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did the Republicans steal the election? Greg Palast and Mark Crispin Miller present proof they did…
Donald Trump warned the world of election fraud throughout his campaign. Here's what he said during an interview on Fox News on the actual day of the election:
"It's largely a rigged system. And you see it at the polling booths, too… There are reports that when people vote for Republicans the entire ticket switches over to Democrats. You've seen that. It's happening at various places today. It's been reported. In other words, the machines, you put down a Republican and it registers as a Democrat. They've had a lot of complaints about that today."
Trump just said on Fox he's heard reports of voter fraud: "It's happening at various places…It's been reported." pic.twitter.com/ziSchJ2fZH
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 8, 2016
And here's what tweeted:
Just out according to @CNN: "Utah officials report voting machine problems across entire country"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2016
In fairness, he had well-founded reasons to say so. US presidential elections have been rigged on at least two recent occasions: Bush's 'hanging chads' victory against Gore in 2000 was demonstrably stolen and his win over Kerry in 2004 was likewise manipulated. The proof of voter suppression and other forms of rigging on these occasions was uncovered by investigative journalist Greg Palast who even ran his reports on BBC Newsnight. One technique Palast failed to mention, however, concerns methods of hacking or otherwise tampering with voting machines, but others better qualified looked into this too and likewise raised the alarm. Gore Vidal was one of the most vocal of mainstream voices calling for investigations in the wake of both election results. All of this is covered in an earlier post.
But Trump is Trump. The insinuations of a loudmouthed pantomime villain who spews vitriolic hatred, spouts arrant nonsense and dabbles in "conspiracy theory" were easily dismissed by a hostile media. Eager to cover up deficiencies, flaws, and criminal fraudulence inherent in contemporary American electoral procedures and processes, rather than investigate his claims, Trump was simply laughed off. But what if, just perhaps, like the proverbial stopped clock, Trump was telling the truth for a change? Or telling half of the truth…? To paraphrase Hamlet, the Donald doth protest too much, methinks…
Exit polls are the standard by which the US State Department measures the honesty of foreign elections. Exit polling is, historically, deadly accurate. The bane of pre-election polling is that pollsters must adjust for the likelihood of a person voting. Exit polls solve the problem.
But three times in US history, pollsters have had to publicly flagellate themselves for their "errors." In 2000, exit polls gave Al Gore the win in Florida; in 2004, exit polls gave Kerry the win in Ohio, and now, in swing states, exit polls gave the presidency to Hillary Clinton.
writes Greg Palast in his latest article which is entitled "The Election was Stolen – Here's How…" He continues:
So how could these multi-million-dollar Ph.d-directed statisticians with decades of experience get exit polls so wrong?
Answer: they didn't. The polls in Florida in 2000 were accurate. That's because exit pollsters can only ask, "How did you vote?" What they don't ask, and can't, is, "Was your vote counted."
In 2000, in Florida, GOP Secretary of State Katherine Harris officially rejected 181,173 ballots, as "spoiled" because their chads were hung and other nonsense excuses. Those ballots overwhelmingly were marked for Al Gore. The exit polls included those 181,173 people who thought they had voted – but their vote didn't count. In other words, the exit polls accurately reflected whom the voters chose, not what Katherine Harris chose.
In 2004, a similar number of votes were invalidated (including an enormous pile of "provisional" ballots) by Ohio's GOP Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell. Again, the polls reflected that Kerry was the choice of 51% of the voters. But the exit polls were "wrong" because they didn't reflect the ballots invalidated by Blackwell.
Notably, two weeks after the 2004 US election, the US State Department refused the recognize the Ukraine election results because the official polls contradicted the exit polls.
And here we go again. 2016: Hillary wins among those queried as they exit the polling station—yet Trump is declared winner in GOP-controlled swings states. And, once again, the expert pollsters are forced to apologize—when they should be screaming, "Fraud! Here's the evidence the vote was fixed!"
Click here to read Palast's full article.
The nightly anti-Trump vigil beneath Trump Tower is valiant but futile. Likewise, the alienated thousands across America with placards reading "love trumps hate" and "not my president" or else venting spleen in more riotous fashion represent no serious challenge or threat without a cause greater than such a loosely configured fear and loathing of Trump to rally around — as understandable and justifiable as that fear and loathing is. On the other hand, proof of election fraud would serve not only to validate the widespread sense of grievance, but might also be used to focus it.
So once the dust as settled, there has to be a change of political strategy. In the meantime consider the thoughtful analysis of Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media, Culture and Communications at New York, author of "Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform" and "Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy." His latest article is "An open plea to Michael Moore (and all our other lefty stars): Dude, where are our votes? WAKE UP!"
There is also Greg Palast's newly released documentary, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and this companion piece. For the evidence is beginning to stack up and it appears to validate their contention that Trump is not by rights President-Elect of the United States, as indeed, by similar account, Clinton, whose DNC team quite overtly stole the nomination from Sanders, was never by rights the Democrat candidate. Both elections were a travesty. In all likelihood, both were a crime too.
As a taster, I recommend the latest episode of comedian Lee Camp's Redacted Tonight, which features interviews with Greg Palast and Mark Crispin Miller and is embedded below:
On November 30th Democracy Now! spoke with leading cybersecurity and privacy researcher Bruce Schneier on evidence of hacking of the voting machines and of voter suppression. Schneier says voter suppression "has probably caused a lot more discrepancy in the vote versus the will of the people than machines, even though machines can be a disaster":
[But] something else is brought up in this that's real important, that we can't lose sight of, I think, the real issue here, which is not the hacking in those three states [Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan], but the voter suppression everywhere. And whether it is voter ID requirements or closing polling places in poor neighborhoods or reducing early voting or purging voter rolls, there's a concerted effort in the United States to deny people the right to vote. I think that's the real issue.
Click here to read the full transcript and to watch the interview on the Democracy Now! website.
Here are Palast's BBC Newsnight reports on the US election in 2000:
And on the US election in 2004:
Filed under election fraud, Greg Palast, USA
Tagged as Bruce Schneier, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Mark Crispin Miller, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
Bernie and Jez: the ongoing tale of two political coups
mudslinging by the DNC and the PLP
Wondering if there's a good Bernie narrative for a story, which is that Bernie never ever had his act together, that his campaign was a mess.
wrote Democratic National Committee (DNC) Press Secretary Mark Paustenbach in an email dated May 21st which concludes:
It's not a DNC conspiracy, it's because they never had their act together.
Much the same is said by those in the ranks of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) who likewise complain that (to paraphrase) "Jez never ever had his act together… [and] his campaign was a mess". Yet in both cases, such criticism is wholly discredited by the phenomenal and growing strength of popular support.
Here, for example, are the crowds that greeted Corbyn in Liverpool on Monday night [August 1st]:
In fact, what really irked the DNC about the Sanders campaign is precisely what most bothers the Blairites about Corbyn. That such a groundswell of true grassroots support for a progressive challenger seriously threatens the "centrist" political realignment they took such tremendous pains to bring about. Concerns not that Sanders or Corbyn might fail – Bernie is more electable by far than either Clinton or Trump, and the same goes for the comparative electability of any leadership rivals to Corbyn – but that both are fully capable of triumphing against all the odds.
Blasts against Corbyn both from inside and outside the party have been coming day after day ever since his astonishing victory in last year's leadership election. Attacks against Sanders were slower in the offing, but they gathered in ferocity as soon as he began to look like a serious contender. Moreover, as we now know is the case with Sanders, the PLP campaign to undo Corbyn was likewise fully orchestrated, albeit less competently.
The post-Brexit 'vote of no confidence' was too obvious a charade to hide the subterfuge of plotters who in any case gave the game away thanks to an article published by The Telegraph on June 13th (more than a week prior to the EU referendum). So yes (to the few doubters who remain) this really was a coup – read their lips:
Labour rebels believe they can topple Jeremy Corbyn after the EU referendum in a 24-hour blitz by jumping on a media storm of his own making.
Moderate MPs who believe Mr Corbyn can never win back power think his failure to close down public rows which flare up and dominate the news channels leaves him vulnerable.
By fanning the flames with front bench resignations and public criticism they think the signatures needed to trigger a leadership race can be gathered within a day.
The same piece continues:
There is no single plan for getting rid of Mr Corbyn and moderates are split on whether to launch a coup or bide their time until the party membership changes its mind.
While losing the EU referendum is seen as fatal by many to Mr Corbyn's leadership, continued speculation remains about a challenge if the referendum brings an In vote.
Rather than naming a date to make their move – as some had done with May's local elections – some rebels now believe taking advantage of an opportune row holds the beast [sic] chance of success.
"It is not going to be a date in the calendar, it will be on the back of a media firestorm. It could happen within 24 hours," said one Labour MP.
Asked how the coup could take place, another said: "Things go wrong, people have had enough, you start to see resignations and it spirals from there." 1
