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UrthBox Settles FTC Charges Related to Compensated Online Reviews and "Free" Trial Offer
Western Region San Francisco
San Francisco-based UrthBox, Inc. and its principal, Behnam Behrouzi, have agreed to settle a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging that the company misrepresented that customer reviews were independent when, in fact, it had provided those customers with free products and other incentives to post positive reviews online.
The administrative order settling the FTC's complaint, which also alleges that UrthBox failed to adequately disclose key terms of its "free trial" automatic renewal programs, bars the respondents from engaging in similar conduct and requires them to pay $100,000 to the Commission to compensate consumers deceived by the trial offers.
"People should be able to trust that good customer reviews aren't the result of companies secretly paying the reviewers," said Andrew Smith, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. "As this case shows, we hold companies accountable for this kind of deceptive marketing."
From January through November 2017, UrthBox conducted an incentive program to induce customers to post positive reviews of its snack products on the Better Business Bureau's (BBB) website. In many cases, the FTC contends, UrthBox offered to send its customers a free snack box if they posted a positive review on the BBB's website.
While the BBB requires consumers who post reviews about a company to certify that they have not been offered any incentive from the company to write the review, many of UrthBox's reviewers failed to disclose to the BBB that they in fact had been offered such an incentive for submitting their positive review.
UrthBox similarly encouraged consumers to post positive reviews on other sites, including TrustPilot.com, and between 2014 and 2017, offered store credit and/or free snack boxes in exchange for positive consumer reviews on Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and Facebook. At the time, UrthBox had no procedures or policies in place to monitor these reviewers' posts.
From October 2016 to November 2017, UrthBox offered on its websites a "free" trial of its snack boxes for a nominal shipping and handling fee. During that time, however, UrthBox used both desktop and mobile websites that did not adequately disclose key terms of the offer, including that UrthBox would charge them the total amount owed for six months of shipments if they did not cancel in time.
What the FTC Did to Protect Consumers
According to the complaint, UrthBox violated the FTC Act by misrepresenting that positive consumer reviews on the BBB's and other third-party websites reflected the independent experiences or opinions of impartial consumers, while the reviewers actually had a material connection to the company. The FTC alleges that UrthBox failed to adequately disclose that some consumers received compensation, including free snack boxes, to post those positive reviews.
The complaint also alleges the respondents violated the FTC Act by failing to adequately disclose key terms of its "free" snack box offer. Specifically, UrthBox allegedly failed to adequately disclose that when the free trial plan expired, the company would automatically enroll consumers in a six-month negative option subscription plan and charge them the total amount owed for six months of shipments, which typically cost $77 to $269 per month depending on the box size.
In addition, the complaint alleges that the respondents violated the Restore Online Shoppers Confidence Act (ROSCA) by failing to adequately disclose the material terms of the free trial offer before obtaining the consumer's billing information, and by failing to get consumers' informed consent before charging them for the ongoing negative option subscription.
Finally, the Commission names Behrouzi as a respondent to the complaint because he controlled or had the ability to control UrthBox's conduct that the Commission alleges violated the FTC Act and ROSCA.
What the Settlement Order Means
The proposed order settling the FTC's charges contains both conduct and monetary relief. First, it prohibits the respondents from misrepresenting that an endorser of any good or service is an independent user or ordinary consumer of that good or service and requires them to clearly and conspicuously disclose any material connection with a consumer, reviewer, or endorser in close proximity to that representation.
The order also requires the respondents to take all reasonable steps to remove any review or endorsement by any endorser with which it has a material connection from online review websites, including the BBB's site, unless the disclosure requirements above are met, and to monitor any endorsers they engage.
The order prohibits the respondents from making misrepresentations in connection with the marketing or sale of any good or service with a negative option feature, and requires them to make certain disclosures relating to the negative option feature. The order also prohibits the respondents from using billing information to obtain payment for a good or service with a negative option feature without first getting a consumer's express informed consent.
The respondents also must provide consumers with a simple mechanism they can use to avoid charges for products with a negative option feature. Finally, the order requires UrthBox to pay $100,000 to the Commission, which may be used to provide refunds to affected consumers.
The Commission vote to issue the administrative complaint and to accept the consent agreement was 5-0. The Analysis to Aid Public Comment will be published in the Federal Register soon. Instructions for filing comments appear in the published notice. Comments must be received 30 days after publication in the Federal Register. Once processed, comments will be posted on Regulations.gov.
The FTC thanks the Golden Gate BBB Serving the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern Coastal California for its assistance in this matter.
NOTE: The Commission issues an administrative complaint when it has "reason to believe" that the law has been or is being violated, and it appears to the Commission that a proceeding is in the public interest. When the Commission issues a consent order on a final basis, it carries the force of law with respect to future actions. Each violation of such an order may result in a civil penalty of up to $42,530.
FTC Sending Refund Checks to Consumers Allegedly Misled by "Free" Trial Offers for UrthBox Snack Boxes
Kerry O'Brien
FTC's Western Region
UrthBox, Inc., In the Matter of
UrthBox, Inc. and Behnam Behrouzi; Analysis of Proposed Consent Order To Aid Public Comment
Blog: Snack subscription service leaves bad taste
Comparing Products Online
"Free" Trial Offers?
Video: Online Reviews and Recommendations
Blog: It's unwise to incentivize positive skewed reviews
Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act (ROSCA)
Protecting Consumers


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package org.jenkinsci.plugins.github.pullrequest.webhook;

import com.google.common.base.Predicate;
import com.google.common.base.Predicates;
import hudson.model.Job;
import org.jenkinsci.plugins.github.pullrequest.GitHubPRTrigger;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
import static org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.equalsIgnoreCase;
import static org.jenkinsci.plugins.github.pullrequest.GitHubPRTriggerMode.HEAVY_HOOKS;
import static org.jenkinsci.plugins.github.pullrequest.GitHubPRTriggerMode.HEAVY_HOOKS_CRON;
import static org.jenkinsci.plugins.github.pullrequest.GitHubPRTriggerMode.LIGHT_HOOKS;
import static org.jenkinsci.plugins.github.pullrequest.utils.JobHelper.ghPRTriggerFromJob;
import static org.jenkinsci.plugins.github.pullrequest.utils.PRHelperFunctions.asFullRepoName;
import static org.jenkinsci.plugins.github.util.JobInfoHelpers.withTrigger;

/**
 * @author lanwen (Merkushev Kirill)
 */
public final class WebhookInfoPredicates {
    private WebhookInfoPredicates() {
    }

    public static Predicate<Job> withPRTrigger() {
        return Predicates.and(
                withTrigger(GitHubPRTrigger.class),
                withHookTriggerMode()
        );
    }

    public static Predicate<Job> withHookTriggerMode() {
        return new HookTriggerMode();
    }

    public static Predicate<Job> withRepo(final String repo) {
        return new WithRepo(repo);
    }

    private static class HookTriggerMode implements Predicate<Job> {
        @Override
        public boolean apply(Job job) {
            return Predicates.in(asList(HEAVY_HOOKS, HEAVY_HOOKS_CRON, LIGHT_HOOKS))
                    .apply(checkNotNull(
                            ghPRTriggerFromJob(job),
                            "This predicate can be applied only for job with GitHubPRTrigger"
                    ).getTriggerMode());
        }
    }

    private static class WithRepo implements Predicate<Job> {
        public static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(WithRepo.class);

        private final String repo;

        WithRepo(String repo) {
            this.repo = repo;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean apply(Job job) {
            try {
                return equalsIgnoreCase(
                        repo,
                        asFullRepoName(
                                ghPRTriggerFromJob(job).getRepoFullName(job)
                        )
                );
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                LOG.warn("Can't get GitHub repository name for {}. Have you set correct 'GitHub Project Property'?",
                        job.getFullName(), ex);
                return false;
            }
        }
    }
}

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Please vote either yes or no for each candidate for the 2 positions on the 2019 Nevada Tennis Association Board of Directors.
Each candidate is running for a separate Board seat. So, voting "yes" for one candidate, does not preclude you from voting "yes" or "no" for another.


