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December 23, 2016 12:01AM EST
Yemen: Brazil-Made Cluster Munitions Harm Civilians
Saudi-Led Coalition Rockets Nearly Hit Schools in Saada
(São Paulo) – The Saudi Arabia-led coalition fired Brazilian-made rockets containing banned cluster munitions that struck near two schools in the northern Yemeni city of Saada on December 6, 2016, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack on al-Dhubat neighborhood in Saada's Old City at about 8 p.m. killed two civilians and wounded at least six, including a child.
Impact crater created by a submunition used in the cluster munition attack on Saada City, December 6, 2016.
The attack came a day after Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and the United States abstained from a vote in the United Nations General Assembly that overwhelmingly endorsed an already widely accepted international ban on cluster munition use. Brazil should join the Convention on Cluster Munitions and cease the production and transfer of cluster munitions, while Saudi Arabia and other coalition members should cease all use of cluster munitions, Human Rights Watch said.
"Brazil should be on notice that its rockets are being used in unlawful attacks in the Yemeni war," said Steve Goose, arms director at Human Rights Watch and chair of the Cluster Munition Coalition, the international coalition of groups working to eradicate cluster munitions. "Cluster munitions are prohibited weapons that should never be used under any circumstances due to the harm inflicted on civilians. Brazil should make an immediate commitment to ending production and export of cluster munitions."
Since March 26, 2015, a Saudi Arabia-led coalition of nine Arab states has conducted military operations in Yemen against the Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah, and forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have documented the use of seven types of air-delivered and ground-launched cluster munitions made in the US, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. The coalition has admitted using UK and US-made cluster munitions in attacks in Yemen.
On December 19, the Saudi-led coalition announced it would stop using a UK-made cluster munition, the BL-755, but left open the possibility it would continue using other types of cluster munitions in Yemen.
Human Rights Watch interviewed by telephone four witnesses to the attack and several other local sources. One witness visited the attack site shortly afterward and photographed the damage, while another photographed an unexploded submunition lying where it had landed.
Witnesses described hearing a loud explosion followed by several smaller explosions, which is consistent with a cluster munition attack. Ayman Lutf, a 20-year-old university student, told Human Rights Watch that five submunitions landed on his street, damaging a parked car and a water tank.
Cluster munitions are prohibited weapons that should never be used under any circumstances due to the harm inflicted on civilians. Brazil should make an immediate commitment to ending production and export of cluster munitions.
Steve Goose
Arms Division Director at Human Rights Watch
Bassam Ali, a 20-year-old neighborhood resident, said, "We thought it's like the regular missiles that always hit Saada... Which only create single explosions. This one was different, a series of explosions together... All of the bombs landed over our neighborhood, over houses, and on the streets."
Khaled Rashed, a 38-year-old member of the local council, said, "We heard... two sounds of explosions... One louder than the other, and… after that we heard more explosions, smaller, and falling from the sky like embers... It landed everywhere, water tanks over houses, one... exploded and destroyed a taxi."
Rashed said that the rocket strike occurred near a girls' school and a boys' school, both between the old city and al-Dhubat neighborhood. People wounded in the attack were taken to a nearby hospital. Students were told not to return to school the next day as the schools had to be checked for any explosive remnants, including unexploded submunitions, an administrator at the boys' school said.
Dr. Mohammed Hajjar, general director of the largest hospital in Saada, said that the hospital treated seven people for wounds, of whom one later died, and that another had died before arriving. Fathy Al-Batl, a local activist, said that those wounded included a teacher, a 20-year-old student, and a 14-year-old boy.
Human Rights Watch identified the remnants of ASTROS II surface-to-surface rockets, each containing up to 65 submunitions, delivered by a truck-mounted multi-barrel rocket launcher. Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have purchased ASTROS cluster munition rockets from Brazil, where they are manufactured by Avibrás Indústria Aeroespacial SA. Previously, Amnesty International researchers found remnants of ASTROS cluster munition rockets remaining after an attack on Ahma in Saada on October 27, 2015, that wounded at least four people.
Submunition of an ASTROS II cluster munition rocket found in Saada City on December 7, 2016. Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have purchased ASTROS rockets from Brazil, where they are manufactured by Avibrás Indústria Aeroespacial SA. Each cluster munition rocket contains up to 65 submunitions. Unexploded submunitions are extremely volatile and can explode on contact: they should never be touched or handled.
Saudi Arabia's use of ASTROS cluster munition rockets in Khafji, Saudi Arabia in 1991, during the First Gulf War, was previously documented by Human Rights Watch. These munitions left behind "significant numbers of unexploded submunitions."
The use of cluster munitions in Houthi-controlled territory that has been attacked by Saudi-led coalition aircraft and by rockets launched from Saudi Arabia on previous occasions suggests that Saudi forces fired the cluster munitions used on December 6, 2016. However, further investigation is required to conclusively determine responsibility, Human Rights Watch said.
The coalition has attacked the Houthi-stronghold of Saada City frequently since the start of the war. A Houthi-Saleh military camp is located less than 50 meters from al-Dhubat neighborhood. Human Rights Watch has documented the coalition's use of cluster munitions in 17 unlawful attacks in Yemen that killed at least 21 civilians, wounded 72 more, and in some cases struck civilian areas.
The use of cluster munitions in Yemen since April 2015 has received worldwide media coverage, provoked a public outcry, and been condemned by dozens of countries as well as by a European Parliament resolution. In September 2015, more than 60 nations at the First Review Conference of the Convention on Cluster Munitions expressed deep concern at the use of cluster munitions in Yemen and issued a declaration condemning "any use of cluster munitions by any actor."
The coalition has acknowledged using US and UK-made cluster munitions in Yemen, but claims to have done so in compliance with the laws of war. In a January 11, 2016 interview with CNN, the coalition military spokesman said the coalition used CBU-105 Sensor Fuzed Weapons in Hajjah in April 2015 "against a concentration of a camp in this area, but not indiscriminately." He said that the US-made CBU-105 has been used "against vehicles."
In May, the US suspended transfers of cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia. President Barack Obama should halt all arms transfers to Saudi Arabia and make the cluster munition ban permanent and extend it to all other countries before he leaves office, Human Rights Watch said.
Cluster munitions are delivered from the ground by artillery and rockets, or dropped from aircraft and contain multiple smaller explosive submunitions that spread out over a wide area. Many fail to detonate and leave unexploded submunitions that become de facto landmines that continue to pose a threat long after a conflict ends.
Cluster munitions are prohibited by a 2008 treaty signed by 119 countries, though not by Brazil, the US, Yemen, or Saudi Arabia, and its coalition partners Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Qatar, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates. These countries should promptly join the Convention on Cluster Munitions and abide by its provisions, Human Rights Watch said.
Fragmentation damage to a car parked at the site of the cluster munition attack on Saada City, December 6, 2016.
Human Rights Watch is a co-founder of the international Cluster Munition Coalition. Germany's Ambassador Michael Biontino will preside over the next annual meeting of the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Geneva on September 4-6, 2017.
The December 6, 2016 cluster munition attack on Saada took place the day after the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on cluster munitions. A total of 141 states voted in favor of the non-binding resolution on the convention while Russia and Zimbabwe voted against it, and 39 states abstained. Those abstaining included Yemen, Saudi Arabia, the US, and Brazil.
On December 19, the Saudi Press Agency, Saudi Arabia's state-run news agency, reported that the government of Saudi Arabia had "decided to cease usage of the UK-manufactured BL-755 cluster munitions" and had informed the UK of its decision. The statement acknowledged the Convention on Cluster Munitions, argued that, "international law does not ban the use of cluster munitions," and claimed that Saudi Arabia used UK-made cluster munitions in Yemen "against legitimate military targets to defend Saudi towns and villages against continuous attacks by Houthi militia, which resulted in Saudi civilian casualties. In deploying these munitions [sic], the Coalition fully observed the international humanitarian law principles of distinction and proportionality. Furthermore, the munitions were [sic] not deployed in civilian population centers."
The same day, the UK government admitted it had evidence indicating the coalition had used UK-made cluster munitions in attacks in Yemen.
"At last Saudi Arabia is beginning to feel global pressure for its continued use of cluster munitions," Goose said. "Both Saudi Arabia and Brazil should join the international ban on these weapons without delay."
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Your staff will work harder and stick around longer when you take a teamwork approach.
It's always tough to be the boss. This has never been more true than today, when restaurant industry jobs are plentiful and even your best employees may look for new opportunities. Being in charge means getting employees to do the work you need while keeping them motivated. It requires you to move from boss to coach, because coaching people to success beats the alternative—bossing them into failure.
Being a boss and being a coach are very different from one another. A "boss" operates a lot like a bully, applying a selfish "I/Me/My" mentality. The inward, "my way or the highway" approach stifles motivation. The work may get accomplished, but morale suffers.
When you're a coach, you turn the focus outward with a "Let's/We" approach that calls for teamwork. A coach is still in charge, but doesn't give orders. Instead, there's two-way dialogue where goals are explained so each team member understands how his or her role fits in the plan. Achieving success pushes employees to perform in ways that benefit them and the business.
According to LinkedIn's "Why Good Employees Leave" the immediate supervisor is the number one reason people stay in an organization and the number one reason they leave. That means having a great team has less to do with money, perks and training, and more to do with how people are treated and how valued they feel.
Whether you are a "boss" or a "coach" can make all the difference. The Gallup Business Journal reports that 75 percent of workers who voluntarily left their job did so because of the bosses and not the position itself.
Happy employees not only stick around, they get things done. If you don't believe the supervisor/worker relationship matters, think back to the best boss you ever had. He or she was probably more like a coach, making a difference in your life by focusing on lifting you up and making you better.
By contrast, think about the worst job you ever had. You likely didn't quit the job, you quit your boss.
Why do people quit their jobs? Employers today still think it is all about wages, job security, promotions and working conditions. Yet study upon study reveals employees value full appreciation for their work. Those on your staff want to feel "in" on things.
If they don't feel like part of the work family, with a supervisor who is sympathetic and able to listen to personal problems, offer guidance and build confidence, then there is little incentive to stay.
If you're experiencing a revolving door of employee comings and goings, check yourself at the door. Are you a boss that people are quitting? Or are you a coach that people are embracing?
Decide to do it. Look in the mirror and become the boss you would want to have.
Listen twice as much as you talk. You'll never hear good ideas if you're not listening.
When you talk, be engaging. Ask the who, what, when, where, why and how questions to create discussion.
Allow the team to decide sometimes. It reaffirms that you're all in it together.
Remember that often the best way to achieve your own success is to help others achieve theirs first.
Reward the result, not the effort. You want to win, not just play well. Keep everyone's eyes on the prize.
Inspire trust by showing trust.
Every workplace may be different, but true leadership is a constant. We need fewer bosses and more coaches. With this prescription, you can start to be a coach—the mentor who builds a successful team shaped by mutual respect, talent and high-level performance.


