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Durham High School won't let Covid-19 spoil its traditional Christmas performances
School's Nativity Stars Seen Online in Australia Wise men and women from a Durham school have found a way to make sure that the COVID Grinch doesn't spoil a traditional Christmas family favourite. Durham High School has taken the positive step of 'live streaming' their traditional Christmas pupil's performances so that the Tier Three restrictions […]
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A successful community arts programme that offers fun and friendship to older people is being expanded this year and has received national recognition for its efforts. Artful Age provides opportunities for older people in East Durham to make friends and grow their appreciation of the arts, from singing and dancing, to creating their own art […]
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I passed along a Channel 10 report over a month ago that said Charlestown's long-delayed red light cameras for the intersections of Route One and East Beach and Route One and West Beach would be up and running by the end of August.
They weren't, plus there was no sign that the town's contractor was doing anything to install them.
The Tomaquag Museum in Exeter is looking to hire a Marketing Associate to start work on October 1. The application deadline is September 19. Click here for details or contact director Loren Spears.
South County Community Action here in Charlestown is looking for a Special Needs/Mental Health Coordinator to work in their Head Start program. Sorry for the short deadline – September 10. Click here for details or send a cover letter and resume to jsimone@sccainc.org ASAP.
If you're looking for work, you should sign up for daily e-mails from RI Community Jobs, a project of Brown University's Swearer Center. Click here.
DEM is hiring 20 to 30 seasonal workers to staff the state parks, campgrounds and Goddard Park golf course this fall. They are hiring now and the jobs will run up to November 30.
They are looking to fill a wide range of positions. Information about DEM and all seasonal positions, as well as downloadable application forms, are available online at DEM's website, www.dem.ri.gov, by clicking on "Jobs" then "Seasonal Positions". Applicants may also visit or call DEM's Office of Human Resources at 235 Promenade Street, Room 350, Providence, weekdays between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., or call 222-2775, ext. 4609.
If you've been reading the Westerly Sun or Progressive Charlestown, you will have seen lots of back and forth over the latest phony crisis concocted by the Charlestown Town Council - the looming though non-existent threat of an STD ("Single Taxing District" for the Chariho School system).
This bogus conspiracy went viral when the normally unbiased official town newsletter, the Pipeline, published an alarmist and grossly inaccurate "Special Edition." Since we can no longer count on the Pipeline to present objective facts, it will be hereafter referred to as "The Poopline."
Despite efforts by our state legislators, and others, to debunk this myth, our Council's leading conspiracy-buff, the fact-challenged Councilor George Tremblay (CCA Party) just can't help but to keep blowing the bugle to assemble the militia to go to war with Richmond and Hopkinton.
I reported the rejection by the Navy to a proposal by the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs to acquire a major portion of surplus Navy land left over from the old Navy base on behalf of the Narragansett Indian Tribe. Matt Sheley of the Newport Daily News (no link, sorry – the NDN doesn't allow much non-subscriber access) reports the Tribe plans to challenge that decision and thinks it is still "in the mix" to acquire some of the 225 Aquidneck Island acres.
While ruling out a casino for that property, the Tribe isn't saying what it wants to do with the land. But according to John Brown, a leading tribal official, they still want to acquire that land.
In another development, Indian Country Today reports that a decision is expected soon in a Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals case, Big Lagoon Rancheria v. California.
The case is being re-heard by all 11 judges of the 9th Circuit after a three judge panel ruled on a 2-1 vote that the state of California was not obliged to negotiate a new gambling compact with the tribe because the tribe was one of the 500 tribes who lost sovereignty rights under the notorious 2009 Carcieri v.Salazar decision by the US Supreme Court.
The US Justice Department and lawyers for the tribe are hoping the full appeals court will overrule the three-judge panel. Charlestown – or at least the Charlestown Citizens Alliance – is invested in seeing the early decision stand since it upholds Carcieri v.Salazar, a case that originated in Charlestown's effort to block the Narragansett Indian Tribe from building a low-income elderly housing project.
Indian advocates worry that if the 9th Circuit upholds the earlier decision, the 500 tribes that lost sovereignty rights will be in an even deeper hole.
SouthCoast Today and the Providence Business News both report that South County Hospital, the state's only remaining independent hospital, broke off partnership negotiations with New Bedford-based Southcoast Health Systems. These talks have been going on for about six months. Most hospitals have been pushed into mergers to deal with changes in the economics of health care.
Westerly Hospital faced either bankruptcy and closure or a buy-out by New London-based Lawrence & Memorial Hospital.
Despite the hardships imposed on independent hospitals, such as lower reimbursement rates, South County Hospital has thrived and has scored as the Number One hospital in all of New England for patient satisfaction and top scores in most other ratings.
South County says none of the conditions that drove it to seek a partner or merger have changed, so they will continue looking.
Regular Progressive Charlestown readers have probably all seen the weekly notices for the Dog or Cat of the Week. These cute critters are under the care of the Animal Rescue League of Southern Rhode Island in Peace Dale and are available for adoption.
Cathy and I feel a particular connection with them because after the unexpected death of one of our kitties, we visited the shelter and came home with twin brown tabby brothers who have become part of our family.
We got hooked on the League because, we discovered, it is one of the only true no-kill shelters not only in southern Rhode Island but for a much wider distance than that. Like so many shelters, theirs' is in rough shape. They are building a new state-of-the-art facility next door to the current building and we were proud to make a major donation and to also offer to help raise more.
I recently met the League's board chair, Doug Rubenstein, who just happens to live right here in Charlestown. As he described the history and the future of the League, I was amazed and thrilled at what they have planned. For example, I wasn't aware that they run a pet food pantry for low-income families and that they do extensive education in the schools.
They also have a Service Dog Training Academy in the works where they will train shelter dogs for search-and-rescue, service to the disabled, and comfort to the sick and the elderly.
Doug gave a great interview to the Providence Business News recently (click here) where he really makes the case for why you should consider supporting the League or donate generously toward the costs of their new building. They are a 501(c)(3) non-profit and your contributions are tax-deductible. Go to their website for more information.
The Charlestown Citizens Alliance has taken the muzzles off the Chambers, Mike and Donna, who have been pretty silent for a number of months. Both have developed reputations in town for their tortured and fact-challenged writings both on the official CCA Party website and in the Westerly Sun.
Frankly, I've missed all those Chamberpots because only the Chambers are naïve enough to actually put in writing the delusional stuff the CCA Party generally believes.
I'm waiting for them to write about Tom Gentz's latest delusion, which is that the state Water Resources Board plans to build "huge pumping stations that will send Charlestown's water upstate. Gentz has been reported as saying this to voters, but he has yet to be foolish enough to put it in writing. Thus, the perfect mission for the Chambers.
But apparently the Westerly Sun isn't so thrilled with the Chambers. While they have run three Chamberpots in the Sun's Letters to the Editor column (on August 25, 26 and 27), they only ran them in the print version which doesn't get much readership in Charlestown, and not on the Sun's public website.
If you really want to read these Chamberpots, just take yourself over to the CCA Party website where they are prominently posted. Their appearance there makes it pretty clear that they are espousing the CCA Party line, all disclaimers to the contrary.
