2 tbs sundried tomatoes packed in oil, minced.
Spread the pesto around on top of the tomatoes.
Put the other half of the cream cheese back on top of the bottom half that is spread with pesto and tomatoes.
Open the can of crescents. Unroll the crescents rolls. Pinch together 2 triangles in order to make a square. Repeat with another two triangles. Spread one square out onto a baking sheet that has been prepared with baking non stick spray. Do not push it down into the pan. Lay the cream cheese block on top of the square. Lay the other square of crescent rolls on top of the cream cheese. Pinch the edges of the crescents together to seal the edges. You may use the remaining crescents for decoration pieces.
Bake at 350 for 20 mins. (Start checking at about 18 mins). Remove when pastry is rich golden color.


Winrock is looking to hire a Public Private Partnership Specialist to join with USAID LESTARI Project (LESTARI) existing team in its office in Jakarta, Indonesia. LESTARI facilitates PPPs to catalyze private sector support to leverage impact for low emissions development strategies and forest conservation at the landscape level based on a development hypothesis that the private sector has the incentives and resources to play a meaningful role in expanding the impact of LESTARI's work in collaboration with other government, community and civil society partners. PPP opportunities include industry certification, value chain support, incentives for use of best environmental and/or agricultural management practices, and conservation management plans for natural forest concessions, industrial plantations, smallholder plantations and value chains critical to improved livelihoods. Moreover, privately held firms drive local economies and deforestation, so they need to be included in any approach to slow emissions and promote biodiversity conservation. Firms also are under growing pressures to meet rapidly evolving sustainability and reduced emissions standards. LESTARI seeks engagement with a wide range of firms, and is also exploring partnerships with American firms or firms doing significant business with the USA.
The PPP specialist will be supporting the overall work of Technical Theme 3 (Private Sector Engagement) related to PPP works. S/he will be responsible in keeping track of the implementing PPP activities within all LESTARI landscapes and also assist Winrock to develop a broader, complimentary program of work in this topic area. The PPP specialist will also build on existing partnerships to track the implementation and impact of agreements. Where applicable, the PPP specialist is also working with the technical theme 3 team to develop a broader, complimentary program of work in this topic area by synergizing with other related programs under LESTARI.
Map-out firms in LESTARI landscapes that are linked to American firms and/or conduct significant business with the USA.
Keeping track the progress of the PPP implementation against the milestone and deliverable of each PPP agreement, especially focusing on the role and contribution from the private partners which will be regularly submitted to technical team 3 leader in the regular written report.
Provide support for the coordination process among the LESTARI landscape team, LESTARI Jakarta team and the PPP partners.
Facilitate the exchange of lessons learned and best practices among the ongoing PPP projects, including proactively identify problems and challenges related to the programs.
Work with technical theme 3 team to facilitate and organize national events under LESTARI.
Regular Reports, as required (e.g., monthly, quarterly or annually).
Education: Degree in Agriculture, Forestry, Natural Resource Management, Sustainable Development, Economy or related field.
Experience: At least 5 years of relevant working experience. Knowledge and experience in developing PPP and also the agricultural commodities sector, forest concession and marketing process, green business options for rural areas, certification standards such as ISPO, and/or deforestation issues in Indonesia preferred. Experience in the commodity sector development with the private sector, preferred. Experience with conservation finance preferred. Willing to travel to LESTARI landscapes.
Excellent communicator (written and verbal) able to interact with a variety of groups including agriculture commodity or timber producers (corporate and smallholders), private companies, government officials, civil society organizations, etc.
Able to work independently and remotely, while maintaining strong communications with other members based all LESTARI landscapes.
Fluent in Bahasa Indonesia and English.
Strong organizational and project management ability. Must be able to multi-task, prioritize, and meet deadlines.
Ability to build and maintain strong and effective relationships with multiple stakeholders in Indonesia.
Experience in developing PPP for international donors (USAID, UKCCU, ADB, World Bank, or foundations) highly desirable.
For interested applicants, please send Application Letter and latest Curriculum Vitae to hrd.indonesia@winrock.org, not later than 31 May 2017. Only shortlisted and selected candidates will be contacted.