Meanwhile, other dirty tricks shared by conspirators on both sides of the Pond have included spurious accusations of anti-Semitism with mention of 'blood libel' 2 – in Sanders case, of course, that makes him "a self-hating Jew". 3 While another frequently repeated claim is one of physical threats and violence being perpetrated by supporters. In the case of Sanders, intimidation of this kind supposedly took place during the Democratic state convention in Nevada, but here is video (one of many similar uploads on the web) that shows what really took place:
As Craig Murray writes:
The Labour Party constituency meeting at Brighton gives us a precise analogy to the Nevada Democrats meeting. Again claims were made of violent intimidation, swearing and spitting. Again, in this age where everybody has a video camera in their pocket, there is absolutely zero objective evidence of this behaviour and a great deal of evidence to the contrary. It appears the real sin of the Brighton Labour Party members was to elect pro-Corbyn officers. That election has now been annulled. The National Executive Committee of the Labour Party is playing precisely the role against Corbyn that the NDC played against Sanders.
Murray concludes his piece:
The Establishment will always attempt to characterise any root challenge to its hegemony and ideology as violent, atavistic and subscribing to appalling beliefs and behaviour. The theme of challengers as "Barbarians" runs through history. We will have to put up with it for some time. The good news is, they are seriously rattled.
Click here to read more from Craig Murray's piece "Barbarians at the Gates" [published July 26th] in which he also closely dissects many of the other alleged cases of intimidation including the "brick through Angela Eagle's window" incident. Here is a short youtube clip also looking into the same incident:
Incidentally, the website The Canary has pointed to the role played by PR firm Portland Communications in the on-going propaganda offensive against Corbyn. Embedded below is the video showing how staff at the company reacted when a journalist asked them to respond to the allegation:
Were it not for the insatiable appetite our media has for tittle-tattle and fact-free insinuations, the various non-stories promulgated about Sanders, Corbyn and their supporters would never get reported on, let alone reach the headlines. The same media that has an attention span so restricted that within a day of the wikileaks release of emails — over which DNC Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign her position — the main story was already sidelined in favour of new Cold War intrigue. Unsubstantiated claims that Putin and a dastardly team of Russian hackers were behind the leak. This dubious meta-story had replaced the facts.
Yet, even the recent release of the internal emails, although significant, was to some extent a distraction; diverting the public gaze away from the true 'smoking gun' evidence of DNC cheating. In fact, from the very beginning, the important story was always the one about Hillary (allegedly) stealing the votes in state after state. The mounting evidence that Bernie lost the nomination by virtue of a whole sequence of fraudulent ballots…
just another US election scandal (redux)
"The difference between the reported totals, and our best estimate of the actual vote, varies considerably from state to state. However these differences are significant—sometimes more than 10%—and could change the outcome of the election."
— Fritz Scheuren, Professor of Statistics at George Washington University, President of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
"Based on this work, Election Justice USA has established an upper estimate of 184 pledged delegates lost by Senator Bernie Sanders as a consequence of specific irregularities and instances of fraud. Adding these delegates to Senator Sanders' pledged delegate total and subtracting the same number from Hillary Clinton's total would more than erase the 359 pledged delegate gap between the two candidates. EJUSA established the upper estimate through exit polling data, statistical analysis by precinct size, and attention to the details of Democratic proportional awarding of national delegates. Even small changes in vote shares in critical states like Massachusetts and New York could have substantially changed the media narrative surrounding the primaries in ways that would likely have had far reaching consequences for Senator Sanders' campaign."
This is the conclusion of a 96-page report entitled "Democracy Lost: A Report on the Fatally Flawed 2016 Democratic Primaries" published by Election Justice USA. (Note that I have reprinted part of the report as an addendum below.)
Sadly, there is nothing new when it comes to modern-day US electoral fraud. Not since the fateful election in 2000, when Florida's Governor Jeb Bush promised state victory for his brother George that was eventually sealed by a mere 537 votes. The fiasco of the so-called "hanging chads" became the most memorable of the technical failures, but was in fact just one of multiple irregularities uncovered in Florida alone, as investigative journalist Greg Palast reported on BBC's Newsnight:
There was also very well-established though far less widely reported evidence of fraud during the re-election of Bush at the 2004 election. This is Greg Palast's Newsnight follow-up report four years later:
In 2004, however, the most serious discrepancies were discovered not in Florida but in another swing state, Ohio. Gore Vidal was perhaps most prominent amongst the few who spoke out loudly at the time:
Then, on the eve of the 2008 election, Democracy Now! interviewed Democrat Secretary of State of Ohio, Jennifer Brunner, to ask what had gone wrong during the previous election, and what safeguards were now in place (the full interview is in two parts: to hear Brunner's review of the previous election failures skip to 3:00 minutes in part one):
During the 2008 Primaries, CNN also ran a report that revealed how comparatively easy it was to hack the Diebold electronic voting machines:
And there were further allegations of irregularities that arose during the 2008 election in Ohio:
Or click here to read the earlier article which focuses on a less well-remembered Supreme Court election scandal in Wisconsin back in April 2011.
Which brings me to Elliot Crown. Featured in the short video clip below, he was one of a small contingent of voters allowed to address the New York City Board of Elections (BOE) hearing in the aftermath of this year's Democratic presidential primary:
Crown's voice was representative of the many who felt similar outrage at what they saw as a rigged ballot:
Shouts of "You need to hear the people!" and "This is not Democracy!" and "Fraud!" filled the room.
As many as 126,000 voters may have been purged due to a clerk's error, the BOE has said.
Yet it is expected to certify the April 19 primary results Thursday. […]
Investigators said some 126,000 Brooklyn voters were removed from voter lists between November and April, or marked "inactive."
Yvonne Gougelet, a long time voting rights advocate from Long Island City, said she's never experienced disenfranchisement of this magnitude.
"I'm not just someone who's like, 'Oh, Bernie didn't win. I'm mad.' This is unconstitutional on a massive, grand scale," she said. 4
Election Justice USA and others subsequently filed lawsuits in five states where they uncovered evidence that Sanders had lost delegates as a consequence of specific irregularities and instances of fraud: Arizona, Illinois, Ohio, California and New York. (Details are available in their report on pages 13–17.)
"Voters are frustrated, angry, and feel helpless," Election Justice USA (EJUSA) spokeswoman Shyla Nelson said. "We have heard hundreds of stories, with desperate pleas for help. This election season has excited and galvanized the voting public in unprecedented numbers. For these voters to be systematically and erroneously removed from the rolls or prevented from voting in their party of choice is devastating to them personally and has sent a wave of doubt and worry through the voting public." 5
On April 18th, the eve of the New York primary, The Young Turks (TYT) Politics Reporter, Jordan Chariton, spoke with Shyla Nelson about a pending emergency lawsuit:
More recently, Chariton spoke with Nelson again at the Democratic National Convention during the "No Voice No Unity" protest and peaceful occupation of the media tent:
Though robbed of victory, Bernie Sanders has since capitulated and endorsed Hillary Clinton's nomination. He is refusing to run as a third party candidate and has so far turned his back on offers made by Jill Stein of the Green Party to keep the movement going with a united ticket. Some supporters are asking him to reconsider (read this open letter). Others regard his endorsement of Clinton as a final act of betrayal.
Jeremy Corbyn, by contrast, shows no signs of backing away from the fight in spite of the welter of harassment and abuse he has faced during his short tenure as party leader. Instead he is now turning the current leadership challenge to his own advantage, gathering support not only for his candidacy, but for the vision of a more just and caring society. Giving rousing speeches to huge crowds like this one in Hull at the weekend:
And in York last Friday [July 29th]:
But then, as Andrew Levine wrote in an article published by Counterpunch, last September:
[Therefore,] if, in his heart of hearts, Sanders actually were more like Corbyn and less like Clinton or Obama, he could easily get away with taking principled progressive positions on foreign and military matters. There are a lot of people out there who would have his back; and many more who would urge him on.
Sanders' progressivism is bifurcated: leftish, by American standards, on economic issues; dead center on foreign affairs. It is hard to take someone like that seriously, no matter how heartfelt his passion for diminishing inequality.
If nothing else, a more coherent political orientation would make his candidacy more credible, enhancing his ability to take neoliberal austerity on with more than just idle words. […]
But were Sanders' foreign and domestic politics more of a piece — were he more of a Corbyn and less of a Clinton — perhaps he really could get something like the political revolution he talks about going.
He couldn't lead it, no one could, but he could help catalyze it – by breaking free from the clutches of hapless Democratic Party poobahs, accepting leadership instead from the people they purport to represent.
Don't count on it, though; it's not his way. 6
Click here to read Andrew Levine's full article.
Addendum: a part of the EJUSA report (pages 9–12)
SUMMARY OF DIRECT EVIDENCE FOR ELECTION FRAUD, VOTER SUPPRESSION, AND OTHER IRREGULARITIES
