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URA battling fake documents to recover billions of Shillings
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 — updated on January 02, 2021
Forgery. Some of the fake stamps that Uganda Revenue Authority found with a clearing agent in 2016. The listed firms are being investigated over alleged forgery of documents including tax clearance, completion certificates and certificate of registration. FILE PHOTO
Motive. The documents are forged mostly to under-declare goods.
Kampala. As it battles a revenue shortfall of Shs250b, Uganda Revenue Authority enforcement (URA) team says it has uncovered a group of people who are forging documents in order to evade taxes.
The authority cites an importer, who submitted invoices to of 32 motorcycles with each valued at $380 (Shs1.3m) through a clearing agent, Jinca Enterprises.
However, the invoices were found to be falsified. The actual value of each motorcycle, according to URA, is $2500 (Shs8.3m). The import value was under-declared by Shs7m.
"Over the last few months, we have found out that a lot of document forgery was going on," Ms Agnes Nabwire, the assistant commissioner in charge of Enforcement at URA, told reporters on Monday.
"What we found after investigations carried out on Thursday last week included stamps of foreign companies registered in China. These stamps were used on documents to alter valuations of imported goods," she added.
At least six stamps of Chinese companies were found with one clearing agent, Jinca Enterprises.
Ms Nabwire said documents being forged included shipping details, the bill of lading, invoices, bank slips, and receipts. The documents help companies under declare their goods, hence resulting in less or no tax payments.
URA reveals that one of the clearing agents imported motorcycle spare parts valued at $97,000 (Shs323m) but that invoice was never declared, meaning no tax payment was made.
The documents URA has found indicate that forgeries were being made in Uganda yet the origin of the goods was in countries such as China.
However, the tax body says it cannot exactly quantify the revenue shortfall caused by the document forgeries.
"We are analysing and investigating to ascertain the actual amount lost in this trade. However, we are strengthening our intelligence in order to recover this money considering the challenges in the market," Ms Nabwire said.
Companies found to have taken advantage of document forgeries could end up paying more tax than they paid as URA investigates how entrenched the problem has been over the years.
Clearing agents are licensed by URA and if any is found to have breached the conditions, then they could be deregistered.
The under-declaration case
URA has battled cases of under-declarations for years and has been embroiled in a stand-off with the Kampala City Traders Association. The tax body has insisted that anyone found trading these under-declared goods be prosecuted. However, the traders protested this in December 2015. The trouble for URA is nailing the actual perpetrators of the crime.


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Lee Greenwood, 1984
Musician of the Week
Glen Campbell (1936 - ) Arkansas, USA
Glenn Campbell is just a good ole country boy from Arkansas. He grew up picking cotton in the fields of Delight, Arkansas, and became one of the world's most beloved country singers of all time.
Glenn Travis Campbell was number 7 of 12 children. His family was very poor and all the children helped to pick cotton. In their down time the family would gather and sing songs. This lead to Glenn's love of music.
At the age of 4, his father bought him a $5 Sears and Roebuck guitar; within a few years, Campbell was appearing as a paid act and performing guest spots on local radio stations.
Listening Example
Today's listening example is Campbell's first solo release, "Turn Around, Look at Me." Recorded in 1961, it wasn't really liked too well at the time. However, it caught the attention of musical giant Capitol Records, who hired him as a skilled guitarist. So, you could say, this song launched his career.
In 1960 Glen Campbell moved to Los Angeles, CA to become a "session" musician. Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually they are not permanent members of a musical group and do not become famous. But people "behind the scenes" are as important as people on center stage. Campbell was in great demand as a session musician. He was part of a group of musicians known as The Wrecking Crew.
Campbell played on recordings by popular artists such as the teen idol Ricky Nelson, Nat King Cole, Merle Haggard, The Monkees and Elvis Presley. He briefly toured with the famous California group, the Beach Boys.
In 1967 Campbell achieved instant success with his first mega-hit "Gentle on My Mind", a song about memories of a lost love. The next year he won two Grammy Awards: 'Best Country & Western Recording', and 'Best Country & Western Male Vocal Performance'. Glen Campbell made the right choice when he chose "Gentle on My Mind" to record because it launched his career as a solo artist.
Besides being a singer and performer, Glen Campbell was also a television host and occasional actor. He twice won the award 'TV Personality of the Year'. He had his own TV variety shows called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and The Glen Campbell Music Show. The professional connections he had made working as a session musician paid off, and allowed him to host a lot of major country performers on his shows.
These shows also gave Campbell the opportunity to help other people. He helped launch the careers of Mel Tillis and Jerry Reed. He is given credit for giving Alan Jackson his first big break in the industry just by handing a music publisher business card to Jackson's wife, who was a flight attendant on a plane Campbell was on. Alan Jackson later went on to work for Campbell's publishing business.
Campbell also served as an inspiration to Keith Urban, who cites Campbell as a strong influence on his performing career. Campbell starred with the legendary actor John Wayne in a western movie called True Grit and appeared in a movie with Clint Eastwood called Any Which Way You Can. He sang the title songs for both of these movies.
Listening Example:
Glen Campbell and his music were featured in several films throughout the '70s and '80s, including "Any Which Way You Can" from the movie of the same name, starring Clint Eastwood. But True Grit (1969) with John Wayne stands out as one of his most memorable roles. John Wayne won an Academy Award, while this song, "Someday, Little Girl" earned nominations from the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes.
Thursday - Glen Campbell was not a major songwriter himself, but in the late 1960's he recorded several songs by writer Jimmy Webb that became award winning hits. Have you ever wondered how writers get their ideas for songs? Usually it's from their everyday experiences in life.
Three of Jimmy Webb's songs were about places in the United States. "Wichita Lineman" was inspired when Webb made a long drive through rural Washita County in Oklahoma. He saw a single lineman working on top of a telephone pole, and tried to imagine himself in the man's place. The song lyrics describe the loneliness of a telephone or electrical lineman as he works throughout the county roads to repair the lines. Sometimes these folks have to work out of town for days or weeks in extreme weather to restore our power. People think the song is about Wichita, Kansas, since Webb changed the word 'Washita' to 'Wichita' because it sings better.
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix" was inspired by Webb's breakup with his girlfriend in Los Angeles, California, and her disbelief that he had actually left her. It describes her actions back home as he travels from Los Angeles to Phoenix, AZ; then to Albuquerque, NM; then to Oklahoma. The lyrics imply that the drive takes place in one day, but just like in Hollywood movies, things in songs are not always realistic.
In the song "Galveston", a soldier thinks about his hometown on the beach and the girl he left behind as he waits to go into battle. The scene is Galveston Island, TX on the Gulf of Mexico. Webb perceived this song as an "anti-war" song to protest against the Vietnam War, which took place during the 1960's. Campbell chose to perform it as a more upbeat, patriotic song.
It is important for us to remember that many great musicians have come from Arkansas, and Glen Campbell is one of these. As one of 12 children born into an Arkansas sharecropper's family, Campbell rose from his humble beginnings to become one of the most influential country artists in America.
In 2011, at the age of 75, Campbell announced he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's is a chronic degenerative disease of the nervous system that starts slowly and gets worse over time. The most common symptoms are difficulty in remembering events, names or people, easily getting lost, mood swings, loss of motivation, and behavioral issues. As a person's condition declines they often withdraw from family and society.
Glen Campbell was still able to perform some in spite of his condition. Campbell wrote and recorded one last song called "I'm Not Going to Miss You Anymore". The song deals with the heartbreaking realities of Alzheimer's and the losses that Campbell has faced since he was diagnosed with the disease. It received a 2014 Oscar nomination for 'Best Original Song'. Campbell went on a final "Goodbye Tour" with three of his children joining him in his backup band. A documentary film called I'll Be Me was released last year that tells about his career and his illness.
Campbell has become a patient at a long-term care and treatment facility in Nashville. After enjoying a long and successful history, Glen Campbell is bowing out the way he did everything in his career—with style and grace.
"Rhinestone Cowboy" was Campbell's largest-selling single, initially with over 2 million copies sold. Campbell had heard songwriter Larry Weiss' version while on tour of Australia in 1974. It was also the inspiration for the 1984 Dolly Parton/Sylvester Stallone movie Rhinestone.
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The veterinarian, Francis Freemyer, who operates a small animal practice in Greeley, Colorado, was ticketed for "unauthorized practices," a misdemeanor, Greeley police said in a statement.
"Ultimately, the patient required surgery to remove three toes due to a lack of proper medical care," the statement said.
Freemyer could not be reached for comment by Reuters, but told Denver television station KUSA that he had treated a woman's dog with a topical skin cancer ointment.
The man then came to Freemyer's animal clinic for a follow-up visit.
"He came and talked to me, I said, 'hell, I don't treat people, but you've already put it on there,'" Freemyer said, adding that all he did was put a wrap on the man's wound.
Greely Police Sergeant Susan West said Freemyer took payment from the man. "There was an exchange of money in his office for his services," she said.


