I'm the grain that started it all, the farming that led to civilizations in the Fertile Crescent and onward. Not bad for a grass, eh.
If it's the first time you're hearing a grass speak, relax. We have a long story ahead of us.
Now in January I'm not doing much. Those green tufts you see under a bit of snow cover, they're not growing in the cold. It's a kind of dormant state. The field got seeded late August, so the tufts in the furrows grew around eight inches tall before winter.
My most recent relatives, industrialized wheats, have either winter or spring habit, meaning that planting must come before or after winter, depending on cultivar. We ancient grains are more flexible, we're seeded as spring grain in some places, as winter grain in others. In general, winter grain is higher risk for the farmer because when temperatures plummet to extremes, winter kill will decimate the stand; but winter grains yield better than spring grain.
Out the kitchen window of the Lentz Spelt Farms farmstead on the Columbia Plateau in Eastern Washington, deer are a daily sight in winter, small herds traversing the field to feed where they feel safe. It's the sugar in the grass that draws them here from their hide-outs in the shrubsteppe coulees.
My theory is that some grasses turned sweet as a matter of coevolution. Grass needed a partner to fend off the trees who form forests with all that duff and shade. The best way to keep trees off meadow, prairie and steppe was to attract grazing animals, and nothing draws them better than sugar.
Perhaps it's not a coincidence that Einkorn's place of origin is Turkey's Karacadag – Deer Mountain.
You yourself can taste the grassy sweetness in wheatgrass juice, a most peculiar flavor, rather different than cane or apple. Some folks swear by the stuff. Of course you can also grow trays of Farro grass from Einkorn or Emmer or Spelt seed for juicing; not surprisingly, even at this very young stage the Farro flavor is distinctly other than that of wheat.
But back to the concept of coevolution. Michael Pollan makes a point of it in his The Botany of Desire, choosing apple, tulip, cannabis and potato as examples of how humans and crop plants inter-relate in evolutionary terms. Humans benefit by way of sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control, respectively, he writes. The plant bends to human will because it desires species spread.
In the case of Einkorn, the grandest coevolutionary coup traces back to the trait that causes the spikelets to cling to the stem, even when the kernels are ripe. Some wise old woman must have noticed this trait in an Einkorn subpopulation, and realized that non-shattering grain makes for much better harvest gathering. Maybe she wondered how to encourage this particular subpopulation. Maybe that's how she hit on the idea (or was it a vision?) to save some seed for planting.
The consensus among historians seems to be that women were the first farmers, because as the gatherers in a tribe they were more attuned to botanical cycles. There is also consensus that agriculture started in several parts of the world, independently and in approximately the same era, namely after 500,000 years of human wandering: agriculture is a darn recent invention. We'd do well to keep that in mind.
On the rice terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras, where some tribes are still animists, harvest does not commence until sage old women have walked the fields and gathered seed for planting the next season. That's why we picture an old woman in the non-shattering Einkorn. Seed gathering was not a task but a rite.
The pre-agrarian grain storages archeologists have unearthed in the Levant were likely built by men.
Of course we can question the long-range human benefit of becoming agrarians with homesteads, then agriculturists on commercial farms, then dependants, mostly, on ag industries, in thrall to to the military-industrial complex. The resurgence of Einkorn lately signals a small reversal of the trends.
Take that long rock 40 miles south of Turkey, the island of Cyprus. Archeologists say that the first Cypriots arrived probably from Asia Minor, bringing with them a few animal and plant species – Einkorn! – new to the island. The migration was one-way; proof of this is that the early Cypriot culture developed very differently than nearby mainland cultures. For one, these Cypriots remained an aceramic culture, meaning that they were a people without pottery. They also established the strange custom of burying their dead folded-up inside their circular stone houses. Grandpa's still around, right here under the flagstones, is how archeologists explain the custom.
An expanse of forest covered Cyprus in those days. In meadow areas, Einkorn adapted to local climate and soil conditions, changing some of its traits in the process just as the isolated human culture changed over time.
It wasn't long, however, before the forests of Cyprus were felled; copper had been discovered – Cyprus has its root in the word copper, linguists speculate –, and wood was needed for smelting. It was an early case of deforestation that must have altered growing conditions, from acidic soils to alkaline. And once again Einkorn on Cyprus adapted, changing traits.
The Cypriots didn't stay isolated for long – colonization defines the island, empire after empire successively invading, Phoenicians, Achaeans, Assyrians, Macedonians, Egyptians, Persians, and so on.
Einkorn, meanwhile, had already spread far and wide by the Copper Age, as evidenced by that Copper Age fellow Ötzi The Iceman, whose last meal shortly before his death had been Einkorn. Mummified by a glacier in the Alps, he's now on display in Italy. Poor guy – this can't be restful.
On Cyprus today, cereal grain conveys an Arcadian feeling, the fields bent around trees. They're invariably small fields, a few hectares is all, with a couple dozen olive trees and carob trees in irregular pattern left to produce. The harvest of carob – a relative of pea – is locally used as animal feed; some is exported to Europe as syrup and other products.
But the topic of companion crops belongs in another chapter. Suffice to say that Cyprus grain fields are an agrarian beauty in these eyes.


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"""Tests for mobilenet."""

from absl.testing import parameterized

import tensorflow as tf

from deeplab2.model import test_utils
from deeplab2.model.encoder import mobilenet

class MobilenetTest(tf.test.TestCase, parameterized.TestCase):

  @parameterized.parameters('MobileNetV3Small', 'MobileNetV3Large')
  def test_mobilenetv3_construct_graph(self, model_name):
    tf.keras.backend.set_image_data_format('channels_last')
    input_size = 128

    mobilenet_models = {
        'MobileNetV3Small': mobilenet.MobileNetV3Small,
        'MobileNetV3Large': mobilenet.MobileNetV3Large,
    }
    mobilenet_channels = {
        # The number of filters of layers having outputs been collected
        # for filter_size_scale = 1.0
        'MobileNetV3Small': [16, 88, 144, 576],
        'MobileNetV3Large': [72, 120, 672, 960],
    }
    network = mobilenet_models[str(model_name)](width_multiplier=1.0)

    inputs = tf.ones([1, input_size, input_size, 3])
    endpoints = network(inputs)

    for idx, num_filter in enumerate(mobilenet_channels[model_name]):
      self.assertAllEqual(
          [1, input_size / 2 ** (idx+2), input_size / 2 ** (idx+2), num_filter],
          endpoints['res'+str(idx+2)].shape.as_list())

  @parameterized.parameters('MobileNetV3Small', 'MobileNetV3Large')
  def test_mobilenetv3_rf2_construct_graph(self, model_name):
    tf.keras.backend.set_image_data_format('channels_last')
    input_size = 128

    mobilenet_models = {
        'MobileNetV3Small': mobilenet.MobileNetV3Small,
        'MobileNetV3Large': mobilenet.MobileNetV3Large,
    }
    mobilenet_channels = {
        # The number of filters of layers having outputs been collected
        # for filter_size_scale = 1.0
        'MobileNetV3Small': [16, 88, 144, 288],
        'MobileNetV3Large': [72, 120, 672, 480],
    }
    network = mobilenet_models[str(model_name)](width_multiplier=1.0,
                                                reduce_last_block_filters=True)

    inputs = tf.ones([1, input_size, input_size, 3])
    endpoints = network(inputs)

    for idx, num_filter in enumerate(mobilenet_channels[model_name]):
      self.assertAllEqual(
          [1, input_size / 2 ** (idx+2), input_size / 2 ** (idx+2), num_filter],
          endpoints['res'+str(idx+2)].shape.as_list())

  @parameterized.product(
      model_name=['MobileNetV3Small', 'MobileNetV3Large'],
      output_stride=[4, 8, 16, 32])
  def test_mobilenetv3_atrous_endpoint_shape(self, model_name, output_stride):
    tf.keras.backend.set_image_data_format('channels_last')
    input_size = 321
    batch_size = 2

    mobilenet_models = {
        'MobileNetV3Small': mobilenet.MobileNetV3Small,
        'MobileNetV3Large': mobilenet.MobileNetV3Large,
    }
    stride_spatial_shapes_map = {
        4: [81, 81, 81, 81],
        8: [81, 41, 41, 41],
        16: [81, 41, 21, 21],
        32: [81, 41, 21, 11],
    }
    mobilenet_channels = {
        # The number of filters of layers having outputs been collected
        # for filter_size_scale = 1.0
        'MobileNetV3Small': [16, 88, 144, 576],
        'MobileNetV3Large': [72, 120, 672, 960],
    }
    network = mobilenet_models[str(model_name)](
        width_multiplier=1.0,
        output_stride=output_stride)
    spatial_shapes = stride_spatial_shapes_map[output_stride]

    inputs = tf.ones([batch_size, input_size, input_size, 3])
    endpoints = network(inputs)

    for idx, num_filters in enumerate(mobilenet_channels[model_name]):
      expected_shape = [
          batch_size, spatial_shapes[idx], spatial_shapes[idx], num_filters
      ]
      self.assertAllEqual(
          expected_shape,
          endpoints['res'+str(idx+2)].shape.as_list())