Atlantic Animal Hospital will hold an open house at their offices at the junction of Route One and Route Two in Charlestown on Wednesday, September 13 from 9 to 1 PM. In addition to tours, gifts for pets, snacks and entertainment for kids, they will be showing off their new state-of-the-art mobile veterinary van.
This van will enable them to do house calls. Plus, they will park it at Spindrift Village every other Saturday from 9 – 1 PM for drop ins.
For a small, sort of hyper-local, volunteer-run website on politics, news and entertainment, we've been surprisingly successful at attracting regular readers. They average around 2,000 during each weekday. That's the number of times per day that somebody clicks on an article to actually read it, as opposed to "hits," which is simply the number of people who, accidentally or on purpose, check out Progressive Charlestown.
So it was nice to hit a new mark, one and a half page-views at 10:30 PM on September 6.
We hit the one and a quarter million mark on April 22, so it took only another four and a half months to attract another quarter million page-reads.
Here's the money...where are the jobs?
The RI Division of Taxation has just released its annual report on the amount of corporate welfare it has dispensed to supposedly create jobs. These usually come in the form of tax credits or subsidies. I am actually a big fan of subsidies, provided (a) they actually create jobs; (b) go largely to small local businesses and (c) are not the result of corporate blackmail (e.g. Fidelity's constant threat to move to another state if we don't keep subsidizing their operations).
Unfortunately, the new report fails to provide any useful information on what good our corporate welfare actually did. We do know that we gave roughly $15 million out last year and that around $12 million of that went to CVS ($9.9 million), Electric Boat of Groton ($1.5 million), Fidelity of Boston ($0.43 million) and Perot Systems of Texas ($0.05 million).
In addition, CVS got another $5.1 million, Electric Boat got another $1.8 million and Fidelity got another $3.2 million in "Investment and Job Training Tax Credits."
Rep. Teresa Tanzi has made pushing for full disclosure on corporate welfare one of her priority issues. The fact that we get even this small amount of information is due to her. I asked her when we'll start seeing some detail on how many jobs we got in return for our money and she e-mailed me to say that starting in FY 2015, they will disclose the jobs numbers for 19 corporate welfare programs out of a total of around 200.
DEM is hosting a free pesticide take-back program for farms and businesses at locations around the state. Charlestown's DOT Salt Barn right off Route One will be one of the sites. They will accept old pesticides there on September 18 from 9 AM to 1 PM. Click here for more details and for information on the other sites and drop-off dates.
Allstate Insurance releases the results of its annual survey of roadway safety in America's major cities. This will come as no surprise for most people who make the drive up to the city, but Providence was among the worst in the nation, coming in at #196 out of 200 cities.
One post-retirement business venture I am seriously considering is launching an on-line rating service for stuff. It seems like just about anyone can start one up and get people to take it seriously. Here's an example: a service called WalletHub, describing itself as a "personal finance service," rated 150 of the country's largest cities in terms of what they had to offer retirees.
Rated #1 is Tampa, Florida – it's no surprise that Florida scored the top city since the whole state seems geared to attracting retirees and red necks. Five of the top ten are Florida cities. Nearly all of the top rated cities are in the Sun Belt.
Providence won the last place rating. Boston and Worcester were also near the bottom.
I will not venture a guess about any correlation between Providence's low ratings for driving safety and retirement, although maybe there is one.
My ever-alert Progressive Charlestown colleague Tom Ferrio - whose technical skills make this website possible - spotted a new "app" of note, for those of you who use "apps" and such. This is called "Wakie" and can be used on Android and Windows phones. Here's how it works - when you download the app, you give your phone number and declare whether you are a Sleepyhead or a Wakie.
Then the app pairs you with some stranger of roughly the same age and the opposite gender and assigns that person to give you a morning walk-up call. Not sure whether there is an LGBT option.
As Dave Barry likes to say, "what could go wrong with that?" Neither the Wakie or the Sleepyhead gets the phone number of the other, unless of course, there's some chemistry that takes place during the wake-up call.


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U.S. House passes new North American trade deal, Senate timing unclear
By David Lawder
Reuters December 19, 2019
FILE PHOTO: The flags of Canada, Mexico and the U.S. are seen on a lectern before a joint news conference on the closing of the seventh round of NAFTA talks in Mexico City
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a new North American trade deal on Thursday that includes tougher labor and automotive content rules but leaves $1.2 trillion in annual U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade flows largely unchanged.
The House passed legislation to implement the U.S.-Mexico Canada Agreement 385-41, with 38 Democrats, two Republicans and one independent member voting no.
The bipartisan vote contrasted sharply with Wednesday night's Democrat-only vote to impeach U.S. President Donald Trump.
The House vote sends the measure to the Senate, but it is unclear when Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell will take it up. He has said that a USMCA vote would likely follow an impeachment trial in the Senate that is expected in January.
But the timing of that trial remains up in the air as the two parties clash over how it would be managed.
The USMCA trade pact, first agreed upon in September 2018, will replace the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. Trump vowed for years to quit or renegotiate NAFTA, which he blames for the loss of thousands of U.S. factories to low-wage Mexico.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave USMCA a green light last week after striking a deal with the Trump administration, Canada and Mexico to strengthen labor enforcement provisions and eliminate some drug patent protections.
U.S. industry groups breathed a sigh of relief at the vote.
"House passage of the USMCA is a huge step toward finalizing this long-awaited 21st century trade agreement," said Matt Blunt, president of the American Automotive Policy Council, which represents Detroit automakers Ford <F.N>, General Motors <GM.N> and Fiat Chrysler <FCAU.N>.
"This modernized trade deal between our North American trading partners will strengthen the U.S. auto industry and the auto manufacturing supply chain," Blunt added.
CONCESSIONS FOR DEMOCRATS
The changes negotiated by Democrats, which include modestly tighter environmental rules, will also set up a mechanism to quickly investigate labor rights abuses at Mexican factories.
The endorsement of these provisions by U.S. labor leader Richard Trumka, head of the AFL-CIO, was considered crucial to winning support from Democrats, who control the House.
"This isn't a perfect agreement. It still has room for improvement," Trumka told Reuters in an interview, adding it could take eight to 12 years to begin reversing U.S. job losses.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer made a concession by dropping a requirement for 10 years of data exclusivity for biologic drugs, a provision that Democrats feared would keep drug prices high and that they called a "giveaway" to big drugmakers.
But those changes were not enough for some rust-belt Democrats to overcome the scars from factory closures blamed on NAFTA over the past 26 years.
"USMCA will not bring back the 155,000 jobs in Ohio that were lost to outsourcing after NAFTA," Representative Marcy Kaptur said of her home state in explaining her "no" vote.
"It does nothing for our small farmers suffering under President Trump's trade wars, and it holds no true labor protections that the Mexican government is capable of enforcing," Kaptur said in a statement.
Representative Ron Kind, a pro-trade Democrat from Wisconsin, one of the top dairy-producing states, praised new access to Canada's closed dairy market under USMCA.
"A no vote is a return to the failed policy of the old NAFTA, the status quo, rather than this more modernized version," Kind said in floor debate.
AUTOS, DIGITAL, CURRENCY
The U.S. International Trade Commission estimated in April that USMCA would modestly boost the U.S. economy, adding 176,000 jobs over 15 years but may reduce vehicle assembly in the United States. It would boost economic output by 0.35% a year, or $68.5 billion annually versus a NAFTA baseline.
