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Zillow accused of 'bugging' homebuyer visits to its website
The lawsuit, one of several filed this month against the real estate search portal on similar grounds, argues that Zillow is breaking the law by recording how consumers interact with its websites.
A new class action lawsuit accuses Zillow of digitally "watching over the shoulder" of people who visit its website, and argues that the company violates wiretapping laws.
Two consumers, Natalie Perkins and Kenneth Hassan, filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court in Washington, where Zillow is headquartered. The complaint alleges that Zillow deploys computer code that allows it to record a consumer's interaction with its website and then create a video reconstruction of those interactions. This amounts to an "invasion of the privacy rights of website visitors" and violates a Washington wiretapping law, according to the complaint.
The lawsuit also claims that recording consumers' online interactions "results in the electronic equivalent of 'looking over the shoulder' of each visitor to Zillow's website for the duration of their interaction with the website. ". Elsewhere in the complaint, he describes the "session replay code" used to record consumer activity as being deployed "undercover."
"Although session replay code is used by websites for legitimate purposes, it goes far beyond normal website analysis when it comes to collecting the actual content of communications between visitors. of the website and the websites," the lawsuit alleges.
Asked about the lawsuit, a Zillow spokesperson told Inman that the company "takes the privacy and security of user information very seriously."
"We are transparent with our users through our privacy policy," the spokesperson added, "which explains the types of information we collect when they use our apps and websites. lawsuit that was recently filed and we are currently reviewing it."
The lawsuit also names Microsoft as a defendant. Indeed, according to the lawsuit, Zillow contracts with the computer giant and other vendors to embed code that records consumer engagement with the website.
Later, the lawsuit also claims that users have an expectation of privacy. However, Session Replay Code can track "all mouse movements, clicks, scrolls, zooms, window resizes, keystrokes, text input, and many other forms of navigation and interaction of a user on the website".
While consumer privacy is a major concern of the lawsuit, it also suggests that deploying code to log consumer interactions with a website may expose people to the possibility of identity theft.
Although the lawsuit is new, the issues it focuses on have recently been raised in a number of other cases – all of which hint at a latent philosophical conflict over the nature of the internet and e-commerce. Earlier this month, for example, a man named Jamie Huber sued Zillow in federal court in Pennsylvania for using proofreading code technology. The case closely resembles Washington's new lawsuit and focuses on alleged violations of wiretapping laws.
Huber also sued hardware retailer Lowe's and travel giant Expedia over the same things, saying use of the replay code — and the e-commerce questions it raises — are widespread and not limited to Zillow alone.
But there are even more lawsuits than that.
Also earlier this month, another man, Ryan Margulis, sued Zillow in federal court in Illinois for using session replay technology. And at the same time, another person, Ashley Popa, sued Zillow in Pennsylvania for the same thing.
Many of the lawsuits are handled by the same teams of lawyers.
The deluge of cases hints at just how important internet user data has become for large enterprises, as well as the evolution of data collection. Indeed, even as it accuses Zillow of privacy violations, Washington's latest lawsuit acknowledges that customer data "is critically important to the success of a business."
Most consumers probably have a basic understanding that their data is collected from websites; people who Googled a new pair of shoes and then discovered that every ad they see now features those same shoes learned about real-time data collection. But these lawsuits nonetheless argue that consumers are wary of the use of their data and unaware that their entire interactions with a site can be recorded and re-enacted in video.
Ultimately, the various lawsuits call for jury trials.
It remains to be seen how they might pan out, whether they might end in settlements, and whether they might succeed in somehow reducing the use of session replay technology. But if any or all of the combinations prevail, they could ultimately reshape how big tech companies gauge their audience's engagement with their products.
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As November's 2018 midterm elections near, the University of Virginia's Center for Politics has rolled out a new forecasting tool to help Americans track and predict congressional and gubernatorial races in all 50 states and address polling concerns raised by the 2016 presidential election.
The center, founded and directed by University Professor of Politics Larry J. Sabato, partnered with the nonpartisan public opinion research firm Ipsos to launch the 2018 Political Atlas on Tuesday.
The atlas is an interactive map tracking every House, Senate and gubernatorial race in contention this year. It will be updated continually with data reflecting both qualitative analysis from the Center for Politics' publication, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and quantitative analysis from Ipsos' poll-based modeling and tracking of social media trends.
Users can view the national map or narrow the map to specific races by selecting different states and districts to learn more about each candidate, view that district's electoral history and see predictions and social media trends specific to that location.
Sabato and his team hope that the tool will provide a user-friendly, accurate way for Americans to track election predictions during a year with particularly high stakes, as Democrats are looking to gain the majority in both the House and the Senate, while Republicans are determined to defend their current position.
"At this point, it appears that the Democrats are at least small favorites to take the House of Representatives from the Republicans, but the GOP remains favored to hold the Senate," Sabato said. "This is the conclusion from both the most current Crystal Ball ratings and the Ipsos-based polling model.
Sabato and his team also hope the abundance of data showcased in the atlas will help address polling concerns raised during the 2016 presidential election, when the center's Crystal Ball, along with most national polls and news organizations, projected Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. In the end, Clinton won the popular vote while Trump won the Electoral College and the presidency. Following the election, Sabato urged polling companies across the country to reexamine their methods and develop more accurate models for this year's midterm elections.
In addition to Center for Politics predictions and the latest polls at the state and congressional district levels, atlas users can access Ipsos' social media analysis, which tracks social media mentions of all major candidates for Congress, Senate and governor in the U.S. across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, local news websites and other sites.
"This analyzes ongoing conversations on social media to identify which candidates are receiving more positive comments," Young said.
For example, in the race for a Texas Senate seat, Republican incumbent Ted Cruz has a slight edge over his opponent, Democrat Beto O'Rourke, in Ipsos polling. However, the social media metric shows more positive sentiment around O'Rourke, indicating the race could get closer. The atlas also highlights the top issues Texans are associating with the race on social media, which right now include the candidates' opinions on President Trump, health care and immigration.


