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MODERATOR: Good afternoon ladies and gentleman, thank you for coming here to the Information Resource Center at the US Embassy in Seoul. It is my distinct pleasure and privilege to introduce to you the Special Advisor for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Mr. Robert Einhorn and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Mr. Daniel Glaser, who will speak to you shortly and will take a few questions.
MODERATOR: Once we get to the question and answer session I would ask that you identify yourself and the organization that you work for.
MODERATOR: And without further ado, may I welcome Mr. Robert Einhorn.
SPECIAL ADVISOR EINHORN: I want to thank you all for coming. I will have a statement as will Deputy Assistant Secretary Glaser and then we will be happy to answer your questions.
SPECIAL ADVISOR EINHORN: It is my pleasure to be back in Seoul to consult with our close allies in the Republic of Korea. I am here with a State Department/Treasury Department team to discuss with ROK officials two of the greatest threats to the nuclear nonproliferation regime and to international security generally - North Korea and Iran.
On July 21, here in Seoul at the historic meeting of the 2+2 Ministers, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a series of steps that the United States is taking to strengthen the implementation of sanctions against North Korea, including United Nation Security Council Resolutions 1718 and 1874. These measures are not directed at the North Korean people, instead our objective is to put an end to the DPRK's destabilizing proliferation activities, to halt illicit activities that help fund its nuclear and missile programs, and to discourage further provocative actions. The purpose of my delegation's visit is to consult with South Korean officials and to consider how we can work together to promote the effective implementation of sanctions.
On specific steps, the United States will soon adopt and begin implementing new country-specific measures that will provide the United States with additional authorities to target entities engaged in the export or procurement of conventional arms by or for North Korea, the procurement of luxury goods for North Korea, and other illicit activities, which are often conducted by or for North Korea officials. These activities include counterfeiting of U.S. currency and other goods, narcotics smuggling, and other illicit and deceptive activities in the international financial and banking systems. We know that these activities bring hundreds of millions of dollars in hard currency annually into North Korea, which can be used to support DPRK nuclear or missile programs or fund luxury goods purchases - both in violation of UN Security Council Resolutions 1718 and 1874.
Our new measures will allow us to designate entities and individuals involved in these activities and to block the property or assets they possess that are under the control of a U.S. person or bank. But by publicly naming these entities, these measures can have the broader effect of isolating them from the international financial and commercial system.
In addition to adopting new measures, the United States will be aggressively implementing existing authorities and sanctions policies in the weeks and months ahead. We will designate additional entities and individuals under an existing Executive Order due to their involvement in WMD and missile-related activities. We will also seek to cut off North Korean proliferators and other illicit traffickers from the financial support they need to conduct their activities. We will urge other key governments to stop their financial institutions from providing such support.
The United States is also concerned that the DPRK continues to operate a network of trading firms around the world to help facilitate its proliferation-related and other illicit activities. Many of these firms are familiar to you, because they were designated by the United Nations under Security Council Resolutions 1718 and 1874. Companies such as Korea Mining Development and Trading Corporation or KOMID, Korea Ryonbong General Corporation, and Tanchon Commercial Bank are active in a number of countries, whether under their own name or aliases, subsidiaries, or front companies.
UN Security Council Resolutions 1718 and 1874 prohibit all countries from purchasing arms, missile technology, and other sensitive items from North Korea. We will urge customers and potential customers to desist from these purchases, and we will actively use Security Council Resolution 1874's provisions for inspecting illicit shipborne and airborne cargoes to deny North Korea hard currency earnings from these illegal activities.
While we spent a lot of time today discussing the DPRK, due to the clear regional implications of its provocative behavior, our delegation also addressed Iran's nuclear ambitions and the need to strengthen international pressures against Iran. On June 9, the United Nations Security Council enacted the broadest and strongest measures yet when it adopted Resolution 1929.
Since then, a number of countries have taken very strong and welcome steps that complemented and built on the measures described in Resolution 1929 - Australia and Canada among them, but most notably the 27 countries of the European Union (EU), which on July 26th adopted a comprehensive, rigorous set of measures affecting the trade, energy, finance, and transportation sectors.
Pressure is not an end in itself. Instead, sanctions are intended to bring Iran's leaders to the conclusion that their country would be better served by ending its non-compliance with its international obligations and starting to address its serious concerns about Iran's nuclear intentions.
It is essential for responsible countries with global interests, including of course, South Korea, to send a unified message to the leaders of Iran that it must live up to its UN, NPT, and IAEA obligations. Today, we have had discussions about the kinds of steps the ROK and other countries can take in sending this message to Iran.