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Fed Up Donors Tell GOP Senate Leaders Pass Bills Or Resign
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Earlier this week we told you about how Nick Ayers, Vice President Mike Pence's Chief of Staff had bluntly told a group of major donors that they should tell Capitol Hill's Republican establishment that they would "…not only stop donating, I would form a coalition of all the other major donors, and just say two things. We're definitely not giving to you, No. 1. And No. 2, if you don't have this done by Dec. 31, we're going out, we're recruiting opponents, we're maxing out to their campaigns, and we're funding super PACs to defeat all of you."
More than one of those donors got the message.
According to an article in yesterday's POLITICO, "Tensions reached a boiling point at a recent dinner at the home of Los Angeles billionaire Robert Day. In full view of around two dozen guests, Thomas Wachtell, a retired oil and gas investor and party contributor, delivered an urgent message to the night's headliner, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: Just do something."
"Anybody who was there knew that I was not happy. And I don't think anybody was happy. How could you be?" Mr. Wachtell told POLITICO. Mr. Wachtell has previously given over $2,000 to McConnell but recently stopped donating to Senate GOP causes. "You're never going to get a more sympathetic Republican than I am. But I'm sick and tired of nothing happening," Wachtell said according to reporting by POLITICO's Alex Isenstadt and Gabriel Debenedetti.
In what Isenstadt and Debenedetti called a "hard reality," some of the GOP's most elite and influential donors, who spent the past eight years plowing cash into the party's coffers in hopes of accomplishing a sweeping conservative agenda and undoing Barack Obama's legislative accomplishments, are closing their wallets because that agenda is at a standstill.
"When you're in a business and you tell your stakeholders you're going to build a building or something, you have to follow through," Houston-based energy executive Dan Eberhart told Isenstadt and Debenedetti. "I can't borrow money to build a building and then not follow through, which is what these guys are doing." Mr. Eberhart told the reporters he's spoken to four Republican senators over the past month to express his displeasure, mostly over the party's failure to repeal Obamacare.
Isenstadt and Debenedetti report other donors are giving lawmakers an earful as well. Bruce Rastetter, an Iowa agribusiness mogul who has funded a long list of Republican elected officials, said he had informed his state's two GOP senators, Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, that he would not donate to Republican senators "unless they pass new legislation or get new leadership."
And the donor rebellion seems to be growing.
One seasoned GOP fundraiser forwarded along to Isenstadt and Debenedetti a curt email from a sought-after donor. "The GOP leaders should know, no movement on remaining agenda: tax reform, infrastructure, deregulation, etc. means no funding from supporters like me," it read. "No meetings, calls, contributions until we see progress."
"I think major donors are tired of writing checks to a do-nothing Congress," Roy Bailey, an influential, Dallas-based GOP bundler told Isenstadt and Debenedetti.
Michael Salzhauer, a New York real estate investor, also told Isenstadt and Debenedetti he had begun informing lawmakers that he's done giving until they address health care and taxes.
"To miss that opportunity," he said, "is totally irresponsible."
But it's not just the legislative failures that have turned-off the major donors, its McConnell's culture of cronyism and corruption, too.
"They blew all of their resources in Alabama for basically nothing," said Mr. Eberhart, who has donated to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which backed appointed incumbent Senator Luther Strange. Not to be outdone in wasting resources, a McConnell-aligned super PAC, Senate Leadership Fund, also dropped more than $8 million in the losing effort to prop-up Strange.
The good news is, Isenstadt and Debenedetti report "some exasperated givers are turning to Steve Bannon, Trump's hard-charging former chief strategist and a McConnell nemesis, to vent. Bannon met with several contributors who were in Washington this week for an RNC gala and has eagerly stepped into the role of donor-whisperer. He is looking to establish his own finance network to fund an effort to unseat Senate Republican incumbents in 2018."
If you are tired of writing checks to a do-nothing Congress we urge you to give to FedUp PAC, Chaired by CHQ Chairman Richard Viguerie, or directly to principled limited government constitutional conservatives like Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas or conservative Republican Senate candidate Josh Mandel of Ohio.
Major GOP donor Roy Bailey
Submitted by 55geZpxGZF on Mon, 10/09/2017 - 14:09.
Mr. Bailey, I pray you will use your wallet, or whatever influence you have in Dallas, to stop Mayor Mike Rawlings and the Dallas City Council from destroying our history by taking down Confederate monuments and cemeteries from destruction. As a citizen, I attended the meeting where many good people protested, but their mind was made up. Now they are wanting to change the names of schools and streets where any person was in any way connected with slaves, slavery, regardless of how remote. This is insane. Meanwhile, native Texans like me are losing symbols of our history as well as the burial places of our forefathers.
Please do something.
Joyce Luster
Thank God at least the Donors are getting the message!
Submitted by Charles Martel on Fri, 10/06/2017 - 15:17.
One of our greatest frustrations since the "change" in leadership in January is that our president seems to be the only one who heard the message we voters sent last November, and then only some of the time. It is such welcome news that these high-dollar donors are getting the message, and putting pressure on the Mensheviks and other Republicrats to do what they were elected to do. Here in Arizona we have two Menshevik senators who badly need replacing, and one of them is up for re-election in 2018. Let's hope these big-money folks take a serious look at Dr. Kelli Ward for Senate!
Republican Congressional Leadership
It's high time to change horses, midstream or not!

