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Another American school teacher in trouble for asking students to compare George W. Bush with Adolf Hitler
Filed under: Germany, Holocaust, World War II — Tags: abuse of power, Adolf Hitler, Bush doctrine, George W. Bush — furtherglory @ 8:49 am
You can read about the latest flap in American education here. A school teacher in Washington, DC recently assigned sixth grade students to write an essay, comparing George W. Bush's "abuse of power" to Hitler's "abuse of power."
George W. Bush, former president of the United States of America
This quote is from the news article, cited above:
Marc Thiessen, who worked for years as Bush's speechwriter, said the teacher should be terminated immediately.
"A person who can't tell the difference between George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler shouldn't be teaching children," Thiessen told FoxNews.com. "This isn't even political bias, this is utter incompetence."
The McKinley Middle School teacher sent students home with a Venn diagram instructing them to compare and contrast Bush and Hitler as part of a unit on "War and Peace," according to a statement by district officials. It was left to the students to determine how Bush, the 43rd U.S. president who was elected to two terms, stacked up against Hitler, whose Nazi Germany perpetrated a Holocaust that killed more than 6 million Jews.
Here is more on the assignment, as reported by USA Today and in the teacher's own words:
"Now that we have read about two men of power who abused their power in various ways, we will compare and contrast them and their actions," the assignment reads. "Please refer to your texts, 'Fighting Hitler – A Holocaust Story' and 'Bush: Iraq War Justified Despite No WMD' to compare and contrast former President George W. Bush and Hitler. We will use this in class tomorrow for an activity!"
Apparently the sixth-grade class has been studying both the Holocaust and the Iraq War.
This would have been a very difficult assignment. Good luck finding out anything good about Adolf Hitler. It can't be done — unless the students were willing to go to Revisionist books and websites, and I'm sure the teacher did not want that to happen. This is the "common core" assignment about the Holocaust all over again
As everyone knows, Hitler started World War II. I blogged about this at https://furtherglory.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/alfred-naujocks-and-the-start-of-world-war-ii/
If the students had been allowed to complete this assignment, they would have discovered "the Bush doctrine" which is mentioned on Wikipedia.
This quote is from Wikipedia:
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The Bush Doctrine is a phrase used to describe various related foreign policy principles of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. The phrase was first used by Charles Krauthammer in June 2001 to describe the Bush Administration's "unilaterally withdrawing from the ABM treaty and rejecting the Kyoto protocol."[1] After 9/11 the phrase described the policy that the United States had the right to secure itself against countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups, which was used to justify the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.[1][2]
If you can't tolerate learning anything good about Adolf Hitler, stop reading right now, because I am now going to tell you a few good things about Hitler, which will lead you to believe that Hitler was better than George W. Bush as a leader of a country.
This quote is from this website:
We loved [Hitler] because he had bold plans which benefited man and harmonized with nature.
We loved him because he gave us the best roads in the world, envied and emulated by other peoples ever since. Not only did he give us roads, but a cheap, practical car to run on them, the Volkswagen: the People's Car.
We loved him for giving us honest money and thereby saving our jobs, our homes and our industry. He made our lives not only bearable, but fruitful.
We loved him because he did the Work of the Lord, by driving the money-changers out of our country. He taught us that true wealth is not based on gold nor upon credit. but upon the productivity of our land and people. Honest money is only possible with honest men. No system of law or gold can protect us from criminals in government. There is no substitute for honest men.
We loved him because he wrested the creation of our money away from the Jews, like his American predecessor, Abraham Lincoln. He restored our economy to peacetime prosperity. It was not preparation for war that ended our depression. Where the Jews retained their money power, the depression worsened. Unemployment rose drastically in America and Britain at this time. As the British military strategist, Liddell Hart, maintained: The last thing Hitler wanted was war. But war came at last. and none too soon for the Jewish bankers! War was declared by Britain in 1939, but little fighting occurred. Britain announced Jewish terms for ending the war: Kill Hitler and return to the international gold standard. For Germany, the choice was certain death by starvation or possible death in battle.
The Jewish bankers had created massive unemployment in our country, just as they had done in England, France, America and throughout the world. They did this by decreasing the supply of money, which our racial renegade governments had allowed them to control entirely.
Before Hitler came to power, 7 million Germans were unemployed and over 6 million only partially employed. In the four bleak years from 1929 to 1933, despair and hopelessness caused the death by suicide of some 250,000 of our people.
Before I went to visit the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, I did some research on Hitler. I wrote the following, on my website, after taking the trouble to learn what Hitler did for Germany.
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In the summer of 1936, Nazi Germany was the envy of the Western world. From the depths of the Great Depression in 1932, Hitler had achieved an "economic miracle" in Germany in less than three years. As yet, there was no sign of Nazi aggression, nor any attempt at world domination by Germany. Gertrude Stein, the famous Jewish writer who was a mentor to Ernest Hemingway, even suggested in 1937 that Hitler should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Because of the Nazi program of nationalism, the German people had regained their self respect after the humiliating Treaty of Versailles, which Germany was forced to sign at the end of World War I. They now had great pride in their ethnicity and their country. No people in the world were more patriotic than the Germans in 1936 and no other world leader had the total dedication to his country that Adolph Hitler had.
The ordinary Germans were satisfied with their lives and had no reason to fear the concentration camps or the Gestapo. Hitler was a hero to the 127 million ethnic Germans throughout Europe, whom he wanted to unite into the Greater German Empire, a dream that had been discussed in his native Austria for over 50 years. In less than four years, this dream would be accomplished when Austria, parts of Poland that had formerly been German territory, Luxembourg, the French provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, and the Sudetenland were combined with Germany to form the Greater German Reich.
In 1936, Hitler was more loved and admired than all the other world leaders put together. He was also the only world leader who was actively helping the Zionists with their plan to reclaim Palestine as their country.