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Formed by guitarist/composer Omar Rodríguez-López and singer/lyricist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, The Mars Volta rose from the ashes of El Paso punk-rock firebrands At The Drive-In in 2001. Ona mission to "honor our roots and honor our dead", The Mars Volta made music that fused the Latin sounds Rodríguez-López was raised on with the punk and underground noise he and Bixler-Zavala had immersed themselves in for years, and the futuristic visions they were tapping into. The albums that followed were one-of-a-kind masterpieces, their songs of breath-taking complexity also possessing powerful emotional immediacy. After the group fell silent, a legion of devotees (including Kanye West) kept up an insistent drum-beat for their return. Now–a year after 'La Realidad De Los Sueños', a luxurious 18-LP box-set compiling their back catalog, sold out its 5,000 print run in under 24 hours–The Mars Volta are back


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Matt James Blasts "Hypocrisy and Injustice" of America in Wake of U.S. Capitol Attack
Matt James made history this past Monday night as the first-ever Black man to anchor The Bachelor.
Then, a short time later, he made history once again.
This time around, as the first lead of this franchise to share his thoughts on an attempted insurrection against the country he loves.
On Wednesday afternoon, thousands of Donald Trump voters stormed the U.S. Capitol in order to disrupt the electoral college certification process and to simply sow chaos within the government.
The building was locked down as a result and five people were killed.
Including a police officer.
The attack took place hours after President Trump encouraged these same supporters to walk up Pennsylvania Avenue… surround the Capitol… and refuse to accept the results of a free and fair election.
In response, many lawmakers have called either for a second impeachment of Trump and/or the use of the 25th amendment to throw him out of office.
Also in response, Matt James shared some thoughts.
First, on Instagram, this season's The Bachelor wrote:
"Yesterday, as we watched the riots take place inside our Capitol we're reminded yet again we're living in two different Americas."
Meaning what, exactly?
"As a Black man who saw how peaceful protestors were handled this summer, I know a group of black or brown rioters would not have been dealt with the same way," James continued.
And, in a message Matt also posted on Twiitter, he concluded as follows:
We need to address the hypocrisy and injustice in our country to set a better example for the next generation. I'm praying for America in 2021, and to say nothing is saying something.
This has become a common view among millions of observers.
Common because it's true.
As of this writing, only 52 people have been arrested from the mob of terrorists who committed their seditious act on Wednesday.
Videos have surfaced of police officerrs calmly escorting these individuals from the Capitol, which stands in stark contrast to the way cops and National Guard members reacted to the presence of Black Lives Matters protestors across the country last year.
James' comments were especially notable because The Bachelor has come under continual criticism during its lengthy run for its resistance to feature a Black man as the lead.
The show in the past fought a legal challenge to feature Black leads… and has frequently been hit by charges of racism.
On the Season 25 premiere, James opened up about the pressure he feels as an African-American leading this program.
"My mom is white and my dad is Black, and I experience what it was like to be a product of interracial marriage," James told host Chris Harrison.
"And it's tough because you've got people who have certain views, old-school views on what a relationship and what love looks like.
"And you've got people who are cheering for you to find love.
"And then you've got people who are cheering for you to end up with a specific person, a specific person of a specific race."
Concluded James along these same lines:
"That's something that kept me up at night. It's like, I don't want to piss off Black people, I don't want to piss off white people, but I'm both of those. You know what I mean?
"It's like, how do I please everybody?"
It's a challenge, that's for sure.
Will Matt's comments here affect ratings for The Bachelor going forward?
Or will he be applauded for speaking out?
We'll soon find out, we suppose.
In semi-related news, did you hear that Rachael Kirkconnell wins the show this season?!?
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Q: ANTLR: Parsing 2-digit numbers when other numeric literals are also possible I'm writing a grammar for a moderately sized language, and I'm trying to implement time literals of the form hh:mm:ss.
However, whenever I try to parse, for example, 12:34:56 as a timeLiteral, I get mismatched token exceptions on the digits. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?
Here are the relevant rules as currently defined:
timeLiteral
    :   timePair COLON timePair COLON timePair -> ^(TIMELIT timePair*)
    ;

timePair
    :   DecimalDigit DecimalDigit
    ;

NumericLiteral
    : DecimalLiteral
    ;

fragment DecimalLiteral
    : DecimalDigit+ ('.' DecimalDigit+)?
    ;

fragment DecimalDigit
    : ('0'..'9')
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A: The problem is that the lexer is gobbling the DecimalDigit and returning a NumericLiteral.
The parser will never see DecimalDigits because it is a fragment rule.
I would recommend moving timeLiteral into the lexer (capitalize its name). So you'd have something like
timeLiteral
    :   TimeLiteral -> ^(TIMELIT TimeLiteral*)
    ;

number
    :   DecimalLiteral
    ;

TimeLiteral
    :   DecimalDigit DecimalDigit COLON
        DecimalDigit DecimalDigit COLON
        DecimalDigit DecimalDigit
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DecimalLiteral
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fragment DecimalDigit
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Keep in mind that the lexer and parser are completely independent. The lexer determines which tokens will be passed to the parser, then the parser gets to group them.