Election Justice USA has collected evidence indicating that multiple instances of voter suppression and election fraud have occurred throughout the 2016 presidential primaries. Democratic and Republican candidates have been affected, but demographics favoring Senator Bernie Sanders (e.g., younger voters, independent/unaffiliated voters) have been most heavily affected. This evidence falls into four categories: 1) voter suppression; 2) voter registration tampering (switching of a voter's party affiliation without their knowledge or consent); 3) illegal voter registration purges; 4) evidence for erroneous or fraudulent voting machine counts. We have also discovered a number of credible reports of miscellaneous kinds of election fraud or potential election fraud that are particularly relevant to caucus states. We present a brief synopsis of our evidence from each category below.
A) Extensive reduction in number of polling places: Reduction in polling places (e.g., Arizona, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island) disproportionately affected Sanders' vote share. This is because Clinton had larger vote shares for early/absentee ballots, while Sanders fared best on election day.
B) Voter suppression by California elections officials targeting no-party-preference (NPP) voters: 1) Refusal to include NPP presidential voting options on regular ballots; 2) Refusal to mail presidential ballots to NPP vote-by-mail voters unless explicitly requested; 3) Refusal to provide mandatory notices to vote-by-mail NPP voters of their right to a Presidential Preference ballot; 4) Refusal to inform NPP voters at the polls of their right to a Presidential Preference ballot; 5) Refusal to provide adequate ballots and/or voter indexes, despite the State Law requirement of 75% voter roll coverage; 6) Refusal to clarify to voters that American Independent is a political party and does not signify "independent" (NPP) status. We filed a lawsuit in an attempt to address these issues, but relief was not granted.
Testimonies and statistics detailing voter suppression in California:
1) Testimony from CA voters who were given provisional ballots by pollworkers despite their names being on the Democratic voter rolls.
2) Testimony from CA Democratic voters who received the wrong ballot type in the mail.
3) Testimony/video evidence from CA Democratic voters who were given provisional ballots instead of being directed to a recently-changed polling location.
4) Testimony from poll inspectors about a shortage of ballots: in some cases, fewer than 39% of registered voters would have been covered by the number of ballots provided for Los Angeles
County precincts, despite a CA State Law requirement that 75% coverage be guaranteed. We also have testimony from voters who were forced to use provisional ballots due to ballot shortages.
5) Poll workers did not count or keep a roster of provisional ballots in CA, hence no chain of custody is possible.
REGISTRATION TAMPERING
Registration tampering involves changes made to party affiliation or registration status without a voter's knowledge or consent. These reports have been corroborated by hard evidence in the form of paper documents and screen-shots.
A) New York: We have received testimony and affidavits from over 700 New York Democratic voters. Of these respondents, over 300 registered during the current campaign cycle. Out of all respondents, around 300 had been switched to independent (no party affiliation) without their knowledge or consent and at least 80 had been switched to another party without their knowledge or consent. In some cases, these changes had been back-dated such that they were listed as made before the voter initially registered.
B) California: We have also received testimony and affidavits from over 700 California voters who experienced voting and registration problems. Of these respondents, 84 were switched to another party without their knowledge or consent. In some cases, these changes were back-dated such that they were listed as made before the voter initially registered.
C) Other states: We have received testimony and affidavits detailing registration tampering in many other states, including FL, KY, MD, NJ, NM, OH, OR, and PA.
D) These changes contributed to the unprecedented number of disqualified affidavit ballots seen in states like AZ, NY, and CA: 20,000 excluded provisional ballots in Phoenix, Arizona; 91,000 in New York; 360,000 and climbing in California.
ILLEGAL VOTER PURGING
A) New York City: Two Brooklyn Board of Elections top officials have been suspended without pay and without any public explanation, in response to reports of 121,000 wrongly purged voters.
We have received testimony and affidavits from over 600 New York Democratic voters, 401 of which registered as Democrats in 2012 or later and would thus not be subject to legal purging due to inactivity. Of these respondents, 303 registered during the current campaign cycle. Out of all respondents, 140 had been purged and 27 were not on their polling site's books despite valid, active Democratic registrations. The other respondents experienced registration tampering (see above) or other irregularities.
In a statistical model which controlled for neighborhood/location and precinct size, the percentage of purged voters was a significant predictor of Clinton's vote share, demonstrating that Senator Sanders was disproportionately affected by the purges.
B) California: We have received testimony and affidavit material from more than 700 CA voters who experienced problems voting, 78 of which had been purged or were not on the poll books of their polling place. These accounts are corroborated by hard evidence in the form of document scans.
C) These changes contributed to the unprecedented number of disqualified affidavit ballots seen in states like AZ, NY, and CA: 20,000 excluded provisional ballots in Phoenix, Arizona; 91,000 in New York; 360,000 and climbing in California.
EVIDENCE OF FRAUDULENT OR ERRONEOUS VOTING MACHINE TALLIES
A) Primary contest exit poll discrepancies that exceed the margin of error (in 11 of 11 such cases, the discrepancy favored Clinton). Media outlets have removed the unexpurgated poll numbers for 10 of these 11 cases. According to USAID, an organization that works to promote oversight of electoral processes, "exit polls are powerful analytical tools … A discrepancy between the votes reported by voters and official results may suggest that results have been manipulated, but it does not prove this to be the case." 7
B) A well-controlled California early voter exit poll (Capitol Weekly/Open CA) consisting of 21,000 data points matched early returns for down-ballot races, but was off by ~16% for Sanders v. Clinton, with the discrepancy in Clinton's favor. 8 According to the L.A. County elections chief, Dean Logan, early/mail-in votes are reported first, strongly suggesting a miscount of mail-in ballots.
C) Our analyses show that in at least seventeen states, precinct size is the most robust linear predictor of Sanders' vote share, even when controlling for neighborhood/location. In other words, even when controlling for geographical location within the state, a statistical model shows that the larger a precinct, the lower Sanders' vote share. This cannot be explained away as an artefact of smaller precincts being more rural or less ethnically diverse: these results are replicated for New York City when considering only the Bronx (~10% white), for instance. This pattern was consistent for all five boroughs, with the exception of Manhattan, in which Sanders' vote share did not decrease linearly with precinct size. This pattern showed up, almost exclusively, in a variety of highly racially polarized cities where exit polling missed, but was not present, with rare exception, in similar states and counties where exit polling was accurate.
D) Multiple studies, including one published recently by graduate students at Stanford University and the University of Tillburg, show that across all primary states Clinton performs best in counties with voting machines that don't leave a papertrail, and that this difference is statistically significant. 9
E) Chicago's Board of Elections has admitted to one of the authors of the report and to CounterPunch Magazine that citizens monitoring the audit were right about irregularities in the process and that audit "numbers didn't match" election day results. 10 The citizens' monitoring group has insisted in public, sworn testimony that numbers were adjusted to force a match. A lawsuit has just been filed to demand an accurate audit of early vote totals in Chicago. Our irregular precinct size pattern showed up weakly in Chicago (Cook County) early balloting and strongly for the overall vote in Suburban Cook County.
1) Iowa Caucus Irregularities: The Des Moines Register Editorial Board was so disgusted with the irregularities that they witnessed with their own eyes, and the Democratic establishment's refusal to respond to them transparently, that it penned an editorial 11 entitled: "Something Smells in the
Democratic Party." It notes that the whole process produced a "whiff of impropriety" and said that the Party response "reeks of autocracy."
2) Nevada Caucus Irregularities: In Nevada, Senator Harry Reid would not have been able to help control the processes of caucuses and conventions if he had publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton. Instead, Reid maintained neutrality while reportedly moving to convince Casino bosses to get their workers to the caucuses for Clinton, which they were not planning to do according to USA Today. 12 Troubling reports say Casino management selectively chose who could have time off to caucus then watched to see how their employees voted, turning an expected tight race in six Casino locations into a big win for Clinton.
3) The Democratic National Committee Worked Against Senator Sanders' Campaign, Colluded with Media Outlets to Smear Him: FiveThirtyEight's Harry Enten predicted 13 quite frankly in June 2015 that if Bernie Sanders did well in Iowa and New Hampshire, "you'd likely see the Democratic establishment rush in to try to squash Sanders, much as Republicans did to Newt Gingrich in 2012 after he won South Carolina." The use of superdelegates in the mainstream media played a large roll. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz baldly admitted 14, in response to Jake Tapper of CNN's question about a "rigged" process, that the superdelegate system is designed to keep party stalwarts from "running against grass roots activists" like Sanders. Enten's boss Nate Silver went so far as to write 15 that "Donald Trump Would Be Easy to Stop Under Democratic Rules," in part because superdelegates play a substantial role. Major media followed the Associated Press (AP) in consistently including superdelegates in their counts starting with Sanders' big win in New Hampshire, and metadata appears to show 16 that the AP colluded with the Clinton campaign to announce her as winner the day before last Tuesday's vote with nearly 700 pledged delegates at stake, largely based on polls of superdelegates, which do not vote until the Democratic National Convention.
The most damning evidence of top DNC officials working against the Sanders campaign came in the form of a leaked DNC email archive published by whistleblowing website WikiLeaks on July 22nd, 2016. In addition to depicting a general culture of contempt for the Sanders campaign, the emails show DNC officials colluding with journalists from corporate media outlets to marginalize, and in some cases, smear Sanders himself by planting stories.
