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'Toons of the Day: POTUS Ate The Dog That Ate My Server, But Because He's A 'Super' Leader, He Ate From Behind & Never Took Responsibility For It
On The Syrian Side, Insane McVain Wanted To Arm These Butchers. On The Iraqi Side, Well, They Are Doing This (Extremely Violent)
ISIS executes a Three-Star Iraqi General live on television.
(h/t WeaselZippers)
Steve Stockman Omitted One Excuse In His #TheDogAteMyTaxReceiptsAct And Overlooked The Orphan
Congressman Steve Stockman put on a troll de force yesterday. Because we are a country founded, in part, on the principle that there is to be equality under the law. Building on this well-established, well-founded, and, at least until recently, universal principle, Stockman has introduced a bill that would give taxpayers the right to use the same excuses employed by the IRS, as well as those utilised by other politicians, who find themselves in scandals of their own. The new bill, titled "The Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Act," would allow taxpayers to use any of the following ten reasons as a positive defense during an audit:
1. The dog ate my tax receipts
2. Convenient, unexplained, miscellaneous computer malfunction
3. Traded documents for five terrorists
4. Burned for warmth while lost in the Yukon
5. Left on table in Hillary's Book Room
6. Received water damage in the trunk of Ted Kennedy's car
7. Forgot in gun case sold to Mexican drug lords
8. Forced to recycle by municipal Green Czar
9. Was short on toilet paper while camping
10. At this point, what difference does it make?
Along with the text of his bill, Stockman issued the following statement:
'The United States was founded on the belief government is subservient and accountable to the people. Taxpayers shouldn't be expected to follow laws the Obama administration refuses to follow themselves. Taxpayers should be allowed to offer the same flimsy, obviously made-up excuses the Obama administration uses.'
I noticed that he had forgotten one:
11. My President ate the dog that ate my tax receipts.
Pic of the Day: Mentos Man Meets Diet Coke Dunking Pool. Explosions Ensue.
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Pics of the Day: Will Dingy Reid Call Them 'RAAAAAAAAAAAACIST'? (Expanded)
Red Mesa High School is located in Teec Nos Pos, which is part of the Navajo Nation Reservation in Arizona.
Its student body is 99.3% Native American.
According to SportsGrid.com's Rick Chandler:
One school that still uses the nickname is Red Mesa High in Arizona, located on a Navajo reservation, and where 99.3 percent of its students are Native American. Tommie Yazzie, superintendent of the school district that oversees Red Mesa High School and a full-blooded Navajo, said he is more concerned with the use of Native American war chants and gestures during sporting events. Do we have your attention, Atlanta Braves and KC Chiefs?
'We don't use those gestures and traditions. As Navajos we have respect for warfare. Warfare means taking a life. And when a young warrior goes out to battle, [the gestures and war chants] belong there," Yazzie said. "When you come back into civilian life, you don't take that back with you. You don't use the same type of gestures and hollering and bring that back into a sporting event.'
Likewise, what would Maria Cantwell, Chris Matthews, Anderson Cooper, Rachel Maddow, the crew at ESPN, Melissa Harris Perry, Jo Reid, Ed Schultz, Jon Stewart, Pajama Boy, Al Not-So-Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, etc, tell the students Ringgold High School, 59.29% of whom are African-Americans, that their mascot 'Redskins' is offencive and they are RRAAAAACCCCCCCCCCIIIISSSSSST?
Or, how about these men, legitimate heroes from WWII?
**Crickets**
After all, we quite know the position of Moonbats when it comes to American heroes, especially if they are minorities. 'Cuz, like, um, ya know, they didn't study hard so that they could follow John Kerry's trail at Yale; so, they got start in Iraq or some jungle.
Via Military Times (h/t FX Muldoon):
A leader of the Navajo Code Talkers who appeared at a Washington Redskins home football game said Wednesday the team name is a symbol of loyalty and courage — not a slur as asserted by critics who want it changed.
Roy Hawthorne, 87, of Lupton, Ariz., was one of four Code Talkers honored for their service in World War II during the Monday night game against the San Francisco 49ers.
Hawthorne, vice president of the Navajo Code Talkers Association, said the group's trip was paid for by the Redskins. The four men met briefly with team owner Dan Snyder but did not discuss the name, Hawthorne said.
Still, he said he would endorse the name if asked, and the televised appearance in which three of the Indians wore Redskins jackets spoke for itself.
"We didn't have that in mind but that is undoubtedly what we did do," Hawthorne said when asked if he was intending to send a statement with the appearance. "My opinion is that's a name that not only the team should keep, but that's a name that's American."
The Other Redskins: Here's A Map Of The 62 High Schools That Still Use That Nickname
The Redskins and The Wrong Side of History
Who decides when the people need to be re-educated?
As stated by William Voegeli perfectly in the 20 January 2014 edition of The Federalist:
The National Football League, barely a decade old and barely solvent, saw three franchises disband before the start of the 1932 season. It added one more, for a total of eight, when the new Boston Braves took the same name as the major league baseball team with whom they shared a stadium, Braves Field. Because baseball was far more popular than professional football in the 1930s, NFL owners were not bashful about laying claim to a bit of the brand loyalty already enjoyed by baseball franchises. Other teams in the league that year included: the New York Giants, who played in the Polo Grounds, home of the baseball Giants; the Brooklyn Dodgers, who shared Ebbets Field with their baseball counterpart; and the Chicago Bears, who played in Wrigley Field, where the Cubs played baseball and, after a fashion, still do.
When, before the 1933 season, the football Braves relocated one mile east to Fenway Park, the owners changed the name to the Boston Redskins, encouraging Red Sox fans to make a connection to Fenway's more famous occupant while obviating changes to the logo and uniforms. According to some accounts, the name was also an attempt to wring a marketing advantage from the fact that the coach, Lone Star Dietz, was part Sioux, or at least claimed to be.
The franchise remained the Redskins after relocating to Washington, D.C., in 1937, but the future use of that name is doubtful. Denunciations of it as an insult to American Indians reached a point during the 2013 football season that an interviewer asked President Obama for his position on the controversy. He replied, cautiously, that an owner should "think about changing" a team name if it "was offending a sizeable group of people."
Of more importance to conservatives, columnist Charles Krauthammer also endorsed dropping "Redskins"—not as a matter of "high principle," but in order to adapt to "a change in linguistic nuance." "Simple decency," he wrote, recommends discarding a term that has become an affront, even if it was used without a second thought or malicious intent 80 years ago. A few days before Krauthammer's column appeared, on NBC's "Sunday Night Football," the highest-rated TV show throughout the football season, studio host Bob Costas called for Washington to pick a different team name. "'Redskins' can't possibly honor a heritage or a noble character trait," he said, "nor can it possibly be considered a neutral term." Rather, it's "an insult" and "a slur."
The New Republic and Slate are among several journals that no longer use the name in their articles. Few football fans rely heavily on either publication, of course, but many of them read Gregg Easterbrook's Tuesday Morning Quarterback column on ESPN.com. By calling the team either the "Washington R*dsk*ns" or "Potomac Drainage Basin Indigenous Persons," Easterbrook both observes and spoofs the growing de facto ban on "Redskins."
Sadly, the republic faces challenges more dire than naming a sports team. This slight question, however, entails weightier ones about comity—how a diverse nation coheres; discourse—how Americans address one another; and power—not only how we make decisions, but how we decide what needs to be decided, and who will do the deciding.
The Right Side of History
Krauthammer, Costas, and many other "Redskins" critics contend that because sensibilities change, terminology must follow. That seems undeniable as an abstract proposition, but doesn't settle the question of whether calling a professional team the Redskins in 2014 is intolerable, either to Americans in general or American Indians in particular. "Indian" was itself a suspect word for many years, and was giving way to "Native American" around the time "Negro" was supplanted by "black" or "Afro-American," which was abandoned in favor of "African American." The tide receded, however. Of the 14 "National Tribal Organizations" listed on the federal government's website, only two use "Native American" in their names, while 10—including the most important, the National Congress of American Indians—use some form of "Indian." Apparently, a word can grow more offensive with the passage of time, but also less offensive with the passage of additional time.
That "Redskins" is an intolerable relic from the hate-filled past, though asserted often and strenuously, is not easily demonstrated. For one thing, the term's origins are neither inherently nor manifestly derogatory. Smithsonian Institution anthropologist Ives Goddard has traced its emergence to the 18th century, when French and English settlers and explorers, and later Americans, adapted it from Indians, who developed "red men" and "redskins" to differentiate themselves from the Europeans who had come to North America.
For another, it's far from clear that a sizeable group of people is offended by the name. A 2004 Annenberg poll asked 768 self-identified American Indians, "As a Native American, do you find ["Washington Redskins"] offensive or doesn't it bother you?" The results were 9% and 90%, respectively. More recently, an Associated Press poll in 2013 found that 11% of all Americans thought the team needed a different name, compared to 79% opposed to changing it. The demographic subsets of the polling sample yielded no data about American Indians' views, but did record that only 18% of "nonwhite football fans" favored getting rid of "Redskins."