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Meet the Dulcinea Quartet
Saturday 11 November is the date when The Dulcinea String Quartet come to Bath for a fabulous evening of Haydn, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Barber. Let's meet the musicians…
Minn Majoe
Minn studied with Maurice Hasson and Clio Gould at the RAM. Highlights of her solo career include performing Bruch's Scottish Fantasy with the Arch Sinfonia and leading the 2014 Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra. She has also worked with many UK orchestras including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and English National Opera.
Haru Ushigusa
Hara studied in her native Japan and at the RAM with Tomotada Soh and Jyunko Isono. During her studies at RAM she was awarded the James Wright Award and Foundation Award 2011. Haru was selected for the semi-final of the Sendai International Music Competition 2013 performing Bartok and Mozart 2nd Violin Concerto with Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra. She is also a prize winner of Ibaraki Shinjin Prize 2014.
Martin Wray
Martin studied at the Guildhall School of Music with Mark Knight and at the RAM with Martin Outram. He also studied with quartets including the Belcea, Endellion and Chilingirian, and with Tatjiana Masurenko and Maxim Vengerov. An experienced orchestral player, Martin has performed with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rambert Ballet, the Royal Philharmonic concert Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Martin was a member of the London Philharmonic Orchestra's Foyle Future Firsts scheme.
Kirsten Jenson
Kirsten studied at the Guildhall School of Music with Louise Hopkins and Leonid Gorokhov. Johannes Goritzki's invitation to join his class led her to transfer to the Royal Scottish Academy. During her time in Glasgow she performed the Schumann Cello Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. After winning numerous international prizes and awards Kirsten has been cellist with the Fontanelli Quartet, has played with the Orchestra della Valle d'Itria, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and has released two albums as cellist of the Ragazze Quartet in Holland.
DULCINEA STRING QUARTET
Saturday 11 November, 7.30pm
Old Theatre Royal, Bath
Josef Haydn String Quartet op.74 no.3 'Rider'
Samuel Barber String Quartet
Franz Schubert Quartettsatz D 703
Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet no.2 in A minor op.13
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For the sixth year in a row, the Popular Assembly of San Dionisio del Mar (Asamblea de Pueblos de San Dionisio del Mar) continues its organizing efforts in defense of the natural resources of the Barra Santa Teresa area of the Istmo de Tehuantepec.
In late January 2012, a group of indigenous Ikojts small farmers (campesinos) and fishermen occupied San Dionisio del Mar's city hall building to protest the then-mayor Miguel Castellanos López's support for the construction of a wind farm despite the rejection of the Mareña Renovables project by the local assembly.
Popular Assembly manifestation on San Dionisio del Mar streets. January 29, 2018
Opposition to the commercialization of air is not exclusive to San Dionisio del Mar, but the community's resistance has earned it the support of Zapotec fishermen in the nearby city of Juchitán as well as civil organizations that warn about the underlying social risks of so-called clean energies, including wind generators that affect the fishing in the region's lagoon.
The megaproject of Mareña Renovables was declared dead in 2013; its investors had bought a million euros "legal time bomb" rooted in what Maurice Wilbrink, spokesman of the Dutch pension fund PGGM in the statement published by De Telegraaf, called a «wasps' nest».
However San Dionisio del Mar also represents an example of social actions in favor of the right to consultation of the indigenous villages which was established in the 6th article of the Convention 169 by the International Labor Organization and in the article 19 of the United Nation Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. Like this, it demonstrates the obtaining of protection which the Seventh District Court based in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca granted which marks the suspension of all activity within Barra Santa Teresa by the company Mareña Renovables. Despite of this, official attempts continue sabotaging the collective decision represented by San Dionisio del Mar Popular Assembly (Asamblea de Pueblos de San Dionisio del Mar), especially in form of political violence y social confrontation, a situation that changed for the worse shortly after the destruction caused by the earthquakes in September 2017.
To commemorate this social process, the Ikojts indigenous nation realizes a symbolic homage every year in which regional social organizations and indigenous communities participate, which together organize a broad movement in defense of territories in the region of the Istmo de Tehuantepec.
Watch the Video about the 6th aniversary of the Popular Assembly of San Dionisio del Mar, Oaxaca (in spanish)
Political violence in San Dionisio ahead of 2018 elections
Irregularidades con censo de damnificados en Unión Hidalgo
Five months after the earthquakes people from the Isthmus are still dealing with reconstruction
Categorías: English, Istmo, San Dionisio del Mar etiquetas air, Asamblea Popular, Istmo, Oaxaca, windfarms.
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Citation: Franzluebbers, A.J. 2008. Book review: Agroecology in action: Extending alternative agriculture through social networks [miscellaneous]. International Journal of Soil and Tillage Research. 100:154-155.
Technical Abstract: Agroecology extends the boundaries of modern agriculture relying primarily on reductionistic scientific investigations of how plants and animals respond to and interact with the environment to a more holistic understanding between humans and nature to produce more sustainable agricultural systems that are socially just, economically viable, environmentally safe, and culturally diverse. This book describes in detail several extremely useful examples of how agroecological partnerships have developed and the kind of impact that they have had on agricultural production within a region. This book provides many positive examples of successful agricultural partnerships among farmers, scientists, public agencies, and farmer organizations to overcome the production, environmental, and social challenges we continue to encounter.


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Q: Flink: Kafka CDC topic playback I am working on a solution where I am reading from a Kafka CDC compacted topic (debezium format). But this, technically would be used as source of external information stored in a Flink Table. The problem is that how would I wait for this table to catch up to the latest offset on the compacted topic for it to start processing the other stuff? I want to do this for when the flink app needs to restart, so it can first finish playing back data from the CDC topic and then start consuming messages from the other kafka source
Flink: 1.15.2
Kafka CDC table:
CREATE TABLE metadata (
id                  VARCHAR,
eventMetadata       VARCHAR,
origin_ts as PROCTIME(),
PRIMARY KEY (id) NOT ENFORCED
) WITH (
'connector'                           = 'kafka',
'properties.bootstrap.servers'        = 'SERVER_ADDR',
'properties.group.id'                 = 'SOME_GROUP',
'topic'                               = 'SOME_TOPIC',
'scan.startup.mode'                   = 'latest-offset',
'value.format'                        = 'debezium-json'
)

Ideally, I need to wait until the CDC table has caught up with the latest offset on the topic and only then start processing the messages from the actual source of messages
KafkaSource.<CustomObject>builder()
        .setBootstrapServers(params.get("kafka.bootstrap.servers"))
        .setBounded(OffsetsInitializer.latest())
        .setDeserializer(KafkaRecordDeserializationSchema.of(new CustomObjectDeserializer()))
        .setTopics(params.get("kafka.source.topic"))
        .setGroupId(params.get("kafka.source.consumer.id"))
        .build();

Would I have to write some blocking code that would only execute the rest of the topology once the CDC table is "quiet" (ie. hasn't read any new rows in, let's say, last 10 seconds)? Are there any better ways of playing back kafka topics in flink at startup which would wait until the CDC source is all caught up?


