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War power limitations on the president—putting the recent House resolution in perspective
January 10, 2020 10:50 pm / 2 Comments on War power limitations on the president—putting the recent House resolution in perspective
The War Powers Resolution was passed in 1973 by both Houses of Congress, overriding the veto of President Nixon. It was passed to reassert Congressional authority over the decision to send American troops to war. After President Nixon ordered the bombing of Cambodia without Congress's consent, Congress passed the War Powers Resolution of 1973, intended to limit the president's authority to conduct war.
At the time, President Richard Nixon vetoed the bill on constitutional grounds, arguing that the measure would define presidential war powers "in ways which would strictly limit his constitutional authority." Nonetheless, a two-thirds majority in each congressional chamber overrode the veto.
The War Powers Resolution requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30-day withdrawal period, without a congressional authorization for use of military force or a declaration of war by the United States.
There have been several instances when the President has not notified Congress within the required 48 hours. In the case of the attack on General Soleimani the Trump administration made such a notification. However it would be easy to argue that Congress has already authorized military activities in Iraq and therefore that such a notification was not required.
Yesterday Congressional Democrats, seemed blissfully unaware of then-President Barack Obama's rather expansive interpretation of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 during his strategically disastrous 2011 operation to oust Libyan strongman Muammar al-Qaddafi, suddenly seemed to care an awful lot about constitutional norms and separation of powers principles. Intellectual hypocrisy again.
Specifically, Speaker Nancy Pelosi's House of Representatives debated whether to Congressionally impose War Powers Resolution limitations upon President Trump's unilateral ability to ratchet up militancy actions with the Islamic Republic of Iran. In their crusade to hamstring the president's conduct of his foreign policy vis-à-vis the Iranian regime, House Democrats even found several libertarian-leaning Republican allies.
In my opinion this exercise was misguided, because the War Powers Resolution is, and always has been, unconstitutional. It has never been challenged in the courts. This most recent effort was really an attempt by the Democrats to embarrass the president.
The Constitution divides foreign affairs powers between the legislative and executive branches. Among other enumerated powers in Article I, Section 8, Congress has the ability to "declare War," "raise and support Armies," "provide and maintain a Navy," "make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces," "provide for calling forth the Militia," and "provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia."
On the other hand, Article II of the Constitution provides that "[t]he President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States." The very first clause of Article II also vests the president with "[t]he executive Power" — meaning a "residual" foreign affairs power that encompasses all those powers not expressly delegated to Congress in Article I, Section 8.
Many legal scholars have conducted a careful, line-by-line overview of Congress's enumerated powers and have concluded that the constitution does not provide a legislative means that could feasibly justify the War Powers Resolution. The most likely candidate is the Declare War Clause, but that provision happens to be woefully misunderstood by many lawyers and politicians across the ideological spectrum.
Congress can intervene to halt a president if it views a reckless warmonger is using the manifold tools it has at its disposal:
Decreasing the size of the Pentagon's budget by going line item-by-line item and removing various offensive-oriented materiel from the Department of Defense's arsenal, or using its more general power of the purse to defund a war effort in its entirety
This was what eventually happened in the Vietnam War case.
This interpretation of the Declare War Clause should not be nearly as controversial as it is. At the 1787 constitutional convention, the Framers actually conscientiously substituted out "make War" with "declare War." In so doing, James Madison explained that it was imperative to leave to the president the "power to repel sudden attacks." This ought to make a great deal of sense; as Alexander Hamilton would explain only six months after the constitutional convention in The Federalist No. 70, "[d]ecision, activity, secrecy, and despatch will generally characterize the proceedings of one man in a much more eminent degree than the proceedings of any greater number."
Finally, in Article I, Section 10, the Constitution precludes a state from "engag[ing] in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay." The Framers were therefore aware of multiple verbs — "make" and "engage" — that could have clearly conveyed the meaning of an initiation of hostilities. But they didn't use those words, and they didn't use them for a reason. The Framers understood that there was great merit to leaving decisions such as the commencement of hostilities to one man, and not to a fractious Congress.
Congress already has a number of tools at its disposal to push back against a crusading commander-in-chief. As Andrew McCarthy wrote this week at Fox News, "No statute is needed to provide Congress with the power to frustrate unauthorized presidential war-making. The Constitution empowers the legislature to do so by simply refusing to appropriate funds for military action." But the Declare War Clause means something fundamentally different than what many believe it does.
No president, to date, has abided by the war powers act! Grenada, Lebanon, Panama, Libya being cases in point. They have avoided a legal show down by advising Congress after the fact of military action. President Obama in 2016 wrote: "I am providing this supplemental consolidated report, prepared by my Administration and consistent with the War Powers Resolution (Public Law 93-148), as part of my efforts to keep the Congress informed about deployments of U.S. Armed Forces equipped for combat." The term "consistent with" has been used by multiple presidents. They were saying that their notification was not "as required" by the resolution, but "consistent with" it.. This wording was used to avoid a legal challenge to the requirements for notification of Congress for fear of the president losing to a liberal judiciary and thus a resulting limitation on presidential power.
The debate over the war powers of the Congress versus the President will continue and in most cases it will be highlighted when a house of Congress is controlled by a political party that does not control the White House. This is what we have just observed.
The strategic question is highlighted by the preemptive attack versus defensive reaction. If the War Powers goal of the House Democrats was to take away the president's ability to preempt an Iranian attack it is both a strategic mistake and inconsistent with the war powers resolution. This is precisely what the Democrats sought: The resolution "requires the president to consult with Congress in every possible instanced before introducing United States Armed Forces in hostilities." As a perceived new limitation on the ability of the president to use the military to protect US interests it would be tantamount to strategic surrender to the Iranians by denying the president multiple strategic options. This action thus must surely be nothing more than the Democrats expressing their angst against a successful presidential action.
The debate over war powers will most likely continue and will most likely never been finalized because the extreme answers available are strategic mistakes and such is realized by most clear thinking personnel.
