Sir David Attenborough delivered a stern speech on the opening day of the UN's climate change summit in Katowice, Poland, warning of the impending threats global warming poses to the natural world.
"If we don't take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon," he said in his keynote address.
The naturalist is taking up the People's Seat at the conference, called COP24. He is supposed to act as a link between the public and policy-makers at the meeting.
"The world's people have spoken," he added. "Their message is clear. Time is running out. They want you, the decision-makers, to act now," he said.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said climate change was "running away from us" and that "we cannot afford to fail here in Katowice." Mr Guterres said the political will to fight climate change had faded since the Paris accord three years ago, and agreement which saw countries across the globe agree to step up efforts to fight the problem.
Polish President Andrzej Duda, who is hosting the conference, used his opening address to defend Poland's reliance on coal.
Poland still generates around 90 per cent of its electricity from coal. According to the World Health Organisation, the country is home to 33 of Europe's 50 most polluted towns and cities. On November 19, Krzysztof Tchórzewski, Poland's minister of energy, issued a statement in defence of coal, claiming that reducing Poland's dependency on coal will damage the economy.
Over the past decade, Katowice itself – capital of Poland's Silesia region – has been slowly transforming itself from a coal and steel city into a booming centre of business and culture. Revitalisation of the post-industrial area of the city into the so-called Culture Zone – where COP24 is being held – has seen more than 250 million euros of investment, with the European Union's European Regional Development Fund providing more than 50 per cent of the amount.
While the Silesia region has been habitually associated with high smog levels – which has seen its selection as the location for COP24 criticised by some – one of the aims of the organisers is to alter this image and present Katowice as a model for a smart, green transformation.
COP24 is the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also referred to as UNFCCC, established in 1992 and ratified by 196 countries plus the European Union. The conference runs until December 14.


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As many of you may or may not know our sister has been through many health issues over the past 28 years. She and her husband, Paul, have been married for 30 years. In 1983, after being married for only two years, she was diagnosed with CML, a type of Leukemia, and underwent a Bone Marrow Transplant in 1986. Since then she has been faced with several serious health issues. One major issue is that when Karen had her bone marrow transplant, she contracted Hepatitis 'C'. Now she is faced with yet another obstacle to overcome. In August of 2010, she was diagnosed with liver cancer and is in need of a liver transplant. She is presently on the waiting list. Her strength, faith and the support of those who love her has helped her over those hurdles she needed to jump and has pulled her through in the past and we hope that the same will help her overcome this obstacle as well.
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The time has finally arrived. Karen went into Jefferson Hospital Wednesday, September 14th and was in surgery all night. All her prayers have been answered and she is beginning anew with a new liver. She is progressing very well and will be in intensive care in Thomas Jefferson Hospital for several days. Thanks to all of you for all of your continued support through this time. We are looking forward to many happy years ahead.
Aunt Karen, I know you can get through this!!! you can do it! I love you lots!
Aunt Karen, You've been faced with so many obstacles in your life, but you've never lost hope. Keep that and stay positive, it will help you conquer ANYTHING! This is just another curveball that the world has thrown at you. You've taught me that God doesn't put you through anything you can't handle. You need to remember that for yourself now. You are a strong, inspiring woman, you can face anything! Love you so much!
Karen, Never had a negative thought in 1986 and we don't have any now. You are a strong person who will work through this challenge just like the last one. We've got your back! I'll even clean the house for you and you know how much I try to avoid that! Love you much! Ginny, Al and Suzanne!