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When it Comes to Restricting My Rights, the Burden of Proof is on YOU
Tim Lambert (the guy hard after John Lott) poo-poo's Glenn Reynold's take on increasing gun crime in England:
The story also states that gun crime has increased to 0.15 gun homicides in England and Wales per 100,000 population in the previous year, compared with 3.6 per 100,000 in the US. Reynolds take: gun control is "Not a smashing success, so far". Gun control may not be responsible for the difference, but it seems a bit much for pro-gunners to point to a gun homicide rate one twenty-fourth of that of the United States as evidence for a failure of gun control.
I took issue with Tim's position in his comments:
You miss the point. "Gun control" is supposed to control GUN violence. By extension, I suppose, all violence, but gun violence for certain. The mantra chanted at the (somewhat less than) Million Moms March was "England can do it, Australia can do it, we can too!" Well, England has systematically (through the death-by-a-thousand-cuts method) ensured that the law-abiding population is, for all intents and purposes disarmed. There are a few who still have rifles and shotguns (that they may not have for defensive purposes, must keep locked up separate from the also locked ammunition, etc., etc.) and it hasn't made them SAFER from gun crime. What so many gun control advocates so adroitly ignore is that England's firearm homicide rate has always been 1/20th of ours – REGARDLESS of the firearms laws in either country at the time. It was true in 1919 and it's still true today. You point to England's rate as if gun control were somehow responsible for it, and it's not. Correlation does not equal causation, but the facts remain that America has passed no significantly restrictive gun control laws and our homicide rates (historically very high) have dropped to the levels they were last in the 60's. England has passed ever-stricter gun control laws up to and including a ban on handguns (with all legally owned and registered ones handed in) and their gun crime is continually increasing.
So the typical reaction is: "It would have been worse if we hadn't passed these crucial laws!"
Horseshit.
To which Tim responded:
Kevin, I didn't say that English gun control was definitely responsible for keeping their gun crime rate far lower than the US one. It's possible that it would have stayed low anyway. But I don't see how you can rule out the possibility that the laws might have helped keep the rate low.
A few years ago, the gun crime rate in England was decreasing. Do you think that any of the pro-gunners reported that?
No changing the subject, Tim! My response was such that I felt it appropriate to copy the thread here:
Tim, "A few years ago, the gun crime rate in England was decreasing"? How many years ago, and how much? It's never been high – never – but that hasn't stopped ever more draconian "gun control" legislation from passing there. Now the law:
A) Bans all fully-automatic weapons
B) Bans all semi-auto and pump-action rifles
C) Severely restricts semi-auto and pump-action shotguns
D) Bans all modern handguns
E) Requires "safe storage" of the few weapons still legal
F) Prohibits carrying a firearm (or any other weapon) for self-defense
G) Requires all legally owned weapons to be registered and all legal owners to be licensed
H) Severely restricts (legal) firearms distribution
and so on and so forth.
All these things (we are told) will make us safer. Here's what we know:
1) The number of legal owners is at an all-time low.
2) England has never had a high homicide rate, but that rate is increasing, and the percentage committed with firearms (handguns in particular) has gone up since the ban.
3) Crime committed with handguns has significantly increased there.
4) Incidents of crime committed with fully automatic weapons are increasing there.
5) Incidents of crime involving hand grenades (easily smuggled along with firearms) have occurred.
And remember – England is an ISLAND. A fact hasn't affected "gun availability" to the criminally inclined.
AT BEST the gun control laws in England have affected "spree shootings" by licensed gun owners. (Hey, if it saves just one life!) But those incidents are extremely rare, and the net number of homicides doesn't seem to have been affected for the better.
"I don't see how you can rule out the possibility that the laws might have helped keep the rate low." I'm NOT ruling it out – I'm asking you to prove it. According to the recent CDC report, all the gun control laws passed here have proven inconclusive in their effectiveness. I'd say the same can be said of England's.
I believe there is an individual right of law-abiding citizens to possess weapons for defense of themselves and the state. I believe the Second Amendment of the Constitution guarantees us that right will not be infringed by the government. I believe that the laws of England are offensive to that right, but it's their country. I believe that gun control activists here want to pass laws identical to those of England. I believe that's unconstitutional, and if allowed will do irrepairable damage to our individual rights. I also believe that, once the law-abiding are disarmed, our criminal class (which has never been shy about shooting people) will have a free playing field and our rates of firearm-involved crime will skyrocket.
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The burden of proof isn't on the gun rights side.


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Sorriso will be introducing their Bistro Menu starting this Friday 28th August 2015. The menus offer a good value for money light but good quality meals – which will only be available from 11 am till 5pm daily to cater mostly to the lunch and tea crowd. The menus will be rotated every week to ensure diners will have a chance to savour and look forward to new dishes every week! Let's have a look at the appetizers for this coming week!
The first of the three appetizers from their bistro menu – Bruschetta Nicosia which is lightly toasted bread topped with tuna, herbs, beans, eggs and cherry tomatoes.
Champignon Mushrooms in a creamy pesto sauce! YUM!
Usually turkey can be overcooked – tasting dry and rubbery but the one I had at Sorriso is perfectly cooked to a moist tender texture!
Moist turkey breast for lunch? Yes please!
Next on the list is one of Chef Salvo's fav childhood snacks in Italy ~~ fried calzone! which is pizza dough stuffed with pizza toppings – but instead of being baked in the oven – this one is DEEP FRIED!! OOoooo My GIANT Italian Style Curry Puff! LOL – GIVE IT TO ME!!
While it might not be your usual arborio rice ~~ this risotto is creamy and matches the lamb stew well ~~ bon appetit!
For desserts – I have to say these orange and lemon tarts are SIMPLY DELICIOUS! I wished I could order more ~~~ highly recommended!
For more information – call the phone number to enquire about their Bistro Menus – which will be rotated from time to time! Remember it's only available from 11am till 5pm.


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Catch a glimpse of Mount Hood and the Willamette River while riding across the largest car-free bridge in the US.
Named after the local Chinook word for "people," the bridge honors the Native American civilizations indigenous to the area, while helping to connect all people who ride, cycle, walk and run across it.
Tilikum Crossing connects Portland's South Waterfront with the Central Eastside. This cable-stayed bridge boasts roomy bike and pedestrian paths (14 feet wide!) and shuttles light rail, streetcar and bus passengers across the Willamette. As you cross the bridge, keep an eye out for the things that make it so unique. The bridge's lighting changes depending on the temperature, depth, and speed of the river. And if you look closely, you can find osprey nesting poles at either end.
The Eastside at SE 2nd Pl at Tilikum Way station. Ride across the bridge, then make your first left toward downtown on SW Moody Ave. Drop your bike at the SW Moody at Aerial Tram Terminal station. Then take flight via the Portland Aerial Tram.
The South Waterfront at Tilikum West at SW Moody station. Ride across the bridge towards the Central Eastside, and drop off your bike at the base of the bridge at SE 2nd Pl at Tilikum Way. Next, you can walk a few blocks north to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI).
The total distance of this ride is 0.6 miles, which takes most people about 10 minutes on a BIKETOWN bike, depending on how often you stop to admire the view.
You get 180 minutes of cumulative ride time with a BIKETOWN Day Pass, and if you want to ride longer, it's only an extra 10 cents per minute. So if you want to take a longer ride, make your way over to the Eastside, head north along the water and connect with the scenic Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade. With 12 bridges crossing the Willamette, Portland has earned the nickname 'Bridgetown.' Which bridge will you visit next?
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I think I was a bit annoyed at times with how angry Grace tended to get. And how she didn't seem to be able to see what kinds of stupid mistakes she was making. But, I think that she was pretty realistically portrayed for what happened to her.


