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5 Penny Stocks To Watch Tomorrow
It's never a guarantee that penny stocks will always return thousands of percentage points. It's also not a complete lock that all penny stocks will end in losses. What's the difference between winning traders and losing traders? Most of the time it comes down to having a proven strategy and executing on that strategy successfully.
But how do you find the best penny stocks? Is it a calling? Does a mysterious voice come to the best traders and give them "penny stock picks"? Or is there something else? Simply put, there's no mystery about how to find top small cap stocks; you just need to spend time researching.
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During the last few weeks, we've gotten messages from traders looking to learn. Aside from downloading our 60+ page eBook, we also discussed different due diligence strategies. Given the fact that people are starting to return to work, the strategy is a bit different than just searching for momentum. The idea of swing trading is becoming much more relevant now, more than any other time this year. Again, people are starting to get back to their "normal" lives. So how do you find penny stocks to buy if you work a full time job?
Finding Top Penny Stocks To Watch
What I'd suggest is taking time after the market closes or before the market opens and do some research. Look for stocks that have built upon a consistent trend, have seen stronger volume in the market, and that have some fundamental info to back up that trend. It also might be worth checking out how these penny stocks trade during the pre and post-market sessions.
Are they gapping up, are they gapping down, or are they steadily continuing a prior trend? Furthermore, does that trend show strength and is there a clear channel within that trend? These are all great questions to ask when looking for top penny stocks to trade. With this in mind, here are several penny stocks to watch heading into Thursday morning.
Top Penny Stocks To Watch
GT Biopharma Inc. (GTBP Stock Report)
Waitr Holdings Inc. (WTRH Stock Report)
ALJ Regional Holdings Inc. (ALJJ Stock Report)
VYNE Therapeutics Inc. (VYNE Stock Report)
AgeX Therapeutics Inc. (AGE Stock Report)
Top Penny Stocks To Watch #1: GT Biopharma Inc.
GT Biopharma Inc. (GTBP) has been one of the top biotech penny stocks to watch for a few weeks now. The company has been breaking new barriers in its pursuit of treating acute myeloid leukemia or AML. Small cap biotech stocks that aren't actively involved in developing tests, vaccines or treatments for COVID-19 have waited in the wings for the market to rotate. Toward the end of September and now into October, we have begun seeing a bit of that rotation. Specifically, we're seeing a bigger focus being placed on immune treatment and cancer drug companies.
GT Biopharma's lead drug candidate, GTB-3550 is a "tri-specific recombinant fusion protein conjugate" composed of the variable regions of the heavy and light chains of anti-CD16 and anti-CD33 antibodies and a modified form of IL-15. The main reason why investors should be familiar with it is that GTB-3550 is currently in Phase I/II clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03214666) for the treatment of CD33 positive leukemias including AML.
What's more is that GTB-3550 is built on the company's novel tri-specific natural killer engagers or "TriKE™". It's a combination protein that bridges an immune cell and a tumor cell to drive tumor cell killing power exponentially. It has led to new first-in-human phase studies to treat leukemia. This unique platform has allowed GT Biopharma to pursue a true "off the shelf" option for the treatment of a number of indications. AML is the main target, however, TriKE™ has been evaluated in ovarian, breast, prostate, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and lung cancer models.
Recent Developments To Keep In Mind With GT Biopharma
Over the last few weeks, GT hit the ground running into the fourth quarter with two key updates. First, the company completed the treatment of the first patient enrolled at Dose Level 3 in its GTB-3550 TriKE™ Phase I/II clinical trial. In short, the findings have already shown promise (view full details).
Furthermore, this week, GT entered into a partnership agreement with Cytovance® Biologics. it's a USA-based contract development and manufacturing organization and a subsidiary of the Shenzhen Hepalink Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. Cytovance will manufacture TriKE™ in accordance with GMP using Cytovance's proprietary Keystone® bacterial or mammalian expression systems.
Matt Delaney, MBA, M.I.B., Vice President Business Development & Marketing of Cytovance said, "we are pleased to have been selected as GT Biopharma's exclusive GMP manufacturer for its first three TriKE™ product candidates."
Top Penny Stocks To Watch #2: Waitr Holdings Inc.
Waitr Holdings Inc. ( WTRH) has been on the radar for over a year. The company started out on a very interesting note. We first began following it in November when it hit 52-week lows. We then more consistently began following along in March when we speculated on companies that could capitalize on a "stay at home" trend. Since then, it's become one of the turnaround stories to track. What was more of a "skeptical" play on Uber Eats or Postmates has actually evolved over the last several months.
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One of the key developments early on was management had identified that it was time to take things more seriously. Fast-forward to this week and WTRH stock has reached a fresh 52-week high of $5.85. This came in a surge that lasted months and saw the company continue executing on numerous milestones including expanding its brand in the US.
In the company's most recent earnings release, Waitr reported a strong quarter. It beat on earnings per share with a gain of 10 cents a share. This was compared to the previous year's quarter of an EPS loss of 32 cents. Furthermore, the company recorded $60.5 million in sales for the quarter, up from $51.34 million in the year-ago period.
Recent Developments To Keep In Mind With Waitr Holdings
While there haven't been any major developments reported by the company recently, shares have begun making moves again. With the changing tides of where the economy will head next – stimulus, no stimulus – the coronavirus tech stocks in the market are seeing an influx of volatility. Wednesday's session saw WTRH stock extend higher to $3.74 marking the 5th day in its latest uptrend. Furthermore, after pulling back mid-afternoon, WTRH stock made attempts at a strong close. Heading into Thursday morning, it will be interesting to see if this trend will truly be a friend for traders.
Top Penny Stocks To Watch #3: ALJ Regional Holdings Inc.
ALJ Regional Holdings Inc. ( ALJJ) is one of the clearest examples of what happens when news meets a thinly traded penny stock. On average, a "big day" of volume for this penny stock is a few million shares, which hasn't happened since early August. Other than that, ALJJ stock doesn't usually trade more than a few hundred thousand shares in a single session.
The company is the parent company of several businesses. These include companies like Faneuil, Inc., a call center service provider, back office operations, staffing services, and toll collection services. They contract to commercial and governmental clients across the United States. ALJ is also parent to Floors-N-More, LLC, d/b/a Carpets N' More. It's one of the largest floor covering retailers in Las Vegas, Nevada. Phoenix Color Corp. is another company ALJ is the parent to and is a manufacturer of book components, educational materials, and related products. So what's happened recently that could have ALJJ on the watch list this week?
Recent Developments To Keep In Mind With ALJ Regional Holdings
Don't just look at the trading volume but what might've become a catalyst for that volume. After the close on Wednesday, ALJ announced that results for its fiscal 4th quarter and year ended September 30th will be above its previously provided guidance. Now, I'm no one to speculate but when a company guides on earnings, especially during a pandemic, traders typically take that as a sign of weakness or strength. In this case, ALJ reported that it expects to come in above guidance.
Jess Ravich, Chief Executive Officer of ALJ, said, "Results at Faneuil continued to improve in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2020 and benefited from the recent addition of state unemployment contracts. For Phoenix, results were stronger than expected for the fiscal fourth quarter due to higher volumes for trade components and books. As a result, we anticipate ALJ's fiscal fourth-quarter adjusted EBITDA to be above prior forecasts previously provided."
ALJ is currently forecasting adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended September 30, 2020 to be in the range of $8.0 million to $9.0 million versus $5.3 million to $6.8 million as previously. It's also looking to record adjusted EBITDA in the range of $23.2 million to $24.2 million versus $20.5 million to $22.0 million as previously discussed. Thanks to these developments, ALJJ stock surged during aftermarket trading on Wednesday to $1.50, up 80% from where it closed the regular session.
Top Penny Stocks To Watch #4: Vyne Therapeutics Inc.
Shares of Vyne Therapeutics Inc. ( VYNE) didn't experience a strong aftermarket push like ALJJ. However, it was able to eek out another new high. This marked the 5th consecutive session that VYNE stock has made a new high. It's also important to note that 4 of those 5 days, VYNE also put in higher lows. With volume picking up into the first full week of October, traders have started to look at the company's latest developments.
If you remember, we discussed Vyne a few weeks ago. VYNE Stock was trading around $1.80 on its way to highs of $.195 before it's recent consolidation at the end of September. The company's focus is on dermatology treatments. In light of this, CEO David Domzalski explained, "Having achieved FDA approval for our two commercial products AMZEEQ® and ZILXI™ ─ in a period of less than eight months ─ is a testament to the value of our proprietary technology and is aligned to the symbolic meaning behind our new name ─ strength, growth, endurance, and resilience."
This month there've been several key updates that might be worth noting. First, the company announced that ZILXI™ (minocycline) topical foam, 1.5% is now available by prescription. it's being used for the treatment of inflammatory lesions of rosacea in adults. Further to this, the company also gained attention from H.C. Wainwright analysts. The firm maintained a Buy rating on the stock while also raising its price target to $3.50 from $3 previously.
Recent Developments To Keep In Mind With Vyne Therapeutics
The company has been in the news this week and has further extended momentum in the market. The company announced a coverage update for ZILXI™. Vyne said that Express Scripts will begin covering the treatment this month. It will have a place on Express Scripts' National Preferred, Flex, and Basic commercial formularies.
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"The addition of Express Scripts to our national coverage for ZILXI is a significant milestone as it represents a large portion of the U.S. commercial coverage patient population," said David Domzalski , Chief Executive Officer of VYNE. "We are pleased that our contract provides access to this important new option for physicians and patients who have not previously had the rosacea treatment outcomes they are seeking."
Top Penny Stocks To Watch #5: AgeX Therapeutics Inc.
AgeX Therapeutics Inc. ( AGE) is similar to ALJJ in that it too saw a surge of trading momentum in the aftermarket session. The penny stock has been under pressure for the last few months following a nice move up to highs of $1.62 in August. That was the second "top" in the "double top" pattern on its chart and in true fashion, it became a bearish trend to follow. However, over the last few weeks, AGE stock has made attempts to find support. Needless to say, aside from Wednesday's above-average volume, the price action during the regular market session wasn't anything different than it had experienced in weeks prior.
However, after the close, AGE stock ended up taking off, just like ALJJ almost to the same highs. In this case, AGE went slightly higher to $1.55, nearly 85% higher than where it closed the regular session. The clinical-stage biotechnology company develops cell therapies for unmet medical needs. In September, ES Cell International Pte Ltd., a subsidiary of Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. inked a deal with AgeX with regard to ESI stem cell lines.
ESI cell lines have current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP)-compatiblity, registered with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and widely studied as a potential source for the industrial-scale manufacture of any cell type in the human body. Neither party made or received any cash payments in connection with this arrangement.
Recent Developments To Keep In Mind With AgeX Therapeutics Inc.
In particular, Lineage acquired exclusivity for the use of ESI cell lines in spinal cord injury and certain oncology indications. Through the deal, AgeX gained greater flexibility and independence to support its efforts toward licensing certain technologies and cell lines to third parties. "With this step complete, we next intend to explore additional opportunities to collaborate with AgeX on promising tissue regenerating projects," stated Brian M. Culley, Lineage's CEO.
What happened this week with AgeX? Well, a look at the news won't give much. There wasn't anything hitting the newswires on October 7th. However, for those "disclosure hunters" out there, you likely found a filing on Wednesday. AgeX shares traded higher following an amended 13D filing that showed Juvenescence Limited has a 50% stake in the company.
On the Juvenescence site, the company explains that, "Treating aging is the ultimate in preventive care. Aging drives the chronic illnesses that are the biggest burden on the healthcare system. A set of successful therapies for aging will target common pathways across age-related illnesses, such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, respiratory disease, and dementia among others."
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Liverpool's young team were surprise winners of the men's race, their standout performer being Daniel Jarvis, who advanced his team thirteen places up on leg two into a lead they were never to surrender. James McNally anchored his team home for an emphatic victory. Warrington's squad were delighted to gain silver medals, one second ahead of Vale Royal. Quickest of the day was Andrew Heyes of Hallamshire; his 10:04 return brought his team within sight of the bronze medals.
The women's race resulted in victory for local club Rotherham, who were anchored home by Robyn Lanceley for a 100m margin of victory. Holmfirth Harriers were second ahead of Rotherham's B team. The fastest woman around the tough cross-country lap was Lydia Turner with a superb 11:35 which moved her Birtley squad up 14 places to third on leg two. The home team City of Sheffield enjoyed a productive day, winning titles in several of the younger age group categories.
Stephen Green's full report and photographs by David Hewitson will appear in this week's AW, out Thursday.
Thames Valley Harriers won the women's and Belgrave Harriers won the men's events. Clapham Chaser Andy Maud was the fastest man, Mel Wilkins of Belgrave the fastest woman. Invicta East Kent, aided by Bobby Clay, won the under-20 women's race.
Wolverhampton and Bilston won the men's event and Birchfield Harriers won the women's. Phil Nicholls was the fastest man and Nichola Sykes the quickest woman.
Tom McCook's full report and David Griffiths' photographs will appear in this week's issue.
British Masters 5000m champion Liz Kipling easily won the women's race while the men's M40 race was won by relative unknown Keith MacIntosh.
The M50 title went to the 1980 AAA junior steeplechase champion Tom Conlon who had won the senior race in 1982.
More details and Ray O'Donoghue photographs will appear in this week's issue.
British student Matthew Clowes won the 8km race in 24:50.2. The sub-1:50 performer from Staffs Moorlands is unbeaten in his three collegiate races this autumn and he won by half a minute.
Bernard Kipyego won the men's race in 2:06:22 as two-time world champion Abel Kirui faded away in the last few miles and finished sixth in 2:09:45. Matthew Bennett was the first Briton in 16th in 2:25:00.
Ethiopian Betelhem Moges won a narrow women's victory in 2:28:35. British 100km champion Emily Gelder was close to her marathon PB with 2:57:23.
A full report and photographs will appear in this week's issue.
In one of Britain's premier and fastest and long-standing 10 mile races, Steph Twell retained her women's title in 56:05, over a minute down on her last year's winning time, where conditions were more favourable. She won by half a minute from Perendis Lekapana and 100 seconds down on her time last year in third was former European under-23 cross-country champion-turned triathlete Emma Pallant.
Fourth was 2008 Olympic marathon sixth placer Mara Yamauchi who hadn't raced for over a year with a quick 57:55 clocking.
Loitarakweni Olenunsi won the men's race in 49:35.
There were half-marathon wins for Joel Kimutai in 61:39 and Polline Wanjiku in 70:48.
You can read a more in-depth online report here, while there will be full coverage and Mark Shearman photographs in this week's issue.
Kenyan Laban Korir won in 2:08:15. Richard Kay was 13th in 2:21:27.
The women's race was won by Ethiopian Mula Seboka in a near course record 2:23:15.
Abraham Cherono ran the fastest half-marathon for two years when he ran a Spanish all-comers record of 58:48. Kenneth Kipkemoi was second in 59:01.
World cross-country champion Emily Chebet won the women's race in a course record of 68:01.


