On 29 August vessels of Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 (SNMCMG1), including the Lithuanian LNS JOTVINGIS (N42), currently led by Commander Giedrius Premeneckas (Lithuanian Navy) moored at Turku seaport in Finland. SNMCMG1 will take part in NATO-European Union's Exercise Northern Coast 2014 in the northern part of the Baltic Sea and the territorial waters of Finland, the Ministry of National Defence reports.
The large-scale annual Exercise Northern Coast 2014 trains naval, air, land and special units from NATO and European Union's member states. This year the exercise is organised by the Finnish Navy and involves 50 warships of various types, 10 aircraft, and roughly 3 thousand land and special forces personnel from 14 countries.
The active phase of Northern Coast 2014 on September 1-11 will follow a crisis response operation-based scenario to train multinational forces interoperability while responding to a regional crisis.
Lithuania will be represented in the exercise by its patrol ship LNS DZUKAS (P12) alongside the JOTVINGIS which is fulfilling a half-year duty in SNMCMG1. SNMCMG1 staff aboard the LNS JOTVINGIS will not only be leading the eight SNMCMG1 vessels but also two more mine countermeasures vessels (one from the German Navy and the other from the Polish Navy) assigned to SNMCMG1 for the exercise.
The exercise will train participating ships manoeuvring, convoy, at-sea detention, gunnery, defence against various types of targets, and asymmetric warfare, sea floor mine clearance, at-sea search and rescue, and other combat tasks.
SNMCMG1 and ships assigned to it is a part of the NATO Response Force. The Group is deployed in the Baltic Sea to strengthen maritime security and reassure the region of NATO's solidarity and commitment to collective defence.


Outsourcing occurs when a bank uses another party to perform business functions that would traditionally have been undertaken by the bank itself. Common examples of outsourced activities include IT processing, accounting and call centres.
address the impact that the failure of a service of function provider may have on the bank's ability to carry on all or part of the business of the bank.
This is important to ensure that the impact of the failure of a large bank, or a service provider to a large bank, on the wider economy is minimised and to preserve options for the resolution of large bank failures.
provide basic banking services to existing customers including, but not limited to, liquidity (both access to deposits and to credit lines as defined in basic banking services) and account activity reporting, both on the start of the first business day and after the day of failure and thereafter.
Some outsourcing arrangements by large banks may still be captured by the January 2006 version of the outsourcing policy. This policy has similar objectives and requirements to the current (September 2017) version of the policy.
Outsourcing Policy BS11 - September 2017 (PDF 252KB).
Outsourcing Policy BS11 – January 2006 (PDF 45KB).


T-Mobile US has launched its new #GetThanked initiative to engage existing customers and recruit new ones, offering various rewards including stock in the company.
Building on the company's view that its competitors only offer rewards as an incentive for subscribers to spend more money, the T-Mobile initiative offers one share in the company to every current primary subscriber. Additional shares can also be earned via referrals that result in a new post-paid contract, drawing on the kind of viral marketing techniques common on social media.
Newer customers will receive one share for every successful referral, whereas those who have been customers for five years or more will receive two. An individual can receive up to 100 shares a year on the scheme, which is managed by T-Mobile's brokerage partner, LOYAL3. Aside from the shares, subscribers can also receive more conventional rewards including free in-flight, Domino's pizza, holidays to Las Vegas, hiking trips to Machu Picchu, as well as other prizes.
T-Mobile currently accounts for 15.8% of the US market share, according to statistics from Ovum's WCIS service, which has been steadily increasing from 13.9% in June 2014. The Un-carrier initiative was launched in March 2013, seemingly as a means to differentiate the brand in the US, made stronger strides into the post-paid market and increase brand loyalty. While the stock initiative could be perceived by some as a PR stunt, it could have an impact on brand loyalty, as customers may feel more affinity to T-Mobile should they own a small percentage of the company, as well as acquiring new post-paid customers.
The overall Un-carrier strategy itself would appear to be a successful initiative, as the company recently reported healthy Q1 results including subscriber gain, revenue growth, churn reduction and an improved forecast for the remainder of 2016. The company claims it acquired 2.2 million customers over the period, marking its 12th consecutive quarter of over 1 million customer acquisitions. Ovum suggests T-Mobile were amongst the biggest winners of Q1 with AT&T bringing in 1.8 million new customers, Verizon 2.2 million and Sprint just 500,000.


Where Do You Find Data For PR Storytelling?
Last week's post covered the trend of data-driven storytelling in PR.
But where does the data come from? For many of our clients we field quarterly surveys designed to generate relevant news or insights. But there are lots of other options for PR pros to source relevant data, and many are inexpensive and fairly easy to find.
Social monitoring and listening not only give us a heads up on customer service issues or negative PR, but they can illuminate industry trends and customer behavior. A PR campaign can include a general theme or direction found in social media data or patterns, or the social data can inform a content calendar. Social listening is also a great method for coming up with fresh ideas that will resonate with a specific target audience.
Polls and surveys are time-honored PR tools for developing campaigns, fine-tuning messaging, and generating earned media and content. The survey possibilities are endless, but here are our favorites.
They're beloved among PRs because they're quick and affordable. Unlike custom marketing surveys, they're administered on behalf of multiple organizations, thus spreading the cost over many sponsors. A good omnibus is a solid way to inform thought leadership content or to grab relevant data to attract media interest. They can also be used like flash polls after a news event. If you're a cybersecurity firm, a 1000-person survey conducted after a public security breach may show behavior change, persistent sloppy password habits or new attitudes about smart home devices. Whatever the outcome, it's likely to yield fascinating material for content. Media love poll-results story pitches, especially when accompanied by visuals like infographics. See our earlier post for more on how to make surveys work for PR.
Even a small company may have thousands of marketing contacts collected from CRM, website visits, and social followers. Social platforms like Hootsuite or a marketing one like Hubspot can collect, visualize, and collate data analytics on subscriber demographics, email engagement, website activity, and social engagement. If you do customer satisfaction surveys, you can throw in a question to support a specific storyline or uncover customer concerns useful for PR programming.
A PR pro can find in-depth research online from many government and non-profit sources, all in the public domain. Data.gov, Healthdata.gov, U.S. Census Bureau, and other public agencies routinely produce data analyses and statistics collected over many decades. You can cherry-pick studies from different sources, combine and cross-reference to yield an original piece of secondary research – and a story. For a mattress company, we converted NIH data on how many hours people sleep every night into a branded national index of "most sleep-deprived cities." Our out-of-pocket cost was $200 for the statistical software that made the calculations.
They're unscientific, but they're cheap and easy. If you're stuck for byline or blog ideas, you can always ask a handful of peers, customers, or sales reps for feedback on their biggest needs, concerns, or frustrations. The most cost-efficient are online tools like SurveyMonkey and Fieldboom for DIY polling. There are even smartphone apps like Poll Everywhere to facilitate more informal online polls with onsite participants at conferences and panels.
The high-end method is a partnership with an industry analyst or research firm to create a piece of branded research as a corporate communications centerpiece. We helped a credit-union client with a financial literacy platform team with a trade group to develop a national financial literacy study, white paper, and speaking tour. It's an expensive proposition, but it can anchor a PR campaign and build credibility over years.


Whether you're gearing up for a race or going out to beat your personal best, here's the music that will pump you up for the challenge.
When working out your pool budget, factor the cost of ownership into building costs. It can make a substantial difference!


Based on a series of interviews of Australians between the ages of 55 and 75 this paper explores the relations between our participants' attitudes towards and use of communication, social and tangible technologies and three relevant themes from our data: staying active, friends and families, and cultural selves. While common across our participants' experiences of ageing, these themes were notable for the diverse ways they were experienced and expressed within individual lives and for the different roles technology was used for within each. A brief discussion of how the diversity of our ageing population implicates the design of emerging technologies ends the paper.