The agreement modernizes NAFTA, adding language that preserves the U.S. model for internet, digital services and e-commerce development, industries that did not exist when NAFTA was negotiated in the early 1990s. It eliminates some food safety barriers to U.S. farm products and contains language prohibiting currency manipulation for the first time in a trade agreement.
But the biggest changes require increased North American content in cars and trucks built in the region, to 75% from 62.5% in NAFTA, with new mandates to use North American steel and aluminum.
In addition, 40% to 45% of vehicle content must come from high-wage areas paying more than $16 an hour - namely the United States and Canada. Some vehicles assembled in Mexico mainly with components from Mexico and outside the region may not qualify for U.S. tariff-free access.
"We're going forward. Good news," Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Twitter after the House vote, which caused the Mexican peso to strengthen slightly to 18.91 to the dollar. For nearly three years, the peso has risen and fallen on news about NAFTA negotiations.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told CBC television that Canada's Parliament would approve USMCA "as quickly as we can." But Parliament is not scheduled to return to Ottawa before Jan. 27.
(Reporting by David Lawder in Washington; Additional reporting by Andrea Shalal in Washington, David Ljunggren and Steve Scherer in Ottawa, and Daina Beth Solomon in Mexico City; Editing by Matthew Lewis, Leslie Adler and Jacqueline Wong)
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Foster Hope.
The Family Tapestry Partner Network is the heart of the community-based care model, centered on addressing the specific needs of children and youth in foster care. Family Tapestry and its network of partners include more than 50 local foster care nonprofit organizations and support service providers who advance the mission of Family Tapestry to weave together our community to transform the foster care experience.
Map of Family Tapestry Partners
Click or tap on a pin for more information about each partner.
1Hope for Kids, Inc.
https://www.4kidsofstx.org/
3H Youth Ranch (Teen Boys Wilderness Program)
3H Youth Ranch
A World For Children
https://www.awfc.org/
Abraxas Youth & Family Services – Hector Garza Center
http://www.abraxasyfs.com/facilities/hectorgarza
Adoption Advocacy
http://www.adoptsc.com/
Agape Manor Home
https://www.agapemanorhome.org/
http://www.americas-angels.com/
Angel's Crossing
http://angelscrossingtx.org/index.html
Arrow Child and Family Ministries (Freedom Place)
https://www.arrow.org/
Athletes for Change
http://athletesforchange.org/
Autism Treatment Center
https://www.atcoftexas.org/sanantonio.html
BCFS
www.fostercaresanantonio.com
Benchmark Family Services
https://benchmarkfamilyservices.org/
Bluebonnet Youth Ranch
https://www.bluebonnetyouthranch.org/
Boysville, Inc.
https://www.boysvilletexas.org/
Brookhaven Youth Ranch RTC
https://brookhavenyouthranch.org/
Buckner Children and Family Service
https://www.buckner.org/
Carter's Kids
Center for Juvenile Management
http://centerforjuvenilemanagement.org/
Central Texas Children's Home
https://ctch.org/
https://www.circlesofcareinc.org/
1.866.63.CHILD
Circle of Living Hope
https://www.colh.org/
877.240.4673 X 2
CK Family Services
https://www.ckfamilyservices.org/
Connections Inc.
http://www.connectionsnonprofit.org/
https://www.depelchin.org/
Devereux
https://www.devereux.org/site/SPageServer/?pagename=tx_index
Divinity Family Services
https://www.divinityfamilyservices.com/
Eckerd Youth
Embracing Destiny
https://www.embracingdestinyfoundation.org/
Everyday Life, Inc.
https://www.everydaylifertc.com/default.html
Families Especial
http://familiesespecial.org/
Family Link Kids at Legacy Ranch
https://familylinkkids.com/
Forever Families
https://www.forfam.org/
Garden of Hope Central Texas
https://www.gohctx.org/
George Gervin Youth Center
http://www.gervin-school.org/
Giocosa
https://www.giocosa.org/
https://adoptionsbygladney.com/
Good Hearts Youth and Family Services
http://www.goodheartsyfs.org/
Greater San Marcos Youth Council
https://www.gsmyc.org/
Guardian Angels RTC
https://www.gartc.org/
http://www.guidinglightrtc.com/
Gulf Coasts Trade Center
http://www.gctc.us/
Gulf Winds RTC
https://sites.google.com/a/gulfwindsrtc.org/main/
Habilitative Homes (RTC for Intellectually/Developmentally Disabled)
http://habhomes.org/
Hands of Healing
http://handsofhealing.org/
Have Haven
https://www.havehaven.org/
Helping Hand Home for Children
http://helpinghandhome.org/
Hill Country Youth Ranch
www.youth-ranch.org
Houston Serenity Place RTC
https://serenityrtc.org/
Houston Wee Care Inc.
Institute for Attachment and Child Development
https://www.instituteforattachment.org/
JStars Group Home
K'Star
http://www.kstar.org/
Kidz Safe Harbour
http://www.kidzsafeharbor.com/
L'Amor Village
Lifeline Children/Family Services
https://www.lifelinecfs.org/
Lifeworks
https://www.lifeworksaustin.org/
Lighthouse Foster Care and Adoption
https://www.lighthousefcas.org/
Lonestar Social Services
www.lonestarsocialservices.com
Methodist Children's Home
https://www.mch.org/locations/san-antonio/
Mission Road Development Center
https://missionroadministries.org/
New Life Children's Treatment Center/Upbring
https://www.upbring.org/programs-and-services/childrens-centers/new-life/
North Fork Educational Center
https://northforkec.org/
Open Arms Open Hearts Foundation
Parks Youth Ranch
http://www.parksyouthranch.org/
Pathways Youth and Family Services, Inc.
http://www.pathway.org/
https://www.pegasusschool.net/
Perimeter Health Care
https://www.perimeterhealthcare.com/
Prairie Harbor, LLC
http://prairieharbor.org/home.html/
Presbyterian Children's Homes and Services
https://www.pchas.org/
http://www.provplace.org/
Refuge House
http://www.refugehouse.org/
Refuge of Light
https://www.refugeoflight.org/
Renewed Strength Inc. East
Respite Care of San Antonio
http://respitecaresa.org/
Rising Star GRO
Roy Maas Youth Alternatives
https://www.rmya.org/
San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption Services, Inc.
https://www.sanantoniofostercare.org/
Serving Children and Adults in Need
https://www.scan-inc.org/
Seton Home
https://www.setonhomesa.org/
Sheltering Harbour
https://www.shelteringharbour.org/
SJRC Texas - Bulverde Campus
https://www.sjrctexas.org/
SJRC Texas - Child Placing Agency
SJRC Texas - New Braunfels Campus
Sophie's House for Children
Stadium Shelter
St. PJ's Children's Home
http://www.stpjhome.org/
Stonebridge Behavioral Health, P.A.
