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What Instagram's New Algorithm Update Means
May 1, 2022 Sophia Vergara
Consistently creating high-quality, engaging, and relevant content across social channels can be incredibly difficult and time-consuming for marketers.
To combat those challenges, most marketers have relied on reposting content from other creators and brands as an opportunity to fill in their social calendars and provide valuable content on a more consistent basis.
In fact, reposting is an incredibly popular option for sharing information, funny memes, or interesting trends with your own audiences without needing to re-create the wheel — consider, for instance, how Instagram's #repost hashtag has over 560 million posts.
But as of April 20, 2022, reposted content will no longer be rewarded. Here's what Instagram's new algorithm update means for marketers.
Instagram's New Algorithm Update Means
What Instagram's New Algorithm Update Means for Marketers and Creators Alike
Original Content Will Be Prioritized
On April 20, Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, tweeted an announcement that Instagram is now ranking based off originality.
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We've added new ways to tag and improved ranking:
– Product Tags
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Creators are so important to the future of Instagram, and we want to make sure that they are successful and get all the credit they deserve. pic.twitter.com/PP7Qa10oJr
– Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) April 20, 2022
As he puts it, "If you create something from scratch, you should get more credit than if you're re-sharing something you found from someone else. We're going to do more to try and value original content more, particularly compared to re-posted content."
On the surface, this seems like a fair deal. If a marketer goes through the trouble to create a unique, original infographic, for instance, she should be rewarded by getting her post ranked higher in the algorithm than someone who is re-posting her same infographic.
Additionally, this is a good experience for users. Instagram users don't want their feeds to be cluttered with all the same content, reposted again and again. Each time they scroll, they want to see fresh, new posts.
However, 'originality' can be a difficult thing to define. For instance: Is it still considered original if it's a branded video that was first posted on your YouTube account, and then re-posted to your Instagram Stories?
Or — what if your CEO is mentioned in another brand's post, and you want to re-share with your own audience?
As Mosseri said on Twitter in response to one question"The idea is if you made it, it's original. It's okay if you edited it outside of Instagram and then bring it in via the gallery. Identifying 'originality' is hard though, so we will iterate over time."
It's looking like this decision is primarily designed to decrease the amount of aggregator accounts on the social platform — accounts which are focused on compilations of other creators' content, like @HilariousYouTubeVids or @CelebFashionInspo.
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing for marketers. It can be incredibly difficult to get your content in front of new audiences, particularly when you're competing against the same re-posted TikTok video from 50 different accounts.
It's equally exciting for content creators. In the past, if you created a funny Instagram Stories video and someone re-posted it to their Instagram feed where it gained a ton of traction, you wouldn't necessarily reap the benefits from that – the re-poster would get the views, likes, and shares.
Now, Instagram is rewarding originality, so if you're the first one to create and share a piece of content, this new algorithm update should help you remain the sole beneficiary.
Plus, as Mosseri disclosed in response to another tweetInstagram's algorithm already prioritizes original content, so this is nothing new. The photo-sharing app is simply leaning more heavily in this direction and re-evaluating the AI systems they currently use to detect original content.
To recap, Instagram's new shift towards rewarding original content will:
Largely penalize aggregator sites. So if your entire account is based off posting funny videos from other people's accounts, you could see a decrease in ranking. If your account is mostly filled with original content, you shouldn't be impacted.
Be iterated on over time. Instagram is still working to define what 'originality' means, and as Mosseri puts it, it will take time to get it right when it comes to identifying what's truly original.
Allow you to post content you've created and edited outside the app. Feel comfortable posting your own content that you've already posted on your other social channels, as well as any content you've edited outside of Instagram. Since you made it, it's still original.
Reconsider your strategy if you primarily post user-generated content. There's plenty of proof that user-generated content (UGC) is an effective marketing strategy, and it's not going anywhere. However, if your entire feed is made up of re-posted content from your customers, you might want to reconsider the ratio of UGC to original content. To get around this, consider creating original branded content with quotes or short videos from your customers and advocates.
Instagram's Algorithm Update Will Also Offer Product Tags and Enhanced People Tags
This is part of a larger Instagram algorithm update, which will also now offer product tags to everyone (they were previously only given to select accounts), as well as enhanced people tags (which allows you to provide a short description beneath your name that will show up when users click on the tags in a post, like 'Caroline Forsey: Writer').
In response to the question Why now?, Mosseri says, "As we lean more into recommendations it's becoming increasingly important that [we] don't overvalue aggregators, as that would be bad for creators, and therefore bad for Instagram long term."
Ultimately, Instagram's goal here is to ensure its users' feeds don't just become one big replica of the same few messages. And that's a good thing: It means there will be more space, moving forward, for your branded content to reach new audiences, and you'll see a reward for the hard work of creating unique, one-of-a-kind content.
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Rava Ranch
HWA has worked in conjunction with Kirell Energy to provide generator paralleling switchgear for three (3) 1,200 kilowatt, 12,470-volt natural gas engine generators for Rava Ranch. This supports a large cold-storage building to freeze fresh spinach, lettuce, garlic, and red onion.
The plant will operate during peak demand periods offering Rava Ranch a lower-cost source of electrical power for their facilities. However, the plant also communicates with the California ISO facility in Folsom, California, and is critical for maintaining the reliability and accessibility of California's power grid. Rava Ranch can remove its load from California's power grid and switches to on-site electrical power generation upon requests by the ISO.
New Stanford Hospital
HWA, and its partner Schneider Electric, have been working over the past two-years to provide critical Uninterruptible Power System (UPS) and generator paralleling switchgear for new hospital planned to open in 2018. We have worked closely with Sasco Electric, who has a design-build contract with the joint venture of Clark Construction and McCarthy Construction. The central standby plant involves five (5) 2,000 kilowatt engine generators operating at 12,470-volts.
We are also supplying fifty (50) bypass/isolation automatic transfer switches to move loads between the public power utility and on-site standby generators. Our equipment is being produced and tested at our factories to support planned commissioning in late 2016. We have also supplied two (2) 400 kilowatt UPS systems to support the critical IT infrastructure of the hospital.
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HWA, started working at the beginning of this project with Arup Consulting Engineers in San Francisco, California.
After a two-year design phase, we joined the construction team along with Peterson Power, a local Caterpillar engine dealer, and Rosendin Electric.
Our role was to provide engine generator paralleling switchgear to control three (3) 2,500 kilowatt, 480-volt engine generators supporting the hospital's complete standby power needs. Every electrical circuit in the hospital is supported by this system. Along with the switchgear, we supplied a twenty-seven (27) closed transition automatic transfer switches to control all of the loads in the hospital. With the closed transition feature of these transfer switches, the operating engineers can test the system without interrupting the hospital's loads.

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This year was another great year of people donating golf balls and equipment to the First Tee. We collected 5,500 golf balls as well as 34 golf bags, over 100 woods, irons and putters. There were 17 full sets of clubs, some of which looked like they have never been used. In addition 19 pairs of shoes, gloves, four pull carts, thousands of tees and lots of other golf items including some clothing.
The collection came at a great time for the First Tee as they have a sale each year to sell the items that they cannot use for the kids and use the money from that sale to buy the items that are needed.
The goal of The First Tee of Phoenix is to incorporate responsibility, courtesy, honesty and integrity, all values inherent in the game of golf, into the daily lives of those who participate. By using the fundamentals of golf The First Tee of Phoenix equips youth with the skills needed to follow their dreams, advance academically and athletically, strengthen their social abilities and become productive members of their local community.
Russ Stocek has collected the golf equipment each year so that everyone could empty their garage or golf cabinet of the items that they no longer need. Since some of us buy new equipment occasionally (or frequently!) it is a great time to clean out that cabinet. He has done this for the last six years and will probably do it again next year. So save up those used golf balls or that putter that no longer works or even that driver that has lost some of its distance. Next spring will be the 2017 collection.


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Martin scores in three straight for Harbour View FC U20s
Michael Martin (file photo)
When Michael Martin left Cayman Brac to play football in Jamaica last year, he wanted to prove he belonged with the big boys. To say he's fit in well at Harbour View FC could very well be an understatement. The teenager appears to be on a hot streak for the "Stars from the East".
He's scored for the club's Under-20 side in three straight matches, and finds a spot coming off the bench for the senior men's team in the Red Stripe Premier League.
Martin scored his first goal for the club on 28 March in an Under-20 league match against Rockfort FC as part of a 4-2 win. A week later, on 4 April, he did the same in a home game as part of a 4-0 win over New Kingston. Then on 11 April, he found the back again in a 2-0 triumph over Brown's Town FC.
