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Oops! Federal Law Prohibits Obama Funding UN Climate Bureaucracy
April 27, 2016 This article was posted by TLB Staff ENVIRONMENT, Spotlight, WORLD 1
Posted by Pam Jones | TLB writer/reporter & WeaponizedNews.com
Written by Alex Newman
Thanks to a Clinton-era statute and an obscure vote last month by the United Nations, federal law now officially makes it illegal for the Obama administration to send a single penny of your money to the UN climate bureaucracy.
That is good news for U.S. taxpayers, of course. But it puts the UN and the Obama administration in an awkward position as they struggle desperately to convince other governments that the UN's much-touted "global-warming" regime, officially signed Friday, is not going to crumble in the face of a hostile Congress and a U.S. Constitution that has been trampled at every turn. Now, dozens of U.S. senators, who Obama and the UN hoped to bypass in imposing the global "climate" treaty in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, are putting the UN and Obama on notice.
The latest twist surrounds a 1994 U.S. law passed by Congress and signed by then-President Bill Clinton. Among other elements, the law prohibits the distribution of U.S. taxpayer funds to "any affiliated organization of the United Nations which grants full membership as a state to any organization or group that does not have the internationally recognized attributes of statehood." Last month, though, the UN climate bureaucracy, known as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), decided to admit the U.S. taxpayer-funded "State of Palestine" as a member. That means no more American money may legally be disbursed to the UN's climate bureaucracy, no matter what Obama may have lawlessly promised to foreign governments and dictatorships.
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The senators were clear in explaining the law to Obama. "We request that you ensure that no disbursements of U.S. funds are made to the UNFCCC and its related entities after March 17, 2016," a group of almost 40 U.S. Republican senators told Obama's Secretary of State John Kerry in a letter this week. "We believe that your failure to do so will constitute a violation of current law…. We implore the administration to … abide by current law prohibiting U.S. taxpayer funds for the UNFCCC and its related entities and other UN affiliated organizations."
Among the UN agencies affected will be the giant slush fund for dictators run by dictators' representatives known as the Green Climate Fund, which Obama lawlessly gave $500 million to in defiance of Congress after illegitimately pledging billions during a trip to Australia. The GCF is crucial to the UN-Obama "climate" scheming, because Third World regimes only agreed to participate if they received trillions of Western taxpayer dollars in subsidies for kleptocracy in exchange — starting with least $100 billion per year. Also on the list of proscribed organizations is the Conference of the Parties (COP), which organizes the UN's luxurious CO2-spewing "climate" summits two or more times per year.
In the letter, the U.S. senators explained the federal law and how it applies to the UN's climate apparatus. "The UNFCCC, through its operating entities, constitutes an 'affiliated organization of the United Nations,'" the lawmakers said, citing more than half-a-dozen connections and links between the UN's climate bureaucracy and the UN itself. "The U.S. government does not recognize the 'State of Palestine,' which is not a sovereign state and does not possess the 'intentionally recognized attributes of statehood.' Therefore, … current law prohibits the distribution of U.S. taxpayer funds to the UNFCCC and its related entities."
In addition to demanding an immediate halt to U.S. funding of the UN's climate bureaucracy, the senators used the letter to comment on the situation between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority, both of which receive large amounts of U.S. taxpayer aid. "The only realistic path to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is through direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians," they wrote, blasting what they said were "unilateral actions" of the local Arab authorities to seek statehood and recognition through the UN and its bureaucracies as a means of circumventing negotiations with the Israeli government. "The inability of the U.S. government to block Palestinians from being admitted for membership as a state by the UNFCCC and other UN affiliated organizations is extremely troublesome."
The letter, sent to Kerry this week, urged the Obama administration to "clarify" publicly and privately that it does not consider the self-styled "State of Palestine" to be a sovereign state. It also called on the administration to work to prevent the Palestinian Authority from joining other UN bodies and treaties as a state. "We implore the administration to hold the Palestinians accountable for their actions in circumventing the peace process," the senators added.
Among the signatories to the letter was Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the chairman of the Senate Environment Committee who has played a lead role in exposing what he calls the UN's "climate hoax." The letter was also signed by Senators John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Dan Coats (R-Ind.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), John Thune (R-S.D.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), David Vitter (R-La.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.).
Sen. John Barrasso (photo courtesy U.S. Senate)
Senator Barroso, one of the key lawmakers behind the letter, blasted the administration last month for providing a half-a-billion dollar "handout to foreign bureaucrats" in the UN's GCF slush fund without obtaining congressional approval. Obama bureaucrats responded by claiming that their "lawyers" did not consider the lawless handout to be illegal. In the real world, though, Barrosso noted that Congress had "specifically prohibited" the creation of "new programs" in its most recent budget signed by Obama. In short, regardless of what Obama's legions of U.S. taxpayer-funded lawyers claim, transferring U.S. taxpayer funds to the UN dictator club's GCF slush fund is illegal on multiple counts and must be halted.
The UNFCCC will not be the first agency de-funded thanks to laws like the 1994 act that now bans U.S. funds for the climate bureaucracy. A few years ago, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the UN's would-be global education ministry, admitted the "State of Palestine" as a full member as well. Immediately, another similar U.S. law, this one passed in 1990, kicked in. Despite the wailing by Obama, who never met a UN program he did not want to spend your money on, the federal law went into effect on UNESCO, saving American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars while stripping the radical UN agency of almost one fourth of its total budget.
The Ronald Reagan administration withdrew U.S. membership from the outfit in 1984 over its anti-American, anti-liberty extremism, but the George W. Bush administration re-joined in 2003 even though nothing changed at UNESCO. With the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. funding for the UN "education" outfit, currently led by Bulgarian communist Irina Bokova, the controversial agency was brought to its knees. Considering the fact that the UN agency's leaders admit they want to indoctrinate children in the United States and around the world with extreme globalist and pseudo-environmentalist propaganda, that is good news for humanity.
The UNFCC is, of course, just as extreme as UNESCO, if not more so. Its leader, UN Climate Czar Christiana Figueres, the "executive director" of UNFCCC, even boasted in public about the radical agenda underpinning the supposed "climate" crusade she is leading. "What is occurring here, not just in Doha, but in the whole climate change process is the complete transformation of the economic structure of the world," she explained at the UN climate summit in Doha, Qatar, after having opened a previous UN climate summit with a prayer to the Mayan goddess of cannibalism, war, and human sacrifice. Seriously.
More recently, Figueres was even more explicit in defining the "climate" agenda as an effort to quash what remains of the free market and replace it with global central planning. "This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution," she boasted. Her cohort in the UN climate apparatus, disgraced UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) chief Rajendra K. Pachauri, meanwhile, admitted in his resignation letter last year (over sexual assault charges) that his crusade to allegedly save humanity from itself was actually his "religion."
After warning the Obama administration that funding the UNFCCC and its organs was illegal, Senate Republicans followed up with another stake through the heart of the UN's "climate" regime. "The American people must understand the dynamics and the hollow promises of Paris Agreement supporters, lest they allow these meaningless agreements to gain credibility and cause further damage the American economy and sovereignty," they said in a white-paper pointing out that the pseudo-treaty has no force or validity. Senator Inhofe, who leads the Senate's environment committee, said the pseudo-treaty was "full of empty promises that will have no meaningful impact on the climate." He also ridiculed the UN agreement inked in Paris and formally signed on April 22, Earth Day, at UN headquarters, for ignoring reality and being "doomed to failure."