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Marcell Coetzee in action for Ulster
The Vodacom Bulls are reportedly keen to lure Springbok flanks Marcell Coetzee and Arno Botha to Pretoria for the 2021 season.
According to Netwerk24, the Bulls are on the hunt for new looseforwards – specifically those with a good amount of experience to play alongside Marco van Staden and the incoming Duane Vermeulen.
It was already confirmed in March that Bok No 8 Vermeulen would be returning to play at Loftus Versfeld after spending the 2020 season in Japan.
Before the season was called off due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Botha seemed to have rediscovered his best form while playing for Munster in the Pro14.
The former Bulls captain left Pretoria for a move overseas in 2017 – joining Munster after a short stint with London Irish. While Botha was initially used as backup for Ireland No 8 CJ Stander, he has taken a step-up after being given more game time with Stander away on Test duty in 2019.
Coetzee, meanwhile, has been in incredible form for Ulster and was among the 15 nominees for European Player of the Year. While he had his 2019 World Cup dreams dashed by an ankle injury, Coetzee has made a successful comeback and again impressed before the season was called off.
A stumbling block in the move for Coetzee may be his contract – which lasts until 2022. The Springbok would have to be released in order for any move away from Ulster to stand a chance.
Should the Bulls sign one or even both players, they would be in the enviable position of having Van Staden, Vermeulen, Coetzee, Botha and promising U21 captain Muller Uys in their ranks.
Photo: John Dickson/Sportsfile via Getty Images
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Square Withdraws Its FDIC Application
Last Updated on Jul 6, 2018 at 16:26
Just the other day, it was reported that Square Inc. had removed its application to open a new depository bank, but said it will resend its application with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. later this year. However, its application with the Utah Department of Financial Institutions is still active.
The first ones that reported this news was American Banker, which saw that Square's application wasn't listed anymore in the pending applications. A representative from Square revealed that the company had withdrawn its application after discussing with the FDIC, planning to overhaul the current application before making a refile later on.
"We have been engaged in constructive dialogue with the FDIC, and our decision to withdraw and refile was a procedural step in the review process that will allow us to amend and strengthen some areas of our FDIC insurance application."
The Independent Community Bankers of America was disapproving of Square's operations, sending a letter to the FDIC last fall expressing its criticism regarding their application. The organization issued warnings against large commercial or technology businesses that own FDIC-issued LLCs.
The San-Francisco based company, led by CEO Jack Dorsey, has maintained that its objective is to aid small businesses, not rival community banks. The representative on Thursday reiterated this, further adding that:
"Square Capital is uniquely positioned to build a bridge between the financial system and the underserved, and we continue to work closely with the FDIC and Utah DFI on our applications."
The company planned to found a bank after the success of its Square's Cash App which was released in 2015 — adding bitcoin trading in early 2018. Dorsey said that he didn't intend for the application to become the bank account of choice for many users. He was excited to continue with this project and know more about this trend.
Cash App had another breakthrough in June when New York financial regulators approved the licensing Square applied for trading cryptocurrency in the state.
Dorsey has expressed his interest in blockchain technology, stating that he wants this company and app to help make the adoption of bitcoin permanent.
"The internet is going to have a native currency, so let's not wait for it to happen, let's help it happen," stated Dorsey.
Regardless of its enduring success, Square still has to make a lot of improvements if it wants to receive FDIC's approval. The company cannot afford to take this lightly as it could be the first LLC in almost a decade to be approved by the organization.
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Juventus vs Manchester United
By James Franklin / Football / 1 Comment
Juventus vs Manchester United: Will United Improve or not?
Well here we go again, champions football returns for the 2nd lot of matches. Its Juventus vs Manchester United for the 2nd time in a fortnight.
The first meeting between the 2 sides went Juventus's way, United suffering a 1-0 defeat at home to the Italian champions. Since that game United have shown real glimpses of an improvement with match winning performances against a strong Everton side and high-flying Bournemouth.
The pressure has been lifted slightly from Mourinho's shoulders as the team still look to be playing for the under fire manager. United still look extremely fragile at the back which will be a concern going into a game against the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Paulo Dybala and Juan Cuadrado.
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Mourinho Will still be looking to hurt Juve going forward, hoping Pogba has one of his good days against his former club and pulls the strings to unlock Juve's defence. United are finding it hard to find a balance though with their defence keeping only one clean sheet in the premier league so far this season.
They are happier at the other end of the pitch though with them only failing to score one game in the league but If united over commit going forward they will be exposed at the back, just sitting back can be a problem against a team with so much attacking threat. It'll be interesting to see if United and Jose can find an answer.
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Juventus head into the game in red-hot form, they are currently undefeated in all competitions drawing just 1 game out of the 13 matches played, they have won the other 12 games before tonight's game against Cagliari.
United are coming up against one of the tournament's favourites for the 2nd time in a fortnight, this time Juventus have the home advantage a place where there very rarely drop points. United do seem to be on the rise though but Juventus will still feel confident of scoring goals against a side that is leaking goals for fun.
Not everything is all sunshine and rainbows for Juve though, Ronaldo hasn't been his usually dominating self, things outside of football might have something to do with that but he always comes alive in the champions league, look at last season, the competition was made for players like him, he is arguably the competitions greatest ever player.
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The other thing that will give United hope is that the only points Juve have dropped this season was actually at home against Genoa in a 1-1 draw.
I think the fixture will bring us goals, nobody will be expecting United to keep a clean sheet away from home against such strong opposition, United do score goals themselves though so i think they'll grab at least one goal. It will definitely be a game to watch and it should be a cracker.
Predicted Result:
Juve to win 2-1
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A new day, a new year of life!
Today is the day I was born. Not a lot of people know this about me, but I was premature by several months. Had to stay in the hospital until September. I believe on some cellular level this taught me to really enjoy every moment of life as much as possible. I try to live in the moment, in the present, as much as possible. People ask me: don't you feel old? 48 years is a long time, but I really prefer it to the alternative! I am very happy to receive the birthday wishes of folks on Facebook and beyond. … Continue reading A new day, a new year of life!
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I am contributing to the stretch goals of a new game kickstarter! This is a "Bronze Age" super hero game called "Metahumans Rising." Here's the writeup for my stretch goal: $6,400: The Dread of Bayou Sauvage (Writer Sam Chupp) Your team has been called to New Orleans, where there have been recent strange, serial murders: victims found bled out, bizarre suicides, deaths by mauling, and a body literally crushed flat as if it had gone through a steel press with claws. The bar-room gossip, the word on the street, and the recent urban legends whisper of werewolves, ghosts, hellfire-wreathed revenants, swamp … Continue reading Metahumans Rising Kickstarter!
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The produce stand looks like a typical farmers market booth, with a few women and men milling around looking at fresh-picked limes and rosy red tomatoes. But this market is also full of kids, lined up at a neighboring tent waiting for smoothies, and carrying off fruit cups as big as their heads.
Ruiz Produce sign.Photo: Beth HoffmanEach Thursday, Ruiz Produce sets up this market outside Hildahl Elementary School to bring fresh food into the heart of Ceres, Calif., a heavily Hispanic community south of Modesto with little access to quality fruits and vegetables. One of three stands of its kind in the town, the Ceres Partnership for Healthy Children (CPHC) began the market this fall in an attempt to create a healthier environment for the area's residents.
The Central Valley of California is said to produce half the fruits and vegetables grown in the United States, and yet it's far easier to get a hamburger than a peach in most of the valley. Low-income residents have little access to fresh food as it is quickly and efficiently trucked off to cities and processing plants, returning back only as packaged, processed, and/or fast food.
Residents say the town of Ceres has many neighborhoods without a single shop in which to buy fruits and vegetables. Often the only place for those on tight budgets and limited transportation to shop are the fast food and convenience stores that dot the roadside, stocked with brightly colored chips and soda.
"Food deserts" are a well-documented phenomena in urban areas like Oakland, Chicago, and Detroit. But rural areas too are experiencing a lack of access to fresh food, says the Center for Rural Affairs. In rural Kansas, for example, nearly one in five grocery stores has gone out of business in the last four years. (Read "Welcome to the Food Deserts of Rural America" for more.) It is likewise difficult to find a local apple or fresh lettuce in the middle of sparsely populated Iowa.
And although Ceres and the rest of the Central Valley are more densely populated than most of the Midwest, many residents are also unable to find reasonably priced food. The CPHC says the region has the highest rates of unemployment and food insecurity in the country: unemployment in Ceres is at 20.3 percent; in Stanislaus County, 16.4 percent.
Brightly colored chips and soda fill the convenience stores.Photo: Beth HoffmanFarmworkers in the region are even more likely to be "food insecure" — a study [PDF] in late 2007 found that more than 42 percent eat less than three servings of fruits and vegetables a day, and in the winter months, 48 percent go hungry.
The result is that the residents of Ceres and the Central Valley in general are turning to cheap, calorie-dense but nutrient-poor foods — and are growing fatter. The area has significantly higher rates of overweight and obese adults (65 percent), seniors (63 percent), and children (15.5 percent) than the California state average (56, 56, and 14 percent respectively).
Likewise, a report by the California Center for Public Health Advocacy showed that in 2005 California had more than four times the number of fast-food and convenience stores than markets, with rural areas having as high as a 6 to 1 ratio.
So these concerned Ceres parents have now teamed up with the Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program (CCROPP) to try and create a healthier neighborhood for their families. Healthy eating is not just a question of individuals making better food choices, argues the CPHC, but of creating environments that support healthy living. The group focuses on improving food access for the community and in creating and maintaining safe places for kids and adults to recreate.
To this end, the CPHC has set up the farmers markets at schools, repaired sidewalks and parks, and launched what it calls the "walking school bus." Parents trained in CPR and first aid guide children to school on foot using a preset route with "stops" where kids can hop on, much like the regular bus.
And although the town has a long way to go to be healthy, the excitement of the kids for the farmers market is encouraging, and the parents too are learning better eating habits.