ESTIMATE OF PLEDGED DELEGATES AFFECTED
Our Upper estimate of delegates affected, spelled out in more detail in section three of the report, is at least +184 for Sanders, at least -184 for Clinton for a 368 delegate switch in delegate margin. This or a similar margin would have been enough to secure the lead in pledged delegates for Senator Sanders.
From "Democracy Lost: A Report on the Fatally Flawed 2016 Democratic Primaries" published by Election Justice USA.
Click here to read the full 96 page report.
1 From an article entitled "Labour rebels hope to topple Jeremy Corbyn in 24-hour blitz after EU referendum" written by Ben Riley-Smith, published in The Telegraph on June 13, 2016. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/13/labour-rebels-hope-to-topple-jeremy-corbyn-in-24-hour-blitz-afte/
Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States and a member of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, angrily reacted to comments Sanders made about the 2014 Israeli war in the Gaza Strip. […]
"First of all, he should get his facts right. Secondly, he owes Israel an apology," Oren told the Times of Israel in an interview. He then dropped an incendiary charge against Sanders.
"He accused us of a blood libel. He accused us of bombing hospitals. He accused us of killing 10,000 Palestinian civilians. Don't you think that merits an apology?" Oren said.
As WorldViews has discussed in the past, the phrase "blood libel" is particularly loaded, with deep historic roots in the Jewish experience. It has its origins in the medieval era or perhaps even earlier, dating to a time when violence against Jewish communities was sometimes rationalized with myriad false rumors of Jews stealing Christian babies, eating a gentile's entrails and participating in various grisly, sordid blood rituals.
From an article entitled "Israeli politician accuses Bernie Sanders of 'blood libel'" written by Ishaan Tharoor, published in The Washington Post on April 7, 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/07/israeli-politician-accuses-bernie-sanders-of-blood-libel/
[comedian Jackie] Mason, who refers to himself as the "Ultimate Jew," called Sanders an "anti-Semite and a "viciously self-hating Jew."
Mason was speaking during his regular segment on "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio," the popular weekend talk radio program broadcast on New York's AM 970 The Answer and NewsTalk 990 AM in Philadelphia. Klein doubles as Breitbart's senior investigative reporter and Jerusalem bureau chief.
From an article entitled "Exclusive: Jackie Mason slams Sanders as 'self-hating Jew' over candidate's Israel criticism" published in Breitbart on April 30, 2016. http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/04/30/exclusive-jackie-mason-slams-sanders-anti-semite-candidates-israel-criticism/
4 From an article entitled "New Yorkers unleash rage over alleged primary voter fraud at Board of Elections hearing" written by Ryan Sit and Ginger Adams Otis, published in the New York Daily News on May 3, 2016. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/protesters-pan-alleged-ny-primary-fraud-board-elections-hq-article-1.2623513
5 From a press release entitled "Election Justice USA Files Emergency Lawsuit in NY" issued by Election Justice USA on April 18, 2016. https://www.facebook.com/ElectionJusticeUSA/posts/863949920398369:0
6 From an article entitled "The New Repression: If Only Sanders Were More of a Corbyn and Less of a Clinton" written by Andrew Levine, published in Counterpunch on September 25, 2015. http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/25/the-new-repression-if-only-sanders-were-more-of-a-corbyn-and-less-of-a-clinton/
7 https://yali.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/01/Assessing-and-Verifying-Election-Results-Summary- Document.pdf
8 http://capitolweekly.net/exit-poll-tight-race-absentee-voters-favor-hillary/
9 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6mLpCEIGEYGYl9RZWFRcmpsZk0/view?pref=2&pli=1
10 http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/13/chicago-election-official-admits-numbers-didnt-match-hillary-clinton-vs-bernie-sanders-election-fraud-allegations/
11 http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/editorials/caucus/2016/02/03/editorial-something- smells-democratic-party/79777580/
12 http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/02/20/hillary-clinton-wins-nevada-caucus-harry-reid-culinary-union-jon- ralston/80688750/
13 http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/what-to-make-of-the-bernie-sanders-surge/
https://youtu.be/w5llLIKM9Yc
15 http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trump-would-be-easy-to-stop-under-democratic-rules/
16 https://www.thenewsamerican.com/2016/06/did-clinton-know-about-ap-victory-story-in-advance/
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the corporate take-over of America — state by state
As the government at home begins exploiting our own budget deficit, using it as a pretext to raise taxes on lower and middle-income groups, whilst at the same time making drastic cuts to public services, still more stringent "austerity measures" are already underway across America. A few states, such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio, run by Republican governors Rick Snyder, Scott Walker and John Kasich respectively, are now using the financial crisis not merely to slash spending and raise taxes on the poor and middle classes, but also to abolish union rights and, with new laws in place, to supplant locally elected officials by bringing in appointed corporate "Emergency Financial Managers".
As The Michigan Messenger reported on 24th February:
"Reinventing Michigan could mean voiding labor contracts, removing elected officials from office, and even dissolving whole cities, according to legislation that is moving quickly through the legislature.
On Wednesday the state House approved a sweeping expansion of powers for the officials who will be appointed by the governor to take over towns and school districts that can't pay their bills.
Under current law the state can appoint Emergency Financial Managers to temporarily take over the finances of local governments that have become insolvent…
The new law, which was requested by the governor, redefines these officials as Emergency Managers and gives them the power to end existing contracts, take over pension plans, reorganize departments, enter into agreements to restructure debt and dissolve or consolidate fiscally troubled towns and schools. " 1
To read full article click here.
Then on 3rd March, The Michigan Messenger reported:
"Because the bill establishes no process for how appointees can carry out their new powers and specifically lays out that Emergency Managers need not consult with a community's elected representatives, some worry that corporate managers, appointed by the governor, could liquidate community assets to cover debt and leave towns no better off than they were. What values will guide these individuals or firms as they work to balance budgets? How will a manager decide whether to sell off an ice rink or a library?
The Treasury Dept. is in the process of training potential Emergency Managers, so the Messenger asked for some details of the training in hopes of better understanding the motivations and priorities of the folks who may soon take over our schools and towns.
It turns out the training itself was mostly outsourced to the law and accounting firms — Plante & Moran, Plunkett & Cooney, Miller Canfield, Foley & Lardner — already involved in emergency financial management of Michigan towns.
The training was not conducted by Treasury, spokesman Terry Stanton explained. 'It was administered by Dr. Eric Scorsone at Michigan State University, in conjunction with the MI chapter of the Turnaround Management Association, with support from the department.'"
Eric Scorsone, who coordinated the event, and also gave a presentation on the basic roles and responsibilities of an Emergency Financial Manager, is a former senior economist with the state Senate Fiscal Agency. As it happens, he is also working on a Mott and Ford Foundation-sponsored research project about chronic fiscal stress in shrinking cities.
With regards to such potentially extreme measures as dissolving a town, Scorsone said:
"It's unclear to me how that would actually work. How services will be provided. Unlike in a corporate liquidation, the citizens don't just go away…
In April or May we may get into questions like how does one dissolve a town." 2
Rachel Maddow explained on her MSNBC show, how Governor Rick Snyder's new regulations are stripping local communities of their union rights, and dismantling local democracy on the grounds of its inefficiency. She said "your elected local government can be dismissed at will" and replaced by an Emergency Manager who is empowered to "disincorporate or dissolve entire city governments":
"Republicans in Michigan want to be able to unilaterally abolish your town and disincorporate it – regardless of what you as a resident of that city think about it. You don't even have the right to express an opinion about it through your locally elected officials, who represent you, because the Republicans of Michigan say they reserve the right to dismiss your measly elected officials, and to do what they want instead, because they know best…
You still want your town to exist?" she asks, "[well] take it up with your board of directors of this corporation that will be overseeing your future now. Or rather, don't take it up with them – frankly they're not interested."
Meanwhile, Governor Scott Walker passed a bill to end the collective bargaining rights of public workers in Wisconsin. Here is Ed Schultz reporting for MSNBC on March 9th. He speaks to some of the fourteen Democrat senators who had fled from Wisconsin in a last ditch attempt to leave the Senate one vote short of the number needed to pass Walker's proposed budget: 3
Film-maker Michael Moore has also joined the protests in Wisconsin. He spoke with Rachel Maddow about Republican attempts to usurp democracy in Wisconsin, Michigan and elsewhere. He told her:
"This is a class war… and at some point people are just going to have to stand up and say, non-violently, this is enough — we're not taking it any more!"
Moore said that the protests and strikes were already beginning to change public opinion, claiming that "the American people have woken up":
And then there's the story in Ohio where Governor John Kasich is also undermining union rights. Ed Schultz spoke to State Senator Joe Schiavoni about protests taking place against the bill:
The fights in these three states are still very much on-going. Here are three of the headline stories from Democracy Now! for Monday 18thApril:
Report: Walker to Propose Emergency Management Bill