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Memphis 82, Auburn 73
(AP Photo/Erik Rank)
ATLANTA - Kendric Davis scored a season-high 27 points, DeAndre Williams added 16 points and 11 rebounds and Memphis ended 11th-ranked Auburn's season-opening eight-game win streak 82-73.
Davis' jumper beat the shot clock buzzer to make it 60-50 with 11:18 remaining, and Memphis (8-2) was never threatened again. The closest Auburn (8-1) got was an eight-point deficit on K.D. Johnson's free throws with 3:04 left in the game.
Wendell Green Jr. and Johnson each finished with 14 points and Chris Moore had 12 for Auburn (8-1), which began the day as one of 10 unbeaten teams left in the nation.
Green's offensive foul wiped out his basket and a missed layup by Moore in the closing minutes, and coach Bruce Pearl was called for a technical with 1:30 remaining to end Auburn's last hope. Davis sank two free throws to make it 75-65 heading into the final minute.
Memphis took the game's first double-digit lead at 54-44 on Keonte Kennedy's layup with 13:29 remaining and never looked back. Davis assisted on Williams' dunk and stole the ball and hit a fast-break layup to make it 67-52 and cause Auburn to call timeout at the 7:55 mark.
Auburn was trying to get off to a 9-0 start for the second time in nine seasons under Pearl, whose 2019-20 team started 15-0.
Davis, the reigning player of the year in the American Athletic Conference, came up limping on the baseline late in the first but stayed in the game and played a team-high 38 minutes. He went 9 for 19 from the field, handed out six assists and pulled down nine rebounds.
Auburn starting forward Jaylin Williams did not suit up for the Colgate game due to illness.
One game after setting season highs with 93 points and 10 3s in a lopsided win over Colgate, Auburn shot just 38.1% and went 6 for 24 beyond the arc.
Memphis began the game averaging just 13 turnovers per game and committed 19.
Auburn: The Tigers came into the game eighth in the nation in offensive rebounds but had just one at halftime and finished with 11. Auburn was outrebounded 42-33, a deficiency that went a long way to explain why Auburn had so many one-shot possessions and struggled to get back on defense against Memphis' transition.
Memphis: The Tigers overcame foul trouble in the first half with starters Williams and Alex Lomax and reserve Malcolm Dandridge each getting whistled three times. Starter Chandler Wilson was called for two fouls, but Memphis settled into a zone defense to limit the fouls and force Auburn into low-percentage shots. Dandridge fouled out early in the second half.
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Bitter~Sweet ™: Dear Cigna . . .
Dear Cigna . . .
I got your letter a while ago. Quite frankly, I couldn't deal, so I stuck it in a folder but it's been nagging at my brain anyway. I'm getting ready for my endo appointment next week, so I pulled the letter back out.
"Starting January 1, 2016, your Cigna plan won't cover the medications listed below. This means that if you continue to use any of these medications past January 1, 2016, you'll have to pay the full cost of the medication."
Now I'm sure you have no idea what this means to me, so let me try to explain it to you. Pretend you're going to buy a new pair of shoes. And you are told that shoes now only come in size 5 or size 9. And your foot? It is a size 7. Oh, but don't worry, it's all still shoes! Look at all these people happily walking around in size 5 and size 9 shoes with no problems whatsoever.
Ridiculous, right? Those happy people clearly have size 5 or size 9 feet. But you don't. Those sizes won't work for you. Sure, you can cram your foot in a size 5 and walk around, but soon you'll be dealing with blisters and bleeding and foot cramps to start, and it will only get worse from there. Or you can slip right into the size 9 and then trip and fall and lose the shoes. Neither are an actual solution for your body.
This whole analogy sounds preposterous, right? That's because it is. And so is your letter. Apidra is my size 7. Humalog and Novolog are my size 5 and 9. I've tried them. They are not a solution for my body.
I will fight for my size 7 shoes.
So sorry Karen! Fighting insurance companies is never fun.
Cigna is also my insurer, and while I don't have your battle to fight, all my prescriptions will double in price in 2016. In addition to my deductible, out of pocket max, and coinsurance - all doubling.
Thank you Affordable Care Act.
The ACA might make insurance affordable for some who could not afford it before, but it makes it much less affordable for me and my family. Simply to purchase to medicine I need to stay alive from day to day.
The health care system in America is still not fixed.
I don't feel the ACA has much to do with this. Before it was passed, insurance companies still had preferred drugs and made us (well, at least me for certain) use one brand and not another.
That stinks, and it's the kind of thing I've had to endure the last several years. Thankfully humalog and novolog work fine for me. Best of luck with your appeal. Sometimes your state Attorney General can be useful in these situations.
I do not know how, but can i help? Can I send a note to Cigna on you behalf? I knwo this will not help, but I want to try to do something. I do not appreciate my friends getting pushed around like this. Grrr.
Thank you for being such a great friend. I'm going to start by having my endo send a letter. If that doesn't work, I'll pull out the big guns (aka:you!!).
Oh Karen, I feel your pain and I hope your endo's letter will do the trick with Cigna. We have Aetna and recently my 16 y.o. T1D reached the "lifetime cap" for Levemir and Novolog...um, how can you impose a lifetime cap on something that SUSTAINS life? It's just crazy making!
Why can't companies understand that we need choices, and to borrow your analogy, one size does not fit all?
Not sure if your state has an insurance commissioner, but if it does (like mine does), it might be helpful to complain there too. They're much more likely to want to help someone local as opposed to a corporate entity that might be from somewhere else.
I totally feel your pain on this Karen! Express Scripts did something similar in 2015, however you can only get size 5 (Humalog) covered without prior authorization. I hope that your endo will do what's necessary to get you your size 7! I guess I wear a size 5 shoe and size 7 insulin, huh?
When my endo was on vacation my Apidra was denied and her sub just wrote a script for Humalog for me, no call, no notice, nothing. All of a sudden I has a prescription for an insulin I don't take from a doctor I don't know.
Grrr. This upsets me. It's madness. All the hoop jumping just to get the care you need makes me crazy. So sorry this is happening.
I am writing a profile on you and this blog for www.holisticpain.com, and I would like to use a picture of you. Can I use the one in your profile, or do you have another you would prefer? They need to be 670x670, minimum, and we are happy to give photo credit in the blog.
I tried to mail you through this blog but was not able to. Thanks for your help!
I had to fight my insurance company to let me use Apidra too instead of Novolog. I tried Novolog and told my doctor it wasn't working for me. I know and trust Apidra, so she helped me fight my insurance. Turns out, it was on the formulary through Edgepark and now my insurance covers it with no problems. I've been able to get my last few prescriptions of it for free! However, my insurance company is going out of business next year, so I'm preparing to fight again if my new insurance doesn't cover it. Preferred medications are ridiculous. Insurance companies have no idea what their patients need. Fight for your insulin! You're one of the only people who can. And see if your doctor can give you free samples of Apidra if you ever need them.
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Born in Carmarthenshire, West Wales, Alex was educated at a Welsh speaking school although English was her first language at home, and her bilingual skills have held her in good stead for her career as a television presenter. She was a staple of Welsh language programmes on BBC and S4C before taking on the move to BBC One's prime time weekday programme, The ONE Show, replacing former Strictly contestant, Christine Bleakey, as co-host to comedian Jason Manford. Her career has gone from strength to strength, including co-presenting Let's Dance for Comic Relief in 2011, and she was also a member of the team covering the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Alex will be dancing in the ninth series of Strictly Come Dancing and will be dancing with series eight finalist, James Jordan.
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1 Cha Cha Cha When Love Takes Over 4 6 6 6 22
2 Foxtrot Have You Met Miss Jones? 6 8 7 8 29
3 Viennese waltz Memory 8 8 8 8 32
4 Rumba Run 4 7 7 7 25
5 Paso doble Bring Me To Life 7 8 8 8 31
6 Quickstep It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing 7 8 8 8 31
7 Jive River Deep, Mountain High 7 8 8 8 31
8 Tango Relax 8 9 9 9 35
9 Charleston Me And My Baby 6 7 8 8 29
9 Swing-A-Thon 5
10 American Smooth Pretty Woman 8 8 9 9 34
11 Waltz (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman 7 9 9 9 34
11 Salsa 1-2-3-4 7 8 8 8 31
Note: Jennifer Grey replaced Len as a guest judge in Week 6.
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Dr. H.A. (Bart) Lardner received his MSc (1993) and PhD (1998) degrees from the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Lardner has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science at University of Saskatchewan and a Research Scientist with Western Beef Development Centre for over 20 years where his research has focused on cow-calf management and forage and grazing research. His established research program has secured research grants totaling over $10 Million since 2002 and involves projects on water quality, pasture rejuvenation, novel annual and perennial forage species, extensive winter grazing systems, nutrient cycling management in cow-calf system, heifer development and application of genomic technology in breeding systems.
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Key Features: Iridescent colorways, black detail, Swoosh branding, Max Air tooling.
Editor's Notes: With Air Max day just weeks away, Nike announces a celebratory release with the Air Max "Throwback Future" pack.
Nike's "Throwback Future" capsule consists of various Air Max silhouettes decked out in iridescent colorways. The range includes the Air Max Plus, Air Max 95, Air Max 97, Air Max 270, VaporMax '19, VaporMax Run Utility, Air Max Dia and Air Max 720, while the matte-finished Air Max 720 is a Greater China-exclusive.
You can get a look at each sneaker from Nike's Air Max "Throwback Future" pack via the gallery above. The collection launches on Nike.com and at select retailers on March 21.
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Tomatoes – four kinds: so hard to choose, but I'm determined not to overdo the planting again, so I've chosen yellow cherries, Roma, Principe Borghese, and Brandywine.
Eggplants – I have trouble with a virus spread by flea beetles. I've been cycling through varieties looking for resistance. This year I'm trying Thai Green.
Beans: four kinds – Rattlesnake – a gift from Deb, that I tried very late in the season last year, so these are now second generation saved seed. And my old favourites – Brown seeded snake beans, Blue Lake climbers, and Purple King climbers.
Zucchini: Tromboncino are going to be my main variety this year, because they use space so efficiently by climbing. But I've put in a couple of seeds of Fordhook as well, just in case.
Pumpkin: I have several varieties that self seed, but I've put in some Potkins this year too for stuffing.
I looked at the seeds of melons, luffa, sunflowers, tomatillos and okra too, but they didn't make the cut this time. The garden will be very full by the time I get this lot planted out so I might wait for next month for them.
The small seeds are all in a seed raising box. I shall transplant them into individual pots when they have their first true leaves, choosing just a few more than I plan to plant out. That way, they will already be a month or more old before they are planted out, and I have another month to move the chooks through a couple of beds so as to get enough space well prepared for them all.
The big seeds like beans and cucumbers I've planted directly into pots. I plant the beans three to a pot and choose the strongest two, and the cucumbers two to a pot and choose the stronger one to plant out. The pots are filled with a very rich mix of compost, worm castings, some creek sand for drainage, and a little sprinkle of wood ash to raise the pH, all watered in with dilute seaweed brew. So they will be planted out with their own little fertilizer stash. I've scored a lovely set of old concrete laundry tubs recently and they make a great potting mix making station – one tub filled with mix and one with dilute seaweed brew for soaking the pots as I fill them. it makes the task so easy that I got it all done yesterday in a couple of hours.
Is your Balinese Sweet Corn a short multi-stemmed plant which produces multiple cobs? Years back I had Balinese SC from either Eden or Green Harvest and that was how it grew. Since then I've seen 'Balinese' which is single-stemmed similar to regular Sweet Corn. All I've been able to buy has been 'Golden Bantam' which is similar, very corn-flavoured rather than sweet.
Mine is the single stemmed one, and quite tall.
Good luck with the Rattlesnakes. I had a bit of a panic when I went to plant mine, thought I'd sent them all to you, but I found them eventually. I'm going to try some snake bean seeds that I saved from my Food Connect veges, on your recommendation.
Hey mama, I'm planning on expanding the garden after panel so keep some more seedlings for me to steal next time I'm down. I'll trade you for manual labour.