Michael Martin (far right) with HVFC teammates. (photo courtesy HVFC)
In a Red Stripe Premier League game on 13 April, Martin entered came on as a substitute in the 73rd minute and fired a 23-yard left footer that struck the upright – a few inches difference and that would have been his sensational first goal for the senior side. HVFC drew 1-1 with Jamalco, who were relegated from the Jamaican top flight.
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Harbour View FC Premier League and Under 20 Head Coach, Ludlow Bernard, has been impressed with Martin's play.
"Michael has grown over the time that he has been here," Bernard told CaymanSportsBuzz.com. "He realises that he has to do more as the competition is a lot greater. He possesses the qualities to be an impact player as he has a never say die attitude when playing. Very competitive, aggressive and a desire to be persistent are some of the qualities of the 'little man'," he added.
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My hot run continues! Yesterday, three out of my four round robin groups came within 1 single game away from winning 3 out of 3. Had the ball bounced in my favor yesterday, I could have turned my $100,000 winning streak into a $150,000 winning streak. But no sweat. I gave back only $11,000 of my winnings yesterday after going on a December winning streak where you've already witnessed me take $5,600 and turned it into $104,346.51!
While other touts typically sit back and tell you how much they can theoretically win, I only want you to judge me based on my action. Take this week for example. Since the beginning of this week on Monday, I have wagered a total of $49,400 on my picks, and ended up walking away with $105,247.67!
Since the beginning of December, I have taken just thousands of dollars and turned that into over $100,000!
Want proof? Click here to watch my video yesterday where I fully document my entire winning streak from $5,600 to $104,346.51! You'll see proof of every single betting ticket I placed this month here in this video.
So there you have it. I started this month in December with just $5,600. By yesterday, I had turned that into well over $100,000.
But I'm not done yet. I'm not satisfied until I show you my winning streaks that run into the millions. To me, a $100K winning streak is only the beginning.
The key to my strategy is having the patience and the discipline to ride out the waves until the hot streaks hit. I do not sweat the small losses, and you should not either. When a Round Robin group fails, it's as if you've just folded a bad hand in poker. No sweat. I don't care about the bad days where I lose thousands of dollars when I know that I could make hundreds of thousands and more on my hot streaks.
My hot streaks happen every sports season because the patterns I'm looking for are known to form every single sports season. While it's not possible to exactly predict when the patterns will form, I know that they always eventually do form. Once that happens, I accelerate to go on my monster hot streaks.
What you've witnessed so far in December where I have turned $5,600 to over $100,000 is just the start of what I truly want to show you. Mark my words: I'm not satisfied until I show you my multimillion-dollar winning runs.
Today, I will once again put my money where my mouth is by betting $20,000 on my picks. So if for any reason I can't help you win today, then that's how much money I could be out.
How's that for having your back? Isn't it a good feeling to know that the man who's giving you picks is the same professional sports bettor who has tens of thousands of dollars riding on the same plays? Simply put: I cannot win unless I can also help YOU win. By betting tens of thousands on the same picks I'm sharing with you, I have absolutely no choice but to win if I want to benefit from this program.
If all goes well today, you could see me extend my winning streak to $150,000 – $200,000 by the end of today. If I end up winning $100,000 today, then how would you feel if you only sit back on the sidelines and watch it happens instead of sharing into the success?


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Eavesdropping on Roy Cohn and Donald Trump
By Marcus Baram
Donald Trump and Roy Cohn in October, 1984. Many of Trump's private conversations with his late mentor were eavesdropped on by Cohn's longtime switchboard operator and courier.
PHOTOGRAPH BY BETTMANN / GETTY
In early March, President Trump sent four tweets accusing his predecessor of wiretapping the phones in Trump Tower in the months before the 2016 election. The tweets were just the latest manifestation of Trump's preoccupation with eavesdropping and surveillance—one that can be traced back decades. As BuzzFeed's Aram Roston reported last summer, during the mid-two-thousands, Trump kept a telephone console in his bedroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort, in Palm Beach, that allowed him to listen in on phone calls between his employees and, sometimes, staff and guests. (Trump denied this.) In the mid-nineteen-eighties, Trump allowed Tony Schwartz, his ghostwriter, to listen in on his private phone calls with bankers, lawyers, and developers, as Schwartz wrote "The Art of the Deal." And, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, many of Trump's private conversations with his late mentor, the lawyer Roy Cohn, were eavesdropped on by Cohn's longtime switchboard operator and courier, whose activities were later exposed.
Cohn, who had been an aide to Senator Joe McCarthy, in the nineteen-fifties, was a political fixer and lawyer who represented New York power brokers, from the Yankees owner George Steinbrenner to the mob boss Carlo Gambino. Trump was one of his favorite clients; before Cohn's death, of AIDS-related complications, in 1986, the two men talked up to five times a day and partied together at Studio 54 and other night clubs. "Roy was brutal, but he was a very loyal guy," Trump told the writer Tim O'Brien, in 2005. "He brutalized for you."
Christine Seymour had recently graduated from Sarah Lawrence College when she started working at the back of Cohn's office as a switchboard operator, connecting calls with clients including Nancy Reagan, Gloria Vanderbilt, and the mobsters Gambino and Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno. "She listened in to all of them," Susan Bell, Cohn's longtime secretary, recalled recently. "Not at his direction, but he knew." A pretty brunette, Seymour was, according to her brothers, brash and funny, with a gossipy sense of humor. Cohn had his reasons for tolerating her behavior. "She was very efficient, and he liked that about her," Bell said. "She would work anytime, day or night. She was always at his beck and call."
After Cohn died and his law firm dissolved, Seymour left the city and moved to Florida. She settled in Key Colony Beach, a sleepy town at the bottom of the Keys, where, in the early nineties, she started writing a book, "Surviving Roy Cohn," based on her notes on the eavesdropped calls. It must have seemed an ideal moment for a project that promised to take the reader inside the town house of one of the most scandalous figures in recent New York history. In 1993, James Woods was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of Cohn in an HBO biopic, "Citizen Cohn," and "Angels in America," Tony Kushner's play dramatizing Cohn's struggle with AIDS, had débuted to acclaim on Broadway.
On the morning of May 5, 1994, the New York Post ran a column by Cindy Adams with the headline "Savvy Chris Spills the Beans on Roy Cohn." In her characteristically breezy manner, Adams wrote about Seymour's book project, listing the secrets she would expose. ("How a porno flick was filmed in the office and business was conducted while someone was being whipped"; "How Sen. Joe McCarthy hid the fact that he was gay. . . .") "Chris taped conversations," she wrote. "She kept a log—three spiral notebooks a day—of transactions." Adams wrote that Seymour "monitored every call in or out, knew everything, everyone, knew where all the bodies were buried." The story ricocheted through the city, and Cohn's former law partners and staffers received phone calls from several other anxious clients, worried that their secrets would be revealed.
Five months later, on October 20, 1994, Seymour was driving her blue two-door Yugo on a highway in Florida at dusk when she collided head-on with a tractor-trailer and was instantly killed. She was forty-six, and the book was still unfinished. Seymour's collaborator on the book, an author and literary agent named Jeffrey Schmidt, was at home on Long Island when he got the call from Seymour's mother, Adele, who lived in nearby Shoreham. As he recalled recently, on hearing the news of Seymour's death, he panicked, took a box of the notebooks, and burned them.
As for the recordings, none of Cohn's former employees can confirm that Christine made any. But Christine's brother, Brian, who once worked as a crew member on Cohn's eighty-foot yacht, Defiance, told me that when Christine moved to Florida, she had handed him three small reel-to-reel tapes that she claimed she had made. The tapes were, he recalled, "in god-awful shape, spooled and unspooled and crinkled." He stored them in his mother's attic, where he later found them, in 2009, after she passed away. "We just tossed them in the trash," he told me. In the spring of 1995, Schmidt told the syndicated columnist Liz Smith that some tapes still existed and would soon be the basis for a Broadway musical, written by Seymour and Schmidt, with music by Jeanette Cooper. "Nothing Sacred" is really Seymour's story; her eavesdropping is at the heart of the drama. The play kicks off with Cohn's voice "heard over the telephone wire." On one of her first days, she tells a colleague that Cohn is on the phone with Nancy Reagan, adding, "Oh, I wish I could hear what they're saying." The office manager replies, "Go ahead and listen. Roy doesn't mind." Later, she adds, "Some of the most important conversations of the twentieth century have come through the switchboard. And they're all on tape." One of the first songs includes the line, "This damn phone, needs a chaperone / Someone who'll defend, the fortress of a friend / In exchange she'll learn things she would never know." After one staged reading of "Nothing Sacred," in the winter of 1997, at the Dicapo Opera Theatre, on the Upper East Side, Schmidt got caught up in other projects, he said, and the play was never produced.