January 7, 2020 12:31 am / 2 Comments on Where are we going
One thing about getting older is that my personal data base has gotten much larger, however through all of the political battles and discussions of war and peace that I have observed and participated in I have never seen a political party that through its hypocrisy, lies and lack of constitutional grounding do so much to destroy our republic and divide the country. I am going to list some activities and then focus on the international situation in the post-Soleimani era. The Democrats have:
Weaponized impeachment such that every future president who is opposed by the other party in the House of Representatives is an odds on favorite to be impeached for looking cross-eyed during the state-of-the-union.
Now we hear that the House Intelligence Committee may consider the Soleimani attack as ground for another article of impeachment. (This could be an event filled with hypocrisy as all of Obama's drone strikes are discussed.)
The Speaker of the House is now seeking to micro-manage the President by proposing legislation that would limit the President's authority in the current dust-up over the death of General Soleiman. The result would be to contribute to the overall lessening of presidential power that the Democrats seek given their lack of competitive candidates for the 2020 election.
The left and their media allies are treating General Soleimani as a hero, not the butcher that he was. Of course they couldn't congratulate the President for exploiting intelligence and attacking General Soleimani before he could launch his next terrorist attack.
These critiques include questioning every military move made by the administration. The current media frenzy suggests that Saddam Hussein was correct when he determined that the US center of gravity was/is the body bag. Unfortunately, military operations are dangerous events and there will be casualties. But preemptive actions are designed to limit civilian and other casualties.
By being afraid to suffer casualties (or even to appear that way) we are emboldening our enemies to try and inflict casualties. Thus, we should blame the Democrats and their media cohorts for every soldier, sailor airman or Marine who may become a casualty. My liberal friends will challenge this logic only because they know that it is correct and that hurts. Deterrence is about perceptions and the media and the Democrats are providing the wrong perceptions.
Deterrence can include bluster. They have 35 targets and we have 52. Have they tried to hit 2 of their targets with their attack in Kenya and the cyber-attack against the national library? If so then we should expect several reactions in the coming days. The management of these targets will tell us a lot—whether there is an attempt to manage escalation or not.
The composition of targets will also tell us a lot—casualty producing targets versus infrastructure/war fighting capabilities.
So where are we going? The Iranians are most likely emboldened by all of the political noise coming from the Democrats. This in ways seems like Deja vue all over again. The North Vietnamese could never defeat the United States on the battlefield but they undermined the political will to finish the fight. The current messages that our opponents are seeing is that the political will to fight has again been undermined—not by the acts of the Iranians or any of their proxies but by the desire of the left and the media to destroy this President and our current form of government.
We can only hope that people with reason will step forward as new leaders of the Democratic Party.
November 4, 2019 1:56 am / 3 Comments on Draining the swamp
The swamp is not a new phenomenon—it is just a new name for a reality that started in the Roosevelt administration. When government began growing at a rapid rate political appointees hired civil servants who shared their vision of what a new policy to be implemented would bring. This large number of oriented civil service grew over time.
Throughout the years as political leaders changed they tried to change the civil service as new positions were created and older bureaucrats retired. I can remember during the Nixon administration a long debate about how to neutralize Kennedy/Johnson liberal bureaucrats. During the Reagan administration a bureaucrat who opposed his arms control policy was given a closet sized office with no phone or computer. He hung on until Clinton became president and sought to get even with policy prescriptions during the Clinton years.
This hangover of bureaucrats thus is not a new thing. What is new is how emboldened some of these bureaucrats have become. NSC staffers personally talking with Presidents of foreign countries and advising them how to "deal" with President Trump. Such bureaucrats are coming out of the woodwork in their attempt to impeach President Trump. These hangovers from the Obama years are risking much—pensions and promotions. This suggests that someone outside of government is offering them a safety net—employment, etc. Some have gone to CNN and MSNBC, but others are not in poverty as the swamp supporters step up to their aid.
Conversely, one hears little of such behavior in the United Kingdom. The UK is known for its politically neutral civil servants who serve their political masters devotedly. The critical difference is one of political culture. Do US political appointees demand more from civil service appointees than they should? Does advancement depend upon political orientation?
I have not performed a statistical analysis but given the "drain the swamp" orientation of President Trump one can believe that the administration is finally getting around to "liberal" bureaucrats. Their cries for support have not been heard by the liberal press as it focuses on impeachment.
Some months ago I argued that behind the smoke screen of Trump's tweets and other statements the transformation of government was occurring. This related to policy but probably also should be applied to the realignment of civil servants.
The Intelligence Community seems to be a special case. In observing the activities of members of this group of self-declared elites I am reminded of the Pakistani Intelligence Service (IIS). The IIS is the power behind the throne and the country. It has its tentacles throughout Pakistan and has changed the political leadership several times. Is this the power that the US intelligence community seeks?
The response to the Iranian attacks on Saudi oil facilities
September 25, 2019 3:40 pm / 1 Comment on The response to the Iranian attacks on Saudi oil facilities
Preamble: We have taken a sabbatical from writing articles for the last 18 months in response to the venom that is out there in the media. However, the US response to the Iranian attacks seems to indicate a completely new US approach to global stability. Therefore I felt duty bound to spell out my thoughts and respond to those who can only see their hate of this administration.
The recent Iranian attacks on the Saudi oil facilities in north eastern Saudi Arabia indicate an escalation by the Iranians. Why? Do the Iranians perceive that the US is powerless because of the Democratic calls for impeachment? Are the sanctions and limits on Iranian oil exports taking such a toll that the Iranians feel that the world will react to Saudi oil output short falls and try to force the US to relax its containment of Iran?
The lack of an American kinetic response has the world wondering what has changed in the US approach to the world. By listening to the president's speech at the UN yesterday it is now very clear that the President does not see the US as the world's policeman. In the name of regional stability the US is deploying defensive capabilities to Saudi Arabia.
The recent attacks show the deficiencies of the Saudi military. In spite of extensive expenditures their missile defense capabilities are still inadequate in the face of Iranian cruise missiles. Reports indicate that the problems are both the training of the force and the needs of a modern missile defense.