This product consists of two 10 mm diameter EEG cups mounted as an ear clip. Available in three different surface options: Silver, Silver-Chloride or Gold-plated.
All electrodes are attached to a 1 or 1.5 meter color coded leadwire, connects in a safety DIN 42 802 connector. All variants are packaged in pairs.


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Q: Group Values in excel according duplicate value in column Suppose, I have Data
Column1     Column2
1            1000
1           -2000
1            3000
2            2000
2           -1000
3            5000
3           -4000
I want to display it like
Column1    Column2   Column3
1           1000      3000
2           2000
3           5000
I want to take only positive value from column2 where column1 have same value(e.g. for 1 have 2 positive values. I want to display them in format shown above.)
How can I achieve this using Manual Methods(Formulas) or using VBA??
I have written a code where it takes positive values from column1 where column1.value=1. But how to iterate through next values(i.e. 2 and 3)
Sheets("Sheet1").Select
myvalue = Cells(2, 1).Value
MsgBox myvalue

Dim negativevalue(0 To 10) As Long
Dim colum As Integer
Dim row As Integer

colum = 1
row = 2
i = 0
While Cells(row, colum).Value = myvalue
If (Cells(row, 2).Value < 0) Then

MsgBox Cells(row, 2).Value
negativevalue(i) = Cells(row, 2).Value

End If

A: Here is a pure formula-based approach to your question.
Two sets of formulas are needed, the first set to create an unduplicated list of distinct values from column 1 and the second set to look up and place the positive values in column 2.
The formula to create the list of distinct column 1 values is placed in cell D2 and copied down the column. The formula uses a named range for the column 1 values. If you put it in another column, adjust the $D1$D:D1 to the column you are using, and make sure it refers to the cell just above where you put the formula. For example, if you put the formula in cell C4, the column reference in the formula should be $C$3:C3
Formula to create list of distinct values from column 1
Cell D2  =IFERROR(INDEX(Column1,MATCH(0,INDEX(COUNTIF($D$1:D1,Column1),
          0,0),0)),"-")

The column 2 lookup is an array formula; in the example worksheet, it is entered in cell E2 (using the Ctrl-Shift-Enter key combination) and then copied down and across.
Array Formula to lookup and place column 2 values
Cell E2  =IFERROR(INDEX(Column2,1/LARGE(IFERROR(1/((Column1=$D2)*
          (Column2>=0)*ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&COUNTA(Column2)))),0),
          COLUMNS($E$2:E$2)),1),"-")

A: There might be shorter ways, but this works. Select the desired range and run the following macro:
Sub ProcessData()
    'Sort the data
    ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").Sort.SortFields.Clear
    ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").Sort.SortFields.Add Key:=Selection.Cells(1, 1), _
        SortOn:=xlSortOnValues, Order:=xlAscending, DataOption:=xlSortNormal
    With ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").Sort
        .SetRange Selection
        .Header = xlNo
        .Orientation = xlTopToBottom
        .SortMethod = xlPinYin
        .Apply
    End With

    'Process data
    Dim cl As Object, r As Integer, c As Integer, cNum As Integer, cSt As Integer
    Dim first As Boolean, update As Boolean
    r = Selection.Cells(1, 1).Row - 1
    cNum = Selection.Cells(1, 2).Column + 2
    cSt = cNum + 1
    first = True
    update = False

    For Each cl In Selection.Cells.Columns(1).Cells
        If cl.Offset(0, 1).Value >= 0 Then
            update = False
            If first Then
                first = False
                update = True
            ElseIf cl.Value <> Cells(r, cNum).Value Then
                update = True
            End If
            If update Then
                r = r + 1
                c = cSt
                Cells(r, cNum).Value = cl.Value
            End If
            Cells(r, c).Value = cl.Offset(0, 1).Value
            c = c + 1
        End If
    Next
End Sub

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By: Rand Fishkin June 17th, 2007
Action Items for the Engines from the SMX&nbspConference
It feels cruel to give the search engineers at Yahoo!, Google, MSN & Ask more work, but I know that sometimes they might not have the best project tracking or distribution software, so I figured I'd be kind and make a list of items that need attention here in the blog, and they can refer to my post when they're wondering what to do with all their free time.
The following are requests made to engineers during SMX Seattle a couple weeks back that I personally felt were excellent suggestions.
Parameter-Decapitator Instructions
I'm not sure that's the technical name, but this is certainly one of the items that the entire webmaster community direly needs. The concept is simple - provide a method in robots.txt to clarify that specific, parameter-type additions to a URL will be ignored by the engines. Thus, if Yahoo! was crawling along and saw the following URLs:
- seomoz.org/blog/entry-1
- seomoz.org/blog/entry-1?referrer=marketingpilgrim.com
- seomoz.org/blog/entry-1?referrer=marketingpilgrim.com&ID=44556
The engines could look at a robots.txt line indicating something like "ignoreparam = ID+referrer" and realize that the content at all four of the above URLs should be treated as the singular URL "seomoz.org/blog/entry-1" - they wouldn't index multiple versions and wouldn't encounter duplicate content problems from that indexing. It's really the best idea since sitemaps, and it's a long time coming.
Commercial API for Organic Data Requests
This one's desperately needed by anyone who runs tools that request data from the engines (ahem). Yahoo! Search Marketing has a commercial API, so do many of the services at Google and Amazon's Alexa data. However, Yahoo! Site Explorer, Microsoft Live.com, Ask.com & Google web search all need to add this feature. It should mean a few million more in revenue for each over the next couple years, and it gives legitimate marketers a way to grab data that's accurate and accounted for, without skewing number of searches or ad impressions, etc.
Webmaster Central for Yahoo!, MSN & Ask
Vanessa set the bar really, really high, so this is a tall order to fill, but I guarantee it's had positive returns for Google, not just in branding, but in financials, too. Personally, I'd nominate Laura Lippay to run the one at Yahoo!, and Rahul Lahiri would make a great webmaster interface head over at Ask. For Microsoft... Maybe Ken Headrick (granted, he's in Canada, but one stereotype that definitely sticks is the friendliness).
Hyperlink Next to "Results" to Explain the Estimates
In my interview with Matt, I went off a bit on all the reporters who use Google's search count numbers as research in a story. We came to the conclusion that one good solution might be to place a "?" next to the results where visitors could hover and see a little box explaining the "roughness" of the measurement.
Make it Easy to Sign Out of Google Personalized Results (without logging out)
You can use Joost's tool, but honestly, shouldn't it be more obvious that you're in personalized when they show them and easier to remove that feature without appending stuff to the URL? No one outside the search world is going to even know how to start with that.
MSN - Bring Back the Link Command
It's been gone a while, and using the suggestion for a commercial API, you could actually make money off of it. The data's useful, it's available to you, go for it! Oh yeah - Eytan... You owe me a little sometin' sometin' :)
That's it for now. If you've got other requests, big or small, feel free to add them below.
FYI - This week finds me in Washington DC, helping the good folks at NPR with their SEO. Wish me luck! I've got 20+ hours of meetings and training over the next 3 days and around 400 slides to show (talk about death by PowerPoint). Hence, email (and posting, unless it's at 2:00am) will be very, very slow.
Hamlet Batista
Rand,
I concur with all your petitions. They are all desperately needed.
Now, for those that can't wait for prameter-decapitator instructions, I will share a simple trick to address this issue (it works for Google).
Using Googlebot support for wildcards, we can do this:
robots.txt (using wildcards):
User-agent:Googlebot
Disallow:/*?referrer=*
Disallow:/*&referrer=*
Disallow:/*?ID=*
Disallow:/*&ID=*
This matches any URL that includes &referrer=, ?referrer, &ID= and ?ID=.
If Googlebot supported regular expressions, it would be rewritten like this:
robots.txt (using regular expressions):
Disallow:/.*[\?\&](referrer|ID)=
This says: "match a ? or a &, followed by referrer or ID, followed by equals"
Far shorter.
HamletBatista edited 2007-06-18T07:20:07-07:00

Rand,

I concur with all your petitions. They are all desperately needed.

