text:
tv FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace FOX News August 11, 2013 3:00pm-4:01pm PDT
i'm chris wallace. president obama faces new questions about how he's waging the war on terror. in a he prevacation news conference the president discusses government surveillance. >> i want to make clear once again that america is not interested in spying on ordinary people. >> the threat facing americans overseas. >> we are not going to completely eliminate terrorism p. what we can do is weaken it. >> the state of relations with rush why and battle over obama care. >> the one unifying principle in the republican party at the moment is making sure that 30 million people don't have healthcare. >> we'll get reaction to all of you from senator john mccain, just back from the middle east.
plus, war over planned projects by cnn and nbc, on the life and career of hillary clinton. the gop now threatening to block both networks from hosting primary debates. >> the parent companies are choosing to promote hillary clinton when they know darn well that she is getting ready to run for president. >> we'll ask two key political strategists joe trippi and chip saltsman, is the race for 2016 already on. and the power play of the week still with mike tyson. and hello again from fox news in washington. president obama has left the capital for his summer vacation. he arrived if martha's vineyard after his first full press conference in more than three months. and he made news on the government surveillance program
relations with russia, and our war against al qaeda. he is not senator john mccain, republican leader on national security who just returned from the mideast joins us now from arizona. senator, welcome back to fox news sunday. >> thank you, chris. >> president obama said friday he wants to reform the government's surveillance program. add safe guards. make the whole program more transparent. republican congressman pete king, a member of the house intelligence committee said this. that he called it a monumental failure of war time leadership. senator mccain was right. >> i think it's pretty clear that there's been failures throughout that have led to mr. snowden now being granted asylum in russia. there is now a large percentage of americans particularly young americans, who view mr. snowden as some kind of a whistleblower
when we know he betrayed his oath of office. there is some young that believe he is some kind of jason bourn. we need to ask questions, like why did mr. snowden have access to what he had access to. it couldn't have been his job. what about congressional oversight. have we had a failure there? and clearly mr. snowden granted asylum in russia is a signal of incredibly bad relations between the united states and russia and mr. putin putting his thumb right in america's eye. >> let's talk about some of the specific reforms that president obama suggested. let's put them up on the screen. have a privacy advocate argue against government. tighten mass collection of phone records. be more transparent about
surveillance. do you think those are good ideas or could they impede our ability to stop any terrorist who has means to do us harm? >> there's a careful balance here between preserving our assets and capabilities and making sure that the american people are convinced that their privacy is not being violated. and it is a careful balance. right now as i mentioned, there is a generational change here. young americans do not trust this government. without trust in government then you can't did a lot of things. so i don't disagree with any of those proposals of the presidents. but i also would ask how in the world that we have all of these thousands of contractors and people like snowden who may have access to information that there is no reason for them to have. we used to have a thing called need-to-know. clearly mr. snowden did not need to know the information he is now revealing.
it is also revealing the state of our relations with rushsia and mr. putin. >> i will get to that in a moment. but first, breaking news. the state department reopened 18 of 19 missions and consulates, diplomatic posts across the middle east, north africa near asia. did the administration do the right thing in closing those embassies to respond to the terror threat or as some of our foreign partners say, did it in effect be an act of retreat on this part of the country against the threats in the middle east? >> i'm not sure it was a matter of retreat. but it authenticates the incredible threat that al qaeda poses to the united states of america and our embassies and consulates throughout north america. you can't say on one hand you have destroyed quote core al qaeda. that is semantic gym mastics which is remarkable.
you can't say that and at the same time close embassies and consulates all oest mideast. look al qaeda is on the rise. they have been on the rise. they continue to penetrate. they have almost a free zone in the iraq/syria syrias that border iraq is now -- excuse me. al qaeda is strengthening everyday in every way because of a lack of american leadership and policy. the only american policy i can think of that president obama is practicing is one he is not bush and second that the united states is withdr we are withdrawing. and when you do that, and when you say that then things get a lot worse than they are and they continue to get worse and without that policy, without a strong policy we are in trouble. let me give you an example. the president said, if assad used chemical weapons it would
cross the line and be a game-changer. we now know for sure that assad used chemicals weapon. what has united states done? maybe in ways provide light weapons to the resistance which is not doing anything of benefit. and bashir assad is succeeding. >> i want to play what president obama has said about the state of al qaeda the last year. take a look. >> today, al qaeda is on the run and osama bin laden is dead. >> for al qaeda is a shell of its former self. groups must be dealt with. >> the united states is never going to retreat from the world. >> we don't get terrorized. >> senator, a moment ago, you said al qaeda is on the rise. you are not subjecting that al qaeda is stronger than it was
pre9/11. >> i'm saying they me taft sized in a way they may pose threat threats throughout the middle east, they can destabilize missions, have acts of terror literally everywhere and there the perception throughout the mid aeflteastdle east that there is no policy and that there is accommodation it that reality. when they believe that, then you are going to see extremist element on the rise and clearly they are throughout the middle east. action of closing embassies shows they are mounting threats everywhere in the middle east against the united states of america and they are playing in ways that is going to pose challenge to the united states for years to come. >> you talked earlier about russia. i want to get back to that.
obama cancelled a meeting with putin earlier this week. he also made it clear he want to continue to do business with russia. take a look at what the president said. >> i know the press likes to focus on body language and he's got that kind of slouch looking like the bored kid in the back of the classroom. but the truth is is that when we're in conversations together, often times it is very productive. >> senator, is the relationship productive? is canceling the summit enough or should we get tougher with putin and russia? >> the president comparing him to a kid in the back of the classroom, i think is very indicative of the president's lack of appreciation of who vladimir putin is. he is an old kgb colonel that has no illusions about our relationship, does not care about a relationship with the united states. continues to owe press his people. continues to owe press the media and continues to act in an
unhelpful fashion by continuing, for example, to veto resolutions in the united nations secure ut council concerning assad's atrocities in syria. look, what -- and the fact that cancelled the meeting, that's fine. it is imbolic. we need to expand the migniski act, and that is holding people responsible for actions this rush why. we need to emphasize human rights and we also need very badly to understand obama doesn't have any putin relationship in any authority and treat him in a realistic fashion. that is how to treat mr. putin.
not just cancel a meeting. earlier in the week you were trying to convince the government they were backing to again to release political prisoners and to reach out to demonstrators, muslim brotherhood in the street and try to persuade them to go back it a democratic system. generals not only rebuffed you but said they would crack down if they didn't clear the streets pretty quickly. question, what do you think should happen if the generals go ahead with their threat and violently crack down on the muslim brotherhood protesting? should we cut off aid to egypt and wh would that do to the chances of deinvolving into a civil war?
>> when the united states of america refuses to call a military takeover of a government -- refuses to call that a coup then it is hard for us to urge them to observe the rule of law and constitution. but there's no doubt that president morrissey abused his power as president and there is uprising against morsi. but now it is a coup and we may have jailed leaders of the previous government and that is not the way to bring about reconciliation. they are charging mr. morsi and others with crimes, for example in his case, before he ran for president and we urged the release of some of the political prisoners, the answer was it was a judicial matter. it is not a judicial matter. it is the orders of the new government and military. i worry a great deal.
there's still around 30% of the people that support the muslim brotherhood. we could see eruption and bloodshed that would be hoe horrendous. >> let me quickly ask you because we are running out of time. >> sure. >> if this do crack down are you going to call in aid for egypt. >> i'm afraid the congress of the united states would have to consider carefully ending aid. it is not just aid. it is economy tourism relationship legitimacy in the world and a lot of other things and i'm afraid they are not appreciative of it while demonizing the united states of america in the streets. it is a sad thing to see. >> senator we have less than a minute left. i want it ask you one and final question. you have been spending a lot of time with president obama recently. talking about foreign policy pushing immigration reform. you helped work out a deal for the senate to stop filibustering
some of his nominees an jay leno asked the president about it this week. take a look. >> i remember you two had lovers quarrel for a while. and now you're all -- >> well, that is how -- that's how a classic romantic comedy goes. >> i was going to ask you, are you going soft on obama but i have to say from some of your answers today, it is clear you're not. so it is a romantic comedy or tragedy? >> i think it is a situation where i will work with the president and the american people want us to. look at the approval ratings and i will work with the president where i can. but m in places like syria where a hundred thousand people tortured, raped murder, mayhem is taking place with increasing influence of muslim extremists, that is something that i have to fight against and we need a coherent national security policy, particularly in the middle east but in the world.
and we don't have that right now. and i intend to do what i can to restore america's prestige and influence, which is on the wane. >> thank you for the romantic comedy. it is always good to talk with you sir. >> thank you, sir. >> hillary clinton and chris christie run strong in early polls. let the talk of 2016 begin. two veterans presidential campaigns, join us next. ♪
with the spark cash card from capital one... boris earns unlimited rewards for his small business. can i get the smith contract ease? thank you. that's three new paper shredders. [ boris ] put 'em on my spark card. [ garth ] boris' small business earns 2% cash back on every pchase every day. great businesses deserve unlimited rewards. read back the chicken's testimony, please. "buk, buk, bukka!" [ male announcer ] get the spark business card from capital one and earn unlimited rewards. choose 2% cash back or double miles on every purchase every day. told you i'd get half. what's in your walle huh...fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. yep, everybody knows that. well, did you know the ancient pyramids were actually a mistake?
uh-oh. geico. fifteen minutes could save you...well, you know. we have a big problem that cnn and msnbc think they will put together movesies about
hillary clinton and that the republican party will just go ahead and get along. >> reince priebus threatening two networks will be locked out of president bl debates if they go along with film project about hillary clinton. joining us to discuss political situations for 2014 and '16 are chip saltsman who managed huckabee's run for the white house and joe trippi who worked on the campaigns of ted kennedy and walter mon do you. should they good ahead and act on the threat from chairman priebus if nbc and cnn don't back out and there is talk that fox television would get involved also. should they act on this? >> they are very excited that chairman is doing this.
this is one of the things where the chairman will lay down the gauntlet. will they pull their hillary clinton mini series in no. i think is good fund-raising on both sides too. >> let me ask you about that, too, do they look strong or silly? and in a practical sense with a diane lane mini series because she apparently signed up for the mini series to play hillary clinton, to bolster the campaign in 2016. >> i agree with chris. this is great fund-raising strategy from the rnc. but, no i don't think -- the reason networks are doing this is because of how formidable a candidacy clintons would be. she is so formidable. there is a story there, they think. but also, look democratic party, they did this with fox. protested. did a boycott. it doesn't work. i mean, the last time i checked fox is doing pretty well with its viewers. i don't think this will work. it is good for the base. jabs them up raises money.
but that's about all -- the only impact it will have, chris. >> meanwhile, there is a new poll out of new hampshire that shows a couple of interesting things. let's but that up on the screen. new jersey governor chris christie has the lead at 21%. senator marco rubio is back in fifth place at 6%. back in april. rubio was tied with christie for had the lead at 15%. couple of questions chip why is christie so strong, not only in that poll but a bunch of national polls. and secondly, has rubio been hurt that badly by his support for comprehensive immigration reform? >> i don't think there is any question it's been hurt. from iowa it south carolina and really all over the country. this is the issue that everybody -- they thought rubio would be in kind of new republican that would lead us to the white house in 2016. get up there and trying it start making deals this is the problem we've all got. we've got to get something done. it hurts you in the national polls. >> what about chris christie?
he is the hot hand at the national level. if you take it down to the microcosm in the primary states not so much. he is doing well with independence and regular republicans but with the right hand of the party, he is not so popular. >> i want to ask you both about the news conference and his reaction from the threat of some republicans to shut down the government if obama care is not defunded. take a look. >> the idea that you would should down the government unless you prevent 30 million people from getting healthcare, is a bad idea. >> joe the president was all but taunting the republicans, you know, saying go ahead, try to link a defunding obama care to shut down of the government. make my day. do democrats just love the prospect of republicans going down this road? >> i don't know if they love it but it is a good tactic.
>> good tactic for whom? >> for the president. look, what's going on here is that people want -- they want it repealed. they may want it changed. but they don't want the government shut down to happen to force that to happen. so the president daring them to do it. it is helpful for 2014. republicans are going to go on record. they are either going to force a shut down. we've been through this before, didn't work too well with newt gingrich and the republican string the last one. i think trying to push against republicans but making sure if they do it there will be a cost. >> chip, republican leaders the leaders in the house and senate hate this idea of linking obama care, defunding to whether or not the government gets funded. but i've got to say, i talked to a lot of tea party republicanes who say it is time to put up or shut up. if you really hate obama care, the power of the purse is the way can you stop it. you can't end it, but delay it
by a year by defunding it. >> i want it put up a very interesting poll this weekend. gallup's latest poll. obama's approval rating is down to 41%. it hasn't been lower than that in almost two years. chip what are the political stakes here for the gop. have you a somewhat vulnerable president. a lot of growing doubts about him on obama care and other issues. on the other hand, do you really want to take the microsofthostage and say, no obama care. >> he is driving hi approval ratings down. the white house believes if it can get some fight on the government shut down it makes him president again. there is no question our party wants this vote. they are okay with shutting down the government. you have literally control of the united states senate hanging and balancing on as the party goes over the next six months we will decide if we get control over the united states senate based on obama care or not. that depend on who we elect if
the pry primary, can they beat dem krts krats -- >> yeah, but will that help the republicans in 2014 or hurt them? >> i think it cuts both ways. helps people run in primaries in senate races but hurts candidates and maybe our strongest in the general. >> this is the entire problem they've had for 2010 and 2012. the republicans should have the u.s. senate. they should have gained it in 2010 and doubled up on it in 2012 but because they have this fight and vote on shutting down the government could end up again nominating people like sharron angle sharron angle and why they nominated her in nevada. looks like 2014, republicans should have a great shot at senate. may not happen. >> okay let's talk about that.
let's look at landscape for 2014 after a special election in new jersey, which the democrats are expected to win in october there will likely be we will assume that, 55 senators voting with democrats. 45 republicans. which mean the gop will need a net pick up, net pick up of six seats to take back the senate. but republicans have one advantage. they are defending only 15 seats in 2014 while democrats are defending 20 seats they now hold. chip, i know it is a little silly but we like to play these games. looking at it from the vaptage point of summer 2013 how good are republican prospects for november of 2014? >> i'm going third time's a charm and we will win in it2004 and joe is right, we should have got it in 2010. i love where the seats are. i love going up against -- >> freshman republican congressman who will run against
mark pryor in a red state. >> where obama has 20% approval rating and defunding obama care may be an issue to elect him in the general. >> and let me ask you, republicans have another advantage. they have only two open seats take a look at this, two states where due to retirement they have seen saltsman -- there we go while democrats have five open seats including in the red states of montana, south dakota and west virginia that are now blue -- have a good chance they are, i would say typically red states, how do you make 2014 the race for the senate? >> well, first off, chip is right. except for the third time's a charm thing, i think what's happening here is again in these primaries, like have you mitch
mcconnell in kentucky. mike bevins of the tea party is hit on the right. have a tough primary fight and at the same time have a real life challenger within the democratic party. and he is going to get pinched by both sides in this thing. they are on the verge i think of blowing a third opportunity because of the fights they are having within the party. seniors for the first time are starting to move away from republicans in the polls, and it looks like they feel the party has gone too extreme. so yes, democrats carrying barack obama and his policies and republicans like cotton carrying the notion that maybe the party has gone too extreme again in the senate, as it did in 2010 and 2012.