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Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)
Patty Murray (D-Wash.)
Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
Christopher S. Murphy (D-Conn.)
Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)
Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.)
Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.)
Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)
Rob Portman (R-Ohio)
Gary Peters (D-Mich.)
Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
David Perdue (R-Ga.)
Jack Reed (D-R.I.)
Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
Pat Roberts (R-Kan.)
Jim Risch (R-Idaho)
Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
Mike Rounds (R-S.D.)
Bernard Sanders (ID-Vt.)
Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)
Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.)
Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)
Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)
Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.)
Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii)
Ben Sasse (R-Neb.)
Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska)
John Thune (R-S.D.)
Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.)
Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)
Tom Udall (D-N.M.)
David Vitter (R-La.)
Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)
Mark Warner (D-Va.)
Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
Represented Montana. This was his 9th year in the Senate. He is a current member of Congress.
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Represented Delaware. This was his 7th year in the Senate. He is a current member of Congress.
Jon Tester and Christopher A. Coons are from the same party and agreed on 88 percent of votes in the 114th Congress (2015-16).
But they didn't always agree. Out of 483 votes in the 114th Congress, they disagreed on 60 votes, including 10 major votes.
Senate Vote 161
On the Motion
Dec. 9, 2016 — A bill making appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes.
Motion Agreed to by a margin of 27 votes.
June 29, 2016 — A bill to reauthorize and amend the National Sea Grant College Program Act, and for other purposes.
On the Cloture Motion
June 20, 2016 — A bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes.
Cloture Motion Rejected by a margin of 12 votes.
On the Conference Report
Oct. 7, 2015 — An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.
Conference Report Agreed to by a margin of 43 votes.
June 24, 2015 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal law enforcement officers, firefighters, and air traffic controllers to make penalty-free withdrawals from governmental plans after age 50, and for other purposes.
Cloture Motion Agreed to by a margin of 23 votes.
On Passage of the Bill
May 22, 2015 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a right to an administrative appeal relating to adverse determinations of tax-exempt status of certain organizations.
Bill Passed by a margin of 25 votes.
May 21, 2015 — In the nature of a substitute.
Senate Vote 49
Jan. 29, 2015 — A bill to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Sept. 27, 2016 — In the nature of a substitute.
On the Motion to Table
Sept. 21, 2016 — A joint resolution relating to the disapproval of the proposed foreign military sale to the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of M1A1/A2 Abrams Tank structures and other major defense equipment.
Motion to Table Agreed to by a margin of 44 votes.
July 6, 2016 — A bill to reauthorize and amend the National Sea Grant College Program Act, and for other purposes.
June 9, 2016 — To authorize parity for defense and nondefense spending pursuant to the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.
On the Joint Resolution
May 25, 2016 — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Secretary of Agriculture relating to inspection of fish of the order Siluriformes.
Joint Resolution Passed by a margin of 12 votes.
On the Motion to Proceed
Motion to Proceed Agreed to by a margin of 17 votes.
May 24, 2016 — A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to the definition of the term "Fiduciary".
On the Amendment
May 11, 2016 — To use Federal and State expertise to mitigate fish and wildlife impacts at Corps of Engineers projects.
Amendment Rejected by a margin of 21 votes.
April 7, 2016 — To require the Federal Aviation Administration to establish minimum standards for space for passengers on passenger aircraft.
March 10, 2016 — A joint resolution relating to the disapproval of the proposed foreign military sale to the Government of Pakistan of F-16 Block 52 aircraft.
Feb. 2, 2016 — To establish a Federal energy efficiency resource standard for electricity and natural gas suppliers.
Amendment Rejected by a margin of 9 votes.
Dec. 18, 2015 — A bill making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes.
Dec. 3, 2015 — An act to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.
Dec. 3, 2015 — To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the special rule for seniors relating to the income level for deduction of medical care expenses, and for other purposes.
Amendment Agreed to by a margin of 21 votes.
Nov. 10, 2015 — An act to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.
Oct. 22, 2015 — To prohibit liability immunity to applying to private entities that break user or privacy agreements with customers.
Oct. 22, 2015 — In the nature of a substitute.
On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
July 22, 2015 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt employees with health coverage under TRICARE or the Veterans Administration from being taken into account for purposes of determining the employers to which the employer mandate applies under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Agreed to by a margin of 26 votes.
July 16, 2015 — To amend the allocation of funds under subpart 2 of part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
July 15, 2015 — To amend the accountability provisions.
July 15, 2015 — To ensure that States measure and report on indicators of student access to critical educational resources and identify disparities in such resources, and for other purposes.
July 15, 2015 — To establish a climate change education program.
June 16, 2015 — To reform procedures for determinations to proceed to trial by court-martial for certain offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Amendment Rejected by a margin of 1 vote.
May 22, 2015 — To prohibit the application of the trade authorities procedures to an implementing bill submitted with respect to a trade agreement that includes investor-state dispute settlement.
May 22, 2015 — To make it a principal negotiating objective of the United States to address currency manipulation in trade agreements.
April 15, 2015 — An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025.
March 27, 2015 — To prohibit increasing the public debt limit under reconciliation.
March 26, 2015 — To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting privately held water rights and permits.
March 26, 2015 — To establish a spending-neutral reserve fund relating to prohibiting funding of international organizations during the implementation of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty prior to Senate ratification and adoption of implementing legislation.
On Overriding the Veto
March 4, 2015 — A bill to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Veto Sustained by a margin of 25 votes.
Jan. 29, 2015 — To delay the effective date until the President determines that the pipeline will not have certain negative impacts.
Jan. 28, 2015 — To modify the definition of underground injection.
Jan. 28, 2015 — To require that the Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration make a certification and submit to Congress the results of a study before the pipeline may be constructed, connected, operated, or maintained.
Jan. 28, 2015 — To provide communities that rely on drinking water from a source that may be affected by a tar sands spill from the Keystone XL pipeline an analysis of the potential risks to public health and the environment from a leak or rupture of the pipeline.
Jan. 22, 2015 — To ensure that products derived from tar sands are treated as crude oil for purposes of the Federal excise tax on petroleum.
Senate Vote 8
Jan. 21, 2015 — To ensure that the storage and transportation of petroleum coke is regulated in a manner that ensures the protection of public and ecological health.
Jan. 8, 2015 — In the nature of a substitute.


