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By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: June 21, 2019 ~
Congressman Brad Sherman Introduces Proposed Legislation at House Hearing on June 19, 2019
On Wednesday, June 19, the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets held a hearing on "Putting Investors First: Examining Proposals to Strengthen Enforcement Against Securities Law Violators." Eight pieces of draft legislation were being vetted to address critical gaps in protecting U.S. investors from financial fraud and make sure wrongdoers paid for their crimes.
Despite the critical nature of the legislation to be discussed at this hearing, it received a news blackout from corporate business media, with the exception of a report that appeared in advance of the hearing by Francine McKenna of the Dow Jones news outlet, MarketWatch.
We knew early on that there was going to be a big push back from Wall Street on this proposed legislation when we saw the name of one of the four witnesses scheduled to testify: Andrew Vollmer, a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Vollmer is the former Deputy General Counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) who waltzed in and out of the revolving door at the SEC from the big corporate law firm, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
Law Professor Andrew Vollmer Attacks Proposed Legislation at House Hearing on June 19, 2019
Vollmer was serving as acting General Counsel of the SEC in 2009 when the House Financial Services Committee hauled the leadership of the SEC before a hearing to investigate why it had failed to act on years of written warnings from the financial expert, Harry Markopolos, that Bernie Madoff was running a massive Ponzi scheme. Vollmer refused to answer critical questions from lawmakers on a claim of executive privilege. (See the outrage this invoked from Congressman Gary Ackerman, who called Vollmer the real enemy, in the video below.) Madoff had run his Ponzi scheme for decades and the SEC had failed to act on what turned out to be the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history, despite having investigated Madoff on two prior occasions. It closed those matters with no charges brought. Madoff admitted his fraud to his sons in 2008 and they turned their father in.
Vollmer's role on Wednesday was that of a naysayer as to the need for this critical legislation, stating in his written testimony: "To a large extent, the enforcement bills would make securities activities in the United States more costly and would burden the capital formation process without sufficient offsetting benefits."
This is the same ole meritless, dodgy defense that corporate lobbyists use every day of the week to keep vital bills from moving forward in Congress. This inaction has left millions of Americans vulnerable to predatory behavior on Wall Street and Ponzi schemes like that of Madoff and Allen Stanford.
Other witnesses testifying at the hearing were Jordan A. Thomas, a law partner at Labaton Sucharow who chairs its Whistleblower Representation Practice and Urska Velikonja, a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Both Thomas and Velikonja spoke enthusiastically for the proposed legislation. The fourth witness was Stephen Crimmins, a law partner at Murphy & McGonigle who was previously Deputy Chief Litigation Counsel at the SEC's Enforcement Division and now represents defendants in cases brought by the SEC. Crimmins' testimony focused on weaknesses in the proposed legislation that defense attorneys would likely pick apart in trial court.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
One of the critical pieces of legislation being proposed by Congressman Ben McAdams of Utah would amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to allow the SEC "to seek and Federal courts to grant restitution to investors and disgorgement of unjust enrichment." Being able to claw back the ill-gotten gains of Wall Street fraudsters and Ponzi schemers like Madoff and Stanford was thrown into turmoil in 2017 when the typically level-headed Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, wrote the abysmally bad and unanimous opinion for the court in Kokesh v SEC.
The SEC had charged Kokesh with misappropriating $34.9 million from business development companies. The SEC won a jury verdict in its favor and the court ordered Kokesh to pay a $2.35 million civil monetary penalty, $34.9 million in disgorgement, and $18.1 million in prejudgment interest.
Kokesh appealed the case, arguing that the same five-year statute of limitations on SEC penalties should also apply to the disgorgement amount, which would have reduced it from $34.9 million to $5 million. (Previously, it was considered settled law that SEC claims for disgorgement of ill-gotten gains were not subject to any statute of limitations.) The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the District Court. Then the U.S. Supreme Court accepted the case and ruled on June 5, 2017 that "SEC disgorgement constitutes a penalty" and thus the "5-year statute of limitations…applies when the SEC seeks disgorgement."
The 10th Circuit's opinion was far more reasoned, writing: "[W]e fail to see how an order to obey the law is a penalty. Its purpose is not to penalize Defendant; after all, everyone has a duty to obey the law. It is to protect the public by giving Defendant an added incentive to conduct himself in accordance with the securities laws…"
What Sotomayor and her fellow Justices had done was to effectively allow financial fraudsters to loot the public for decades and then keep all the yachts and mansions they had acquired during all periods but the last five years.
Congressman Brad Sherman of California proposed legislation to be titled the "Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act." That legislation would address the fact that some foreign countries, specifically China, prevent or impair the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) in its ability to inspect audit firms based outside the U.S. Currently, there are 224 companies trading on U.S. stock exchanges (with $1.8 trillion in market value) where the PCAOB is facing obstacles in inspecting the principal auditor's work.
Sherman's proposed legislation would require the SEC to prohibit companies from trading on an exchange or alternative trading system in the U.S. if the PCAOB is unable to inspect the foreign public accounting firm on the prescribed timetable. The draft legislation would also require a foreign company applying for listing in the U.S. to state whether it is state-owned or government-controlled. (For background on this critical problem, read our report from 2014: U.S. and China Lock Horns Over Audits; $1.4 Trillion in U.S. Stock Value at Risk and our 2016 report: How Did the U.S. Stock Market Become So Intertwined With China?)
Congresswoman Katie Porter Proposes Stronger SEC Legislation at House Hearing on June 19, 2019
The feisty young Congresswoman from California, Katie Porter, is proposing two new pieces of legislation. One, the "Stronger Enforcement of Civil Penalties Act of 2019" would increase the amount of money the SEC could impose for civil monetary penalties from a per-violation cap for the most serious violations from $181,071 to $1 million for individuals, and from $905,353 to $10 million per violation for entities. It would also triple the applicable penalty cap for repeat offenders who have been found to be criminally or civilly liable for securities fraud within the preceding five years.
Another piece of proposed legislation from Porter is the "Corporate Management Accountability Act of 2019." This proposed bill would mandate that publicly-traded companies announce their policies on whether senior executives or shareholders are to bear the cost of paying the company's fines and penalties that are imposed by regulators for fraud and other forms of wrongdoing.
You can read the details of the full list of proposed legislation in this Committee memorandum. The full text of the proposed bills are available here.
Andrew Vollmer, then Acting General Counsel of the SEC, Testifying Before House Financial Services Committee in the Madoff Ponzi Scheme Matter in 2009