This article explains the development of an Angular application, using Redux for state management, interfacing with the Express framework for data and using Angular CLI as the front-end build pipeline.
This article explains the development of an Angular application using Redux for state management and interfacing with the Express framework for data along with using Angular CLI for setting up the development environment. Angular CLI seamlessly handles the front-end build pipeline, enabling us to focus on writing the application logic.
To get an understanding of this article, readers should have a knowledge of the basics of Angular, Redux, Express.js, and Node.js concepts.
The concepts in developing an application using Angular, Redux and Express will be illustrated through a Contacts application. We will keep the application simple, as the main objective is to illustrate the various concepts in an easy-to-understand manner. Using the app, we will be able to view the Contacts list, add a new contact and delete a contact. We will also use middleware called redux-thunk to perform the action asynchronously.
1. Install Node.js from https://nodejs.org. Download the 32-bit or 64-bit binary depending upon the architecture of the system.
3. Generate the basic code template, which we will modify to add the features required for the Contacts application.
This will create a directory called contacts in the current folder. Inside that folder, you will see an initial project structure generated, and the required dependencies are automatically installed.
This will start the application in development mode and 'Welcome to the app' will be displayed.
6. Create the directory, client, under contacts and move the entire folder structure from contacts to client so that the client folder contains the code for the client-side Angular app.
9. Create a directory server under contacts. From this folder, execute npm init, and install the express and body-parser module to serve the persistent data required for the Contacts application.
10. Add the 'start' setting under 'scripts' in package.json present in the server folder with the following command so that we can run the Express server application using 'npm start'.
Now we can start working on adding the features required for the Contacts application. While explaining the implementation, the main code snippets have been provided. For the complete code, please refer to the GitHub repository at https://github.com/srini-wip/angular-redux-contacts.git.
Let's now implement the code to serve the data required by the Contacts application using the Express Web framework.
Create a file server.js under the folder contacts. To provide the list of contacts, implement the API endpoint '/api/contacts' using the GET method. This will read the JSON file, contacts.json, for the list of available contacts and send the response as JSON data.
To add a contact to the contact list, implement the API endpoint 'api/contacts' using the POST method. To retrieve the data sent by the browser, use body-parser middleware, which inserts the required data in the request object, from which we can easily extract and save it to the JSON file.
To delete a contact from the contact list, implement the API endpoint 'api/contacts/:id' using the DELETE method. This will delete the contact and update the JSON file.
Let's now implement the set of features on the client side using Angular and Redux.
When generating the new project, Angular CLI would have created a file app.module.ts, which is the root module and contains the declaration of libraries and components.
In the constructor of the class AppModule, we need to configure the store. We need to provide the rootReducer, initial state (if any), middlewares and then a store enhancer. Since we will be using the redux-thunk middlewares to implement asynchronous actions, the third parameter will be the thunk middlewares. We need to include the necessary imports for Redux, redux-thunk and also specify the NgReduxModule in the imports section of the @NgModule decorator for AppModule.
Create a file contactReducer.ts under the folder reducers. When the store dispatches an action, it passes to rootReducer, the state maintained in the store and the action. While creating the rootReducer, we would have combined all the individual reducers of the application using the combineReducers API. In our current application, we have only one reducer, i.e., for contacts, which we will be creating shortly. Although we have only one reducer, it will be useful to use the combineReducers API, as we can extend it to add more reducers as our application expands in the future.
The rootReducer will pass the action and the respective state to each reducer. Let's then implement the reducer function contactReducer accepting two parameters — state and action. The reducer is supposed to handle the action it is interested in and return the new state. An important point to understand is that the reducer is a pure function, and it should not mutate the parameters and return a new state in an immutable way, using only the values passed in the parameters. In the contactReducer, we will handle the actions – successful loading of contacts, successful addition of a contact and successful deletion of a contact.
Create a file actionTypes.ts under the folder actions to store all the action names as a constant. Having the action types as a constant will help in better maintenance of code rather than using them directly as a string.
Next, create a file contactActions.ts, in which we will implement various actions related to Contacts. We will implement the actions—loading of contacts, adding a contact and deleting a contact. As we will be communicating using REST API calls with a server in the backend, we will be making asynchronous calls and hence will use the redux-thunk middleware to perform asynchronous dispatch. The thunk function will invoke the Contact Service methods (discussed below), which will communicate with the server and fetch or add/modify the data based on the action. The Contact Service makes REST API calls to the Express server, performs the necessary task and returns either success or error. If success is returned, then the corresponding success action–load, add or delete—will be dispatched, after which the reducer code discussed above will get executed.
To create the Contact Service, run the Angular CLI generate service command from the folder 'app'.
The above command will generate the standard service blueprint containing the service typescript file and a service test specification file.
Let's implement the service methods – getContacts, addContact and deleteContact. To implement these methods, issue REST API calls to the Express server using the Angular HTTP module.
Let's now use Angular to implement the UI components. Also, let's use the @angular-redux/store module to interface Angular with Redux.
When generating the new project, Angular CLI would have created a component called 'App'. Modify the HTML template app.component.html to render the Contacts component (<app-contacts>), which we will be implementing shortly.
To create the Contacts and the Contact Form component, run the Angular CLI generate component command from the folder 'app'.
The above commands will create the folders, contacts and contactform under app, and generate the standard component blueprint containing the HTML template file, CSS file, component typescript file, and a component test specification file.
The ContactsComponent needs to access the Redux store to dispatch actions and to receive the state changes. For this, we inject NgRedux into the constructor of ContactsComponent, and using the NgRedux object, we can dispatch actions.
In the ngOnInit life cycle method of ContactsComponent, we can then dispatch the action to load the contacts, which is implemented in contactActions.ts as explained in the 'Implementing the actions' section above.
Additionally, in the deleteContact method of ContactsComponent, dispatch the action to delete the selected contact.
To receive the state changes from the store, we declare the @select decorator, and specify the portion of the state that the ContactsComponent is interested in, which is 'contacts'.
Whenever there is a state change, the Redux store will provide the latest state to the ContactsComponent, and due to data binding, the changes will reflect in the view.
Next, we will implement the ContactformComponent. This component also needs access to the store to dispatch an action, and hence we need to inject NgRedux in the constructor of ContactformComponent.
The ContactformComponent will have the necessary HTML template to accept the user input to create the contact. When the user submits the contact information to be added, we will dispatch the action to add the contact.
1. Go to the Node.js command prompt.
This will start the application and display the Contacts information. We can now add and delete contacts.