While America and the rest of Europe were still in the depths of the depression caused by the stock market crash in October 1929, Germany had stabilized its economy and had virtually eliminated unemployment. Unlike the other countries in Europe in 1936, Nazi Germany was doing well, thanks in part to American investment capital. Many American businessmen, led by auto maker Henry Ford, supported Hitler and his Fascist form of government. Other prominent Americans who supported Hitler included Joseph P. Kennedy (the father of President John F. Kennedy), and Prescott Bush (the grandfather of President George W. Bush) and Charles Lindbergh.
Meanwhile, the American government was drifting to the liberal left; Communist refugees like playwright Bertold Brecht and Jewish refugees like Albert Einstein were flocking to America and their influence was strong in American politics. In the 1936 presidential election in America, Al Smith, who had run as the Democratic candidate in 1928 against Herbert Hoover, accused fellow Democrat President Roosevelt of being a Communist.
Hitler had thumbed his nose at the Versailles Treaty by stopping the payment of reparations to France and Great Britain, and a massive program of industrialization had restored the country to full employment, compared to the 20% unemployment in America in 1936. Roosevelt had copied many of the social welfare programs in Germany, including Social Security, but America was still struggling to recover from the depression.
The workers in Nazi Germany enjoyed unprecedented social benefits such as paid vacations under the Strength Through Joy program (Kraft durch Freude). Factory workers listened to classical music as they worked, and took showers before going home. In order to demonstrate their importance to the country, workers were allowed to march in Nazi parades, carrying shovels on their shoulders just like the soldiers who marched with their rifles.
Everything in Nazi Germany was clean and orderly; there were no slums; the trains ran on time. By 1938, the crime rate was at an all-time low because repeat offenders were being sent to a concentration camp after they had completed their second sentence. Anyone who did not have a permanent address and some visible means of support was hauled off the Dachau and put to work.
The political parties of the opposition (Communists and Social Democrats) had been banned in Germany; political dissidents were being locked up; there was no more bomb throwing or revolutionary fighting in the streets. There were no more crippling general strikes because the trade unions had been banned to prevent the Communists from organizing the workers.
A healthy lifestyle was encouraged by the Nazis and group calisthenics for young people were compulsory. Family values were the order of the day: abortion was banned; homosexuals and prostitutes were imprisoned; women were encouraged to be homemakers, and mothers with four or more children would shortly be awarded military style medals for serving their country.
It was safe to walk the city streets in Germany at night; no bars were needed on the windows of German homes to keep the criminal element out; all the social misfits were being sent away to the concentration camps; bums and vagrants were no longer allowed to beg on the streets. Money that had formerly been spent to care for institutionalized persons with mental and physical disabilities was now being used for other purposes as the mentally ill and the severely disabled were being put to death in gas chambers.
The single-minded Nazis were attempting to achieve a perfect world like Disneyland's Main Street which ends at a replica of Germany's Neuschwanstein Castle; their advanced technology was the Tomorrowland of its day. Fifty years later, the backlash from their ideology of racialism and nationalism was the impetus for the creation of today's Politically Correct world of diversity and tolerance, which is the exact opposite of Nazi Germany.
The Nuremberg laws, enacted in 1935, stripped the Jews of their citizenship and made it a crime for Jews to have sexual intercourse with Germans. Jews were excluded from many jobs and government positions, and they were not allowed to ride on street cars or sit on park benches reserved for Aryans. The rest of the world, particularly Americans, ignored these early warnings; at that time America was a segregated country with institutionalized racism, and there were many restricted neighborhoods where Jews were not allowed to buy a home. American universities had quotas for Jewish students and numerous clubs and organizations did not allow Jews as members. While the Nazi racists were encouraging 300,000 Jews to leave Germany in the 1930ies, the American government was handing a one-way ticket to Mexico to 500,000 Mexican immigrants and Mexican-American citizens during the same time period.
Ever since the leftist revolutions, led by the Jews in Russia and Germany, had brought an end to World War I, the world had been polarized by Communism and Fascism. The first hint that a second world war was soon going to be fought over the conflicting ideologies of Communism and Fascism came in July 1936 with the Spanish Civil War which started when General Francisco Franco led a military revolt against the leftist Republic. Hitler and Mussolini gave their support to Franco, while Roosevelt and the leftist French leader supported the Communist side. The battle lines for World War II were already drawn in 1936 when Nazi Germany formed the Axis Alliance with Mussolini's Fascist Italy and imperial Japan. In his book Mein Kampf, written while he was imprisoned for treason in 1924, Hitler had already predicted future problems between Japan and the United States.
The Treaty of Versailles included a provision for establishing the League of Nations, which consisted of the Allied countries and any neutral countries that wanted to join. Not until years later was Germany allowed to join. The purpose of the League, which America did not join after Congress voted against it, was to prevent future wars. The League was a forerunner of the United Nations which was formed in May 1945, shortly before the end of the second World War.
Germany was eventually allowed to join the League of Nations in 1926 after the country had been politically rehabilitated, but Hitler had withdrawn from it because the main objective of the Nazi party was to overturn the Treaty of Versailles.
In 1931, the rules of the League of Nations were violated for the first time when Japan invaded China, another member of the League. When the other nations in the League did nothing, this signaled to the world that the Treaty of Versailles could be violated with impunity and this set the stage for Hitler to disregard its terms. By 1936, Hitler had already violated the Treaty by stopping the payment of reparations and by building up an army of 400,00 men, which was considerably larger than the 100,000 soldiers that the Treaty allowed.
Hitler had also put troops into the demilitarized Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles; then he took back the Ruhr after France had annexed this German territory when Germany was unable to pay reparations after its economy had collapsed a decade earlier.
America had signed a separate peace treaty with Germany after World War I because the American Congress refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, so America was in no position to stop Hitler once he started on his path to German hegemony, as world domination by one super power, such as the United States, is now called.