  @parameterized.parameters('MobileNetV3Small', 'MobileNetV3Large')
  def test_mobilenet_reload_weights(self, model_name):
    tf.keras.backend.set_image_data_format('channels_last')
    mobilenet_models = {
        'MobileNetV3Small': mobilenet.MobileNetV3Small,
        'MobileNetV3Large': mobilenet.MobileNetV3Large,
    }

    tf.random.set_seed(0)
    pixel_inputs = test_utils.create_test_input(1, 320, 320, 3)

    network1 = mobilenet_models[model_name](
        width_multiplier=1.0,
        output_stride=32,
        name='m1')
    network1(pixel_inputs, False)
    outputs1 = network1(pixel_inputs, False)
    pixel_outputs = outputs1['res5']

    # Feature extraction at the normal network rate.
    network2 = mobilenet_models[model_name](
        width_multiplier=1.0,
        output_stride=32,
        name='m2')
    network2(pixel_inputs, False)
    # Make the two networks use the same weights.
    network2.set_weights(network1.get_weights())
    outputs2 = network2(pixel_inputs, False)
    expected = outputs2['res5']

    self.assertAllClose(network1.get_weights(), network2.get_weights(),
                        atol=1e-4, rtol=1e-4)
    self.assertAllClose(pixel_outputs, expected, atol=1e-4, rtol=1e-4)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  tf.test.main()

