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Anarchy as Alternative
by Edward Martin - Mateo Pimentel
Third in a Four Part Series. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
In parts one and two of this series, we argued that to prevent oligarchic rule, democratic and economic institutions need to be salvaged, ironically, through anarchist political activism and Marxist capital analysis, specifically Marx's labor theory of value, which identifies the systemic and structural nature of exploitation. The point is that workers are "entitled" to the surplus value they create. We also argued that globalization as manifested in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), amounts to imperialism. In this particular case, we utilize the economic analysis provided by British economist John Hobson. In his great work Imperialism, Hobson, an anti-imperialist capitalist, argues something far more insightful than Marx ever did. The worst that Marx had ever claimed about capitalism was that the system would literally destroy itself. What Hobson argues is that, not only will the system destroy itself, but that taken to a global level the capitalist system will destroy the world. Imagine that, coming from a capitalist. Contrary to popular scholarship, many Marxists claim this same conclusion, such as Lenin, Magdoff, and Sweezy. But it was Hobson who originally argued that capitalism would have to extend beyond its own borders to maintain its competitive edge and control markets outside of its own country. This is compounded by the fact that other countries are forced to do the same, and in so doing, set the stage for a form of economic competition known as "trade wars." Consequently unbridled, international, globalized capitalism will undermine the dynamic nature of markets, which on the other hand, given rational boundaries, can be an effective and efficient mechanism for allocating scarce economic goods, services, and resources. Take a look at any of the works by World Systems Theorists such as Immanuel Wallerstein and Andre Gunder Frank.
Now to the point: The Trans-Pacific Partnership follows along these same lines. Though our information is based on a leak, from WikiLeaks, we have no reason to doubt the veracity of this leak since to-date, WikiLeaks has never been wrong. So we proceed.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership can be broken down accordingly.
(1) The Partnership basically is a secret plan for international elites to capture and exploit underdeveloped markets. This means that underdeveloped markets, in least-developed countries can be exploited, meaning their labor force extorted and environmental restrictions obliterated. This extends to Australia and New Zealand as well, though they are not "developing" countries. Nevertheless, the point of "fast-track" legislation is to conceal this economic and environmental disaster arrangement.
(2) TPP will harm the global environment. In this arrangement, the environment will no longer be protected, and already weakened domestic and international environmental regulations will further harm the environment, which has a direct effect on the health of the populations of these countries, including the people of the United States. In fact, the fracking industry will have no regulations placed on it at all. There will be no limit on increased carbon emissions, which invariably contaminates the earth, water, air, and ozone. Liquid natural gas exports to TPP countries will have no environmental regulations either, and in the United States, no environmental clearance at all from the Department of Energy.
(3) Labor in TPP countries will be subject to increased pressure to provide concessions, along with health benefits, job security, etc. This includes the United States. And with the export of capital, jobs in the United States become at-risk, if not, lost completely. The potential for leveraging international labor for increased profits and productivity becomes paramount in their business plan. In other words, pay labor a subsistence wage and maximize profits and productivity at all costs for the shareholders. Can you imagine trying to unionize? Under this agreement, it is unknown what rights organized labor has in TPP countries, specifically Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. We know what the situation is for labor in non-democratic countries such as Vietnam and Brunai. Zip!
(4) As in authoritarian and totalitarian countries, the TPP intends to criminalize Internet access and expression. Criticizing and protesting this trade agreement will be met with legal action based on TPP surveillance. The policing and surveillance will take place within TPP countries, making dissent on the economic and environmental impacts due to the TPP, punishable by law. Sovereignty and due process are absent. Thus the goal of intimidation of dissident groups is effectively quelled from the outset. Moreover, the rights of corporations involved in the TPP give them the ability to sue those groups or individuals who seek economic or environmental damages from those countries participating in the TPP. In other words, foreign and international firms are elevated to the level of sovereign status within the United States and can then sue for damages.
(5) Democratic governance under TPP has been has been subordinated to market rationale. This is not the way that democratic societies and international institutions should be run. Nor is the TPP something that a democratic government should espouse, even though Barak Obama, Chris Matthews, Lawrence O'Donnell, Chris Hayes, Jonathan Altar, Charles Krauthammer, Fox News, et al, argue has always been the way trade agreements have been carried out. We say fuck no! Occupy said bull shit to this. And if it weren't for the labor unions, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Rachel Maddow, and Ed Shultz speaking out against this, TPP would be a done deal right now. And the pro TPP people keep saying the anti TPP are just wrong. Well there is one way to resolve this pissing match … open up the deal to the light of day and let's have at it. But you know they won't because this deal is meant to bone American and TPP participant countries' labor and environment. Of course they will use the same line going back to the Reagan era where if the elites get rich then it will trickle down to everyone.
(6) All of this is possible because the corporate and power elite in this country, and outside of this country, for all intents and purposes, control our government. The following is our continued analysis of why oligarchic arrangements in the United States have led to the Occupy movement of Wall Street. This also pertains to the clandestine TPP operation and its economic quest for domination. And this same oligarchic dimension also applies to the Department of Justice and the recent exoneration by the new Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, of the corporate chiefs found guilty of fraud re: Citicorp (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), London-based Barclays (BCS) and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). They get fined 2 billion dollars but they get to keep the 62 billion remaining. This shit is getting outrageous!
Next week we will conclude with our fourth and final entry. We will elaborate on an explanation of how we can break this newest sinister arm of the oligarchic arrangement. It will go beyond political anarchy, Marx's labor theory of value, and anti-imperialist capitalism. We want markets to work and so we are going to argue that markets optimize when they are responsive to the general will of the people and thus promote the common good. Here's a clue: liberal notions of labor entitlements from capitalist gurus and a free market freak, fair enterprise Nobel economist, influenced by the Austrian school of economics. What the hell! We're using a former socialist gone fascist to explain the phenomena of oligarchies in democratic political and economic institutions. Why not use liberal thought? Maybe the answer was there all along…
Anarchism and Oligarchic State
The tendency of organizations (democratic governments, political parties, unions, etc.) is to become oligarchic and therefore obfuscate and undermine democratic rule. Thus it is plausible that the very legitimacy of "democratic" government is in question, especially because oligarchic rule does not serve the general will of the people and the purposes of self-governance. Rather, it serves an elite cadre within organizations in which individuals position themselves for control of the organizations. Liberal democratic self-governance is in question, specifically as it relates to contemporary liberal theorists such as John Rawls in A Theory of Justice, and Robert Nozick in Anarchy, State and Utopia. Both liberal theories – Rawls' in prioritizing legal rights for those least advantaged in society (welfare rights), and Nozick's in prioritizing maximum individual liberty (libertarianism) – are challenged by oligarchic tendencies, that is, if Michels' position is correct. This oligarchic tendency is also present in radical and Marxist democratic organizations that argue for democratic rights as the foundation of economic social justice in a democratic society. Reinhold Niebuhr, Edward Banfield, Amartya Sen, and Rodney Peffer all espouse this tradition.
The problem associated with the inherent nature of democratic organizations to emerge as non-democratic oligarchies is exactly what anarchism seeks to confront. Anarchist critiques of the oligarchic and authoritarian tendencies of Enlightenment liberalism and capitalist development according to its chief spokespersons, such as, Gerrard Winstanley, William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Henry David Thoreau, Benjamin Tucker, and Emma Goldman and contemporary critiques of modern liberalism, liberal democracies and neoliberal capitalism by philosophical anarchists such as Charles Frankel, Noam Chomsky, Michael Albert, Murray Bookchin, Robert Paul Wolff and A. John Simmons, demand serious attention. Here the understanding is that government, law, and public policy, is hardly justification for moral guidance in the lives of people. In fact, government coercion for anarchists is the very basis of tyranny because it violates the very nature of autonomous and free individuals and communities. Nonviolent civil disobedience, therefore, becomes the modus operandi of anarchists and government dissenters in this tradition.