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I am a teacher and I am using Word 2019 to write important documents. I repeatedly need to change the font and size for the paragraphs. Is there a way to change them to my preferred font on one click?
To set same font of same size with justified text we can use Macro in Microsoft Word 2016. We will discuss how to record macro and set them on one click in Word.
Make sure that your developer menu is visible in the ribbon.
In the Code panel, we'll see the Macros and Record macro buttons.
Set the name for the macro and add description for the macro.
Executing the macro can be done in three ways. They can be assigned using button, keyboard and also we can execute them manually.
Click on the Button icon to add a button to Word's Quick Access Toolbar.
Now, select the macro you just created and click Add to add the button to the Quick Access Toolbar.
Click on the Modify icon to select new icon and to rename and click OK.
Now your Macro will start recording, so now it's time to work on your text and formatting.
After finishing working on the template, click Stop recording.
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In the Press new shortcut key, press and hold the Ctrl/Alt key and press any of the letter keys to assign it to display the template.
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Now, whenever we press the assigned key in the word document, your macro will be executed and the template will be added.
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Here we can find the macros that we have created so far.
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Thus a macro can be executed manually.
If you are an expert in Visual Basic for Applications we can edit the macros and write programs to automate various kinds of works using VBA.
Aside Note: FYI – some of the Microsoft Office applications, such as Powerpoint and Outlook, do not have built in macro recorders. Therefore, writing VBA is mandatory for writing Powerpoint macros and automating Outlook.
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The Gig: 2012 in Gigs
Nate Chinen's most memorable shows of the past year
Published February 1, 2013 April 26, 2019 – By Nate Chinen
"I really quite honestly feel like there's more happening in the music now than there ever has been," Dave Douglas told me one recent afternoon. "It's the richest period."
We were talking about Be Still (Greenleaf), the exquisite album he made this year. But since Douglas, the prolific trumpeter-composer-bandleader, is a big-picture type, the conversation had drawn wide, and maybe a little charged. Could there really be a case for elevating this present moment in jazz's creative evolution above all others? Well, sure, he seemed to be saying. Why not?
Take issue with the contention if you like, but it's in that general spirit that I bring you the Year in Gigs, an accounting of standout jazz performances, now in its eighth edition. No disrespect to the worthy albums that jockey for position on the critics' polls this time of year, but I'll always look to the live experience as a bellwether and barometer for our music. And by that reckoning, I can only find reason for celebration here.
Consider for a moment the monumentally strong stuff that didn't make this list. I caught the first public outing by the Pat Metheny Unity Band; I also saw the band months later, swinging for the fences at the Newport Jazz Festival. I witnessed Keith Jarrett's solo piano concert at Carnegie Hall, the second half of which was so gorgeous that I'm tempted to reconsider its exclusion. Also at Carnegie, I saw Chucho Valdés and his Afro-Cuban Messengers with the dynamic singer Buika. On the first night after a five-day blackout, I was at the Blue Note for the premiere of Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke's new band with saxophonist Ravi Coltrane and drummer Marcus Gilmore.
But enough preamble. Here's what ultimately made the cut, Douglas and his new crew included. Jazz's richest period? I don't know, but I'll take it.
FRED HERSCH TRIO, VILLAGE VANGUARD, FEB. 7: During the first set of the weeklong run that would yield Alive at the Vanguard (Palmetto), Hersch reconfirmed the hale elegance of his pianism and raised the possibility that this trio, with John Hébert on bass and Eric McPherson on drums, could be his finest yet.
CRAIG TABORN TRIO, VILLAGE VANGUARD, APRIL 4: An astonishingly good first hometown outing by a group we'll soon be hearing more about, with Taborn on piano, Thomas Morgan on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums. Exploratory at every turn, it covered a galactic range of style without once seeming calculated or false.
YOSVANY TERRY QUINTET, JAZZ STANDARD, APRIL 11: The sleek, shifting forms on Today's Opinion (Criss Cross), an impressive release by Cuban saxophonist and percussionist Yosvany Terry, lent the framework for a set with bracing work all around but especially from trumpeter Mike Rodriguez and conguero Pedrito Martinez.
VIJAY IYER TRIO, BIRDLAND, APRIL 12:
It's no secret that Iyer, the imposingly perceptive pianist and composer, has one of the most dangerous bands in the game. During this late set, drawing from both of his recent trio releases, his playing sounded deeply enmeshed with that of drummer Marcus Gilmore and bassist Stephan Crump.
WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET, ROSE THEATER, APRIL 27: I can't say for sure that this gripping concert offered an early taste of any compositions from Without a Net, due out on Blue Note in February. But I'm certain that Shorter, playing tenor and soprano saxophones, brought his most fearless game, and that his acclaimed cohorts danced along the tightrope with him.
CECIL TAYLOR, HARLEM STAGE GATEHOUSE, MAY 17: The natural pinnacle of a roughly weeklong celebration of free-improv titan Cecil Taylor was this solo recital by the man himself. Frail in physical stature now but with undiminished pianistic command, he cast a mesmerizing spell, calm and furious, with cheerfully cryptic spoken-word interjections.
PAUL DUNMALL, MATTHEW SHIPP, JOE MORRIS, GERALD CLEAVER; ROULETTE, JUNE 11: Somehow I had never seen Dunmall, the powerfully expressive British saxophonist, before this feat of spontaneous combustion at the Vision Festival. That's my loss, given how marvelous he sounded leading a charge with several strong American partners.
MARC RIBOT TRIO, VILLAGE VANGUARD, JUNE 26: The clamant cry of Albert Ayler's tenor saxophone hung over this engagement like a sense memory, and not just because Ribot, a prickly but adaptable guitarist, claims him as a totem. Ribot's bandleading debut at the Vanguard was also bassist Henry Grimes' first appearance there since backing Ayler in the '60s. This set, with Chad Taylor on drums, made that legacy feel spookily real.
DAVE DOUGLAS QUINTET, 92YTRIBECA, SEPT. 19: Douglas' new band, with Jon Irabagon on saxophones, Matt Mitchell on piano, Linda Oh on bass and Rudy Royston on drums, was scarily assured in its first proper performance-and Aoife O'Donovan, a folksinger unbound by idiom, met every twist with decisive grace.
MICHAEL FORMANEK QUARTET, PHILADELPHIA ART ALLIANCE, OCT. 7: Small Places (ECM), the second album by this chamberlike ensemble, formed a springboard for Formanek, steering from the bass, and his intrepid band: saxophonist Tim Berne, drummer Gerald Cleaver and especially pianist Craig Taborn, whose touch served as a lantern in the dark.
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Nate Chinen is the director of editorial content for WBGO and a longtime contributor to JazzTimes, which published 125 installments of his column "The Gig" between 2004 and 2017. For 12 years, he was a critic for The New York Times; prior to that, he wrote about jazz for the Village Voice, the Philadelphia City Paper, and several other publications. He is the author of Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century (2018) and the co-author of George Wein's autobiography Myself Among Others: A Life in Music (2003).