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Woman We Love: Zarina Nares
You would be forgiven for thinking Zarina Nares was a contemporary of Nina Simone or Ella Fitzgerald. After all, the quality of her voice is of a different era — a gorgeous, throaty warble meant for listening to on a crackly vinyl or through the haze of a dark, smoky club. Nevermind the fact that she is only 21 years old. Songs to Sway To, the New York-born, Los Angeles-based musician's new EP, is a timeless piece of work that at once haunts, rouses, and delights. The sometimes-model — who's arresting gaze and pillowy lips have bewitched designers like Maria Stanley and Desiree Klein — just wants to move you.
"I have just these very distinct memories of seeing someone perform or hearing someone, and going, 'I want to do that,' because it would just make me feel a certain way," she says. "I want to do that to somebody else." Meet Zarina.
WHAT WAS INSPIRING YOU WHEN WRITING SONGS TO SWAY TO? I guess they're all sort of love-inspired, but I don't think they talk directly about a specific romantic relationship, more just about different feelings in love and then different feelings that come with that. "Playboy"'s a bit cheeky, I think. It's kind of about being a young girl in LA and dealing with older men who think it's appropriate to treat you in a way that I don't think is appropriate. And I usually, probably once a month, will write a song about that type of situation, because I feel like it's something that comes with living in LA and being a young woman, which is unfortunate. And then the other songs are really just about being in love and the different ways that we feel that. You know, being in love is not necessarily always a happy feeling, but it isn't necessarily being heartbreak either.
LOVE IS ONE OF THOSE EMOTIONS THAT NEVER SEEMS TO HAVE A STRAIGHT ANSWER. Right, yeah. And it seems like with every experience with love you still don't understand it, you know? It's in a way it just can't really be learned or taught. I feel like every experience with love is like a new experience, no matter what relationship you're in, whether it's a friendship or with a family member. It's just always weird and confusing. And so I think that's why so many musicians write about that. They say 'love-crazy' or 'love makes you crazy,' but it's true, it makes you do so many weird things and act in such weird ways and so I think just writing about that, especially as a young girl experiencing a lot of feeling for the first time, writing about that is just a way of making sense of all of that.
BLUES IS A GOOD GENRE FOR THAT, TOO. DO YOU REMEMBER THE MOMENT YOU FIRST REALLY RESONATED WITH IT? There was a clear moment in my life when my idea of music sort of shifted. I was a musical theatre kid. Like, super not cool. I thought I was put on this earth to play Sandy in Grease, was doing classical vocal training, and studying opera. And then in an English class, in sophomore year of high school, we were studying poetry and my teacher opened one of the lessons playing "You Don't Know What Love Is" by Billie Holiday. And that was just a complete shift for me. I remember crying in class and it was the first time, I think, that I felt truly affected by a song. And that sort of opened up this whole new world of music and what music's purpose is.
YOU'VE GOT SOME GREAT COVERS ON YOUR SOUNDCLOUD: "(SITTIN' ON) THE DOCK OF THE BAY" BY OTIS REDDING, "YOU KEEP ME HANGIN' ON," BY THE SUPREMES. WHAT IS IT ABOUT SOULFUL MUSIC THAT YOU'RE DRAWN TO? I think what is so special about jazz and blues and soul is — it's so hard to describe — but I genuinely feel something inside me light up. It's just magical and it feels like there's just this connection that I have with the music. I mean, I can dance to other stuff and enjoy listening to other music, but it's just something about soulful music. It's just so honest, it pushes every single button inside me. And I think also I'm a very sensitive person. I feel a lot and I react very strongly to things that happen to me in my life, just in general, so I think that's just the type of music that comes naturally with that, in a way. I just remember there's been so many points in my life where I have just these very distinct memories of seeing someone perform or hearing someone, and going, 'I want to do that,' because it would just make me feel a certain way. It was powerful. And I would be like, 'I want to do that to somebody else.' I just think that's the music that feels natural to me and I could eventually make someone else look at me and go, 'Wow, I want to be able to do that.'
YOU POSTED A BEAUTIFUL PHOTO ON INSTAGRAM ON FATHER'S DAY OF YOUR DAD [JAMES NARES] BUSKING IN CENTRAL PARK IN THE '70S. WITH HIM BEING AN ARTIST AND A MUSICIAN, DID HE PLAY A BIG ROLE IN ENCOURAGING YOU CREATIVELY? Yes. Without a doubt. Both my parents, really, but my dad was constantly encouraging myself and my sister to be expressing ourselves, and creating things, and doing things that made us happy. He's an extremely supportive person. He moved to New York City when he was just under 20, I think, in the '70s, from England, and just started painting and working on his artwork. And so I think he's just very understanding of that feeling and that necessity for me, because that's what I did — I moved to Los Angeles when I was 17 to pursue music and so, in a way, I feel like I'm following in his footsteps.
YOUR MOM DID BEAUTY CREATIVE DIRECTION FOR BRANDS LIKE CHANEL, TOO. WERE YOU CONSTANTLY SURROUNDED BY MUSIC, ART AND FASHION GROWING UP? Yeah. I had a very unusual upbringing. It feels completely normal to me, but yeah, you know, I grew up in New York City, which already is kind of an interesting place to grow up for that reason. There's just so much going on, all the time. We grew up living with my mom in Tribeca, my dad lived in Chelsea, but he would come over every night for dinner. Tons and tons of fashion photography books lining all the walls. Just anyone you could possible think of, my mother has their book. And then magazines everywhere. At one point, I think we had every Vogue from 1990 to 2010, or something. Vogue, and W and Harper's Bazaar, and Interview — just tons of magazines everywhere. And then my dad, always coming around and taking us to his studio, and we would go to gallery openings on Thursday nights in Chelsea. I was saying to someone the other day, 'I grew up running around gallery openings from the moment I could walk to, by the time I was 10, eating snacks after school in an advertising focus group about what the next Calvin Klein fragrance should be named.' So it was just a lot of creativity around me at all times. And, truthfully, it just seemed normal. But now, I consider myself very lucky and really grateful to have been given the life that I've been given.
HOW DO YOU THINK THAT ENVIRONMENT SHAPED YOUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS STYLE? I think growing up with a mother who works in fashion, we were always pretty up to date on what was cool or trendy and what not. But, I think also my parents are both just, like, effortlessly cool-looking people. And while they're stylish in their own ways, they're very much individuals, and I think that's really what's shaped my style. I wear what makes me feel good and my mom would always say, 'If you feel good in your outfit, you'll have a great day.' She loves to wear Chanel. She'd always be in her Chanel mini-dresses and I think I have that in my mind, always. And I find that as I've gotten older, I've started dressing more and more like my mother. My mother walks into a room and generally stands out. In New York, where everyone wears black, my mom would always be in a hot pink mini-dress or something. And gold jewelry.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONAL STYLE? Well, a friend said this once to me and I like it: a modern-day Edie Sedgwick, maybe? I like something that I can wear during the day and then go to a party as well and it still kind of works. But, yeah, I guess fun and colorful. Mismatchy. Lots of prints and patterns.
DO YOU THINK WORKING IN BOTH FASHION AND MUSIC WILL LEND A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE TO EACH OTHER? I think that the two worlds are very different, but I think they both help one another. A lot of people will ask if music has helped build confidence for modeling, which I think is so funny, because I'm like, 'no, it's the complete opposite.' Modeling has completely built confidence in music, because modeling is like playing house for a living. It's just getting to play pretend, which is so fun — you get to dress up and be a new person each job, depending on that magazine or whichever clothing company. And music is really just the complete opposite. It's everything stripped away and it's just myself not getting to pretend to be anybody else. I think both things are slowly helping me build more confidence in myself, which is good, and I think as one thing helping the other — I hope that modeling helps music more. My goal, really, is to one day just get to be a musician. Modeling is very fun, but music is really just what I know in my heart I'm meant to do.
FINALLY, WHAT'S BEST SONG TO SWAY TO AND THE PERFECT OUTFIT TO SWAY IN? [giggles] It would have to be "You and Me" by Penny & the Quarters. And perfect outfit to sway in… Gosh. I would say a mini red dress. Nothing body con, ever, if you're planning on swaying. I mean, no body con in general.
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By Yasmine Shemesh.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
Author Rebecca WayPosted on June 26, 2017 June 26, 2017 Categories Feat.Tags artist, blues, inspiration, jazz, los angeles, model, music, new york, soul, style
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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Paper Mâché Dream Balloon
11th Oct 2020 ~ George's Music Blog
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are a band celebrated as much for a constant willingness to experiment as for their prolificness, and ability to package their varied musical experiments into coherent and distinctive albums. They hit a creative peak in 2017, when they seemingly attempted to release as many albums as their name has syllables (well nearly – they managed five).
I joined them at Sketches of Brunswick East, a collaboration with fellow psychedelic outfit, Mild High Club. Named in homage to Miles Davis', Sketches of Spain (Brunswick East being the Melbourne neighbourhood where the band's studio is situated), that album was a departure from their usual guitar-heavy psyche-rock garage-band full-frontal assault, instead meandering effortlessly through acid jazz, folk, soft-rock, and various other psychedelic avenues in a way that reminds me, among other things, of Aja by Steely Dan.
Although Paper Mâché Dream Balloon is the work of the 'Gizzard alone, it feels like a fitting precursor to Sketches. There is none of the overdriven guitar distortion and friction of 2016's frantic Nonagon Infinity. Everything is smooth smooth smooth and all throughout the mood feels peppy and jolly. But linger a little longer, listen closer to the lyrics and everything is not as the faux-twee pastoral scene of the cover art would have you believe.
Opening track, Sense feels like a lamentation of society's careless attitude to the natural environment: 'the mother taking care of us'. The easy-listening production and breezy vibe of the tune are diametrically opposed to the resigned lyrics: 'But in fact it's a pattern, everything I hear will always make me ashen'.
Next up on Bone, the jaunty flute and warm acoustic guitar could have you visualising the first wave of British psychedelia in the late 1960s and scenes of cheerful folk wearing white linen and dancing in a flowery meadow. But much like the sinister underbelly concealed beneath the beatific smiles of the villagers on Summerisle, the lyrics tell a different story: 'Hands and toes, feet and head, Carrion to be fed, Any dog can chew over my bone, And all my wine's gonna turn into blood, When my name is called, I'm just a pile of bone.' Maybe it's a musing on our ultimate fate when we die: or at least our ultimate nature when all's said and done: flesh and bone.
On the title track, it seems we've reached the heart of the darkness of the album – which to me is feeling more and more like the recounting of the various stages of an existential crisis/psychotic breakdown. Although it sounds lovely to be 'stuck in a daydream, under a moonbeam' as frontman Stu Mackenzie sings, backed again by cheerful flutes, all isn't well: 'Are you eluding that I am brooding? Moping around on my own…Head on my pillow at home'. When trouble comes, the solution seems to be to stick it to a dream balloon and kick it out the door, but like anyone suffering repressed anxiety, he can't seem to help hiding it in his drawer instead.
Trapdoor at least is overt in its warning of imminent jeopardy, and the lyrics hammer home the threat: 'And everybody knows what's under the door, And everybody goes to great lengths for sure, To hide themselves away, And keep the beast at bay'. But is the ambiguity of the lyrics actually a Freudian slip that reveals who the real beast is, of whom we should be afraid? Are we the beast hidden under the trapdoor?
Maybe a break-up is the cause of our protagonist's personal crisis, as on Cold Cadaver he laments 'This can't be over', seemingly likening a failed relationship to a corpse (hey – we've all been there). The theme continues on The Bitter Boogie, which seems to fit the aftermath of a break-up: "I really hate the way it messes my mind up, And all it makes me say, I know it comes off bitter." As with all the tracks on this album, the production and arrangements are at complete juxtaposition to the lyrical content. The Bitter Boogie has an irresistible psychedelic blues-y groove, Time=Fate is woven from the same Paisley cloth as much of the first half of the album and comes across similar to fellow musical chameleons, Of Montreal – another act adept at marrying darkly complex lyrical themes with sprightly psychedelic pop and faithfully reconstructed retro production.
Album closer, Paper Mache is a short instrumental piece in much the same vein as the rest of the record, with the flute taking the lead. Maybe I've just listened to this too much in a short space of time, but I could swear it incorporates melodies from several (if not all) of the album tracks as it winds to a close, like a short highlights reel at the end of the show. The album is finally closed by a sequence of high-pitched noises which sounds like it could be one of the previous tracks pitched up a few notches and played backwards. I don't know if there's any hidden messages to be found in that, if so I'll leave it Reddit.
Nearly all the tracks on Paper Mâché Dream Balloon clock in at under three minutes, so the whole album is barely longer than half an hour – so you could say 'short and sweet'. And when I was first listening to it, I found the jauntiness and jolliness and the folksy production maybe a bit too sweet. But once the irrestibly catchy tunes got their hooks in me, and the sense of the lyrics came to the fore, the sweetness melted away: leaving an album of beautifully woven psychedelic pop with much going on beneath the surface.
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Гервазий Людвик Оскерко (1700—1771) — государственный деятель Великого княжества Литовского, староста гродский мозырьский (с 1724), чашник великий литовский (1748—1764), референдарий великий литовский (1764—1771).