Over 8-14 September, Melbourne accidentally on purpose became the city of choice for a dozen tea-related events.
Melbourne Tea Week! Where to begin? Well for starters being forced to endure a tea week is always better than being forced to endure a weak tea and if you hate tea puns, you should exit this page right now.
To be clear, Melbourne Tea Week was not a co-ordinated affair, at least not like Melbourne Fashion Week or the Melbourne Fringe Festival – two events it was sandwiched between – but Fine Food was the sun that helped the good tea-ple of Melbourne find an orbit. Fine Food, as well as hosting the World Tea Brewers Championship for the third year running, also attracted the Australian International Tea Expo and the Tea Masters Cup as part of its Drinks Collective side event.
Last year, the Australian Tea Cultural Seminar members voted Melbourne the host city for 2018 and September the best month so picking a weekend that would dodge two footy codes' grand final weekends and leading into Fine Food made sense. In view of these three anchor points, the fringe grew.
Because I'm an AUSTCS co-director, many people ask me what it is. It's really quite hard to describe until you've been to one. Primarily, it's a forum for the tea community – comprised of both industry and the tea-loving public – to band together and develop a tea-drinking culture. But on a secondary note, it's couched in tea appreciation and a respect for affiliated areas, both cultural activities outside of tea and tea cultures from outside Australia.
It began, as every gathering should, with tea. After The Savoy Hotel's art deco foyer embraced this year's cohort for a group photo, AUSTCS delegates sat down and enjoyed the unboxing of the 2018 cup by ceramicist Annemieke Mulders. It provided an important focal point for our opening ceremony, 'Welcome by Tea', with tea at each table selected and served by volunteer brewers.
Chosen through a competition we ran in conjunction with the Australian Ceramics Association, Annemieke's submission fit both the technical criteria for size and durability (microwave/dishwasher safe!) but most importantly aesthetically, for its representation of Australia. Her winning entry, which depicted glaze in a hue and pattern reminiscent of sea foam, was replicated in some of her delegate cups.
She explained the genesis of the designs in her presentation, how her surroundings in Western Australia – the land, the sky, the sea – served as inspiration for the glaze colours and how experimentation with the glaze combinations made every cup unique. The 'wow' factor at the unboxing was a hard act to follow, but Annemieke's enlightening presentation certainly made everyone appreciate their AUSTCS cup even more and many unsurprisingly spent the break busily buying additions for their collection.
Our first international guest speaker, tea practitionerJeni Dodd, hails from Kansas via New York via the world. Her presentation on The Art of Tea focused on the aesthetic experience we have when appreciating art being akin to the bodily effect of drinking a cup of tea. Starting with the question 'what does art do to us?', Jeni drew a number of parallels between the craft of artistry and the craft of creating tea, the emotional response we have to art and the emotional response we have to tea. Both art and tea, she said, transform and translate worlds using a universal, sensory language.
Chloe Liang from the China International Tea Culture Institute (CITCI) followed. She started with the context of a pre-1980s view of tea as a government commodity, even while many different areas of China displayed a wide array of tea practices, from eating tea (Jinuo) and cooking with tea (Wa) to performing sacrificial rites (Yunnan) with tea to honour nature. Since then, tea has modernised and there's greater recognition of the diversity of tea culture that comes under the umbrella CITCI provides.
The good news? There are now more than 100K teahouses in China, a twentyfold increase compared to 30 years ago. A lot of this is due to exposing younger people to tea culture, says Chloe, from university tea culture clubs to experimenting with beverages such as tea cocktails to make tea more fashionable. And there's a significant demand for skilled tea service in professional settings too, with large organisations like the Bank of China using tea to "close the gap with their customers" and tea used in diplomatic situations between President Xi Jinping and his international counterparts. Tea, it seems, is enjoying a renaissance in China, and we hope it is a harbinger of what's to come in Australia.
Day two was for workshops, which is where the forum kicks in: members have their say and form a strategy and some goals to work on throughout the year. These are split into three streams: education, culture and health & wellbeing. I facilitated the culture workshop and I must admit I held back this year compared to 2017. We had a great group last year and some lofty ambitions and then all but one member dropped out: lofty = too hard.
This year I shaped some smaller goals like bonsai but made sure everyone contributed their experience so we could take into account different perspectives. I am interested in the tipping point of what makes a habitual tea drinker an aficionado – or not, in other cases – and it was good to hear everyone's stories about what tipped them in and what they thought has kept other people out.
The other thing I wanted to avoid was just making our goals about 'awareness raising' (blergh! next to useless!) re: finding and drinking quality tea, I was super keen to get some practical follow-up so that those looking to level up could do so rather than just wallowing in all the 101 stuff that litters almost all the info we get about tea.
Organised for AUSTCS delegates, this special screening of Jeff Fuchs' documentary The Tea Explorer, about travelling along the ancient Tea Horse Road, was preceded by a wander through some of Melbourne's most iconic laneways (Hosier Lane for the art, Central Place for the foodie stops). Libertea and Tuocha sponsored the screening and their tea flowed freely. Host Tania Stacey invited them up to have a chat about their tea journeys, which was a nice way to introduce them to the tea community.
I personally felt the doco needed more on the journey and the people along it than the beginner's tea lesson that took up the first third, but also understood why they needed to include those segments for a non-tea-drinking audience. I hope all those interviews Fuchs did with old-timers on his travels are one day pushed out as mini-docos as part of a TV series or similar. It would be a waste not to share them with the world, particularly as they are at a risk of being lost.
BRB, trying to hunt down a copy of his book.
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Anne is one of Quest School's founding Directors and her daughter, Clare, attended the school when it opened in 2003, until she moved on to adult provision.
Anne became involved in autism education following the diagnosis of her daughter with autism in 1997, following which Anne ran a home ABA education programme for her daughter from 1999-2003.
Anne was appointed as Head Teacher of Quest in 2004. Anne is a qualified teacher and previously worked for a number of years in mainstream schools; she undertook the professional qualification training for Headship during 2005-6.
Ashley is one of the founding directors of Quest School. She became involved in the world of autism after her son was diagnosed in 1995.
Ian is Chair of the Trustees, one of the Quest school founding directors and his and Anne's daughter Clare previously attended the school when it opened in September 2003. Ian is an actuary and an insurance company CEO as well as trustee of a number of charities and a local church Elder.
Outside interests include sport, music, eating, holidays and his motorbike!
Peter is one of the founding directors of Quest School and his son attended Quest since the school opened in 2003, until he moved on to adult provision.
With over 30 years managerial experience, Peter now runs his own health and safety consultancy business with clients across many sectors of industry.
He has a keen interest in education and has been a governor of Milestone Special School for over 12 years and chair of the resources committee.
Interests include football (keen Spurs fan), music, history and DIY!


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Q: How to set cloud-init/no-cloud in Ubuntu 22.04 to stop automatically rebooting I want to stop Ubuntu install after finishing to reboot. In user-data I tried to use:
power_state:
    delay: 30
    mode: reboot
    message: Rebooting machine
    condition: false

but is not working.

A: This is a user-data snippet that can be used to prevent the reboot after an autoinstall is finished.
#cloud-config
autoinstall:
  shutdown: reboot
runcmd:
  - |
    mv /sbin/reboot /sbin/reboot.real
    install -m 0755 -o root -g root /dev/null /sbin/reboot
    cat <<EOF > /sbin/reboot
    #!/usr/bin/env bash

    exit 0
    EOF

how it works
The autoinstall configuration does not provide a way to pause when finished.  The autoinstall configuration has a shutdown setting, but the only allowed options are reboot or poweroff.  When the autoinstall finishes, the installer (subiquity) will run either /sbin/reboot or /sbin/poweroff based on the setting.  Moving the /sbin/reboot executable will prevent the reboot.  A script is put it its place to prevent an error.
When the installation finishes the console will simply pause with the last line
finish: subiquity/Shutdown/shutdown: mode=REBOOT

A reboot can be performed manually using /sbin/reboot.real (or another mechanism like pressing the keyboard sequence ctrl-alt-del).
notes

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*I tested using Ubuntu 22.04 (subiquity 22.04.2)

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DANBURY TOWNSHIP – The Danbury Township Board of Trustees met June 25.
Trustees will have a special meeting in executive session at 6 p.m. July 15 at the township hall to do second interviews for two candidates for fire chief. Trustees intend to combine two part-time zoning positions as one full-time position. Current zoning employees will be interviewed for the position.
Road superintendent Brett Waldron reported an aluminum grate has been ordered for the culvert at Lake Point Park. Mowing and trimming is still in full swing and baseball fields are being used nightly. The final inspection of the township hall remodel is scheduled for later this week and the final EPA backflow inspection has been completed for this year. The maintenance staff attended a re-certification class on CPR and AED. Township roads are being bermed. Opinions are needed on the best method for repairing Danbury North Road, which was damaged by equipment. Repairs will be handled by the insurance from the party responsible for the damage.
Police Chief Michael Meisler reported 432 incidents to-date in June. Trustees approved D.R. Ebel to install equipment on the new Ford Interceptor Sedan at a cost of $4,654.30.
Interim fire Chief Doug Waugh reported the fire department responded to three fire calls, 72 EMS calls, five motor vehicle accidents and seven fire alarm activations so far in June. Waugh did CPR and AED refresher training for all township departments. Trustees approved appointing Jamie McDonald and Everett Tennant Jr. as probationary members of the fire department. Trustees approved an agreement with Kelleys Island — pending signatures from the solicitor for Kelleys Island council and the Ottawa County prosecutor — to provide emergency ambulance service transport from the ferry dock at a rate of $300 per call.
Zoning and Planning administrator Kathryn Dale reported 16 permits were processed in June. Trustees approved a tall grass nuisance declaration for the Menier property at 0 Meter Road.
The BZA approved, with conditions, a modification to a previous use variance and approved an application for an area variance. The zoning commission had a public hearing July 2 for rezoning agricultural to general commercial.
Bruce Winters, Ottawa County Common Pleas Court judge, spoke regarding his candidacy.
Trustees approved the township regular meeting time to be at 6:30 p.m.
Trustees approved continuing with the Ottawa County Safety Council membership, re-enrolling for the 2015 Group Rating Program with Frank Gates Service Co., payroll and bills totaling $113,603.60 and three line-item transfers.


