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What Every American Needs to Know About Hearsay and the Trump Impeachment
Nov 21 2019 22 November 2019
Thanks to the impeachment hearings, have watched more coverage of Congress doing business in the past week than I have in my entire adult life prior to last week. And one point that seems to come up over and over again – from my fellow Twitterers, from callers on C-SPAN, even from members of Congress – is that the transcript of the July 25 phone call and/or witness testimony over the past week is "hearsay."
Most people using this term aren't lawyers, so they aren't using "hearsay" the way lawyers do. Instead, they're musing it as a synonym for "irrelevant" or "prejudicial" – the way in which it frequently appears in colloquial conversation and in media depictions of courtroom trials.
It's not the public's fault that "hearsay" gets used in this way. Hearsay as a legal concept is extremely complex. It's not uncommon for law students to spend more than half of their entire time studying the rules of evidence on hearsay and its exceptions. The colloquial meaning is much easier to grasp, and it's often the only one non-lawyers really need to know.
Yet it's important to understand that "hearsay" is a legal term, with a specific legal meaning. And not only is Trump's statement in the July 25 transcript not hearsay, Trump and his supporters would actually fare worse if it was.
Federal Rule of Evidence 801(c) defines hearsay as follows:
(c) Hearsay. "Hearsay" means a statement that:
(1) the declarant does not make while testifying at the current trial or hearing; and
(2) a party offers in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted in the statement.
Essentially, hearsay has three elements:
A statement,
Made outside the trial/hearing where the statement is submitted,
Submitted in order to prove that the content of the statement is true.
All three elements must be met for a statement to be hearsay.
Why Isn't Trump's Statement Hearsay?
At the core of the impeachment case against President Trump is a statement he made to Ukraine president Zelenskyy in a July 25 phone call:
Zelenskyy: We are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps. Specifically we are almost ready to buy more Javelins from the United States for defense purposes.
Trump: I would like you to do us a favor though.
When it comes to the hearsay question, the first two elements are undisputed. No one is arguing that Trump speaking the phrase "I would like you to do us a favor though" isn't a "statement" (it is). Nor is anyone arguing that it was made during a formal impeachment proceeding (it wasn't).
The claims of "hearsay" depend on the third element: Is Trump's statement "I would like you to do us a favor though" submitted in a formal impeachment proceeding (assuming one occurs) in order to prove the truth of what that statement says?
Answer: No. And here's why: Trump's feelings regarding the "favor" he asked Ukraine to do don't matter. The fact that he tried to use the promise/withholding of military aid in order to get that favor does.
The statement at issue here is "I would like you to do us a favor, though."
Imagine that Trump were accused of breaking a law that says "No U.S. President may want the leader of a foreign country to do him a favor." To make the case that he broke this law, prosecutors submit the transcript in which Trump says "I would like you to do us a favor, though."
That's the closest we would get to this statement actually being hearsay in a court proceeding against Trump (and it's still not hearsay, for reasons I'll explain below). Here, the statement would be submitted in order to prove the contents of the statement: That Trump would like it if the Ukrainians did him a favor.
Formal articles of impeachment haven't been filed yet, so we don't know exactly what Trump might be accused of. We do know, however, that the accusations will need to fall under at least one of three headings: "treason," "bribery," and/or "high crimes and misdemeanors," per Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution.
The U.S. Code contains definitions of both treason and bribery. It's reasonable to assume that, if articles of impeachment contain either term, the standards applied will parallel those in the U.S. Code. "High crimes and misdemeanors" is not defined, but Congress has historically understood that term to cover more than just criminal acts (see, for instance, the Clinton impeachment).
Of the three, bribery currently appears to fit best, given what we've learned from the impeachment hearings and the transcript itself. Generally speaking, the core elements of bribery are (1) giving/trying to give or withholding/trying to withhold (2) something of value (3) in order to make someone else do/not do something.
In this context, "I would like you to do us a favor, though" would be submitted to prove Trump made an attempt to withhold something of value from Ukraine (in this case, a shipment of Javelin tank-busting missiles) until Trump got something from Ukraine (in this case, political dirt on the Bidens or the appearance thereof). Whether or not Trump "likes" that deal is irrelevant; what matters is that he tried to make it.
I Don't Buy It. It Still Sounds Like Hearsay to Me.
Hearsay is sometimes a fine line to draw, and this is one of those times. Fortunately, the Federal Rules of Evidence help us clarify whether or not Trump's statement is hearsay.
Even if Trump's statement is "an out of court statement offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted in the statement," it's still admissible under the Federal Rules of Evidence in two ways:
First: In an impeachment hearing, the statement is excluded from the hearsay rule as the statement of a party opponent.
A "party opponent" is someone who is (a) both a party to a case (either plaintiff or defendant) and (b) on the opposite side from the party that wants to submit a statement. In a Trump impeachment, Trump is a party opponent of the U.S. House of Representatives, which is currently controlled by a Democrat majority.
FRE 803(d)(2) provides five grounds for excluding statements of party opponents from the hearsay rule. The first one applies here:
(2) An Opposing Party's Statement. The statement is offered against an opposing party and:
(A) was made by the party in an individual or representative capacity;
To exclude Trump's statement from the hearsay rule, an opposing party would only need to demonstrate that (a) it's submitting the statement to make its case against Trump (not in support of him) and (b) Trump made the statement.
Here, no one is disputing that an impeachment proceeding would be "against" Trump. Nor is anyone disputing that Trump was the one who said "I would like you to do us a favor, though" in that July 25 transcript.
Statements of a party opponent are one of several classes of statement that are excluded from the hearsay rule. That is, even though they technically meet the definition of hearsay, we do not treat them as hearsay.
In the case of the party-opponent exclusion, the reason we don't treat an opposing party's statements as hearsay is that the opposing party is participating in the hearing. Arguably, no one has a better chance to explain an out of court statement than the person who made it.
If the House decides to file articles of impeachment, then, they might decide to include the July 25 transcript in their case against Trump. If they do, Trump will have a chance to explain why his response to Zelenskyy's request for Javelins was "I would like you to do us a favor, though." Specifically, he'll need to explain why that statement wasn't an attempt to influence Zelenskyy's/Ukraine's behavior.
Second: Even if the transcript is hearsay, it meets one or more exceptions to the hearsay rule.
In addition to the list of exclusions from the hearsay rule, there are also (currently) 23 exceptions to the hearsay rule. These are statements that meet the definition of hearsay, but which we allow in court anyway because we trust the reliability of the statements.
So far, we've focused on Trump's spoken statement itself: "I would like you to do us a favor, though." In a legal proceeding, that statement would need to be entered into evidence in some concrete way.
Here, that way will almost certainly be by submitting the July 25 transcript itself, and the transcript likely falls under an exception to the hearsay rule.
The most relevant one is probably FRE 803(1):
The following are not excluded by the rule against hearsay, regardless of whether the declarant is available as a witness:
(1) Present Sense Impression. A statement describing or explaining an event or condition, made while or immediately after the declarant perceived it.
The transcript of the call was made in real time by staff in the White House Situation Room. As such, it functions as a "present sense impression" – the transcribers were noting what they heard as they heard it. (Testimony from witnesses like Ambassador Taylor, who took their own notes while they were present for the call, would likely fall under the same exception.)
The transcript may also fall under FRE 803(5), "recorded recollection," or FRE 803(6), "records of a regularly conducted activity."
It's important for non-lawyers to understand that in most situations, finding even one applicable exception or exclusion to the hearsay rule can be difficult. In the case of Trump's statement in the July 25 phone call, however, we have as many as five possible avenues of exception or exclusion – and that's only if the argument that the statement isn't hearsay fails in the first place.
In other words, this statement isn't merely not hearsay. This statement is not hearsay in two different ways (by definition and by exclusion). And even if the statement was hearsay, it would still be admissible (as a present sense impression, recorded recollection or recording of a regularly conducted activity).
Why Would Trump Fare Worse If This Statement Was Hearsay?
The claim that the transcript is "hearsay" are most popular among supporters of President Trump. It's one of many claims in the pro-Trump arsenal, all of which are aimed at proving the same thing: It would be improper or illegal to impeach the President.
These supporters, however, are arguing at cross-purposes. If Trump's statements are hearsay (and if no exception or exclusion applied), they would actually be in a worse situation.
To understand why, let's return to the core statement in question.
Trump: I would like you to do us a favor though
Suppose Trump was facing an article of impeachment that claimed that his preference that Ukraine do something for him is an impeachable offense. In that case (and absent any exclusion or exception), this statement would be hearsay. It would be an out of court statement submitted to prove that what it says is true.
To prove any charge based on a statute, the prosecution has to prove every element of the charge. For example, if I'm charged with "assaulting someone with whom defendant is or has been in a domestic relationship" (aka domestic violence), it's not enough to prove that I punched Susie in the face. The prosecutor also has to prove that Susie and I are/were dating or married. I can't be guilty of assaulting someone I'm in a relationship with if I have never been in a relationship with them.
In our hypothetical world where Trump's "I would like you to do us a favor, though" is hearsay, the charge in question would have to be "No Preisdent may prefer that someone else do him a favor."
In order to prove that charge, Congress (and let's be real, we mean "Congressional Democrats and maybe Justin Amash") has to demonstrate that Trump, personally, would prefer that Zelenskyy do a "favor."
To prove Trump wants the favor (rather than that he simply asked for it), Congress would have to prove a number of additional facts. They'd need to answer questions like "Why would Trump like it if Zelenskyy did him a favor?" "How would Trump benefit from Zelenskyy doing him a favor?"
And, perhaps most damning, "What favor would Trump be asking for that would be a favor he would like?"
Trump answers that question on the next page of the transcript:
The other thing, There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you ·can look into it …
To make this statement hearsay (and thus keep it out, barring exceptions/exclusions), there would have to be evidence that the contents of this statement are true: That there is "a lot of talk about Biden's son," that "Biden stopped the prosecution," that "a lot of people want to find out about that," that "whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great," and that "Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution."
And here's the catch: There is little to no evidence that any of this ever happened.
In other words, this statement can't be kept out as hearsay, because it wouldn't be submitted in order to prove the truth of what it asserts. In fact, it's currently possible to prove that what it asserts is actually false.
An out of court statement isn't hearsay if it's submitted to prove something other than the truth of what is contained in the statement. Such as to prove that Zelenskyy felt persuaded to help Trump (or not). Or, more damningly, that Trump himself would have benefited from Zelenskyy's belief that the Bidens needed to be investigated.
So even if there was a way to avoid bringing up Trump's statement "I would like you to do us favor, though" during an impeachment proceeding (or courtroom trial), there is no way to keep out this additional evidence that Trump would personally benefit from making Zelenskyy believe the Bidens needed to be investigated.
In practice, this argument is academic (at best). An impeachment proceeding is not perfectly analogous to a civil or criminal trial. Among other things, Congress can impeach a President based on conduct that is merely improper for an elected official holding high office, even if that conduct isn't proscribed by statute.
As such, it's very likely that the Democrats will make the above argument even though Trump's statement "I want you to do us a favor, though" is not hearsay. One doesn't depend on the other; both arguments are available.
We are several days into impeachment inquiry testimony right now. As I write this, Fiona Hill is answering rebuttal questions from Rep. Adam Schiff.
For several days, I've watched Republican representatives ask questions and give speeches on a host of satellite issues: Were the Bidens actually involved in wrongdoing? Did Ukraine actually get the Javelins mentioned in the July 25 call? How many times did the Ukrainians offer Lt. Col. Vindman a job? Why was Ambassador Yovanovitch recalled?
The core facts, however, are not in dispute: Insofar as Trump was interested in Ukraine, it was in how he could get the Ukrainians to help him defeat a political opponent.
All the other questions are at best irrelevant to the core of the matter and at worst orthogonal. And I suspect that many in the pro-Trump/anti-impeachment camp know it. It's why the "this is hearsay!" argument has legs: Because it would be one of the few ways to actually neutralize the July 25 transcript.
If the transcript were hearsay. If no exceptions or exclusions applied. Unfortunately for Trump, that is not the case.


