"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, every where you go"
I am in full Christmas mode. With only 37 days to go I am enjoying listening to Christmas music of all kinds (hello Wham! Bublé and of course Frank) with little Olive whilst nibbling on a mince pie with hot milk. Last weekend Olive and I watched the Polar Express with my friend Lucy and it was confirmation that Olive is just as much in love with this time of year as I am. Phew!
She gets excited when she spots a Christmas tree or decorations in the shops, and don't get me started on "Farva Chrissmas"! Though she doesn't fully understand yet, she sure as heck understands the magic and excitement Christmas brings. It really is true what they say about it being even more special when you have children. I am ALL kinds of excited this year.
We don't have much money this year but I still want to get (all 4) parents something to remind them how much we appreciate everything they do for us all. I haven't fully decided what yet but I plan to include some homemade gifts this year. Well, I do this every year but this time I will have a very excited helper. I originally wanted to make jars of mincemeat but that looks rather intense (and ALL the ingredients). I might try and make these next year, early Autumn when money doesn't feel as precious. The one idea we plan to make are bird seed decorations. At least for my parents as they love their gardens and birds, and it will be something they can use and enjoy. I found a recipe online and it looks fairly easy (and messy!) for a mother/daughter activity.
If it's a success I might post it here if anyone is interested?
I still can't believe it's 5 and a half weeks away. I have decided to enter the world of potty training mid December which means I will have lots of time at home to get organised for Christmas. I plan to bake lots (spiced biscuits), make gifts and wrapping paper as well as pine cone garlands with Olive, watch Christmas films and decorate the house into a twinkly lit grotto. All of the things I imagined I would do when I had children.
Oh and not forgetting, celebrating a certain little girl's second birthday ... wow, I would very much like time to slow down please.
What activities do you plan to get into the festive spirit?
Does anyone have any interesting/useful/delicious/inexpensive homemade gift ideas to give to family? I'd love to hear them.
I LOVE receiving homemade cookie or soup (beans, spices, dried vegetables, etC) mixes - I think it would make the perfect DIY gift.
I love this Cynthia! Tell Husband off for being a grump. I bet he secretly enjoys it ;) I'm sure a mince pie will help!
Bless OLive getting all festive. Too early for us here - I have a big work project which will all wrap on the 8th December so we will start getting festive after that.
I am in full Christmas mode too. I'm planning to have a list on what to do before this month ends. Great post, dear. I enjoyed reading it.