Missile defense requires the ability to intercept multiple types of missiles through a complex spectrum of missile types. Most missile defense systems can be overcome by a volume of missiles. The Israeli "Iron Dome" system attempts to discriminate based on a calculation of impact points. Will incoming missiles hit critical assets? The Saudi system has not reached the degree of sophistication required to make such a discrimination automatically.
The lack of a kinetic attack illustrates the new Trump Doctrine—allies must protect themselves and respond to attacks using their own capabilities. The US will assist where necessary to maintain stability until the allies have developed their own capabilities. This approach means that the Saudis and the Gulf Cooperative Council members should respond to threats. The US may provide technical assistance in such a response, but one should not expect US forces attacking Iran unless US forces have been directly engaged by Iranians.
The military situation in the Gulf is truly asymmetric, but in a different way than the discussion of conventional forces versus terrorists or unconventional forces. The Iranians have devoted a significant part of their defense development to offensive missiles and small attack boats, while the Gulf States have focused on air power and defensive forces. As noted above the Iranian missile assets can most likely overpower the defenses of the Gulf States. However, a series of preemptive attacks might go a long way in leveling the battle field. One could even envision the Apache attack helicopters that the Saudis have being able to go in under the Iranian radar and doing extensive damage.
Will the Saudis/Gulf States respond? The answer to this question is probably in the Iranian hands. If they push the opportunity that they may perceive exists because of the political situation in the US they may in fact cause a reaction with extensive US support. On the other hand if the new status quo continues nothing may happen. The status quo favors the Saudis and the Gulf States as the political situation in Iran may continue to deteriorate and they can enhance their defensive and offensive capabilities.
Stopping/repelling the invasion
April 1, 2018 8:53 pm / Leave a comment
According to news reports there are over 1000 Hondurans, who are being assisted by the Mexican Government moving in formation to invade the United States and demand amnesty. This tragedy is most likely funded by far left political activists such as George Soros. Their most likely goal is to embarrass President Trump.
The organizers of this invasion probably feel that they are in a win-win situation. If they successfully breach the border the US will have no option but to care for them and eventually grant them amnesty. If they are stopped the organizers see a net win for the total amnesty supporters as public opinion will be aroused and with the midterm elections coming the political pressure to give in will be horrendous.
One can count on the media portraying these invaders as poor people looking for work and if any of them are harmed they will seek compensation from mean old United States.
To date the Trump administration has only played the Obama game—talking tough but not doing anything. The threats against NAFTA may momentarily give the Mexican government pause, but not for long.
Since even the Associated Press is calling this an invasion, the President should treat it as such. It would be very easy to deploy helicopters and infantry to form a ready reaction force against the invaders. With drone provided intelligence the defending forces could react to any movement towards the border and form a physical force to meet the invaders on the border. Additionally, using helicopters and cargo planes food supplies could be dropped behind the invaders as an incentive to turn around. Finally a detention facility with tents and barbed wire could be quickly established for anyone who might leak through. This facility should be very bare bones, not the typical elegant jails that the US normally puts such folks in. Invaders should be taken from the detention facility to a port of embarkation for the return to Honduras. No legal niceties need apply–they are invaders.
Coupled with the physical barrier and humanitarian food supplies a psychological campaign should be waged to influence the invaders to turn around.
On the economic from the border should be closed to goods coming from Mexico or there should be a huge tax on them to pay for the repelling of the invasion.
Finally, intelligence sources should pin point the leadership and funding of the operation and take appropriate action to neutralize them while documenting their use of poor Hondurans for their agenda.
This whole invasion is a political ploy and should be dealt with by the use of stern, unrelenting but humanitarian efforts. Political and economic action should accompany the act of repelling the invasion.
Battle Finally Won and the War Was Lost
On the 1st of April 1968 the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) launched Operation Pegasus. Many newly interested authors focus on the battle for the old French fort. What they don't realize that just as the operation was beginning the war was being officially lost.
As the senior advisor in Khe Sanh before the beginning of the "agony of Khe Sanh" on 21 January 1968 I was seconded to the 1st Cavalry Division to assist in the planning for Operation Pegasus. (For a complete discussion of the siege of Khe Sanh see: www. Expendablewarriors.com or my recent postings here.)
It was strange to fly over what had once been the area along route 9 and see rice paddies where there had never been paddies before. In actuality what I was seeing was bomb craters that were filled with rain water. (I flew into Khe Sanh with Major General John Tolson (commander of the 1st Cavalry Division) several times,
Route 9–the Road to Khe Sanh
Lz Stud was at the turn of the Route from North South to East-West
During the planning process units from the 1st Cav, the 101st Airborne Division and the 3rd Marines were conducting operations along the DMZ as a diversion to the relief operation. The engineers were busy building a short runway and underground bunkers for the command and control of Operation Pegasus near Calu. The new facility was to be named LZ Stud.
LZ Stud–right before Route 9 turned west
It was located under the range fan of USMC artillery units north and east of here
For Operation Pegasus the 1st Cav had an extensive set of capabilities
The 1st Cavalry Division with its 400+ helicopters
A Marine BDE with augmenting engineers and artillery
An Army of Vietnam (ARVN) airborne brigade
26th Marine Regiment +–the whole force defending the Combat Base (5000 strong)
Massive air support
This was the equivalent of a small Corps.
The attack began the morning of the April 1st with the Marine Brigade attacking along route 9. Its mission was to open Route 9 from LZ Stud to the combat base. This required the repair of numerous road by passes that had been destroyed by the NVA and neglect over more than a year. The air assault was delayed until 1 PM due to fog in the Khe Sanh area. The initial air assault was into areas where the vegetation had been flattened by use a bomb called a Daisy Cutter (a 20,000 pound bomb that was dropped from a C130 aircraft and detonated when the long pipe that was its detonator struck the ground—thus creating standoff and blowing things down without creating a crater). The Infantry and engineers followed to secure the area and move the blow down so that howitzers, crews and ammunition could be lifted in. As a result a firebase was created.
With fire support for support of the infantry and to support the next hop forward closer to Khe Sanh the next unit could be inserted and the leap frog towards the combat base and the enemy could continue.