What is a NNN Lease?
A NNN Lease, or net-net-net lease, is an agreement with the tenant to take full responsibility for all fees that are related to the asset being leased on top of the rent itself. The basis of the lease requires the lessee to pay all three types of costs. These costs include net real estate taxes, building insurance, and standard maintenance. A NNN Lease can also be referred to as a triple net lease.
Because the lessee is covering all costs which would otherwise be the property owner's responsibility, the rent charge of the building is usually lower than a standard lease. The credit standing of the tenant is used to calculate the lease amount using a capitalization rate.
Properties that are a NNN Lease are a very popular investment for those seeking steady income with low risk. NNN Leases are typically grouped with 3 or more high-grade commercial properties that are leased by a single tenant with current cash flow. Office buildings, industrial parks, malls, and restaurants operated by banks are a few examples of high-grade commercial properties. 10 to 15 years are the typical terms, with rent escalations built-into the contract.
Long-term steady income, with capital appreciation of the property as a possibility, is the main benefit to investors. Without concern, investors can invest in high-quality real estate without management operations, including tenant improvement costs or leasing fees. When the properties are sold, an investor can roll the capital into a new triple net lease without having to pay taxes through 1 tax-deferred 1031 exchange.
Investors in Triple Net Lease investments are required to have at least a $1 million net worth, excluding the value of their primary place of residence, or $200K income ($300k if filing jointly). Investors must also be accredited to invest in a NNN Lease. Smaller investors can invest in a NNN Lease by investing in real estate investment trusts (REITs) that are focused on these types of properties.
Learn more about an NNN Lease here.
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We (GRC) treat our members' privacy rights seriously. In order to be able to operate as a club, we have to collect and use certain personal information from each member, specifically name, postal address and, if the member has them, telephone number, mobile number and email address. We use it to communicate with the member about our activities. The information is collected when the member joins, the Treasurer will request an update at annual renewal time and it can be updated at any time by the member by contacting the Treasurer.
The information will be stored in a password protected encrypted spreadsheet, copies of which are held by the members of the Committee. It is maintained and accessed by them and also shown annually to our external Accounts Verifier. To provide contact information for prospective walkers, a truncated version of the information (familiar name, sometimes the initial letter of surname, telephone and/or mobile numbers) may be used on the club's publicly accessible website and printed walks programmes and in third party publications. We also publish on the web site and in our printed programmes, small photographs which may include images of members. Further, after most walks, we distribute other walk photographs by email to the members. We will respect the wishes of members who do not wish to be included in or to receive such photographs, provided that they make those wishes known in good time to a Committee member.
Whenever groups of members need to be emailed this will be done using the BCC (blind copy) option so that no member (other than Committee members) sees the email address of any other member. The full data may be made available annually to the club's Accounts Verifier.
If requested it may also be made available to our public liability insurers and/or to statutory authorities. If the latter happens the affected member or members will be informed and told the reason for the disclosure. The data will be kept whilst the member is a member and for about one year thereafter unless there are legal or insurance circumstances that require information to be held for longer while such a matter is investigated or resolved. Where this is the case the affected member will be informed as to why and for how long the information will be held and will be in formed when it is deleted.


Duct tape is one the best ways to stick things together, but keeping a roll with you all the time isn't easy. If you're looking to patch a few holes or you just want an emergency set in your wallet, Instructables user Mrballeng shows you how to create your own band-aid style dots.
The dots are made by layering the duct tape to sheets of wax paper and then punching them out with a gasket punch. You could, of course, also just cut them out if you don't have a gasket punch sitting around. The wax paper is layered in a way that creates an easy to remove backing so you can store them anywhere. After all, you never know when you're going to need a little duct tape to patch up a hole or fix something.


What Does a Strong First Quarter Say About the Remainder of the Year?
It was not too long ago that investors were asking if it was time to get defensive in their portfolios given the negative returns we had in Q4 of 2018. As painful as it may have seemed at the time, our message was consistent, it was not time to sell, but rather to invest. If investors had sold out in December, they would have missed the strong Q1 returns.
Since we have experienced a strong first quarter, it begs the question if the returns will be given back later in the year. To answer that question, the Surevest Investment Committee analyzed what has happened in the past when the markets have been positive the first three months of the year.
Since 1950, the S&P 500 has had 19 years in which the first quarter witnessed a positive January, February and March. In those years the S&P averaged an additional increase of 8.65% for the remaining 9 months. Therefore, looking back at history, a strong start to the year has, on average, led to an even stronger yearly return.
In the data set, there was only one year in which the previous Q4 was negative and that produced a subsequent 9 month return of 17.79%.
Currently, the S&P is at a price level of 2,879. Based on that average return over the next 9 months of 8.65%, that takes us to a price of 3,128. On $185 next year's earnings, that would have us trading at a price-to-earning of 17 times, which makes 3,128 a reasonable year-end target. So, just because we had a great Q1 doesn't mean the party is over.
Robert Luna, Surevest CEO & Chief Investment Strategist, will be on his Friday spot with Charles Payne on Fox Business's Making Money to discuss the latest market news. Tune in during the 11:00a PST hour to listen to Robert's insights.


Swizz Beatz ft. Snoop Dogg And Junior Reid- "Co-Pilot"
It's Monday and Swizz Beatz has dropped the newest track for Monster Mondays called "Co-Pilot". The track features Snoop Dogg and Junior Reid as they let everyone know how their women only deserve first class. I can't argue with that. The track definitely exudes some island flavor.
It's that Dirty- Money! Diddy has taken the pleasure in announcing "Coming Home" tour dates. This train might might be making a stop in your area very soon. Diddy, Dawn and Kaleena have had big success with their new project and I'm glad to hear about the tour. I'm currently on "I Know" off the album. I swear this summer is going to be so live everyone is going on tour!
I can dig it, check out the tour dates below.
May 10 – Phoenix, AZ – Ovations LIVE!
It's time to present our newest "Diva Of The Week" I know you guys have been waiting! At the age off 22 Adrianne Ellison is a diva in her own right, she is accomplished and is in hot pursuit of getting hers. Currently a Case Aide at BabyLand Family Services and a former employee of CBS radio Ms. Ellison is a graduate of Montclair State Univeristy were she received her Bachelors in Broadcasting and certificate in Child Advocacy.
And it doesn't end there, this diva is also going to Grad school for Clinical Mental Health and also helped in starting up a non profit organization called "LIV UP" The Movement . "LIV UP" the movement is geared to promoting a positive healthier lifestyles through multimedia arts. such as music, theatre, visual art, dance, video, and internet as a vehicle into the lives and hearts of under served communities. Adrianne is the CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER/PRODUCTION DIRECTOR. That's what I'm talking about!
Alongside that Adrianne is also the Assistant Director for Ready To Shine , a hip-hop show that gives independent rappers and DJ's the opportunity to display their talent and when she's free she volunteers her time to at "The Sierra House and Deirdre's" for child victims.
Fellow diva's take notes, divaMissioN is very proud to have Adrianne Ellison as our "Diva Of The Week".
The album drops March 22. Who's buyin'?!