Биография
Представитель литовского шляхетского рода Оскерко герба «Мурделио». Сын каштеляна новогрудского Антония Оскерко (ок. 1670—1734) и Софии Календы. Братья — Рафаил Алоизий, Михаил Стефан, Казимир Мацей, Марцин Теодор и Богуслав Леопольд Оскерки.

Избирался послом (депутатом) на сеймы в 1724, 1726, 1733, 1740, 1744, 1746, 1748, 1750, 1752, 1760, 1764 и 1766 годах.

В 1733 году он был избран полковником Мозырьского повета и подписал элекцию короля Станислава Лещинского. Принимал активное участие в борьбе арендаторов «Нойбургских имений» против Радзивиллов. В 1737 году был избран депутатом и стал кандидатом на должность маршалка главного трибунала ВКЛ, но был избран маршалком казенного трибунала.

С начала 1740-х годов он сотрудничал с Сапегами и Чарторыйскими. Перед трибуналом ВКЛ в 1743 году Гервазий Людвик Оскерко считался общим кандидатом Чарторыйских и Сапег на должность маршалка литовского трибунала. Помог ловчему ВКЛ Михаилу Антонию Сапеге быть избранным депутатом в Мозыре и стать маршалком литовского трибунала.

В конце августа 1743 года князья Чарторыйские перед попыткой создания антикоролевского рокошей в ВКЛ собрали на совещание в Волчине своих сторонников, среди которых был и Гервазы Людвик Оскерко. В 1747 году он рассматривался как возможный кандидат на пост маршалка Трибунала ВКЛ 1748 года. Пользовался даже поддержкой недружественных ему Радзивиллов, но отказался претендовать на должность.