>> whipchip, briefly, kentucky, the senate republican leader in a tough fight against bevin webs first of all in primary. a faerty favorite and supposing he survives that he would go uch against allisonlander began grimes in the general election. mcconnell in trouble? >> i think that's what the media will say tri to say, he loves the political fights in his life. he has been doing it 30 years. he has a great base in kentucky and relishes the opportunity to take his record of kentucky and fight every step waist. he will be at every county. he is still a grass roots politician that loves this stuff. i think you will see him on top in november. >> i should also point out, if you think we are silly talking about this in a year and half ahead of time, in kentucky all three candidates are all up with ads, hammering each other already. chip and joe, thank you for coming in today. we will stay on top of all of this. next up, we will bring in our sunday panel.
we will hear what they have to say about president's surveillance program and where we stand on the war on terror.
>> former c.e.o. of hewlett-packard and the reporter for the white house and the associated press. president obama wants to strike the right balance, he says between our freedoms and our security in proposing reforms of government surveillance and the aclu said he has not gone far enough and some conservatives said he is jeopardizing our safety in an effort to satisfy groups like the aclu. does that mean, bill he got the ball just right? or he totally messed it up? >> we don't know what he proposed, it was so vague. he has been president 4 1/2 years you would assume he would be attending to the programs. i would think there probably is a balance so if he wants to
tweak it he can but he needs to row assure people and he did to some degree he is paying attention and there is no rampant violation of privacy. >> it is interesting, senator lieberman, the president criticized n.s.a. leaker edward snowden as no patriot and he and the administration have been tougher and charged him with violating espionage but in effect, he was saying the leaks had raised legitimate concerns on the part of the american people about whether their privacy is being violated. does that cast the hole snowed were case in a different light? >>guest: i hope not. i believe the programs are critically important to our security almost is no ever presented that n.s.a. surveillance programs have compromised anyone's civil liberties or privacy. this is anxiety that has been aroused by the revelation. i think the president so far has stood by the programs and defended them. obviously, snowen, in my
opinion, he is a criminal and he is the reason why the president said what he did on friday. the president was interesting he said in an indirect way he continues to have confidence in the n.s.a. surveillance program but he wants to act and reassure the public to have similar confidence. i don't think he would do that if snowden had not violated the laws in the way he did. >> do you think he needed to take the steps, for instance, to haven a advocate who will oppose the government in the fisa court or should he just have stood firm? >>guest: the advocate is a good idea. it gives due process. there will be an independent person to represent the other side in a closed secret proceeding which has to remain closed. we don't know what the rest -- what the president is proposing and i worry because again, these are critically important programs to our national security. i wish someone maybe my former colleagues in congress, would
take a look at the other side of this from civil liberties and privacy and investigate, how did snowden break this system? how did he compromise our security? also how did he devalue the intelligence the american taxpayers have spent billions to develop for our security? >>chris: switching subjects the state department today, is re-opening 18 of the 19 diplomatic posts that it closed across the middle east and north africa last week of the in may at the natural defense university the president talked how he started to lay the groundwork for ending this war on terror. does the threat from al-qaeda and the fairly strong response from the president, show he was premature to talk about that? >>guest: of course. i thought it was odd. this war, like all wars must come to an end.
that denies the fact that al-qaeda is at least partly in charge of when the war is over. clearly al-qaeda and their affiliates have decided the war is going on for a very long time. obama has looked consistently thigh eve about there and i think he has been driven by political purposes. however, he was absolutely right to close the embassies and take very forthright action to protect american lives and perhaps benghazi had nothing to do with that. >>chris: and how big a factor julie, do you think benghazi was in the president's reaction, we would not be accused of underreacting? along those lines, there was an interesting point that hasn't gotten so much attention be the president talked about a sealed inindictment. those are sealed for a reason, because they are secret. the president talked about the sealed indictment of some of theally perpetrators of benghazi attack but he said really, we
were the ones who located the story the previous day. how embarrassed is the white house about the fact that the president owned up to the fact they are talking about a seed indictment of some of the alleged perpetrators? >>guest: i don't think they are embarrassed. it was purposeful he talked about it. you don't hear presidents talk about sealed indictments publicly however, but the effect of benghazi on their policies and reactions it has been hugely important. if you remember back do when he may comments about the situation in egypt the first thing he said was not about what was happening with the military or president morsi but what the united states would do with the embassy in cairo. that has changed how the united states feels it has to react publicly and these other countries. the embassies are huge targets, the most visible united states presence in a lost countries where a lot of people voice strong anti-american sentiment. >>chris: bill, what do you
make of the personal shots and we played some of john mccain personal shots president obama took at putin talking about him as the bored kid slouching in the back of the classroom and canceling the summit but saying i want to continue to do business with russia. >>guest: that is a leak talking about the core al-qaeda and discussing that and they leak this stuff to defend their own actions or excuse their own failures. previous presidents would take the hit on this stuff, they would not say well we intercepted a conference call they said we do the right thing for the country. that is distressing about the obama administration they get criticism and they leak something, great. so now al-qaeda knows that
what they thought was highly secret cable, now they know we are on to them. rather than keeping quiet and finding people they put out the fact they have a sealed indictment. this does trump, i'm afraid, national security. >>chris: when we come back, president obama dares republicans to shut down the government over obamacare. plus, a changing of the guard at one of the pill alreadies of the -- one of the pillars of the news establishment. >> the "washington post" is known as newspaper that brought down a president. >> it played an important role in journalisms and american policy. >> the william weapon sold the "washington post" to jeff bezos and what and this mean for the word of newspapers? we will ask our panel, next. what does this ♪ ♪ [ lighter flicking
] [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where giving up isn't who you are. ♪ ♪ this is the age of knowing how to make things happen. so, why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. 20 million men already have. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain; it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects include headache, flushing upset stomach, and abnormal vision. to avoid long-term injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing. this is the age of taking action. viagra. talk to your doctor.
the really interesting question is why it is that my friends in the other party have made the idea of preventing these people from getting healthcare their holy grail. >> president obama on his way out the door for vacation delivers a parting shot at republicans threatening to
defund obama care. even at the cost after government shut down. we are back now with the panel. democrats clearly think and can you see it there that republicans would be making, summer republicans, making a grievous mistake were they to tie obama care to funding the government, carly. are the democrats why? would it be a bad mistake? >> i do think they're right unfortunately. i think the republicans honestly have missed an opportunity here. i believe obama care is an owe bomb nation. it will not work. 2600 pages under political heat will be a disaster. my fear is we will end up so negatively impacking a sixth of our economy that it will be very hard it recover. so i understand the emotion behind, this is our last shot. when i say, i think the republicans have missed an opportunity, i don't think the american people are particularly satisfied with an answer that says let's repeal it but we don't know what we will do instead.
so what i would have hope said that over the last four plus years there would have been thoughtful people, saying, the original goal is right. access to affordable healthcare. here is what we should do instead. and there is no "instead." i think that will be a big problem. >> i want to pick up on that aspect of this whole debate, senator leiberman. even acknowledgement of bumps in the road, obama care starting in october, but through the rest of 2014, what do you think are the chances that the roll out of the program will end up being a burden for democrats next year and in the november campaign rather than a plus? >> well the fact is this is what the debate is all about. this is all about politics. it is all -- it is not really about policy. because obama care is not going to be defunded because if it was defunded by the house, it would not pass the senate. it would pass the senate,
president would veto it along with it being revealed for the next three and a half years. >> i'm asking you a different question in terms of policy is obama care going to be good for the democrats as a -- people deal with it in 2014 or bad? >> this is what this is about. i think the president was in a very strong position at the press conference. and i think it is a real not only substantive, in the way that carly just talked about republicans haven't um can up with an alternative to obama care, but it is a real political challenge. all of the republicans are doing the same no. and people remember that before obama care there was a problem which was, 30 plus million people didn't have insurance. a lot of them were getting healthcare and we were paying for it. and the cost of insurance was going sky high. so the answer to how is it going to play out politically in 2014? i don't know. but if you view the president's statement on friday, he and democrats are heading toward the
higher ground here. better ground politically. >> phil? >> i hate to say that joe is wrong, but even homer nods occasionally. in this case he is dead wrong. i agree there shoulding an alternative. they are working on one. i believe it'll be introduced early next year. there were other alternatives, but they were too slow and there were disagreements. however, delaying exchanges and insisting congress play bit rest of the rules as the con try,country, those are good things. this is a total winner and republicans should make that case over the next two months and make it aggressively. >> the problem for republican says that their argument is overtaken by people like ted cruz. >> i don't agree with that. >> no he is not focussing on shutting down. they want to keep up the rest of the government.
i think it was unwise defunding obama care to be the lead. i think republicans by labor day will be in good shape. >> that's where i want to get to. because i think in the end, the politics will wouldn't be the politics. the policy will be the toppolitics. how worried are they in the white house about how many young people will sign up. what does it mean to average person's coverage. what does it mean to the average person's premiums. how worried are they about how ama care will work the next 12 to 15 months. >> they are have anxious. particularly who signs up for exchanges. the exchanges only work if you have very specific people to sign up. young people healthy people who won't be a drag on the system. so you will see it, you will see it ramp up in particularly october 1st when the exchange it
open. campaign style effort that will resemble in a lot of ways actual voter registration and get out the vote for the presidential campaign. they know if they don't get the people to sign up the exchange system won't work. if the exchange system doesn't work, it has a broad impact on the rest of the policies as well. >> i want to switch subjects if we can in the time we have left. that's is the news business made big news, because the graham family. there you see don and katherine graham and executive editor, legendary had editor ben bradley, sold the post sewned- 80 years they sold it to jeff bezos a guy that is worth a guy worth about $25 billion. carly, as a former mogul in i silicon valley yourself what are your thoughts? >> i think the personal relationship between don graham and jeff besos was very important. they've come to know each other, trust each other, like each other over many years. i think that's important when you're selling a family heirloom
so s to speak. secondly i think it says the obvious things. alw the printed newspaper business is as we have always known it is s the dying. technology is the answer. and so in some ways this was a very surprising announcement. in another way it's a very tensio logical n.extension. frankly, i was less surprised that don graham sold the post and more surprised jeff besos bought the post. because i think to use an ecause analogy from a technology company, whenever you have to have a huge innovation, you needg abou to have new people thinking about it. and i -- i wonder whether trying to keep the traditional paper ive alive is actually going to slow down the thinking of what do we do with this great legacy item e do to keep it fresh and relevant? >> senator lieberman, when you ot look, it's not just the post.we we've seen it with the boston globe, theti los angeles times. when you look at these families who own these great newspapers for decades now forced to sell
because because, quite frankly, they can't figure out how to make money in the new internet world,worr does ity worry you? >> yeah. me, it worries me. there's an old latin expression on which i'll do in english.ange because i don't remember the latin. all things change. we change with them. the internet has obviously affected the way people are getting news. fewer people are buying newspapers and fewerle people are g reading newspapers. there's hope in besos coming into the post. i'm sure donald graham has this hope. which is isthat "the post" has an asset which good newspapers have which is journalists.ing people still need the news, want the news. i would guess he's going to do the some creating things in using the talents of the journalists to give news in different loss formats. there's a loss here. it's happening all over america.ng we're losing the local ownership of the "washington post." the graham family has always felt they were heading a great national newspaper but they were
washingtonians. don graham would come up thio the hill to lobby for education aid for the washington schools. for scholarships for kids from washington. with all respect to jeff besos c all i know admiral onperson, that local contact is going to be >> gone. that's a loss. >> fact is before he became a newspaper man to learn the city a cou he actually worked for apl couple of years, don graham did, as a ng cop. >> that's right. >> here working the beat.. i mean he really led not only newspapers, but also the city. >> he did.ly and he saw the ownership of the newspaper as a public trust. which is not what the people coming into ownership of newspapers see the paper as. is a that's a loss.>> c >> thank you, panel. see you next week. and remember our discussion continues every sunday on panel plus. you can find iton on our website. foxnewssunday.com. make sure to follow us on twitter @foxnewssunday. up next. power player of the week. from the ring to the stage. a former champ reinvents himself. reinevents himself.
the new guy is loaded with protein! i'll believe it when i--- [ both ] oooooh... [ female announcer ] as you get older protein is an important part of staying active and strong. ensure high protein... fifty percent of your daily value of protein. low fat and five grams of sugars. [ major nutrition ] ensure! nutrition in charge!
♪ ♪ >> chris: when i when i heard mike tyson was going to be in town this spring, i immediately wanted to sit down with him. some folks here weren't so sure. but as we showed you in may, he was funny and honest and surprisingly introspective. once again here's an unusual power player of the week. >> i couldn't be better. i'm talking about financially i
suck. but spiritually and emotionally, it couldn't be better. if i was to die today i was overpaid in life. >> reporter: this is a story about survival. mike tyson who came from nothing was heavyweight champion at 20. was knocked out at 23. spent three years in prison for rape. and has lived to talk about it. you're a vegan? >> yeah. >> you're off drugs? >> thank god. >> you're off alcohol? >> double thank god. >> so have you cleaned up your act? >> i'm just -- i'm living life on life's terms. i was the champion of the nation at 14 years old. i was well on my way. >> for almost a year, tyson toured the country in a one-man show. in which he told his story. the good, the bad, and the very ugly. >> after i left prison i have to admit, i was scared. >> what's the difference between being on stage and being in the ring? >> you don't have to go to the hospital after the show.
>> how much money do you think you made in your career? >> everyone's told me i made 300 or $400 million. i made a lot of money. >> all right. how much of it is left? >> none. none. >> how is that possible? >> i don't care how much money you have. if you don't -- it's an art in how you take care of money. if you don't do that, it means nothing. >> tyson says he's not getting rich off his show. just enough to support his third wife and seven children. and pay the irs a little of the millions he owes the government. >> i don't have a glamorous lifestyle or anything. >> and do you miss that? >> no. i'm old. >> old? what are you, fort -- >> 46 yeah. >> what am i? >> a dinosaur. >> he has some causes now. he started mike tyson cares which helps disadvantaged kids with food and shelter and support in school. and he's joined the campaign to get a presidential pardon for jack johnson. the first black heavyweight
champion who was convicted of taking his white girlfriend across state lines. >> in 1910, black people were not even considered human beings. really almost still property. so he really deserves a second chance post humously. >> looking back he says the person he hurt worst was himself. >> no doubt about that. no doubt about that at all. >> evander holyfield would say you hurt him too. >> i'm sorry. >> why did you do that? why did you hurt yourself? >> i didn't understand. i was a wild, crazy kid at the time. i'm not doing it now. i think about my mentality a lot now. i'm 46 and i got a 2-year-old. what the -- what am i thinking? i'm a former junky, you know what i mean? i had a bunch of fights, got hit in the head a lot. what the hell am i thinking
about? hell of a life, huh, christopher. >> tyson's tour wrapped up this spring. you'll get another chance to see it. hbo taped his one-man show to run later this year. that's it for today. have a great week. we'll see you next "fox news sunday." this is the "fox report." tonight panic at one of our nation's busiest airports. the suspicious package opened. workers getting sick. and the first tests come back positive for nerve gas. and a half world away from america, our symbols of freedom have reopened their doors in some of the most hostile places for our people to work and live
on the planet. american embassies throughout much of the muslim world open again. but officials warn the terror threat is not over. fox reports the latest on al qaeda as some lawmakers say it's all proof the terror group is
FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace
FOX News August 11, 2013 3:00pm-4:01pm PDT
News/Business. An analysis of top newsmakers and events. (CC) (Stereo)
Russia 8, Washington 6, Clinton 6, Kentucky 5, Mr. Snowden 5, Mike Tyson 4, Benghazi 4, Don Graham 4, Chris Christie 3, Egypt 3, Assad 3, Boris 3, Obama 3, John Mccain 3, Rubio 3, Snowden 3, Carly 2, Christie 2, Graham 2, Lieberman 2