https://www.stonebridgealliance.com/
Sunny Glen Children's Home
https://sunnyglen.org/
Texas Baptist Home for Children
https://www.tbhc.org/
Texas Foster Care and Adoption Services
http://www.texasfostercare.org/
The Bair Foundation
https://www.bair.org/
The Center for Healthcare Services (Crisis Respite)
https://chcsbc.org/
The Children's Shelter
https://www.childrensshelter.org/
The Landing of Corpus Christi
The Refuge for DMST
https://therefugeaustin.org/
The Safe Alliance
https://www.safeaustin.org/
The Settlement Home for Children
https://www.settlementhome.org/
The Treehouse Center
http://thetreehousecenter.org/
The Williams House Emergency Shelter
http://www.thewilliamshouse.org/
Therapeutic Family Life
https://www.tflife.org/
TruLight 127 Ministries
https://www.trulight127.org/
Unity Children's Home
https://www.unitychildrenshome.com/
Upbring
https://www.upbring.org/
http://www.whisperinghillstx.com/
http://www.trinitycharterschools.org/our-schools/willow-bend-campus/
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Mandelson renews attack on Tory public service plans
Business secretary claims Conservatives will force people to pay for private schools and hospitals
Allegra Stratton and Andrew Sparrow
Wed 12 Aug 2009 04.00 EDT
Lord Mandelson launched a fresh attack on the Conservatives today by claiming that their plans for spending cuts would force people to pay for private schools and hospitals.
In an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the business secretary said that under Tory plans for the public services there would be "no safety net" for those unable to afford the cost of going private.
He made his comments after launching a withering personal and political attack on the shadow chancellor, George Osborne, in an article in today's Guardian. In the article he predicted that the Conservatives' programme for government would have "a crippling cost in human potential and long-term growth".
On the Today programme, Mandelson went further. Labour has relentlessly criticised the Tories of planning to cut public spending, but Mandelson refined this line of attack by claiming it would lead to many people having to pay charges for services they currently receive for free.
"The swingeing cuts that the Tories envisage will not produce a better service," Mandelson said. "They will produce a poorer service, driving those who can afford it to private education and private healthcare, with no safety net for those who cannot afford to go private.
"When the Tories talk euphemistically about 'independent provision', they are talking about private provision for those who can afford it and no social justice for those who can't. That exposes the rank hypocrisy and audacity of George Osborne's claim yesterday to represent a party of progressives. I have never heard anything so laughable in my life."
Writing in today's Guardian, Mandelson describes Osborne's claim in a recent speech that the "torch of progressive politics" has passed to the Tories as "audacious" and "political cross-dressing" that will not convince voters.
Reprising the strategy he shares with Gordon Brown, Mandelson casts the Tories as the party of cuts and says that the shadow chancellor's talk of debt reduction would mean a public spending squeeze that would "eat into frontline delivery and investment in growth". In Osborne's speech to the Demos thinktank yesterday, the shadow chancellor turned this attack back on the government, presenting research showing that a rise in recent birthrates meant Labour education spending plans would see spending per pupil have to fall by £800.
Responding to Mandelson's article, a spokesman for the Conservatives said the business secretary had failed to engage with the shadow chancellor's ideas on solving the debt crisis. They said: "Ministers are tripping over themselves to launch into desperate attacks – this shows just how rattled they are as their August goes from one disaster to another."
Mandelson's swift intervention reflects Labour's sensitivity over the Tory strategy, but also the residual animus that exists between the business secretary and Osborne. Last summer the pair was holidaying separately on the Greek island of Corfu, but had dinner together at a taverna, with repercussions for both men.
Osborne was accused of leaking details of their conversation to the Sunday Times, which quoted sources saying that Mandelson had "dripped pure poison" about Gordon Brown. But the affair backfired on Osborne when he was accused of soliciting donations from the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
In his article for the Guardian, Mandelson refers to the shadow chancellor as "Osborne" throughout, apart from the last sentence in which he delivers a calculated putdown. "The first lesson of political positioning is that you have to have credible ground to stand on. George obviously still has a bit to learn."
In another biting aside, Mandelson says: "From the benches of the European parliament, where the Tories sit alongside a motley collection of far-rightists, nationalists and homophobes, their claim to carry the torch of progressive politics looks like a bad joke."
Writing a little over 24 hours into a week that aides had promised would see Mandelson maintain a low profile, he defines what he believes to be the true definition of progressiveness.
"To be a progressive is to believe that we can make a better society and improve the conditions of individual lives by acting together," he said. "Sometimes through an active and accountable government that is responsive to local needs. Sometimes by challenging prejudice and helping the disadvantaged. Sometimes by unlocking individual potential through education and opportunity.
"It is to believe in the necessity of and value of social justice. Osborne doesn't believe this and couldn't speak about it with conviction."
He added: "Osborne simply defined progressive to mean whatever the Tory party believes this month. Which is, above all, an ideological commitment to government retrenchment and a budget that is cut until it is 'balanced', regardless of the consequences for growth or individual welfare."
The business secretary argues that any diminution in the role of the state under a Tory government would have a deleterious effect on bringing about progressive policies.
"Government matters for progressives because it is how we define the limits and role of a market economy, guarantee public services, and invest in our essential capacities as a country. Yet Osborne's only real argument about government is that it should be smaller – a lot smaller."
The attack comes in response to the second annual speech by Osborne to the thinktank Demos, this time as a board member, in which the shadow chancellor laid out his party's claim to the label. He cited a clutch of recent Tory policies as progressive.
"Whether it is pioneering open primaries to select our parliamentary candidates, or using new technology to give the public power through access to government information, or our commitment to a radical localisation of power, we are the ones setting the progressive pace in politics," he said.
He argued that the Tories would be progressive in their approach to future generations by slimming the debt burden they would otherwise inherit and claimed his party would be delivering "more for less" through public service reform.
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If a message originates from a familiar name or email address, its likelihood of making it through spam filters is greater.
"Our security team...saw a trend of spammers hijacking legitimate accounts to send their messages. [We developed] a system that uses 120+ signals to...detect whether a log-in is legitimate, beyond just a password."
Less than 1% of spam emails make it into a Gmail inbox.
The number of compromised accounts decreased by 99.7% since 2011. That's impressive, for a sustained reduction! How does Google avoid false positives? I am so curious about the specific details of their filtering rules!
The blog post was written in March 2013. It is remarkable that the same methods continue to be effective, as Gmail spam-attackers would perceive this as a new challenge to be overcome.
I suspect that Google's methods are analogous to those used by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in detecting medically unlikely edits (MUEs). MUEs can be accidental, due to claim coding or data entry errors. MUEs can also be deliberate, when there is fraudulent intent, e.g. by filing for more services, or for more expensive services. Regardless of intent, MUE identification reduces paid claims error rates.
How will the Affordable Care Act impact existing processes for detecting MUEs, and for setting benchmarks? CMS does not disclose its MUE criteria for the same reasons that Google will not reveal details about their 120 signals.
Continuous improvement is a part of life, for email-spam account hijackers, Google and the fraud detection team at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
I wrote a post about health care, with a much more Ellie-centric theme, a few years ago. That was when I worked as statistician for ACCCHS, Arizona's state-administered Medicaid/Medicare program, monitoring program performance and quality of care.