Early seventeenth century British anarchist, Gerrard Winstanley, argued that the capitalist accumulation of wealth and property resulted in greater social inequality and that land should be understood as a "common treasury," and that the promotion of federalism within nations and internationalism promoted throughout the world represented the earliest developments in anarchist theory. Winstanley argued that peasants possessed the fundamental human right to the wealth they create and to the land that they worked. Known as the "Diggers," Winstanley urged peasants to "squat" on stretches of unused common land in Southern England in order to provide themselves with both a domicile a living. Moreover, for Winstanley, the individual person is marginalized by both monarchical and parliamentary (democratic) rule. For anarchists, both authoritarian and democratic rule resulted in plutocratic elite domination. Much like today's libertarian movement, anarchists believed that the individual person should be given the utmost possible freedom and that voluntary institutions best represent the human person's natural social tendencies. Yet, the voluntary association of unionized workers, pitted against the elite control and possession of capital, clearly differentiates anarchists from libertarians. Marxists, on the other hand, differ from anarchists for the most part precisely over the role of the state, since the state has a role to play in the revolutionary class struggle. Anarchists would not deny that class warfare results from capitalist exploitation, however they tend to view any role of the state in resolving this conflict as lacking any political legitimacy.
Later eighteenth century British anarchists, such as William Godwin, argued that violent revolutionary action was a legitimate course of action in the event that the new "capitalist state" became increasingly tyrannical, especially in light of the gross inequities of the burgeoning industrial revolution. Godwin argued for a "fixed and immutable" universal natural law as fundamental to justice. Here, Godwin argued that justice itself was based on fundamental human rights, but that human laws could potentially be fallible and that reason and conscience dictates obedience or disobedience to human law. Godwin, furthermore, rejected all established institutions and all social relations that suggested inequality or the power of one person over another, including marriage. Influenced by the anarchist tendencies in the social and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Godwin argued that while government might be considered necessary for the short term, in the long run it would eventually become obsolete when others their very freedom and autonomy would be secured through the non-interference in others' lives. Godwin further argued that individuals should act in accordance with their own judgments and that in return others should be allowed the same liberty.
Nineteenth-century European anarchism developed independently from the earlier British version. It grew out of French socialist thought and German Neo-Hegelianism, as fused by Pierre Proudhon who in turn profoundly influenced Marx and his development of anarchist thought, and later theorists such as Michael Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, and Georges Sorel. This form of anarchism sought to eliminate the role of the state and simultaneously uphold the greatest amount of freedom based on three main areas: (1) the use of violence as a means to overthrow authoritarian rule; (2) the establishment and respect for individual liberty and human rights; and (3) the promotion of economic and social institutions that foster individual freedom and the common good. With the exception of anarchists such as Pierre Proudhon, Henry David Thureau, Leo Tolstoy, Robert Tucker, and Mohandas Ghandi, who rejected violence as a form of revolutionary action, most anarchists in the nineteenth century have sought to abolish injustice and establish a socially just society based on the above three categories. Thoreau, Tolstoy, Tucker, and Ghandi urged peaceful nonviolent civil disobedience as an alternative to violent revolutionary action.
Philosophical anarchists argue, within the same basic anarchist tradition (e.g., mutualism, anarcho-syndicalism, collectivism, individualism, pacifism, Wobblies, trade unionism, Marxist Anarchism, left libertarianism) that authoritarian systems are not the only form of state oppression but that the modern democratic state itself has become, fundamentally, an instrument by which elites and special interests in a liberal democracy coerce and even use their power to oppress others. Therefore the state, by virtue of its liberal nature: (1) lacks legitimacy because the state serves elite interests at the expense of individual and collective self-governance; and (2) impedes individual autonomy and self-determination by compelling individuals to obey the state through coercion (rules, regulations, and laws), and even force (police and military action). Philosophical anarchists thus argue that individuals, according to their conscience, have the moral right not to comply with the state and even the moral obligation to disobey the state in the event that the policies and laws of a particular government violate the conscience of individual citizens. Godwin argued for a radical egalitarian society where each person should take part in the production of necessities and should share their part in the production of necessities with all in need. Here conceived, a society of free land workers and artisans was the first outline of an anarchist society. This is the "socialist" roots of anarchism trump those of any libertarian element.
In the past other more militant schools of anarchist thought, including those of nineteenth century figures such as Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Marx, argued that it was necessary for the exploited working class to overthrow the state and its controlling capitalist class, violently if necessary. Philosophical anarchists argue that, rather than taking up arms to bring down the state, the optimal situation is to work for gradual change to free individuals from what they perceive to be oppressive laws and social constraints of the modern state and allow all individuals to become self-determining autonomous actors in the world. While philosophical anarchists oppose the immediate elimination of the state by violent means, they adhere to this primarily out of concern that what might remain in place after a given revolution could very well become the establishment of a more harmful and oppressive state. This is especially true among those anarchists who consider violence and the state as synonymous, or who consider it counterproductive, and where public reaction to violence could result in increased "law enforcement" or the reinforcement of the "police state." Subsequently, philosophical anarchists reject, for the most part, the urge to violence as a means for eliminating the "illegitimate" state, while at the same time they accept the existence of a minimal state as an unfortunate, but "necessary evil." A. John Simmons claims that "philosophical anarchists hold that there are good reasons not to oppose or disrupt at least some kinds of illegitimate states, reasons that outweigh any right or obligation of opposition. The practical stance with respect to the state, the philosophical anarchist maintains, should be one of careful consideration and thoughtful weighing of all the reasons that bear on action in a particular set of circumstances." And Robert Paul Wolff further states that while philosophical anarchists may not wish to disrupt a particular state, they do not necessarily think anyone has an obligation to obey the state. There can be no such thing as a government that "has a right to command and whose subjects have a binding obligation to obey."
Postmodern Anarchism
Other forms of anarchism, such as postmodern anarchism, have been developed by theorists such as May, Newman, and Call, who assert that the anarchist writings of Nietzsche, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Freud, Durkheim, Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Baudrillard, and Chomsky, intersect with postmodern critiques of modernism, rationalism, and scientism. Specifically, this theoretical construct, where anarchism and postmodernism meet, moves beyond anarchism's conventional attacks on capital and the state to criticize those forms of rationality, consciousness, and language that implicitly condition all economic and political power. May, Newman, and Call, argue that postmodernism contemporizes anarchism, making it relevant to the current political culture of the twenty-first century.
The postmodern anarchists draw on the works of several theorists in an attempt to connect anarchism with postmodernism. May, Newman, and Call, use anarchism to critique liberal notions of language, consciousness, and rationality, which are inherent within capitalist state organizations, and use postmodern methods to deconstruct hegemonies of all sorts, predominantly those dominant ideas and beliefs at the heart of capitalist and Marxist ideology. Yet, their sharpest postmodern attack is leveled against bourgeois liberalism and its manifestation in "late capitalism," or as Veblen describes it, "conspicuous consumption." Here the postmodern anarchists nevertheless, identify classical anarchism as being fundamentally opposed to hierarchical (paternalistic) social relations inherent in capitalist modes of production and state socialist regimes. It therefore rejects state capitalist of state socialist uses of force and the "coercive politics implicit in all state systems. Such anarchism envisions strictly voluntary (and typically small-scale) forms of organization," devoid of any reliance on modernism's devotion to rationality as an organizing principle typified by Western culture. In this sense, postmodern anarchists argue that liberal democracies can become, and often do become, oppressive hegemonies controlled by a power-elite precisely "to prevent radical change." Postmodern anarchists such as Call, argue that although "liberalism represents an impressive and historically important body of work … [it] imposes a disturbing silence upon radical thinking." In rejecting Rorty's liberal principles (and those of other great liberals such as Holms, Rawls, Nozick, Dworkin, etc.), of avoiding harm and cruelty to others, liberalism as applied to a democratic society "functions to defend existing institutions and to prevent radical change."
Edward Martin is Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Graduate Center for Public Policy and Administration at California State University, Long Beach, and co-author of Savage State: Welfare Capitalism and Inequality..
Mateo Pimentel lives on the Mexican-US border. You can follow him on Twitter @mateo_pimentel, or read more at www.guerrillaprose.info.
Edward Martin is Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Graduate Center for Public Policy and Administration at California State University, Long Beach, and co-author of Savage State: Welfare Capitalism and Inequality.. Mateo Pimentel lives on the Mexican-US border. You can follow him on Twitter @mateo_pimentel, or read more at www.guerrillaprose.info.
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Reminds me of the tulip bubble.
Now here is an article worth copying to hard disk for reference only, and reviewing repeatedly.
What effect will electromagnetic pulse attacks have on bitcoin?
The US government don't need to embrace because the NSA developed it to ultimately replace the ailing petrodollar and challenge the gold-backed Yuan.The idea that a system of exchange where every transaction is logged came fron the counter-culture is laughable. What's happening now is also a beta test for the cashless society.