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BA Hampshire College
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19th-Century U.S. History;
Colonial American History;
Civil War History;
World History--General
U.S. History--General;
American Religious History;
Gilded Age/Progressive Era History
Fields of specialization include U.S. cultural, religious, gender and recreational history, and the history of the Progressive Era. In addition to teaching U.S. and world history, he has spoken at various academic conferences and published a number of historical books and articles. He is currently writing a book about missionaries to the Pacific region. He has received a number of fellowships and grants, including a Brandeis Crown Fellowship, a Smithsonian Fellowship, and an American Philosophical Society Research Grant.
New England Historical Association
Congregational Library
Organization of American Historians
American Society of Church History
2015, Presidency, New England Historical Association
2014, Vice-Presidency, New England Historical Association (NEHA)
2008, Bentley College Gregory H. Adamian Award for Excellence in Teaching
2006, Bentley College Class of 2006 "Most Animated" Faculty Member Award
2005, Bentley College Class of 2005 "Most Popular Faculty or Staff Member" Award
2004, Bentley College Greek Council "Outstanding Faculty Member" Award
1994, Brandeis Dissertational Writing Fellowship
1993, Brandeis Crown Fellowship
1992, Smithsonian Graduate Student Fellowship
1988, Hampshire Congregational Association Scholarship
1988, Leopold Schepp Foundation Scholarship
Putney, C. W. (2019). Harry Clark Bentley: A Pioneering Accountant and the Founder of Bentley University, 1877-1967. Historical Journal of Massachusetts, (Winter 2019) 182-207.
Putney, C. W., Pratt, M., , ., , . (2017). A Vision and a Leap of Faith: The History of Bentley University, 1917-2017. Bentley Magazine, (Centennial Issue) 11-16.
Putney, C. W. (2011). Luther Gulick: His Contributions to Springfield College, the YMCA, and 'Muscular Christianity'. Historical Journal of Massachusetts, (39) 1-2 144-169.
Putney, C. W. (2006). Friends House's First Directors, Wesley and October Frost. Beacon Hill Friends House Newsletter. Fall 7-8.
Putney, C. W. (2004). Oxenbridge Thacher: Boston Lawyer, Early Patriot. Historical Journal of Massachusetts, (32) 1 90-106.
Putney, C. W. (2003). God vs. Sugar: The Gulick Brothers' Fight against King Kamehameha V and the Sugar Planters in Hawaii, 1864-1870. Hawaiian Journal of History, (37) 63-89.
Putney, C. W. (2001). The Legacy of the Gulicks, 1827-1964. International Bulletin of Missionary Research, (25) 1 28-35.
Putney, C. W. (1995). Shifting Fortunes of a Mainline Parish: The Case of First Church, Amherst. Prism, (9) 1 71-85.
Putney, C. W. (1994). Men and Religion: Aspects of the Church Brotherhood Movement, 1880-1920. Anglican and Episcopal History, (63) 4 451-467.
Putney, C. W. (1993). Service Over Secrecy: How Lodgestyle Fraternalism Yielded Popularity to Men's Service Clubs. Journal of Popular Culture, (27) 1 179-190.
Putney, C. W. (1993). Going Upscale: The YMCA and Postwar America, 1950-1980. Journal of Sport History, (20) 2 151-166.
Putney, C. W. (1991). Changing Conceptions of Fatherhood in Early Victorian America. Retrospection, (4) 1 1-18.
Putney, C. W. (1991). Character Building in the YMCA, 1880-1930. Mid-America, (73) 1 49-70.
Putney, C. W., Burlin, P. T. (2012). The Role of the American Board in the World: Bicentennial Reflections on the Organization's Missionary Work, 1810-2010. Eugene, Oregon: WIPF & Stock
Putney, C. W. (2010). Missionaries in Hawai'i: The Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 1797-1883. 272. Amherst, Mass: University of Massachusetts Press
Putney, C. W., Spencer, S. (2007). A Jubilee History, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Beacon Hill Friends House (1957-2007). 136. Boston, Mass: The House
Putney, C. W. (2001). Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920. 300. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press
Putney, C. W. (2015). The Missionary Gulicks: The Family Behind the Friendship Dolls In , (Eds.) The Sun Shines for Us All: The Friendship Dolls from Japan. 19-29. Valparaiso, Indiana: Brauer Museum, Valparaiso University
Putney, C. W. (2012). Overview of the ABCFM In Rodney Petersen, (Eds.) From Ordination and Commissioning to Harbor Sailing. 8-9. Boston Theological Institute
Putney, C. W. (2004). Service over Secrecy: How Lodge-Style Fraternalism Yielded to Men's Service Clubs In Hoyos, Arturo de, Morris, S. Brent, (Eds.) . 105-115. New York: Lexington Books
Putney, C. W. (1997). From Character to Body Building: The YMCA and the Suburban Metropolis, 1950-1980 In Mjagkij, Nina, Spratt, Margaret, (Eds.) . New York, NY: New York University Press
Putney, C. W. (2019). [Review of the book Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific ]. Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.
Putney, C. W. (2014). [Review of the book Christian Masculinity: Men and Religion in Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries ]. Church History, (83) 1
Putney, C. W. (2012). [Review of the book Lottie Moon: A Southern Baptist Missionary to China in History and Legend ]. American Historical Review, (117) 4
Putney, C. W. (2011). [Review of the book Fraternities in US History ]. Journal of the History of Children and Youth, (4) 3
Putney, C. W. (2010). [Review of the book Creating the College Man: American Mass Magazines and Middle-Class Manhood, 1890-1915 ]. American Historical Review, (115) 5
Putney, C. W. (2010). [Review of the book American Missionaries, Christian Oyatoi, and Japan, 1859-73 ]. International Bulletin of Missionary Research, (34) 2
Putney, C. W. (2009). [Review of the book Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion ]. BTI Magazine, (9) 1
Putney, C. W. (2008). [Review of the book Disasters, Accidents and Crises in American History: A Reference Guide to the Nation's Most Catastrophic Events ]. Journal of Popular Culture, (41) 6
Putney, C. W. (2006). [Review of the book Making Men, Making Class: The YMCA and Workingmen, 1877-1920 ]. Men and Masculinities, (8) 3
Putney, C. W. (2005). [Review of the book Stewards of the Land: The American Farm School and Greece in the Twentieth Century ]. Journal of American Culture, (28) 3
Putney, C. W. (2005). [Review of the book Sports in Zion: Mormon Recreation, 1890-1940 ]. American Historical Review, (110) 1
Putney, C. W. (2004). [Review of the book Occupy until I Come: A. T. Pierson and the Evengelization of the World ]. NEHA News: Newsletter of the New England Historical Association. April (Link)
Putney, C. W. (2004). [Review of the book Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal ]. Journal of American Culture, (27) 3
Putney, C. W. (2002). [Review of the book Nothing but Christ: Rufus Anderson and the Ideology of Protestant Foreign Missions ]. Journal of Presbyterian History, (80) 3
Putney, C. W. (2002). [Review of the book Football: The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession ]. H-Net. July
Putney, C. W. (2002). [Review of the book Building Character in the Boy Scouts ]. Reviews in American History, (30) 2
Putney, C. W. (1994). [Review of the book Sport and Religion ]. International Journal of the History of Sport, (11) 2
Putney, C. W. (1991). [Review of the book Manhood in the American Renaissance ]. Retrospection, (4) 2
Putney, C. W. (). [Review of the book Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawaii's Pacific World ]. Historian. Forthcoming.
Putney, C. W. (2012). Overview of the American BoardBoston Theological Institute, American Culture and the Missonary Enterprise: Acknowledging the 200th Anniversary of the Judson Mission and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Other(s)
Putney, C. W. (2020). NEHA News (2011-2020)New England Historical Association. 25 pages, roughly, per issue. (Link)
Putney, C. W. (2021). "The History of Diversity and Inclusion at Bentley University" Presented at the Bentley Learning Council Address to the Bentley Community Virtual
Putney, C. W. (2021). "The History of Bentley" Presented at the Bentley University Address to Bentley Alumni Virtual
Putney, C. W. (2021). "Harry Clark Bentley, the Founder of Bentley University" Presented at the Faculti (a scholarly collective) Faculti Interview (Faculti=Scholarly Collective) Virtual
Putney, C. W. (2020). "Quakerism--History and Practice" Presented at the Bentley University Sociology Department Prof. Miriam Boeri's Sociology of Religion Class Waltham (Virtual)
Putney, C. W. (2020). "Reflections on the Phenomenon of Muscular Christianity" Presented at the King's College, NYC King's College Religious Forum, Hosted by Anthony Bradley New York City (Virtual)
Putney, C. W. (2020). "Teaching History through Games: A 25-Year Retrospective" Presented at the New England Historical Association NEHA Spring Conference Sacred Heart University (Virtual)
Putney, C. W. (2019). "The Salem Witchcraft Trials, Redux"
Putney, C. W. (2018). ""Muscular Christianity--Q. & A."" Presented at the Salem State University/Prof. Brad Austin Sports History Class--Graduate Level Salem, MA
Putney, C. W. (2018). "The Salem Witchcraft Trials"
Putney, C. W. (2016). "Muscular Christianity and Christian Science" Presented at the Mary Baker Eddy Library Spiritual Intersections in Boston History Boston, MA
Putney, C. W. (2016). "Congregational Roots of Middlebury College" Presented at the New England Historical Association NEHA Spring Conference Middlebury, VT
Putney, C. W. (2015). ""Fifty Years of NEHA"" Presented at the New England Historical Association 50th Anniversary Conference of the New England Historical Association New Haven, CT
Putney, C. W. (2015). ""A Brief Overview of Bentley's History"" Presented at the Bentley University Centennial Steering Committee Kickoff Prudential Center, Boston
Putney, C. W. (2014). ""Obtaining Collegiate Status in Massachusetts after World War II: The Case of the Bentley School"" Presented at theSpring Conference of the New England Historical Association Springfield, MA
Putney, C. W. (2014). ""Connecticut and Hawai'i: The Missionary Connection"" Presented at the Hartford Consortium for Higher Education Missionary Legacies Conference Hartford, CT
Putney, C. W. (2013). ""'The Man Who Works Is the Man Who Wins': Reflections on the Life and Work of Harry Clark Bentley, the Founder of Bentley University"" Presented at the New England Historical Association Fall Conference of the New England Historical Association Hartford, CT
Putney, C. W. (2012). "Overview of the American Board" Presented at the Boston Theological Institute American Culture and the Missonary Enterprise: Acknowledging the 200th Anniversary of the Judson Mission and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Cambridge and Salem, Massachusetts
Putney, C. W. (2012). "Commentary on papers for a missionary history panel" Presented at the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Annual Conference of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association San Diego, California
Putney, C. W. (2012). "Commentary on papers for a missionary history panel" Presented at the New England Historical Association Fall Conference of the New England Historical Association North Andover, Massachusetts
Putney, C. W. (2011). "An Analysis of the American Board: the Country's First Sponsor of Overseas Missions" Presented at theFall Conference of the New England Historical Association Boston, Mass.
Putney, C. W. (2011). "Luther Gulick, Springfield College, and the YMCA Triangle" Presented at theSpring Conference of the New England Historical Association Worcester, Mass.
Putney, C. W. (2010). "Introductory Remarks" Presented at the Bentley University, Boston Theological Institute, Congregational Library Conference on the Bicentennial of the American Board Boston, Mass.
Putney, C. W. (2010). "Luther Gulick and the 'Body-Mind-Spirit' Ideal" Presented at the Springfield College 125th Anniversary of Springfield College Springfield, Massachusetts
Putney, C. W. (2009). "The Missionary Gulicks: An Evangelical Dynasty" Presented at the International Institute International Institute Symposium Madrid, Spain
Putney, C. W. (2009). "Missionary Ranchers: The Work of the Gulicks in Wai-mea, O'ahu" Presented at theWorld History Association Conference Salem, Massachusetts
Putney, C. W. (2008). "Koloa, Kauai: Hawaii's First Company Town" Presented at thePacific Conference, American West Center Salt Lake City, Utah
Putney, C. W. (2007). "Voyaging to Hawaii: The Experience of Missionaries on the 'Parthian,' 1827-1828" Presented at thePopular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference Boston, Mass
Putney, C. W. (2006). "Muscular Christianity: The Legacy of the Gulicks" Presented at theYMCA General Assembly Nashville, Tennessee
Putney, C. W. (2005). "Why the Gulick Family Preserved Non-Christian Objects in Hawaii" Presented at theBoston Theological Institute Symposium Cambridge, Massachusetts
Putney, C. W. (2003). "God vs. Sugar: The Gulick Brothers' Fight Against King Kamehameha V and the Sugar Planters in Hawaii, 1864-1870" Presented at theAmerican Historical Association Conference Chicago, IL
Putney, C. W. (2001). "The Adoption of Sports by the YMCA, 1851-1917" Presented at the150th-Anniversary Conference of the YMCA New Orleans, LA
Putney, C. W. (1999). "Images of Success: Advertisers' Idealizations of American Manhood, 1880-1930" Presented at theNew England Historical Association Conference Boston, MA
Putney, C. W. (1999). "The Missionary Gulicks: An Evangelical Dynasty, 1827-1964" Presented at theOverseas Ministries Study Center Research Colloquium Nashville, TN
Putney, C. W. (1994). "Men and Religion: Aspects of the YMCA Movement in North America" Presented at theOrganization of American Historians Conference Atlanta, GA
Putney, C. W. (1992). "Shifting Fortunes of a Mainline Parish: The Case of First Church, Amherst" Presented at thePopular Culture Association Conference Louisville, KY
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Biden calls President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China
10 septembre 2021 Antonio AMANIERA Actualités, Biden, Chine, Economie, Politique, US, World 0
The two leaders discussed the responsibility of both nations to ensure competition does not veer into conflict.
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke today with President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The two leaders had a broad, strategic discussion in which they discussed areas where our interests converge, and areas where our interests, values, and perspectives diverge.
They agreed to engage on both sets of issues openly and straightforwardly. This discussion, as President Biden made clear, was part of the United States' ongoing effort to responsibly manage the competition between the United States and the PRC.
President Biden underscored the United States' enduring interest in peace, stability, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and the world and the two leaders discussed the responsibility of both nations to ensure competition does not veer into conflict.
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Q: how to fetch arraylist from jsp to action class in struts2? I am displaying data to my JSP using iterator
<s:form action="report" name="excel" method="post">