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This E-Book will give you both knowledge and appreciation for our environment. As well, it can offer you insight into the diverse and fascinating world of herbalism. Whether you're interested in what nature can offer, or you're looking for a practical guide to get you started on your herbalist journey, this is the book for you!


Comau is proud to announce a new partnership in the USA with a local robotics distributor, Kundinger, Inc. Founded over 50 years ago, Kundinger has an innovative approach to integrated supply and serves a variety of customers in unique market segments. They believe customers deserve premier products, custom designed systems, and personal customer service.
Kundinger will offer Comau's full portfolio of robots and automated products to its customer base in Michigan and Wisconsin. This partnership represents a key step in Comau's strategy to develop a distributor network in the USA.


There is this really beautiful thing about the stories and letters and poems in this book … but I don't find the beauty at its purest in intense academic study … and I don't find beauty by reading the Bible like a newspaper—trying to extract from its pages without bias every detail of every story.
And here, in Luke's telling of the story of the cross, I wonder what the next line of dialogue would have been … what did the criminal think? How might he have responded?
Here we have this menace to society who is literally in the process of being executed for crimes against humanity.
I know you've all probably experienced this before—It's as if once he had crossed the threshold of opening his mouth, more ended up coming out of it than he had intended to actually say.
Not, "get me down from here" … Not, "Jesus, save me" … because certainly that would be too much to ask for a sinner such as he was.
And then, this dying, condemned criminal receives the grace of becoming the last human being to whom our Lord speaks before giving up his spirit.
Think about what he had just heard from Jesus himself.
His wheels had to be spinning … we read it now and can't figure out what Jesus meant … and we're not hanging on a cross … waiting to die … wondering at our fate … or maybe we are.
Jesus … are you really talking to me? I … a condemned criminal… will be in paradise? That's too much … I don't deserve it and I wasn't asking for charity … I couldn't … what is it like … is today really today?
But its simply not there … it is a hole … and Luke isn't stupid … it is a hole on purpose.
I don't know … but I know its good! Jesus didn't explain it, He just promised it, and in that promise of salvation, the criminal receives the invitation … and the freedom to wonder.
And when you are hanging on a cross, waiting to die, maybe the best thing that anyone could do for you is to take your mind on a field trip to paradise.
~ by Will Norman on April 22, 2011.


Do you have any recipes that you prefer to eat the day after you made it? This is the exact case for me when it comes to this rice dish. I'm not sure if it's because the flavors meld longer, or because the texture improves after sitting in the refrigerator, but this rice won my favor only after reheating it as leftovers the next day.
Because wild rice pairs well with turkey and because this can be made a day in advance, I highly recommend adding this to your Thanksgiving spread. Not only will your guests be delighted with a healthier alternative to some traditional side dishes (like sweet potato pie), you'll also be so glad you have at least one side dish done ahead of time. A quick reheating on the stove top also frees your oven for that amazing roasted turkey and corn casserole.
Meanwhile, melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the diced onion and cook for 7 minutes or until golden. Stir in the mushrooms and salt then cook for another 4 to 5 minutes or until mushrooms are tender. Pour in the Marsala and simmer 5 minutes or until liquid is absorbed. Combine the mushroom mixture into the prepared rice. Stir in the parsley. Serve immediately, or let cool completely then refrigerate over night. Reheat on the stove top before serving.
That is a gorgeous picture! And I never think about rice at Thanksgiving but it really would go perfectly with turkey.
This sounds really delicious and easy! And I love, love that dish. It's so pretty!
Where did you find these beautiful dishes? I love the color!


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Q: Microsoft Click Once An error occurred while signing: Key not valid for use in specified state I'm trying to publish the new deployment of my application to a shared location.
and I get this error "An error occurred while signing: Key not valid for use in specified state."

*

*Note This is the first time doing so since moving to a new domain.

*The shared location is in the old domain and at first I thought it was because it couldn't access the information necessary in the old share location because I didn't apply my credentials to access the old share, which could be a reason the key information could be mismatched.

after logging on with my credentials it didn't help.

A: Just adding to an old question because I just had this problem after a domain change and already had a valid signing certificate working on the project. Had to re-import it and it worked after that.


This year I was invited to be apart of this years Atlantic Balloon Fiesta!
This year Crandall University's theatre production was Peter & The Starcatcher, and I got to be a part of it!
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Technical fouls: CAL LUTH-None. POMONA-P-None.
Points in the paint: CAL LUTH-14, POMONA-P-14. Points off turnovers: CAL LUTH-16, POMONA-P-4.
2nd chance points: CAL LUTH-5, POMONA-P-8. Fast break points: CAL LUTH-0, POMONA-P-2.
Bench Points: CAL LUTH-16, POMONA-P-3.


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\section{Introduction}
I will talk about the theoretical status of high energy diffractive/elastic
physics. As my theme I will attempt to address the questions: \lq\lq
What `tools' do we presently have?\rq\rq and \lq\lq How well do
they/should they work?\rq\rq. But, I will not attempt to discuss the
most important question: \lq\lq How are they related?\rq\rq !
I start with a review of the `soft' pomeron of Donnachie and Landshoff before
moving to the role of perturbative QCD corrections in the context of
quasi-elastic vector meson production in high-$Q^2$ $ep$ collisions at $t=0$
(when the proton usually remains intact). To conclude, I talk about a much
rarer process which ought to shed light on the perturbative (or `BFKL')
pomeron, namely that of vector meson production at high $t$ (where the
proton will usually break up).
\section{The `Soft' Pomeron}
Motivated largely by the success of the additive quark rule in describing the
ratios of the total cross sections (of light hadrons) at high energies and the
rising of the individual cross sections with increasing energy, Donnachie and
Landshoff (DL) proposed the exchange of a single Regge pole which couples
directly to on-shell valence quarks \cite{dl1}.
This simple proposition works exceedingly well for a wide range
of circumstances: total cross sections, elastic scattering at low $t$ and
quasi-elastic vector meson production at high $Q^2$ (at least at
EMC/NMC energies) are
all successfully described by a pomeron pole of trajectory $\alpha_{P}(t)
\simeq 1.08 + 0.25 t$ \cite{dl2}. We would like to understand this picture
in terms of QCD, and progress in
this direction has been made by Landshoff and Nachtmann (LN) \cite{ln}
who proposed that the pomeron is simply the exchange of two
non-perturbative gluons, see fig.1 (the blobs denote the
non-perturbative gluons).
\begin{figure}[ht]
\centerline{ \epsfig{file=paris1.ps,width=7.8cm}  }
\centerline{  Figure 1   }
\end{figure}
The two-point Green function that defines the
gluon propagator was shown to pick up a contribution from non-perturbative
physics which arises due to a non-zero vacuum expectation value of the gluon
condensate, $\langle G^a_{\mu \nu} G^{\mu \nu}_{a} \rangle \sim M_c^4$. The new
mass scale is related to the pomeron-quark coupling, $\beta_0$, via a
correlation length, $a$, i.e. $\beta_0 \sim M_c^4 a^5$. QCD sum
rules give $M_c$ and the DL pomeron phenomenology fixes $\beta_0$. As a
result, the correlation length is found to satisfy the inequality
$a \ll R$, where $R$ is a typical light-hadron radius.
Interpreting $a$ as the typical separation of the two non-perturbative
gluons then we can appreciate that this inequality is responsible for
guaranteeing the preservation of the additive quark rule. Unfortunately, the
LN formalism is in an Abelian theory
and rigorous contact with QCD still eludes us.