My discussions today have been very good and productive. As strong allies, both the United States and the ROK face the same common dangers from the threats of North Korean and Iranian proliferation. I expect that our close cooperation will continue on these and many other issues, along with our other key allies and partners around the world.
Thank you, that concludes my prepared statement. The statement has been made available in both English and Korean. Has it been passed out already? OK so you both have copies. So let me introduce Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department, Dan Glaser.
TREASURY DAS GLASER: Hi. I do want to thank everybody for coming today and first open up by saying how nice it is to be back here in Seoul, and see some of my old friends and very good partners [who] are here in South Korea. I think we have had a very good and constructive day of meetings. In addition to the very important remarks Mr. Einhorn just made, I would like to add a few words specific to the financial measures relating to both the DPRK and Iran.
The Treasury Department is continuing to vigorously implement new and existing measures to apply financial pressure and disrupt illicit activities of both Iran and North Korea. In the case of Iran, over the last several weeks, the international community and the United States have significantly enhanced our ability to apply financial pressure on Iran and obstruct its ability to further develop its nuclear capabilities. In particular, new sanctions adopted by the United Nations, the United States and other countries such as the European Union, Canada and Australia, highlight Iran's increasing isolation. These multilateral and national measures give us new and powerful tools that enable us, acting in concert with the private sector, to increase the financial pressure on Iran and further protect the international financial system from Iranian abuse.
It is absolutely vital that South Korea be a full partner in this effort, both in terms of implementing strong new measures, such as those recently adopted in Europe, and taking targeted action at Iranian entities involved in facilitating its nuclear activities. We are confident that South Korea will do so.
Regarding North Korea, the U.S. continues to seek vigorous global implementation of the strong financial provisions of UNSCR 1874, even as we develop new tools to strengthen our own ability to implement UNSCR 1874, and in fact go beyond it in targeting a wide variety of North Korean illicit activities. We have seen on prior occasions how powerfully the private sector reacts to U.S. actions that expose the entities that facilitate North Korean illicit activities.
The Treasury Department is committed to employing all appropriate new and existing authorities to protect the international financial system from North Korea's abuse.
With that, I can conclude my prepared remarks and Mr. Einhorn and I are happy to take questions.
QUESTION: Hello. Christian Oliver from the Financial Times. I just want to ask you how China fits into this, and what sort of measures, and sweeteners or carrots you can offer to the Chinese? They don't seem to have much interest in playing along with this. On the Iranian side, they need Iran as an energy ally, and they also deeply value stability in North Korea. So can you just give me some picture of how you can encourage the Chinese to come along, play along with these plans?
SPECIAL ADVISOR EINHORN: As you recognize, China is a critical country when it comes to implementing sanctions against North Korea and Iran. Clearly China has large and legitimate interest in ensuring energy security for itself; for promoting good commercial relationships with other countries. But at the same time, China has a great responsibility as a permanent member of the Security Council, as a strong supporter of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, to make sure that when actions are taken that are provocative, or that are inconsistent with the Nonproliferation Regime that consequences result.
China, we need China's support. One concern that a number of countries expressed when approached to take measures against Iran is that if we practice restraint, China will fill in behind -- China will take advantage of our restraint. This is a serious concern that many countries have. It is a concern that has been raised at the highest levels of the U.S. Government.
We want China to be a responsible stakeholder in the international system. And that means cooperating with UN Security Council Resolutions, and it means not backfilling - not taking advantage of the responsible self-restraint of other countries.
QUESTION: I am from YTN. I heard that the State Department is reviewing a new set of financial sanctions against North Korea, and according to what I heard that does not include imposing sanctions against third countries' financial institutions that have transactions, relations with U.S. banks. Can you confirm whether this is true? Secondly, you also mentioned the importance of cooperation by third countries, in particular China. What would be the way to persuade China to draw their cooperation?
SPECIAL ADVISOR EINHORN: I spoke earlier and Secretary Clinton before me spoke earlier about new measures that we are pursuing. I would say, actually, the Treasury Department has the lead on this, but of course the State Department is working with the Treasury. As I mentioned in my statement, this, these new measures would apply to entities that are involved in certain activities having to do with North Korea. But those entities do not have to be only North Korean; they could be other countries as well. I think that answers your first question.