Critics of the name who acknowledge the complexities about how it emerged in the past and is regarded in the present make a more cautious argument than those who declare the name tantamount to calling a team, say, the "Washington Darkies." In announcing Slate's policy of refusing to use the official name of the D.C. football team, editor David Plotz described it as an embarrassing anachronism in an age when "we no longer talk about groups based on their physical traits." (Be that as it may, Slate still refers to Americans who trace their ancestry to Africa as "blacks," and those descended from Europeans as "whites.") Thus, "while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, it's extremely tacky and dated—like an old aunt who still talks about 'colored people' or limps her wrist to suggest someone's gay." (But, as Jonah Goldberg reminded us, this daft old woman could be a donor to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.)
Such arguments, then, are based less on the location than the direction of the public's opinions and sensibilities. The New Yorker's Ian Crouch endorsed the views of one A.P. poll respondent: "Much farther down the road, we're going to look back on this and say, 'Are you serious? Did they really call them the Washington Redskins?' It's a no-brainer." Stipulating the constant evolution of moral standards makes it possible to exonerate people who tolerated a problematic team name in the past. Bob Costas, for example, had given no indication that "Redskins" was an insult and a slur in his 39 years as a sports broadcaster up until 2013. Prior to former owner Jack Kent Cooke's death in 1997, guests who watched home games with him in the owner's box included Al Gore, George McGovern, Earl Warren, Tip O'Neill, and Eugene McCarthy, none of whom was criticized for endorsing a racist pageant by their attendance. (The fact that standards evolve does not, however, compel such exonerations. People or categories of people liberals don't like, such as Christian fundamentalists or whites insufficiently committed to racial equality, are still condemned for failing to anticipate or embrace the emerging moral strictures.)
Those who now want the Washington Redskins to be called something newer and nicer are, it follows, "on the right side of history," a polemic wielded with increasing frequency. Last year the National Journal offered a partial list of the many political positions President Obama has declared to be on the right side of history, including support for the Arab spring protestors, Obamacare, and immigration reform. Some of his admirers have urged Obama to stay on the right side of history by preventing construction of the Keystone oil pipeline. Others applauded him for finally getting on the right side of history when, in May 2012, he declared himself a supporter of gay marriage.
The "right side of history" is a recent addition to the lexicon, but the idea behind it is quite old. We, in the second decade of the 21st century, may say that the cause of the future has by now acquired a substantial legacy from a past stretching back to the late 19th century. Those who read the CRB and, in particular, the work of its editor Charles Kesler, are well aware that since Progressivism appeared on the American scene, its -ism has been that a better future beckons, but is not simply destined. To realize it we'll need visionary leaders who advocate and facilitate progress. They see clearly what most see dimly: how the future will be better than the present, and what we must do to progress from where we are to where we need to go.
In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis identified the central contradiction of invoking tomorrow's standards to settle today's controversies. Screwtape, an upper-management devil sending advisory memoranda to an apprentice, counsels:
[God] wants men, so far as I can see, to ask very simple questions; is it righteous? is it prudent? is it possible? Now if we can keep men asking, "Is it in accordance with the general movement of our time? Is it progressive or reactionary? Is it the way that History is going?" they will neglect the relevant questions. And the questions they do ask are, of course, unanswerable; for they do not know the future, and what the future will be depends very largely on just those choices which they now invoke the future to help them to make.
As journalist Michael Brendan Dougherty recently contended, "the most bullying argument in politics" is to denounce people with whom you disagree for being on the wrong side of history. "If your cause is just and good, argue that it is just and good, not just inevitable."
It's particularly insufferable that American liberals, otherwise boastful about their membership in the "reality-based community," are so facile about resorting to metaphysical mumbo-jumbo when appointing themselves oracles of the Zeitgeist. Upon inspection, "X is on the right side of history" turns out to be a lazy, hectoring way to declare, "X is a good idea," by those evading any responsibility to prove it so. Similarly, many brandish another well-worn rhetorical club, as when a sportswriter charges that current Redskins owner Dan Snyder refuses to rename his team because he just doesn't "get it." That huffy formulation conveniently blames someone else's refusal to see things your way on his cognitive or moral deficiencies, rather than on your forensic ones.
Bending Toward Justice
Things do change, of course. history, society,…life are all dynamic, not static. The quotidian work of politics, in particular, is more concerned with accommodating and channeling the transient than with realizing eternal Platonic forms. "A majority," Abraham Lincoln said in his First Inaugural, "held in restraint by constitutional checks, and limitations, and always changing easily, with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people."
Notwithstanding the opinion polls showing a large majority untroubled by "Washington Redskins," there clearly has been a deliberate change away from cartoonish, disrespectful references to Indians by sports teams. In 1986, the Atlanta Braves baseball team (formerly the Boston franchise, relocated by way of Milwaukee) got rid of "Chief Noc-a-Homa," a mascot who would emerge from a teepee beyond the left field fence to perform a "war dance" after every Braves home run. Some major college athletic programs have renamed their teams: the Stanford Indians became the Cardinal; Marquette's Warriors are now the Golden Eagles; and the St. John's Redmen the Red Storm. The Redskins retain their team name and fight song, "Hail to the Redskins," but have changed the words. Fans no longer sing, "Scalp 'em, swamp 'em—we will take 'em big score / Read 'em, weep 'em, touchdown!—we want heap more!"
It would be astonishing if anyone started a campaign to bring back Chief Noc-a-Homa, or to restore the Redskins fight song's original lyrics, much less for such an effort to succeed. History may close no questions, but some are exceedingly unlikely to be reopened. It's an unwarranted leap, however, from these developments to the judgment by Marc Tracy, a New Republic writer, that polls showing only a small portion of the population shares his outrage at "Washington Redskins" are irrelevant. He claims it doesn't matter how few people oppose the name because it is "objectively offensive," a judgment not obviously true or even coherent, since taking offense would seem to be highly subjective. The suspicion that Tracy thinks it sufficient to demand that sensibilities like his should prevail because that's what he really, really wants is supported by his catalog of other athletic teams with Indian names or logos he finds objectionable. That the University of Utah has official permission of the Ute Nations to call its teams the Utes, for example, does not banish Tracy's doubts about the seemliness of the athletic program's logo, which shows two feathers attached to the letter U. He considers the arrowhead in the San Diego State Aztec's logo even more shameful.
Being on the right side of history is about timing—but not just about timing. There's more to it, that is, than getting where the crowd is headed a little before the crowd arrives, the key to making money in equities or real estate. The right side, for progressives, is the side they deem right, not just the thing that happens next. The causes that deserve to win are destined to prevail because, as Martin Luther King said in 1965, the "arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."
That famous declaration, like others made in sermons, neither lends itself to nor profits from scrutiny. For one thing, it's unfalsifiable—an assertion that something will eventually come to pass can always be defended on the grounds that it hasn't come true yet. For another, what justice means and requires is the subject of an old, profound debate, not a standard that settles political problems the way the definition of an isosceles triangle settles geometry problems. King's heavy reliance on the concept of the "beloved community" argues that he relied on an understanding of justice for which the descriptor "expansive" is much too narrow. "For Dr. King, The Beloved Community was not a lofty utopian goal," the Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change states, before describing it in lofty utopian terms as "a global vision, in which all people can share in the wealth of the earth." In this vision, "poverty, hunger and homelessness will not be tolerated," "all forms of discrimination, bigotry and prejudice will be replaced by an all-inclusive spirit of sisterhood and brotherhood," and "international disputes will be resolved by peaceful conflict-resolution and reconciliation of adversaries, instead of military power."
That vision, suffice to say, doesn't rule out very much, either in terms of grievances or the measures needed to rectify them. Since King's death 46 years ago, it has ruled in more and more. According to the Hoover Institution's Tod Lindberg, the historical tide demanding ever greater equality—the subject of Tocqueville's Democracy in America—at first rendered political differences untenable, resulting in government by consent of the governed, expressed though universal suffrage. It then found economic disparities unacceptable, which led to efforts to reduce them with proletarian revolution, socialism, and welfare states. It now finds social differences among various groups intolerable. In order to "bring down the status of the privileged and elevate the status of the denigrated," Lindberg writes, those described by various markers of social identity—race, sex, class, sexual orientation, ethnicity, etc.—must all be accorded full and equal regard.
The attainment of perfect political or economic equality is highly unlikely, but can be described intelligibly, even as it is possible for political and economic inequalities to be objectively assessed. By contrast, equal social status rests on subjective feelings of being included and affirmed, rendering it as nebulous in theory as it is elusive in practice. Although a perfectly homogenous society might achieve absolute equality of social status, the "Tocqueville effect" argues that increasing equality always renders remaining inequalities all the more noticeable and suspect. As long as humans are not identical there will be differences among them, which will give rise to real or perceived inequalities.
