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Pilipinas Shell achieves P3.4B income despite 3Q lockdowns
Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation (Pilipinas Shell) grew its net income to PhP3.4 billion by end September, a significant recovery from its PhP13.9 billion loss in the same period last year. This despite the mobility slowdown resulting from the two-week Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) implemented in NCR and select provinces last August, and the succeeding Alert 4 restriction.
"Our renewed strategy has been proven effective for our business to thrive amidst the resurgence of selected lockdowns in the country. We are continuously growing our capacity for the remainder of 2021, to prepare for the near and medium-term demand pick-up as active new COVID cases decline, vaccination programs accelerate, and travel restrictions ease," says Pilipinas Shell President and CEO Cesar Romero.
The Company's borrowing levels remain controlled, while working capital requirements increased as global market prices for gasoline and diesel increased by ~50% from December 2020.
Unrivaled premium Shell products for all segments
While overall YTD3Q21 marketing volume delivery slightly declined by 6% vs PY due to increased lockdowns, Pilipinas Shell sustained its value delivery through its successful marketing programs and premium product offerings across businesses.
Mobility's premium fuel penetration increased to 31%, with Shell's V-Power brand maintaining its position as the most preferred fuel brand in the country. Loyalty price discounts for Shell GO+ members integrate both fuel and non-fuel products, providing a complete service to customers.
Commercial fuels and bitumen continue to be the preferred supplier for key construction sector players. Shell Bitumen Freshair, its eco-friendly bitumen product, continues to be a significant value driver and is currently used in projects like the Php30-billion Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway, an 8.5-kilometer toll road project that includes a bridge connecting Cebu in Cebu City to Mactan island through the town of Cordova.
On the other hand, Shell's lubricants business continues to thrive in both volume, which is up 36% vs PY and value, with premium products growth and deeper consumer penetration nationwide seen as key levers.
Aviation volumes continue to improve, with volume recovery in the third quarter of over 60% compared to the same period last year, driven by an increase in passenger flights as domestic and international flight restrictions ease.
Future-proof mobility site network expansion
The new "Site of the Future" mobility station in Acienda Silang, Cavite launched last September 28 is the forerunner of innovation for the Philippines and all other mobility stations worldwide. The site's customer-centric format is designed to enhance customer experiences, is future-proof in offering more energy solutions.
Meanwhile, Pilipinas Shell's non-fuel retail network expansion continues with 156 Shell Select stores, 219 Select Express, 72 Deli2Gos, and 424 Lube bays. Non-fuel retail operating profit grew by 28% vs same period last year.
The company's CAPEX program is on-track, with some PhP2.2 billion spending, approximately 68% of which is spent on network expansion. 25 new mobility sites were launched from January to September this year. The rest was used for supply chain maintenance and upgrades, in preparation for demand resurgence.
Sustainability wins
Pilipinas Shell continues to lead in the energy transition with President and CEO Cesar Romero and Vice President and General Manager for Mobility Randy del Valle participating as industry experts and resource speakers in national and regional forums like the Asian Forum on Enterprise for Society 2021 and 9th Philippines Electric Vehicle Summit.
Efforts to work towards a low-carbon future include getting a LEED Green Building Silver rating under Interior Design and Construction: Commercial Interiors Category for the company's new office spaces at The Finance Center in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. The certification validates Shell's efforts to develop indoor spaces that offer a healthy, sustainable and productive work environment.
The company also sustained its commitment to strengthen local economies by supporting the top three start-ups of Shell LiveWIRE: Panublix, an online marketplace for indigenous weavers; Agro-DigitalPH, which connects farmers digitally to their customers; and SACHI (Sustainable and Compostable Horizons Industry) – Group, Inc., a manufacturer of eco-friendly materials, through mentorship, training, and a monthly product development allowance.
Pilipinas Shell is the first Philippine energy company to support the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) reporting guidelines as part of its commitment to uphold high corporate governance standards in the country. The addition of TCFD to the company's sustainability framework is seen to enhance transparency in climate-reporting, and promote more informed financial decision-making for its investors and business partners.
Last September 28, Pilipinas Shell took home the 2021 Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability (ACES) awards for the 'Green Innovation category' for its first mobility station in Plaridel, Bulacan that was built using eco-bricks.
For Enquiries:
Cesar Abaricia
Media Relations Manager, Philippines
cesar.abaricia@shell.com
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Current Alzheimer Research
Title: Association Constants of Pyridine and Piperidine Alkaloids to Amyloid ß Peptide Determined by Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
Author(s): I. Grabowska, H. Radecka, A. Burza, J. Radecki, M. Kaliszan and R. Kaliszan
Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics, Medical University of Gdansk, Gen. J. Hallera 107, 80-416 Gdansk, Poland.,Poland
Keywords: Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), Cyclic voltammetry, Ligand binding assay, Amyloid β peptide, Association constants, Alkaloids, Pyridine and piperidine ligands, Anti-Alzheimer's disease agents, Drug repositioning
Abstract: Amyloid β(1-40) peptide was immobilized on an Au-colloid modified gold electrode and an electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) system was elaborated for determining the association constants, Ka, between small molecular ligands and the peptide. The changes in the resistance of the modified electrode layer with deposited Aβ(1-40) peptide were measured with EIS in relation to a series of concentrations of the ligands studied. The association constants were calculated from Langmuir isotherms. The method is sensitive, reproducible and consumes only very little amounts of interacting species. The method was applied to determine the affinity of a series of pyridine and piperidine derivatives, mainly alkaloids of a known ability, to cross the blood-brain barrier. Along with nicotine and its main metabolite cotinine, the following agents were taken for the study: anabasine, arecoline, coniine, lobeline, pseudopelletierine, trigonelline, as well as pyridine and piperidine themselves. For the sake of comparison, two vitamins were also subjected to the study: ascorbic acid and pyridoxine. There was no association of these vitamins, which were tested as a negative control. For the compounds studied, a strong association with Aβ(1-40) was determined with Ka ranging from 1.7 x 107 M-1 for (±)- anabasine to 2.3 x 108 M-1 for arecoline hydrobromide. As a positive control, a well known amyloid specific binder, Congo Red, was tested, displaying Ka equal to 3.7 x 108 M-1.
Grabowska I., Radecka H., Burza A., Radecki J., Kaliszan M. and Kaliszan R., Association Constants of Pyridine and Piperidine Alkaloids to Amyloid ß Peptide Determined by Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, Current Alzheimer Research 2010; 7(2) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/156720510790691290
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Columbus Bartending School – In the News
Behind Bars: Vanessa Long at the Columbus Bartending School
By Erica Thompson Assistant Editor
Columbus Alive, December 14, 2017
The school owner promotes bartending as an avenue to financial freedom
If someone told you there was a way to pay off your debt, buy a house and own a business that allows others to achieve financial freedom — within a determinate amount of time — you'd probably dismiss it as a pyramid scheme. But for Vanessa Long, a career in bartending was the means by which she achieved all of the above.
"I grew up in a lower-class [environment]," she said in an early-December interview at the Columbus Bartending School, which she now owns. "As soon as I was able to work at 16, I got into the service industry."
The Licking County, Ohio, native started busing tables at the Buckeye Lake Country Club and eventually gained experience as a server and host.
"I enjoyed it but I always felt like I should do more," she said.
So, at 21 years old, she obtained an associate's degree in paralegal studies. By then, her debt had ballooned to about $50,000, including credit cards, student loans and a car loan. She got a job at the Koenig & Long law firm, but had to work as a bartender to make ends meet.
"When I hired [Long] … her debt was so overwhelming I think it bothered her every single day," said attorney Jim Owen. "She made more money working Friday nights and Saturday nights than she did the whole week working for me."
By 2014, Long had paid off her debt, purchased a home in Pataskala, and advanced to become head paralegal at the law firm. She also purchased the Columbus Bartending School, located in the same building as the firm, when the previous owner, Terry Meinhardt, died suddenly of a brain aneurysm.
"I worked closely with [Meinhardt]," Long said. "We wanted to help people. We've always thought [the school] was a great opportunity for everyone to create a better future."
Today, Long helps over 200 enrollees each year, with students of all ages completing the 40-hour course.
"I've been seeing a lot of people that have worked in their career and they're not happy," she said. "[And] people retire and they don't want to stop working. … It's for anyone that wants to learn something new and fun."
And many people just need the extra income.
Upon graduation, students are assisted with job placement, and then added to a database for the school's "Hire a Bartender" service.
"People call me for weddings, corporate events, holiday parties, graduation parties — any type of event they're having," Long said.
Long said she still gets requests to bartend at private parties and to work as a consultant for bars.
"You never stop learning in this industry," she said. "The more knowledgeable you are the more of an asset you're going to become."
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SPRINGFIELD – The Heidelberg University women's basketball team had to battle from behind for the majority of the game in a road contest with Wittenberg on Saturday, ultimately falling to the host Tigers by a final score of 74-65. The Student Princes were able to hold a lead early, but a late first-half run by Wittenberg provided the separation that proved to be insurmountable.
Carli Patrick has been on a tear as of late, with this game being no exception. The sophomore from Norwalk scored 14 points and pulled down a career-high 18 rebounds, marking her fifth-straight double-double.
Heidelberg shot 0-of-6 behind the arc in the second half, preventing them from making a late comeback.
Paige Ricketts scored a season-high 17 points, going 11-of-13 from the free throw line.
It was a quick start for Heidelberg, as Shelby Dearth knocked down a 3-pointer on the opening possession of the game, giving the Student Princes an early advantage.
A layup by Patrick at the 16:11 mark made the score 10-6 in favor of the Student Princes.
After Heidelberg led 19-18, Wittenberg went on a 12-0 run to take a 30-19 lead with 3:11 remaining in the half.
The Student Princes cut the lead to five after Ricketts made a free throw to convert a 3-point play with 18:15 remaining.
The two squads went back-and-forth until Wittenberg pulled away, taking a 65-47 lead with just 5:09 left to play.
At that point, Heidelberg went on an 8-0 run to cut the lead to 10. The Student Princes continued to chip away and pulled within six after Theresa Jackson made a layup at the 2:06 mark.
Free throws by the Tigers iced the game down the stretch as Wittenberg held on for the 74-65 win.
Patrick now leads the Ohio Athletic Conference in rebounding, averaging 13.5 per game.
Dearth has been the lone bright spot for Heidelberg from beyond the 3-point line this season and is the only Student Prince above 40% on the season, shooting 44% after going a perfect 3-of-3 today.
Head coach Morgan Shriver on the end of the first half: "During their run we had some dumb turnovers and we let them get some open looks offensively. We kind of let that snowball on us."
Shriver on the comeback in the second half: "We need to be a blue-collar team and we have to bring that effort and energy the entire time, we can't wait until there's six minutes left in the game to decide to play hard."
Shriver on the play of Carli Patrick: "She's just an animal on the court. She plays with her hear more than anyone out there. I can't take her off the court. I told her as many minutes as you can handle, you're going to play."
Heidelberg will be off for the next week for the Holidays before traveling to Huntington, Pennsylvania, for the Juniata Comfort Inn Classic on December 30th. The first game of that tournament for the Student Princes will be against host Juniata at 3:00 p.m.