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Anita Dunn, a partner with the public relations firm SKDKnickerbocker, appears on "Meet the Press" in Washington, D.C., on May 4, 2014. Photo: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal via Getty ImagesAnita Dunn, a partner with the public relations firm SKDKnickerbocker, appears on "Meet the Press" in Washington, D.C., on May 4, 2014. Photo: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
Joe Biden's Chief Strategist Lobbied to Undermine Barack and Michelle Obama's Signature Initiatives
Joe Biden likes to tout his ties to Obama, but he chose Anita Dunn, a lobbyist who fought progressive policies under Obama, to lead his campaign.
Joe Biden's presidential campaign has leaned heavily on his association with Barack Obama, touting ties to the former president in every debate and airing television ads filled with montages that imply Obama's support.
The former vice president's campaign, however, is being led by Anita Dunn, a Democratic strategist who has been employed over the last decade by interests seeking to undermine Barack and former first lady Michelle Obama's progressive priorities.
Dunn joined the campaign last year as an adviser and was elevated to a management role following a shakeup after the former vice president's poor showing in Iowa and New Hampshire earlier this month. Dunn briefly served as the White House communications director during Obama's first term, but left the administration to return to SKDKnickerbocker, an advertising and consulting firm she founded that lobbies for a variety of corporate interests, and where she serves as a partner. As of November, she was still leading the firm. The "D" in the firm's name refers to Dunn. The first "K" is for Bill Knapp, currently on leave from the company to work for Michael Bloomberg's campaign.
The elevation of Dunn highlights the thinness of Biden's appeal as an Obama liberal. Biden has championed a pledge to reject lobbyist support, mirroring Obama's original campaign pitch, but has embraced not only a range of special interests, but the very lobbyist spearheading his bid personifies the type of double-dealing in Washington, D.C., that helped eviscerate Obama's progressive legacy. Dunn did not immediately respond to a message left with her office.
In 2010, Michelle Obama unveiled a bold campaign to take on the junk food industry by providing voluntary guidelines to discourage foods with high levels of added sugars, salt, and fat from being marketed to children.
The guidelines, while celebrated by nutrition experts and public health advocates, were dead in the water within a year. Industry lobbyists for companies like General Mills, Kellogg, PepsiCo, and Time Warner flooded the administration with complaints, claiming that the guidelines would kill jobs, and worked with legislators to slip a provision into the government's budget designed to indefinitely delay the guidelines.
The campaign to defeat Obama's initiative was managed by none other than Dunn, whose firm created an ad-hoc group, the Sensible Food Policy Coalition, to bring industry together in opposition to the guidelines.
Dunn, asked in 2011 by the Washington Post about working with the junk food industry against the Obamas, brushed off criticism. "At the end of the day, combating childhood obesity is not a question of what gets advertised but a matter of more exercise, healthier eating habits and working together," Dunn said.
Over the years, SKDKnickerbocker has worked closely with other interest groups seeking to derail another signature Obama initiative.
After reports showed that major for-profit colleges were systematically misleading students, pushing them into high-cost degrees with poor training and fraudulent promises of jobs after graduation, the Department of Education under Obama pursued a new policy to ensure that tens of billions in taxpayer money would only go to for-profit schools that met a certain standard for students' debt levels and income after graduation.
Dunn worked directly with Kaplan Education, which owned a network of for-profit colleges, to undermine the Obama administration's crackdown. According to the New York Times, Dunn visited the White House frequently and worked to shape the for-profit college industry's message to fight the Obama initiative.
After a series of defeats, the Obama administration eventually passed the so-called gainful employment regulation on for-profit colleges. But for-profit colleges ultimately prevailed. The rule has been largely rolled back by President Donald Trump's Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
As a firm, SKDKnickerbocker has also been retained to push the Obama administration into backing more conservative, business-friendly policies — policies with which Biden was generally aligned.
The consulting firm represented two corporate lobbying coalitions, WIN America and the Alliance for Competitive Taxation, which both pushed the administration to embrace corporate tax cuts and a tax holiday on overseas corporate earnings. The plan ultimately failed under Obama, but similar ideas figured prominently in Trump's 2017 tax cut.
The Pete Peterson Foundation — a powerful force in Washington, D.C., that financed the push for steep cuts to government expenditures, including cuts to Social Security, during Obama's first term — also retained SKDKnickerbocker to manage its media efforts in 2010. Shortly after the tea party wave, the Peterson Foundation released an advocacy campaign designed to promote an austerity agenda. The campaign included a campaign ads for a faux presidential candidate named Hugh Jidette.
The Peterson-backed effort demanded an increase in the Social Security retirement age and lower payments for Social Security beneficiaries. Tax disclosures show that the Peterson's media consultant for the campaign was SKDKnickerbocker, which was paid more than $5 million in 2010 and 2011.
Biden, notably, led the effort to cut government spending with a focus on Social Security. Biden and his close aide Bruce Reed played a pivotal role in the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, pushing to cut entitlement programs.
As The Intercept has reported, SKDKnickerbocker has taken on other controversial clients. The firm was retained by the NSO Group, an Israel company involved in hacking phones for a range of despotic clients. SKDKnickerbocker was also retained by Dominion Energy, the utility conglomerate that owns SCE&G, a local South Carolina utility that charges the highest electricity rates in the country.
Lobbying disclosures show that Dunn's firm is still involved in lobbying efforts. The company is currently retained by the Fur Information Council, a group battling the push to regulate the fur industry in New York City. The group is also retained by Amazon and the New York City Center for Charter School Excellence.
The Biden campaign has also leaned on SKDKnickerbocker for campaign services, including direct mail. The Federal Election Commission shows that the Biden campaign has paid Dunn's company at least $624,048.
Dunn's role as an adviser to the wealthy and well-connected is closely documented. After the Times reported on a long history of sexual assault allegations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, Dunn reached out to Weinstein to offer damage control advice.
In 2012, I spoke briefly to Dunn about her role as a lobbyist. I asked her how she could square her dedication to corporate clients with her professed role as a Democrat, given Obama's promise to drain the influence of corporate lobbyists in America.
"I work with some corporations because the fact of the matter is we're in a democracy and there's a dialogue and people have a right to be heard," said Dunn. "And the fact of the matter is that most of the time when I work with people, they have a story to be told and we tell it."
Lee Fang[email protected]theintercept.com@lhfang