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Alms (ἐλεημοσύνη, mercifulness, i e. an act of charity, Mt 6:1-4; Lu 11:41; Lu 12:23; Ac 3:2-3,10; Ac 10:2,4,31; Ac 24:17; "almsdeeds," Ac 9:36), beneficence toward the poor, from Anglo-Sax. oelmesse, probably, as well as Germ. almosen, from the corresponding Greek word ἐλεημοσύνη; Vulg. eleemosyna (but see Bosworth, Anglo-Saxon Dict.). The word "alms" is not found in our version of the canonical books of the O.T., but it occurs repeatedly in the N.T., and in the Apocryphal books of Tobit and Ecclesiasticus. The Hebrew צדָקָה, tsedakah', righteousness, the usual equivalent for alms in the O.T., is rendered by the Sept. in De 24:13, and elsewhere, ἐλεημοσύνη, while the best MSS., with the Vulg. and Rhem. Test., read in Matthew 6, δικαιοσύνη, righteousness. SEE POOR.
I. Jewish Alms-giving. — The regulations of the Mosaic law respecting property, and the enjoining of a general spirit of tender-heartedness, sought to prevent destitution and its evil consequences. The law in this matter is found in Le 25:35: "And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen into decay with thee, then shalt thou relieve him;" and it is liberally added, "yea, though he be a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with thee." The consideration by which this merciful enactment is recommended has peculiar force: "I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God." The spirit of the Hebrew legislator on this point is forcibly exhibited in De 15:7 sq.: "If there be among you a poor man … thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him … . Beware that thine eye be not evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him naught; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee. Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works." The great antiquity of the practice of benevolence toward the poor is shown in Job 29:13 sq. How high the esteem was in which this virtue continued to be held in the time of the Hebrew monarchy may be learnt from Ps 41:1: "Blessed is he that considereth the poor; the Lord will remember him in time of trouble" (comp. Ps 112:9; Pr 14:31). The progress of social corruption, however, led to the oppression of the poor, which the prophets, after their manner, faithfully reprobated (Isa 58:3); where, among other neglected duties, the Israelites are required to deal their bread to the hungry, and to bring the outcast poor to their house (comp. Isa 10:2; Am 2:7; Jer 5:28; Eze 22:29). However favorable to the poor the Mosaic institutions were, they do not appear to have wholly prevented beggary; for the imprecation found in Ps 109:10, "Let his children be vagabonds and beg," implies the existence of beggary as a known social condition (comp. generally Carpzov, Eleemosynoe Judreor. ex antiquitate Jud. delineatoe, Lips. 1728). Begging naturally led to almsgiving, though the language of the Bible does not present us with a term for "alms" till the period of the Babylonish captivity, during the calamities attendant on which the need probably introduced the practice (Gesenius, Carm. Samar. p. 63). In Da 4:24, we find the Chald. word צִדקָה (tsidkah'; lit. righteousness), rendered ἐλεημοσύναι in the Sept., and the ensuing: member of the sentence puts the meaning beyond a question: "O king, break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity." A new idea is here presented, namely, that of merit and purchase. Alms-giving had come to be regarded as a means of conciliating God's favor and of warding off evil. At a still later period this idea took a firm seat in the national mind, and almsdeeds were regarded as a mark of distinguished virtue (Tobit 2:14; 4:11). That begging was customary in the time of the Savior is clear from Mr 10:46," Blind Bartimaeus sat by the wayside begging;" and Ac 3:2, "A lame man was laid daily at the gate of the temple called Beautiful to ask alms" (comp. ver. 10). And that it was usual for the worshippers, as they entered the temple, to give relief, appears from the context, and particularly from the fine answer to the lame man's entreaty made by the Apostle Peter. SEE BEGGAR.
Charity toward the poor and indigent — that is alms-giving — was probably among the later Jews a highly-honored act of piety (see Buxtorf, Florileg. Heb. p. 88 sq.; Otho, Lex. Rabb. p. 196 sq.), and hence is named even in connection with prayer and fasting (Tobit, 12:9). It was regarded as especially agreeable to God (comp. Ac 10:4,31; Heb 13:16; Thilo, Apocr. p. 324), as meritorious in the divine sight (Pr 10:2; Pr 11:4; Tobit 2:14), even availing to blot out sins (Tobit 4:10; Sir. 29:10-13; comp. Da 4:24), in short, as a fulfillment of the whole law (Talm. Jerus. Peah, 1). Children were early trained up to it (Tobit 14:11), and among the encomiums of pious persons their charitableness was almost always enumerated (Sir. 31:11; Ac 9:36; Ac 10:2). Exhortations to this virtue are especially frequent in the Proverbs of Solomon (3, 27 sq.; 22:9; 28:27), and in the book of Sirach (3, 23 sq.; 7:36), and the latter gives practical hints for the performance of this duty (12, 1 sq.; 18:14; 20:13 sq.). Accordingly, there were arrangements in the synagogues for the collection of alms on the Sabbath (Mt 6:2; comp. Vitringa, Synag. p. 811), and in the temple was a chamber (לִשׁכִּת חֲשָׁץִים) where alms not specially designated for the poor Jews (עֲנַיִּים בּטֵי טוֹבִים) were deposited (Mishna, Shek. v. 6); on the other hand, the trumpet-shaped vessels (שׁוֹפָרוֹת, to which some have erroneously referred the term σαλπίζω in Mt 6:2) served for the reception of those that individuals contributed for the support of divine worship. SEE TEMPLE. In the community, according to Maimonides, eleemosynary contributions were so arranged that almoners (גִּבָּאִין, collectors, fully גִּבָּאֵי צדָקָה, Talm. Jerus. Demay, fol. 23:2) sometimes took up collections of money in a box (קוּפָה) on the Sabbath, and sometimes received daily from house- to-house voluntary offerings, consisting of victuals, in a vessel (תִּמחוּי) carried for that purpose (see, [Eck or] Werner, De fisco et paropside pauperum duab. specieb. eleemosynar. vet. Ebroeor. Jen. 1725). By far the foremost in alms-giving were the Pharisees, but they did it mostly in an ostentatious manner. The charge laid against them in Mt 6:2, has not yet been fully explained, on account of the obscurity of the expression "do not sound a trumpet before thee" (μὴ σαλπίσῃς ἔμπροσθέν σου), which can hardly refer to the modern Oriental practice (Niebuhr, Reisen, 1, 181) of beggars (as in some parts of Switzerland) demanding charity by making music, since in that case the "trumpeting" would not proceed from the donor, nor would he be at all in fault. The language conveys the idea that the Pharisees assembled the poor in the synagogues and streets by the sound of a trumpet, which naturally attracted also spectators thither; but this custom would be too ceremonious to be probable, because it would require these individuals to have an attendant with a trumpet, as they could not well have blown it themselves. By the term "synagogues" here could not be meant the audience-room, at least during divine service, but only the porch or immediate vicinity of the edifice. On the whole, the expression "sound a trumpet" may more easily be interpreted metaphorically (with the Church fathers, also Grotius, Fritzsche, Tholuck, and others), q. d., don't make a flourish of music in front of you, i e. do not proclaim your liberality in a noisy manner. See generally Aster, De Eleemosynis Judicorum (Lips. 1728); Maimonides, De Jure Pauperis, 7, 10; 9:1, 6; Jahn, Arch. Bibl. 4, 371; Lightfoot, Horoe Hebr. on Mt 6:2, and Descr. Templi. 19; and comp. Smith's Dict. of Class. Antiq. s.v. Tuba. SEE OFFERINGS; SEE TITHES; SEE TEMPLE.
⇒Bible concordance for ALMS.
II. Apostolical. — The general spirit of Christianity, in regard to succoring the needy, is nowhere better seen than in 1Jo 3:17: "Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?" With the faithful and conscientious observance of the "royal law" of love, particular manifestations of mercy to the poor seem to be left by Christianity to be determined by time, place, and circumstances; and it cannot be supposed that a religion, one of whose principles is "that, if any would not work, neither should he eat" (2Th 3:10), can give any sanction to indiscriminate alms-giving, or intend to encourage the crowd of wandering, idle beggars with which some parts of the world are still infested. The emphatic language employed by the Lord Jesus Christ and others (Lu 3:11; Lu 6:30; Lu 11:41 [see the treatise on this text by Somnel, Lond. and Goth. 1787]; 12:33; Mt 6:1; Ac 9:37; Ac 10:2,4) is designed to enforce the general duty of a merciful and practical regard to the distresses of the indigent — a duty which all history shows men have been lamentably prone to neglect; while the absence of ostentation and even secrecy, which the Savior enjoined in connection with alms-giving, was intended to correct actual abuses, and bring the practice into harmony with the spirit of the Gospel. In the inimitable reflections of Jesus on the widow's mite (Mr 12:42) is found a principle of great value, to the effect that the magnitude of men's offerings to God is to be measured by the disposition of mind whence they proceed; a principle which cuts up by the very roots the idea that merit attaches itself to alms-giving as such, and increases in proportion to the number and costliness of our almsdeeds.
Accordingly, we find that the duty of relieving the poor was not neglected by the early Christians (Lu 14:13; Ac 20:35; Ga 2:10). Every individual was exhorted to lay by on the Sunday in each week some portion of his profits, to be applied to the wants of the needy (Ac 11:30; Ro 15:25-27; 1Co 16:1-4). It was also considered a duty specially incumbent on widows to devote themselves to such ministrations (1Ti 5:10). One of the earliest effects of the working of Christianity in the hearts of its professors was the care which it led them to take of the poor and indigent in the "household of faith." Neglected and despised by the world, cut off from its sympathies, and denied any succor it might have given, the members of the early churches were careful not only to make provision in each case for its own poor, but to contribute to the necessities of other though distant communities (Ac 11:29; Ac 24:17; 2Co 9:12). This commendable practice seems to have had its Christian origin in the deeply interesting fact (which appears from Joh 13:29) that the Savior and his attendants were wont, notwithstanding their own comparative poverty, to contribute out of their small resources something for the relief of the needy. See generally Gude, Eleemosynoe Eccles. Apostolicoe ex Antiquitate Sacra (Lauban. 1728).
⇒Definition of alms
III. Ecclesiastical Alms-giving. — In the early ages of Christianity alms were divided in some provinces into four portions; one of which was allotted to the bishops, another to the priests, a third to the deacons and sub-deacons, which made their whole subsistence, and a fourth part was employed in relieving the poor and in repairing churches. These alms were given to the poor at their entrance into the church. The reasons assigned for this practice by Chrysostom indicate on his part a very defective view of Gospel truth. He says, "For this reason our forefathers appointed the poor to stand before the door of our churches, that the sight of them might provoke the most backward and inhuman soul to compassion. And as, by law and custom, we have fountains before our oratories, that they who go in to worship God may first wash their hands, and so lift them up in prayer, so our ancestors, instead of fountains and cisterns, placed the poor before the door of the church, that, as we wash our hands in water, we should cleanse our souls by beneficence and charity first, and then go and offer up our prayers. For water is not more adapted to wash away the spots of the body than the power of almsdeeds is to cleanse the soul. As, therefore, you dare not go in to pray with unwashen hands, though this be but a small offense, so neither should you without alms ever enter the church for prayer" (Hom. 25, de verb. Apost.). The period of Lent was particularly fruitful in alms. During the last week Chrysostom enjoins a more liberal distribution than usual of alms to the poor, and the exercise of all kinds of charity. The reason he assigns is, the nearer men approach to the passion and resurrection of Christ, by which all the blessings of the world were poured forth on men, the more they should feel themselves obliged to show all manner of acts of mercy and kindness toward their brethren (Bingham, bk. 21, ch. 1, § 25). At the time of marriage, as a substitute for the old Roman practice of throwing about nuts, the early Christians were accustomed to distribute alms to the poor and to children. The distribution of alms at funerals was associated with the unscriptural practice of praying for the dead. In one of Chrysostom's "Homilies," he says, "If many barbarous nations burn their goods together with their dead, how much more reasonable is it for you to give your child his goods when he is dead! Not to reduce them to ashes, but to make him the more glorious; if he be a sinner, to procure him pardon; if righteous, to add to his reward and retribution." In several of the fathers alms-giving is recommended as meritorious; and the germ of Romish teaching on the subject of salvation by the merit of good works may be clearly found in them. — Bingham, Orig. Eccl. 13, 8, § 14; Coleman, Anc. Christianity, ch. 4, § 3; Hofling, Lehre d. alt. Kirche v. Opfer. SEE ALMONER.
The order in the Church of England is, that alms should be collected at that part of the communion service which is called the offertory, while the sentences are reading which follow the place appointed for the sermon.
In the Methodist Episcopal Church alms are collected at the sacrament of the Lord's Supper and at the love-feasts.
On the Christian duty of alms-giving see Taylor, Holy Living and Dying, ch. 4, § 8; Saurin, Sermons (Serm. 9); Barrow's Sermon on Bounty to the Poor (Works, 2, 69); Wayland's Moral Science, p. 376 sq. SEE CHARITY, and SEE POOR.
IV. Civil. — The poor-laws of modern times have brought up anew the whole question of alms-giving in its relation to Christian ethics, and it requires a thorough investigation. — Chalmers on the Scottish Poor-laws (Ed. Rev. 41, 228). SEE HOSPITALS; SEE PAUPER.
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But first, some good news for the nation out of California. Newly elected Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has now signed an executive order placing a moratorium on the state-sanctioned killing of some 737 individuals on the state's death row. Describing the death penalty as "discriminatory" and a "failure" that has resulted in the deaths of "wrongly convicted" people proven innocent, while costing the state billions of dollars, the Governor has now blocked the barbaric planned executions of about one quarter of those slated to be killed by governments across the nation.
"It's a very emotional place that I stand," Newsom said at a presser today, "This is about who I am as a human being, this is about what I can or cannot do. To me this is the right thing to do." As we discuss, it's not the first time that Newsom, as a public official, has placed doing the right moral thing over what may or may not be politically popular, at the moment, among the electorate.
Back in Washington D.C., Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to an additional 73 months for criminal conspiracy fraud and witness tampering on Wednesday. Some of those months will be served concurrently with the 47 months he was sentenced to last week in a Virginia federal court related to undisclosed lobbying for a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine. With the partially concurrent sentencing, the 69-year old Manafort now faces nearly seven years in prison.
While none of the 20 or so federal counts in two different courts that Manafort was found guilty of had charged "collusion" with Russia for interference in the 2016 election, his attorney and Donald Trump used the occasion once again to lie about that fact to the American public today. But just minutes after today's new sentencing, Manhattan's District Attorney announced 16 new indictments against Manafort in state court related to mortgage fraud and more than a dozen other crimes for which, if found guilty, the President would be unable to pardon him. Trump's pardon power extends only to federal, not state crimes.
As the madness surrounding our criminal Presidency continues, Democrats in Congress are pushing ahead with a number of progressive policy proposals in advance of 2020 to hopefully help pull the nation out of its current self-imposed morass and rebalance some of the worsening inequities between the wealthy, the poor and the middle class. Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Congressman Pete DeFazio (D-OR) have now introduced new legislation that would create a very small, 0.1%, Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) on every stock market transaction. The bill [PDF] --- which already has a number of Democratic cosponsors in the House and Senate, including among Presidential hopefuls --- is estimated to raise as much as $800 billion in much-needed revenue for federal coffers over ten years. As importantly, the measure is designed to ease market volatility by curbing the legalized skimming that takes place by high volume computer traders who purchase trades from normal investors and sell them back to the investors at a higher rate, all within a fraction of a second.
The legislation is supported by some 60 non-partisan good government organizations, including Public Citizen. Attorney SUSAN HARLEY, Deputy Director of the group's Congress Watch division, joins us today to explain this new move toward an FTT that would cost traders one-tenth of a cent per dollar traded. That's $1 for every thousand invested or, as Harley explains, "Ten cents out of every 100 dollars traded. That's why we like to talk about it as rebuilding Main Street on Wall Street's dime."
"We do pay taxes on all of our purchases," she tells me. "so Wall Street should be doing the same as far as these stocks trades, bond trades, and derivative trades. It absolutely is about fairness, about making sure Wall Street is paying back the US because we did bail them out for the financial crash."