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Kui may refer to:

People
Kui people, a Mon-Khmer ethnic minority
Kui Lee, a singer-songwriter

People with the surname Kui (奎)
Kui Yuanyuan, a Chinese gymnast

Places
Kui, Hiroshima, a Japanese town
Kawau Island Airport, IATA code KUI, on Kawau Island

Astronomy
KUI 91AB, a variable star of Delta Cephei type
KUI 93AB, an eclipsing binary of Algol variable type

Other uses
Kui (Chinese mythology) 夔, a one-legged mountain demon, also legendary inventor of music and dance
Kui (dragonball), a manga character
Kui (music), comes from Kazakh language
Kui (Māori mythology), a chthonic Māori demigod, also father of Vahi-vero in Tuamotu mythology
Kui kuningas nutab, a 1997 song by Terminaator
Kui language (India), a Dravidian language spoken by the Khonds
Kui language (Indonesia), a Timor–Alor–Pantar language
Kui the Horseclaw, a character in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
KUI, acronym for Kinetic user interface

See also
 Kui language (disambiguation)

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Raise your hand. Join the parents that care enough to bring the change! The Ditmas PTA Executive Board and School Leadership Team meets with the Principal and his cabinet of Assistant Principals, Guidance & Dean of Students at least once a month to plan school activities.
Let us know if you are interested - nominate yourself or someone you know for the PTA & SLT elections taking place Wednesday, May 18, 2016 @ 6:00 - 8:00 pm at Ditmas.
"Willingness to be of service is the hallmark for parent officers. These parents shall exemplify a dedication and cooperation that will be a support to the Principal, therefore, consultation and dialogue is essential on a regular basis."
Roles of the Parent Teacher Association
Willingness to be of service is the hallmark of Parent Officers of the Ditmas I.S. 62 Parent Teacher Association. They shall exemplify a dedication and cooperation that will be a support to the Principal. Therefore, consultation and dialogue is essential on a regular basis. The PTA Executive Board meets with the Principal and his cabinet of Assistant Principals, Guidance Counselors & Dean(s) of Students every month.
President/Co-Presidents
The President/Co-Presidents shall:
Preside at all general PTA meetings (3rd Thursday, once a month)
Preside at the PTA Executive Board Meetings (1st Thursday, once a month)
Preside at the School Leadership Meetings (3rd Thursday, 4:00 pm)
Preside at the School Safety Meeting (1st Wednesday of the month, 7:30 am)
Preside at the District 20 Presidents Council Meetings (1st Monday of the month, 7pm)
Serve ex officio on all Committees
Appoint an Extended Board, and define its responsibilities, with approval of the Principal
Shall receive reports from all Committees
Develop a communication network (telephone/email relay)to share with the Executive & Extended Boards
Plan a schedule of meetings for the Executive & Extended Boards
Prepare the annual calendar for the monthly meetings complete with dates, times & agenda; approved by the Principal by the end of August that year for submission to general membership, in September
Prepare an agenda to be sent to Executive Board, at least two days before each Executive Board Meeting
Make copies of the By-Laws to be given to officers and committee members at the beginning of their terms
Keep an accurate and exact account of all dues and monies that come into the Association
Record every amount that is paid out and indicate the reason for payment
Render Annual & Interim Financial Reports to the Principal & The Office of Family Engagement & Advocacy (OFEA); render a financial report at the Executive Board and General Members Meetings. This report should be co-signed by the Principal, President/Co-Presidents & Treasurer
Co-sign checks with the President
Associate Treasurer
Assist in the responsibilities of the Treasurer
Assist in counting money contributed at school events, on a monthly basis
Serve the President/Co-President in whatever way he/she can
Represent the President when requested to do so
Sit on any committees as the President deems necessary
Assist the President in preparing the Annual Report
Recording Secretary*
Record the Executive Board minutes in an exact, professional manner (must be able to type & email)
Prepare and send minutes to the executive board two days before Executive Board Meetings
Prepare, deliver and record minutes of Executive Board and General Members Meetings
Maintain a historical archive of pictures, happenings and events. This should be cumulative and passed on to the successor at the end of each term
Corresponding Secretary *
Keep an organized account of all communication to the Association together with responses which are submitted to the same
Contact all members about meeting notices
Assist the President/Co-Presidents in developing the Annual Calendar
*Both secretaries should be available to assist the President/Co-Presidents with the Annual Membership Drive. Membership dues may be accepted at the time of school registration.
Roles of the School Leadership Team
School Leadership Teams (SLTs) are school-based organizations composed of an equal number of parents and staff. They meet at least once a month, and determine the structure for school-based planning and shared decision-making.
SLT members:
SLTs' roles in schools:
SLT Monthly Meetings
SLTs must include as mandatory members: the school principal, the PA/PTA president (or designated co-president), the UFT chapter leader, and an equal number of parents and staff. SLTs may elect to include representatives from community-based organizations.
The core responsibility of each SLT is to develop the school's Comprehensive Educational Plan (CEP) that is aligned with the school-based budget. SLTs are strongly encouraged to solicit input from various school community constituencies in order to ensure that all voices are heard regarding the needs of students. Functioning in a collaborative manner, SLTs also help to evaluate the effectiveness of the school's educational programs and their impact on student achievement. SLTs receive support and guidance as needed from their District Leadership Teams.
SLTs meet once a month, on the 3rd Thursday of the month @ 4:00 pm, in the Principal's office.
Parent members of a SLT are nominated by the school's PA/PTA & voted in during the SLT elections meeting.
Relevant Legislation:
Under State Education Law, Section 2590, all New York City public schools are required to establish School Leadership Teams & Parent Associations. SLTs must comply with the current Chancellor's Regulation A–655. PA's/PTA's must comply with the current Chancellor's Regulation A-660. A-660 sets forth the governance structure of parent associations to ensure the rights of parents are clearly established.


Click, Oohh and the magical moment is captured forever. I smile at the three beautiful young ukulele players in front of the lens. How is it children have such magical smiles? The girls continue playing as I slip into their empty classroom. Room twenty is Nicole Higby's classroom, and it is a credit to her and her children. I wander the room gazing at the walls with admiration; they are festooned with colourful work, images and projects.
I can see how disappointed Nicole must be with the demise of the classroom camera. The children had used the small digital camera to document not only their learning but also to capture musical performances, athletic events, school trips, school projects and highlights from the school calendar.
This little hard working camera had been a valuable tool to record the children's school life and transfer by email visual documentation to the parents. This precious often easily eroded link between parents and the classroom is, in Nicole's mind, essential. One of her most vital tools for encouraging and cementing these children's educational future is an active interface between the home and the classroom.
Please help grant the wish of a Digital Camera for Nicole Higby's classroom.


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At rally, Beck positions himself as new leader for Christian conservatives
Among those surprised by all of conservative TV host Glenn Beck's recent religious talk - including at Saturday's Washington rally, where Beck said that "America today begins to turn back to God," - is the Rev. Richard Land, a Southern Baptist leader.
"I've been stunned," said Land, who directs public policy for the Southern Baptist Convention and who attended the Saturday rally at Beck's invitation.
"This guy's on secular radio and television," Land said Saturday, "but his shows sound like you're listening to the Trinity Broadcasting Network, only it's more orthodox and there's no appeal for money ... and today he sounded like Billy Graham."
Beck's speeches around his "Restoring Honor" rally have brimmed with religious language: "God dropped a giant sandbag on his head" to push him to organize the rally, he said Friday.