                                Employee Name
                                Status
                                Start Date
                                Due Date
                                Supervisor

<s:iterator value="EmployeeDetails"  status="stat" var="p1"  >

<s:property value="employee_name" />

                                    <s:property value="status" />

                                    <s:property value="start_date" />

                                    <s:property value="end_date" />

                                    <s:property value="supervisor" />

                            </s:iterator>

                        <s:hidden name="EmployeeDetail" value="%{EmployeeDetails}" />

<s:url action="report.action" var="urlTag" ><s:param name="parameter">Excel</s:param></s:url>
<a href="<s:property value="#urlTag" />">Excel</s:form>

here EmployeeDetails is the arraylist which i fetched from action class.
now I want to fetch the same arraylist into report action class when user click on hyperlink excel.
I wrote getter setter method in the action class also tried to pass it using hidden variable but size is coming zero for the arraylist everytime.
public ArrayList<Report> EmployeeDetails = new ArrayList<Report>();
    public ArrayList<Report> EmployeeDetail = new ArrayList<Report>();
public ArrayList<Report> getEmployeeDetails() {
        return EmployeeDetails;
    }

    public void setEmployeeDetails(ArrayList<Report> employeeDetails) {
        EmployeeDetails = employeeDetails;
    }
    public ArrayList<Report> getEmployeeDetail() {
        return EmployeeDetail;
    }

    public void setEmployeeDetail(ArrayList<Report> employeeDetail) {
        EmployeeDetail = employeeDetail;
    }

I dont know what i am doing wrong here. Please help.
Is there any other way to fetch the arraylist from JSP?

A: Thanks @Andrea . I tried to fetch using status of the iterator. And it worked.
But I set the arraylist in session and used it afterwards. I found it easier for my problem.