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Spanish researchers have found the strongest proof yet that inhibition of a gene could be used to fight cancerous tumors.
Research led by the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, found that the inhibiting mutations of the Myc gene could be accomplished via the drug Omomyc. That inhibitor was designed by Laura Soucek, Principal Investigator of VHIO´s Mouse Models of Cancer Therapies Group.
Earlier research by the same investigators succeeded in eradicating lung tumors; this latest experiment proved the efficacy of Omomyc in fighting other kinds of tumors as well. In this study, the researchers transferred human cells to mice, and the success of the tumor inhibition in that case indicates that Omomyc can work for humans as well.
One of the most important conclusions reached by the group showed that there were no side effects after Myc was administered, and after long-term treatment.
Further research is needed to find out how Omomyc can be administered as a drug outside of a laboratory environment.


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Lincoln's 1st XV battled hard after a first-half red card but were unable to prevent a narrow 7-0 defeat against local rivals Market Rasen & Louth in their final league game of the season.
The hosts showed great grit and determination throughout the match, but what could have been a thrilling spectacle suddenly became an uphill battle late in the first half.
The referee later confirmed that he gave a yellow card to the Market Rasen player (Jake McKay) for pulling back Lincoln scrum-half Mitch Ashworth, who he said was sent off for "punching".
Market Rasen started the match strongly with Tom Stephens making a good early break through the Lincoln defence.
The visitors wasted the chance to open the scoring after 11 minutes when Ben Young missed a penalty.
Lincoln began to grow into the game as Sean Chapman ran at the Rasen defence to put them into a great position near the 22, but unfortunately the move didn't end with a score.
Rasen flanker Jake Pryer produced an excellent performance and was a constant threat and was named man-of-the-match by Lincoln after the game.
Lincoln captain Leigh Dearden was sent to the sin bin against the club where he had spent most of his rugby career. The referee said the yellow card was shown for "stamping".
The game's turning point happened shortly before half-time when Ashworth was sent off and Lincoln knew the second half would be an even tougher battle.
To their credit Lincoln refused to give up and made a positive strong start to the second half despite being a man down.
Matt Walker made some good yards before Ben Sykes, who was named as Lincoln's man-of-match with Will Scammell, powered through and was tackled just metres short of the try line.
Chapman then dodged past a Rasen defender before being tackled just short of the try-line. Chapman was forced off injured soon after with young centre Jack Miles coming on in his place.
Lewis Wilson and Scammell both made good breaks through the Rasen defence, but ultimately a combination of good play by Rasen and being a man down proved decisive.
Rasen put a lot of pressure on Lincoln in the second half, but the hosts' defence held firm and valiantly kept them out until the hour mark.
A good strong drive from a line-out set up the match-winning try for Rasen's captain Ben Chamberlain. Tom Alldridge successfully slotted over the conversion.
Lincoln tried to find a way back into the game with Wilson making good yards through the Rasen defence, but the passing move was ended by a knock-on soon after.
Scammell ran at the defence in the closing minutes before Rasen once again stopped Lincoln just short of the try line to hold on for victory.
The result sees Lincoln stay sixth in Midlands Two East (North) and ahead of Market Rasen by just a point. However, Rasen still have another league game left against bottom club Ashby.
Lincoln's league season is over but they still have a cup final to look forward to against Stamford on Monday, May 6.
Lincoln captain Leigh Dearden spent around 14 years in the Market Rasen first team and was part of the side that previously took them into Midlands One East.
The forward was proud of the grit and determination shown by his side in the local derby clash against his former club at Longdales Park.
"It was a marginally disappointing day at the office for Lincoln with the score at 7-0," said Dearden. "Two great squads of players came to play a good brand of rugby and both teams wanted to deliver a spectacle befitting of such a good crowd turnout.
"What I found far more disappointing was that sadly the game was brought down in standard and spectacle. It was reduced to essentially 80 minutes of scrummaging and that part I find far more disappointing.
"I know all my players at Lincoln and my friends and fellow rugby players at Rasen would have much rather enjoyed playing a better spectacle and a better brand.
"I know that everyone was excited for this match, this occasion, hence such a good crowd turnout and I know both teams were genuinely looking forward to it.
"So what I find far more disappointing is what the game was sadly condensed down to so apologies for those that came to watch for the lack of spectacle. But that aside, as always a fantastic day to be Lincoln and hats off to our visitors Market Rasen.
"Following the match everything was conducted in the right manor. We showed them fabulous hospitality and in turn they made for a wonderful post-match evening and it was a genuine pleasure to see so many friends and fellow rugby players enjoying one another's company and taking one another's presence in the right spirit, a thoroughly enjoyable evening. We look forward to playing them again.
Rasen captain Ben Chamberlain said: "It was a great local derby played in the right manner. The boys did me and the club proud.


A very different but very tasty warming stew.
Heat the oil in a medium-sized pot and gently fry the onion and brinjal for 3 minutes.
Add the chicken livers, stir gently and fry for a further 3 minutes.
Add the tomato paste, the water and the baked beans.
Add the paprika and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Place the lid on the pot and simmer for 10 to 12 minutes.
Garnish this hearty stew with a sprinkle of fresh coriander.
Serve with rice, pap or dumplings.
Add KOO vegetables or KOO lentils to extend the meal and add extra nutrition.