It was on this day 1 April 1968 when the war was lost. Major Paul Schwartz and I had to brief General Tolson on the proposed concept for the Division's next mission—clearing the NVA out of the A Shau Valley (about 40-50 kilometers south of Khe Sanh. There were 4 people present at the briefing—General Tolson, his Chief of Staff, Major Schwartz and myself. We proposed attacking through Khe Sanh to the Vietnam-Laos border. Going into Laos, cleaning up the Ho Chi Minh Trail and then turning south to enter the A Shau Valley for the west—not the traditional route which was from the east. There were 90 days of supplies at Khe Sanh to draw upon and thus not have to back haul. Most importantly such an approach would have caught the NVA by surprise and had war winning effects.
After about 4 minutes of briefing General Tolson said" "Obviously you didn't hear the President last night! What you are proposing is politically impossible." Lyndon Johnson had just announced a partial bombing halt in an effort to enter negotiations with North Vietnam.
3 years later the US was to support ARVN in Lam Son 719A which was an attack into Laos where the ARVN got clobbered. The NVA had used the 3 years to recover. A year or so later President Nixon was to start the B-52 bombing missions over Hanoi and Haiphong. These would result in a peace agreement.
President Johnson's bombing halt decision was when the US decided to not try and win the war on the battlefield—just as the NVA were on the throes of collapse. There war was winnable after the eventual Khe Sanh and Tet victories, but the political climate in the US had so turned against the war there was no political will to try and win on the battlefield.
In coming articles we will talk about the bigger lessons learned from Khe Sanh and other conflicts. It is my hope that someday some wanna be strategists will read these articles and learn something from them.
Behind the smoke screen?
February 18, 2018 8:40 pm / Leave a comment
President Trump's tweets and what seem to be off the cuff remarks are providing a perfect smoke screen for the media that want to focus on what they think is outlandish rather than do good journalism and find out what is happening behind the smoke screen.
Behind the smoke screen and the bluster and the magician act that the President is using to focus attention there seems to be a lot going on. Hate for Trump, which the President thrives on, is allowing strategic activity that would remind one of the Kissinger days when the bureaucracy was busing doing busy work while real strategic moves and ground work were occurring behind the scenes.
National Security Adviser Lieutenant General H R McMaster
If one follows the National Security Adviser LTG H R McMaster there is not much to see until this last week. During the annual Munich Security Conference he seems to have emerged and has laid down several markers:
Used the incontrovertible truth that Russia sought to sow instability in the US elect ion process as a background to say that it was impossible for the US to work with Russia on cyber issues.
Called for action against Iran while scolding those states that traded with Iran for giving the terrorist sponsor a blank check
Called for action against Syria for using chemical weapons again
In addition he orchestrated the current Olympics lowering of the volume with North Korea. One can readily see the North Koreans using the very fragile détente with South Korea coming out of the Olympics as an excuse for a "delay" in missile testing.
One can be sure that both LTG McMaster and Secretary of Defense Mattis, who has also adopted a low profile, are very aware of the trategic weapons growth by the Russians and Chinese and are laying long term plans to address the potential imbalances.
As the remarks in Munich indicate relations with Russia and the current sanctions will not improve until Russia makes a positive move in the Ukraine or elsewhere. In the meantime the nuclear modernization announced by the President will go on unabated. Is the ground work being laid for a new round of arms control negotiations in 2019?
If the naval armada that has gathered in the South China Sea as a deterrent to North Korea starts migrating towards the Persian / Arabian Gulf one can anticipate the screws being applied against Iran. Obviously Secretary of State Tillison and LTG McMaster's trips to Turkey and discussions with the Saudis and Israelis have laid the groundwork for such actions. These discussions also have further provided the venue for a consensus on how to deal with the continuing Syrian debacle.
In the first year of the Trump Administration while working behind the Trump smokescreen Trump's National Security Strategy (NSS), was put together by McMaster's team. It champions a realpolitik worldview that puts American national interests first and sees the world as a competitive stage. "The United States will respond to the growing political, economic, and military competitions we face around the world," the NSS states.
Additionally, it has a focus on "revisionist powers" China and Russia and "rogue regimes" North Korea and Iran as acting in ways that are against American interests. "China and Russia challenge American power, influence, and interests, attempting to erode American security and prosperity. They are determined to make economies less free and less fair, to grow their militaries, and to control information and data to repress their societies and expand their influence. At the same time, the dictatorships of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran are determined to destabilize regions, threaten Americans and our allies, and brutalize their own people."
The strategy development in which the entire national security apparatus –State, Defense, and Intelligence Agencies etc.—participated took a year. The media has given little attention to this strategy complaining that it is lacking in detail. One is now starting to see the details based upon that the interests and objectives that were clearly defined and agreed to across the government. In their most likely timeline now is the time for the deliberate but well thought out execution behind the smoke screen provided by the President.
It will be fascinating to see the media reaction as they see behind the smoke. Or will they given their Trump hatred?


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"Most rowers have no desire to deal with the 'elite' aspects of the sport": Cambridge rower James Letten debunks its myth of elitism
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 26: Cambridge University Boat Club (R-L) Hugo Ramambason, Freddie Davidson, Patrick Elwood, Dara Alizadeh, Spencer Furey, Finn Meeks, Rob Hurn, Charles Fisher and James Letten pose for a team photo on the balcony of City Hall during the 2018 Cancer Research UK Boat Race Crew Announcement on February 26, 2018 in London, England. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)
The Boat Race is an annual rowing contest between the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Clubs. Ahead of the event Saturday, we spoke with James Letten about the misconceptions around the sport, its funding, and more.
James Letten is the tallest rower to ever compete in the storied University Boat Race, and is just the next in a long line of University of Wisconsin rowers to pull for the famed Cambridge Boat Club. Sitting in the fourth seat at 6 feet and 10 inches, it's no secret that his size gives him a massive advantage in the water:
"Naturally, people who are taller can get more leverage and produce more power in the water. So I'm one of the more powerful guys on the team. I think I fit the bill in terms of height I would say."