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There's some issues on Alvarado's side slowing the fight down from getting made. There's also a question of where the fight will take place. Bob Arum of Top Rank doesn't want the fight to be staged in Alvarado's home city of Denver, Colorado, due to the cold weather than boxing fans would have to deal with in trying to get to the fight in the middle of the winter.
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Q: TikZ: drawing 3 intersecting circles and shading How can I draw the three intersection circles/ellipse with that shading paradigm (not necessarily the same colors) effectively?  It appears that the original image doesn't have overlapping colors whereas I do.

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*Is there a better way to construct the drawing of the
circles/ellipse than what I have done?

*How can I make this a precise rotation for alignment with the equatorial
and ecliptic plane with the x axis ray?

*How can I clip the circle at the origin out the all the filldraws so the
blue sphere isn't over come by the background colors in it?

*Also, how can I create the curve arrows to the point?
I know I can use controls, but my control curves never look close to that.

When adding in the axis, I had to fiddle with the angle of ecliptic plane in order for the equatorial and the ecliptic plane to intersect at the x axis.  However, this cant be precise just close.
Here is what I have now.  The clips are really sloppy but I couldn't figure out a way to clip the area concisely.
\documentclass[convert = false, tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ppl}
\linespread{1.05}
\usepackage[scaled]{helvet}
\usepackage{courier}
\usepackage{eulervm}
\normalfont
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{textcomp}

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tikz-3dplot}
\usetikzlibrary{intersections}
\tikzset{
  partial ellipse/.style args = {#1:#2:#3}{
    insert path = {+ (#1:#2) arc (#1:#2:#3)}
  }
}
\begin{document}
\tdplotsetmaincoords{60}{130}
\begin{tikzpicture}[tdplot_main_coords,
  every lable/.append style = {font = \tiny},
  dot/.style = {outer sep = 0, inner sep = 0,
    shape = circle, label = {#1}},
  dot/.default =,
  small dot/.style = {minimum size = .1cm, dot = {#1}},
  small dot/.default =,
  big dot/.style = {minimum size = .15cm, dot = {#1}},
  big dot/.default =
  ]
  \coordinate (O) at (0, 0);

  \def\rad{5cm}
  \def\moonangle{45}
  \def\sunangle{13.7}

  \draw[-latex] (O) -- (6.5, 0, 0) node[font = \scriptsize, pos = 1.1]
  {\(x(\gamma)\)};
  \draw[-latex] (O) -- (0, 6, 0) node[font = \scriptsize, pos = 1.05] {\(y\)};
  \draw[-latex] (O) -- (0, 0, 6.5) node[font = \scriptsize, above] {\(z\)};

  \draw (O) circle[radius = \rad];
  \draw[name path = arc] (90:\rad) arc[x radius = 3cm, y radius = \rad,
  start angle = 90, end angle = 270];
  \draw[name path = equa] (O) ellipse[x radius = \rad, y radius = 1.675cm];
  \draw[rotate = {\moonangle}, name path = moon] (O) ellipse[x radius = \rad,
  y radius = 2.25cm];
  \draw[rotate = {\sunangle}, name path = eclip] (O) ellipse[x radius = \rad,
  y radius = 1cm];

  \node[coordinate, name intersections = {of = moon and equa}] (P1) at
  ($(intersection-1)$) {};
  \node[coordinate, name intersections = {of = moon and equa}] (P2) at
  ($(intersection-4)$) {};
  \node[coordinate, name intersections = {of = moon and eclip}] (P3) at
  ($(intersection-4)$) {};
  \node[coordinate, name intersections = {of = equa and eclip}] (P4) at
  ($(intersection-4)$) {};

  \draw (P1) -- (P2);
  \draw (O) -- (P3);

  \begin{scope}
    \begin{pgfinterruptboundingbox}
      \clip (P1) -- ($(P1) + (3, -8)$) -- ($(P1) + (50, 20)$) --
      (P2) -- cycle;
    \end{pgfinterruptboundingbox}

    \filldraw[green, opacity = .3, rotate = {\moonangle}] (O)
    ellipse[x radius = \rad, y radius = 2.25cm];
    \filldraw[yellow, opacity = .3, rotate = {\sunangle}] (O)
    ellipse[x radius = \rad, y radius = 1cm];
    \filldraw[blue, opacity = .3] (O) ellipse[x radius = \rad,
    y radius = 1.675cm];
  \end{scope}

  \begin{scope}
    \begin{pgfinterruptboundingbox}
      \clip (P1) -- ($(P1) + (-20, -5)$) -- ($(P1) + (20, 40)$) -- (P2) --
      cycle;
    \end{pgfinterruptboundingbox}

    \filldraw[blue, opacity = .3] (O) ellipse[x radius = \rad,
    y radius = 1.675cm];
    \filldraw[yellow, opacity = .3, rotate = {\sunangle}] (O)
    ellipse[x radius = \rad, y radius = 1cm];
    \filldraw[green, opacity = .3, rotate = {\moonangle}] (O)
    ellipse[x radius = \rad, y radius = 2.25cm];
  \end{scope}

  \begin{scope}
    \begin{pgfinterruptboundingbox}
      \clip (O) -- (P4) -- +(1, 1) -- (P3) -- cycle;
    \end{pgfinterruptboundingbox}

    \filldraw[yellow, opacity = .3, rotate = {\sunangle}] (O)
    ellipse[x radius = \rad, y radius = 1cm];
  \end{scope}

  \filldraw[blue, opacity = .3] (O) circle[radius = .5cm];

  \draw (180:.5cm) arc[x radius = .5cm, y radius = .25cm, start angle = 180,
  end angle = 360];

  \path[name path = greenwhich] (O) -- (128.5212:\rad);
  \path[name path = moonrot] (O) -- (35:\rad);
  \path[name path = sun] (O) -- (9:\rad);
  \path[name intersections = {of = arc and greenwhich, by = P5}];
  \path[name intersections = {of = moon and moonrot, by = P6}];
  \path[name intersections = {of = sun and eclip, by = P7}];

  \draw[-latex, blue, shorten <= .3cm, shorten >= .05cm] (O) -- (P5);

  \node[fill = black, small dot = {right: }] at (P5) {};