The arrival of HERA meant, for the first time, data which are not
compatible with the DL picture. The steep rise of $F_2^p(x,Q^2)$ at small $x$
\cite{hera1} and the largeness of the high-$Q^2$ quasi-elastic $\rho$
production cross section \cite{hera2} along with a similar enhancement for the
quasi-elastic photoproduction of $J/\Psi$'s \cite{hera3} are all evidence
for physics beyond the DL pomeron. In
particular they are evidence for significant perturbative corrections. Such
corrections were not unexpected, since the presence of a hard scale opens up
the phase space for perturbative corrections, e.g. $\sim \alpha_s \ln Q^2$.
A very brief word on why the diffractive contribution to the inclusive DIS
cross section appears not to rise as fast as one might naively
expect (i.e. it appears more
consistent with the `soft' pomeron approach \cite{diff}) is perhaps in order.
In fact, it is the only small $x$ deep inelastic process seen at HERA which
does not appear to contain very large perturbative corrections. The very
asymmetric partition of the longitudinal momentum of the incoming photon
between the quark and anti-quark to which it couples (in the proton rest frame)
is responsible for selecting dominantly non-perturbative configurations and
so we should not be surprised by these HERA data (see \cite{ajm,afs} for more
details).
\section{QCD corrections}
Since the perturbative calculation (of processes which involve hadrons in
the initial state) usually introduces collinear divergences it follows that
any sensible calculation must address the interface with
non-perturbative physics. Fortunately, it is known that for inclusive cross
sections these divergences can be factorised into some a priori unknown
boundary condition \cite{fac}.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\centerline{ \epsfig{file=paris2.ps,width=11.0cm}  }
\centerline{  Figure 2   }
\end{figure}
Fig.2 illustrates how the perturbative
corrections enter in a calculation of $F_2(x,Q^2)$.

What about the rapidly rising cross section for quasi-elastic vector meson
production at high $Q^2$ which has been seen in the HERA data?
In fig.3, the lowest order QCD contribution is
shown.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\centerline{ \epsfig{file=paris3.ps,width=6.0cm}  }
\centerline{  Figure 3   }
\end{figure}
According to Ryskin \cite{ryskin},
the amplitude for scattering longitudinal
photons to produce longitudinal mesons (it is the dominant contribution) can be
written (for small enough $t$):
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{{\mathrm{Im}}\,A(s,t)}{s} &\approx& F(t) \alpha_s \left[
\frac{\Gamma^V_{ee}m_V^3 \pi^3}{3 \alpha_{\mathrm{em}}} \right]^{1/2}
\frac{1}{Q^4} \frac{\surd Q^2}{m_V}  \nonumber \\ &\times&
\int^{\sim Q^2} \frac{dk^2}{k^4} \phi(k^2).
\end{eqnarray}
Where $F(t)$ is a form factor associated with the elastic
scattering of the proton (it is unity at $t=0$). The collinear divergence
of pQCD is present, since $\phi(k^2) \sim k^2 R^2$ at small $k^2$. It is
of the same nature as
the factorisable logarithmic divergence in $F_2$ and as such Ryskin replaces
the integral over $k^2$ with the gluon parton density, $G(x,Q^2/4)$. By
evaluating the gluon density at a scale $\sim Q^2$, the infinity of $\ln Q^2$
corrections to fig.3 are summed up. Consequently, the cross section can be
written (for $Q^2 \gg m_V^2$):
\begin{equation}
\frac{d \sigma}{dt} \sim \frac{1}{Q^6}[ G(x,Q^2/4) ]^2.
\end{equation}
Essentially the same result has been obtained by Brodksy et al \cite{brodsky}
and Nikolaev et al \cite{nikolaev}. Since the gluon density rises rapidly at
small $x$, so the cross section for $\gamma^* p \to \rho p$ rises (but twice
as fast) and we have an explanation of the HERA data. However,
we should be careful in taking this result too literally: there are huge
theoretical uncertainties in
the normalisation. These uncertainties arise since eq.(2) is derived in the
double logarithmic approximation (i.e. only $\ln Q^2 \ln 1/x$ terms are
summed up).  This approximation is necessary in order to allow us to
write the cross section simply as the square of the gluon density, evaluated
at the double leading log scales, $Q^2/W^2$ and $Q^2$.
For more discussion on the dangers associated with this expression
see Peter Landshoff's talk \cite{pvl}.
\section{The Hard `Pomeron'}
As well as a large transverse momentum phase space (which led to the large logs
in $Q^2$), at high enough CM energies there is also a large longitudinal
momentum phase space. This generates logs in $W^2/Q^2$ which lead to the much
cited BFKL corrections \cite{bfkl}. The logs exponentiate to deliver a power
law growth (in $W^2$) of total cross sections.
In fig.4, the `definitive' BFKL process is
shown: short distances are dominant and the pomeron (i.e. that object which
determines the behaviour of total cross sections at high energies) can be
described using perturbation theory.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\centerline{ \epsfig{file=paris4.ps,width=5.5cm}  }
\centerline{  Figure 4   }
\end{figure}
The dashed lines represent `reggeized' gluons (the bare $t$-channel gluons
having been dressed by virtual corrections). The process, $\gamma \gamma \to
\gamma \gamma$ through heavy quark loops at high-$t$, is not something
likely to be measured in the near future! Even so, one can imagine turning
down the heavy quark mass and the momentum transfer $t$
until we eventually arrive (as we must) at the DL pomeron.
Our goal must be to understand this transition. Fortunately this is
not a purely theoretical exercise,
there is a very similar process that can be measured (with decent statistics)
at HERA. This is the process, $\gamma^{(*)} p \to V + X$, where $X$ denotes
the proton dissociation \cite{fr}, see fig.5.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\centerline{ \epsfig{file=paris5.ps,width=7.5cm}  }
\centerline{  Figure 5   }
\end{figure}
The photon need not be highly virtual,
providing $t$ is sufficiently large. Large $t$ provides a dynamical infra-red
cut-off so there is no need to worry about unknown non-perturbative physics
(the theory allows a consistency check, since one can, in principle, always
look to see how much of a contribution comes from a particular region of phase
space), it also suppresses vector dominance contributions. High $t$ is also
vital in ensuring that the simple picture of the proton dissociation shown in
fig.5 is valid, i.e. the pomeron couples to a single parton line
\cite{bartels}. The
non-perturbative physics associated with the proton bound state is then
factorised into the parton densities (which are evaluated at large $x'$
since we require a large CM energy across the pomeron and $\mu_F^2 \sim -t$ )
and are known. Another bonus is that, although a single parton is struck and
emerges to form a jet at $p_T^2 \approx -t$ we do not have to see it. The
interesting cross section, $d\sigma/dt$, can be measured by observing the decay
of the vector meson (and the scattered electron in DIS). By not requiring to
see any of the proton dissociation, we can use much more of the 820 GeV that
the proton carries into the scatter and hence pick up contributions from the
largest possible rapidity gaps that HERA can deliver (the ultimate limitation
is due to the $\sim (1-x)^5$ fall off of parton densities as $x \to 1$). This
large reach in rapidity is vital in ensuring that the whole BFKL summation is
necessary. To understand the importance of large $\Delta \eta$, recall that
the BFKL expansion is an expansion in
$$ z = \frac{3 \alpha_s}{2 \pi} \ln \left( \frac{x' W^2}{Q_H^2} \right)
\sim \alpha_s \Delta \eta,$$ where $Q_H^2$ is the hard scale
(e.g $Q_H^2 \approx -t$ for $-t \gg Q^2, m_V^2$).
Ryskin and I found that for $z \lower .7ex\hbox{$\;\stackrel{\textstyle <}{\sim}\;$} 0.1$, there is no need to go beyond
two-gluon exchange and that the full BFKL dynamics reveals itself only for $z
\lower .7ex\hbox{$\;\stackrel{\textstyle >}{\sim}\;$} 0.8$. At HERA, for $2 \le -t \le 5$ GeV$^2$, $W = 100$ GeV and $x'
\ge 0.1$ (this means that $X$ is unseen) $0.1 \le z \le 1$. So there is the
possibility to get into the most interesting regime of large $z$. The scale
invariance of the BFKL kernel means that the exchange dynamics is specified
only by $z$ and the ratio $\tau \equiv -t/(Q^2 + m_V^2)$ (providing we
assume a non-relativistic form for the vector meson wavefunction).
Going from DIS $J/\Psi$'s to photoproduction $\rho$'s corresponds to varying
$\tau$ from 0.1 to 5 which means that we can probe the
dynamics over a wide range.

