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Roberts bowed to political pressure from East Coast elitist media; switched vote on ObamaCare
... and got publicly outed for it by outraged Supreme Court insiders:
Some of the conservatives, such as Justice Clarence Thomas, deliberately avoid news articles on the Court when issues are pending (and avoid some publications altogether, such as The New York Times). They've explained that they don't want to be influenced by outside opinion or feel pressure from outlets that are perceived as liberal.
But Roberts pays attention to media coverage. As Chief Justice, he is keenly aware of his leadership role on the Court, and he also is sensitive to how the Court is perceived by the public.
There were countless news articles in May warning of damage to the Court - and to Roberts' reputation - if the Court were to strike down the mandate. Leading politicians, including the President himself, had expressed confidence the mandate would be upheld.
How's that upholding the prestige of the Court by making a craven, politically motivated, legally tortured ruling working out for you, Johnny Boy?
Not so well.
Public opinion of the Supreme Court has grown more negative since the highly publicized ruling on the president's health care law was released. A growing number now believe that the high court is too liberal and that justices pursue their own agenda rather than acting impartially.
A week ago, 36% said the court was doing a good or an excellent job. That's down to 33% today. However, the big change is a rise in negative perceptions. Today, 28% say the Supreme Court is doing a poor job. That's up 11 points over the past week.
By W.C. Varones - July 02, 2012
Doo Doo Econ said...
See Dred Scott v. Sandford. Thanks John.
Roberts is an old corporate/government whore of a lawyer. This was pressure from his old pals at Money Inc. This story is spin to deflect from the actual influence.
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Q: Generate xml and save it when calling a generic handler Im using the following code to save an xml file
  HttpResponse response = HttpContext.Current.Response;

    string xmlString = "<xml>blah</xml>";
    string fileName = "ExportedForm.xml";

    response.StatusCode = 200;

    response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" + fileName);
    response.AddHeader("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "binary");
    response.AddHeader("Content-Length", _Buffer.Length.ToString());

    response.ContentType = "application-download";
    response.Write(xmlString);

This works fine when binding to a button onlick event for example. But im generating my xml in a generic handler.ashx. So i want to wait until the ajax call is complete before i do the stuff above. Can i do it all in the handler? The ajax call is made by jquery and the xml data is based on input fields on my page. Thanks

A: I would use something like this.
using System;
using System.Web;

public class GenerateXML : IHttpHandler
{
    public bool IsReusable {
        get { return true; }
    }

    public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) {
        var resp = context.Response;

        resp.ContentType = "text/xml";
        resp.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;

        resp.Write( "<xml>i am xml</xml>" );
    }
}

Then mod the web.config of your project.
<httpHandlers>
    <!--...other things..-->
    <add verb="*" path="xml.generate" type="YOUR_NAMESPACE.GenerateXML, YOUR_DLL" />
</httpHandlers>

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With Saint-Etienne not playing Nice until Sunday, Bordeaux had the opportunity to put pressure on Christophe Galtier's side, but they were undone by a 66th-minute howler from Slovenian shot-stopper Jug.
Midfielder Jordan Veretout's 23rd-minute opener for Nantes had been cancelled out by Kian Hansen's own goal five minutes later, but Jug gifted the points to the hosts when he fumbled the ball over the line after a poor defensive clearance from Cheick Diabate.
Bordeaux were not the only top-six side to suffer defeat, with Rennes losing 2-0 at Bastia.
Rennes could have gone level with Bordeaux with a victory in Corsica but could not overcome a numerical disadvantage after defender Fallou Diagne was shown a straight red card midway through the first half.
Goals from Ryad Bodebouz and Yannick Cahuzac sealed a victory for the islanders that puts them within a point of moving out of the bottom three.
Lorient put distance between themselves and the relegation places by beating Metz 3-1, while second-bottom Lens claimed a valuable point in a 3-3 draw at Montpellier.
Anthony Mounier looked to have given the hosts the points with a 63rd-minute effort after Montpellier had previously squandered a two-goal lead, only for Yoann Touzghar to salvage a share of the spoils with his fourth goal of the season 10 minutes from time.
There was similar drama at the Stade Auguste Delaune as Reims overcame Evian 3-2.
Daniel Wass and Cedric Cambon were on target to put Evian 2-1 ahead, but the contest turned in the 78th minute when Algeria defender Aissa Mandi equalised.
Cambon was sent off in the aftermath for dissent and the hosts duly took advantage, Brazilian forward Diego hitting home his second of the game two minutes later to complete the turnaround.


With great confidence?its HEREDEZ! Queso Dip brings the authentically bold flavors of Herdez salsa and rich creamy cheese in one delicious jar that is sure to liven up any snack. Fire up your appetizers and snacks with an irresistible burst of flavor. Be the life of every party & gathering with Herdez Queso con Salsa dip. .
Perfect to dip or spread on tortilla chips and crackers. Can also be used as a flavorful topping for authentic Mexican recipes. .
Open a bag of Herdez, Doritos or Tostitos flavored tortilla chips and enjoy them with Herdez Queso dips.
Ingredients: Water, nonfat milk, monterey jack cheese, vegetable oil (corn and/or soybean), maltodextrin, modified corn starch, green chilies, red bell peppers, salt, tomatoes, natural flavor, jalape?o peppers, sodium alginate, xanthan gum, sodium phosphate, vinegar, sodium citrate, mono & di-glycerides, sorbic acid (preservative), monosodium glutamate, and artificial color (FD&C yellow #5 and yellow #6).
Con toda confianza?es HEREDEZ! El ?Queso Dip? combina los sabores autenticos y picantes de la Salsa Herdez y queso cremoso en un envase delicioso que promete darle un increible sabor a cualquier botana. Enciende tus botanas y aperitivos con un irresistible estallido de sabor y se el alma de la fiesta con ?Herdez Queso con Salsa Dip?.
Es perfecto para comer con chips de tortilla o galletas saladas. Tambien puede ser utilizado como unsabrosisimo topping para recetas autenticamente Mexicanas.
Abre una bolsa de chips de tortilla de la marca Herdez, Doritos o Tostitos y disfrutalos con los QuesoDips de Herdez.
Ingredientes: agua, leche descremada, queso Monterrey Jack, aceite vegetal (maiz y/o soja),maltodextrina, almidon de maiz modificado, chiles verdes, pimiento rojo, sal, tomates, sabor natural, chile jalape?o, alginato de sodio, goma xantana, fosfato de sodio, vinagre, citrato de sodio, mono y digliceridos, acido sorbico (conservador), glutamato monosodico y color artificial (FD&C amarillo #5 yamarillo #6).
I have tried Tostitos, Taco Bell, On The Border, and Herdez and this is the best one! My whole family agrees that this is the best out of all of them.
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I usually make my own...cause you know home made is "better." This brand is awesome. Not only do we have it with tortilla chips, it's great with vegetables, too. Broccoli, cauliflower, baked potatoes...Give it a try. You won't be disappointed!!
This is the best queso dip except for homemade that I have ever tasted. Keep your Paul Newman's, your Taco Bell, your On the Border, try Herdez. WONDERFUL!
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Q: Trace @font-face text to  We have an SVG teeshirt designer where users can input text using fonts we've provided on the site, however, when these go to the printer they need to be first, part of the <svg> itself, and second, converted from <svg> to an .eps file.
We've got it working, but a big problem seems to be sending the fonts to the printers. It doesn't make sense to have to worry about the printers maintaining all the fonts we're using in our app.
We'd like to somehow "trace" these fonts (think of the Illustrator's Expand command used on webfonts) and just send the printer a nice .eps and never have to worry about font files.
We were actually using Inkscape to do this with ``--export-text-to-path` and it worked well, but we're migrating to Heroku and Heroku doesn't play nice with Inkscape (at all).
Then I found this StackOverflow answer but the trace it produces isn't always top notch.
I guess my question differs from the original in that I'm more curious if there's a way to somehow take the webfont.svg's we have and directly pull glyphs from them and replace each letter in the <tspan>...
<svg>
    <text font-family="MyFont">
        <tspan>Hello!<tspan>
    </text>
</svg>