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Q: How to compile a libtorrent(rasterbar) code ? I want to compile example (make_torrent) from libtorrent official website:
g++ create_torrent_file.cpp -o run -lboost_filesystem-mt

But I get this error:
create_torrent_file.cpp:(.text+0x158): undefined reference to
`libtorrent::file_storage::file_storage()'

I have libtorrent-rasterbar installed
ldconfig -v | grep libtorrent:
libtorrent-rasterbar.so.6 -> libtorrent-rasterbar.so.6.0.0

So how should I compile this source code?

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}  // namespace gpu

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Starting my first workout tonight got all the food in for following my plan.
Shoulder warm up routines before upper body work.
Get a physio to look at it, i had the same thing and still do.. physio performed dry needle work which helped speed up recovery... hasnt gone away but it will take alot of time.
If ur doing more shoulder & chest work the back then this cant happen also.
2:1 ratio of back to chest when lifting !!
I think the amount of work I was doing triggered the injury. I'm not even sure what is up with it its just killing me. Going to a physio tomorrow to have a look at it. Hope it clears up soon because I can't do anything! this is the first injury i've had which prevents me lifting.
Maxcro's look awfully low for your height and BW. What's your metabolism like?


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module jasper.core{
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     * Interface allow to extend jasper application
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     */
    export interface IDirectiveInterceptor<T> {
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         * @param definition
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        onRegister(definition: T);

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        onCompile(directive:ng.IDirective, tElement:JQuery, definition: T);

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Chance Maui meeting nets teen jam session with Fleetwood Mac Drummer Mick Fleetwood
Duncan teen invited to jam with Mick Fleetwood in Hawaii
by SANDRA McCULLOCH
A young musician from Duncan has been asked to jam with Mick Fleetwood of the iconic band Fleetwood Mac next week on Maui.
The chance of a lifetime happened when Connor Head, a 17-year-old Grade 12 student from Cowichan High School, ran into Fleetwood at the Maui airport and then had a followup encounter at Fleetwood's Lahaina restaurant, Fleetwoods on Front Street.
Fleetwood Mac, with Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the release of the album Rumours — which sold 40 million copies — with a 2013 tour that includes a May 19 stop at Rogers Arena in Vancouver.
It was a thrill for Head, who already had the band's song Never Going Back Again programmed as the alarm on his smart phone. His own band, the Royal Canadians, formed a year ago and opened for Chilliwack this summer at the Cowichan Community Centre in Duncan.
Head ran into Fleetwood at a cabaret show in Lahaina on Thursday night.
"I ran into him in the hallway and he recognized me from the airport," said Head. "He poked me in the chest and said, 'Hello.' "
Head approached Fleetwood's manager and asked if he could pass along a copy of the Royal Canadians' first CD, Lonely Whale. Fleetwood agreed to take the CD and they had a chat.
Full Story at Times Colonist
Labels: fleetwood's on front st., Mick Fleetwood
POKE ME IN THE CHEST TOO Mick!