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package com.zimbra.qa.selenium.projects.desktop.tests.search.search;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import com.zimbra.qa.selenium.framework.items.MailItem;
import com.zimbra.qa.selenium.framework.ui.Button;
import com.zimbra.qa.selenium.framework.util.HarnessException;
import com.zimbra.qa.selenium.framework.util.ZAssert;
import com.zimbra.qa.selenium.framework.util.ZimbraAccount;
import com.zimbra.qa.selenium.framework.util.ZimbraSeleniumProperties;
import com.zimbra.qa.selenium.projects.desktop.core.AjaxCommonTest;

public class SearchMail extends AjaxCommonTest {

	int pollIntervalSeconds = 60;

	@SuppressWarnings("serial")
	public SearchMail() {
		logger.info("New "+ SearchMail.class.getCanonicalName());

		// All tests start at the login page
		super.startingPage = app.zPageMail;

		// Make sure we are using an account with message view
		super.startingAccountPreferences = new HashMap<String, String>() {{
				    put("zimbraPrefGroupMailBy", "message");
				}};

	}

	@Test(	description = "Search for a message by subject",
			groups = { "functional" })
	public void SearchMail_01() throws HarnessException {

		// Create the message data to be sent
		String subject = "subject" + ZimbraSeleniumProperties.getUniqueString();

		// Send the message from AccountA to the ZWC user
		ZimbraAccount.AccountA().soapSend(
					"<SendMsgRequest xmlns='urn:zimbraMail'>" +
						"<m>" +
							"<e t='t' a='"+ app.zGetActiveAccount().EmailAddress +"'/>" +
							"<su>"+ subject +"</su>" +
							"<mp ct='text/plain'>" +
								"<content>"+ "body" + ZimbraSeleniumProperties.getUniqueString() +"</content>" +
							"</mp>" +
						"</m>" +
					"</SendMsgRequest>");

		// Click Get Mail button
		app.zPageMail.zToolbarPressButton(Button.B_GETMAIL);

		// Search for the message
		app.zPageSearch.zAddSearchQuery("subject:("+ subject +")");
		app.zPageSearch.zToolbarPressButton(Button.B_SEARCH);

		// Get all the messages in the inbox
		List<MailItem> messages = app.zPageMail.zListGetMessages();
		ZAssert.assertNotNull(messages, "Verify the message list exists");

		ZAssert.assertEquals(messages.size(), 1, "Verify only the one message was returned");
		ZAssert.assertEquals(messages.get(0).gSubject, subject, "Verify the message's subject matches");