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How to Navigate a Quarter Life Crisis in Uncertain Times | Toronto
A Quarter Life Crisis (QLC) can sneak up on you anytime between ages 24 - 35. You've done everything 'right' - studied, moved out, got a job, got a relationship - but you don't feel 'right'. You thought you were going to be successful, happy and fulfilled by this point. Instead you feel lost, stuck, insecure, disappointed about your career, and confused. You want to run away but don't know where. You want to change but don't know where to even start. Worst of all, you feel like you're the only one going through this.
Don't worry. You're not alone and nothing has gone wrong.
By the end, you will feel like a weight has been lifted. Not only will you know how to navigate yourself out of a QLC, but you'll be equipped with an internal compass that will navigate you out of any future crisis.
Avoid common mistakes of career pivoting
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By Salma Javid Khan on March 6, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )
Canada: 'Islam Understood' campaign comes to Collingwood, Red Deer… 65 communities all over Canada
Source: http://www.theenterprisebulletin.com/2017/03/03/islam-understood-event-in-collingwood-sunday Islam Understood event in Collingwood Sunday BY Staff A number of Muslim youth will be canvassing Collingwood neighbourhoods on Sunday as part of a campaign to teach others about Islam. Youth will take part in the Islam Understood event in Collingwood, presented by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association. They […]
Canada: Ahmadiyya Muslim Association to hold an 'Islam Understood' open house at Woodstock Public Library on March 11
Source: http://www.woodstocksentinelreview.com/2017/03/03/woodstock-open-house-aims-to-dispel-myths-about-islam By Bruce Chessell, Woodstock Sentinel-Review Young Canadian Muslims are hoping to help the public understand their religion. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) will be holding an Islam Understood open house at the Woodstock Public Library on March 11. In addition to the open house, Muslim youth will […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association to hold 100 Holy Quran Exhibitions across Canada as part of the 'Islam Understood' campaign
Source: http://en.abna24.com/news/america/muslim-youth-to-hold-100-quran-exhibitions-across-canada_815575.html March 4, 2017 – 6:00 PM News Code : 815575 Source : Collingwood Enterprise The Muslim Youth Association is going to hold 100 Holy Quran Exhibitions across Canada as part of the Islam Understood campaign. (AhlulBayt News Agency) – The Muslim Youth Association is going to hold 100 Holy Quran Exhibitions […]
Phoenix chapter of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community offers support to threatened Jewish centers
Source: http://ktar.com/story/1476615/phoenix-chapter-muslim-group-offers-support-threatened-jewish-centers/ BY KATHY CLINE PHOENIX — The Phoenix chapter of a national Muslim group is standing by to help Jewish victims of threats and violence. "We stand in solidarity with our Jewish-American family, and we stand ready to serve and protect them in any way," he said. Usman Yahya with Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
Sierra Leone: Ahmadiyya School Gets Mariatu Kargbo Foundation Boost
Source: http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_200530077.shtml Ahmadiyya Muslim Secondary School and other nine Secondary Schools in Freetown have received donations from Mariatu Kargbo Foundation and Global Group of Companies. The donation which took place at the Ahmadiyya School compound, Kissy Dock Yard on the 28thFebruary 2017 brought together nine more secondary schools in Freetown under […]
USA: Ahmadi Muslim Vet Vows To Defend Jewish Centers Under Siege
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/muslim-vets-jewish-centers_us_58b4e78ae4b0780bac2cb638 Surge of hate crimes is also bringing Americans together. The frightening increase in bomb threats against U.S. Jewish centers and schools and the desecration of Jewish cemeteries has triggered an outpouring of support on Twitter from Muslim veterans offering to protect the sites any time, anywhere. One vet wrote: […]
FBI joins investigation into Sikh man's shooting
Source: Aljazeera The FBI is helping police in the US city of Seattle hunt for an attacker who shot a Sikh man and told him to "go back to your […]
Prize for cracking brain's 'feel good' system
Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website Image copyrightSPL The UK based winners cracked the brain's "reward centre" It influences your happiness, pleasure or motivation to do something But the system can go wrong turning people into addicts Three UK-based scientists have won a prestigious […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Australia Condemns Vandalism of Jewish Cemeteries In the USA
Source: http://www.newsmaker.com.au/news/262571/ahmadiyya-muslim-community-australia-condemns-vandalism-of-jewish-cemeteries#.WL2zldKGPIV Thursday, March 2nd, 2017 – Peace Symposium Coordinator Press Release For Immediate Release March 02, 2017 Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Australia Condemns Vandalism of Jewish Cemeteries The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Canberra stands in solidarity with Jewish Americans in particular & the Jewish community across the world and Australia in […]
The Two Contradictory Faces of Donald Trump: President and Provocateur
Source: Time By Zeke J Miller, & Michael Scherer The President of the United States has two contradictory public faces, and the nation witnessed both last week in all their confusing and […]
How collective narcissism is directing world politics?
Source: BBC By Christian Jarrett 3 March 2017 How do you feel about your nation? Does it make you angry when others criticise your country? Do you feel the world […]
An American Ahmadi Muslim Explains the Effects of Religious Discrimination
Source: http://religiondispatches.org/an-american-ahmadi-explains-the-effects-of-religious-discriminaton/ The Ahmadiyya Community: Ahmadis began as a branch of Islam in 1889, centered on the Punjabi teacher Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, whom they believe to be the final prophet and messiah of Islam. Recent Oscar winner Mahershala Ali is a member of the community. Ahmadis consider themselves fully Muslim, and to […]
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America's opioid addiction – explained
Source: BBC Opioids are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans. Watch our animation about the problem, inspired by an exclusive article written by Chelsea Clinton. Writing […]
Jamia Ahmadiyya UK and Canada Convocation take place in Joint Ceremony
Source: www.khalifaofislam.com 25 graduates receive their Shahid degrees from Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is pleased to announce that on 4 March 2017, the 5th Convocation Ceremony […]
IBM's online quantum machine gets faster
Source: BBC By Jane WakefieldTechnology reporter Image copyright IBM The processor can be accessed via a web interface IBM has made its quantum computing system commercially available to businesses and beefed […]
How economics killed the antibiotic dream
Source: BBC By Tim Harford BBC World Service, 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy Image copyrightISTOCK On a ramshackle pig farm near Wuxi, in Jiangsu province, China, a foreigner […]
CNY Inspirations: True Islam Rejects All Acts of Terrorism
Source: Syracuse.com By Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, who is a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Syracuse chapter. He is a radiation oncologist currently practicing as medical director of radiation […]
CNY Inspirations: True Islam Teaches the Right of Free Speech
CNY Inspirations: True Islam Values all Human Life
Source: Syracuse.com By Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, who is a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Syracuse chapter. He is a radiation oncologist currently practicing as medical director of radiation oncology, Buffalo Medical Group. This feature is coordinated by The Post-Standard/Syracuse.com and InterFaith Works of CNY. Follow this theme and […]
By Rafiq A. Tschannen on March 6, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )
President Donald Trump signs new travel ban, exempts Iraq
By Ariane de Vogue, Jeremy Diamond and Kevin Liptak, CNN Story highlights President Donald Trump's original executive order was rolled out to chaos six weeks ago The order will make clear that lawful permanent residents are excluded from any travel ban Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump signed a new executive order […]


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A St. Marks Powder é uma subsidiária da "General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems", fabricante de propelentes esféricos em Crawfordville, Flórida. A empresa é membro do Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (SAAMI).

Histórico
A fabricação de propelentes esféricos em larga escala começou durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial na fábrica da Olin Corporation em East Alton, Illinois. O crescimento populacional da área metropolitana de St. Louis, Missouri, incentivou a localização mais remota para uma planta de produção moderna. A fábrica da St. Marks foi construída em 1969 em uma grande área de pântanos alagados ao sul de Tallahassee, Flórida, próximo ao nível do mar entre o rio St. Marks e a "Costa do Golfo". A operação da planta foi transferida para a St. Marks Powder em 1998.

Produtos
A instalação fabrica mais de 95% dos propelentes usados nas munições militares de armas curtas dos Estados Unidos. Propelentes similares são vendidos a fabricantes comerciais de munição de fogo circular e de fogo central ou comercializados pela Winchester e pela Hodgdon para recarga manual civil. Outros propelentes são usados para tiros de morteiros militares, projéteis auxiliados por foguetes, ou agentes não letais de dispersão usados para controle de multidões, marcações ou interdições de área.

Empresas dos Estados Unidos
General Dynamics

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There are many different species of flea that can find their way in to our homes and finding an uninvited meal on either us or our pets. The most common in the UK is the cat flea which, although it prefers the cat, will quite happily dine out on us for a change!
If you suspect that you may have an infestation of fleas, either by suffering skin irritations, or spots on the skin, or indeed by seeing them, you should first check any bedding used by your pets and the cat or dog itself for any signs. Adult Fleas are about 2-7mm long and brownish in colour. Their bodies are compressed which allows them to move efficiently through hairs, and their relatively large hind legs allow them to have excellent jumping qualities.
Give us a call to arrange a visit. Successful removal will require treatment of your pets as well as your home and the information below will let you know what you and our technician will need to do.
Wash all pet bedding in hot water.
Remove all pets and have them treated for fleas by a vet. If you plan to treat your pet yourself, it is essential that all label directions are followed and that you use only products specified for the species of animal on which the product is to be used. It is critical, however, that pets be treated at the same time as the home, so that neither re-infests the other afterwards.
To give the treatment time to work, do not clean carpet or floors for at least 10 days after treatment.
Continue to treat your pet (s) for as long as recommended.
Expect to see flea activity for up to 3 weeks after treatment. This is normal and is due to the continued hatching of eggs and their continued destruction.