In any case, the point of social equality is not to eliminate differences but to celebrate them. The psychological strength that follows from this achievement is the embrace, not the denial, of one's nature and heritage. Thus, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) demands abandoning "Washington Redskins" because, when exposed to "Indian-based names, mascots, and logos in sports,"
the self-esteem of Native youth is harmfully impacted, their self-confidence erodes, and their sense of identity is severely damaged. Specifically, these stereotypes affect how Native youth view the world and their place in society, while also affecting how society views Native peoples. This creates an inaccurate portrayal of Native peoples and their contributions to society. Creating positive images and role models is essential in helping Native youth more fully and fairly establish themselves in today's society.
The NCAI position paper, whose weakest claims echo the notorious "doll experiment" argument of 1954's Brown v. Board of Education decision, moves directly from these premises to discuss how Indians are disproportionately likely to be victims of suicide and hate crimes. It does not even attempt to establish a causal relationship between these dire outcomes and the psychological changes it deplores. What's more, its social scientific argument for a cause-and-effect relationship between Indian mascots and Native youth's impaired self-esteem and confidence rests entirely on a single, ten-page conference paper by an assistant professor of psychology.
But whether the links in the empirical chain between team names and logos, on the one hand, and depression and suicide, on the other, are sturdy or flimsy is not really the point. Last December, Melissa Harris-Perry, a Tulane University political science professor, found herself attacked for a segment on the MSNBC television show she hosts. Two days after Harris-Perry and her panelists made derisive references to a Romney family photograph that included an adopted black grandchild sitting on the former governor's lap, she posted to her Twitter account, "Without reservation or qualification…I want to immediately apologize to the Romney family for hurting them." She explained the basis for this apology in the compressed locution of Twitter: "I work by guiding principle that those who offend do not have the right to tell those they hurt that they r wrong for hurting."
Though explaining a great deal about life in 21st-century America, this guiding principle offers very little guidance for navigating the political and social terrain. Harris-Perry rules out the possibility of a false positive: if you r hurting, you were offended. By this illogic, claims to having been hurt and offended—or at least ones put forward by groups formerly or presently victimized by discrimination—are never dishonest, mistaken, or overwrought. There are no innocent explanations because the subjective experience of having been hurt necessarily means that the offenders are indeed guilty of inflicting a wound. For them to protest to the contrary only compounds the original offense, as it further denigrates the injured party by signaling that their hurt feelings are trivial, contrived, or spurious.
Why American Indians don't mind 'Redskins'
FILE - In this 7 October 2013, file photo, Oneida Indian Nation leader Ray Halbritter speaks in Washington, calling for the Washington Redskins NFL football team to change its name. Oneida Indian officials who oppose the Redskins nickname as a slur will meet with NFL officials next week in New York, a tribe spokesman said Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) — AP
By Matt Calkins, 2:18 p.m., 2 November 2013
I couldn't get past the number:
Everything about the Redskins' mascot seemed oppressive, regressive and downright offensive, but that number — that number kept staring back.
A few years ago, in the most recent poll on the subject, the National Annenberg Election Survey asked 768 self-identified American Indians whether they were offended by the name of Washington's NFL team. Ninety percent said no.
To me, this meant one of two things: 1) All the fuss, all the hoopla, all the fervor over changing the Redskins' name was absurd if the group that was supposed to be insulted took no offense. 2) The poll was garbage.
So I did my own survey. I went up to Barona, talked to 25 American Indians, and asked whether they had any issue with "Redskins" being the name of the Chargers' opponent today. Eighty-eight percent said no.
Not quite. After three days on an Indian reservation, I can say this with conviction: The push for this mascot change is absolutely necessary.
As you may know, members of the Oneida Indian Nation met with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday as part of an effort to erase the Redskins' 81-year-old name. They argue that the dictionary-defined slur perpetuates discrimination toward American Indians while caricaturing an entire race.
The San Francisco Chronicle, meanwhile, announced Thursday that it would no longer use the word "Redskins" in print, and last month, President Obama said he would think about changing the mascot if he were in team owner Dan Snyder's position.
Upon first glance, expunging a moniker highlighting an ethnic group's skin color seems like a no-brainer. If the Yellowskins, Brownskins or Blackskins were ever pitched as a mascot, national outrage would immediately ensue.
American Indians, however, don't seem to get too worked up on the matter. And if you take a moment, it's easy to see why.
When I asked residents of the Barona reservation whether they have a problem with "Redskins," the majority of them laughed and said no. But it wasn't necessarily because they supported the mascot. It was more because, to them, changing a team name would be the equivalent of putting a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound.
"I believe a lot of people are picking at little things right now when there are a lot more important things to be looked at — like education," said Tina Cruz in the parking lot of Barona Indian Charter School. "That's way more important than picking out a mascot or how to describe a Native American. It's ridiculous, to be honest."
Added a 20-something male who did not want to be named: "There are more pressing issues. What about the youth on the reservation? What about the suicide rate? There are bigger and more important problems on the reservations with Indian people than to just worry about a football team."
American Indians have the highest suicide, teen pregnancy, child mortality and school dropout rates in the country. On large reservations, the extreme poverty rate is more than six times the national average, which is part of the reason why Indians have the lowest life expectancy, too.
Neshaminy High School in Bucks County, PA, is one of 62 U.S. high schools with the nickname Redskins. Despite student, parent, and teacher protests, the School Board recently changed the name to the Neshaminy Wolverines. During games, when the cheerleaders ask the audience to participate and give it the 'ol collage high school try, 'Go, Wolverines!' becomes, once again:
'Go, Redskins!
Pic of the Day: OMFG! #ISISmocksMichelle
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— Shami Witness (@ShamiWitness) June 18, 2014
h/t: The Gateway Pundit
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Artwork by Bmore
Have at it, folks!
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MSNBC Host Fails to Get Reporter to Blame Bush for the Current Situation in Iraq
Via Progressives Today:
MSNBC and other liberal mainstream media stations have worked to minimize President Obama's role in the current crisis in Iraq, but honest reporters like the Daily Beast's Eli Lake aren't playing along.
That was evident on a recent episode of "The Reid Report" in which host Joy Reid attempted to place the blame for the Iraq crisis on neoconservatives who served under President Bush, only to have Lake set the record straight about Obama's massive failures.
"Reid … began the segment trying to dismiss warnings from 'neoconservatives' that Iraq may soon become a breeding ground for future attacks on the continental United States," the Daily Caller reports.
"'This time around, is this back to the future?' Reid asked. 'Or is there some realistic link between what's happening in Iraq right now and possibility of terrorism on domestic soil, here in the U.S.?'"
Lake threw Reid's obvious set-up question out the window, and instead rightly called out progressives for their attempt to shift the blame for the problems in Iraq.
"Well, I mean, the director of the FBI has been warning about attacks on the U.S.," he said, "and so … have many leaders of the intelligence community. I think you'd be hard pressed to call them neoconservatives.
"Neoconservatives have been out of power in terms of the U.S. government really since Bush's first term ended and then he cleaned house. In my view, I think that sort of focusing on what (former Defense official) Paul Wolfowitz may say on some of the Sunday shows is a way for progressives to avoid some of the hard questions about the policy of a Democratic president right now on Iraq. This is obviously very different than it was in 2003."
Reid tried a second time to steer the conversation to 2003, and the disbanding of the Iraqi army, but Lake took the opportunity to provide a mini history lesson on exactly why Obama's very much to blame for allowing ISIS terrorists to unravel the progress in Iraq.
From the Daily Caller:
"'You should look at all of the history,' Lake replied, 'including the history before 2003. … I think the way Paul Bremer made a huge mistake disbanding the Iraqi military in the way that he did.
'But I also think it was a huge mistake that the Obama administration never used any of his leverage with (Iraqi Prime Minister) Nouri al-Maliki to try to save Maliki from his own worst tendencies,' Lake asserted, saying Obama's decision to reward Maliki with F-16s and other ineffective support clearly backfired.
'It's a very easy thing to sort of say, 'Oh, Iraq is a mess, remember the neocons,' he accused. 'So in that respect, I think that – you know, yeah, they're in the commentary now. How really relevant is it? No one is proposing ANY kind of invasion. I think the whole country is against it.'"
In other words, the progressive line about Iraq – "remember the neocons" – is little more than a lame tactic to distract from Obama's hand in creating the current situation. And it's certainly refreshing to see that at least some honest reporters refuse to overlook that fact to spare the president from his due embarrassment.
Germany To Conduct Study On Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism
Study: Over half of Germans polled agreed that "Israel behaves toward the Palestinians the way the Nazis behaved toward the Jews."
By Sam Sokol
The German Ministry of the Interior will undertake a study on anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, a senior adviser to President Joachim Gauck told the Simon Wiesenthal Center in a letter obtained by The Jerusalem Post.