	}

}

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Allyson N. Ho
3rd Circuit (incl. bankruptcy)
U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Federal Preemption in Asbestos Suit
On June 6, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Kurns et al. v. Railroad Friction Products Corp., et al., No. 10-879, to consider whether the Locomotive Inspection Act (LIA) (formerly the Boiler Inspection Act) preempts state-law claims arising from workplace exposure to asbestos while working on railroad parts.
The case was brought by the widow and executor of the estate of a railway worker against Viad Corp. and Railroad Friction Products Corp. (RFPC) alleging that the decedent's work for various railroad employers installing brakes and valves on locomotives exposed him to asbestos, causing his mesothelioma.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment. Relying on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Napier v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., 272 U.S. 605 (1926), the district court held that the LIA regulates locomotives and locomotive parts used in interstate commerce-and, as a result, preempts the plaintiff's state-law claims.
On appeal, the Third Circuit affirmed. The court expressly disagreed with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision in Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Pennsylvania Utility Commission, 413 A.2d 1037 (Pa. 1980), that the 1970 Federal Railroad Safety Act (FRSA) narrowed the scope of LIA preemption. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision, the Third Circuit noted, is an outlier in comparison with the decisions of the highest courts of a number of states holding that the FRSA did not disturb the existing preemption framework established by the LIA.
In its holding, the Third Circuit further recognized that a plaintiff could still bring claims for asbestos injury arising out of an employer's negligence under the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA). The FELA provides a federal cause of action for any railroad employee injured on the job due to employer negligence.
A decision is expected by June 2012.
Copyright © 2023 by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. All Rights Reserved.National Law Review, Volume I, Number 161
Allyson N. Ho represents clients in high-stakes litigation in US state and federal trial and appellate courts nationwide, including the US Supreme Court, where she has argued multiple times as lead counsel. Co-chair of the firm's appellate practice, Allyson has litigated cases in every federal court of appeals and in the highest courts of multiple states. She has won cases for Fortune 500 companies, represented former high-ranking US and foreign government officials in federal court, and counseled US senators and presidential candidates.
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Brazile: fundraising agreements sold out DNC to Clinton campaign
November 5, 2017 ·	by Brook Hines ·	in DNC fraud lawsuit	· 16 Comments
If we've learned anything from the Donna Brazile revelations, it's that we can rely on Donna Brazile to do the right thing—after she's tried everything else.
We also learned from Brazile's exposé that my hypothesis laid out in Part 2 of the DNC Fraud Lawsuit series was right on the money. Now we have specifics.
Long before the election, the law firm repping both the DNC and the Hillary Victory Fund, Perkins-Coie, developed a strategy to use state parties as conduits for fundraising to the Hillary campaign. A 3-page Joint Fundraising Agreement was drawn up that specified the Hillary Victory Fund would completely control communications, data, analytics and research at the DNC. They would have joint authority with DNC over strategic decisions over the staffing, budget, and expenditures.
The victory fund also demanded review of on-line or mass email, and all communications that feature "a particular Democratic primary candidate." Further, "The DNC will alert HFA in advance of mailing any direct mail communications that features a particular Democratic primary candidate or his or her signature." With the first $1.2 million raised, HVF would have "complete and seamless access to all research work product and tools."
After specifying the manner in which HVF would control the DNC, Clinton's team included the laughably disingenuous paragraph, "Nothing in this agreement shall be construed to violate the DNC's obligation of impartiality and neutrality through the Nominating process."
Brazile's effort to rehabilitate her brand has opened a can of worms that are now crawling through the corpse of what once was the Democratic party. This is entirely predictable from a political operative who has specialized in self-inflicted wounds for much of her career. She didn't have to steal CNN's questions for Hillary Clinton in the primary debates. Was Hillary so petrified of debating Bernie Sanders that she needed a heads-up on questions in order to prepare? The Clinton campaign says no, which makes one wonder if Brazile was simply trying to ingratiate herself.
No one knew about the debate rigging until November, months after Brazile took the helm following revelations that Debbie Wasserman Schultz colluded with the Clinton campaign to kneecap Bernie Sanders in the primary. In an article that hasn't aged well, The Guardian said, "Donna Brazile is a smart choice for new DNC chair," because "worst that could be said is that she's expressed passing annoyance with the Sanders campaign." They might want to update that.
Once caught passing questions to the Clinton campaign, Brazile further damaged her brand by dragging her feet for five months before apologizing. Displaying a complete lack of self-awareness, she compared Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly to a street criminal for reporting on leaked information regarding her own leaking of the debate questions. Brazile said: "Podesta's emails were stolen. You're so interested in talking about stolen material; you're like a thief that wants to bring into the night the things that you found that [were] in the gutter."
She'd later claim the Russians fabricated the Podesta emails to create the illusion that she was caping for Clinton. Through it all she maintained that she felt no guilt or shame: "My conscience — as an activist, a strategist — is very clear." She came to Jesus and apologized only after launching this flotilla of narratives to excuse her behavior. "By stealing all the DNC's emails and then selectively releasing those few, the Russians made it look like I was in the tank for Secretary Clinton," Brazile wrote.
Right up until this week, as her book Hacks is being previewed, Brazile has parroted the party's lies, and covered up its corruption.
In the notorious excerpt published in Politico, Brazile spins a tale of her truth-seeking journey to find out, for Bernie Sanders, if the primary had been rigged against him. According to the piece, she embarked on her mission in September 2016—four months after the primary.
Brazil suggests she was shocked—SHOCKED—to find out that the primary had been rigged from the beginning. She writes that the scheme was cooked-up by DNC and Clinton campaign's consigliere, Marc Elias, with Perkins-Coie. As counsel for both the DNC and the Hillary Victory Fund, Elias and Perkins-Coie engineered a strategy that utilized relaxed, post-McCutcheon fundraising limits to divert funds to the campaign. McCutcheon was the Supreme Court decision that removed limits on bundled fundraising for states.
The scheme as designed by Perkins-Coie gathered donations for the DNC, the candidate, and all the states participating in their Joint Fundraising Agreement. States presumably participated under the assumption that the DNC would funnel money raised in their states back to the candidates running down ticket.
Instead, the money that went into state accounts and was sucked right back out, sometimes on the same day. Sanders even filed a complaint about this during the primary (see Part 2 of the DNC Fraud Lawsuit series for a complete discussion). All that big talk about Hillary Clinton being a better Democrat than Bernie Sanders was predicated on the notion that her fundraising was invested in state victory funds for down ballot races, but for the most part that didn't happen.
How much fundraising are we talking about? Most reports cite the post-McCutcheon figure of $353,400, which reflects the amount one person can give in one year. But in practice, big donors give for both partners in a marriage. Now we're talking about $706,800. But wait, there's more. That's just for one year. Clinton started fundraising in 2015. After the new year, many of her donors re-uppped for a grand total of $1,413,600. When you read that the limit for fundraising in the 2016 presidential cycle was $353,400 that's wrong. It's almost a million and a half.
That money bought a lot of influence flowed right through the DNC, which wanted no part of a candidate like Bernie Sanders, who threatened to rain on their parade.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, you'd think the DNC would do everything in its power to reform that system and repair trust with voters. And you'd be wrong. In response to the Brazile allegations, DNC Chair Tom Perez announced that joint fundraising agreements would NOT go away. In his statement responding to Brazile's allegations, he unveiled a new and improved joint fundraising agreement, called the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund. It'll be grassroots-y, we're to believe.
But there is a deeper issue. Notice that Brazile prefaced her entire chronicle on the fact that Obama and Debbie Wasserman Schultz both left the party in debt. And notice also that Perez isn't running low on deposit slips for contributions to the party.
That is because it is to their benefit that the party remains in debt.
As long as the party is in debt, it's vulnerable to a corporate takeover. Their only goal is to get money by any means necessary. In her apologia, Brazile singles out the Democrats' most fertile fundraising ground at Martha's Vineyard, saying that it was after her vacation there in September that the truth about the Joint Fundraising Agreements was made explicit. I'll bet.