...with that glyph data, positioned somehow.
I know this is a weird question, but I figured a billion heads are better than one. :)


During 2012, Rigby Group disposed of its primary technology distribution business to Tech Data in a deal valued at £220m. The Group remains in distribution in the Middle East from Dubai and in North Africa from Morocco. The business operates as a leading distributor for IBM, HP and Microsoft in these fast moving and dynamic geographies.
Our strategy seeks to reinforce our leadership in the value IT distribution while helping our partners to develop their business. We aim to build a unique business model designed to deliver sustainable growth in a responsible way. We drive value to our vendors through a broader market access, financial strength and a stronger market presence. To our resellers, we add value through specialized skills, expert advice and tailor made solutions to their needs.
SCD offers the flexibility and proactivity of a small company while providing the expertise and capabilities of a large corporation.
Rigby Group PLC has been named in the Sunday Times' prestigious Top Track 100 listing of the UK's top performing private companies.
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The file used in importing and exporting can contain all of your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, terms, navigation menus or custom posts.
The process for importing will vary a little depending on if you are importing from a separate WordPress account or from an HTML website. However the first step is to check if ODU WordPress supports the themes and plugins that you require (if any). A complete list of plugins and themes can be found here.
After plugins/themes have been thoroughly tested in the pre-production environment for at least two weeks, they can be moved to the live production environment for everyone to use. ITS will move all new themes and plugins from pre-production to production at the beginning of every semester, and at the halfway points of Fall and Spring semesters. In order to limit service disruptions, security updates will be the only changes applied to the production system during the semester periods.
If you already have a WordPress site somewhere else, you should visit the 'Exporting' section first to learn how to export your existing WordPress site. Once your existing WordPress site is exported you can import it to make the transition to ODU easier.
One important thing to keep in mind is that if you used special plugins or themes on your old site we may not have them installed at ODU. You can find a list of plugins and themes that are currently installed here. If you would like to request new themes or plugins let us know at the "What would you like to see tab" or by sending email to wordpress@odu.edu.
Select the type of site your old site/blog was hosted on (i.e. WordPress).
This may take a while but WordPress will send you an email once it has finished.
If you have a web page that is HTML based and wish to migrate this to a WordPress site, there are a number of options that are available which include manually migrating your site, using a pre-made theme/plugin or paying a third party to have an HTML to WordPress conversion accomplished. We are going to focus on the second one using a pre-made plugin to pull in content.
Many faculty, staff and students, previously had or maintained web sites across various systems at ODU using HTML and CSS (i.e. ODUEdit). With the release of WordPress, many users and organization may wish to migrate these sites to WordPress because of system deprecation, ease of management or improved functionality. Manually migrating your site from HTML to WordPress may require you to get into your web site code and understand what is being migrated and to where. You will need to access your current web site, select the WordPress theme you will be migrating your data to and have experience in HTML, CSS and some PHP to migrate chunks of code at a time into the new WordPress site. This requires customization of the CSS layout for the Theme you have chosen and is something better described through other documentation already on the web.
The following information will focus on migrating a site using a plugin which is probably the best option for speed and time invested. We will discuss two plugins available in the WordPress plugin repository and installed on the ODU WordPress system. One is called HTML Import 2 and the other is Easy Site Importer .
Decide on the WordPress Theme that will be used for your WordPress site. You can view the list of existing Themes that have been loaded on the ODU WordPress system.
Once those two items are addressed, you can log into WordPress (https://wp.odu.edu/wp-login.php) using your MidasID and password. Once logged in, click on the Manage My Sites tool from the menu bar. The will allow you to create your new site. Once your site is created, go to the "Dashboard" for that site.
After you get to the new WordPress site, click on Appearance from the menu and select Themes. When the full list of themes comes up, find and activate the Theme that you have selected to format your site. You can alternatively click on Appearance then Customize to make changes to how your site will be displayed based on the Widgets and other functions available in that Theme.
The last series of actions you need to take is to click on Plugins > then select either HTML Import 2 or Easy Site Importer (depending on which you chose) and select Activate (DO NOT ACTIVATE both of them at the same time, chose one or the other). This will activate the plugin and allow you to access the menu system for it to help guide you through the migration process.
To access the menu system for HTML Import 2 select Settings from the admin menu and select HTML Import to bring up a user menu system that will guide you through the migration process.
Alternatively you could activate Easy Site Importer by clicking on Settings from the admin menu, then clicking on Easy Site Importer to access its user menu to guide you through the migration process.
Once you have activated one of the tools and are in the tools user menus, you will need to provide information related to the current web materials location (URL), what blocks of HTML you will be importing and where the application should start scraping. You can refer to HTML Import 2 plugin for additional information on how the plugin works. Alternatively you can refer to the Easy Site Importer plugin page for additional information on how that plugin works.
After you click the button to Import Files your old site will be imported into a similar directory structure & content in your new WordPress site (for both tools).
If you would like to move your site to a different hosting site, WordPress can help you via exporting.
Blog Importer: Imports comments, blogs and authors from other WordPress sites.
Let's say you have a site outside of ODU WordPress you would like to import. This section outlines the process of moving it.
Verify ODU WordPress has all plugins that are essential to your site, you can check here. If you require more plugins let us know at wordpress@odu.edu. We will load them into Preproduction as soon as possible and then Production during the next update.
Make sure you have all of the media files (pictures, documents, etc) somewhere accessible because these will not be included in your export file.
Import your site in Preproduction, please note that the Preproduction server can only be accessed at ODU.
Piece your site back together by picking the theme, placing the menus and widgets, activating plugins, uploading media files (provided they keep the same name, they will fall back into place with no additional effort), etc.
Check your site for any issues, correct them as needed.
Once your plugins and theme are all available in Production and you feel your site is ready, export your site from Preproduction and import your site on the Production server. Repeat steps 5 and 6 as needed.