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is reportedly preparing a new effort to further weaken the public sector in his state. According to Forbes magazine, Walker's camp is drafting legislation that would allow for a takeover of local municipalities that fail a financial stress test. Walker could then appoint emergency managers empowered to cancel union contracts, dismiss elected officials and school board members, and take control of entire cities and towns. Walker would also have unchecked authority to cancel government services, including safety net assistance. A high-powered Wisconsin law firm is said to be drafting the plan. The plan would mirror a law enacted in Michigan last month.
Michigan Emergency Managers Target Elected Officials, Teachers
Last week in Michigan, an emergency financial manager appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder issued an order taking away all powers of elected officials in the town of Benton Harbor. Meanwhile, the financial manager for Detroit's public school system has sent layoff notices to all the city's teachers—more than 5,000 people.
Bid to Repeal Ohio Anti-Worker Law Approved
Organizers in Ohio have won approval to begin an effort to bring the state's new anti-labor law to a referendum. The Republican-backed measure bars strikes and limits collective bargaining for more than 350,000 public sector workers. The group "We Are Ohio" has been certified to begin collecting the 231,000 signatures needed to put repeal of the law on the November ballot.
And yesterday's Democracy Now! headlines included this:
Michigan City Takeover Plan Criticized as Attack on Democracy
Residents of Benton Harbor, Michigan, voiced outrage Monday night after the city's elected mayor and city commissioners were stripped of all power by an unelected emergency financial manager appointed by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder. Last week, the emergency manager issued an order saying the city commissioners have no power beyond calling meetings to order, approving minutes and adjourning meetings. City Commissioner Dennis Knowles compared Benton Harbor to a dictatorship. He said, "For the people we represent, they are truly being disenfranchised." Meanwhile, Rev. Jesse Jackson toured Michigan on Monday to help build a coalition against Gov. Snyder. Jackson said, "We don't like one-man rule, except in Benton Harbor. We are setting up here what we are fighting there. Your vote for elected officials doesn't count, and that is decimating democracy."
So the big question is really this: if the protests fail in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio, then what will prevent the rest of America also falling into a corporate dictatorship?
1 From article entitled "Constitutionality of emergency manager powers questioned: Critics say new law gives dictatorial powers to appointees" by Eartha Jane Melzer, published in The Michigan Messenger, February 24th.
2 From article entitled "Bill offers few guidelines for use of emergency managers' powers" by Eartha Jane Melzer, published in The Michigan Messenger, March 3rd.
3 For a report on the "Wisconsin 14" published in The Washington Post click here.
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just another US election scandal
It all started with the notorious "hanging chad" fiasco of Florida that saw Bush beat off Al Gore's presidential challenge in 2000. Here is Greg Palast investigating for BBC Newsnight:
Then there were the serious accusations of election fraud during the Bush versus Kerry race of 2004. Here is Palast again reporting for BBC Newsnight, this time on how changes made to the electoral system in Florida would potentially exclude African-American voters for a second time:
And the problems didn't stop at Florida. In the state of Ohio, the election was also riddled with problems, ranging from breakdowns in electronic voting machines to further accusations of voter disenfranchisement.
On the eve of the 2008 election, Democracy Now! interviewed Democrat Secretary of State of Ohio, Jennifer Brunner, to ask what had gone wrong during the previous election, and what safeguards were now in place (the full interview is in two parts: to hear Brunner's review of the previous election failures skip to 3:00 minutes in part one):
Then, during the 2008 election there were continuing allegations of irregularities in the state of Ohio. A month after Election Day, filmmaker Sanford Lewis produced a video report profiling the problems that numerous Cleveland area voters had casting their ballot:
Serious criticisms have also been made regarding the lack of adequate security built into the electronic voting system. For instance, CNN has reported on how the Diebold voting machines might be quickly and easily rigged simply by uploading of a software virus:
And we are now in the midst of yet another US election scandal, this time for the Supreme Court election in Wisconsin. The problem on this occasion apparently being due to wrongly input data.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that:
"Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said [on] Thursday that she failed to save on her computer and then report 14,315 votes in the city of Brookfield, omitting them entirely in an unofficial total she released after Tuesday's election."
"The Brookfield bombshell was the biggest – but hardly the only – change as counties across the state checked their election results Tuesday. Here's a sample:
• In Winnebago County, officials now say Prosser received 20,701 votes to Kloppenburg's 18,887. On Wednesday, The Associated Press – which gathers the votes for most of the media in Wisconsin – had 19,991 for Prosser to Kloppenburg's 18,421.
• In Kenosha, Prosser picked up 33 votes in the Town of Randall and 27 votes in the Town of Bristol, and the canvass is still going on.
• In Waukesha County, Prosser also picked up 200 votes in New Berlin after a clerical error was discovered.
• In Grant County, Prosser lost 116 votes when officials completed their canvass Thursday. The count was off in part because the Town of Smelser incorrectly reported the count for paper ballots that voters cast after the regular ballots ran out, County Clerk Linda Gebhardt said. The town reported 294 votes for Prosser, but later corrected the figure to 194."1
Here is Kathy Nickolaus, two days after the election was held, explaining how "human error", including "a typing error", along with missing votes on her personal computer, had swung the originally tight election by an additional margin of 7000 votes in favour of David Prosser:
To add the controversy, Nickolaus has previously worked for a Republican (Grand Old Party or GOP) caucus that was under the control of Justice David Prosser. The report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel explaining that:
"Nickolaus has had a long career in Republican politics.
In the 1990s, she worked as a staffer for the Assembly Republican caucus, one of four GOP and Democratic legislative groups that were shut down following a criminal investigation into state staffers doing campaign work on state time.
Prosser led Assembly Republicans as minority leader in that House from 1989 to 1994 and then as speaker in 1995 and 1996, giving him oversight of the GOP caucus in that House.
"To my knowledge (Prosser) has not had any contact with Kathy since she left the caucus," Prosser campaign manager Brian Nemoir said.
The caucus investigation eventually led to the resignations and criminal convictions of leaders in the Senate and Assembly for directing caucus and staff employees to engage in illegal political activity during their state employment.
Nickolaus, who earned $54,000 a year as a data analyst and computer specialist for Assembly Republicans, was granted immunity in 2001 by authorities conducting the investigation.
In a criminal complaint issued in 2002 against then-Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen and others, prosecutors claimed Nickolaus developed a computer software program that was used by state officials to track donations. According to a Journal Sentinel report, Nickolaus said she developed the software on her own time because she wanted to sell it to the state elections agency for use in automating state-required campaign reports. She left the caucus around that time."
1 "Corrected Brookfield tally puts Prosser ahead after 7,500-vote gain" by Jason Stein, Laurel Walker & Bill Glauber, published in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Thursday 7th April. To read full article click here.
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In Chapter 13, the narrator begins treating Aurora's so-called "Moor paintings," for which he served as model, concentrating on the 'early' period, between his birth in 1957 and the year of Ina's death in 1977. (The 'great' or 'high' paintings, her most profound and lasting body of work, would be executed between 1977 and 1981; and the 'dark Moors' only after the narrator's departure from Elephanta, culminating in her unfinished, unsigned masterpiece, The Moor's Last Sigh.
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Foreign investors could leave Vietnam for other markets when the country no longer has a competitive advantage.
Delegates of the legislative National Assembly (NA) have waken up to the danger of being addicted to foreign investment and resultant loss of self-reliance.
According to international norms, FDI should account for only 5 percent of gross capital formation, but in Vietnam, it now makes up 25 percent, which may pose risks to the economy.
Economic development cannot rely on foreign firms, only local ones, they said at an ongoing session of the NA. Foreign investors could leave Vietnam for other markets when the country no longer has a competitive advantage.
"The country's economy now depends so heavily on foreign companies, so what will happen if one day they leave us?" legislator Truong Trong Nghia said.
He added that Vietnam offers many land and tax incentives to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), but the sector's contribution to the economy is still limited.
Foreign sector now accounts for more than 70 percent of total export revenue, but its contribution to the state coffers is only around 15 percent.
He suggested that it is now time to review existing policies, slash overly generous incentives for foreign investors.
Lawmaker Hoang Quang Ham shared Nghia's points.
Ham said foreign investors have done very little technology transfer to benefit Vietnam. "Technology transfer between foreign investors and local firms have not met our expectation."
NA delegates said Vietnam should carefully select FDI projects to ensure they benefit the country. Legislator Tran Hoang Ngan said: "The government should establish strict criteria to attract FDI, with a focus on environment protection, and choose foreign investors that do not have bad reputation."
Vietnam attracted $8.06 billion of FDI in the first four months of this year, down 23.9 percent against the same period of 2017.
The country's FDI reached an estimated $17 billion last year, the highest annual amount ever recorded by the country, according to official figures.
South Korea is currently the biggest foreign investor in Vietnam with $2.32 billion, accounting for 28.7 percent of the total sum, followed by Japan with $1.29 billion, and Singapore with $808 million.