  \draw[-latex, purple, shorten <= .3cm, shorten >= .05cm] (O) -- (P6);

  \node[fill = black, small dot = {right: }] at (P6) {};

  \draw[-latex, red, shorten <= .3cm, shorten >= .05cm] (O) -- (P7);

  \node[fill = orange, draw = orange, small dot = {right: }] at (P7) {};
  \node[coordinate, name intersections = {of = arc and equa}, fill = black,
  small dot = {left: }] (P8) at ($(intersection-2)$) {};

  \draw[-latex] (226:4.75cm and 1.55cm) arc[x radius = 4.75cm,
  y radius = 1.55cm, start angle = 226, end angle = 242];
  \draw[rotate = {\moonangle}, -latex] (332:4.75cm and 2cm)
  arc[x radius = 4.75cm, y radius = 2cm, start angle = 332, end angle = 348];
  \draw[rotate = {\sunangle}, -latex] (327:5.25cm and 1.25cm)
  arc[x radius = 5.25cm, y radius = 1.25cm, start angle = 327, end angle = 345];
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

We can see the intersection looks good, but unless I am extremely luckily, it isn't precise.

A: An alternative way to make complex 3D representations is to use TeXgraph.
TexGraph is a software assisting in the creation of mathematical graphs in the form of orders, and to export as text files in various formats: LaTeX (eepic macros), or pstricks or Pgf / Tikz (pgf macros), or Eps or PSF (eps + pSfrag) or pdf (eps conversion -> pdf) or svg ... There are also specific export to 3D.


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Psalm 145:8–9; see also 1 Nephi 1:20; David A. Bednar, "The Tender Mercies of the Lord," Ensign or Liahona, May 2005, 99–102.
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Did Facebook Just Patent Twitter?
Mar 3, 2010 by Matt | Posted in General 6 Comments
Facebook was just granted a patent for something that should prove to be controversial. Patent #7,669,123, which was filed for in 2006, is for "A method for displaying a news feed in a social network environment…" The abstract reads:
A method for displaying a news feed in a social network environment is described. The method includes generating news items regarding activities associated with a user of a social network environment and attaching an informational link associated with at least one of the activities, to at least one of the news items, as well as limiting access to the news items to a predetermined set of viewers and assigning an order to the news items. The method further may further include displaying the news items in the assigned order to at least one viewing user of the predetermined set of viewers and dynamically limiting the number of news items displayed.
It sounds to me like they just patented a fairly obvious mechanism that has been long used by sites like Twitter, Digg, Reddit, RSS readers, blogs, etc..
Am I the only one who isn't okay with this sort of patent-trolling behavior? Why does the USPTO keep letting these kinds of application through? It's bad enough that Amazon is still fighting to have their one-click buying patent approved, and now we have another stupid patent that is just too obvious. Facebook is by no means the first website to have a "news feed," and the idea is hardly patent-worthy.
Facebook Just Patented The Feed – What Does That Mean For Everyone That Uses Them? [TheNextWeb]
Rory M
The difference is that Facebook aggregates its news feed information from a number of different sources (photos, events, user interactions, user connections etc) based on popularity and relevance, while a site like Digg or Twitter pull everything from a more centralised source.
Facebook's move is clever (business-wise), since it allows them to keep a monopoly on an "integral" part of any new social network site; but I believe the Diggs, Reddits and Twitters of this world still have a lot of wiggle-room.
http://www.bookadvice.net minerva66
The difference is not significant enough to warrant a patent. And you just said the key word in the matter. Allowing them to have a monopoly on something that is an obvious progression from something already in existence is not right. Add to that the fact that some of the patents being approved are for ideas already being used by others. How can they honestly claim they have a right to it? It seems to me the govn is playing favorites and not doing its job in researching applications.
I disagree that it is good business to have so much patent and copyright nonsense. It decimates innovation, and this is an industry that thrives on innovation. Business used to be about developing and providing products, not just about money.
http://www.webmaster-source.com Matt
Upon closer examination, it seems that it mainly applies to a feed that pulls content from more than one source and algorithmically orders it, rather than displaying it reverse-chronologically; so Twitter is safe.
However, I still believe that the patent is unwarranted. Facebook is by no means the first to do something of this sort, and it certainly shouldn't be the last. I have long wished for an RSS reader that would pull-in a large collection of feeds, including those of social networking profiles, and mash them up via a tunable sorting algorithm, enabling me to parse through the day's news quicker. Facebook is not that, and their patent could conceivably cause issue for someone developing something along those lines.
Anyway, the specifics of the patent matter little. Facebook now has what equates to a legal cudgel. They can threaten to sue individuals and small startups that may or may not actually be infringing on the dubious patent, and most of them will bend to Facebook's will to avoid expensive legal fees.
This patent stifles innovation and should not have been granted in the first place. Here's hoping that a company with prior art will lodge a complaint with the USPTO.
http://answerguy.com Jeff Yablon
IMHO, it ultimately gets thrown out, or at least fails to be applied in a meaningful way.
That opinion, gaining traction among many interested in the topic, is here, by the way:
http://answerguy.com/2010/02/2.....k-7669123/
http://loopswoopandpull.com Matt deCourcelle
It's just an application for now. If it issues, I will be surprised.
It doesn't get thrown out without a lot of money wasted on lawyers. It also acts as a threat to shut down small competitors with a simple form letter. And it might not be thrown out at all.