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Taken by SANYO Xacti 1920x1080 Full HD and two sunglasses on x16 max. Zoom with no tripod. Sorry... But it was such an exciting event! Will be prepared better next time... Thanks for watching!
Sept. 12, 2011 Doors-off 50min Hawaii Volcanoes fly-over adventure Thank you, http://paradisecopters.com/ A+!!!


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Badart vs Important Art
In the Drink!
He Drugged Them!
Crystal Hana Kim
The President who Hates Children
Narcissism is Incurable
Raccoon Nation
Raccoon Behavior
King Arthur Sourdough Waffles
Teens Crime and Late Developing Frontal Lobes
Spirituality +Well Being
Library: The Community and Education Space
I Worship the Clothespin
Plastic Sucks
Partnership and Charity
Woonsocket is a Good place to Hide!
World Central Kitchen
Stephen Propst
Doroethea Lange
Underwater Sculpture Garden
Farm Fresh Yellow Squash and Green Zucchini
Tree Sitters
Drew Philp
Drew Philp's Detroit Adventure
Robot Hands
Bluberries at the Big Apple in Wrentham MA
Sniffing it Out
Raccoons!
Basil Almond Pesto
Favorite Summer Beverage
Chasing the Scream
Epidemic Depression
Hard-Boiled Detectives and Eggs
Tupper and Leggo
Lipstick Evidence
Fear is Your Enemy
Divest!
Swimming Mental Health
Preserving our Homelands
RI's Dr. Michael Fine
Slum Landlords Take Down a City
Sentiment Meter or Yelp for Cops
No Wolf
A Murderer
Toska
Even by a Millimeter
August 2nd Birth of James Baldwin
The Masks
James Baldwin Festival
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Soak in a Bath
Raining Fish and Frogs
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Chef Michael's Sexy Slow Salmon
Cheesecake Bars
Morocccan Chicken
Vietnamese Style Meatballs
Taking Romeo to the Pond
Rhode Island Parrot Rescue
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Cut the Lawn with Scissors
It's the Simple Things that are HUGE
Learning, Listening, Writing, + Teaching
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Naureen Khan is a writer
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New Bedford:The City that Lit the World
Chores Ground Me
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Art, both badart and "important art," can reveal the inner workings of artists' minds. Beautiful art is at its best and most useful when it illuminates truths about the human condition, but badart can reveal the inner workings of one individual's mind—their strange lusts, their disturbing daydreams, their antisocial desires, and their nonsensical fears. Beautiful art can speak to the general trials and triumphs of being human, but badart can speak in equal eloquence to the highly specific neuroses and joys of one singular mad mind. After all, we all like sunsets. But there's a unique appeal to the Museum of Bad Art's behemoth crimson cat devouring a pale-faced human under a Pepto-Bismol-pink sky.
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"Every scene should be able to answer three questions: Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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by Hamza Shaban July 31 at 9:49 AM Email the author
When French students return to school in September, they'll have to leave one of their most prized possessions at home — their smartphone.
French lawmakers on Monday passed legislation banning students as old as 15 from bringing smartphones and tablets to school, or at least requiring that they be turned off, according to the Agence France-Presse. Officials in support of the new rule described the policy as a way to shield children from addictive habits and to safeguard the sanctity of the classroom.
"We know today that there is a phenomenon of screen addiction, the phenomenon of bad mobile-phone use," education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer told French news channel BFMTV, according to CNN. "Our main role is to protect children and adolescents. It is a fundamental role of education, and this law allows it."
France bans smartphones in school
This isn't the first French law designed to beat back the encroachment of digital technology in everyday life. Last year the government passed a law requiring French companies to draft rules that limited work emails and work-related technology outside the office. Dubbed the "right to disconnect," French officials said the legislation aimed to reduce job-related stress and prevent employee burnout.
"Employees physically leave the office, but they do not leave their work. They remain attached by a kind of electronic leash, like a dog," Benoît Hamon, Socialist member of Parliament and former French education minister, told the BBC. "The texts, the messages, the emails: They colonize the life of the individual to the point where he or she eventually breaks down."
We just took Romeo swimming at the secret swim spot to play fetch in the water. After a few throws a he lost sight of the stick. We called him, throwing pebbles into the water to show him the way but he swam in circles and then continued to swim towards the other shore. We wondered if he was following our echoing voices. I took off my sandals and straw hat and jumped in wearing my polka dotted skirt and black vest. Romeo saw me swimming and he swam right to me and we both swam ashore.
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Trump administration must stop giving psychotropic drugs to migrant children without consent, judge rules
by Samantha Schmidt July 31 at 6:38 AM
A federal judge on Monday found that U.S. government officials have been giving psychotropic medication to migrant children at a Texas facility without first seeking the consent of their parents or guardians, in violation of state child welfare laws.
"What did you do when the food ran out?" I ask.
"We'd eat anything we could find," she says. "We peeled the bark from trees, collected the sap, and cooked that. We picked potato vines, roots."
"How did you know what was safe to eat?"
"I grew up watching birds, seeing what they ate, what made them die and what let them live." She clucks. "When you grow up in the country, you know what's edible like you know your own bones."
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/07/31/like-you-know-your-own-bones/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/us/migrant-children-separation-anxiety.html
A 3-year-old boy who was separated from his mother has been pretending to handcuff and vaccinate people around him, behavior he almost certainly witnessed in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, according to those working with him. A pair of young siblings burst into tears when they spotted police officers on the street.
"The bad news is that the first few years of life are a sensitive period of brain development; what happens can have dramatic impact later," said Ms. Bick, whose research has focused on children placed in foster care and institutions. "The good news is that children are resilient, and early intervention can benefit them."
The narcissist is impervious to learning.
https://www.pbs.org/video/nature-raccoon-nation/
Season 30 Episode 7 | 52m 57s
Are the obstacles that our fast-paced urban world throws at raccoons actually pushing the development of their brains? Closely follow a family of urban raccoons as they navigate the complex world of a big city.
http://www.havahart.com/raccoon-facts#behavior
Activity: Nocturnal in nature, raccoons are mostly active at nighttime. They are most active in spring, summer and fall, and will sleep in their dens for most of the winter.
Reproduction: Reproduction begins in late winter. Females, or sows, usually give birth to 1-6 baby kits in April or May. Mothers are very protective of their young until they separate after about a year.
Social Interaction: Raccoons are independent after 12-14 months of age. Adults live in loose knit communities of 4 - 5 raccoons for better protection against predators.
Communication: Raccoons communicate with each other using over 200 different sounds and 12-15 different calls.
Skills: Raccoons possess amazing dexterity that gives them the ability to open doors, jars, bottles and latches. They are also great climbers, which allows them to better access food and shelter.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/527175/10-clever-facts-about-raccoons
These are fabulous and you need not prep them the night before. I liked them better when i didn't make an overnight sponge. The sourdough and buttermilk are sour enough!! Also, I prefer to use my fresh medium grind whole wheat flour in place of white flour. I also add additional salt (double the amount) when using kosher salt and whole wheat flour. Whole wheat has all of the natural wheat germ oils in it and this is why you'll need more salt.
Classic Sourdough Waffles or Pancakes
Overnight sponge
2 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
1 cup sourdough starter, unfed/discard
Waffle or pancake batter
all of the overnight sponge
1/4 cup vegetable oil or melted butter
To make the overnight sponge, stir down your refrigerated starter, and remove 1 cup. Note: This is a good opportunity to feed the remainder, if necessary.
In a large mixing bowl, stir together the 1 cup unfed starter, flour, sugar, and buttermilk.
Cover and let rest at cool room temperature (about 65°F to 70°F) for about 12 hours, or overnight.
In a small bowl or mixing cup, beat together the eggs, and oil or butter. Add to the overnight sponge.
Add the salt and baking soda, stirring to combine. The batter will bubble.
Pour batter onto your preheated, greased waffle iron, and bake according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Serve waffles immediately, to ensure crispness. Or hold in a warm oven till ready to serve.
Yield: 1 dozen 8" waffles or about 2 dozen medium pancakes.
Want to make pancakes? Simply cook the batter in rounds on a griddle, rather than in a waffle iron.
For whole-grain waffles, substitute our white whole wheat flour or Premium whole wheat flour for some or all of the all-purpose flour.
Experts link teen brains' immaturity, juvenile crime
By MALCOLM RITTER
The teenage brain, Laurence Steinberg says, is like a car with a good accelerator but a weak brake. With powerful impulses under poor control, the likely result is a crash.
And, perhaps, a crime.
Steinberg, a Temple University psychology professor, helped draft an American Psychological Association brief for a 2005 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty for crimes committed before age 18.
"What we really want," he said, "is to turn delinquent kids into good adults."
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https://www.oceanstatejoblot.com/charity-foundation
Fugitive captured. The out of towners discover that our police are THE BEST.
Founded by @chefjoseandres, we are a group of chefs using the power of food to empower communities and strengthen economies. #SmartSolutions
Washington, DC + The World
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@chefjoseandres
We all are Citizens of the World. What's good for you, must be good for all. If you are lost, share a plate of food with a stranger...you will find who you are.
Check your reality.
I don't think anyone really knows how a story takes shape.
Elena Ferante
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
-Dorothea Lange
"I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free." - Andrew Wyeth
Last night I cubed the squash and zucchini and sauteed it with olive oil and red chili flakes adding a dash of soy sauce. I threw in sliced carrots and almonds and sunflower seeds. It was fantastic over brown rice.
But they also say this is about more than just a pipeline, built by Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC. It is, they say, also about the erosion of democracy and the natural world by money and the hunger for it. They see this pipeline as one more physical manifestation of the loss of personal agency in the face of an impersonal and uncaring government. They say it's about the little guy – in this case almost all women – being pushed too damn far and being unable to take it any more.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/26/tree-sitters-appalachian-oil-pipeline-virginia-west
"On this walk, I learned that racism is a problem that has it's roots in ignorance. But when we say that person is ignorant, we are also ignorant because we don't take a chance to open a dialogue. When we face [this] problem we will solve it, but it will take a long time. This is the lesson I learned."
15 minute ted talk:
https://www.ted.com/talks/drew_philp_my_500_house_in_detroit_and_the_neighbors_who_helped_me_rebuild_it?language=en
A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
Scribner (2017)
Drew Philp is the author of "A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City," a memoir of rebuilding a former abandoned home while finding his place in his city, country, race and generation.
Drew Philp is a freelance writer living in his rehabbed house and most often covers inequity in the Midwest for the Guardian. He has hitchhiked the Rustbelt to speak with average Americans about changing manhood and walked to Cleveland from Detroit to speak to postindustrial trump supporters in pursuit of stories. Philp has also been published in BuzzFeed, The Detroit Free Press, De Correspondent and other national and international outlets.
In 2009, Philp bought an abandoned house in Detroit with no windows, plumbing or electricity, which was filled with 10,000 pounds of trash. Living without heat for nearly two years, fighting wild packs of dogs, and harvesting materials from the often burning neighborhood, Philp repaired the house with his own hands and the help of his dynamic community. He lives there with his dog Gratiot.