Now, for those that can't wait for prameter-decapitator instructions, I will share a simple trick to address this issue (it works for Google).

Using Googlebot support for wildcards, we can do this:

robots.txt (using wildcards):

User-agent:Googlebot

Disallow:/*?referrer=*

Disallow:/*&referrer=*

Disallow:/*?ID=*

Disallow:/*&ID=*

This matches any URL that includes &referrer=, ?referrer, &ID= and ?ID=.

If Googlebot supported regular expressions, it would be rewritten like this:

robots.txt (using regular expressions):

Disallow:/.*[\?\&](referrer|ID)=

This says: "match a ? or a &, followed by referrer or ID, followed by equals"

Far shorter.

Rand Fishkin
Hamlet - we just need to make sure that the engines interpret these instructions as "pretend URLs with this appeneded data are the same as the root URL without it" rather than "don't crawl or index these." We need all those links to count, but have the engines ignore the multiple URLs for the same content.

Hamlet - we just need to make sure that the engines interpret these instructions as "pretend URLs with this appeneded data are the same as the root URL without it" rather than "don't crawl or index these." We need all those links to count, but have the engines ignore the multiple URLs for the same content.

I understand your valid point. You are concerned that by blocking access from those URLs we might lose the potential link juice. Right?
I think this strategy will have the desired effect.
Google doesn't drop inbound links because the destination content is inaccessible. When they can not crawl a page they can still use the anchor text as a qualifier.
Please check Section 2.2 of Google's original paper to confirm this.
Second, anchors may exist for documents which cannot be indexed by a text-based search engine, such as images, programs, and databases. This makes it possible to return web pages which have not actually been crawled.
Those pages appear in the listings as URLs only.

Rand,

I understand your valid point. You are concerned that by blocking access from those URLs we might lose the potential link juice. Right?

I think this strategy will have the desired effect.

Google doesn't drop inbound links because the destination content is inaccessible. When they can not crawl a page they can still use the anchor text as a qualifier.

Please check Section 2.2 of Google's original paper to confirm this.

Second, anchors may exist for documents which cannot be indexed by a text-based search engine, such as images, programs, and databases. This makes it possible to return web pages which have not actually been crawled.

Those pages appear in the listings as URLs only.

The problem is that they're still assigning the links to the page with the appended parameters. Our desire here is to see that the original page (the one with no parameters) receives the weight of all the links (internal or external) pointing to any page with those parameters attached.
I understand your point, but I think that the execution has to be slightly different in order to reach 100% of the goals with this suggestion.

The problem is that they're still assigning the links to the page with the appended parameters. Our desire here is to see that the original page (the one with no parameters) receives the weight of all the links (internal or external) pointing to any page with those parameters attached.

I understand your point, but I think that the execution has to be slightly different in order to reach 100% of the goals with this suggestion.

You are right in your assesment. Please note that I am not trying to discourage search engineers from implementing this.
I am trying to find an immediate solution for this critical problem.
If the purpose is to have the original page carry all the weight, what do you think of using permant redirects for this purpose?
seomoz.org/blog/entry-1?referrer=marketingpilgrim.com and seomoz.org/blog/entry-1?referrer=marketingpilgrim.com&ID=44556 would redirect (HTTP 301) to seomoz.org/blog/entry-1
This can be implemented via .htaccess.
This is similar to the use of permanent redirects for non-www to www. Now is no longer necessary as Google it possible to specify that via webmaster central.

The problem is that they're still assigning the links to the page with the appended parameters. Our desire here is to see that the original page (the one with no parameters) receives the weight of all the links (internal or external) pointing to any page with those parameters attached.

You are right in your assesment. Please note that I am not trying to discourage search engineers from implementing this.

I am trying to find an immediate solution for this critical problem.

If the purpose is to have the original page carry all the weight, what do you think of using permant redirects for this purpose?

seomoz.org/blog/entry-1?referrer=marketingpilgrim.com and seomoz.org/blog/entry-1?referrer=marketingpilgrim.com&ID=44556 would redirect (HTTP 301) to seomoz.org/blog/entry-1

This can be implemented via .htaccess.

This is similar to the use of permanent redirects for non-www to www. Now is no longer necessary as Google it possible to specify that via webmaster central.

Hamlet - yes, that's the current solution that we tell companies to go with. What we're seeking from the engines is the elimination of that programmatic step, since it applies to so many sites.

Hamlet - yes, that's the current solution that we tell companies to go with. What we're seeking from the engines is the elimination of that programmatic step, since it applies to so many sites.

Pete Watson-Wailes
Random idea - couldn't you do a re-write in .htaccess?
I'll have a play around with that sometime and see what I can come up with...

Random idea - couldn't you do a re-write in .htaccess?

I'll have a play around with that sometime and see what I can come up with...

Good stuff. Sounds like you are going to be hard at work. That's a lot of powerpoint!
Another request on a slightly different (i.e. PPC) note, is for Yahoo! and MSN to release something like AdWords editor from Google.

Good stuff. Sounds like you are going to be hard at work. That's a lot of powerpoint!

Another request on a slightly different (i.e. PPC) note, is for Yahoo! and MSN to release something like AdWords editor from Google.

Great Call on the desktop editor...as usual Google typically leads the others follow.

Great Call on the desktop editor...as usual Google typically leads the others follow.

Patrick Sexton
Matt Cutts asked about what would be useful during his Q&A.
I mentioned that some kind of examples of successful re inclusion requests would be great to have, or at least some way to know your voice was heard.
Even if it was a blanket email like
"we have read and researched your re inclusion request"
Would be nice for alot of people

Matt Cutts asked about what would be useful during his Q&A.

I mentioned that some kind of examples of successful re inclusion requests would be great to have, or at least some way to know your voice was heard.

Even if it was a blanket email like

"we have read and researched your re inclusion request"

Would be nice for alot of people

Fantastic suggestion, Pat. I totally agree that a "your voice has been heard" response would be valuable. A signal in Webmaster Central saying "we think you're doing something manipulative" would also be a great addition, and would certainly help many sites who don't know better to pay attention.

Fantastic suggestion, Pat. I totally agree that a "your voice has been heard" response would be valuable. A signal in Webmaster Central saying "we think you're doing something manipulative" would also be a great addition, and would certainly help many sites who don't know better to pay attention.

And aside from anything else, it'd just be nice common curtosy. Especially for a company that has the motto "Do no evil". Kinda an extension to "Do lots of good"

And aside from anything else, it'd just be nice common curtosy. Especially for a company that has the motto "Do no evil". Kinda an extension to "Do lots of good"

dgfmedia
A signal in Webmaster Central saying "we think you're doing something manipulative" would also be a great addition, and would certainly help many sites who don't know better to pay attention.
Wouldn't this also signal spammers that they've been found out so they know it works as long as they get no message? If you leave people in the dark they will have more trouble manipulating the SERPs. Regretfully the 'bad guys' (yeah, they're intentional) screwed the mom-and-pop sites.

A signal in Webmaster Central saying "we think you're doing something manipulative" would also be a great addition, and would certainly help many sites who don't know better to pay attention.

