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#ifndef EOS_TYPES_IP_ROUTE_IMPL_H
#define EOS_TYPES_IP_ROUTE_IMPL_H

#include <eos/eth.h>
#include <eos/hash_mix.h>
#include <eos/intf.h>
#include <eos/ip.h>
#include <eos/mpls.h>
#include <eos/utility.h>
#include <memory>
#include <sstream>

namespace eos {

/** An IP route key, consisting of a prefix and preference. */
class EOS_SDK_PUBLIC ip_route_key_impl_t {
 public:
   ip_route_key_impl_t();
   explicit ip_route_key_impl_t(ip_prefix_t const & prefix);
   ip_route_key_impl_t(ip_prefix_t const & prefix,
                       ip_route_preference_t preference);

   /** Getter for 'prefix': the IP v4/v6 network prefix. */
   ip_prefix_t prefix() const;
   /** Setter for 'prefix'. */
   void prefix_is(ip_prefix_t const & prefix);

   /** Getter for 'preference': a value 0..255, defaults to 1. */
   ip_route_preference_t preference() const;
   /** Setter for 'preference'. */
   void preference_is(ip_route_preference_t preference);

   bool operator==(ip_route_key_impl_t const & other) const;
   bool operator!=(ip_route_key_impl_t const & other) const;
   /** The hash function for type ip_route_key_t. */
   uint32_t hash() const;
   /** The hash mix function for type ip_route_key_t. */
   void mix_me(hash_mix & h) const;
   /** Returns a string representation of the current object's values. */
   std::string to_string() const;
   /**
    * A utility stream operator that adds a string representation of ip_route_key_t
    * to the ostream.
    */
   friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os,
                                   const ip_route_key_impl_t& obj);

 private:
   ip_prefix_t prefix_;
   ip_route_preference_t preference_;
};

/**
 * An IP v4/v6 static route.
 * "Via", or nexthops, for this route are stored separately and are associated by
 * route key.
 */
class EOS_SDK_PUBLIC ip_route_impl_t {
 public:
   ip_route_impl_t();
   /** Creates an IP static route for the route key. */
   explicit ip_route_impl_t(ip_route_key_t const & key);

   /** Getter for 'key': the route's key. */
   ip_route_key_t key() const;
   /** Setter for 'key'. */
   void key_is(ip_route_key_t const & key);

   /** Getter for 'tag': a numbered tag, used for table segregation. */
   ip_route_tag_t tag() const;
   /** Setter for 'tag'. */
   void tag_is(ip_route_tag_t tag);

   bool operator==(ip_route_impl_t const & other) const;
   bool operator!=(ip_route_impl_t const & other) const;
   /** The hash function for type ip_route_t. */
   uint32_t hash() const;
   /** The hash mix function for type ip_route_t. */
   void mix_me(hash_mix & h) const;
   /** Returns a string representation of the current object's values. */
   std::string to_string() const;
   /**
    * A utility stream operator that adds a string representation of ip_route_t to
    * the ostream.
    */
   friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const ip_route_impl_t& obj);

 private:
   ip_route_key_t key_;
   ip_route_tag_t tag_;
};

/**
 * A Via describing a particular set of nexthop information. A Via can describe
 * either a nexthop group name to either forward traffic to, or drop traffic if the
 * interface is Null0.
 */
class EOS_SDK_PUBLIC ip_route_via_impl_t {
 public:
   ip_route_via_impl_t();
   /** Creates a route via for a route key. */
   explicit ip_route_via_impl_t(ip_route_key_t const & route_key);

   /** Getter for 'route_key': key for the route that this via is attached to. */
   ip_route_key_t route_key() const;
   /** Setter for 'route_key'. */
   void route_key_is(ip_route_key_t const & route_key);

   /**
    * Getter for 'hop': IP v4/v6 nexthop address, or a default ip_addr_t if not
    * set.
    */
   ip_addr_t hop() const;
   /** Setter for 'hop'. */
   void hop_is(ip_addr_t const & hop);

   /**
    * Getter for 'intf': use the named interface if not a default intf_id_t. Using
    * intf Null0 installs a "drop" route for the given prefix and preference.
    */
   intf_id_t intf() const;
   /** Setter for 'intf'. */
   void intf_is(intf_id_t intf);

   /**
    * Getter for 'nexthop_group': name of the next-hop group to use. If this string
    * is non-empty, the next-hop group of the given name will be used, and both
    * "hop" and "intf" must be left to their default value otherwise we will
    * panic(). Note this is currently only supported for IPv4 routes.
    */
   std::string nexthop_group() const;
   /** Setter for 'nexthop_group'. */
   void nexthop_group_is(std::string const & nexthop_group);

   /**
    * Getter for 'mpls_label': Push this MPLS label onto packets using this route.
    */
   mpls_label_t mpls_label() const;
   /** Setter for 'mpls_label'. */
   void mpls_label_is(mpls_label_t mpls_label);

   /** Getter for 'vni': the VNI to use in the underlay tunnel vxlan header. */
   vni_t vni() const;
   /** Setter for 'vni'. */
   void vni_is(vni_t vni);

   /**
    * Getter for 'vtep_addr': IP v4 destination address for the underlay IP header.
    */
   ip_addr_t vtep_addr() const;
   /** Setter for 'vtep_addr'. */
   void vtep_addr_is(ip_addr_t vtep_addr);

   /** Getter for 'router_mac': DMAC to use in the underlay ethernet header. */
   eth_addr_t router_mac() const;
   /** Setter for 'router_mac'. */
   void router_mac_is(eth_addr_t router_mac);

   /** Getter for 'egress_vrf': VRF name in which nexthop IP address is. */
   std::string egress_vrf() const;
   /** Setter for 'egress_vrf'. */
   void egress_vrf_is(std::string const & egress_vrf);

   /** Getter for 'metric': metric for the via. */
   ip_via_metric_t metric() const;
   /** Setter for 'metric'. */
   void metric_is(ip_via_metric_t metric);

   bool operator==(ip_route_via_impl_t const & other) const;
   bool operator!=(ip_route_via_impl_t const & other) const;
   /** The hash function for type ip_route_via_t. */
   uint32_t hash() const;
   /** The hash mix function for type ip_route_via_t. */
   void mix_me(hash_mix & h) const;
   /** Returns a string representation of the current object's values. */
   std::string to_string() const;
   /**
    * A utility stream operator that adds a string representation of ip_route_via_t
    * to the ostream.
    */
   friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os,
                                   const ip_route_via_impl_t& obj);

 private:
   ip_route_key_t route_key_;
   ip_addr_t hop_;
   intf_id_t intf_;
   std::string nexthop_group_;
   mpls_label_t mpls_label_;
   vni_t vni_;
   ip_addr_t vtep_addr_;
   eth_addr_t router_mac_;
   std::string egress_vrf_;
   ip_via_metric_t metric_;
};
}

#endif // EOS_TYPES_IP_ROUTE_IMPL_H


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Title: Escaping Reality
Series: The Secret Life of Amy Bensen #1
Author: Lisa Renee Jones
Print Release Date: May 15, 2015
Already available in ebook
Infinite possibilities….
Infinite passion…..
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His touch spirals through me, warm and sweet, wicked and hot. I shouldn't trust him. I shouldn't tell him my secrets. But how do I not when he is the reason I breathe? He is what I need.
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Questa voce raccoglie le informazioni riguardanti il Foot-Ball Club Internazionale-Naples nelle competizioni ufficiali della stagione 1923-1924.

Stagione

Seconda stagione in massima serie per l'Internaples, che bissò il secondo posto dell'anno precedente nel raggruppamento campano, ancora dietro al  (che arrivò a giocarsi la finale scudetto contro il ), ma davanti a  e . Nel girone semifinale di Lega Sud si piazzò terzo alle spalle di  e , venendo eliminato.
A fine stagione Emilio Reale venne riconfermato alla guida della società.