Schmidt still lives in Stony Brook, on Long Island, where he runs NYCreative Management, a literary agency. Last September, we met at the Strand one afternoon and then walked across the street for a cup of coffee. It was a warm afternoon, but Schmidt was wearing a black suit with a bright yellow tie. He handed me a yellow packing envelope, containing "some things left behind in Roy's office." Inside the envelope were several floppy disks, a cassette tape, the "Nothing Sacred" screenplay, a 1981 invitation to a Ronald Reagan Presidential Inauguration party, the consent form to participate in an AIDS drug trial, a few faded photographs, and dozens of notes, some of them stained, written in Seymour's hasty longhand. The notes contain lists of the clients who called Cohn's office, including their personal phone numbers; Seymour's reminiscences of her experience working with Cohn, including lunch orders for pepper-sausage-and-mushroom pizza slices; and her description of Cohn's conversations with Trump, Steinbrenner, Vanderbilt, and Nancy Reagan, among others, and what appear to be direct quotes from some of those phone calls—although it's almost impossible to know how much of Seymour's account in the notebooks and script is true.
Some of the Roy Cohn-related documents that are still in Jeffrey Schmidt's possession, including the handwritten notes of Cohn's switchboard operator, Christine Seymour. PHOTOGRAPH BY JOSÉ GINARTE FOR THE NEW YORKER
PHOTOGRAPH BY JOSÉ GINARTE FOR THE NEW YORKER
One of Seymour's notes describes Cohn's efforts to advance the judicial career of Trump's sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, who served as a federal appeals-court judge for decades, until stepping down soon after Trump assumed the Presidency: "Roy got the White House to give her her judgeship," Seymour writes. "Roy was out and the call came in to tell her she got it. I took the call and called her to tell her. Ten minutes later, Donald called to say thank you." (Barry did not respond to requests for comment.)
Seymour also describes some of Cohn's political dirty tricks, including that he had researched Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee, with the assistance of Trump's adviser Roger Stone. ("Roger Stone—worked with Roy very heavily before and after elections. Was the one with Roy to find out the dirt on the Ferraros.") Stone, who first met Trump through Cohn, initially did not think much of the brash young real-estate developer, Seymour's notes indicate. "Roger did not like Donald Trump or his new house, told me they were losers, but if Roy used them, he would, too," she writes. When I recently asked Stone about this, he said the "notes make no sense," adding, "I was very impressed with Donald Trump when I met him."
According to Seymour's notes, Cohn's frequent phone pals included Nancy Reagan and the former C.I.A. director William Casey, who "called Roy almost daily during [Reagan's] 1st election." Cohn also enlisted his friend and the owner of the New York Post, Rupert Murdoch, to help bring down Ferraro's campaign: "Whenever Roy wanted a story stopped or item put in, or story exploited, i.e Ferraro—and her family, Roy called Murdoch." Cohn killed stories that would hurt his friends. When he found out that "60 Minutes" was about to do a negative story about Reagan's potential Vice-President, Senator Paul Laxalt, of Nevada, "Roy called the producer of 60 Minutes and asked him to take it off the schedule." The longtime "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman, who didn't talk to Cohn himself, confirms that the story never aired amid pressure from lawyers, including Cohn.
Another note says, "Donald was the last one Roy spoke to on the phone," perhaps referring to Cohn's last days, in 1986. Seymour also noted that Trump could be "two-faced," and described how he had once heard from an assistant that a lawyer working for Cohn wanted to leave his firm and immediately told Cohn about the treachery. Trump "did things like that always. Roy's line on him: 'He pisses ice water!' " It appears that Trump was aware of her eavesdropping; Seymour claims that Trump told Cohn that she was listening in on the phone calls. Seymour's jottings also suggest that she had eavesdropped on the call between Cohn and his doctor on November 4, 1984, when Cohn was told that he had been diagnosed with AIDS. A poignant note records that, when he got the news, Cohn responded, "Should I commit suicide now or later?"
Some of Seymour's claims in the notes are disputed by Bell, who says that Cohn rarely called the White House, though he was friendly with Nancy Reagan. Bell also doubts that Cohn's last conversation was with Trump, who, she said, abandoned his lawyer when he found out that Cohn was H.I.V.-positive. "They were so close, they talked at least several times a week," she said. "And as soon as he found out, he took all his cases away from Roy except for one and got new lawyers. After all they'd been through together." But the notes, and the lingering mystery of what secrets were contained in the lost notebooks, continue to inspire rumors and, perhaps, a legacy of paranoia. Brian Seymour told me that Christine had a photographic memory, but he can't say for sure what is true and what isn't. "She probably knew a lot about a lot of things, but she's not here anymore," he said.
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Sullivan Requests IG Investigation of Senior Biden Interior Officials Targeting Alaska
Senator decries Biden administration's "War on Alaska" with 20 executive actions
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, yesterday sent a letter to the inspector general (IG) of the Department of the Interior (DOI) requesting an investigation of four senior political appointees in the department who are allegedly working on matters directly related to and benefitting their previous clients and work. The officials mentioned by Sen. Sullivan are Nada Culver, deputy director of policy and programs at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM); Natalie Landreth, deputy solicitor for lands at DOI; Laura Daniel Davis, deputy assistant secretary for land and mineral management at DOI; and Robert Anderson, solicitor at DOI. In his letter, Sullivan alleges that the officials have clear conflicts of interest, violating federal ethics laws, having worked to halt certain resource development projects in Alaska in their prior positions with environmental advocacy groups, and subsequently working to halt those same projects as executive branch employees.
The Alaska projects described include the Willow Project in the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska (NPR-A), the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) oil and gas leasing program, and the Ambler Road project—all projects that have been slowed or stopped by the Biden administration DOI.
In addition to requesting the ethics investigation, Sen. Sullivan has requested a series of documents, within 30 days, from the DOI IG, including signed and dated ethics pledges for each official, recusals or ethics waivers issued by or to any of the officials, and any communications between the DOI officials and their former employers or clients since their appointments.
Sen. Sullivan announced his letter in a speech on the Senate floor last night. In his remarks, Sullivan decried an ongoing "anti-Alaska agenda" and "war on Alaska working families" by the Biden administration through its issuance of 20 executive orders and actions specifically focused on the state since coming into office in January. Sullivan also criticized Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) for leading efforts among members of Congress to block investment and projects in Alaska, while New Mexico has received nearly half of all drilling permits approved nationwide on federal lands in the past year.
Below is a full transcript of the senator's floor speech:
Madam President, today, I wanted to rise on the Senate floor and talk about a topic of utmost importance to my State, the great people I have the privilege of representing, and what the Biden administration is doing to good, hard?working American families in Alaska. It is what I call the "anti?Alaska agenda," or the Biden administration's war on working families.
I know that Americans all across the country have felt pain—economic pain, health pain, unfortunately, too many deaths as a result of the pandemic. Right now, we are seeing high energy prices and empty shelves. There has been a lot of suffering in America. We are a resilient people, however.
My State, like many, has been hit very hard by the pandemic, particularly economically—our energy sector, our fishing sector, our tourism sector. And as we are coming out of this pandemic and everybody is trying to work together—we all want growth and opportunity in America—we have now been hit with this.
This administration has issued, in its first 9 months in office, 20 Executive orders or Executive actions solely focused on Alaska. I came down to the floor 2 weeks ago to talk about this. It was 19 then. You wait a week or two with the Biden administration in Alaska, and it is up to 20. I am sure they have a lot more ready to go. Twenty. There is no State in America that is getting this kind of attention from the Biden administration, and we don't want it.
What I am going to be continuing to ask my Senate colleagues to do—and I am going to start with the President of the United States, who was a U.S. Senator for many years, decades—put yourself in the shoes of the people I represent.
Let's imagine that a Republican administration comes into office and issues 20 Executive orders or Executive actions focused on Delaware—tiny, little Delaware. The Senators from Delaware, including the former Senator, now?President, would be down on the floor of the U.S. Senate raising Cain, raising heck—I don't think I am allowed to swear here—because of this, because they want to stick up for the people they represent. Imagine that.
These Executive orders and actions are not some kind of simple abstractions; they are 20 orders and actions that go to the heart of what Alaskans do in terms of our economy: work, keeping food on the table, keeping lights on in their homes, paying the mortgage, keeping their kids in college, keeping their cultures thriving, keeping our communities from crumbling, particularly in rural Alaska. Some of the poorest communities in America are where this administration is targeting the people I represent.