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Here's to Julia Michaels Normalizing Underarm Hair in Her Glamorous New Music Video
In Praise of Julia Michaels Normalizing Armpit Hair
October 26, 2020 by Kelsey Garcia
Julia Michaels meant it when she said she didn't want to shave her armpits ever again. The singer and prolific songwriter recently released the mod music video for her latest single, "Lie Like This," and shortly thereafter, fans and commenters began applauding Michaels for her visible underarm hair, and thereby, her normalization of body hair in general.
"If it's not supposed to be there, why do we grow it?"
For context, Michaels tweeted that she was going to stop shaving her armpits back in May: "Honestly, I'm not shaving my armpits ever again. I don't know why I ever did before. Social norms can eat an eggplant." (By the way, "social norms can eat an eggplant" is our new favorite expression.) The refreshing declaration received several supportive replies, leading to various exchanges with followers. In one exchange, Michaels noted, "If it's not supposed to be there, why do we grow it?"
I do acknowledge the irony in praising Michaels for normalizing underarm hair, while also writing about it and, well, purposefully calling it out. If it's so normal, then why even comment on it? The truth, however, is that though Michaels is among many young stars and pop performers who have chosen to proudly display their underarm hair, including Halsey and Paris Jackson, it does still feel like a rarity, particularly in such a carefully curated space as a music video.
Here's hoping that one day that underarm hair will be nothing worth noting on anyone — a day I do think is near — but in the meantime, I'll continue offering praise where it's due.
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To a geologist, a rock is not just a rock, and a big crack in the ground is not what it first seems either. One such split, north of Menominee, Michigan, in the state's Upper Peninsula, is a large crack that formed in 2010. Not known for its earthquakes, Michigan is considered aseismic, and the Menominee Crack registered the Upper Peninsula's first recorded earthquake--measured at less than magnitude 1. The feature and its causes were mysterious.
Now, researchers from Michigan Technological University think they have identified what the feature is: a geological pop-up. The unusual structure is often found at the base of quarries or where glaciers have recently receded. The team, led by Wayne Pennington, dean of the College of Engineering at Michigan Tech, says the Menominee Crack is a one-of-a-kind feature as far as they can tell.
"We wanted to look into the crack because we could not find information in the literature on pop-up structures forming outside specific areas," Pennington says. "As far as we can tell, this is a one-of-a-kind event; but in case it is not, we wanted the information about it to be available for other investigators."
The team surveyed the site and conducted seismic refraction tests to verify the crack is a pop-up structure. By capturing sound waves, Pennington's group confirmed the brittle limestone underlying the crack was highly fractured and bowed upwards.
"The crack itself was not as important to note as the ridge," Pennington says, explaining that the ridge indicated a deeper structure. He adds that pop-ups usually form where downward pressure is lessened, most commonly at quarries and glacial zones where the overlying rock or ice has been removed.
"There are no nearby quarries, however," Pennington says, adding that the glaciers left more than 11,000 years ago. "There was a large tree that had been removed after it fell over and the timing certainly provides an interesting coincidence."
He admits the cause of the crack remains a mystery--and a puzzling one in an aseismic zone--but it also makes the feature unique.


It's always something, and many times it's a whole truckload of somethings that happen in a steady torrent. On the fly prioritization works to some degree, especially if the things flying at you are "regular work" items. You know, almost by reflex, how to handle them, how to sort them and the like. The things that show up as exceptions are more difficult, and require a bit more cognitive work to rightly line them up in order against the "regular work".
I recently read a short article by Bill Stainton where he wrote about his drive and desire to read an hour a day. He realized that he wouldn't do it unless it was scheduled on his calendar (there are good habit-forming processes at work here….). He specifically wanted to block time to read in the two primary areas of focus for his business: Leadership and Strategic Creativity. So, he started blocking the last hour of his "official workday" for doing just that.
Being intentional, as demonstrated by MAKING TIME and OFFICIALLY BLOCKING TIME, in the business sense, creates the needed space for the deeper work needed, the cognitive space required, to really learn. Each of us, as professionals, has areas of expertise that we need to cultivate. A lot of the time it may mean learning about something new in your industry that impacts you and your customers. Some of the time you will want to go VERY DEEP into areas where you are already expert, but need to become much more facile. Sometimes you may become aware of a gap or weak spot in your knowledge of an aspect of your business that you KNOW you need to be better at. Whatever it is, you will benefit from the time set aside to study and learn.
In the economy and culture we live in today, you cannot afford to stand still….ever.