The rate for this process is promising. Since, at large $z$, we feel the full
force of the BFKL power, the cross section is expected to rise rapidly with
increasing $W^2$, i.e. $\sim (W^2/Q_H^2)^{2 \omega_0}$ where $\omega_0 = 12 \ln
2 \alpha_s/\pi$. For example, for $Q^2 = 0$, $-t \ge 2$ GeV$^2$ and $W=100$ GeV
we estimate that $\sigma(\gamma p \to J/\Psi+X) \approx 5$nb and that the mean
$z \approx 0.6$. This is more than an order of magnitude larger than the
prediction based on two-gluon exchange and as such would show up rather
dramatically in the data. Note that there will be many more $\rho$'s produced
and that the high-$t$ excess should be present even in $\rho$ photoproduction.
I should note that Ryskin and I performed our calculation for the production
of transversely polarised mesons off transversely polarised photons and
assumed a small contribution from the end-points of the associated
wavefunctions. This approximation is known to be a poor one
\cite{afs,brodsky}, but our conclusions easily generalise to the case of
longitudinal photons and more realistic wavefunctions.

Not only is it interesting to study the dynamics of the exchange: understanding
the dynamics responsible for the formation of the vector meson also
challenges the theorists. The comparison of rates
for $\rho, \omega, \phi$ and $J/\Psi$ will
provide important tests. For example, DIS $\rho$ production and photoproduction
of $J/\Psi$'s can have the same $\tau$ value. Theoretically the only difference
is related to the different dynamics associated with their formation. At $t=0$,
such comparisons can be done with relative ease and puzzles such as why
$\sigma(\phi):\sigma(\rho) \approx 0.1$ (NMC \cite{nmc}) whilst theory
predicts naively 2/9 (or larger!) can be addressed.