Very few people in my State—Democrat, Republican, Native, non?Native—support this war against Alaska. This is not a partisan issue back home, and here is why: because real people, real families, real communities are being hurt—your fellow Americans. It has got to stop.
I have demanded a meeting with the President and his team to just walk him through this. Mr. President, do you know what you are doing to one of your States that you are sworn to defend?
These orders threaten the well?being of my entire State, but they particularly threaten the people who live in rural Alaska, who are dependent on the land and natural resources for so much of their economy, so much of their tax base.
Here is the thing. I know what some of my colleagues or those who are watching are saying: Oh, it is just resource development issues in Alaska. Well, I will talk about that. It is some of that, but it is not just resource development issues that are happening here. Let me give you one that really burns me up.
We had a bipartisan bill last year, last Congress, to provide what you will now call racial justice, racial equity, to Alaskan Native Vietnam veterans who served their country when most Americans were avoiding service and missed out, because they were overseas fighting for their nation, on the opportunity to apply for what is called a land allotment. There was a deadline that happened, a complete injustice.
Native Vietnam veterans coming home, not treated well because they are Native, not treated well because they are Vietnam veterans, and then told: "Oh, by the way, the land you were supposed to get, you don't qualify."
So we got a bill passed to say that is an injustice. The previous administration signed it. They were implementing it. And when this administration came into office, the number one issue I asked Secretary Haaland to commit to was to finish getting the Executive order out on these land allotments, to implement this bipartisan bill, because these Native Vietnam veterans aren't living that long.
The administration delayed it for 2 years. Why? It has nothing do to with oil and gas or mining. Why? These Vietnam vets, many aren't going to live for 2 more years. They did it anyway.
That is one of 20. Let me give you another one.
We have had, down in Southeast Alaska, the issue of the Tongass—that is the largest national forest in the country. Every elected official—Governor, Senator, Democrat, Republican—in Alaska, the last 30 years, has pressed with the Roadless Rule, an exemption to the Roadless Rule, so we can have an economy there; roads for Southeast communities. Every elected Governor or U.S. Senator, didn't matter the party, that is how important this was. We were able to get an exemption in the last administration. I appreciate what President Trump did on that.
This administration comes in, and they reverse it. One of the 20. Guess how we, the Alaska delegation, found out about that reversal. A front?page story in the Washington Post. The Secretary of Agriculture wanted to brief the Washington Post and all of the extreme environmental groups who wanted this before they let the people of Alaska or their representatives know. These are the examples.
And, yes, the list also includes resource development projects. But here is the thing on that—I have a folder full of letters. These are letters from the elected leaders, Tribal leaders, borough leaders, Alaska Native Corp. leaders, Native leaders in my State—dozens of letters. Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation, Native village of Kaktovik—that is a Tribe, City of Utqiagvik, City of Atqasuk, City of Wainwright, Inupiaq Community of the Arctic Slope—that is another Tribe, the Voice of the Inupiat Arctic. These are all Alaskan Native leaders who live on the North Slope, some of whom live in the Arctic National Wildlife area. Every single one of these great leaders in my State, every one, was writing, even begging, this administration not to do this—not to do this. And they ignored them.
This is a letter from Edward Rexford. He is the President of the Native Village of Kaktovik. He wrote to Secretary Deb Haaland after she suspended oil and gas leases in ANWR, which we passed. What the Secretary did, in my view, was clearly illegal.
Edward Rexford wrote: "You have changed our future with one stroke of a pen without any explanation or consultation with us—the tribe that lives within the Coastal Plain."
His village, Kaktovik, is the only village within the coastal area of ANWR. That is it. There is no group of Americans who should have a greater voice in the development of this area than them. But they didn't even get a phone call—not a phone call, not a consultation, Tribal consultation, which is required by law—none of it.
That is all part of the 20 Executive orders and actions that I said are hurting people, hurting communities, hurting families, hurting Native cultures.
I will tell you this: The Biden administration loves to talk about how they are committed to environmental justice and racial equity, but it is with a caveat.
Here is the reality: They want to help unserved minority populations around the country. And I think this is a good goal, but it comes with a caveat: unless, of course, they are indigenous people of Alaska. Then the Biden administration targets them.
Look at this folder. These are communities of color in my State, and all they do is get targeted, not helped; targeted, their economic opportunity. And then the things that most Americans take for granted that don't exist in these communities—clinics, flushed toilets, gymnasiums—all of that comes with economic opportunity. And when you shut it down, you are really hurting indigenous people in some of the most impoverished communities in the country. But I guess they seem OK with that.
I want all of my Senate colleagues to do just a quick thought experiment. Imagine what it would be like, whether you are a Democrat or a Republican—but just think about it: You are a Democrat and a Republican administration comes in or you are a Republican and a Democrat administration comes in and changes the future of your State with a stroke of a pen, as Edward Rexford said, for the people you represent. Imagine an administration coming in with 20 Executive orders in 8 months, shutting down your economy as you are trying to get out of a pandemic.
Every Senator here would be mad. And the one thing I very much enjoy about serving in this body is we are a collegial body. We have our differences, but I certainly have friends on both sides of the aisle. I try to work with everybody, try to be respectful with everybody. The Presiding Officer and I chaired committees together, worked together on a lot of things.
And here is the thing. If a Republican administration came into power and targeted one of my colleague's States with 20 Executive orders in 8 months and whoever it was came to me and said: "Hey, Dan, you know this is unfair. My constituents are really being attacked, really being hurt. Could you reach out to the Republican administration and say: 'Hey, come on. Tone it down. Geez, Louise, 20 Executive orders in one State?'" I would help, and I think almost every Senator here would help. That is what we do here.
And I want to say that some of my Democratic colleagues here, when I have talked about this, when I have told them about this, when I have spoken about this, a number of them have come to me and said: "Hey, Dan, give me the list. Give me the list of 20. Maybe I can't help you on every one of them, all of them. Maybe there are some I actually like. But I do want to try and help." That is what has happened. That is what makes this body a good place. To those Senators, I really want to thank you. And I am going to ask for your help because I would do it for you.
And this is unacceptable. Tens of thousands of people I represent are being hurt by the federal government, by the President and his White House. So I appreciate that from my colleagues. And this is, in general, how this body works. It makes this a special place.
But I will say this. Not all Senators have been so gracious and senatorial and collegial. To the contrary, a few of my colleagues are helping lead the charge in the war on Alaska's working families. They seem to be putting a ton of effort into it themselves. I am not sure why, but they spend a lot of their time and energy focused on doing this: shutting down the Alaska economy, hurting working families, and ridiculously and absurdly, acting as if they speak for the very people I am privileged to represent, as if they don't have enough to do in terms of helping their own constituents.
So I am going to make an example and give an example of one. The leader of this small group is the senior Senator from New Mexico. Here is a sampling—three letters in the last year and a half he has written, signed, or led, focusing on shutting down Alaska's economy and hurting the great people I have the privilege of representing.
Two of these letters deal with the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—controversial, no doubt. In 2017, we voted to provide the opportunity for development in that small area, what we call the 1002 Area. The President signed it. It came into law.
Now, I know most of my colleagues on the Democratic side didn't agree with that. We have legislation we don't agree with. I accept that. I am still very good friends with so many.
But, afterward, the senior Senator from New Mexico led letters to all of the top banks in America and all of the top insurance and financial institutions in America and didn't just say don't invest in ANWR but said "don't invest in any oil and gas development project in the Arctic."
What is that, the Arctic of America? That is my State.
So now you have, as opposed to collegiality, a small group, led by this Senator, writing the biggest banks in America, the biggest financial institutions in America, trying to muscle them, saying: Don't invest anything in Alaska.
That is not what this body is all about. I would never do that to a colleague. I would never write all the banks of America and say: Don't invest in poor communities, Native communities in New Mexico or in the New Mexico oil and gas industry. I wouldn't do that.
Who does that? Well, unfortunately, a few—not many, a few—Senators are doing that.
Absurdly, this Senator had the audacity, in one of his letters, to try to speak for the people I represent. He put in the letter: The people dependent on the Arctic Refuge don't want you to invest there.
That is patently absurd. Just read the letters from all of the people who actually live there, all of the people who live there, who overwhelmingly want opportunities for oil and gas development and for jobs and economic opportunity.
You would think, with all of New Mexico's problems, this Senator would focus on his own constituents.