Divise

Organigramma societario
Di seguito è riportato l'organigramma societario:
 Presidente: Emilio Reale
 Vice Presidenti: Gaetano Del Pezzo e Vincenzo De Rosa
 Consiglieri: Carlo Andreassi, Guido Cavalli, Jean Steiger, Pasquale Salvi, Mariano Marchese, Giusto Senes, Luigi Elia, Giovanni Giovagnione, Arturo Sacchi, Ruggiero Marchese, Giulio Morelli
 Allenatore: ?

Rosa

Risultati

Prima Divisione - girone campano

Girone di andata

Girone di ritorno

Prima Divisione - semifinali sud

Girone di andata

Girone di ritorno

Statistiche

Statistiche di squadra

Statistiche dei giocatori

Note

Bibliografia

Voci correlate
Storia della Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli

Collegamenti esterni

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Homeschool Science Press tools to teach real science
by esther on November 30, 2010 in elementary, physics
Helping Kids Understand Sir Isaac Newton's Three Laws of Motion
By Lorie Moffat
Your son or daughter has science questions about Sir Isaac Newton's three laws of motion. How can you begin to guide your child's understanding of these concepts? Without thinking about them, we use Sir Isaac Newton's three laws of motion every day. Newton's first law explains why it is harder to stop a moving car than a roller skate. Newton's second law algebraically relates the force on an object, its mass, and its acceleration. Newton's third law concerns how forces act upon objects. By relating every day experiences, you can help your child understand Sir Isaac Newton's three laws of motion.
Newton's first law of motion is also known as the law of inertia. The term, inertia, derives from the Greek, inert, or not moving. Newton's first law states that any object will remain stationary or will continue to move in a straight line unless it is acted upon by an external, unbalanced force. A force is a push or pull on an object. Inertia is a measure of the mass of an object. An automobile has more inertia than a roller skate. While you are traveling in a moving car, you are moving in the same direction and with the same speed as the car. If the car suddenly comes to a stop, you will still be moving in the original direction, through the windshield if you do not use a seatbelt or airbag. The seatbelt keeps you in one position relative to the car's motion, keeping your body against the seat. Inertia also explains why you lean towards the opposite direction as the car moves around a steep curve. If the car turns right, you lean towards the left; if the car turns left, you lean towards the right. Again, your body continues to move in a straight line during the turn, as it did before the turn.
Any time you want to change the speed or direction of an object, you need to use the appropriate force. Newton's second law of motion relates the concepts of mass, force, and acceleration. In science, acceleration is the change in speed or direction of a moving object. Force on an object is equal to its mass multiplied by its acceleration. The strength of the force on an object depends upon the object's mass, or how much material it contains, and how fast its speed is changing, or its acceleration. An automobile hitting a wall at the same speed as a roller skate would have more force, since the car has more mass. A unit of measurement for force is the Newton, abbreviated N, named after Sir Isaac Newton. One Newton, or one N, is the force needed to move a mass of one kilogram one meter per second in a second. Or algebraically,
1 N = 1 kg m
A Newton of force is a small amount. A person weighing 110 pounds exerts a force of 50 Newtons on Earth.
Newton's third law of motion is more commonly called action reaction. For every action in one direction, there is an equal and opposite reaction in the opposite direction; even if the object does not move. Forces always act in pairs, even if the object remains still. While sitting in a chair, you provide a force on the chair acting down towards the floor. At the same time, the chair provides an equal and opposite upward force on you. If this were not the case, you would be sitting upon the floor instead. While you walk, for each step that you take your foot pushes against the floor. As you push, or provide a force, against the floor, the floor also pushes against your foot, propelling you forward. If you try to walk across sheer ice, you must adjust your steps, since the ice does not provide the same force as the floor.
By using every day examples, you can help your children understand Sir Isaac Newton's three laws of motion. The law of inertia, or Newton's first law of motion, describes how a stationary object begins to move or how the motion of an object changes. Newton's second law of motion algebraically relates an object's mass and acceleration to the amount of force involved to cause motion. Finally, Newton's third law of motion involves the fact that forces on an object always act in opposing pairs, whether or not the forces cause motion.
Lorie Moffat has 20 years of teaching experience in both public school classroom and science museum settings.
Source: http://www.homeschool-articles.com/helping-kids-understand-sir-isaac-newton%e2%80%99s-three-laws-of-motion/
Tags: elementary, homeschool
FairyLover November 30, 2010 at 3:58 pm #
We saw a play about the Laws of Motion a couple of years ago. My son still remembers the three laws. It really impressed him. He loves to study science.
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The head of the TV show South Central likes Jennifer's work. In 1993, he wants an actress for the show. He gives the job to Jennifer.
Jennifer is now a famous TV star. Then, in 1995, she is in her first Hollywood movie: Mi Familia. Mi Familia is a "Latin" movie. Her first "English" movies are Money Train and Jack.
Jack is a funny movie. Robin Williams plays a boy, Jack. People look at Jack and think, "He's not a boy; he's a man." Jennifer plays Jack's teacher.
In the same year, Jennifer is in four movies. The first movie is Blood and Wine with two very famous actors - Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine. The movie is about two bad men - Alex Gates and Victor Spanskey. Jennifer is Gabriella, Alex's girlfriend.
In Selena, Jennifer plays Selena Quintanilla, the famous Mexican singer. It is an unhappy story because the singer's life was very short. Selena's father gives money for the movie. The director is Gregory Nava. Jennifer works on the movie in front of Selena's family. This is difficult. But the family likes Jennifer, and the movie teaches people about their daughter. This makes Jennifer happy because she liked Selena.
The year 1998 arrives. Jennifer is happy but she can't take a vacation. She is in two movies that year: Out of Sight and Antz.
Antz is a movie for children. We hear Jennifer but we don't see her face.


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Q: Show that $x$ is an algebraic number? Where $x$ is... Can someone help me with the following problem? Show that $x=\sqrt2+\sqrt[3]3$ is an algebraic number. By finding a polynomial with rational coefficients for which $x$ is a root of.
Can someone please find this polynomial and give me some advice on how to come up with such a polynomial. Thanks

A: Isolate $\sqrt[3]3$ on one side. Then raise to the third power. Then isolate $\sqrt 2$ on one side. Then square both sides.

A: Start with $x - \sqrt 2 = \sqrt[3] 3$. Cube both sides and expand to get $- \sqrt 2 (3x^2 + 2) + x^3 + 6x = 3$. Again, write this as $- \sqrt 2 (3x^2 + 2) = - x^3 - 6x + 3$ and square. This will give you a polynomial with $x$ as a root.
As an additional exercise, show that the polynomial is irreducible to verify that the degree of $x$ is $6$.

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Can the aspen advise the crocus?
You and I are that different, she said.
Yet, their roots are intertwined, I said.
Like the gentlest of heavens.
Mixed, and set aside to ferment in oil.
And the aspen, still bare, but breaking in buds.


