirmed to curate and design the soundtrack for the upcoming film. As stated before diverse music will be represented from Country, Blues, Jazz, R&B, Metal, Kpop (please no BTS), EDM, Rock, and more!
quinnmac000, Oct 27, 2018
happy bunny rabbit Veteran Member
coming out of hiding to mention that I just saw a troll farting glitter at UOR on the news and i went blind, see y'all in another 6 months!
happy bunny rabbit, Feb 8, 2019
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Freak Veteran Member
No man's land: SoCal
I got excited for the title for a second. I thought we were revisiting Nilbog.
Freak, Feb 15, 2019
So the first ten minutes were shown at Annecy Animation festival as well as the trailer...
In the sequel, the trolls learn that they are only one of six tribes, each specialists in a different musical genre: Funk, country, techno, classical, pop and rock. They make an alliance to definitely a new enemy that has emerged.
The trailer that was shown didn't showcase any songs but the opening of the film was jammed pack according to those in attendance and considered fantastic and a lot of fun.
Spoiler: how it opens
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Conducted by "Trolls World Tour" director Walt Dohrn, a co-director on the original, the Annecy first look, often of rough animation, took in an opening scene at a techno troll rave disrupted by the arrival of rock trolls, answering to Queen Barb, who want to destroy the other strains of music. Poppy and Branch decide to fight back but, in one of the funniest scenes in the movie, fall under the tranquilizing effect of the king troll of cool jazz. Some of the character designs – such as of Trollsart, the king of classical music trolls, or a Dolly Partonish country music troll, hair piled on to of her head, had the Annecy audience laughing out loud
The sequel to Dreamworks Animation's $346M-plus grossing hit Trolls, Trolls World Tour, has added a slew of voiceover castmembers including two-time Oscar nominee and multi-platinum recording artists Mary J. Blige, Grammy-nominated artist J Balvin, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Rachel Bloom, Pitch Perfect's Ester Dean, Gustavo Dudamel (The Nutcracker and the Four Realms), Grammy-winning rocker Ozzy Osbourne, Grammy-winning artist Anderson .Paak, SNL's Emmy Award winner Kenan Thompson, The Disaster Artist actress/comedienne Charlyne Yi, and funk legend George Clinton.
Today's cast announcement joins already in place Anna Kendrick (Poppy), Justin Timberlake (Branch), James Corden (Biggie), Ron Funches (Cooper), Caroline Hjelt (Chenille), Aino Jawo (Satin), and Kunal Nayyar (Guy Diamond), and new characters voiced by Flula Borg, Kelly Clarkson, Jamie Dornan, Anthony Ramos, Sam Rockwell and Karan Soni.
Trolls World Tour will also feature original music by Justin Timberlake, who earned an Oscar nomination for his song for 2016's Trolls, "Can't Stop the Feeling!," and a score by Theodore Shapiro (2016's Ghostbusters, The Devil Wears Prada).
A member of hard-rock royalty, Queen Barb (Rachel Bloom), aided by her father King Thrash (Ozzy Osbourne), wants to destroy all other kinds of music to let rock reign supreme. With the fate of the world at stake, Poppy and Branch, along with their friends — Biggie (James Corden), Chenille (Caroline Hjelt), Satin (Aino Jawo), Cooper (Ron Funches) and Guy Diamond (Kunal Nayyar) — set out to visit all the other lands to unify the Trolls in harmony against Barb, who's looking to upstage them all.
Casting for the different musical tribes brings together one the largest, and most acclaimed, groups of musical talent ever assembled for an animated film. From the land of Funk are Mary J. Blige, George Clinton and Anderson .Paak. Representing Country is Kelly Clarkson as Delta Dawn, with Sam Rockwell as Hickory and Flula Borg as Dickory. J Balvin brings Reggaeton, while Ester Dean adds to the Pop tribe. Anthony Ramos brings the beat in Techno and Jamie Dornan covers smooth jazz. World-renowned conductor and violinist Gustavo Dudamel appears as Trollzart and Charlyne Yi as Pennywhistle from the land of Classical. And Kenan Thompson raps as a hip-hop newborn Troll named Tiny Diamond.