She details how the proposal is ultimately a very progressive tax, even as it's very small, because it would largely fall on the wealthy. "We've really got to re-balance our tax code, and unrigging our economy starts with making Wall Street pay its fair share. The top 1% of society owns two thirds of all financial securities."
"We did research on existing fees --- things like commission, overhead costs, broker fees. The Financial Transactions Tax would be only about $80 for the average 401k or retirement saver, versus more than $1000 in existing fees. That's just the average. Some funds have existing fees of more than $2500 dollars. So, it really is a drop in the bucket as compared to the existing commissions and other types of ways that Wall Street is taking it out of the pocket of average investors."
First up today, the Trump-caused child immigration crisis continues to unfold with several disturbing new reports of unspeakable abuse at two separate federally-contracted facilities, based on filings in new federal court cases. One from Associated Press on beatings and more at a youth facility in Virginia and the other from the Center for Investigative Reporting on the forced injection of psychotropic drugs at a facility near Houston. That, as an Executive Order signed by the President on Wednesday, reversing part of his Administration's policy, fails to speak to family reunification for more than 2,300 children separated from their parents in recent weeks under Trump's "zero tolerance" border policy, and an Administration request to the Pentagon for space to house some 20,000 migrant children.
While all of those American nightmares have been unfolding over the past week, the effects of Trump's growing trade war have been quietly playing out in the background, as the Dow has dropped some 600 points over the past four days, with China and friendly allies like Canada, Mexico and the EU vowing massive and swift retaliation for ill-considered tariff's on foreign imports instituted by Trump. Among the hardest-hit victims of his new trade wars: farmers who were among some of biggest supporters of Trump's candidacy in 2016.
Perhaps that explains why, as share in an audio clip from 1988 today, Ronald Reagan warned: "We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war...all while cynically waving the American flag."
On Thursday, SCOTUS released a 5 to 4 decision allowing states to impose sales taxes on all online purchases. The ruling found some very strange bedfellows in both its majority and minority opinions, but both Stern and I agree, the decision makes sense, and will be good for local retailers, jobs, the economy and state budgets where, particularly in "red" states, tax cuts in recent years have lead to the gutting of education, infrastructure and other important social services. The 1967 SCOTUS ruling struck down today, was "a totally capricious standard that the Court created itself," Stern argues. "This was the Court fixing a problem that it made."
Stern also details an exceedingly troubling --- if little reported --- case out of South Dakota, where a man was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, according to jury members themselves, they feared, as a gay man, he might enjoy life in prison too much. Seriously. Perhaps the most disturbing part of this matter: the Court declined to hear the case at all. Even the liberal Justices failed to offer a written dissent to the Court's decision.
And the seemingly unprecedented federal court smack down of Kris Kobach, notorious GOP "voter fraud" fraudster and Kansas Secretary of State. His "Proof of Citizenship" voter registration law was struck down by a George W. Bush-appointed federal judge, and he was slapped for his contemptible performance in the courtroom --- where he represented both himself and the state of KS --- with more humiliating sanctions that include an order to attend six hours of legal classes. Moreover, as Stern reports, Kobach appears to be in still more violation of court orders, as he has yet to remove the requirement for citizenship documentation for voter registration from the KS Sec. of State website, as the judge ordered him to do "immediately" in her ruling on Monday.
Previewing the cases still to come before the end of the month, Sterns warns: "I think the Supreme Court is going to hobble public sector unions by preventing them from collecting dues from no-union members. I worry the Supreme Court is going to uphold the [Muslim] travel ban. I do think the Court may put real limits on the government's ability to collect information about where your cell phone has been from your provider. That's going to be a bright spot, I hope. But I also think the court's going to end up striking down California's disclosure requirements for crisis pregnancy centers. So, this is s not going to be a good term for progressives. I think everyone needs to just buckle in and focus on November."
Today, we follow-up yesterday's interview with Theodore A. Postol, MIT Prof. Emeritus of Science, Technology and National Security Policy, by speaking with independent investigative journalist Robert Parry of Consortium News, who recently asked: "Did Al Qaeda Fool the White House Again?"
We discuss Postol's analyses, as covered in detail on yesterday's show, charging that the evidence presented by the White House to justify its military attack on Syria --- purportedly in response to a deadly April 4 chemical weapons incident allegedly carried out by Bashar al-Assad's government against civilians in the rebel-held Idlib province --- does not support the claims being made by the Administration and echoed uncritically by the U.S. media.
Parry, formerly an Associated Press reporter who helped break the Iran-Contra scandal in the mid-80s, responds to my questions about the remarkable lack of media coverage of Postol's analyses (if only to debunk them), as well as the seemingly complete lack of skepticism by the entirety of the U.S. corporate mainstream media on Syria and other recent U.S. military adventures. That, even after having been fooled before (Iraq, is just one example), and otherwise claiming a new found interest in fact-checking and skepticism in the Trump Era.
"We've seen now a recurring situation," says Parry. "We had the case of the Iraq War, where you might've thought 'well, after that, the New York Times and the Washington Post and others will be more skeptical and more self-critical about the need to show skepticism'. But that hasn't happened. In fact, it's gone increasingly in the other direction."
"For the first two months or so of his Presidency, everything he said was put under a microscope and often laughed at, often rightly so," he tells me. "So there's been this attitude that this guy is not to be trusted on anything he says. Yet, he immediately jumps to a conclusion, way before there could've been any serious intelligence analysis of it, that Assad was responsible for this incident, and the mainstream media completely flipped around and just rallied to his position and then refused to listen to any alternative points of view on this."
As a former mainstream journalist himself, before founding Consortium News in 1995 as "the first investigative news magazine on the Internet," Parry speaks to the "tremendous downside to your career if you ask too many questions" in the corporate media, whether covering Republican or Democratic administrations.
Parry describes some of "serious questions" raised by Postol analyses concerning "not only the logic" behind the alleged sarin attack that seems wildly counter-intuitive for Assad to have carried out, "but the evidence that's been presented in connection with the April 4 incident."
"For a long, long time in this country, there has been this sort of anti-intellectual, anti-science mentality. It's been monetized, as people like [Fox 'News' owner] Rupert Murdoch have proven. And it has to be resisted," he tells me. But, he adds, while "these marches are a long overdue attempt, I would argue, to resist it, marching alone is not going to accomplish it. The march has to continue right to the ballot box to throw out people who are anti-science, and elect those who are pro-science."
Also today, Britain's Prime Minister makes a surprise announcement calling for snap elections to be held in June, in advance of final Brexit negotiations and, also over the weekend, a Turkish referendum to grant sweeping powers to the nation's President appears to have narrowly passed. But the opposition and international election observers (if not Donald Trump) are crying foul. That apparent "victory" has resulted in the Turkish President calling for restoration of the death penalty, which, the European Union warns, would prevent Turkey from finally joining the beleaguered EU.
None of that, however, has prevented the state of Arkansas from attempting to move ahead with an unprecedented eight executions over the next 10 days, as the state's supply of one of the controversial drugs --- of dubious effectiveness and purchased under false pretenses by the state --- used for lethal injections there, is set to expire on May 1.
Longtime capital punishment litigator Robert Dunham, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, joins us to explain Governor Asa Hutchinson's extraordinary planned killing spree and the blizzard of protests, legal measures and court rulings at both the state and federal level, which have already resulted in a last minute U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Monday night, and stays on the state's killing of the first two men set to die in the first of four nights of scheduled double-executions over this week and next.
"This is completely unprecedented. No state in the modern history of the U.S. death penalty has ever attempted to carry out this many executions in a short period of time," Dunham explains, describing the "artificial 'Kill By' date" set by the Governor. "This is something we have never seen before. And [Arkansas is] trying to use a very, very controversial and inappropriate drug in circumstances in which the execution schedule only makes things worse."
We discuss the "psychological trauma for the prison personnel" tasked with carrying out the killings, the pharmaceutical companies trying to keep their medicines from being used to kill prisoners "against their corporate mission, which is to save lives, and not take lives"; questions about the innocence, guilt, legal representation and mental acuity of some of those set to be killed; and the multiple state and federal cases furiously moving through the courts over all of this, including the "irony" of the state of Arkansas' "states rights" Governor and Attorney General challenging a ruling on state law by their own state Supreme Court at the U.S. Supreme court.
Attorney and legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern of Slate joins us to break down the full 4th Circuit Court of Appeals' potentially landmark decision upholding the state of Maryland's ban on semi-automatic "weapons of war" and the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling today on a race-based death penalty case out of Texas.
On MD's ban on military-style assault weapons, enacted by the legislature following the 2012 Sandyhook Elementary school massacre, the full court's majority ruling, including a number of Republican-appointed judges, soundly rejected the opponents argument that, as Stern says, "once enough people own a certain type of gun, the 2nd Amendment magically begins to protect it." He explains what may happen next with this case as it moves toward the Supreme Court and offers his thoughts on why GOPers and the NRA are suddenly unconcerned with their "states rights" arguments when it comes to guns.
On the SCOTUS death penalty case, granting a repreive, for now, to a Texas man on death row since 1997, Stern explains how the case underscores that "people who are sentenced to death in this country get the worst lawyers sometimes...It's really quite shocking." Incredibly enough, Chief Justice John Roberts eloquently agreed --- at least in this case.
On November 8, every Californian who steps into a voting booth will face a momentous decision --- life or death?
It is an awesome responsibility that cannot be avoided. To fail to cast a vote on one of the two competing death penalty ballot measures is to passively accept a California death penalty system that U.S. District Court Judge Cormac Carney aptly described as so "dysfunctional" and "irrational" in its application that it "serves no penological purpose" whatsoever.
Of the more than 900 human beings who have received death sentences in the Golden State since 1978, only thirteen (13) have been executed. During that time, California's death penalty system has operated at a cost of $5 billion or $384 million per execution. At present 748 men and women remain on death row, waiting to die.
The first of the two ballot measures, Prop 62, is backed by a wide array of political, educational, religious and civil liberties organizations. It is also supported by well-known politicians like California's Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newson and former President Jimmy Carter. The measure is simple, direct and straightforward. A "yes" vote "repeals the death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without possibility of parole." Prop 62 would apply "retroactively to existing death sentences," and it would increase "the portion of a life inmate's wages that may be applied to victim restitution."
The second competing measure, Prop 66, the "Death Penalty Procedure Regulation" initiative, has been offered primarily by the same District Attorneys and law enforcement personnel who are currently responsible for the enforcement of the existing dysfunctional death penalty system. The object of Prop 66, they tell us, is to "mend not end" the death penalty system by severely curtailing the rights of the condemned both with respect the timing of direct appeals and subsequent collateral challenges by way of what are known as petitions for habeas corpus.
Where the death penalty repeal measure (Prop 62) can be readily understood by the average voter, the procedural changes reflected by Prop 66's wonky text are such that only those attorneys and judges who are actively engaged in death penalty appellate litigation can be expected to fully comprehend their true significance.
Donald Trump's newly celebrated 'pivot' to becoming a 'maturity' as a Presidential candidate, as declared by some Republicans and some in the corporate media, may be far less of a 'pivot' than he and his surrogates are pretending, especially in his new attempts to woo African-American voters.
Similarly, if the GOP wants to reach out to minority voters, they have a very peculiar way of showing it, as Republican Party officials, operatives and Governors --- from CA to NC, from NJ to MI --- re-double their efforts to keep 'certain' voters from being able to cast a vote at all this November.
It's getting stranger and stranger around here. On today's BradCast, I find myself a momentary bedfellow with both lobbyists and the pharmaceutical industry. But it won't last for long.
On today's BradCast, the slow, painful death of the GOP as a legitimate political party continues, even as the corporate mainstream media continues to fail to notice and Donald Trump keeps rising in the bargain.
Then --- speaking of slow, painful deaths --- following the Connecticut Supreme Court's finding last week that the state's Death Penalty is unconstitutional, we're joined by Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty to assess where the nation has moved on capitol punishment in recent years, and how long it may be before the practice is once again banned across the entire country.
"Most of the country lives in a place that doesn't have the death penalty, Rust-Tierney tells me. "We have death penalty statutes on the books, but the reality is that there are only a handful of jurisdictions in the country that are using the death penalty."
She cites just three states --- Texas, Missouri and Florida --- in which 80% of the nation's executions took place in 2014 to help point out how "the system is broken from beginning to end" and how, "as the death penalty becomes rarer, it becomes more arbitrary and indefensible."
Carrying out executions is far more expensive than life in prison, she notes, adding that it also does not serve as a deterrent. "In the parts of the country where the death penalty is still used, the Southern region has the highest murder rates. The Northeast, which uses the death penalty the least, you see lower murder rates."
While we have, for more than a decade, covered the extreme vulnerabilities of voting machines and electronic tabulators and broken numerous exclusive stories about it on both The BRAD BLOG and The BradCast, my guest on today's show offers a number of additional ways --- some of which had largely never even occurred --- by which bad actors could disrupt U.S. elections.
Michael Gregg, IT security expert and COO of the private, Houston-based computer security firm, Superior Solutions wrote about some of those concerns recently at Huffington Post. He joins me today to discuss several of the ways that U.S. democracy could be disrupted by political hacktivists, election insiders or even foreign entities and how we might not ever even know about it if they did --- thanks to the type of electronic voting systems we now use in all 50 states and the different ways in which the public is now being blocked from overseeing our own elections and election results.
"Attackers could potentially get in and do these things and it would be very hard to prove. The scary part is, by the time any of this is worked out, the election is over with, so it's too late," he tells me. I ask him how elected officials in his home state of Texas --- much of which forces voters to use 100% unverifiable electronic voting systems --- react when he points out these concerns. "We've brought that up multiple times, but that seems to be the powers that be, how they want to do things."
Gregg, who I've never spoken to previously, concludes, as I have, that paper ballots (hand-marked and hand-counted, in my case) are the most secure way to run elections. "I agree with you 100%," he says. "If you have a paper-based system, it's very very hard to attack, it's very much easier to be able to detect those types of things."
As to Internet Voting, well, you'll want to tune in for this computer security professional's opinion on whether or not the Internet can ever be secure enough to use for the most important aspect of our representative democracy.