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Michigan still digging out of its 'lost decade' hole
John Gallagher
At the rate Michigan's economy has been growing lately, our state ought to be setting new records for producing goods and services. But we're not. Instead, Michigan's total economic output is only now climbing back to the levels the state reached way back in 2000.
The problem isn't our current rate of growth, which isn't bad. The problem is that Michigan dug such a hole for itself during its "lost decade" of the 2000s and the Great Recession that we're still digging out.
Indeed, it will be years even at current upbeat rates of growth before Michigan fully recovers from those lost years.
Here's the data: The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported recently that Michigan in 2015 produced $419 billion worth of cars, trucks, construction, health care and other goods and services. Adjusted for inflation, that was roughly the same as the $421 billion Michigan turned out in 2000.
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By contrast, the national economy grew 27% over that same 15-year period, even accounting for shrinkage during the Great Recession. That means that Michigan was stagnating, standing still, while the rest of the nation's economy continued to grow.
The state's anemic performance translates into all sorts of woes for Michigan and its residents -- less jobs growth, fewer kids able to afford college and less tax revenue for local governments already stretched thin trying to provide basic services. A state cannot give up a dozen years or more of economic growth and expect to recover in a few short seasons. We're still paying for that economic debacle and will continue to do so.
Again, the big problem isn't current rates of growth in Michigan, which have seen the state's unemployment rate plunge from a worst-in-the-nation above 14% during the recession to 4.7% in May, a dramatic improvement indeed.
But that recent improvement has come on top of a very depressed base. In the years 2005-09, Michigan's economic output shrank an appalling 15%, a contraction worthy of a Depression-era economy.
By contrast,the U.S. economy grew about 1% during those same years -- not great by any means but better than Michigan's performance.
And, ominously, we're just getting back to our pre-recession levels of economic output at a time when the next recession cannot be more than a few years away. The current economic expansion is already at least 5 years old. Economists generally predict more growth ahead for a couple more years, but uncertainty in the stock market, turmoil over Great Britain's Brexit vote to leave the European Union, and other unpredictable negatives could bring another recession that much closer.
What could have been
If a recession hits and Michigan once again begins to lose ground, the consequences could be dire indeed for the state and its people.
Charles Ballard, professor of economics at Michigan State University, said the state could have done a lot more to ward off the worst impacts of the lost decade.
"We should have done more to develop the skill level of our population, and we still should be doing more along those lines," Ballard told me in an exchange of e-mails.
The story is distressingly familiar. Until the 1970s, Michiganders were fortunate to live in a high-income-but-low-education state.
"We had that good fortune because we were deeply involved in durable-goods manufacturing at precisely the time when manufacturing was booming," Ballard said.
But the percentage of the U.S. economy that comes from manufacturing has been decreasing for decades. And, Ballard told me, during that time the gap between the earnings of those with a college education and those without one has increased sharply. Yet Michigan has remained below the national average in educational attainment.
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So, he said, not only is the fraction of the state's population with a college education below the national average, but we also are mediocre relative to other states in benchmarks such as 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade math.
"If we had seen what was happening, and taken action, we could have arrived at 2000 or 2005 with a much-better-educated workforce, and that would have reduced the severity of the downturn," he said.
Among the steps Michigan neglected to take: full funding of early-childhood education programs, a K-12 school year expanded to 190 or 200 days per year, and much else all the way back to the 1970s.
"If we had done those things, I think we would have developed a much stronger economy than we had when the recession hit," Ballard said.
If Michigan made big policy mistakes for years, could we still be making the same mistakes today? Our current boom in automotive production and the plunging unemployment rate could mislead us into thinking we've solved the problem.
But we're still underfunding education in Michigan as well as our roads, bridges, water systems and other key infrastructure. Our mania for low-cost government and tax cutting has given us not only the debacle in Flint's water system but also potentially weaker defenses against the next major economic downtown.
"It would not have been necessary for the universities to raise tuition dramatically in the face of declining state support," Ballard said. "And we could have good roads, good bridges and safe water, too! Instead, we have sacrificed those things upon the altar of tax reduction. I think it has been a huge mistake."
There's some old wisdom that says if you're trying to climb out of a hole, the first step is to stop digging it deeper.
That's where Michigan finds itself now. If we continue to shortchange education funding and refuse to tackle needed infrastructure upgrades, we're just digging that hole we found ourselves in deeper and deeper.


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The Last Movie Star
2018 Chattanooga Film Festival Releases FIRST WAVE of Films – LU OVER THE WALL, GHOST STORIES and More …
With the 5th annual Chattanooga Film Festival just under one month away, the first wave of films are here.
15th Oxford Film Festival Announces Lineup of 204 Films, Opens with THE LAST MOVIE STAR, Starring Burt Reynolds and Ariel Winter
A total of 204 films will screen at this year's 15th Anniversary edition of the Oxford Film Festival taking place February 7 to 11, 2018. On opening night, writer/director Adam Rifkin will present his latest film, THE LAST MOVIE STAR, starring Burt Reynolds and Ariel Winter
2017 San Diego International Film Festival Unveils Lineup + Sir Patrick Stewart to Receive Award
Actor Sir Patrick Stewart will be the recipient of the Gregory Peck Award for Excellence in Cinema at the 2017 San Diego International Film Festival (SDiFF).
Vero Beach Wine + Film Festival Announces 2017 Lineup, and Award for Burt Reynolds
The Second Annual Vero Beach Wine + Film Festival (VBWFF) has announced the official selections for the 2017 event, held June 8 to 11 at various screening locations in Vero Beach, FL.
2017 Tribeca Film Festival Announces Exiciting Feature Film Line Up
The Tribeca Film Festival today unveiled an exciting slate of films that will premiere at the 2017 festival.


The Current Health Scenario.: How do you end up so sick?
- Doctor I have a skin problem.
- "Fine, take this cream and this tablet, it will go".
- Doctor, I have bloating and acidity.
- "Take these antacids and these medicines for the bloating".
- Doctor, I have developed this allergy and cough.
- "Take these anti-histamines, and this cough syrup. You will be good in a day or two"
- I feel unsteady Doctor, and very tense. What is wrong with me?
- "Hmm.. you have high BP. You have to take these pills for life. Be careful."
- No appetite Doctor, I feel tired and sluggish. My liver doesn't seem too good. I have developed a fever.
- "You are suffering a viral hepatitis infection. Had you taken your Hep-B shot? Anyway take these pills. Get the tests done. You need to get admitted to a hospital if things get worse."
- Doctor my fatigue just wont go away. I feel tired all the time. I am always hungry and urinating more than usual.
- "You seem to have developed diabetes. How old are you? 40+? Oh, that is normal then. Get a blood test and then start taking your medicines regularly. Go for walks, adopt a diet."
- My feet are swelling up Doctor. I feel fatigued and drowsy. No sleep at night. I am throwing up food. My urine does not seem right.
- Oh my God, get your serum creatinine and urine protein levels checked. How did you manage to damage your kidneys?
That is how disease progresses folks; from the surface to the organs. While the body throws things out, your actions drive them inward. While cleaning up a house do you throw the waste out of your house, or do you keep it stored to fester at home? In the above example the body was acting in your favour, and to a great extent fighting the damage you were causing. But repeated actions made it give up in the end.