The letter, by Gauck's senior diplomatic and foreign policy adviser, Ambassador Heinz-Peter Behr, came in response to a request sent last month by Wiesenthal Center associate dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper, who has been demanding such studies in correspondence with several European leaders.
In his request to Gauck, Cooper cited a study by the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation that found that nearly half of Germans, and 40 percent of Europeans overall believe that "Israel is conducting a war of extermination against the Palestinians."
Another study, conducted by the University of Bielefeld, found that over half of Germans polled agreed that "Israel behaves toward the Palestinians the way the Nazis behaved toward the Jews," he added.
Cooper asserted that such beliefs contribute to a growing sense of unease among European Jews and help to explain the spread of calls for boycotts against the Jewish state.
The first step to be taken in combating anti-Semitism and the delegitimization of Israel would be for national governments to "trace how such an utterly false and insidious image of Israel was created."
"At the minimum, those who conceive and promote an unjustified and extreme criminal view of others should be exposed and held accountable in the court of public opinion," he said. "We all know too well from the 1930s in Germany what can happen when the delegitimization and demonization of an empire goes unchallenged."
In response, Behr said that the new study's focus will "not only be on anti-Semitism, but also on German criticism of the State of Israel and its policies. Documents like these will contribute to the necessary debate on problems of anti-Semitism and the demonization of Israel."
Citing Gauck's statement that standing up for Israel is a "defining part of German policy," Behr asserted that it is not acceptable to spread anti-Semitism and "cast doubt on the State of Israel's right to exist. Germany, both on its own and within European structures, will continue to fight such attitudes."
The issue of anti-Semitic violence is a pressing one for European Jews, with a third of Jews polled last year in a study conducted by the European Union's Fundamental Rights Agency stating that they refrained from wearing religious garb or Jewish symbols out of fear, while an additional 23% avoided attending Jewish events or going to Jewish venues.
In several countries, up to a third of Jews stated that they were mulling emigration.
A shooting at the Jewish Museum of Brussels last month and two subsequent attacks on Jews in France are only the latest in a series of violent incidents targeting Jews.
Simon Wiesenthal Center dean and founder Rabbi Marvin Hier met with French President Francois Hollande in Paris on Thursday and drew his attention to the more than 1,000 French citizens who either have participated, or are currently participating, in the Syrian civil war, as a source of danger to the Jewish community.
Mehdi Nemmouche, who killed four people in the attack on the Brussels museum, was in Syria last year.
"The Jewish community and France's democratic values are under unprecedented attack by the forces of extremism both from the far Right and from extreme Islamist purveyors of religious intolerance, violence and murder," Hier said.
"Mr. President, in our time these French-born terrorists, like other terrorists, were not born with hate in their hearts," he told Hollande. "In the presence of French, American, Canadian and British Jewish leaders gathered here today, I declare with certainty that if, God forbid, a terrorist attack was carried out by a Jew against innocent civilians, there would be wall-to-wall public condemnation by every Jewish leader in the world."
"No less should be expected from the leaders of the largest Muslim population in Europe," he added.
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Havana by David Stork
Passionate about art, frequent visitor of exhibitions, Widewalls photography specialist and Editor-in-Chief.
Cuba and its capital, Havana, have always been a special place for photographers. The iconic images of Alberto Korda and recently deceased René Burri, among others, immortalized the rebellious society of the island and its leaders and established their place as reference points in street photography. Submitting his own work of the subject is South African-born, Los Angeles-based photographer David Stork.
David Stork – Dos mujeres, 1999 – detail
On the edge of existence
Stork lived in Cuba as a young man, during the 1980s, while his father was the Dutch ambassador. Having established a connection with the place, he returned in 1999 to document the poor state that the country and its people have found themselves in. He caught the glimpse of the end of el periodo especial (the special period), a time of revival after the fall of the Soviet Union which caused a statewide shortage of food and a general economic collapse. His area of work was a 10-block square section of Havana, a small space which was more than enough to show the deep consequences of a difficult socio-political situation. Stork captured the city's motionlessness and everyday lives of its citizens who were simply trying to make ends meet, so they can get through another excruciating day. The streets have become a sort of a battle ground, with people in deepest poverty seeking food, transport, money and just any help they can get, while trying to survive.
David Stork – Caballo, 1999 – detail
The frame of reality
"…Any direction, any time, out the door, left or right and keep on walking. Aimlessly, staying in the shade, seeing isolated moments that spoke to the Cuban condition." Seems like the decay of society and its values happened on every corner, yet Stork's photographs managed to depict the still raw and strong emotions of the people. Pride, humanity and a glimmer of hope that simmers amongst destruction. Two surreal images highlight this series of images. One shows an abandoned horse on the sidewalk, with no additional equipment or any sign of belonging, just waiting for the time to pass, like many in that moment. In the other, there are two women carrying two bags with little food on the ruinous streets, looking humorously different from one another, but still equally connected at times of trouble. The dramatic visual impact of these images is due to a Holga camera the photographer used, causing the creation of a black vignette that frames them, along with a high contrast printing in black and white. In addition to extensively documenting Cuba, David Stork's other areas of investigation include Russia and The Republics, Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania, China and Tibet, Eastern and Western Europe, Mexico, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. His work and essays have been published throughout the world including the Los Angeles Times, Detour Magazine, Spark-South Korea, Amnesty International Magazine, Euro, Die Weltwoche, Venice Magazine, Camera and Darkroom.
The David Stork: 10 Blocks Square – Havana 1999 exhibition opens on January 10th at the Couturier Gallery in Los Angeles, USA, and closes on February 14th, 2015.
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David Stork – Caballo, Havana, 1999
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Home/Sports/Dont See X-Factor In These 2 That Rishabh Pant Has, Says Saba Karim For Sanju Samson And Ishan Kishan
Dont See X-Factor In These 2 That Rishabh Pant Has, Says Saba Karim For Sanju Samson And Ishan Kishan
Former chief selector Saba Karim believes that despite the presence of Sanju Samson and young player Ishan Kishan, Rishabh Pant remains the first choice for Team India as a wicketkeeper. Suggesting that Samson can play in the team as a pure batsman, Karim said that Kishan has not made the most of the opportunities given to him by the management. Karim further said that Pant has an X-factor, which puts him ahead of Samson and Kishan. He also supported Pant to retain his place in the team in both red and white ball cricket.
Karim said during an interaction with India News, "I would still choose Rishabh Pant over Sanju Samson and Ishaan Kishan. I don't see the X factor in these two that Rishabh Pant has. Samson is an amazing stroke player. And can retain his place in the team as a batsman. Ishan Kishan did not take full advantage of his opportunity, which is why he has fallen below the pecking order. In this, Pant white-ball and red-ball Cricket will be my first choice of both."
Samson and Kishan are part of the second-line Indian team for the ongoing ODI series against South Africa (India vs South Africa).
* Urvashi Rautela went after Team India for Australia, Rishabh Pant's fans were not spared again, see Viral post
* "If you don't trust him, why is he in the team", the PAK veteran, furious over Babar Azam's new strategy, raised questions
In the first match played in Lucknow, India lost by 9 runs. In this match, Samson played an unbeaten innings of 86 runs, while Kishan was seen struggling during his innings of 20 runs in 37 balls.
At the same time, Pant is with the Indian team for the T20 World Cup to be held in Australia.
Team India will take on arch-rivals Pakistan in their first match (India vs Pakistan) of the T20 World Cup at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 23 October.
* "India kept Pakistan in the side during Dhoni's era but now…", Afridi said for Babar and Co.
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We are happy to announce the publication of our 2010 Annual Report, The Impact of City Connects. Again this year, our report presents strong evidence of the positive effects of City Connects for students and their families, for teachers and staff who work in our schools, and for our community partners.
Improved Academic Outcomes: Our evaluation confirms again the significant benefits of City Connects for academic outcomes as measured both by report card scores and by MCAS scores extending into middle school, after students have left City Connects. A cutting-edge approach to statistical analysis is detailed in the report.
Decreased Retention: City Connects students experience lower rates of retention in grade than those in comparison schools.
Satisfied Principals: 100% of principals surveyed reported satisfaction with City Connects as a whole, and 100% would recommend City Connects to a principal in another school.
Satisfied Teachers: 97% of teachers would recommend City Connects to a teacher in another school. In open-ended survey responses, teachers told us that the increased knowledge of students' non-academic lives that they gain through City Connects allows them to tailor instruction and employ new strategies to engage students in learning.
Satisfied Partners: Community agencies continue to report high levels of satisfaction with partnership quality and effectiveness with City Connects schools; for example, 95% are satisfied with their primary contact at City Connects schools (vs. 67% at non-City Connects schools).
We are grateful to all of our school district and community partners for their commitment to addressing the out-of-school factors that impact students' lives. The report is evidence of the success of our collaboration.