While the Obama administration partners with Communist Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and the UN to shackle humanity to a destructive and illegitimate UN "climate" regime, facts and the law are slowly starting to catch up. Already, Obama is banned by law from transferring another penny to the UN's climate bureaucracy. And the climate theory has imploded on the world stage, with virtually every alarmist prediction having been proven wrong by the observable evidence — including over 18 years and counting of no warming. At this point, all that remains is for Congress, the courts, or even the states to finish crushing the Obama-UN climate agenda by refusing to comply with an illegal pseudo-treaty. Defunding the entire charade will be another important step. For that to happen, though, the American people, most of whom do not even believe the man-made global-warming theory, must keep the heat on.
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Booster Seats: the Science Junkie's Guide
Posted on September 16, 2014 by CSFTL
(Last Updated On: October 5, 2015)
Last year, we discussed the science behind why rear facing is safer than forward facing for toddlers and children through four years of age. In this edition of the Science Junkie's Guide, we will look at booster seats and why they are important for children all the way through puberty. We have also briefly touched on how boosters provide a better fit for children who are nearing the legal age or height to no longer need a booster seat.
This 6 year old is safely restrained in a high back booster
The three-point (lap and shoulder) belts with which most vehicles are equipped are designed to do one thing: to restrain the passenger in the event of a crash. The seat belt prevents the passenger from hitting the windshield, other occupants, the seat in front of the passenger, and from experiencing ejection from the vehicle. Why does the person continue to move forward once the car itself has stopped? We all learned Newton's 1st Law of Motion in grade school science: an object in motion tends to remain in motion (until affected by an external force). The object that ultimately stops the car (whether it be another car, the ground, a tree, or other object), hasn't actually made contact with the occupants. So, the occupants will continue to move at the speed they were originally traveling, until a counter-force is applied directly to their bodies. The seat belt's job is to stop that motion and to spread the force over a larger area of the body, creating 'ride-down' time as the energy of the crash is safely managed. If the seat belt is fitted correctly those forces will be diverted to the sternum, the rib cage, and the pelvis. Those areas of the body are bone dense, sturdy and protect the soft tissue and vital organs of the body.
In an accident, there are three different crashes that occur. First is the initial vehicle crash where the vehicle hits either another vehicle, object or animal. The second crash is the human crash. This occurs when the person inside the vehicle hits either an object or surface within the vehicle. The third crash occurs internally, when the organs of the body shift and hit either an improperly positioned belt, or other object, with the force of the accident.
If keeping the body in position is what the belts are designed to do, then why do children need booster seats? The seat belts that are installed in vehicles are designed to restrain a fully grown adult and not a pre-pubescent child. The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards is responsible for regulating the testing and all of the assembly standards of vehicles. As occupant protection advances, these standards change. The FMVSS 209 is the portion that is responsible for the assembly and the standards for seat belts. These standards say that the vehicle belt must be able to fit an adult female of 4'11", 96lbs and with a waist circumference of 23.5inches. They must also fit an adult male who is 6′ 8", weighs 214lbs and has a 42.5 inch waist. These belts are designed and tested to fit these measurements.1
The average booster law in most states only says that children up to the age of 8 years old need a booster. At 8 years of age, a 50th percentile child weighs 60lbs and is 50.5" tall, far below what a seat belt is designed to fit.2 Meanwhile, an average male child does not reach the height of the adult female before the age of 12.
Height and weight of the individual in question aside, part of the process of puberty includes significant changes to the skeleton in addition to the hormonal changes with which we are all more familiar. The bone mass of a person during the pubescent years increases by 30-40%. Specifically, pelvic bones continue to ossify and are then able to withstand the force that the seatbelt spreads the crash forces onto the body.3
What does the booster do? A properly used booster positions the adult seatbelt in the correct places on a growing body. It moves the belt from its position across the throat, or hovering in front of the child's torso, over the strong bones in the collar. Without a booster, a child's lap belt will lie high on the belly, over the vascular and very vulnerable organs. The booster forces the belt low, on the bones of the pelvis, and the femurs, where force can be more effectively absorbed without energy. Having the lap belt positioned correctly also helps to prevent a phenomenon called submarining. Submarining is when a child slides under the lap belt.
Photo Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
You can see in the graphic above that if the lap belt is positioned too high, it can also cut into the spine. The result of this can be spinal fracture, because there is nothing there to take the force of the accident. A booster not only positions the belt low on the hips, but it also acts as a fully mature illiac crest and helps absorb some of the forces of the crash, instead of the child's body taking all of the force. When the lap belt is too high up on the abdomen, this creates a series of injuries collectively called seat belt syndrome. The medical definition of seat belt syndrome is "Contusion of the anterior abdominal wall caused by lap seat belts, which may produce lumbar spine fractures with horizontal splitting of the vertebral body and posterior arch, trauma to bowel, vessels, spleen and liver."4
The boosters that are available today have come a long ways from the boosters of yesteryear. Boosters are now rated by the IIHS , or the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety. Boosters are rated on a system of how likely they are to provide a good belt fit. There are four different ratings the IIHS awards boosters:
BEST BETs are seats that provide good belt fit for typical 4 to 8 year-olds in almost any car, minivan or SUV.
GOOD BETs provide acceptable belt fit in most cars, minivans or SUVs.
Not recommended don't provide good belt fit and should be avoided.
Check fit applies to booster seats the Institute has tested that have varied results depending on child size and vehicle model. This designation appears on some models in the "Search by brand" section
Booster seats have seen a vast amount of innovation and improvement in the last 30 years. Originally, boosters simply served to 'boost' the child, (giving the child a better visual vantage point in the vehicle), and did nothing in the way of improving safety in a car. "Shield boosters" became moderately popular in the 80s and 90s. They utilized only the lap belt. The theory behind the shield seat was that it held the dangerous belt away from the child's abdomen. In practice, the shield booster did nothing to actually position the belt correctly, and created such a gap between the device and its occupant that the child could easily be ejected from it. The weight and height limitations on these seats were also low.
Shield boosters were used with lap only belts but proved dangerous in design and have been discontinued
Original boosters just lifted the child so they could better see out the window
Manufacturers today are addressing several popular factors that parents and kids run into when it's time to decide whether or not to
Modern boosters are often made for bigger kids in mind
use a booster. Weight and height limits are being increased with almost every booster release, providing a wide array of options for kids of all shapes and sizes. Many more well designed boosters are available at a very low price point, as low as 13 dollars. Manufactures are making boosters more discreet too, so that big kids who might be deterred from using a booster because of what their friends might think, can do so. They're also making boosters with superheroes, princesses, and a wide variety of other characters and patterns to fit almost any child's interests and desires. Added ease of use and convenience features like a drawer for paper supplies or small reading lights in the headrest, may serve the child's needs for comfort in addition to the safety. Travel friendly booster solutions (here and here) mean even families on vacation or who use car-sharing services can make sure their children are correctly restrained 100% of the time. Not only are these boosters fun and easy to use, they give kids the boost they need to fit the adult belt.
Check our complete list of recommended high back boosters and backless boosters. Remember that children who are not yet pubescent will continue to need a booster well beyond 8 years of age, but more typically to 10-12 years of age, and 4'9″-4'11" depending on the vehicle.
Sources Cited:
1. http://www.nhtsa.gov/cars/rules/import/FMVSS/
2. http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/
3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10805030
4. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Seat+Belt+Syndrome
Originally written by Kim Robinson. Edits maintained by CSFTL.
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Q: My div will not slideDown() when clicked. I'm trying to have a drop down menu on a small website I am putting together. For some reason, I can get the div that I want to slide down to fadeOut() and do other things similar but I cannot get it to slideDown(). I have no idea why. There is text on it that says "Menu".
The jQuery is below.
 $(document).ready(function(){
    $("#menu").click(function(){
        $("#menu").moveDown(40px);
    });
});