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Lincoln Navigator / Reviews / 2003 Lincoln Navigator Review / Interior
Depending on the second-row seating configuration, the Navigator carries either seven or eight occupants and includes a standard, 60/40-split third-row seat. Lincoln claims it is the only manufacturer to offer either a bench seat or twin buckets for the second row. A power-operated third-row seat that folds into the floor is optional, but even the manual version folds flat.
A new interior blends walnut burl with premium leather trim. The doors feature large map pockets, and the automaker says the glove box is 16 percent larger.
Standard equipment includes dual-zone automatic climate control, an auxiliary climate system for rear occupants, heated power mirrors, a six-CD changer, and a memory system for the driver's seat, mirrors, and brake and accelerator pedals. The Premium edition comes with heated and cooled seats and Lincoln's AdvanceTrac electronic stability system, and the Ultimate has the power third-row seat. A navigation system is optional for $1,995. A DVD rear-seat entertainment system is also available, and the company plans to offer a Sirius satellite radio at a later date. A telematics system is also expected at the end of 2002.
Lincoln MKZ Exterior
A sweeping roofline defines the new luxury sedan's profile. The steeply raked windshield and lengthened backlight make for a sleeker and more flowing appearance that is 10 percent more aerodynamic ...


I was wondering if IPFS is packaged for some distributions... I'm on Debian, and apparently there isn't any IPFS package. I'd love if somebody could work to make packages, at least for the most popular distributions. A simpler installation process would definitely help a lot to get new users.
As I see it, distribution packages are not very well fitted for IPFS, in relation to simply downloading the binary.
Following requirements into official repositories would mean to package not only IPFS, but all its dependencies, so it can be built offline by using them (rather than gx install), or somehow to come up with a source-code tarball that includes everything (something IPFS does not officially provide).
The alternative is to wrap the built binary in the source package, or to have a source package which needs to be built online to download the deps. As far as I'm aware this goes against official packaging guidelines for major distros. Of course you can do it anyway (and some people have done it), but it is then harder to prove you are not distributing an altered version of IPFS (with malware or who knows what), as it will never receive the official repository stamp of approval.
As a result, IPFS would need to approve (sign and possibly host) such packages instead, which are after all just a way to wrap the binary!
I'm inclined to think that the best way to approach package distribution is by a ipfs-installer package which provides an installer for IPFS (which then downloads the build). This technique is used normally for non-opensource stuff like Steam and is a way to provide an easy way to install a piece of software and at the same time be accepted in the official repositories.
We have plans for making work for packagers much easier by distributing source tarball with all sources and dependency sources included (just not enough time to work on it). This will unblock people that want to contribute by creating package definitions to their favorite distributions. Packaging software for given distro isn't easy, it requires quite a lot of work, time and courage.
Also go-ipfs is already packaged for few systems like Arch (both in official repos and in AUR) and NixOS.
ipfs has been available for macOS via Homebrew since the early days.
brew install ipfs at the command line.
Will homebrew safely upgrade ipfs in the same way as ipfs-update, e.g. by running fs-repo-migrations?
I just installed ipfs with brew, but I'm wondering if it's as safe as running ipfs-update manually.


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Do you think I could sub in agave nectar for the honey? Honey upsets my stomach sometimes (no idea why).
Yes you can definitely substitute agave nectar. You might want to use a little less agave than you would honey because it's sweeter.
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I like these little LRF competitions. Chatting with Paul Godwin while we were down at Hayle this Wednesday, we agreed that organised evenings like this are just the motivation you need sometimes to drag yourself away from the rest of life and whatever it entails.
Going against nearly all of my own advice after struggling in round one, I just couldn't find the time or motivation to pop down there for a practice beforehand. It's just too tricky sometimes. Or at least too easy to make excuses not to. Although I organised the event and was here last year, I didn't fish and hadn't done so before – bar a little bit of exploration with Ben Tregonning (now at Farlows in London) about 5 years ago. Things were very much more basic then from an LRF point of view and I believe we were there solely for a go at the Gilthead Bream so ignored everything else.
So, this round was to be an adventure. I found a little time in the shop during the afternoon to sort through a few pieces of kit (and cut things back quite a bit actually) and felt happy enough that I'd got everything I might need.
Heavy dropshot weights – check.
Marukyu Isome………. ermmmmm…….. (more on that in a bit).
Hayle is a weird kind of place to fish. In the mouth of the estuary, you have to contend with absolutely insane amounts of current as the water gushes through a couple of bridged archways as it fills up the large saltmarsh type pools behind you. The Mullet love it here, as do the Gilts. Almost anything seems to turn up though. It is just so different fishing in such amounts of current.
From a competitive point of view, I think it became evident that you just need to get your timings right to make the most of the potential species present. Obviously you have the rising tide, the slack bit in the middle, and then the dropping tide (if you're fishing over high). During the rise and fall you need to be picking your target areas carefully. Slack water is a chance to explore some of the previously unfishable bits (when the water is just gushing too fast). Some of the more difficult species need to be targeted at the right times too. For example, Luke Fox caught the only Ballan Wrasse this week (three actually!) over slack water in one particular spot that was unfishable with either a fast flooding or ebbing tide. Will Pender knew exactly what he was doing when he charged straight down to the sandier parts of the estuary mouth while the tide was flooding to quickly nab not just the Weaverfish he was after, but also a bonus Dragonette! This kind of foresight and experience is what separates the likes of Will from the rest of us on venues that they know well. Incidentally, I used Will's example from last year; Not knowing how to fish the place, when we left the Asda carpark I headed straight to the spot that I'd watched him start in last year. Aaron and Simon were right behind me so although we missed Will's memo about starting further out, Aaron assured me we were in the right place. Three of us standing shoulder to shoulder on one 6 foot section of concrete gives you an idea of how cosy this LRF malarkey can be.
fter about the first hour, the rest of us were incredibly close for most of the first two hours with a variety of species being caught but none of us tallying any more than about two unique ones each.
Despite the closeness of it all, I had a moment of temporary joy after listening to Will turn the air blue for fifteen minutes trying to catch one of the smelt he was following around the walls. I wandered over and had one first cast….. IN YOUR FACE PENDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On to three species by now – adding the smelt to the Blenny (50 of) and Goby I'd caught – Luke and Bruce were over on the pool side of the arch fishing the slacker water. Luke had just had his third Ballan as was mid-explaining to Bruce how it was all about the way he wiggles his willy (or something like that) when I got there. As a prime example of how my luck was very obviously in on this night, I dropped straight down next to Luke and pulled up a Corkwing Wrasse. I'm absolutely rubbish with the Wrasse species normally so this one was a nice relief. I was doing pretty well.
Oh, I should get back to my Isome mishap. Anybody who knows anything about these kinds of competitions – or just LRF in general – knows that pretty much the only lure/bait you need is Marukyu Isome. It catches everything. Well, it turns out that while I was sorting my stuff in the shop earlier I'd forgotten to put mine back in my bag! So I made it to Hayle without the one confidence booster that I really needed. I'd even left my big Ecogearaqua tub at home – full of all sorts of smelly goodness. It wasn't ideal, but the one thing I had remembered to take with me was a pot of old Ecogearaqua Straw Tails and a fresh pack of the red Katsu Aji Straights. It wasn't a complete disaster because I could split and create some fishable little pieces with both of these , but I would have felt initially more confident with the old faithful's on the hook. Alas, evidently no need to grumble in the end. I caught numerous Tompot Blennies to add a fifth species and finish second overall! Like I said in the first blog post I wrote about round one, this type of fishing isn't something I have much experience in really so by aiming for fourth overall in each round, the hope is that I'll be disappointed less times than I'm happy.
Will did the business again (like in round one) and had seven species for the win. Then me on five, followed by Aaron on four. Everybody caught and thanks to the lack of wind and comfortable temperatures it was the perfect evening for it.
nevitably less lucky evenings I'll have through at least a few rounds still to come.
The next one is at Mevagissey on Wednesday, June 22 from 6.30pm and all are welcome! I should have no excuses for that one since I'm pretty sure that Meva was the location of my first ever LRF session in what must have been 2009.


Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has called on the forthcoming government to maintain the great victory the Iraqis achieved over terrorism in the past period.
Addressing the parliament's first session, Abadi said that he came to office as a prime minister at a time Iraq was suffering from destruction due to the occupation of Daesh (Islamic State).
"Afterwards, Iraq was able to restore its leading role at the regional and Arab levels, and managed to strengthen its relations with the neighboring countries," he added.
Abadi said on Sunday that he would attend the first parliamentary session but will not take oath in order to be able to assume his executive powers as a prime minister.
Abadi has been serving as a prime minister of Iraq since September 2014.
Abadi's Victory alliance came third in the parliamentary elections held on May 12 with 42 seats after Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr's Sairoon coalition (54 seats) and an al-Hashd al-Shaabi-linked coalition (47 seats).


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Children have a difficult time transitioning in a way from playing, to leaving the house, going to bed, eating dinner. And this can be true even when you do the five minute warning, two minute warning. A key here is that young children do not want to leave their world of play and if we come in for setting the limit, dinner in five minutes, that's saying that's the priority and that's the world the parental demands and children often resist that. So instead if we enter their world letting them know how important it is to them and we know it is important and we honor it, we form a foundation in which we could be more cooperative, So if we go in saying, "wow I see you playing with trucks, you've been playing for a really long time. It's looks like your having fun and dinner is going to be ready in five minutes." That gives them the message that we can honor their world and at times that we still have to set limits.


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Hercule Poirots jul (eng. originaltitel Hercule Poirot's Christmas) är en deckarroman skriven av Agatha Christie. Den gavs ut 1938, och har privatdetektiv Hercule Poirot som huvudperson.

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Den oerhört rike och snobbige Simeon Lee blir brutalt mördad i sitt rum på julafton. Hela det stora huset är fullt av inbjudna, julfirande gäster. Hercule Poirot tar tillfället i akt och avstår från sin tråkiga, ensamma jul för att istället lösa mysteriet.

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Boken filmades 1994 med David Suchet i huvudrollen. Några av karaktärerna från boken saknades i filmen - och man hade lagt till en inledning som ytterligare skulle förklara mördarens motiv...

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Introduction: The aim of this study was to compare the analgesic effect of the retrobulbar block with IV Fentanyl in children undergoing strabismus surgery.
Methods: This prospective, randomized, interventional comparative study included 50 children eligible for elective strabismus surgery. They were enrolled from April 2016 to March 2017 and were randomly divided into two groups, group R (Retrobulbar Block group) and group F (IV Fentanyl group). The primary outcome measure was the pain score using the FLACC score. Secondary outcome measures were the incidence of postoperative nausea and/or vomiting and the rate of complications.
Results: The study showed that the two groups were comparable concerning baseline characteristics: age, gender, ASA status and duration of anesthesia. The intraoperative monitoring was also comparable between both groups. |The FLACC score in both groups was lower than 0.5 at 30, 60, 120, 180, 240 and 360 minutes postoperatively. However, the FLACC score was significantly higher in the Fentanyl group than in the Retrobulbar block group at 30 and 120 minutes postoperatively. Moreover, it was insignificantly higher in the Fentanyl group than in the Retrobulbar block group at 60, 180, 240 and 360 minutes postoperatively.
Discussion: During the postoperative period, no patient needed opioids in both groups. However, two patients from the Fentanyl group received Paracetamol.
Conclusion: The results of the current study prove that the retrobulbar block is beneficial in providing better analgesia and lowering the postoperative pain and the need for additional analgesics postoperatively with less sedation, less nausea & vomiting.
References: Ghai B, Ram J, Makkar JK, et al. Subtenon block compared to intravenous fentanyl for perioperative analgesia in pediatric cataract surgery. Anesth Analg. 2009;108:1132-8.
Ates Y, Unal N, Cuhruk H, et al. Postoperative analgesia in children using preemptive retrobulbar block and local anes- thetic infiltration in strabismus surgery. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 1998;23:569-74.
Sheard RM, Mehta JS, Barry JS, et al. Subtenons lidocaine injection for postoperative pain relief after strabismus surgery in children: a prospective randomized controlled trial. J AAPOS. 2004;8:314-7.