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 Кубатиев, Алан Кайсанбекович (1952—2022) — русский писатель-фантаст.
 Кубатиев, Аслан Амирханович (род. 1941) — советский и российский патофизиолог.

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Law & Order crime show battles rape myths: study
By Peter EdwardsStar Reporter
Thu., Nov. 19, 2015timer2 min. read
The popular television drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit may be helping educate television viewers about rape and the importance of sexual consent, a newly-released study has found.
"Prime time television can do good," Stacey Hust, The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication Chair at Washington State University, said in an interview.
"Responsible television programs can have some positive effects and still be entertaining," said Hust, whose study was published this week in the Journal of Health Communication.
The study, called "Law & Order, CSI, and NCIS: The Association Between Exposure to Crime Drama Franchises, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Sexual Consent Negotiation Among College Students," surveyed 313 American college freshmen.
It found that the show's followers were less inclined than fans of other popular crime dramas to believe that if a woman is raped she is at least somewhat responsible for letting things get out of control.
"Our results indicate that specific crime-drama franchises are associated with decreased rape-myth acceptance," the study states.
They are also more prone to seek consent for sexual activity and to feel confident to refuse unwanted sexual activity than fans of other crime shows, including CSI, and NCIS, according to the study.
The study also concluded that the viewers who were exposed to CSI were found to have lessened intentions to seek consent for sexual activity and a greater acceptance to believe rape myths that blame the victim.
Findings were less pronounced about NCIS, although it was connected to lessened plans to refuse sexual activity.
The study described a connection between the portrayal of sexual violence on television dramas and attitudes towards sexual consent.
Hust noted that story lines in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit often conclude with attackers found guilty and punished, while the CSI series focuses on investigation and often doesn't show punishment.
"People are seeing the crime and they're also seeing it punished," Hust said.
She noted that Law and Order star Mariska Hargitay founded a centre to help sexual assault survivors called the Joyful Heart Foundation, which also works with writers on the series.