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Zac Efron Becomes Notorious Serial Killer Ted Bundy in the 'Extremely Wicked' Trailer
Matt Singer Published: January 25, 2019
Ted Bundy sure is having a moment. He's the subject of a brand new documentary true crime series on Netflix, Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, and he's also the protagonist of a new fiction film called Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, where he is played by the extremely handsome, extremely chiseled Zac Efron. (Bundy was famously a good-looking dude who struck a very unusual figure for a serial killer, so I guess Troy Bolton is as good a guy as any to play him.)
Here is the film's official synopsis:
1969. Ted (Zac Efron) is crazy-handsome, smart, charismatic, affectionate. And cautious single mother Liz Kloepfer (Lily Collins) ultimately cannot resist his charms. For her, Ted is a match made in heaven, and she soon falls head over heels in love with the dashing young man. A picture of domestic bliss, the happy couple seems to have it all figured out … until, out of nowhere, their perfect life is shattered. Ted is arrested and charged with a series of increasingly grisly murders. Concern soon turns to paranoia—and, as evidence piles up, Liz is forced to consider that the man with whom she shares her life could actually be a psychopath. This is the story of Ted Bundy, one of the most notorious serial killers of all time. Collins shines as Liz, while Zac Efron gives a performance that could redefine his career. Renowned filmmaker Joe Berlinger, best known for his true-crime documentaries, proves to be the perfect match to bring this Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile true story to the screen.
In a very unusual twist, both Confessions of a Killer and Extremely Wicked... are both directed by the same guy: Joe Berlinger, who made the excellent trilogy of films about the West Memphis 3, Paradise Lost. It's pretty rare for one filmmaker to direct fiction and non-fiction films about the same subject, but here we are! I guess Berlinger had a lot to say about Ted Bundy.
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## Mise en place du projet
Si virtualenv n'est pas installé :