We asked Dr. Goldberg to discuss his experience of treating rosacea with a combination of light-based treatments and topicals.
Q: Would you elaborate on your experiences as to which treatment or combination of treatments seem to work best for different rosacea symptoms (e.g.: flushing, generalized redness, burning, papules & pustules, inflammation and swelling)?
A: Flushing, burning, and swelling are ideally treated with either yellow or red LED, generally in combination with IPL (or laser) treatments. The effect of IPL and LED appears to be additive. That is, the combination works better than each one separately. Papules & pustules are generally best treated with oral and/or topical agents. Inflammation or swelling is best treated with a combination of IPL and yellow/red LED. This group also is treated with near-infrared LED.
Q: Can you explain to our members how Yellow LED treatment seems to help minimize the redness associated with rosacea (e.g. are there any studies suggesting a possible mechanism of action, are excess blood vessels destroyed, when is Yellow LED treatment contraindicated, etc)?
A: The evidence seems to suggest the vessels get smaller after treatment. The beauty of all LED is how safe they are. They can be used in all skin types.
Q: Can you explain how Red LED treatment seems to help minimize the inflammation associated with rosacea (e.g.: are there any studies suggesting a possible mechanism of action, what type of results does Red LED treatment produce, etc)?
A: Red and near-infrared LED have a major impact on many cells that cause inflammation. Basic rule is yellow LED for mild redness, red LED for more inflamed rosacea, combination of red and near-infrared for inflammation and swelling.
Q: What would a typical series of treatments with Yellow or Red LED entail (e.g.: how many treatment sessions are necessary, how often should treatment sessions be performed, how many minutes of treatment are typical, is there a possibility of problems caused by treatment occurring too often, of too long a duration, or too much LED intensity, are there any problems associated with photosensitizing drugs or OTCs, do you have any experience with patients using home Yellow or Red LED units, etc)?
A: We generally provide a series of 5-7 LED treatments. They are given 2-4 weeks apart. Yellow LED treatments take only seconds; red and near-infrared are 20 minute sessions. There is no evidence that too much LED can be given. We are always careful in people who take photosensitizing drugs. Home units generally are not powerful enough to lead to same results as medical quality units. Also the danger in home units is the lack of appropriate eye protection especially for deeper penetrating red/near infrared LED.
Q: Do you have any experience in treating rosacea with Blue LED?
A: Blue LED can help general acne, but does not seem to help rosacea.
Q: Do you have experience in using these protocols to treat rosaceans who also have facial seborrheic dermatitis (e.g. are light based treatments effective on seb derm)?
A: Red and near infrared LED can help the inflammation of seborrheic dermatitis. I have not found blue or yellow LED to be helpful in this group.
The Support group would like to express our deepest thanks to Dr. Goldberg for kindly taking the time to help us.
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You will find information here for appearances by all of Nancy's bands including Nancy Kerr & The Sweet Visitor Band, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Simpson Cutting Kerr and Melrose Quartet.
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To coincide with World Poetry Day, Nancy is proud to unveil her new video for "Seven Notes", a song she wrote as part of the "Sweet Liberties" project. The song appears in two distinct versions – one on Nancy Kerr's new CD "Instar" and the other on "Sweet Liberties" commissioned by Folk by the Oak.
and please check out Frontier Media's beautiful short movie for Nancy's song "Gingerbread", the first single from "Instar".


No, seriously. Pack up your stuff, and get out.
But let me be clear: The job you're fired from is one you never should have had in the first place — being a critic of your own work.
Done, finished, not your job anymore. When you finish creating something and you start to wonder if it's any good … nope! Don't try to answer. You no longer get to decide.
If you need me to fire you, awesome, consider it done. But in fact, what would be even better is if you fire yourself.
Five or six years ago, when I first started writing the weekly Sketch Guy column, I would have pieces I was certain would go viral. I said to myself, "I nailed it, everyone's going to love it, a million people are going to share it!" And then, I would hear nothing. For some reason, it just didn't get the play — no comments, no feedback, nothing.
Then there were times when I was completely surprised in the opposite way. I'd be running late for a deadline, have something I wasn't sure of or that excited about, but it was all I had. So, I would send it in expecting some sort of reprimand. And next thing I knew, it had made the sitewide most-emailed list.


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## Overview

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MBARI's Video Annotation and Reference System's user interface for creating and editing video annotations. This version is a complete rewrite of the older [VARS](https://hohonuuli.github.io/vars/) system. It is targeted at more modern video workflows and is part of [MBARI's Media Management](https://mbari-media-management.github.io/) software stack. This is NOT a standalone application. There are a number of external services that need to be deployed in order for this application to function.

This system is the main annotation application used at [MBARI](https://www.mbari.org).

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## Video Playback

VARS can be used to annotate video:

- in real-time
- from video tape, if your deck supports RS422
- from video files via external video players such as [Sharktopoda](https://github.com/mbari-media-management/Sharktopoda), [jsharktopoda](https://github.com/mbari-media-management/jsharktopoda), or [Cthulhu](https://github.com/mbari-media-management/cthulhu).