So I reached out to him and the few others who wrote these letters. I have reached out. I wrote my own letter to them saying: "Hey, I was disappointed to see you do that. Why didn't you come talk to me? I wouldn't do that to you. And, by the way, what you are doing is really going to hurt my constituents."
This is a letter I wrote to this Senator and a few others: I would appreciate the courtesy of talking about this before you go do it. You clearly don't understand the indigenous communities that I represent. I even provided a Wall Street Journal op?ed from the mayor of the North Slope Borough, Harry Brower, the Inupiaq mayor, who had a lot to say to the banks who weren't going to invest in his community.
But I got no response. To the contrary, just a few months ago, this same Senator led a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, asking her to shut down a very important energy development in Alaska called the Willow Project. This is that letter—just about 4 months ago.
Let me talk about the Willow Project. The Willow Project is not in a controversial area; it is in the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska, set aside by Congress decades ago for oil and gas development. Every Native group in Alaska supports this project, all the unions do. 2,000 direct jobs, billions in revenues for some of the poorest communities in America, and the lowest emissions of any major oil and gas development project in America.
This is a huge win?win?win for everybody—not even controversial. Yet the senior Senator from New Mexico wrote Deb Haaland saying: "Shut down the Willow Project in Alaska."
Why is he doing this, literally trying to kill thousands of Alaska jobs and impoverish Alaska Native communities?
Do the people in New Mexico know that their senior Senator spends so much time trying to give Alaska oil and gas workers pink slips and impoverish Native communities? I wonder. I wonder.
I thought, for just a moment, maybe I should do something against New Mexico, but then I was like: "No. You know what, that is not my style. I wouldn't want to hurt New Mexico oil and gas workers or Native communities. They are all great Americans, I am sure. We are a great country. I wouldn't want to target them the way this Senator is targeting my State, trying to hurt thousands of Alaskan working families."
And it should be emphasized, and I want to emphasize, that is not how we work here. That is not what I have seen in my almost seven years in the U.S. Senate, Senators trying to attack other Senators' States, specifically focusing on hurting working families.
The vast majority of the Senators I know wouldn't do that at all. That is not how business is conducted here in the U.S. Senate. To the contrary, most of us generally try to help each other. We don't always agree; that is for sure. But, particularly when States have unique challenges that could hurt their citizens, when my colleagues would come to me and say, "Hey, Dan, can you help out on this," I usually try to help. But I certainly don't go on offense and try to hurt like this administration is doing and the senior Senator from New Mexico.
But I thought the better course to fight back—because I am going to fight back, OK. I am going to fight back. These are my constituents who are hurting. The better course to fight back against these attacks on Alaskan working families was not to try to hurt New Mexicans, but just to show this, the rank hypocrisy of what the senior Senator is actually doing and saying.
One of his main reasons, in this latest letter, to shut down Alaska, in trying to deny Federal permits for the Willow oil and gas project, is to "achieve climate goals." OK? That is in his letter to Deb Haaland.
But if you do just a little digging, this Senator seems fine with trying to achieve these goals on the backs of Alaskan workers and Alaska Natives but not on his own constituents, not on the backs of his own constituents—to the contrary.
Guess which State in America has gotten way more Federal oil and gas drilling permits than any other State in the country. Guess which one. It is certainly not Alaska. It happens to be New Mexico. It just so happens to be New Mexico.
Guess where the Secretary of the Interior is from. New Mexico. Hmm. Is that a coincidence? I wonder, in their frequent phone calls, when they talk about concerns of climate and shutting down oil and gas in Alaska, if shutting down oil and gas in New Mexico ever comes up?
I am pretty sure it doesn't. How do I know that? Because close to half of all oil and gas drilling permits issued by the Department of the Interior, by New Mexican Deb Haaland, in 2021 have gone to one State. What State is that? New Mexico—2,286 Federal oil and gas drilling permits; almost half of all of the permits in the country to one State.
So here is the bottom line. Here is their view. Shut down Alaska, hurt working families in Alaska, supposedly, to help America's climate goals, but then quietly say "drill, baby, drill" in New Mexico, with more permits by far than any other State in the country—almost 2,300. If that is not rank hypocrisy, I don't know what is.
So I am going to start asking questions about this and, by the way, so should the press. I sure hope our friends in the press think that, hmm, there is something a little strange going on here. Clearly, there is hypocrisy happening. But, you know, that happens here occasionally—or maybe more than occasionally. But is there anything else going on?
And I hope the press in New Mexico ask their senior Senator why he is so darn focused on hurting the good people of Alaska—because I wouldn't do that to New Mexican oil and gas workers or New Mexican Native communities.
And finally, I am going to ask questions in another area. The Biden administration is clearly trying to shut down my State. It is there for everybody to see. Everybody back home knows it. But here is the thing. They can't do it illegally, and they can't do it unethically. And right now there is strong evidence that they are doing just that. What do I mean? Today, I sent this letter, that I would like to be printed in the record, to the inspector general of the Department of the Interior.
Here is what I am asking in this letter. There is very strong evidence that at least four senior political appointees at the Department of the Interior who have been involved in many of these 20 Executive orders and Executive actions shutting down my State were actually, in their previous jobs, working on the very same issues and advocating for the very same outcomes—meaning they are working with a special interest group to say shut down the Willow Project.
And then when it came to the Interior, they are working on whether or not to shut down the Willow Project. Now, most of us know, if that is true, that is clearly illegal and clearly unethical.
We have documented in this letter—four senior Department of the Interior officials, all of whom who are trying to shut down my State—and I think there is strong evidence that they are violating ethics laws and violating the law. So I have asked for a detailed investigation by the Department of the Interior inspector general into whether or not these individuals have violated federal ethics laws in their quest to hurt working families in my State.
Let me conclude with this. I am a supporter of responsible resource development in America of all of the above: energy, wind, solar, oil, gas—in every part of our great country, in Alaska, of course, in New Mexico—all across our great land. And I am a supporter of the great men and women who do this in Alaska and New Mexico and Texas and North Dakota.
What is happening in my State right now, this is just wrong, and I am going to fight it. And any other Senator who would be going through what my State is going through, with your constituents being harmed, you would be down on the floor fighting it, too.
The vast majority of the U.S. Senators here—Democrats and Republicans—I think deep down in their hearts know that this is just wrong. You don't come in with a new administration and say, "Hey, let me target one State and beat the heck out of their working families." It is just wrong.
And I am hopeful that my colleagues here—and I am asking them because we need the help. I have great people I represent—proud, tough people, but you can't fight the whole damn federal government when they are focused on shutting you down. So I am hopeful that my colleagues—all of my colleagues—I will share the list of the 20—that you can help me get the Biden administration and some misguided hypocritical U.S. Senators to enact a cease?fire in their war on working families and Native communities in the great State of Alaska.
I yield the floor.


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Grow from your STEM 🌱
December 3rd 2018
🔗 Speaking Tech Events + Conferences
At the end of November, I was invited to be a speaker at a cross-governmental event, "Grow from your STEM" in London. I was able to take a Volunteering Day at work for me to help out at this event – thanks BT!
The Grow From Your Stem Expert Panel
🌸 Giving back
🏃🏻♀ Speed Networking
🎤 Expert Panel
💫 What I took away
Posters on the day highlighting potential STEM Careers
Grow from your STEM aimed to encourage young girls into taking STEM subjects at GCSE, A Levels, and degree level and educate them on the incredible female change-makers in history. There were also a number of workshops that aimed to help with building confidence and interest in various STEM topics. The event welcomed 145 young female students from schools across London with speakers and volunteers all from different STEM backgrounds.
#growfromyourSTEM What an amazing day with women who work in #stem Inspiring future leaders in innovation pic.twitter.com/nR9J4nM8D9
— Bolingbroke Academy (@ARKBolingbroke) November 30, 2018
I was involved in Speed Networking where I spoke to different groups about my journey into my current role describing my experience from school to university. I also answered the girls' questions around confidence, the future of tech, day-to-day working life and more! It was fantastic to see that they were really engaged throughout.
In addition to the Speed Networking section of the day, I was part of the Expert Q+A panel. It was such an honor to speak alongside some truly inspiring women who are building some incredible careers in all aspects of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Maths.
The main discussion points were around confidence, imposter syndrome, fighting stereotypes and persisting through difficult times. The room lit up when we spoke about overcoming our struggles and admitting we went through them which is something that sometimes is overlooked in these events.