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WikiLeaks Founder: Clinton Should Resign
November 30, 2010 Politisite 0
Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange said, "should resign." Speaking over Skype from an undisclosed location on Tuesday, the WikiLeaks founder was replying to a question by TIME managing editor Richard Stengel over the diplomatic-cable dump that Assange's organization loosed on the world this past weekend. Stengel had said the U.S. Secretary of State was looking like "the fall guy" in the ensuing controversy, and had asked whether her firing or resignation […]
Fox News Bill O'Reilly, Bret Baier, and Sheppard Smith dominate Cable News Ratings
It is not a new story that Fox News dominates the other Cable News stations. What is news is that the top three are not what most folks rattle off when you ask who has the most watched programs at that outlet. TV by the Numbers follows TV ratings like a Laser beam, crunching the numbers every day of the week. We all know that Bill O'Reilly's numbers are high, […]
Is The Lame Duck Congress 'Rigged' one Democrat Senator caught saying so
A microphone accidentally left on during Tuesday's Senate session caught one Democratic senator complaining that the agenda is "all rigged." After voting on the Food Safety Act, a microphone picked up Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) complaining that the process of setting the agenda during the lame-duck session is "rigged." "It's all rigged. The whole conversation is rigged," he said. "The fact that we don't get to a discussion before the […]
SEIU Drops Health Coverage for Workers' Children
One of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York is dropping coverage for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home attendants, union officials said. The union blamed financial problems it said were caused by the state's health department and new national health-insurance requirements. The fund is administered by 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union. Union officials said the state compelled […]
WikiLeaks Documents: U.S. Intel has a security problem, should Americans trust them with their own sensitive information?
(Politisite)–While the United States hit the Sunday news shows blasting the large document from of the website Wikileaks and calling for the site to be shut down and the founder Julian Assange to be prosecuted for espionage, one question seems to have gone unanswered. How did this site come to obtain hundreds of thousands of documents and cables that are supposedly secret and in the possession of some of our top security agencies?
How can a citizen of another country gain access to potentially damaging information? One answer stands out to this writer. Our intelligence agencies do not handle sensitive information appropriately.
The political spin Media spin, regurgitated by the Mainstream media is that this man and website are to blame for the sensitive information getting out for the U.S.citizens, our Allies and Enemies to read.
"Airplane" and "Naked Gun" actor Leslie Nielsen dies at 84
Canadian funnyman and actor Leslie Nielsen has passed away in hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The star of comedy hits such as "Airplane" and the "Naked Gun" series dies of complications from pneumonia, according to his nephew Doug Nielsen, who lives in Richmond BC and confirmed the news with CJOB's sister station CKNW…… Doug tells CKNW his uncle was hospitalized about 12 days ago and was suffering from pneumonia. He says his condition […]
Did Obama get elbowed for not moving on Immigration reform?
Rey Decerega from Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute was the culprit behind the Presidents 12 stitches in his upper lip. Maybe he was telling the President something. communicating, if you will, of sorts, that Immigration reform has not moved fast enough. This has been our humor segment and hope none of you take this seriously. If you have… find something else to do. From today's Washington Examiner: The party who busted […]
North Korea Deploys Surface-to-Air missiles as U.S., South Korea begin exercise
North Korea has placed surface-to-surface missiles on launch pads in the Yellow Sea, Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday, as the United States and South Korea began joint military exercises. The agency said also that Pyongyang had moved surface-to-air missiles to frontline areas. The North's offical KCNA news agency warned of retaliatory action if its territory was violated. "We will deliver a brutal military blow on any provocation which violates […]
Palestinian report claims that Western Wall has no religious significance to Jews
How is it that the AP can report this story and not mention that there is not one shred of evidence, from archeology, that Mohammad was NEVER in Jerusalem?
JERUSALEM — An official Palestinian report claiming that a key Jewish holy site – Jerusalem's Western Wall – has no religious significance to Jews has evoked an angry response from Israelis, threatening to further inflame tensions over the disputed city.
No Profiling Muslims: Teen Tries to Blow-up Crowd at Christmas Tree Lighting
Federal agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van he believed was loaded with explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, authorities said. The bomb was an elaborate fake supplied by the agents and the public was never in danger, authorities said. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. Friday just after he dialed a cell […]


Rolls Royce announced on June 14, 2018, it would cut 4,600 jobs by 2020, mainly in the United Kingdom, in order to simplify its operations and save up to £400 million a year.
The company confirms the rumors reported by the Sunday Times on June 10, 2018. The downsizing will affect about 8% of the 55,000 people that Rolls Royce employ in over 50 countries. The changes will affect the most the company's main plant in Derby, England, where most of administration and intermediary management is employed. With the simplification of the structure, a lot of redundancy in management is bound to happen, hence the layoffs.
"Around a third of these roles are expected to leave by the end of 2018," is explained in an official statement by Rolls Royce. "The programme is expected to gain further momentum through 2019, with full implementation of headcount reductions and structural changes by mid-2020".
Rolls Royce will now be divided into three main branches instead of five: Commercial Aerospace, Defence Aerospace and Power systems. The British manufacturer is looking into selling its under-competing Commercial Marine business, while the Nuclear department will be merged with Defence.
The reorganisation of activities will cost £500 million over the next three years, including termination compensations and the creation of new structures. This follows an audit of the company by the restructuring firm Alvarez & Marsal as announced along with 2017 results back on March 7, 2018.
Rolls Royce is going through several years of financial struggles, with a record loss of £4.6 billion in 2016, before bouncing back in 2017. The company already cut several hundred jobs through the years, especially in its Marine department.