Federal Salary Minimum Threshold Placed on Hold.
On November 22nd, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on the Department of Labor's new overtime rules, which were scheduled to take effect December 1, 2016. The judge ruled that the Department of Labor (DOL) likely overstepped its rule-making authority by raising the salary threshold as high as it did and by implementing the automatic increase every three years.
The effective date of the federal rules has been delayed indefinitely.
At this point, we do not know how long the injunction will be in place or if the rules will be dismissed entirely. It is also possible the final decision will allow some parts of the rule to stand but not others. We will keep you updated as more information is announced on the topic.
Effective January 1st, 2017 the minimum wage in the state of California will increase from $10.00 to $10.50 an hour for employers with 26 or more employees.The minimum wage for employers with 25 or less employees will remain the same until 2018.
California employers must also be mindful of how the state's scheduled minimum wage increases will affect the salary threshold for overtime exemption.
Although the recently-proposed federal minimum salary threshold of $47,476 has been placed on hold (as of November 2016), California's minimum salary threshold (overtime exemption threshold) remains in effect, and will change for certain employers in 2017.
The "white collar" exemption is based on a minimum monthly salary of no less than two times the state minimum wage for full-time employment. In 2016, this rate is $3,466.67 per month or $41,600 per year based on the $10.00 per-hour minimum state wage.
For employers with 26 or more employees, the state minimum wage will increase to $10.50 beginning in January 2017, resulting in a new minimum salary threshold of $43,680.
In 2017, for employers with 25 employees or less, this rate of $41,600 based on the $10.00 per-hour minimum state wage will remain the same.
Note: It is also possible that a proposed federal salary threshold will resume in 2017. Please watch for updates on this topic in the future.
Please review your employee pay rates, overtime rates, salary amounts and other pay rates to ensure you are meeting the new requirements. Changes to your employee's pay rates are only made by authorized persons within your organization. Any changes or revisions to rates of pay should be adjusted using your normal payroll input method (PayEntry, M3Online, phone, email). California Payroll will process the information provided by employers. California Payroll does not determine or audit rates of pay for processing. Remember to review your Register Prior to Processing or your Input Worksheet for pay rate information. M3Online and PayEntry users can view employee's information directly in the system and there are a number of reports available to view your employees' information.
State enforcement agencies have made it a top priority to stop employers from engaging in "wage theft," which includes not paying the minimum wage for all hours worked. Employers should examine all pay practices that may need review; this includes overtime rates of pay, base salaries, piece rates, non-productive time, commission and more.
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The boy was about fifteen years old when he died.
He had been born in Europe and traveled to America shortly before he died.
He likely died as a result of violence.
Oh, and he was someone none of us ever knew or met because he lived and died 400 years ago in the colony of Jamestown.
So how do we know anything about who he was or how he died? Written in Bone tells the story of scientists and historians who excavated graves at Jamestown and in Maryland and studied the remains to find out all they could about these early colonists.
With beautiful and informative photos, Sally M. Walker writes in incredible detail about the tests and research that scientists do to find out about early settlers from their remains. Did you know that you can usually tell a male and female apart by their bones? Or that you might find out where a person grew up by studying isotopes in their tooth enamel?
The book's compelling enough to be recreational reading, but Ms. Walker also includes tons of source notes and resources for further research, so this is a great choice for reports, too. Live in or visiting Washington DC? You can check out the Written in Bone exhibit at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, too. I'm going to DC at some point this year (in October for a wedding if not before) and I am definitely going to visit this exhibit!
So, so many different techniques are used by forensic anthropologists to research human remains and Written in Bone presents many of them in an interesting and accessible format. Color photographs show the remains that were excavated and how scientists studied the bones to determine who these people were and what might have happened to them.
What would your bones say about you?