\begin{center}
{\large\bf Aknowledgements}
\end{center}
It is a pleasure to thank the convenors of the working group and the
organizing committee for providing the opportunity to present this paper.
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State of the Rabbit: August '17 »
Swap, pt. 3: Meanwhile…
Content Warnings: Body-horror, gore, blood, graphic violence.
Earlier that day, Katters pulled a rabbit out of a magician.
The magician had been a survivor — lived through Zebra's barbery; lived through the fall down the chute; and lived through however many hours she'd been in the freezer, on top of and under a generous handful of other bodies.
She begged for help as Katters hauled the first body out of the freezer, clutching at the cuffs of her scrubs. Katters ignored her, and by the second corpse, she had caught on that Katters was not there for her health. She screamed, but her cries grew hoarser, quieter, weaker as she froze.
Katters would normally have started with the magician, both because she is impatient, and because survivors usually stop being survivors when she waits. But she could smell the magic on this one, and knew the magic would keep the magician alive while she worked. It always did.
One by one, bodies left the freezer, and eventually the magician was the only one left.
She was tall. Too tall for Katters to carry, so she dragged her by her feet out into the basement. It was cold out there, but not nearly as cold as it was in the freezer, and the difference made the magician flush with what blood she had left. Katters heaved her onto a table — sticky with what remained of the preceding patients — and rolled her onto her back. She was too weak, too cold to protest as Katters fastened chains to her wrists and ankles.
A tranquiliser would not be necessary. The magician would not be alive for long.
The basement was well-lit, bright lamps hanging over each of the steel tables that dotted the room. Every surface was white or metal, and reflected light back at you no matter which way you turned. The magician was squinting.
She said something. Katters ignored her.
The quiet, constant hum of the freezer was overshadowed briefly by the squeaky wheel on the tray Katters brought to the side of the magician's table. Tools lay neatly across it (knives, and scissors, and forceps) along with a pair of welding goggles and what looked like an iodine bottle: dark brown glass and a dropper lid. A small pet carrier sat on a shelf beneath the tray.
Setup done, Katters looked over her patient. The magician was middle-aged, though pain and fear accentuated the lines of her face and made her look older. Her brown hair spilled over the edge of the table, what of it wasn't clinging in clumps to drying pools of blood. She was wearing a white blouse, though it was stained bright red along the collar, and a brown skirt. Office attire.
She said something — swallowed. A wound on her neck gaped, a shallow laceration through the right-side sternocleidomastoid muscle. More blood spilled across her shoulder and into the pit of her arm.
It was sloppy work, but it should have been fatal. And there should have been a lot more blood.
Katters took the magician's jaw and tilted her head to get a better view of the wound. She gasped, whined, and Katters leaned in to glare at her neck.
She reeked of magic. It was panicking inside her, struggling to keep her alive and setting off bells in the back of Katters' mind.
She said something.
Was the magic holding the blood in, somehow? Redirecting it away from the wound? She should have bled out minutes after having her jugular severed, and yet. Here she was. Still alive and full of blood.
Katters straightened, giving the magician's face a shove before letting go.
Well. She wouldn't be for long. Magics may be magic, but they aren't miracles. Katters didn't know what the magician's skin-tone was supposed to be, but it probably wasn't the pallid shade she was now.
Katters picked up the brown-glass bottle and drew a dose into the dropper. The contents were lime green, and glowed.
The magician opened her mouth to speak — and was cut off by a drop of potion down her throat. She choked, coughed, coughed more.
The potion, Sor had explained when she gave it to Katters, would temporarily change a magic-user's physiology into that of a non-magic-user. Katters did not understand what the difference was between the two, but it apparently existed. The change would render the magic-user's body inhospitable to the magic, which was (to Sor's knowledge) the only reliable method of harvesting them.
Katters stood back. The magician's cough spread deeper into her lungs, turning wet and rough, lifting her away from the table with every hack.
Her muscles strained against her bonds, which clanked against the metal table before pulling into a taut and creaky silence. Her face contorted. A tense grimace. Clenched teeth. Sweat running down her temples. Her joints groaned, popped. Snapped. Cracked like breaking branches. Her broken elbows bent backwards, then sagged and folded floppily under her.
Her cough mutated into a pained wheeze as she struggled to breathe.
Creaking. Groaning. Her back held tense — a deep and severe arch, the top of her head brushing the steel table. She whined.
Her chest burst open. A wet bang and blood sprayed everywhere, and the magician collapsed onto her broken arms.
The freezer hummed.
Katters held the goggles up and looked through one of the lenses. There was a volleyball-sized hole in the middle of the magician's chest, gore and the tatters of her shirt forming a starburst pattern around the wound. Sitting in the middle of the hole, invisible to Katters' naked eye, was a black rabbit.
She grabbed the pet-carrier from under the tool tray and popped it open.
The rabbit was trying to burrow back into the magician, digging into her chest, tiny claws scrabbling at broken ribs. Up close, it appeared less to be a rabbit and more like a rabbit-shaped hole in reality. It had no defining characteristics beyond this, no visible details like eyes or a nose.
Katters grabbed it by the scruff and plopped it into the carrier, then snapped the door shut. The rabbit panicked, thumping against the walls of its new prison.
The magician was dead. Katters removed her clothes, cutting the ruined shirt away and throwing the scraps to the floor before gathering the rest of her outfit and storing it away in a cabinet.
The rabbit scratched at the floor of its cage, plucking at the metal with its claws. Katters kicked the carrier. Not hard enough to knock it off its shelf, but hard enough to rattle it and its contents. The rabbit thumped, again, and she sighed through her nose. She went to work, determined to ignore her prisoner.
Hours later, Katters came staggering down the basement stairs, clutching the arm that had recently been pinned between Zebra-in-Sor's-body and a pile of very uncomfortable books.
"Katters, go to bed," she muttered as she turned on the lights. The basement was as pristine as she'd left it — spotless, tidy, nothing out of place. If it weren't obviously a murder basement, one would never guess it was a murder basement.
"We don't want you around," she continued in a nasal whine. "You don't get to laugh at our pain."
A faint scratching came in response, the rabbit disturbed by the sudden light and noise. Katters had tucked the pet-carrier away in a cubby behind the magician's clothes, and the scratching stopped when she pulled it out.
She pitched her voice into an imitation of Sor's. "Don't you dare science those magics I'm making you get for me," she said. "It's not like I'm paying you for them or anything, but they're very valuable and if you lose one, I will be upset."
She set the carrier on one of the tables. "Well," she said, in her own voice. "And we wouldn't want her to be upset."
The rabbit was quiet, as it should have been. Logically, it shouldn't have been able to make noise in the first place, considering it didn't really exist.
"That seems like a good place to start," Katters told it while pulling the goggles over her eyes. "You can interact with some physical objects, but you shouldn't be able to. How, I wonder?"
There came no answer from the rabbit. A peek inside the container showed it was curled against the back wall, making itself as small as it could, which was still roughly rabbit-sized. In the shadow of the carrier, its colour had shifted to an ashen grey.
Katters lifted the goggles and the rabbit vanished, confirming that it still wasn't really there. Not like the carrier was, or the table, or Katters herself. She opened the cage and swept her hand against the back of it. Nothing.
She pulled her hand back out, resting it on the mouth of the carrier, and replaced her goggles. The rabbit appeared, much closer to the front of the cage than it had been before. Much closer to her hand than it had been before.
It bit her.
She yelped and shoved the carrier away, yanking her hand back. The rabbit came with it, hanging from her by its nonexistent teeth. She could feel them, though, slicing through her scales and scraping against her bones.
"Motherfucker!"
She swung the rabbit into the air and slammed it against the table, then did that a few more times for good measure. It wouldn't budge, its jaw tightening around her and its teeth sinking in deeper.
It was black again. The void, where its mouth should have been, wrapped around her first knuckle and swallowed it into nothing. She hit the rabbit with her free fist, and her blows slid off and away from it, like it was a block of ice. It was heavy, too, and hard.
She took a breath and tried to stop freaking out. The rabbit lay on the table, its hind legs splayed out behind it, its ears pressed flat against its back. It was holding statue-still, except that it periodically gnawed at the finger in its mouth. Katters' blood was smeared over its face, drying into fur-shaped clumps. There was some blood on its back, too, where her knuckles had skinned against it.
She couldn't hurt it. That was a problem. She didn't know how to make it let go if she couldn't hurt it, if trying just made it tighten its grip on her. She didn't know how to handle a problem she couldn't beat into solving itself.
She hurled it against the table again, hard enough to leave a dent and wrench her index finger out of its joint. She swept the rabbit up under her other arm and tried to yank her hand free. It slid in her grip like it was wrapped in seaweed.
She bit at it, still pulling away with her trapped hand, and her teeth ground against its neck but did no damage. Not to the rabbit, anyway.
Her legs folded under her. She sat, hard, on the tiled floor. The rabbit wound up in her lap, snug against her crossed legs.
The adrenaline was leaving her and sharp pain seeped into her hand and up her arm. She considered cutting it all off herself, but with the way things were going, the rabbit might do it for her. With its sharp, sharp teeth.
It was warm against her legs, and still so heavy. It felt less like she had a rabbit in her lap and more like Spike had curled up there.
The rabbit shifted, digging its hind paws and claws into her thigh, clenching its jaws around her knuckle. Prying it away from the rest of her hand.
It was dense. That would have been interesting, if it wasn't attached to her.
"Fuckin' talk about interacting with physical objects," she said. "You're just showing off."
The rabbit said nothing.
She laid her free hand over its face, feeling its invisible eyes close and twitch under her palm, and pushed. It hunched its shoulders around its neck, but otherwise did not budge. Katters removed her hand.
"This is my life now," she said.
Her hand hurt. Her index finger was cold and numb, but the rest of her hand ached. The rabbit's teeth met inside her.
Maybe she could get it to stop existing. Then it would go away, and it wouldn't be her problem anymore.
As she lifted the goggles, she worried a little about the possibility that she'd still be able to feel the rabbit, but not see it. Or that it would get away into the basement, somewhere, and she wouldn't be able to find it again. She was not prepared for the possibility that the rabbit would not disappear.
She froze, the goggles hanging limp in her free hand. The rabbit — small, sleek, black — sat in her lap and twitched its teeth around her finger. It seemed more substantial, now. Less flat. Less like a hole.
It seemed like it was more her problem now than ever.