In August 1936, the Olympic games were being held in Berlin, and the Nazis had removed all the bums, winos and male prostitutes from the streets, sending them to Dachau or Sachsenhausen for six months of rehabilitation. Then in a concession to the liberals in America, Great Britain and France, who were threatening to boycott the games, the anti-Semitic signs and slogans on the city streets were temporarily removed and the anti-Jewish newspapers were taken off the stands. Two token Jews were even allowed to train for the Olympics on the German team, and a Jew, Captain Wolfgang Fürstner, was put in charge of the Olympic Village. Fürstner killed himself after he was replaced at the last minute.
The Germans won the most medals for first place, second place and third place in the 1936 Olympics, defeating the second-place Americans by a wide margin of 57 points. The story about Hitler refusing to acknowledge a victory by Jesse Owens was incorrect, according to noted historian John Toland, who wrote:
"That the Führer publicly turned his back on the great black athlete was denied by Owens himself, who further claimed that Hitler did pay him a tribute. "When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany."
Charles Lindbergh, who was America's greatest hero after flying solo to Europe, was the special guest of Hitler at the Olympics and sat beside him at the games. Lindbergh had by then moved to England in an effort to get away from the rampant crime in America. He was so impressed with Germany's right-wing Utopia that, by 1938, he was making plans to move there and Hitler's chief architect, Albert Speer, had been commissioned to design a house for him. He quickly changed his mind in November 1938 after Kristallnacht, the state-sponsored pogrom in Germany, in which the windows of Jewish businesses were smashed and Synagogues were burned. Newspapers around the world played up the story with banner headlines. Kristallnacht marked the end of Hitler's popularity and the Western world's admiration for Germany. Time magazine selected Stalin, the Communist leader of the Soviet Union, for its Man of the Year award in 1939.
During the two days of rioting during the Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany and Austria, on Nov. 9th and 10th in 1938, Nazi officials went to all the small towns in Germany and ordered the Jews to leave within 24 hours or be sent to a concentration camp. This was a plan to consolidate all the Jews in a few large cities. Those who were unable to leave, or refused to leave, were rounded up in the following days and sent to the three main concentration camps: Dachau, Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald. There were 30,000 Jews in all who were arrested, and around 10,000 were sent to each of these three main camps. They were released within a few weeks if they paid a fine and promised to leave Germany within six months. There were few countries willing to accept them, so the majority wound up in Shanghai which was the only place they could enter without a visa.
In July 1938, President Roosevelt sponsored a conference at which the countries of the Western world met to decide what to do about the problem of thousands of German Jewish refugees, but no country was willing to change its immigration quotas, including the United States of America. A few of the Jewish prisoners were unable to pay the fine or to raise enough money to leave the country; in 1942, they were all transferred from the concentration camps in Germany to the death camps in what is now Poland where the majority of them died in the Holocaust.
Hitler had predicted that his Third Reich would last for 1,000 years, but it came crashing down after only 12 years, and the image of Germany as the most cultured and advanced civilization in the modern world has been replaced by one of brutality and racism as Germany has become the most hated and reviled country in the world in the post-war Politically Correct era.
End quote from my website.
Freedom of Speech will soon be gone in America, and you will have to know the kosher version of history to stay out of prison. You can read the correct version of history, with regard to Hitler, on this website: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitler.html


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Batman: Arkham Origins Online Multiplayer Confirmed
Warner Bros. officially confirmed today that Batman: Arkham Origins will indeed have an online multiplayer when it ships this October in stores.
The online multiplayer mode for Batman: Arkham Origins will be available for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC version of the game. According to Warner Bros. the online mode will give the players a chance to hunt as Batman or Robin against other people; friends or other gamers online. In addition, players can also take on the role of a Super-Villain Elite and get behind the curtain of what it's like to side with Bane or the Joker as they establish their legacy by taking down Batman and Robin, and anyone who gets in their way.
Batman: Arkham Origins will be available on the PS3, XBox 360, Wii U and PC. Unfortunately, it looks like the Wii U version will not have an online multiplayer component. As always, check back with us near the release date for our coverage of the game. For now, get a glimpse of the game's multiplayer portion:
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Home inspections are usually visual evaluations of the condition of the home. An inspector will normally work to determine home performance. Contrary to popular belief, the process is not just about identifying different home problems. It is also about various other things that are of a high importance for both home sellers and buyers. This is why you want to be sure that you consider the following mistakes commonly made during the home inspection phases.
There is a clear reason why people that inspect properties like Northwalk homes always research the inspector with extreme care. Way too many sellers and buyers choose to work with the very first specialist that is recommended. We should realize that the quality of the inspection is highly connected with the experience of the inspector. You want to learn for how long the home inspector has been doing the job and how active he was, together with training, certifications and qualifications.
The certified home inspector chosen needs to be aware of all the changes that happened in construction and has to be able to properly analyze weaknesses and strengths present with the home, while also being able to explain them to whoever asks.
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Arrange a good time to perform the home inspection according to your program. One inspection can easily take a lot of time so be sure that you ask so you know how much time is actually required. At the same time, it is good to look for a home inspector that is going to sit with sellers or buyers after the work is done in order to answer any question that may appear.
Way too many sellers and buyers simply glance over the report and do not actually read it. The language used in the inspection report has to be concise and clear. Try to scan some inspection reports presented as samples on a website or just as for a sample. The knowledgeable home inspector will always highlight problems and offer solutions. Most of the reports will nowadays be offered in digital formats with images that illustrate weaknesses and strengths.
This is a mistake home sellers usually make as they leave this inspection to a buyer. As the buyer is responsible for the inspection sellers will not be able to properly complete all the repairs while keeping the entire sales process on a fast track. When the seller gets a home inspection before the property is put on the market there is much more time available to actually get repairs done. Controlling costs and shopping around becomes a reality in this case.


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A story of story-telling, Miriam Meyerhoff
Posted on February 24, 2018 by NZ Books
The Truth About Language: What it is and where it came from
Michael C Corballis
Auckland University Press, $40.00,
Many people have remarked that, more than language itself, how we use language is what sets humans apart from other animals. Whales, elephants, birds, other apes, seem to be able to communicate a few things to each other, and we're starting to find out that some animals can even tailor their communication to specific addressees ("I want food/sex from you; not you"). But we still have no evidence that any other animals tell stories.