	pip install virtualenv

On créer l'environnement virtuel :

	cd
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On lance l'environnement :

	source ./archiWeb/bin/activate

On clone le projet et on installe les packets necessaires :

	git clone https://github.com/batebates/L3ProjetWeb.git
	pip install -r requirements.txt

On installe la base de donnée :

	cd BDR/
	python manage.py migrate
	python manage.py loaddata initial.yaml

On lance le serveur :

	python manage.py runserver

On peut maintenant se connecter au site à l'adresse 127.0.0.0:8000

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The initial chaos and confusion surrounding the rollout is a harbinger of the damage to come from alienating Muslims worldwide, empowering radicals, and abandoning refugees to suffer in camps. Far from making us safer, the executive order is widely viewed as a direct threat to our national security and an assault on American values.
Of all the controversial provisions of the order, none is more problematic and damaging than the religious test that gives priority to refugees fleeing religious persecution if, and only if, they are a religious minority in their country of origin. The intent is clear: Open the door to Christians from Muslim-majority countries while doing everything possible to keep Muslims out.
Now, six months later, Trump's Muslim ban under another guise is the official policy of the United States government.
From a human rights perspective, the most disturbing parts of the executive order bar refugees for four months, cut the number allowed in by 60,000, impose a religious test, and freeze indefinitely the refugee resettlement of Syrians. Taken together, these policies add up to an inhumane, immoral and woefully inadequate response to the greatest humanitarian crisis since World War II.
Contradictions and ironies abound. Trump recently told Christian Broadcast News that he wanted to help Syrian Christians, whom he claimed (without citing evidence) were deliberately kept out while Syrian Muslim refugees were let in under the last administration. But his executive order bars all refugees from Syria indefinitely — meaning that Christians facing genocide in Syria will have no haven in America.
Last year the U.S. accepted a small number of Syrians (10,000 as of August 2016) out of the nearly 5 million Syrian refugees. After Trump's order, the number will be zero. Once the four-month ban on refugees from other countries is lifted, the number of projected refugees will be cut almost in half and those seeking entry will face a religious test.
Beyond humanitarian concerns, I am convinced that Trump's order is also unconstitutional. The Establishment clause of the First Amendment prohibits government from targeting Muslims for exclusion and favoring Christians for admission; in short, prioritizing some religious groups over others. Lawsuits have already been filed challenging Trump on First Amendment and other constitutional grounds.
If strengthening national security is the goal, keeping out refugees — Muslim or otherwise — is not the solution. Refugees are currently vetted for over two years before being allowed entry, and no person accepted into the U.S. as a refugee has been implicated in a fatal terrorist attack since systematic procedures were established for accepting refugees in 1980, according to an analysis of terrorism immigration risks by the Cato Institute.
Orwellian doublespeak cannot obscure the hostility toward Muslims and Islam that animates President Trump's executive order on immigration. A Muslim ban is a Muslim ban by any other name.
On the day we remember the Nazi genocide of the Jews, the United States closed the door to those fleeing genocide today.
Charles C. Haynes is vice president of the Newseum Institute and founding director of the Religious Freedom Center. Contact him via email at chaynes@newseum.org. Follow him on Twitter at @hayneschaynes.
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The righteous outrage which you so articulately expressed demands that we all take unified action to defy this new order; this disgraceful, harmful, and soulless administration.


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Cathy Miller Opposes Government's Request to Shut Down her Wedding Cake Business
Cathy Miller, the owner of Tastries Bakery, filed an opposition brief last Friday in state court in response to the State of California's legal fight to force her either to design wedding cakes promoting messages she disagrees with or to stop creating wedding cakes altogether.
Last August, two women came into Cathy's shop and requested that she design a wedding cake celebrating their marriage, even though they had already been married. Cathy respectfully let the couple know that designing a custom cake that celebrated same-sex marriage violated her religious beliefs about marriage. She then referred the couple to another local cake designer who would create their cake. The two women promptly left the shop and posted about their interaction with Cathy on social media. Cathy and her employees then began receiving hate messages and death threats.
Two months later, the women filed a complaint with California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH), alleging that Cathy had violated the Unruh Act by supposedly discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. Shortly after, the DFEH launched a formal investigation of Cathy and last month filed a surprise motion for a temporary restraining order to force Cathy to create custom wedding cakes celebrating same-sex marriages.
But the superior court judge denied the government's request because he had not yet heard Cathy's version of what happened and there was no urgency justifying a TRO since the same-sex couple wanted a wedding cake last August. The judge also acknowledged that the case could affect Cathy's constitutional rights and warranted to hear Cathy's defense before ruling. The judge then ordered the government to show cause on why the court should issue an injunction against Cathy.
The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund (FCDF) is defending Cathy and filed the opposition on her behalf. The brief argues three main points:
Cathy did not discriminate based on sexual orientation and did not violate the Unruh Act. In fact, Cathy is willing to serve all people regardless of their sexual orientation. She just cannot promote every message requested of her;
Cathy cannot be forced to celebrate messages or events that violate her sincerely held religious beliefs about marriage; and
Cathy's free speech and conscience rights are protected under the U.S. and California constitutions.
Charles LiMandri, FCDF's President and Chief Counsel, said:
By this opposition brief, Cathy is showing that she will not back down from government officials who are bent on destroying her and her business. Cathy's sincerely held beliefs inspire her work as a cake artist, and every wedding cake she designs is a reflection of those beliefs. As we argue in our brief, the state and federal constitutions prevent the government from forcing Cathy to celebrate events that violate her faith.
Cathy will be next in court on Friday, February 2nd when the judge will hear arguments from both sides on whether he should grant the government's request for an injunction. LiMandri will be arguing on Miller's behalf.
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La gare d'Alençon est une gare ferroviaire française de la ligne du Mans à Mézidon, située à proximité du centre de la ville d'Alençon, dans le département de l'Orne, en région Normandie.