В 1752-1756гг. в Гродно проходили заседания Задворно-асессорского Литовского суда по делу Гервазия-Людвига Оскерко с кн. Геронимом-Флорианом Радзивиллом об установлении границ между имениями Веркалы и Греск и захвате земель и лесов крестьянами кн. Радзивилла.

Поддерживал программу Чарторыйских по реформе государственного устройства. Находился среди их сторонников и после разрыва Чарторыйских с королевским двором. В мае 1764 года Гервазий Людвик Оскерко был послом Генеральной конфедерации ВКЛ в Санкт-Петербург для обеспечения российской поддержки князьям Чарторыйским и их кандидату на престол Станиславу Августу Понятовскому.

В 1768 году Гервазий Людвик Оскерко выступал против призыва российских войск в Речь Посполитую для борьбы против Барской конфедерации.

Семья
Жена — Тереза Тизенгуаз, дочь великого литовского писаря Михаила Бенедикта Тизенгауза. Их дети:
 Людвик
 Игнацы
 Кароль Гервазий
 Констанция Мария, жена конюшего ВКЛ Доминика Александровича
 Каролина Элеонора, жена старосты жемайтского Антония Онуфрия Гелгуда
 Аниела Анна, жена Яна Зелинского.

Источники
 Мацук А. Аскерка Гервазы Людвік // Вялікае княства Літоўскае: Энцыклапедыя. У 3 т. Т.3: Дадатак. А — Я / Рэдкал.: Т. У. Бялова (гал.рэд.) і інш.; Маст. З. Э. Герасімовіч. — Мн.: БелЭн, 2010. — 696 с.: іл. С. 43. ISBN 978-985-11-0487-7

Оскерко
Референдарии великие литовские
Чашники великие литовские
Старосты мозырьские
Депутаты Сейма Речи Посполитой


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Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice
Assessing written communication skills using a Continua Model of a Guide to Making Judgments (GTMJ)
Peter R. Grainger, University of the Sunshine CoastFollow
Michael Christie, University of the Sunshine Coast
Michael Carey, University of the Sunshine Coast
Written communication skills are one of the most assessed criteria in higher education contexts, especially in humanities disciplines, including teacher education. There is a need to research and develop an assessment grading tool (i.e. criteria sheet or rubric) that would assist students in pre-service teacher education programs to better understand and practice written communication and to assist markers when grading academic essays that include this criterion. When rubrics are used the criterion that covers the written communication skills part of the task is often too general to truly assist students to know what they must do in order to obtain the grade to which they aspire. Using substantive conversation in focus group discussions, we defined written communication and designed a criteria sheet using a model known as the Continua model of a Guide to Making Judgments (GTMJ). We found that this tool not only had the potential to help students to better understand key features of good written communication in an academic context, but also to assist assessors to focus on standards descriptors or 'threshold' qualities of written communication when grading students' academic essays.
Grainger, P. R., Christie, M., & Carey, M. (2019). Assessing written communication skills using a Continua Model of a Guide to Making Judgments (GTMJ). Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.14453/jutlp.v16i2.3
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A few Heisman voters didn't have Joe Burrow on their ballots at all
Dustin Schutte | 3 years ago
Joe Burrow was a heavy favorite to win the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night. It had been that way ever since LSU defeated Alabama on Nov. 9, all but clinching an SEC West title for the Tigers.
Everything worked out in Burrow's favor on Saturday night in New York. The LSU quarterback was the winner of the 2019 Heisman Trophy, becoming the second LSU player in history to claim the award. Heading into the night, there wasn't much doubt Burrow would be holding the award.
It almost felt like Burrow would be a unanimous choice for the award. That wasn't the case, though. And, in fact, a handful of voters didn't even have the LSU quarterback included on their ballots.
According to Dane Brugler of The Athletic, 4.5 percent of the 870 Heisman Trophy voters didn't include Burrow in one of the three spots on their ballots. That would be about 39 voters that didn't have Burrow on the list.
That's not a high total, but it seems strange considering the impressive season Burrow had. In the end, it didn't matter, but it's an interesting note from Saturday night.
Joe Burrow was left off 4.5% of Heisman ballots.
Reveal yourselves.
— Dane Brugler (@dpbrugler) December 15, 2019
Burrow threw for 4,715 yards and 48 touchdowns while completing passes at a 78 percent clip. The Tigers finished the year 13-0 and defeated Georgia in the SEC Championship Game. LSU is ranked No. 1 and will take on No. 4 Oklahoma in the Peach Bowl in the College Football Playoff semifinal round.
It's another opportunity for Burrow to prove he's the best player in college football this season.


Product Talk Make better product decisions.
"Angry customers are like a tire that's full of air, and you want them to defuse themselves by talking it out," says Segel, author of Retail Business Kit for Dummies. "Be empathetic by saying, �Tell me more. These are the things we need to hear.'"
If we�ve gotten this far and you haven�t talked about being the voice of the customer, getting out and talking to users, doing any type of user research, I�m already concerned. This is your last chance to convince me you can be the voice of the customer.


New York, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/29/2019 -- Representing a mix of comfort, elegance, and a discreet increase in height for the wearer, GuidoMaggi Luxury Shoes is today celebrating one hundred years of fine, handmade footwear which has no equal in the World. GuidoMaggi is an established Italian luxury shoe brand that offers a qualitatively superior product, made to measure with fine leathers, handmade with traditional techniques, and enhanced with its 'invisible internal benefit' – height increasing technology.
One hundred years ago, a young master shoemaker returned from the Great War, with a desire to produce top quality footwear for the discerning client who could afford the best, and demanded the best. In short order, he had five artisans working for him, producing fine riding boots and dress shoes. He attracted the attention of the wealthy, nobility, and even the Savoys, the royal family.
By 1940, Guido Maggi had 12 workers producing his products, but the beginning of the Second World War meant some of those young men went off to war. Of those, some never returned. By the end of the war, production resumed, in fits and starts, but eventually ended in 1954 with the sudden death of its founder, Guido Maggi.
"I have always worked in the fashion world, as wearer, but I'm 175 cm tall and sometimes I had some problems on the catwalk. So I started looking for a solution that would allow me to recover those few inches missing for the fateful 'quota 1.80(meters) '. Unfortunately - or fortunately - on the market I found only men's shoes aesthetically questionable, poorly finished, cheap, poor quality and definitely not very elegant. So I decided to make them alone. And to do them well, like my great-grandfather Guido Maggi, whom I did not know but of which evidently harbor traces in DNA."
Guido Maggi said, roughly translated, "To make people walk well, the shoes must be made by hand". Emanuele personally designs the styles, carefully selects the best leathers, and follows each stage of production. Each pair of height increasing shoes is truly bespoke.
The first pair of GuidoMaggi shoes was purchased online on May 15th, 2012 from the United States. In 2016, the first GuidoMaggi direct sales outlet opened in Milan, in an old building located in the prestigious Brera district. In 2018, the Asian headquarters of GuidoMaggi opened in Tokyo's chic Shibuya. In 2019, the company moved to its new headquarters in Lecce.
For those who demand top quality, superior style, long-lasting comfort and the best hand stitched leather, these luxury shoes help you look taller, fashionable and confident. At GUIDOMAGGI, our mission is simple: provide the best elevator shoes in the world to our discerning clientèle.