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The Associated Press — Jan 11th, 2004
Lummi Nation to receive $200,000 to fight poverty
BELLINGHAM -- A philanthropic group has promised the Lummi Nation $200,000 to help develop a plan to fight tribal poverty.
The tribe plans to use the Minneapolis-based Northwest Area Foundation's grant for tribal wellness, education and economic development programs, Lummi spokesman Aaron Thomas said.
According to the 2000 Census, 18.3 percent of people living on the Lummi Indian Reservation north of Bellingham are below the federal poverty level, including 24.3 percent of children under age 18.
Northwest Area Foundation, which issued $6.8 million in grants last year, was founded in 1934 by Louis W. Hill, the son of Great Northern Railroad founder James J. Hill. The foundation helps communities in eight states reduce poverty.
If the foundation and the tribe agree to continue their partnership after the plan is developed, Thomas said the tribe could receive an additional multimillion-dollar investment to help implement it.
89-year-old man struck, killed by train
PUYALLUP -- An 89-year-old man was struck and killed by a train as he crossed a set of tracks in Puyallup on Saturday, police said.
The man, identified by the Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office as Wallace Colby, was walking northbound on 12th Street Northwest, when he crossed the tracks near West Stewart around 8:30 a.m., police spokeswoman Lorri Ericson said.
All railroad warning signals were activated at the time of the accident, Ericson said.
A local fire and rescue team rushed Colby to Tacoma General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Authorities said the Amtrak train heading from Seattle to Portland was traveling well under the speed limit when it struck him.
Puyallup police and Amtrak were investigating.
Fort Lewis-based soldier killed in Iraq
AUBURN, Calif. -- A Fort Lewis-based soldier killed in Iraq died this week when a mortar round hit a Baghdad-area logistics base, officials said.
Pfc. Jesse D. Mizener, 24, died Wednesday, the Department of Defense said.
In November, Mizener told The Auburn Journal newspaper that the mortar attacks were unsettling and all too common in Iraq.
"You miss home the most when you get mortared," he told the newspaper. "It gets scary, especially when you see it land and see how close it is. That's when you really think about home a lot."
Mizener, a construction equipment repairer, was assigned to the 542nd Maintenance Company, 44th Corps Support Battalion, 593rd Corps Support Group based at Fort Lewis.
His unit provides direct support and maintenance of Humvees, weapons, communications equipment and generators, said Brendalyn Carpenter, a spokeswoman for Fort Lewis.
Fort Lewis soldier killed in Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department has identified a Stryker Brigade soldier killed in Iraq this past week. Maj. Horst G. Moore, 38, of Los Fresnos, Texas, died Tuesday in Mosul when enemy mortar rounds exploded at his living area, the Defense Department said Saturday. ... [Read More...]
Fort Lewis soldier among troops killed in Mosul
FORT LEWIS (AP) — A Stryker Brigade soldier from Fort Lewis who survived a December mess-tent bombing in Iraq has died near Mosul. Sgt. Stephen Sherman, 27, died Thursday when a roadside bomb exploded as his Stryker rolled past, U.S. military officials said. Sherman ... [Read More...]
Fort Lewis soldiers die in attacks on convoys
TACOMA -- Two soldiers based at Fort Lewis were killed in separate attacks on U.S. military convoys in northern Iraq. The U.S. Defense Department identified one of the soldiers Sunday as Spc. Trevor A. Wine, 22 of Orange, Calif. A statement posted ... [Read More...]
Fort Lewis National Guardsman, a Pullman resident, killed during foot patrol in Iraq
FORT LEWIS (AP) — A Washington National Guardsman based at Fort Lewis has been killed on foot patrol in Baghdad. Sgt. Damien Ficek, 26, died Dec. 30 while on patrol searching for insurgents, family members told KATU-TV in Portland, Ore. He also worked on training Iraqi ... [Read More...]
Three Fort Lewis Soldiers Die in Iraq
FORT LEWIS — The Defense Department on Tuesday identified three Stryker Brigade soldiers from Fort Lewis killed in two separate encounters in Mosul, Iraq. Sgt. Benjamin C. Morton, 24, of Wright, Kan., died Sunday in Mosul when his patrol encountered enemy small arms fire, the ... [Read More...]


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1 Case of COVID-19 Confirmed Today in the Municipality of Blanc-Sablon
LOCAL NEWS - NOVEMBER 22, 2020 - The First Case of COVID-19 Has Just Been Confirmed on the LNS
CFBS was made aware today of rumours circulating on the Lower North Shore of a possible COVID-19 case in the Municipality of Blanc-Sablon. Speaking this afternoon with the Mayor of the Municipality of Blanc-Sablon, Wanda Beaudoin, she had just received confirmation that there is 1 confirmed case of the virus in her municipality.
* Listen to the interview with Mayor Beaudoin by clicking on the sound files below (click on the speaker icon next to the sound file and a media player will open up to hear the interview).
After the interview with Mayor Beaudoin this afternoon, I received this information by email from Marlène Joseph-Blais, communications for the CISSS de la Cote Nord:
"We have registered a confirmed COVID-19 case in Blanc-Sablon. Testing was carried out as part of the entry management program for isolated areas. The individual had no signs nor symptoms of the disease and was immediately placed in isolation in his personal home.
The epidemiological investigation is under way. Close contacts have been identified and told to self-isolate. They are monitored by public health authorities.
The situation will be monitored very closely in the next two weeks. The risk of transmission in the local community remains low. No contact has been identified with Air transportation." - Marlène Joseph-Blais, communications for the CISSS de la Cote Nord
Reminders for the Population
It is understandable that there are some people who are concerned with this first confirmed COVID case of a resident of our region. Please keep in mind that it is of the upmost importance that everyone follow public health guidelines; hand washing, sanitizing, wearing a mask, social distancing, limiting the amount of outside contact that you have, especially in regards to social gatherings. And please remember, above all, to be kind to one another. CFBS will continue to follow all developments in this story.
Breaking News Mayor Wanda Beaudoin confirms COVID case in the Municipality
La mairesse Wanda Beaudoin confirme le cas de COVID dans la municipalité