text:
High School Students Hack Our RoboRoach Kit, Make it Better
2011-Aug-11 Filed under: Education Comments (2)
We have been slowly rolling out our RoboRoach kits (we started shipping our beta units in late March 2011, and we have shipped 14 so far), and today we received some reports from the field. Robert Uglesich, a Professor at Cooper Union in Manhattan, used our RoboRoach kits this summer to teach high school students about microstimulation, analog electronics, and the neural basis of behavior. He reported today:
"I wanted to write to let you know that the summer program ended today and the students had a blast working with the RoboRoach kits. These last few weeks they were so enthused that they were getting to campus and starting to work before I even came in."
There was a brief write-up today in the New York Times, but, more interestingly, the students made their own website summarizing their results. Their chief findings were:
1) The cerci nerves adapt more slowly to the stimulation than the antenna nerves. Also, stimulating cerci enables forward motion (our current antennal prep only allows right and left).
2) Randomizing the stimulation to the antenna nerves by using music patterns (instead of the constant 55 Hz stimulation we have set on the circuit) causes habituation to occur more slowly as well.
Thus, a three channel stimulator, with more heterogeneous stimulation patterns, would enable a RoboRoach system with forward, left, and right turning control that adapts more slowly. Nice work students! Impressive! Can we join your lab?
Our current efforts on the RoboRoach are to make the circuit lighter and reduce assembly time. Our current production version (gen3) weighs 6.25 g, an improvement from our first (9 g) and second (8 g) prototypes. It still takes about 6 hours to build however, so we are researching circuit configurations and interconnects that take less time to assemble and test.
Backyard Brains welcomes its First Employees!
2011-Jul-11 Filed under: Biz Comments (1)
After a month of exhausting collective bargaining negotiations, the Backyard Brains labor union has emerged with a new deal which brings not only organic/locally-grown lettuce for the cockroaches plus two new soldering irons for production, but more importantly the addition of 4 new faces to the Backyard Brains team! Please join us in welcoming our newest (and first, mind you) employees.
Ashton Powell – Teacher/Educator. Ashton joins the team for the summer of 2011 to help build the curricula for High School teachers. One of our weakness has been supplying teachers with the tools they need to build a lesson plan around neuroscience and electrophysiology. Ashton has his Ph.D. in neuroscience and is currently a teacher at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. As a previous customer of Backyard Brains, he has used the SpikerBox in his classrooms and challenged his students to design experiments. We look forward to the upcoming tools for teachers later this year!
Cristina Mezuk – Illustrator. Although we always pride ourself on our self-generated content, we are also aware that perhaps more detailed drawings may make things easier to understand. We were very lucky to find a local artist, Cristina Mezuk, to help us turn our initial drawings into professional illustrations. Cristina is a photographer and artist (you can check out the website of her work) that is helping us make our educational materials much more informative. See below for a few examples.
Zachary King – iPhone Developer. Zak comes to Backyard Brains via the Biomedical Engineering BME450 Design Class. Zak and his colleagues were working on an early prototype of the optogenetics kit that is still in development. Zak developed the iPhone interface and circuit to control the timing of a bright LED stimulus. He is currently working to improve the iPhone app written by Alex Wiltschko with some cool new features. Zak's first update (version 1.7) will appear on the iTunes store in the weeks to come.
Nathan Dotz – Android Developer, Linux Hacker. You spoke, we listened. After all of our talk of being an open hardware and software company, we have heard your concerns about our lack of support for the open Android system. We are happy to have Nathan Dotz join our team to help us build an application for your Android mobile devices. As an talented hacker active in the All Hands Active Maker Space in Ann Arbor, Nathan is already really good at making hardware and software as cheap as possible. Nathan hopes to also develop a browser-based version of the app in the future.
Above: A tale of two platforms. What makes them different makes them great.
Backyard Brains sells 500th SpikerBox, is awarded NIH Grant, and lowers prices for summer
2011-Jun-17 Filed under: Biz,Marketing,Outreach Comments (0)
We began distributing SpikerBoxes on April 8th, 2010, and we are proud to announce that on June 15th, 2011, we shipped our 500th SpikerBox! The proud owner is a high school teacher in Minnesota who ordered 12 "Bags of Parts" for students to build and experiment with this summer. You can see our complete user breakdown on our finance page and map. In short, of the 510 SpikerBoxes we have shipped to 183 unique customers, 218 have been preassembled by us, and 292 have been where users build the SpikerBox themselves.
This operation has been a labor of love for us (working out of our living rooms and mother-in-law's basement), and after 2.5 years of plugging away, we announce we are now ready to expand our team. We were recently awarded an NIMH SBIR grant: "Bringing Neurophysiology into Secondary Schools" to allow us to professionalize all our educational materials as well as build some new prototypes. We are currently recruiting to add a software developer and educator to our team. We thank the U.S. National Government for believing in our mission, and, of course, you the taxpayer!
And we want to thank you with more than a kind word. For the summer, we announce our first sale. The SpikerBox and Bag of Parts prices have now been lowered 10% to get neurophysiology into the hands of more and more people. We shall keep experimenting with production techniques to continue making neuroscience inquiry as affordable as possible.
To the NeuroRevolution!
-Tim & Greg