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We keep spending our treasure on war
by Mary Ann McGivern
A few weeks ago Sen. Diane Feinstein wrote a New York Times op-ed saying that we don't need a new and improved nuclear cruise missile for the Navy. At about the same time, Daily Kos ran a review of the newest advances in weapons technology, leading with a quote from Will Rogers: "You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way."
The cruise missile takes us another step toward using nukes as offensive weapons in "small" battles. The new technologies include: a "railgun" or electric canon with a hundred-mile range and a speed of about 5,000 miles per hour; laser weapons that can take out boats and drones at a cost of about a dollar a shot and can be used as well for crowd control, inflicting severe pain if you keep pressing forward; smart bullets guided by small fins for stabilization; power armor that lets soldiers carry hundreds of pounds; and of course drones, including swarms of drones and micro-drones. The list goes on. If you can imagine it, Congress will pay engineers to develop it.
Meanwhile, Congress has given the A-10 fighter a life extension because the F-35 fighter plane still doesn't meet specifications, which is a polite way of saying that it fails in test flights. The A-10 would do fine, as would the F-15 and the F-18. But we've sold them around the world, so now we want a plane that is better -- or we sold them in order to make a case that now we needed a plane that is better, at the current estimated cost of one-and-a-half trillion dollars.
I keep these articles on my browser until I can screw up the effort to write one more time about the futile waste of resources, as if we could ever actually win. I have a friend, Lloyd J. Dumas, a professor who writes about military excess. He says that the military eats up our skilled labor, our capital (production resources even more than money) and our high tech process and product. Dumas goes further. He says it's a values choice -- "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be." (Matthew 6:21) -- that the only other time in history when a society put all its labor, capital and technology into a useless product was in the Middle Ages when they built cathedrals.
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The Nancy Variety Show!
( Kathy Tu )
Summary Transcript
TOBIN: Kath!
KATHY: Tobes!
[KAZOO FLOURISH]
TOBIN: It is time to shake shit up and try something new.
KATHY: Maybe try several new things?
TOBIN: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
KATHY: Absolutely.
TOBIN AND KATHY [SIMULTANEOUSLY]: It's the Nancy Variety Show!
[DRUMROLL STARTS, EXCEPT IT SOUNDS LIKE SPOONS ON A CUP INSTEAD OF A FULL DRUM SET]
TOBIN [WITH A DEEPER, BRITISH-ISH VOICE]: From WNYC Studios, this is "Nancy."
TOBIN [NOW WITH A VERY HIGH VOICE]: With your hosts, Tobin Low and Kathy Tu.
[DRUMROLL ENDS AND THEME MUSIC PLAYS, BUT ON A PIANO IN A CLASSICAL STYLE — IT'S THE ACOUSTIC VERSION]
[KATHY LAUGHS]
[WHISTLE]
KATHY: I just want to remind you that I play the drums, so you could have just [SINGING] asked for help!
TOBIN: It's okay, I got it. [BOTH LAUGH]
KATHY: Okay. So, up first, it's a game I'm very excited about!
TOBIN: Yes, yes! It's a game we're calling:
KATHY: "What Are The Straights Up To?"
[TOBIN SINGS "What Are The Straights Up To?" FOLLOWED BY A KAZOO VERSION OF THE SAME MELODY]
KATHY: [LAUGHS] It's a jingle!
TOBIN: That's the theme song. [BEAT] So, in this game, we're gonna dig into the nonsense that straight culture seems to love.
KATHY: Alright, Tobin, what ridiculousness are we talking about today?
TOBIN: Today, Kathy, we are talking gender reveal parties.
KATHY: Oh … my … god!
TOBIN: Mhm, mhm. [LAUGHS] If you are unfamiliar, gender reveal parties are where parents-to-be gather their friends and family to reveal the quote-unquote "gender" of their baby.
KATHY: Right, so the example I always think of is, like, there's a cake, and it's — the inside is, like, either pink or blue but the outside, you can't tell. And then they cut into it to reveal the color.
TOBIN: Right.
KATHY: Blue means boy, pink means [PAUSE] girl. And, umm … it's so problematic! I hate it! [TOBIN LAUGHS] It reinforces the idea of the gender binary!
TOBIN: Totally! Y'know, it's like, you're either a boy or a girl, and whatever you're assigned at birth is just it. And, over time, how couples do these gender reveals has gotten wild. So, Kathy, here is the game for today. I am going to tell you about different ways that couples have revealed the gender of their baby and you have to guess whether it's a real thing that a real couple has done —
KATHY: Noooo!
TOBIN: — or if it's something I just totally made up. [KATHY CRACKS UP LAUGHING]
So, Kathy, if you get the question, correct, you will hear this noise. [HAPPY KAZOO NOISE PLAYS] And if you get it wrong, you will hear [A SAD KAZOO NOISE PLAYS].
TOBIN: Couple Number 1 — this couple has made a giant piñata in the likeness of the mother-to-be. Inside that piñata is the father-to-be dressed as a giant baby. He then bursts out of the piñata, spraying pink Silly String, and also [TOBIN LAUGHS WHILE SPEAKING] terrifying the children at this party. Is this a real gender reveal party or not?
KATHY: This did not go the way I thought it was gonna go. I thought that it was gonna be a piñata and which you had to hit the mother's belly with stick — with sticks —
TOBIN: No …
KATHY: — and then the candy would be one color or the other.
TOBIN: Right. In this case, no, it's much worse than what you think.
KATHY: It's much worse! So I'm gonna say … not true?
[SAD KAZOO NOISE PLAYS — WRONG ANSWER]
TOBIN: It is a real gender reveal party.
KATHY [SHOCKED]: How big was the piñata?
TOBIN: It was a giant piñata. [TOBIN LAUGHS]
KATHY: Oh my god. Was there any candy in there?
TOBIN: No. Just a father. [LAUGHS]
KATHY: Okay, not only did they violate that rule, they also made a giant piñata for no good reason. Anyway! Sorry.
TOBIN: Kath, sorry. You're losing. Uhh, first one wrong.
KATHY: God damn it.
TOBIN: Next couple! Are you ready?
KATHY: Yes.
TOBIN: This couple happens to be the owners of four beautiful golden retrievers. The father-to-be also happens to be a scientist who has mixed together a clear gel-like substance that turns a predetermined color when wet. The couple covers their dogs in the substance, and — in front of friends and family — hose down the dogs, turning them a bright blue. The couple later said they regretted this decision as it took about four months to get the blue [LAUGHING] out of their dog's hair. Is this a real gender reveal party or not?
KATHY: I don't know. [DISTRESSED] This is like animal abuse, isn't it? [TOBIN HUMS IN AGREEMENT] Where the dogs covered completely?
TOBIN: Head to toe.
KATHY: Ugh. Not true.
[HAPPY KAZOO NOISE PLAYS — CORRECT ANSWER]
TOBIN: You are correct! It is not true. It did not happen. I made that up.
KATHY [UPSET]: What sick mind?!
TOBIN: I knew it would cloy your heartstrings because you now have a dog. [TOBIN LAUGHS, THEN KATHY LAUGHS TOO]
KATHY: Evil! Alright.
TOBIN: Very good, Kathy. You've got one right.
KATHY: Okay. Is there another one?
TOBIN: Yes!
KATHY: Okay. Here we go.
TOBIN: Next couple. Okay. I want you to close your eyes for this one.
KATHY: Alright, here we go.
TOBIN: Okay, ready? Picture it. A group of people are standing in a circle —
KATHY: Mhm.
TOBIN: — and in the middle of the circle is a full-grown alligator. [KATHY CRACKS UP LAUGHING] The father-to-be steps into the circle, opens the mouth of the alligator, and puts in what appears to be a hollowed-out coconut. The alligator chomps down to reveal a blue Jello-like substance. Is this a real gender reveal party?
KATHY: What?! [BOTH LAUGH IN DISBELIEF] How are they okay standing around an alligator?!
TOBIN: Listen [KATHY LAUGHS] you are asking the wrong person. I would be a hundred miles away from this party.
KATHY: Oh my god, I want it to not be true, but it sounds like something someone would do.
TOBIN: Final answer?
KATHY [LAUGHING]: Oh my god!
TOBIN: This really happened, people. Sad news for life, but good news for you! You finish strong with two correct answers, so I'm going to say you won.
KATHY: I am proud of myself, almost. [TOBIN LAUGHS] But, really, who won? [TOBIN LAUGHS]
TOBIN: Well, that brings me to my question. What did we learn today?
KATHY: That gender reveal parties are dumb and the binary is nonsense!
TOBIN: Thank you, agreed. Agreed. But you did super well! I'm impressed.
KATHY: Yeah, thank you. [TOBIN LAUGHS A DEVIOUS LITTLE LAUGH]
TOBIN: Alright, next segment time. Are you ready, Kath?
[ROMPING PIANO MUSIC STARTS]
TOBIN: This segment is called:
KATHY: "Ask A Queer Professional!"
[PIANO STOPS, THEN TOBIN PLAYS A SALSA RHYTHM ON BLOCKS WHILE TALK-SINGING "Ask a queer! Ask a queer pro-fessional!"]
TOBIN: That's the theme song for that one.
[PIANO FLOURISH ENDS THE THEME SONG MOMENT]
KATHY: So, it turns out … queer people are everywhere!
TOBIN: Huh!
KATHY: I know! [TOBIN LAUGHS] For pretty much every job you can imagine, you can find queer people rocking it. So we thought, why not ask some of them for some advice?