The weather - there is no where in Canada with good weather year round, and there are a few places that never get good weather.
Winter bicyclists - who got the crazy idea that bicycling works in a snowy frozen -20 degree country? The laws of physics and gravity say that balancing on two skinny wheels in the Winter will not work and it is damn uncomfortable as well. Yet we have bicycle lanes on our roads year round that are cleared so the snow bicycle lunatics can have at it. I see about 3 of these morons each day, but it probably costs us millions to keep their bicycle lanes up and running year round.
Solar energy - some idiots decided that Ontario should go green and have renewable solar energy, so they funded and built tons of solar panel fields in this far northern country. They did it quickly and kept most of the old electricity plants so now we generate too much electricity and our electricity bills are too high. And who thought that solar panel fields next to the foggy St Lawrence River made sense?
Senior citizens with tattoos, piercings, and orange hair. Who convinced our seniors that looking like a 20 year old was a good idea? If you scan the sale flyers for deals on Depends and Tylenol Arthritis pills, stay away from mythical butterfly tattoos and orange or green hair.
Plastic currency. The plastic 5-10-20-50 dollar bills do not fold well, and it looks like you are paying for your purchase with a Pokemon card.
Cirque de Soleil. I don't know about you, but I am tired of shows called "Skooza" with weird looking people twirling from the ceilings while lousy music plays. I think their next show should be tailored to the gun lovers in the USA and called Glock.
Bugs. Canada has world class insects. They won't give you malaria or river blindness, but the black flies, mosquitoes, and horse flies will make you miserable during the two weeks of Summer each year.
Well that's all I can think of for now. Let's keep our Canadian humbleness and not be too critical of our American friends and their nasty, racist, know-nothing, blowhard, narcissistic, lying, ugly President.
Inequality in the USA has doubled over the past 20 years according to the Congressional Budget Office (see graph below). The richest 10% have doubled their share of wealth since 1995. Good for them, why should they care about the other 90% and their reducing share of the nation's wealth? The big losers are the middle class, who are sinking towards lower middle class or poverty.
The middle class has a strong interest in the rule of law, reducing crime, a clean environment, functioning roads and other infrastructure, a strong military, and a generally orderly society. They own good homes, want their children to go to good schools, want to feel safe, and take pride in their country and community.
The poor do not have as strong an interest as they are too busy surviving and they don't need some of these orderly society characteristics. They may also need to break the law to survive and may resort to drugs to tolerate their situation.
Now let's look south for what happens in a country with a small and poor middle class. Some examples are Mexico, El Salvador, Peru, and other central and South American countries. Their middle class is expanding, but is nowhere near as big and wealthy as the American middle class of the 80's and 90's.
What is it like to be rich and live in Mexico or these other countries? You must live in a walled fenced house with alarms and maybe armed guards, as crime is high and you are an obvious target. You must pay off the local police and government to get protection and to ensure you are not hassled or shaken down, because the government is corrupt and their employees are poorly paid. You cannot wear expensive watches or other items when you go out as you will be a target. When you are forced to travel outside your home, you are at risk of being kidnapped or robbed, so you keep travel to a minimum. Your kids cannot go to the park or easily participate in sports, other than at their private school. You cannot count on clean drinking water, garbage removal, sewer service, or clean air as these are luxuries that the government will not provide as the majority of people cannot afford them. You should be careful to have your family vaccinated against most known communicable diseases as the population around you lives poorly and is prone to hepatitis, cholera, parasites, dengue fever, etc.
Not a great place to be rich, right? This is why the rich of the US should be working to ensure a strong American middle class. The trend is in the wrong direction.
Report the facts, not opinion. If an article is opinionated, identify it by calling it an editorial or opinion piece.
Report all the news, do not just pick and choose what to report.
Facebook is becoming people's main source of news, but they are an evil source of information. This is probably not because they want to be evil, but their business model demands it. Facebook wants you to spend lots of time on their site so they can advertise things to you. Therefore, they want to know your likes and dislikes, and want to know what interests you. So they only show you news and opinion that interests you - things you really like and things that get you angry or concerned. They also show you comments on these pieces of news - the positive comments make you think you are right and the negative comments make you angry and so you read more comments. You are getting a biassed opinionated snapshot of some of the news.
On top of this, Facebook allows people to buy ads with no oversight, like Russian operatives, Climate Change Deniers, Big Corporations. You will only see these ads if you might agree with them. It is unclear whether you are seeing news or ads, adding to readers' confusion.
People who rely on Facebook are being brainwashed by the Facebook algorithms into thinking they are right, that there is no other valid point of view except the ones they know, and that most people agree with them. They are also missing all news that Facebook censors out of their news feed in order to keep you interested.
Can muslims be good citizens of western countries?
Should American government help with health care?
Is free trade good for workers?
So I think Facebook is evil - a biassed commercially driven unregulated source of news - along with being a good way to find out what your old school buddies are doing these days.
Canada's Best Savings Account Interest Rate?
I was frustrated with the abysmal savings account interest rate in Canada: 0.1% to 0.50% at major banks. In the USA, you can get 1%+ at Capital One Bank or Allied Bank.
Finally, I found a proper bank (CDIC insured) that pays almost 2% interest and charges nothing to electronically transfer money to and from my big bank (RBC). This bank is Alterna. Just thought I would pass on the info for folks who would like to make their money work a little harder.
As a Canadian returning from 20 years in the USA, I am often asked why Americans have an obsession with guns. About one in two Americans have guns, and the death statistics for guns are eye-popping.
I am no expert, but I have some opinions on why most Americans love guns and are afraid of any restrictions on them.
Most Americans are actually in favour of increased gun control, however they are drowned out by fervent gun supporters. Few people want bans, but the majority would support laws that limit magazine size, mandate background checks, and limit access to silencers and automatic weapons. However, most of these restrictions were soundly defeated in recent years. Most Americans are more concerned about their money than guns so elections are won and lost on economic issues.
The fervent gun supporters are organized by the NRA,which is expert at manipulating the USA's democratic process. The NRA is supported by gun manufacturers and members.
There is a whole mythology in the USA about the righteous citizen with a gun, defending his house, family, himself, and the American Way in a society that is full of criminals or "bad hombres" according to President Trump. Think about the old movie "Death Wish" starring Charles Bronson.
Many Americans believe that violent crime is increasing, and they don't want to wait for police to deal with criminals, they believe they can do it themselves with guns. Statistics actually show crime is decreasing, but never mind.
Many Americans believe that their government is evil, based on what they have heard for years from Fox News, the Republican Party, and websites like Breitbart. They believe that they can keep the government at bay by owning guns.
It is macho to own guns. The idea that you can kill anyone within 100 yards whenever you want has appeal to many.
There is a fear, stoked by the NRA and Republicans, that to give any concession on gun regulation with start a landslide that will end with gun bans. Better to energetically oppose any measure, no matter how reasonable, than to give an inch. How else can we explain the NRA's opposition to not allowing people on the no-fly list to buy guns? If they are too dangerous to fly, why is it OK for them to buy AR-15's with 100 round magazines and ammunition?
The Second Amendment is often cited as a reason for all the guns, but it is just an idea on an old piece of paper. If Americans did not want guns, they could repeal the amendment just like they repealed the Prohibition of alcohol. The second amendment is cited like the bible to justify guns, but ignore this distraction, lots of stuff in the constitution and the bible are ignored because Americans have different desires.
There are many Americans who enjoy hunting and target shooting with guns.
The latest mass shooting will not cause any changes in gun laws, in my opinion. It will take a much higher body count of innocent victims caused clearly by unregulated guns for the majority of Americans to shake off their apathy and put some common sense gun laws in place.
We went to see the movie "Dunkirk" which was very good. Pretty true to history, graphically shows the horror of war and the different sides of the human spirit, and just the right amount of patriotism.
When I spoke to my 87 year old mother last night, I told her about the movie, and her reaction was surprising. She said something like "..well I won't go and see that movie, it cuts too close to home. I remember the ships gathering in the estuary for the evacuation.." She was a 10 year old school girl in Westcliff on Sea, a city at the mouth of the Thames, and must have seen the little ships going and coming back. Sadly, some of the local fishermen lost their lives in the evacuation.
Why Do Canadians Buy Canadian Mutual Funds?
Now that I am back in Canada, I see more Canadian financial information. After looking for a Canadian stock index mutual fund, I thought, "why do Canadians buy Canadian mutual funds??".