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Q: How to use Ruby's readlines.grep for UTF-16 files? Given the following two files created by the following commands:
$ printf "foo\nbar\nbaz\n" | iconv -t UTF-8 > utf-8.txt
$ printf "foo\nbar\nbaz\n" | iconv -t UTF-16 > utf-16.txt
$ file utf-8.txt utf-16.txt
utf-8.txt:  ASCII text
utf-16.txt: Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode text

I'd like to find the matching pattern in UTF-16 formatted file, the same way as in UTF-8 using Ruby.
Here is the working example for UTF-8 file:
$ ruby -e 'puts File.open("utf-8.txt").readlines.grep(/foo/)'
foo

However, it doesn't work for UTF-16LE formatted file:
$ ruby -e 'puts File.open("utf-16.txt").readlines.grep(/foo/)'
Traceback (most recent call last):
    3: from -e:1:in `<main>'
    2: from -e:1:in `grep'
    1: from -e:1:in `each'
-e:1:in `===': invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (ArgumentError)

I've tried to convert the file based on this post by:
$ ruby -e 'puts File.open("utf-16.txt", "r").read.force_encoding("ISO-8859-1").encode("utf-8", replace: nil)'
ÿþfoo
bar
baz

but it prints some invalid characters (ÿþ) before foo, secondly I don't know how to use grep method after conversion (it reports as undefined method).
How I can use readlines.grep() method for UTF-16 file? Or some other simple way, where my goal is to print the lines with the specific regex pattern.

Ideally in one line, so the command can be used for CI tests.
Here is some real world scenario:
ruby -e 'if File.readlines("utf-16.log").grep(/[1-9] error/) {exit 1}; end'

but the command doesn't work due to UTF-16 formatting of the log file.

A: While the answer by Viktor is technically correct, recoding of the whole file from UTF-16LE into UTF-8 is unnecessary and might hit the performance. All you actually need is to build the regexp in the same encoding:
puts File.open(
  "utf-16.txt", mode: "rb:BOM|UTF-16LE"
).readlines.grep(
  Regexp.new "foo".encode(Encoding::UTF_16LE)
)
#⇒ foo

A: Short answer:
You almost have it, just need to say which characters you want to replace (I would guess the invalid and the undefined):
$ ruby -e 'puts File.open("utf-16.txt", "r").read.encode("UTF-8", invalid: :replace, undef: :replace, replace: "")'
foo
bar
baz

Also I don't think you need force_encoding.
If you want to ignore the BOM convert on open and use readlines you can use:
 ruby -e 'puts File.open("utf-16.txt", mode: "rb:BOM|UTF-16LE:UTF-8").readlines.grep(/foo/)'

More details:
The reason why you get invalid characters when you do:
$ruby -e 'puts File.open("utf-16.txt", "r").read.force_encoding("ISO-8859-1").encode("utf-8", replace: nil)'
ÿþfoo
bar
baz

is that in the beginning of each file which is in Unicode you can have the Byte Order Mark which shows the byte order and the encoding form. In your case it is FE FF (meaning Little-endian UTF-16), which are invalid UTF-8 characters.
You can verify that by invoking encode without force_encoding:
$ruby -e 'puts File.open("utf-16.txt", "r").read.encode("utf-8")'
��foo
bar
baz

Question marks in black box are used to replace an unknown, unrecognized or unrepresentable character.
You can check more on BOM here.


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The waiting is over… Updates announced for ISO 9001 & ISO 14001
Updates have finally been announced for the current ISO 9001:2008 Quality & ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management Standards
With both of the updates widely overdue, they have been announced to be expected in the year 2015.
The last update for the ISO 9001 was 2008, ISO 9001:2008 basically re-narrates ISO 9001:2000. The 2008 version only introduced clarifications to the existing requirements of ISO 9001:2000 and some changes intended to improve consistency with ISO 14001:2004.
The ISO 14001 was last updated in 2004, the revision of the standard is in it's early stages and the earliest date expected for the final version is January 2015. In total, there are 25 recommendations in consideration, for the new revision of ISO 14001.
Since the standard was first published in 1996, ISO 14001:2004, Environmental management systems – Requirements with guidance for use, has been adopted by over 250 000 certified, with the users in 155 countries (worldwide). *
In accordance to the above, Jennifer and Catherine of ISO Quality Services Ltd, recently attended an event put together by Corporate Risk Systems Limited, of Burton upon Trent, which was held at Silverstone.
The event covered:
Introduction to Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
Environmental Management System Implementation and Best Practice
ISO 14001 changes will you be ready?
They also be presented the NEBOSH Environmental "Student of the Year Award 2013"
Jennifer Appleton, (Operations Director) commented "We attend events such as the above to keep ourselves up to date, and be fully prepared on the advancements in the standards. As with all of our ISO 9001 customers who previously transferred from the 2000 version to the 2008 version, we will be on hand to guide our existing customers through the transition for both the ISO 9001 & ISO 14001.
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The manuscript was stolen from the Mariners Museum in Virginia by an archivist working there sometime between 2000 and 2006. It turned up in an auction in 2018, was purchased by the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum. After it was recognized as stolen, the manuscript was returned to Virginia after remaining on loan in Cold Spring Harbor for a year.
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killer whale, which was little known then by Americans and had only been written about in some European scholarly journals.1 Roys's next command, in 1855, was Hannibal, based out of New London, Connecticut. About that time he began working on an invention for which he would become even more widely known. Roys— at great personal cost—would spend years developing a shoulder-fired rocket harpoon, similar to a modern bazooka, that would make the hunt much more deadly for the whales and lead to the development of factory ships and a huge increase in the harvesting of whales. On a Hannibal voyage to Hudson Bay in Canada, Roys killed a blue whale, the largest of all the leviathans. That gave him the idea that a larger harpoon gun might be used to hunt rorquals, the largest whales such as finbacks, which had previously not been hunted because of their size. But the owners of Hannibal were conservative and thought him insane when he informed them that he had ordered "two rifles in pairs for killing [rorqual] whales" while in France. One of the owners boarded the next packet for that country and, upon arriving in Lorient, fired Roys on the spot. But Lorient would also provide something in way of compensation. It was there that Roys met Marie Salliord, a woman half his age he would marry in 1860 before bringing her back to the hamlet of Peconic in Southold Town to set up housekeeping among other whaling families on "Blubber Row." She became a piano teacher and later ran off with their three children sometime after 1870, supposedly with one of his former shipmates, during one of his long voyages. Unfazed, Roys, with the help of several friends, bought the relatively small 87-foot Sag Harbor brig William F. Safford in 1856. The captain outfitted her with special harpoon guns of his own design and then traveled to both the Arctic Ocean and Antarctica in search of rorqual whales.
Page from Thomas Roys's whaling manuscript. In 1856, he was testing his whaling guns on the Safford in the Bay of Biscay off the western coast of France when he paid a terrible price for his experimentation. He wrote: I took up one of my guns to try the explosion underwater … I fired the fuse, ignited the powder in the shell and it exploded, blowing up the gun and sent me backward about eight feet.… I then saw lying upon the deck a finger with a ring upon it which I knew, and looking I saw my left hand was gone to the wrist, but for the moment it had given no pain, only a sensation of numbness. Walking into the cabin, I sat down and had it amputated [by the first mate] as well as we could with razors. Roys sailed to Oporto, Portugal, where the rest of his lower arm had to be amputated. That did not stop him from continuing to work on his rocket harpoon concept in the following years. In 1857 the innovative captain received his first patent, in
Great Britain, for explosive shells. His first American patent followed in 1861 for improvements in harpoon guns. That same year he entered into a partnership with Gustavus A. Lilliedahl, a wealthy New York City pyrotechnics manufacturer. They worked together for half a dozen years trying to perfect rocket harpooning of whales. In 1865 Roys established the first shore-based whaling station, in Iceland, where he developed a method to process whales with bone grinders, presses, and steam kettles, which was more efficient than the old method of cutting the blubber and boiling it in great kettles, or trypots, aboard ships. Nothing was wasted, not even the entrails. His method is still followed today by nations that hunt whales. In the following years, Roys continued his experiments on several ships. And then in 1871 he took command of the whaling brig Byzantium out of Victoria, British Columbia. His bad luck continued. In May, Byzantium struck rocks in British Columbia and the crew had to abandon ship and spend a freezing night huddled on the
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I'm taking a classic French summer dish and turning it into a classic winter dish – all by stealing from my best friend.
Rhubarb clafouti is the new darling dessert of The Zin House, it came about because Lesley Russell, the Orange Regional Cook, was telling me about the photo shoot for her forthcoming cookbook and mentioned the recipe. 'What a great idea!', said I before promptly putting it on the weekend's menu.
Now some cooks might think it a bit cheeky to steal your mate's recipe before she's even published the book. But I know that won't be the case with Lesley because she has this quote hanging in her kitchen.
We have talked often over the years about how you don't 'own' a recipe, but rather are obliged to share good food, and therefore recipes, as widely as possible. Why would you want someone to cook less well!
The courtesy is to acknowledge the last custodian of an idea, which is why you will find Lesley's name pop up often when I'm writing about food.
You should also rush out and buy her book when it's published because unlike me, Lesley measures and that means her recipes will always work!
Rhubarb is gorgeous at this time of year, the colour is vibrant and it seems to respond well to the cold. I've planted it and failed many times so don't give up, when you find the right spot it will flourish with equal quantities of compost and neglect.
Clafouti is traditionally made with cherries by pouring an eggy batter over fruit. This version is a much better contrast of tart and sweet.
Whisk all the ingredients 1 -7 together. yep, that's it!
Now line your oven proof baking dish really generously with butter, so that there are bits of butter visible. Cover the butter with a good sprinkle of sugar and shake it to coat the butter. This step will create a nice caramel effect in the oven, allowing you to flip the clafouti like an upside down cake. That's why small teflon pans like the ones I've used in the photo are good.
Scatter the rhubarb over the base of the dish and cover with the batter. This works best with smaller amounts rather than trying to put it all in a small dish – wide and flat is good.
Because we have so many guests with gluten intolerance I always use a gluten free flour and I think it actually improves this dish.
Hazelnuts (Lesley's suggestion) are regional for us, use any nuts that are fresh or leave them out.
The extra egg whites are used in my kitchen because we always have surplus from the ice-cream. They give an extra lightness and height to the dish but are not necessary.