The first Boat Race was held in 1829, and the BBC have been covering the event for the last 80 years. The historic rivalry is closely contested, with Cambridge just leading Oxford with 82 wins to 80. They expect a quarter of a million people to witness the Thames spectacle in London on Saturday. James might be the largest human to ever participate, but he's certainly not the first American. In fact, he's not even the first Wisconsin Badger:
"I knew I wanted to take my rowing to the next level, so I transferred to Wisconsin. The rowing community and world is actually very, very small. My head coach had done the Boat Race, Christopher Clark, he rowed for Oxford. This is actually going to be the 10th year in a row that a Wisconsin Badger has been in the boat race. So there's a long line of us. I also had academic motivation."
There is common speculation that rowers for the famed English university boat clubs get an easy 'back door' pass into arguably the greatest academic institutions in the world, but it's simply not true. If anything, Letten thinks it could work against Oxbridge hopefuls:
"So in the initial application process, they could give a crap about rowing. There's certain people who think if you're applying to these schools that it's not entirely academic and equal for everyone. We actually try to hide the fact we want to do the Boat Race.
"You have to get in initially on your academic merits alone. There's been people in the past, valedictorians, who have highlighted rowing in their applications and have been dinged. They've been rejected. At Oxbridge, they take their reputations as academic institutions very seriously."
The debate around whether to give university athletes a salary is heavily based in Lettens' native America, as college sports generate copious revenue numbers compared to British universities. It goes hand-in-hand with misconceptions around the funding of rowing and boat clubs, and whether they receive an unfair amount of financial support:
"We didn't have to pay for everything at Wisconsin. Rowing was actually the first varsity sport at Wisconsin, but there were things we still had to pay out of pocket for, even there. Traveling fees, airfare, training camps, it's very similar here. The CUBC (Cambridge University Boat Club) and OUBC (Oxford University Boat Club) are private entities.
"We have a positive relationship with the university, but technically we are private. So we have a senior executive board that manage finances and things, but there are a number of things we have to pay for here as well. You have to be very committed, it's not a free ride. People like to think its very posh and we're these wealthy people who like to go out and row leisurely on the weekends, and that couldn't be further from the truth."
Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of rowing is the inaccuracy of the assumption it's part of an elite or exclusive environment. James himself first became interested in the sport after watching 2010's The Social Network, which featured a couple of Harvard University rowers. Regardless of this, he didn't fail to emphasize the outdated and mythical perception of rowing culture:
"Maybe there are a few universities and a few clubs that still dabble in that elitist atmosphere, but I have to say for the most part it's quite an antiquated understanding of rowing. People always think this. But I really thinks it's just a lack of information.
"What people don't understand about rowers is how hard we work. You have to like pain, and to be insane to a certain degree. We're a bit crazy. People are attracted to rowing because of the physical challenge. The average rower has no attraction or desire to deal with the 'posh' or elite aspects, we're just guys who love to work hard and love to race."
The biggest rowing event on the calendar will come and go, but rowers' fierce commitment and passion for the sport will not. James must maintain a healthy balance between his academic and athletic life at Cambridge, but doesn't see his rowing career ending in light blue:
"The Olympics are the pinnacle. I want to be the best of the best, I want people to remember me for something I've done. I think Tokyo 2020 is very much in my sights at the moment. At the moment 2020 is the dream, but I have to be level headed and responsible and know I can't do this forever.
"I'll have to put food on the table eventually, and up until the boat race have been living in a blissful oblivion. My professional career will be my main focus at some point down the road."
Featured image credit to Professional Sports Group, the Cambridge University Boat Club, and Getty Images.
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A recent graduate of the University of Central Missouri, a passion for and lifetime of sports led him to pursue the story of sport as a career. Having started this journey as an editor for a Premier League site on FanSided, his interests and coverage reach far beyond European soccer. A lifelong American football and ice hockey fanatic, he has experience in content production and editorial journalism in all three.
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Facebook Partnerships with Fact Checkers to Curb the Spread of Fake News in Africa
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After announcing its partnership with two third-party fact checkers in Kenya to curb the spread of fake news, Facebook has now announced a partnership with Africa Check and AFP to do the same in South Africa. The firms will work to help assess the accuracy of news spread on Facebook in both Kenya and South Africa.
How will the fact checkers work?
Africa Check is the first independent fact checking organization based in Africa, and AFP or Agence France-Presse is a popular international news organization headquartered in Paris, France.
Facebook relies on feedback from users to help find false stories, which are then passed on to fact checkers for further review. The local stories are checked by fact checkers, along with the videos and photos. If the fact checking partners find any story to be false, Facebook will show that story lower down in the News Feed. This will decrease the distribution of fake news.
Ebele Okobi, Facebook's Public Policy Director, said that the company can reduce the future views of a piece of content by an average of 80 per cent if a public fact checker rates that content as false.
In addition to this, the tech company has started using a new tool that rates users on the basis of their trustworthiness. Facebook continues to trust its massive user base to assist it with flagging false news stories, but the company understands that people can provide false information—either intentionally or unintentionally– which is why it is starting the use of this new tool.
Protecting democracy is an arms race: Zuckerberg
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently compared protecting democracy to an arms race, and emphasized the need for both private and public sectors to work together to combat outside interference. The CEO acknowledged that Facebook was very late in discovering that foreign actors used coordinated campaigns to interfere with the 2016 United States presidential elections.
He wrote that "Free and fair elections are the heart of every democracy. During the 2016 election, we were actively looking for traditional cyberattacks, and we found them. What we didn't find until later were foreign actors running coordinated campaigns to interfere with America's democratic process. Since then, we've focused on improving our defenses and making it much harder for anyone to interfere in elections."
As a part of its new program, the company will also show articles written by third party checkers under its Related Articles section, located below the story. People and page admins on the social network will also be notified by Facebook if they try to share a share a story that has been determined to be fake.
Twitter Investigated for Link Shortening
Privacy regulators in Ireland have started an investigation on the data Twitter collects from its URL-, or link shortening system, called t.co .