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SUN SHINES BRIGHT, THE
SUN SHINES BRIGHT, THE (director: John Ford; screenwriters: Laurence Stallings/story by Irvin S. Cobb; cinematographer: Archie J. Stout; editor: Jack Murray; music: Victor Young; cast: Charles Winninger (Judge William Pittman Priest), Arleen Whelan (Lucy Lee Lake), John Russell (Ashby Corwin), Stepin Fetchit (Jeff Poindexter), Francis Ford (Feeney), Jane Darwell (Mrs. Amora Ratchitt), Grant Withers (Buck Ramsey), Russell Simpson (Dr. Lewt Lake), Ludwig Stossel (Herman Felsburg), Milburn Stone (Horace K. Maydew), Slim Pickens (Mink Sterling), Allene Roberts (Rufe's daughter, the rape victim), Elzie Emanuel (U.S. Grant Woodford), Paul Hurst (Sgt. Jimmy Bagby), Mitchell Lewis (Sheriff Andy Redcliffe), Eve March (Mallie Cramp), Paul Hurst (Sgt. Jimmy Bagby), Mitchell Lewis (Sheriff Andy Redcliffe), Ernest Whitman (Uncle Pleasant Woodford), Clarence Muse (Uncle Zack), Henry O'Neill (Jody Habersham), Trevor Bardette (Rufe Ramseur), James Kirkwood (General Fairfield); Runtime: 92; MPAA Rating: NR; producers: Merian C. Cooper/John Ford; Republic; 1953)
"A heavy mix of mushy sentimentality and low-brow comedy."
Considered John Ford's ("Wagon Master"/"The Fugitive") favorite film among his own works, a continuation of his 1934 Judge Priest which starred Will Rogers. It's a personal film based on humorist Irvin S. Cobb's three short stories "The Sun Shines Bright," "The Lord Provides," and "The Mob From Massac." It follows in an agreeable way the colorful elderly ex-Confederate bugler of Fairfield County, Kentucky, Judge William Pittman Priest (Charles Winninger), who is in the middle of a heated election with the son of a carpetbagger, Horace Maydew (Milburn Stone)–someone who cannot relate to people in the same easy way that Priest can, but stands behind a right-wing agenda to bring back "law and order."
The Judge is a natural politician, a heavy drinker and a lover of the Confederacy, but also alienates many of the upper-class citizens with his homey approach to office. But he's tight with the common people who keep re-electing him and his other Confederate cronies to office. He especially has a friendly but paternalistic relationship with the blacks (non-voters by law) such as his loyal servant Jeff (Stepin Fetchit), Uncle Zack, and Uncle Pleasant Woodford. The stereotyped characterization of the blacks, seemingly dancing for joy in their segregated community, would no longer be P.C. to a modern audience or acceptable to too many African-Americans. John Ford might have meant well, which I believe is so, but it's difficult to give him a free pass except to say he's a product of his times.
The storyline follows Judge Priest going out of his way to befriend the Union war veterans in order to bring harmony to the community, run a fair court, preserve the southern traditions without being a racist, treating the rejected grand- daughter (Arleen Whelan) of General Fairfield with dignity while others sneer at her behind her back because her mother was a prostitute, singlehandedly stopping the lynching by an angry white mob of an innocent slow-witted black youngster, named U.S. Grant Woodford, accused of raping a white girl (he does this despite the possibility of losing the election, since those was his constituents in the mob), and marching in a funeral procession for a prostitute who came home to be buried while the "better" people in town refuse to treat her as a Christian and would deny her the right of having a preacher at her funeral service.
The Judge acts as a healer and a benevolent paternalist figure, serving office only to make his community a friendlier and better place. He just happens to look the other way at the evil vestiges of the Old South, the religious stuffiness of the community, and the real scars leftover from the Civil War.
The result is a heavy mix of mushy sentimentality and low-brow comedy, and a melodrama that seems as if it were already outdated on its theater release date in 1953. Ford's idealized view of America seems old-fashioned and incredulously naive but, it's not all bad, as it ends on an upbeat note with members of both races singing together "My Old Kentucky Home."
REVIEWED ON 12/26/2004 GRADE: C
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LINDEMAN: John Brennan's Former Operatives Are Being Picked Off The Grid
Tore Lindeman |
John Brennan was an APAC (Asia Pacific) specialist spanning, China, the Korean Peninsula and out to the shores of Hawaii. Before Barack Hussein Obama made him DNI, APAC was his stomping ground and obviously he handled the Middle East. On January 14, 2018 at about 3:05 AM local Hong Kong time a man named Jerry Lee was prompted to fly out to the United States from Hong Kong.
Who is Jerry Lee (JERRY CHUN SHING LEE)
Jerry Lee was John Brennan's right hand man, handler for APAC. A former Intelligence Analyst that worked with Jerry said "Lee is a great guy. As a handler he was forthcoming, straight to the point and guided his assets every step of the way."
According to a very odd and questionable affidavit, Jerry Lee left his position with the Central Intelligence Agency in 2007. In summary the affidavit for his warrant of arrest states that in 2012 he arrived in Hawaii with his family. According to the affidavit, the FBI surveilled his hotel and then without Lee's knowledge searched his and his family's personal belongings and found two booklets that contained HIGHLY CLASSIFIED information. Remember Lee was a cut-out and not a throwaway like many others that left the agency and did not transition into the newly formed IC element structure. . In the affidavit it is stated that they attained a search warrant but BLP was unable to obtain a copy of the search warrant. No record of such a warrant being issued during that period of time and or may be sealed.
The affidavit gets stranger as you read it. The affidavit states he and his family then traveled to Virginia where they stayed until June 2013. Initially they stayed at the hotel in Fairfax and again they searched his belongings and again determined he was still in possession of the highly classified materials they had already previously determined to be a treasonous and criminal. Once again, BLP was unable to obtain a copy of the search warrant. No record of such a warrant was issued during that period.
Lee is an ILLEGAL. Strzok is an illegal too. Illegal is the term used to identify the elites of the clandestine community. As the affidavit continues, surveillance was in full force. He was a target and they documented every single interaction, exchange and or discussion. The affidavit claims in May or June of 2013 before he departed for China, he was questioned. "Speaking with co-workers doesn't count as questioning to us, but for warrant purposes it does" stated our exclusive BLP source. The affidavit claims he had in his possession, names of assets, locations of clandestine agents, locations of operations and actual telephone too, which we can all agree, since he is not actively working for the intelligence community and his capacity doesn't warrant such information to be in his possession, it is criminal. Let's remember to the recently pardoned sailor who went to prison for selfie he took in a submarine.
The FBI in 2012 and 2013 had all the evidence they need to prosecute and arrest him but they didn't. Instead, they let Lee leave the country with it, why?
What prompted Jerry Lee to fly out to JFK impromptu on Jan 14, 2018 local Hong Kong time arriving to JFK on Jan 16, 2018 late at night (local time)? Considering the date of his departure was Jan 13, 2018 local time, something significant happened in the APAC region.
Palpably, the counterintelligence division has been rounding up former and present intelligence elements aggressively since the fall of 2017. Such arrests are very hard to detect and in very few instances throughout history do we have access to arrest warrants, trial information and records. After all, Intelligence Community elements are identified by very few people and divisions of government. Jerry Lee is not the only IC element the "FBI" arrested. The case of Ms. Claiborne our overqualified "office manager" , also being recently arrested for things she has been alleged to have done years ago but they decided to pursue her now? If you read the affidavit it is apparently trivial, embellished with fancy statements and sentences to paint her into some treasonous person.
If you read the affidavits for both Lee and Clairborne (Here's the affidavit for Candace Marie Clairborne) you'd notice one thing is consistent the "FBI" agent in charge. Kellie O'Brien.
WHO IS KELLIE O'BRIEN?
Kellie O'Brien has been with the FBI for 24 years. Her profile is tidier that Strzok Jr.'s. We know she lives in Alexandria, VA (or did) and she is a mother and married (or was). She now identifies as an agent of counterintelligence where she investigates espionage and retention of classified information. Sounds like the White House HVIG division BLP talked about in.
During our interview with our sources they could not confirm or deny her work with Mueller, which can only have us speculating. What we do know is that Kellie is Brennan's cleaner for APAC. Her cases ALL focus on his previous territories of APAC. Her signature is on BOTH these warrants and has very close ties with the Strzok's. Her husband went to college with Melissa Hodgman and he works with Quantico as an independent TECH consultant.
Like Melissa Hodgman, Kellie O'Brien has a bit of "China fever" too.
Lee's book had names and details of assets in all of APAC. That is actually normal. Most handlers do. Real names though? That is a stretch but could happen. Illegal operatives are cocky, sloppy and have the attitude we saw Strzok dish at the hearing confirmed our source. #AboveTheLaw because indeed rules don't apply to them and reports are just -job done or job failed. Wikileaks had dropped serious intel showing the world that you can hack and code altering origination. He dropped intel showing that someone in France could hack into the US and make it look like it was Russian or Chinese. Vladimir Putin even made mention of such technology laughing when it first was inched that the Russians hacked the elections.
Why did Jerry Lee come back to the USA?
"We believe he was coming back to get with the Trump Administration to let them know what is going on in China and pretty much spill the beans" said one of our exclusive sources. Apparently it's not just US citizens that are assets but actual Chinese government officials that were employed with the covert deep state intelligence community. It's a hot mess in China since mid 2017. "General Zhang Yang was being investigated by the Chinese government for his covert dealing with Obama's intelligence community. He committed suicide" stated our high level intel source.
Jerry Lee was a handler and was trained directly under John Brennan. His career involved dabbles in the Middle East but his domain was China, the Korean Peninsula, Australia, Japan, Indian, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, and Pakistan. Anything from Asian Shores to Hawaii was his domain. This is no secret, when confirmed he prided himself on his expertise. Considering Lee was a handler for APAC we can infer that Brennan and Lee were in frequent communication when Lee was active and inactive. "They like to keep tabs on their intel elements. Even though most of them crave the simple life and don't stay in the field, they still tap into them every now and then. When you get out all you want is a simple job, kids, mowing, farming because 10 years in, is a lifetime" a former CIA operative tells BLP.