Hot off the press! Hippocrates, who several millennia ago said, "Let food be your medicine," knew what he was talking about!
We're talking about the much ballyhooed results of a study on the Mediterranean diet and heart disease, recently reported in New England Journal of Medicine. Though it's long been known that people in the Mediterranean region have substantially lower rates of heart disease than in the U.S. and other developed countries, scientists were very skeptical that diet could be a major factor. The study clearly proved otherwise.
Researchers followed 7,447 people at high risk for heart attack and stroke (overweight, smokers, diabetics, etc.), split into basically 2 groups: one on the Mediterranean diet (fresh fruits and vegetables, olive oil, nuts, beans, fish, a glass of wine with meals), the other on a low-fat regime. After less than 5 years it became so clear that those on the Mediterranean diet were doing so much better, researchers stopped the study. It would've been unethical to continue!
Startled experts have been thrown into tizzys! (Many switched forthwith to Mediterranean fare!) The conventional wisdom has been that all fats are suspect in heart disease, ergo, a low- or no-fat diet was the way to go, though not a very practical way since most people have a hard time staying on such a spare regimen. We can only hope that orthodox medicine will now be more open to the concept of an enjoyable balanced diet of whole, unprocessed foods as a powerful primary tool for dealing with other chronic degenerative diseases, like cancer – something many of us have known and used for ages without the stamp of scientific rigor.
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What a frightful spectacle our food has become. Human sustenance has been reduced to a corporate portfolio item – one whose success rides increasingly on sheer size and market control. In the name of profit, everything else gets squeezed: consumer health; smaller-scale farmers and processors; food industry workers and farm laborers; and the soil, air and water that are the lifeblood of our food supply.
Add to this picture a whole phalanx of K Street lobbyists, well-remunerated by groups like the Grocery Manufacturers of America, dedicated to undermining food safety and labeling laws and other consumer protections, diluting pesticide laws and weakening antitrust provisions. Throw into the mix an increasingly corporate-controlled organics and local foods business, and you can begin to understand why farmlands are becoming industrialized wastelands and our waistlines keep widening.
Foodopoly, Wenonah Hauter's fine contribution to the growing literature about our ailing food system, does a particularly good job of detailing both the methods and implications of this corporate takeover of food. Read More.
Indoor Air Pollution? House Plants to the Rescue!
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the levels of air pollutants inside homes can far exceed the levels outside, thanks to household cleaning products, central heating and cooling systems, and other indoor sources. But scientists have found that certain plants can scrub your home of airbourne chemicals, albeit gradually.
In addition to figuring out how to land a car-size rover on Mars, scientists at NASA have investigated ways to rid spacecraft of airborne pollutants, some of them common offenders in American homes as well. The agency found that at least 15 common indoor plants could filter – to one degree or another – pollutants like the carcinogens benzene, trichloroethylene and formaldehyde. Read More.
Onion Power: What Makes You Weep Can Get You Well!
When you cut or peel an onion, volatile oils are released that stimulate the production of tears which cleanse the epithelial layers of the eyes, clearing waste and toxic chemicals from the cells. A similar detox process goes on internally when you eat onions. But that's not all this powerful bulb can do for you. Onions are rich in quercetin, a type of flavonoid that has been shown to reduce the risk of many types of cancer. A member of the same botanical family as garlic, onions also contain allicin, which transforms into organosulfurs which can lower cholesterol, thin the blood, keep arteries flexible, protect your liver and kill cancer cells. And these are just 2 of the healing compounds contained in this age-old household staple.
Bulbs from the onion family have been traced back as far as 5,000 B.C. The ancient Egyptians worshipped them, believing the spherical shape and concentric rings symbolized eternal life. In ancient Greece, athletes ate large quantities, thought to lighten the balance of blood. Roman gladiators were rubbed down with sliced onion to firm up their muscles. In the Middle Ages, onions were so valued, they were used to pay rent or given as gifts and doctors prescribed them to aid bowel movements and erections, as well as relief of headaches, coughs, snakebite and hair loss.
In a bowl, mix marinade ingredients together well.
Stir in cucumber and onion slices until well covered.
Let marinate overnight in refrigerator.
Suggestion: add a few sardines and you've got lunch!
c. 1590-1 by Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
So what do you think: was Arcimboldo nuts or maybe just way too cool for his times?
Lettuce is one of the oldest vegetables and probably originated in India or Central Asia. According to the writings or Herodotus, lettuce was served to the Persian kings as far back as the sixth century BC. It was a popular Roman food at about the beginning of the Christian era, and in the first century AD a dozen distinctively different varieties were described by Roman writers of the era. There is also evidence that lettuce was grown in China in the fifth century AD.
Columbus may have carried lettuce seeds to the New World, for it was being cultivated in the Bahamas in 1494. It was a common vegetable in Haiti as early as 1565, and Brazil was reported to have cultivated before 1650. The early colonists evidently introduced lettuce into the US, and in 1806 16 varieties were reported growing in American gardens.
Both the English and Latin words for lettuce are based on the heavy, milky juice of the vegetable, which is characteristic of the lettuce family. The primitive forms of lettuce has long stems and large leafs grew at the end of these stems. These closed-packed lettuce heads were well developed in Europe by the 16th century, while the loose common head type of developed later.
Lettuce has become the most valuable truck crop, and 85% of the commercial crop is produced in the west-California, Arizona, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. The northeast and south Atlantic states are also important lettuce growing regions.
Lettuce is available all year, and the peak months are May, June, and July. Although the crisp head and butter head types are the most important from a commercial standpoint, the Cos or Romaine type are bets from a health standpoint, as the sun is allowed to penetrate each leaf. The leaves generally have less of the bitterness that is characteristic of some types of head lettuce. The "leaf" or the "bunching" type of lettuce is distinguished by loose leaves that do not form a head. This type is best for home gardening, as it can be grown in areas where the temperature is too high for successful growing of the other types of lettuce. The stem type lettuce has an enlarged stem and no head. The leaves are not as palpable as the other types of lettuce leaves except when young and tender. The stems are pulled and eaten raw or cooked.
Lettuce of good quality should be fresh, crisp, and tender, and if in head lettuce form, the head should be fairly firm to hard. Lettuce with a well developed seed stem has a bitter flavor.
Leaf lettuce is much richer in iron than head lettuce. We do not advocate using head lettuce in the diet, for it contains little nourishment. It contains significantly lower amounts of vitamins A and C than green Romaine lettuce. The darker green outside leaves contain a much higher proportion of the valuable food elements than the light colored inner leaves. Head lettuce is very gas forming , and really only offers bulk to the intestinal tract. It has an alkaline ash, however, and is not stimulating. Also, it is excellent for those who would like to lose weight. It also has many sleep promoting elements and makes good lettuce juice, which help promote sleep. It tends to slow down the digestive effect of the intestinal tract.
The lime is native to southeastern Asia and has been cultivated for thousands of years. It is believed that the Arabs brought them from India during the period of Mohammedan expansion in A.D. 570-900. From the earliest days of British sailing vessels, British sailors were given a regular ration of lime juice to prevent scurvy at sea, resulting in the nickname "limey" for British sailors.
Limes have been grown in California and Florida since the early days of the citrus industry. After the great freeze in Florida in 1894-95, when the lemon industry was almost totally destroyed, California began growing virtually all the lemons in the United States. At this time Florida's lime industry expanded, and now Florida grows most of the limes used in this country. California is second in production, and Mexico is a close third. Limes grow all year. Florida produces them from April to April, and California from October throughout the year. The main season for imports is May through August.
Limes that are green in color and heavy for their size are the most desirable commercially, because of their extreme acidity. The full, ripe, yellow lime does not have a high acid content. If the lime is kept until fully ripe it may be used in the very same way the lemon is used, and to fortify other foods with vitamin C. Like lemons, limes are very high in vitamin C, are a good source of vitamin B1, and are rich in potassium. They spoil easily, and limes with a dry, leathery skin or soft, moldy areas should be avoided. Store limes in a cool, dry place.
Limes contain 5 to 6 percent citric acid, and are too acid to drink without sweetening. Their natural flavor is enhanced when combined with other juices. Limes make a delicious dressing for fish, and, when added to melons, bring out the natural flavor of the melon. A few drops of lime juice added to consommé, or jellied soups, give a particular zest to the flavor. Subacid fruits, such as apples, pears, plums, peaches, grapes, and apricots, go best with limes.
Limes are good for the relief of arthritis because they have such a high vitamin C content. They are especially good for anyone with acidemia, because they are one of the most alkalinizing foods. A drink of lime juice and whey is a wonderful cooler for the brain and nervous system. Limes can be used to treat brain fever, or someone who is mentally ill. They are good for a brain with a great deal of hot blood in it, which usually shows itself in anger, hatred, or other brain disturbances. Limes make a wonderful sedative for those suffering from these afflictions.
Bananas were cultivated in India 4,000 years ago. In 1482, the Portuguese found the banana on the Guinea coast and carried it with them to the Canary Islands. Spanish priests are credited with having introduced this fruit to tropical America when they arrived as missionaries in the sixteenth century. Now, the banana can be found in all tropical countries.
The first known species of banana is the plaintain. or cooking banana. The plantain has a salmon-colored and gummy texture, and a slightly acid taste. This fruit has been a substitute for bread or potatoes in many countries, and is slowly being introduced to the United States.
Bananas are usually harvested green, shipped green, and ripened by wholesale fruit jobbers in air-conditioned ripening rooms. The Gros Michel variety is the most popular of the many varieties. It produces the largest and most compact bunch, which makes it easier to ship. The thick skin of the banana protects the soft fruit.
Other popular varieties of banana are the Claret, or red banana, which has a gummy flesh; the Lady Finger, which is the smallest variety, but has a delicate, sweet flavor; and the Apple, which has an acid flavor and tastes somewhat like a mellow apple.
In the tropics, bananas are often cooked and served with beans, rice, or tortillas. In the Latin American countries, the ripe banana is sometimes dried in the sun in much the same manner as figs and raisins. They arc often sliced when ripe and left in the sun until they are covered with a coating of white, sugary powder that arises from their own juices.
The banana has no particular growing season. A ripe banana is firm, with a plump texture, strong peel, and no trace of green on the skin. A skin that is flecked with brown means the fruit is good.
Fully ripe bananas are composed of 76 percent water, 20 percent sugar, and 12 percent starch.
The sugars in the banana are readily assimilated, and they contain many vitamins and minerals, and a great deal of fiber. They are excellent for young children and infants and are good in reducing diets because they satisfy the appetite and are low in fat.
Because they are so soft, they are good for persons who have intestinal disturbances, and for convalescents. Bananas feed the natural acidophilus bacteria of the bowel, and their high potassium content benefits the muscular system.
The apricot is said to have originated in China. It spread from there to other parts of Asia, then to Greece and Italy. As early as 1562 there is mention of the apricot in England in Turner's Herbal.
It is recorded that the apricot grew in abundance in Virginia in the year 1720. In 1792 Vancouver, the explorer, found a fine fruit orchard that included apricots at Santa Clara, California. The fruit was probably brought to California by the Mission Fathers in the eighteenth century.
The apricot is a summer fruit, and is grown in the Western United States. California produces 97 percent of the commercial apricot crop. Only about 21 percent of the apricots produced commercially are sold fresh; the remainder are canned, dried, or frozen.
Tree-ripened apricots have the best flavor, but tree-ripened fruit is rarely available in stores, even those close to the orchard. The next best thing to a well-matured apricot is one that is orange-yellow in color, and plump and juicy. Immature apricots never attain the right sweetness or flavor. There are far too many immature apricots on the market. They are greenish-yellow, the flesh is firm, and they taste sour. Avoid green and shriveled apricots.
Apricots may be eaten raw in a soft diet. Ripe apricots are especially good for very young children and for older people. This fruit is quite laxative, and rates high in alkalinity. Apricots also contain cobalt, which is necessary in the treatment of anemic conditions.
Apricots may be pureed for children who are just beginning to eat solid foods. Apricot whip for dessert is wonderful, and apricots and cream may be used in as many ways as possible. They make good afternoon and evening snacks.
Dried apricots have six times as much sugar content as the fresh fruit. Therefore, persons with diabetic conditions must be careful not to eat too much dried apricot. Because of its sugar content, however, it is good when we need an energy boost.
Dried fruits should be put in cold water and brought to a boil the night before, or permitted to soak all night, before eating. Bringing the water to a boil kills any germ life that may be on the fruit. Sweeten only with honey, maple syrup, or natural sugars.