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Saved by the Bell Reboot: Everything We Know So Far
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NBC has decided it's time to revisit Bayside High. Back in September the network announced it had plans to reboot Saved by the Bell, its famed sitcom from the early '90s that followed characters like Zack Morris, Kelly Kapowski, A.C. Slater, and Screech through high school (and eventually into college and adult life). The new show will air as part of NBCUniversal's new streaming service, Peacock, which launches in April 2020.
We're in an era of reboots—see Charmed, Gossip Girl, and Lizzie McGuire—so it was only a matter of time before Saved by the Bell got a new version as well. Here's everything we know about the show so far.
The plot. The show's official synopsis is, "When California governor Zack Morris gets into hot water for closing too many low-income high schools, he proposes they send the affected students to the highest-performing schools in the state—including Bayside High. The influx of new students gives the overprivileged Bayside kids a much needed and hilarious dose of reality."
The cast. The Hollywood Reporter announced on January 6 that the show had cast Josie Totah as its star. Totah, who came out as transgender in 2018, will play Lexi, described by THR as "a beautiful, sharp-tongued cheerleader and the most popular girl at Bayside High who is both admired and feared by her fellow students."
Totah will be joined by a few of the original cast members, including Elizabeth Berkley and Mario Lopez. Berkley announced she and Lopez signed on to the project back in September 2019.
"I'M SO EXCITED.... here we gooooo!!! @mariolopez.... are you ready for grownup Jessie?!" she wrote on Instagram. "Jessie and Slater are back for more fun. We are thrilled to have Emmy winning 30Rock writer @TraceyWigfield bring the sequel to life on NBC/Universal."
On January 9, the Hollywood Reporter said that Mark-Paul Gosselaar (who also stars on the Black-ish spin-off Mixed-ish) would indeed be back to reprise his role as Zack Morris. Its sources say he will appear in three episodes, as well as have a producer credit. The production team is also reportedly in talks with Tiffani-Amber Theissen to return as Kelly Kapowski.
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And on January 11, Lopez gave fans a glimpse into the new world of Saved by the Bell with a video that shows him on set with Berkley after shooting their first promo. They're in a familiar setting: the old diner—The Max—where Bayside students spent most of their free time on the show. A few characters clad in retro clothing are visible around them, but Lopez and Berkley joked that because of their history, they were able to "drop right in."
"Talk about being in a time machine," Berkley joked.
The premiere date. There's no exact date yet for the show, but Peacock is scheduled to launch this April.
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Tags: Arab Spring, democracy, democracy in the Middle East, economics, Ennahda, EU, France, freedom, Italy, Mourakiboun, Nidaa Tounes, Slim Riahi, tourism, Tunisia
The so-called "Arab Spring" was hailed at the time in the West as the beginning of a creeping democratisation of the Middle East, belatedly joining most of the rest of the world on the faltering path to democracy, separation of powers, and so on.
What is clear is those expectations were vastly overblown.
What happened in Egypt was one nasty dictatorship was replaced by an even nastier one when "democracy" elected a Government unacceptable to the military, to the capitalists, and to the West. In Libya the West got rid of Gadaffi but a lack of central leadership meant we replaced him with a series of vicious tribal warlords controlling their own little chunk of the country. We fomented an uprising against Assad in Syria and ended up with a brutal civil war and IS. In the deeply conservative Gulf States any change has been entirely negligible. If nothing else, the West has learned that involvement in the Middle East is always a matter of herding cats.
But there is one shining example of success. In the cradle of the revolutions that swept the Arabic-speaking world, the secular party Nidaa Tounes has now won the largest number of seats in Tunisia's parliamentary election, defeating its main rival, the Islamist party Ennahda, according to two analyses of results across the country. The Islamist party has apparently accepted the result with good grace. "We have accepted this result and congratulate the winner," Lotfi Zitoun, an Ennahda party official, told Reuters. Zitoun said the party reiterated its call for a unity government, including Ennahda, in the interest of the country.
North Africa expert Michael Willis, a fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford University, said the decline in Ennahda's electoral popularity reflected public discontent with their handling of the economy. "On the doorsteps, the economy was the main issue. Nidaa Tounes is seen as having the expertise to get the economy back on track." Nidaa Tounes is 10 percentage points ahead of Ennahda. It has won 83 seats, with roughly 38 percent of the popular vote, to Ennahda's 68 seats, representing about 31 percent of the vote, the Turkish news agency Anadolu reported after tabulating its own count of 214 of the 217 parliamentary seats.
A parallel tabulation conducted by a Tunisian election observer organization, Mourakiboun, placed Nidaa Tounes at 37 percent and Ennahda at 28 percent. Those figures were based on a random sample of 1,001 polling centers across the country, with a margin of error of 2 percent and 1 percent on the respective totals.
Young Tunisians, in particular, engaged enthusiastically with the new democratic political process.
Officials from both parties said that although premature, the counts matched their information.
Official results have not yet been released, and parties are restrained by law from announcing their own count before the election commission does. Provisional results are expected on Monday, but final results will take at least 48 hours.
Early results also showed a surprise gain for the party of the Tunisian tycoon Slim Riahi, who ran a flashy campaign that included handouts and pop concerts. Some of the smaller political parties fared badly under a new voting system, in particular Ettakatol, a coalition partner in the former government.
Nidaa Tounes, led by former Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi, 87, is an alliance of former government officials, liberals and secularists that was formed in 2012, largely in reaction to the post-revolutionary chaos under the Ennadha-led government. It was sharply critical of the Islamists' performance and ran a campaign for a modern, secular society.
The results, if confirmed, would be a blow for Ennahda, which won a large popular vote and 89 seats in 2011 but struggled to manage rising insecurity and a sliding economy.
Tunisians filled polling stations on Sunday to elect a new Parliament, expressing a strong desire and some trepidation that, after months of political turmoil, the country would turn a corner nearly four years after a revolution.
Officials said the provisional turnout was nearly 62 percent, which election observers said demonstrated Tunisians' support for democracy.