Wouldn't this also signal spammers that they've been found out so they know it works as long as they get no message? If you leave people in the dark they will have more trouble manipulating the SERPs. Regretfully the 'bad guys' (yeah, they're intentional) screwed the mom-and-pop sites.

Gary Pool SEO
I like all the whole list of items. Did you send a link to your blog post to them? So when are we going to send out a professional lobyist? ;-)

I like all the whole list of items. Did you send a link to your blog post to them? So when are we going to send out a professional lobyist? ;-)

dmn02
I especially like your first idea ("Parameter-Decapitator Instructions"). Would make it a lot easier, rather than redirecting everything to its main page (And also less "risky". slight chance redirecting things like ?ref=whatever to the "plain" page could have negative effects (IMO)).

I especially like your first idea ("Parameter-Decapitator Instructions"). Would make it a lot easier, rather than redirecting everything to its main page (And also less "risky". slight chance redirecting things like ?ref=whatever to the "plain" page could have negative effects (IMO)).

All great suggestions. But the best one is definitley the Parameter-Decapitator instructions in the robot.txt This makes SO much sense and would solve a whole load of hassle for both SEOs and the search engines.

All great suggestions. But the best one is definitley the Parameter-Decapitator instructions in the robot.txt This makes SO much sense and would solve a whole load of hassle for both SEOs and the search engines.

Commercial API's for search, can't wait. Been wondering for years why we can't have a few servers dedicated to this, do you think it is coming? If so how long?

Commercial API's for search, can't wait. Been wondering for years why we can't have a few servers dedicated to this, do you think it is coming? If so how long?

WebGeek
Great suggestions, Rand. You're right...these are direly needed. I'm blown away that it's 2007 and these aren't in place already.

Great suggestions, Rand. You're right...these are direly needed. I'm blown away that it's 2007 and these aren't in place already.

Sometimes the obvious takes a long time to happen.

Sometimes the obvious takes a long time to happen.

Brian Horn
Solid suggestions. I would love a version of webmaster central for yahoo and msn.
Don't really care about Ask.com. :)

Solid suggestions. I would love a version of webmaster central for yahoo and msn.

Don't really care about Ask.com. :)

Ask.com - proving that no matter how much you polish a turd, it's still just a shiny shit.
Rubbish results can't be disguised by a pretty UI.

Ask.com - proving that no matter how much you polish a turd, it's still just a shiny shit.

Rubbish results can't be disguised by a pretty UI.

David Eaves
You've said this one before Rand, I wish all search engines would limit each URL to having two results per search query, sites like eBay can sometimes hold upto 15 of the top 20 search results for certain queries because they have so many different sub-domains. I know it is pretty much impossible to pull off because of sites like Wordpress.com etc. but I can dream.

You've said this one before Rand, I wish all search engines would limit each URL to having two results per search query, sites like eBay can sometimes hold upto 15 of the top 20 search results for certain queries because they have so many different sub-domains. I know it is pretty much impossible to pull off because of sites like Wordpress.com etc. but I can dream.

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Since the beginning of the industrial era, Earth's temperature increased by an average of 0.74°C, with a rise of 0.65°C for the sole period of 1956 to 2006.
A whole series of events results from this rise in global temperature: sea level rose by 10 to 20 centimeters in certain areas; the distribution of precipitation shifted throughout the 20th century; and sea ice surface shrunk rapidly from 8.5 million square kilometer in 1975 to 5.5M sq km in 2010.
Lastly, polar ice caps went thinner, and extreme climate phenomena such as tsunamis or tropical storms became evermore frequent.
Earth absorbs energy from the sun and emanates heat. Some gases, known as the greenhouse gases (GHG), intercept part of the thermal radiation released by Earth, which causes the greenhouse effect. This effect is essential, as it allows the global temperature to stay in a range that is favorable to life on Earth.
For more than a century, human activity have generated a lot more GHG emissions than Earth could take, which lead to an increase in the part of radiation that is trapped in the atmosphere and therefore of the greenhouse effect.
Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is used in electrical appliances (e.g. transformers).
Sometimes, the water contained in the pores of the rock is replaced by oil or natural gas. There are even fields of CO2 that has naturally been trapped underground for millions of years. Researchers who observed this phenomenon thought of applying it to store anthropogenic emissions of CO2 in the rocks – this is how CCUS started!