The CSS is here
body {
    background-color:white;
}

#header {
    width:1024px;
    height:100px;
    margin-top:-25px;
    border:2px solid black;
    border-radius:20px;
    background-color:lightblue;
    margin-bottom:10px;
    margin-left:auto;
    margin-right:auto;
}

#menu {
    position:relative;
    height:400px;
    width:200px;
    background-color:blue;
    border:2px solid black;
    border-radius:15px;
    margin-left:850px;
    margin-top:-345px;
    text-align:center;
}

#menuText {
    margin-top:360px;
    font-family:Verdana;
    font-size:30px;
    font-weight:bold;
}

#heading {
    font-family:Verdana;
    text-align:center;
    margin-top:35px;
}

#myCanvas {
    background-color:white;
}

canvas {
    display:block;
    margin:2px;
}

#body {
    height:768px;
    width:1024px;
    margin-left:auto;
    margin-right:auto;
    border: 2px solid black;
    border-radius:20px;
    background-color:lightblue;

and the HTML is here.

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Document1.css">
    <title>Page Title</title>

Menu

Hello There!

This is a line on my website.

This is another line on my website.

I want to make a game like Super Mario.

I alo want to make a Brick Breaker game.

Below is an unfinished American Flag.

The dimensions of the flag are exact. All the flag needs is some stars.

    <canvas id="myCanvas" width="190" height="100" style="border:2px solid black"> </canvas>
    <canvas id="circle" width="500" height="250" style="border:2px solid black"> </canvas>

I do have another Javascript document but it was only used to draw some pictures on canvas. I am an amateur so it would help if the answers were worded simply. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and I will be so grateful if anybody can help a newbie like me.

A: slideDown() only works on the elements which is hidden with jQuery methods or css display:none.

In your problem your div is already at its height.
So you have to set another div which will contain your menu and set it display to none;
then on click of the menu you can slide it down.
I have set an example Fiddle
Update Fiddle

A: You should do the following:
$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#menu").click(function(){
        $("#menu").slideDown('40px');
    });
});

A: SlideDown won't work because it is already visible, try "slideUp" or "slideToggle"
to understand it better. slideDown will transition an "invisible" div to become "visible" whereas slideUp will transition a "visible" div to become "invsible".
Make your div a child of another div then toggle it like so:
change html:

Menu

change css:
    #menu {
        float: left;
        position: relative;
        height: 400px;
        width: 200px;
        background-color: blue;

    }

            #menuSlide {
        float: left;
        position: relative;
        height: 420px;
        width: 200px;
        background-color: pink;
        border: 2px solid black;
        border-radius: 15px;
        margin-left: 850px;
        margin-top: -345px;
        text-align: center;
    }

change javascript:
    $(document).ready(function () {
        $("#menuSlide").click(function () {
            $("#menu").slideToggle('80px');
        });
    });

This will at least give you a better understanding of how it works...
Play around and make your changes accordingly

A: This code works:
$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#menu").click(function(){
        $("#menu").css("margin-top","40px")
    });
});

Then, you need to change the css positioning of the #menu to position: absolute
Edited:
To make it animated, just add css transitions:
transition: 0.5s all ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: 0.5s all ease-in-out;
-webkit-transition: 0.5s all ease-in-out;

A: make the child nodes hidden at first.
#menuText {
     display:none;
     margin-top:360px;
     font-family:Verdana;
     font-size:30px;
     font-weight:bold;display:none;
}

then have this event handler..
$(document).ready(function(){
     $("#menu").click(function() {
          $("#menuText").slideDown(100);
     });
});