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Next Year KPU Students Can Visit Havana and Earn Credits with the Cuba Field School
The field school will take place from May 29 to June 12, and focuses on themes of music and culture
Culture / December 15, 2017
by Jesse Pottinger
Students interested in taking part in the Cuba Field School have until January 31 to submit their applications to KPU International. (Submitted)
If you've ever thought about taking a summer course but hate the idea of staring at the sunshine from behind a classroom window, there's an exciting opportunity for you next year.
From May 29 to June 12, Kwantlen Polytechnic University will be taking students to Cuba as part of an interdisciplinary field school. This is a chance for students to salsa dance, soak up the sun, and immerse themselves in Cuban culture and history while earning six credits towards their degree.
"The theme of the Cuba field school is music and culture, and we use that as a window to investigating broader aspects of Cuban society," says Daniel Tones, the leader of the trip and teacher of the accompanying ARTS3100 course.
Most of the field school will be spent in Havana, with an additional two days in Cienfuegos and one day in Trinidad. Students will attend multiple concerts, lectures from prominent Cuban academics, explore a number of significant historical and cultural sites, and visit two small-scale craft agriculture operations.
There will also be music, dance, and singing workshops throughout the trip, all of which will be geared towards beginners.
"We need a way to make contact with people to begin understanding how Cuban society is structured [and] what are some of the passions of its people, and music and culture are good ways to do that," says Tones.
Most of the days will be filled with scheduled activities, but students will have evenings free to do their own exploring as well.
As a trained percussionist who teaches in the music department at KPU, Tones has long been interested in the music and culture of Cuba.
"Cuba has a very, very vibrant music culture and particularly one that embraces percussion quite strongly," he says. "So that was one of the cultures that I was drawn to as an undergraduate student."
Tones says he has been toying with the idea of an educational trip to Cuba for nearly seven years, the last two of which were spent organizing the field school. After the first trip to Cuba is done, he hopes to run the program every two years, with specialized cohorts of 8 to 10 students from particular departments attending subsequent trips.
The in-class component of the field school, ARTS3100, will begin three weeks prior to the trip's beginning. Students will trace the history of the African diaspora within Cuba, learn about European colonial influence, and study the political and economic climate in the country through the 20th and 21st centuries. They will then form groups that will present a research proposal and —once they return—a "capstone project" in which they will present their findings to the class in a creative form of their choosing.
"The interdisciplinary nature of the field school invites investigation from a number of different vantage points," says Tones.
The trip costs $3,450 including round trip flights, 14 nights of accommodation, transportation, daily breakfast and dinner, tourist visas, airport taxes, and participation fees for all scheduled activities.
Like traditional KPU classes, the field school and ARTS3100 course have a capacity of 35 students. It requires a minimum of 15 students for the program to run.
KPU International will be accepting applications for the field school from Dec. 1 to Jan. 31. Registration for summer courses begins on March 5.
"This will be a defining experience in students' education at Kwantlen," says Tones. "It's unlike anything they'll get to do in their other coursework here, and they'll learn so much by visiting another culture. In other words, they'll learn so much by getting outside the classroom."


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Billions Face iFraud Threat After Hackers Crack Secret Mobile Phone Codes
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Q: R flexdashboard reactive table output Be gentle with me I haven't done this before.
I'm trying to create a dashboard to search for related information.
The search part is all working fine and as an r script it works, just having trouble getting this to work in a flexdashboard so it is a little easier to interact with. The issue is I need the query(search term) to respond from the search box to feed into the search process and then create a table output.

title: "Search Tool"
output:
  flexdashboard::flex_dashboard:
    orientation: rows
    vertical_layout: fill
library(flexdashboard)
library(tidyverse)
library(tm)
library(SnowballC)
library(DT)
library(quanteda)
library(shiny)
#https://www.r-bloggers.com/build-a-search-engine-in-20-minutes-or-less/
path <- "load in a dataset with some text information"
data <- read.csv(path)
data$Opened.Date <- as.Date(data$Opened.Date, origin = "1899-12-30")
doc.list <- as.character(data$Description)
N.docs <- length(doc.list)
names(doc.list) <- paste0("doc", c(1:N.docs))

Row {}
textAreaInput("search", "Enter your search terms", placeholder = "Put your search terms in this text field",width = "400px")

{query <- renderText({ input$search})}

Row {}
#In text mining and related fields, a corpus is a collection of texts, often with extensive manual annotation. Not surprisingly, the Corpus class is a fundamental data structure in tm.
my.docs <- VectorSource(c(doc.list, query))
my.docs$Names <- c(names(doc.list), "query")

my.corpus <- Corpus(my.docs)

#One of the nice things about the Corpus class is the tm_map function, which cleans and standardizes documents within a Corpus object. Below are some of the transformations.
#getTransformations()

#First, let's get rid of punctuation.
my.corpus <- tm_map(my.corpus, removePunctuation)

#Use the stemDocument transformation to implement the famous Porter Stemmer algorithm. To use this particular transformation, first load the Snowball package.
my.corpus <- tm_map(my.corpus, stemDocument)

#remove numbers and white space, all lower case
my.corpus <- tm_map(my.corpus, removeNumbers)
my.corpus <- tm_map(my.corpus, tolower)
my.corpus <- tm_map(my.corpus, stripWhitespace)

#One of the simplest things we can do is to count words within documents. This naturally forms a two dimensional structure, the term document matrix, with rows corresponding to the words and the columns corresponding to the documents. As with any matrix, we may think of a term document matrix as a collection of column vectors existing in a space defined by the rows. The query lives in this space as well, though in practice we wouldn't know it beforehand.
term.doc.matrix.stm <- TermDocumentMatrix(my.corpus)

#The matrices in tm are of type Simple Triplet Matrix where only the triples \( (i, j, value) \) are stored for non-zero values. To work directly with these objects, you may use install the slam [4] package. We bear some extra cost by making the matrix "dense" (i.e., storing all the zeros) below.
term.doc.matrix <- as.matrix(term.doc.matrix.stm)

#cat("Dense matrix representation costs", object.size(term.doc.matrix), "bytes.\n",
#    "Simple triplet matrix representation costs", object.size(term.doc.matrix.stm),
#    "bytes.")