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Cui Bono? GOPers, The Uniparty, and Ted Cruz
Posted on April 17, 2016 by chrystalia99
Part and parcel of the so called "delegate stealing" is who is actually doing the stealing for Ted Cruz. The answer is, of course, the GOPers. So why in the world would the GOPers be busily rigging the convention for Cruz, with the help of the rest of the uniparty and the media?
Cruz, Kleptocrat Acting As "The Outsider"
Ted Cruz positioned himself as an "outsider", an anti-establishment candidate whose message is tailored to fit the smallest segment of the GOP–the hard line religious far right. The fact that he isn't now, nor has he ever been, a "Constitutional Conservative, Anti-Establishment Christian" is irrelevant. Politics is a form of theater, at this point, and Cruz has the bona fides to pass himself off as all the aforementioned things, as long as you sort of cross your eyes and squint real hard when you look at him.
The GOPers know that, of course. It didn't escape their attention that Cruz's biggest single money man is Robert Mercer, hedge fund guru and epic tax dodger. It hasn't escaped their attention that the PACS funding him are stuffed with big banking, big oil, and big business.And they definitely sat u and took notice when Mercer brought along with his endorsement, Cambridge Analytica and a large financial stake in the former king of "conservative alternative/independent media", Breitbart.
What Cruz Means To The Uniparty
We talked a while back about bargain basement prices on psy-ops and mass perception management, and coups and regime changes. Currently, the government's home team is a firm named Booz Allen Hamilton. BAH gets literally 99% of their money from the government, to the tune of around 70 billion dollars in 2015. Prior to Cambridge Analytica becoming a major player in America a few years ago, BAH, had precious little competition when it came to government projects.
Now, on the other hand, the government has the potential to acquire the services of a company whose psy-op, mass perception manipulation, and regime changing skills make old BAH look pathetic, at very favorable rates. BAH would still be useful, of course, as they perform many other services for the government outside of their work in intelligence and psy-ops. But why use a distant third place company for the important work, when you can get the best?
So–Cui Bono? Who Benefits?
If the GOPers can keep enough people uninformed about Ted Cruz, his big money connections, his extremely fringe religious endorsements and supporters, and his unconstitutional voting record, they could take the White House, and the uniparty kleptocracy would have a data mining firm at their disposal that already possesses data the NSA envies. Beyond that, they would have a president that is more than willing to violate every promise he makes to his voters, and apparently has no qualms at all when it comes to using the people's data against them on a regular basis.
Sure, they'd probably have to come to an agreement with Mercer and write of the majority of his multi-billion dollar tax bill (if not all of it). They'd also have to tolerate having Cruz as president for 4-8 years. But that's a small price to pay when you're looking at data acquisition of such massive proportions, and the personnel to best use that data to further their agenda. Cruz benefits, as he gets one of the two jobs he wants (president), while still leaving the door open for the other (SCOTUS Justice). Mercer benefits, as he is deep in the mix of American politics, and can move forward with whatever his own agenda is–something nobody really knows as he is so reclusive, but probably isn't a good one, as he is a pure technocrat.
Cambridge Analytica and their parent company SCL Group benefit, as they have the power of the government behind them, a guaranteed source of major income, and can flex their muscles and refine their political candidate electing tools. Not to mention the fact that our government is in a way addicted to "nation building", so they'll have all kinds of interesting projects to occupy them between election cycles.
The losers are, of course, the American people as a group, and the Republic on the whole. But the kleptocrats and technocrats aren't really concerned about that. After all, people are a useful resource, but hardly a rare commodity. And in the scope of their plans, we the people are typically either collateral damage, or acceptable losses.
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MissV says:
Yesterday two of our friends stopped by the house. One came over just to sign our pc petitions, which by the way, now contain enough signatures plus one to qualify for the ballot! Yippee! He is a Trump supporter but said he would vote for Cruz. This from a man who prides himself on his knowledge of current events and politics. He is a truly smart and informed guy.
The other says he hates everybody but voted for Cruz because 'Trump is just in it for himself.' I'm scratching my head on that one because it doesn't take too much observation and honest discourse to see that that theory doesn't hold water. I have told him via a brief email exchange we had just before the PPE, that Cruz is a fraud and outlined in very basic terms why. He also buys into the 'if Trump doesn't get the nom than he'll run third party and we will get Hillary' meme. He will never vote for Trump.
It is clear these two are woefully uninformed vis a vis the 2016 presidential race. I don't know where Mr. 'Trump-for-Himself' gets his news; the other watches Fox and when I told him I'm not on Fox anymore he looked puzzled and asked me where then do I get my news – I said the Internet and he just shook his head.
So, both of these men are honest and upstanding human beings of the highest caliber. They would never tolerate a candidate who conducts himself the way Cruz does. So they are buying the bullshit. And what a house of Cards it is! I listened to the Hannity/Cruz radio interview yesterday cringing and outraged through the entire 14 minutes. It was breathtaking in its dishonesty, shrillness, and just plain deluded spewing. Ted Cruz seems to be losing it.
After last night, for sure he's lost it. TRUMP 2016!!!!
chrystalia99 says:
It amazes me how many otherwise intelligent people are still duped by Cruz. When he was sitting there defending his voterless victories, I was SMH. I sent that clip to quite a few Cruz people I know–and they're still defending him.
They really worry me, sometimes. Yesterday was amazing 🙂 🙂 :-). But still these people think Cruz is viable? And they'd *vote for him*????
Apparently they think a person can just toddle off and run 3rd party or independent at the drop of a hat, as well. Talk about clueless….
Notsothoreau says:
nice! One of the puzzling things about Cruz support is the number of atheist/agnostics that are supporting him. They would never support Huckabee or Santorum. It's clear that they don't really believe he's all that Christian. I've pointed out to them that some of the videos on Cruz and his father would sink him in a general election. That never seems to bother them.
I find it puzzling as well, but most I have spoken to say they support his "Constitutional Conservative" BS, and are overlooking the religious aspect.
The MSM is making a very concerted effort to keep Cruz's unsavory endorsements under a media blackout, and doing the same with his father's religious associations–much as they did obama's, for as long as they could.
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HM Revenue & Customs CIO, Phil Pavitt, has announced that he will be stepping down from his role to take up a position in the private sector with insurer Aviva.
Pavitt joined HMRC in 2009 after a two year stint as CIO at Transport for London, and has been responsible for overseeing a complete transformation of the department's IT estate. During this period HMRC has halved its annual IT costs to £700 million.
Deputy-CIO, Mark Hall, has taken over Pavitt's role. However, Pavitt will remain with the department until January.
An HMRC spokesman said: ""Having completed a number of major transformations at HMRC, Phil indicated that he wished to return to his private sector career. We would like to thank Phil for his work at HMRC."
Pavitt will become Aviva's global director of IT transformation in the New Year and will be leading the execution of their IT strategy, which includes simplifying their IT services and digitising the whole of their business.