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NOTICE ON CORONAVIRUS
The European Commission Formally Requests Spain to Amend Certain Rules Related to the Appointment of Fiscal Representatives
The European Commission has formally requested Spain to change its tax provisions related to the appointment of fiscal representatives. The Commission considers that the rules which require certain non-resident natural and legal persons to appoint a fiscal representative in Spain result in discriminatory treatment. The request takes the form of a reasoned opinion (second step of the infringement procedure provided for in Article 258 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU)). If there is no satisfactory reaction to the reasoned opinion within two months, the Commission may decide to refer the matter to the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Under Spanish law, the following are amongst those obliged to appoint a resident tax representative in Spain: foreign pension funds located in Member States other than Spain and providing for occupational pension schemes in Spain; EU insurance companies operating in Spain under the freedom to provide services; non-resident companies operating in Spain through a permanent establishment; and non-resident natural persons subject to inheritance and gift tax in Spain.
The Commission considers that this requirement is not proportionate and that it restricts the free provision of services. The Commission's case reference number is 2007/2446.
For further information, please contact José Blasi: jblasi@mmmm.es
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Adolph Hofner and the Pearl Wranglers
By John Morthland
The true sound of the Texas dance Hall.
HERE'S THE TRUE SOUND OF the South and Central Texas dance hall. Adolph Hofner, born in 1916 in the predominantly Czech community of Moulton and based mainly in San Antonio since the thirties, recorded Western swing and its variants for several national labels starting in 1938. But he was best known in the Hill Country and the Valley as a tireless performer who knew exactly what the people wanted come Saturday night. After his music fell from fashion, he signed with Luling's Sarg Records in 1956, putting his favorites on vinyl for die-hard fans until 1973. His best bands included the soaring swing fiddler J. R. Chatwell, spunky pianist Charlie Poss, versatile drummer Eddie Bowers, and Adolph's brother and steel guitarist, known as "Bash" — short for the nickname "Bashful," though it could just as easily have referred to his steel style. Adolph played guitar, sang a little, and kept his bands swimming effortlessly in their musical melting pot. They cut old-country folk songs ("Julida Polka"), American folk music that had resonated in Texas for generations ("Under the Double Eagle"), stately waltzes ("Westphalia Waltz"), bouncy original polkas ("The County Fair Polka"), Western swing ("Steel Guitar Rag"), honky-tonk ("Pistol Packin' Mama"), Spanish-flavored ballads ("The Three Caballeros"), rockin' country boogie ("Rockin' and A-Boppin"), modern country ("You Ain't Woman Enough"), and all the regional dances ("Cotton Eyed Joe," "Dance the Paul Jones-Old Joe Clark," "Dude Ranch Schottische," "Put Your Little Foot"). Remarkably, no matter what the material, every track sounds unmistakably like the same band. As the result of a stroke in 1993, Hofner doesn't perform anymore, but the 35 tracks on this double CD are the next best thing to being there when he did. by John Morthland


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The proportions between your teeth and face directly affect the beauty and harmony of your face. Brener Clinic uses DSD (including photography and video capture) together with multidisciplinary study to enter your face, smile and the exact dimensions of your teeth into the computer. Brener Clinic then meticulously makes clinical analyses and custom designs the angulation and position for your new teeth digitally, adjusting them to be compatible with your unique face and personality.
Importantly, DSD provides us with a digital rendition of your face and smile results. Using this digital rendition we provide you with a temporary dental mock-up to trial and approve before your final permanent smile makeover restoration treatment is carried out. You participate in this process, and can express your own desires and expectations.
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terrifying! so glad everyone is safe.
we always watch out for rattlers in AZ/NM when visiting my brother inlaw, but he just shoots em, skins em and eats em. i, run.
YIKES!! What a blessing she is safe. Rattlesnakes have been particularly plentiful this year due to the drier winter here in Nevada.
We went shopping in Spanish Springs last week!


Pader – Denis Omony, 30, a resident of Omaki Gira village in Ogom parish Ogom Sub-county, Pader District, on Wednesday June 5 beat his son to death after the young boy refused to put on school uniform and go to school.
According to neighbour's, the 7-year-old Richard Odokonyero died instantly after the father beat him on the head.
Odokonyero was a Primary One pupil at Ogom Primary School.
Aswa river regional police spokesperson, Jimmy Patrick Okema confirmed the incident describing it as very unfortunate.
"It a very unfortunate incident. Parents should desist from such beating and be careful while handling children," Okema said, adding that Omony was arrested and is being detained at Pader Police Station on charges of murder.
He noted that police has arranged a doctor to carryout postmortem at the home where the body of the deceased is being kept in Omaki-gira village.
Aswa River regional police reports indicate that two children were recently killed out of anger of their parents.
On May 25, one child was poisoned to death by the step mother in Amuru District following a domestic fight with the child's mother.