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Stuff that's pop-tastic, pop-o-licious, and currently playing on FoxNews
May 6, 2021 / Jim
If anyone has any doubt about the veracity of these anti-vaccine conspiracies going around, I can assure you they are pure unadulterated lies. These are not well meaning, but misinformed, people who really believe these things and just "want to help." These are malevolent forces, bad actors actively trying to sow discord in the US. Probably other places as well, but I can tell you definitively about what I see in the US.
My day to day job is running communications and web infrastructure for a wide variety of clients – email, web, messaging. This means that I am privy to the attacks that happen, the attempts to sell pharmaceuticals, scam you out of bitcoin, steal money, phish identities – you name it, I've seen it for going on 25 years now.
Currently, there is a concerted effort to undermine people's faith in government, public health, and society. I will share one example here in image form, because I do not want to give it any visibility to search engines.
excerpt of the body of a website comment form spam
The rest of the body contains various links to a google drive account with hundreds of meme-ready images to share on social media professing to the myth that the Covid-19 vaccines somehow shed live viruses to other people, something called vaccine shedding. If you want a quick history of this and to see if there is any truth at all, read the wikipedia article.
In short, there are no modern live virus vaccines in use. So virus shedding is not a thing, okay? It was only partially a thing with the oral version of the polio vaccine in the 1950s.
Why are they posting this stuff, you might ask. Why work so hard to hunt down and post contact form, email, website spam?
Why would someone anyone do this?
Let me be clear, these are not concerned citizens "trying to get the word out." These people, organizations, state actors are paid to spread this misinformation. Based on the webserver logs, I show that between 50% and 85% of all traffic to websites that I host and maintain is coming from China, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and Belarus.
There is no content I host that would interest any individuals in those places. The only interesting bit to them is that these sites are hosted using WordPress, the single most popular content management software in the world. It's popular and predictable, so it draws in bad actors trying to foment discord and steal money.
This the reason that captchas exist, folks, in addition to all the behind the scenes stuff – mitigation techniques that attempt to weed out automated spam posts. Sometimes, however, it's just people being paid to post stuff.
And someone is getting paid to do this.
If you are disposed to believe these sorts of posts, please understand that these people are not your friends. They are not aligned with you politically or spiritually. They are manipulating you for nefarious ends. They are attempting to undermine your faith in the rule of law, public health, science. What they gain is a divided country, hobbled both politically and economically.
April 29, 2021 / Jim
So here's another thing I don't understand. Vaccine hesitant people – I see you on Facebook. Your sharing of crazy "facts" from random websites is truly awe-inspiring.
For example, there's a thing where some people think that vaccinated people shed DNA and it affects people around you. Another is that the mRNA mechanism of the vaccine itself can rewrite your DNA. I am not making this up.
I apparently have never ever fully grasped the depths of human stupidity… but that's a post for another day.
The short of it for now: I thought the vaccine was Trump's triumph. Operation Warp Speed. Remember that? Dear leader saved us all with his remarkable leadership and vision.
I remember him and you decrying the liberal media's ingratitude for the vaccine. Trump himself lamented that he wasn't getting credit for the vaccine. Nobody thanks me.
Pouty face.
But then suddenly, there's a good 40% of the US that says they don't trust it. Is it now Biden's vaccine? What happened?
No, I really want to know. No, I actually don't. That's a rhetorical question.
March 3, 2021 / Jim
I love how Foxnews and the like are talking about Dr. Seuss in their ongoing segment, "Libs are trying to destroy America – Endless Culture War edition." Frankly, the recent news is a gift to radical right wing media. They can't get enough of the outrage.
But I don't really want to talk about that, I guess. It's sort of the context, but I really want to talk about the great white middle class, those with whom Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was so impatient.
Why is it taking so long for us? Why is realizing that society is deeply racist and has been built that way for centuries rolling along in such slow motion? Yes, the arc of the moral universe is long and it does bend toward justice. But why so long, and why is the arc so gentle?
I reflect on my own journey of understanding and the increasing granularity of my own personal discoveries of racist things. I personally wouldn't have found Dr. Seuss racist growing up. Haha, look at the funny characters. That's what Chinese people are. Look at the interesting African tribal guys. Oh, that's what Africans look like. My personal journey didn't get me very far, because it's a feedback loop of normality.
Why is your favorite dish something your mom made?
As time has gone on, I, like a lot of other normative white folks, have awakened to the realization that black people and Asians don't like being portrayed like that, that stereotypes are bad. They would never draw themselves like that or portray themselves like that.
I get it. Now let me continue to take myself on my personal journey toward woke-ness. Bravo. Please let me pat myself on my woke-ass back.
Bah! It's this personal journey bullshit that's making it take so long!
But here's the thing – there's a shortcut.
Psst. They have been telling us for decades, and sometimes for even hundreds of years.
All we had to do was listen.
When people tell you what you said was hurtful, believe them.
When people tell you a depiction is racist and hurtful, believe them.
When people tell you that police profile and harass them, believe them.
When people tell you their city's water is full of lead, believe them.
When people tell you they have experienced sexual harassment/assault in public and in their workplaces, believe them.
When people tell you they hurt, believe them.
Really, it boils down to – believe people when they tell you things they experience and don't filter their words through your own completely different experiences.
February 3, 2021 / Jim
Today's big story on foxnews.com is a real head scratcher, but it perfectly encapsulates the silly arguments that they and radical right media make to distract, score vague emotional points, and stir up discord in society.
"John Kerry's family still owns private jet as he leads climate fight, FAA records indicate," they breathless report while clutching their pearls.
Okay, so let's break this down folks. First, this is a classic ad hominem, attempting to discredit the messenger rather than the message. Most of what Fox News does is attack the person, rather than policy position or relevant actions. What's more, most of the time the person they are attacking is made of straw, but that's a whole 'nother thing.
What are you saying, Fox News? Kerry is a hypocrite? Okay, let's go down that path. He's a hypocrite. I agree with you. What now? Are you insinuating that he will not enact or support policy that will promote sustainable energy investment?
Are you saying he's a wolf in sheep's clothing?
"Look," you say, "he says he's all about conservation, but he flies around in a private jet." And then you leave that hanging in the air as if that's it. Case closed, wrap it up boys, we're done here. Dem discredited!
If we dig a little deeper, we have to ask ourselves if what you're really saying is that John Kerry is a duplicitous energy wasting bastard who does not support what we, Fox News, support, namely that global warming is an existential threat.
John Kerry is not a serious proponent for real policy change with respect to renewable energy, because he flies around in a private jet.
I do not think your argument means what you think it means, Fox.
December 24, 2020 / Jim
It's interesting to see misogyny alive and well in Republican circles. Now, I'm not going to defend her aims, but I can sympathize and recognize when someone has been pushed off a glass cliff. For those unfamiliar with the term, a glass cliff is the cliff that weak men push women off when they need to accomplish something difficult and don't know how to do it or if it will even work.
Have to do a bunch of layoffs but don't want to look bad doing it? Bring in a woman, have her fire everybody, and when morale tanks, change her out for someone, "more aligned with our workplace culture." Bonus points if you can smear her with some salacious detail on the way out. Examples include, Carly Fiorina or Ellen Pao. Anyway, check out this article from vox that goes into greater detail.
"Hey, hire a woman to do it. If she fails, we can fire her and say we tried to be inclusive."
Chuckle chuckle chuckle. Backslaps all around.
And so we arrive at the 2020 election, and the allegations of fraud. Read this for backstory. Long story short – Sidney Powell has been disavowed, fired, terminated, and downsized with prejudice. None of the machinations of the Trump administration worked, so the guilty must be punished. Never you mind about the buck stopping anywhere but Trump.
Their legal team pawed at every legal door possible and came up empty handed. When things went sideways (because of lack of evidence), they fabricated it and lied about it in the press.
Sidney was there leading the charge, taking one for her President, with the tacit approval of Trump and Giuliani.
Now that things have pretty much completely failed, they've decided she'd make an excellent scapegoat.
"Mr. President, it was all her fault. We failed because she was unlikeable, incompetent, and opportunistic. She didn't have your best interests at heart."
And so, our little cadre of incompetent, unlikeable, opportunistic men nudged Sidney out of the circle, off the glass cliff, to tumble down and down.
During the 2000s, Laura and I were election functionaries. We verified the identities of the voters on the rolls, we observed the rule of law concerning the casting of ballots and prohibited electioneering (political slogans and merchandise within a certain distance of the polling place). Each of us inspected and signed the blank ballots for accountability (so that we know how many ballots there were and that some "extra" ballots don't just show up someplace), helped people with technical problems, and secured the ballots before, during and after the election. We were unable to leave the voting room (except bathroom breaks). Lunch was provided for us. We then counted the ballots and reported the final tally to the election commission.
This was all done on paper, hand counting, hand reporting, signatures, observed by poll workers representing the three major parties here. There were times I fought for the intended will of a voter even when it didn't agree with my party. A stray mark from a frail hand no where near a candidate should not invalidate an obvious selection. The other poll workers were equally committed to a fair and impartial outcome.
Once the final numbers are reported, the original ballots are sealed in a briefcase and affixed with the final tally. We are then able to watch the precincts report the count and observe ours entered in the total.
You would think, listening to Donald Trump, that elections are a new thing, that hell, trying to steal an election is a new thing, as if no one has ever thought of that. Elections have been going on in one form or another for thousands of years. We have developed very robust chains of trust based on transparency, redundancy, checks and double checks.
I have personally observed and participated in the process as a poll worker, and I can confirm that there is no possible way that there could be fraud in an election.
If someone fudged the vote tally reports, we would know it, because we know what we counted. Votes are not tracked by individuals (of course), but they are tracked by polling place or by precinct or district.
Could an individual with a hidden pen change votes or invalidate them surreptitiously? Yes, it's possible, but more than likely that person would be caught, and at most they wouldn't be able to affect more than a few 10s of votes. It could never arrive to the levels required to change the outcome.
I walked away from each election I participated in confident in the outcome, even when it didn't go my way. I was assured that the process worked and that the will of the people was being heard.
So stop. Please stop. There is no fraud. There could be no fraud. Joe Biden will be the next President of the United States. Stop trying to undermine the will of the people and our democratic system.
Covid-19 in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is a poor nation with crumbling infrastructure, high rates of obesity and diabetes, an aging population (20% is 65 or older), a densely packed urban population, and a very social tightly knit culture that values physical gatherings.
What else can I throw in there?
Puerto Rico ticks all the boxes for an uncontrolled rate of corona-virus infection and death.
And yet as of today, the 13th of November our case numbers are half of what they were 14 days ago, our mortality rate is 1.3% nearly half the rate in the U.S. (and has been since the summer). The U.S., is a nation with access to deep resources, higher per capita income, a more individualistic lifestyle, a decidedly younger demographic on average (14% over the age of 65% according to the US Census), and lower rates of diabetes.
What gives?
I went out today to run some errands for the house. I stopped at a small appliance parts store, a tiny little space nestled deep in the heart of working class Carolina on Campo Rico street. Only two customers were allowed in at a time. They had a mask mandate. They took my temperature. They gave me hand sanitizer. They had protective shields.
This is everywhere. I have never seen anybody without a mask. Every store, no matter how large or small has implemented recommended health protocols, social distancing marked with stickers on the floor, masks, hand sanitizer, and infrared thermometers. People have followed and continue to follow these guidelines. Sure we grumble, but we thank our cashiers and service people for the risk they put themselves in to serve their customers, and the last thing we want to do is put them in more danger by invoking some sort of right to not wear a mask.
It's impressive to watch a nation with so few resources work together, listen to science and public health officials, and not politicize mask wearing.
The Only Explanation that Makes Sense
Look, Jim, you're going about this all wrong. We know Donald Trump isn't a great person. We know he's intemperate. We know he's a racist. We know he's not competent. He's no diplomat. He's not empathetic.
None of that matters to us. What we want is someone who is going to tear down the federal government, globalism, and international diplomacy. We don't give a flying fuck about other countries. Why would we? We don't want to be beholden to their demands, their values. That's why our ancestors came here, to get the fuck away from them.
We don't give a flying fuck about federal agencies, either. They are uninvited guests. They bring nothing but sanctimonious regulations written in big cities among elite idiots that don't care one whit of what our lives are like.
Leave. Us. Alone.
We don't give a flying fuck about China. Why are we giving them business, when all they want to do is undermine us? Joe Biden and the rest of those globalists said for years it would be better, that we would have more prosperity, if we shipped manufacturing abroad. How did that turn out, Joe?
We don't want any more Washington machinations, international gamesmanship, games of Risk involving our country where, we the people, are the pawns. We don't want any of it. We like our states just fine, and we expect that other states will do what they like.
You do you, we say.
We think California is crazy, but fuck if we care what they do, as long as they don't shove their shit down our throats.
Who is the best person to pull all this off? A uniter? A diplomat? Someone with 47 years of public service?
Pfft, you've got to be kidding.
We want that fucking federal level chess board to be flipped over and leave us the fuck alone to do what we want to do.
Donald Trump is the kind of bull in a china shop we need to tear it all down so the Federal government can get out of our lives after nearly 300 years of encroachment.
Liberals, your mistake is thinking we want Donald Trump to lead us, when in fact we have selected him solely for his incompetence and lack of reverence for tradition and norms.
The more nonsense and chaos he tweets, the better we feel.
Seriously, Sen Cotton?
July 27, 2020 / Jim
Cotton, seen as a possible 2024 presidential candidate, made the comments in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette while attacking the New York Times 1619 Project's effort to make slavery a focal point of American history for U.S. schools.
"As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction," Cotton said.
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Okay, Senator Cotten, I'll agree with the evil part. Yes, it was evil. Now, I'd like to focus on the second part of your statement that you just made – with your mouth, right now, in front of all these people.
Why was it necessary?
Please explain to us why it was necessary? Why was slavery necessary, Sen Cotton? Oh, I'm attacking you? That's not what you said? Really, we're going to go there?
And I am not making this up:
"This is the definition of fake news," Cotton wrote on Twitter. "I said that the Founders viewed slavery as a necessary evil."
Sen Cotton
No they did not. They did not view it as necessary. They perhaps didn't have the courage to get rid of it, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and propose that they did not think necessary? Besides, they didn't have some sort of magical foresight. They wouldn't know what was necessary or not at that point.
In response, Hannah-Jones tweeted: "You said, quote: 'As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built.' That 'as' denotes agreement."
Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who launched the 1619 Project
Which of course is the very definition of not-fake news, that is reporting what people actually said, in context, factually.
So Covid-19's from a Chinese Lab, huh?
Ok, it's possible. I'm open to anything. If it happened it happened. Certainly, it is in the realm of possibility. State actors have done lots of verifiably bad things throughout the centuries.
So, where's your proof?
Do you have any evidence that's not the circlejerk of right wing talk radio and crackpots quoting each other?
Do you have any actual proof?
Oh, you'll tell us later? Just like Obama's birth certificate?
Now you say it is classified and that you shouldn't tell us, but trust you?
Why are you even talking about something so sensitive then?
Seriously, America; three-card monte is a sucker's game. How come you have not learned your lesson yet?