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Leeds United supporters hold up a large banner as they gather outside their Elland Road ground to celebrate the club's return to the Premier League after a gap of 16 years. -- AFP
Bielsa turned the club's fortunes around since taking charge at Elland Road in 2018.
Former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson said Leeds United's return to the Premier League was long overdue and manager Marcelo Bielsa should not be swayed by offers from other clubs as he looks to guide them back to the top of English soccer.
Leeds returned to the Premier League after a 16-year absence on Friday, as West Bromwich Albion's loss at Huddersfield Town guaranteed Leeds a top-two finish in the Championship.
Robinson, who began his professional career with Leeds in 1998, hailed Bielsa for turning the club's fortunes around since taking charge at Elland Road in 2018.
"It's been long-awaited. When I played that last game in 2004, 16 years ago, you never envisaged that Leeds would be out of the top flight for so long, and even dropping to the third tier of England," Robinson told Sky Sports.
"From what he inherited two and a half years ago - a team that finished 14th in the Championship to now automatic promotion to the Premiership, it's fantastic. The biggest thing Leeds did at the end of last season was keep the manager."
"I think this was probably his last shot, he realised how close they got last year... I don't like to think that he could turn away and think 'job done now, I'm going to be remembered here forever', and leave."
Three-time English champions Leeds were relegated from the Premier League in 2004 after hitting financial trouble but can now look forward to renewing old rivalries with the likes of Manchester United and Liverpool.
"As a United fan, I'm happy to see Leeds back in the Premier League. Congrats," Man United striker Marcus Rashford said on Twitter in a post that was later deleted.
Lucas Radebe, who captained Leeds during their previous spell in England's top-flight league, hailed the fans for sticking by the team through tough times.
"It's been a long time. Leeds fans are very special fans, they'll never leave the club. When we dropped to the Championship, we still had a great following. They've played a massive part," Radebe told the BBC.
Liverpool midfielder James Milner and Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy also paid tribute to the Yorkshire club.
"Congratulations LUFC. Back where you belong," Milner, who began his career at Leeds in 2002, wrote on Twitter. Mendy said, "Congratulations Marcelo & the boys. See you next year."
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Crappies are widely popular for southern anglers during those first warm days in March. After all, 50°F water means biting crappies that any angler worth his salt can catch. Yet, crappies aren't the only panfish eager to nail a jig in 50°F water. Bull bluegills are often shallower and easier to catch. In a few months when bluegills are on the beds, everyone has their sights set on them. But if you'd rather not wait until the spawn, you can catch prespawn bluegills now without much competition from other anglers. If trophy hump-head bulls interest you, early spring is your time.
Bluegills are easy to find most of the year. Even big ones are a few links down on the food chain in most waters, so they're rarely caught far from the security of some type of cover. When the sun begins warming the shallows in early spring, they capitalize on mid-depth cover. Depths and types of cover vary from lake to lake. In a highland reservoir it might be a rockpile or emergent weeds on the edge of a secondary creek channel in 8 feet of water; in a shallow oxbow lake it may be cypress knees in 4 feet of water—but more on cover specifics later.
Although cover provides security, that's certainly not all bluegills are after. "In Arkansas oxbows, when the water temperature hits 52°F to 53°F, bluegills quickly move in from wintering areas, stopping at the first shallow cover they come to," says Brandon Gavrock, a wildlife officer with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission in Crittenden County. Gavrock has been fishing oxbow lakes in the Mississippi River Delta since he was a kid. "A bluegill is scared of being eaten by something, so by its nature, it hangs tight to cover. But more importantly for fishermen, at that time of year, they're moving into the shallower cover to feed."
Tiny baitfish and invertebrates are abundant in the thick stuff once the water begins to warm. "Around here, when the water hits 50°F to 52°F for a week, it often brings on the first insect hatch," says Louie Mansfield, a former guide on Tennessee's Reelfoot Lake and owner of Grizzly Jig Company. "Lake flies hatch in the water, float to the surface, and wiggle out of their shells. They collect along standing trees and grasslines at that time of year, and they draw in a lot of bluegills."
Different types of cover serve as suitable staging areas, depending on the fishery. On Kentucky and Barkley lakes, two highland reservoirs known for crappie and bass fishing, but rapidly gaining fame as bluegill and redear fisheries, offshore rockpiles and emergent weeds are great places to check, especially if they're within an easy swim of a good spawning area.
One of my favorite areas on Lake Barkley is within 20 yards of a community wintertime crappie hole. It's a flat just off a secondary creek channel with a large amount of sunken brush. Bluegills are usually scattered within the brush, but they're reliably stacked on a large rockpile on the edge of the channel. In May, the fish bed along the shore within two long casts of that rockpile, and it's a popular spot for bank fishermen. But bluegills are virtually ignored in the area the rest of the year. Fishing for them over that rockpile on even the most brisk of early spring days has always been as reliable for me as when they're on their shallow nests.
On mud- and sand-bottom oxbow lakes, woodcover takes top shelf because weeds and rocks usually aren't as common there. One of my favorite Arkansas oxbows is disconnected from the Mississippi River, and it endured a prolonged drought a few years ago that allowed the shorelines to become covered with willows. Once the lake returned to its normal level, the outside willows were flooded. The deepest of them are now in 5 to 6 feet of water—perfect habitat for early spring bluegills.
Other types of cover also are worth checking. "Man-made cover, such as boat houses and piers, can concentrate bluegills during the early spring," Gavrock says. "I like to fish older, established piers because they're usually the first to grow algae when the water begins to warm. That algae concentrates little baitfish, and those baitfish attract big bluegills and other gamefish."
Beyond cover, water temperature is the most important consideration at this time of year. Bluegills are especially choosy in this regard, and a couple degrees can make an amazing difference. Last spring, for example, while fishing an oxbow lake in Arkansas, I found numbers of fish that were easy to catch among cypress knees, where the water was 54°F. Trouble was, the wind was pounding me on that side of the lake, making it difficult to keep my boat where it needed to be. I motored into calmer water and fished cypress trees in an identical water depth. The water temperature there was 52°F. I never got a bite—two degrees was the difference in hungry fish and the Dead Sea.
Areas where numbers of early spring bluegills congregate can be on two ends of the spectrum when it comes to fishing style. An offshore rockpile in 8 feet of water is a "spot-on-a-spot" area. If your presentation is just a few feet away from the cover, you probably won't get a bite. Casting a slipbobber rig can work, but it doesn't take your rig long to drift out of the strike zone with even a light breeze.
At the same time, a mile of flooded trees in an oxbow lake can present a bewildering amount of cover to fish. If you spend too much time in one area and fail to get your bait in front of enough different pieces of cover, you're apt to never find the sweet spot.
But beyond covering water or fishing a spot within a spot, bluegills in cold water seem to respond best to a bait suspended in front of them and held perfectly still. Fishing vertically with a tiny jig is among the easiest ways to accomplish that. For this, a short ultralight spinning rod works well for offshore, while a long dipping pole is perfect for shallower, visible cover.
I've had good luck with painted 1/32-ounce ballhead jigs tipped with waxworms. Jigs with dressing work as well and seem to entice more strikes from crappies that are testing the shallows. "I prefer a hair jig, such as a black Grizzly Jig, for dipping in oxbow lakes," Gavrock says. "I use either a 1/32- or 1/80-ounce size. A 1/80-ounce slows you down because of its rate of fall, so I like a 1/32-ounce jig for searching, and a smaller jig once I've found fish, particularly if they're acting finicky."
Northland Gypsi Jigs are among my favorites, but any tiny hair jig works. Grizzly Jigs use duck feathers tied to size #10 fly hooks. They're designed specifically for this style of fishing. They're available in sizes down to 1/80-ounce—Mansfield's favorite.
Be prepared for a slow fall when using these tiny jigs over plain ballheads. Carefully control your line to keep it as taut as possible, which is another advantage of fishing vertically. Most strikes occur as the jig is falling, and if your line is slack, you never feel them.
Adding something for scent enhancement is usually a good idea. I like waxworms and begin each outing by hooking the worm through the middle, allowing it to wiggle ever-so-slightly in front of the fish's nose. Once I find fish and decipher whether or not they're finicky about biting, I may thread the waxworm onto the hook to save on worms and rebaiting time. A little piece of redworm works too. Mansfield sometimes foregoes livebait altogether, choosing instead to tip his jig with Berkley Powerbait Nibbles, or to spray it with scent.
Although any ultralight setup works for dropping a tiny jig over the top of submerged offshore structure, a shorter rod has advantages for control and precision. I like a light ice rod when fishing rockpiles in the early spring on Kentucky and Barkley lakes. It draws a few funny looks from southern anglers, but it seems a natural choice for vertically fishing tiny jigs. Sensitivity is paramount in this situation, so I spool up with something that doesn't stretch. Two-pound-test FireLine Crystal is my favorite.
Finding productive offshore areas can be time-consuming in early spring, so casting presentations come into play. For fishing the edges of pea gravel flats, points and emergent grasslines, Kentucky and Barkley lakes guide Jack Canady likes casting a downsized drop-shot rig. "I use a 5½- to 6-foot rod to cast a 1/4-ounce drop-shot weight tied about 18 inches below a #4 Aberdeen hook," he says. "I tie that hook directly to my line, and use a redworm or piece of nightcrawler on it. Six-pound-test fluorocarbon has been the best line for me. Lighter than that and those big shellcrackers can snap it."
Canady is focused more on redears than bluegills in the early spring because they're a more popular species among his clients and plentiful in Kentucky Lake. But he catches plenty of bluegills doing this as well. Even though his presentation is a casting one, it involves a lot of stationary time for the bait. "I raise my rod tip a bit, pull the rig toward me a foot or so, then lower my rod tip to give it a little slack," he says. "That method works well for fish that are staging around cover right off those pea gravel flats before the spawn."
Long, telescoping jigging poles are sold in about every Mid-South tackle shop for less than the cost of a premium crankbait, and they're ideal for this type of fishing. No reel is required, since dipping takes place in less than 10 feet of water, but using one may simplify things. Mansfield uses a graphite rod in the 10-foot range most of the time, with 4-pound Vicious high-visibility yellow line spooled onto an automatic fly reel. The hi-vis line allows him to see strikes a little easier with a 1/80-ounce jig.
I prefer a heavier setup for heavier cover. My two personal favorites include a 10-foot pole with 4-pound monofilament for fishing sparse, isolated cover and the edge of thick cover, and a 13-foot pole with 8-pound FireLine Crystal for reaching back into dense stuff, like flooded willows and cypress knees. Thick woodcover claims a lot of jigs, so the braided line allows you to straighten the hook to free a snagged jig, saving you a few cents and some retying time. You're also better equipped for the occasional channel cat or largemouth.
The idea when dipping shallow cover is to keep moving until you find fish, but you still must give them time to react with each drop. "I may only leave a jig next to a piece of cover for a few seconds when the water is warm," Gavrock says, "but it may take a little longer to entice a bite in the cooler water. I usually drop the jig next to the cover, leave it for 10 seconds or so, and move on to the next piece of cover."
Although the water may only be 5 or 6 feet deep, most of the fish hold in a similar depth next to the cover. Once Gavrock finds a productive depth, he sometimes clips a float to his line for consistency, even if the float isn't necessarily used as a strike indicator. At the very least, he notes the distance of his rod tip from the water's surface at all times. Once he catches a fish, he tries to duplicate the same presentation for the next dip.
When informed anglers think of prespawn fishing, they picture early spring weather in the wake of a long winter, cabin fever relief, and a good chance at trophy-class fish. Early-season bluegill fishing is no different. Like any other type of prespawn fishing, certain techniques seem to have advantages. Dead-sticking a tiny jig around mid-depth cover is always a solid bet.