The elections are the second in Tunisia since the popular uprising that overthrew President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 and set off a wave of change that was later dubbed the Arab Spring. They will bring in a new Parliament and government for a five-year term. Presidential elections are scheduled for next month.
The immediate return for Tunisians in maintaining a lid on tension and achieving a peaceful transition will be, of course, yet more tourism dollars flooding into the country. The country has also maintained close relations with Europe, and with France and Italy in particular, with growing mutual trade.
An island of sanity in troubled north Africa, it is also an exceptionally interesting and beautiful country, with a fascinating history of civilisation going back thousands of years, notably being the home of the Carthaginian Empire which was so dominant in the Mediterranean area in centuries before Christ, and it was later occupied by Rome which made good use of its vast fertile soils to produce huge amounts of cereals, plus olive oil, figs, and more. Various waves of conquerors including Ottoman, Arab and French have created a multi-layered and outward-facing culture.
The country lies within a couple of hours flight from the major population centres of Europe. No-one could begrudge them this "peace dividend" and let us hope they continue to provide a beacon for sanity for the whole Arab-speaking world. Indeed, the rest of the region can learn much from Tunisia beyond its peaceful transition of power – it also has a large number of women MPs, a highly progressive code of individual freedom for women, Islamic extremism is rare (although not non-existent), the country enjoys a relatively open low-tariff economy, and it is accepting of Christian and most significantly Jewish minorities.
Today, we salute the Tunisian people for their fortitude and commonsense. When we rail and wail at the inability of much of the region to behave intelligently, let us look to the example of Tunisia, and hope.
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Pat A says:
Thanks for this good news Yolly, it tends to get lost amid the flood of alarm and despondency on the News programmes. God bless all in Tunisia!
(We do tend to forget that in the West it has taken us hundreds of years to get to where we are now [not that we have too much to boast about] – we can't expect others to learn all we have learned in just a few short months, nor could we expect them to see through the shenanigans of those who want power – let's face it, in this country in bad years about 50% seem not to care who has power and about 40% don't seem to notice what is going on – which leaves 10% who hope to profit from it! Oh dear – I have become old and cynical!!).
Stephen "Yolly" Yolland says:
Or you're just observing accurately, Pat!
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God's Law Calls People of Means to Provide Economic Opportunities for the Poor (Ruth 2:17-23)
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The action of the Book of Ruth centers around gleaning, which was one of the most important elements of the Law for the protection of poor and vulnerable people. The requirements are laid out in Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Exodus (click on the links below to see more on each of the relevant passages.)
When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You shall not strip your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the alien: I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 19:9–10, repeated in part in Leviticus 23:22) See "Leviticus 19:9-10" in Leviticus and Work at www.theologyofwork.org.
When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be left for the alien, the orphan, and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all your undertakings. When you beat your olive trees, do not strip what is left; it shall be for the alien, the orphan, and the widow. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not glean what is left; it shall be for the alien, the orphan, and the widow. Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this. (Deuteronomy 24:19–22)
For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild animals may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard. (Exodus 23:10–11) See "Exodus 22:21-27 & 23:10-11" in Exodus and Work at www.theologyofwork.org.
The basis of the law is the intention that all people are to have access to the means of production necessary to support themselves and their families. In general, every family (except among the priestly tribe of Levites, who were supported by tithes and offerings) was to have a perpetual allotment of land that could never be alienated (Numbers 27:5-11, 36:5-1; Deuteronomy 19:14, 27:17; Leviticus 25). Thus everyone in Israel would have the means to grow food. But foreigners, widows, and orphans typically would not receive an inheritance of land, so they were vulnerable to poverty and abuse. The gleaning law gave them the opportunity to provide for themselves by harvesting the edges of the field, the grain and produce that were unripe or missed during the initial harvest, and whatever sprang up in the fields that lay fallow any given year. Access to gleaning was to be provided free of charge by every landowner.
These passages suggest three grounds for the gleaning laws. Generosity toward the poor (1) was a prerequisite to God blessing the work of peoples' hands (Deuteronomy 24:19); (2) was to be driven by the memory of Israel's experience under cruel and abusive slave-masters in Egypt (Deuteronomy 24:22a); and (3) is a matter of obedience to the will of God (Deuteronomy 24:22b). We see all three of these motivations in Boaz' actions: (1) he blessed Ruth, (2) remembered God's graciousness to Israel, and (3) commended her for placing herself in God's hands (Ruth 2:12). It is an open question how fully the land and harvest laws were enforced in ancient Israel, but Boaz kept them in exemplary fashion.
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The gleaning laws provided a remarkable support network for poor and marginalized people, at least to the extent they were actually practiced. We have already seen that God's intention is for people to receive his fruitfulness by working. Gleaning did exactly this. It provided an opportunity for productive work for those who otherwise would have to depend on begging, slavery, prostitution or other forms of degradation. Gleaners maintained the skills, self-respect, physical conditioning and work habits that would make them productive in ordinary farming, should the opportunity of marriage, adoption, or return to their country of origin arise. Landowners provided opportunities but did not gain an opportunity for exploitation. There was no forced labor. The benefit was available locally everywhere in the nation without the need for a cumbersome and corruption-prone bureaucracy. It did, however, depend on the character formation of every landowner to fulfill the gleaning law, and we should not romanticize the circumstances poor people faced in ancient Israel.
In the case of Boaz, Ruth and Naomi, the gleaning laws worked as intended. If it weren't for the possibility of gleaning, Boaz would have faced two alternatives once he became aware of Ruth and Naomi's poverty. He could have them starve, or he could have had ready-made food (bread) delivered to their house. The former is unacceptable, but the latter, while it may have alleviated their hunger, would have made them ever more dependent on Boaz. Because of the opportunity of gleaning, however, Ruth not only could work for the harvest, but she would also be able to use the grain to make bread through her own labors. The process preserved her dignity, made use of her skills and abilities, freed her and Naomi from long-term dependency, and made them less vulnerable to exploitation.