It stretches credulity to the limit that Brazile didn't know about the fundraising agreements that sold out the DNC fully to the Clinton campaign when she worked in the DNC, as she was stealing debate questions for Hillary during the primary. How could she not have known that Clinton HQ in Brooklyn ran everything, especially data and money.
Brazile might hope to be seen as the new savior of the party, but her storytelling only raises more questions.
In her Politico piece she says, "Debbie was not a good manager…she let Clinton's headquarters in Brooklyn do as it desired …" How far did this uncontrollable behavior go? What happened the night of the data breach? How did all those 200,000 voters mysteriously get purged in Brooklyn alone? How'd they know which voters to purge? Why did we never see angry Clinton voters complaining that their registrations were purged?
The entire DNC looks so dirty at this point that telling a few tales out of school just ain't going to fix anything. Sure, Donna Brazile confirmed some things we all suspected. As the old saying goes: A broken clock is right twice a day.
But no one tells you the rest of the saying is "time for a new clock."
Tags: Bernie Sanders, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC fraud lawsuit, Donna Brazile, Hacks, Hillary Victory Fund, Perkins Coie, russians, tom perez, Wikileaks
steve ellman · November 5, 2017 - 2:40 pm · Reply→
Please consider this view (links on request):
"…At precisely the wrong time, Donna Brazile's upcoming book has kickstarted the feud all over again, with the Republicans gleefully joining in to support the unfounded—and, generally, pretty stupid—claim that the primary process was "rigged" against Bernie Sanders. That the DNC at least had half-a-thumb on the scale was common knowledge almost from jump; I remember writing about the danger inherent in "clearing the field" for Hillary Rodham Clinton long before the process even really began. But, at least judging by the excerpt in Politico Magazine that has caused all the hubbub, this once again is a fight over nothing.
The joint fundraising agreement, now being described as a piece of dark magic, was a completely banal campaign-finance mechanism; Sanders, after all, signed one, too. The May, 2016 Politico piece on which Brazile bases a lot of her argument about HRC's hijacking of the Democratic National Committee was fatally flawed; it made this claim before HRC had clinched the nomination and, therefore, before she could legally transfer money to state candidates, which is Brazile's primary retroactive gripe. (Writing in The New Republic, Dana Houle explained in July of 2016 how the "rigged primary" narrative fell apart under close inspection.) In any event, instead of taking Brazile's book simply as one person's view of what happened, the Democrats promptly (and predictably) have lost their minds over it…"
This came out July of 2015 from Politico:
"years of neglect from the White House — and what's perceived by the campaign as mismanagement by DNC leadership — has left the Clinton camp convinced the organization is nowhere near ready for 2016. That starts at the top: Though Clinton and her close circle look on Wasserman Schultz more kindly than do President Barack Obama and White House aides, they are wary of some of the decisions made under her leadership, those who know the Clinton campaign.
The Clinton campaign's chief administrative officer, Charlie Baker, is serving as the point man to start laying the groundwork for what Clinton aides expect will be an eventual takeover of the national party structure, according to sources familiar with both DNC and Clinton activity. While DNC staffers are officially neutral, most see her as the eventual nominee, and several staffers describe a "first among equals" approach to her when dealing with the primary field.
A joint fundraising agreement would enable events to raise the $2,700 maximum for Clinton and the $33,400 level for the DNC from the same donors. The deal is standard practice in primaries, and the DNC is hoping to eventually sign these with all the Democratic candidates.
The campaign has insisted that any money raised through joint fundraising activities be put in what's essentially a lockbox until the general election campaign. The DNC wanted access to all the funds immediately. Baker, who's been negotiating with DNC CEO Amy Dacey, said no.
Instead, Baker laid out in a series of memos what the campaign will allow spending on, according to people familiar with them: building out the opposition research on Republican candidates as well as improving the DNC's technological resources and other infrastructure. The memos specifically rule out access for the Clinton campaign to any information the DNC is gathering or tracking on any of the other Democratic candidates.
One reason the Clinton allies at opposition research group American Bridge spun off the rapid response unit Correct The Record was so that group could coordinate with — and defend — the Clinton campaign because the DNC would not be able to do until after she wrapped up the nomination. But, say Democrats familiar with the decision making, it was also a way for the front-runner's camp to further empower ally David Brock over Wasserman Schultz.
The Clinton campaign points as a model to Al Gore's 2000 campaign: well ahead as a front-runner himself long before he was the nominee, Gore also demanded restrictions on DNC spending out of his joint fundraising agreement until his campaign took full control."
Fisher Fleming · November 5, 2017 - 3:00 pm · Reply→
"Time for a new clock" is right. It's been fascinating seeing the Hillary faction leaping around like their hair is on fire (and their butts are catching) trying to spin away from this.
First it was that Brazile made a "mistake" about the timing of agreement (she didn't) so that the primary couldn't have been affected (it was).
Then there was an attempt to call the HVF agreement a "banal" "business as usual," mechanism, which it was not, either in its scope, or in how early the Clinton campaign locked in its power.
Then they tried to say Sanders had the same type of agreement. He did not. He was never offered the staffing or messaging power claimed by the Clinton campaign. He did not have the consolidated donor funds to put in the pot, because his base was not the donor class.
Now that's been de-debunked, it's a lot of "Cheating for Clinton couldn't have influenced things." Joy Reid has twisted herself into rhetorical knots, interrupting her nonstop stream of insisting that Vladimir Putin is behind every rock and tree, and stole the election with Facebook ads, to literally screaming in all caps:
YOU CAN'T TRICK PEOPLE INTO VOTING FOR WHO THEY VOTED FOR.
The hypocritical whiplash has been neck-snapping. They're caught, have no excuses, and just don't care. It's no way to rebuild a party with any way of turning things around in 2018 or 2020.
please elucidate
That is: outline the timing and the "affects"
Ron Baldwin · November 5, 2017 - 3:42 pm · Reply→
The rigging was a direct result of 500 of the 510 superdelegates being pledged to Hillary. Thus she needed only 1,800 elected delegates and Bernie needed 2,300 elected delegates to be the nominee. Get rid of "superdelegates."
DICKERSON: When Donald Trump said he wasn't going to participate in the debate, he said — quote — "The Democratic nominating process is totally rigged." He went on to say: "Hillary Clinton and Debbie Wasserman Schultz will not allow Bernie Sanders to win."
Do you agree with his characterization?
SANDERS: Well, I have been very touched by Donald Trump's love for me.
But, John, in all due respect, I think there maybe some aspect of this which he thinks will advantage himself. So, I do appreciate his love and his compassion for me, but I don't really accept his words.
Look, we knew when we were in this that we were taking on the entire Democratic establishment. No great secret about that. And yet we have won 20 states. We're in California right now. I think we have a good chance to win here. I think we have an uphill fight, but there is just a possibility that we may end up at the end of this nominating process with more pledged delegates than Hillary Clinton.
What has upset me, and what I think is — I wouldn't use the word rigged, because we knew what the words were — but what is really dumb is that you have closed primaries, like in New York state, where three million people who are Democrats or Republicans could not participate, where you have situation where over 400 superdelegates came on board Clinton's campaign before anybody else was in the race, eight months before the first vote was cast.
That's not rigged. I think it's just a dumb process which has certainly disadvantaged our campaign.
– https://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-transcripts-may-29-2016-sanders-johnson-hickenlooper/
Reid Friedson, Ph.D. · November 5, 2017 - 4:02 pm · Reply→
Brook Hines is exactly correct in this incisive analysis.
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Q: Why doesn't my procedure return data? Why doesn't the date range work?
It works when the input values are dates. When the input value is a date range then it doesn't return anything.
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The input values are of DateTime type.
Update:
i tried this and it work but not above one
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SELECT TOP 1000 [pk_CaseIncomingLetters_CaseIncomingLetterID]
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A: Troubshooting steps I would take.
First comment out the date part of the where clause and possibly change the query temporarily to select top 10 (to reducthe amount of time teh query taks if this si a big dataset.
Now you can see the actual value of CaseIncomingLetters.IncomingLetterDate.
add in the first of the 2 date clauses in the where clause and change the variable to the actual date you found in one of the records originally returned. This makes sure you are looking for data in the variable is later tests that can actually be returned. If you get no results at this point, I have to wonder about datatypes in the table.
Now, change the value of the variable to be that variable and make the where clause use the variable. If it is populating the date in a  different format than the way it is stored in the database, likely you are looking at a collation issue.
Do the same with the second date clause.
The point where the records drop out is the point where you have the problem.