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Tutankhamun was succeeded in 1352 B.C. by Aye (Ephraim), his great-uncle, protector and, ultimately, the avenger of his death. It was only four years before Aye, too, disappeared mysteriously from the scene, to be replaced by Horemheb (c. 1348-1335 B.C.), an army general, who secured his right to the throne by marrying Mutnezmet, the sister of Nefertiti.
We find Horemheb mentioned in the Old Testament as "a new king over Egypt which knew not Joseph" (Exodus 1:8), a description that cannot be applied to any of the four Amarna rulers, Akhenaten, Semenkhkare, Tutankhamun and Aye, all descendants of Joseph the Patriarch (Yuya), who brought the tribes of Israel down from Canaan to live in Egypt.
Horemheb inherited the religious revolution begun by Akhenaten, to which he was totally opposed. Worship of the Aten was abolished, and the names of the Amarna kings were excised from king-lists and monuments in a studied campaign to try to remove all traces of their rule from Egyptian memory. The task was carried out thoroughly, as was made clear once hieroglyphics were finally deciphered in comparatively modern times. A brilliant young French philologist, Francois Champollion (1790-1832), translated various Egyptian texts that had hitherto been a complete mystery to historians. Among them were the cartouches of the kings-list on the walls of the Osiris temple at Abydos in Upper Egypt. The list, which included the names of the kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty, made no mention of the four Amarna rulers. In the circumstances it is not surprising that when, in the middle of the last century, archaeologists came across the strangely drawn figure of Akhenaten at Amarna they were not sure initially what to make of him. Some thought that, like Queen Hatshepsut, this newly discovered Pharaoh was a woman who disguised herself as a king. Further cause for conjecture arose from the fact that Akhenaten had ascended to the throne as Amenhotep IV and later changed his name. Were they dealing with one Pharaoh or two?
Horemheb also made it a crime, punishable by death, even to mention the name of Akhenaten (Moses). I believe that the origin of the name Moses lies in this ban. Freud, as we saw earlier, pointed out that mos was an Egyptian word meaning "child," but it also had a wider legal meaning, "the rightful son and heir." This is clear from the inscriptions in a tomb at Sakkara about a dispute over a piece of land that lasted over a long period during reigns of different kings of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Dynasties. The plaintiff in the case was a scribe named Khayri, who having been named once is afterward referred to as Mos to indicate his claim to be the rightful inheritor. Consequently, it seems to me that an alternative, a type of codename, had to be found that followers of Akhenaten (Moses) could refer to him. Therefore they called him Mos, the son, to indicate that he was the legitimate son of Amenhotep III and the rightful heir to his father's throne. Later, the biblical editor, who may not have had any knowledge of the original name of the greatest Israelite leader, attempted to put forward a Hebrew explanation of the Egyptian word Moses in order to sever any possible link between Moses and Egypt.
As we saw earlier, from a philological point of view, in Ancient Egyptian, which had no vowels, the written word meaning a child or son consists of two consonants, m and s, although the vowels were pronounced. It is consequently easy to see that the Hebrew word came from the Egyptian word. As for the final "s" of Moses, this derives from the Greek translation of the biblical name.
By the time Horemheb came to the throne, many Egyptians had adopted the Atenist faith and, as a result, were looked upon, in the words of Manetho, the native Egyptian historian of the third century B.C., as "polluted persons." Horemheb persecuted them. He turned the area around the fortified frontier city of Zarw, where Akhenaten (Moses) had been born, into a prison. There he gathered the mass of Akhenaten's followers, both Israelite and Egyptian, plus a variety of criminals, who lived in villages outside the city walls. Horemheb appointed Pa-Ramses (later Ramses I, the first ruler of the Nineteenth Dynasty) as his chief minister, Commander of the Troops, Overseer of Foreign Countries, Overseer of the Fortress of
Zarw and Master of the Horse. Pa-Ramses was therefore the most powerful man in Egypt after Horemheb, and it was he, on Horemheb's orders, who inflicted harsh labor on the Israelites and other prisoners by forcing them to rebuild Zarw as well as a new residence for himself, known later as Pi-Ramses, which, according to the Old Testament, was the starting point of the Exodus.
The length of Horemheb's reign has been the subject of considerable dispute, with estimates ranging from as low as 8 years to as high as 59. Manetho assigned 12 years and 3 months to Horemheb's reign. Support for Manetho's view is provided by two large storage jars, which bear hieratic dockets and were found in fairly recent times in Horemheb's tomb. One of them is dated to "Year 13, third month of Inundation" and is said to have contained "very good quality wine from the vineyard of the estate of Horemheb, beloved of Amun ..." As this is the last sure date we have for him and it agrees with the Manethonian tradition, it should be accepted as indicating the time he died.
The death of Horemheb in 1335 B.C., aged about 70, left Egypt without a legitimate heir to the Eighteenth Dynasty. Pa-Ramses, his chief minister, by now an old man, therefore prepared to claim the throne for himself as the first ruler of a new dynasty, the Nineteenth. It was at this point that Akhenaten (Moses), who had been in exile in the wilderness for about a quarter of a century, decided to try to reclaim his throne—at a time when, according to the Old Testament, the Lord assured him that "all the men are dead which sought thy life" (Exodus 4:19).
The biblical account of these events begins with the appearance of the Lord to Moses in a burning bush on the mount of God, Mount Sinai. The Lord said to him: "I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters . . . And I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land . . . unto a land flowing with milk and honey . . . Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt..." (Exodus 3:7-8, 10).
Moses protested that the Israelites would not listen to him. The Lord said to him: "What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod. And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent . . . And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand . . . And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thine bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow. And he said, Put thine hand into thine bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh. And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. And it shall come to pass that, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou tak-est out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land" (4:2—4, 6-9).
Moses was still unwilling to undertake the mission. He protested that he was "slow of speech and of a slow tongue" (4:10). However, the Lord replied "Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee ... he shall be thy spokesman unto the people ... he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God. And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs" (4:14, 16-17).
Moses and Aaron made their way to Egypt where "Aaron spake all the words which the Lord had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. And the people believed . . . they bowed their heads and worshipped" (4:30-31). However, the oppression begun by Horemheb continued under his successor, Ramses I. When Moses and Aaron sought permission for the Israelites to spend three days in the wilderness to hold a feast to their God, Pharaoh not only refused but increased the harsh treatment of the Israelites: "Behold the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens. And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, Ye shall no more give the people straw to make bricks, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves. And the tale [number] of bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God" (5:5-8).
Faced with this hostility, Moses and Aaron sought permission for the Israelites to leave Egypt altogether. It was refused, whereupon the Lord told Moses that when Pharaoh asked him to perform a miracle he was to instruct Aaron to "take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent . . . Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in a like manner with their enchantments. For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods ..." (7:9-12).
When permission to leave Egypt was still withheld Aaron "lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants, and all the waters that were in the river turned to blood. And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt" (7:20-21). The white-hand ritual is not mentioned in this biblical account of events after the return of Moses to Egypt although it appears in the Koran. However, we are told how his "magic rod" was used to cause a whole series of plagues on the country— frogs, lice, flies, the death of cattle, boils, hail, flooding, locusts and darkness—that resulted eventually in the granting of permission for the Exodus.