I searched for "series D" Canadian equity mutual funds, and the minimum expense ratio (MER) was 0.60%. This is quite high compared to US index mutual funds, which are around 0.20% or lower.
So why would anyone buy a Canadian mutual fund and give up over 0.50% of their return? In today's low return environment, that is a lot. I just don't see the point, am I missing something?
You would think customer service would be identical north and south of the border, but it's not. There is one fundamental difference that I run into constantly.
In the USA, if you the customer have a problem and common sense indicates that the store bends its rules or policy to make you happy, they generally will. If not, they will certainly agree that the rule is silly and apologize profusely that they cannot take the right actions to make you satisfied.
In Canada, the RULES ARE THE RULES. If you have a problem and the store's rules do not allow it to be solved, even though common sense says it should, you are out of luck. Not only that, you will feel that you are causing the problem by exposing the weakness of their rule.
I want to transfer all my stocks and ETFs from my US broker Vanguard to my new Canadian broker, RBC Direct Investments (part of Royal Bank, a huge Canadian bank).
This can be done by filling out a standard form. Vanguard, like most brokers, requires that you get a special identity verification called a Medallion Stamp. This is normally done by a US bank.
RBC says that they can stamp the form, which makes sense since they operate in the USA, and they are the ones receiving all these investments.
Long story short, RBC gives me the runaround of all their divisions (two weeks of calling and email) and finally says that they can only stamp their own form. They cannot stamp the Vanguard form even though they know me, know what I am doing, I have lots of my money in their bank, I pay them lots of fees, and the form is almost identical to their form. "It is a rule at the bank". It is just a stamp saying they guarantee my identity, but they cannot do it.
So I call Vanguard, tell them I cannot do the transfer because I cannot get the stamp. Even though they are losing the business, they quickly come back to me and say they will accept voice verification of my identity using their voice identification system. They will bend the rules to lose business and RBC will not bend the rules to get more business. This is the essence of Canadian customer service - you will get good service as long as the rules allow it, otherwise you are SOL.
Some of my readers, well, at least one, are interested in Monte Carlo tools to evaluate retirement savings.
I will not bore you with the details of Monte Carlo simulation, it is covered in a previous blog post here. It basically gives you a better estimate of how much you can spend in retirement based on your portfolio and the variability of the stock and bond markets.
The previous tool I recommended was from Vanguard.com. I recently found another tool at this website that you can try.
You can lose a lot of money converting Canadian dollars (CAD) to US dollars (USD). This is not a big deal when you are converting $200 so you can buy that camouflage recliner at the Walmart in Buffalo. It can be thousands of dollars if you are sending $20,000 to a relative or $200,000 on that retirement condo in Fort Lauderdale.
If you go to a Canadian bank and ask to change CAD to USD, you will get their standard rate.
Today June 5, 2017, the Standard Over the Counter Rate at the Royal Bank is $1.3791 USD per CAD. Most banks are very close to this rate.
But, if you convert your money using their online brokerage, RBC Direct Investing, you will pay $1.3349 to get a USD, a savings of 3.2%. On that $200,000 USD Florida condo, that is $6,410 CAD (real money). You have to move money from your bank to the brokerage and back, but this can be done online in about 15 minutes. Most bank-affiliated brokers have this service.
But what if you don't have a brokerage account or don't want to open one? You could use an online money converter like XE.com. If you wanted to get $200,000 USD today, their rate would be $1.3669, which is 0.88% better, or $1,770 CAD. Not as good, but it is still good money you want to keep in your pocket. There are other online services you can investigate like knightsbridgefx.com.
So if you are moving a lot of money to or from USD, I recommend you investigate alternatives to the simple and convenient method of going to the bank. Oh, and avoid buying that hideous recliner, your wife will thank you.
Disclaimer: this is not professional financial advice and should be used at your own risk. The author is not a licensed financial advisor. You should not believe everything on the Internet including this blog and should check multiple sources possibly including a professional financial advisor before making decisions.
We just joined a golf club here in Ottawa, we have never joined a club before. It is one of the top clubs in town. My only previous experience was playing as a guest multiple times at high end country clubs in Dallas and Virginia. The differences between Canadian and US clubs are interesting.
Tipping Bring a wad of $1 bills and tip everybody: bag drop boy, locker room attendant, beverage cart girl.. Never tip, employees are overjoyed if you do tip.
Carts All golfers use powercarts, which have GPS, built in 2 way radio to call for food, refreshing towel, tees, .. Everyone walks and uses a pull cart. If you are really righteous, you carry your bag.
Beverage Cart Cart comes around every 10 mins with a good looking young lady in daisy dukes. Tip heavily and flirt. Beverage cart only operates if the course is full, most people just take free water. Cart girl is ecstatic when you give her 50 cent tip.
Bar Bar stocks 50 different kinds of single malt whiskey, 45 kinds of tequila, and lots of cigars. Bar stocks 20 kinds of draft. Cigars must be smoked off the property on the side of the road.
Course Maintenance Spare no chemicals or treatments to keep it beautiful. Good thing Trump took us out of the Paris Accord. Sierra Club would be proud.
Course Design Course designed by Jack Nicklaus or Greg Norman Course designed by founder's brother in law Norman.
Clubs Cleaned after every round, make sure to tip. There is a bucket behind the pro shop if you want to do it yourself.
The stock markets in the USA are hitting new records again, 21,000+ for the Dow Jones etc. This happens about once a decade or so, and is unpredictable. It means your stocks, ETFs, Equity Mutual Funds are probably at all time highs as well.
You probably have a desired portfolio allocation for stocks, bonds, international stocks, cash, etc. Check your holdings and you will likely find you are over-weighted in stocks because of the market's performance.
So now is a good time to rebalance your portfolio if your allocation is out of balance by more than a few percent. Sell some of those winning domestic equity holdings, buy bonds or international stocks or whatever you are underweight. This means "take some of your winnings off the table."
This technique of keeping a balanced portfolio is recommended by Warren Buffet, Vanguard, Fidelity, and most other respected investment authorities.
Disclaimer: this is not professional investment advice and should be used at your own risk. The author is not a licensed financial advisor. You should not believe everything on the Internet including this blog and should check multiple sources possibly including a professional financial advisor before making decisions.
Getting your opponent taken over by a radical leader has worked in Russia. Lenin was actually sent by train to Russia by Germany during WW1 to undermine the government and get the Russians out of the war. The German plan worked perfectly as Russia devolved into a civil war and withdrew from WW1, freeing many German troops to go to the Western front to fight the English and French.
Helping Trump get elected is not quite as powerful and will not result in an immediate civil war in the USA, but it is paying big big dividends in terms of weakening the world's superpower. We are lucky that Trump is not as smart as Lenin or as charismatic.
Reduce the USA's stature in the world by getting an obvious blowhard, lying, racist narcissist elected President.
Make democracy look bad as Trump lost the popular vote, won the election, and he does not care about the people who did not vote for him.
Undermine the free press by having the President and his supporters call it "Fake News". Kudos also to Rupert Murdoch for destroying trust in the press while running a company that considers itself part of the press.
Undermine the judicial system by having the President and his supporters attack judges, defendants, free speech, and the courts.
Undermine the US intelligence agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA) by having Trump accuse them of criminal acts and lying.
Making the USA look silly as they know the Russians manipulated the election, but cannot do anything about it since Trump is President.
So the Russians are certainly winning at this point, we can only hope that this stops soon.
There are numerous news reports that Baby Boomers are not selling their houses and downsizing to condos or smaller dwellings. As a boomer who has downsized to a condo, this intrigues me. Why is this happening? Perhaps some anecdotal evidence from friends and acquaintances will shed some light on this.
Typically, you will become physically unable to maintain a house and handle a move in your mid 60's to early 70's. If you are going to downsize, you should really do it in your early to late 60's based on foresight that you will be physically unable to handle your house or a move later. It is easy to overlook your coming infirmity and stay in your lovely house until you are too old to move without major disruption. We know a 75 year old couple who are now too infirm (she has cancer, he is too weak) to ever move out of their 3000 square foot suburban house.
It is easy to stay in your current situation, enough said.
"I Will Never Pay Condo Fees Like That!"
After 30 or 40 years of owning a home and paying for maintenance of the home, it is hard to swallow the idea that you will pay a fixed monthly fee for condo fees or rent. These folks religiously believe that it is better to buy than rent and condo fees seem too much like rent. We know a couple of 60 year olds who balk at the idea of $500 a month for condo fees but they are OK with getting a new roof installed for $10,000 and paying $400 a month for utilities.