Philp has also hitchhiked the US, co-taught a class on race to all white students at the University of Michigan, written scripts in the film industry and taught for many years inside prisons and juvenile justice institutions across the state. His accolades include the Stuart and Vernice Gross award for literature, an 11th Hour Food and Farming Fellowship facilitated by Michael Pollan and a 2017 Kresge Arts in Detroit fellowship.
A TED Talk: Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong
July 12, 2015 / by Johann Hari / Video
https://youtu.be/PY9DcIMGxMs via @YouTube
Posted by The Urban Mermaid on Monday, July 30, 2018
How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can
There are blueberries cukes apples raspberries apricots cauliflower corn and beets and more...for sale!
I found an abandoned bottle of pink perfume in the locker room. It's called love addict. It smells like teenagers and I use it as bathroom deodorizer.
My husband's new used car smells like a new car even though it's 7 years old. I will get some oranges to eat and perfume the car.
My ideal perfume would smell like my old white leather ice skates or homemade bread or basil or roasted garlic.
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/28/633076559/service-dog-registries-to-streamline-travel-for-veterans-with-invisible-injuries
This dog is trained to find computers and stop crimes
Police across the US have been using Electronic Storage Detection dogs to sniff out technology as evidence.
She's also a graduate of an elite K-9 search class that trains dogs to sniff out electronics, including phones , hard drives and microSD cards smaller than your thumb.
Tales from the underdog
Dogs are built to smell.
Where we might smell pizza, a dog could pick out the wheat in the crust and the tomatoes, oregano, basil and mozzarella in the topping. A dog trainer told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that if you took all the olfactory receptor cells out of a human and spread them with a butter knife, you would get a smear the size of a postage stamp. A dog's smelling cells would cover a tea towel.
So it made sense when a major in the Connecticut State Police's computer crimes department asked its K-9 academy — the longest-running K-9 police school in the US — if a dog could sniff out thumb drives.
To find out, Jack Hubball, a chemist with Connecticut's Forensic Science Laboratory, ordered thumb drives, SD cards and hard drives from multiple manufacturers. And he learned all memory devices use a chemical compound called triphenylphosphine oxide, or TPPO. That was the break they needed.
Once they had isolated the common chemical, the state's K-9 trainers could begin to train the first ESD dog in 2012. They spent up to six months "imprinting" the chemical odor on a black Lab named Selma.
Over and over again, they got her to smell a white, odorless (to us) powder, and then fed her. Selma eventually associated the scent with food and would search out the smell for a reward. And she found devices that had completely escaped investigators. They kept the program a secret for four years, says Halligan, to make sure there weren't any surprise issues.
Last night my husband and I took Romeo out for a walk. We stopped short when we saw four fat teenage raccoons. They were climbing over and eating out of five gray trash barrels down a driveway on our street. It was about 7:00PM and there was plenty of light. It was fascinating to watch their masked faces and little black gloved hands. They're not the only wild critters in the 'hood.
I'm obsessed with curtains. I see them as a metaphor for my emotional and physical boundaries. If my house is my body my curtains are my eyelids and I wear sunglasses. I need to see out and I need to feel safe. Since I can't find what I want I have to start sewing again.
Feel free to experiment with this recipe! Swap in your favorite nut, cheese, green, or herb.
For Pesto
1/4 cup toasted almonds
2 ounces grated pecorino cheese plus more for garnish
1 cup fresh basil leaves packed
Cook pasta according to package directions and drain, reserving at least 1 cup of cooking water. Place pasta in a large serving bowl. (I cook small pasta in my pressure cooker with salt oil and water: 1/2 the water for half the time. Save the concentrated cooking water.)
Meanwhile, make pesto. With a blender or food processor running, add garlic, almonds, pecorino, and basil and blend into a coarse paste. Drizzle in olive oil and blend until smooth. Season to taste with salt.
Pour pesto over pasta and add about 1/4 cup of the pasta water. Toss to coat pasta. Continue to add pasta water until the sauce has reached your desired consistency. Sprinkle more pecorino over the top and serve.
https://pinchandswirl.com/spaghetti-with-basil-almond-pecorino-pesto/
The only uncertainty is whether America's democracy will survive if Americans will allow him to serve out his current term.
Henry SiegmanHenry Siegman is President Emeritus of the U.S./Middle East Project and a past senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He formerly headed the American Jewish Congress and the Synagogue Council of America.
Plain seltzer and a splash of apple cider.
Chasing the Scream: The Opposite of Addiction is Connection
by Johann Hari
The Book Behind the Viral TED Talk
For the first time, the startling full story of the disastrous war on drugs--propelled by moving human stories, revolutionary insight into addiction, and fearless international reporting.
What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not be able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family. Confused, unable to know what to do, he set out on a three-year, 30,000-mile journey to discover what really causes addiction--and what really solves it.
He uncovered a range of remarkable human stories--of how the war on drugs began with Billie Holiday, the great jazz singer, being stalked and killed by a racist policeman; of the scientist who discovered the surprising key to addiction; and of the countries that ended their war on drugs--with extraordinary results.
His discoveries led him to give a TED talk and animation which have now been viewed more than 25 million times. This is the story of a life-changing journey that showed the world the opposite of addiction is connection.
Johann Hari was a columnist for the Independent in London for nine years and was twice named Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty International UK. He has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, Slate, the New Republic, and the Nation. He has also been awarded the Comment Award for Cultural Commentator of the Year by Editorial Intelligence, and has been named Journalist of the Year by Stonewall. Hari lives in London.
chasingthescream.com
@johannhari101
It Will Take a Political Revolution to Cure the Epidemic of Depression
2018 By Michael Bader
Hard-boiled eggs are easy to work into your budget, and help you lose weight. Eggs keep hunger at bay and prevent big spikes in blood sugar. The protein in eggs preserves muscle mass so you can burn fat, and other nutrients in eggs support the metabolism of carbs and fat. Hard-boiled eggs also contribute essential nutrients, including vitamin B-12, vitamin D, selenium and protein.
Add Cholula hot sauce!
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Verified account @dodo
18h18 hours ago
Tupper has autism, and he was having terrible nightmares that kept him from sleeping at night. But then he met a dog named Lego who changed everything
It turns out collecting lipstick evidence at a crime scene, whether off a paper cup, cigarette butt or piece of clothing, is a difficult and tedious process. So most lipstick brands are identified while still on the object using complex techniques—an expensive and tricky process.
Bellott's team first examined current methods of lipstick extraction, whittling away unnecessary steps and experimenting with new solvents. The result? A two part process in which one chemical removes oils and waxes from the lipstick and then a different compound captures the remaining lipstick residue. This residue can be analyzed using a method known as gas chromatography—which is relatively inexpensive and does not require extensive training.
Since each brand of lipstick is composed of a unique array of organic molecules, brands leave a revealing 'chemical fingerprint.' Bellott and his colleagues compiled a database of 40 different lipstick brands, which crime scene investigators can eventually use to identify the maker of lipstick marks.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/csi-sephora-new-technique-helps-identify-lipstick-brands-crime-scenes-180958451/#cbzjV1CwESijMEez.99
[His] need to demonstrate over and over that he is worthy of admiration overwhelms his capacity to focus on nearly anything else.
[His] grip on reality will likely continue to diminish as he faces increasing criticism, accusations, threats of impeachment and potential criminal indictments. We can expect him to become more desperate, more extreme in his comments, more violent in his threats, and more reckless and destructive in his actions.
Lastly, recognize that fear is your enemy. Holding onto the opposites of realism and optimism is the best antidote. James Stockdale, a Navy vice admiral, was imprisoned for eight years in North Vietnam and tortured repeatedly. What he said afterward about how he survived is relevant for anyone dealing with feelings of helplessness and hopelessness: "You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
Bandy X. Lee is assistant clinical professor in law and psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and a project leader for the World Health Organization.
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
This industry has turned human suffering into a billion-dollar business.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/opinion/private-prisons-immigration-divest.html
"Native people had to be scientists in order to survive," says Green, the Natural Resources director. "So they had to understand the natural world and what was going on and how to deal with it."
Since starting the program in 2012, three additional tribes have developed similar camps for their kids: the Seneca Nation in New York, the Penobscot Nation and the Houlton Band of Maliseets, both in Maine.
Both Green and Hendricks say, ultimately, they hope kids from the tribe will get degrees in science and then come back home to lead research on things like resource preservation. They believe that as the world and the climate continue to change, it's important that people who have historic and cultural ties to the land are the ones helping the broader community adapt.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781629635811
Health Care Revolt: How to Organize, Build a Health System, and Resuscitate Democracy—All at the Same Time
Michael Fine. (174p) ISBN 978-1-62963-581-1
Posted by The Urban Mermaid on Sunday, July 29, 2018
It's the slum landlords that can destroy a city. When trash and dead cars litter the property drug dealers take over.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
"Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit."
― Upton Sinclair, Dragon's Teeth
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
"What we are trying to do here: is to increase outreach, increase engagement, create relationships, and build on those relationships," O'Neill said. "I think this is important information."
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/07/16/yelp-for-cops
"Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him."
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature
"Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations."
― Vladimir Nabokov
"I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't."
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style."
"Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth."
"Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness.
"No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom."
"You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it."
― James Baldwin
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."
― James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
Sunday, July 29 Rhode Island State Beaches Governor's Bay Day at all RI state beaches. Park free and enjoy the sand and surf at any of RI's seven beautiful state beaches – Scarborough, Roger Wheeler and Salty Brine in Narragansett; Charlestown Breachway and East Beach in Charlestown; East Matunuck in South Kingstown; and Misquamicut in Westerly. Some beaches will have special activities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin
James Arthur "Jimmy" Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America.[1] Some of Baldwin's essays are book-length, including The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), and The Devil Finds Work (1976). An unfinished manuscript, Remember This House, was expanded and adapted for cinema as the Academy Award-nominated documentary film I Am Not Your Negro.[2]
Baldwin's novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration not only of African Americans, but also of gay and bisexual men, while depicting some internalized obstacles to such individuals' quests for acceptance. Such dynamics are prominent in Baldwin's second novel, Giovanni's Room, written in 1956, well before the gay liberation movement.[3]
"Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth."
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive."
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
After a summer of hard-boiled eggs it's nice to have wet eggs.
In winter our bathtub is in the coldest room in the house but Summer means lounging in the bathtub!
I have lots of leftover homemade bread and I am thinking perhaps I'll make meatloaf or meatballs. Real summer food.
Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.
- Margaret Atwood
Posted by The Urban Mermaid on Saturday, July 28, 2018