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Trump Nominees Signal Policy Changes for Iran
President-elect Trump's choices for CIA director and Secretaries of State and Defense have gotten the most attention, with questions surrounding the new administration's prospective foreign policy.
A major question of foreign policy will be how the new administration will handle its relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran in the wake of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and associated initiatives.
Trump's contempt for that agreement is well known, and it is shared by most of the congressional Republicans with whom he will be working, as well as by a number of Democrats. All of Trump's candidates have made their skepticism of the nuclear deal clear.
Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State-designate, said he would call for a thorough review of the agreement, leaving open the possibility of its cancellation, renegotiation, or even its replacement.
But the "Iran problem" also extends to the persistent extraterritorial activity of the Iranian regime, as well as its conduct at home. It would be a mistake see it as limited to weaknesses in the JCPOA. In his confirmation hearings for his appointment as secretary of defense, Retired General James Mattis was unequivocal in his description of Iran as the biggest contributor to instability in the region. He said that American policy in Iraq and Afghanistan should be focused on countering Iran's "malign influence," which is growing.
In a bipartisan letter to President-elect Trump last week, 23 prominent former U.S. officials underscored, "It is now clear that Iran's leaders have shown no interest in reciprocating the U.S. overture beyond the terms of the JCPOA which gained them significant rewards." They added, "Through their extremely high rate of executions at home, and destructive sectarian warfare in support of the Assad regime in Syria and proxy Shiite militias in Iraq, Iran's rulers have directly targeted U.S. strategic interests, policies and principles, and those of our allies and friends in the Middle East."
These same hostile and destabilizing activities warrants new economic sanctions in response. In the letter, former U.S. officials emphasized, it is time for the "U.S. Government to establish a dialogue with Iran's exiled resistance, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)."
Led by an anti-fundamentalist Muslim woman, Maryam Rajavi, the NCRI, and at its core the principal Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK), have articulated a 10-point plan describing the movement's aspirations for Iran.
For over three decades, the movement has been Tehran's number one enemy, and the prime target of the regime. It is approximated that 120,000 MEK activists have been executed by the ayatollahs.
Publicly acknowledged by President George W. Bush, it was the Iranian Resistance, relying on its vast network of operatives at home, that discovered and revealed Iran's secret nuclear weapons program in 2002.
The movement has long been ignored by American policymakers, out of concern for Tehran's reaction. None the less, its platforms offer something that the current regime never could: a firm commitment to a non-nuclear future for Iran, along with an end to the the political repression that make Iran abusers of human rights and supporters of terrorism.
Weaknesses at home are becoming more evident to the Iranian regime. The incoming administration has the opportunity to chart a new course on Iran. The Trump administration should adopt a policy that opposes Tehran's repression, while supporting the Iranian people's aspirations to establish a democratic and secular rule.
An article by Rowan Scarborough in The Washington Times, on Tuesday, January 17, also talks about the letter, in which the group of Republicans, Democrats and retired military officers has asked President-elect Donald Trump to abandon President's Obama's soft approach to Iran's "brutal repression" and take a stand that puts the U.S. "on the right side of history."
The letter was hand-delivered, and the 23 signatories express hope that Mr. Trump will begin an alliance with Iran's main resistance group, which would be a shift that would send shock waves through of the Islamic republic. A boost to Iranian dissidents is that former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Guiliani, one of the closest outside advisers to Mr. Trump, signed the letter.
In the letter, former officials say the U.S. lost all leverage with Iran when financial and political concessions were delivered in exchange for the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which blocks Tehran's ability to build nuclear weapons for 10 years. However, the anticipated moderation by Iran's hard-line regime has not materialized. Since so-called reformer Hassan Rouhani became president in 2013, Tehran has executed 3,000 people, including women and juveniles.
"It is now clear that Iran's leaders have shown no interest in reciprocating the U.S. overture beyond the terms of the JCPOA which gained them significant rewards," the letter says. "Through their extremely high rate of executions at home, and destructive sectarian warfare in support of the [Bashar] Assad regime in Syria and proxy Shiite militias in Iraq, Iran's rulers have directly targeted U.S. strategic interests, policies and principles, and those of our allies and friends in the Middle East."
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On Oct. 8, 1871, the Great Chicago Fire — started by Mrs. O'Leary's cow, legend says — began.
Welcome to our new On This Date. Today is Sunday, Oct. 8, the 281st day of 2017. There are 84 days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history might be of interest to Mainers for a couple reasons. First, because Portland has had a similar history — and second because… Well, you'll see.
ON THIS DATE IN 1871, the Great Chicago Fire erupted; fires also broke out in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, and in several communities in Michigan.
The Great Chicago Fire was one of the worst fires in American history, killing up to 300 Chicago residents while destroying more than 3 square miles of the city and displacing up to 100,000 people. In comparison, five years earlier, the Great fire of Portland killed two, forced up to ten thousand people from their homes and destroyed roughly 1,800 buildings. Both fires were aided and abetted by the prevalence of wood construction of the era and by a substandard ability to respond by the fire crews of the time.
But perhaps most interestingly, much like with the Great fire of Portland, the exact cause of the fire was never accurately identified. But that did not stop a legend from being built. And that legend was at least partially driven by anti-immigrant sentiment. In particular, in Chicago in the early 1870s, that meant anti-Irish sentiment. Thus, poor Mrs. O'Leary's milking cow took the brunt of the blame.
In other milestones from this date, Don Larsen threw the only perfect game in World Series history in 1956, and in 1998, the U.S. House voted to move forward with the impeachment of President Clinton.
In 1934, Bruno Hauptmann was indicted by a grand jury in New Jersey for murder in the death of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
In 1945, President Harry S. Truman told a press conference in Tiptonville, Tennessee, that the secret scientific knowledge behind the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.
In 1998, the House triggered an open-ended impeachment inquiry against President Bill Clinton in a momentous 258-176 vote; 31 Democrats joined majority Republicans in opening the way for nationally televised impeachment hearings.
Five years ago: President Barack Obama designated the Keene, California, home of Cesar Chavez, the late founder of the United Farmworkers Union, as a national monument.
One year ago: Three Palm Springs, California, police officers were shot, two fatally, in what authorities called an ambush during a domestic dispute call by a gang member; a suspect has pleaded not guilty to murder. Donald Trump vowed on Twitter to continue his campaign even though he said the "media and establishment" wanted him out of the race "so badly"; many Republicans were calling on Trump to abandon his presidential bid in the wake of the release of a 2005 video in which he made lewd remarks about women and appeared to condone sexual assault.