Humans compulsively turn events into narratives and story-telling is so fundamental to how we use language that, in some languages, talking and narrating get subsumed under the same word. In Hawai'i, when you shoot the breeze with someone, you "talk story", and in Vanuatu "storian" (from English "storying") means "to chat, while away the time through talk", as well as "to tell a story". Michael Corballis, in his latest book The Truth About Language, gradually builds to this conclusion as well. He argues that language emerged from gestures between early humans, and that these gestures morphed into vocal utterances, which find their utmost fulfilment in the telling of stories.
One of the big stories of our time is the origin of human language. As Corballis tells us, the fascination with where language comes from has punctuated our entire recorded history. The topic became so febrile following the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species that it was simply banned from linguistics conferences for some time. In recent years, any number of researchers have weighed in on the topic from linguistics, philosophy, primatology and psychology (Corballis's home discipline). The title of his latest book makes his impatience with other researchers clear – he wants to sweep away intra- and inter-disciplinary confusion. So, in order to sort the truth from the misinformation, we need to define first what language is. This will then help us derive an empirically based answer to the problem of how it arose (the "where it came from" of the title).
Defining "what language is" sets the bar quite high. Defining language, especially in the context of a book on language evolution, is less straightforward than you might think. If you understand "language" to mean any repertoire of actions and activities that can communicate any kind of information at all, then our story about the origins of language will engage with the capacity to point (and perhaps simultaneously vocalise) as a way of saying "look at Andrew", or as a way of saying "put it over there". In that case, we need to explain why all the costs associated with acquiring speech were worth it in order to focus our joint attention on someone or someplace else. (And there are indeed costs with oral communication systems; our lowered larynx means we have to carefully co-ordinate breathing and ingesting food and liquid so we don't choke.) But, if what we mean by "language" is a complex system that is non-compositional and has figurative, expressive power, one that allows you to engage in the kind of mental wandering that is inherent to any utterance that expresses the past or future, then this is a very different exercise. And you can slice the space between pointing gestures and complex planning or poetry in many places. Part of the reason there are so many stories about the origin of language is because there is little consensus on what the object is that we are describing. Corballis's book inadvertently illustrates this – although he has a coherent argument, I found different ways of describing language on pages 54, 62, 80, 84, 90, 120 and 189.
The jump from gesture to speech, Corballis argues, happened because speech has advantages over manual communication (you can talk even in bad light, talking frees your hands up for other stuff – and if you wonder how big a deal this last point is, try asking a deaf friend how they hold a conversation in New Zealand Sign Language while knitting a jersey or while washing the dishes). Various physiological changes also attended this period in our development, but whether changes like increased brain size and the lowering of the larynx caused speech to arise, or whether they were mutually reinforcing developments, is perhaps something we will never know. Corballis is (rightly) circumspect in not calling this one.
Readers of this book will find a great deal of interesting information about the evolution of our species, extracted from a variety of sources in biology, archaeology, primatology and brain science. There is considerable disagreement among linguists and evolutionary biologists over when language emerged in our branch of the ape family. Estimates range from several million years ago to 100,000 years ago. Which end of the scale you take changes considerably the nature of what you are trying to describe and what kinds of other developments in human cognition and physiology might be relevant. There's a circumstantial (and hence, anecdotal – those stories again) quality to much of what can be said about language and other changes to human brains, bodies and societies at deep time. Corballis reviews a lot, and is careful to warn where connections are tenuous.
He makes his strongest case for the emergence of language as a social resource. Before moving to its story-telling capacity, Corballis observes how central other people are to our need for and use of language. Corballis argues that I talk to share my experiences and emotions with you, or I do so to test my ideas about what you are thinking, experiencing and feeling. Language depended on our developing a theory of mind (the idea that someone else has a mind like ours) and on some kind of social intelligence, built up within what were probably originally quite dense social networks. When I start telling you stories, I'm sharing my mental wanderings to achieve social ends: "language itself emerged to enable us to regale each other with the narratives that fill our lives, the flights into humor [sic] and murder and religion, and even the dull accounts of golf rounds and travels abroad".
This gives you a sense of the ironic and conversational tone of The Truth About Language. Corballis has honed his skills as a witty and erudite interpreter of scientific data in his previous work, such as Pieces of Mind. The Truth About Language is peppered with quotations from poetry and the classics. By and large, it is a fair overview of the debates in the field, though linguists are by no means the monolithic and dopey bunch you might think we are based on Corballis's characterisation of us. We are not all slavish Chomskians (though he is quite right, I think, to point out the dopeyness of linguistic theories that reduce language to retrieving examples from a storehouse of every word or utterance we have ever heard in our lives). Corballis, like a lot of non-linguists working on language evolution, sidesteps some of the more linguistically interesting aspects of language. For instance, he notes that if you start with the phrase "she has a chip on her shoulder" you can generate a whole bunch of others through simple substitution, such as "she had a chip on her shoulder". But, to a linguist, this is much less interesting than the fact that all speakers of English agree that "she" and "her" must refer to the same person in those sentences (not another "her", and you can't ever say "she had a chip on my shoulder"). Or that everyone agrees that in "she is a pain in the neck" (structurally identical to the chip on the shoulder), "the neck" can never be hers. If these characteristics of language are what you think define it, Corballis stops short of your mark, and The Truth About Language can't really help you understand where this kind of knowledge comes from.
The Truth About Language was first published by the University of Chicago Press and is distributed in New Zealand by Auckland University Press with the assistance of Creative New Zealand. It's wonderful that Creative New Zealand are supporting local writers, but perhaps some of the funds might be used to edit the spelling to local norms or, at the very least, correct the typos that presumably came straight from the University of Chicago Press manuscript.
These gripes aside, Corballis is to be congratulated for another humane, challenging and entertaining contribution to our quest to understand the truth about ourselves, to think more about what we are and where we come from.