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You can apply using this form: PROJECT_PROPOSAL_2019 (click to download the template)
Please find information about the past EYCN Projects:
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Global Periodic Table Competition
Each year, the European Young Chemists' Network (EYCN) organizes a meeting with all national representatives from the member societies of the EYCN: the EYCN Delegate Assembly (DA). A large part of the DA is spent on the major events that the EYCN organizes, such as the EYCN Symposium at the EuChemS Chemistry Congress (ECC). The EYCN Board and Teams present ongoing projects and make plans and set goals for the new ones. There is always room for inventive and creative ideas, especially for the ones that promote chemistry in one way or another.
The Delegate Assembly offers a great networking opportunity to young chemists across Europe. The current and future professionals meet every year to discuss ideas among themselves and always strive towards the common goal: supporting younger chemists.
14th Delegate Assembly
The EYCN Board together with the German Chemical Society (GDCh) and the German Young Chemists (JCF) have the pleasure to announce that the 14th EYCN Delegate Assembly (DA) will take place in Bremen (Germany) from 17th to 20th of March, 2019.
You can find all the necessary information and links here.
The EYCN Board together with the young chemists section of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI – Gruppo Giovani) have the pleasure to announce that the 13th EYCN Delegate Assembly (DA) will take place in Torino (Italy) from 6th to 9th of May, 2018.
In May 2017 the 12th Delegate Assembly was held in Heraklion, Greece. The event had representatives from 18 different European countries who discussed the work done by young chemists during the past year and made future plans. New Board was elected (see the new members of the Board here).
In April 2016 the 11th Delegate Assembly was held in Guimarães, Portugal. The event had representatives from 16 different European countries who met to discuss the work of young chemists from the past year.
EYCN scientific contribution Prizes
One poster presentation prize was awarded during the Merck and Elsevier Young Chemists Symposium in Rimini (Italy) to Veronica Caratelli for the poster "Origami multiple paper-based electrochemical biosensors for pesticide detection".
One oral presentation prize was awarded during the XV Simposio de investigadores jóvenes de la Real Sociedad Española de Química in Toledo (Spain) to Ángela Martín-Serrano Ortiz.
One poster presentation prize was awarded during the 2nd Chemistry Conference of Graduate, Postgraduate students and PhD candidates at the Aristotle Universityde in Thessaloniki (Greece) to Despoina Andriotou.
One oral presentation prize was awarded during the 6th Conference of the Young Chemists of Serbia in Belgrade (Serbia) to Marta Spasić, and one poster prize was awarded to Stefan Pavlović at the same event.
Two poster prizes awarded during the Congress SCF18 in Montpellier and Toulouse (France) to Angelica Laurita and Vuk Vuković.
One poster prize awarded during the 70th Irish Universities Chemistry Research Colloquium in Queen's University Belfast (Ireland) to Vincent Duong.
One poster prize awarded during the 6th Portuguese Young Chemists Meeting (PYCheM) in Setúbal (Portugal) to Pedro Ferreira.
One poster prize awarded during the 35th Spring Meeting in Skorzęcin (Poland) to Zuzanna Lawera.
One oral presentation prize was awarded during the 20th JCF Spring Symposium in Konstanz (Germany) to Sebastian Lamping, and two poster prizes were awarded to Anna Gruszkiewicz and Natalia Wilkosz at the same event.
Six poster prizes awarded during the 14th Chemistry Conference for Young Scientists (ChemCYS) in Blankenberge (Belgium) – partial financial support by the EYCN.
Seven oral presentation prizes awarded during the 10th Trobada de Joves Investigadors dels Paisos Catalans in Barcelona (Spain) – partial financial support by the EYCN.
One poster prize awarded during the 25th Anniversary of Students' Section of Polish Chemical Society Winter Meeting in Bydgoszcz (Poland) to Natalia Jurga.
One best oral presentation prize awarded during the 1st Conference of Graduate and Postgraduate Chemistry Students in Thessaloniki (Greece) to Afroditi Vlachou.
One poster prize awarded during the Merck Young Chemists' Symposium (MYCS) in Milano Marittima (Italy) to Francesco Distante.
One poster prize awarded during the 5th Conference of the Young Chemists of Serbia in Belgrade (Serbia) to Dragana Barjaktarević.
One poster prize awarded during the 17th Austrian Chemistry Days in Salzburg (Austria) to Nastaran Hayati.
Two poster prizes awarded during the 69th Irish Postgraduate Colloquium in Dublin (Ireland) to Aishling Dunne and Vuslat Buk.
One poster prize awarded during the V Portuguese Chemistry Students Meeting Chemistry (ENEQUI) in Coimbra (Portugal) to Andreia Espirito Santo Cunha.
One poster prize awarded during the 22nd Hellenic Chemistry Conference in Thessaloniki (Greece) to Constantina Diamanti.
One poster prize awarded during the 4th Conference of the Young Chemists of Serbia in Belgrade (Serbia) to Sanja Stojanović.
One poster prize awarded during the 4th Journeys of Mediterranean Young Researchers (JMJC) in Nice (France) to Elena Bovio.
Two poster prizes awarded during the Merck Young Chemists Symposium (MYCS) in Riccione (Italy) to Claudia Caprini and Flavio di Pisa.
One poster prize awarded during the 4th Royal Society of Chemistry Early Career Symposium in Glasgow (UK) to Stacey Webster.
Two poster prizes awarded during the 15th Sigma-Aldrich Young Chemists Symposium (SAYCS) in Rimini (Italy) to Claudia Cioce and Arianna Rossetti.
One poster prize awarded during the 3rd Conference of the Young Chemists of Serbia in Belgrade (Serbia) to Stepan Stepanović.
The European Young Chemist Award 2018 (EYCA2018; http://eyca2018.org) was presented in Liverpool during the 7th EuChemS Chemistry Congress (7ECC). Under the patronage of EuChemS, the 7ECC and the European Young Chemists' Network (EYCN), EYCA2018 has been sponsored by the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) and the Federazione Nazionale degli Ordini dei Chimici e dei Fisici in Italy (FNCF). The award aims to showcase and recognize the excellent research being carried out by young scientists working in the chemical sciences. Researchers from all over the world applied to the award.
After being selected on the basis of the judgements of the Coveners of the 7ECC and/or of recognized experts in the field, the finalists presented their research by a talk in front of a jury composed by professors Luisa De Cola (University of Strasbourg), Christophe Copéret (ETH Zurich) and Gaetano Guerra (University of Salerno). At the competition were present Prof. Angela Agostiano and Dr. Nausicaa Orlandi, Presidents of the SCI and FNCF respectively, which sponsored the Prize for about 6000 euros. The Award Advisory Boardwere composed by Federico Bella (SCI), Nausicaa Orlandi (FNFC), Alice Soldà (EYCN), Victor Mougel (EYCN), Magnus Johnson (EYCN) and the general organization was by Camillo Sartorio. In the presence of Prof. Bruno Pignataro (Chair of the Award), Prof. Pilar Goya (the President of EuChemS) and Dr. Alice Soldà (the Chair of the European Young Chemist Network), the winners of the two categories covered by the EYCA (PhD level and level 35 years) were presented during the 7ECC closing ceremony.
At the 35 years old level won the EYCA2018 Alessandro Porchetta (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) and have got the two silver medals Matteo Atzori (University of Florence, Italy) and Simone Fabiano (Linköping University, Sweden). The winners of EYCA2018 at the PhD level were Tim Gatznmeier (Gold medal, Max Plank Institute für Kolenforshung, Germany), Lichen Liu (Silver medal; Valencia University, Spain) and Clément Larquet (Silver medal; Sorbonne University, France). A special mention was also given to Erica Del Grosso (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome).
Read the article "The European Young Chemist Award 2018" by Prof. Dr. Bruno Pignataro that was published in Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17164–17169 by following this link.
The European Young Chemist Award 2016 is intended to showcase and recognize the excellent research carried out by young scientists working in the chemical sciences.
Congratulations to the winners of the European Young Chemist Award – EYCA 2016!
At the PhD level, Guilio Ragazzon (University of Bologna) was honored with the gold medal and Mercedes Zurro de la Fuente (University of Regensburg) was honoured with the silver medal.
Special mentions were given to Federico Bella (Politecnico di Torino), Filippo Monti (CNR and University of Bologna), Bill Morandi (Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim) and Silvia Osuna (Universitat di Girona).
The awards were sponsored by the Società Chimica Italiana (SCI) and the Consiglio Nazionale dei Chimici (CNC), and the special mentions were sponsored by the Asociación Nacional de Químicos de España (ANQUE).
The 2016 award scheme operated under the patronage of EuChemS, SCI, CNC, EYCN and ANQUE.
For more information about the past EYCA awards click here.
To join in the special celebration of the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT 2019), EYCN organizes the second edition of its video competition Chemistry Rediscovered in honor of the IYPT. All young chemists and interested people of 12-35 years old are invited to send in videos on the theme "In Your Element". The best videos will be awarded wonderful Periodic Table related prizes and the main prize will be a trip to Paris! Read more in our Info sheet CR2018!
All details about the competition and how to participate can be found in the Rules and Regulations. For any further questions you may have, please contact the EYCN Science Team at
. Make sure to send us your video before the 31st of January 2019!
Chemistry Rediscovered – Playing with chemical reactions
On behalf of the European Young Chemists' Network (EYCN), the younger members division of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuChemS), we are very thankful for your participation in this first edition of the European video contest – Chemistry Rediscovered. This contest intended to promote chemistry among the young high-school students from all Europe. This was achieved with the help of teachers who developed scientific projects together with their students and encouraged them to present their findings in a form of a video-experiment, together with an accurate experimental protocol. We received a total of 15 amazing videos and experimental protocols from 8 participant countries and the quality and originality of the projects exceeded all expectations for this inaugural edition. It was a pleasure to watch every single one of them!
Please find below the overall classification of this competition and the videos that won the first three places.
Chemistry Rediscovered – Final results
1st Place 2nd Place 2nd Place 2nd Place 3rd Place
Portugal Portugal Greece Italy Belgium
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Here are some photos of the winners in 2016 from Portugal, enjoying their victory trip to London!
Thank you once again for your participation, we definitely hope to have you as participants in our upcoming events!
After a very successful project, the EYCN wants to thank our partner EVONIK and our sponsors BASF Romania and Brenntag Romania for all the help and support they contributed and an amazing cooperation.
You can read previous Rules and Regulations and Project Application for Chemistry Redoscovered 2016.
We are glad to share with you the videos of our new project carried out by our Science team, and in particular our delegate Antonio M. Rodríguez García, who interviewed more than 30 great scientists during the 7th ECC, including two Nobel Laurates, Prof. Ben Feringa and Prof. Frances H. Arnold, numerous significant names in the field, like Michael Grätzel, Jin-Quan Yu, Christopher Dobson any many more, without forgetting talented chemists from the new generation, the EYCA 2018 finalists!
Keep following us and subscribe to the EYCN YouTube channel and share these videos with your friends and colleagues!
European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST)
COST Action CM1407 "NATCHEMDRUGS" International Award for a young chemist awarded to Elena Lenci in Kracow (Poland) in 2017. Topic: "Challenging organic syntheses inspired by nature – from natural products chemistry to drug discovery".
Prof. Bruno Botta (chair of COST Action), Elena Lenci (COST Action 2017 winner), Dr. Federico Bella (EYCN representative)
COST Action CM1201 "Biomimetic Radical Chemistry" and the ITN "ClickGene" Prize awarded to Stella Totti in Grenoble (France) in 2016.
Ilya Vorotyntsev (EYCN representative), Stella Totti (COST Action 2016 winner)
Photochimica 2017
Radioactivity!
This was the theme of the previous (2017) edition of Photochimica, the European photography competition for scientific photography. The submission of photographs has ended and we received 35 photos from participants from 11 countries.
Take a look at the photos from the Photography in Chemistry (PC) section of Photochimica 2017:
Take a look at the photos from the Measurement Arts (MA) section of Photochimica 2017:
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The first Photochimica 2017 exhibition took place during the Medicina-Scientia-Culturae – International Conference devoted to the achievements of Maria Skłodowska-Curie in Warsaw, University of Technology, Medical University of Warsaw, University of Warsaw (Poland) on November 6-8, 2017.
For the rules and regulations, please visit this link.
The first European Photography Contest – Photochimica 2016
Under the slogan "Chemistry is everywhere!" the EYCN wanted to promote chemistry through visual arts and to show presence of chemistry in our daily life and situations.The competition was aimed at people under 35 years who are passionate in photography and chemistry.
Take a look at the photos form the Measurement Arts (MA) section of Photochimica 2016:
All the photographs are the property of the authors. Copyrights without the author's consent are forbidden and will be treated as a criminal act. The participants gave the organizers (EYCN) the right to reproduce their photographs s for promotional purposes of Photochimica 2016.
The EYCN program during the 7th EuChemS Chemistry Congress that took place in Liverpool from August 26-30, 2018 was designed especially for young chemists.
One of the speakers, Mr Mauro Davanzo, gave a talk titled "Young chemists in European industries: opportunities and challenges". We are sharing this presentation with our network and you can find the full PPT by clicking here.
Read the full program of the EYCN Symposium in 2018.
During the previous EuChemS Chemistry Conference (ECC) in Seville (Spain) in September 2016, the EYCN organized a four-day career event. These "EYCN Career Days" were filled with lectures and workshops which were specifically designed by young members and created for young chemists looking ahead to their future career in academia or industry. In order to achieve these series of events, the EYCN strongly collaborated with industry, academic (funding) institutions and publishing authorities. In addition, the event was jointly organized with the GDCh Career Services & RSC Careers.
See the complete program here
On behalf of the Science Team we would like to introduce you to the Global Periodic Table Competition project of IUPAC, which is organized to celebrate the 100th anniversary of IUPAC and the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table in 2019.
The main idea is to create an online game on a website in the shape of a Periodic Table, with one question for every element. When the website will be launched, chemists from all over the world will be able to play this game and learn more about the Periodic Table and the elements in a playful way. Also, participants can win amazing prizes, like the IUPAC Periodic Table signed by a Nobel Prize laureate.
IUPAC is currently designing this game and they need our help, as not every element has a question yet.
So we would like to encourage everyone who wants to be involved, to be creative and come up with some questions. More information and examples can be found here.
The names of all persons who participated in making this Global Activity will be mentioned on the website!
Please send your questions to
instead of the e-mail address mentioned in the document .
The EYCN News
Teams of the EYCN
Board of the EYCN
Useful Links and Member Societies
Chemistry across Europe