The events that inspired this fanciful biblical account are much more mundane. On learning of the death of Horemheb, the implacable enemy of the Amarna kings and the monotheistic Aten, Akhenaten (Moses) decided to return to Egypt to reclaim his throne. If he was born in 1394 B.C. he would have been rising 60 years of age at the time. As he was "slow of tongue"—unable to address Israelites in their Hebrew language—he enlisted the aid of Aaron, his "feeding brother," both of whose parents were Israelites, to help him. He made his way to Zarw, his birthplace, where his challenge as Mos, the rightful ruler, had to be decided by Egyptian priests and elders. In support of his case he took with him his symbol of Pharaonic power—a scepter topped by a brass serpent. This was the "magic rod" of the biblical account. The Hebrew word used in the Bible to indicate the rod of Moses is nahash, which has the meanings of both "serpent" and "brass." In addition, the Haggadah, the legendary part of the Talmud, confirms the royal character of Moses's rod: "The rod which Moses used . . . was shaped and engraved in the image of a sceptre [a staff borne as a symbol of personal sovereignty]."
Akhenaten (Moses) did not simply produce his rod in support of his claim but performed before the priests and elders some secret rituals— secret, that is, from ordinary people—used by Pharaohs in their sed festivals for the purpose of rejuvenating their power, usually in their Year 30. Among them were the use of the serpent rod and the hand ritual described—with some embellishments—in the Exodus account of these events. For instance, in the tomb of Kheruef, one of Queen Tiye's stewards, a throne scene shows the queen with her husband, Amenhotep III. Under the dais of the throne we see Kheruef and other officials, each holding something that he is about to hand to the king so that he can use it during the sedfestival celebrations of his Year 30. In one scene, Kheruef is followed by eight palace officials, the first of whom is wearing an apron. He puts his right arm across his chest and his hand over his left shoulder while he holds his own forearm with the left hand. The fourth of these officials holds a bundle of clothes in his right hand and a curved scepter with serpent's head in his left.
The Koranic account of events after the return of (Akhenaten) Moses to Egypt gives more details than are to be found in the Book of Exodus, since the biblical narrator had a different interpretation of these events. It also presents the confrontation in such a precise way that one wonders if some of the details were left out of the biblical account deliberately. Here Moses sounds less like a magician, more like someone who presents evidence of his authority that convinces the wise men of Egypt, who throw themselves at his feet and thus earn the punishment of Pharaoh. One can only suspect that the biblical editor exercised care to avoid any Egyptian involvement with the Israelite Exodus, even to the extent of replacing Moses by Aaron in the performance of the rituals:
Moses said: "O Pharaoh! I am an apostle from The Lord of the Worlds,— One for whom it is right To say nothing but truth About Allah. Now have I Come unto you (people), from Your Lord with a clear (Sign) So let the Children of Israel Depart along with me."
(Pharaoh) said: "If indeed Thou hast come with a Sign, Show it forth, If thou tellest the truth."
Then (Moses) threw his rod, And behold! it was A serpent, plain (for all to see)! And he drew out his hand And behold! it was white To all beholders!
Said the Chiefs of the people Of Pharaoh: "This is indeed A sorcerer well-versed.
"His plan is to get you out Of your land: then What is it ye counsel?" They said "Keep him And his brother in suspense (For a while); and send To the cities men to collect—
"And bring up to thee
All (our) sorcerers well-versed."
So there came
The sorcerers to Pharaoh:
They said, "Of course
We shall have a (suitable)
Reward if we win!"
He said: "Yea, (and more),— For ye shall in that case Be (raised to posts) Nearest (to my person)."
They said: "O Moses Wilt thou throw (first), Or shall we have The (first) throw?"
Said Moses: "Throw ye (first)." So when they threw, They bewitched the eyes Of the people, and struck Terror into them: for they Showed a great (feat of) magic.
We put it into Moses's mind By inspiration: "Throw (now)
Thy rod": and behold! It swallows up straightaway All the falsehoods Which they fake.
Thus truth was confirmed, And all that they did Was made of no effect.
So the (great ones) were vanquished There and then, and were Made to look small.
But the sorcerers fell down Prostrate in adoration, Saying: "We believe In the Lord of the Worlds,—
"The Lord of Moses and Aaron."
Said Pharaoh: "Believe ye In Him before I give
You permission? Surely This is a trick which ye Have planned in the City To drive out its people: But soon shall ye know (The consequences).
"Be sure I will cut off Your hands and your feet On opposite sides, and I Will cause you all To die on the cross."
sura 7:104-124
So Akhenaten (Moses) was not using magic but seeking to establish his royal authority, and the biblical story relates a political challenge for power in a mythological way. As for the promise that the Nile would turn red, this should be seen as indicating the time of the year. During the season of
Inundation, the Nile waters become reddish, and, if these events took place in the Eastern Delta, this would suggest the late days of summer, by which time this change of color would have begun to affect the lower reaches of the river. Similarly, the various plagues said to have been inflicted on Pharaoh and his country are to be seen as natural occurrences that would manifest themselves in the course of an Egyptian year.
Once they saw the scepter of royal authority and Akhenaten had performed the sed-festival rituals, the wise men "fell down prostrate in adoration," as the Koran puts it, confirming that his was the superior right to the throne. However, Pa-Ramses, who controlled the army, used his power to frustrate the verdict of the priests and elders and retained the right to rule by a kind of coup d'etat. Akhenaten (Moses) was left with no choice but to flee from Egypt with his followers—the Israelites and those Egyptians who had embraced the Atenist faith. So began the Exodus, the first stage of what would prove a long journey to the Promised Land of Canaan.
Akhenaten (Moses) and his followers made their way to Sinai via the marshy area to the south of Zarw and north of Lake Temsah and present-day Ismaelia. This watery route was chosen to hinder pursuit: Egyptian chariots would become stuck in the mud whereas the Israelites, traveling on foot, would be able to cross safely. This is the possible time and location for the biblical account of the pursuing Pharaoh who was drowned. Egyptian sources provide no evidence of this event, but it is certain that the short reign of Ramses I (c. 1335-1333 B.C.) came to an end with his death at this very time. Now faced with the problem of a large number of followers in need of food and water, Akhenaten abandoned his plan to head for Mount Sinai, and instead, went north on the ancient Road of Horus that connected Zarw on the borders of Egypt with the Canaanite city of Gaza. Along the road were settlements with water wells, guarded by military posts. According to the Book of Deuteronomy, Moses was eventually not allowed to enter the Promised Land and was killed by the Lord because "ye trespassed against me ... at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh in the wilderness ..." (32:51). Moses had not been forbidden to obtain water for his followers, which cannot in any case be regarded as a sinful act. The implication is that Akhenaten secured water from the wells along the Road of Horus. This could have been done easily by force although it seems more likely that force was not necessary: he still had his brass scepter of authority, and it is hardly to be imagined that a garrison commander would challenge the wishes of a former king whom he regarded as the Son of Ra.
Realizing that a fertile land was needed to feed his large following, Akhenaten next marched north toward Gaza and attempted to storm the city, seemingly joined by some of his bedouin Shasu allies (the Midianites of the Bible) in the assault. News of these events was reported to Egypt. Seti I (c. 1333-1304 B.C.), the son and successor of the elderly Ramses I, did not even wait for his late father's mummification before marching against Akhenaten, the Israelites and the Shasu. He met and defeated them at many locations on the Horus road as well as central Sinai. There was great slaughter among the Shasu, large numbers of whom were also captured and taken back to Egypt to be sacrificed at the feet of the god Amun-Ra at the Karnak temple. It is likely that Moses was killed by Seti himself in the course of these military operations (with the body either buried in the sand at the place of death, or left there to rot), and that it was his quest for water and food that much later, when the first five books of the Old Testament were written, inspired the waters of Meribah-Kadesh story.
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NEXTGEN signs A/NZ distie deal with Illumio
Reported in ARN and Reseller News, network segmenting vendor Illumio has signed a distribution agreement in Australia and New Zealand with NEXTGEN Distribution.
Referred to as the vendor's "primary distributor" in the region, NEXTGEN will provide Illumio's risk-based visibility, ransomware containment and segmentation capabilities across A/NZ.
As Illumio only utilises one distributor per region, this means NEXTGEN is the vendor's only A/NZ distributor.