They are probably leaving even more surprises for later.
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Imperius Veteran Member
Rock trying to take over without Tenacious D? No thanks. Kidding
Imperius, Jun 19, 2019
AND THE MCELROY BROTHERS
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So this is basically a riff on the Infinity Gauntlet. Instead of having to get the Infinity stones to save the world, they need to collect 6 guitar strings? Seems mediocre plot-wise, but I enjoyed the original so i'll give it a shot.
Nick, Jun 20, 2019
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Spoiler: what's being missed
While there are 6 strings, they are more tribes to include Smooth Jazz (released via press release) and as you saw in the trailer Hip Hop so while the story is set up as Infinity Wars with Trolls expect the difference to be that the strings don't really matter and some sort of macguffin for the actual plan.
Disney Skyliner - Gondola...
Scott W. replied Jul 15, 2019 at 2:13 PM


That's the way the American people wanted it. The last thing they wanted was a federal government of general, omnipotent powers to do the "right" thing for the nation. Americans were convinced that that type of governmental system would end up being a grave threat to their freedom and well-being.
Thus, our American ancestors were not enthusiastic about the proposal for a new federal government that came out of the Constitutional Convention. Don't forget that the purpose of the convention was simply to come up with modifications to the Articles of Confederation. That's what Americans were expecting — that after the Constitutional Convention they would continue operating under the Articles, albeit in modified form, with each state retaining its autonomy and sovereignty within the confederation.
You can easily see how our American ancestors viewed the threat they believed the new government posed to their freedom and well-being by examining the Bill of Rights. It really should have been called the Bill of Prohibitions because it doesn't give anyone any rights. Instead, it prohibits the federal government from depriving people of their fundamental, God-given rights, rights that preexist the federal government. The reason Americans insisted on the passage of the Bill of Rights was because they were sure that the president and Congress, albeit democratically elected, would end up doing the things proscribed in the Bill of Rights — e.g., destroying freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, the right to keep and bear arms, killing people and seizing their property without due process of law and trial by jury, and inflicting cruel and unusual punishments on people.
In a national-security state, the two most important words are "national security." Everything revolves around "national security," even though the term has no definable meaning. The government wields the power to determine what constitutes a threat to "national security" and what shall be done to resolve the threat.
Thus, today we live under a regime in which the federal government, operating through the military and CIA wield the omnipotent power to seize American citizens, place them into military dungeons, hold them indefinitely, and torture them. The military and the CIA also wield the power to assassinate American citizens — that is, simply kill them without due process and a trial. The NSA wields the power to conduct secret surveillance schemes on the citizenry. All such powers have been confirmed by a federal judiciary, which, like the other two branches, passively submitted to the omnipotent power of the national-security branch soon after the conversion took place.
In other words, we live under a totally different governmental system than what was proposed and brought into existence after the Constitutional Convention. In fact, if proponents of the Constitution had told our American ancestors that the Constitution would bring into existence a national-security state, they would have laughed and never approved the deal. They would have instead chosen to continue operating under the Articles of Confederation, where, again, the federal government didn't even have the power to tax.
Why was the federal government converted to a national-security state after World War II? Officials claimed that the conversion was necessary to protect the United States from the supposed threat posed by communist national-security states, especially the Soviet Union, which, ironically, had been America's partner and ally during World War II. If the United States didn't also become a national-security state, like the Soviet Union, anti-communist proponents claimed, the U.S. would end up falling to the communists in the upcoming Cold War.
That's how America has ended up as a national-security state. The conversion took place without even the semblance of a constitutional amendment. Moreover, once the Cold War was over in 1989, Americans, not surprisingly, did not get back their limited-government republic. Instead, America became a permanent national-security state.
At the risk of belaboring the obvious, there is no way that people who live under a national-security state can genuinely be considered free. Just look at the citizenry in countries like Egypt, Pakistan, China, Cuba, North Korea, Myanmar (Burma), and many other national-security states. Although government officials teach them that they are free, nothing could be further from the truth.