I have some sympathy for this idea as downsizing means that you cannot keep all that "stuff" that you accumulated over your 45 years as an adult. You cannot put all that junk you own or buy in the basement or garage. The alternative of spending $200 to $300 a month for a storage unit brings them back to the issue of spending money on rent. We know a few couples with this hangup.
This is a very valid reason to not move assuming you cannot find a condo or smaller dwelling close to your current home. It is harder to make friends and settle in a new area when you are older. If you lived in a place for 10 years, it is easier to stay than move.
One of the most objectionable and undemocratic characteristics of American government is legalized gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is defined as "the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible." Basically, the votes of the minority are devalued further by grouping them into districts that give them as little representation as possible. One person's vote is worth less than another - NOT democracy.
I lived in a gerrymandered district in Virginia. It was drawn up by the Republican state legislature to guarantee a Republican federal representative, and it has delivered this result for over 35 years, in spite of the fact that the area voted for Obama twice and Clinton in the last election. You can see that it was drawn to guarantee a result by looking at the map, which is carefully drawn to ensure enough Republicans to elect a Republican federal representative. The map does not follow logical geographic, municipal, or any other boundaries.
Many districts in many states are like this, and they favor the right or the left depending on who owns the state government.
How to defeat this undemocratic abomination?
Answer: vote in the primary of the party that always wins the district. Since the district is guaranteed to go to a particular party, your only choice is in the primary election of that party. Do you want a more moderate representative or do you want the other party to choose a radical? Of course you, the minority voter, want someone who is more moderate. If you have to register as a supporter of the other party to vote in the primary, do so. It costs nothing and does not bind you to vote for them in the general election. Also, what is the point of voting in the primary for your party? They are going to lose anyway.
If enough people do this, you will get a more moderate candidate for the favored party. A Republican who does not want to eliminate Social Security and Medicare or a Democrat who does not want to outlaw cars and turn the roads into Kale farms.
So this is my idea to improve democracy in the USA. After the last 15 years of turmoil, we certainly need it.
This is an update to my guide to moving to Canada, covered in this post.
One of the issues with moving is getting your investments moved from the USA to Canada. Why would you bother?
The USA will consider you to still be a resident and will expect tax payments on your income. But you now live in Canada, and the Canadian government expects payments on this same income. Untangling this mess will take a lot of time and money from your tax accountant.
Your US broker will likely kick you to the curb if they find out that you moved out of the USA. They will quickly close your account and you will have to scramble fast to get the investments moved. If you don't move the investments before the brokerage acts, they will sell all investments with resulting capital gains that you will owe to the USA and Canada.
You will not be able to claim any Canadian tax reductions on dividends as your investments are held by a US brokerage and they don't calculate Canadian tax reductions. You will also have more paperwork to submit concerning foreign investments, just trust me on this one.
The USA considers your cost basis to be what you paid for the investments.
Canada considers the cost basis to be what the investments were worth when you moved.
So how do you make this transfer? It does depend on the investments and the US brokerage or mutual fund company you used.
If you can, convert your US mutual funds to ETFs. Vanguard will do this at no charge and with no tax consequences.
No problem. This is good. Keep the investments with them and just change your address.
You can continue to hold the mutual funds, but you can only sell them for cash, no changes in investments. This is not so good. You have to look at the tax consequences and your investment plan. Should I sell immediately and take a gain or loss? If I hold the funds for a long time, will I continue to be happy with them, will they meet my diversification goals, are the fees reasonable, etc.? Probably best to talk to your financial planner.
You must sell the mutual funds. This is bad. Again, you need to look at the tax consequences as you may trigger large gains or losses. Probably best to talk to your financial planner.
Open a brokerage account in Canada with the exact same owners as you have in the USA. If it is a joint account in the USA, open a joint account in Canada, same for individual account.
Call your brokerage in Canada, get the forms to transfer from a US brokerage to their brokerage, and fill them out. Call your Canadian broker to make sure you fill the forms out correctly and that you selected a straight transfer with no tax consequences (simple transfer of securities, no buying or selling). Make double sure that you are doing this. Make copies and send them via registered mail or similar method to your Canadian broker. This will cause the US brokerage to send the securities to your Canadian broker and they will appear in your account. Expect to get phone calls from both brokerages during the process to verify information, ask questions. Expect to call your Canadian broker to follow up if you don't hear from them, it will likely not happen automatically with no intervention by you.
After the transfer is done, inform your US broker that you are a Canadian resident. In the case of stock brokerage accounts, they will start the "kick the foreigner to the curb" process immediately.
NB: If you are a US citizen, do not buy Canadian mutual funds or ETFs unless you are willing to submit a lot of paperwork to the US government. These are considered PFICs (passive foreign investment company), which, for some unknown reason, the US government does not like.
Remember, you should talk to a competent financial planner before taking action. This blog is just a single information source and a lot of information on the Internet is wrong, maybe including this blog, so do your research before taking a decision.
Do Your Expenses Decrease After Downsizing?
In August last year, we downsized from a 3800 sq foot suburban house with 2 cars in the USA to an 1800 sq ft urban condo with one car in Canada. This is supposed to be a trend for baby-boomers: urban to suburban, bigger to smaller, Trump to No-Trump, etc.
But what happens to your expenses?
Do they really decrease and is it significant?
What are the sources of the savings?
Luckily, I track expenses using Quicken and we follow a budget so the answers should be easy to find. We also have not changed our lifestyle or budget since downsizing.
The answer to 1. and 2. is yes, there are savings of about 10 to 15% overall, depending on which downsized month is compared to our previous full-size average.
The harder question to answer is number 3, what are the sources of the savings.
Unfortunately, the biggest absolute saving was in a category that I call "household" and includes a lot of miscellaneous expenses: decorating items, small services, small purchases, etc. I am not sure why our expenses dropped by 8 to 10% in this category. Maybe we don't have the space for impulse purchases or the need for a lot of services?
Utilities dropped by about 10% and that makes sense.
Entertainment expenses went up by 10%, there is more to do downtown than out in the suburbs.
But net-net, our expenses have gone down by about 10 to 15%. So you can expect some savings but this will not radically change your lifestyle.
The US public is afraid. They are bombarded daily with negative stories about muslims, terrorists, immigrants, crime, climate change, wars, and unemployment.
Some of the fear is justified, but much is not.
Let's look at terrorism, one of the greatest and most emotional fears. It is behind the immigration ban, airport security measures, security at concerts, government surveillance, militarizing the police, huge security spending, casualties in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and other negative and inconvenient changes to our daily routine. Fear of terrorism helped elect Donald Trump, a racist bombastic narcissistic misogynist.
But how big a problem is terrorism? The last attack on the US by organized terrorists was the underwear bomber about 10 years ago. All other attacks were from self radicalized lone wolves. The casualty rate from all attacks averaged 171 per year from 1995 to 2014, or 0.00005% of our population. A very very low rate compared to deaths from drugs (47,000 per year), traffic (32,719 per year), crime (14,196), workplace accidents (4836 per year), and medical malpractice.
Yet we are radically changing our society to combat this tiny terrorist threat. Why spend trillions on something which kills so few? Why change our society into a repressive police state with intrusive surveillance for such a small problem? Why divide our country by whipping up fear and enacting controversial laws such as immigrant bans and encouraging suspicion of certain religious groups? Why give up our rights and liberty? Are all our military casualties worth it?
Clearly some measures make sense such as airport security since we know terrorists have repeatedly targeted aircraft. Increased police activity makes sense since they have caught some terrorists before they acted.
My point is that US society is changing for the worse due to massive efforts to combat a small problem while we neglect other more serious threats to our health and safety such as opioid addiction, violence in the inner city, health care for the poor, bad roads, and our low high school graduation rate.
We are turning America into a divided, fearful, less free, overly policed, and more racist society to combat a threat that is 300 times less that the problems of drug addiction or traffic deaths. We have to rethink our priorities, or America "the shining city on a hill" will be destroyed in our misconceived all-out fight against terrorism.


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Tangled Snake Wood Sphere Decorative Ball 8"
Add texture and depth with the 8-inch Tangled Snake Wood Sphere. Finished in a distress white so the natural snake-wood shading shows through, this is a nice element for the bathroom, bedroom or an office. Made of snake wood. Measures 8" in diameter.
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