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SUP 14
SUP 14.2 Changes to branch details
SUP 14.2.1G 01/10/2018 RP
Where an incoming EEA firm is exercising an EEA right11 and has established a branch in the United Kingdom, the EEA Passport Rights Regulations govern any changes to the details of that branch. Where an incoming EEA firm has complied with the relevant requirements in the EEA Passport Rights Regulations, then the firm's permission given under Schedule 3 to the Act is to be treated as varied accordingly. All references to regulations in SUP 14 are to the EEA Passport Rights Regulations.42
6Firms passporting under the CRD and the UCITS Directive9
Where an incoming EEA firm passporting under the CRD 9or the UCITS Directive has established a branch in the United Kingdom, regulation 4 states that it must not make a change in the requisite details of the branch unless it has complied with the relevant requirements.
The relevant requirements are set out in regulation 4(4) or, where the change arises from circumstances beyond the incoming EEA firm's control, in regulation 4(5) (see SUP 14.2.8 G).32
Where the change arises from circumstances within the control of the incoming EEA firm, the requirements in regulation 4(4) are that:
the incoming EEA firm has given notice to the appropriate UK regulator12 (see SUP 14.4.1 G) and to its Home State regulator stating the details of the proposed change;
the appropriate UK regulator12 has received a notice stating those details; and
the appropriate UK regulator12 has informed the firm that it may make the change; or
the period of one month beginning with the date on which the incoming EEA firm gave the appropriate UK regulator12 the notice mentioned in (1) has elapsed.
Changes to the requisite details may lead to changes to the applicable provisions to which the incoming EEA firm is subject. The appropriate UK regulator12 will, as soon as practicable after receiving a notice in SUP 14.2.3 G or SUP 14.2.8 G, inform the incoming EEA firm of any consequential changes in the applicable provisions (regulation 4(6)).1
Changes arising from circumstances beyond the control of an incoming EEA firm passporting under the CRD or UCITS Directive69
If the change arises from circumstances beyond the incoming EEA firm's control, the firm is required by regulation 4(5) (see SUP 14.2.2 G) or regulation 6(5) (see SUP 14.2.5 G (2)) to give a notice to the appropriate UK regulator12 (see SUP 14.4.1 G) and to its Home State regulator stating the details of the change as soon as reasonably practicable.
The appropriate UK regulator12 believes that for a change to arise from circumstances beyond the control of an incoming EEA firm, the circumstances should be outside the control of the firm as a whole and not just its UK branch. For example, the appropriate UK regulator12 considers that this provision would be unlikely to apply to circumstances in which lack of planning at the incoming EEA firm's head office resulted in a problem arising in a UK branch which was outside its control. In practice, therefore, use of this provision is likely to be rare.
Firms passporting under MiFID
SUP 14.2.10G 01/01/2012 RP
6Where an EEA MiFID investment firm has established a branch in the UK, regulation 4A states that it must not:7
make a change in the requisite details of the branch; or7
use, for the first time, any tied agent established in the United Kingdom; or7
cease to use tied agents established in the United Kingdom;7
unless it has complied with the relevant requirements in regulation 4A(3).7
6The relevant requirements in regulation 4A(3) are that:
the EEA MiFID investment firm has given notice to its Home State regulator stating the details of the proposed change; and
the period of one month beginning with the date on which the EEA MiFID investment firm gave the notice mentioned in (1) has elapsed.
6Changes to the requisite details may lead to changes to the applicable provisions to which the EEA MiFID investment firm is subject. The appropriate UK regulator12 will, as soon as practicable after receiving a notice in SUP 14.2.11 G inform the EEA MiFID investment firm of any consequential changes in the applicable provisions.
7SUP 14.2.10 G does not apply to a change occasioned by circumstances beyond the incoming EEA firm's control.
Firms passporting under the auction regulation
SUP 14.2.14R 27/07/2012 RP
8An EEA firm that is exercising an EEA right to provide auction regulation bidding from a branch in the United Kingdom must notify the FSA of any change to the information submitted under SUP 13A.4.5 R by email to emissionstrading@fsa.gov.uk prior to the change or whenever possible thereafter.
Firms passporting under AIFMD
Where an EEA AIFM has established a branch in the UK, it must not make a material change to:
the requisite details of the branch; or
the identity of the AIFs that the EEA AIFM intends to manage;
unless it has complied with the relevant requirement in regulation 7A(3).
The relevant requirement in regulation 7A(3) is that the Home State regulator has informed the FCA that it has approved the proposed change.
Firms passporting under the MCD
10As required by regulation 7B(1), where an incoming EEA firm passporting under the MCD has established a branch in the UK, it must not make a material change to any of the matters referred to in regulation 2(8)(b) to (e) or regulation 3(6)(b) to (e), unless it has complied with the relevant requirements.
10The relevant requirements are set out in regulation 7B(4) or, where the change arises from circumstances beyond the incoming EEA firm's control, regulation 7B(5).
10The relevant requirements in regulation 7B(4) are that:
the incoming EEA firm has given a notice to the FCA and its home state regulator stating the details of the proposed changes; and
the FCA has informed the incoming EEA firm that it may make the change; or
a period of one month has elapsed beginning with the day on which the incoming EEA firm gave the notice under (1).
10Where the change arises from circumstances beyond the incoming EEA firm's control, the incoming EEA firm is required by regulation 7B(5) to give notice to the FCA and to its Home State regulator stating the details of the change, as soon as reasonably practicable.
10The FCA believes that, for a change to arise from circumstances beyond the control of an incoming EEA firm, the circumstances should be outside the control of the incoming EEA firm as a whole and not just its UK branch. For example, the FCA considers that this provision would be unlikely to apply to circumstances in which lack of planning at the incoming EEA firm's head office resulted in a problem arising in a UK branch. In practice, therefore, use of this provision is likely to be rare.
Firms passporting under the IDD
SUP 14.2.22G 01/10/2018
11As required by regulation 7C(1), where an incoming EEA firm passporting under the IDD has established a branch in the UK, it must not make a material change to any of the matters referred to regulation 2(9) unless it has complied with the relevant requirements in regulation 7C(4).
11The relevant requirements in regulation 7C(4) are that:
the incoming EEA firm has given notice to its Home State regulator stating the details of the proposed change; and
the period of one month, beginning the day on which the incoming EEA firm gave the notice under (1), has elapsed.


Cadbury is rolling out one of its biggest ad campaigns to date for Cadbury Dairy Milk featuring a minute-and-a-half film created by Fallon.
The £6.2m campaign, which revives the famous "Glass and a Half" icon, will debut on Channel 4 during the Big Brother 8 finale on Friday, August 31.
The film was written and directed by Sony "balls" creative director Juan Cabral and will be supported by outdoor activity, a digital campaign from Hyper, PR support from Sputnik Communications and sponsorship.


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Q: How to convert an IP address from NSString to unsigned int in Objective-C? How to covert the IP address from NSString to unsigned int in Objective-C?
NSString A = "192.168.43.149"

And I try to convert it to unsigned int like the following code:
unsigned int ip;
ip = (unsigned int)[A intValue];

or
sscanf([A UTF8String], "%u", &ip);

The result always show only 192.
I want it show 0xc0a82b95
How to covert the IP address from NSString to unsigned int in Objective-C?
Thanks in advance.

A: For IPv4 addresses you can use inet_aton(), which converts a string to an Internet
address:
#include <arpa/inet.h>

NSString *addrString = @"192.168.43.149";
struct in_addr addr;
if (inet_aton([addrString UTF8String], &addr) != 0) {
    uint32_t ip = ntohl(addr.s_addr);
    NSLog(@"%08x", ip);
} else {
    NSLog(@"invalid address");
}

// Output: c0a82b95

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Last week was busy, as the evaluation of the City of Philadelphia's efforts to clear the Kensington homeless encampments was finally released. The City featured it on their landing page and has a more long-term home for it here, where you can download the full report.
I wrote a bit on the project last summer in a blog entry when we finished the preliminary report.
The report generated a good bit of interest in the local media, with the best writeups coming from two journalists who have been following homelessness and opioid use in Kensington for awhile: Joel Wolfram for WHYY and Aubrey Whelan for the Inquirer.
If you are at all interested in encampment clearance, I encourage you to check out our writeup, as it looks at the process of doing this, and outcomes for both the displaced people and the surrounding community, in a level of detail that is, as of now, unprecedented.
I am going to continue to follow up on these clearance efforts, as I am involved in a more general examination of local responses to unsheltered homelessness that is funded by Arnold Ventures in which Barb Poppe and I take a look at eight localities across the US who are engaging in innovative and effective approaches to addressing unsheltered homelessness. This study is ongoing, and one of the sites we focus on is Philadelphia.
I would also like to do some more writing on this that ties in our findings here with my fixation on Philadelphia's Skid Row back in the 50's and 60's. I laid out the basic structure of the parallels between old Skid Row and contemporary Kensington here, and as I've gotten more immersed in Kensington I've become even more interested in these parallels.
So I look forward to writing more on this.