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How Security Helped Avonmouth & Portbury Make News
In August of this year, large areas of land around Portbury and Avonmouth were sold off by Bristol City Council. The land sale amounted to around £10 million, and was mostly freehold land which was already occupied by the buyers of the land, the Bristol Port Company. This company was privatised in 1991, but it still had to lease the land on around 2,500 acres in the Portbury and Avonmouth areas. The Port Company were regularly investing money into the land and businesses on that land, and so the purchase of the acres makes practical sense for the future of Bristol Port.
Why is the sale different?
The purchase of Port freehold land is extremely rare in this country, with most privatised port companies preferring to simply have the lease on the freehold land. These leases can last for up to 150 years, but there is a risk in buying this land, and that is that it is not very well secured. Without proper fencing and teams of security guards, the land would be exposed to criminal activity. This places the company at risk of liability, and most companies are just not prepared to put money into land which could end up costing them. This means that any purchase of council land by the Port Company must come with a reasonable reliance upon security.
Security is vital for ports
With most ports under threat from immigrant arrivals into the UK, it is essential to be able to secure all areas of land owned by the Port Company. Land which is leased is not necessarily as highly secured, since the land belongs to the local council, and they have to take responsibility for the security of their land. Lack of efficient security within the property falls back onto the Port Company when they purchase the land.
Creating better security at the Ports
If you are concerned about the amount of security required by ports in the area, then you should be reassured by the news of the sale. The money which has been raised by the selling of the freeholds means that the council has an extra 10 million in the bank that can now be used to help the people of Portbury and Avonmouth. With extra security companies in Avonmouth port, and more money in the council, this seems like a win-win situation for everyone.


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When a coffee that is world famous for its fruit characteristics and floral complexity is then dried for 20-30 days in its cherry, the results can be life changing.
The La Aurora farm operates in the spirit of family. Roberto named his coffees for his granddaughters and has nicknamed this particular natural coffee after his youngest, Camila. In caring for his coffee like a member of the family, Roberto has succeeded in producing a rare and exotic coffee experience. The delicate sweetness of the Panama Geisha coffee variety, coupled with refined natural processing, may be the pinnacle of specialty coffee today.
It was delicious, although I'd hoped it would've been a bit more fruit forward. I like tasting the different flavors. It was very easy to drink and very smooth and mild!
Geisha coffee is the absolute the best! A little pricey but to me worth every penny. I will only get my coffee at La Colombe they know their coffee. If you never tried Geisha please do you will love it!
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It was a lover and his lass, from the Birthday Madrigals by John Rutter. Fall 2015 concert.
Daemon Irrepit Callidus by György Orbán. Fall 2015 concert.
Autumn by Jussi Chydenius. Fall 2015 concert.
Gloria, from the The World Beloved: Bluegrass Mass by Carol Barnett. Spring 2015 concert.
To See The Sky by Jocelyn Hagen. Spring 2015 concert.
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The database is 11g and the data is available in Arabic characters, so no issue in the NLS settings of the database.
The only issue is to display the characters on the forms in proper Arabic (we don't have the source code for the forms).
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What Is a Grievance, and What Do We Do
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What Grievance and What Do We Do
Independent Grievance Redress Mechanism (IGRM)
About the DBSA IGRM
Mandate of the IGRM: Compliance Review
Mandate of the IGRM: Problem-Solving
Mandate of the IGRM: Monitoring & Evaluation
Mandate of the IGRM: Governance Structure
Management of Complaints: How to File a Complaint
Management of Complaints: Information Required Per Complaint/Grievance
Management of Complaints: How We Handle Complaints
Scope of IGRM
The DBSA will only address complaints that meet the eligibility criteria below:
The grievance must detail the perceived harm, risk of injustice which the Aggrieved Party wishes the DBSA to review which may inter alia include health and safety risks, physical, economic, situational (e.g., employment), or social losses and adverse environmental impacts in relation to DBSA funded projects and programmes.
The grievance must pertain to an active DBSA Financed Project.
The complaint is submitted by individuals or communities, or their representative, who believe that they are or may be affected by an active DBSA financed project.
Grievances must be genuine/legitimate and be raised without malice and in good faith.
The DBSA IGRM excludes complaints that address the below matters:
The procedure will not apply to complaints related to unsuccessful funding outcomes.
Anonymous complaints.
Grievance not related to an active DBSA financed project.
Grievance connected to a DBSA financed project submitted to the IGRM on or after whichever is the later of the following two dates: (a) within two (2) years from the date the complainant became aware of the adverse impacts or (b) within two (2) years from the closure of the DBSA funded project or programme.
Complaints from unsuccessful bidders in any DBSA procurement process. Bidders who wish to submit queries/complaints pertaining to outcomes of procurement processes should refer to the DBSA Procurement related complaints guidelines.
Reports of suspected crime including fraud, corruption, and gender-based violence or sexual exploitation, should please make use of DBSA whistleblower platforms.
A grievance or complaint regarding matters already concluded by the IGRM unless the complainant has submitted new material information or evidence that was unavailable at the time the IGRM previously considered the matter.
A grievance or complaint to gain competitive advantage.
A grievance or complaint regarding matters relating to the DBSA's activities which are unconnected to a DBSA funded project or programme, such as matters relating to administration and human resource management.
A grievance or complaint solely regarding the adequacy of the DBSA operational policies and procedures.
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Homemade hummus is a versitile, healthy, high protein dip or spread that's great for snacking, parties or on the go.
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The above recipe is very basic, so it is easy to "flavor" however you like. Try making a pesto, red bell pepper or sun dried tomato hummus.