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Sad to say, but as time rolls on, moral standards have come way down on the political stage and we all but expect our leaders to be indicted. But do we expect them to lie to us about things that matter? Can we condone obstruction of justice when it comes to racism, radicalism and hate crimes? Islamist political players are constantly doing just that. While they display hard-line Islamist approaches to their followers, they are openly hypocritical in order to serve their political objectives.
"…the mosque's imam who publicly claims homosexuals cause natural disasters"
A prime example of this hypocrisy is Wilfredo Ruiz, CAIR-Florida communications director. He refers to his organization as a "civil rights group" and claims to use social media to denounce those who spread bigotry. However, he constantly associates with individuals and groups who spread the very hate he is supposedly fighting against. Ruiz recently participated in an event headed by Darul Uloom mosque and moderated by the mosque's imam who publicly claims homosexuals cause natural disasters. In addition to the hate generated by Darul Uloom mosque,it is also known to be a haven for al-Qaeda operatives.
Not only does Ruiz associate with this particular mosque, but his own organization, the very one he claims is a civil rights group, has been linked to the terrorist organization Hamas and thrown pro-Hamas rallies using extreme rhetoric aimed at demonizing Israel and her supporters. In fact, Ruiz himself frequently uses social media to denounce what he claims to be "hate", though in reality he is just targeting Israelis and accusing others of being "white supremacists." Ruiz is constantly pointing fingers, but in reality he is in the same camp as those to which he accuses everyone else of belonging. The camp of bigotry and hate. The camp of hypocrisy.
"Sarsour managed to marginalize Jews as well as the LGBTQ community"
Another infamous hypocrite is Linda Sarsour. While hiding behind the cover of the Women's March, Sarsour managed to marginalize Jews as well as the LGBTQ community. Though she pretends to be a fair and accepting person, the world was exposed to her true colors when she accused Jews of dual loyalty. Hiding behind "Islamophobia" she has managed to create multiple hypocritical and contradictory personas: A human rights activist who participates in activities for the "greater good" such as raising money to repair cemeteries and a bigoted ISIS sympathizer.
And all of this for what? Does addressing the public with such mixed messaging really accomplish anything? What is the point of being so incredibly two-faced when you could just stand up for what you believe in?
"And thus hypocrisy is born"
The bottom line seems to be that if one's case were truly noble there would be no need because then the idea could sell itself. And thus hypocrisy is born.
Islamist American politicians and leaders cannot sell radical Islam as is to the American public. They can only wrap it attractively. They must deliver it behind the cover of human and civil rights because only then will the public fall prey. We must recognize the contradictory statements our politicians and leaders are making in order to ensure we don't leave ourselves exposed to these evils.
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How Disabled Americans Are Protesting Against the GOP's Health Care Plan
Americans with disabilities fear the proposed cuts to Medicaid will force them into institutions, lead them to poverty, make them sick and worse.
BY Sarah Jaffe | July 7, 2017
How Disabled Americans Are Protesting the GOP's Health Plan
Police remove protesters from in front of the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) inside the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC on June 22, 2017. Members of a group with disabilities were protesting the proposed GOP health care plan. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
This Q&A is part of Sarah Jaffe's series Interviews for Resistance, in which she speaks with organizers, troublemakers and thinkers who are doing the hard work of fighting back against America's corporate and political powers.
Americans with disabilities have been protesting the Republicans' health care proposals in Washington, DC, at GOP lawmakers offices around the country and even at Ivanka Trump's home. One out of every five adults has a disability, according to a 2015 study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In this Q&A, Sarah Jaffe speaks with Bruce Darling, an organizer with ADAPT, a national group that organizes disability activists, about why Americans with disabilities are so outraged by the Republicans' new health care plan, including its major cuts to Medicaid, and what they plan to do next.
Sarah Jaffe: ADAPT has done a couple of rather dramatic direct actions around the new Republican health care proposal. You were part of the protest last month in Washington, DC, outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office. Can you tell us a little bit about it?
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Bruce Darling: A group of almost 60 of us made the trek to DC with the intent of letting Congress know exactly how bad this bill is and that disabled Americans are not going to just accept it. We feel that, in part, they are targeting Medicaid and the services and supports we need because they think that we are not politically active or weak and they can basically get away with it. We wanted to send a message that that was not the case. A group of folks went into McConnell's office. We could not all fit in and folks got out of their wheelchairs. Everyone got on the ground who could and we were basically dragged out by the Capitol Police.
SJ: Those photos and videos really got a lot of response. People were saying that the police dragging people out of their wheelchairs is an impressive visual demonstration of what this health care bill would do.
BD: Exactly. Disabled Americans will die, others will be forced into institutions and that will increase this terrible feedback loop because institutions are more expensive. With capped funds it will drive more money to the institutions, making less money available for health care and services and supports in the community. We wanted people to see it as the equivalent of basically being dragged off; the way they saw it on the news, that is actually what happens, even now with the Medicaid program as it is. The Republican health care plans will just make it far, far, far worse.
SJ: Medicaid is the main way that home health care is funded. That is the main thing that allows people to stay at home and not be put in an institution.
Medicaid is the thing that actually pays for and supports our lives and our liberty in the community.
— Bruce Darling
BD: Right, and we wanted to highlight that using language that we thought, or hoped, Republicans would understand. There isn't an asterisk on the Constitution that says "except disabled Americans." We should have a birthright of life and liberty. Medicaid is the thing that actually pays for and supports our lives and our liberty in the community. So cutting that is actually cutting the lives and liberty of disabled Americans. It is killing disabled Americans. We really wanted to drive that point home.
SJ: Can you talk a little bit more about the specific services that Medicaid funds would decimate with this bill?