https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/cheesecake-bars.html
https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/grilled-moroccan-chicken.html
https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/vietnamese-style-meatballs-with-chili-sauce.html
I DID actually meet my deadline....just a few changes and then Bill has to scan it all. Today was my first time driving ROMEO as my only passenger. He was in the front seat and I held his leash just in case. I opened all the windows and the sun roof. He was a good boy, sniffing the breeze, loving the trip. I drove slowly along the pond. When we got out and climbed down the bank I threw the stick in the water. He's a low rider in the water. He couldn't see the stick. He swam in circles gulping water. I threw pebbles to show him where it was but they didn't land anywhere near the stick. Frantic at this point, I threw more sticks and he gulped more water, and I finally coaxed him ashore and we went home. Whew. After he got settled I went to the YMCA and swam a mile at the pool with a 9 year old wearing a mermaid tail.
One of my fellow mermaids told me about the RI parrot rescue.
Rescue! Rehabilitate! Adopt! Educate!
http://riparrots.org/
A great documentary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Parrots_of_Telegraph_Hill
I did my work today. Yay! And then I took Romeo swimming in the pond. Romeo was a very good boy traveling in the car. He stayed in his seat. Then I swam a mile at the YMCA. The water was warmer than usual due to the heat wave but it was good to swim. There was a 9 year old girl swimming in a mermaid costume for the second day in a row. It turns out that we are both named Emily and we are both mermaids!
Chicken leg + thighs were $1.10 per pound at my butcher's ( Jamie Sullivan's SHAW'S~143 North Main St Woonsocket RI) so I bought 4 and marinated them in Asian hot chili garlic sauce, Italian red wine vinegar, the peanut oil on top of my jar of peanut butter, and the cheap champagne I found (unopened) in the street. Smells good. We'll see!
The logo I designed for Jamie will be published by Wednesday!
I'm not sure why but I love clotheslines. Perhaps because they tell a story. I love making use of the hot weather by drying my clothes on the line. I like to grow basil. Summer clothing is anything that barely touches the skin, a skirt, a vest and flip-flops. Ideally I want to be able to sew them myself. That is a plan for winter. Summer is taking the dog swimming in the lake because the city walks are too hot.
Our lawn is one square yard. I'm cutting the grass with scissors!
Making myself a fresh hot cup of coffee, feeding my animals taking a bath and putting on clean clothes does wonders to my outlook on life.
I had parents who behaved the way 45 does. I remember all of the chaos strategies, enemy tricks, and narcissism dramas. It was trauma 24/7. This is why I ran away from home at age 15. This is why I have not turned on TV or radio in over 2 years. This is why I am reading more poetry and history and talking a lot less. I'm listen to the smart young protesters who have to inherit this mess. All of this is what motivates me to keep on learning, listening, writing and teaching.
One of the biggest marketing hurdles the industry has to overcome is tamping down the prevailing notion that the road is not an appropriate — or safe — place for women.
We lived in a beige brick house that my parents scraped to afford with their retail jobs, and on Eid al-Fitr and the Fourth of July, we threw raucous parties. Cars lined up bumper-to-bumper in our driveway and for long stretches down the street. Guests tumbled out in kaleidoscopic panjabis and saris and were led to our doorstep by the smell of biryani.
I went to summer camp at a Baptist church, the one where Jessica Simpson's father was once a minister, because it was cheaper than the secular ones in the area, and there was only the lightest bit of proselytizing in between trips to the swimming pool and the bowling alley. When it was my turn to bring in snacks for the classroom, I brought trays of homemade kalo jam — fat, round, syrupy Bangladeshi sweets — and was only mildly embarrassed.
Naureen Khan is a writer and senior researcher at "Full Frontal With Samantha Bee." She lives in Harlem.
I love this woman in a way I can't describe & a feeling of belonging to each other that reaches across all the pain. It's as though we've answered something in each other that was almost forgotten. I look back on that whole ten years in California & I see myself hunting desperately for something I wasn't finding. I know the Work point of view is the only true one. That life is inside. That nothing outside can ever finally answer our yearning. I know that's true but, in some way, finding Jessie has reached something inside me. A part of me feels brand new — re-awakened.
I know even this will change. There'll be moments of deep regret maybe. But life is a gamble. I felt the weight of that the first time I left home for good. I walked out of that house into the unknown & it scared the shit out of me but the adventure of hitting life straight on was a thrill I'll never forget. I feel that now — along with the fear. But I see the fear stems from being alone in the world & it has a new meaning for me now. You can be alone in the midst of people or you can be alone & join with the other one's aloneness. There can be a real meeting between two people at the point where they always felt marooned. Right at the edge. And that's how it is with me & her.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/08/03/sam-shepard-on-love/
Culture & Identity
Adventure & Experience
New Bedford, Massachusetts, was once the wealthiest city per capita in North America (Credit: Credit: Posnov/Getty Images)
USA Massachusetts History
The city that lit the world
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180719-the-city-that-lit-the-world
New Bedford, Massachusetts, is a place few have heard of. But the mark it has left on the world is profound.
By Mike MacEacheran
On the south-eastern underbelly of the Massachusetts shoreline, overshadowed by the hook-shaped peninsula of beautiful Cape Cod and the harbour islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, New Bedford is the kind of place most visitors drive right through.
All but forgotten on the Acushnet River, the downtown is a relic of its 19th-Century heyday, preserved as a monument to history and a peculiar reminder of the city's rise and fall. The quaysides and cobbles still buzz with local life, but scratch below the surface and darker, more uncomfortable truths lurk on every corner.
Because New Bedford isn't just any town. On a visit, you'll learn it was once the wealthiest city per capita in North America. But you'll also hear it was where men were 100 times more likely to die than anywhere else and that the streets were once overrun with blubber and blood. The catalyst? Whaling.
"We call New Bedford 'the city that lit the world' for a reason," Schnetzer told me, pointing to what was once the most profitable street in the US. "The Quakers – the religious dissidents who first settled the area – found that if they rendered the fat from a whale carcass washed on shore, then lit it, they had smokeless, scentless, beautiful lamp oil."
As gruesome as it sounds, whale oil was a plentiful resource, and within years the operation had multiplied tenfold. To increase yields, liquid spermaceti wax was harvested from the skulls of sperm whales that swam in the channels of Nantucket Sound, then later processed into fuel.
A batter of dough, a walk downtown, a scrub of the kitchen floor. Whenever I think that my chores interrupt me I remind myself that chores ground me. The next day; a load of wash, a sink of dishes, a pot of boiled eggs. It's true, they do as long as they are sprinkled throughout the week and not piled on back to back like a marathon session. I used to hate weekends because not working meant back -to-back chores. Now I know better. Chores ground me, and swimming centers me.
I recall a class one day in college when discussion surrounded altruism, and whether it truly exists—the idea that one could give without ever really getting (or needing) anything in return. I vehemently argued that real altruism is hogwash: giving alone always has a return on the investment, even if it is simply the good feeling of knowing one has given. Upon return from the class break, I found a wildflower on my notepad. I asked who left the flower; no one fessed up. Someone was trying to make a point: leaving the flower was supposed to show an altruistic offering. What they failed to understand was that by doing that, they were giving themselves some kind of pat on the back for making the unspoken comment, which only underlined my argument. It built up their own sense of self-esteem.
We give, and, because we are human, we need something back. What is really hard to determine, though, is when we need it from other people, or when we need to rely on ourselves for it.
"An evolved life requires balance. Sometimes you have to cut out one thing to find balance everywhere else."
― Sarah Hepola, Blackout
"Sometimes people drift in and out of your life, and the real agony is fighting it. You can gulp down an awful lot of seawater, trying to change the tides."
"Some people are so brimful with misery they can't help splashing everyone else."
Posted by The Urban Mermaid on Friday, July 27, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/opinion/sunday/motherhood-in-the-age-of-fear.html
I went to the pool by driving a few minutes through the heat. I saw the midday swimmers and it felt good. My body knew how to glide. My goggles were foggy until I remembered the cure, a little bit of spit.
I just finished BLACKOUT by Sarah Hepola and I didn't want it to end. It was so good.
The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.
-Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a20861949/mile-markers-hush/
Our pursuit of quiet does not detract from our time and ability to care for our people—it infuses and amplifies it. Seeking quiet is a gift we give ourselves in order to be a gift for others.
-Casey Crafford
Delilah S. Dawson
What's your advice to new writers?
To embrace imperfection and playfulness and write what makes you feel passionate without worrying about genre, qualifications, or talent. Writing, to me, is not this stiff and stilted exercise in constant one-upmanship. It's telling your story as only you can, providing entertainment and escape and connection. And finish your book-- one crappy first draft is worth more than a thousand perfect first pages.
Delilah S. Dawson is the author of HIT, Servants of the Storm, the Blud series, and short stories in the Carniepunk, Violent Ends, and Three Slices anthologies. Her next book is Wake of Vultures, written as Lila Bowen and out this October. She lives in Georgia with her husband and children and can be found online at www.whimsydark.com.
Bath and a Bowl of Rice
A hot bath on a summer day and then a warm bowl of buttered rice.
No Salvation
"There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy."
― Henry Miller
"Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything"
― Henry Miller, Sexus
"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold."
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
"To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts."
"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having."
One Swims
"Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is."
― Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."
God and Devil
"Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one."
"Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war."
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."
"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."
"Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there."
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
"I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company."
Develop an Interest
"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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Two nights ago I dreamed that somehow I had my poet friend's dog. She didn't know so I had to tell her. I had no idea how her little dog found his way to my house 536 miles away. In Persian poetry the dog has symbolic meaning. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/dog
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New species (a hybrid of a whale and a dolphin) discovered off Hawaii
Thursday, July 26th 2018, 3:35 pm EDT
By Kimi Andrew
HNN Summer Intern
Last August, scientists thought they might have spotted a new species off Kauai.
Turns out, they did.
Researchers say this is the first-ever documented hybrid between a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin.
The unusual new species has been named "Steno Bredanensis." It was found by scientists from Cascadia Research Collective during a two-week project.
"We had the photos and suspected it was a hybrid from morphological characteristics intermediate between species," Robin Baird, head of the research project told The Garden Island Newspaper, in an interview. "We were able to get a biopsy sample of the animal."
Baird, along with his research team, will be back in Kauai waters next month for more studies.
During that time, they hope to get more photos of the new hybrid species, water samples, and do testing on other species in the area.
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A Right
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An Invented Past...
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Contemptuous
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No Limitations
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― James Baldwin, Another Country
Nearly Impossible
"It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."