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PartyNextDoor has aided Mars' campaign for #1 by releasing his own "That's What I Like" remix. PND got his hands on the stems and laid down a leadoff verse and background vocals and harmonies over the remainder of the track. If his solo career fades for some reason, he'd be great as Bruno Mars' background singer.


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Check out some beautiful iterations of this trend below. And for those who enjoy DIY, Want That Wedding provides specific instructions on how to dip dye a dress.


Lucious has to tell Cookie the truth about Tracy.
In the process, he finds himself going up against an old foe. Kingsley makes a plan to destroy Empire.
However, Kai steps in to help Lucious and Andre find the person responsible for leaking all the information.
There's a link to Kingsley. Kai tries to reason with the man, and when he fails, Andre holds him out a window and threatens to throw him to his death.
The man tells the truth and gives them the hard drive. Lucious gets Kingsley to sign the firm back over to him and he does so.
Kingsley later shows up at the company and taunts Lucious by deleting some of his master copies.
But Lucious admits he had a terrible upbringing as well and said that they had a lot more in common than they think.
Cookie visits Tracy and asks what really happened. Tracy says that Lucious and Cookie made their money by getting people hooked on drugs.
That had an effect on Cookie as she set out to prove to Lucious they needed to change their ways.
Andre passed out at the wheel after driving his car.


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Jiří Vondráček (25. března 1927 Šatov – 16. července 2007 Brno) byl český publicista a novinář.

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Studoval gymnázium ve Znojmě a poté v Brně. Od roku 1946 studoval Právnickou fakultu Masarykovy univerzity, kde v roce 1950 získal titul JUDr. V padesátých letech pracoval v Jihlavě ve státní správě, po přestěhování do Brna na začátku šedesátých letech působil v informačním středisku BVV, poté v redakci Rovnosti. Od roku 1967 se stal v brněnském studiu Československé televize komentátorem zpravodajského vysílání a přímých přenosů publicistických pořadů "Noční služby" (jejich autorem byl Josef Lesovský; pořad přibližoval práci záchranářů, železničářů na hlavním nádraží v Brně atd.). Připravil také
několik zábavných soutěžních pořadů - například "Třicet bere" - jeden z prvních televizních soutěžních pořadů ČST, který i moderoval.

Během politického uvolnění v roce 1968 zval do televizních pořadů představitele tzv. progresivního křídla KSČ a popularizoval myšlenky Akčního programu KSČ. Stal se moderátorem nového diskusního pořadu Tribuna týdne. V srpnu 1968 po příchodu okupantů vysílal z utajených pracovišť. Byl mimo jiné režisérem posledního televizního pořadu s Hugo Haasem ve Vídni.

V roce 1969 z Československé televize propuštěn a byl odsouzen k nepodmínečnému trestu odnětí svobody na půl roku. Po odpykání trestu pracoval manuálně (mj. jako vrtač studní nebo dělník v Kovošrotu). Rehabilitován byl v roce 1990. Vrátil se k televizní práci, do roku 1992 se podíle na obnoveném pořadu Tribuna týdne.
V roce 1996 se stal nositelem Ceny města Brna v kategorii žurnalistika a publicistika.