I will answer part of your second question, and Danny Glaser will answer the rest of it. I mentioned a number of steps that do require cooperation from third countries. If we see an illicit North Korean trading company in a third country, we will approach the government of that country and say, "Look at this activity. You need to shut it down." In a number of areas we will go out diplomatically to other countries and seek their cooperation, and their cooperation will be very important.
TREASURY DAS GLASER: To add to what Mr. Einhorn was saying, I just want to underscore again the point that he made. The measures that we are contemplating are activity-based measures, conduct-based measures. Any entity anywhere in the world that engages in that type of conduct - violations of UN Security Council Resolution 1874; facilitating North Korean illicit activities, including money laundering, counterfeiting of U.S. currency, narcotics trafficking - those types of activities. Any entity that is engaged in that would be at risk of falling on the wrong side of these measures and being targeted [inaudible] by these measures.
And as we have seen before, measures that are grounded in conduct, measures that are grounded on illicit activity do have a carry-on effect throughout the international financial system. Once it is known throughout the world that a particular entity is involved in illicit activities for North Korea, or illicit activities of any kind for that matter, it becomes increasingly difficult for that entity to gain access to the international financial system. So it is not the case that this is an action that does not have a follow-on affect. The international financial system is dynamic, and as you add information, as you take action, the dynamism of the international financial system has a follow-on affect that can be quite powerful.
QUESTION: My name is Frank Smith, I am from Press TV, Iran's international English language broadcaster. I have a two-part question for you. The first question is: You seem to have linked the pursuit of North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons with Iran's pursuit of peaceful use of nuclear energy. I would like to know why that is first off, and second off, I would like to know how your approach to those two countries differs. Thank you.
SPECIAL ADVISOR EINHORN: I think the actions of the two countries have linked them to each other. Both countries have been found to be in violation of their safeguards commitments to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Both countries have been sanctioned under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter. Both countries have engaged in a wide range of deceptive activities. There are differences, of course, between them. North Korea is at a far greater -- it is at a much later stage of the development of its nuclear ambitions. North Korea has conducted two nuclear tests, for example. Iran clearly has not done that. There are many similarities between the two.
Now, that said, we do not have to treat them identically. Each has its unique characteristics and we have dealt with them in a unique way. But the United States adopts a so-called dual track approach to both North Korea and to Iran. And that is to say we are prepared to engage these countries and hopefully work out, peacefully, a solution. Or if those countries are not prepared to engage with us in a constructive way, we have to take another approach and that is the pressure track. And we have in the case of Iran, in the Obama Administration, tried for over a year to make engagement work, but we were rebuffed by the Iranian regime, so we have had no choice but to resort to pressure. But as I mentioned in my statement, pressure is not an end in itself. Pressure is designed to bring Iran's leaders to the conclusion that their interests are better served when negotiating seriously with the international community.
QUESTION: I am from Kyunghyang Daily Newspaper. I pay great attention to the Iranian and North Korean issue. My question is what kind of role did you ask the South Korean Government, the South Korean companies and financial institutions to play when it comes to imposing sanctions against Iran?
SPECIAL ADVISOR EINHORN: I will say a few words and then maybe Mr. Glaser would like to add to it. We believe all countries which are responsible countries and want to support the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, ought to take steps - not just to implement Security Council Resolution 1929 - but to build upon that Resolution in order to encourage Iran's leaders to adopt a more constructive path.
Now, the European Union one week ago today adopted a common position - all 27 countries - a very strong common position to put some pressure on Iran in the transportation, energy, and finance sectors. We suggested to the South Korean Government that they take a look at what the Europeans have done, and look at that as a kind of very positive example, and to consider whether it could adopt similar kinds of measures. We think that would be very positive.
TREASURY DAS GLASER: Let me, let me add to that. Maybe I can give a couple of specifics. Last time I was here in Seoul consulting with our South Korean partners on Iran, it was just this past March. And when I look back at March in -- compared to where we are right now -- in the international community, it has been an incredible shift. Since that time there is a very strong UN Security Council Resolution and very strong financial provisions with respect to Iran.
Now the 27 countries of the European Union apply or go even beyond, go even beyond that resolution. We had the U.S. enact strong legislation in respect to Iran, Australia implement sanctions in respect to Iran, Canada implement sanctions in respect to Iran. So within just the past 6 weeks, we have seen 30 countries in the world implement strong financial measures with respect to Iran.
So I will give you one example. There is an Iranian bank called Bank Mellat. Within the past few weeks, the UN Security Council has identified Bank Mellat as having been involved in hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions relating to Iran's nuclear program. The 27 countries of the EU, plus Canada and Australia, applied sanctions on Bank Mellat and, of course, the United States already had in place sanctions on Bank Mellat.