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Korn Ferry Retained by Municipal Credit Union to Lead CHRO Search
January 8, 2020 – These are critical days for credit unions. The U.S. has about 5,300 federally insured credit unions, with more than $1.5 trillion in assets and 118.3 million members, according to the National Credit Union Administration.
But with the steady retirement of Baby Boomers, among other factors, the cooperatives are facing the loss of more than 4,000 chief executive officers and senior managers over the next five years. This means that leadership development, succession planning and employee retention are more important than ever. This has made the CHROs more critical than ever for credit unions.
Just recently, Korn Ferry was called in by Municipal Credit Union in New York City to lead in its search for a new CHRO. This key position on the executive team will play a critical role in rebuilding a landmark financial resource for the members and the community, the search firm said.
The CHRO will work closely with the CEO and other C-suite executives to develop the necessary policies for HR while ensuring these align with the overall organizational strategic priorities, goals and objectives. Areas of focus will include performance management, training and development, employee relations, union relations, organizational design and development, compensation and benefits, on-boarding and attracting top talent.
This position directs talent management strategies to effectively carry out the credit union's overall strategy. The individual will apply his or her enterprise-minded experience to elevate and optimize the human resources function to support the growth and development goals of the organization. "This role will focus on the development of talent within the team as well as the overall organization, including but not limited to workplace engagement, leadership development, training to optimize knowledge and skills, and change management," Korn Ferry said. "The role will also be responsible for best practices in recruiting and retaining top talent. This individual will be well-versed in technology and systems as it relates to the function."
Municipal Credit Union wants someone with 10 to 15 years of HR experience, said Korn Ferry. Obtaining cooperation (internally and/or externally) is an important part of the job and a high-level of interpersonal skills is critical to the success of this position. The search firm said that the ability to be hands-on is key in the role initially. The credit union wants a CHRO who is willing to roll up their sleeves as needed.
Municipal is the largest credit union in the New York metro area at over $3 billion in assets, 16 branches and with over 500,000 members. The credit union was founded in 1916 initially for municipal workers in New York City. The credit union is an important resource to New York police, fire, teachers, nurses, students, other city employees and their families in the Greater New York City area.
CHRO Recruiting in the News
Hunt Scanlon Media has tracked a number of CHRO search assignments over the past six months. Here's a sampling taken from the company's daily newswire archives:
The Jackson Laboratory recently retained Heidrick & Struggles to help assist in its search for a new chief human resources officer. Irenee Sitbon is the point person for the assignment. Initially based in Bar Harbor, ME, the CHRO will be responsible for establishing and activating a people strategy that advances the overall institutional and strategic direction of the organization, said Heidrick.
Hanold Associates has been enlisted to find CHROs for two organizations: InMoment, a customer feedback company owned by private equity firm Madison Dearborn, and JCFS Chicago, a non-profit social service group. For InMoment, the CHRO will be the key leader of all HR processes throughout the Salt Lake City, UT-based company. The HR leader will report directly to CEO Andrew Joiner. Hanold Associates' Neela Seenandan, co-CEO and managing partner, and Lisa Butkus, partner, are leading the assignment. InMoment's CHRO will be expected to lead a growing team of HR professionals within the organization and focus on guiding it through a period of intense change and growth, said Hanold Associates.
Los Angeles-based Shelli Herman and Associates has been selected by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City to find its first CHRO. Shelli Herman, president of the recruitment firm, is leading the assignment along with her associate, Krista Haley. It is a plum assignment from one of the best known museum brands in the world. "The Whitney Museum is in the midst of implementing an exciting and ambitious strategic plan," said Ms. Herman
Philadelphia-based Diversified Search has placed Brandon Guzzone as the new CHRO of Population Services International (PSI) in Washington, D.C. Judy Boreham, co-leader of the firm's human resources practice, led the assignment. Mr. Guzzone has a track record in translating business strategies into effective communications plans that engage and influence employees. Previously, he was chief human capital officer of Millennium Challenge Corp.
Check Out These Related Articles On CHROs:
Here's Why Game Changing CHRO Talent Is In Big Demand An Up-Close Look at the Transformational Role of the CHRO Data-Driven CHROs In Demand
Savannah Group Appoints Head of Industrial Practice
Isaacson, Miller Seeks New Leader for Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law