TOBIN: Yes! We're gonna be talking to rad queer professionals about the jobs that they do, and they'll answer your listener-submitted questions with all their knowledge.
KATHY: And today, we are talking [PAUSE] cars!
[TOBIN SINGS "Cars, cars, cars cars cars cars" TO THE RHYTHM OF THE SONG "SHOTS" BY LMFAO]
TOBIN: That was pretty good, right? [TOBIN AND KATHY LAUGH] On the phone with us is Chaya Milchtein. She runs the website "Mechanic Shop Femme" where she offers advice to women and queer folks on everything from maintaining your car, to being smart about buying a new ride. So, let's welcome to the show … Chaya!
KATHY: Hi, Chaya!
CHAYA: Hi, Kathy and Tobin! So excited to be here today. [KATHY AND TOBIN LAUGH]
TOBIN: We're excited to have you! I'm going to start by asking, where are you right now? Where are we talking to you from?
CHAYA: Right now, I'm in Brookfield, Wisconsin. I'm parked a couple blocks away from [PAUSE] the collision shop that I work at.
KATHY: Fun fact — my dad owns an auto body shop in Los Angeles.
CHAYA: Awesome.
KATHY: I mean, I couldn't tell you any more than that about cars. [ALL CHUCKLE]
KATHY: So you've built this career around all things fixing cars. What's your favorite kind of car problem to fix?
CHAYA: I always find it interesting when people come in and they have, like, noises in their vehicle that they like, "Oh, I've had this going on for a year." [KATHY AND TOBIN LAUGH] "I've had this going on for a year and nobody can figure it out."
TOBIN: Well, we actually asked people in our Friends of Nancy Facebook group to submit their car questions, and we would love to run some by you and get your advice.
ZOHAR: Hi Nancy, my name is Zohar. We recently got a new car and I'm wondering, what sort of gas should we use on it? The manual says 87, but is it better to use a more premium gas? Thanks!
CHAYA: So AAA actually did, like, a survey or a study on folks using different types of fuel in their vehicle than what's recommended —
CHAYA: — and they say that 16.5 million drivers use premium fuel, despite their vehicle manufacturer's recommendation. [KATHY GASPS, TOBIN LAUGHS] They have run tests on it. There's a huge gap in price and there's absolutely no reason to use premium fuel or anything besides 87 in your vehicle. Unless you have a vehicle that requires it. If you have a vehicle that requires it, that's a different story, though. You should definitely use the correct fuel.
KATHY: Wow. So I'm going to put my dad on blast for a second here. [CHAYA AND TOBIN LAUGH] Because he owns a body shop, and he does great work. But this is the one thing I yell him about all the time. I drive a Toyota Prius —
CHAYA: Mhm.
KATHY: — and when he first got his hands on it, he immediately put premium gas in there. I was like, "Dad! This is unnecessary!" [TOBIN LAUGHS] Anyways, okay.
TOBIN: You've just been vindicated.
CHAYA: Well, you know, 16.5 million people in 2010 made the same mistake. [TOBIN AND KATHY LAUGH] And, according to AAA, it cost them — it cost them 2.1 billion dollars.
KATHY AND TOBIN [SIMULTANEOUSLY]: Oh my god!
KATHY: Okay.
TOBIN: Alright.
KATHY: Um, okay. Next up is Sarah.
SARAH: My ABS light has been on all through the bitter Chicago winter and I'd gotten some work done replacing the brakes and, um, some stuff on the suspension in January. So I mentioned it and I was told that it was very likely just the cold, and it probably go away in the spring. So it's spring now — no longer cold — and it hasn't gone away and I have no concept of what this means or how concerned I should be about it.
CHAYA: So the ABS system is the Anti-Brake Locking System. Basically, it's there to — to better brake for you in a situation where you are shortstopping or when you are hydroplaning.
KATHY AND TOBIN: Hmm.
CHAYA: So it's definitely an important safety feature in your vehicle. If your ABS light is on, it could mean several different things. It can mean the ABS is not working. It could mean the computer is not communicating to the ABS sensors, which are in the wheels. It could mean that one of the sensors in one of the wheels is bad, and only one of the ABS [PAUSE] components is not working. I would definitely get the ABS light diagnosed, probably by somebody that did not do your brakes and suspension, because it doesn't take a whole lot of work in order to diagnose that.
KATHY: Hmm.
CHAYA: And then you can make an educated decision about what you want to do with the ABS. Sometimes it's really expensive to fix.
KATHY: Oh, I see.
CHAYA: If you need the computer for the system, it may not — it may you know, it may be a calculated risk that you take, because it's only used in specific situations.
KATHY: Well, I feel like I've been in many, many cars of friends with a light on — like a warning light — in their car on and everybody says it's always fine. Is it always fine, Chaya? [TOBIN AND KATHY CHUCKLE]
CHAYA: Not always! Different lights — like, if you have a "Check Engine" light, it could come on for over 600 different reasons.
KATHY [BAMBOOZLED]: What?!
CHAYA: It's connected to eight self-diagnostic computers — minimum eight self-diagnostic computers in the vehicle. And each of those computers testing many, many different components. And if any of those components are bad over two trip cycles — which, it depends on the computer how long that is — it will throw a diagnostic code to "Check Engine" light. So not always is there an actual [PAUSE] problem that is, y'know, drastically immediately has to be taken care of, but often the problems, y'know, get exacerbated the longer you wait.
KATHY: Gotcha.
CHAYA: And the other thing I would wanna mention is that one of the many things that the "Check Engine" light test for is emissions. So if you have a sensor that's bad that's testing, you know, the fuel mixture or testing the exhaust that's coming out, it may not specifically impact your vehicle immediately, but it is impacting the environment around you.
TOBIN: Huh.
KATHY: Wow!
TOBIN: So we're going to move on to our next question. You mentioned before that you like car noise problems. [KATHY AND CHAYA LAUGH] So I think this one will be right up your alley. This one's from Sherry. She says:
SHERRY: So, I drive a 97 Pontiac Grand Am and it makes this random clicking noise. I'll be driving, or sitting at a stoplight, or whatever and from somewhere within the dash — maybe towards the passenger side, ish — there'll be a rapid series of, like, three to five, maybe seven clicks. It's never, like, continuous but it just goes [MAKES TONGUE CLICKING NOISE]. And then it just stops. The clicks alternate in tone, high-low-high. This has been happening for years. A friend of a friend said their car did the clicking noise too, but they also didn't know what it was. So why is my car clicking?
TOBIN: Chaya, what is the clicking noise? [KATHY LAUGHS]
CHAYA: So obviously I can't diagnose the car over a podcast, but I can tell you that that clicking, especially from the passenger side, often happens from the blend door actuator, which is part of the blowing system — so, like, your fan and your AC — sticking. So it's supposed to open and close fluidly, and if it's sticking it will cause that clicking sound, especially when the AC or fan are working or when you just turned it off. So it's not necessarily has to get fixed right away —
TOBIN: Mhm.
CHAYA: — um, but that's probably what it's coming from.
KATHY: Well, I mean, especially since it's been happening for years and she seems to be fine. [KATHY AND TOBIN LAUGH]
CHAYA: It's really annoying though.
CHAYA: Sometimes people fix things because they're annoying.
KATHY: I'm one of those people. [TOBIN LAUGHS] I would have taken this in and been like, "I am gonna die unless this is fixed." Okay, wait, before we let you go, I want to ask a question.
KATHY: I drive a Toyota Prius, and I grew up in LA, and I'm thinking of bringing my car over to New York. Is it going to be okay? [TOBIN LAUGHS]
CHAYA: It will be okay, but after the first winter you may notice that there are — so there's a lot of rubber components in your vehicle, gaskets and things of that nature. Sometimes you do find that the vehicle will develop fluid leaks, um, or things of that nature after, like, the first winter in a cold climate. So I would definitely keep the vehicle maintained and check it out during the process, but the car is going to be fine.
KATHY [BREATHING A SIGH OF RELIEF]: Okay.
CHAYA: It will probably do better than it would have done if you would have bought it and used it in New York the whole time. Because it's not going to develop the — the rust just as fast and it was probably driven in roads that don't have as many potholes and …
KATHY: It's true. It's true. [TOBIN LAUGHS] And also my dad's favorite thing to do in the world is not talk to his children, but to maintain his cars. [PAUSE] Including mine.
TOBIN: Ah, so it's beautifully maintained. [CHAYA LAUGHS, THEN ALL LAUGH]
KATHY: It's beautifully maintained. [TOBIN AND KATHY LAUGH]
CHAYA: Then it'll probably treat you very well in New York.
KATHY: Okay. Perfect.