So we had gone from a situation in which the United States was one of the few countries, if not the only country to have sanctions against Bank Mellat, to that being the international norm.
And again I think it is important that we -- as we see that progress throughout the world -- that we come to places like South Korea, which is an absolutely vital center in the international financial system, to ensure that those types of actions occur throughout the international financial system.
QUESTION: Hello, my name is Park Myun-yoon. I am a reporter for Joong-ang Ilbo. You talked about the dual track approach for both Iran and North Korea. Is that your way of telling North Korea to come back to the Six-Party Talks? Then could we see this as an exit strategy concerning the Cheonan incident? That is my first question and my second question is you mentioned the Bank Mellat that sounds something like Banco Delta Asia case [sic], in which you froze $25 million of North Korean assets at the Macau bank in 2005. Are you considering taking those measures?
SPECIAL ADVISOR EINHORN: The United States continues to regard the Six-Party Talks as an appropriate forum for addressing international concerns about North Korea's nuclear program.
But the Six-Party Talks have not been active for quite some time. And since North Korea last walked out of the talks, it has engaged in a variety of very provocative activities, including a nuclear test, including the torpedoing of the Cheonan.
We cannot repeat the kind of cycles that we went through in number of previous occasions, where North Korea engages in talks, makes commitments, and then abandons those talks, and reneges on its commitments. We have to break that cycle. Especially in the wake of the Cheonan incident, it is essential for North Korea to demonstrate in a concrete way that it is sincere about meeting its commitments to denuclearization.
So before the Six-Party Talks can reconvene, it is essential that North Korea demonstrate in tangible ways that it is prepared this time to make commitments and to fulfill them. There are some important commitments already existing, the September 2005 commitment. The North Koreans have to demonstrate that they are serious about abiding by their commitments. Unless they do, then talks for talks' sake are not interesting to us.
TREASURY DAS GLASER: To your follow up question on Bank Mellat, the United States designated Bank Mellat under our own counter proliferation authority on October 25, 2007. It was subsequently designated nationally by the United Kingdom. In recent weeks, in very recent weeks, the international community is taking similar actions with respective Bank Mellat, as we said, the 27 countries of the European Union, Canada and Australia. And in fact, in our view, this decision has been ratified by the U.N. Security Council, which specifically highlights the very significant role that Bank Mellat plays in proliferation finance.
Now, Bank Mellat is an Iranian bank. You asked, you drew a comparison with the action that we took in September 2005 with respect to Banco Delta Asia. Now BDA was targeted under a different authority, and for a different type of conduct. In that case, they were facilitating a full range of North Korean illicit activities.
But what both Bank Mellat and BDA demonstrate is that both North Korea and Iran use the international financial system to facilitate and to further their illicit conduct and their conduct of violation of UN Security Council Resolutions. And that banks that engage in that type of conduct are going to be exposed to the international financial community and to the international community at large. And regardless of the authority we use to do that, that is going to have profound effects on the ability of these banks that continue to conduct this business.
QUESTION: At the time of the BDA incident, North Korea expressed itself as that they had panicked so much, that their 'blood had been frozen.' I think this time the sanctions being imposed are more comprehensive and more diverse. Do you think it can be as painful as the BDA sanctions? Do you feel confident that this will be as effective as it was in the past? Because we feel that North Korea might have had its learning experience and therefore it might have dispersed its investments.
TREASURY DAS GLASER: Not to nitpick, but BDA was not a sanction. BDA was an action taken by the United States to protect our financial system from penetration by illicit North Korean activities. And as a purely technical legal matter, the only thing that the BDA designation actually accomplished is cutting BDA off from the U.S. financial system. And that remains the case today. Our designation of BDA remains in place and BDA remains a primary money launderer and as a launderer it remains cut off from the U.S. financial system.
But the real importance of BDA was the impact that it had throughout the international financial system, as banks throughout the world saw what happened in the case of BDA and decided that they were going to very, very seriously re-examine their financial relationship with North Korea. Because it was so clear to the international financial system that this is how North Korea conducts its international finance transactions, through deceptive and illicit financial practices. And that remains true today. So regardless of what specific authorities we are talking about or what package of measures, or what package of sanctions and protective measures that we might decide to take, they are going to have resonance throughout the international financial system.
And I think that the international financial institutions throughout the world are going to re-examine the business that they have remaining and or are going to take into account the information that we provide and are going to take appropriate actions. So I think we can continue to have an important impact on how North Korea conducts its financial activities throughout the world.