text:
Coco Talanoa/
HUMANS OF THE ISLANDS: LEILANI MOMOISEĀ DALLAS
LEILANI MOMOISEĀ DALLAS
RADIO NZ JOURNALIST & BLOGGER "LANI SAYS"
I've heard you say one of the first things you ask people in your 'I thought I recognised her' interviews is 'Where do you come from'? What would YOUR reply be?
It depends who is asking. But I usually say I'm Afakasi Samoan/Palagi. Or, my Dad is Samoan and my Mum is white. I pretty much never say I'm from New Zealand, unless I'm overseas, because generally when people ask you where you're from - the implication is, "Hey - you're not white - where did you come from?" But I think I should just start saying I'm from New Zealand, because I am. On the other hand, it's hard to do that as a Samoan, because you don't want to act like you're not acknowledging your Samoan culture, or come across as fia palagi either.
Also if someone from Samoa asks where I'm from, I know I have to include that my village is Vaito'omuli, Palauli in Savaii. Or if it's someone from Auckland, I'll say I'm from South Auckland.
You grew up in the islands until you were nearly 10 - was it a big culture shock for you moving to NZ at that age & how has growing up in 2 countries shaped you?
Yeah, it was a huge culture shock especially going from the islands to a super white town like Napier. Kids were pretty mean to me so I guess I learnt to stop caring if people liked me or not - cos in Napier not many people liked me and I just had to get on with it (laughs). Island life as a kid was great, and I only really started enjoying living in NZ when we moved to South Auckland when I was a teenager. I'm not sure how it shaped me, but hopefully it's made me a more understanding and compassionate person, and a more well-rounded person, maybe.
Your full time job is a radio journalist at Radio NZ – when did you feel like that was the path you wanted to take career wise?
I think it was my second year of uni – I studied communications and in the second year that's the year you have to decide what you want to do. They brought in a bunch of radio people to talk to the lecture group and everyone who talked, loved it. It was people like Kerre Woodham, Robert Rakete and Hugh Sundae and they talked about the radio industry and being in it and you could tell that they genuinely loved what they did. Also, I was just good at it, and when you're good at something, it's easier to do. I got really good marks for radio so, I'm someone who, if I'm not good at something immediately then I don't want to pursue it (laughs) so radio – I was good at immediately, so I was like sweet! Radio's what I want to do!
When you were in High School did you know that you wanted to get into Communications?
I did – someone had told me about Communications and I was like 'that sounds like me' but when I went and talked to my guidance counselor she basically told me it was too hard to get into. That was the only thing I wanted to do and I didn't want to do anything else so I took a year off after high school, and just worked at McDonalds for a year cos I was like, 'there's no point getting a student loan if I can't do the thing that I want to do'. While I was working at McDonalds, I went along to this night at AUT for Pacific Islanders about how to get into uni and stuff, and I told someone that I wanted to do Communications and she was like "Yeah, you should totally apply and you should apply for a scholarship!"
I think if I'd applied straight out of high school I wouldn't have gotten the Scholarship, but because I'd taken a year off and done a bunch of extra curricular stuff, it gave me more time to put together a better application. So I put together a really good application, I applied for the scholarship and I got the scholarship as well. That was the good thing about taking a year off working at McDonalds.
With your radio journalism what would be a highlight for you in what you've achieved in radio?
It would definitely be going to Samoa when the tsunami hit – I was sent there the day that it hit and I covered it for 2 weeks. Then a colleague and myself put together a documentary about the tsunami and we won a radio award for it. It's the only job I've had since I left uni so I've been there for ages. It's a rewarding job.
Have you ever had any desire to get into TV and is it a goal that you'd one day like to pursue?
Nah I've never wanted to do TV. We had the choice of choosing TV when I was at uni in Communications and stuff and it never appealed to me. If I were in TV it wouldn't be as a journalist – it would have to be something else, but as a journalist, radio is the best for me. You get to do everything and it's so immediate and it's good for writing. I've never wanted to be a TV journalist.
In saying that, I had to fill in as a news anchor on 'Checkpoint' and it was a great challenge - I enjoyed it and if they asked me to do it again, I'd do it. Mostly I just loved working with John Campbell and the Checkpoint team cos they're all really onto it and passionate about what they do, and it's good vibes. But it's like that with most of RNZ too.
You run your own blog "Lani Says" do you feel like blogging is an extension of your journalism?
I've definitely made the decision to make it a more interviews based, informative site now. When I first began the blog, I had the vision of it being more long-form interviews, and a way of highlighting local talent, and it had started it off that way. I got sidetracked for a bit and the site got diverted into a personal style/lifestyle thing for awhile - but I was really unhappy with what it had become and found I wasn't really proud of what I'd been putting up on the site, so about a year ago I took the entire site down and started it again from scratch. I figured if I was going to continue running my site, I wanted my content to be more meaningful.
** NB: Since the initial interview with Leilani, she has combined her blog with her friend Katherine Lowe's blog and you can now find them both over on 'Good Rally.com'
For a while you had a lot of focus on fashion in your blog and you also made NZ Herald Viva's 'Fashion's New Power List' but I see you've stepped away from the fashion side of things and your blog has taken on a new focus. Can you tell us about that?
It was actually the Viva Power List that got me thinking about what I was doing on the site. Because the article basically said we influence people to buy stuff. At first I thought, well, hang on, these brands I'm influencing people to buy from better start paying me! And then I thought, actually, I don't want to just be influencing people to buy shit they don't need. If I do in fact have influence, I want that influence to be for something more empowering.
I also had a rant to Viva about how fashion wasn't diverse enough, and talked about the need to be more representative of what Aucklanders/NZ actually looks like. I thought, instead of just ranting, I should do something about it - which is where my idea for my 'I Thought I Recognised Her' series came from.
I interview choice Auckland women doing choice things from all different backgrounds. The interviews are based around two main questions - When people ask you where you're from, what do you tell them? And When people ask you what do you do - what do you tell them? I find you can learn a lot about people from those two questions. I'm really happy with the interviews I've done so far, all the women have been great, and the response has been really positive. I haven't done any in awhile, but there are definitely more coming.
You also have a column in Metro - it's great to see brown stories in there - how did that come about?
I was asked by the editor of Metro to write a one-off article about Polyfest, and I guess I did a good job cos he asked me to continue doing a regular column. I haven't been given any specific brief, so I can pretty much write about anything I like each month. I didn't set out to talk specifically about Pacific Island issues, it just turns out that's what I can get most passionate about - sometimes it's stuff I get genuinely angry about, like casual racism and stereotyping South Aucklanders, or it's every day stuff like Sunday to'ona'i. Although I also just talk about random stuff like karaoke and missing going out to Hitch (laughs)
I see you've started a podcast called Snacks & Chats - where did the idea come from?
I explain it all on my blog but basically my friend Ben messaged me saying, "Hey, those interviews on your blog would make a cool podcast." Ben is a really great sound engineer - so I asked if he was keen to partner with me to do it, and he was, so we just started recording one day. The first episode we interview his girlfriend, and my good friend & blogger Katherine Lowe, as kind of a test-run and I personally learned a lot about what life must feel like for the Chinese community in New Zealand. Ben and I were both really happy with it, so decided to pursue more interviews.
The one we released last night is Nate Nauer from Mai FM which I was really excited to release. In our interview with him he talks about getting kicked out of school and being sent to Samoa as a kid to be straightened out, getting beaten up at school in Samoa, the culture shock of moving there, and the struggle of moving back and having to adjust to life in New Zealand. He also shares how he went from being a forklift driver to one of the most recognisable voices on commercial radio.
Coming up we've got one of my fave people on twitter, Lucy Zee & rapper Raiza Biza who hails from Rwanda. There's one more guest who hasn't been confirmed yet. We basically chose people we thought would have interesting stories to tell, and stories which we'd learn something from. We wanted to talk to people that would hopefully make us examine the world around us a little differently, and like you say, think about how we relate and react to others a little more.
You got married last year - Congrats! - with both yourself and David being afakasi was it difficult including aspects of both cultures?
It's funny, because all my non-Samoan friends were like, wow this is so cool - I've never been to a traditional Samoan wedding before. And all my Samoan relatives were like, this is so cool because it's totally non-traditional! I think it was a nice balance. The thing I was most nervous about the whole day was wanting to make sure I did my Siva Samoa properly. I watched How-to vids on TheCoconetTV (laughs), but the best advice/lessons came from my Aunty Ipu, who is one of the most graceful dancers I know. The siva was probably the best moment of the night, and it got the party started off right.
Apart from learning to Siva Samoa properly for your wedding for the first time, are there any other firsts from your Samoan side you're still learning?
I'm always complaining about how I don't know how to speak Samoan but never doing anything about it - so David and I finally took some action and signed up for free Samoan lessons. He actually already understands Samoan quite well and knows how to speak a bit, but is too shy to do so. I know basically nothing, so I definitely feel like the dumbest person in the class, but it's lots of fun and I'm glad I'm finally doing something about it!