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package com.salama.service.core.net.http;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.Hashtable;

import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;

import com.salama.service.core.net.SessionWrapper;

/**
 *
 * @author XingGu Liu
 *
 */
public class MultipartRequestWrapper extends AbstractRequestWrapper {
	private Hashtable<String, String> _fieldMap = new Hashtable<String, String>();
	private Hashtable<String, MultipartFile> _multipartFileMap = new Hashtable<String, MultipartFile>();

	public MultipartRequestWrapper(
			ServletRequest request,
			SessionWrapper session,
			Hashtable<String, String> fieldMap,
			Hashtable<String, MultipartFile> multipartFileMap) {
		super(request, session);
		_fieldMap = fieldMap;
		_multipartFileMap = multipartFileMap;
	}

	@Override
	public boolean isMultipartContent() {
		return true;
	}

	@Override
	public String getParameter(String name) {
		return _fieldMap.get(name);
	}

	@Override
	public Enumeration<String> getParameterNames() {
		return _fieldMap.keys();
	}

	public MultipartFile getFile(String name) {
		return _multipartFileMap.get(name);
	}

	public Enumeration<String> getFileNames() {
		return _multipartFileMap.keys();
	}

	public Collection<MultipartFile> getFiles() {
		return _multipartFileMap.values();
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Many young people, particularly those from poor and disadvantaged backgrounds, struggle to find stable employment because they lack guidance and information on the demands of the labor market. They include those who are attempting to move from farm to off-farm employment in order to earn more and diversify their sources of income.
One way to improve labor market outcomes for young people is to provide them with career guidance and employment services.
Such services, OECD said, may be found in schools, universities and colleges, in training institutions, in public employment services, in the workplace, in the voluntary or community sector and in the private sector. The activities may include career information provision, assessment and self-assessment tools, counseling interviews, career education programs, "taster" programs that allow job-seekers to sample options before making a decision, work search programs, and transition services.
social equity and social inclusion.
Career advice and employment services support the aspirations of young people from poor and disadvantaged backgrounds in attaining stable employment, which the ILO defines as being employed for more than 12 months.
Career advise and support services should shorten the length of time to transition from school to further study and then into employment. In parts of Asia and the Pacific, a large number of young people find themselves looking for jobs for more than a year (link is external). In Bangladesh, they account for 45.3% of young job seekers and in Nepal, they account for 31.2%. The long wait opens them to the risk of their skills becoming obsolete, financial loss, and developing low self-esteem. And the longer the wait, the lower the chances of finding stable jobs.


Use of secondary data in research is more economical than primary data. Primary data collection involves preparing of questionnaires for data collection, going to the field for actual collection, editing coding and tabulating of data. This is a very complicated and tire some exercise. Therefore, the prolonged and cumbersome process involved in primary data makes these very costly as compared to secondary data. Secondary data can be collected by the researcher single-handedly in libraries and through other static sources within limited time. On the other hand, collection of primary data may require much longer time. Thus, the money advantage also accompanies the time and effort advantages in the case of secondary data collection vis-à-vis primary data collection.
The secondary data are gathered by certain research agencies of occurrence of various events e.g., census data. These angelicas collect such data for certain purpose of their collections different than the objectives the researcher has in mind while collecting data a particular research problem. The primary data, on the other hand , are collected for meeting a specific objective and there exists a lot of scope for maneuvering these to suit the researcher's needs. Thus, the bias element is leaser in secondary data as compared to primary data.
Moreover, an individual researcher faces many difficulties while collecting certain primary data (such as data on sales, expenses profits, etc.) form respondents like wholesalers, dealers, retailer competitors, customers, etc. Whereas such data can be gathered by research agencies as their routine affair. The data gathered by research agencies are easily available to the researcher in published form.


The Museum of Flight in Seattle will recognize the contributions of America's veterans at the annual Veterans Day Ceremony Nov. 11. This year's guest speaker is retired U.S. Air Force Col. Chuck DeBellevue, who is recognized for his six aerial combat victories during the Vietnam War.
The Veterans Day events begin with an hour of patriotic music by the Boeing Employees' Concert Band beginning at noon. The ceremony starts at 1 p.m., and features the University of Washington Air Force ROTC color guard. A group of "Rosie the Riveters," women who helped build combat aircraft during World War II, will attend the ceremony and be recognized for their service to the war effort. There will also special programs for youth, adults and families.
On Veterans Day all U.S. veterans and current U.S. military personnel will be admitted to the museum free of charge.


Pa Pa's Bakeria is a recreational game for all ages with a cute art style Made by Matt Neff and Tony Solary from Flipline Studio. Within this match, you play with either as a guy (Timm), a woman (Cecilia) or you also can create your own character through the Produce a Custom Worker feature.
When you start the game, you get to see an introductory video about the match: You'd just found your dream job working for a dancing team in Whiskview Theater. Once you've applied your CV, you were hired. Regrettably, even whenever you've reached your destination, then you realized that the place was closed. As you ' re being sad, the master of Papa's Bakeria (situated in Whiskview Mall) told me that his store was looking for employees. Because you were sad as a result of not needing a job, you agree to the operator's job invitation.
Order Station: Write down the customer's order onto the Purchase ticket.
Build Station: First you have to pick the bottom of the cake, then put in a variety of seeds into the cake, and then you've got to pick the surface of the cake. It all needs to adhere to the customer's request.
Bake Station: Bring the cake into the toaster to start baking. Don't forget to time it precisely so that the cake will probably be delicious.
Best Station: as of this point, you'll insert the toppings on the cake's face according to the purchaser's request.