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Rooley Joinery offers a range of carpentry services including furniture and building work.


Now when Caribou Coffee customers order their morning lattes, they're getting more than a cup of premium brew—they're supporting sustainable coffee production. Caribou Coffee announced that its regular espresso is now 100 percent sourced from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms, an achievement that brings its full line of coffees to 85 percent Rainforest Alliance Certified and puts the company well in stride to meet its goal of 100 percent certification by the end of 2011.
"This goal is very important to Caribou because we believe a great coffee experience starts with environmental stewardship on coffee farms and throughout the entire coffee production process," says Chad Trewick, senior director of coffee and tea for Caribou Coffee. "Our collaboration with the Rainforest Alliance has a profound impact on coffee-producing communities, helping farmers become more environmentally responsible, gain production efficiencies, and often earn a better price for their coffees."
Rainforest Alliance Certified farms meet the standards of the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN), a coalition of independent, nonprofit conservation groups. The certification is built on three pillars of sustainability—environmental, social and economic—and works by setting standards to guide growers and farm operations of all sizes to more sustainable agriculture practices. Farms that comply with certification criteria are awarded the Rainforest Alliance Certified seal of approval.
"Having all of our handcrafted regular espresso drinks made with certified beans is a big accomplishment and we're very proud, but our work isn't finished," Trewick says. "We'll continue to push towards 100 percent certification of all of our beans and encourage and support our global producing partners in looking for more ways to embrace sustainable practices."
Caribou Coffee also encourages and supports its business partners in their sustainability efforts by sharing its Rainforest Alliance Certified coffees through its "We love coffee too, that's why we proudly brew" program. As part of this program, business partners and grocery outlets that brew and serve Caribou Coffee will be serving the same certified beans that customers find in Caribou's coffeehouses.
In addition to the newly certified espresso, 13 coffee blends available in Caribou's coffeehouses are 100 percent Rainforest Alliance Certified, with two more on track for certification later this year. In total, Caribou Coffee will purchase nearly 17 million pounds of Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee in 2010.


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Q: Laravel 7 - Help to Add / Update I'm using Laravel 7, I have a table in my database called

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*cells

which has the following fields id, name, created_at, updated_at. However, when a new registration is made, I call the procedure, similar
$req->only('name')

supposing that I wanted to add which was the user that made such insertion (store), what is the best way to do this in laravel? add a column called user_id and have the value
of auth()->user() and include it inside my data object that is sent in the procedure
$user = auth()->user();

add $ user to the data set, which will be used when calling create?
$model->create($data)

or is there some other way that laravel already has that can help during record addition and record editing?

A: Your idea of using auth()->user() should work. Like this, for example:
$cell = new Cell();
$cell->name = $request->input('name');
$cell->user_id = auth()->user()->id;
$cell->save();

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Virginia Politics
Frank Wolf to retire after 17 terms in Congress; N.Va. seat will be a prime battleground in 2014
Rep. Frank Wolf's decision to retire came as a surprise — as recently as last week, leaders in both parties fully expected the Republican to run for an 18th term. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
By Ben Pershing
U.S. Rep. Frank R. Wolf announced Tuesday that he will not run for reelection in 2014, ending a distinctive three-decade career in Congress and instantly making his bellwether Northern Virginia seat a prime battleground in next year's midterm elections.
Although the 74-year-old Republican has been a perennial subject of retirement rumors, his decision came as a surprise: As recently as last week, leaders in both parties fully expected him to run for an 18th term. But in a statement issued by his office, Wolf said he plans to turn instead to his longtime work on humanitarian issues.
"As a follower of Jesus, I am called to work for justice and reconciliation, and to be an advocate for those who cannot speak for themselves," Wolf said. "I plan to focus my future work on human rights and religious freedom — both domestic and international — as well as matters of the culture and the American family."
Wolf has been a vocal and sometimes lonely advocate for oppressed religious minorities, particularly Christians in Egypt, Syria and Pakistan. And although he is conservative on many issues, he has been willing to defend federal workers, squabble with anti-tax activists and cooperate with Democrats, making him something of a rarity among modern House Republicans.
Wolf's decision came just a week after Fairfax County Board of Supervisors member John W. Foust (D) said he would run for the House seat.
Rep. Frank Wolf campaigns in Leesburg's historic downtown in July 2012. Wolf's 10th district stretches from McLean west along the Dulles Toll Road, through Winchester to the West Virginia border. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
Wolf has beaten a succession of little-known or underfunded Democratic opponents over the years, consistently performing better in the district than other Republicans at the top of the ticket. Wolf did not say that the prospect of a more competitive race influenced his decision, but Foust was widely expected to give him his toughest challenge in years.
Wolf's 10th District stretches from McLean west along the Potomac River to the West Virginia border and takes in diverse swaths of affluent Virginia newcomers as well as large pockets of rural conservatives. It includes Loudoun County and portions of Fairfax and Prince William counties. Mitt Romney edged President Obama in the district by roughly 1 percentage point in 2012, and it is viewed as competitive by both parties.
Reps. Jim Matheson (D-Utah) and Tom Latham (R-Iowa) also said they would not run for reelection Tuesday, expanding the 2014 House playing field. Matheson's district leans clearly toward Republicans, while Latham's seat — like Wolf's — is viewed as a battleground.
The race to succeed Wolf could turn on two competing narratives. Like their counterparts across the country, Virginia Republicans hope to capitalize on unhappiness with the rollout of the Affordable Care Act. But the 10th District was also hit especially hard by the October federal government shutdown, which many voters blamed on the GOP.
Aware that Wolf would retire eventually, Republican leaders in Richmond redrew the district after the 2010 Census to be slightly safer for the GOP. Upon hearing Tuesday's news, some political analysts immediately pegged the 10th as a "tossup," although Nathan Gonzales of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report said he classified it as "Leans Republican."
"A district that Mitt Romney won in a state that he lost overall shows me that this isn't a pure tossup district," Gonzales said.
Several Republicans are expected to consider running for the seat, which has not been vacant for a generation. Possible Republicans include Del. Barbara J. Comstock (Fairfax), Del. Timothy D. Hugo (Fairfax), state Sen. Richard H. Black (Loudoun) and businessman Keith Fimian, who lost two bids to unseat Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.) in the neighboring 11th District.
Black said Tuesday that he was forming an exploratory committee and was "very seriously looking at" the race.
The Republican field could also include Artur Davis, a former Democratic congressman from Alabama who switched parties and moved to Virginia. Davis said Tuesday that he will "monitor the field that develops in the next several weeks in the hope that a responsible center-right candidate will emerge."
Even Tareq Salahi, who ran for Virginia governor as a write-in candidate this year but is best known as the "White House gate-crasher," said Tuesday that he would run for the seat.
One oft-discussed potential candidate, state Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel (R-Fauquier), has already ruled it out. "I am absolutely not running for Congress," she said Tuesday.
On the Democratic side, Foust's opponents will, so far, be Fairfax lawyer Richard Bolger and Leesburg architect Sam Kubba. National party leaders were pleased when Foust entered the race, but other high-profile candidates may be drawn to the now-open seat.
Wolf has spent much of his 34 years in Congress climbing the ranks of the powerful Appropriations Committee, steering federal funds and projects to booming Northern Virginia. He has watched Loudoun and the Dulles corridor blossom from sparsely populated fields into a wealthy, technology-fueled driver of Virginia's economy.
Wolf has long prided himself on his connection to his constituents. One of the few members of Congress who can drive home to his district each evening, he is a fellow commuter on Northern Virginia's crowded roads and, unlike most of his Republican colleagues, an unapologetic booster of the federal spending that has fueled the region's economic expansion and employed its workforce.
The 12 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have brought especially pronounced changes in Wolf's district, as federal money has poured into public and private defense and homeland security ventures.
Wolf has also been an outspoken advocate for federal transportation spending, Most notably, perhaps, he partnered in 2008 with then-Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, a Democrat, to save the $6 billion-plus Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport at a time when the Bush administration was threatening to kill it.
Wolf has traveled widely in his crusades for human rights causes, and that work was the subject of his 2011 book, "Prisoner of Conscience."
In June 2004, Wolf went to the Darfur region of Sudan with then-Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.). He traveled on a helicopter and in cars for more than eight hours so he could see for himself the burnt villages and displacement of thousands and meet victims of rape.
During the visit, government minders warned the women at a musty school, filled with refugees, to stop talking about the rapes or face beatings. Minders also were seen handing out bribes to keep women from speaking to foreign visitors.
But the women spoke anyway.
A group of people handed a journalist two letters, written in Arabic, that listed 40 names of rape victims and wanted the list to be sent to Wolf, who was pressing the government to disarm the government-backed militias known as the Janjaweed.
When he saw the list, Wolf was moved to tears. This sort of trip, he said, "was among the most important things I can do a public servant."
John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, a human rights group, said that Wolf "was a champion with few equals for human rights issues. Though it gained him very little politically, Rep. Wolf worked tirelessly on behalf of people suffering in conflicts and dictatorships around the world."
Wolf has been a fervent believer in independent inquiry, backing the creation of the Iraq Study group and pushing — unsuccessfully — for a similar group to study the U.S. presence in Afghanistan and a select committee to probe last year's attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
On economic issues, Wolf's willingness to keep all options on the table to battle the growing federal debt has sometimes drawn the ire of the right.
Wolf has refused to sign the anti-tax pledge promoted by Grover Norquist's group, Americans for Tax Reform. In 2011, Wolf gave a lengthy House floor speech "to voice concerns I have with the influence [Norquist] has on the political process in Washington" and to accuse Norquist of associating with "unsavory people." (Norquist responded that Wolf was simply "frustrated and irritated, and it's sad.")
Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) praised Wolf for his willingness to work across the aisle, including when Warner served as governor.
"We have worked closely together on Northern Virginia transportation issues and partnered in consecutive sessions of Congress on bipartisan legislation that would encourage the on-shoring of jobs back to Virginia which have moved overseas in recent years," Warner said. "Frank has also been a passionate advocate and reliable ally in my ongoing efforts to find common ground on issues surrounding our nation's deficits and debt."
Connolly said in a statement that it had been an "honor" to work with Wolf.
"Frank has been a leader on rail to Dulles, a tireless champion of federal workers, a partner in gang prevention, and a passionate advocate for human rights around the world. Congress and Northern Virginia will forever be grateful for his service," Connolly said.
Emily Wax contributed to this report.