text:
Neohylus dubius är en skalbaggsart som först beskrevs av Dillon 1945.  Neohylus dubius ingår i släktet Neohylus och familjen långhorningar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Långhorningar
dubius

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


The Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce has developed a variety of networks, which represent and speak to diverse areas of its membership, including the Young Professionals Network, the Women's Network, the Small Business Network, and the Government Affairs Committee.
Supports small businesses in the Greater Wilkes-Barre region by providing educational and networking opportunities and activities that are relevant to the needs of their industry.
Programs that the Small Business Network hosts are Small Business Christmas in July, Small Business Saturday, and the Wilkes-Barre Connect Spotlight Series.
Empowers female professionals in the Greater Wilkes-Barre area, provides opportunities to share information and hear presentation on topics and issues of importance, and gives back to the local community.
The Women's Network has organized the Athena Panel Luncheon, the Athena Award Presentation, Shop for a Cause, and trips to the NEPA and PA Women's Conferences, as well as charitable events for local nonprofits which focus us empowering women.
Plans and assists the young professionals of Greater Wilkes-Barre to improve their career, develop their leadership abilities, build their professional network, and give back to the Greater Wilkes-Barre community.
In 2016, the Young Professionals Network hosted their first annual Young Professionals Awards Event and Kickball Tournament, and participated in Dragon Boat Races, Snow Tubing Nights, and Networking Mixers. All of these events gave back to the community by donating a portion of the proceeds to local non-profits.
Young Professionals Network members are employees of Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber member businesses or individual members ages 40 or younger.
Advocates for local businesses in legislation by reviewing legislation at the local, state, and national levels and recommending both policy and formal positions on these issues to the Chamber of Commerce Board.


A PACS is not a cookie cutter system where one size fits all. In fact, there are many different variations of the kinds of PACS available to you. Listed below are the 3 categories. Not sure which one applies to your practice? Contact us for a consultation and we will help you figure out what size PACS you need, and which type would work best for you.


The destroy value for the dependent option will call the destroy method for every post in the blog when the blog itself is destroyed. Other options are delete or nullify, but the one we are interested in is restrict.
By specifying a relation as dependent restrict, Rails will prevent us from destroying a particular object if it has any associated objects. In the example, we would not be able to destroy a Blog if it has any Posts. It is implemented simply, by raising an ActiveRecord::DeleteRestrictionError if there is any associated object.
Now, this works perfectly for preventing us from accidentally destroying an object, but we will usually want to check if we can destroy it beforehand, this is, when rendering a page to the client with a big bad delete button. Showing a delete button only to show an alert box with a "Could not delete" annoying message is certainly not a good practice, we should simply not draw the delete button in the first place.
How do we check this? We could manually check if each and every one of the associations we have marked with dependent restrict in the object are empty, but taking Rails DRY principle into account, we would like to automatically get that information from the object.
Luckily, ActiveRecord provides reflection methods for obtaining info on the associations. Therefore, given an object, we can iterate its associations, and check if the restricted ones are empty or not.
That's it! Now you can simply make a small helper method that renders a destroy link if can_destroy?, or a plain span notifying the user why she cannot destroy the object.


Our rent collection policy is fair, reasonable and based on the Texas Association of Realtors contract. We stress clear communication from the start and provide a self addressed return envelope to make it as easy as possible for our tenants to get their rent to us by the due date.
With open lines of communication, we seldom evict a tenant approved for one of our managed properties. The vast majority of our tenants pay their rent on time and count on our positive rental history referral when they relocate or purchase their own home.
For more information please fill out the form below!