L'embarcadère est mis en service en 1856 par la compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest. C'est aujourd'hui une gare de la Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) desservie par des trains Intercités, TER Normandie et TER Pays de la Loire circulant entre Caen, Le Mans et Tours.

Situation ferroviaire
Établie à  d'altitude, la gare d'Alençon est située au point kilométrique (PK) 55,969 de la ligne du Mans à Mézidon, entre les gares ouvertes de La Hutte - Coulombiers (s'intercalent les gares fermées de Bourg-le-Roi et de Champfleur) et de Sées. Elle est séparée de cette dernière par la gare aujourd'hui fermée de Vingt-Hanaps.

Gare de bifurcation, elle est aussi l'origine, au PK 0,000, de la ligne d'Alençon à Condé-sur-Huisne, déclassée et transformée en voie verte depuis 2010, et de la ligne d'Alençon à Domfront partiellement exploitée en trafic fret. Les premières gares sont celles de Semallé en direction de Condé-sur-Huisne et de Damigny en direction de Domfront.

Histoire

Alençon entre dans la jeune histoire des chemins de fer avec un arrêté pris en 1842 par le ministre des travaux publics. Cette information est publiée par le Journal des chemins de fer, dans son numéro du samedi 3 septembre 1842, qui précise qu'il y a deux projets à l'étude pour une ligne de Paris à Brest : l'une par Nantes et l'autre par Chartres, Alençon, Laval, Rennes et Pontivy. La loi du 26 juillet 1844 écarte le tracé par Nantes en finançant un premier tronçon de Versailles à Chartres, mais ne précise plus Alençon comme point de passage avant Laval. Le choix est maintenant entre Alençon et Le Mans, les édiles et soutiens des deux parties vont, selon Alain Champion, soutenir sans failles le tracé passant par leur ville, c'est finalement le passage par Le Mans qui est décidé à une voix de majorité par la commission parlementaire chargée de ce dossier. La loi du 21 juin 1846 précise le tracé de la ligne principale de l'Ouest : de Versailles à Rennes par Chartres, Le Mans et Laval, et ajoute en complément deux embranchements : de Chartres à Alençon et du Mans à Caen. Mais différents problèmes, notamment financiers, feront prendre du retard à la réalisation de la ligne de l'Ouest et ne permettront pas la réalisation des embranchements prévus, il faut attendre encore quelques années pour l'arrivée du chemin de fer à Alençon.

L'embarcadère d'Alençon est le terminus de la première section, de l'embranchement du Mans à Mézidon, mise en service par la compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest le 15 mars 1856. La section suivante d'Alençon à Argentan est mise en service le  février 1858. et l'ensemble de la ligne est ouvert le  février 1859 avec la mise en service du dernier tronçon d'Argentan à Mézidon.

L'importance ferroviaire d'Alençon se renforce, avec la mise en service le 6 mai 1873 de la ligne d'Alençon à Condé-sur-Huisne et en 1881 l'ouverture d'une nouvelle ligne d'Alençon à Domfront mise en service par sections : le 15 septembre 1881 d'Alençon à Pré-en-Pail et le 15 septembre 1881 de Pré-en-Pail à Domfront.

Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale la gare va subir plusieurs bombardements qui vont détruire les infrastructures et notamment son bâtiment voyageurs. Le 14 juin 1940 un bombardement de la Luftwaffe sur la gare et ses abords fait plus de trente victimes parmi les réfugiés présents. Les attaques suivantes seront les bombardements alliés de 1944. Le premier a lieu le 21 mai et cause deux blessés ainsi que des dégâts matériels touchant le bâtiment et plus de dix locomotives. Le 9 juin, c'est le tout le quartier de la gare qui est détruit par l'aviation anglo-américaine. Les 12 et 13 juillet la gare subit encore des attaques.

L'architecte Louis Arretche réalise des esquisses et un avant-projet pour une nouvelle gare en 1947 et 1948. L'inauguration de la nouvelle gare a lieu en 1960.

Le 13 juin 2010 a lieu l'inauguration de la voie verte qui remplace l'ancienne ligne d'Alençon à Condé-sur-Huisne.

Le 27 octobre 2020 a lieu l'inauguration de la voie verte qui remplace l'ancienne ligne d'Alençon à Domfront

Service des voyageurs

Accueil
La Gare SNCF, dispose d'un bâtiment voyageurs ouvert tous les jour avec un guichet ouvert du lundi au vendredu. Elle est équipée d'un automate regional situé en quai 1 pour l'achat de billets pour un déplacement regional hors services Krono + (les lignes Paris-Caen-Cherbourg, Paris-Rouen-Le Havre) ainsi que la ligne Paris-Granville, et d'un automate national situé dans le batiment voyageur à côté du guichet permettant l'acheat des billets nationaux et des lignes susmentionnés, étant soumises à réservation obligatoire. La gare est équipée aussi d'un espace presse Relay installé dans le hall. La gare comporte trois quais numérotés de 1 à 3, qui mesurent .

Desserte
Alençon est desservie par des trains des réseaux TER Normandie et TER Pays de la Loire circulant entre Caen, Le Mans et Tours. Des cars permettent de relier la gare d'Alençon à celle de Surdon pour récupérer les trains de la ligne Paris - Granville.