MODERATOR: Any additional questions? Joong-ang Daily.
QUESTION: I am (inaudible) from Joong-ang Daily. I have two questions for Mr. Einhorn. I understand that you have plans to visit China later this month and how would you define the character of your visit to China later this month. I understand that also you are, have a plan to visit the major opposition Democratic Party of South Korea and I would like to learn what are the meeting agenda [sic] and the purpose of the visit. Thank you.
SPECIAL ADVISOR EINHORN: You are from Joong-ang? Did you say you are from Joong-ang? Is there anyone left in the news room? (laughter)
QUESTIONER: Quite a few, yes.
SPECIAL ADVISOR EINHORN: I will travel to China. It is not exactly clear what dates we will be going, but both Mr. Glaser and I plan to travel to China. And our agenda will be a broad one. We want to talk about sanctions toward North Korea, but we also want to talk about sanctions toward Iran, and specifically the issues that are raised before -- the concern, universal concern, about possible Chinese backfilling when countries step back from their own operations with Iran, the concern is that China might fill in. So, that is an issue that we will want to raise with Chinese authorities. As far as our meetings with opposition party members here in Seoul, I understand because of travel and other schedules that may not be possible.
MODERATOR: We have time for one more, any final questions? The gentleman right here.
QUESTION: Hello, I am from Kyodo news agency. Two questions: First, when will you be announcing this new set of sanctions against North Korea? Will it be next week? The second question is, can you give us, can you perhaps tell us the list of entities or individuals that is [sic] to be included in the announcements if at all possible? And I would like to know also the size of the number of individuals or entities to be included.
SPECIAL ADVISOR EINHORN: You have asked two questions that are difficult to be responsive to. As to when, there are a number of legal and other questions that have to be resolved. We are in the process of finalizing these new measures, I cannot give you a definite date, but I believe it will be the next several weeks. We do expect that there will be some specific entities named when we release this measure, but I cannot divulge the names to you now. We have not even finalized them at this point.
MODERATOR: Thank you very much for coming.
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Q: How do I select elements inside an iframe with Xpath? I want to create a Selenium test to test our extensions with AOL mail. I managed to login to AOL and compose an email, but I also need to select elements inside the editor, which is inside an iframe. I checked and even when the editor is open the following test fails:
self.assertEqual(first=1, second=len(self.driver.find_elements_by_xpath(xpath="//iframe[@name='editor_body']//body[@contenteditable='true']")))

I get the error AssertionError: 1 != 0. How do I select the body of the iframe and other elements by Xpath (or in any other way with Selenium)?

A: You cannot traverse through <iframe>'s until switching to them.  Your xPath,
//iframe[@name='editor_body']//body[@contenteditable='true']

will not work because the <body> tag is within an iFrame, which is not in the current context. you need to switch to it first:
driver.switch_to.frame('editor_body')...

A: In case you are facing issues during Selenium automation testing here is some info that solved my problem:

Selenium by default has access to the parent browser driver. In order to access inside a frame, the driver's focus has to shift from the main browser window to the iframe(frame).

Therefore, if you happen to have to do assertions inside an iframe and then go back to the main window to do other interactions you will need to change the Driver's focus based on your target.
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Backstrom: FOX TV Show Cancelled; No Season Two
by Trevor Kimball, May 8, 2015
Rainn Wilson had a long run on NBC's The Office but his own TV series Backstrom has been cut short. FOX has cancelled the series after one season of 13 episodes.
On Backstrom, an offensive, irascible yet brilliant detective (Wilson) is brought back from exile to run Portland Police Bureau's Special Crimes Unit. The rest of the cast includes Genevieve Angelson, Dennis Haysbert, Kristoffer Polaha, Page Kennedy, Beatrice Rosen, and Thomas Dekker.
The show debuted in late January to a decent 1.95 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 7.98 million viewers. Unfortunately, the numbers took a big dive in episode two with the ratings falling more that 30%. They fell almost as much again in week three. After a brief rebound, the numbers kept sinking lower and lower.
The 13th and (now) final episode drew a 0.7 in the demo with 2.8 million viewers. The ratings were just too low to justify a second season.
What do you think? Did you like the Backstrom TV show on FOX? Why do you think it didn't catch on? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a second season?
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Loved it – it was a great drama / comedy that really got better as it continued.