TOBIN: Perfect.
KATHY: Chaya, thank you so much for talking with us. This was so much fun!
CHAYA: This was awesome.
KATHY: I never thought my dad's knowledge would ever make it into my head, but turns out some of it has.
TOBIN: Alright, Chaya, I'm gonna play you out with some music.
KATHY: Bye!
[TOBIN BEGINS TO PLAY "CAMPTOWN RACES" ON THE KAZOO]
KATHY: Alright, well, while Tobin continues to kazoo music, I'm gonna say that we'll be right back after the break with an update on queer rights. And we make a very important decision for the future of queer people everywhere! [KATHY TAKES A SHARP INHALE] Tobin, is that "Camptown Races"?
TOBIN: I had to pick something with no copyright! Uh, you're listening to "Nancy."
[MIDROLL]
[TOBIN WHISTLES]
TOBIN: That's my miserable whistle to say that we're back!
KATHY: With the Nancy Variety Show!
KATHY: Okay. Let's move onto the next segment.
TOBIN: Okay, so, here on "Nancy," we've done a lot of reporting on queer rights here in the U.S. And lately, there's been so much happening that could really change what protections queer people have in this country.
KATHY: Which is why we're calling this segment, [A LITTLE BRO-Y] "Hey, What's Up With My Rights?"
TOBIN: You did that really well.
KATHY: Thank you. Today, we're talking about protections at work. You might remember from our "Out At Work" series that, back in 1964, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act. And part of that law — called Title VII — says you can't discriminate against someone on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex.
And the way the courts have interpreted it has evolved over time. It's been used to protect women from discrimination. It's been used to say that sexual harassment is illegal. And in some cases, it has also been used to say that you can't discriminate against LGBTQ folks in the workplace.
TOBIN: Right. So an example of that is the case of Donald Zarda. He was a skydiving instructor in Long Island who alleged that he was fired after he told a client he was gay. Donald sued, and his case has been working its way through the court for years. He actually died tragically in 2014, but his estate is continuing to pursue the case. And now, the Supreme Court is going to hear it, along with two others involving LGBTQ workers.
KATHY: Which means they could decide, once and for all, if Title VII does or doesn't protect queer people in the workplace.
TOBIN: So, I decided to call up a friend of the show, Mark Joseph Stern. He covers the Supreme Court as well as LGBTQ issues for Slate. I wanted to ask about what to look for as the Supreme Court agrees to hear these cases.
MARK: Hello!
TOBIN: Hi, Mark!
MARK: Hi. So glad to be making my return. [TOBIN LAUGHS]
TOBIN: So, Mark, what's the current state of protections for LGBTQ workers on the federal level?
MARK: So it's basically a hot mess.
TOBIN: Right. [CHUCKLES] The "tldr" is, like, it's all over the place depending on where you live.
MARK: Exactly right. Truly — and this is not how federal laws are supposed to work — but whether or not you are protected against anti-gay, anti-trans workplace discrimination, under federal law, depends on which state you live in.
TOBIN: Um, the last time we talked we were talking about this case of Donald Zarda who was a skydiving instructor, um, who said he was fired because he was gay. What are sort of the circumstances of the other two cases?
MARK: They are very interesting, and in some ways kind of heartbreaking.
So the other sexual orientation case is Bostock versus Clayton County Georgia, uh, which involved an employee, uh, of the county, uh, who joined a gay softball league called "Hotlanta." And essentially because he joined this gay softball league, he was terminated. And he then sued and said, "Look, you only fired me because I'm gay!" and the county turned around and said, "Well, that doesn't matter because you aren't protected." And the case went up to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and the eleventh circuit sided with the county and said, "You know what, Congress did not intend to outlaw anti-gay discrimination in 1964. You are not protected under this law" and throughout his case.
The third case, uh, which is also very interesting, is called R G & Gr Harris Funeral Homes.
So it involves a — a — a trans employee, uh, of this funeral home in Michigan who — when she started working — presented as a male witch was her sex assigned at birth.
She worked there for a number of years presented as a male, but eventually told her boss, "Hey, listen. For much of my life, I've been struggling with gender identity, and I — I now recognize that I am a woman and I'm going to begin the process of transitioning, umm, which will mean — among other things — presenting as a woman at work." And her boss was very, very religious and very anti-LGBTQ. Said, "Well, that's too bad for you. I'm going to have to let you go." And so the employer very, very clearly fired her on the basis of her transgender status. [BREATH] She wound up winning a unanimous victory in the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which disagreed with some other conservative courts and said, "Yes, of course! Discrimination on the basis of sex encompasses anti-transgender discrimination. And so we're going to rule in her favor." And that case was appealed! And the court took all three. So we're going to have a big ol' blockbuster term next year, when the court's gonna decide all of these cases at once.
TOBIN: So, for — for those arguing that Title VII doesn't cover LGBTQ workers, how does that argument play out?
MARK: So what they say — basically — is that no one who voted for Title VII of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 thought that the law that they were passing protected gay, bisexual, or transgender people. Uh, and I think that that is probably true. But the — the problem with that argument is that no one who voted for that bill, or at least few people who voted for that bill, had a very clear idea of what sex discrimination meant. This provision banning discrimination because of sex was added kind of at the last minute by a very racist congressman who did not want Black women to have more protection in the workplace than white women. So he said, "Well, if we're going to ban race discrimination at work, we also need to ban sex discrimination at work." And so there wasn't really much floor debate at all about what this meant. And so it's easy to say, "Sure, of course, no one in 1964 thought that sex discrimination encompassed anti-gay discrimination or anti-trans discrimination." But it's much harder to say what they actually thought the bill did. And so we have to focus instead on text and precedent. We can't really get anywhere useful if all we do is try to take a time machine back to 1964 and figure out what the congressman meant.
TOBIN: So is it just LGBTQ workers who would be affected if the court rules that Title VII doesn't cover sexual orientation and gender identity?
MARK: Not at all. Although it does depend on how they rule. But another factor here is the doctrine of so-called "sex stereotyping." Um. So the court ruled long ago that a form of sex discrimination is sex stereotyping where an employer says, "I don't like this female worker because she's too masculine. She's too butch." Y'know, "She doesn't present herself as sufficiently feminine." That is sex discrimination and it is illegal under Title VII. If the court rejects those theories … if the court cuts back on sex stereotyping doctrine, or overrules it all together, then it is not just LGBTQ people who are in serious legal trouble. Because the sex stereotyping principal protects us all. It's not just gay people and trans people. It's also a woman who doesn't want to present as super feminine in the workplace. It's a straight man who might be a little effeminate, to use a stereotypical term, who might present in a way that's not traditionally masculine. It's any kind of individual who doesn't perform gender the way that his or her employer wants them to perform gender. If the sex stereotyping doctrine is all overruled — if the Roberts Court just throws it out the window — then a whole bunch of people are going to be in legal jeopardy because there are no longer going to have the right to express their gender however they want it work and their bosses are going to be able to police their genders, police their gender expression, and get away with it in court.
TOBIN: Right. Right! Mark, thank you so much for making time to talk to me.
MARK: Always a pleasure! Thanks so much for having me back on.
[PIANO FLOURISH TO SIGNAL SEGMENT CHANGE]
TOBIN: Okay, Kathy. We are at the last act of our show. I want us to shake out our shoulders a little bit. Deep breath in, deep breath out. [KATHY BREATHES IN AND OUT WITH TOBIN'S WORDS] This is a silly one.
KATHY: Okay, great. Here we go!
TOBIN: So, as we all know, queer history is full of rich, iconic moments; people; treasured objects … It all adds up to this amazing collection some might call "the queer canon."