The Combined Defence Services (CDS) exam will be conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on February 3. While the Commission has banned communication devices inside the premises where the exam will be held, it has also instructed candidates not to take any costly items to the exam centre. "Candidates are advised in their own interest not to bring any of the banned items including mobile phones/ pagers/ bluetooth or any valuable/costly items to the venue of the examination as arrangements for safe keeping cannot be assured," it said. "Commission will not be responsible for any loss in this regard," it added later.
Candidates should only use black ball pens for marking the answers in the answer sheet.
In order to reduce the logistics required for conducting the examinations, last year the Commission had introduced the facility where candidates can withdraw their applications. The initiative had started with the Engineering Services Exam. For the CDS exam, the application withdrawal window was open from December 3 to December 10.
CDS exam is being for filling up 417 seats in in Indian Military Academy Dehradun, Indian Naval Academy Ezhimala, Air Force Academy Hyderabad-(Pre-Flying) 32 Training Course, Officers' Training Academy Chennai (Madras)- 111th SSC (Men) Course (NT) and Officers Training Academy Chennai-25th SSC Women (Non-Technical) Course.
CDS (II) will be notified in June and the exam will be held on September 8.


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May 4, 2016: Guccifer tells Fox News he accessed Clinton's private server in 2013.
Guccifer (left) talks to Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge (right). (Credit: Fox News)
The Romanian hacker nicknamed Guccifer, whose real name is Marcel-Lehel Lazar, has been recently interviewed by Fox News. He claims for the first time that after breaking into the email account of Clinton confidant Sid Blumenthal in March 2013, he traced Clinton's emails back to her private email server.
He tells Fox News, "For me, it was easy […] easy for me, for everybody." He says he accessed her server "like twice." He adds, "For example, when Sidney Blumenthal got an email, I checked the email pattern from Hillary Clinton, from Colin Powell, from anyone else to find out the originating IP [Internet Protocol address]. […] When they send a letter, the email header is the originating IP usually…then I scanned with an IP scanner."
He said he then used some Internet programs to determine if the server was active and which ports were open. However, the server's contents did "not interest" him at the time. "I was not paying attention. For me, it was not like the Hillary Clinton server, it was like an email server she and others were using with political voting stuff."
If he breached the server, it appears he didn't fully understand what he was seeing, and he has not claimed to have uncovered more of Clinton's emails. He is interviewed from a US prison and has no documents to back up his claim. However, Fox News reports, "While [his] claims cannot be independently verified, three computer security specialists, including two former senior intelligence officials, said the process described is plausible and the Clinton server, now in FBI custody, may have an electronic record that would confirm or disprove Guccifer's claims."
Cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright comments, "The Blumenthal account gave him a road map to get to the Clinton server. […] You get a foothold in one system. You get intelligence from that system, and then you start to move."
Guccifer claims he wants to cooperate with the US government, adding that he has hidden two gigabytes of data that is "too hot" and is "a matter of national security."
The Clinton campaign responds, "There is absolutely no basis to believe the claims made by this criminal from his prison cell. In addition to the fact he offers no proof to support his claims, his descriptions of Secretary Clinton's server are inaccurate." (Fox News, 5/4/2016)
Politico reports, "An internal FBI review of Clinton's email records did not indicate traces of hacking" according to "a source familiar with the situation." (Politico, 5/4/2016)
An FBI report in September 2016 will assert that Guccifer admitted in his FBI interview that he lied about his claim to have accessed Clinton's server.
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It's one of the best vehicles available for increasing customer retention and maximizing lifetime value, but to make the most of it, you have to think beyond list growth. While many brands think the more subscribers the better, that isn't necessarily the case. A smaller, more engaged email list will almost always produce better results than a large, disinterested one. And while 25% of your contacts will unsubscribe each year on average, the best way to combat that churn isn't necessarily to gain new subscribers—it's to better serve the ones you already have.
As with any relationship, there are a few things you need to do from the very beginning to create a lasting connection and prevent unsubscribes.
If you can't find your signup form within 2-3 seconds of landing on your website, you need to take another look at your list building strategy. In an ideal scenario, you should supply an easily discoverable signup form on your homepage, then supplement that form with other signup opportunities at every audience touchpoint.
Step 2: Set the right expectations from the beginning.
On your form, tell potential subscribers exactly what they can expect from you in terms of content, offers, and send cadence.
Step 3: Have a clear value proposition for joining your list.
Most prospective subscribers won't sign up for your list unless you provide a compelling incentive to do so, like a discount or access to exclusive content.
Step 4: Collect the right data from the get-go.
If there's a data point you need right away to send relevant messaging (location info for a brick-and-mortar restaurant chain, for instance), be sure to include it on your form.
Automated welcome emails have become non-negotiable for any brand hoping to get results in the inbox. Not only do subscribers expect them, but they're some of the best-performing emails you'll ever send, with an average open rate of about 50%. Set one up to fire off immediately after someone signs up for your list. Introduce your brand, follow through on any promised content or offers, and use it as an opportunity to get subscribers to manage their preferences.
You can use date-based automation to celebrate special occasions, like birthdays or signup anniversaries. You can also remind customers to replenish goods or services (think subscription-based ecommerce like Dollar Shave Club).
You can also automate based on actions your subscribers take in their inbox. When someone clicks a link in your email, amp up the relevance of your next message by following up with similar content or complementary products.
To ensure your subscribers stay interested in your emails, you have to serve up relevant, engaging content and messaging—and segmentation is the easiest way to ensure you do just that. Though the best ways to segment vary by your brand, audience, and industry, here are a few ways to start.
Remember: If you do end up losing some subscribers, it isn't the end of the world. Unsubscribes hurt, for sure, but they can actually be beneficial in the long-term.
Here's an email marketing rule to live by: Always serve up the kind of emails you'd actually want to receive as a subscriber. If you plan your strategy with that in mind, you'll ensure your subscribers want to maintain a connection with your brand, maximize lifetime value, and combat unsubscribes over time.
Yesterday we highlighted some great tips for welcoming new subscribers to your list, so today we thought we'd look at the flipside. Stefan Pollard just put together some great suggestions for getting the most out of anyone leaving your subscriber list. As you know, Campaign Monitor requires a single-click unsubscribe link to be included in every email you send. On top of this, we also let you set up a confirmation page to redirect the unsubscriber to, and this is where Stefan's tips shine. He writes… Instead of letting unsubscribers go with just a thank-you note, give them the opportunity to tell you why they're leaving. You can use that information to sharpen the focus of your e-mail program, redo your template or send schedule, improve personalization, or find other ways to become more valuable to subscribers or customers. We especially liked these 2 suggestions: Include a form giving that gives them an opportunity to let you know why they unsubscribed, such as no longer interested, was sent too frequently, etc. If you have other newsletters on different topics or sent less often, give them the opportunity to subscribe to them instead. Out of any subscribers in your list, it's the people who are leaving that can offer the best advice on what needs improving.