Miriam Meyerhoff teaches linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Social networks have arrived — bye-bye job boards?
Social networks are playing a growing — make that exploding — role in companies' recruiting strategies.
At least that's the claim of Jobvite, a firm that offers clients online social recruiting services.
According to the company's recent social recruiting survey, 83% of companies polled said they currently use or are planning to start using social networks to ferret out new hires this year.
38% will spend less on outside recruiters.
The research also gives us a glimpse of how HR people are using social sites. Eighty-four percent of respondents said they sometimes check social profiles when reviewing candidates — 32% said they always do so.
One odd twist: In this wired-in age, 69% of job applicants don't bother to disclose their use of social networks.
Maybe they've still got pictures of last year's Christmas party on their Facebook page.
Jobvite are spot on with their research however the most "smart" companies are now seeing the value of having their own social networks/communities internally for building their talent pools and engaging with jobseekers and new hires.


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A quadratic differential on a topological surface $S$ is
a quadratic differential with respect to some complex structure on $S$.
For a given homeomorphism $f:S\rightarrow S$ and a quadratic differential $q=\{(U_{j},z_{j}),q_{j}\}_{j}$,
we define push-forward by
$$f_{*}(q) := \{(f(U_{j}), z_{j}\circ f^{-1}),q_{j}\}_{j}.$$
Given a quadratic differential $q$, by integrating the square root of $q$, we get natural coordinates around nonzero points of $q$.
This gives a singular Euclidean structure on $S$.
Furthermore $q$ has natural horizontal (resp. vertical) directions which defined to be $v \in T_{z}X$ so that $q(z)v^{2}$ is a positive (resp. negative) real number.
In this paper, coverings considered are assumed to be unramified.
Let $p:\widetilde S\rightarrow S$ be a finite covering.
Since each quadratic differential is defined on charts, we can naturally lift quadratic differentials via any finite covering.
For a quadratic differential $q$ on $S$, its lift with respect to $p:\widetilde S\rightarrow S$ is denoted by $p^{*}q$.
Conversely, a quadratic differential $\widetilde{q}$ on a Riemann surface $\widetilde S$
is said to be {\em symmetric} with respect to $p:\widetilde S\rightarrow S$ if
$\widetilde{q}$ is a lift of a quadratic differential $q$ on $S$.
If $\widetilde{q}$ is symmetric,
we use the notation of push-forward for coverings, i.e. $q = p_{*}(\widetilde{q})$.
Note that if $\widetilde{q}$ is symmetric, then every quadratic differential on the Teichm\"uller geodesic determined by $\widetilde{q}$ is symmetric (c.f. \cite{GM}).
\begin{dfn}
Let $q_{1}$ and $q_{2}$ be quadratic differentials on surfaces $S_{1}$ and $S_{2}$ respectively.
The quadratic differential $q_{1}$ is said to {\em cover} $q_{2}$ if there exists a finite covering $p:S_{1} \rightarrow S_{2}$
so that $p^{*}q_{2} = q_{1}$.
\end{dfn}
Once we have a covering relation, we may consider commensurability.
\begin{dfn}
Two quadratic differentials $q_{1}$ and $q_{2}$ on surfaces $S_{1}$ and $S_{2}$ respectively are {\em commensurable} (denoted $q_1\sim q_2$)
if there is a third quadratic differential $\widetilde{q}$ that covers both $q_{1}$ and $q_{2}$.
\end{dfn}
We also need to consider orbifolds.
On a 2-dimensional orientable orbifold, quadratic differentials are defined on the surface that we get by puncturing every orbifold point.
When we take coverings, we fill every puncture corresponding to an orbifold point once it is locally covered by a surface.
It can be seen that this commensurability is an equivalence relation (Proposition \ref{prop.equiv}).
Two quadratic differentials $q_{1},q_{2}$ are said to be {\em conjugate} if there exists a surface homeomorphism (or a orbifold automorphism) $f$
such that $f_{*}q_{1} = q_{2}$.
By considering conjugacy classes, we endow each commensurability class with an order by the covering relation.
The main theorem of this paper is the following.
\begin{thm}\label{thm.main}
Every commensurability class of quadratic differentials contains a unique minimal (orbifold) element.
\end{thm}

\begin{rem}
Theorem \ref{thm.main} can also be verified by the identity theorem if there is a zero of the quadratic differentials in the interior of the surface.
The argument in this paper works even for the case where all the zeros are punctured.
\end{rem}

We also consider fibered commensurability and its relationship with the commensurability of quadratic differentials.
In \cite{CSW}, Calegari-Sun-Wang introduced following commensurability on surface automorphisms.
Let $\mathrm{Mod}(S)$ denote the mapping class group of $S$.

\begin{dfn}[\cite{CSW}]
Let $S_1$ and $S_2$ be orientable surfaces of finite type.
A mapping class $\phi_1\in\mathrm{Mod}(S_1)$ {\em covers} $\phi_2\in\mathrm{Mod}(S_2)$ if
there exists a finite covering $p:S_1\rightarrow S_2$ and
$k\in\mathbb{Z}\setminus\{0\}$ such that a lift $\varphi$ of $\phi_2^{k}$ with respect to $p$ satisfies
$\varphi = \phi_1$.
Two mapping classes are said to be {\em commensurable}
if there exists a mapping class that covers both.
\end{dfn}

We call an orbifold automorphism psuedo-Anosov if it can be covered by a psuedo-Anosov mapping class on a surface.
In \cite{CSW} and \cite{Masa}, the following theorem was shown.
\begin{thm}\label{thm.fibered}
Every fibered commensurability class of pseudo-Anosov mapping classes contains a unique minimal (orbifold) element.
\end{thm}
We give a new proof of the above theorem by using Theorem \ref{thm.main}.

\section{Unique minimal element}
We first observe that commensurability of quadratic differentials is an equivalence relation.
The reflectivity and symmetry are trivial.
\begin{prp}\label{prop.equiv}
Let $q_i$ be a quadratic differential on a surface $S_i$ for $i=1,2,3$.