"What are the different means of transportation in North Korea like?" Is a question we get quite often.
Special forms of transportation in North Korea - we are able to charter trams and trolley buses in Pyongyang. If interested in these options please contact us.
The trolley bus route is from Pyongyang Central Train Station to the Arch of Triumph. If interested in taking the tram this runs from Mangyongdae to the Central Train Station.
Cycling is a very common means of transport for North Koreans all around the DPRK. We are glad to say that we now offer you the chance to explore the streets of Pyongyang on two wheels, whether going on a group tour or individually. Please check our Youtube video below to have a glimpse of what you would experience!
Air Koryo and Air China fly into and out of North Korea. Many travellers see the Air Koryo flight as a key part of the beginning of their DPRK experience and this is tangible as soon as they step on the aircraft. Listening to propagandistic music, seeing the retro decoration and mystical fog and reading a copy of the Pyongyang Times stating the recent achievements of the DPRK while enjoying some kimchi is the ideal way to the begin this adventure!
If you have the chance to either enter or exit by train, we strongly recommend to hop on and enjoy the ride! The train ride to and from China is around 25 hours but not as daunting as it sounds! The overnight leg of the ride is spent in China, meaning that travellers have the chance to ride through second tier cities, counties and villages in North Korea seeing parts of the country that are completely sealed off to tourists and allowing them have a glimpse of life in some of the more isolated areas of North Korea.
Taking pictures from the train was initially not permitted, although there has been some slight flexibility regarding this. Train stations are considered military stops so pictures should not be taken of these outside of Pyongyang. Pictures will be checked by border guards when you exit North Korea and they will not hesitate to delete any pictures they find inappropriate. We will fully brief you regarding taking pictures and behaviour in North Korea before your trip, regardless on whether you go with a group or individually.
You will actually have a sleeper berth on the train. We always point out that taking the train offers an excellent chance to be able to mingle with North Koreans of all walks of life who will be going to or returning from China. Having small sized groups too also means that the chances of sharing your compartment with local North Koreans are much higher which offers a unique chance to make North Korean friends!
Insider's tip: Once on the train on the way back to China a Korean train staff member will ask if you will like lunch sent to your compartment. If you would like to be completely surrounded by North Koreans, and don't mind a bit of a smoky environment, kindly ignore the lunch request and directly go to the canteen in the Korean train carriage! Meals cost 5 Euros but don't go too late after noon as they may have sold out. You will be surrounded by North Korean soldiers, families, people getting off on the way... trains are a common means of transportation in North Korea.
If going on a private trip and only consist of one or two people you may be assigned a car for your local transportation. Please note however that sometimes these are not available and you may end up using a coach even if only one traveller!
These tend to be used for larger groups. Our group sizes tend to be relatively small, with an average of less than 10 people. However, sometimes we are offered larger coaches regardless of the amount of travellers in a group. Several of the coaches and buses used are from former East Germany, giving the trip an extra retro touch to it.
Above are two images of the largest buses used for tourism in North Korea. We use them for groups of over 10 people though they are sometimes used for smaller sized groups. Our groups in general have less than 10 people.
Above a former East Germany bus. This type of bus is usually used for a group of no more than 8 travellers.
You will have the chance to get on the metro with locals and enjoy a ride in the world's deepest subway. We offer extended rides which allow travellers to see several stops and explore several metro stops. Please check our Pyongyang Metro section for more details regarding this.
If going to Mt. Paekdu or Chilbo you will take a charter flight with Air Koryo. Before we needed to have a minimum number of travellers these options but are glad to say that there are regular domestic flights in North Korea now! Please contact us for more information if this option may be of interest to you.
Boats are not the most common form of transportation in North Korea, but it is possible to take a boat ride around the Taedong River, cruising through the middle of Pyongyang. Restaurant boats are available. This is used as part of exclusive tours in North Korea. Please do let us know if you may be interested in this option! We can also arrange cruise trips in the Northeast part of the DPRK. Please do let us know if you would like more information regarding this.
Go to our Transportation in North Korea section to our North Korea Tourism page for information on departures to the DPRK.