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Week Ending Friday, November 9, 2007
Contents: The President's Radio Address, November 3, 2007 Remarks on Presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom, November 5, 2007 Remarks Following a Meeting With Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and an Exchange With Reporters, November 5, 2007 Remarks at the White House Forum on International Trade and Investment, November 6, 2007 Remarks Following a Meeting With the Import Safety Working Group, November 6, 2007 Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives Transmitting Budget Amendments for the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, November 6, 2007 Remarks at a State Dinner Honoring President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, November 6, 2007 Interview With Tf1 Television of France, November 6, 2007 Interview With Rtl Television and N-Tv of Germany, November 6, 2007 The President's News Conference With President Nicolas Sarkozy of France in Mount Vernon, Virginia, November 7, 2007 Remarks Following a Visit With Wounded Troops at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, November 8, 2007 Statement on House of Representatives Approval of a Free Trade Agreement With Peru, November 8, 2007 Statement on Senate Confirmation of Michael B. Mukasey as Attorney General, November 8, 2007 Proclamation 8202— World Freedom Day, 2007, November 8, 2007 Notice— Continuation of National Emergency Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, November 8, 2007 Message to the Congress on Continuation of the National Emergency Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, November 8, 2007 Notice— Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Iran, November 8, 2007 Message to the Congress on Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Iran, November 8, 2007 Digest of Other White House Announcements Nominations Submitted to the Senate, Week Ending Friday, November 9, 2007 Checklist of White House Press Releases, Week Ending Friday, November 9, 2007 Acts Approved by the President, Week Ending Friday, November 9, 2007
Author: George W. Bush | Date: November 6, 2007
Interview With RTL Television and N-TV of Germany,
Chancellor Angela Merkel's Visit to the Bush Ranch
Q. Mr. President, in a couple of days, the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, will come to your ranch, which I think is a special privilege. What will you do with her on the ranch on a weekend like that?
The President. Well, we will—if she wants—we'll do anything she wants. If she wants to go for a hike, I'll go for a hike. If she—I look forward to showing a piece of property I dearly love. But we'll have plenty of time to visit in a different setting. It's not very formal, but it will be conducive to a conversation amongst friends. I can't thank her enough for coming down there.
Germany/United Nations Security Council
Q. She had said some weeks ago at the United Nations that Germany wants to contribute more to the world and take on more responsibility by perhaps getting a permanent seat in the Security Council. Will you support her in that?
The President. Well, I made my clear statement there at the U.N. that I'm for overall reform, and I do believe we ought to look at reforming the Security Council in a way that, you know, accomplishes some missions. And Germany clearly is an important country. I have not taken a stand on any specific country, except for Japan, and won't. But clearly, Germany is a very important country for a lot of reasons.
Q. Not a permanent member in the Security Council, you don't see her like that? You don't see Germany as——
The President. Well, I haven't made that endorsement one way or the other. And I pretty well kept my counsel. I just want to make sure the U.N. is functioning well, that it does—it needs a big-time reform and so does the Security Council. And so we're open to ideas. It's not easy to get done. And the only one country that I've endorsed has been Japan. And it's been a longstanding policy of the Government of the United States, and I continue that policy.
Germany-U.S. Relations
Q. What are the topics that you will be talking to her where you might need Germany to help you, the United States?
The President. Oh, me personally?
Q. No, not personally. I mean—personally, as well, but——
The President. No, but we definitely need Germany's help on issues like Iran so that we can, you know, solve this issue diplomatically. We need Germany's help on issues like Darfur. Germany is a crucial country in terms of, you know, building coalitions to deal with the threats we face. We need Germany's participation in Afghanistan. I know Angela went over there; I'm looking forward to hearing her report. And I'm pleased with our relationship.
Germany's Role in Afghanistan
Q. Germany doesn't want to contribute any forces to the south of Afghanistan, where it's really getting a little bit hotter than up in the north, where the Germans are right now. Are you having a problem with that?
The President. No, I understand. I mean, you know, people—everybody's Parliaments or legislative bodies reacts to the challenges differently. I'm just so pleased that Germany is contributing forces there to help this Afghan democracy. These contributions are meaningful, and some countries are able to take on different assignments. And I fully understand that. And I'm not going to try to put Angela Merkel in a position that she nor her Bundestag is comfortable with.
Iran/Iraq
Q. You just mentioned Iran. Do you think that the nuclear threat that Iran poses right now is larger than the threat Iraq posed about 5 or 6 years ago?
The President. I think they were both dangerous. I think both of them could have been solved diplomatically. Saddam Hussein chose to ignore the demands of the free world and Security Council 1441—which, by the way, Germany voted for initially. And I think they're both dangerous. And I think therefore, the lesson of Iraq is that we can work together and solve questions peacefully now.
And hopefully we can—and hopefully we can keep pressure on the Iranians to say, one, we respect your people; two, we respect your history; but your Government is making decisions that are isolating your country. And all they've got to do is suspend their enrichment program, and then there will be a dialog and a way forward. But it's up to the Government to make their choice.
Q. But you still have as a last option the military option. Do you think that that could be an option in the future? You even mentioned the possibility, the chance of third world war. You were serious about that?
The President. Oh, absolutely serious. I said, if you want to avoid world war III; I didn't say, I'm for world war III.
Q. Oh, no, I didn't say that. But you mentioned it in that respect, yes.
The President. But I said, if you—the reason I said that is because this is a country that has defied the IAEA—in other words, didn't disclose all their program—have said they want to destroy Israel. If you want to see world war III, you know, a way to do that is to attack Israel with a nuclear weapon. And so I said, now is the time to move. It wasn't a prediction nor a desire.
And do I think we can solve it? I do. Should all options be on the table? You bet. But I firmly believe we can solve this problem diplomatically and will continue to work to do so. And that's going to be an important topic with the Chancellor.
Q. Do you think there's a point where you'd say, only a military option is a possibility for us?
The President. I would never say that. I would say that we would always try to try diplomacy first. In other words, I—I've committed our troops into harm's way twice, and it's not a pleasant experience because I understand the consequences firsthand. And so I owe it to the American people to say that I've tried to solve this problem diplomatically. And that's exactly what I intend to do. And I believe we can do it, so long as the world works in concert. And Chancellor Merkel understands the dangers, and she wants to solve this issue peacefully.
Russia-U.S. Relations
Q. The U.S. has imposed some harsh sanctions on some parts of the Iranian Government.
The President. Yes.
Q. The Russians were pretty much against that. Do we see a new rift growing between Russia, on the one hand, and the United States, on the other hand?
The President. No, I don't think so. I mean, look, there's going to be—there's places where we disagree. No, it's a complicated relationship with Russia.
Q. Why that?
The President. Why is it? Just because we've got a history. It's not easy to eradicate history overnight. You might remember, we were quite antagonistic to each other for years. And so I've tried to work hard with Vladimir Putin to put the cold war behind us and focus on a positive future. There are still suspicions about U.S. intentions inside the Russian system.
You know, for example, as you know, I'm a big advocate of democracy. I believe democracies enhance peace, and I think that some view the democracy movement as a way to surround Russia. I try to work hard with Vladimir Putin and make it clear to him that this is nothing more than spreading peace. They didn't particularly care for the expansion of NATO, which I'm a strong believer in.
And so we've had our friction, but, no, I wouldn't——
Q. And when you see him now testing new missiles or testing new bombs, is that flexing muscle, or is that just showing off? Or do you think it's serious?
The President. I don't view that as a threat. I really don't view Russia as a threat, a military threat. I don't think—I'm pretty confident President Putin does not want to have any military conflict. I think the bigger threat is the use of energy, which is really a direct problem for the EU.
As I say, I try not to have antagonistic relations with President Putin. We've got a good personal relationship. We don't always agree eye to eye. Kosovo is an area where we don't agree eye to eye. But that doesn't—just because you don't have a—just because youhave a disagreement doesn't mean that you can't work together.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia/Democracy in Russia
Q. You will probably see him longer as a, whatever, strong force in Russia—[inaudible]—right now.
The President. Yes. [Laughter]