text:
My Top 300 Songs of the 2000s – The Top Ten
Today I conclude my ongoing feature showcasing my personal picks for the best songs of the past decade, posting the final ten songs.
10. Justin Timberlake – SexyBack (feat. Timbaland)
JT's sophomore solo album was miles different from the R&B-influenced debut Justified. Â For one, it was dirtier, sexier, raunchier. Â Timberlake had all but washed himself clean of the boy band label he had established in 'NSync, and on the other side was a sharp dressed man with smart production and crisp, Prince-leaning erotic pop. Â The surprisingly simple, yet undeniably infectious "SexyBack," the album's first single, is producer Timbaland at some of his most creative, and catchy, creations.
no comments | tags: Battles, Ben Folds, Daft Punk, Green Day, Justin Timberlake, M83, MIA, Radiohead, The Kicks, the Knife, Timbaland | posted in Analysis, List, Music, Top 300 Songs of the 2000s
20. The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
My favorite Ben Gibbard album is Give Up, even amongst all those great early Death Cab masterpieces. Before the twee synth became commonplace, Gibbard took it to every first-generation iPod, car commercial, and teen soap montage (I'm looking at you, The O.C.). And of course, he did so with this song, still as beautiful as I remember it back on WOXY-FM my sophomore year of high school.
no comments | tags: Air, Andrew WK, At the Drive In, Outkast, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, The New Pornographers, The Postal Service, the Strokes, TV On the Radio | posted in Analysis, List, Music, Top 300 Songs of the 2000s
30. Johnny Cash – Hurt
Some artists are so talented they have the capability to make a cover song sound like their very own creation. Â The Beatles, Tom Waits, and, most recently, Lissie, come to mind. Â But no one did it like the Man In Black. Â Johnny took Soundgarden's grunge-ridden "Rusty Cage" and made it a Wild West, gun slinging, outlaw affair. Â And then he took Nine Inch Nails' haunting, spooky "Hurt" and turned it into a somber deathbed lamentation.
no comments | tags: Band of Horses, Deftones, Flaming Lips, Johnny Cash, Jurassic 5, Kings of Leon, One Wolf, OPM, The Cool Kids, The Darkness | posted in Analysis, List, Music, Top 300 Songs of the 2000s
40. Junior Senior – Move Your Feet
Lost to the forgotten one-hit wonder ether that is the early 2000's indie world, Junior Senior's most memorable track is one of the decade's best, and definitely one of the danciest. Â The duo was a profile-worthy pairing – a skinny little straight guy and an overweight, flamboyantly gay guy. Â The spirit was one of fun-loving shimmying and partying, and "Move Your Feet" is the highlight.
no comments | tags: Eminem, Fall Out Boy, Junior Senior, Primus, Queens of the Stone Age, The Bloodhound Gang, The National, The White Stripes, Toadies, Weezer | posted in Analysis, List, Music, Top 300 Songs of the 2000s
50. Passion Pit – Sleepyhead
Named my favorite song of 2009, I've already explained how much I love this song. Even a casual reader of the blog knows how many times I've blared it loudly, as I'm doing right now. It never gets old. The song is littered with hooks – in the singing, in the wordless chorus, in the sampling, in the background synths. It all just works. And Passion Pit will likely never top it.
no comments | tags: Avett Brothers, Beck, Busdriver, Cadence Weapon, Justice, Mclusky, Missy Elliott, Modest Mouse, Of Montreal, Passion Pit | posted in Analysis, List, Music, Top 300 Songs of the 2000s, Video
60. Andrew WK – Party Hard
I love how everyone initially detested this guy, as if I Get Wet wasn't the most awesome thing they had ever heard ever. Pitchfork, in their infinite indie wisdom, called this frat boy rock, which it probably is, in all truth, and gave it a 4.0. Of course, years later, it made their best-of list for the decade. Most people reneged on Andrew because you just can't deny badassery, especially when it's delivered in a completely earnest (but slightly exaggerated), multi-instrumental fashion. "Party Hard" is the intro message WK seeks to deliver, and as history has shown, it's anything but novelty.
no comments | tags: Andrew WK, Audio Bullys, Daft Punk, Feist, Green Day, Lucero, M83, MIA, Rogue Wave, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, VanShe | posted in Analysis, List, Music, Top 300 Songs of the 2000s, Video
70. Band of Horses – Is There a Ghost
The first track off Cease to Begin is a great introduction to Band of Horses' second disc – it's a beautiful rising track with the simple, repeated lyrics "I could sleep" and "When I lived alone, is there a ghost in my house." What follows is a near-flawless album that embodies the Southern spirit and indie charm this now-immensely popular group delivers.
no comments | tags: Band of Horses, Best Fwends, Does It Offend You Yeah?, Jimmy Eat World, Jose Gonzalez, Mr. Oizo, One Wolf, Radiohead, Station X, The National, Vampire Weekend | posted in Analysis, List, Music, Top 300 Songs of the 2000s, Video
90. AC Newman – Drink to Me Babe Then
The head writer for the New Pornographers had an impressive first solo outing – The Slow Wonder combines the melodic superiority with a mellow, easygoing feel. "Drink to Me Babe Then," introduced to me by my dear friend Kim way back when we were still on college radio, is a gem and the highlight from the album. Adding an acoustic sway to the sweet pop Newman is known for, the song easily peaks with a sweet whistling interlude.
no comments | tags: AC Newman, Kings of Leon, LCD Soundsystem, Outkast, The Cool Kids, The Futureheads, The New Pornographers, the Strokes, Toadies, Weezer | posted in Analysis, List, Music, Top 300 Songs of the 2000s, Video
My Top 300 Songs of the 2000s – 100-91
100. Peter Bjorn and John – Young Folks
From that catchy whistling to the shaking maracas, how could this song not have been a huge hit? I knew it was gonna be everywhere the first time I heard it. I'm a sucker for the boy-girl conversation songs (Johnny and June's "Jackson" is probably my all-time favorite, and "Paradise By the Dashboard Light" is up there as well), and "Young Folks" is no exception. It's a percussive, melodic "I Got You Babe" for the iPod generation.
no comments | tags: Amerie, Arcade Fire, Atmosphere, Basement Jaxx, Britney Spears, Cam'ron, Deftones, Peter Bjorn and John, The Octopus Project, The Rapture | posted in Analysis, List, Music, Top 300 Songs of the 2000s, Video


It's safe to say that slower and less competitive businesses are left trailing if they can't catch up with the latest technological innovations. The rapid and tremendous digital transformation has brought about a change in customer behavior and the business processes involved. With the advent of numerous mobile apps, ERP software, cloud services, social media, Big Data, and machine learning, services are made accessible with just a click of the button.
Believe it or not, digitalization is rewriting the DNA of business processes.
Innovation in technology has brought about a massive change in customer behavior.
Earlier, customers had access to websites through desktop computers. However, with the rapid increase in the production of mobile devices, millions of customers exceedingly engage in mobile web browsing to shop, sell, find local businesses, create online transactions, register complaints, give in feedbacks and share their experiences to the world through various social media options.
Social media is another platform where customers connect faster with businesses. These platforms are highly used by customers to both popularize and criticize a product or service because they're transparent.
Such digital innovations have increased the influential nature of brands on their customers and they now realize that customers demand faster and accurate solutions. Hence, in order to boost their confidence and increase productivity, businesses are forced to embrace digital platforms.
When carefully examined, the benefits of digitalization towards business enterprises are plenty. This has empowered businesses to function better, faster and smarter and improve their connectivity with their customers. Various digital innovations like Big Data Analytics, Cloud Services and Mobility have enabled industries to enhance customer experience.
Considering the exponential rate at which mobile devices are distributed, Google has revamped its algorithms to prioritize mobility. Mobile responsive designs and solutions have eased various business activities tremendously.
Every business aspect, whether it be shipping, invoicing, content marketing or sales enablement, is just a click away. Cloud computing technology has also extremely benefited businesses by enabling them to store huge amounts of information locally or remotely and share them from anywhere and everywhere instantaneously. The integration of Big Data assists businesses with accurate decision making. It collects, stores and analyzes huge chunks of data for organizations to utilize it for understanding the markets better.
If digital transformation strategies are implemented the right way, they are sure to strengthen the business models and increase profitability in the long run.
With enormous benefits comes a few downsides.
Digital technology revolves around immense data collection and storage over networks. This increases the threat of its security and makes it more vulnerable to permanent damage or manipulation.
Customer services provided over social channels or other technologies are less personalized and hence can be misinterpreted at times causing major customer dissatisfaction.
With technology changing rapidly, it becomes difficult at times to keep the organization digitally updated both in terms of cost and resource.
Digital transformation has made every business – small, medium and large – equally competitive and, staying ahead in the race is becoming immensely difficult with each day.
Although digitalization has its fair share of both advantages and disadvantages, digital transformation has become a necessity for businesses who wish to future-proof their applications and products. One thing's certain – business processes are bound to remodel with every advent in technology.
Read more on how to design your business' digital transformation.


text:
FPGA, ASICs & IPs
IoT Components
Partners A-Z
Safer University Campus thanks to AI Technology
One of the biggest concerns on a university campus is people's safety, so the investment in security systems is common.
However, news of assaults and attacks unfortunately still occur.
Besides financial losses, robberies can be associated with aggression and leave psychological damage on the victims.
For these reasons, increasing the number of cameras on campus is not enough, it requires more. It is necessary to add Artificial Intelligence (AI), associating intelligent software that monitors the images in real time and issues alerts to the team whenever an abnormal situation occurs.
This solution already exists and was brought by Macnica ATD Europe. Icetana's AI solution is already being used in several countries, such as Canada, where the solution brought many gains to Mount Royal University.
Icetana's AI solution applied to the MRU campus
The Mount Royal University campus has over 14,000 students who move around in an area of approximately 280,000 square meters. In this space there are 512 classrooms and 1850 offices.
This large security structure with many cameras still failed to identify suspicious situations and risks to the university community.
The big challenge was to increase the efficiency of the campus security system without increasing the security staff. In other words, it was necessary to invest in technology, and the university campus invested in Icetana's AI solution.
Results and operation of the AI solution
First, Mount Royal University's Security Services recognized that a single operator cannot review hundreds of cameras, so it would be a win-win to install Icetana's AI solution, which shows only abnormal activities, greatly increasing the effectiveness of surveillance.
Through many studies it has become clear that a single operator can basically only look at two cameras, explained Peter Davison, Director of Security Services. "Now with Icetana's AI solution, the camera security team is no longer looking at 300 images at a time, they now focus only on the normal situations that appear."
In addition, Icetana's AI solution uses Ethical AI, in which the software learns and recognizes shapes, sizes and movements.
In this way the AI solution learns what is normal, such as when students are on campus and when they are not: weekday vs. weekend - since these are times that show totally different behaviors.
Figure 1. Cameras with normal behavior are "muted" and cameras with unusual actions are visible.
As shown in Fig. 1, cameras that identify normal behavior are "muted - black screen," but when an anomaly is detected, that image immediately appears on the main system screen.
Another advantage is that the security team can determine the sensitivity of the software to identify abnormal actions. They adjust it to show more or less what is happening at a particular location or time of day.
This is cruciale for security systems on a university campus, which presents a completely different environment during day and night. Usually at night any movement generates a live feed on the main screen.
Where does Icetana's AI solution work on the university campus?
For example, if a person were to walk around the university campus with a gun, the system would immediately notice the sudden, rushed movement of all the people around the person, because this would not be normal.
So, as the armed individual continues to walk, the cameras begin to show live streaming because other people around would continue to react in an abnormal manner and this would trigger the system, allowing for quick action by the security team.
Also, the system will not show the normal flow of people entering the university gate, but will signal if there are people running, scattering, or standing at this location.
Similarly, the system will display images on the main live screen when it identifies:
a truck where a car is usually driving
pedestrians and people carrying or pulling unusual objects in parking lots
accidents such as people falling and crowding.
First results:
The security team reported that on the first day after the installation of Icetana's AI solution, the following were identified: a vehicle selling donuts in the parking lot and some students playing fight on the third floor of the classrooms.
These are some examples of situations that previously went unnoticed by the team that monitors more than 300 on-screen cameras, answers phone calls, and performs administrative services.
However, this does not mean that every unusual action identified generates a move by the security team, but they are now aware of situations in real time.
Mount Royal University has finally become a reference for security systems, using high quality cameras that feed a single system (from Icetana), which is very robust and expandable.
Even the university campus is much visited by other universities and companies in Canada, as it has achieved great improvements without increasing security staff.
Icetana's AI Solution has become the "eyes" that were missing to make the current security system much more efficient.
Contact us to learn how you can increase the efficiency of your security system by adding Icetana's AI solution to your existing system.
marketing.mae@macnica.com
To make your security system much more efficient
AI Solution for the manual and repetitive assembly lines
AI improves security system in shopping malls
FPGA & IPs
MACNICA ATD EUROPE
sales.mae@macnica.com
support.mae@macnica.com