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A woman named Sodsai Dalzell was arrested on September 26 for the alleged attempted kidnapping of Joe Montana's grandchild. The former NFLer and his wife are earning praise for fending off the accused and protecting the child. Everyone is curious about the woman who allegedly tried to abduct a child less than a year old. The Internet wants to know who Sodsai Dalzell is, and we have the answers.
Sodsai Dalzell's Family
Sodsai Predpring Dalzell was born on October 16, 1980. Pictures on her Facebook profile indicate she was born and raised in Thailand and is currently living in Los Angeles, California.
Dalzell's Facebook includes pictures of her mother and family. It appears she regularly visits them.
A post from 2019 reveals Dalzell married an unidentified man in January 2019.
Posted by Sodsai P. Dalzell on Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Professionally, she became a certified customs specialist in 2019.
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Sodsai Dalzell's Arrest
Joe Montana, a Hall of Fame quarterback, and his wife, Jennifer Montana, confronted and thwarted a home intruder's attempt to kidnap their little grandchild. The authorities identified the perpetrator as one Sodsai Dalzell.
According to the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, an identified woman entered the Montanas' Malibu home on September 26. She grabbed their 9-month-old grandson, who was in a playpen, and tried to leave with the child.
Joe and Jennifer Montana tried to "de-escalate the situation," and asked the woman to give back their grandchild. Jennifer was able to successfully pry the child out of the woman's hands after a tussle, officials said.
The woman fled, but was arrested soon after. L.A. County deputies were reportedly in the same block and were alerted about the attempted kidnapping. They were able to nab the woman who was only a few blocks away, per the department.
Sodsai Dalzell was ID'd by police and charged with burglary and kidnapping. Her bail has been set for $150,000. She is currently in custody at the Century Regional Detention Facility in L.A. She is scheduled for her first court date on September 29.
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Joe and Jennifer were praised across social media for saving the child. Joe tweeted a response to all the messages they have received.
Thank you to everyone who has reached out. Scary situation, but thankful that everybody is doing well. We appreciate respect for our privacy at this time.
— Joseph Montana (@JoeMontana) September 27, 2020
It's not known at this point what Dalzell's alleged motives were. There is no information to confirm if she has retained a lawyer to speak on her behalf.
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Crown corporation EDC is undermining Canada's climate commitments. Will Ottawa step in and take action?
Last month over 50 civil society organizations joined us in calling for Ottawa to cut off Export Development Canada's enormous flow of public financial support to an industry fuelling the climate crisis.
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Submission to Parliament highlights EDC's role in oil and gas bailout
Our brief to the parliamentary committees studying Ottawa's COVID-19 economic response highlights the role of Canada's export bank in bailing out fossil fuel producers, and makes recommendations to align the government's response with its climate commitments.
Lori Waller2020-09-24T13:02:26-04:0022 July 2020|Tags: Export Development Canada, fossil fuels, oil and gas bailout|
Expert analysis lays out reforms for decarbonizing Canada's export bank
Canada has become the second-largest public financier of fossil fuels in the G20 due to the business carried out by its export bank. New research commissioned by Above Ground and Oil Change International identifies policy and legal reforms needed to reverse the trend and redirect the bank's resources into low-carbon solutions.
Lori Waller2020-09-24T14:34:20-04:0015 June 2020|Tags: Export Development Canada, fossil fuels, Export Development Act|
No bailout for oil and gas in response to COVID-19: a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau
Academics and researchers including Above Ground staff urge the prime minister to abandon plans to bail out oil and gas firms, and instead align Canada's economic recovery with its climate commitments.
Lori Waller2020-04-14T13:28:56-04:0025 March 2020|Tags: fossil fuels, climate change, fossil fuel subsidies, oil and gas bailout|
With new limits on coal but none on oil and gas, EDC's climate policy misses the mark
Last month Export Development Canada released its climate change policy. The policy does not commit the agency to reducing the billions of dollars in support it provides the oil and gas sector each year.
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Whatever happened to Canada's review of non-tax fossil fuel subsidies? A letter to the environment minister
Canada has pledged to end inefficient fossil fuel subsidies by 2025. Last year the government launched a review of federal non-tax measures that benefit fossil fuel companies and may qualify as inefficient subsidies. In this letter, we ask when the review will be finalized and whether the full results will be made public.
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Agios Myron town
Agios Myron, with 708 inhabitants, lies 18 km from the city of Iraklion to the south west. Its one of the most important villages of the area with interesting town planning and impressive samples of traditional architecture. Built between two hills it commands a panoramic view and the school's clock, its main characteristic, is visible from almost everywhere in the area of Malevizi.
Megali Vrissi
Kenouriou, Iraklion
Megali Vrissi (GR: Μεγάλη Βρύση) lies 32km south of Heraklion, at 620 m above sea level.
In the Barozzi document of 1577, it is mentioned as forming part of the province of Monofatsi and, in the Archives of Megalo Kastro (Heraklion), it is quoted in 1583 as having 71 inhabitants; there is also a reference to the village in the Basilicata document of 1630. The Turkish census records it with 47 families in 1671, and in the Egyptian one in 1834, it figures with 27 families. In the censi of 1881 and 1900 it is mentioned as a municipality in its own right with, respectively, 240 inhabitants and 307 inhabitants.
As of 1928, it becomes a commune and today it counts over 900 inhabitants. Saint Constantine is the patron saint of the village.
The churches of Aghia Anna and of the Panagia Almiri are worth visiting.
The Aeolian Park, one of the islands pioneering projects, has been installed in Megali Vrisi and produces electricity of 5MW.
Aeolian Park
Agios Ioannis church
Panagia Armiri
Ano Asites village
Ano Asites (GR: Ανω Ασίτες) lies 24km from Iraklion and 6km from Agios Myron at 480m a.s.l with 423 inhabitants.
A big part of the surrounding area is covered by forest on the eastern side of the mountain Psiloritis.
Near the village there is the Byzantine chapel of Agios Antonios located in the ravine with the same name a place of exceptional natural beauty. From here passes the European Hiking Path (E4) which leads to the shelter "Prinos" ( of the Mountaineering Club of Iraklion - altitude 1100 m a.s.l.) located in a holly (=prinos) forest.
Kato Asites village
Kato Asites (GR: Κάτω Ασίτες lies 23km from Iraklion and 5km from Agios Myron at 450m a.s.l with 1113 inhabitants. Beautiful town with traditional architecture especially the quarters "Notiko", "Prinos" and "Kastella" close to the monastery of Gorgolaini.
Other interesting sights are:
The thermae of the king of Prinias, The uninhabited settlement of Nisi with traditional houses, the caves "Lesta spilios" at Marias aloni, "Astirakou spilios", "Sarakina" and "Katsivli spilios" at Lyssogremia and "Melissa", The chapels of "Panagia" aged 800 years, "Agios Antonios" aged 1000 years, "Agios Georgios" and "Agia Paraskevi".
The patron Saint is "Agia Paraskevi" celebrated on the 26th July .
Alleyway
Nissi
Gorgolaini Monastery
The monastery of Aghios Georgios the Gorgolainis (GR: Αγιος Γεώργιος Γοργολαΐνι) is located on an altitude of 400 m close to the Kato Asites village. It survived through several revolutions and wars during the Ottoman occupation.
Kroussonas town
Kroussónas (GR: Κρουσώνας) is an historical town built in a semi-circle on the eastern slopes of the Psilortis (the highest mountain in Crete), between the hills of Koupos and Livadiotis, at 460 meters above sea-level. It is at a distance of 21 kilometres from Heraklion. A magnificent 10kms route, ideal for nature-lovers is that from Kroussonas to the wood of Vromonero at 1300m a.s.l.
Pyrgou village
Pyrgou lies 20 km from Iraklion and 1km from Agios Myron at 400m a.s.l with 354 inhabitants. It is built on a hillside overlooking the area, with panoramic view to the village of Kroussonas and the ravine of "Agia Irini".
At the village's perimeter there are well maintained tower-like houses.
Prinos refuge
East Ida mountain, Iraklion
Prinos refuge at Prinos on Psiloritis mountain (Ida), is at 1100 metres. It can sleep 25 people, it has cooking facilities, two wood burning stoves for heating and a rainwater tank. Access is through the village of Ano Assites in Malevizi around 22km from Iraklion. From there a two kilometres of dirt road leads to a place called Melisses and then a one-and-a-half hour walk along a footpath signed with red marks, to the refuge.
Prinos hut was built in 1962 and was renovated around 1992. It is run by the mountaineering club of Heraklion. The view from Prinos to the north and east is great.
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The villages:Agios Myron, Ano Asites, Kato Asites, Pentamodi, Petrokefalo and Pyrgou.
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The Michigan Technological University, (MTU) was established in 1885 in Houghton, Michigan. MTU is noted for academic excellence in the School of Engineering and Natural and Physical Science. The School of Technology includes computer science and is rated highly by comparable universities.
Carbon dioxide is a troublemaker. So it's a good idea to remove it from powerplant emissions—and it may have an extra economic benefit.
Red wolves, once nearly extinct, again teeter on the abyss. New research finds red wolf ancestry on Galveston Island—providing opportunities for additional conservation action and difficult policy challenges.