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ARCHIVE / 2019 / June
The Tortoise and the Hedgehog
By Khalil Sweileh, Jonathan Wright (Translator)
From his novel Remorse Test, which was published in 2017 in Lebanon and won the 2018 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Literature. A translated excerpt was published in April in Banipal, a literary magazine based in London. Sweileh is a journalist, novelist, and poet from Syria. Translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright.
Remorse? Maybe it means a belated apology for acts we committed at a time when we thought we were doing the right thing, or for acts we failed to carry out at the time we thought about them. Like me putting my arms around your waist at the junction of Firdaws Street and Mutanabbi Street on that October afternoon, on the grounds that the rain called for intimacy. What there was between us was expected to end in the Picasso restaurant when we had a meal of chips with mayonnaise. On the way, you told me firstly that you were hungry, secondly that you were vegetarian, and thirdly that you loved potatoes. I had to look for a place that would meet your requirements. All the tables and chairs were red. That was significant pretext for delving into the derivatives of that color in the domain of desire and deciphering our mysterious relationship through ambiguous flirtatious remarks interspersed with fleeting references to the blood feuds that the war left behind, which also featured the color red. You had been going to put off your second visit to Damascus because of the heavy rain in the south. I didn't pin great hopes on this visit and I couldn't seriously imagine any special reason that would bring us together again. Maybe boredom was one of my reasons, but I did see your unexpected visit as a good omen or as a time-out that relieved the boredom of days that were all much alike. Offhand I had told you that your phone call that morning had greatly reinvigorated me and that you were like a sudden rain cloud that had slaked my inner thirst. A late-night chat on Facebook dispelled my expectations of loss, since writing in cyberspace gives us a dose of courage that enables us to come out with things we cannot say face-to-face. Similarly, evasive eloquence using enigmatic expressions, references that are open to interpretation, or lines of poetry borrowed from popular blogs will gradually break down the barriers of reserve through slips of the tongue that at first appear to be unintentional. You were setting random traps for me too, but not as vigorously as I was storming your impregnable walls and trying to probe into dangerous areas and murky waters that you were wary of exploring—those that challenged the limits of modesty. To be more precise, let's say that you lit the fuel with an invisible match, then put out the fire with a counter-expression that had nothing to do with the firewood the two of us had gathered in the nearby forest of beguilement as a kind of escape or as a declaration of surrender. Our first acquaintance came about through a phone call from you, exactly five years ago. You were somewhat flustered. You told me there was something in your life that concerned me and you would explain what you meant when we met. I didn't take much interest, or I forgot about it completely. Five years? It's practically equal to the years of hell that haven't finished yet. In that stormy period, there was someone who shook the branches of the tree and the fruit fell around it, then other people came and crushed the fruit with their heavy shoes, and then burnt down the tree.
What happened later wrecked my plans completely.
In a telephone interview I had told a journalist that my next novel would be about love. I told her this with full confidence, like a tennis player who has finished his warm-up exercises and only has to rush onto court. The fires of war threw my thoughts far away, and it was no longer conceivable that I would write about "carefree love affairs" amid the daily hell and the news of the dead and the debts of hatred that we had to pay to the barbarians every day.
But first I had to answer you on the question of hatred, not on the question of remorse. Hatred that was wrapped in rotten chocolate and buried resentments with a taste as bitter as gall and poisoned daggers in the back at the moment of embrace. Hatred that abandoned the guise of forgiveness in favor of revenge.
The first move in this imaginary game of chess came when I suddenly moved my knight into the square that belonged to you, by making an unexpected remark that overstepped the bounds of caution. "The smell of you invades my isolation," I said. The reserved nature of our previous nocturnal chats meant that we could not handle such a sudden change. I was testing how flustered you would be when faced with a sensual remark of this kind. I was so fed up with wandering around in the paradise of spiritualities where you had entrenched yourself in order to save yourself from straying into my domain of expressing myself candidly.
Right after reading some of your poems, I had advised you to liberate your diction from the morass of ready expressions that didn't add a single apple to the orchard of desire and to purge your obscure feelings of the overinterpretation that weighed them down. I added an improvised phrase that somehow suddenly popped up in front of me like a squirrel: "We can't go into the intensive care unit without a stretcher." By way of explanation, in response to the exclamation mark you then sent me, I said that writing is the moment that separates life from death, or the white stretcher that takes us to the intensive care unit, where we can breathe in enough oxygen to survive. So we write in order to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and to convert coal into wild fruit with a sharp taste, and to tame the pains and sins of the body.
She tried to suppress the phrase "the smell of you invades my isolation" by not responding with a decisive phrase of her own. Instead she chose a ready-made emoji from those available on the menu—an emoji with eyes in the shape of little hearts. But this attempt did not last long. Three days after that chat the dialogue box lit up with the words "I miss you," and, after evasive comments by the two of us, she ended her chat with the words "have a good night, with love in the morning."
At this point I realized she had started to sink into the quicksand of iniquity, leaving the teachings of our master Jalaleddin al-Rumi far behind her. She had abandoned forever the lexicon of Sufism, which, like a tortoise's shell, had concealed her feelings. The game we had been playing, with her as the tortoise and me as a prickly hedgehog, had been amusing, maybe exciting. She had been sticking her neck out a little and then withdrawing, while I displayed my hedgehog prickles.
You had chosen to be a butterfly in the language games we played in times of boredom. I likened you to a gazelle when I commented on a picture you sent me, with you spreading your arms on top of a rock in the mountains, and then among the ruins of a castle abandoned a thousand years ago, with long curly black hair, as if you were embracing a nearby cloud. But you insisted on flying with the wings of a butterfly.
In a later comment with no particular context, she wrote: "Do you prefer my hair or my poetry?" It took me some time to find an appropriate response: "Your poetry needs the madness of your gypsy hair."
Her hair really was gorgeous, and I very much wanted to bury my fingers in its curls while she was busy devouring what was left from the plate of chips in front of her. I imagined the scene again as we had tea in the Trattoria Café in the Shaalan district, this time inserting another detail—a beauty spot at the bottom of her neck that I discovered when she turned her head to watch Whitney Houston singing an old song, broadcast at high volume on the TV screen. Then my eyes moved down toward her cleavage, where I noticed faint freckles in the shape of an upturned pear. But I did not have any great expectation that our relationship would develop any further than that, since she shied away like a gazelle from any ambiguous flirtatious expression. At sunset on that October day, as we left the café, I asked myself: "What is remorse?"
On our way to the bus stop, I was telling her the plot of the film Repentance by the Georgian director Tengiz Abuladze, as an interim response to her question, though what she wanted was a response to the question of whether she had been wrong or right when she chose to leave her husband after seven years of love, then jealousy, then slow death. Half of those years had been an intolerable hell, judging by the events she described to me in the café. A man selling chestnuts from a cart at the wall of the Madfa Garden disrupted the scene a little: she made asides about her passion for chestnuts. I was trying to describe the scene in the film in which the mayor's corpse keeps reappearing after every attempt to bury him. It was a stupid idea to bring up the Stalin era in all its cruelty and violence at an intimate moment, but I was carried away and finished describing the whole plot of the film. My hands were stained black by the chestnut shells—the hot chestnuts she was consuming with relish, absorbed and listening to the rest of the story:
"One of Stalin's victims, a woman, lives near the house. She was the person who dug up the grave and took the body out every night, kind of in revenge for the killing of her parents on orders from the general who had no scruples. Because such a man, weighed down by sins, rancor and brutality, did not deserve the dignity of burial, she said. After the woman was detained and put on trial, she asserted in her testimony that a man who had massacred innocent people should not be buried. For his part, the grandson was shocked when he found out how cruel his grandfather had been, although the son denied the charges made against his father. But the woman insisted on her position that a criminal could not be buried until his crimes had been revealed in public, because burying the past meant forgiving the people who had destroyed the lives of others by brutality, cruelty, and savagery, so the grandson went and committed suicide in remorse for his role in a fabricated version of history, while the son had to throw his father's body off the cliff that overlooks the village."
She gasped several times as she listened and thought about the metaphor of remorse and the meaning of silence about similar crimes, even if it was about the sins in an abortive love story that ended in separation.
That evening the minibuses on the Muhajireen–Bab Touma route were crowded with passengers. They all went past without stopping and, after twenty minutes waiting, she still wasn't able to find an empty seat, so she decided to hail a taxi so that she wouldn't be any later than she already was in getting to Jermana, where she was staying temporarily with her friend Jumana Salloum, who worked as a photographer at a government news agency, and so that she could avoid the crowds waiting to be searched at the military checkpoints that were common at night all the way there. Through the back window of the taxi, she waved to me with the complete works of Giuseppe Ungaretti, the greatest Italian sculptor of words, like polished marble, as I had described him to her. She thanked me again for my valuable present. I was trying to undermine the rigid concept of poetry she believed in by offering her a counter-conviction, my belief that poetry flourishes in another seedbed, not in the one she was used to in her readings. I told her that as a butterfly she should try nectar from all kinds of flowers and breathe in the secret smell of all plants, not drown in the mummified texts imposed on the Arabic literature syllabus by the academics at the university. "Listen, poetry means imagination gone mad and running riot, just as it is an archive of sense data, from al-Mutanabbi to the latest dropout poet no one has yet discovered." About ten minutes after she'd left the place, as I was looking in my jacket pocket for the key to the door of my building, my mobile phone rang with a call from her. As I went upstairs, with again another power cut, and using my lighter to find a path through the darkness, she told me she was listening to Umm Kulthum sing "It's Too Late" on the radio in the taxi. She put the phone close to the speaker to prove to me she was telling the truth, and also to point out the coincidence. We had been talking about regret a short time ago. I had a terrible headache so I took a Panadol, then I relaxed, fully dressed, on my chaotic bed. I put the earphones of my mobile phone in my ears and scanned the radio stations for the song. Umm Kulthum was still singing in full throat: "What use are you, remorse? Oh remorse, remorse."
Around noon the next day I was waiting for you to call, either under your assumed name, Amal Naji, or your real name, Asmahan Meshaal, before you went to your village in the south. I was unbearably bored by the conversation of the people sitting at the table in the Roda café. I no longer had the patience for talk about dead people, shells, displaced persons, or the state of the weather. I had told you that over the past five years I had tried to be patient in all kinds of ways, and I didn't fully know how I had put up with the arrangements for the movable feast of killings, massacres, mass graves, famines, and lethal violence. It makes me feel uncomfortable, and my spirit has been worn down by the enormity of the loss. I want to breathe different air, but there's no haven other than this café. When I lost hope of you coming, I left the place so angry that I left my packet of tobacco and my lighter on the table, which often happens to me when I'm upset.
Without any preliminaries, she sent me an email that night: "A woman wakes and sings / Wind follows and entrances her / And stretches her upon the earth / And the true dream takes her. / This earth is nude / This woman is a paramour / This wind is strong / This dream is death." I read the lines, from the poem "Bedouin Song" by Giuseppe Ungaretti, several times, trying to work out why she chose these lines rather than any others. Was it an overture to seduction or just a random choice from the book? The sensuality was obvious here, and it might have been a clear hint that she wanted to enter a tempestuous phase in our relationship, going beyond our original agreement that we would be just friends without any emotional baggage and that I wouldn't begrudge her my advice on her writings. "I will be your pet cat, sit close to your feet, and listen to your valuable advice," she said. I objected to the idea and promised I would read her writings seriously and then sort the flowers from the weeds. She immediately wrote: "Very well, my teacher and master." I replied that I didn't want to hear such words from her again, or anything associated with the idea of subjugation.
She sent me her writings almost daily and I read them as personal messages, confessions or expressions of pain: over time I noticed a different tone intruding on her language, with blatantly sensual words and phrases that suggested sighs of deprivation and a hidden lasciviousness that wasn't common in her previous writings. She finally seemed to have realized that poetry operates in another domain, where all the senses are mobilized and where one "takes pleasure in violating language" as I wrote to her in a philosophizing vein, with the intention of inciting her to explore terrain that needed more aggressive treatment—"with an axe and not with a wooden stick."
"An axe!" she wrote in amazement and disapproval, and then added cunningly: "How could a butterfly like me put up with such cruelty?" I improvised another phrase intended to fill in the gap further: "Writing about love needs fangs too." Once again, she disapproved of the word "fangs." At this point I realized the depth of the chasm between us. She had long lived in isolation in a forgotten village that no shell had touched throughout the years of war, keeping herself busy discovering varieties of wild plants—marjoram, sage, lavender, and rosemary, as well as birds, reptiles, and insects, drawing on the walls of her room by day and testing her determination to silence the howling wolves of desire in her breast at night, while I was wandering around the south of the city, burying the dead in funeral processions every day, maybe every hour.
Yes, an axe, I replied, thinking back to dozens of scenes where an axe had been raised over the neck of someone who'd been forced to kneel, or of a decapitated man whose body was hanging from an electricity pole in a square in a city a thousand years old. Of course, I meant our need for an aesthetic lexicon that explains how to combine on a single page the weight of a sharp axe left over from the Middle Ages and smart-bomb technology, in the same way as those barbarians found divine fatwas for killing people with axes, swords, or suicide belts. In case I got carried away with other examples of violence, she asked me, "What are you reading now?"
"The Writer and His Ghosts," I said.
"Damn ghosts, axes, and suicide belts! Who's the book by?"
"Ernesto Sabato, an Argentine physicist who turned to writing to confront the brutality of the world and to accelerate the disaster that's staring at humanity, as he puts it. He thinks a writer's mission is to 'vomit up his inner world.'"