Students in the undergraduate seminar Here's Looking at You Kid: Picturing Children, Envisioning Childhood, led by Dr. Loren Lerner, Professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University, have produced a compelling body of research on eighty-two artworks in the permanent collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts that portray children, childhood and family in different historical and cultural contexts.
The descriptive analyses are in-depth studies of individual works and examine a variety of topics, including the gendered education of youth in modern Europe, female adolescent sexuality and identity, the autonomy of children, the Romantic ideal of childhood innocence and the Holy Family in Christianity.
The exhibition essays, each providing a comparative analysis of three or four artworks, address subjects such as the evolution of children's clothing in early modern and modern Europe; poor and destitute children in late-nineteenth-century Europe; the commemoration of deceased children through miniature portraiture; and the perception of Roman Catholic children in twentieth-century Quebec as the tangible presence of the divine.
The student works were conceived by artists in the Studio Arts program at Concordia University led by Raymonde April, Laura Endacott and Tema Stauffer. Each work, described by an Art History student, relates to a specific object from the Museum reflecting the thematic focus of the seminar. These evocative installations, photographs, drawings and textile and video artworks are exceedingly personal explorations of often universal experiences such as resisting parental restrictions and pressures, commemorating the life of an ill or deceased family member, and dealing with being physically and/or emotionally distant from one's family.
In addition, the video with Loren Lerner and Laura Endacott provides an overview of the project, and the Art History students' discussions of specific works draw attention to certain issues and questions that informed their various interpretive approaches.
Family Works: A Multiplicity of Meanings and Contexts. All rights reserved to the authors and artists.