Danajon Bank in central Philippines was the ideal location for the first Net-Works pilot in 2012. It is one of only six double barrier reefs in the world, and is right in the middle of the cradle of global marine biodiversity.
The 40 island communities in Danajon Bank are entirely dependent upon the ocean for survival. Overfishing and pollution have led to severe ecological damage to the reef, resulting in far less fish for the community, whose typical family income is only $6.50 per day. Discarded nets exacerbate this problem as they continue to catch and kill fish (ghost fishing), damaging the habitat the fish depend on. Prior to Net-Works, local residents had no means of sustainable waste disposal for used nets.
Working with local communities, the Net-Works team initially set up operations in the Danajon Bank area. This then expanded to the nearby Bantayan Islands and in 2015, Net-Works established a third hub in Northern Iloilo. Net-Works is now established in 27 communities across these three hubs.
The Net-Works team in the Philippines - From left to right: Frenz Garcia, Smith Bajon, Fidel Estremos, Madz Blanco, Hazel Panes, Mia Apurado, Ricky Galvan.
The Net-Works team is working with local partners to identify and assess other locations in the Philippines where Net-Works operations can be established in the future.
With no sustainable waste management system, nets were discarded into the waters and shorelines, damaging the ecosystem.
Net-Works incentivizes people to collect and sell discarded nets, removing these nets from oceans and coastlines, rivers and lakes where they cause pollution and wreak havoc with marine life.
The nets collected are weighed before being baled and shipped to Aquafil for regeneration.
The community banks that Net-Works sets up manage the local net supply chain, organize coastal clean-ups and facilitate the sale of nets into a global supply chain. They also provide invaluable financial education and opportunities for savings and loans.
The supplemental income from Net-Works goes directly to communities and can be invested in improving local education or healthcare facilities, or in funding local conservation projects.
Proceeds from Net-Works can also be invested in developing new enterprises, such as seaweed farming, to help diversify livelihoods and make people less dependent on fishing.
In 2013, the Philippines was struck by a devastating earthquake, quickly followed by super typhoon Haiyan. The Net-Works team provided support to communities during this difficult time.
A micro finance organization working with communities in the Philippines, providing access to credit with loans and other services, NWTF supports net collection in the Bantayan Islands through community organizing and community finance.


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Babeheaven Release New Single 'Don't Wake Me'
Babeheaven's Nancy Andersen. Credit: Joyce Ng
Babeheaven – the West London five-piece led by Nancy Andersen and Jamie Travis – have shared a new track called 'Don't Wake Me', following October's 'The Hours'. Check out its lyric video below.
"'Don't Wake Me' is a song about feeling connected – in some ways to our belongings and some to our loved ones," Andersen explained in a statement. "I've gotten to the point in my life that when I go home (to my family home) it doesn't really feel like home anymore. So lyrically, I was thinking about the feeling of home, home being with someone you love and the positions one accumulates in life."
Babehaven dropped their debut album, Home For Now, late last year.


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Analysis: Arano first dealt with the problem while warming up in the bullpen Friday against the Rockies. He is 1-0 with a 3.86 ERA in three appearances.
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Q: The definition of the $K$-theory groups $K_{0}$ and $K_{1}$.   I have read few textbooks and papers about the $K$-theory groups $K_{0}$ and $K_{1}$ of  (reduced) $C^{*}$-algebra and most of them didn't give a clear simple way to define these groups.
Just wondering if anybody can give me good sources for that?

A: I found the notes of Timothy Gowers an easy read: http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/Ktheory.dvi

A: I also think this question would benefit from some more detail, however...

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*A very down-to-earth account of K-theory for operator algebras is in the book "K-Theory and C*-algebras" by N.E. Wegge-Olsen.

*A more sophisticated approach is in the book "Analytic K-Homology" by Nigel Higson and John Roe.