"The rise of ransomware and catastrophic breaches has confirmed that current cyber security approaches are failing and organisations need to implement a zero-trust architecture," said Geoff Noble, director of APAC channel and alliances at Illumio.
"Visibility and segmentation are critical to any successful zero trust strategy, and we're thrilled to partner with a premier distributor like NEXTGEN to jointly deliver great value in market." ."
The Illumio solutions are viewed by NEXTGEN to be complementary to its portfolio, NEXTGEN's head of cyber, Gabe Marzano, claimed, with partners able to utilise the distributions presales and technical support with its collaborative cyber security platform CyberLAB.
"The way that IT has been structured and leveraged has fundamentally changed in the last 18 months, and so security needs to move away from legacy, perimeter-focused solutions," she said. "Zero trust offers a compelling and proven approach to security that meets these modern challenges."
The distributor held informal discussions with Illumio for over two years prior to the agreement, stemming from a visit to its headquarters in Silicon Valley back in 2019.
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'Debt Dams' Are About to Burst Thanks to COVID-19
Doc's note: There's a huge crash about to happen that the investors are largely ignoring, according to Stansberry Credit Opportunities editor, Mike DiBiase. But if you're prepared, you could make a killing...
It doesn't seem possible that 2020 could get any worse...
In addition to a global pandemic that has upended our daily lives, leaving millions of folks without jobs, we've seen rioters destroy parts of several U.S. cities... a near-record number of hurricanes... devastating wildfires along the West Coast... just to name a few.
But with all that's going on, I bet you haven't heard about a looming disaster in China. The world's most populated country is enduring its worst flooding in decades...
It hasn't been this bad since 1998, when government estimates showed that floodwaters impacted around one-fifth of the country's population of more than 1 billion. Back then, more than 3,000 people died, and the economic damage totaled more than $20 billion.
This past summer, China had been deluged with a prolonged period of heavy rain.
As a result, the world's largest dam is now in danger of collapsing...
The Three Gorges Dam in central China sits on the Yangtze River. Stretching 3,900 miles, the Yangtze is the third-longest river in the world and China's most important waterway.
The dam is five times bigger than the Hoover Dam in Nevada, spanning 7,700 feet with a height of more than 600 feet. It's also the world's largest hydroelectric power plant.
The reservoir behind the dam holds 42 billion tons of water... When the dam is full, there's so much water that its concentrated weight slows the Earth's rotation by 0.06 microseconds.
Upon completion in 2006, China's state-run media outlets boasted that it could withstand the worst flood in 10,000 years.
Now, just 14 years later, it's in jeopardy of being washed away...
In late July, the Chinese government acknowledged that the dam had "deformed slightly" from the flooding during the month. Operators maintain that the dam is still safe despite the defects... But the danger is not over.
In October, heavy rain caused the Yangtze River to swell, with water levels recorded at 175 meters – 28.5 meters above the Three Gorges Dam's warning level. The enormous weight of the water behind the dam caused landslides along the reservoir.
Tens of millions of people live downstream from the dam along the Yangtze River, including the large populations in Wuhan and Shanghai. If the dam fails, hundreds of thousands of people will likely die... and millions more will probably see their homes washed away.
Now, I'm not a structural engineer. I can't tell you whether or not the Three Gorges Dam will ever collapse... or whether it's within years, weeks, or even days of a catastrophe. I certainly hope not. No one wants to see millions of people lose their homes or worse.
But I am an analyst who tracks what's going on with the credit markets. And as I read about the dangerous floodwaters rising at the Three Gorges Dam, it reminds me of how the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating our debt problem...
The COVID-19 pandemic is a lot like the continual storms in China this year, dumping pain on the economy...
Government and corporate debt levels are rising steadily, day after day... much like the waters along the Yangtze River. With most businesses' sales down significantly due to the shutdowns, they're forced to borrow just to pay the bills.
The longer COVID-19 weighs down the world's economies... the higher the debt "floodwaters." Like the floodwaters at the Three Gorges Dam, this rising debt is putting massive pressure on companies' capital structures.
Not every company will be able to withstand the pressure. Many "debt dams" will break. Here's what I mean...
You can think of a "debt dam" as a divider between a company's debt and equity...
The debt dam separates a company's debtholders from its stockholders.
Think of the company's stockholders as the folks who live just down the river from the dam. The company's debtholders live above the dam, near the reservoir. The flow of water in the river is the capital that the company needs to flourish.
The debt dam brings a lot of benefits...
First, it keeps the stockholders from flooding by giving the large amounts of capital a safe place to accumulate. In other words, when companies want to raise cash, they can use their reservoir of debt. By using debt to raise the capital, stockholders aren't flooded with new shares of stock every time the company needs cash.
Second, the dam generates power for stockholders. In that regard, you can think of debt like a power generator for corporate earnings. It allows companies to produce much higher profits on a given amount of equity investment.
The problem, of course – as with most things in life – is excess...
Too much of a good thing becomes dangerous... Extra leverage brings added risk. When the sun stops shining, the debt doesn't go away. It still must be repaid.
That's exactly the problem facing many companies today. They were already levered to the hilt even before the COVID-19 pandemic began... U.S. corporate debt was at an all-time high, both in nominal dollars and as a percentage of gross domestic product.
And now with the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, corporate debt piles are growing dangerously larger... totaling $11 trillion today compared to $6.6 trillion back in 2008.
Like the Chinese government officials operating the Three Gorges Dam amid prolonged periods of heavy rain, companies hope the COVID-19 "storm" passes quickly. But immense pressure is building. Their "debt dams" are fast approaching the point of failure...
And the thing is, many will collapse.
When a "debt dam" breaks, it completely wipes out all equity...
When a company goes bankrupt, the equity instantly becomes worthless. The debtholders take over everything that's left. And when companies emerge from bankruptcy at some point down the road, they only do so with new owners.
So far, we've eclipsed 53 million reported cases of COVID-19 globally, including over 11 million in the U.S. Unfortunately, the current economic storm isn't likely to subside anytime soon. The spread of the virus is likely to accelerate during the winter flu season...
The longer we're dealing with the threat of COVID-19, the more "debt dams" are in danger of collapsing. That's why I believe a vast wave of bankruptcies is approaching...
In fact, we're already starting to see this play out across corporate America...
According to credit-ratings agency Standard & Poor's (S&P), 129 U.S. companies defaulted on their debt so far this year... the most since 192 defaulted in 2009.
And unfortunately, this is just the beginning. Things will get much worse...
Today, the default rate is around 6% – up from 3% at the start of the year. That means 6% of all U.S. corporate borrowers have defaulted over the past year. S&P forecasts that the high-yield default rate will rise to 12.5% by June 2021. That would be the highest default rate since the Great Depression in 1932.
S&P's "pessimistic" forecast projects the default rate to reach 15.5%. A 12.5% default rate means another 240 companies will go bankrupt over the next year. A 15.5% rate means more than 300 companies will go under.
We're just seeing the initial cracks in the side of the dam today. The real damage hasn't even been done yet.
The excessive debt balances can only continue to rise for so long. Eventually – and in most cases, suddenly – companies collapse. Unsuspecting investors will be wiped out.
But you don't have to be one of them. If you're prepared, you could make a killing...
There's an easy way to take advantage of the coming credit crisis using a little-known investment that's used by some of the world's greatest investors. It offers the chance to make large, safe profits completely outside of the stock market with legal protections that stocks don't have.
These investments have the potential to double your money or more... plus send you a dividend-like payment of 10 to 20% or more while you wait for your legally protected payout.
These types of opportunities only come about once in every decade. But it's critical you know what to do now, well in advance.
You don't have to quit stocks or make radical changes. Even if you only consider this strategy for a portion of your portfolio – it could completely change your life in the coming months.
Mike DiBiase