Intermodalité
Des correspondances sont possibles avec les transports en communs routiers : les lignes 1 et 3 du réseau de bus Alto des transports urbains de la communauté urbaine d'Alençon ; les lignes 403, 404, 409, 415, 417 et 48 des bus du réseau interurbain de l'Orne ; et la ligne 210 des transports Interurbains de la Sarthe. La ligne Alto 1 assure une correspondance avec le centre-ville d'Alençon, toutes les 20 minutes du lundi au samedi et l'été de 7H à 20H.La ligne 3 assure une correspondance avec le centre-ville et le pôle universitaire de Damigny, toutes les 30 à 40 minutes du lundi au vendredi de 7h à 20h et toutes les heures le samedi et l'été de 7h à 20h .

Service des marchandises
Cette gare est ouverte au service FRET (code gare : 444711). Elle est ouverte uniquement pour le trafic de trains de bois. Elle comporte par ailleurs des voies de service et de débords, la rendant ouverte au service infrastructure de la SNCF.

Projet

La rénovation de la gare, comprenant notamment l'accessibilité et la mise aux normes du bâtiment voyageurs et de son parvis, est programmée pour être réalisée entre 2012 et 2014.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste de gares en France
 Ligne du Mans à Mézidon
 Ligne d'Alençon à Condé-sur-Huisne
 Ligne d'Alençon à Domfront

Liens externes

Gare dans l'Orne
Gare
Gare mise en service en 1856
Ligne du Mans à Mézidon


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unfortunately, the price tag on the aforementioned spa day is not always realistic. after a stressful workweek, i was eager to unwind and decompress. i invited my girlfriend and fellow blogger, ana luiza over for an at-home spa day! we had a blast lounging in pajamas, sipping tea, and trying new face masks, graciously provided by masked beauty.
hosting an at-home spa day is easier (and less expensive) than i had imagined. i invited ana luiza to come over in her most comfortable lounge-wear. (she opted for a cozy t-shirt dress, and i wore pajama pants and a tee.) a bathrobe and slippers would also be fun to include!
i had light bites and tea, makeup-removing wipes, face towels, and an assortment of face masks arranged upon ana luiza's arrival. one item that seemed to be missing? an essential oil diffuser. a diffuser can help reduce stress and enhance sleep—i would love to incorporate one into my nighttime routine!
serving "detox" water can also help your home feel (and taste) like a spa. two of my favorite flavored water recipes are: water + mint + cucumber + lemon, and/or water + berries + basil. both are delicious and refreshing. any excuse to drink more water is a win in my book!
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Mathilda (Natalie Portman), a twelve-year old New York girl, is living an undesirable life among her half-family. Her father stores drugs for a local corrupt cop, Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman).
One day, Stansfield and his team take cruel revenge on her father for stretching the drugs, killing the whole family. Only Mathilda survives by finding shelter in the apartment of her apartment neighbor, the reclusive Leon(Jean Reno).
Soon, Mathilda finds out about Leon's profession, a brutal, highly skilled contract killer, and seeks his help in taking revenge for her little brother, the only member of the family she cared for, who was killed as well, despite his innocence.
Leon, who is completely unexperienced in fatherly tasks, and in friendships, does his best to keep Mathilda out of trouble. Now, the conflict between a killer, who slowly discovers his abilities to to feel and to care and a corrupt police officer, who does anything in his power to rid himself of the only eye witness to his ruthless crime--Mathilda.
Mathilda, a twelve-year old New York girl, is living an undesirable life among her half-family. Her father stores drugs for two-faced cop Norman Stansfield. Only her little brother keeps Mathilda from breaking apart. One day, Stansfield and his team take cruel revenge on her father for stretching the drugs a little, thus killing the whole family. Only Mathilda, who was out shopping, survives by finding shelter in L�on's apartment in the moment of highest need. Soon, she finds out about the strange neighbour's unusual profession - killing - and desperately seeks his help in taking revenge for her little brother. L�on, who is completely unexperienced in fatherly tasks, and in friendships, does his best to keep Mathilda out of trouble - unsuccessfully. Now, the conflict between a killer, who slowly discovers his abilities to live, to feel, to love and a corrupt police officer, who does anything in his might to get rid of an eye witness, arises to unmeasurable proportions - all for the sake of a little twelve-year old girl, who has nearly nothing to lose.
Leon (Jean Reno) is a hit man in New York. He lives next door to a little girl, Matilda (Natalie Portman). Mathilda's father, unknown to her, is a drug dealer. When he finds out the Matilda's father took some, he goes and kills the entire family with the exception of Matilda who was shopping. When she comes back and finds her family dead, she goes to her neighbor whom she sees all the time and camps up with him. When she enters his life, everything changes for him. She later announces that she wants to become a hitman just like Leon so she can get revenge on the corrupt cop who slayed her parents. What follows is an exciting and very sensitive tale of a hitman who grows to love a little girl like his own, and the little girl who grows to love him.


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I noticed my node is visible on https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/ but the URI is unknown. Is there some settings I need to check on my server?
Where 192.168.1.1 you would of course, put your own IP address.
Also, since you are probably unaware of this as well, in case you want to choose the port, use the --port=9735 option and just change the port to which you want to use. Everybody pretty much uses port 9735 though. Make sure that this port is forwarded on your internet router and is not blocked by your firewall either.
use the command lightning-cli listconfigs to check what you have configured for your node to make sure everything is right after it is up and running.


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Q: Issues with radio button in laravel i want to set the radio button in the form using controller
( note: no database included).
 And i even have no idea how to set the radio
button in the form using controller .
{this is my radio button}

             Gender

            <input type="radio" name="gender" value="male" > Male
            <input type="radio" name="gender" value="female"> Female

this is my controller :
class NewController extends Controller
{
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
        $fullname='sagar basnet';
        $subject='this is my test form';
         return view('newfile/forms')
            ->withFullname($fullname)
            ->withSubject($subject);

    }

A: I am going make a best effort to answer your question as their is no sample code provided.
I am assuming that you want to set the state of a radio button in the UI based on conditions that occur within your controller logic.
In your controller..
$radioVal = false;
if ($condition) {
    $radioVal = 'checked';
}

return view('your.view', [
    'radioVal' = $radioVal;
]);

The condition is the condition that determines whether or not your radio is checked (e.g. apples = fruit)...
In your view...
<input type="radio" {{ $radioVal or 'checked' }} />

The "or" keyword in blade offers you a ternary shorthand alternative.
You will need to give your radio button a name obviously...