Tonight the moon becomes full in the constellation of Cancer.
and especially the Cancer Full Moon!
The Cancer Full Moon contains the frequencies of the Great Mother; nurturance, sustanance, protection, caring and love. Tonight is a good time to meditate on the fullness and abundance of the Mother aspect of G*d. How does the Universe provide for you? How do you nurture yourself?
Can you do your domestic chores with love in your heart for yourself and the way you take care of your own needs? Do you allow yourself to indulge in self pampering and rewards for work well done, or do you shun all forms of hedonism? Or, on the other hand do you go overboard on the hedonism aspect of self-indulgence or self-serving behavior? It's important to reach a balance.
Did you know that the Sun is always in opposition to the Full moon? It makes sense, if you think about it, astronomically. The Sun is in the sign of Capricorn tonight. Capricorn energies include the Great Father, the provider, protector and defender. Capricorn, the sea-goat, is an archetype of the Great Search, as the sea-goat plumbs the depths as well as scales the heights, of our subconscious terrain. Capricorn has to do with traditional ways of doing things, institutions and paternity. The song, "That's Just the Way it Is" comes to mind. It's time to tear down the walls of traditions that no longer serve the interests of the people they were designed to serve! Can we open our hearts and minds to creating new ways of thinking about education, banking, insurance, health care and marriage? Creating a new paradigm that serves all of mankind is the Great work of our time!
Capricorn begs us to ask ourselves, How do we face our deepest fears? Do we contain the Courage to Continue when all looks dark? Do we feel the Loving presence of the Divine behind us in all our endeavors? What does our inner Self feel protected by? Do we wear masks or does our light shine forth from within?
The combination of the energies of the Great Mother meeting the Great Father reminds me of a powerful work I did in 1989. I found a book called, "Reparenting Yourself". I think very few of us believe that we had/have ideal parents. I always felt like I had another 'real' parent who dropped me off on the doorstep of a pair of very young, inexperienced people, neither of which were ready to become my parents. My mother didnt need to tell me, but she did, that I was more mature than she was, [when I was in grade school] and that she would never grow up! A tinkerbell, if there ever was one!
The basics of Reparenting is to use your imagination to develop a character, in all her fullness, of the mother you wish you would have had. You can use magazine images, feelings, sensations, and all of your senses, to create this ideal parent.
Then you are to dialogue with her. Tell her all of your worries, cares, concerns, wishes and regrets. Tell her what you really NEEDED as a child and young adult. Feel her embrace you with everything you have ever wanted from a mother, a mentor and a Goddess.
Do the same thing for your ideal Father. What would he have looked like? Sounded like? What advice would he have given you? What financial, emotional and physical support would he have lent you?
Tonight, stand under the light of the Full Moon.
Fill yourself with the balanced energies of the Great Mother and Father.
Feel their embrace around you. Feel them living within you!
And become the ideal you wish to be!
Walk in beauty. Walk in truth. Walk in Love!
Posted in Astrology and Introspection and Meditation and Sacred Holidays by kalin on August 19th, 2012 at 11:25 pm.
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One of the annoying things about the google sites for blogging purposes is uploading images. Images taken from iPhone, and possibly other cameras, have an orientation associated with them. When viewing this image on the computer, the image software automatically applies that orientation so it is viewed as the picture is taken.
Google sites does not recognise this!
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