Suppose $q_1\sim q_2$ and $q_2\sim q_3$.
Then we have $q_1\sim q_3$.
\end{prp}
\begin{proof}
Let $q_{j,j+1}$ be a quadratic differential on a surface $S_{j,j+1}$ which covers $q_j$ and $q_{j+1}$ for $j=1,2$.
Then in the orbifold fundamental group $\pi_1(S_2)$, the images of $\pi_1(S_{1,2})$ and $\pi_1(S_{2,3})$ by the covering maps are of finite index.
Hence the intersection $H:= \pi_1(S_{1,2})\cap \pi_1(S_{2,3})$ in $\pi_1(S_2)$ is also a finite index subgroup.
Then the lift $\widetilde{q_2}$ of $q_2$ to the covering corresponding to $H$ is also the lift of $q_{1,2}$ and $q_{2,3}$.
Therefore $\widetilde{q_2}$ covers all $q_1$, $q_2$, and $q_3$, in particular $q_1\sim q_3$.
\end{proof}

The main idea of the following proof of Theorem \ref{thm.main} is from \cite[Lemma 4.11]{Masa2}.
\begin{proof}[Proof of Theorem \ref{thm.main}]
We show that if $q_1\sim q_2$, then both $q_1$ and $q_2$ cover the same quadratic differential $q'$.
Recall that each quadratic differential $q$ determines a singular Euclidean structure with horizontal and vertical foliation.
Let $\mathrm{Sing}(q)$ denote the set of singular points of the singular Euclidean structure.
This $\mathrm{Sing}(q)$ is finite and contains all punctures.
Let $q_{1,2}$ be a quadratic differential on a surface $S_{1,2}$ which covers both $q_1$ and $q_2$ and
let $p_i:S_{1,2}\rightarrow S_i$  denote the associated covering maps for $i=1,2$.
Pick any $s\in\mathrm{Sing}(q_{1,2})$, then we define $\Sigma_1(s):=p_{1}^{-1}(p_{1}(s))$.
Inductively define $\Sigma_{i+1}(s):= p_{[i+1]}^{-1}p_{[i+1]}(\Sigma_{i})$ where $[k] = 1$ if $k$ is odd and $[k]=2$ if $k$ is even.
Since $\Sigma_i(s)\subset \Sigma_{i+1}(s)\subset \mathrm{Sing}(q_{1,2})$,
we eventually have $\Sigma_i(s) = \Sigma_{i+1}(s) (=:\Sigma(s))$ for large enough $i$.
Thus we have an equivalence relation on $\mathrm{Sing}(q_{1,2})$.
Next, we pick any $x\in S_{1,2}\setminus \mathrm{Sing}(q_{1,2})$.
There is a point $s'\in\mathrm{Sing}(q_{1,2})$ such that we can connect $x$ and $s'$ by a single Euclidean geodesic $\gamma$.
The geodesic $\gamma$ has well defined angle $\theta_\gamma\mod \pi$.
Let $l_q(\gamma)$ denote the Euclidean length of $\gamma$.
Since there are only finitely many points from $\Sigma(s')$ with angle $\theta_\gamma$ and Euclidean distance $l_q(\gamma)$,
we get $\Sigma(x)\subset S\setminus\mathrm{Sing}(q)$ in the same way as above.
Thus we get an equivalence relation $x\sim y:\iff y\in\Sigma(x)$ on $S_{1,2}$.
Since this relation is defined by composing local homeomorphisms $p_{1}$ and $p_{2}$, the quotient map $p':S_{1,2} \rightarrow S/{\sim}$ is a covering.
Note that $S/{\sim}$ might be an orbifold.
For each point $x\in S/{\sim}$, we may find a small open neighborhood $U_{x}$ so that on all pre-images in $S_{1,2}$,
the quadratic differentials can be identified via $p_{1}$ and $p_{2}$.
Hence $p'$ determines a quadratic differential $q'$ on $S/{\sim}$.
By construction, $p'$ factors through $p_{i}:S_{1,2} \rightarrow S_{i}$ and hence both $q_{1}$ and $q_{2}$ cover $q'$.
If there is another quadratic differential $q_{3}$ in the commensurability class that does not cover $q'$,
then we may apply the same argument as above to find a quadratic differential which is covered by $q'$ and $q_{3}$.
Since each time we get a new quadratic differential, the Euler characteristic of the underlying orbifold decreases,
this process would terminate.
Thus we get a unique minimal element.
\end{proof}

\section{Fibered commensurability}
In this section, we give a proof of Theorem \ref{thm.fibered}.
\begin{lmm}\label{lem.lift}
Let $p:\widetilde{S}\rightarrow S$ be a finite covering of orientable 2-orbifolds.
Let $f:\widetilde{S}\rightarrow \widetilde{S}$ be an orbifold automorphism.
If there is a quadratic differential $q$ such that $f^{n}_{*}(q)$ is symmetric with respect to
$p:\widetilde{S}\rightarrow S$ for each $n\in\mathbb{Z}$.
Then there is a finite covering $p':\widetilde{S}\rightarrow S'$ which factors through $p$ such that
$f$ is a lift of some homeomorphism $f':S'\rightarrow S'$.
\end{lmm}
\begin{proof}
Note that all $(p\circ f^{n})_{*}(q)$ are commensurable to each other.
We define $x\sim y$ if there exists $n$ such that $p\circ f^{n}(x)=p\circ f^{n}(y)$.
We take transitive closure of this $\sim$ to define an equivalence relation.
Let $\Sigma(x)$ denote the equivalence class of $x$.
Similarly to the proof of Theorem \ref{thm.main}, we see that $\Sigma(x)$ is finite and defines a covering.
Furthermore, by construction, we see that $f(\Sigma(x)) = \Sigma(f(x))$.
Thus we have a homeomorphism $f':S'\rightarrow S'$ so that $f$ is a lift of $f'$.