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Марья Млынкова, урождённая — Брезанец (, 1 февраля 1934 года, деревня Томмендорф, Германия — 27 февраля 1971 года, Будишин, ГДР) — лужицкая писательница, литературный критик и литературный историк. Писала на верхнелужицком языке.

Биография
Родилась 1 февраля 1934 года в лужицкой деревне Томмендорф (сегодня — Томислав Нижнесилезского воеводства, Польша). С 1947 года по 1949 год обучалась в гимназии в Варнсдорфе. С 1949 года по 1952 год обучалась в Сербской высшей школе в Будишине. С 1952 года по 1955 год изучала германистику и педагогику в университете имени Карла Маркса в Лейпциге. С 1955 года по 1960 год работала редактором в издательстве «Volk und Wissen» и редакции газеты «Nowa Doba», потом — лектором по литературе в издательстве «Домовина». С 1960 года была свободной писательницей и литературным критиком.

В 1957 году вышла замуж за серболужицкого поэта и культурного деятеля Юрия Млынка. У них родилась дочь Мерка Метова.

Скончалась 27 февраля 1971 года в Будишине. Похоронен на кладбище святого Николая в Будишине.

Сочинения
 Starosće w dźewjatce. Budyšin: LND, 1964
 Kostrjanc a čerwjeny mak. Powědančka. Budyšin: LND, 1965
 Dny w dalinje. Budyšin: LND, 1967
 Посмертные издания
 Z wótrym wóčkom. Wuběrk literarno-kritiskich dźěłow. Budyšin: LND, 1973
 Dundak Matej, a druhe powědančka za dźěći. Budyšin: LND, 1975
 Za płotom. Krótko-powědančka. Budyšin: LND, 1977
 Zhromadźene spisy. Zwjazk 1. Powědančka a drobna proza. Budyšin: LND, 1994
 Zhromadźene spisy. Zwjazk 2. Dny w dalinje. Budyšin: LND, 1994

Литература
 Гугнин А. А., Введение в историю серболужицкой словесности и литературы от истоков до наших дней, Российская академия наук, Институт славяноведения и балканистики, научный центр славяно-германских отношений, М., 1997, стр. 169, 175, 186—187, ISBN 5-7576-0063-2
 Nowy biografiski słownik k stawiznam a kulturje Serbow, wud. wot: Jan Šołta, Pětr Kunze a Franc Šěn, Budyšin: Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, 1984
 R. Wěrikowa, Specifika prozy Marje Młynkoweje — Rozhlad 19 (1969), 2, str. 56-64;
 P. Völkel, Nekrolog — Rozhlad 21 (1971), 4, str. 158—160; F. Šěn, Swojorazna serbska spisowaćelka — Rozhlad 26 (1976), 2, str. 55-58;
 Žur, Komuž muza pjero wodźi, str. 210—217

Ссылки
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Q: Parsing the XML file has got error Does anyone help find the problem why no xml file is not parsing with the following code.... the xml format can be seen here.
I tried to test line by line using log.i("your string goes here", xml); function but unable to see the execution of code when loop starts....
I have used to Splash activity in which AsyncTask() function is executed in the background and then ListActivity is used to display all the DOMParser activity output....
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The featured magician in March is Alain Iannone from Europe. In addition to the six-page spread of facts and photo, Alain brings us a special ONE-MAN PARADE, featuring seven of his special effects.
Editor Sammy Smith kicks off the March issue by telling us about the power of books and reading. And President Oscar Munoz turns his column over to his wife, Melody, who tells us how she has survived being a magician's widow.
"The Rosenkranz Mysteries," is about a new magic production at the Royal George Theater in Chicago, a one-man show by Dr. Ricardo Rosenkranz. Author Simone Marron leads us through the development of the three-month production, gives us a review of it, and makes us want to experience the show when and if it is ever revived. Dr. Reza Saberi gives us a history lesson in his article, "The oldest magic book in the world." Prepare to be surprised.
In "Dinner with Houdini," Bertil Fredstrom reports how the University of Texas at Austin, commemorated the ninetieth anniversary of the death of Harry Houdini by holding a series of events in his honor over five weeks, beginning last October 1. One of the events was a cooking class featuring some of Houdini's favorite dishes. Bertil describes the class, and includes the recipe of his favorite, Hungarian Goulash.
RING EVENTS this month come from Ring 55 (Phoenix, Arizona), Ring 185 (Honolulu, Hawaii), Ring 211 (Grand Rapids, Michigan), and Ring 258 (Leesburg, Florida). There are nine new magic books, tricks and DVDs reviewed in this month's Hocus in Focus section. And there are eighteen obituaries in the Broken Wand. Annually The Linking Ring publishes a complete Index of everything which appeared in it during the previous year. This issue, seventeen pages are devoted to this index of 2016. There are fifty-eight RING REPORTS this month.
COLUMNS in The Linking Ring continue to bring us works of interest and inspiration. Kent Cummins tells us about "The Magic of Testimonials," in his MARKETING MAGIC. POLISHING THE RINGS is about "Hitting the Streets," from Skip Way. Bev Bergeron brings us "AIDA -- The Magic Word" in his CUTTING UP JACKPOTS.
One of the most popular aspects of The Linking Ring is all the advertising from sponsors. We list them here both to THANK them for their continued support, but also to emphasize their importance in the world of magic. Please go to their Websites and take a look around. And THANK them for helping make The Linking Ring available. Here are this month's ads, in order of appearance.
The Magic Bakery: Steve Dobson's "More Works" DVD.
www.abbottmagic.com, 80th Get Together, August 2-5.