In today's social, political, and theological debates about poverty and private and public responses to it, these aspects of gleaning are well worth keeping in mind and debating vigorously. Christians disagree with each other about questions such as individual vs. social responsibilities, private vs. public means, and income distribution. Careful reflection on the Book of Ruth is unlikely to resolve these disagreements, but perhaps it can highlight shared aims and common ground. Modern society may not be well-suited to gleaning in the literal, agricultural sense, but are there aspects that can be incorporated into ways societies care for poor and vulnerable people today? In particular, how can we provide opportunities for people to gain access to the means of productive work rather than being smothered by dependency or exploitation?
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The events in the book of Ruth reveal how God is at work in the world for good.
Introduction to the Book of Ruth
Tragedy Strikes the Family of Ruth and Naomi (Ruth 1:1-22)
God's Blessing is the Source of Human Productivity (Ruth 2:1-4)
God Bestows His Blessing of Productivity Through Human Labor (Ruth 2:5-7)
Receiving God's Blessing of Productivity Means Respecting Co-workers (Ruth 2:8-16)
God Calls People to Provide Opportunities for the Poor to Work Productively (Ruth 2:17-23)
God Leads Individuals to Provide Economic Opportunities for the Poor and Vulnerable (Ruth 2:17-23)
God's Blessing is Redoubled When People Work According to His Ways (Ruth 3:1-4:18)
God Works Through Human Ingenuity (Ruth 3:1-18)
God Works Through Legal Processes (Ruth 4:1-12)
God Works Through the Fruitfulness of Childbearing (Ruth 4:13-18)
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Breeding for resistance to bacterial blight of Cotton. Phytopathology. 39: 6, 494-495, 1949
Current status of research on the immunity of cotton against bacterial blight. Khlopkovodstvo 2: 58-60, 1962
The current status of cotton varietal breeding and the direction of its development in the Xinjiang cotton producing region. China Cottons 28(5): 2-4, 2001
Drug resistance of bacteria and countermeasures--current status of resistance. 3. Glucose-nonfermentative bacteria. Nihon Rinsho. Japanese Journal of Clinical Medicine 44(4): 973-977, 1986
Survey, screening, and breeding for bacterial blight resistance in Cotton. Pl. Dis. Reptr, 53: 5, 390-391, 1969
Drug resistance of bacteria and countermeasures--current status of resistance. 2. Intestinal bacteria. Nihon Rinsho. Japanese Journal of Clinical Medicine 44(4): 968-972, 1986
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Survey screening and breeding for bacterial blight xanthomonas malvacearum resistance in cotton d. Plant Disease Reporter 53(5): 390-391, 1969
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Status of genetically improving varieties of cotton for resistance to bacterial blight. Phytopathology. 60: 582 p, 1970
Evaluation of F3 and F4 lines of cotton from crosses of race accessions with upland for resistance to bacterial blight Xanthomonas malvacearum, Gossypium hirsutum, primitive cotton lines from Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador, germplasm, breeding. Bulletin Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station: 83 (911), 1983
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A group of young youth ministers gather around a coffee shop table discussing youth ministry calendars. Drawing a blank for the fall, they begin to joke.
A general chuckle and sip.
Laughter all around and the clinking of cups on saucers.
Uproarious laughter and a straightening of postures. It's time to get back to serious planning so eavesdroppers don't take them seriously and assume their espousal of 20th Century youth ministry philosophy…whatever that was.
Conversations like this one make me cringe, but I understand the thinking behind them.
I have a confession. Are you ready?
I was a product of 1980's youth ministry.
There, I said it. Whew! It feels good to get that out there in the open.
These days, I look back on my junior high and high school days with fondness, but, early on in my youth ministry career, I thought harboring any kind of positive feelings toward my youth ministry experience growing up would somehow invalidate my current influence or relevance in the modern spiritual landscape. I fought hard, not only to update the wheel, but to reinvent it completely until, years into my career, I woke up and realized that those days spent in the friendly confines of my home church were actually rich and incredibly formative, providing a strong spiritual and experiential foundation for my life and heavily influencing the way that I live out my faith today. It wasn't all just fun and games as some might suggest and I used to believe.
The value of the Word of God.
How to share my faith and lead others to a personal relationship with Christ.
How to be an active member of the church body.
The importance of being discipled and discipling others.
The importance of engaging lost friends.
The power of an invitation to church.
That fun and creativity pave the way for effective ministry and evangelism to take place.
The importance of authentic worship.
The power of strong, Christ-centered preaching.
What healthy adult involvement in the lives of teenagers looks and feels like.
How to minister through presence.
How to minister by living a righteous life.
How to care for and include others.
What missions are all about and how to participate.
How to cooperate in ministry.
I could go on and on, but this is a long list already. My point is that my experience in 1980's youth ministry during those formative years did have meaning and was relevant, as proven by the lasting results in my life and the lives of so many others who experienced it with me, regardless of what it may have looked like on the surface. Sure, things got silly sometimes–we could have done without some of the theatrics characteristic of the decade itself–but there was plenty of "meat" underneath any fat that could have been trimmed.
Oh, I'm sure that there were youth groups back then, just as there are now in this "enlightened" age, where shallow was about as deep as it got, and I'm sure that they served up a slice of superficial on a weekly basis. However, it bears saying that the presence of fun, fellowship, intensity, and emotion do not necessarily indicate an absence of depth. In fact, modern congregations who lop them off in the quest for "real" and "meaningful" only hurt themselves and limit what could be.
To modern youth ministers, I would simply say this: Practice makes progress, true, and student ministry today is obviously more informed and arguably more focused than youth ministry thirty years ago, but criticizing, discounting, or refusing to draw and learn from what happened in the past simply because you were not there to feel the impact of it serves no one and does nothing to validate personal opinion, popular ministry trends, or recent innovations in the world of church. For the sake of unity in the Church and the benefit of all involved, let's not become arrogant in our attitude toward or flippant in our discussion of early youth ministry, the productive work of passionate and dedicated ministry pioneers just as full of the Holy Spirit and just as determined to reach teenagers with the Gospel as any youth minister today.
On a personal note, I owe a debt of gratitude to the youth ministers and leaders who loved me, put up with me, gave me opportunity, and laid up for me a stable foundation for future spiritual growth so many years ago in that small town, traditional Southern Baptist church. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.