Today's @beisgovuk @inspiringtf #GrowfromyourSTEM event helps young women interested in #STEM careers to engage with a diverse range of female role-models, providing them with the information and skills they need to progress in their careers #IndustrialStrategy pic.twitter.com/xbXUpJqQ27
— Dept for BEIS (@beisgovuk) November 30, 2018
Highlighting the positives and benefits of a career in STEM are important (there's a long list, trust me!), but it isn't a rosy, linear journey; there will be some times where you question the path you have taken from the number of challenging situations you may find yourself in. But as one of the panelist said, if it weren't for the screw-ups, she wouldn't have learned and carved the incredible place she is in now. It is about how you react to them that determines the next chapters of your journey!
An inspirational panel of women in various STEM careers answering questions from students #GrowfromyourSTEM pic.twitter.com/PJALN3aXf5
— Grey Court Science (@GreyCourtSci) November 30, 2018
I'm sure that the event inspired the girls into the various career pathways that they can take, but I have to say that the event inspired and encouraged me to keep going in my own career. My imposter syndrome has been going crazy especially recently, but this event helped me so much! We all sometimes need that reminder especially when things can get challenging.
I also learned a lot about the powerful women in history, some of which I admittedly hadn't heard of. This further shows the impact of talking about these role models at a young age in what can be done. I know that if I had attended a similar event when I was younger, my perceptions of career pathways would've been so different and perhaps, I would've felt much more confident trying to pursue a career in technology instead of sidetracking to the other science: Biology.
Grow from your STEM made me become increasingly more grateful for the path that I have taken. Even though I learned that Biology wasn't the right STEM path for me, I'm happy that I completed my degree in Biomedical Sciences because it gave me transferable skills (e.g. problem solving, analytical skills) that are extremely valuable in any industry. It's been a fantastic learning curve and self-development journey even if today, I'm not necessarily talking about cell-to-cell-interactions day in day out!
A photo of me and Victoria
A huge thank you to Siobhan and Victoria for organising this event and for reaching out to me, it was a massive honor! I say this all the time, but I truly believe it, the future is so exciting. I spoke to so many of the future leaders of STEM in that conference room that day which is incredibly exciting.
If you're interested in a career in STEM, check out my BBC Bitsize profile on being my day-to-day in technology.
Sounds like a great experience!
It truly was incredible!
[December 12th 2018 at 1:19 PM]
Mercy says
Girl, you're something. You're so young and you're already a motivational speaker. Nice to know groups and orgs that are into promoting positive outlook on young women.
http://www.busyandfab.com
Thank you so much Mercy, you're too kind!
Claudine says
I really like the concept of Grow from your STEM! As a teenager, I didn't really think I had lots of career options since many fields are considered to be dominated by men. It's so nice that you're introducing this to young girls to help them realize that there *are* options for them and that they shouldn't shy away from these fields! 🙂 I was really fascinated by the career map – I was surprised to see Economics and Finance/Accounting there since I didn't really consider these as STEM degrees! So does that mean I'm actually a STEM degree holder? Wow!
[December 9th 2018 at 12:51 PM]
It honestly is such a privilege to be able to help younger girls with their careers – I think I found another passion!
For sure, girl!
It's so great that these organizations and events are happening all over in your area, and you're able to take such an active role in facilitating the conversations to bring more girls into STEM! I'm pretty sure none of these kinds of things existed when I was in high school, and I was never encouraged to go into tech or the sciences, even though I was in all the same Gifted in Talented/College Level (AP) classes as my male classmates (who, of course, DID go into STEM in college). I think we'll never fully get out of our imposter syndromes, but little by little, I hope the next generation of girls will find a world where that's not the default.
The UK has been jam-packed this year, which could correlate as to why I'm exhausted. 😂 But honestly, this was a fantastic event to be a part of! I hope so too, thanks for inspiring Hiro 🤗
PAULINE! This sounds like a wonderful experience. I'm so proud of you and everything you've accomplished thus far. Keep reaching for the stars and keep walking the walk!
"Walking the walk."
[December 21st 2018 at 7:12 PM]


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Ambassador Ido Aharoni, consul general of Israel in New York, addresses the media outside the Manhattan Municipal Building on June 18. (Courtesy Consulate of Israel in New York)
Outrage Over Kidnapped Israeli Teens Echoes in New York
By Genevieve Belmaker, Epoch Times
June 18, 2014 Updated: June 18, 2014
NEW YORK—An informal coalition of New Yorkers is calling for the release of three teens kidnapped in Israel last week. The boys, Gilad Shaar, 16; Naftali Frenkel, 16; and Eyal Yifrach, 19, have been missing since last week on Thursday. The Israeli government said it believes they were kidnapped in a deliberate act of terrorism by Hamas.
"There's nothing more precious than our children," said New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer during a press conference on Wednesday. The emotion from Stringer, who is a father of two children, and others at the press conference was palpable.
Stringer co-hosted the event with the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, and other community and religious leaders, as well as elected officials.
One of them, Council member Mark Treyger, is a descendant of Holocaust survivors.
"This is not just an attack against Israel, it's an attack against the world," said Treyger, who warned that the motto of "never again" shouldn't be empty words. "Silence is betrayal, and inaction is unacceptable."
The teenage boys were last seen last Thursday night when they were on their way home from school in Gush Etzion, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. The massive search by Israeli military forces has only intensified with the passing days. The U.S. government has condemned the kidnapping, called for the teens' immediate release, and continues to gather details about the abduction.
One of the teenagers, Naftali Frenkel, has dual Israeli-American citizenship and family ties to an aunt, uncle, and cousins in Flatbush, Brooklyn, as well as other relatives in upstate New York. He is described as an upbeat young man who likes to play guitar and read the Torah. The other teens are described as generous and kind. Yifrach loves to play tennis and volunteered to attend a different school to help less fortunate children. Gilad works as a youth counselor and is known for being an outstanding baker.
On Wednesday, Ambassador Ido Aharoni, consul general of Israel in New York, remarked on the incredibly strong bond between New York and Israel.
"The outpouring of support from our friends here in New York, the United States, and around the world are being heard and felt throughout Israel," said Aharoni.
If the teens are still missing next week, a gathering of 30 community organizations plans to rally in front of the Israeli Consulate at noon on June 24.


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Justia Dockets & Filings Eighth Circuit Arkansas Eastern District Waller v. Kelley et al Filing 17
Waller v. Kelley et al
ORDER ADOPTING 13 Partial Report and Recommendations in their entirety; the U.S. Marshal is directed to serve summons, complaints 2 11 , and this Order on defts without prepayment of fees and costs. Signed by Chief Judge J. Leon Holmes on 2/7/12. (vjt)
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS NORTHERN DIVISION KENNETH L. WALLER, JR. ADC #103829 v. PLAINTIFF No. 1:11CV00095 JLH/JTR WENDY KELLEY, Deputy Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. DEFENDANTS ORDER The Court has reviewed the Proposed Findings and Recommended Partial Disposition submitted by United States Magistrate Judge J. Thomas Ray and the filed objections. After carefully considering these documents and making a de novo review of the record in this case, the Court concludes that the Proposed Findings and Recommended Partial Disposition should be, and hereby are, approved and adopted in their entirety as this Court's findings in all respects. IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that: 1. Plaintiff's FTCA claims against all of the Defendants are DISMISSED, WITH PREJUDICE, for failing to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. 2. Plaintiff's pendent state law negligence and outrage claims against Defendant Kelley are DISMISSED, WITH PREJUDICE, because she is entitled to statutory immunity under Ark. Code. Ann. § 19–10–305. 3. Plaintiff's pendent state law outrage claims against Defendants CMS, Cowell, Bragswell, Horn, Nance, Hutchinson, Armstrong, Waldrupe, Gilbert, and Bridgeman are DISMISSED, WITHOUT PREJUDICE, for failing to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. 4. Plaintiff may PROCEED with his pendent state law negligence claims against Defendants CMS, Cowell, Bragswell, Horn, Nance, Hutchinson, Armstrong, Waldrupe, Gilbert, and Bridgeman. 5. Plaintiff may PROCEED with his Eighth Amendment inadequate medical care claims against all Defendants. 6. The Clerk is directed to prepare a summons for Defendants Cowell, Bragswell, Horn, Nance, Hutchinson, Bridgeman, Armstrong, Waldrupe, Gilbert, and Corizon, Inc. The United States Marshal is directed to serve the summons, Complaint, Amended Complaint, and this Order on them through the Humphries and Lewis law firm without prepayment of fees and costs or security therefor.1 7. The Clerk is directed to prepare a summons for Defendant Wendy Kelley. The United States Marshal is directed to serve the summons, Complaint, Amended Complaint, and this Order on her through the ADC Compliance Division without prepayment of fees and costs or security therefor. 8. The Court CERTIFIES, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(3), that an in forma pauperis appeal from this Order would not be taken in good faith. Dated this 7th day of February, 2012. UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 1 If any of the Defendants are no longer Corizon employees, the Humphries and Lewis law firm shall file, with the return of unexecuted service, a SEALED Statement providing the last known private mailing address for the unserved Defendant. 2


After a multi-million pound transformation, the much-awaited Dash restaurant in Liverpool city centre has finally been revealed and it's absolutely stunning.