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Marjorie Dannenfelser: Democrats' Impeachment Blues and Abortion Extremism Are Connected
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Marjorie Dannenfelser
What a Christmas to have the blues, for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler and House Democrats trying to impeach the President. As they rolled out their charges against President Trump on Tuesday, looking like joyless carolers, a new poll arrived showing every Democratic presidential contender losing to him in three crucial 2020 battleground states.
Voters haven't only had enough of Democrats' sustained attempt to undo the 2016 election, they are repulsed by the opposition party's extremism on abortion and infanticide.
The two things are more than tangentially connected. With a mandate from the people, President Trump has governed as the most effective pro-life president in history. Immediately on taking office, he expanded the Mexico City Policy so that American tax dollars aren't funneled to groups that promote abortion overseas. He has shown extraordinary leadership on conscience rights, protecting pro-life institutions and health care workers from being coerced to participate in abortion.
His administration accomplished something no other has managed and stopped taxpayer funding of the abortion industry through the Title X family planning program. When the Protect Life Rule went into effect earlier this year, Planned Parenthood – the nation's largest abortion business – dropped out of Title X rather than comply, forfeiting nearly $60 million a year.
President Trump has done all this and more – but in no area has he made more significant or lasting progress than in his shaping of the courts. His nominees now make up one-quarter of judges serving on the United States' circuit courts of appeals. A reporter for the liberal website Vox even paid the President a compliment this week: "Based solely on objective legal credentials," Ian Millhiser wrote, "the average Trump appointee has a far more impressive résumé than any past president's nominees…there is simply no recent precedent for one president having such a transformative impact on the courts."
In contrast, Democrats in Congress have worked continually to undermine the President's pro-life policies, pushing an agenda so radical only a tiny sliver of the American public can stomach it.
They've vowed to repeal the Hyde Amendment, longstanding policy that has saved more than 2.25 million lives, and force taxpayers to pay for abortion on demand through birth.
In both the House and the Senate they've blocked compassionate legislation to protect babies who survive abortions, despite more than 80 requests from House Republicans to hold a vote.
They've tried to obstruct outstanding cabinet and judicial nominees, hitting bottom with their smear campaign against Brett Kavanaugh. Weeks before he could even be confirmed, leading presidential candidates were calling for his impeachment (notice a theme). Afterward, activist lawyer Debra Katz admitted the potential erosion of the Supreme Court's abortion precedents was a motivating factor. And let's be clear – it still is, perhaps the biggest motivator of all.
Democrats' abortion extremism extends to their selection of impeachment "witnesses." In the firestorm over Pamela Karlan's dig at the President's son, her long history of abortion activism received scant attention. Days earlier she signed onto a brief arguing that Louisiana's Unsafe Abortion Protection Act, a law requiring reasonable health and safety standards for abortion facilities that passed by overwhelming, bipartisan majorities, should be struck down. Previously she joined Sarah Weddington, lead attorney of Roe v. Wade infamy, in defense of the abortion industry in Planned Parenthood vs. Casey.
Constitutional scholar Noah Feldman, who testified in favor of impeachment, is likewise outspoken on abortion. His numerous op-eds on the question, at Bloomberg Opinion and elsewhere, line up in support of the Democrats' no-limits position.
The Democrats' contempt for the people and thirst for power was revealed in Congressman Al Green's comment, "I'm concerned that if we don't impeach this president, he will get re-elected." If President Trump wins in 2020, control of the courts will slip further and further from the abortion lobby's grasp – returning the power to protect unborn children and their mothers to the people, where it belongs.
Clearly the stakes are higher than ever. President Trump understands; more than once he has said to me, "When they attack me, they're attacking you [the voters]."
Since summer, SBA List's pro-life ground team has visited the homes of hundreds of thousands of voters – including persuadable Democrats, Independents, and other moderates – to inform and mobilize them to get to the polls in 2020. Our goal is to make four million visits across key battleground states by Election Day. As Democrats' extremism is exposed, it won't be stockings full of coal they need to worry about but defeat at the ballot box.
Marjorie Dannenfelser is president of the national pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List.
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One of the gulfs between most of the modern historians I read and many of the older ones is that the earlier historians were able and willing to look at slavery as an economic institution, and at the enforcement of fugitive slave laws as a legal process between the sections.
It is necessary to do this to understand the coming of the Civil War. But it's also not easy or entirely pleasant to do so. We who do it stand in an exposed position, not in terms of historical realities -- because in doing so we're more true to those realities than our opponents -- but in terms of modern moralities.
To grapple with slavery as a dynamic force between North and South in America, you have to think of it in terms of its meaning to two groups of white people. To do that does not ignore the humanity of the slaves, or the fact that slavery was the central aspect of a slave's life. But it does set it aside for the duration of the argument.
That "setting aside," after the 20th century, is something we feel as horrible. It is a mental process akin to the one that allows genocides. I suspect it is a natural muscle in the human mind, but it is one we're desperately trying not to exercise.
A similar grappling goes on in literature, dealt with more openly but no less emotionally. Readers, writers, and critics anguish over writing they know is good, and that actually opens minds in the dominant race toward the downtrodden one, yet it relies on stereotypes to do so, and it takes that other race, ultimately, as a backdrop or a symbol.
In America, we have the "problem" of "Huck Finn." The British and the Europeans have the same ambivalence toward Joseph Conrad, especially "Heart of Darkness."
Chinua Achebe, father of modern African literature, has long argued that Conrad was nothing more than "a thoroughgoing racist." Caryl Phillips, an author and writer who admires both Conrad and his great African detractor, sat down with Achebe one day and tried to hash out his outrage for a book she respects. The results were published [Feb. 24, 2003] in a long and fascinating article in the British newspaper The Guardian. One of the things Phillips, and most modern Westerners, like about "Heart of Darkness" is its grim questions about the colonizing mission that so many Europeans of Conrad's day took for granted as the proper ordering of God's creation.
"Africa as setting and backdrop, which eliminates the African as human factor. Africa as a metaphysical battlefield devoid of all recognisable humanity, into which the wandering European enters at his peril. Can nobody see the preposterous and perverse arrogance in thus reducing Africa to the role of props for the break-up of one petty European mind?"
"I am an African. What interests me is what I learn in Conrad about myself. To use me as a symbol may be bright or clever, but if it reduces my humanity by the smallest fraction I don't like it."
"Conrad does present Africans as having 'rudimentary' souls."
"Yes, you will notice that the European traders have 'tainted' souls, Marlow has a 'pure' soul, but I am to accept that mine is 'rudimentary'?" He shakes his head. "Towards the end of the 19th century, there was a very short-lived period of ambivalence about the certainty of this colonising mission, and Heart of Darkness falls into this period. But you cannot compromise my humanity in order that you explore your own ambiguity. I cannot accept that. My humanity is not to be debated, nor is it to be used simply to illustrate European problems."
The realisation hits me with force. I am not an African. Were I an African I suspect I would feel the same way as my host. But I was raised in Europe, and although I have learned to reject the stereotypically reductive images of Africa and Africans, I am undeniably interested in the break-up of a European mind and the health of European civilisation. I feel momentarily ashamed that I might have become caught up with this theme and subsequently overlooked how offensive this novel might be to a man such as Chinua Achebe and to millions of other Africans. Achebe is right; to the African reader the price of Conrad's eloquent denunciation of colonisation is the recycling of racist notions of the "dark" continent and her people. Those of us who are not from Africa may be prepared to pay this price, but this price is far too high for Achebe. However lofty Conrad's mission, he has, in keeping with times past and present, compromised African humanity in order to examine the European psyche. Achebe's response is understandably personal.
And those of us who muck around in history have it harder than Caryl Phillips. A literature student can walk away from a novel, even a beloved one, and take up another. But we have only the one past. And if you find it too soul-destroying to enter into a state of mind that can feel white supremacy as God's law, or if you aren't willing sometimes to think of slaves as a sort of property-with-free-will, I can certainly understand that. But you'll never understand the whys and hows of the Civil War without it.
Which leads inevitably to the question, does the strong leftist, social progressive, personal ideology of a Eugene Genovese or an Eric Foner (before you accuse me of stereotyping, read their own autobiographical stories) color their historical writing? I would be amazed if it didn't. History isn't written by emotionless pod people. What they choose to investigate, what they choose to see, is very deliberate. In most cases, they will cheerfully acknowledge this. Read their addresses to one another in the professional organizations. They write the past, but they live the present, and their academic work is done with a view to a future they would like to shape.
Listen to Genovese, answering the interviewer's question, "You grew up in a working-class family. Did this experience influence your scholarship? If so, how?"
"I entered the communist movement in 1945 at age fifteen and spent summers working in shops as an organizer for Communist-led unions. It was a valuable experience, which reinforced my hard class attitudes but also my resistance to romanticism. ... In any case, I grew up in a class-conscious home -- class-conscious but by no means ideologically driven. I hated the bourgeoisie with the terrible passion that perhaps only a child can muster. When I came across some Communists at age fifteen and read the Communist Manifesto and some other pamphlets, I suddenly had a precise focus for my hatred. I would happily have sent the bastards to firing squads in large numbers, and their wives and children along with them.
"... My biggest problem as a historian has always been, I suppose, the conscious effort to rein in that hatred and not let it distort my reading of the historical record. I am sure that it has taken a toll, but I hope I have kept that toll to a minimum."
As he hints, his practical side later rebelled against doctrinaire Marxism (it ultimately led him to Catholicism), and cost him banishment from leftist academic historical circles. He emerged, recently, as one who has been able to write with some sympathy and understanding of the Southern "master class" and to separate slavery from racism and say the latter, not the former, is the real American tragedy.
Yet I still think there is a lot more doctrinaire tone here than most people will be comfortable with who are interested in knowing history as what really happened. Describing one written work of his, Genovese states his goal like this: "I was trying to help develop a left-wing orientation toward the re-emerging problem of black nationalism so that the white Left could prepare itself to contribute constructively to emerging struggles." And looking back on the entire body of work he and his contemporaries accomplished, he concludes, "Whatever our errors and inadequacies, I think we can claim to have accomplished what we set out to do: to reorient the study of southern slave society and to compel a confrontation with a new set of questions."
1. "Eugene D. Genovese and History: An Interview," in Slavery, Secession, and Southern History, ed. Robert Louis Paquette and Louis A Ferleger, University Press of Virginia, 2000, p.197.