A very big thank you to Maltesers for coming to Parliament the other day and getting the nation to #bakeamillion for Comic Relief. All their bakers helped raise a very tasty £1,026,712 this Red Nose Day. I joined it too - that's my rather sad looking cup cake! Or can I call it a fairy cake?
I could call it an artistic photo, or I could admit it's a bit rubbish, but it gives a good picture (as it were) of the exceptional turnout at the 50th Anniversary Dinner of the Frome Lions Club, which Harriet and I hugely enjoyed.
Great to take part in another badminton marathon with the kids, to raise money for the new roof for the outdoor pool at Huish Leisure Centre! I may be getting too old for this game. Literally.
Must admit it was lovely to meet Frome's Penleigh Butchers at Parliament's Countryside Alliance Awards, where they were South West regional finalists.
Sincere thanks to the hundred or so souls from Martock, Langport and Somerton who came to Long Sutton Golf Course to question me for two hours. I admire their stamina and resilience. Two hours of my answering questions isn't exactly a walk in the park.
And, on a lighter note, here's Richard Cadell, Sooty's handler, and the famous magic puppet himself. Yes, I've seen things that no one should ever see: the lower half of Sooty.
Thank you to Government minister Tobias Ellwood MP - now, and well-deservedly, the Rt Hon - for appearing before the British Council Inquiry into building resilience to radicalisation and extremism which I'm honoured to be chairing.
Thank you to the dozens of people who joined me at the Davis Hall in West Camel to talk about Options 1 & 2 for the route of the A303 through the area. Some very strong opinions and very clear issues were raised. I've quite a shopping list now for HIghways England.