KATHY: Right. Shows like "The L Word," "Noah's Ark." Books like Stone Butch Blues. [TOBIN HUMS IN AGREEMENT] All in the queer canon!
TOBIN: But, Kathy, how does one decide what makes it into the canon? What hurdles does something need to clear to be enshrined forever? And does the canon have room for silly things?
KATHY: Great question, Tobin. I think we've found the answer in a segment that we are calling "Is It Canon?".
[A GONG PLAYS, AND TOBIN SAYS "Is It Canon?" IN A DEEP VOICE BEFORE LAUGHING]
KATHY: We're going to debate if something should or should not be considered part of the queer world forevermore. This time around, the object up for debate is …
TOBIN: Succulents! [TOBIN LAUGHS]
KATHY [EXASPERATED: Oh god.
TOBIN: They are the super on-trend plants you see on desks and Instagram feeds everywhere.
KATHY: So Tobin, you're arguing for. I'm arguing against. And then we're also going to hear from you, dear listeners, about what you think. Okay, Tobin, make your case.
TOBIN: There's no presentation. [TOBIN STIFLES A CHUCKLE] First of all. Succulents. They are made to last in dry-ass temperatures with limited resources. [KATHY LAUGHS] Tell me something that is more queer than being able to survive harsh climates and atmospheres that are not built for you.
KATHY: Okay, okay.
TOBIN: To me, that is very queer.
KATHY: Great.
TOBIN: Okay, also, a lot of succulents are, like, hard and spiky on the outside, but soft and squishy on the inside. So many queer people I know are like this!
KATHY: Wow! Name four.
TOBIN [WITHOUT HESITATING]: Uh! Myself, you, Temi who's sitting in the booth [KATHY LAUGHS HEARTILY], Zakiya our producer, Jeremy. Literally all of us are like this!
KATHY: Okay!
TOBIN: Okay, and also, I didn't wanna bring this up, but Instagays fucking love succulents. [TOBIN LAUGHS] Like, when I imagine an Instagay, I imagine a torso surrounded by succulents. Just like, plants, plants, plants, nipples, plants, nipples. [KATHY LAUGHS] So this is my argument for why succulents should be added to the queer canon.
KATHY: Okay, some … decent points.
TOBIN: Mhm. Kathy, you are not for succulents making it into the queer canon.
KATHY: Yeah.
TOBIN: Can you tell me why?
KATHY: Point number one —
TOBIN: Okay.
KATHY: — Plants die. Succulents also die. Like, I know that succulents are supposed to be able to survive harsh things …
TOBIN: Uh-huh.
KATHY: But I know more than a couple people — at least a handful of people that claim to be succulent-killers. So …
TOBIN: Are you talking about yourself?
KATHY: I am one of those people. [TOBIN LAUGHS] It's true.
KATHY: I'm not 100% sure what I succulent is.
TOBIN [WHISPERING]: I'm not either!
KATHY: Right? How can it be in the canon if nobody knows what it is?
TOBIN: I just imagine if it's in a beautiful little pot, that's a succulent. [KATHY LAUGHS] Okay, clearly we have no idea what we're talking about.
TOBIN: Let's hear from our listeners. Do you think succulents should be added to the queer canon?
[SLOW, BUMBLING PIANO MUSIC PLAYS UNDERNEATH]
[LISTENER MONTAGE]
LISTENER 1: Okay. Plants are queer, caring about nature is queer, gardening is queer, and therefore succulents are hella queer. They're resistant, but they need gentle care. They're beautiful. And nature and plants have been used as symbols of queerness for … ever.
LISTENER 2: All I can think of when I think of succulents is a Kimberleigh marrying a Bradlee with the succulent aesthetic they swiped from Pinterest boards by Mormon moms. Don't get me wrong — I love succulents, I'm an Arizona bitch! But, like, [PAUSE] the straights have tainted this one, folks.
LISTENER 3: We need more asexual representation in our cultural lexicon. And what non-human screams "Asexual!" more than the low-key ace succulent.
LISTENER 4: Succulents are definitely a hipster thing, not a queer thing explicitly. We're more than a West Elm catalog.
LISTENER 5: However, many in our community have small living spaces, because most of us may not be homeowners. So a lot of us bring smaller plants inside of our living space, and succulents definitely fit that bill.
[LISTENER MONTAGE AND BUMBLING PIANO END]
TOBIN: Alright, the listeners are divided, Kathy.
TOBIN: This is up to us. What do we think?
KATHY: I dunno. [TOBIN SNICKERS] I still don't think so.
KATHY: What do you think?
TOBIN: I'm gonna say [PAUSE] that I'm gonna declare a winner, and say that succulents should make it into the queer canon!
[HAPPY KAZOO FLOURISH]
TOBIN: And with that, Kathy, we did it!
KATHY: We made it to the end of the Nancy Variety Show!
TOBIN: Okay, personally, I loved it so much. We laughed, we learned, we loved —
KATHY: Did we love?
TOBIN: We did love! We absolutely loved! It was so good!
KATHY: Mhm. Tobin, why don't you play us out so we can do credits?
[TOBIN PLAYS A CREDITS MUSIC BIT ON THE KAZOO]
KATHY: Our staff includes Zakiya Gibbons, Stephanie Joyce, Temi Fagbenle, Jeremy Bloom, and Paula Szuchman. I'm Kathy Tu.
TOBIN: [INHALES, STOPS PLAYING KAZOO, AND SAYS QUICKLY] I'm Tobin Low. [RESUMES PLAYING KAZOO]
KATHY: And "Nancy" is a production of WNYC studios.
TOBIN: Juilliard trained, motherfuckers!
[PIANO FLOURISH]
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While year-to-date performance remains strong, at the end of September broad U.S. indices were largely unchanged from the previous quarter. U.S. markets showed strong performance in July and August followed by increased volatility and declines in September as heightened concerns on several fronts moved to the fore.
The long dance with COVID-19 continues around the world with the Delta variant and its increased virulence throwing a curveball in reopening plans across the globe over the quarter. While we continue to anticipate a "two steps forward, one step back" recovery, vaccination trends across both developed and developing countries continue a steady march upward and novel anti-viral medications are on the horizon. Progress in managing COVID-19 is an essential precursor to normalizing global supply chains, which have been a significant detractor to economic progress worldwide. Despite strong demand from both consumers and businesses, inventory levels and related capital expenditures are at multi-year lows and pricing pressure is building within supply chains. The economic impact on certain industries has been significant. For example, it is estimated that the automobile industry has lost over $200 billion in global new car sales this year due to shortages of semiconductors and other parts, which have led to inflated prices for both new and used cars. With close to 80 vessels essentially parked off the western coast of the U.S. waiting to be unloaded, we were heartened that President Biden recently announced a public/private partnership to accelerate the unloading of the container ships over roughly the next 90 days. While the backlog will take several months to reallocate across the distribution and production network, we anticipate that the global supply chain will over the next several quarters return to a more balanced state which will benefit enterprises and economies around the world.
Developments in China over the past several months have also contributed to heightened uncertainty. The Chinese government's goal of "common prosperity" has ushered in a series of policy changes which have led to significant fines and restrictions in certain industries. In sectors like Real Estate, the resolution of the Evergrande Group's financial woes and related enterprises hangs over regional financial markets. Recently, rolling power outages and increased tensions with Taiwan have only added to the level of concern amongst investors. We remain highly selective in our positioning in the region, investing via established, diversified, multi-national companies over locally listed companies at this juncture.
In the U.S., President Biden and a fractured Democratic party in Congress face a series of issues, not the least of which is passing a budget reconciliation bill and debt ceiling package that may define the party for the next several years. On the positive side, U.S. consumers are in a strong financial position with cash balances up 50% year over year to approximately $2.5 trillion. Similarly, company cash levels are at record levels and the normalizing economy should usher in the rebuilding of inventory levels which are at 25 year lows relative to sales, and spur a wave of various capital expenditures and trillions of dollars in annual cash distributions in the form of share repurchases and dividends over the coming years.
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Some rooftops, neighbours and details... all of it can be found in less than three kilometres radius from my place. It's true, my neighbourhood is pure beauty.
Yo quiero vivir en tu barrio, ¿cómo puede ser tan precioso? Qué atmósfera, ¡cómo mola! Es una pasada, es como un cuento. Tim Burton moriría del gusto ahí dentro.
Is that a beaver that just happened to be swimming past when you took this photo?? is that a common sight, or pretty rare?
I recall the last set of photos of your home neighbourhood and these too give such an inviting viewpoint.