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Gene Lyons column: A worldwide pandemic breathes life into conspiracy theories
Whenever somebody assures me that everything happens for a reason, it's normally my practice to tiptoe quietly away.
People are only trying to be nice. The notion that every kind of personal misfortune - each terrible accident or harrowing diagnosis, every pious wide-receiver rehabbing a bad knee - is part of God's plan to test our individual faith and resolve is most often a well-intentioned sentimental gesture.
Have faith, is all they're really saying. You're strong enough to handle it.
It's when people start getting specific about exactly what God's plan consists of and where fate and history are taking us that all the trouble starts. Folly and madness invariably follow. Once they bring the unintelligible prophecies of the Book of Revelation into it, it's too often a one-way trip to Crazytown with no return ticket.
So it is with the burgeoning religio-political cult calling itself QAnon, as described in an extraordinary piece of journalism in The Atlantic by Adrienne LaFrance. She correctly notes that "[t]he power of the internet was understood early on, but the full nature of that power - its ability to shatter any semblance of shared reality, undermining civil society and democratic governance in the process - was not."
I would argue that the historically unprecedented capacity of Froot Loops and lone dementos of every kind and description to wind each other up online constitutes as grave a threat to the republic as anything since the Confederate States of America. In his 1704 satire "A Tale of a Tub," Jonathan Swift depicted the religious zealots of his day gathered in a big circle, each with a bellows inserted into the posterior of the fellow in front of him, first pumping each other full of hot air and then discharging it in each other's faces.
QAnon's exactly like that, except online.
Remember that sad sack from North Carolina who shot up a Washington, D.C., pizza joint in December 2016 because he'd convinced himself that Hillary Clinton was operating a child sex and torture ring in the basement of a building that didn't actually have a basement?
Well, it turns out that he was a prophet.
LaFrance quotes University of Miami political scientist Joseph Uscinski, who studies conspiracy theories. Whether of the left or right, what they all have in common, he says, is "acceptance of the following propositions: Our lives are controlled by plots hatched in secret places. Although we ostensibly live in a democracy, a small group of people run everything, but we don't know who they are. When big events occur - pandemics, recessions, wars, terrorist attacks - it is because that secretive group is working against the rest of us."
In October 2017, see, somebody calling himself "Q" began posting cryptic comments on sites where right-wing zealots gather. Posing as an intelligence professional embedded deep in the "deep state," he predicted the imminent arrest and conviction of Clinton in the aforementioned child molesting conspiracy.
Needless to say, this hasn't happened, nor ever will. Also needless to say, however, millions of gullible nitwits obsessed with Hillary's multiple supposed homicides began wetting themselves in anticipation. (It's occurred to me that the manufacturers of Depends adult diapers could be behind the whole thing.)
Supposedly, special counsel Robert Mueller and Boss Trump himself were secretly working together to destroy Hillary's evil cabal. Also participating is the late John F. Kennedy Jr., who was either foully murdered by Hillary in 1999 or is Q's secret identity. Initiates differ on this question.
Seriously, they do.
Others believe that Q is none other than Trump himself. I remain agnostic on the question. But either way, Q kept dropping online clues, and nothing kept happening. The cult grew steadily larger. Then came the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, with its intimations of apocalypse, and a whole new cast of international malefactors got added to the suspect list: George Soros, Bill Gates, Rep. Adam Schiff and Dr. Anthony Fauci.
And now Joe Biden, recently accused of being a "child molester" by no less an authority than Donald Trump Jr.
Two and a half years on, LaFrance summarizes, and the "QAnon belief system looks something like this: Q is an intelligence or military insider with proof that corrupt world leaders are secretly torturing children all over the world; the malefactors are embedded in the deep state; Donald Trump is working tirelessly to thwart them. ('These people need to ALL be ELIMINATED,' Q wrote in one post.) The eventual destruction of the global cabal is imminent, Q prophesies, but can be accomplished only with the support of patriots who search for meaning in Q's clues. To believe Q requires rejecting mainstream institutions, ignoring government officials, battling apostates, and despising the press."
Well, I suppose everybody's got to have a hobby.
How seriously to take this particular threat to public sanity? Come November, we may find out.
Arkansas Times columnist Gene Lyons is a National Magazine Award winner and co-author of "The Hunting of the President" (St. Martin's Press, 2000). You can email Lyons at eugenelyons2@yahoo.com.


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Pelosi Spokeswoman About-face: Catholic Church "Clear" on Life Teaching After All – But Catholics Ne
By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., August 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A spokeswoman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the speaker's position as a "pro-abortion Catholic", not because the Church is unclear on when life begins, as earlier stated, but because Catholics routinely contravene "clear Catholic teaching" against abortion. In a statement praising Pelosi's appreciation for "the sanctity of the family," Brenda Daly, speaking for Pelosi, said, "While Catholic teaching is clear that life begins at conception, many Catholics do not ascribe to that view." In the controversial interview on NBC's Meet The Press that spawned Daly's statement, Pelosi had said, "The […]
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By Kathleen Gilbert
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A spokeswoman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the speaker's position as a "pro-abortion Catholic", not because the Church is unclear on when life begins, as earlier stated, but because Catholics routinely contravene "clear Catholic teaching" against abortion.
In a statement praising Pelosi's appreciation for "the sanctity of the family," Brenda Daly, speaking for Pelosi, said, "While Catholic teaching is clear that life begins at conception, many Catholics do not ascribe to that view."
In the controversial interview on NBC's Meet The Press that spawned Daly's statement, Pelosi had said, "The Doctors of the Church have not been able to make that definition [of when life begins]," and called it "an issue of controversy" throughout the history of the Church. "St. Augustine said at three months. We don't know," said Pelosi.
Brenda Daly's statement says that Pelosi is not justified in her pro-abortion stance due to vague Church teaching, but on the basis that many other "Catholics" also violate Church teaching.
Susan A. Fani, Director of Communications at the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, questioned the strength of Pelosi's newest argument: "So what?" she said.
"There are plenty of Catholics living a life rife with sin that seek to justify their behavior by saying they disagree with the Church on the source of their delinquency.
"Maybe that's the source of Pelosi's confusion – she really doesn't understand the difference between the teaching authority of the Catholic Church and the DNC."
Pelosi's new statement comes after a torrential response from Church officials condemning Pelosi's blatant misrepresentation of Church teaching and history, sparking coverage of the issue in several major news sources. (See LifeSiteNews.com article: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08082601.html)
Eighteen members of the House of Representatives have signed a letter to Pelosi exhorting her to back down from her misrepresentation of Catholicism and criticizing her statements that "mangle Catholic Church doctrine." (For the full letter, see: https://www.stoppingtoaskfordirections.blogspot.com/)
American Papist's Thomas Peters, the Catholic blogger who has followed closely what he calls "Pelosi-Gate", considers Pelosi's "absurd" comments a boon for Catholic bishops, who now have the ball "back in their court."
Peters says that because Pelosi continued to defend her statements, the bishops now "have the stage, an attentive audience, and a winning position."
To view Peters' blog, visit: https://www.americanpapist.com/blog.html
Related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
"Catholic" Speaker Pelosi Denies that Catholicism Condemns Abortion
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08082502.html
Cardinals, Bishops and Congressmen Slam Pelosi on Abortion
New York Cardinal – Pelosi Not Worthy of "Providing Leadership in a Civilized Democracy"