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MEA Summary Review: A Critique of the CBT Model in ME/CFS by Dr Keith Geraghty | 27 April 2019
Dr Geraghty at the University of Manchester Centre for Primary Care led a team of international experts – from Harvard, Berkeley and DePaul Universities in America – and set about reviewing the cognitive behavioural model of ME/CFS; both the theory attached to it and all the evidence said to validate it.
The 'cognitive behavioural model' of chronic fatigue syndrome: Critique of a flawed model
Health Psychology Open 23rd April 2019
Keith Geraghty1, Leonard Jason2, Madison Sunnquist2, David Tuller3, Charlotte Blease4 and Charles Adeniji1
1University of Manchester, UK 2DePaul University, USA 3University of California – Berkeley, USA 4Harvard University, USA
Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis is a debilitating illness that greatly impacts the lives of sufferers. A cognitive behavioural model attempts to explain illness onset and continuance with a hypothesis that the illness is perpetuated by patients' irrational beliefs and avoidance behaviours. This theory underpins the promotion of cognitive behavioural therapy, a treatment that aims to change beliefs and behaviours. This article reports on a detailed review of the cognitive behavioural model. Our review finds that the model lacks high-quality evidential support, conflicts with accounts given by most patients and fails to account for accumulating biological evidence of pathological and physiological abnormalities found in patients. There is little scientific credibility in the claim that psycho-behavioural therapies are a primary treatment for this illness.
Funding for this research was provided by the ME Association Ramsay Research Fund.
Review by Dr Keith Geraghty, University of Manchester.
In the early 1990s, UK psychiatrists proposed a model to explain how ME/CFS might begin and be perpetuated. This model is known as the Cognitive Behavioural Model (CBM).
Read the full paper: The 'cognitive behavioural model' of chronic fatigue syndrome: Critique of a flawed model.
It forwards a hypothesis that the illness may begin after an infection or stressful life event; that certain individuals are more susceptible, those with a previous history of trauma, abuse or depression/anxiety; and that the illness is perpetuated by sufferers' holding on to beliefs that they have a physical illness or that they 'irrationally' avoid exercise.
"The key themes in Keith's work are improving patient care, promotion of physician well-being, reducing harms, assessment of clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, and improving doctor-patient relations."
The University of Manchester.
Dr Keith Geraghty, University of Manchester.
The theory underpins the promotion of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET) as potential treatments for ME/CFS.
A number of clinical trials of CBT and GET have been conducted that reported positive results, that CBT/GET improved patients' symptoms, fatigue, pain, depression, anxiety and quality of life. Other trials reported no benefits.
The largest clinical trial, the PACE Trial, reported a 22% recovery rate and over a 60% improvement rate using CBT/GET.
This trial attracted criticism after key measures were changed mid-trial. Reanalysis of recovery data puts recovery closer to 10% using CBT/GET, little above the natural rate of recovery seen using standard medical care.
"Most people are not cured by CBT/GET and few find benefit while some find these interventions worsen symptoms and lead to deterioration."
Most people are not cured by CBT/GET and few find benefit while some find these interventions worsen symptoms and lead to deterioration. This will not come as news to ME/CFS patient charities, who've long argued that psychotherapy is not an appropriate primary treatment for an illness that is not psychological in origin and for which undue exertion can result in increased symptoms and harm.
"An Idealised Narrative Model"
As scientists, however, we were rather astonished to find that there is very little evidence to support the idea that ME/CFS is indeed perpetuated by patients' beliefs and behaviours. In fact, we found more evidence exists to disprove this theory than validate it.
"This story is fatally flawed in places. Yet proponents of CBT/GET ignore this and continue to promote psychotherapy no matter what the evidence tells them. This is bad science."
Even where we did find some evidence that ME/CFS may be linked to things like personality factors or behavioural changes, the evidence was weak and many of the studies had serious methodological flaws and biases.
And we found that the CBM of ME/CFS is promoted despite contradictory evidence. We termed the model, "an idealised narrative model". This theory of ME/CFS is promoted without much evidential support or proof.
Contradictory Evidence
There is considerable contradictory evidence that refutes core aspects of the CBM. For example, the idea that patients irrationally believe they are physically sick is refuted by considerable and growing evidence of biological abnormalities found in ME/CFS; immunological, neurological and biochemical.
"The model fails to even consider that post-infectious changes might perpetuate the illness, and instead favours the notion that ME/CFS is sustained by patients being afraid of exercise or activity – a claim that is not evidence-based."
The notion that patients are wrong to believe that their symptoms of pain or fatigue are not related to such biological changes is illogical and invalidates the CBM. The model fails to even consider that post-infectious changes might perpetuate the illness, and instead favours the notion that ME/CFS is sustained by patients being afraid of exercise or activity – a claim that is not evidence-based.
To the contrary, most ME/CFS sufferers are keen to return to normal activities, a trait that, for example, differentiates ME/CFS from depression: most sufferers rest or pace themselves to avoid symptom flares or post-exertional malaise. Patients' actions are in keeping with expected responses to a chronic debilitating illness.
"There is little scientific credibility in the claim that the psycho-behavioural therapies should be primary treatments for this illness."
Evidence from clinical trials, NHS clinics and patient surveys, reveal a consistent pattern, that few patients recover using CBT or GET. Indeed, many patients report deterioration after trying graded exercise therapy.
There is little scientific credibility in the claim that the psycho-behavioural therapies should be primary treatments for this illness. However, the NHS and NICE continue to recommend CBT and GET for people with ME/CFS.
There are few other areas of medicine where the model of an illness is promoted by health professionals and yet is rejected by most patients who have tried the treatments meant to help them. We think it is time health authorities took a closer look at the promotion of CBT and GET and involved patients in decision-making.
Many patients do not want CBT or GET, they want better and more appropriate medical care and more biomedical research to finally discover what is causing their symptoms and thus lead to effective treatments.
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Do you remember what your first childhood memory was?
I do… it's crystal clear (and by the way, this was one of the questions I was asked last week during a podcast interview).
I was 4 years old and it was Christmas Eve. My parents had let me sleep out on the couch where I would be able to get a glimpse of Santa (because of course, I thought I was going to be able to stay awake). I remember it as if it were yesterday.
It was as close to magic as I could get. It was as though I had closed my eyes for just a second (resting my eyes… do you remember that as a kid?) and when I opened them ALL the presents were there! The stockings were stuffed, the gifts were laid out and there was just an extra layer of sparkle to everything.
The baby buggy I had wanted was put together with a big bow on it!
I grabbed the baby buggy and went running down the hall to my parent's bedroom to tell them Santa had come and to show them the shiny new baby buggy.
Of course, my parents had probably only gotten to bed a little while before I anxiously woke them up… and I don't even remember what they said next (probably just go back to bed so they could get some sleep before my brother & sister woke up). Talk about wonder and pure joy!
Not a bad first memory, right?
Another holiday memory that is pretty strong for me is how I always used to get sick during the holidays.
Which is where I ended up this weekend.
I had 3 days to myself and thought I was going to get all kinds of things accomplished.
Nope. After I got my email out on Friday I ended up climbing back in my bed, only to wake up feeling worse on Saturday and Sunday. Which is why you didn't get another Black Friday/Cyber Monday deal email from me yesterday.
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