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The Viper Room, the legendary Los Angeles nightclub cofounded by Johnny Depp (and where River Phoenix overdosed) is set to get an architecturally ambitious replacement courtesy of Morphosis Architects.
After developer Silver Creek Development Co. picked up the parcel in West Hollywood for $80 million in July of this year, it was announced that a 15-story hotel would go up on the site. Last week the public was given its first look at the replacement, which features a vise-like volume "clamping" down on a more traditional, loggia-adorned tower. The proposal also sports glassy ground-level retail bordered by V-shaped concrete columns.
The 200-foot-tall hotel will feature 115 hotel rooms, 31 condo units, 10 affordable units, a gym, a spa, restaurants, a pool, and a new home for the Viper Room. It's somewhat hard to see in the rendering, but the developer wants to include an 820-square-foot digital billboard on the Sunset Boulevard–facing facade.
The project's initial reveal came at a community meeting on December 11, where Silver Creek sought to solicit community feedback and refine the design. The hotel will move next to the West Hollywood Planning Commission's Design Review Subcommittee, and then the Planning Commission proper. No construction timeline has been given as of yet.


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Грегор Эбнер (; 24 июня 1892, Ихенхаузен, Бавария, — 22 марта 1974, Вольфратсхаузен, Бавария) — функционер СС, один из руководителей организации Лебенсборн, доктор медицины (1920), оберфюрер СС (20 апреля 1939 года).

Биография

Был сыном владельца кафе в Ихенхаузене (Бавария) Грегора Эбнера и его жены Марии, урождённой Маурер. До и после Первой мировой войны в 1912—1914 и 1919—1920 изучал медицину в Мюнхенском университете. 20 августа 1914 года поступил добровольцем в санитарную службу 1-го баварского полевого артиллерийского полка. Участник Первой мировой войны, фельдшер (1918). За отличия награждён Железным крестом 2-го класса.

В 1919 году входил в Добровольческий корпус фон Эппа. После окончания обучения и получения степени доктора медицины с 1920 года был практикующим земельным врачом в Мюдау, в 1923—1937 годах — в Кирхзееоне близ Мюнхена.

1 ноября 1930 года вступил в НСДАП (членский билет № 340925), основатель местной группы НСДАП в Кирхзееоне, ортсгруппенляйтер и заместитель районного руководителя НСДАП (крайсляйтера). В 1930—1933 гг. — семейный врач рейхсфюрера СС Генриха Гиммлера. 29 июля 1931 года вступил в СС (членский билет № 13966). С 11 мая 1933 года — старший врач 1-го абшнита СС, с 1 марта 1934 года — оберабшнита СС «Юг». В 1934—1938 гг. — заместитель председателя, с 23 мая 1938 года по май 1945 — председатель дисциплинарной судебной палаты Национал-социалистического союза врачей, крейсреднер в Расово-политическом управлении НСДАП, уполномоченный по вопросам расы в округе Эберсберг.

1 мая 1936 года был назначен начальником (с 29 января 1937 руководителем) и главным врачом дома матери и ребёнка СС «Хохланд» (близ Эберсберга). С 1937 по 1 апреля 1943 года — руководитель врачей и уполномоченный по вопросам службы здоровья организации «Лебенсборн», в 1940—1945 гг. — член кураторского совета «Лебенсборна». Одновременно 1 января 1938 по май 1945 года — руководитель (фюрер СС) в Личном штабе рейхсфюрера СС, с 1 мая 1941 по апрель 1942 года — руководитель Главного отдела «L» («Лебенсборн») в Личном штабе рейхсфюрера СС, с 1 апреля 1942 года гауптабтайлунглейтер. С 1 апреля 1943 по май 1945 года — руководитель Главного отдела «G» (служба здоровья) управления «L».

После окончания войны 5 июля 1945 года арестован. В качестве обвиняемого был привлечён к суду Американского военного трибунала по Делу расовых учреждений СС в Нюрнберге. 10 марта 1948 года был приговорён к 2 годам и 8 месяцам тюремного заключения и освобождён в тот же день с учётом срока, проведённого в предварительном заключении.