"I don't know any other Argentines, except for Maradona the footballer, and maybe some yerba maté brand names. Oh yes, now I remember Borges. He's Argentine, isn't he?"
Then, without any breaks, she added: "I miss you."
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Copy Of George Washington's Letter To The Citizens of Kent County
July 21, 2014 in "clean" remark, "It's a Wonderful Life", Delaware, Delaware developers, Delaware Lobbyists, Delaware New Jobs, Founding Fathers, Kent County, Kent Couty Levy Court, Wikileaks | Leave a comment
To THE CITIZENS OF KENT COUNTY, DELAWARE
[August 14(?) 1793.]
Fellow Citizens: Being guided in the discharge of my public duties by our excellent constitution, and laws made under it; and having always in view the happiness and best interests of my fellow Citizens, I cannot for bear to express the satisfaction which I feel when, upon important and critical occasions, my countrymen approve my conduct, and do justice to the motives which influence it.
The sentiments publicly expressed by the people of different parts of the Ud. States, and the anxiety which is shewn by all considerate and well disposed citizens to preserve the peace of our country and a continuance of its prosperity, is an incontestible evidence of their enlightened wisdom in justly appreciating the blessings we enjoy beyond, perhaps, any other nation under the sun.
While I assure you, Gentlemen, of the great pleasure which it gives me, to see this public testimony of your particular attachment to our Government, and approbation of its measures; permit me to express my gratitude for those marks of personal respect and attachment, which are evidenced in your address, and let me beg you to believe that it will ever be my study to deserve them.
NSA Report: The Fine Points
December 19, 2013 in "clean" remark, "It's a Wonderful Life", "My City Was Gone", "Stupid is, Founding Fathers, Fourth Amendment, NSA, Paul Clark, Paul Wellstone, Presidental Pardons, Secret Government Searches, Smithsonian Institute, Spying on American Citizens | Tags: Internet, NSA, Security, Spying on American Citizens | Leave a comment
I really didn't give this report much respect coming out of the gate for the word-leaked-out, was that it does nothing to stop the NSA's abuse. However, I have deep respect for Richard Clarke who was one of the five, so I felt compelled to read the whole thing…
Since I'm sure few of you will venture to read the entire report, If something jumps out, I jotted it down below…
1. The United States Government must protect, at once, two different forms of security: national security and personal privacy.
In addition to reducing risks to national security, public officials must consider four other risks:
• Risks to privacy;
• Risks to freedom and civil liberties, on the Internet and elsewhere;
• Risks to our relationships with other nations; and
• Risks to trade and commerce, including international commerce.
We recommend that Congress should end such storage and transition to a system in which such metadata is held privately for the government to query when necessary for national security purposes.
In our view, the current storage by the government of bulk meta-data creates potential risks to public trust, personal privacy, and civil liberty.
We recognize that the government might need access to such meta-data, which should be held instead either by private providers or by a private third party. This approach would allow the government access to the relevant information when such access is justified, and thus protect national security without unnecessarily threatening privacy and liberty.
We endorse a broad principle for the future: as a general rule and without senior policy review, the government should not be permitted to collect and store mass, undigested, non-public personal information about US persons for the purpose of enabling future queries…
We also recommend that legislation should be enacted authorizing telephone, Internet, and other providers to disclose publicly general information about orders they receive directing them to provide information to the government. Such information might disclose the number of orders that providers have received, the broad categories of information produced, and the number of users whose information has been produced…
We recommend that, in the absence of a specific and compelling showing, the US Government should follow the model of the Department of Homeland Security and apply the Privacy Act of 1974 in the same way to both US persons and non-US persons.
We recommend a series of organizational changes. We believe that the Director should be a Senate-confirmed position, with civilians eligible to hold that position; the President should give serious consideration to making the next Director of NSA a civilian. NSA should be clearly designated as a foreign intelligence organization….
The head of the military unit, US Cyber Command, and the Director of NSA should not be a single official.
We favor a newly chartered, strengthened, independent Civil Liberties and Privacy Protection Board (CLPP Board) to replace the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB)…
We recommend that Congress should create the position of Public Interest Advocate to represent the interests of privacy
and civil liberties before the FISC.
The US Government should take additional steps to promote security, by
(1) fully supporting and not undermining efforts to create encryption standards;
(2) making clear that it will not in any way subvert undermine, weaken, or make vulnerable generally available commercial
encryption; and
(3) supporting efforts to encourage the greater use of encryption technology for data in transit, at rest, in the cloud, and in
The use of "for-profit" corporations to conduct personnel investigations should be reduced or terminated.
There then follow forty-six recommendations, most of which were mentioned above… They start on page 26 and continue until page 44, For the most part, these are where the complaints that the report is too soft, lie. The report states things should be in a certain way, and like the Articles of Confederation, there is no teeth to back them up…. For instance it states we recommend that private third parties turn over data only if it is necessary to the security of the United States… Easily setting up this scenario… "Hi, can you give me info on Ms Murphy. Appears we have some trousers in some soup…" " Is it a national emergency?" "Yes, sure is"… "Ok here are all their calls…" Essentially unless teeth are added, this allows the same actions as go on today, to progress further.
Teeth such as: any third party who gives, or any governmental employee who asks for private confidential information for purposes other than an immediate physical threat to national security, may be sued in court for any damages such misuse of information may cause…. etc…
It is our sincere hope, that one, this power is removed from the government. Private corporations cannot arrest one in the middle of the night, and that with this data in the hands of private entities, that those private entities are at risk if any wrong information falls into anyone's wrong hands…
Most of us would still trust our privacy in that scenario… "What? Someone just told my spouse I was sexting Miley Cyrus? Oh well, (sigh) with the judgment of $68 million I'll eventually receive, I'm much better off if I'm divorced before I receive it… .."
Breaking: Trayvon Martin Was Shot In The Back?
September 14, 2013 in A Dad's Responsibility, A Moral Man In The White House, Accountability, administration policy, ALEC, Conservative Movement, Constitution, Constitutional admendments, credibility, Crime Pays Well So Tax It, Crooks and Liars, Dumbing of America, Florida, Founding Fathers, Guns Are Good, Guns Don't Kill People. People (With Guns) Kill People, Koch Brothers, Law and Order, Live Free or Die, Lord of The Flies, Tea Party versus Republicans, Time Machine, Wilmington, Wilmington News Journal | Tags: Justice, Trayvon Martin | 1 comment
There is no way there was an altercation. There is no way Trayvon was on top of Zimmerman.
Dr. Shiping Bao, the Volusia County medical examiner who was in charge of handling slain-teenager Trayvon Martin's body in February 2012, has come out and claimed that, despite Zimmerman's statements regarding their altercation, there was no feasible way for Martin to have been on top of Zimmerman when the gun was fired because the bullet entered Martin's back. ….
One must be initially skeptical because this new revelation, is being made by one subsequently fired from his position who is now threatening to sue the state of Florida for $100 million dollars.
But, if anyone knows white supremacists, there is a lot of circumstantial evidence going in this direction.
One, the assistant medical examiner is not white. He is Asian. A minority himself. It reminds one of those films where a black child witnesses a lynching and then is told, "boy, you tell no one about this, you hear?" and out of fear, willingly obliges….
The claim this medical examiner is making is that when he questioned why the "official version" was not related to the placement of the gunshot wound, he was told to " zip his lips. 'Shut up. Don't say those things."
Since this message was released by Mr. Bao's attorney, and specifically to a sympathetic ear with a well read reading base, one may have reasonable doubts as to their validity.
Two, recent activities by Zimmerman himself, now that his handlers have all packed their bags and departed, has given far more credibility to him having a persona who would have lovingly shot Trayvon simply to paraphrase Johnny Cash, "watch him die." His ex-spouse has been quoted (and retracted) as having Zimmerman state as he waved his gun in front of her and her dad, that "he'd take care of both of them just like he did Trayvon"... Unfortunately the proof is in a busted up phone in police protection and may never be recovered. The original police chief who knew Zimmerman, has been quoted saying "Zimmerman was a nut case".
Three. What was on trial for Floridians and their sponsors ALEC, was the unconstitutional gun law. The trial needed Zimmerman to be innocent, in order to keep constitutional challenges of that law at bay. They are at bay, now, as you read this.
Bao claims that the prosecution never actually asked him the questions that were crucial to the success in the case, and that he changed his opinion after repeatedly being warned… from the time he initially examined Martin and the time he was on the stand. Bao and his attorney say they believe he was fired for questioning the way the case was handled, and possibly for not going long with the desired narrative.
Bao was "supposed" to follow the prosecution's line that Trayvon was "doped up like a Jamacian" on marijuana, but instead told the truth that the minimal amount in Trayvon's body, would in no way impair his judgment.
Before one dismisses this accusation out of hand, one must wonder. Why has it not been disproven already? A exhumation would easily prove Bao to be a liar, or instead a whistle blower. Surely there are the police photos from the coroner's office, or crime scene, showing a shot into the front cavity of Mr. Martin, or his back, completely unscathed..
This accusation, if it was not true, would have already been completely shot down days ago. But it hasn't… Why not? Are there no pictures of Trayvon Martin dispelling this notion?
If not, then why of all cases where routine pictures are always taken, is this case, which since it's beginning has been under suspicion of miscarrying of justice, had its pictures been lost, … or stolen?
And that, is where we are.
All evidence now, after the trial, certainly point to Zimmerman executing Trayvon Martin while he was on his knees, back towards him, most likely begging for his life, and a) because blacks in hoodies cannot be right in that Southern Community, and b) because legitimacy of the Stand Your Ground Law was under attack, … bigger interests than either of these two people, had to insure that all stereotypes played out as they are supposed to in storybook little Florida towns….
9/11 In Memory Of Our Most Tragic Defeat
September 11, 2013 in 1777, 9/11, A Dad's Responsibility, British accents, Delaware, Delaware National Park, England, Founding Fathers, George Washington, Newark, Philadelphia, Revolutionary War, Truth Be Told In Britain, Wilmington | Leave a comment
The cannon fire could be heard from Brandywine Hundred. It was louder in Concord. It was deafening in Chadd's Ford. The Battle of the Brandywine was in full swing, and the result was a defeat of the American Forces leaving Philadelphia wide open to the British invasion.
Sadly for us this marks the end of Delaware's direct involvement in the Revolutionary War. After this battle, the war in the North became a sitting game, and Cornwallis felt compelled to shift to the South to try and gain some momentum. He misread the South's resilience, and the war of course ended when he got boxed at Yorktown.
As for Delaware, the British had previously marched up from Glasgow through Newark then up Kirkwood Highway and camped at Marshalltown. One can still see the embankments they threw up. The Americans realized that they had only a narrow route north before did the British. Had the British chosen to fight through the night, the war would have been over with Washington's defeat. He was trapped by water on three sides. General Howe was a person adverse to exertion, and chose to investigate the following morning. When the British awoke, they saw the Americans had disappeared in the night, leaving their camp fires burning to fool the British watchmen.
The British marched north to Kennett Square, probably along what is now Route 82… On the morning of 9/11 the British marched towards Philadelphia. Washington assumed the lazy Howe would march the easiest route and set up defenses in Chadd's Ford covering the road to Baltimore, which is Route 1 today. What Washington miscalculated is that the British had better intelligence than he. Here is how.
Washington was employing those in Philadelphia to give him advice. Howe was approaching on the outside, and chose those locals to tell him the layout. The difference in intelligence was a simple as one looking out, and one looking in. Perhaps you may remember the meme last decade of showing a city as the makeup of their entire World? For instance one of Rehoboth, would show Rehoboth and Dewey and Ocean City in Great detail, and Washington and Baltimore as tiny patches on the last edge of the map? Well that myopia actually affects our judgment. As one approaches the unknown, one is apt to know only his one way. But to use that same analogy backwards, as one approaches the known, from the area of the unknown, one is far more perceptive of all other options leading towards that goal or destination.
So it was with Howe, who found out there were two ford to the north, both overlooked by Washington, and the access to the battle field was relative easily. Howe committed 5000 of his 18,000 troups to attacking Washington's front lines, and sent 13,000 north to cross both the west and east branches of the Brandywine, then head south. imagine the surprise of the American army who had been confident that they were holding their own, to find they'd been fighting a measly 5000 men in the fog, and now had 13,000 marching behind them on their right side….
We retreated. Some said it was a disciplined retreat, and Lafayette is given a lot of credit for that. He was wounded this day in history by the way, yet he established a rallying point, communicated it to all the troops, and an orderly retreat was managed. But the surprise to our right cost us dearly. We lost 11 of our 14 artillery guns. The British listed 587 as killed, missing or wounded, but no records of the Americans lost is known.. General Nathaniel Greene is later quoted as guessing 1200 to 1400 Continentals were lost… Commander Howe wrote to the British Foreign Secretary that 300 dead, 600 wounded, 400 prisoners were the total of America's casualties.
One cannot imagine how dark things seemed for the prospects of an American nation after this day.
Americans had been tricked and easily routed.
They'd lost 79% of their artillary, having only 3 cannons left.
The Continental Congress fled in the night to Lancaster for one day, then to York.
Military supplies were moved to Reading.
Philadelphia, the cradle of democracy, was wide open to the British Army.
It was 52 years before the founding of Yeungling's brewery, so none was available to drown one's sorrows.
They suffered fully sober. If we can remember the tragedy of our 9/11, try to imagine something ten times worse. There was no hope, period.
A makeshift hospital was scrambled together in Wilmington Delaware, and 350 causalities were sent.
Syria: Obama's Address
September 7, 2013 in Exchange of ideas, Executive Privilege, Founding Fathers, impending attack, In God We Trust, Life and Death, Live Free or Die, middle east domocracies, military buildup, military industrial complex, Minot, Much Ado About Nothing, Muslims, nuclear option, Obama, President Obama, Presidental Pardons, Syria, Voting Integrity, war protests | Leave a comment
Let us start here. A good leader takes his people where they want to go. A good leader does not force his people to go where they definitely don't want to go… That is ruling. Not leading.
A good leader convinces his people why they must do something. He makes sure he puts in how it will benefit them. If it doesn't benefit them, he is ruling. Not leading.