BD: The wheelchairs that people use to move around, the ventilators and feeding tubes that people use for breathing and nutrition. The assistance — whether it is home health aides or personal care attendants — that those people who come into our homes provide, such as helping us in and out of bed and helping us into the bathroom. They do our most personal care and allow us to live.
Then, on top of that, basically the medications and medical care that we rely on. The Senate health care bill proposes cutting Medicaid by three-quarters of a trillion dollars.
Those things will be cut at the state level, where they make these decisions. We see now how people who go without assistance get secondary conditions and they either end up in an institution or, in some cases, die. We watch that happen now and we just can't sit back and let that happen to any more of our people.
SJ: Talk a little bit about the history of ADAPT and the history of the independent living movement, the organizing and activism that made this funding and consideration happen in the first place.
BD: ADAPT actually began as — and I am old enough to have been involved in that fight — the fight for lifts on buses. It is really interesting when you talk to young people now. They think, "Wow. Lifts on buses. Duh. Of course they have lifts." But back in the 1980s, this was a controversial topic. People argued about whether or not there should be lifts on buses and whether disabled people should have access to public transit. This includes questions such as, "Do we need a special separate system so that we weren't mixed in with the general population?"
We found that people were being denied the basic things that they needed to live their lives. They had to schedule their transportation well in advance. Some people were saying things like, "My aunt didn't plan to die 14 days ahead of time. I need a way to get to her funeral."
With that achieved, this part of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was tied to the historic crawl up the steps [of the US Capitol, demanding passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act], ADAPT looked at what the next level issue was, and it was community integration.
We have a lot of people who make money on the fact that we are locked up in institutions.
We have been fighting that fight now for around 27 years. You would think, honestly, it seems like it should be a no-brainer. Should disabled people be allowed to live in the community? Well, yes, of course. But, we have a lot of people who make money on the fact that we are locked up in institutions and those people make [political] contributions and it has been a real tough road for us to get that issue through to people.
SJ: In addition to the action in DC, there was a sit-in in Sen. Cory Gardner's office in Colorado. What are some other actions that ADAPT have been involved in leading up to this health care bill?
BD: We were arrested in the Capitol Rotunda, back earlier in the process in March. This has been named "The Summer of ADAPT," because we have been arrested so many times and in so many different places that our heads are spinning from keeping track of all of the court dates and the fines and the processing. Then, earlier in the year, we did a national action and highlighted these issues at the White House, where we were arrested as well. After they were processed out of the White House a group of women who were arrested went to Ivanka Trump's house to carry a message there.
We have taken our message about community integration everywhere we can, to say, "These cuts to Medicaid will just reinforce the system that forces us into institutions and kills us."
SJ: Was Ivanka home?
BD: Their son was and that was really actually kind of cool, because I got a bunch of text messages from folks saying, "The son is waving at us!" Everyone was really excited and the response from everyone in the street was very sweet. The energy of that group could only have been because a group of women got together and did this. They did a great job in terms of engaging the child who was very excited to see them. But Ivanka was not willing to talk to them.
SJ: That is disappointing.
BD: It really is, because we think the issue that we are fighting is a women's issue, really, when you think about it. Women are the informal caregivers and they are the formal caregivers. By and large, they are the folks who end up in nursing facilities. We are fighting for the rights of women to live free.
SJ: What actions do you have coming up?
BD: We are protesting everywhere. It is incredible to watch. We have had protests from Fairbanks, Alaska to Orlando, Florida to Portland, Maine and right now, as we speak [Wednesday, July 5], there are a group of people protesting at [Republican] Sen. Jeff Flake's office in Phoenix.
We are willing to put our bodies on the line, because our lives and liberty are on the line.
The message is: They are not leaving until they get a "no" vote, which is what happened in Portland, Maine. One of the things people should know is when Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said, or her staff said, "No is no," when they had a "no" vote, the protesters essentially celebrated their victory and left. Sen. Gardner, on the other hand, wouldn't actually engage the disabled protestors, so they ended up staying days in his office and then ended up being arrested. We are willing to put our bodies on the line, because our lives and liberty are on the line.
SJ: Other than Collins, have any other senators engaged with you or had any sort of useful dialogue with you?
BD: No. We have reached out and we have tried. Even the lack of dialogue, however, has been useful. It has allowed us to highlight this issue for people, the fact that we are being arrested is raising the consciousness of folks that this is an attack on Medicaid. It has been lost in the rhetoric about [repealing] Obamacare, which is in and of itself atrocious; but then, no one had been talking about these attacks on Medicaid. Word has gotten out to folks that this is cutting the basic supports that disabled Americans, as well as elderly Americans, need to live. People are pretty appalled by that and even some ardent Trump voters have said, "That is not what I voted for." We are hopeful about the protests.
SJ: How can people keep up with ADAPT and with you?
BD: Follow us on Twitter. We are @NationalADAPT. We have the website www.adapt.org. The hashtag that we are using is #adaptandresist. You can see up-to-the-minute information from folks about protests happening all over the country. This is going to be a busy week for us, so it is a good time to follow. You can follow me at @ADAPTerBruce.
Interviews for Resistance is a project of Sarah Jaffe, with assistance from Laura Feuillebois and support from the Nation Institute. It is also available as a podcast on iTunes. Not to be reprinted without permission.
TOPICS: Activism
TAGS: american health care act, americans with disabilities act, interviews for resistance, ivanka trump, mitch mcconnell
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Sarah Jaffe is a reporting fellow at The Nation Institute and the co-host of Dissent magazine's Belabored podcast. Her book, Necessary Trouble: America's New Radicals, was published by Nation Books in August 2016. Follow her on Twitter: @sarahljaffe.
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Микулаш Галанда (; Турчјанске Тјеплице, 4. мај 1895 — Братислава, 5. јун 1938) био је познати словачки сликар, графичар и илустратор и спада у најзначајније представнике словачке модерне уметности. Сахрањен је на Народном гробљу у Мартину.