Since May 2018, I have been developing a crowdfunding token distribution and tokenomic model that mathematically guarantees the ICO price is the lowest price an asset ever trades.
I am calling it The Unsinkable ICO Standard (TUIS).
In order to prove the efficacy of my model, I have decided to launch a token on the Stellar network – the first "Unsinkable" Investment-Buyback-in-Perpetuity DAICO (IBiPDAICO).
The general public and novice crypto investors have been misled into believing that the initial coin, or initial public offering is the lowest price – initial. However the reality is that most ICO projects currently offer significantly lower coin/token prices to large investors via private pre-sale or pre-ICO. The result is that most ICO assets trade below ICO price for weeks or even months after ICO and the smaller investors could have gotten a better price post-ICO.
The Unsinkable ICO Standard fixes this problem.
The Investment-Buyback-in-Perpetuity DAICO, or IBiPDAICO, is my improvement on Vitalik Buterin's DAICO concept. An Unsinkable 100% IBiPDAICO offers a guarantee that anyone who wants to get their initial investment back, can. A money-back guarantee. Additionally, the ICO investors control the token issuer's access to crowdsourced funds by removing their coins/tokens from the circulating supply and temporarily forgoing their money-back guarantee. Immutable HODLing. An asset stays Unsinkable by offering enough funds for token buyback at ICO price with immutable circulating supply management to mathematically ensure the asset can never trade below ICO price. Circulating supply never exceeds the amount of funds offered for buyback at ICO price.
Essentially, an Unsinkable IBiPDAICO is an ICO with a low-price and money-back guarantee where investors can grant issuer access to crowdsourced funds by HODLing. There's no promise of profit, maybe no one will want to buy it above ICO price after the ICO, but you can always get your investment back – assuming the buyback funds don't get stolen. The Unsinkable Project is seeking peer review. I greatly appreciate constructive criticism and feedback for improvement.
I am sure there are mistakes. Please help me correct them.
Those who want to see crypto succeed and go mainstream wish to get rid of the scams and create a new standard of transparency. The Unsinkable ICO Standard. The public has been led to believe the ICO price is the beginning, the lowest price. The INITIAL coin offering. The Unsinkable Project aims to make that true. The ICO price should be the lowest price an asset ever trades for, and Stellar Lumens (XLM) assets are perfect for deploying this standard. Stellar assets have a built in trading function. This allows the Stellar network itself to act as a decentralized exchange (dex) for assets on its "blockchain." New assets are trade-able immediately for any other asset on the distributed ledger technology (DLT). The Stellar network also supports near instant confirmation times, negligible transaction costs, and thousands of transactions per second. An ICO can be performed on the Stellar website in 10 minutes with no coding experience for under $5. These qualities, along with being impervious to 51% attacks, make the Stellar network ideal for launching the Unsinkable Project. A Stellar asset could be the perfect solution for day to day crypto transactions and prime to replace bitcoin as a store of value if a trustless deflationary token ecosystem were introduced.
Unsinkable.io will eventually host a UI for interacting with the Stellar dex. This Unsinkable Exchange will only list coins/tokens that meet The Unsinkable ICO Standard. It will be open source. It will eventually feature gameified, social, and algorithmic trading – compete with and follow other traders, automatically copy successful traders, strategy creation and algo/bot marketplace. 1Broker, eToro, Binance, and Kryll.io inspired.
I believe that launching The Unsinkable Project on Stellar has the potential to create the largest decentralized, tokenized, trustworthy, global, free-trade marketplace ever conceived.
Harnessing the collective genius of all mankind for the betterment of tomorrow.
I have an on-staff animator working for team allocation vested UNSK on many company videos. This is the first explanatory video for The Unsinkable Project. It is currently "unlisted" because I have not received a response from my email to trademark@stellar.org on 7-17-18 about using the Stellar mark. Hopefully this usage is acceptable. Please let me know what you think.
Ok, I get the sentiment, and it looks great for the investor. But what about the entrepreneur? You know, the guy who wants to work hard, hire top people, create an innovative solution, and even market it? That COSTS money. The blanket statement of "money-back guarantee" kinda makes all of this impossible, no?
Yes, there are scammers and some bright 17 years olds that will work for free. But mature, experienced people? Those who you would like to invest in - they COST money.
Absolutely correct. Thanks for a great question.
If you build a truly exceptional deflationary utility token ecosystem with real industry demand, presumably based on upsetting an established industry with a more competitive business model utilizing a custom ICO asset and reduced fee structure, then potential employees should see the value in working for vested tokens.
The HODL Wallet. By providing speculative investors with incentive to immutably HODL, you reduce the circulating supply and their buyback funds become available for dev and employee pay, server costs, web hosting, marketing, whatever ops you need.
Unsinkable Tokenomics enable nearly trustless, low-risk tokenomic ecosystems, helping smaller and riskier projects attract ICO investors. Unsinkable token issuers for small ICO projects also benefit from a larger market cap, more tokenomic transparency, and liquidity than they would presumably have without TUIS. Additionally, the tools available on Unsinkable.io will make it extremely easy for new developers, project offerers, and aspiring cryptopreneurs with no coding experience to design, build, market, and crowdfund their new Unsinkable token ecosystem.
Unsinkable ICOs could use pre-ICOs or even private sales for immediate funding if those tokens are vested until company tokens can be sold with enough profit deposited into the buyback account to maintain Unsinkability.
UNSK is using a small pre-ICO with vested tokens - no initial buyback, and not part of the circulating supply, to generate immediate funds for SSC dev.
Ok, got it! So you reduce the risk for the public buyers who enter after the "smart-money" entered with higher risk and less guarantee. I assume the pre-ICO would demand a lower valuation than the public, but it makes sense.
Correct. Using TUIS, even if the issuer had a preferentially priced private sale, those tokens cannot enter the circulating supply unless the buyback offer increases proportionately to accommodate an ICO-price buyback offer covering the additional circulating supply.
There must be some incentive for pre-ICO investors to forgo the money-back guarantee and purchase the vested, higher-risk, pre-ICO tokens. In the case of UNSK, there is a 100% bonus, but the vestment unlock is dependent on UNSK/XLM minimum price in addition to time.
Thank you for helping me get this clarity of purpose. I'd say you answered the "Why" question far better than I did. TUIS is intended to protect the general public from predatory ICO tokenomics like preferentially priced private sales and pre-ICOs, exit scams, and greedy token distributions. Also issuer incompetence.
We also have sales decks now!
Decent. I have made significant progress on the website and newcomer educational materials.
SSC dev is slower then I had hoped. SSC devs are in high demand, with low supply, so my dev has many other projects (that presumably have more funding and are paying better).
Hopefully we will get some funding from SBC and I will be able to properly compensate him to pick up the pace and/or hire some more devs to help him. Unfortunately SBC judging has been pushed back a week, we should know by Sep 7 if we won some funding.
I have been hesitant to push the ICO out to ICO listings until minimum SSC functionality is complete. I would like to have automatic buyback, price-lock HODL, and the immutable crowdfunding contract ready before we make a big marketing push to potential investors.
We have gotten our stellar.toml working and our assets are on stellarport, but no investment yet. I actively post updates on Telegram and a weekly update on the Unsinkable.io blog.
Thanks for your interest! I hope to have more updates soon. I will update the roadmap once we find out if we have any SBC funding.
We have just released a major update to the HODL Wallet!
The update includes a testnet ICO offering with automatic buyback.
Please make an account (you can use a fake email, there's no confirmation) and let us know of bugs and suggestions!
We have the first iteration of HODL working on the testnet HODL Wallet!