On Friday night, Beck held a religion-focused event at the Kennedy Center that was billed as Glenn Beck's Divine Destiny.
Beck's speech Saturday also evoked the feel of a religious revival.
"Look forward. Look West. Look to the heavens. Look to God and make your choice," he said.
Beck has also begun organizing top conservative religious leaders - mostly evangelicals - into a fledgling group called the Black Robed Regiment.
The organization, whose charter members convened in Washington this weekend, takes its name from American clergy sympathetic to the Revolution during the 1700s.
Beck's emerging role as a national leader for Christian conservatives is surprising not only because he has until recently stressed a libertarian ideology that is sometimes at odds with so-called family values conservatism, but also because Beck is a Mormon.
Many of the evangelicals who Beck is speaking to and organizing, including Land, don't believe he is a Christian. Mormons, who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, call themselves Christian.
"There's a long history of tensions between Mormons and evangelicals and some of that is flat-out theology," says John C. Green, an expert on religion and politics at the University of Akron. "Mormons have additional sacred texts (to the Bible) and a different conception of God."
"It's also competitive," Green said, "because evangelicals and Mormons are both proselytizing in the U.S. and around the world."
Some evangelicals criticized Christians for partnering with Beck this weekend because of his Mormon faith, provoking a number of evangelical political activists to pen defenses of their decision to join Beck.
But Evangelicals and Mormons have also stepped up cooperation around conservative political causes in recent years. In 2007 and 2008, presidential candidate Mitt Romney reached out strenuously to evangelical leaders, winning endorsements from the likes of Bob Jones III, a Christian fundamentalist.
Evangelicals and Mormons led the successful push to pass California's gay marriage ban, Proposition 8, in 2008. Activists from both traditions say they can set aside theological differences in the name of moral issues.
"The evangelicals participating in the Restore Honor event are not endorsing Glenn Beck's theology, nor is he asking them to," said Ralph Reed, former executive director of the Christian Coalition, who attended Saturday's rally.
"Together, we and millions of our fellow citizens are calling America back to its Judeo-Christian values of faith, hard work, individual initiative, the centrality of marriage and family, hope, charity, and relying on God and civic and faith-based organizations rather than government," said Reed, who leads the Faith and Freedom Coalition.
But Beck has sometimes upset religious conservatives. For instance, he said recently that opposing gay marriage is not a top issue for him.
Since launching his 9/12 Project last year, which is meant to "bring us all back to the place we were on September 12, 2001," Beck has gone in a more religious direction.
The second of the project's nine principles is "I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life."
The Southern Baptist Convention's Land, who hadn't talked to Beck before a few weeks ago, has started getting questions from the TV and radio personality about theological issues.
"I think he's moving - I think he's a person in spiritual motion and has been," Land said.
"He has said as much to us," Land said, referring to fellow pastors. "That he has moved in the direction of being more spiritual, more concerned with cultural issues and seeing that politics isn't the answer."
In discussing religious values, Beck generally speaks from a nondenominational perspective, avoiding specifically Mormon or evangelical references.
Beck's religious rhetoric appears to counter the prevailing conventional wisdom that the power of religious conservatives has been eclipsed by the Tea Party movement's small-government conservatives.
But Green says that "groups of religious people who care about social issues have not gone away."
"Some of their leaders faded but that group didn't disappear," he said. "They are waiting for new leaders and my sense is that Beck would like to be one of those leaders."
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Beck + Palin + 80,000 followers = 1/2 Brain (I'm rounding up)
August 30, 2010 at 12:04 pm |
fact: we're a 78% christian nation...praise the lord, and also the torah, allah, vishnu, buddha, confucius and all saints.
fact: the christian right has alienated 1.5 billion muslims...who, by the way, are customers of our economy who dislike us
fact: china is majority confucian/buddhist & india is 80% majority hindu
question: does going back to jesus mean 2.5 billion chinese & indians are godless & expendable?
question: does christian supremacy assume muslim, confucian, hindu inferiority? i.e. 4 billion customers we don't want?
question: is beck mentally stable?
August 30, 2010 at 11:59 am |
This headline is truly amazing.
Beck positions himself as a "Christian" leader, when he is not a Christian?
Beck's bio indicates he converted from a Christian church – the Roman Catholic church, to a non-Christian church, the Mormon church in 1999; he "joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in October 1999".
Regardless of what Beck and the LDS may say, NO other real Christian church recognizes the Mormons as Christians. So for a person (Beck), who WAS RAISED Christian, then REJECTED Christianity, to claim to be Christian, is truly stunning, hypocritical and wrong.
What does the Bible say about "false prophets" like Beck, and their followers?
August 30, 2010 at 9:15 am |
This is why i hate polotics and it truely amazes me that all the comments from people bashing him and bashing different politicians and people for him and all that is at least twice as long as the article itself.
chilliepepper
This isn't about Glenn Beck. Thats not why over 200 thousand showed up. It's was about the message. People showed up because the message is what represented their views. It's the message not Glenn Beck. Why is no Liberal on here talking about the content of the message ? Just about Glenn Beck? Beck is just delivering the message that that millions want to be heard. Anyone that had the verbal skills in that crowd would of said the same thing! Hard leftLiberals "who are running the show" are just people that never grew up from being a teenager. Just name calling and adolescent points. The 20 somethings have been brainwashed to thinking believeing in God is a bad thing. So you can be controlled by Government. Only people with a good head on his/hers shoulders will not get fooled.
P WAYNE
GLEN BECK has his pockets full of money and his sights set on replacing jerry fawell as the savior of the white race.This guy is as phony as they come and you will suffer the embarrasment of the P T L followers if you go along for the ride His display of distrust against any one outside of THE FOX FRIENDLY FAMILY is a sure give away as to his intentions. I WOULD BET A WEEKS PAY THAT THE SPONSORS THAT PAID FOR HAVING HIS TEA BAGGERS DELIVERED TO HIS GATHERING ARE FEELING THE CHANGE HIT THEM IN THE BACK be aware of false profets.
Mark from Middle River
Someone said how Beck looked like Hitler in his early days but I do remember when Obama had them make over a stadium with marble-like roman columns for when he accepted the democratic nomination. I remember kids forced to sing songs about Obama.
Its easy to paint you adversary as Hitler, Mao or Stalin. Those who agree with you will see what you see and those that disagree will forever think you are a idiot.
Mormons have to proselytize. If this is Beck's goal, he stands to lose much.
August 29, 2010 at 9:58 pm |
This event was patterned after Romans 8:28 where it says that "all things work together for good to those who love God and are the called according to His purpose. That was the intent of this inspiring event. It was inspiring. Mr. Beck was an alcoholic who went down into the dregs, repented and found God. I do not understand why some people treat those who love God like dirt! I watched the whole thing. I was so disgusted to hear some call the event "racist". It was not that way one iota. I would love to see more events like this everywhere.
@Ryan – Hey Dude,
"But hey, most people who sling those words around don't even know what they mean, but we all know what "bigot" and "racist" are, now don't we. I'd even be willing to bet that you've been called one, or both, more than once."