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With the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix underway, we here at The Weigh-In felt it would be a good time to evaluate the bracket. In addition, we want to address MMA tournaments and their value to the sport.
Bellator's bracket breaks down as follows:
Quinton Jackson vs. Chael Sonnen (Jan. 20, 2018)
Fedor Emelianenko vs. Frank Mir (April 28, 2018)
Matt Mitrione vs. Roy Nelson (Feb. 16, 2018)
Ryan Bader vs. Muhammed Lawal (May 12, 2018)
Chael Sonnen won a unanimous decision against "Rampage" Jackson at Bellator 192. Chael is labeled one of the best, if not the best, trash talker in all of the sport. However, many are critical of his victory against Jackson. Many analysts and fans considered the fight boring and lackluster. However, this tournament consists of older fighters who have not been heavily active as of late. There will definitely be some ring or octagon rust among the competitors.
Sonnen is set to take on the winner of the Emelianenko vs. Mir fight, that takes place in April. Seeing Mir back in action will be a treat for MMA fans. This will be his first fight since leaving the UFC. While many feel Fedor is past his prime, this fight could have potential fireworks, as both men are out to prove that their best days are not behind them.
On the other side of the bracket, we have Matt Mitrione, who Sonnen said is the favorite to win it all. Analysts also agree, as Mitrione was released as the favorite for betting purposes. I do not disagree. Mitrione was one of the biggest names to defect from the UFC after what I deem to be a bullshit loss to Travis Brown. For those that have a short memory, or like my grandmother suffer from dementia, Brown eye gouged Mitrione twice during that fight. In addition, the referee of that fight handled everything wrong. I will not go into it, but as a wise man once said, go to the game tape!
Mitrione has knock out power, a well-rounded ground game, bedroom eyes, and dynamite thighs. That is a paraphrased quote that came from The Weigh-In's own, Matthew Ward. At one point, Ward asked me to ask Mitrione how much a thigh master was involved in his daily training routine. I am still waiting for Mitrione's people to get back to me, simmer down Ward.
Many felt that even with the hiccup against Brown, Mitrione had all the tools to put the UFC belt around his waist. However, after the suspect loss to Brown, Mitrione's UFC contract fell apart during re-negotiations. We now find ourselves watching him ascend the Bellator Heavyweight division. Nelson may prove to be Mitrione's toughest competition in the tournament. This fight in the tournament will mark Nelson's first appearance in Bellator since leaving the UFC. Should Mitrione get by Nelson, it is likely that Mitrione could cruise to victory in the tournament.
The last match has Ryan Bader pitted against Muhammed Lawal. This fight may be one of the most intriguing in the tournament. Bader was at one time among the top of the UFC Heavyweight division before suffering a loss to Anthony "Rumble" Johnson. However, Bader has a win in Bellator under his belt, and feels he is coming into his own.
Muhammed Lawal aka "King Mo" has other plans for Bader. King Mo is looking right past Bader and feels that no one in the tournament can handle him. He was ringside during the Sonnen's victory over Rampage and felt neither Sonnen or Rampage was in proper shape. He also had some other choice things to say, none of them flattering. His words cut like a knife. It reminds me of when I go home for the holidays and the entire family tells me that I appear to have gained weight during the course of the year.
With the bracket broken down, we want to know what the fans of MMA think. Is there a place for these types of tournaments? Many critics of the sport say that this tournament is a joke and features aging fighters who are on the decline. I vehemently disagree. I cannot wait to watch the upper echelon of the sport in action.
I think the bracket contains hall of famers who still have more to prove. Let me tell you all a little story about a guy everyone said was done. His name is Mike Tyson. Maybe you have heard of him. After dominating boxing, he went to prison, which we all still call bullshit on! Robin was asking for it, but that is neither here nor there. Spare me the hash tags of "me too" people. The People's Red Head does not care.
Anyway, cut to 2009, when a little film called The Hangover was released. Mike gets a small role in that film and knocks it out of the park. He proceeds to make amends with many in the boxing world, releases an incredible documentary, and propels himself back into the public eye. Mike remains respected and cherished by fans of the sweet science.
I would say that I appreciate the tournament format Bellator is creating. For one, it is a great way to crown a champion and progress fighters' rankings. Look at all the interim champion belts being created in the UFC. The entire UFC with the exception of a few weight categories is a mess. No one can sort out the rankings, and the champions get to sit on their belts without defending them in a timely manner. A tournament format is one way to avoid this. Interim titles mean nothing people.
After writing this piece, to prove my point, I am having an interim Red Head Champion belt made for myself. Who have I defeated to win this title you may ask, the answer is the following: Wendy of Wendy's, Carrot Top, Opie Taylor, Richie Cunningham, Lindsay Lohan, and other gingers. If anyone deserves a title that has little to no meaning, it is me. I have made it through life as a pasty ginger, and live to tell my tale each week on The Weigh-In. You are all welcome.
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MLF Anglers Go West for Toyota Series Event
The Toyota Series Presented by A.R.E. Western Division will kick off its 2021 season with a tournament this week in Oakley, California, May 13-15, with the Toyota Series Presented by A.R.E. at the California Delta . Hosted by the City of Oakley, the three-day tournament will feature the region's best bass-fishing pros and Strike King co-anglers casting for a top prize of up to $65,000, plus an additional $35,000 bonus if the winner is a qualified Phoenix Boat owner.
With two top-10 finishes in Major League Fishing (MLF) competition on the Delta, Toyota Series angler Kyle Grover of Rancho Santa Margarita, California isn't a local, but he stays in tune with the fishery.
"It's like a giant golf course pond – it's massive and everything looks good," said Grover. "I've been fishing there for eight years now, and I've never caught 'em in the same place twice. It's always different, every single time – there's always fish in the lakes, but it changes every year."
With the tournament being in May, Grover said he expects most of the fish to be done spawning and in postspawn and summer patterns.
"It's gonna be a mixture of everything for sure," said Grover. "There hasn't been a whole lot of rain this year, and we've got the full moon going on right now. So, you're still going to have some spawners, but I think more postspawn. More than likely there was a major flood of fish spawning there last week, so it will be more postspawn, and probably a lot of fish in the main areas of the Delta and places near the main current. They spawn early in the backend sloughs and stuff – now they'll be closer to more water movement."
Given the tournament should lean toward a postspawn event, Grover said he thinks a lot of the staple patterns will come into play.
"The same old Delta stuff will be the deal," said Grover. "Topwater will be a big deal – there will be multiple guys in the top 10 throwing frogs and punching. There's typically always going to be one or two guys finesse fishing as well."
Regardless of the patterns, Grover said he believes it will be a good event.
"It'll take 18 to 20 pounds a day to make the cut, somewhere in that 38-pound range for two days," said Grover. "I bet someone will crack a big bag one day at least and follow it up with some 20-pound days to win. This time of year, you're definitely going to see some mid- to upper-20-pound bags. It's going to be a really good tournament and some good fishing for sure."
Grover said flipping and punching baits are a must on the fishery this time of year, as are crankbaits, vibrating jigs and topwaters like a River2Sea Whopper Plopper or a buzzbait.
"I always like to have a lot of margarita mutilator Roboworm Straight Tail Worms in my boat, fishing in the lakes around where they've been spawning," said Grover. "Then, a Snag Proof frog to get better quality bites, and a Paycheck Baits punch skirt with a Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver to flip."
Anglers will take off daily at 6 a.m. PT from Big Break Marina in Oakley. Weigh-ins will also be held at the marina and will begin at 2 p.m. daily. Attendance is limited to competing anglers and essential staff only. Fans are encouraged to follow the event online through the "MLF Live" weigh-in broadcasts and daily coverage at MajorLeagueFishing.com.
In Toyota Series regular-season competition, payouts are based on the number of participants competing in the event, scaling up for every 20 boats over 160 and scaling down for every boat below 160. With a 160-boat field, pros fish for a top prize of $40,000, plus an extra $35,000 if Phoenix MLF BIG5 Bonus qualified. Strike King co-anglers cast for the top prize of a new Phoenix 518 Pro bass boat with a 115-horsepower Mercury outboard (valued at $33,500). With a 260-boat field, pros fish for a top award of $65,000, plus an extra $35,000 if Phoenix MLF BIG5 Bonus qualified. Strike King co-anglers cast for the top prize of a new Phoenix 518 Pro bass boat with a 115-horsepower outboard (valued at $33,500) plus $5,000 cash.
The 2021 Toyota Series presented by A.R.E. consists of six divisions – Central, Northern, Plains, Southern, Southwestern and Western – each holding three regular-season events, along with the International division. Anglers who fish all three qualifiers in any of the eight divisions and finish in the top 25 will qualify for the no-entry-fee Toyota Series presented by A.R.E. Championship for a shot at winning $235,000 cash, including a $35,000 Phoenix MLF BIG5 Bonus for qualified anglers. The winning Strike King co-angler at the championship earns a new Phoenix 518 Pro bass boat with a 115-horsepower Mercury outboard. The 2021 Toyota Series Championship presented by A.R.E. will be held Oct. 28-30 on Pickwick Lake in Counce, Tennessee, and is hosted by the Hardin County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
For complete details and updated information visit MajorLeagueFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow the Toyota Series presented by A.R.E. on the MLF BIG5's social media outlets at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
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MLF BIG5 is part of MLF, the world's largest tournament-fishing organization. It provides anglers of all skill levels the opportunity to compete for millions in prize money across five tournament circuits featuring a five-biggest-fish format. Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with offices in Benton, Kentucky, MLF and its partners conduct more than 290 bass-fishing tournaments annually around the world, including the United States, Canada, China, Italy, South Korea, Mexico, Namibia, Portugal, South Africa, Spain and Zimbabwe.
MLF tournaments are broadcast on Outdoor Channel, Sportsman Channel, World Fishing Network, MyOutdoorTV, Discovery and CBS Sports while MLF Bass Fishing magazine delivers cutting-edge tips from top pros to the world's most avid bass anglersThe Toyota Series Presented by A.R.E. Western Division will kick off its 2021 season with a tournament this week in Oakley, California, May 13-15, with the Toyota Series Presented by A.R.E. at the California Delta . Hosted by the City of Oakley, the three-day tournament will feature the region's best bass-fishing pros and Strike King co-anglers casting for a top prize of up to $65,000, plus an additional $35,000 bonus if the winner is a qualified Phoenix Boat owner.
MLF tournaments are broadcast on Outdoor Channel, Sportsman Channel, World Fishing Network, MyOutdoorTV, Discovery and CBS Sports while MLF Bass Fishing magazine delivers cutting-edge tips from top pros to the world's most avid bass anglers