If you prefer getting your hands dirty, I recommend the first book.  The approach is somewhat pedestrian (as the author writes in the introduction) but you will get a good sense of how things work, and there are lots of great exercises and examples.  There are lots of arguments involving explicit homotopies of loops of projections and unitaries.
The second book I would recommend more if you prefer a functorial approach to things.  In particular, Higson and Roe emphasize that Bott periodicity will be true for any sequence of half-exact functors satisfying similar properties to the K-functors.
I think the following is a "clear and simple" way to define the $K_0$ group: let $A$ be a unital C*-algebra.  Define an equivalence relation (stable equivalence) on the class of finitely generated projective $A$-modules by saying that $P_1 \sim P_2$ if there is a finitely generated free module $A^{n}$ such that
$$ P_1 \oplus A^{n} \simeq P_2 \oplus A^{n}.$$
Then denote by $V$ the set of stable equivalence classes of finitely generated projective modules.  $V$ is an abelian semigroup with respect to the direct sum operation.  Finally, $K_0(A)$ is defined to be the Grothendieck group of $V$.  This means that you have to add in formal inverses to elements of $V$ in order to make it a group.
(For example, the Grothendieck group of the abelian semigroup $\mathbb{N}$ is $\mathbb{Z}$.)
Of course this is not so easy to calculate.  But the definition itself I think is not that complicated.
Also, these things admit a pretty concrete description.  Finitely generated projective modules correspond to projections in matrix algebras over $A$, and stable equivalence corresponds to the two projections being connected by a continuous path of projections in some (possibly larger) matrix algebra over $A$.  So you can really get in there and work with things if you have a good description of the algebra.  In particular, projective modules over noncommutative tori can be described concretely in this fashion.  This is shown in the book Elements of Noncommutative Geometry by Varilly, Figueroa, and Gracia-Bondia.

A: I quite liked Bruce Magurn's "An algebraic introduction to $K$-theory": it starts low enough, and pushes high enough (at least for my taste!).


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SPLC: Give Them a Bench, They'll Take a Mile
By Tony Perkins | January 6, 2022 | 5:12pm EST
Nancy Abudu, then with the American Civil Liberties Union, discusses the U.S. Supreme Court decision that Florida's death penalty is unconstitutional. (Photo credit: YouTube/South Florida PBS)
They haven't managed to kill the filibuster or ram through their federal election takeover (yet), but Democrats still have plenty of tricks up their sleeve to sabotage the vote. Their latest idea? Stacking the courts with wildly extreme political activists. While everyone's distracted with COVID and the pile of other crises this president has created, the White House is hoping to slip a who's who of radicals onto one of the most powerful courts in the country. And almost no one has noticed.
Nancy Abudu isn't a household name, but her employer -- the anti-Christian Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) -- certainly should be. The disgraced "civil rights" organization, whose fall from grace sent shockwaves through the leftist establishment a handful of years ago, turned out to be a hive of racist scam artists that exploited its donors, pretending to be America's "arbiters of justice." By 2019, when an ugly internal war went public, destroying SPLC's already fragile façade, it became clear to everyone that the so-called hate watcher was the biggest hater of them all.
Biden's pick for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals was at the "poverty palace" when the mask was ripped off -- when men at the highest pinnacles of leadership were exposed as sexist, prejudiced crooks -- and yet she stayed. Since then, Abudu has been part of the rebuilding effort -- desperately trying to give SPLC some scrap of credibility to hold onto. Democrats must have been foolish enough to buy into their rehabilitation project if the president of the United States is willing to take a senior member from one of America's most disreputable organizations and give her a vote on our country's most important cases.
And while the SPLC's phony overhaul might have duped the media, the reality is, it's still the same old SPLC -- demonizing opponents, inciting violence, and attacking perfectly decent human beings like Ben Carson, a man they once labeled an "extremist." Abudu has been at the helm of that work where election subversion is concerned, spending her days fighting common-sense laws like voter ID. She even supports ludicrous ideas like pre-clearance, which would require states to get approval from the U.S. Justice Department before they change their election laws. In fact, before her time at the SPLC (when she was at another radical stronghold -- the ACLU) she equated proof of citizenship rules to "voter suppression" and compared voting bans for felons to "slavery." These are safeguards everyone should support -- like making sure only legal voters are voting and they're only voting once. And yet, these are the common-sense rules Abudu has spent her career fighting.
"That organization," Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) reminded our listeners on "Washington Watch," "said you were head of a terrorist organization, which maybe speaks to the point about why somebody like Nancy Abudu should not be on the 11th Circuit Court." As Grassley pointed out, the SPLC has a long history of targeting conservatives, and the simple fact that she works for it shows that Abudu has an agenda.
And let's not forget, the court to which she's been nominated has jurisdiction over Alabama (home of the SPLC), Florida, and Georgia. And, like all appellate courts, they're the final stop for 98 percent of cases in America. Very few -- if any -- of her decisions would be taken to the Supreme Court, meaning that she would have a tremendous amount of influence over the most explosive issues of the day -- like voting rights.
"It's extremely dangerous," warned Mary Beth Waddell of my organization, the Family Research Council (FRC). "If she's the one to have the final say over [laws like Georgia's], you could see greater election fraud in certain places if these laws to institute integrity aren't allowed to stand."
A number of organizations like FRC have joined together to sound that alarm, sending a letter to the ranking members of the Senate Judiciary Committee -- Grassley and Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) -- urging them to oppose Abudu's nomination:
"Ms. Abudu works for a disreputable organization that has no business being a feeder for positions to any judicial office -- not even of a traffic court -- let alone the second highest court system in the United States. She is a political activist not a jurist and is unfit to serve at the federal appellate level."
Unfortunately, Grassley said Tuesday, the Senate is running into this with almost every one of Biden's nominees. That's why Republicans have voiced so much concern these last several months -- voting against more of this president's judges through one year than Barack Obama's:
"[We] want on the court a person who is going to interpret law the way Congress intended it to be written and the Constitution according to original intent....If you want to change the Constitution, you don't have [judges do] it. You amend the Constitution....But when somebody like Nancy Abudu gets on the court...[she may] put [her] personal views into making a decision."
At the end of the day, the fact that she would accept a management role, as we put it, "inside America's largest political defamation factory" tells us all we need to know about Joe Biden's nominee. It ought to automatically disqualify her from any role that requires impartiality. If you agree, join FRC Action in stopping her nomination. Send a message to your senators urging them to vote no on Nancy Abudu.
Tony Perkins is the president of the Family Research Council.
Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on the Family Research Council.