Sorry kid, but maybe most of the people that you know do not what those descriptions mean but most of mine do. And closing being called a "racist" and a "bigot" .... not really. I am a Black Republican so I normally hear "Uncle Tom" more often .... Oreo Cookie... trader to my race .... blah blah etc etc... Your post just proves my point, many folks are willing to throw out terms to attack ones that they can not defeat in civil conversation and in the end they just make the terms useless. You just thought I was some white Republican huh ... ROFL.
Let me start by saying I am a liberal and an atheist. I have a good job, own a house, pay my taxes and have strong personal moral values. I don't hate people who have a strong personal faith – I see from many of my friends that their faith is a great comfort to them, and brings them joy.
I get my news from many different sources, research what I have heard, and make up my own mind how I feel, based on what I read. If you can show me I am wrong, I'll put up my hands and agree with you.
I realize that I am very lucky to live in a country where my right to think and say what I feel is protected by the constitution. In my opinion the right to freedom of speech is not just my right to say what I feel, but your right to say what you feel – especially if we hold different opinions.
You are entitled to believe whatever you want to believe and live your life however you want to, as long as you don't expect me to do the same. Go ahead and believe that the earth is flat if you want to – but as soon as you want to legislate against me going on a cruise, because you believe we will fall off the edge, then we have a problem.
We live in the Land of the Free – and the separation of church and state is actually vital to protect the beliefs of all citizens. What I find alarming about Mr. Beck's rhetoric is that it would appear to seek to put the beliefs of one set of people above all others. He seems to suggest that one can only possess honor and be a true American if you also subscribe to his belief system, and that the laws and government of this country should be based upon this belief system.
That, Ladies and Gentlemen, sounds an awful lot like a theocracy, where those in power only present information in the light of the state sanctioned religion and don't allow the populace to decide for themselves what they will believe, much like countries such as Iran, Afganistan etc where so many people believe the one sided view of the world that they are presented.
I implore you – get your news from more than one source, investigate what you are told, form your own informed opinion, don't just believe what Fox or CNN or whoever tell you. It's still your right as a citizen of the Land of the Free.
G Beck does not represent the God that I know and love.
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More people attended the original Martin Luther King Speech than the Beck rally – in fact, more people attended the Million Man March, Woodstock and the Inaguration of President Barack Obama than attended the Beck rally. By next week it will be forgotten – since most of the news coverage this weekend has been dedicated to the failures of the Bush administration during Katrina and how those New Orleans residents, even five years later, are still struggling to survive!
LibertyHaters
Is this all you guys got? Glen Beck used his OWN money to fund this FREE event. What a slimeball, eh?
Beck is nothing more other than a savvy businessman, an opportunist. Everything he does is aimed at increasing his radio audience and TV viewership. Sounds like his pal, Sarah Palin. However, in American, as like everything else, we move onto the next hippest thing, be it politician or the next "i" or 'q" products. We just move on. If Beck's name still come up in 10 years, then he is a dangerous man.
This guy is, in my opinion, the next famous televangelist on FOX NEWS that preaches something that he or people thats behind him do not exercise . Yes being a Christian is something more than just words put together to support your political view. Stretching the idea that Obama is a Muslim or Socialist ,or Hitler ,or the Antichrist ,or Racist , just to name a few, are not things that Jesus Himself would endorse . Demonizing somebody for political gain is one thing ,but involving the whole Christianity to support your crazy ideas is beyond hypocritical and opportunistic .Christianity is NOT owned by one party, or one race, or one nation, thanks God !
Christianity stands for :
Forgiveness, not for repelling of the 14th amendment
Redemption, not for deportation of families
Love even the Muslims, not for hate and fear
Equality, not for favoritism
If Glen sounded like Billy Graham ,he certainly should act likewise .
And if Glen felt like "GOD dropped a sandbag on his head " about the rally, he should feel the same way when he talks trash about other people, because everyone is created by GOD !
As an historian, I wonder how many people in this debate know that Thomas Jefferson was a follower of French philosophes,
and like most of them, was an atheist.
As an historian, I wonder how many people in this debate know that a "Founding Father", Thomas Jefferson, was an atheist.
I'm a white women and I KNOW GLEN BECK IS A MORON!!!HE IS SO FULL OF HATRED AND EVIL AND NOW HE CLAIMS TO BE RELIGIOUS & RIGHTEOUS, GIVE ME A BREAK!! HOW QUICKLY ALL THE DUMB FOLLOWERS OF GLEN, PALIN AND ALL THEIR BUDDIES TEND TO FORGET THAT OUR COUNTRY IS IN ITS CURRENT HORRENDOUS SITUATION BECAUSE OF WHAT WAS DONE DURING THE LAST ADMINISTRATION. GET – IT – THROUGH -YOUR – DUMB – HARD – HEAD, THAT'S IF YOU HAVE ANY BRAINS. WHAT THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN DESPERATELY TRYING TO DO IS TO GET US OUT OF THE MESS THE BUSHES AND THEIR RICH FRIENDS PUT US IN. WHAT GLEN AND ALL HIS LOONEY FRIENDS SHOULD DO IS GET TO WORK AND COME UP WITH SENSIBLE SOLUTIONS FOR OUR COUNTRY.
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"Glenn Beck is a fascist." "Beck is scarier than Sarah Palin." "Beck is an opportunist." "Beck is the Antichrist." "Beck is utterly inarticulate..." "Beck is drumming up fear." These are just some of the inane comments posted here. What are you people smoking? Glenn is a patriotic American who sees his country going to pot, thanks to the neo-fascist liberals that the American people naively placed in power – a mistake of historical proportions that we will pay for (literally) until we throw them all out of office. The following poster got it right:
RightWingMark: He is the lefts worst enemy. The left is bong hits; Beck gets high on life. He is honor; the left loves dishonor and playing hide the weeney where it doesn't belong. I will vote for whomever Beck supports. I don't care what his religion is. I like his wisdom, vision and insights into what is happening in our country today. And frankly, all you lefties here should be terrified of him because his message is resonating with millions of Americans across the land. The liberal ideology is a total failure and will never hold power in this country again after the fiasco that is the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Axis. Good riddance too!
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Forum Index > Public Lands Stewardship > Glyphosate use in Clallam Co Parks
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Anne Elk
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And per my comments on same to your personal email last week.
"There are yahoos out there. It's why we can't have nice things." - Tom Mahood
Reuters, on June 14, 2019 wrote:
By Douglas Busvine and Ludwig Burger
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's Bayer sought to repair its reputation on Friday after damage caused by U.S. litigation over claims its glyphosate pesticide causes cancer, saying it would invest 5 billion euros ($5.6 billion) in weedkiller research.
Bayer's shares hit seven-year lows after a California couple was last month awarded more than $2 billion in the largest-ever U.S. jury award over claims that glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup, which the German life sciences group acquired when it took over Monsanto, causes cancer.
As well as saying it would invest 5 billion euros in research over the next ten years, Bayer promised to reduce its environmental impact by 30% through 2030 via measures such as more precise and more sparing application of crop chemicals.
"We listened. We learned," Bayer said on its website https://www.bayer.com/en/our-commitments-on-transparency-sustainability-and-engagement.aspx, adding that it had "heightened responsibility and ... unique potential to advance farming for the benefit of society and the planet."
The share price slide has left Bayer with a market valuation of $56 billion, less than it paid for Monsanto, piling pressure on CEO Werner Baumann who championed the takeover and who has faced a backlash from shareholders.