Which trans oil would be best?
Of course G052-162-A2 is the correct fluid as required by the OEM, and for best results you should use that. You can get an equivalent Pentosin or FEBI/Bilstein brand (usually mail order) but it's expensive also and after paying for shipping it may be best just to buy at your local dealer. Use any other fluid at your own risk.
But, I run Mobile 1 Multi-Vehicle in my own car. And I have several customers that have used Peak Multi-Vehicle in their car, and they report good success. One of the oil companies sells a "global" fluid that lists g052162a2 in its spec sheet. We've been offering that, as a cheaper option, and it's been working perfectly. A customer pointed out that O'reilly auto parts had a "global" fluid that had the g052162a12 number right on the label. We've used that also very successfully. Also some folks on the internet have reported good success with Valvoline Max Life Multi-Vehicle fluid. All these are RED fluids. There is no problem with running any of these red fluids in your 01m.


Just because after Requiem for a Dream and The Wrestler, director Darran Aronofsky made an incredible psychological thriller; Black Swan.
Black Swan tells us the story of New York ballet dancer Nina (Natalie Portman) and the big competition in the scene. Already named to be one of the Oscar winners.
Go see the it at the Cineville Talkshow 25 januari 2011 @De Balie.
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#ifndef CORE_SEARCH_MANAGER_FILTER_CACHE_H
#define CORE_SEARCH_MANAGER_FILTER_CACHE_H
/**
 * @file core/search-manager/FilterCache.h
 * @author Yingfeng
 * @date Created <2010-04-09 16:12:00>
 */

#include <query-manager/ActionItem.h>
#include <index-manager/InvertedIndexManager.h>
#include <cache/IzeneCache.h>

#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>

namespace sf1r
{
class FilterCache
{
public:
    typedef QueryFiltering::FilteringType key_type;
    typedef boost::shared_ptr<InvertedIndexManager::FilterBitmapT> value_type;

public:
    explicit FilterCache(unsigned cacheSize)
        : cache_(cacheSize)
    {}

    ~FilterCache()
    {
        clear();
    }

    bool get(const key_type& key, value_type& value)
    {
        return cache_.getValueNoInsert(key, value);
    }

    void set(const key_type& key, value_type value)
    {
        cache_.insertValue(key, value);
    }

    void clear()
    {
        cache_.clear();
    }

private:
    typedef izenelib::cache::IzeneCache<
        key_type,
        value_type,
        izenelib::util::ReadWriteLock,
        izenelib::cache::RDE_HASH,
        izenelib::cache::LRLFU
    > cache_type;

    cache_type cache_;
};

} // namespace sf1r

#endif // CORE_SEARCH_MANAGER_FILTER_CACHE_H

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Maestro Loris Tjeknavorian's 78th birthday celebrated at Tehran Museum
Armenian composer and conductor Loris Tjeknavorian blows out candles at his birthday celebration in Tehran (Source: Tehran Times)
TEHRAN (Tehran Times)—A number of artists, colleagues, and officials came together at the Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum on Sunday evening to celebrate the 78th birthday of Armenian composer and conductor Loris Tjeknavorian, Tehran Times reports.
Director of the Art and Cultural Organization of Tehran Municipality Mahmud Salahi praised Tjeknavorian for his lifetime of achievements.
"As far as I know, the indefatigable maestro still feels like a 30-year-old for broadening his experiences in music," Salahi said.
Photographer Fakhreddin Fakhreddini, famous for his black-and-white portrait photos of Iranian celebrities, also spoke at the celebration.
"Tjeknavorian's compositions can be considered as a fusion of music and paintings, since he is a notable painter as well," he said.
Tjeknavorian also spoke briefly, saying that he has always been interested in Iranian and Islamic culture, traditions and arts.
The musician, who is of Armenian descent, expressed pleasure over his Iranian nationality as he hoped for further peace and friendship for his countrymen.
Tjeknavorian said that he draws inspiration from people and added, "I have always been delighted to be living among the Iranian people."
The celebration ended with the presentation of a painting by Morteza Asadi and other awards to Tjeknavorian.
Tjeknavorian was born in 1937 in Borujerd in the southwestern Iranian province of Lorestan and was educated in Tehran.
After he studied violin and piano at the Tehran Conservatory of Music, he studied composition at the Vienna Music Academy, where he graduated with honors in 1961.
Tjeknavorian has performed throughout the world, having conducted international orchestras in Austria, Britain, the United States, Canada, Hungary, Iran, Finland, the former Soviet Union, Armenia, Thailand, Hong Kong, South Africa and Denmark.
His own compositions have been performed by major orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the American Symphony Orchestra in New York and the Tehran Symphony Orchestra.
One Comment;
GB - October 18, 2015 said:
Happy Birthday Loris. Many happy returns of the day!


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Frank Warren insists plan for Wilder and Fury rematch is still in place
Tyson Fury's co-promoter Frank Warren has said there is still a plan in place for the Brit to rematch with Deontay Wilder despite his new multi-fight deal with ESPN.
Fury signed a five-fight deal with the American broadcaster believed to be in the region of £80 million but Warren believes that his new arrangement, coupled with a new promotional deal with Bob Arum's Top Rank Promotions, will not be a stumbling block in any rematch with Wilder.
"At the moment, even up until last night in the early hours, I was talking with Shelley Finkel, who represents Deontay Wilder, and we're still trying to make the match," Warren told TalkSport.
"It just means that Tyson's position is much stronger now than it was before in the negotiations. That's where we're at and the bottom line is we're still negotiating and we're all looking forward to it and everyone wants the fight to take place including Wilder, Shelley Finkel, myself and Tyson."
Fury has also been long rumoured to fight British world champion Anthony Joshua but Warren claims that his fighter would need to be granted a 50/50 split for that fight to take place.
"It's harsh to say Fury's deal makes it impossible fight Joshua!"
"We wanted to make the fight but they've never contacted us."
"The Hearns can give the fight people want with a 50/50 split."@FrankWarren_TV says @Tyson_Fury isn't to blame if he never fights @AnthonyFJoshua. pic.twitter.com/BoJmPNduPy
— talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) February 19, 2019
"How can we? At the moment he's out in the States," added Warren.
"He didn't even fight Dillian Whyte. Dillian Whyte was supposed to fight him if you remember after beating Chisora. That's what their plan was and he wouldn't pay him what he wanted.
"We're not sitting around waiting for it to happen with them. They're out there and they've made the decision to go to the States to fight this Baby Miller guy [Jarrell Miller], who Tyson has actually sparred with and knocked down seven times.
"They're out there doing their part and we've got to do our thing. The world doesn't revolve around Anthony Joshua and at the end of the day Anthony Joshua and I hope Tyson Fury will happen because the fans want it to happen, we all want it to happen.
"I said a 50/50 deal and we'll do it and they've never, ever contacted us regarding that. I haven't heard a phone call or anything."
Tyson Fury,
Anthony Joshua,
Deontay Wilder,
Frank Warren,
Bob Arum.
"I don't think there's been a better Cork hurler than him, he's an artist"
Tyson Fury belts out Aerosmith and 'American Pie' after dominant TKO victory
"Anthony Joshua changed his stars through life" - Tyson Fury's classy response
James Dawson
Tyson Fury reveals when Deontay Wilder rematch is likely to happen
Reuben Pinder
Tyson Fury names condition for fighting Dillian Whyte
Darragh Murphy
Tyson Fury clarifies stance on retirement and addresses Dillian Whyte order
Eddie Hearn claims Tyson Fury didn't follow through on purse donation promise