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The NYC Department of Education Makes 11-year Old Jonathan Lopez into A Sexual Predator
I represented children who were given Superintendent's Suspensions for 9 years. What a despicable process I saw at the West 125th Street NYC DOE Suspension Office!!! Once a child is suspended, the parents can declare no contest and the child goes right back to his/her school, scarred for life, or the parent can say they want to go forward to a hearing, and, in most cases, the child is found guilty and sent to a remote location where no meaningful learning takes place, and no services are provided, if the child has an Individualized Education Plan (IEP).
In the 9 years I assisted parents whenever requested, I never saw a child with a white face. Yep, that is right. Twice I saw a white face belonging to a lawyer who was at the hearing office to defend a child. 99% of the students were African-American or Hispanic. They were not informed of their rights, and the parents were clueless as well. All charges were never investigated, only substantiated.
The NYC Department of Education never appropriately addressed or investigated any of the charges in a case I was asked to work on. There is an institutionalized failure in the NYC DOE to look fairly into charges against a child. No rules or Regulations are followed, and if you bring the rules and regs not followed, you are attacked and vilified. This must change.
betsy@advocatz.com
Editor, Advocatz
This 11-year-old got wrongly caught up in Pervnado
December 30, 2017, NYPOST, Susan Edelman
Jonathan Lopez with dad Mahoma, was disciplined for "sexual" conduct at MS 88
Jonathan Lopez, a Brooklyn sixth-grader in a schoolyard tussle with two girls, got caught up in the sex-harassment tornado.
Jonathan insists he only tried to grab the water bottle and backpack of classmates who had tossed his stuff during lunchtime horseplay.
But the school charged him with "conduct of a sexual nature." He was accused of trying to touch one girl's breast and kiss her and of "humping" another girl from behind.
"Like, I'm not sexual," the baby-faced 11-year-old wrote in a city Department of Education statement. "I do dumb thing [sic] but I'm not sexual to girls."
The dean at MS 88 in Park Slope pressured him to admit lewd behavior or plead "no contest" and waive his right to a hearing, Jonathan told The Post.
"After what you did, I don't want to see you in my school," he said the dean, John Roumbeas, told him.
Jonathan refused. "I told him 'I'm not going to admit to it because I didn't do it.' "
MS 88 Principal Ailene Altman Mitchell (left) with NYC
Chancellor Carmen Farina
That day, the school banished Jonathan to a distant suspension center, populated by tough older kids who "bring knives," he said. "They roamed around the halls and didn't listen to the teacher."
In the end, a suspension judge found no evidence of breast-touching, kissing or humping and ordered Jonathan's "immediate reinstatement."
But he missed 16 days of classes.
"They treated him like a criminal," fumed his dad, Mahoma Lopez.
The tsunami of sex-harassment allegations in the news "escalated things" against his prepubescent son, Lopez suspects.
"They're real predators," he said of Harvey Weinstein and other offenders. "The school is making an example of my son. He's an innocent kid who just wants to play."
Maria Chickedantz, a feminist lawyer who has known Jonathan since he was 6 and took up his case, described him as sweet and friendly. "The kid hasn't even hit puberty yet. He's little and immature," Chickedantz said.
Jonathan's troubles started on Nov. 22, when a girl classmate complained that Jonathan had harassed her.
"He comes up to me (2 inches away) and pretends to sqush [sic] my chest. Then he runs away. I chase him to tell him to stop," her written statement says. "After he takes my water bottle and I have to chase him up and down and I chased him for 10 minutes. And he said, 'You should be my girlfriend. We can forget about what happened' " and he leaned in and tryed [sic] to kiss me. And he was about 1 foot away."
She said Jonathan had harassed her friend days earlier. That girl gave a statement: "I was walking with my friends when Jonathan comes out of no were [sic] and he lifts up my bag and he is touching my back and he starts humping me. I tell him to stop but he keeps doing it four more times. He humped me one last time and I almost fall down the stairs."
The Dec. 13 hearing was a bust. Roumbeas, the dean, did not show up, so the statements he took were not admitted as evidence.
The first girl who accused Jonathan also did not show. The second girl testified that Jonathan grabbed her waist but she never mentioned "humping."
Hearing officer Anthony Jordan sustained a sole charge that Jonathan "placed his hands" on the girl's waist. He ordered that records of the matter be expunged at the school year's end.
But Jonathan was still treated like a sex offender. On his first day back, the dean warned he was "in more trouble" for not confessing, Chickedantz wrote in an e-mail to Principal Ailene Altman Mitchell.
"Faculty, staff and students now see him as some sort of sexual predator, which is so unfair," Chickedantz wrote. "Even if the accusations were true, the manner in which the school . . . treated an 11-year old like a dangerous criminal was absolutely unacceptable."
Mitchell and Roumbeas did not return messages. DOE spokeswoman Miranda Barbot said, "The school followed protocol in reporting, investigating and addressing these incidents."
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Labels: 11 years old, Jonathan Lopez, MS 88, Principal Ailene Altman Mitchell, sexual predator
F.B.I. is Investigating the Payroll of New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo
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This is not the first time that we have read about the corruption of Andrew Cuomo and inside his administration. Far from it:
Ex-Cuomo Aides Charged in Federal Corruption Inquiry
Ex-Cuomo Aide Joseph Percoco to Face Charges in Bribery Probe
Federal investigators have interviewed several people who work in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office, but are
paid by other state agencies. CreditBryan Bedder/Getty Images for Unicef
but he won't be held accountable for anything. The Cuomo political bus is stronger and bigger than anyone else's, reaching into all areas of New York State media and business.
Cuomo Won't Face Federal Charges Over Moreland Ethics Panel
Cuomo Administration Faces an F.B.I. Investigation Into Payroll Practices
By SHANE GOLDMACHER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM DEC. 8, 2017, New York Times
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's hiring practices are under investigation, as F.B.I. agents and federal prosecutors have begun examining how staff members working in the governor's office are being paid by other New York State authorities and agencies.
The governor's office received a "document subpoena" months ago, according to Richard Azzopardi, a Cuomo spokesman. "We have cooperated, providing necessary documents," he said.
Mr. Azzopardi called the line of inquiry "absurd."
"The agencies are all part of the same executive branch, and this administration follows the exact same lawful hiring process we inherited from previous administrations stretching back decades," he said. "If there are questions about it, call George Pataki," referring to the three-term former Republican governor.
The F.B.I. inquiry was first reported by The Times-Union in Albany, which said that agents had interviewed "a number of people" who work in the governor's office, even though their salaries are carried on the budgets of other state agencies and authorities.
The investigation is being conducted by an F.B.I. agent in upstate New York, in conjunction with prosecutors in the United States attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, who could not explain the unusual arrangement.
John Marzulli, a spokesman for the United States attorney's office, would neither confirm nor deny the investigation. It was also unclear what law, if any, may have been broken.
F.B.I. investigations are nothing new in Albany, where the previous four leaders of the State Senate, two Democrats and two Republicans, have been indicted. The former United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, had previously investigated the Cuomo administration in a different matter, but never brought charges. And in January, one of Mr. Cuomo's closest former advisers, Joe Percoco, is scheduled to go on federal trial for corruption.
Although the timing of another federal investigation would seem inopportune for Mr. Cuomo, who is running for re-election next year, political observers seemed skeptical the investigation would lead to criminal charges.
"What's new here?" said Hank Sheinkopf, the longtime Democratic political strategist. "This tactic has gone on since the beginning of politics," he said, joking that they would need to interview aides to former governors as far back as Al Smith in the early 20th century.
Mr. Azzopardi went so far as to call it a "charade."
"In this environment, anyone can ask about anything," Mr. Azzopardi said, "but the fact is the longstanding practice of detailing staff from agencies to work in the executive chamber dates back over 50 years to at least the Rockefeller administration and extends to the White House and the Justice Department.
"Given that the federal Department of Justice and the White House have a long history of utilizing this practice, perhaps the F.B.I. can investigate them when this is charade is over," he added.
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On Tuesday, July 16, 2019, David Lee Henecke of Palo, Iowa passed away peacefully with his family by his side. A lifelong resident of the Cedar Rapids/Palo area, David was born on September 24, 1935 to Paul and Dorothy M. (Rudd) Henecke. On August 8, 1959 he married is wife Jane (Minor) of almost 60 years together and he loved her very much.
Visitation will be held Saturday, July 27th at Cedar Memorial's Chapel of Memories from 9:00 am to 11:00 am directly followed at 11:00 by a Celebration of Life ceremony. Private family Interment following the service.
David grew up on the northwest side of Cedar Rapids and as a boy, loved skating, sledding, skiing and was a 5-year member of the Cedar Rapids Drum and Bugle corps. As an adult, he served in the Navy for 4 years. Following the Navy, David returned to Cedar Rapids to begin his career that he loved for 42 years at Penford Products. Throughout his time there he took on every role assigned and ultimately advanced to a Supervisory role in the Refinery. He enjoyed the challenge and his commitment to his career was evident to all who knew him.
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