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Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) ist eine liberale Partei der Elfenbeinküste (Côte d'Ivoire).

Ihr derzeitiger Vorsitzender ist Alassane Ouattara, der Präsident der Elfenbeinküste, ihre stärkste Anhängerschaft hat sie im vorrangig muslimischen Norden des Landes.

Geschichte
Das RDR wurde in der Mitte des Jahres 1994 durch Abspaltung von der damaligen Einheitspartei Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire gegründet. Ihr erster Generalsekretär wurde Djéni Kobina. Bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen 1995 stellte das RDR Alassane Ouattara, der bereits zwischen 1990 und 1993 Premierminister des Landes gewesen war, als Kandidat auf. Ouattara wurde jedoch aus der Wahl ausgeschlossen, wobei das Wahlgesetz wahrscheinlich zu diesem Zweck modifiziert worden war. Der RDR boykottierte daraufhin die Wahl.

Der erste ordentliche Parteitag des RDR fand am 2. und 3. Juli 1995 statt. Auf diesem Parteitag wurde Ouattara als Präsidentschaftskandidat aufgestellt. Nach dem Tod von Kobina fand im Januar 1999 der erste außerordentliche Parteitag statt, um einen neuen Generalsekretär zu wählen. Am 1. August 1999, auf dem zweiten außerordentlichen Parteitag, wurde Ouattara zum Vorsitzenden des RDR gewählt und als Kandidat zur nächsten Präsidentschaftswahl aufgestellt.

Ouattara stellte fest, dass er bei den für das Jahr 2000 festgesetzten Wahlen kandidieren könne, und verwies auf Papiere, die beweisen sollten, dass beide seiner Eltern in der Elfenbeinküste geboren worden waren. Er wurde jedoch beschuldigt, die Dokumente gefälscht zu haben, und eine Untersuchung wurde eingeleitet. Im Oktober 1999 wurde sein Staatsbürgerschaftsnachweis annulliert und einen Monat später wurde ein Haftbefehl ausgestellt., obwohl er sich zu diesem Zeitpunkt in Frankreich aufhielt.

Das RDR rief zu Demonstrationen zugunsten Ouattaras Kandidatur auf und am 27. September fand eine Demonstration mit 10.000 Teilnehmern in Abidjan statt. Am 27. Oktober wurden mehrere RDR-Funktionäre, darunter die damalige Generalsekretärin der Partei, Henriette Diabaté, festgenommen, weil sie für die Ausschreitungen bei diesen Protestmärschen verantwortlich gemacht wurden. Sie wurden im November zu Haftstrafen verurteilt. Beim Weihnachtsputsch am 23. Dezember 1999 war eine der Forderungen der Rebellen die Freilassung der RDR-Führung. Präsident Henri Konan Bédié lehnte die Forderungen ab, am 24. Dezember übernahmen die Rebellen die Macht und entließen die RDR-Führung aus den Gefängnissen. Ouattara kehrte am 29. Dezember in die Elfenbeinküste zurück und pries die Absetzung Bédiés als "Revolution, die von allen Ivorern unterstützt" werde.

Obwohl Ouattara den Militärputsch unterstützt hatte, wurde seine Kandidatur zu der Präsidentschaftswahl des Jahres 2000 neuerlich vom Obersten Gericht abgelehnt. Als Grund wurde erneut angegeben, dass die Nationalität der Eltern Ouattaras nicht als ivorisch nachgewiesen sei. Das RDR boykottierte in der Folge die Präsidentschaftswahl und auch die Parlamentswahlen, wobei das RDR trotzdem fünf der 225 Parlamentssitze errang.

Seit 2003 ist das RDR ein Vollmitglied der Liberalen Internationalen; er trat dieser Organisation auf ihrem Kongress in Dakar bei. Außerdem ist die Partei Mitglied der Christlich Demokratischen Internationalen.

Am 18. Mai 2005 unterschrieben das RDR, die Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI), die Union pour la démocratie et la paix en Côte d'Ivoire (UDPCI) und das MFA eine Koalition namens Rassemblement des Houphouétistes pour la Démocratie et la Paix, trotz ihrer jahrelangen Feindschaft, um gemeinsam zu der Präsidentschaftswahl, die für den Oktober 2005 angesetzt war, zu kandidieren. Diese Präsidentschaftswahl wurde jedoch immer wieder verschoben und schließlich am 28. Oktober 2010 und am 28. November 2010 durchgeführt.

Im Mai/Juni 2008 spaltete sich eine neue Partei vom RDR ab: Zémogo Fofana, Vizebürgermeister der Stadt Boundiali im Nordteil der Elfenbeinküste und Ex-Minister, gründete seine eigene Partei, die Alliance pour une Nouvelle Côte d'Ivoire.

Ouattara wurde am 2. Parteitag des RDR vom 1. bis 3. Februar 2008 erneut zum Präsidentschaftskandidaten gewählt, und seine Funktion als Vorsitzender des RDR wurde um fünf Jahre verlängert. Auf dem Parteitag sprach er auch eine Einladung an die früheren Rebellen der Forces Nouvelles aus, zusammen mit dem RDR an der Wahl teilzunehmen.

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Partei (Elfenbeinküste)
Liberale Partei
Gegründet 1994