\end{proof}
\begin{proof}[Proof of Theorem \ref{thm.fibered}]
For $i = 1,2$, let $f_{i}:S_{i}\rightarrow S_{i}$ be commensurable pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms.
We will find $f':S'\rightarrow S'$ which is covered both by $f_{1}$ and $f_{2}$.
Note that if two pseudo-Anosov maps are commensurable,
then they  give commensurable quadratic differentials whose horizontal and vertical foliations are
stable and unstable foliations \cite{GM}.
Let $q_{i}$ be a quadratic differential on $S_{i}$ associated to $f_{i}$ for $i = 1,2$ so that $q_{1}$ and $q_{2}$ are commensurable.
Then by Theorem \ref{thm.main}, there is a unique minimal quadratic differential $q'$ on some orbifold $S'$ in the commensurability class.
Note that for all $i=1,2$ and $n\in\mathbb{Z}$,
$(f_{i}^{n})_{*}q_{i}$ is also symmetric with respect to the covering from $S_{i}$ to $S'$.
This is because $f_{i}$ preserves projective classes of horizontal and vertical foliations of $q_{i}$.
Hence if $f_{i}$ is not any lift of a homeomorphism on $S'$, we may find further covering from $q'$ by Lemma \ref{lem.lift}.
This contradicts the minimality of $q'$, so $f_{i}$ is a lift of some homeomorphism $f_{i}'$ on $S'$ for both $i=1,2$.
The stable and unstable foliations of $f'_{1}$ and $f'_{2}$ agree.
Note that there is a lower bound for the stretch factor of pseudo-Anosovs.
Therefore there are integers $a_{i}$ such that $a_{1}\log\lambda(f_{1}) = a_{2}\log\lambda(f_{2})$ where $\lambda(f)$ is the stretch factor of $f$.
Let $n_{i}~(i=1,2)$ be integers such that $n_{1}a_{1} + n_{2}a_{2}$ is the greatest common divisor of $a_{1}$ and $a_{2}$.
Then by considering the stretch factor, we see that $f':=(f_{1}')^{n_{1}}\circ (f_{2}')^{n_{2}}$ satisfies
that there are integers $m_{i}$ such that $(f')^{m_{i}}\circ f_{i}'$ preserves $q'$.
By appealing to the singular Euclidean structure with respect to $q'$, it can readily be seen that $(f')^{m_{i}}\circ f_{i}'$ is of finite order.
But if $(f')^{m_{i}}\circ f_{i}'$ is non-trivial, it contradicts the minimality of $q'$.
Hence $f'$ is a root of both $f_{1}'$ and $f_{2}'$.
Therefore $f'$ is covered by both $f_{1}$ and $f_{2}$.
Similarly to the proof of Theorem \ref{thm.main}, after finite steps, we end up with a unique minimal element.
\end{proof}
\section*{Acknowledgements}
The author would like to thank Michihiko Fujii for the invitation to the conference.
He also thanks Hideki Miyachi for helpful conversations.
Finally he thanks anonymous referee for useful comments.

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But as the past two cycles have shown, rules are made to be broken. So now, it's time to get into the weeds to see where the two parties stand at the beginning of a cycle that undoubtedly has many twists and turns ahead of it.
Democrats need to net 17 seats next year to reach a 218-seat majority in the House.
Democratic operatives identify 30 House Republicans who won by less than 10 points last year and assert that the margin makes them vulnerable in 2014. But the GOP incumbents who won by less than 10 points didn't start, or end, at the same place last cycle.
For example, Republican Rep. Tom Latham of Iowa defeated another incumbent, Democrat Leonard L. Boswell, running in territory very different from the Republican's district last decade. Because of that, Latham's 8-point victory — in a district that President Barack Obama won by more than 4 points — is a sign of strength, not vulnerability.
Similarly, Republican Rep. Steve King's 8-point victory in another Iowa district over a highly touted Democrat isn't a sign of vulnerability. King beat Christie Vilsack, wife of the former governor and current secretary of Agriculture, by almost the identical margin that Mitt Romney beat Obama in the district, suggesting a polarized electorate with a clear Republican bent.
North Carolina GOP Rep. Richard Hudson knocked off Democratic Rep. Larry Kissell by "only" 7.9 points, but that hardly suggests a great opportunity for Democrats next year in a district that Romney won by about 17 points.
After looking over the list of 30 Republicans who won by less than 10 points, I see no more than 11 who deserve to be on a list of initially vulnerable GOPers. But let's be generous and add Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann (who is likely to again win a narrow victory) to the list, bringing it to an even dozen.
To that dozen, add two California districts held by Republicans that voted for Obama — currently represented by David Valadao and Gary G. Miller — that the GOP won either because of a Democratic recruiting problem or the state's runoff process. Given the fundamentals of Miller's district, his seat is a Democratic takeover waiting to happen.
Now, add districts where Obama almost won and Democrats had relatively weak House candidates. That would include two districts in Pennsylvania — now held by GOP incumbents Patrick Meehan and Michael G. Fitzpatrick — and one in Ohio (held by freshman Rep. David Joyce).
That makes 17 districts where Democrats start with realistic opportunities to make gains. The list could grow, of course, with GOP retirements, unusually strong Democratic recruits or redrawn districts in Florida and Texas. But 17 districts are not nearly enough opportunities to give Democrats a decent chance of taking back the House.
Democrats surely will complain that I have not included on this list Republicans such as Andy Barr of Kentucky and Keith Rothfus of Pennsylvania. Each won by about 4 points in 2012, but both defeated a Democratic incumbent in a district carried easily by Mitt Romney. So while both districts could, under the right circumstances, be competitive, 2014 doesn't look promising.
And while Democrats have opportunities, they also have seats that will need defending.
At least 11 Democratic incumbents start off at risk: Arizona's Ann Kirkpatrick and Ron Barber, California's Raul Ruiz, Florida's Patrick Murphy and Joe Garcia, Georgia's John Barrow, Massachusetts' John F. Tierney, New Hampshire's Carol Shea-Porter, North Carolina's Mike McIntyre, Texas' Pete Gallego and Utah's Jim Matheson.