I really hope it gets picked up by another network – maybe one for Netflix <3
Budd Swartz
Both my wife and I really enjoyed this show it's offbeat characters and strange criminals was a joy to watch instead of the cookie cuter police shows so deeply represented in network television. Bad form on this one fox I am sure you will replace it with something bland and boring.
I really loved this show, always the interesting shows that gets cancelled
Keeticus
So sad. I loved that show . Could have used a different time slot. I usually had to TiVo it
Boo! A great show that just kept building in momentum.
Liked the show a great deal. Sorry to see it cancelled. 🙁
wypn
I hated the office but loved this show!!! It was fresh and different with a great cast. I loved the little redhead who was funny. The network really missed the boat on this one. Thanks for another bad mistake for cancelling this.
rhezeeann
I'm sorry to see this show being taken off the air so soon. The show just kept getting better and better as the season progressed. I wish someone else would pick it up too. I'd follow it.
Tran K
Downright horrible from the beginning. Hope Rainn Wilson should have another TV gig sometime in the near future.
I loved this show. They always take off the good shows and leave trash on. I do not get it. So disappointed.
You lost a FOX viewer
Ou lost a FOX viewer.
dorlyn
Well hell There goes a good show just like forever. This is bull crap taking off good shows and leaving crap ones on THANKS ALOT FOX
riggarob
Reply to dorlyn
Couldn't of said it better.
It looks like I'm also gonna lose American Odyssey, and Mindy.
KAMRAMNA
I was afraid of this, doggone it !!! What a CROCK !!!
Sorry to see "Backstrom" cancelled. Wish another network or Netflix would pick it up and run with it. 2.7 Million Viewers is still a lot of viewers watching a show, especially with all the competition out there!

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Judith Walker, our President, welcomed our members and five visitors.
The coffee morning was seen as a great success and we are all hoping it will result in more people joining us. Our help with the school kidz club, our book club and our tasting club were all publicised.
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Our President then introduced our speaker Lee Figures. Lee's talk was 'natural health remedies for common ailments'.
As well as explaining the health giving properties of many of the foods we find in our refrigerator and store cupboard, she also explained the benefits of some of the various supplements you find in your local health shop. In particular the benefits of one or two teaspoons of cider vinegar in hot water, possibly with the addition of honey, were far reaching. A very informative talk.
Our next speaker will be Anita Higgins and her talk is entitled 'me and my quilts'.


Cool and crunchy, a return momentarily to a normal vintage. September was fresher than average while the harvesting month of October was dry and sunny. The best wines (from Ostertag for example) have real intensity, nerve and great ageing potential; less advantageous sites produced thin wines. The northern Bas-Rhin region with their warm pink sandstone soils seems to have fared best while the cooler southern Haut-Rhin appears to have struggled in achieving full ripeness.


*Center Staff Member Recipe from Rick Mick: Rick helps write and edit the Center's action alerts, weekly e-newsletter and other email communications.
This recipe is adapted from the Prickly Pear Jelly Recipe on Root Simple.com.
Use tongs to hold each piece of fruit over the burner on your stove for a few seconds to burn off the spines. Use the non-cutting edge of a knife to scrape off the remaining spines.
Slice the fruit (no need to skin it) into quarters and put in a pot with just enough water to cover. Bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes. Mash with a potato masher and strain the juice and water through a colander with two layers of cheesecloth to remove the seeds and pulp. This should yield approximately 2 1/2 cups of prickly pear cactus juice.
Combine 2 1/2 cups cactus juice, lemon juice and pectin in a large heavy-bottomed saucepan. Bring to a boil and allow to hard boil for 3 minutes (hard boil means the liquid continues to boil even when you stir it).
Add the sugar to the juice mixture and bring back to a hard boil for 2 minutes or until the jell point is reached (read here for an explanation of testing jell point).
To can your jelly: follow the Ball website's instructions for water-bath canning high acid foods. Use 8 ounce canning jars and heat process for 10 minutes.
Photo courtesy of Rick Mick.


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Bill Duke Net Worth, Bio, Age, Height, Religion, Education, Family
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Bill Duke Net Worth and Salary
Bill Duke net worth is estimated to be $5 million and he earns over $2 million as salary annually and his net worth accumulated due to the success in his career as an actor and for starring in movies such as Foolish and The Limey.
Who is Bill Duke?
Bill Duke is an American actor, director, writer and producer and he is famously known for his role as Leon James in the 1980 movie American Gigolo and as Secretary Bolivar Trask in the 2006 movie X-Men: The Last Stand and for starring in the 2017 movie American Satan, where he starred as Gabriel.