Студије
После завршене гимназије у Лучењецу почео је 1914. године студирати сликарство на Академији ликовних уметности у Будимпешти. Студије је због ратних догађања морао после две године да прекине.

Године 1922. одлази у Праг и почео је студирати на уметничкој школи код проф. Брунера, а после годину дана је прешао на прашку Академију ликовних уметности и студирао је код професора А. Тилског и Ф. Бромса. Приликом студија се спријатељио са Мартином Бенком.

Деловање
После завршеног студија је Микулаш Галанда радио као наставник у средњој школи у Братислави, а 1933. је постао редовни професор у школи уметничких заната.

Почетком тридесетих година иступио је пред јавност са пријатељем Људовитом Фулом са манифестом "Приватна писма Фуле и Галанде" у којим је изразио мишљења да треба завршити са старим уметничким методама и манирима и да треба направити простор за нове поступке и средства који одговарају модерном човеку 20. века.

После нагле смрти био је сахрањен 1978. године у Турчјанским Тјеплицама и његови посмртни остаци су били пренесени у Народно гробље у Мартину. У његовој родној кући се налази од 1991. године галерија са његовим делима.

Изложбе и његова дела
Осим многих изложби по целој Чехословачкој излагао је своја дела у Њујорку, Москви и године 1937. на Светској изложби у Паризу, где је добио сребрну медаљу за књижну графику и илустрацију.

Међу његове најпознатије слике спада
 Мати
 Стојећи женски акт
 Словачка породица
 Хајдуци

Галерија

Спољашње везе

 Gymnázium Mikuláša Galandu v Turčianskych Tepliciach

Рођени 1895.
Умрли 1938.
Словачки сликари
Словачки графичари

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Shonda Rhimes, Viola Davis , Kerry Washingon, Eva Longoria, Eva Duvernay says #MuteRKelly!
The TIME'S Up campaign against sexual assault and harassment has turned its attention to R Kelly with top black women in media such as Shonda Rhimes, Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Eva Longoria and Eva Duvernay lending their voices. The campaign is taking effect because R Kelley's Concert in Chicago was cancelled over the weekend.
The popular singer has been accused of sexually abusing women, accusations that he denies over and over again. Campaign organisers are calling for him to be investigated.
An open letter addressed to "our fellow women of colour" was released by Time's Up this week, saying 'MuteRKelly' and it read.
"To this end, today we join an existing online campaign called #MuteRKelly. Over the past 25 years, the man known publicly as R. Kelly has sold 60 million albums, toured the globe repeatedly, and accumulated hundreds of millions of plays on radio and streaming services," the letter states.
It goes on to say: "During this time, he also … Married a girl under 18 years of age, was sued by at least four women for sexual misconduct, statutory rape, aggravated assault, unlawful restraint and furnishing illegal drugs to a minor; was indicted on 21 counts of child pornography; has faced allegations of sexual abuse and imprisonment of women under threats of violence and familial harm.
"Together, we call on the following corporations and venues with ties to R. Kelly to join us and insist on safety and dignity for women of all kinds."
A number of celebrities have backed the campaign, which was originally started last year, and expressed their support for it on social media.
Ava DuVernay tweeted: "We join the call to #MuteRKelly and insist on the safety + dignity of all women. We demand investigations into R Kelly's abuse allegations made by women of color + their families for two decades. We call on those who profit from his music to cut ties."
"I stand with the women of Time's Up. Mute R Kelly," John Legend tweeted, adding his voice to the campaign.
Tarana Burke, longtime activist and co-founder of the MeToo movement, said: "All, all, all in together girls…It's going down! Mute R Kelly once and for all!"
R Kelly's team have released a statement in response to the Time's Up campaign.
The statement reads: "Kelly supports the pro-women goals of the Time's Up movement. We understand criticising a famous artist is a good way to draw attention to those goals — and in this case, it is unjust and off-target.
"Kelly's music is a part of American and African-American culture that should never — and will never — be silenced. Since America was born, black men and women have been lynched for having sex or for being accused of it. We will vigorously resist this attempted public lynching of a black man who has made extraordinary contributions to our culture."
Time's Up, which was formed in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, has called for further investigation into R Kelly's conduct after a number of women have come forward claiming that he sexually abused them.
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Paul's 19 year old son Sean died in a workplace explosion in 1994.
Following an inquest into Sean's death, Paul was drawn to a new mission – to support and build safer workplace cultures, reducing risk, saving lives and diminishing the ripple effects of devastating workplace injuries on everyone.
Paul's earlier professional experience as a senior journalist and as leader of two communication firms specialized in stakeholder and employee relations had equipped him with the tools he needed to to take on this challenge. And so he did.
His efforts to make workplaces and communities safer through the power of awareness and community action brought more than 5,000 volunteers to the cause across Canada. Young worker injury rates declined most significantly in the provinces he and his member communities were most engaged.
Paul founded Safe Communities Canada in 1996 ultimately designating over 60 communities as network members in Canada. He helped international leaders build similar organizations in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.
Safe Communities grew to be one of the four major nationally recognized injury prevention organizations in Canada and Paul helped lead efforts in 2012 to merge all four together into one major Canadian Injury Prevention organization, now called "Parachute".
During this time, Paul also spent time traveling to and speaking at individual workplaces across the country helping employees, supervisors and management align around workplace safety, particularly for young people.
To assist in reaching greater numbers of companies and young people in schools, Paul converted and expanded one of his member communities classroom-based creations, Passport to Safety and pulled together 50 volunteers from across Canada to re-fashion it as a web-based, e-learning program.
This online program is focused on creating awareness about the rights and responsibilities on the job for youth, before they enter the workforce. It has become a nationally recognized standard of health and safety awareness for young workers. Since 2004 over 500,000 teens in four countries have completed it.
His third charitable initiative, Threads of Life, continues to help families across Canada cope with their personal devastation from workplace fatalities while advocating for workplace safety and injury reduction.
His work as a champion, volunteer and leader has led to an Honorary Doctorate of Civil Law (Acadia University), the Order of Ontario, Canada's Meritorious Service Medal and the Queen's Gold and Diamond Jubilee Medals. He has been an Advisor on the U.S. National Safety Council's Board of Delegates, holds Ontario's Outstanding Achievement Award in Volunteerism and is a member of its Volunteer Hall of Fame.
Paul's lives in Halifax with his wife, artist Blanche Diamond, while daughter Robin Kells works with the House of Commons in Ottawa.