Seven of these Democrats sit in Romney districts, and strong GOP recruiting in a handful of additional districts could make more Democrat-held seats (Minnesota Rep. Collin C. Peterson's is a good example) vulnerable.
At this point in the cycle, Democrats probably need to put at least another two dozen additional districts into play — in addition to the ones I have cited above — and hold most of their own vulnerable seats to have a chance of netting 17 seats in the midterm elections. It's a very tall order.
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This story first appeared in Roll Call, RollCall.com on March 19, 2013.


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Independent; 84 minutes
Director: Lucio Castro
Written by Jason Ooi on March 26, 2019
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National Telegraph Visits Uganda's Refugee Settlements. You'll Like What You Read!
December 12, 2019	Africa, News Leave a comment
By Sarah Mazirwe – Kampala, Uganda, Wednesday, December 11, 2019.
Refugees in the Kiryadongo Settlement received training in Smart Agriculture.
Whereas the refugees have been getting tangible humanitarian aid, empowering them has seemed to produce fruits. The refugees are entitled to getting food; beans, posho, cooking oil, and salt every month from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.
The refugees in Rhino Camp refugee settlement in Arua District in the Northern part of Uganda are excited over the fair treatment they receive from nationals ever since they joined the same saving groups.
Rhino camp has mostly South Sudanese refugees. It is about 230.4 Km from Arua to Nimule South Sudan border with Uganda in the North.
Anna Awate, 20, a refugee from South Sudan who resides in Eden 1 in Rhino Camp refugee settlement said having joined the same training with the host members, the treatment of the nationals whom she shares the group with has over time improved.
Awate is a member of Azilava farmers group which operates a grinding machine. The machine deals in grinding maize, cassava, and sorghum, and most have more national customers.
Out of the 25 members, 13 members are Ugandan nationals while the remaining 12 are refugees. The group meets regularly to borrow and share money which is earned from the grinding machine.
"We relate easily and some of our members are involved in vegetable farming are offered land by the owners to cultivate in their land," Awate said.
Awate said through savings, the members have been able to borrow money from the group to hire land which is given at a lower cost by the nationals especially with those in the group. The savings group includes half of the group with the refugees and nationals.
Azilava Farmers group is one of 204 group beneficiaries that received pieces of training on Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) in Rhino Camp and Bidibidi Refugee Settlements in West Nile in northern Uganda that was implemented by ZOA since 2017.
The training was funded by the European Union Trust Fund under the support program for refugees and host communities in northern Uganda. The program is set to end next year.
Godfrey Adama, the Project Coordinator, Livelihood and Agribusiness said over sh150 in terms of incentives was invested in peacebuilding and improving livelihood for both the refugees and host communities.
Jonathan Matata, the assistant settlement commandant for Rhino Camp refugee settlement in the Office of the Prime Minister said more efforts are needed to harmonise the relations in social service delivery, infrastructure use, and peaceful coexistence.
"The advocacy for 50/50 campaign should be emphasized, the host communities continue to blame the refugees of using their natural resources yet in most programs the hosts are not engaged," Matata said.
Matata said there are complaints from nationals that refugees gain at the expense of nationals. Adama, however, said the groups that are formed in refugee camps have to have half of the members from the host community.
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I am brand new at this blog thing. I love the muffin tin meals. I can't wait to try it with my kids. I really need to be ready for this Monday because the theme is great because it is my youngest child's 2nd birthday.
Cute bands. I just did my first muffin tin meal for a playdate. Fun stuff.
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I only wish my daughter (ten months old with no teeth) could participate in Muffin Tin Mondays. This is definately a something I'm going to try when she's a little older.
I just love your blog! It's so generous of you to giveaway these beautiful headbands! We have some wild hair in this house and could really use one.
Too bad they aren't adult-size but I do have nieces! As you know, I love your blog!
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Cool headbands. Love the colors. And thanks for your blog.
Thanks for your bloggy inspiration.
And these headbands are lovely!
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Hope you're well and that your blanket-mending is progressing nicely!
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oh I hope I'm not too late!!! These are sooooo cute! Do you sell on etsy? I know my daughter would love one too.
P.S thanks for sharing your life with us too.
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Beautiful headbands! You are very talented!
Those are really pretty - I have 3 little girls, so they would really get a good use!
I've been thinking I need some headbands like that. I recently chopped all, I mean all (okay to my ears) and everyone keeps telling me those kinds of headbands would look good! I hope I'm a weaner haha!
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i couldn't find these headbands on your etsy site. . .
I am a fairly recent fan of your blog. I love your creative ideas and fun personality. And I love the hairbands.
Wow! Once again, I am so jealous of you! I LOVE those headbands!!!You are so blessed to have such wonderful talent! BFG would flip out for those!Her hair is always in her face.
Sorry, I've missed out on the past few Muffin Tin Mondays. We've been hitting the house pretty hard. I actually have a living room now! Yea! I hope I can get something together for tomorrow. I've missed it so much!
love your blog and love these headbands. Hope I win-as I really need some of these! Not sure if we'll do muffin tin monday this week= sick kiddos.
Oh I made some of these... but I dont have any cute fabric as I don't have a car and live far from the fabric store!!!
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I plan to use your muffin tin idea at my daughter's birthday party next weekend..
don't my daughter earn a hairband as a birthday gift?? hee hee :) count me in!
i can always use headbands with 4 girls in the house!
Well, you do have a fantastic blog. It's no wonder people are excited to join you!
I still love the headbands I bought from you before. But now I have a really fun short haircut and need some more fun bands.
I'm torn between hoping I win and hoping someone else gets to see how cute your stuff is in person!
those are too cute! i always look forward to reading your blog and seeing what fun ideas you have! thanks!
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I just found you and love the muffin tin ideas! Love the headband!
You know I'd love one!
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The hairbands are gorgeous! Thanks for the muffin tin ideas, with picture links too!!


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