"While glyphosate will continue to play an important role in agriculture and in Bayer's portfolio, the company is committed to offering more choices for growers," said Bayer, which maintains that glyphosate is safe.
Its move follows a third consecutive U.S. jury verdict against Roundup, which Bayer acquired as part of its $63 billion purchase of Monsanto last year. Bayer says glyphosate is safe.
A spokesman said the investments in weed control were part of a previously approved budget.
INSECT BACKLASH
Baumann has beefed up Bayer's public relations machine in an attempt to repair its image, which also faces a backlash in Germany over a collapse in insect populations, which environmentalists blame on pesticides used in farming.
Matthias Berninger, a former German deputy agriculture minister and green-party politician, was hired as chief lobbyist earlier this year and is due to unveil a new sustainability strategy for Bayer in the second half.
Bayer said it would seek to reduce its environmental footprint by scaling down crop protection volumes and enabling more precise application. It would increase transparency around research efforts and the forthcoming process of re-registering glyphosate in the European Union.
"This will help to restore and retain biodiversity, combat climate change, and make the most efficient use of natural resources," it said.
Bayer added it will only sell crop protection products in developing countries if they also meet the safety standards of a majority of eight leading global regulators in jurisdictions such as the EU, the United States or Brazil.
Western crop chemicals companies have faced criticism from environmentalists for selling products in developing countries with local approval, even though clearance at home had ended.
A spokesman said no products had been withdrawn yet and Bayer would now look into its product portfolio.
($1 = 0.8873 euros)
(Additional reporting by Tassilo Hummel in Berlin, Editing by Kirsten Donovan and Alexander Smith)
InvestorPlace, on June 12, 2019 wrote:
A cereal study conducted this year discovered that the active ingredient in Monsanto's weed killer Roundup is still in Cheerios and other cereals.
Cereal Study
There are 21 oat-based cereal and snack products that tested positive for traces of glyphosate, the aforementioned active ingredient in these products. The chemical is found in Roundup, which has led to a number of trials that claim the weedkiller causes cancer in the people who consume it.
The study was conducted by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), which said that the tests found glyphosate levels that were above what it considers to be safe for children in all but four of the products it tested. The 21 products that it tested were all made by General Mills (NYSE:GIS), which includes six varieties of Cheerios, as well as 14 of General Mills' Nature Valley products, including Nature Valley granola bars.
General Mills responded by saying that food safety is a "top priority" for the company, which said it is making an active effort to reduce the use of pesticides on the ingredients it uses. "Most crops grown in fields use some form of pesticides and trace amounts are found in the majority of food we all eat," the company said in an emailed statement.
"Experts at the FDA and EPA determine the safe levels for food products," which the company says it adheres to–the farmers that grow these crops do too, the business said.
InvestorPlace wrote:
"...a number of trials that claim the weedkiller causes cancer in the people who consume it."
wait..... what?
you mean I'm not supposed to eat glyphosate?
wonder if motor oil or antifreeze is okay.... ?
reststep
There is an article in the Kitsap Sun today about glyphosate.
https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2019/07/26/kitsap-county-wa-chemicals-herbicide/1829796001/
"The mountains are calling and I must go." - John Muir
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Location: Port Angeles, WA
EPA Takes Action to Provide Accurate Risk Information to Consumers, Stop False Labeling on Products
WASHINGTON (Aug. 8, 2019) – EPA is issuing guidance to registrants of glyphosate to ensure clarity on labeling of the chemical on their products. EPA will no longer approve product labels claiming glyphosate is known to cause cancer – a false claim that does not meet the labeling requirements of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). The State of California's much criticized Proposition 65 has led to misleading labeling requirements for products, like glyphosate, because it misinforms the public about the risks they are facing. This action will ensure consumers have correct information, and is based on EPA's comprehensive evaluation of glyphosate.
"It is irresponsible to require labels on products that are inaccurate when EPA knows the product does not pose a cancer risk. We will not allow California's flawed program to dictate federal policy," said EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. "It is critical that federal regulatory agencies like EPA relay to consumers accurate, scientific based information about risks that pesticides may pose to them. EPA's notification to glyphosate registrants is an important step to ensuring the information shared with the public on a federal pesticide label is correct and not misleading."
In April, EPA took the next step in the review process for glyphosate. EPA found – as it has before – that glyphosate is not a carcinogen, and there are no risks to public health when glyphosate is used in accordance with its current label. These scientific findings are consistent with the conclusions of science reviews by many other countries and other federal agencies.
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-takes-action-provide-accurate-risk-information-consumers-stop-false-labeling


James Morgan McGill is the quick-witted, intermittently unscrupulous attorney with a heart of gold in AMC's Better Call Saul.
Better Call Saul focuses on the happenings in the years leading up to the events of AMC's Breaking Bad (as well as a glimpse into the the life of a post-Breaking Bad Jimmy), explaining just how he came to have connections to the criminal underworld.
Whether for the purpose of assembling an accurate Jimmy McGill costume or just adding a particular item to your own style, please continue ahead for our guide on the fashion and style of Jimmy McGill (also known as Saul Goodman).
What Pants & Shoes Does Jimmy McGill Wear?
When it comes to the style of "Slippin' Jimmy," two words come to mind: functional and professional. Often times he has been noted to wear simple brown, gray and black pinstripe jackets and suits.
Jimmy McGill (in his early years) has a muted and somewhat subtle sense of fashion compared to the flashy suits and loud colors that his persona (Saul Goodman) is known for (during the time of the events of Breaking Bad).
James is noted to favor double breasted jackets and blazers.
While Jimmy is noted to wear either white or eggshell white shirts most often, he owns a varied selection of differently colored shirts.
Most notably he is known to possess shirts in blue, red, green and pink. Just to name a few.
Jimmy has been noted to wear slacks that often times match his jackets. These include: gray textured, black pinstripe, brown, and blue pants.
These gray textured slacks by Kenneth Cole are an excellent match to the ones worn by Jimmy.
When it comes to the subject of Jimmy's footwear, there are two articles in particular that can be discussed.
The first item is his dark, oftentimes black, dress socks. As is tradition, dark socks are often times worn with a suit, usually up to the knee (or at least covering the shin) so as to minimize the exposure of a man's leg flesh. Which can distract from the overall appearance.
The accessories that Jimmy McGill is known to make use of are generally all pretty basic and everyday items.
His most notable accessories would have to be his signature coffee cup and brown leather briefcase, as well his belt and many neck ties.
This classic stitch genuine leather belt is a great match to the belt he wears.
Hopefully this guide has helped you to gain a better understanding of the style of Jimmy McGill. Please don't hesitate to let us know if you feel that there is anything this guide might be overlooking.
Can you please add this jacket that Saul is wearing in Better Call Saul S04E07?


The Evergreens group meets monthly in Harwell for friendship, stimulating talks, refreshments and for fun. We also go on outings together. Most meetings include an invited speaker and are usually at Harwell Church Hall. All are welcome, whatever your age, though most of our members are retired.
Meetings take place on the third Thursday of each month, with the exception of August, or Outing months. We meet in St Matthew's Church Hall at 2.30pm. Fees for the year £4.00 per person.