A good leader creates good out of evil. There is a moral equivalency to leadership. It can be defined shallowly at times. Such as calling Hitler good leader based on his strategy of conquering France. But time makes such affirmations short lived. I don't think anyone looking over the rubble left of Germany in 1945 at that moment considered Hitler a good leader after viewing his legacy.
A good leader does not follow the rules… He decides when and where the rules apply. Some would apply the name "great leader" to one who never wavered. Well, such a leader would have ruined the life of a little boy whose grandmother sent along a knife to cut the cake, not knowing that knives in school were grounds for expulsion. A lot of misdirected people in leadership positions in that particular school district, made bad decisions based on their mistaken view of what makes a good leader. A good leader does not always follow the rules.
A good leader decides when and where the rules apply.
In Syria we have controversy. We have one argument stating that Syria must be punished. We have the other that says War must be reserved only for something Huge. That "Huge" is of course undefined and fits in with "we know it when we see it."
As the executive of the world's largest force, militarily, economically, and morally, our president pretty much get to decide.
Here is what a great leader would do. He would find a way to unite the two sides into one… He would find a way to punish Assad of Syria in a way that would scare any other despot thinking of using chemical weapons, and do it without going to war.
That would be great leadership.
So what would scare Assad the most? It's hard to tell, but my guess is that his biggest fear as a man, is if his palace is overrun by Syrians, who basically tear him apart, and do his wife and children, then systematically erase any acknowledgement that he or his dad ever existed… That whole reign of terror becomes ridiculed, laughed at, for the rest of History. i would guess that is how you could get to Assad.
So, we, (not just the US but the rest of the world) have to make that threat real.. We don't have to carry it out necessarily, but we have to make it real. How can that happen?
I think first, is that we make crossing the border out of Syria a real good move for Syrians… Send the signal, that if you leave Syria, the world community will settle you somewhere, give you a job, and a chance to begin a life of freedom and prosperity. ideally what we are doing is a Cold War. Over time we are saying: "See how great the Rest of the world lives? Oh, you poor Syrians… Escape and come join us". Where could we relocate them? Iran could step up, Jordan,, and Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States,
This is how your hurt Assad… Turn his own people against him… No ruler can rule a group of people who don't want to be ruled. He can use brutality to a certain extent, but the numbers are completely on the side of the population wanting him gone. With our intelligence capacity, he will never be safe… Every bodyguard is a potential killer..
And that, more or less, is what we should do… It is what a great leader does… He solves problems in ways where the evil get punished and the good win out.
Going to war, rewards those doing evil, and hurts the good….
It is time our President, become the great leader. Not by digging down and reinforcing the costly methods promoted in the past.. But to devise and implement new methods which because of their success, will be utilized far into the future….
Op Ed: Gay Marriage
March 16, 2013 in "clean" remark, "Holiday Inn", "It's a Wonderful Life", "Stupid is, 12 Election Results, A Dad's Responsibility, A Moral Man In The White House, Accountability, America's morals, American Right to Privacy, an actual good Republican, bill of rights, Delaware, Delaware legislature, delaware's finest, Democrats = Good Guys, Democrats Rule; Republicans Drool, Do Something!, education, Father's Day, Founding Fathers, getting to know you, Governor Markell, In God We Trust, just the facts, Love You All, Marriage Protection Act, Ruth Ann Briggs, slave labor, Voting Integrity, Women's Prerogative | Leave a comment
It is time to sanction gay marriage. Gay marriage is different from civil unions. Gay marriage means much more. Someone who is gay, who can now be married for life is finally an equal citizen. Without that certainty the rest of their rights are meaningless….
"Oh, we've got nothing against gays!. You are equal to the rest of us, except, snicker, snicker, when YOU marry, we will give it a lower second class status and call it a civil union."
Until Gay Marriage is made legal gays are only second class citizens….
It is interesting that very conservative parents of gay children, see it with open eyes… "Yeah, why can't they get married?" Senator Portman who was flirted with as Romney's running mate, and the odious Dick Cheney are both in favor of gay marriage. They credit their openness to learning from their children… every parent wants their child to be happy.
As a nation we've been here before. Blacks were given freedom by the Federal government, but local governments who disagreed, would not allow them to marry whites. Obviously the signal being sent was no, they weren't equal after all. Mexicans in the West, legal and forced to be accepted so by whites, had to deal with local laws disallowing mixed marriages… After all, they "really" weren't equal, not even close?." American Indians, even though there were many interracial lifelong monogamous sexual unions during the exploration of our frontier, those unions were banned by laws intent on maintaining the purity of the Caucasian race, "Indians, equal with the white man? Get real!"…
All these laws have fallen away, shredded by common sense and common decency. It it easy to label a group with which we have no connection, as a "they" and say "they" are different, allowing it to be "ok" to treat "them" with disdain……
It is when "they" become part of "us" and we finally realize that treating "them" with disrespect is exactly the same as "us" being disrespectfully treated; we certainly would find that to be unfair. …
It is upon that realization, that discrimination against them… finally becomes unfair….
Our Constitution and Declaration of Independence are pretty clear… all humans are equal at birth… and once we widen our perception of what is human, we are forced by our beliefs to accept them into our family as well….
Hard as it was for the South, we finally accepted that slaves were human beings, and therefore agreed they should be afforded the same protection as their owners….
Hard as it was for mankind, we finally accepted that women were human too, and therefore agreed they should be afforded the same protection as their "owners"….
We later had to revisit the treatment of those whose ancestry derived out of our former African slaves, even to the point of guaranteeing them by law, actually making it punishable to treat them with disrespect, in order to drive home this point to Southerners, that…. all people are created equal….
Any baby born within our borders becomes a citizen. Whether its parents are or not… They were born here; they are equal to the rest of us… We allow any baby to grow up and marry any other baby who grew up here, unless they are gay.
The overwhelmingly majority of our culture has recently come to the realization that people who are gay, are created that way. They can change it no more easily than one can molt the color of their skin, or alter the slant of their eyes, or raise or lower their cheek bones… That is how God makes them…..
For anyone to vote no against Gay marriage in Delaware's General Assembly, they will have to first imagine themselves in a Twilight world, one where genes gave dominance to gays, and heterosexuals occurred rather rarely… Being one of those heterosexuals, who had deeply fallen in love with someone of another gender, would you, a Delaware Representative, settle for only having civil unions for you and your heterosexual spouse, when all the gays around you were getting married and raising families?
Their gay clergy would spout: "Oh, you are one of those… We can't let you marry…."
If you CAN'T IN GOOD CONSCIOUS agree that you yourself should be discriminated against because you happen to be heterosexual in a gay world, something you were born with and couldn't change, then you cannot vote AGAINST gay marriage when it comes up for a vote with any good conscious.
Voting against gay marriage, carries the same moral price as did the voting against the freeing of slaves, as did the voting against allowing women to vote, as did the voting against letting blacks finally be allowed to succeed….
Now, since all of those are so much woven into the fabric of our society, we forget today that back then there were people who actually argued vociferously against allowing these citizens to become equal members of our society… it was just like people argue against gay marriage today.
They arguing were wrong then. Those same people doing it to gays, are wrong now….
Settling for Civil Unions instead of marriage is a slap in the face. It has only one point and that it to say: "Oh, you aren't as good as us, and never will be."
Each time in our nation's past, it took the will of strong people to overcome the strong wills of weak people…. Delaware needs to allow gay marriage, simply because not doing so is the morally wrong thing to do…. Those crying against it with self thought-up platitudes, will come around eventually after the deal is done and the battle is over…
They have to!… One can only argue against what is right, … for so long.
Women Now Can Go Into Combat
January 24, 2013 in "clean" remark, "It's a Wonderful Life", Founding Fathers, Hillary Clinton, Live Free or Die, Liz Allen, nuclear option, women' rights, Women's Prerogative | Leave a comment
So impressed was Leon Panetta with Hillary Clinton's taking out the Republican opposition for 2014/2016, he said, "Damn! Women can sure fight good!"
Immediately thereafter, he overturned the ban on women in combat.
The Food Committee
January 21, 2013 in "clean" remark, "It's a Wonderful Life", 12 Election Results, Chief Executive, Eric Cantor, Finding solution through give and take, Food And Drug Administration, Founding Fathers, Fox News, Harry Reid, impending attack, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi, Trust in the political process | Leave a comment
The inaugural commission created a menu balanced across the palate of the United States of America… Featuring Maine Lobster, hickory grilled bison from South Dakota, Hudson valley apple pie, wines from Lake Eire region. The decision was made by a committee…
Mrs. Debbie Boehnor
Mrs. Diani Cantor
Mrs. Honey Alexander
Mrs. Iris Schumner
Mr. Paul Pelosi
Mrs. Landra Reid
They tasted thousands of different items representing areas across this , and came to a consensus… How hard is that? You try it. It is very hard!
If Americans who have no connection other than their spouses chose to run for office and won, can come together to figure out a complicated endeavor, why can't we figure how to keep guns out of school, how to raise our debt ceiling, how to cut spending fairly and how to balance our budget?
The reason is the bullies on the outside. Those groups who yell, "don't you give one inch". Those groups who say "they're trying to take rights away from you". Those groups who growl: "take everything; give them not one penny in return".
Usually those bullies are powerful because they are bullies. They live and survive on your donations… IF they can freak you out, that you give up some of your hard earned money, they get rich…
There is an industry that thrives on conflict. That gets rich off discontent. That fans flames to grow their pockets.
That industry is who to blame for our nation's intransigence. Fox News gets the lions share, because they were first. But Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coultier, Glenn Beck, are all to blame. Because we see them in surroundings that mirror our memories of Ed Marrow, Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, we drop the pretense that what we are hearing is not news. It is a business whose income depends upon the temperature of our hate. Pure and simple. The more we hate, the richer they get..
Would a consensus on a menu reflecting all of America have been so easily obtainable if Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly were shrieking about each item? Exhorting any viewers to call and complain?
You know the answer… Proof is without the bullies on the outside, you put a handful of Americans on any committee, and things get done….
We've got to silence the bullies on the outside… Let's do it, and eat in peace…
Wisdom Of Our Founding Fathers….
January 2, 2013 in "clean" remark, "It's a Wonderful Life", A Dad's Responsibility, A Moral Man In The White House, abolish Medicare, Accountability, administration policy, America's morals, an actual good Republican, Balanced Budget Amendment, fiscal responsibility, Founding Fathers, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Senator Joe Biden, Tax policy, Tax The Rich, taxes, Tea Party versus Republicans, Unemployment, Vice President Biden | 1 comment
That is probably the biggest take-away historians will keep when they use today's fiscal crises in future civic's lessons across this country, precisely in order to teach students just how well put together this nation's govermnent is…..
I have long blamed the filibustering Senate for intransigence. Whenever we have an emergency, the House passes legislation quickly, and the Senate takes it's time. Things just s l o w down in the Senate.
I have also blamed that in part upon the old age of Senators, and the cliques that evolve from spending 20 to 30 years together… Senators are more worried about upsetting the feelings of Joe So-and-So instead of quickly passing the House's legislation. Legislation also gets tabled as a favor to Ms. La-La-La, for a favor she extended 15 odd years ago…
But it is precisely these negatives that allowed the Senate to take up the fiscal cliff legislation that was all-but-dead on arrival in the House….
John Boehner, was forced to give up his lead and capitulate, when his caucus voted down giving even billionaires a tax increase. His caucus had too many Tea Partiers, who were still green behind their ears, and put their own personal principals, … over top the rest of the financial world's welfare, including the USA….
John couldn't control his caucus. Why was that? Because the founding fathers wanted the House to be reelected every 2 years. The idea was that these people who were invested with the responsibility of spending the "people's" money, needed to be directly responsible to those back home, who's money they were spending! As a result, the Tea Party contingent, whose home-spun philosophy plays well on country porches, has no idea of how things work. We don't let two year olds drive cars for a reason.
But,…. who did solve the crises and bring both sides into agreement?
The top two members of the Senate, … The Vice President and Mitch McConnell, a Louisville Cardnals fan.
For both, a deal was necessary and they crafted one that would sell. It definitely sold the Senate… 89 to 8…. It sold the problem House of Boehner as well: 257-167 including….. with more Democrats voting for it… 172 than Republicans voted against it… 167.
85 House Republicans voted in support of this McConnell-Biden adaptation, keeping us from going over the cliff before the markets opened up in Asia…. (which at time of print are all up between .6% and 2.2%)..
Through a personal relationship based on a long history of dealing with each other in a non adversarial fashion, a deal was struck. We were clued in two weeks ago that the $400,000 level would be the floor. No surprise there.
But, now it is clear that Social Security will no longer be on the chopping block in two months. Medicare will no longer be on the chopping block in two months. Unemployment compensation (for those dismissed by their corporate employers for working too many hours under Obamacare), now will still dribble some cash to get by. The Earned Income Credit, the best part of the year for anyone earning less than $30,000, is no longer on the chopping block!
For this, the increases in additional taxes on income, estates, and investments, were softened a bit. Even though there will now be less movement of cash from the private sector to the Treasury than occurred under the boom years under Clinton, but… as long as the economy takes off, we can worry about that later.
For that, is why this bill was passed. Signs are encouraging that the economy is getting better, now that the world KNOWS no Republican (whether he really wanted to be president or not) will run the country.
To nix that up, and again, hurt those who were most hurt before, is unconscionable.
For most Americans, working and living and dying in our towns, this is what is important. It never could have happened under the dynamics of the House of Representatives. Only in the Senate, could such an agreement even be possible….
Only there buried within the term of 6 years, is enough distance available to exercise good judgment on what is necessarily right for this country, then have time to deal and fix the political repercussions back home… Only there is an opponent also a dear friend, one you take seriously and trust, causing you to give up a little more on both sides.
Only there. Once again, we see the great wisdom possessed in those we call The Founding Fathers…. Who could have known?