text:
World's oldest jewellery found in Morocco
the shell beads 150,000 years old
Archaeologists digging in the Bizmoune Cave in southwest Morocco have found what is arguably the oldest set of jewellery known to man.
Science Advances reported that excavators discovered 33 shell beads dated between 142,000 and 150,000 years old.
While the beads themselves were sourced between 2014 and 2018, a team of archaeologists has been hard at work to secure an accurate date that the shells had been worked into baubles through extensive scientific analysis.
A graduate student from the National Institute of Archaeological Sciences and Heritage in Rabat, El Mehdi Sehasseh, is at the helm of the study. His team used uranium dating to help conclude where and when the beads were from.
The bead style was found to be most closely connected to the Aterian culture of the Middle Stone Age in North Africa.
Morocco, Senegal book quarter-final places in AFCON
Morocco imposes travel ban on South Africa, others
Liberals trounce Morocco's Islamists in parliamentary election
Steven L. Kuhn, a professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, was in charge of the team of paleontologists and concurred that the jewellery found was not just for embellishment, but had meaning, as well.
"They were probably part of the way people expressed their identity with their clothing," Kuhn said in a press release.
"They're the tip of the iceberg for that kind of human trait. They show that it was present even hundreds of thousands of years ago, and that humans were interested in communicating to bigger groups of people than their immediate friends and family."
The beads were made from sea snail shells, and measure about half-an-inch long. Holes were discovered in the centre of each orb, showing that they could have been hung on strings or from clothing.
Tags: Morocco oldest jewellery
Actress Kemi Afolabi opens floodgate of sex confessions


text:
Adam Erik Marttinen (born 19 October 1983) is a Swedish politician of the Sweden Democrats party who is a member of the Riksdag.

Marttinen was born in Eskilstuna and is of Finnish descent. He was first elected to the Riksdag in 2014 and again in 2018 for the Södermanland County constituency. He is also a councilor for the Sweden Democrats in Eskilstuna and is the party group leader on the council. Marttinen sits on the Committee on Justice in parliament and has described counteracting segregation and reforming criminal policy as matters that he focuses on.

References

1983 births
Living people
Swedish people of Finnish descent
Members of the Riksdag 2014–2018
Members of the Riksdag 2018–2022
Members of the Riksdag from the Sweden Democrats
Members of the Riksdag 2022–2026
21st-century Swedish politicians


text:
Republic of Comoros
Post author By Ghadeer Almadhoun
Categories In Countries, Currencies, Geography, Travel
No Comments on Republic of Comoros
Flag of the Republic of Comoros
Climate of Comoros
Landforms of the Republic of Comoros
Comoros is located in the Indian Ocean, between the shores of Tanzania, Mozambique, and Madagascar. It is an archipelago consisting of four islands off the coast of East Africa, three of which are independent islands belonging to the Republic of Comoros.
Moroni is its official capital. As for the fourth island, it is the island of Mayotte, which is under the administration of France. The cultural heritage of the people of the Republic of Comoros comes from the continent of Africa, the Middle East, and the continent of Europe, and most of the people are Muslims with a percentage of up to 98% of the total population.
The Republic of Comoros adopted the final shape of its flag in 1993 AD, which consists of four horizontal stripes represented by the colors: yellow, white, red, and blue respectively, and a green triangle shape to the left of the flag connected to the horizontal stripes and contains inside it four stars and a white crescent.
The four bars and the four stars are the main islands of the Republic: Mohéli Island, Grande Comore Island, Anjouan Island, and Mayotte. The green color and the star and crescent symbol are traditional symbols of the Islamic religion.
Comoros has a tropical climate; The average annual temperature in the coastal areas is about 25-26 °C, with a slight difference with the altitude per 100 m by about 0.6-0.7 °C, and the annual rainfall in the coastal areas is 1,000 mm, and the rate of precipitation increases in high areas, and it can be described The climate during the months from November to April is described as a hot climate with continuous rainfall. During the months from May to October, the climate is described as dry and cold. Every 10 years, Comoros is exposed to severe hurricanes that cause serious damage.
Spread on the coast of the Comoros sand vast coconut trees India and trees coastal grove, and formed some coasts of round rocks, and some of the other flows of lava, and the origin of the form of Comoros activity volcano that has occurred in the Indian Ocean seabed, and shows the following information on each island of the islands The four components of the Republic of Comoros:
Grand Comore Island: It is the largest island in the archipelago, and is located along its western coast, the capital, Moroni. The island is the highest among the four islands, and near its southern end, there is the highest point in Comoros, represented by Mount Karthala, with a height of 2,361 meters, which is a volcano. It has exploded more than 12 times during the past two centuries, and to the north of the mountain extends a wide plateau with a height of up to 600 meters. The land of Grand Comore is generally described as rocky and its soil is shallow, and one of its most famous cities is the city of Mitsamiouli, located on the northern coast.
Moheli Island: It is the smallest island in the archipelago, and it consists mainly of a plateau with an average height of 300 meters and extends in the western part of it a series of hills with a height of up to 790 meters above sea level. Among the most famous of its cities is Fomboni, located on the northern coast, and Niomachoa, located on the southwest of the island.
Anjouan Island: This island is characterized by its triangular shape, and in the middle rises Mount Ningwe with a height of up to 1,580 m, which is a volcanic massif. Mutsamudo is located on the northwest coast.
Mayotte: It is the oldest island in the archipelago, located southeast of the island of Anjouan, and it is still under French administration
Tags Flag, Republic of Comoros


Kwaito and Hip Hop MC Pitch Black Afro – real name Thulani Ngcobo – denied claims that he was involved in his wife's death.
Update: Ngcobo – also known as Pitch Black Afro – was arrested for the murder of his 41-year-old wife. Preliminary investigations suggested that she died of natural causes, however, the inquest docket was changed to murder and the investigation continues.
The musician is being held at Yeoville SAPS and will appear before the Magistrate Court in Hillbrow tomorrow morning, Colonel Lungelo Dlamini told The Citizen. The story is developing, we will share updates as it becomes available.
As reported by Daily Sun, his wife Trisha passed away on December 31, and the events leading up to her death allegedly do not add up. Her loved ones demand answers.
An anonymous source told Daily Sun that Ngcobo and Trisha spent New Year's Eve at an apartment in Bellevue, Johannesburg, with their friends. They had been drinking and a "small argument" broke out. The couple, who had been married for 23 years, left soon after.
Captain Sifiso Mabizela confirmed to The Citizen that an inquest docket had been opened after a woman was found dead in Bellevue on 31 December. Mabizela added that there "are witnesses," and that the investigation might turn into a murder case.
The case is developing. We have reached out for comment and will update as more information becomes available.


MANILA, Philippines—Property developer Century Properties Group Inc. grew its 2011 net profit attributable to parent equity holders by 284 percent to P864.5 million on higher revenues from real estate operations.
Including non-controlling interests, CPG's net profit last year expanded by 382.2 percent to P866.1 million from the previous year.
For 2012, CPG chief finance officer Jose Carlo Antonio said the firm's pre-sales for the first quarter hit P5.3 billion consisting of 812 units, keeping it on track to hitting its P20-billion pre-sales goal for this year.
Century plans to at least double this year its P866-million profit last year.
"We remain upbeat about the Philippine economy and property sector and our first-quarter results strengthened our resolve to deliver differentiated projects across multiple price points," Antonio said.
In the meantime, CPG's board approved the release of dividends of 10 percent of 2011 income, or P85.4 million.
For 2011, CPG grew its sales by 53 percent to P4.7 billion. Revenues booked from real estate sales amounted to P3.76 billion, up 43.9 percent from the year before. This was due to significant construction progress in The Gramercy Residences, The Knightsbridge Residences and the Rio Building in Azure Urban Resort Residences.
Cost and expenses last year amounted to P3.45 billion, up from P2.79 billion in 2010.