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Stood up next to me, it's crazy to think that not so long ago she could barely open her eyes.
Beautiful as ever, but every so slightly more annoying as each day goes past.
Genuinely getting a bit more sad as each day goes past.


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RISING: DeAndre Yedlin
Fans that have followed DeAndre Yedlin's rise have seen him sport a number of different hairstyles over his still young career. They've also seen him play with a similar confidence to great effect on the field, for both club and country.
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The routine began about five-and-a-half years ago. Every day before a home match, DeAndre Yedlin pays a visit to his barber. In Newcastle upon Tyne, his go-to spot is Made in Kay's Barbershop, which sits just a few blocks from St. James' Park, DeAndre's home stadium for the past two years.
"Got to keep it sharp," DeAndre quips.
Yedlin and a few of his Newcastle United teammates stop at Kay's before every home game. He's actually been coming here since he was playing at Sunderland, introduced by teammates of his former club just down the road.
But the superstition-of-sorts didn't begin in England. It got its start when DeAndre moved from his hometown of Seattle to Akron, Ohio for college.
"I couldn't really get any kind of crazy cuts in high school, so I kind of just let go when I got out," Yedlin told ussoccer.com, noting that his school had a strict dress code. "I'm a creative guy, so I say 'whatever' and go with it."
Fans that have followed DeAndre's rise have seen him sport a number of different hairstyles over his still young career. They've also seen him play with a similar confidence to great effect on the field, for both club and country.
GALLERY: The Many Hairstyles of DeAndre Yedlin
In late March, the 24-year-old became the 53rd player to reach 50 career caps when he helped the Men's National Team defeat Paraguay 1-0 in a friendly in Cary, N.C.
Six weeks later, the speedy right back made his 34th Premier League appearance of the season as the Magpies' closed out the year with a 3-0 win over Chelsea. It's a mark only three other American field players have ever reached: Geoff Cameron with Stoke City, and Brian McBride and Clint Dempsey with Fulham.
"Obviously people see that I express myself, and sometimes people don't like that," he admits. "But I think the Newcastle fans do. They know that I always give 110 percent on the pitch, no matter what. I'll do the dirty work for every single one of my teammates if that means that we can win."
Having just completed his second season with Newcastle, Yedlin has always taken his chance when opportunity knocks.
FROM SEATTLE TO AKRON TO BRAZIL
Born in Seattle, Washington, DeAndre was raised by his grandparents – Ira and Vicki, or as DeAndre calls her, 'Goddess' – since he was one year old. His uncle, Dylan, was also influential in his upbringing and a major part of his life.
Only 10 years his senior, Dylan introduced DeAndre to a variety of sports, including soccer, at an early age. By his mid-teens, Dylan had shifted his attention from soccer to football, using his size to play defensive end in high school and eventually in college.
Naturally, when DeAndre got to high school, he wanted to be like Dylan, so he gave football a shot. But he faced a major challenge.
"He was five foot tall and weight 103 pounds," Ira giddily recounts of the diminutive running back. "When he was a freshman, they gave him number 86. And the Jersey was so big or he was so small, when he tucked it in, it looked like he was number double zero because the bottom of the eights were tucked down in his pants."
DeAndre also wrestled his freshman year, but soon realized that the sport he excel in and enjoyed the most was soccer.
Once the decision was made, things began falling into place. And, as it turns out, at a relatively fast pace.
DeAndre was a sophomore in 2009 when Seattle Sounders FC joined Major League Soccer, playing before crowds of more than 40,000 fans. Already a promising youth player, he joined the Sounders' Development Academy team ahead of his senior year.
"The big conversation on sidelines in American soccer that parents talk about, 'Oh, do you think he's good enough to get a scholarship to college,'" says Vicki, acknowledging the family's goal for DeAndre at the time. "At least at that point, people weren't thinking their son might be a professional soccer player."
When DeAndre was called in to a U.S. U-18 camp, he caught the eye of Caleb Porter, then the University of Akron soccer team head coach who was assisting that YNT camp.
Having trained with the Sounders' professionals, and with Division I college scholarships on the table, DeAndre began to think he could have a future in the game.
Louisville and Virginia had offered full-ride scholarships, but Akron's could only cover a portion of his tuition. But the Zips were coming off a National Championship, and had just had seven players selected in the first round of Major League Soccer's annual college draft.
"Obviously if you wanted to be a professional, Akron was the school to go to at the time," Yedlin said. "So I'm happy I made that decision."
After two seasons at Akron, he was offered a homegrown contract to become a professional with his Sounders FC in January 2013.
He signed and wasted no time.
A preseason injury to the team's starting right back opened the door for Yedlin, and he grabbed it with two hands, starting the season opener and 30 of the team's 34 games as a rookie. In the meantime, he also caught the attention of U-20 MNT coach Tab Ramos, who selected Yedlin for the 2013 FIFA Under-20 World Cup team that summer.
"At that point, my confidence was so high," he said. "I was playing every game for Seattle. I think I was just kind of on a cloud and I wasn't coming down.
"Obviously you have your club and it's great. But then to represent your country, to be one of 23 guys called into to represent your country at a World Cup. That's when it was kind of like, 'wow, what's the next step?'"
That question would be answered in early 2014, when Yedlin was called in the Men's National Team's annual January Camp, making his debut against Korea Republic.
He made one more appearance – as a sub against Mexico – before then-MNT head coach Jurgen Klinsmann called him in to the MNT's pre-World Cup camp.
"I was thinking, all right, maybe he's just kinda calling us in to give us the experience, show us what it's going to be like, give us that hunger, that motivation," Yedlin recalls. "And I remember we were all in the locker room and guys just started coming in one by one by one and just said, 'good luck.'
"I was counting the numbers and I realized there was 23 left and then at that point it was like, wow. And then Jurgen came in and said, 'congratulations, you guys have all been picked to go to the World Cup."
He walked out of the room and called Dylan, knowing he would call his grandparents with the news.
THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF SUCCESS