Everyone on the birthday list does their best to show up on time and hide when you give them the signal. However, your son or daughter notices an unusually high number of cars parked on the street outside your house. It will be pretty hard to convince them that the cars must be there for another reason other than their birthday in the short amount of time it takes for you to cross the driveway and enter the house. A lot of cars parked outside is a dead giveaway. Ask people to carpool or park a few houses down to make sure that everything looks normal when the birthday boy or girl comes back home.
The problem with planning a birthday party on their actual birthday or the weekend closest to the day is that all your kid's friends will have to come up with some excuse as to why they're not available. Depending on how old your children are, they may not be the best at subterfuge. If your child starts to suspect something once they realize that not a single person is free the weekend of their big day, then the surprise is spoiled. If they don't suspect anything, their feelings might be hurt that no one can show up to their party.
Poor timing can be a dead giveaway. That's why it's so important that you make sure everyone knows when to show up, and if they're going to be late, to call before getting out of the car. Make the times obvious on the invitations and send a reminder the day before to ensure everyone knows what's expected of them. Nothing feels worse than spoiling the surprise at the very last second.
Things might get awkward when you pretend to forget their birthday because you planned their surprise party after the real date. If you want to make life really unsettling for your kid up until the date of their surprise party, by all means, pretend to forget the date of their birth. If there's no other date to host the big surprise until the weekend after, try to plan a small get-together with family on the day of. Otherwise, save the surprise for next year.
Decorating for a party is half the fun. That's why you may not be able to resist adding balloons, streamers, and games in the backyard. Make sure that you can't see anything from every angle of the street, including the driveway. Your child may start to suspect something when they see the peak of the inflatable Fortress you rented. Fortunately, you can set up your inflatable game in just 10 minutes, so there's no problem waiting until after your child comes back home to inflate it.
If you're trying too hard to surprise your kid, there may be a chance they suspect something already. The trick is to act naturally, especially during the days leading up to their party. For all your party fun and games, contact Amuz or check out our impressive catalogue of inflatable games.


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Well, very simply, one signed on and agreed to the pirate's code or Articles of Agreement. These codes varied, but covered things such as discipline, the division of stolen goods, compensation for injuries and the like.
Surprisingly, these codes are far from cruel and savage, as many pirates are portrayed, and provide a better insight into a pirate's life.
While pirates were notorious for their lawlessness and brutality, their Articles of Agreement set them apart from other naval and governmental institutions of the day because they incorporated principles of democracy.
To learn more about pirates, some excellent books to read would be any one of the follow: Pirates Latitude by Michael Crichton, On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers or Under the Black Ensign by L. Ron Hubbard.
Yo-Ho-Ho-Ho, a Pirate's Life for Me! What Did Pirates Eat?


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Q: filebeat tomcat module and collect webapps logs files I just installed filebeat on my remote server to collect logs by an app. Everything seems OK. The ELK stack retrieves the info and I can view it via Kibana.
Today, I want to collect the logs generated by 2 webapps hosted on the same tomcat server. I want to be able to add a field to allow me to create a filter on it on Kibana
I am using the tomcat.yml module which I want to rename as webapp1.yml and webapp2.yml.
In each of these files, I will add a field that corresponds to the name of my webapp
webapp1.yml
- module: tomcat
  log:
    enabled: true
    var.input: file
    var.paths:
       - c:\app\webapp1.log
    var.rsa_fields: true
    **var.rsa.misc.context: webapp1**

webapp2.yml
- module: tomcat
  log:
    enabled: true
    var.input: file
    var.paths:
       - c:\app\webapp2.log
    var.rsa_fields: true
    **var.rsa.misc.context: webapp2**

But, logstash index do not recognized this new field context
How can i solve this ?
Thanks for help me

A: So, i find the solution...
- module: tomcat
  log:
    enabled: true
    var.input: file
    var.paths:
       - c:\app\webapp1.log
    # Toggle output of non-ECS fields (default true).
    #var.rsa_fields: true
    input:
        processors:
            - add_fields:
                target: fields
                fields:
                    application-name: webapp1


I am preparing for the IStructE CM exam. Is there anyone online who would like to team up with me? We could check one another's answers, share resources, etc.
Let me know the procedure to get the UK Istruct E. Is it possible to attend the exam from India.
The Institution will make arrangements via the British High Commission.
I would like to know the procedure to apply for MIStructE. From the website, I understood that we need to be a Graduate member and apply for academic qualification assessment against requirements for Chartered Membership and Associate Membership. If eligible we need to complete IPD for few years and then appear for the 7-hour exam and interview. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Please share how many years you have been graduate or associate member and how long you have been submitting the IPDs.
I am a Charted Engineer from UK. If anyone of you need any help regarding CM exam (UK) please contact me at the following email ID.
I would like to write here my experience in passing CM exam in January 1963. I was then working as a Design Engineer with ECC (L&T), Mumbai, involved in the design of industrial type structures. Then, it was known as AMIStructE, the same title was changed later to MIStructE in May 1969. Earlier in June 1959 I became a Graduate member of the Institution by which I was qualified to appear for Sections A and B exams of AMIStructE. Section A exam was for 3 hours on the topic of Design of Structural Elements. After passing Section A, one could appear for Section B exam which is for 7 hours and now known as CM exam, on the topic of Structural Engineering Design Practice. I passed Section A exam in July 1962, Section B exam in January 1963, and elected as a corporate member of the Institution on 27th June 1963 after submitting evidence of practical experience in structural engineering. Then, there was no PRI as it is now.
Before appearing for the Section B exam, I was advised by late Mr. B. T. Unwala of ACC Ltd. who was already a Member of the Institution, to answer all parts of the question in full and not leaving any of it. This was a good advise for me in passing the Section B exam.
a) A design for the tank, its supporting structure and foundations.
c) Drawing details to scale of ½ in to 1 ft. of the precast concrete legs and ring beam only, including arrangements for jointing.
d) Bill items for the reinforcement with an estimate of the quantities of each size.
e) Specification clauses for i) excavation, ii) concrete in precast elements, iii) Concrete surface treatment to the inside of the tank.
f) Finally, brief comments on the method to be adopted for the erection and construction.
It was indeed a tough question to answer all in 7 hours, but I could do it because of the right experience I had in the design office and my ability to prepare good drawings. I passed the exam in my first attempt only, thanks to on the earlier advise given by late Mr. B.T. Unwala. Only 23% of the candidates passed this exam that time globally.
I am attaching a Certificate issued by the President of the IStructE on 15th November 2013, in appreciation on completion of 50 years of my Membership of the Institution.
By being a MIStructE, it has helped me over the years in updating my knowledge through the Institution's Journal, and in giving me lot of confidence and recognition in my profession as a Structural Engineer. With this qualification, I was employed as a Structural Engineer in UK from 1964-77.
Trust that the above write-up about self will encourage many young Indian Structural Engineers to become members of this great institution, IStructE.
Thanks for writing your MIStructE experience Sir. It is really inspiring for young engineers like me who are aspiring to be recognized as Chartered Engineer. After reading this post, I am determined I will start my graduate membership application today and start preparing for the goal.
I think I have a lot of learning required in preparing general arrangement drawing by hand. Usually, in the road projects, I have seen engineers give a rough sketch to the draftsman along with the highway cross sections to prepare the drawing. To be frank, I have never made a true to scale drawing by hand. It would be great if you could share some tips regarding hand sketching.


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Although the United States has made great strides toward equality for its LGBTQ+ citizens in recent years, South Africa has demonstrated far greater progress concerning equal protection and employment non-discrimination of its LGBTQ+ citizens. The South African Constitution, South African Constitutional Court cases, and laws passed by the South African Parliament all mandate that LGBTQ+ South Africans be treated equally to their heterosexual counterparts. Discrimination against LGBTQ+ South Africans is expressly forbidden— including in the employment context. The United States still lacks comprehensive federal employment non-discrimination laws or workplace protections for LGBTQ+ individuals. Extending Title VII—either via court decision or by passing the Equality Act—will provide robust workplace protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.