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JES break-in – Restitution is a "complicated issue"
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"We are still interested, more than ever now," was the message provided by Rev. Clifford Hill in regards to the Jefferson Elementary School (JES) building.
During the last few meetings of the Jefferson County School Board, Rev. Hill has served as a spokesperson for the 11th Episcopal District of the AME Church, Inc. during their attempts to obtain a $1/year lease for the old JES school building.
On Monday, May 13, Rev. Hill came before the Jefferson County School Board during their regular May meeting in order to provide an update into the 11th Episcopal District's leasing progress since the March break-in and vandalism of the old JES school.
According to Rev. Hill, the 11th Episcopal District's board of trustees were working on insurance hurdles pertaining to the property before they could put pen to paper and sign the lease agreement agreed upon by the school district.
"We are still hashing out some issues," Rev. Hill declared to board members on May 13, summarizing that the 11th Episcopal District's insurance provider was requiring proof of insurance from the school district before the episcopal district's provider could offer an insured plan.
Regardless of those hurdles, Rev. Hill said that he believed the problems would be worked through efficiently and that he mainly came before the board in order to publicly declare that the 11th Episcopal District was still interested in pursuing the property, despite the recent vandalism of the building back in March.
"After the break-in, we had tried to wait on some investigation and find out what was going on with that," said Rev. Hill. "We are still interested, more than ever now and we believe that we could do great access in the community center."
Around March 3, five juveniles broke into, vandalized and damaged the main JES school building.
According to the report issued by the Monticello Police Department, it was estimated that the damages would cost "in excess" of $30,000 to repair.
Due to the damage to the property, and the fact that the contract between the school district and the 11th Episcopal District specified that the lease was offering the property as-is (or, "as-was," as Rev. Hill remarked), the JES break-in will likely cost the 11th Episcopal District an additional $30K-$50K in repair costs before the school can be turned into a community center.
The financial impact of those repairs will be costly and Rev. Hill advised that the 11th Episcopal District's plan, after signing the lease agreement, is to start renovating the cafeteria area first and making the property usable so that they could go ahead and start using at least parts of the property while waiting to complete the full repairs in the vandalized side of the campus.
After Rev. Hill had finished his presentation to the board members, the concept of requesting restitution from the offending juveniles (in order to help cover repair costs) was brought up by Board Member Bill Brumfield.
According to Brumfield, the families of the involved juveniles "will never be able to pay $30,000" for the full costs of repairs.
"Unfortunately, those children made a terrible, terrible mistake," said Brumfield, before adding: "They are all 12-13 years old. Those children should not go for the rest of their life with a felony on their record."
In Brumfield's opinion, the families of the five youths would not be able to pay back the full cost of damages without great personal sacrifice and he suggested the idea of requesting a smaller amount of restitution in order for the families to feasibly pay the school district for the vandalism.
Board Member Sandra Saunders, however, disagreed with Brumfield's more relaxed stance on the young vandals.
"We can't just let [the kids] do this, and it goes into vape," argued Saunders. "It's happened and now we're supposed to brush it off? I don't think so."
Board Chairperson Shirley Washington also offered criticism regarding how the story of the break-in had seemingly disappeared from the community.
"I don't think we should allow it to be that easy, to just give a slap on the hand," said Washington.
Present at the meeting was Andrew Deneen, the State Attorney's Office's Chief Felony Division Prosecutor for Jefferson County, who offered to provide the board members with an update on the status on the case.
According to Deneen, all five juveniles had been arrested through a warrant process and are being tried in juvenile court.
As for monetary restitution, Deneen advised the board that restitution in juvenile cases is a "complicated issue."
"In order for the court to order a juvenile to pay restitution, the court has to find either, a) the juvenile himself or herself has the ability to pay or b) if that is not true, that they cannot pay, they look to the parent for their ability to pay," said Deneen. "It becomes kinda a complicated process, there will be a hearing in the court to determine the financial abilities of these parties to pay anything."
Further, Deneen informed the board that Florida Statute concerning juvenile cases is "very specific to point out" that the court cannot order a restitution amount that is considered unreasonable for a juvenile to pay – which $30,000 may likely fall into.
"If we are indeed talking about something around $30,000, $40,000 or $50,000, I think it would be highly likely that the court will determine that a juvenile is not going to have the ability to pay that," added Deneen.
In addition, Deneen said, when working juvenile cases, the court usually has until the juvenile's 19th birthday to try and get restitution from them before losing the opportunity – which even then, Deneen said, would be a "slow process if money even came in."
Board members then asked Deneen if the Monticello News "erred in judgment" by publishing the names and photos of the juveniles.
Deneen advised that he could not make comment on the actions of the Monticello News, but did advise that the law for disclosure allowed news media to release juvenile names and photos when "the charge they are facing would be a felony for an adult."
After Deneen's advisory, Chairperson Washington addressed a concern that she had expressed at prior meetings, mainly that the break-in and vandalism had taken place after the school board had agreed to lease the school campus to the 11th Episcopal District for a dollar a year.
The decision had been fiercely contended by members of the community who felt as though the school district should pursue more financially beneficial lease options for the JES campus.
"The most ironic thing is about this situation is that no vandalism was done until this board voted to lease the building to the church," stated Washington. "That's the most ironic thing. All this time, it was there, but when the votes came through to do that, it was after the fact. That's irony to me."
Washington also repeated her early belief that a lessened punishment for the vandalism might cause the youth to feel as though they could get away with similar acts in the future.
"I would be surprised if five kids in the community were aware that the building was going towards being leased by a church," suggested Deneen. "The timing, obviously, is terrible as unfortunately y'all were trying to get that place occupied so these kinds of things don't happen as frequently."
A recommendation from a citizen audience member asked if the school district and 11th Episcopal District would consider accepting community service hours that could be spent repairing the JES damage, in lieu of monetary reimbursement.
"We're not just going to settle for community service, I can tell you that now," stated Washington, adding that 'settling' for community service hours was "not a good idea."
Washington again brought up her concerns pertaining to the timing of the break-in and how it coincided with the vote to give the 11th Episcopal District the lease, calling the children's reasoning for breaking into the school building a "question that has not been answered."
"If they [the children] are questioned closely enough, they will probably tell you why they did it," stated Washington. "It only happened after we agreed to lease this building to [the 11th Episcopal District], and now you're going to slap them on the wrist and tell them 'oh, it's ok'?"
As the court process is still being handled by the state justice system, and, as Deneen reminded board members, "the wheels of justice turn slowly," Deneen agreed to return to the June meeting of the Jefferson County School Board and provide another update and as much information as he is legally allowed to provide into the case.
The June meeting will be held on Monday, June 10 at 6 p.m., at the Jefferson County School District office, located 1490 W. Washington St.
$10,000 presented to the Jefferson Senior Citizens Center
Three plead no contest to sexual offenses
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With the summer travel season rapidly approaching and the hope of more relaxing days ahead, one thing starts to come to mind – efficiency. I know, that word doesn't really match the sentiment of the upcoming months, but why shouldn't it?
Think about how much time we put into planning, organizing, and executing our travel plans. Those tasks alone can be exhausting, making the vacation all that more special or perhaps just that much more frustrating. I tend to think the latter. But, however you view situation, the need for improvement and increased efficiency is definitely apparent. Thank goodness we can gather help from our mobile devices.
From tablets to smartphones, these devices were not put on the earth to take time away from families and friends. Instead, mobile devices were created to provide you and your family the opportunity to create efficiency and fun, for the most part. Sure, you can check your work email and be in constant contact with colleagues, but when you have that moment in your life to take a vacation – to get away from the world for a moment and spend precious time with your family – it's important to ensure no time is wasted.
Take a cue from the mobile industry, use it to your advantage, and check out a few travel sites and applications that will help get those plans off the ground and onto your calendar.
Mobile travel sites and applications are designed specifically to quickly get you what you need. With limited fields and page distractions, forms and useful information will help secure your reservation in no time.
Check out Orbitz's travel site, mobile.orbitz.com, and mobile applications in the App Store/Android Market. Another great resource is KAYAK's mobile application, which is ready for download at kayak.com/mobile. Allowing you to compare prices and book hotel rooms, flights and cars, these applications will ensure your vacation isn't breaking the bank. Also, the apps store all travel plans on your mobile device with the "My Trips" tab, both available on the Orbitz and KAYAK applications, making sure you don't need to worry about writing down or losing the time of a flight or a confirmation number – it's all accessible right on your mobile device.
As you are waiting to board that plane, take a moment to bookmark a few mobile sites you know will be handy in the upcoming days.
First, don't forget to check out the state's mobile site! Specifically developed for on-the-go travelers, state mobile sites are all about getting relative information to you quick and easy. Check out the Show Me State's site on your mobile device at m.visitmo.com and see what I'm talking about – quick, easy navigation that will get you where you want to go or provide great suggestions on what might be next on the agenda. From great restaurants to upcoming events and historical sites, use these mobile sites as opportunities to further maximize your vacation, making sure you visit everything you want. After all, it's your vacation – no need to plan every step along the way. Or if planning is more your speed, just save the item on your phone as a "Favorite" or bookmark and your set!
And when using a mobile device to help plan your next adventure while on vacation, rest assured you will have up-to-date information stored in your pocket. Sorry, bulky travel guide book – might have to leave you at home this one time.
With every vacation, memories are made. Don't forget to capture these moments with you mobile device with an application like Trip Journal, trip-journal.com. As the #1 Travel Application awarded by Google, Trip Journal records your GPS coordinates along with photos and notes you take along the way. Once your vacation end, archive it on the map or share it with friends and family on the selected social networks.
And there you have it – a quick guide to how mobile devices can make your travel plans a bit more fun and hassle-free. And remember, it's a vacation, so explore, relax, and make memories. After all, that's what makes a summer vacation!