In this category you will find some extremely cute cats and kittens! Dishes, figurines, collectibles and jewellery that feature furry felines. Also, books, journals, prints, postcards and crafts - anything that celebrates that most marvelous and magical creature - the cat.
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Texas Tobacco purchasing age will be 21 beginning in September
Posted: Jun 7, 2019 / 09:57 PM CDT / Updated: Jun 8, 2019 / 02:36 PM CDT
On Friday, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bill 21, which will stop the sale of cigarettes, e-cigarettes and other tobacco products to Texans younger than 21.
With the governor's signature, Texas will be the 16th state in the U.S. to raise the minimum legal tobacco age to 21.
The bill was championed by Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, and Rep. John Zerwas, R-Richmond. In addition, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick made raising the tobacco age one of his legislative priorities.
Shelby Massey, the Texas Government Relations Director for the American Heart Association, celebrated the bill's passage, saying:
"Senate Bill 21 would not be law without the hard work and leadership of bill authors Senator Joan Huffman and Representative John Zerwas. Thank you to them, Governor Abbott and the Texas Legislature for taking this important step to reduce and eventually eliminate the toll of tobacco on young Texans. Delaying the age when young people first begin to use tobacco – the leading cause of preventable death – will reduce the risk they will develop a deadly addiction."
According to the Texas21 Coalition, in Texas, 7.4% of high school students smoke and over 10% use e-cigarettes, while 10,400 kids become daily smokers every year. Nearly half a million (498,000) Texas children alive now will ultimately die prematurely from smoking if current trends continue.
In addition, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released in February found a 78 percent increase in high school students using e-cigarettes in one year, raising the number of middle and high school tobacco users to almost 5 million and reversing past progress to reduce youth tobacco product use.
The age restriction will not apply to those who are in the military.
Tyler Lee ladies defeat Mesquite Horn, tie Lady Jags for district lead
by Mike Alzamora / Jan 18, 2020
Tyler, Texas (KETK) - In a match up for first place in district 11-6A Friday, the Tyler Lee Lady Raiders jumped out to as fast start and never really looked back.
Lee led Mesquite Horn 16-5 after one quarter of play and went on to beat the Lady Jaguars 50-36, handing them their first loss in district play.
TYLER, Texas (KETK) - The Grace Cougars got a big win at home over their nearby rival Bishop Gorman Crusaders Friday night in their district opener.
The Cougars beat the Crusaders 64-51, knocking Bishop Gorman to 1-1 in district play.
Arp stays unbeaten in district play after beating Winona
WINONA, Texas (KETK) - The Arp Tigers are 5-0 in district action.
Arp defeated Winona on the road Friday 68-54 to remain as the only unbeaten team in 16-3A.


It's not easy being a teenager — nor is it easy being the parent of a teenager. A seemingly harmless comment from you can make your adolescent feel angry, hurt, or misunderstood. If your teen has you baffled and frustrated, try these tips that offer a commonsense approach to giving your child the space he needs to grow while gently letting him know that you'll still be there for him when he needs you.
Expect a lot from your teen, just not everything. Work on one aspect of a teen's behavior at a time. For example, if you've recently laid down the law on curfew and your child is just starting to get home on time consistently, it's probably not the best time to focus on getting her to watch less TV. Overlook minor transgressions in one area while attending to another — trying too hard to modify several aspects of your adolescent's behavior will overwhelm and frustrate you both. Save your absolute, no-compromise positions for health and safety issues, such as drug use or reckless driving, and consider everything else somewhat negotiable.
Offer your availability always, but your advice only when asked. If your child is reluctant to discuss a particular topic, don't insist he tell you what's on his mind. Too much nagging will turn into a power play between you, which will only increase the likelihood that he'll clam up. Instead, let him attempt to solve things by himself — a sure sign to him that you support his growing independence and a great way for him to build self-esteem. At the same time, remind him that you're always available should he seek advice or assistance.
Don't invade your teenager's space. Show the same respect for your adolescent's privacy that you would show for any adult relative. Never read her mail or listen in on personal conversations. And avoid going into her room to tidy up when she's not at home. She'll resent your snooping and you'll resent having to clean up after her. You can certainly set guidelines, such as prohibiting food in bedrooms, but a teenager is old enough to maintain her own room.
Teach your teen that the family phone is for the whole family. If your child talks on the family's telephone excessively, tell him he can talk for 15 minutes, but then he must stay off the phone for at least an equal amount of time. This not only frees up the line so that other family members can make and receive calls, but teaches your teen moderation and discipline. Or if you are open to the idea, allow your talkative teen his own phone that he pays for with his allowance or a part-time job.
Mirror only positive feelings about physical appearance. Most teenagers are hypersensitive about how they look. Although they may be highly critical about the way others look or dress, they are often unable to handle such criticism directed toward them. Self-image is very important to adolescents, so keep a cool head about fashions your teen chooses to wear. While you need not constantly compliment your child's appearance (which may actually put too much emphasis on physical attractiveness), you should look for ways to support and reinforce any positive comments your adolescent makes about herself.


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New book explores origins of Juneteenth
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By Rosalind Bentley, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
'On Juneteenth' by Annette Gordon-Reed speaks about emancipation observance
The first friend I made when I moved from Florida to the Twin Cities in 1987 was a woman from Doucette, Texas.
Laverne, like me, was a Black woman who'd traded the South's warmth and lushness for the cold, austere beauty of the Land of 10,000 Lakes. But we were often homesick and attended events that reminded us of home. For Laverne — a proud native daughter of East Texas — that was the annual Juneteenth festival in north Minneapolis. I had no idea what Juneteenth was before Laverne told me that it was a celebration to honor the day enslaved people in Texas found out they were free: June 19, 1865. From time to time she would actually say, "Don't mess with Texas."
I thought of our annual pilgrimage "over north" to the Twin Cities version of the festival while reading the slim volume of five essays, "On Juneteenth," by Annette Gordon-Reed, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard historian. Gordon-Reed is another proud daughter of East Texas, one whose scholarship on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings helped prove that Jefferson fathered several children with Hemings while she was enslaved by him.
"On Juneteenth" is a blend of personal essays and historiography. It is not so much about Juneteenth as a holiday as it is about Texas' origins as a slave state and the struggle for equality that Black Texans (and Americans) are still waging more than 150 years after General Order Number 3 officially ended slavery.
Gordon-Reed's scholarship is about challenging established notions. And just as she did with the prevailing narrative around Jefferson — as a founding father who could never have fathered children with a Black woman — so she does with the state that gave the nation Juneteenth.
She argues that the prevailing images of "the rancher," "the cowboy" and "the oilman" have popularized the idea the world over that "Texas is a white man," riding through the dusty, windswept desert. Those clichés are also true in part, glorified in Hollywood movies like "The Alamo" and "Giant," which Gordon-Reed saw as a child in her hometown of Conroe.
But Texas is also a place where, after gaining its independence from Mexico, slavery was written into its constitution. Stephen F. Austin, the so-called "Father of Texas," was ultimately successful in his drive to turn hundreds of thousands of acres of land into wealthy cotton plantations. East Texas was built in great part by enslaved people living in the massive, fertile region of the state. Except for an enslaved character in "The Alamo," which always made Gordon-Reed "slightly embarrassed" whenever he appeared on screen, Black people and their history were never part of the Lone Star State's commercial legend.
"Divorced from plantation slavery, coming from a part of the state relatively devoid of Black people, the image of the cowboy on the range quiets the noise a bit and avoids the tragic element in Texas history — the element that Juneteenth supposedly closed the door on, even as it opened another tragic phase in the state and country's history," Gordon-Reed writes.
But Mexican, Tejano and Native American culture are foundational to the state. And while Gordon-Reed spends a chapter on Indigenous people's culture, its erasure and Hollywood's commodification of it, much of the book centers on Black people's experiences, starting with the African "Estebanico," who came to the Americas with the early Spanish explorers who enslaved him in the early 1500s. He literally found freedom in the land that would become Texas, emancipated almost 350 years before Juneteenth.
The image of the white cowboy being the true representative of Texas had rubbed off on me, too. That's why Laverne's deep pride in her home state was at first jarring. Texas belonged to them, not to us Black folk, I thought. But here was this woman from Doucette, a seventh-generation Texan, passionately claiming it.
Gordon-Reed's book is a historian's interrogation of her home state. But like Juneteenth, it speaks to the rest of the nation. As Gordon-Reed writes: "It is an American story, told from the most American place."
Credit: New York Times
"On Juneteenth"
Liveright; 128 pages; $15.95
Rosalind Bentley
Rosalind Bentley is an award-winning feature writer focusing on culture, arts and sometimes food, as they are expressed and experienced in Atlanta. She is a two-time James Beard Award finalist and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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