#We implement this weighting function across entire rows of the term document matrix, and therefore our tfidf function must take a term frequency vector and a document frequency scalar as inputs
get.tf.idf.weights <- function(tf.vec, df) {
  # Computes tfidf weights from a term frequency vector and a document
  # frequency scalar
  weight = rep(0, length(tf.vec))
  weight[tf.vec > 0] = (1 + log2(tf.vec[tf.vec > 0])) * log2(N.docs/df)
  weight
}

cat("A word appearing in 4 of 6 documents, occuring 1, 2, 3, and 6 times, respectively: \n",
    get.tf.idf.weights(c(1, 2, 3, 0, 0, 6), 4))
## A word appearing in 4 of 6 documents, occuring 1, 2, 3, and 6 times, respectively:
##  0.8074 1.615 2.087 0 0 2.894

#Using apply, we run the tfidf weighting function on every row of the term document matrix. The document frequency is easily derived from each row by the counting the non-zero entries (not including the query).
get.weights.per.term.vec <- function(tfidf.row) {
  term.df <- sum(tfidf.row[1:N.docs] > 0)
  tf.idf.vec <- get.tf.idf.weights(tfidf.row, term.df)
  return(tf.idf.vec)
}

tfidf.matrix <- t(apply(term.doc.matrix, c(1), FUN = get.weights.per.term.vec))
colnames(tfidf.matrix) <- colnames(term.doc.matrix)

#angle <- seq(-pi, pi, by = pi/16)
#plot(cos(angle) ~ angle, type = "b", xlab = "angle in radians", main = "Cosine similarity by angle")

tfidf.matrix <- scale(tfidf.matrix, center = FALSE, scale = sqrt(colSums(tfidf.matrix^2)))

query.vector <- tfidf.matrix[, (N.docs + 1)]
tfidf.matrix <- tfidf.matrix[, 1:N.docs]

doc.scores <- t(query.vector) %*% tfidf.matrix

results.df <- data.frame(doc = names(doc.list), score = t(doc.scores), text = unlist(doc.list))
#Join to original dataset and old code commented out
data$score <- results.df$score

#old results frames code commented out
#results.df <- results.df[order(results.df$score, decreasing = TRUE), ]
#results.df %>% select(doc, score, text) %>% top_n(20, wt = score) %>% datatable()
data$Relevance <- data$score
data <- data %>% arrange(desc(Relevance))

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mytable <- DT::renderDataTable({
    DT::datatable(data)
  })

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Welcome to another Handmade Monday.
This week, one of my commissions for Craftseller magazine made me realise that Christmas is already over - at least in the magazine world!
I made a Happy New Year card for Craftseller, using the papers that will be given away free with issue 32, alongside a Thank You card.
The card making was a welcome diversion from all the painting I've been doing - my handmade gifts have been keeping me very busy recently! Christmas might well be over as far as magazine commissions go, but it's only just starting for the rest of us (although I do know there are ultra-organised people out there who have already got ALL their presents sorted - which sort of gift-buyer are you? I am pretty much a Last Minute Lil, I must admit).
Ohhh lovely papers - look forward to seeing your cards in the magazine :-) I can sympathize with the handmade gifts getting busier... It's definitely going that way here too!
Must be weird working in or with the press and being ahead of yourself - you will be making Easter cards soon no doubt!
Nice papers. I am a bit of a last minute Person too. Will be making madly right up till Christmas!
I used to be a v last minute begging shops to stay open a bit longer for me on Christmas Eve kind of girl but these last few years i've got a lot more organised, almost all of my gifts (mostly handmade) are ready now - not wrapped yet though!
Hello, I'm a newbie here so hoping I'm doing everything right!
I never think too much about Christmas until December, except advent calenders of course (think about them 30th Nov!) but that doesn't really really work out very well for me. I just wish I could be like Little Grey Rabbit and do everything Christmas eve!
The weeks are passing so quickly I keep thinking I have loads of time, I like to think I'm organised but I think I'm a bit of a last minute Lil.
Lovely well done! wow onto new year already!
Oh, no!!! Christmas is over! I know exactly what you mean, but it's so strange to be about 6 months ahead of the rest of the population. Strange - it's like traveling in time.
Lovely cards and yes for magazines nothing lasts for the time they're meant to they always work at least 6 months ahead.
I'm done a part from little things for my Nephew ... bought wrapping today. Got a delivery of pressies in the week as bought some nice bits at Debs.
I know what you mean about last minute, I have been so wrapped up in getting Christmas things made to sell, that I have suddenly realised I haven't got anything ready for our Christmas. Hope you have a good week.
You sound organised! Christmas is coming fast and we had stockings up (only for photo purposes I assure you) in august!


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La région de l'Extrême-Nord est l'une des dix régions du Cameroun et la plus peuplée, située dans le nord du pays et frontalière du Tchad et du Nigéria. Son chef-lieu est la ville de Maroua qui compte aujourd'hui plus de .

Situation
La région est située au nord du pays, elle est limitrophe de six régions du Tchad et de deux États du Nigéria.

Subdivisions

Départements

La région constituée de six départements couvre une superficie de  et abrite plus de .

Arrondissements
La région compte 47 arrondissements.

Communes

La région comprend 1 communauté urbaine, 3 communes d'arrondissement et 44 communes.

Chefferies traditionnelles
La région de l'Extrême-Nord compte 18 chefferies traditionnelles de , 160 chefferies de  et  chefferies de .

Géographie
Comprise entre les Monts Mandara à l'ouest, les plaines d'inondation du Logone à l'est, la pénéplaine du mayo Kebbi au sud et le Lac Tchad au nord, la région de l'Extrême-Nord appartient dans sa grande majorité au bassin endoréique du lac Tchad. Seuls le Chari et son affluent le Logone sont permanents. S'avançant de manière de plus en plus étroite vers le nord entre les frontières du Tchad et de la Nigéria ses limites forment largement naturelles, rivière Logone, fleuve Chari, retombées des Monts Mandara sur le Nigéria, mais pas humaines.
Le climat est en grande partie sahélien avec des températures élevées et une pluviométrie comprise entre  décroissant selon la latitude du sud vers le nord. Les hauteurs (jusqu'à ) des Monts Mandara sont plus fraîches et nettement plus pluvieuses. À sept mois de saison sèche, froide de novembre à février, succèdent des mois de chaleurs de plus en plus fortes jusqu'à l'arrivée des pluies. C'est l'été de l'hémisphère nord mais en raison de la baisse, relative, des températures et de l'intensité des pluies de juillet et août, cette saison des pluies est souvent qualifiée d'hivernage. Les rivières débordent alors rendant la circulation difficile en dehors des grands axes routiers.
Des savanes, plus ou moins boisées en fonction de la latitude, couvrent la région tandis que les plaines d'inondation sont le domaine de la prairie. Ce sont les irrégularités interannuelles qui caractérisent le climat et rythment le travail des hommes, essentiellement des agriculteurs, agriculteurs-éleveurs et quelques nomades peul bororo au bord du lac Tchad.