"I feel like I should have felt a lot different than I did," DeAndre says of his making his World Cup debut against Portugal. "I don't know why, but at that time it was just like it's just another game. I didn't think about the stage of it, and I think that is probably the reason why I did pretty well. I don't know why it wasn't going through my head at that time, but it was just like, 'OK, it's another game with the national team and just do as well as you can.'"
Less than two years after turning pro, he had appeared in three World Cup matches in Brazil. He thought he was mentally prepared for the windfall that would follow.
A number of European clubs came calling, and a month after the World Cup ended the 20-year-old signed with Tottenham Hotspur, joining the London club in January 2015.
Things, however, did not go as he imagined.
"I think London was the first time in my career where I really went through a hard time," he said, having made one appearance for Spurs that spring. "Obviously I wasn't playing. I was away from my family. I was in a massive city like London where you can get lost – both literally and mentally, you can just get lost."
The momentum he'd been building in his soccer career appeared to come to a halt.
That summer, Sunderland expressed interest in taking him on loan from Tottenham. They were fighting relegation - they were not a 'top six' club. Still, DeAndre felt it would be a chance to fight for playing time and earn his place, so he took it.
The stint started off well, but soon came a blow. In a match against Watford, Yedlin was pulled after 20 minutes, with no explanation. He was out of favor, again.
"I didn't play for about two months," he said. "I was just training and I started getting that depressed feeling again, that rock bottom feeling again. And I said, 'no, I'm not going through this. I need to do something to get out of this."
That something was found on Amazon.
DeAndre went on the online marketplace and searched for books about success, and bought the first one that popped up, titled 'Maximum Achievement.'
"Every word that came out of that book, I felt like the author was speaking straight to me because I could relate to everything he was talking about," he said.
One of his takeaways from the book was to set goals for himself, starting from small and immediate, to big and future goals. And little by little, he began to see progress. First getting minutes off the bench, then a start, then becoming Sunderland's first choice right back again.
Great fight from the boys and a unbelievable atmosphere from the @sunderlandafcofficial fans! Thank you all for the support! Onward we go... #hawaythelads #safc 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Knowing he needed to work on the mental state, he had another decision to make that offseason. His loan had ended, and he was back at Tottenham again knowing there was little chance of breaking through.
At the same time, Rafa Benitez, who took over at Newcastle toward the end of previous season, wanted to sign DeAndre. In fact, he'd had Yedlin on his 'watch list' for a while.
Newcastle had just been relegated, and they were Sunderland's biggest rivals. Still, it was a big club, with a massive following, a huge stadium, and big-time coach who wanted him. He signed a multi-year deal, aiming to be part of the club's – and his own – rise.
A NEW BEGINNING, A NEW ROLE
In their first year together, Benitez and Yedlin took the team back up to the Premier League, and this year cemented their stay with a 10th place finish in the top flight.
Off the field, Yedlin has found his way again.
He has his own house, a gated two-story with plenty of room for his visiting grandparents and his English Bulldog, Simba. On his walls hang framed jerseys he wore in college, with his clubs and the national team. Going on 7-8 months growing out his braids, he's also launching his own clothing line soon.
"It kind of feels like I've settled here, and that's a great feeling. A lot of people don't realize that that can play a huge part in your performance and mentally."
He's a mainstay in Benitez's XI, though not yet the finished product. Having won numerous European titles and coached some of the biggest clubs in Spain, Italy and England, the manager who noticed Yedlin years ago is now helping the speedy outside back reach his potential.
"We are working now on his first touch, so he can make better crosses," Benitez said. "It's just (teaching him) to use his strength, and I think he understands that and is working on that. And he will do better because he knows that he has the potential to do better."
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'Rafa' also praised how well DeAndre has embraced this opportunity.
"He's a nice lad and he's always happy," Benitez said. "I think everybody loves him, and the fans, to see someone that is working hard and also with his pace and going forward and creating chances for his teammates with his crosses, I think they appreciate him."
Still only 24 years old, DeAndre makes no apologies for how far he's come.
"In a way, yes I am lucky," he says. "In a way, without those opportunities I don't get the chance. But you also have to look at the fact that if you don't take those opportunities and you don't make the best out of them, then I'm not where I am today. And I think that's what my career has kind of been built off of, taking the opportunity when I need to."
He's been the only World Cup veteran called in to the two most recent MNT camps, taking the field against Portugal, Paraguay, Ireland and France alongside teenagers making their senior team debuts. So he's accepts that he's no longer the 'young guy' with the MNT.
"When guys come into camp and are looking up to you and asking you for advice, it's kind of crazy because I was doing that just a year ago, two years ago," he said. "But, obviously now that there's a younger generation coming through, I've kind of had to take on that role and it's awesome. I think it even helps boost my game because it keeps me in the game and keeps me thinking, 'what would I do in this situation?"
And just as he never imagined playing in a World Cup only three years out of high school, he knows there's always someone nipping at your heels, waiting for their window to open
"It's that sort of thing where nobody can ever be comfortable and that's what I've tried to preach to these younger guys," he says. "We're friends obviously, but try to take my spot because that only makes the whole team better. That's healthy competition, that's good competition and that's ultimately, as a country, what's going to keep driving us forward and keep making us better."
"A long time ago we were watching some games and we were watching the right fullback, who was really, really fast. Before he signed for Tottenham, we saw him and I was impressed. I called my assistant, and said, 'look at this player, how quick.' And since then we have been following him."
- Newcastle Manager Rafa Benitez on the first time he saw Yedlin play.
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