Location - Café Viennese in Casa Fuster. The hotel is located on the Passeig de Gràcia, just above the Avenida Diagonal and next to the famous Jardinets. Thanks to Rudy De Waele for recommending such a great venue. You can find information on the hotel at their website .
Time - 19:30 to 21:30 on Wednesday 15th February.
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Here are two cutting-edge environmentally-conscious brands we found on Ecouterre for the giving season. Sustainable style comes in many shapes and sizes, so you'll be able to find something just right for your favorite guy. Today's Greener Giving brands are Outerknown and Nau, which incorporate sustainable principles from the fabrics to the fill.
Everyone wants to be warm when the chill is bearing down, but that shouldn't keep us from enjoying the outdoors, or getting out and about to show off our style. Kelly Slater's new brand, Outerknown, is as fresh as it gets style-wise, but also eco-conscious. For example, their ECONYL material is 100% recycled nylon and the fill they use is 100% recycled polyester. This is high-quality, high-integrity men's fashion, but if you know someone who would appreciate it, or if you would appreciate if someone upped their swagger, check out Outerknown's jackets, sweatshirts and sweaters.
Sustainable doesn't have to mean hemp or hand-me-downs. Sustainable can mean luxury, comfort, warmth and wearable confidence. Nau, based in Portland Oregon, are about sustainability from start to finish. Nau donates 2% of their profits to organizations that promote sustainability through conservation, efficient transportation and human rights, like EcoTrust, People for Bikes, and Mercy Corps.
Nau uses sustainable fabrics like organic cotton and sustainable fills such as their synthetic insulation that combines coconut husks and recycled polyester. The company is clearly innovative and if you check out the clothing they offer you will find that they are stylish, too.
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Obama Backs off Real NSA Reform
By Julian Sanchez
This article appeared in The Daily Beast on January 15, 2014.
If civil liberties advocates had hoped an expert panel's call for an overhaul of America's approach to surveillance might finally open the door to serious reforms, it appears they're about to be disappointed yet again.
President Obama's handpicked surveillance review group, a mix of legal scholars and former government officials, has called for major intelligence policy changes — and on Wednesday, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, reiterated their unanimous opposition to the government's bulk collection of American phone records. Yet early reports suggest that the president will reject their key recommendations in a speech he is slated to deliver this Friday, instead offering a bland array of cosmetic tweaks to the intelligence process.
The panel members themselves may have sensed which way the wind was blowing: At Wednesday's hearing, they repeatedly stressed that they were not calling for an end to the National Security Agency's controversial phone metadata program, but only a "change in approach." Yet the distinction is largely semantic. Number one on the review group's list of 46 recommendations (PDF) is a return to the traditional, particularized method of gathering phone records: When the government has evidence linking specific phone numbers to terrorism, it should seek individual court orders to obtain those records from the phone companies, rather than giving NSA analysts direct access to a database, with the authority to determine which numbers to search. In other words, exactly what the government has always had the ability to do without a bulk metadata program.
The 9/11 plot went undetected because of a failure to share information the NSA and CIA already had.
NSA defenders such as Dianne Feinstein (D‑CA) and Jeff Sessions (R‑AL) did their best to spin the panel's conclusions in their favor, largely ignoring the group's detailed 300‐page report in favor of a Washington Post op‐ed by panel member and former CIA official Michael Morell defending the value of collecting phone records. Yet even Morell rejected the familiar talking point that such records were "just metadata," and therefore raised none of the privacy concerns associated with eavesdropping on the contents of calls. "There's a lot of content in metadata," Morell told the committee, "There's not a sharp difference between metadata and content… It's more of a continuum," because sophisticated analysis of communication patterns can often reveal as much about peoples lives and activities as the substance of what is communicated.
Morell did lend some support to another favorite NSA talking point: That if the metadata program had been in place before the attacks of 9/11, the plot might have been prevented. But as former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke pointed out, the 9/11 plot went undetected because of a failure to share information the NSA and CIA already had. University of Chicago Law professor called claims that it would be too cumbersome to acquire such information with specific court orders "wholly unconvincing," saying there was "no reason" the government would need unfiltered access to a database of all phone records in order to effectively monitor terror networks. As the panelists all agreed, there was no evidence the metadata program had provided any unique intelligence that could not have been obtained by that more traditional method, nor that it had played a critical role in stopping any terror attacks.
Many of the panel's most significant recommendations, however, were barely raised at the hearing at all. The proposal to end the FBI's use of National Security Letters to acquire records without judicial approval received only a passing mention. The review groups's analysis of NSA's Internet surveillance powers, including its endorsement of a ban on warrantless querying of NSA databases for the communications of Americans, was glossed over entirely. Nor was there any discussion of the group's strongly‐worded condemnation of efforts to undermine widely‐used encryption standards, which have horrified many security experts.
The administration has signaled its willingness to embrace some more minor procedural reforms: Greater transparency about the scope of government surveillance, and the creation of a civil liberties "advocate" to argue before the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. But these are changes the president appeared willing to adopt even before the review group issued its report. Americans could be forgiven for wondering whether there was any point to appointing a group of experts to conduct such an extensive analysis if the president is going to ignore their advice, except when it matches what he'd already decided to do.
That may explain why the president's speech is scheduled in advance of the separate report on surveillance being prepared by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Ignoring one set of expert recommendations is awkward enough; ignoring two would make it even more obvious that the president is unwilling to seriously reign in his own intelligence agencies.
Julian Sanchez is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.


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iPhone 7, 7 Plus Best-Selling Smartphones In US, Google Pixel Making Waves As Well
By Oliver Haslam | January 12th, 2017
Apple knows how to sell iPhones in large quantities, especially just after the launch of a new version of its most popular product.
As anyone who has ever tried to buy a new iPhone during launch weekend, or indeed launch month, will attest, Apple simply can't make the newest, hottest phones as quickly as it can sell them. With that in mind, it's no great surprise to learn that, according to one report at least, Apple's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus were the best selling smartphones during the three months ending November 2016.
According to a new Kantar Worldpanel ComTech report, when it came to sales in the United States during September, October and November combined, there was just no competition for Apple's iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus. Actually, that's not strictly true, because there was indeed competition in the shape of Apple's outgoing flagship, the iPhone 6s. That means Apple's iPhone took the top three spots for the period in question.
The results obviously also mean that iOS did well, too. In fact, iOS share rose to 43.5% and Android's fell to 55.3%. The remainder of the market is made up of the likes of Microsoft's Windows phones and those who still carry devices made by BlackBerry.
It was early days for Google's Pixel, having only launched on October 20th, but the Android maker's first smartphone sold well, with 1.3% of sales made up of the Pixel and Pixel XL devices. Considering the pair had little over a month in which to make an impact, Google can be quietly pleased with such a result.
With Apple reportedly cutting back iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus production due to poor sales by Apple's standards, news of exceptional launch numbers like this will be well received in Cupertino, though we're sure they already knew exactly how many phones they sold. Still, it doesn't hurt for everyone else to know how well your smartphones sell, does it?
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Roll out half of Cookie Recipe and cut out heads with circle cutter. For bodies, press remaining dough into pan, filling cavities 2?3 full and positioning treat sticks. Bake and cool all cookies. On waxed paper, outline and pipe feet and toes using tip 2 and full-strength royal icing; let dry. Thin white and copper-tinted royal icings with water to pouring consistency. Place head and body cookies on cooling grid over sheet pan. Cover with thinned icing; let dry. Using full-strength royal icing, pipe tip 2 facial features, ears and message. Attach feet and head to body with royal icing.