Population et économie

Sa population (et donc sa densité) a connu une très forte évolution, passant de 2 721 500 habitants en 2001 à 3 111 792 lors du recensement de 2005. Sa densité est passée de 40,7 à 90,8 habitants au km entre le recensement de 1974 et celui de 2005. La croissance des villes est exponentielle.

Cette population est très inégalement répartie entre les régions montagneuses surpeuplées avec des densités dépassant les  par km dans les Monts Mandara et les yaérés, vaste plaine d'inondation du Logone, où les densités sont de moins de 10 habitants par km, ce qui a permis la mise en place ancienne du vaste parc national de Waza et, à l'écart des inondations, celui plus petit de la Kalamaloué. De nombreuses ethnies occupent des espaces bien identifiés que ce soit dans les montagnes et plateaux des Mandara (Mafa (peuple) , Mofu (peuple) , Podoko , Kapsiki (peuple) , Mouktélé (peuple), Vamé (peuple), Brémé…) ou dans les plaines (Kotoko (peuple), Toupouri (peuple), Massa, Moundang (peuple), Guisseye, Moussey (peuple)…). Des ethnies anciennement islamisées, Peuls (en anglais : Fulas ou Fulani ; en peul : Fulɓe) au centre et arabes choua (au nord) se consacrent davantage à l'élevage, sédentaire pour certains, transhumant pour d'autres. Des nomades peul bororo fréquentent les berges du lac Tchad. D'autres groupes humains, comme les Haoussas et les Bornouans, sont plus urbains.
L'agriculture et l'élevage occupent 90 % de la population. Encadrée par la Sodecoton, la culture du coton est la grande culture commerciale d'exportation pour la fibre ou pour la consommation locale d'huile pour la graine. Les cultures vivrières sont destinées à l'autoconsommation ou à nourrir les villes, en croissance rapide. La culture du riz s'est largement développée avec les différents périmètres rizicoles créés par la SEMRY. La pêche, développée le long du Logone, du Chari et dans le lac Tchad, a profité de la création de la retenue de Maga.

Culture

Danses Traditionnelles

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
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Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de la région de l'Extrême-Nord au Cameroun
 Bec de canard camerounais
 Parc national de Waza
 ISO 3166-2:CM
 Donatienne Moskolai Doumagay

Liens externes

 République du Cameroun. Institut national de la statistique, Annuaire statistique du Cameroun. Recueil des séries d'informations statistiques sur les activités économiques, sociales, politiques et culturelles du pays jusqu'en 2013, édition 2013


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Last spring while tooling around on Facebook, I came across a status in which Shannon Laffoon - mom to the ultimate Warrior, Wylder James - was tagged. Shannon was in Boston to cheer on Philip Maderia and the Running for Rare Disease team from Genzyme as they ran the Boston Marathon. At the same dinner, according to the weird world that is Facebook, was another name that I recognized - Kailene Simon.
Kai and I went to college together, and she had just friended me a few days prior to my discovery. Kai was also apparently part of the Running for Rare Diseases (RFRD) team. I couldn't handle the coincidences and responded, making the connection for everyone.
Sometimes I'm very naive lol. Obviously, they had already figured it all out.
We all know what happened next. Two cowards planted and exploded bombs. Lives were lost, others irrevocably changed. Thankfully all of the runners and patient partners of the RFRD team were safe, but they were certainly not unscathed.
In spite of it all (or perhaps because of it),these same folks are doing it again. They are giving their all as they always have, but this time there's an edge to it. A determination that permeates the entire city of Boston - to come back together on Patriots' Day this April and run the marathon, this time safely and in its entirety.
This year's marathon will also carry a special meaning for our family. Kai will again be running, and this time has declared "I Run For Quinn" (click the link to see Kai's beautiful blog post!). She has asked us to be the patient partner family in honor of Quinn, to raise awareness, support and funds for research on Niemann-Pick Disease, Type A.
She is running 26.2 miles.
In honor of a little girl she never got to meet.
Mere months after giving birth to her own beautiful little girl.
For a friend she hasn't seen in 14 (ack!) years.
Returning to a site filled with emotion and sadness, but also strength and grit (have you met any Bostonians??).
That, ladies and gentleman, is a hero. And I am so honored to know her.
You have not posted in some time Eileen, I hope all is well with your family and your treatments have gone well.
I have been checking back hoping to see an update! Hope everything is going ok!
Just a few words to say that I'm sending love your way and hope that everything is fine!