How and where did it all start?
A privacy researcher named Michael Veale – who works at University College London – asked Twitter to provide more information about the data it collects when users use its URL-shortening system. The company, however, refused to give information to the UK professor, who in turn called for quick investigative action by European privacy authorities.
The investigation request was made under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which gives EU citizens right to request any data collected on them from any company. GDPR is a comprehensive European privacy law that protects the privacy of European users and aims to give the individuals control over their data.
Under the law, business processes that manage personal data must be built and designed in such a way that they follow the principles and use the best-possible privacy settings by default, as well as provide safeguards to protect data. Additionally, data should not be available publicly without informed, explicit consent and no personal information should be processed unless it is done with a lawful basis.
Privacy researcher Veale suspected that the company gets more than the requisite information when users click on t.co links. According to Twitter, it applies its own link-shortening service (t.co) to links when users put them into tweets. This allows the company to measure the number of times a link has been clicked and helps the platform fight the spread of harmful viruses through unreliable links.
The Irish Data Protection Commission initiates a formal statutory inquiry into the link shortening
When the researcher received a negative response, he complained to the Irish DPC (Data Protection Commission), which promptly started an investigation. Veale complained in Ireland because the European operations of the company are headquartered in Dublin.
The Commission said in a letter to Veale, "The DPC has initiated a formal statutory inquiry in respect of your complaint. The inquiry will examine whether or not Twitter has discharged its obligations in connection with the subject matter of your complaint and determine whether or not any provisions of the GDPR or the [Irish Data Protection] Act have been contravened by Twitter in this respect."
The letter further said that the new European Data Protection Board will handle the complaint as the complaint involves cross-border processing. This is the first GDPR investigation opened against Twitter. Veale, who has made a similar request for investigation against Facebook, said Twitter was recording the times the users clicked on links and the kind of devices users were using.
Hackers Stole Around $60 Million in Cryptocurrency Exchange Hack
Hackers recently stole cryptocurrency worth about $60 million from Zaif, a Japanese digital currency exchange.
Hacks of cryptocurrency exchanges grab good deal of attention because the exchanges are easy targets. Through some of the most popular cryptocurrency hacks, hackers stole more than 980,000 bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies from unregulated and uninsured cryptocurrency exchanges. The cryptocurrency was worth over $15 billion USD at current exchange rates.
Storing money on a centralized exchange is risky
This recent hack and the many previous hacks from digital currency exchanges highlight the risks of storing cryptocurrency on centralized exchanges.
Some of the major recent hacks of exchanges include: BitGrail Exchange in February (hackers stole 17,000,000 NANO worth $195,000,000). CoinSecure Exchange in April (hackers stole over 438 BTC worth $3,300,000). Coinrail Exchange in June (hackers stole several tokens worth $40,000,000 ). And Coincheck Exchange in January (hackers stole 523,000,000 Asian crypto NEM worth $534,800,000).
Hackers previously attacked the Zaif exchange before for two hours as well. They illegally relayed several digital currencies from its "hot wallet." A hot wallet is the place where all digital coins are stored at such cryptocurrency exchanges.
The news site Tech Bureau said that the Japanese exchange went offline until it could get solid information related to the damage and it could see success in its efforts to get it working again.
Zaif – a government-registered exchange
Zaif Exchange also made news earlier when it let seven customers buy Bitcoin with no Yen value. A system bug at the Japan-based exchange allowed users to obtain a theoretical $20 trillion USD worth of the cryptocurrency for free. One user bought Bitcoin valued at 2,200 Trillion Yen and tried to cash in on it. The company subsequently invalidated all of the transactions.
Japanese police received reports of almost 670 cases of suspected money laundering linked to digital currencies between April and December.
Possible Success of Facebook's Efforts to Limit Fake News
A new working paper from Stanford and NYU researchers suggests that Facebook's efforts to get misinformation and fake news out of its users' feeds seem to be working. The overall magnitude of the fake news problem may have lessened– at least temporarily – and Facebook's efforts after 2016 election to control "diffusion of misinformation may have had a meaningful response," says the paper.
Facebook having more success than Twitter in preventing misinformation
The researchers, who compared the spread of stories from legitimate sites to the spread of stories from fake sites, discovered that interactions have been comparatively stable over time. This further indicates that it's the fake news sites that are being targeted and affected. Meanwhile, on Twitter, engagements with fake sites have continued to increase.
The researchers wrote that from the beginning of 2015 up to the 2016 election, fake news interactions rose steadily on both platforms, but following the election, Facebook engagements fell sharply, by almost 60%, while fake news shares on Twitter continued to increase.
The authors assembled a list of around 570 sites for the study which have been identified as news sites that publish false stories. The authors measured the engagements for several publishers, including niche business culture sites, small mainstream ones, and big mainstream ones, alongside the fake news sites.
They wrote: "Both platforms show a modest upward trend for major news and small news sites, and a modest downward trend for business and culture sites." When it comes to trends in the ratio of Facebook engagements to Twitter shares, the ratios have been comparatively stable for small news, major news and business and culture sites but for the fake news sites, the ratio has declined sharply, from over "45:1 during the election to around 15:1 two years later."
Quantity of fake news interactions still large in both Facebook and Twitter
The working paper found that the absolute quantity of fake news interactions on both social networking sites is still significant. In particular, Facebook, simply because it is so much bigger, has played a larger role in the diffusion of misinformation. The study stated that Facebook engagements declined from roughly 200 million per month at the end of 2016 to around 70 million per month at the end of the study's sample period. This is an optimistic result and shows that the tech giant – contrary to what many think – is actually doing things to limit misinformation and fake news.
Fake news shares on Twitter have been in the 4-6 million per month range and 20 million per month for the major news sites since the end of 2016.
In sum, Facebook's success in its efforts to reduce fake news shares have seemingly shown some results, but there still remains a long road ahead.
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This is the image of Mae Toranee.
In a popular Buddhist story Mae Toranee aided Buddha by washing away demons that were trying to tempt him while he was meditating and just before he reached enlightenment.