The Victoria Street site, formerly Living Room and Sugar Hut, has been totally remodelled and redesigned to create a contemporary, elegant restaurant and bar.
New owners, The 15 Group, have retained the restaurant's familiar stairway entrance, leading up to glass doors etched with the Dash signature.
Inside, an on-trend décor colour scheme of blossom and teal contrasts with a bold black and white diamond flooring throughout.
Customers are welcomed with a huge 10 metre-plus bar with full-length spirit display and bar stool seating, with restaurant banquettes and stand-alone tables for 125 covers to the left, opposite a spacious bar area and curved booth seating.
The DJ box with backlit Dash signage creates a focal point to the right of the entrance, alongside one of two semi-circular feature booths each seating up to 12.
Italian Carrera marble has been used for walls and pillars to give the space a timeless classic backdrop, accentuated with crystal chandeliers.
A private dining room offers a sophisticated setting for private parties of up to 36 guests, perfect for a special occasion party or business lunch. The room has its own dedicated server and a dazzling ceiling filled with an expanse of high and low hanging chandeliers.
The restaurant menu features Pan Asian influenced dishes and small plates, while the bar will serve spirits and beers alongside Dash's signature New York-themed cocktail list.
The list, which comes in a hardback book style, has been created by cocktail consultant and Living Room alumni Tom Jones. His mixes will take customers on a journey through the decades and fashions from Cuban and Prohibition to Manhattan and Disco.
Dean Jones, co-owner of The 15 Group, said the architect-led design had been inspired by his own European trip.
Leeds' new Smokin' Bar & Kitchen has unveiled its bold Old West look, with huge Native American murals as a stunning centrepiece.
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Trump Says in Oval Office Interview if Russia Offered Dirt on His 2020 Opponent He'd Do Exactly What He Did Before—Take It
By Elliot Hannon
EXCLUSIVE: Pres. Trump tells @GStephanopoulos he wouldn't necessarily alert the FBI if approached by foreign figures with information on his 2020 opponent: "It's not an interference. They have information. I think I'd take it." https://t.co/yWRxMOsgiu pic.twitter.com/8Y4enHiqrd
— ABC News (@ABC) June 13, 2019
It shouldn't be shocking at this point, but somehow it remains jarring to hear a president of the United States so consumed by self-interest that he can admit to learning nothing and cares not at all about any principle other than his own survival and success. When asked by ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in the Oval Office on Wednesday if he'd call the FBI this time around if his campaign was offered help from a foreign power, Donald Trump responded "Life doesn't work that way." What about if that foreign power was Russia or China offering dirt on an opponent, would he take it or hand it over to the FBI? "I think maybe you do both," Trump responded.
"I think you might want to listen, there isn't anything wrong with listening," Trump continued. "If somebody called from a country, Norway, [and said] 'we have information on your opponent'—oh, I think I'd want to hear it." Stephanopoulos then questioned whether it was a good idea allowing foreign countries to interfere in a domestic election. "It's not an interference, they have information—I think I'd take it," Trump said. "If I thought there was something wrong, I'd go maybe to the FBI—if I thought there was something wrong. But when somebody comes up with oppo research, right, they come up with oppo research, 'oh let's call the FBI.' The FBI doesn't have enough agents to take care of it. When you go and talk, honestly, to congressman, they all do it, they always have, and that's the way it is. It's called oppo research."
It's hard to read that any other way than it sounds—and how Trump surely meant it. After years of investigations, Donald Trump has predictably learned nothing and conceded even less. The president is a Ponzi Scheme of a man and that means that the grift can never end that no truth or revelation can interfere with the fragile existence of the fiction his presidency is built upon. The interview is a preview of what's to come: a toxic explosion of a campaign over the next 18 months. It's also a reminder that Donald Trump is a threat to American national security.
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The chair laid out SB 778 as pending business.
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The chair laid out HCR 206 as pending business.
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Judge Gives Marc Wilson Harshest Prison Sentence Possible In Georgia Stand Your Ground Case
The 23-year-old has already served more than two years behind bars for killing a white girl.
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Brandon Caldwell is a freelance writer. His work has appeared in The FADER, Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork, VIBE, Complex, EBONY, the Village Voice, the Houston Press and more. Follow him on Twitter: @_brandoc
William Marcus "Marc" Wilson. | Source: Statesboro Police Department
A young Black man who was recently found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a case that centered on alleged racist road rage and Georgia's Stand Your Ground law was sentenced to the most prison time possible under state law on Tuesday.
William Marcus "Marc' Wilson was given the maximum 10-year sentence for the killing of Haley Hutcheson, a 17-year-old white girl who was struck by gunfire during an alleged road rage attack in 2020 inspired by anti-Black racism.
The prosecution said Wilson never showed "remorse" and requested a sentence of 10 years, according to Rev. James "Major" Woodall, a public policy associate of the Southern Center for Human Rights and former State President of the Georgia NAACP who has been a constant presence in the courtroom during Wilson's case.
State sentencing guidelines recommend prison time of anywhere from one to 10 years for an involuntary manslaughter conviction. However, considering Wilson was already held behind bars for so long leading up to his trial, his lawyers argued for whatever sentence is imposed to exclude more time behind bars.
During the sentencing hearing, lead defense attorney Francys Johnson, asked the judge to sentence Wilson as a first offender and as a misdemeanor. Johnson cited Georgia code to establish a legal precedent for the judge to impose a misdemeanor punishment for felonies carrying prison sentences from one to 10 years.
It was not immediately clear whether Wilson's lawyers would appeal the conviction and sentencing.
Wilson, 23, arrived at his sentencing hearing having already spent more than two years behind bars following the denials of multiple requests for bail stemming from his role in the 2020 death of a 17-year-old white girl from a shooting he maintains was in self-defense during a road rage attack inspired by anti-Black racism.
Wilson was acquitted of the most serious charges more than two years after he killed Haley Hutcheson with a legally owned gun stemming from an encounter on a Statesboro road. A jury decided Wilson's fate after just several hours of deliberations following a trial that lasted less than two weeks in Bulloch County Superior Court. Wilson, who is biracial, was found not guilty of murder and aggravated assault.
That prompted Wilson's legal team of defense lawyers to decry what they called a miscarriage of justice after their client was not found guilty of any of the charges he was facing in the murder trial.
A 21-year-old Wilson was arrested more than two years ago for the fatal shooting at a "truckload of belligerent racists" trying to run him off the road, his lawyers maintained in the case. He was charged with one count of felony murder and one count of aggravated assault in the death of Hutcheson, who was inside the pursuing truck that defense lawyers said carried white people yelling racial slurs at Wilson and his girlfriend, who is white. Wilson, who was legally permitted to carry the weapon he said he used to defend himself, argued that he should never have been charged for what his lawyers described as an unfortunate consequence of self-defense on June 14, 2020.
During the murder trial, Wilson's girlfriend offered testimony consistent with initial reports that he fired off a warning shot after they felt threatened by the pickup truck while out for a late-night trip to a fast-food restaurant.
"… the truck started swerving into our lane, they started, you know, going up and like coming back but stayed right there with us," Emma Rigdon testified through tears. "I remember going on the rumble strips, and that's whenever Marc shot to kind of say, 'Hey, like leave us alone.' We just wanted to go get food."
However, Rigdon did not corroborate the defense's claims that racist language was being shouted from the truck. When asked by the prosecution whether she heard any racist slurs, Rigdon responded simply, "I didn't hear any," and claims she was distracted by "other things."
Rigdon also testified that she urged Wilson to put his gun away and not use it.
Rigdon's testimony, coupled with what the Statesboro Herald referred to as "somewhat contradictory opinions from a prosecution and defense expert witnesses" about key details about the shooting, likely sealed Wilson's fate with the jury.
Johnson said he recognized from the outset that the case was "a legal lynching."
Johnson said Wilson "didn't use his weapon in a way that was unlawful" and thus should not have been convicted of any crime.
Because Wilson was acquitted on all the charges he faced going into the trial, Johnson said there isn't a legal justification for his manslaughter conviction.