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"It's important to understand that the professionals who put the most emphasis on the brain as the source of consciousness are also the people who drug it, sedate it, coerce it, and try to control it. They're going mad trying to reduce life to purely physical terms. They're agents of destruction." (Jon Rappoport, The Underground)
This is what happens when you put Materialists in charge of human life. They destroy themselves and everything around them. It's their only option, because their understanding is Zero.
They're trying to make thought and imagination and passion into material objects. Since that's an absurdity, they do the only thing they can do: try to control those "objects." In this way, they become the perfect voluntary dupes for men who want control of the whole planet.
There is a whole brand of mind control that is little more than torture.
In other words, by inflicting duress, applying coercion, making threats, causing pain and disorientation, an "expert" can make a victim do and say many things. That's no secret. There are obviously drugs and hypnotic techniques that will soften up a person and/or put him into tremendous confusion, where he is pliable. And microwaves create pain.
Example: One of the foremost lunatic practitioners of torture was world-famous Canadian psychiatrist, Ewen Cameron, who carried out experiments on unwitting patients in the 1950s. Cameron, during his career, was President of the Canadian, US, and World Psychiatric Asociations, the American Psychopathological Association, and the Society of Biological Psychiatry. There was no one in his profession more highly decorated.
Partially funded by a CIA front, Cameron's method was called psychic driving.
After horrendous electric shocks, very heavy drugs were given to place patients in days of prolonged sleep. Cameron then subjected them to audio tapes he made, in which he repeated phrases thousands of times, in order to produce "new personalities" for them.
This is murderous coercion. There is nothing sophisticated about it. And it assumes that a human being is merely a sum of physical parts, pieces of a puzzle that can be rearranged at will by "those in charge."
A 2012 lawsuit filed by veterans' groups, against the CIA and the DOD, refers to Cameron's methods. The suit also states that two researchers, Dr. Louis West and Dr. Jose Delgado, working together under the early CIA MKULTRA subproject 95, utilized two protocols: brain implants ("stimoceivers") and RHIC-EDOM to program the minds of victims. RHIC-EDOM stands for Radio Hypnotic Intracerebral Control-Electronic Dissolution of Memory.
Translation: bury memory, and insert new data. But here again, burying memory, the first phase, is achieved through force. The force of subjecting the brain to massive electromagnetic disruption.
Later and more sophisticated means of mind control can utilize loops, during which a person's own brainwaves are fed back to him, along with suggestions.
But different people have different degrees of consciousness about their own thoughts and feelings. No system exists which would make every person believe a thought planted in his brain is his own thought.
There is another gap. Just because certain naturally occurring brain waves can be read and recorded, this does not mean that feeding back those waves will result in "perfect reception" and integration by every person.
The third gap can be enormous, depending on the person. Voluntary thought in its basic form isn't a product of the brain at all. The brain REFLECTS thought that is created by the person. People who are aware of this wouldn't be fooled by brainwaves fed to them with suggestions.
As I've written before, the entire obsession with the brain is misplaced. If this organ is viewed as the fountainhead of all thought, then there is no such thing as freedom. Why? Because the brain, like every material object, is made up of tiny particles or waves that move according to physical laws — in which case the brain is just "another object" where the particles aggregate and mix and match.
There is absolutely nothing inherent in sub-atomic particles that would lead to a notion of free will.
The existence of freedom (choice) directly implies a non-material space. And a non-material individual who is inhabiting a physical form.
Mind control is most successful when inflicted on people who ALREADY have trouble making the distinction between what they think and believe, and what other people around them think and believe.
Ongoing research to take real-time pictures of brain activity is likely to focus on two major targets: people who hold very strong individualistic beliefs and those who are intensely creative.
The aim here is to introduce new brain activity that will cumulatively erode "the determination to believe" and the commitment to create. Why? Because those are distinct threats to a controlled status quo.
This research direction parallels a social propaganda campaign to eliminate the whole concept of "will power." That phrase has become passe. It is now viewed by many people as a negative and essentially meaningless notion. In its place? Genetic determinism. DNA rules all. A person is what a person is because of his genes, and that's the beginning and end of the story.
Never mind the fact that research along these lines has turned up precious little to explain human behavior. It's a propagated myth of "science." And it's promoted for its social impact: "You can't change what you are."
It has always been true, since the dawn of time, that one person can force another person to take certain actions. But this is no mystery. These days, with the use, say, of acoustic weapons or other forms of wave-disruption broadcasting, criminals can make people sick, make them feel pain or anger or fatigue — but this is really on the level of an electromagnetic "fist" to the head. Is it dangerous? Of course. But so is a concussion or a heavy blow to the gut or a bullet to the leg.
The people at the CIA, the Pentagon, DARPA, and other agencies, who are trying to change thought and behavior, are much crazier than they appear to be. They assume that the process of thought is so directly a product of the brain that they can make Thought A turn into Thought B with the flip of a switch. They have many surprises in store for them.
The major problem for humanity, vis-à-vis mind control, is the large number of people who already are only dimly aware of what they're thinking and feeling. They can be manipulated with relative ease. But that is no surprise.
Nor is it a shock when people who are members of a cult do something horrendous to others or themselves. They've been subjected to social conditioning every day. They've bought the package. They've sworn allegiance to a leader. It takes relatively little to push them over the edge.
The SSRI antidepressants (Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, etc.) are themselves a form of mind control. They elicit, in some people, suicide and homicide. But this isn't a precise process of switching off one thought and inserting another. This is the creation of a wholesale brain storm, in which neurotransmitters go haywire and scramble the brain and the nervous system. The person is literally being tortured, and he responds with violence.
The bottom-line issue in all these heinous methods is freedom of the individual. Freedom to think his thoughts, act on the basis of his chosen goals. Mind control advocates and researchers deny such freedom exists. For them, it's just a matter of replacing one piece of equipment for another in what they believe humans are: biological machines.
It's the endgame of philosophic Materialism, a bankrupt and contradictory system.
See that. Know that. Understand it.
Human beings are not machines. Human beings are not material objects. The brain is not the source of consciousness or thought.
And because this is true, it opens up an endless vista of possibility for human thought, creation, power.
The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon Rappoport was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at No More Fake News or Outside The Reality Machine.
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Waleed ash-Shehri (arabiska: وليد الشهري, också transkriberat al-Shehri eller Alshehri), född 20 december 1978 i Assir, Saudiarabien, påstås vara en av kaparna på American Airlines Flight 11 som flög in i World Trade Centers norra torn den 11 september 2001.

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Avlidna 2001
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Män
Födda 1978


The blogging phenomenon, to some, is dead. Weblogs started in the late 90's, and I can honestly say that I never read a blog with any conviction until we found out about Caleigh's birth defect back in 2007. Back then I had just finished up college where I spent most of my computer free time on MySpace, YouTube and Facebook. You remember back in the day when you had to have a college email to sign up for Facebook and really just your small group of real friends Poked you? Yeah, back then.
Not everyone on God's green Earth was on Facebook back when Caleigh was born, and for that reason I started this blog six years ago. My love for Facebook died several years ago although I keep the account because, really, Mark Zuckerberg has a hand in everything. You never know when he'll buy the whole internet and the only way to get on is to sign into Facebook. I'm just playing it safe.
I dabble in Twitter occasionally, but really only when I remember its there. Instagram came along in October 2010. I took my first photo on January 5, 2011. Back then I had a iPhone 3G and the camera was pretty terrible. I used the app steadily until I got the iPhone 5. The camera is pretty great and the editing apps are stylish. My iPhone photo obsession increased and my Instagram sharing has been bordering on ridiculous. Being a photographer, the visual platform of Instagram appeals to me on a huge level. I love it. There are even photographer's that are making a career out of traveling the world with their phone and a dream. Ahhhh, I wish. Anyone have a RV they want to loan me?
My iphone usage went up and my actual computer usage went down; until this past week when I had a waking up of sorts. I was outside playing with Caleigh. I was taking adorable photos with my phone. I was editing said photos. I was getting ready to post said photos and then it hit me. Sure I enjoyed that one moment, but the time I lost editing, loading, typing and having my face stuck to my little hand held screen made me miss the other moments with her. My missed moments had been multiplying with each notification on my phone over the past few months. Something had to stop.
Each ding of an email, each tweet pulls me away from being the best mom that I can be. So I began a weaning program of sorts. I started with just taking photos and then putting the phone down. There is no need to share right then and there. There is always the #latergram hashtag anyways, right? Then, in baby steps, I turned off the sound notifications on my phone. I don't miss them. As I am typing right now, my phone is somewhere in the kitchen and I haven't looked at it in hours. Pretty amazing really.
I actually wanted to take photographs with my real camera again. We had a lovely time at the zoo without me checking my phone every few seconds. I focused on Caleigh and it was beautiful.
I believe that my love for my iPhone had changed many areas of my life. I think smartphones and devices have changed parenting in general. Especially with social media. All social interactions in general are extremely different. When we were at the zoo I was actually aware and looked around at everyone with their faces planted in their device. Walking like a drunk person because they were looking down at a phone. Ignoring their children's request because they were too busy. It was interesting to say the least....and a little sad. What on Earth will our children be like when they are our age? What are we teaching them?
I'm a true believer that you get back what you give. I have proof of that just in this short week. Caleigh has been doing amazing with her school work. She hasn't been whining and she's really focusing well. I attribute this to my regained attention to her. Why should she give me her undivided attention if I don't give her mine? She shouldn't.
I've posted on this blog three times this year and it's almost April. One of those times was this week so it doesn't really count. That's sad to me because we've done so much in these last few months worth noting. So in a reflective tone I would say that social media has changed my blog. I'm strongly leaning towards negatively, but it's a change nevertheless. Over the past six years I've seen blogs come and go. I'm hoping to regain my focus. Write what I want to write. Photograph what I want to photograph. Most importantly I want to keep this going. It's important to me. It's important for Caleigh.