Airports in Spain, Portugal and Morocco have reopened after days of disruption caused by a cloud of ash emitted from an erupting volcano in Iceland.
In Spain, Valencia airport - the last in the country to lift restrictions - reopened at 0600 GMT.
The ash cloud has led to closures at Spanish airports since Saturday.
The European air safety agency has meanwhile proposed new rules which would limit airspace closures due to volcanic ash, AP reported.
Portugal's NAV air traffic authority said the ban on flights was lifted on Wednesday and released a statement saying there was "no more disruption".
In Morocco, restrictions were due to be in place until 0600 GMT on Wednesday.
The ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajoekull volcano led to a huge aerial shutdown last month, but only affected North Africa for the first time last weekend.
Icelandic volcanologists said the ash, left over from previous weeks, could be carried around in the atmosphere by winds.
Eurocontrol, the European air traffic control, said ash concentrations at lower altitudes were still posing problems for trans-Atlantic flights.
The European air safety agency has submitted a proposal with rules which would impose a 120-mile no-fly buffer zone for all aircraft near a visible ash cloud, according to AP.
"I can confirm that the agency has been discussing a new solution to the renewed threat of airspace closures due to the volcanic ash cloud," agency spokesman Daniel Hoeltgen told AP.
The new regulations, if adopted, would be similar to guidelines in the US and could give airlines more flexibility on flight decisions.
In the UK and Ireland, rules governing air safety during the volcano crisis were eased by the Civil Aviation Authority, the UK safety regulator.
It said it had lifted the 60-mile no-fly buffer zone imposed around dense areas of ash cloud, clearing the way for more flights.
It is almost a month since the volcano in Iceland first erupted, causing the largest aerial shutdown in Europe since the Second World War.
The budget airline Easyjet alone had to cancel more than 6,500 flights. It has announced that the disruption cost it up to £75m ($110m) and is now seeking compensation from governments.


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Q: footer options in Lyx How do i specify the following in Lyx, I have options for top margin, bottom margin, header height, inner and outer but not for the text height,width footer and footer separation which is specified by the guideline of the university.

A: With geometry, you can simply compute the sum of leftmargin+rightmargin (inner+outer) and the sum top margin+bottom margin:
inner + outer + 160mm = 210mm,    top margin + bottom margin + textheight = paperheight.

Then you share these sums between top and bottom, or left and right. Unless otherwise specified by your university, in two-sided printing, typographical rules make inner margin about half outer margin (you must take into account the binding offset).
Alternatively, you can go into the preamble of your document and set the university specifications with
\geometry{textheight=245mm, textwidth=160mm, footskip=10mm, marginratio={4:6,5:7, bindingoffet=10mm}

The first ratio is hmarginratio, the second is vmarginratio (see more details in the geometry package documentation, §5).
Note: the margin ratio values given here are  for illustrative purposes. They're the values that fit the French canon des ateliers.


If a student begins a quiz for HW assignment and they have an issue, how do I reset the assignment?
WHAT IF MY TEACHER DOES NOT USE THIS, BUT I BOUGHT THE BOOK AND IT HAS A REGISTRATION CODE?
Horrible Customer Service and refusing to reimburse me after I returned a mis-ordered textbook.
Where do you check how long you have access to a class?
Some of my assignments are marked late despite being submitted before the due date. Why?
Where do I find the Focus on Concept questions that are not listed in the textbook?


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Q: Docker fails to start after install with "loopback attach failed" I have installed docker-ce from repository following instructions at:
https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/centos/
I receive an error attempting to start docker:
Job for docker.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status docker.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
journalctl has the following:
...
dockerd[3647]: time="2018-02-05T14:47:05-08:00" level=info msg="containerd successfully booted in 0.002946s" module=containerd
dockerd[3647]: time="2018-02-05T14:47:05.456552594-08:00" level=error msg="There are no more loopback devices available."
dockerd[3647]: time="2018-02-05T14:47:05.456585240-08:00" level=error msg="[graphdriver] prior storage driver devicemapper failed: loopback attach failed"
dockerd[3647]: Error starting daemon: error initializing graphdriver: loopback attach failed
systemd[1]: docker.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
systemd[1]: Failed to start Docker Application Container Engine.

I have seen articles about using something other than loopback devices, but as far as I can tell, those indicate an optimization to be made - and do not imply that the initial startup should fail.
CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)

A: I have the same problem in a Debian 9 VM and the same in Debian 8 VM both on the same Debian XEN 4.8 host.
loopback seems not to exist:
# losetup -f
losetup: cannot find an unused loop device: No such device

You can create those with
#!/bin/bash
ensure_loop(){
  num="$1"
  dev="/dev/loop$num"
  if test -b "$dev"; then
    echo "$dev is a usable loop device."
    return 0
  fi
  echo "Attempting to create $dev for docker ..."
  if ! mknod -m660 $dev b 7 $num; then
    echo "Failed to create $dev!" 1>&2
    return 3
  fi
  return 0
}
ensure_loop 0
ensure_loop 0

But this is just a tip to find the right solution, it didn't solve it completely, now since /dev/loop0 exists, I have the error:
Error opening loopback device: open /dev/loop0: no such device or address
[graphdriver] prior storage driver devicemapper failed: loopback attach failed

Update:
I installed apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io like described in the latest docs and now with the latest version:
$ docker --version
Docker version 19.03.0, build aeac9490dc

still the same issue:
failed to start daemon: error initializing graphdriver: loopback attach failed

This is the full log:
level=info msg="Starting up"
level=warning msg="failed to rename /var/lib/docker/tmp for background deletion: rename /var/lib/docker/tmp
/var/lib/docker/tmp-old: file exists. Deleting synchronously"
level=info msg="parsed scheme: \"unix\"" module=grpc
level=info msg="scheme \"unix\" not registered, fallback to default scheme" module=grpc
level=info msg="ccResolverWrapper: sending update to cc: {[{unix:///run/containerd/containerd.sock 0  <nil>}
] }" module=grpc
level=info msg="ClientConn switching balancer to \"pick_first\"" module=grpc
level=info msg="pickfirstBalancer: HandleSubConnStateChange: 0xc0005e8660, CONNECTING" module=grpc
level=info msg="pickfirstBalancer: HandleSubConnStateChange: 0xc0005e8660, READY" module=grpc
level=info msg="parsed scheme: \"unix\"" module=grpc
level=info msg="scheme \"unix\" not registered, fallback to default scheme" module=grpc
level=info msg="ccResolverWrapper: sending update to cc: {[{unix:///run/containerd/containerd.sock 0  <nil>}
] }" module=grpc
level=info msg="ClientConn switching balancer to \"pick_first\"" module=grpc
level=info msg="pickfirstBalancer: HandleSubConnStateChange: 0xc0007f5b10, CONNECTING" module=grpc
level=info msg="pickfirstBalancer: HandleSubConnStateChange: 0xc0007f5b10, READY" module=grpc
level=error msg="There are no more loopback devices available."
level=error msg="[graphdriver] prior storage driver devicemapper failed: loopback attach failed"
failed to start daemon: error initializing graphdriver: loopback attach failed

Update 2:
In the end I found out, that pygrub was missing in the VM, which seems to be a new dependency since some version.
This answer was a dead end path, I added another answer, but I leave this here for other users, that have a different problem to get some hints.

A: If you run Linux in a VM on Xen, you need to install the kernel and use pygrub (see https://wiki.debian.org/PyGrub) and update to docker version 19.03.0.
install pygrub
1. In your VM execute:
mkdir /boot/grub
apt-get install -y linux-image-amd64
cat > /boot/grub/menu.lst << EOF

default         0
timeout         2

title           Debian GNU/Linux
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz root=/dev/xvda2 ro
initrd          /initrd.img

title           Debian GNU/Linux (recovery mode)
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz root=/dev/xvda2 ro single
initrd          /initrd.img

EOF

2. halt your VM, for example:
xen destroy vm01

3. edit your xen config
for example for your VM /etc/xen/vm01.cfg in your DOM0 (comment out the first two lines and add the last three):
#kernel      = '/boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-9-amd64'
#ramdisk     = '/boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-9-amd64'
extra       = 'elevator=noop'
bootloader  = '/usr/lib/xen-4.8/bin/pygrub'
bootloader_args = [ '--kernel=/vmlinuz', '--ramdisk=/initrd.img', ]

4. start your vm:
xen create /etc/xen/vm01.cfg

A: I have meet this issue too. I resolved this issue!

*

*In my VMWare workstation, the VM have TWO virtual network interfaces.

*I removed one of the virtual network interfaces, and reserved only one.

*Start VMWare workstation,start docker service, it works successfully!

I installed docker on CentOS7.6(1810),but when I start docker:
#systemctl start docker
Docker starts failed.
#journalctl -xe
It show some messages like "start daemon: error initializing graphdriver: loopback attach failed".