Q. Isn't that fascinating? Is that something you would have expected, that he would stay in there as a Prime Minister, then? But he is not voted in yet, but it might happen.
The President. I know. I haven't had a really good chance to sit down and talk with him about his ambitions and plans. He did tell me that he wasn't going to run for President again. But clearly, he likes to be influential inside the Russian system, and I don't know what he's going to do.
My hope, of course, is, I've tried to work with him as best as I can to understand the checks and balances. And democracy requires a certain balance in society. And I would hope that he would make decisions that enhanced institutional reform, enhanced the institutions necessary for a free society. As I say, sometimes he listens; sometimes he doesn't.
President's Agenda
Q. Almost a day to the date, in 1 year, we will have Presidential elections again in the United States. What are your three—let's say, main tasks—goals that you have set for yourself for the last 12 months of your Presidency?
The President. Oh, I appreciate that. One is to continue to protect our country from harm. I absolutely know for certain there is a group of extremists who would like to attack us again. Second—this is all on foreign policy initially—work with our friends and allies on Darfur, Burma—I'm afraid I'm going to leave something out—Iran. Continue to make sure our foreign policy in the Far East focuses not only on North Korea—and working, by the way, collaboratively with Japan and China and South Korea to deal with North Korea—but also to maintain good, constructive relations throughout the region.
Continue on the HIV/AIDS initiative. One of the really interesting initiatives that my wife and I are working on is a malaria initiative. There's just too many babies dying on the continent of Africa, for example, because of mosquito bites.
Q. Yes, I've talked to your wife about that.
The President. Oh, did you? Good. And then at home, keep taxes low and keep the economy growing.
The two big issues, by the way, for this Presidential campaign are who can best protect America from attack. Now, I don't know if——
Q. That's what I wanted to ask you next. What will be the three tasks for the next President?
The President. Well, who can keep people—same thing, and who can keep taxes low. See, we've got a bunch of people here in America that want to raise taxes. I'm, as you know, a tax cutter. I believe the private sector is—needs to be enhanced by keeping the size of government reasonably in balance and keep taxes low; same thing for the next President.
You know, the biggest issue facing a President going forward will be whether or not we can deal with our, you know, our Social Security and Medicare, our health care and pension plans for the elderly, because like other parts of the world—I presume Germany as well—baby boomers relative to people contributing to the system—so you have baby boomers like me retiring and not enough young workers. And we need to get the systems in balance. And it's very hard to get done because a lot of the politicians here in America really don't want to confront the problem until it becomes immediate. So I tried for 7 years to get Congress to do the hard work. They didn't want to, and so the next President is going to have to try to do it.
Q. Who do you think it's going to be?
The President. Well, I can't tell you that because—I think it will be a Republican; I truly do. I think someone from my party will win, but, you know, I'm not going to speculate because the American press, of course, would take my speculation, you know, "Bush is"——
Q. Of course. But you think it's going to be a Republican?
The President. I really do, yes. The economy is in pretty good shape, and we've got some issues, but the economy is pretty strong, which—and the other side does want to raise taxes. And I do believe taxes are a big issue in America.
And then the foreign policy—and if you will listen to the debate, our candidates have got a strong, firm view of how to conduct foreign policy. And the American people innately understand that there's still threats out there. And our biggest job is to protect our—see, that's an interesting difference between, say, Germany and America. We've been attacked. We feel like another attack is coming, and therefore, you know, our actions ought to be to protect our country. And, you know, I'm not so sure that it's that same sense of anxiety in other parts of Europe or in Germany.
Q. Well, we have some old fears. I mean, we were on the border of the cold war. I mean, we had this Iron Curtain in our country, in that respect. We know a little bit about that too. But I can understand your position as well, sure.
The President. You know, look, there's—and one of the things I would like to assure the German public about is that I really don't want to have increased tensions with Russia. As a matter of fact, I've worked hard to create an environment that is not hostile, but——
Missile Defense System/Russia-U.S. Relations/Iran
Q. Also with the missile shield——
The President. That's what I was about to describe, that this is not aimed at Russia. I mean, it—and frankly, it's absurd for somebody to say it is aimed at Russia, because the number of interceptors that would be there—the rockets to knock down the other rocket—will be limited in number, and therefore, somebody who has got a handful of rockets can overwhelm the system. It's just really aimed at, you know, a rogue nation that wants to hold a——
Q. Like Iran.
The President. ——hostage. Like Iran, absolutely. And hopefully, again, you know, the system becomes moot or not needed by getting the Iranians to back off their ambitions.
And, you know, we did something really interesting with Russia on this Iranian issue. The Iranians said, it's our sovereign right to have nuclear power. And I said, yes, it is; it is your sovereign right. But we can't trust you to enrich because you've been hiding your program from international inspectors. And so therefore, we will join—we agree with Russia when they said, you can have a plant, and we, Russia, will provide you the fuel and collect the fuel, which I strongly support.
And so—the only reason I bring that up is, I know that people think that our relations with Russia are, you know, may not be conducive to constructive action, but we got—we do—and there's no question, there's tensions on some issues.
Q. Okay.
The President. But we can work together as well.
President's Legacy
Q. Okay. Final question: You will have 1 year in office; how do you think you will be remembered as a President?
The President. I think I'll be remembered as a guy who, you know, was dealt some pretty tough issues to deal with, and I dealt with them head-on, and I didn't try to shy away. I didn't, you know, I didn't sacrifice—I was firm, and that I made decisions based upon principles, not based upon the latest Gallup Poll. And that I helped this country protect itself and, at the same time, was unashamed, unabashed at spreading certain values to others, the main one being liberty, whether it be the freedom from forms of government or the freedom from disease and hunger. And that we had a very robust foreign policy in the name of peace.
And at home, that the cornerstone of my policy is to trust the individual American to make the best decisions for his or her family. And that I dealt with not only a tax but recession and a lot of other challenges to our economy, and yet our economy is very strong.We've had 50 consecutive months of uninterrupted job growth, which is the longest in American history. So you know something—but I'll be dead before they finally figure out my administration because history—it takes awhile to get the true history of an administration.
Q. Okay, first we both see how it's going to be. We might not be dead by then. [Laughter]
The President. I don't think so. I think—listen, they're still writing books analyzing George Washington.
Q. That's very true. That's right. And they come to different conclusions in every new book.
The President. They do. And so therefore, my attitude is, if they're analyzing the first President, the 43d President doesn't need to worry about it. The key thing that people need to know is, I make up my decisions based upon principles, not based upon politics—you know, what's good for a political party or trying to be popular. If you chase popularity, you can't lead. And popularity is just like—it comes and goes. And I've never been one to really worry about that, you know? Because when it's all said and done, I think the key thing in life is to look in the mirror and say, I didn't compromise my core beliefs. And I believe people will say that about me.
Q. Thank you very much, Mr. President.
The President. You're welcome. Thanks for coming.
Note: The interview was taped at 2:33 p.m. in the Map Room at the White House for later broadcast. The transcript was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on November 7. A tape was not available for verification of the content of this interview.
Title: Week Ending Friday, November 9, 2007
Chicago: George W. Bush, "Interview With Rtl Television and N-Tv of Germany, November 6, 2007," Week Ending Friday, November 9, 2007 in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, November 9, 2007 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2007), 43:1469-1473 1470–1473. Original Sources, accessed July 18, 2019, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=1AA2I4YNBV8Z59L.
MLA: Bush, George W. "Interview With Rtl Television and N-Tv of Germany, November 6, 2007." Week Ending Friday, November 9, 2007, in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, November 9, 2007 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2007), 43:1469-1473, pp. 1470–1473. Original Sources. 18 Jul. 2019. www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=1AA2I4YNBV8Z59L.
Harvard: Bush, GW, 'Interview With Rtl Television and N-Tv of Germany, November 6, 2007' in Week Ending Friday, November 9, 2007. cited in , United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, November 9, 2007 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2007), 43:1469-1473, pp.1470–1473. Original Sources, retrieved 18 July 2019, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=1AA2I4YNBV8Z59L.