"There is no felony to predicate this involuntary manslaughter charge," Johnson emphasized during a press conference in the days after Wilson was convicted.
Johnson's comments echoed his sentiments immediately following the verdict: "If that option had been included as we asked and insisted, this jury would have found Marc guilty of the misdemeanor version of manslaughter and Marc would be coming home."
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Protesters interrupt House debt debate
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By Stephen Dinan The Washington Times - August 1, 2011, 03:33PM
Protesters interrupted the debt-limit debate on the House floor Monday to demand that tax increases be put on the table.
"Hey Boehner, get a clue. It's about revenue," the dozen or so protesters chanted from the public viewing gallery.
They were pulled out of the gallery by police, and were put in plastic handcuffs in the hallway outside of the chamber. Even still, they continued chanting the whole time, and could still be heard inside the House chamber.
"I understand the message of the protest, but they picked the wrong place," said Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Virginia Democrat, who was delivering a floor speech on the debt-limit bill when the outburst happened.
President Obama and his allies had fought to include tax increases in the debt-limit bill, arguing it was the best way to spread "sacrifice" across the country. Instead, the final bill only focuses on spending cuts in the near term, though it creates a committee that could both increase taxes or cut entitlement spending in the future.
As they were being led away, protesters said they were part of activist groups National People's Action and Vocal New York.
Meanwhile, one man being led out of the chamber by police insisted to reporters he wasn't part of any of the groups and wasn't protesting.
Stephen Dinan
Stephen Dinan can be reached at [email protected].
Kevin McAleenan challenges Democrats to help improve conditions at border
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Senators suggest bipartisan border solution to speed deportations
Wes Pruden remembered for Washington Times role, mystique and hat
Donald Trump moves to reject some asylum seekers
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Beto O'Rourke unveils 'caregiver credit' for caregivers and the sick


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CRP-GLDC Updates its Theory of Change
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The CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals, 'CRP-GLDC' is a complex undertaking. Scientists in seven CGIAR centers (ICRISAT, IITA, ICARDA, ICRAF, ILRI and the Alliance of Bioversity International and the CIAT) and three non-CGIAR centers (CIRAD, IRD and CSIRO) along with the private sector, civil society and National Research Institutes strive to improve the production, productivity and marketability of 10 under-researched legumes and cereals that are critical for world food security and nutrition. They focus on 17 countries in the dryland regions of South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and Latin America. In these regions, solutions to poverty, malnutrition and environmental degradation are most needed. To account for changes that have occurred in CRP-GLDC over the past three years, it was imperative to update its Theory of Change to truly reflect the delivery pathways of its impact.
A Theory of Change (ToC) describes the theory-guided transformations and system changes necessary to achieve development outcomes. It represents the best understanding or hypothesis at a given point in time, of how multi-actor interventions can bridge the gap between research outputs and outcomes in development. It allows for continuous examination and adjustment of the design, implementation, management and assumptions based on the need [i].
The CRP-GLDC was designed with five Flagship Programs (FPs) working along two impact pathways to develop, scale and sustain cereal and legume varieties suited for dryland agro-ecologies. It aims at enabling between 4.4-11.8 million people to get out of poverty and another 12.7-24.8 million people to meet daily nutritional requirements. While this is a big strategic development goal to which CRP-GLDC contributes significantly, it will not be the only mechanism to achieve it.
How then should the necessary transformation of agriculture and dryland food systems take place in practice? Breeding of drought-tolerant cereals and nitrogen-fixing peas and beans alone is insufficient. System transformation requires investments into the development of markets and trade, related institutions and targeted measures to enhance consumer demand for dryland cereals and grain legumes (GLDC crops).
It is understood that while such transformations cannot easily be engineered, the best scientists can do is to identify and remove bottlenecks and help to change path dependencies that prohibit transformations. Rather than prescribing the change, the relevant food system actors must formulate plausible assumptions to guide the transformation. For the CRP-GLDC, the core assumption is that farmers convert to improved crops if there is a demand for GDLC crops in their communities as well as the markets. Therefore, demand-oriented development of value chains, supported by crop improvement to increase the adaptability and quality of GLDC crops has become a central assumption of the theory of change.
While the program's demand-led orientation has not changed in this update to the ToC, it fosters better integration of decentrally organized flagships making the impact pathway (causal chain from research output to development impact), clearer, more realistic and reflective of the operational mechanisms of the CRP-GLDC. FP2 on transforming agri-food systems, which received no funding, has now been positioned as a scaling mechanism for CRP-GLDC. Moreover, FP6 on Common Bean for Markets and Nutrition has been integrated with the CRP-GLDC to offer strategic insights from the commercialization of beans for other GLDC crops. There is a lot that CRP-GLDC can learn from the Pan-African Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) – especially the development of markets and thus an increase in demand for GLDC crops [ii].
However, not all GLDC crops are sold through traditional markets; sorghum and millet are still subsistence crops. Across the Sahel, for example, both cereals depend on informal markets and home consumption. Beyond fostering the production efficiency among producers, integration of smallholders into the market system, sustaining and scaling benefits of the system are paramount. In the revised Theory of Change, researchers seek the best possible integration of markets and substance-oriented strategies.
The CRP-GLDC shows how dynamic a Theory of Change is in reality. It necessitates adaption if the economic or technical conditions for programs change. For instance, not funding FP2, meant that impact pathway 2 (scaling and sustaining) could not be implemented as originally anticipated. In response, CRP-GLDC introduced a cross-cutting theme on Markets and Partnerships in Agri-Business (MPAB). As a part of the ToC revision, the scaling and sustaining impact pathway was removed while MPAB and FP6 were integrated into the ToC. FP outcomes were realigned incorporating FP6 outcomes along the impact pathways of FP1, FP4 and FP5 given their congruence. This left CRP-GLDC with only one distinct impact pathway [integrative solutions] (see Revised CRP-GLDC impact pathway diagram below).
The success of the revised ToC, will depend on the formalization, coordination and support of cross FP linkages with requisite resources. A ToC differs significantly from traditional program planning. Traditional programming only links activities to a goal, paying more attention to quantitative performance and assumptions about external factors without effort to involve key stakeholders and networks to support the realization of impact. Inspired by review of the CRP-GLDC in 2020 by the CGIAR Advisory Services (CAS), we have now taken the GLDC ToC a step forward that while helping to close the current phase of this CRP in December 2021, it provides learning on how to best prepare for scaling strategies beyond 2022.
Authors: Michael Hauser, John Mugonya (Team, FP1: Priority Setting and Impact Acceleration)
PK Thornton et al., "Responding to Global Change: A Theory of Change Approach to Making Agricultural Research for Development Outcome-Based," Agricultural Systems 152 (2017): 145–53.
Michael Hauser and John Mugonya, "Internal Working Note: Revision of the Theory of Change Underpinning the Implementation of the CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (CRP-GLDC)" (ICRISAT, 2021).
This work was undertaken as part of, and funded by the CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC) and supported by CGIAR Fund Donors.
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I've found an injured animal: HELP!!
Help is here, and the most important thing to know is that YOU REALLY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE as to whether the animal will survive! The sections below cover some of the more common situations that you might come across: baby animals, cat attacks, window collisions, and more.
A Big Brown Bat caught in a shutter. She had extensive wing damage, but was able to get help and fly again at Wild Things.
Wild Things Sanctuary is located in Ithaca, NY, and currently specializes in native bat care, however we are happy to advise on any wildlife situation.
After hours, press the button for "emergency."
Even an animal with minor injuries can die of shock when it becomes scared; and humans are very scary to a wild animal!! The most important things to do when you find an injured animal is to keep them in a quiet, dark place.
Do not hold or bother the animal, and do not feed or try to give water if it cannot drink on its own.
A Bald Eagle in distress breaths with an open beak.
When picking up the animal be careful: don't put yourself at risk! Raptors have fierce talons, and mammals will try to scratch or bite when they are scared. Use gloves if possible when attempting to catch the animal. And call me first so I can talk you through proper handling and capture!
If the species is a Rabies Vector Species (in NY: raccoons, bats & skunks), do not touch the animal with bare hands and call Wild Things asap for more information.
If the animal is immobile outside, you can put a box over the animal to keep it quiet and calm until help arrives. And keep any pets inside & away from the animal.
See below for information on what to do with birds who have collided with windows, cat attack injuries, and if you find some of the most common wildlife babies: birds, bunnies & fawns.
And this is a great site with info on freeing trapped wildlife (from Welcome Wildlife.com).
mages: Sea Lion pup by Dag Peak; bird collision by Bill Gracey; cat photo by forestpath/Shutterstock via Discover Magazine.