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James Comey Confirms Once Again That He Failed America in 2016
By David French
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Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.	 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
If Trump's conduct is to be publicly scrutinized, Comey isn't the man for the job.
When former FBI director James Comey sat down with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, the script was clear. This was the moment when Comey was going to unload on Donald Trump, explain his role in investigating Hillary Clinton to angry Democrats, and disclose some delicious, salacious new details about Trump's perfidy and corruption. If Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury ultimately fizzled because readers couldn't separate fact from fiction, then surely Comey could deliver the goods, right?
Well, he delivered, all right — just not the goods Democrats wanted. In one hour of television, Comey and Stephanopoulos inadvertently reaffirmed what we already knew: In 2016, the entire American political system cracked, including — in crucial ways — the FBI.
But before we get to Comey, let's pause for a moment and ponder the immense challenge that the Bureau faced. The two major political parties nominated candidates who had long histories of ethically, morally, and legally problematic behavior. Neither possessed a character fit for the presidency. But the Democrats went so far as to nominate a candidate who was known to be under active, credible FBI investigation. Comey lays out the political problem well:
If we decide there is no criminal case there and we recommend no prosecution, the Republicans will be screaming that we let, you know, the greatest crime go since the Rosenbergs were executed for selling our nuclear secrets. And if we prosecute her, the Democrats will scream that we're just doing it out of some sort of partisan bias because I'm a former Republican appointee and so the system is rigged against Hillary Clinton. Either way, we were going to be attacked.
So, what to do? Comey's response sounds perfect:
And this may sound strange, that's kind of freeing. If you know you're totally screwed and you know that people are going to be angry at you no matter what you do, you can't do anything about it. And so you just put your head down and you do your job. And you let the facts and the law decide what you should do.
Exactly. Investigate the facts, apply the law, and let the chips fall where they may. But did that happen? Let's read a different portion of the transcript. Here Comey justifies his decision not to recommend prosecution for Hillary Clinton:
They'll prosecute cases like David Petraeus'. But they're very unlikely to prosecute a case unless you can show the person, like Petraeus, clearly knew they were doing something they shouldn't do. There's evidence of obstruction of justice or disloyalty to the United States, spy — indications.
But without those, sloppiness, even extreme sloppiness, is handled through administrative discipline. Somebody is not prosecuted. And I've gone through 50 years of cases. I don't know of a case where anyone has ever been prosecuted for just being careless, even extremely careless. And so when the case was open, we know that history.
What's missing here? The words of the relevant statute — a statute that he elsewhere dismisses as "passed 100 years ago." It doesn't matter if it was passed at the founding of our republic, it is still governing authority, and that governing authority states that the relevant legal standard imposes criminal penalties when a person, "through gross negligence," removes "information relating to the national defense" from its "proper place of custody." It does not add on an additional requirement of "obstruction of justice" or "disloyalty."
In other words, when placed in the middle of an extraordinary, high-stakes investigation, James Comey applied the wrong legal standard, and he's still applying the wrong legal standard today.
While applying the actual law to the relevant facts may be politically difficult, that happened to be Comey's job. Comey very ably outlines various types of pressure and "inappropriate" conduct from the Obama administration (from the attorney general's insistence that Comey call the Clinton investigation a "matter," to her tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton, to President Obama's own pronouncements about Hillary's conduct), but in the end it appears that he couldn't withstand the heat.
While applying the actual law to the relevant facts may be politically difficult, that happened to be Comey's job.
Think of the staggering consequences that flowed from this simple decision — and from the poor decisions that followed. First, by punting on the language of the actual statute, he let the Obama Department of Justice off the hook. Then, conscious that he was punting in the face of well-known and highly controversial public statements from President Obama (and in the aftermath of the tarmac meeting), he departs from common practice to issue a public statement excoriating Hillary Clinton anyway. Finally, after very publicly closing the book on the case, he finds himself in yet another bind when the FBI discovers potentially relevant information on Anthony Weiner's laptop.
With the first move — applying the wrong legal standard to the case — he cleared the way for Hillary's candidacy. With the second and third — issuing unusual statements that highlighted Hillary's misconduct — he may have fatally undermined her campaign. And all the while, he was not considering the proper legal standard but pondering polls and public perception. For example, his first major public statement was an "unprecedented" act driven by concerns for institutional credibility:
What was different here is I decided, given some things that had happened, that to protect the institutions, we actually had to step away from the Department of Justice and tell the American people, "Look, here's what we did. Here's what we found. Here's what we think. You can count on the fact this was done in an apolitical way. Your organization of justice acted the way you'd want it to be." And that if I'd done the normal thing, that wouldn't have happened and the institutions would've been damaged.
While public perception matters to the credibility of any law-enforcement agency, credibility ultimately turns on the law. Credibility turns on professionalism.
Far from being "freed," Comey found himself in a prison of his own making. One can't know what was in his heart — his motives could have been as pure as the driven snow — but the end result looks a lot like a person who tried to please his political masters in the ultimate question (should Hillary be prosecuted?) while preserving at least a reputation for independence and transparency through his public statements.
It's too simple to say that we're living in the world that Comey made. We're living in the world that exists when multiple institutions place political ambition over principle, when negative polarization trumps truth and justice. It's a world where the guardrails are increasingly fragile, where institutions and individuals who should be repenting of their considerable sins are instead holding themselves up as exemplars of duty and morality.
Ever since the 2016 election ended, I've heard smart and thoughtful people say that they don't want to see America become a "banana republic" where the victors prosecute the losers, or where the elites use criminal law to overturn the results of an election. I'd put it differently. I don't want to live in the kind of banana republic that nominates corrupt candidates and then allows them to use their power and influence to avoid accountability.
Donald Trump fired Comey for the wrong reasons. Trump's team is rightly subject to multiple federal investigations, and these investigations should be allowed to run their course without interference from the president. But in watching Comey speak, I can say this with high confidence: If Trump's conduct is to be scrutinized, James Comey is not the man for the job.
David French is a senior editor of The Dispatch. @DavidAFrench


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Coronavirus in Cornwall round up: Saturday, October 3
Data for the latest coronavirus cases in Cornwall and the rest of the UK has finally been updated this evening – and there has been a huge rise nationally.
This has been put down to a "technical issue, which has now been resolved" that meant some cases were not previously reported.
There have been 40 new cases recorded in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 1,437 since the start of the pandemic.
It means the average rate of cases is now 251.3 per 100,000 people during that time, which while rising is still one of the lowest in the country – with many local authorities now recording well over 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.
Nationally there have been 12,872 extra positive test results now reported – coming close to double the 6,968 recorded yesterday.
It brings the total number of cases recorded in the UK since the start of the pandemic to 480,017.
A statement on the government website reads: "Due to a technical issue, which has now been resolved, there has been a delay in publishing a number of Covid-19 cases to the dashboard in England.
"This means the total reported over the coming days will include some additional cases from the period between September 24 and October 1, increasing the number of cases reported."
The website was not updated until 8.38pm today, far later than the usual time of around 4pm.
What was updated earlier were the number of coronavirus-related deaths in hospitals, as recorded by NHS England over the past 24 hours.
Nationally a further 42 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 30,138.
Patients were aged between 44 and 100 years old. Three patients – aged between 49 and 82 – had no underlying health conditions. Their families have been informed.
The date of the death ranges from August 8 to October 2.
There has been one new death recorded in the south west over the last 24 hours, but none in Cornwall.
No deaths relating to coronavirus in Cornwall were registered in the most recent weekly period, latest Office for National Statistics figures reveal.
The figures from the ONS, which has been collating data for deaths in all settings, including hospitals, care homes and the wider community, relate to the week of September 12 to September 18, but were registered up to September 26.
It means that Cornwall's overall coronavirus death toll remains at 210.
In today's coronavirus-related news:
A GP surgery near Falmouth has made changes to protect patients from the risk of coronavirus.
The Friends of Constantine Surgery has paid for a £12,000 portable building to be put in the car park of the Bowling Green surgery, for use as external consulting rooms.
The number of new coronavirus cases has fallen in Cornwall and Plymouth over the last seven days – but Devon has seen them almost double.
The number of coronavirus clusters in Cornwall rose slightly earlier this week – although the amount of actual cases fell.
It is important to remember, however, that the map 'live' on the website today actually shows cases recorded between September 22 and 28, with any registered from Tuesday onwards this week not yet showing.
Falmouth Packet | News


Three paper cups is all you need to create your very own moving manga.
Japanese Twitter user Shinrashinge (@shin___geki) has created a cute manga featuring our favourite characters from the popular series Doraemon. Only it involves a twist — or several twists, really — as it's made from three paper cups which form the moving parts.
▼ Using cut-outs, the cups provide three layers of art to work with, meaning character dialogue can change in the one scene.
The layers also help to bring details to the foreground and blend one scene with the next, creating an ever-changing visual, just like a short anime.
▼ As the story unfolds, Doraemon, Nobita and Shizuka climb into Nobita's drawer to board the time machine.
Since uploading a video of his Doraemon paper cup manga in action, the clip has received more than 270,000 retweets. It might be only 28 seconds long, but it's captivating enough to watch over and over again.
To see more of the talented 22-year-old's creations, you can take a look at his three-cup One Punch Man manga here and a collection of his unusual ashtray art here. With his prolific output of clever art, we're sure it won't be long before we get to see more from him again!