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View from the "escalator" which goes up and down Doi Suthep.


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According to various clients, there are really a lot of different ways in terms of how this kind space might be used. However, obviously for businesses, which provide similar services, deciding for proper partner to work with such as mining equipment manufacturer, is with no doubt one of the most influential things they have to do.
Therefore, if we also plan to build our own building, we are recommended to be aware of the fact that there are different aspects that ought to be taken by ourselves into consideration. One of them is thinking about building additional rooms underground. As it has been analyzed previously, they have diverse purposes and can be used to realize miscellaneous targets. One of them is related to storing various goods we would make on our own conserves or alcohols. What is more, thanks to space generated with the devices developed by each mining equipment manufacturer we may also have a room we could hide ourselves from too much heat that may be felt every summer.
This indicates that in order to achieve quite attractive results, we would be delighted with in the long-term, we ought to think about our home in a longer perspective. In most cases then obeying the trends we are likely to discover that the space underground is something that is likely to also serve us in various spheres. Thus, investing our funds in services available owing to cooperation of enterprises with mining equipment manufacturer we are likely to be assured that we will have a building we would be delighted with for a very long period of time.


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About the Author Loup Ventures
At Loup Ventures, research is in our blood. The spirit of our team has always lived on the curiosity to discover new insights that yield investment opportunities. For years we did this on Wall Street, focused on public tech companies. Now we invest in private frontier tech companies, but public companies like Tesla, Nvidia, and others are also meaningful innovators in frontier tech. These public companies are shaping the emergence of AI, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and AR/VR just as much as early stage startups. As a result, we've always kept a watchful eye on public market participants to inform our private investment strategy. Gene Munster is a managing partner and co-founder at Loup Ventures. Prior to Loup Ventures, Gene was a managing director and senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray where he covered technology companies including Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook. During his 21-year tenure, Gene received many acknowledgements including: Top Stock Picker from Forbes, Best on the Street from The Wall Street Journal, and was widely recognized for his work on Apple. Gene holds a bachelor's degree in finance and entrepreneurship from University of St. Thomas.
Apple (AAPL): The Healthcare Opportunity Is Not Priced Into the Stock
Loup Ventures- March 12, 2019, 7:48 PM EDT
By Gene Munster
Tim Cook commented in a recent interview that their impact on health will be "Apple's (AAPL) greatest contribution to mankind." While "greatest contribution" doesn't necessarily mean "biggest business," it may mean Apple would pursue a path toward improving primary healthcare by leveraging wearables, AI, and their user-centric software to connect consumers, providers, and payers. We believe the healthcare opportunity is not currently priced into shares of AAPL.
Healthcare & Tech Fundamentals
Healthcare accounts for about 18% of the US GDP. Despite the market size, tech has had a muted impact on healthcare. Several factors play into this – the biggest is how we pay for it, followed by FDA approval hurdles and legacy tech infrastructure. In the US, there are four spheres that cover healthcare expenses: employer-sponsored commercial insurance, fee-for-service traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid.
Healthcare's Secret: Physicians Have the Relationships with Patients
There's enough money in healthcare, but at the core of the "how do we pay for it" question is aligning the incentives of payers and providers. The majority of healthcare financial incentives are with the payer – usually a private insurer or government. If the payer saves money, profits go up. The challenge is that the payer does not have direct access to the patient, so it's difficult to influence behavior to improve wellness. Healthcare's secret is physicians/providers have the relationship with patients, and relationships influence behavior. The question is, can tech enhance or foster that relationship to be more regular and more productive?
Putting the Provider System at Risk
Over the past 15 years, financial incentives have been slowly shifting to the providers. With "provider risk" the physician takes on the financial risk of care – both costs and outcomes. Instead of billing $150 for a 20-minute office visit, the physician is paid $1,100 a month to manage total care of that patient. This means a physician's profits increase with better care and healthier patients. Commercial, Medicaid, and FFS Medicare are all experimenting with different incentive models and slowly increasing their respective provider participation, which is still modest overall. As financial incentives shift to providers, physicians will be more willing to pay for consumer tech that influences behavior and provides early warning systems.
Apple's Healthcare Opportunity
Apple's approach to the Healthcare industry is largely unknown. What we do know is the Apple Watch and eventually AirPods create new ways for consumers to track and manage wellness, notably by tracking heart rate, activity, and heart health. In the future, we expect the company to add biomarkers like blood pressure and hydration. The wearables segment represents a measurable revenue opportunity given it's small today and foundational to Apple's healthcare master plan. Wearables (90% of which is Watch and AirPods, 10% Beats) account for 5% of sales today, and we expect that to grow to ~8% of sales in five years.
We believe Watch sales have reached 67m units since the product was released in mid-2015 and estimate 85% of those are still in use, resulting in an active installed base of 57m. That compares with an active iPhone base of just over 900m. Using the iPhone as an addressable market guideline suggests the Watch business could eventually be 15x bigger. That level of Watch adoption is highly unlikely, but we can build a case that the Watch business will eventually be 4x bigger than today, which would imply $35B in annual sales, compared to $8.8B in FY18. Factoring in an asp of $300 yields 115m annual units, up from about 23m at a $375 asp last year.
AirPods are a second opportunity for capturing biomarkers, but adding these features is complicated and likely years away. It's worth noting the inner ear is an attractive place to gather biomarkers with the ear canal's thinner skin. Apple has filed a patent outlining the inner ear opportunity.
Source: company reports and Loup Ventures estimates
There's a Market Today for an Apple Healthcare Subscription
For physicians or any payer who covers healthcare expenses, there's a market for this now, regardless of what happens with provider risk-sharing models. Apple's healthcare services opportunity likely lies in harvesting the data from Watch and AirPods, then filtering, analyzing, and making it actionable. AI will be foundational to these services given the volume of data that needs to be processed. The offering would likely start with the consumer paying ~$300 for a Watch that captures heart rate, activity, sleep, temperature, blood pressure and makes the data actionable, then the physician would pay Apple a per month per user fee (~$10).