An end to the eternal monotony of mobile: the Pogo goes online, plays MP3s and its appearance is simply awesome.
So we introduce ourselves to the mobile phone of the future: nothing is reminiscent of a phone or a PDA. The unusual shape means that you don't really know how to think the smart phone.
Still, the Pogo is fun. At the same time, it serves as a phone, Web browser, MP3 player, E-Mail client and organizer. There is not the latest technology behind the futuristic outfit however.
The Pogo is there as an import device from the United Kingdom. Our test device was provided to us by the Chemnitz firm Semec.
Who buys (136 x 106 x 26 mm, 232 grams) a large and heavy smart phone from equzhou.net, can expect at least a large display.
The mass (58 x 78 mm) and (320 x 240 pixels) true, but the 256 colors are pale and reflects the display. The endurance of the lithium-ion battery indicates the manufacturer with five hours of talk and only 72 hours stand by time.
Using the supplied headset calling themselves – lets with the Pogo or hold the smart phone directly to the ear. Speaker and microphone are located on the back.
Missing comfort features such as profiles or language choice, at the five built-in games, it shows that the Pogo expects sedately. "Pong" or "Breakout" run almost maddeningly slow, and flying objects move a pixel trail behind.
The address book stores three telephone numbers as well as email and postal address per entry. Who wants to add more, is simply a note to the address book entry. All entries are spread over three tabs open, the calendar shows at the same time a monthly overview and all appointments a day. The downside: The contacts nor the calendar can sync up with Outlokk.According to the manufacturer is working on this problem.
The MP3 player is an integral part of the Pogo. Just a multimedia card (MMC) that is well filled with MP3s into the Smartphone and click on play. In the test, it worked without any problems, the sound quality was good.
The Pogo also directly from the Internet can download MP3 files. Really a nice service, but can unfortunately be pricey.
The reason: The default Internet Einwahlummer has a British code – and she can not change. This offers the advantage that you can do no wrong. In the test the dialling into the Internet immediately worked. The surf fun should be however very expensive with the dial in the United Kingdom.
This is a real problem, because the Pogo is partially independently and without warning online. An example: We wanted to set a different ringtone in the test. The Pogo chose simply by clicking on the appropriate menu in the network an and invited a website with ringtones.
The Pogo is there only with English software. But an average school English is sufficient to itself in the menus to navigate, because icons speak louder than words. And the pictures are so great and meaningful at the Pogo, that is easy for the user. The limited setting options do the rest, in the menus you can get lost is hardly.
When it is considered text to tap a virtual keyboard that actuates itself surprisingly well with the fingers will appear. Also, a less than twelve centimetres long but somewhat thin pen is in one of the four ears of the Pogo.
Abgefahren, fett, krass: So werden junge Menschen den Pogo feiern, denn die geniale Optik macht innere Schwächen mehr als wett.
Cell phone, Internet access, MP3 player, games and an organizer which lets not to synchronize: no manager takes the Pogo in the Office. But the Smartphone makes impression – and endless fun. The latter mainly due to the ease of use and the charming menus. Contacts are called here "people", the calendar is called diary ("diary").
That the Pogo is technically slightly outdated, a pale display a limited computing power provides, can get over themselves. After all, a software update should do according to the manufacturer sometime GPRS capable smartphone.
A pity, that the Internet dial – up do not change. As with the preset dial UK Internet access, which is so wonderfully easy how reliable will be quite expensive.
A propos-expensive: like all smartphones, the Pogo is not cheap – but this currently unique.
Yotaphone 2: Are dual-screened smartphones the future?