Biography and Education
Bill Duke was born William Henry Duke, Jr. on the 26th of February, 1943 in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States of America and he was born to a mother named Ethel Louise Duke and a father named William Henry Duke Sr.
Bill Duke attended Franklin D. Roosevelt High School, which is located in Hyde Park and he later enrolled at the Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, after graduating, he then attended Boston University, where he obtained a Bachelors of Arts degree, he then attended New York University's Tisch School of Arts and the AFI Conservatory.
Movies and Career
Bill Duke has starred in a lot of movies over the years and they include; Car Wash as Duane in 1976, American Gigolo as Leon James in 1980, Commando as Cooke in 1985, Predator as Sgt. Mac Eliot in 1987, No Man's Land as Malcolm in 1987, Action Jackson as Capt. Earl Armbruster in 1988, Street of No Return as Lt. Borel in 1989, Bird on a Wire as FBI Agent Albert Diggins in 1990, Menace II Society as detective in 1993, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit as Mr. Johnson in 1993, Susan's Plan as Dect. Scott in 1998, Payback as Dect. Hicks in 1999, Foolish as Studio Producer in 1999, The Limey as Head DEA Agent in 1999, Fever as Dect. Glass in 1999, Never Again as Earl in 2001, Exit Wounds as Chief Hinges in 2001, Love and a Bullet as Mysterious Voice on Phone in 2002, Red Dragon as Police Chief in 2002, National Security as Lt. Washington in 2003, Get Rich or Die Tryin as Levar in 2005, X-Men: The Last Stand as Secretary Bolivar Trask in 2006, Yellow as Miles Emory in 2006, The Go-Getter as Liquor in 2007, Henry's Crime as Frank in 2010, The Big Bang as Drummer in 2010, Freaky Deaky as Wendell Robinson in 2012, Bad Country as John Nokes in 2014, Clipped Wings, They Do Fly as District Attorney Adam Stevenson in 2014, Restored Me as Officer Brantley in 2016, American Satan as Gabriel in 2017, Mandy as Caruthers in 2018, High Flying Bird as Spence in 2019 and many more.
Height, Weight and Personal Looks
Bill Duke stands at a height of 6ft 4inches, he weighs 73kg, he is dark in complexion, has black hair color and dark brown eye color.
Nationality and Ethnicity
Bill Duke is of American nationality and black ethnicity.
Bill Duke was raised in a Muslim household; therefore he is a Muslim by religion.
Bill Duke was born to a father named William Henry Duke, Sr. and a mother named Ethel Louise Douglas and he grew up with a sister named Yvonne Duke and he has a son named Ahanka Duke.
House Location
Bill Duke and his family currently reside in New York City, New York, United States of America.
Bill Duke is a married man and he is currently married to Shelia P. Moses, an African-American writer who has written books such as Comedian Dick Gregory and The Legend of Buddy and in 2004, she was nominated for the National Book Award and she was also nominated for the NAACP Image Award.
Bill Duke's real name or full name is William Henry Duke, Jr.
Controversies, rumors and legal issues
Since coming to fame in 1962, William Henry Duke, Jr. hasn't been linked to any known controversy, rumors and legal issues.
Duke has been able to build up his social media following, as of recent, he has over 40,000 Twitter followers and he is also active on Facebook and a host of other social media networks.
Bill Duke has won the American Black Film Festival Career Achievement Award and over the years, he has won many more awards and nominated for many more.
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For the taxpayers of Louisiana, here's something to make your day and weekend.
Department of Children and Family Services officials said today that applicants for food stamps, welfare and other benefits can now apply for them electronically.
Department spokesman Trey Williams said individuals who have already registered and are getting the benefits do not have to sign up electronically.
He said the new program is aimed at new applicants or those who have been disqualified and may be eligible to re-apply.
"Louisianians can now apply for, complete a verification interview (by telephone) and receive benefits without stepping into a DCFS office," agency Secretary Ruth Johnson said.
Williams said since the state closed 18 offices recently, some applicants may have to drive up to 45 minutes to get to the nearest benefits office. The on-line applicatiion process will eliminate the travel, he said.
The City of Ruston's Board of Aldermen will meet in regular session Monday, August 2 at 5:30 PM on the second floor of city hall, 401 North Trenton.
Under Light & Power, a resolution will be considered authorizing extension of city utilities beyond the city limits. The property is located on Beacon Light Road and belongs to William Sumlin. The resolution will allow the property to be annexed into the city at some future date.