После освобождения работал практикующим врачом в Кирхзееоне и Вольфратсхаузене (Бавария).

Примечания

Литература

 Георг Лилиенталь (Georg Lilienthal). «"Лебенсборн". Инструмент национал-социалистской расовой политики» («Der "Lebensborn e.V.". Ein Instrument nationalsozialistischer Rassenpolitik»). — Франкфурт-на-Майне: «Издательство книг карманного формата Фишера» («Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag»), 2003. — ISBN 3-596-15711-0.
 Фолькер Кооп (Volker Koop). «Фюреру дарят ребёнка — организация СС "Лебенсборн"» («Dem Führer ein Kind schenken — die SS-Organisation "Lebensborn" e.V.»). — Кёльн: «Böhlau Verlag»,2007. — ISBN 978-3-412-21606-1.
 Эрнст Клее (Ernst Klee). «Словарь персоналий Третьего Рейха» («Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich»). — Франкфурт-на-Майне: Издательство Фишера, 2007. — ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8. (2 издание)

Участники Первой мировой войны (Германия)
Офицеры СС
Осуждённые на Нюрнбергских процессах

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Q: How do I specify that a property should generate a TEXT column rather than an nvarchar(4000) I'm working with the Code First feature of Entity Framework and I'm trying to figure out how I can specify the column data types that should be created when the database is auto-generated.
I have a simple model:
public class Article
{
    public int ArticleID { get; set; }

    public string Title { get; set; }
    public string Author { get; set; }
    public string Summary { get; set; }
    public string SummaryHtml { get; set; }
    public string Body { get; set; }
    public string BodyHtml { get; set; }
    public string Slug { get; set; }

    public DateTime Published { get; set; }
    public DateTime Updated { get; set; }

    public virtual ICollection<Comment> Comments { get; set; }
}

When I run my application, a SQL CE 4.0 database is automatically created with the following schema:

So far, so good! However, the data I will be inserting into the Body and BodyHtml properties is routinely larger than the maximum allowed length for the NVarChar column type, so I want EF to generate Text columns for these properties.
However, I cannot seem to find a way to do this! After quite a bit of Googling and reading, I tried to specify the column type using DataAnnotations, from information found in this answer:
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

...

[Column(TypeName = "Text")]
public string Body { get; set; }

This throws the following exception (when the database is deleted and the app is re-run):
Schema specified is not valid. Errors: (12,6) : error 0040: The Type text is not qualified with a namespace or alias. Only PrimitiveTypes can be used without qualification.

But I have no idea what namespace or alias I should be specifying, and I couldn't find anything that would tell me.
I also tried changing the annotation as per this reference:
using System.Data.Linq.Mapping;

...

[Column(DbType = "Text")]
public string Body { get; set; }

In this case a database is created, but the Body column is still an NVarChar(4000), so it seems that annotation is ignored.
Can anyone help? This seems like it should be a fairly common requirement, yet my searching has been fruitless!

A: Have you tried ntext? I have just created a SQL CE 4.0 database, and when I manually add a column to a table, I notice that text isn't available in the list of datatypes while ntext is. Just like you can pick nvarchar but no varchar.
Unfortunately, the biggest nvarchar size you can choose is 4000. So nvarchar(max) is also not an option.

A: I appreciate the effort that went into the existing answer, but I haven't found it actually answering the question... so I tested this, and found out that
[Column(TypeName = "ntext")]
public string Body { get; set; }

(the one from System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations) will work to create an ntext type column.
(My problem with the accepted answer is that it seems to indicate that you should change the column type in the interface, but the question is how to do it programmatically.)

A: The issue with using the string length attribute e.g.
[StringLength(4010)]

Is that any string > the number of chars defined in the attribute will trigger a validation exception, which kind of goes against any reason why you would use a non defined field size on a column, or you use a huge number in the attribute and lose any validation offered by the attribute.  Ultimately you are using a validation mechanism to solve a mapping issue if you use the StringLength attribute, where as Marcel Popescu's answer using the Column attribute is a much better solution as it is using the mapping attributes to define type, and still allows you to use the StringLength attribute for validation.
Another option is to use the EF4 CTP5 fluent API and define the column mapping in the OnModelCreating event in the DbContext e.g.
protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder){
    modelBuilder.Entity<Article>()
    .Property(p => p.Body)
    .HasColumnType("nvarchar(max)");
}

Also it should be noted that NText is a deprecated data type (ntext, text, and image (Transact-SQL) MS Books Online) and the recommendation is to use NVarChar(MAX) in its place

A: You can use System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema.ColumnAttribute
[Column(TypeName="text")]
public string Text { get; set; }

or via Fluent API:
modelBuilder.Entity<YourEntityTypeHere>()
    .Property( e => e.Text)
    .HasColumnType("text");

A: I know, this is probably a year too late but:
Use:
[StringLength(-1)]

This will create a nText field. I managed to store at least 25Kbytes in that field using
the Compact Edition 4.0 database.

A: You can use the following DataAnnotation and Code-First will generate the maximum sized data type that the database allows. In the case of Sql CE it results in an underlying ntext column.
[MaxLength]

or using the EF 4.1 RC fluent API...
protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder){
    modelBuilder.Entity<Article>()
        .Property(p => p.Body)
        .IsMaxLength();
}

A: Have you tried lowercase "text"? Per this MSDN discussion, the data provider is case sensitive.

A: This DataAnnotation will make Code-First generate a nvarchar(MAX) column in sql
[StringLength(1073741822)]

Not sure if other big numbers do the same... I got this one using the calculator and the nvarchar(MAX) spec.
I've tried it with SQL Server 2005 Express or not, but not with CE
I'm using it and it works, but I would like to know if it's a good idea or if I'm missing something... is there any other way to make code-first know that I want nvarchar(MAX)?

A: This DataAnnotation will make Code-First generate a nvarchar(MAX) column in sql also:)
[StringLength(4010)]

A: Agree that TypeName = "ntext" seems to work, although I also have to add:
[StringLength(Int32.MaxValue)]

to stop the default string length of 128 getting in the way.

A: In case you do add-migration and update-database using Package Manager, you may amend the create table by adding storeType as follows:
       CreateTable(
            "dbo.Table_Name",
            c => new
                {
                    ID = c.Int(nullable: false, identity: true),
                    Title = c.String(nullable: false, maxLength: 500),
                    Body = c.String(unicode: false, storeType: "ntext"),
                })
            .PrimaryKey(t => t.ID);

A: If you don't want to annotate all your properties and you use a contemporary EF, use a convention:
public class StringNTextConvention : Convention {
  public StringNTextConvention() {
    Properties<string>().Configure(p => p.HasColumnType("ntext"));
  }
}

You can call it from your onModelCreating():
modelBuilder.Conventions.Add(new StringNTextConvention());

and all your strings will automagically turn into ntext columns.

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Cloudflare started to support http/2.0 in production environment yesterday(HTTP/2 is here! Goodbye SPDY? Not quite yet), not like NGINX open source version(NGINX Open Source 1.9.5 Released with HTTP/2 Support), which dropped spdy support, Cloudflare supports them both like Google and Facebook does. Cloudflare is not the first CDN company to support http/2, KeyCDN launched there http/2.0 support from the early Oct 2015(KeyCDN Launches HTTP/2 Support), cdn77 started their http/2.0 support since Aug 2015(HTTP/2 Support for All Customers), but both of KeyCDN and cdn77 doesn't support http/2 + spdy, now Cloudflare supports both, so maybe it's just worthy(BTW, akamai also support them both), without a doubt it's a good very good news to us, but how to test if a web server support http/2.0? Here we go.
Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation, on Wikipediais a Transport Layer Security (TLS) extension for application layer protocol negotiation. ALPN allows the application layer to negotiate which protocol should be performed over a secure connection in a manner which avoids additional round trips and which is independent of the application layer protocols. It is used by HTTP/2.
We can use TLS-ALPN to get the supported protocols by the server desired order, here we will use OpenSSL client as an example.
enable Next Protocol Negotiation TLS extension and provide a list of comma-separated protocol names that the client should advertise support for. The list should contain most wanted protocols first. Protocol names are printable ASCII strings, for example "http/1.1" or "spdy/3". Empty list of protocols is treated specially and will cause the client to advertise support for the TLS extension but disconnect just after receiving ServerHello with a list of server supported protocols.
So we know that Google supports http/2.0, spdy/3.1 and http/1.1!
I guess Facebook is still testing their http/2.0 feature.