Disclaimer: We actively write about the themes in which we invest or may invest: virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and robotics. From time to time, we may write about companies that are in our portfolio. As managers of the portfolio, we may earn carried interest, management fees or other compensation from such portfolio.
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}

const userStore = (state = initialState, action) => {
  const { type, payload: { user, error: errorMessage } = {}, error } = action

  switch (type) {
    case `${LOGIN}_REQUEST`:
      return state

    case `${LOGIN}_SUCCESS`:
      return {
        isAuthenticated: true,
        user
      }

    case `${LOGIN}_FAILURE`:
      return {
        isAuthenticated: false,
        error,
        errorMessage
      }

    default:
      return state
  }
}

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Following a review of the curriculum at Stoke Primary Academy, leaders took decisive action to investigate the potential implementation of the IB Primary Years Programme; to further enrich the learning opportunities currently provided for children and to ensure that children within a small village community had the chance to engage with the rest of the world. The aims of the PYP are to develop internationally minded people, who, recognising their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet, help to create a better and more peaceful world. We feel this provides a suitable level of ambition to our curriculum and ensures that all pupils, despite their circumstances have the best possible chances of success, both at school and in their future career - with no barriers in their way.
The academy has just applied to become an IB candidate school for the PYP, a process which will take 3 years to complete.
Through trialling the PYP programme across the academy, we have been able to ensure that the lines of enquiry followed by the children provide rich opportunities for deeper thinking, questioning and knowledge acquisition. By asking the children to come up with the paths of learning they wish to follow, we are empowering them to make decisions, ask questions and feel confident to be successful.
The whole school follows the same transdisciplinary theme each term and this is also underpinned by SMSC and opportunities to celebrate British Values within assemblies.
Using the questions the children ask as the starting point for enquiry, teachers then use the national curriculum to ensure that learning throughout the year meets the coverage requirements for that particular year group. This is then mapped vertically across all year groups to ensure a suitable level of investigation and challenge within the same transdisciplinary theme.
Underpinning the learning throughout the year are seven key concepts: Form, Function, Causation, Change, Connection,Perspective and Responsibility. Within these concepts children are taught how to inquire, seek knowledge, think, communicate, be open-minded, take risks and be reflective of their learning. It is important for children to be able to talk about how they are learning throughout the learning journey.
Pupils study a full curriculum that is organised as one learning journey. All subject areas, with the exception of Maths and sometimes Science are taught as part of this journey and enable pupils to deepen their knowledge through thorough research and application. Maths and Science are usually taught discretely, but where learning links can be made they will be. By changing the format of the timetable to accommodate this change, it has allowed for children to really follow their own lines of enquiry and teachers have enjoyed the opportunity to follow the interests of the children, without feeling like the lesson has ended. Feedback from the children is that they much prefer this way of learning.
Teachers work collaboratively to ensure they are able to pitch subject knowledge at a level which is appropriate to the age of the children, and that any new knowledge is linked to knowledge the children already have; integrating new ideas to those already known. They use opportunities for children to discuss and share their ideas and seek to provide clear explanations when misconceptions are identified.
Reading and phonics remain an instrumental part of our curriculum and the use of texts underpin the majority of lessons. Acquisition of reading skills goes beyond that of phonetic decoding and has to ensure comprehension and inference are mastered by all children. Both of these skills are an essential part of the PYP structure.
A recent review of the marking policy, now means that the academy has adopted and implemented a feedback policy. This sets out to ensure that feedback is purposeful and delivered during learning time, when it is proven to have the most impact.
We are at the start of the implementation of the IB PYP and therefore any significant impact on outcomes and children is yet to be seen. What has been seen already is the increased confidence and renewed drive from the children to lead their own learning and find out answers to questions they want to ask to deepen their own knowledge.


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'Strictly Come Dancing' 2016: Two 'Britain's Got Talent' Stars Among New Professional Dancers
We were wondering why they looked so familiar...
Ash Percival
Entertainment Editor, HuffPost UK
Two former 'Britain's Got Talent' stars are set to join this year's 'Strictly Come Dancing' as professional dancers.
AJ Pritchard and Chloe Hewitt will also become the youngest pros the BBC ballroom show has ever had, aged just 21 and 20 respectively.
AJ Pritchard and Chloe Hewitt have joined 'Strictly Come Dancing'
The pair, who are British and European Youth Latin and Ballroom Champions, previously appeared on 'BGT' in 2013, where they impressed judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and David Walliams with their routines, going on to reach the live semi-finals.
AJ said of joining the show: "Watch out 'Strictly', here I come, it is going to be amazing and I feel ecstatic!"
Chloe added: "My childhood dream of being on 'Strictly Come Dancing' is now reality! The sheer excitement is exhilarating and I cannot wait to be part of the 'Strictly' family."
Watch their 'BGT' audition below...
The BBC have also announced the addition of Neil Jones to the pro-dancing line-up.
Neil is the undefeated four-time British National Champion, and the three-time winner of the World Amateur Latin Championships, and is also the husband of Katya Jones, who was one of the new professionals that were announced last month.
"I am so thrilled to be joining the cast of 'Strictly Come Dancing'!" he said.
"As a British dancer I have grown up watching this amazing show, it is a massive honour and I am feeling pumped and excited to be part of the 'Strictly' family."
Neil Jones is also set to become a pro-dancer
Other dancers new to 'Strictly' are Ukranian champion Oksana Platero, Spanish dance professional Gorka Marquez, who were confirmed in June, alongside Katya.
The sixsome are replacing departing pros Gleb Savchenko, Ola Jordan, Kristina Rihanoff, Aliona Vilani and Tristan MacManus.
'Strictly Come Dancing' returns to BBC One in the autumn.
Find out everything you need to know about the new series here.
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The RBI had recently announced the cutoff scores used for shortlisting candidates. The results of the subsequent stages are out however the official cutoff data is yet to be released.
The following table shows the category wise cutoff scores for RBI Grade 'B' phase-I exam conducted in 2017.
Note that these numbers are based on the data from the official website.