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Below is a list of difficulties people sometimes have after stressful life events. Please read each item and then indicate how distressing each difficulty has been for you during the past week, with respect to the Christchurch terrorist attacks. How much have you been distressed or bothered by these difficulties?
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Growth and learning through athletics has always been part of our essential beliefs at the New York Military Academy. For this reason, those members of our staff who have devoted their lives to helping cadets through our sports programs are especially dear to our hearts. The passing this week of Les McMillen occurred after a long illness, but during this illness Les was an inspiration to us all as he constantly insisted on coming to work every day he was able.
Perhaps some of the community might know Les through the number of championships his teams have won, the excellent athletes he has trained, the contributions he made to the operations of the Hudson Valley Athletic League, and the wonderful family he helped raise. But what really impressed us over the last few years was his love of the New York Military Academy, his determination to bring back the NYMA community, and his belief in the power of teaching to help students develop.
For 30 years Les coached and taught here and helped build and rebuild our athletic program. Many alumni of NYMA and residents of the Cornwall area were influenced by Les when they were young. He helped organize sports training here on campus for an entire region and for an entire generation. Les was an integral part of this academy during the school year and during the summer. He loved NYMA, we loved him, and we will all miss him.
There will be a "Celebration of Les's Life" held on Sunday, March 4th from 1:00 – 4:00 pm at Quigley Brothers Funeral Home, 337 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 12520.