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namespace absl {
ABSL_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
namespace {

// These atomics represent logging library configuration.
// Integer types are used instead of absl::LogSeverity to ensure that a
// lock-free std::atomic is used when possible.
ABSL_CONST_INIT std::atomic<int> min_log_level{
    static_cast<int>(absl::LogSeverityAtLeast::kInfo)};
ABSL_CONST_INIT std::atomic<int> stderrthreshold{
    static_cast<int>(absl::LogSeverityAtLeast::kError)};
// We evaluate this value as a hash comparison to avoid having to
// hold a mutex or make a copy (to access the value of a string-typed flag) in
// very hot codepath.
ABSL_CONST_INIT std::atomic<size_t> log_backtrace_at_hash{0};
ABSL_CONST_INIT std::atomic<bool> prepend_log_prefix{true};

ABSL_INTERNAL_ATOMIC_HOOK_ATTRIBUTES
absl::base_internal::AtomicHook<log_internal::LoggingGlobalsListener>
    logging_globals_listener;

size_t HashSiteForLogBacktraceAt(absl::string_view file, int line) {
  return absl::HashOf(file, line);
}

void TriggerLoggingGlobalsListener() {
  auto* listener = logging_globals_listener.Load();
  if (listener != nullptr) listener();
}

}  // namespace

namespace log_internal {

void RawSetMinLogLevel(absl::LogSeverityAtLeast severity) {
  min_log_level.store(static_cast<int>(severity), std::memory_order_release);
}

void RawSetStderrThreshold(absl::LogSeverityAtLeast severity) {
  stderrthreshold.store(static_cast<int>(severity), std::memory_order_release);
}

void RawEnableLogPrefix(bool on_off) {
  prepend_log_prefix.store(on_off, std::memory_order_release);
}

void SetLoggingGlobalsListener(LoggingGlobalsListener l) {
  logging_globals_listener.Store(l);
}

}  // namespace log_internal

absl::LogSeverityAtLeast MinLogLevel() {
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      min_log_level.load(std::memory_order_acquire));
}

void SetMinLogLevel(absl::LogSeverityAtLeast severity) {
  log_internal::RawSetMinLogLevel(severity);
  TriggerLoggingGlobalsListener();
}

namespace log_internal {

ScopedMinLogLevel::ScopedMinLogLevel(absl::LogSeverityAtLeast severity)
    : saved_severity_(absl::MinLogLevel()) {
  absl::SetMinLogLevel(severity);
}
ScopedMinLogLevel::~ScopedMinLogLevel() {
  absl::SetMinLogLevel(saved_severity_);
}

}  // namespace log_internal

absl::LogSeverityAtLeast StderrThreshold() {
  return static_cast<absl::LogSeverityAtLeast>(
      stderrthreshold.load(std::memory_order_acquire));
}

void SetStderrThreshold(absl::LogSeverityAtLeast severity) {
  log_internal::RawSetStderrThreshold(severity);
  TriggerLoggingGlobalsListener();
}

ScopedStderrThreshold::ScopedStderrThreshold(absl::LogSeverityAtLeast severity)
    : saved_severity_(absl::StderrThreshold()) {
  absl::SetStderrThreshold(severity);
}

ScopedStderrThreshold::~ScopedStderrThreshold() {
  absl::SetStderrThreshold(saved_severity_);
}

namespace log_internal {

bool ShouldLogBacktraceAt(absl::string_view file, int line) {
  const size_t flag_hash =
      log_backtrace_at_hash.load(std::memory_order_acquire);

  return flag_hash != 0 && flag_hash == HashSiteForLogBacktraceAt(file, line);
}

}  // namespace log_internal

void SetLogBacktraceLocation(absl::string_view file, int line) {
  log_backtrace_at_hash.store(HashSiteForLogBacktraceAt(file, line),
                              std::memory_order_release);
}

bool ShouldPrependLogPrefix() {
  return prepend_log_prefix.load(std::memory_order_acquire);
}

void EnableLogPrefix(bool on_off) {
  log_internal::RawEnableLogPrefix(on_off);
  TriggerLoggingGlobalsListener();
}

ABSL_NAMESPACE_END
}  // namespace absl


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Airports: Much More Than Buildings
Airports are complicated systems of business operations, infrastructure, people and dependencies. Their performance requirements during and after natural disasters are unique, and past experience in natural disasters is the best guide to identifying and managing risks. Frequently, low-cost improvements such as realistic emergency planning can reduce risks significantly, but doing so requires a thorough understanding of the weak links and risks facing the airport.
We have worked with some of the biggest airports in the world to help manage their strategic risks, including Los Angeles International Airport, Istanbul Atatürk Airport, San Francisco International Airport, and many others. We have investigated dozens more after disasters and know where to focus resources to identify problems and manage risks to reduce business interruptions and financial loss. Contact us to learn more.
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