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NIGERIA: Court orders arrest of Kogi CJ, AG, Head of Service
Posted on March 29, 2013 by Maris
An Okene High Court in Kogi State, Thursday, issued a bench warrant for the arrest of the state's Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice; the Head of Service, HOS, and the Accountant-General.
Justice Sunday Otu, who issued the bench warrant in Okene, said the three senior government functionaries had persistently ignored the court's summons to appear before it.
He said the HOS, Mr Moses Atakpa; the Attorney General, Mr Joe Abrahams and the Accountant General, Mr Paul Audu, refused to implement the court's judgment ordering the re-absorption of 346 state civil servants sacked illegally in 2009.
The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that the court had on May 14, 2012, in its judgment, ordered the State Government to reinstate the sacked workers with immediate effect.
The court stated that the workers were illegally sacked in 2009 during the Sally Titbot screening exercise.
It held that the affected workers had genuine documents of employment and were legally employed by the state government.
Otu held that there was no time the state government gave the affected staff official letters of termination to indicate their disengagement from service.
He, therefore,ordered their reinstatement and payment of all arrears of salaries and allowances.
Otu noted that the government in defiance of the court order, applied for stay of execution seven months after (December, 2012) the judgement. He said the application was denied by the court but yet, government still refused to reinstate them.
Otu said that the counsel to the appellants, Mr John Barry, had approached the court and intimated it that though the affected staff reported for duty and some were promoted and transferred to other stations. He said that despite that, the state government still refused to pay their salaries and allowances.
The court had, at its sitting on the matter in February, threatened to issue a bench warrant on the three administration officials if they failed to appear in court on the next adjourned date (March 28).
They were being asked to come to the court to show cause why they should not be committed to prison for defying its order.
At the resumed hearing on Thursday, the defendants still failed to appear in court. Their counsel, Messrs Gabriel Salihu and Saidu Okino, pleaded with the court that they could not appear physically because they were busy with election activities.
In his ruling, Otu said: "I find it despicable that the Attorney-General has refused to appear before the court while others followed him.
"The action is an attempt by the defendants to tell people that the law is meant for the common man."
Otu thereafter issued the bench warrant on them and directed the police to arrest and compel them to appear before the court.
This is for them to show cause why they should not be committed to prison,'' the Judge said.
marisnaomi.onwutalobi@gmail.com
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Since the publication of the 2018 Top 120 Fantasy Outfield Prospects, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, over four months passed, including Spring Training and two months of games. As such, there is significant movement in the top 120.
Ronald Acuña Jr., Atlanta Braves. Prior to his injury, Acuña Jr. nearly surpassed MLB rookie limits. Luckily, he escaped what appeared to be a serious injury with just a mild sprain. During May, his torrid pace slowed (.235/.290/.388) and he struggled with strikeouts (30.8%). Regardless, Acuña Jr. has a special, powerful bat, placing ninth in hard hit percentage.
Juan Soto, Washington Nationals. In less than 45 days, Soto went from Low-A to the majors. Since he arrived, he impressed, hitting .333/.415/.500. With Adam Eaton and Brian Goodwin returning from the disabled list, it is unclear whether Soto will remain in the majors. However, given his early performance, the Nationals likely will continue starting him in left field.
Austin Meadows, Pittsburgh Pirates. Nearly five years after the Pirates selected Meadows ninth overall in the 2013 draft, he finally received a long-awaited promotion to the majors. Although overshadowed by Soto's debut, Meadows has had an equally loud start to his career. In just 13 games, he already has 4 home runs and 3 stolen bases!
Dustin Fowler, Oakland Athletics. Back in the majors after his 2017 debut ended prematurely, Fowler is struggling (.174/.250/.304). A potential five-tool player, however, he has nice upside and requires patience.
Franmil Reyes, San Diego Padres. Over 12 games earlier this month, Reyes hit an astounding .561/.647/1.317 with 4 doubles and 9 home runs! Subsequently, the Padres promoted him, and he already has 4 more home runs in 14 games. A hulking 6'5″ and 240 pounds, Reyes possesses huge 70-grade raw power.
Eloy Jimenez, Chicago White Sox. With all the attention focused upon the debuts of Ronald Acuña Jr. and Juan Soto, Jimenez is fading into the background. Nevertheless, he is destroying Double-A, hitting .374/.419/.664 in May. With double-plus power and a steadily improving hit tool, Jimenez remains an elite prospect.
Jo Adell, Los Angeles Angels. After returning from a thumb injury in early May, Adell dominated Low-A, hitting .367/.415/.755 with 5 home runs. Having seen enough, the Angels promoted him to High-A, where he already has 3 home runs in 9 games. A rare, dynamic power/speed talent, Adell is off to a tremendous start (.286/.351/.571 with 9 home runs and 6 stolen bases).
Tyler O'Neill, St. Louis Cardinals. Despite impressing in the majors, including 3 straight games with a home run, O'Neill is back in Triple-A. On the year, he now has 16 total home runs with 10 coming in May. As Dexter Fowler continues to struggle for the Cardinals, O'Neill should receive another, hopefully longer, opportunity in the majors.
Alex Kirilloff, Minnesota Twins. A first round pick in the 2016 draft, Kirilloff entered last year with high expectations following an impressive debut (.306/.341/.454). Unfortunately, he missed the entire season with Tommy John surgery. Now, Kirilloff is healthy and off to a strong start in Low-A, including a sensational May (.360/.423/.640 with 19 extra-base hits).
Myles Straw, Houston Astros. The speedster easily leads the Minors in stolen bases with 32 in just 51 games. In fact, his pace picked up in May, with 18 stolen bases while hitting .367/.457/.413. An old-school, unique player, Straw is a high-contact (2.5 SwStr%), patient (13.9 BB%), slap hitter, spraying tons of contact the opposite way (48.5%).
Drew Waters, Atlanta Braves. A second round pick in the 2017 draft, Waters performed well across two rookie ball levels in his debut last year (.278/.362/.429). Coming out of high school, he understandably slowed later in the year, and struggled with contact. Indeed, in his first 6 games in the Appalachian League, he struck out 18 times! This year, after a slow start in April and a minor injury, Waters returned to action in early May and took off (.325/.379/.675). With a tantalizing blend of power and speed, he has huge, five-tool upside.
Jason Martin, Pittsburgh Pirates. Acquired in the Gerrit Cole trade, Martin may develop into the most prized acquisition. A steady performer the past two years, he is elevating his performance this year in Double-A, including a strong May (.359/.409/.592).
J.J. Matijevic, Houston Astros. Although known as a bat-first, defensive liability, Matijevic still went 75th overall last year. His bat is that special. So far, he made quick work of Low-A (.354/.446/.708), earning an early May promotion to High-A. There, Matijevic ended May on a 13-game hitting streak. Meanwhile, his defense in left field is still well below-average.
Vince Fernandez, Colorado Rockies. A tenth round pick in the 2016 draft, Fernandez is an underrated, line drive hitter with significant pop, but also plenty of swing-and-miss. Thus far in his career, he benefited from the Rockies' hitter-friendly affiliates, and this year is no exception in High-A Lancaster. In May, he was on fire (.373/.481/.731), and, notably, hitting well at home and on the road.
Buddy Reed, San Diego Padres. A terrible start to his career caused the former second round pick from Florida to fall off the radar of many. This year, Reed is displaying a lethal power/speed combination, with 9 home runs and 24 stolen bases in High-A.
Austin Hays, Baltimore Orioles. Returning to Double-A after dominating the level last year, Hays is not finding the same success this year. It appears his aggressive, pull-happy approach is finally catching up to him. In fact, this past month, Hays walked just once, while hitting .227/.233/.386. Now, he is on the disabled list with an ankle injury.
Monte Harrison, Miami Marlins. Although Harrison's power (7 home runs) and speed (9 stolen bases) are on display, so is his swing-and-miss. Entering June, he is second in the Minors with 82 strikeouts (37.4%), including 42 strikeouts in May.
Anthony Alford, Toronto Blue Jays. In early May, Alford "earned" a brief promotion to the majors, in which he went only 2-for-14. Prior to his promotion, he was hitting just .154/.214/.179. After his promotion, Alford did not fair much better (9-for-49). During the month, he went 11-for-75 with 26 strikeouts.
Cole Brannen, Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox demoted Brannen to short season ball following a disastrous 8-for-66 stretch with 27 strikeouts in Low-A.
Luis Robert (sprained thumb) is playing in games in extend Spring Training.
Yordan Alvarez missed most of the month with a hand injury.
Disappointingly still in Triple-A, Willie Calhoun left a game early this week for not running out a ground ball.
Lazaro Armenteros made his debut in Low-A earlier this month.
Big surprise (not): Roman Quinn suffered an injury, undergoing surgery to repair a torn ligament in his right middle finger (out 6-8 weeks).
Bryan Reynolds (hand surgery) is back after missing seven weeks.
On Wednesday, the Monthly Prospect Update will explore pitching prospects. Stay tuned!
Good write up! Was looking forward to this one for a while.
I have Jo Adell, Luis Robert, and Jesus Sanchez as my OF minors currently, in a deep league where about 185-190 prospects are being used. I promoted Soto recently and so picked up Pache to go with those previous 3. I was shooting for the highest upside but still ranked, as I typically try and use the Pache type guys as trade bait after they improve their stock a bit. I used the guys I picked up last year for a couple tweaks that amounted to Estevan Florial, Austin Riley, Jalen Beeks, and Taylor Trammel for Whit Merrifield, Brad Hand, Zach Britton, and a low 1st rounder.
Do u think Pache is Florial/Trammell level next year or do u see one of your guys listed above as better?
Re: Pache, I would refer to the Top 200 published in early May for players I believe are better. As for high-upside players listed above, I would keep my eye on Drew Waters. He has potential plus power and speed.
Excellent writeup! Is there any update on Yordan Alvarez's recovery? They said it was a minor injury…but we are going on over a month now.
Thanks! Alvarez has been on the minor league DL since May 16th with a minor wrist injury reportedly suffered in an outfield collision on May 6th. Wrist injuries are tricky and bad sprains can take weeks to months of recovery. It appears he should be returning to action soon, as the Corpus Christi Hooks manager purportedly said he would return last week (though, he did not).
Thanks for the updated write up, great work!
Brinson has certainly fallen on hard times this year. Nevertheless, I would keep him over all those guys.
Matias is basically a less-athletic Brinson 4 years ago. He has huge 70-grade power, and he gets to most of it in games, but also a highly questionable hit tool. The Matias hype is starting to get out of hand imo.
Ramos is basically Brinson 5 years ago.
Rosario is still far, far away, and has yet to hit for much power. In fact, he does not really have tons of raw power or speed (despite 12 stolen bases). Given the risk, he does not offer enough upside.
Gimenez is an excellent defender and hitter, but with average raw power and only above-average speed. Very good prospect though. I still prefer Brinson.
Hampson is a Rockies middle infielder with huge speed, excellent plate discipline, and improving pop. I am quite high on him, but I still prefer Brinson.
As for Brinson, he remains a solid defensive centerfielder with great range. The Marlins have nothing to lose by continuing to play him. There is massive raw power and plus speed there. He is already in the majors. The hit tool is obviously a disaster. I would still give him time.
Jason Martin is finally getting some well-deserved attention.