Under Planning & Zoning, a public hearing will be conducted to consider an ordinance amending chapter 29 of the zoning codes. Here is a copy of the proposed ordinance.
Also to be considered is a final plat approval for Nest of Ruston, LLC., a development at the corner of Kentucky and Trenton. As a housekeeping measure, the city will revoke street dedications in The West Acres Subdivision for streets that were never developed.
Under Code Enforcement, a public hearing will be held to begin the condemnation process for structures located on several pieces of property in the city.
Under finance the board will consider and adopt an ordinance levying property taxes on subject property located in the city. The ordinance had been introduced at last months meeting.
In today's The (Shreveport) Times there is this.
But as the tea parties enter their second year in the Shreveport-Bossier City area, their role has begun to evolve from one that is primarily educational, and about national issues like health care and immigration, to an activist role as a watchdog for local government.
So we did a little digging and here's the latest from the organization.
On Monday, July 26, 2010, members of the Shreveport-Bossier Tea Party Coordinating Team met with J. Schuyler Marvin, District Attorney for the 26th Judicial District, asking Marvin to intervene in the issue of the Bossier City Council's repeated failure to keep written minutes of their public Workshop Meetings, as required by the Louisiana Open Meetings Law, LRS 42:7.1.A. The meeting with the District Attorney was coordinated as a response to the verbal acknowledgment of City Attorney Jimmy Hall that although the Louisiana Open Meetings Law requires written minutes of public meetings, the Council had no written minutes for the Workshop "presentation" on the sewerage issue. Hall's acknowledgment was made at the 7/6/10 City Council Regular Meeting.
An additional purpose in meeting with District Attorney Marvin concerns a follow up to Hall's revelation. This follow up consisted of the filing of a formal Public Records Request, which was filed with the Bossier City Council, seeking copies of minutes of all Workshop Meetings held from 1/1/08 through 7/7/10, as well as a titled list of all Workshops which had been held during that time period, the location, date, and time of these Workshops, and who was in attendance. Per this Public Records Request, the Council produced no minutes to any workshop meeting held during that 2 1/2 year time period, nor produced any documentation as to who was in attendance. The few Public Notices of Workshops produced per this Public Records Request concur with the 7/6/10 statements of the Council that the Workshops occurring during this time period were in fact public meetings.
Today, District Attorney Schuyler Marvin made a commitment to the SB Tea Party Coordinating Team to contact City Attorney Jimmy Hall for Hall's explanation of the matter, with Marvin's instruction to Hall on City Council compliance with the written minutes mandate of the Louisiana Open Meetings Law.
The Coordinating Team specifically requested from Marvin, written documentation from Marvin of his compliance instruction to the Bossier City Council regarding this issue. Additionally, the Team requested copies of the written response which Marvin receives from the City Attorney regarding this matter. Marvin stated that he would report back to the Team by the end of the week.
With guarded optimism that greater transparency in local government is slowly inching its way toward reality, we appreciate the many people who have encouraged us to stay on course. We will keep you updated.
And then there is this story which has been crackling across the nation for the past couple of weeks.
Folks, this is all very good news.
We can't recall the last time we agreed with what the Los Angeles Times media columnist James Rainey wrote. But today we do.
Is there any reason why every city in California shouldn't put up a Web posting with the salaries of top employees and elected officials? How about a state law that says the information must be posted online?
That should be just a start to an epic document dump, which would allow journalists and citizens alike to make meaningful searches of government business. But the push for greater transparency has been one of those public policy orphans — with no great champion or sense or urgency. Maybe the scandal in Bell — a hideous, multi-year rip-off of public funds — stands a chance of changing all that.
It's not hard to imagine the power of a database that might include, for example, the minutes of meetings held by every agency in California, along with records of all campaign contributions and contracts.
Persistence is the key. Sometimes you have to be ready to go to court to free up documents that should be made public with no fuss.
Newspapers used to handle this job all on their own. But now the printed word has retreated in many places. Jane and John Q. Citizen may have to step into the void.
The Louisiana Legislature enacted a "culvert law" during this year's session, Act 719.
See here a copy of Act 719.
The purpose of the new law is to compile and communicate the existing law regarding the authority of a parish or municipality installing culverts. It neither expands nor contracts authority under existing law. It does take the existing statements of law and puts them in the newly enacted RS 33:4883 so that the law is more easily located and understood.
Recall last year the minor flap over installation of a set of culverts at a Grambling, LA church.
This makes two days running for The (Baton Rouge) Advocate bellyaching about how we taxpayers just ain't paying enough to keep Louisiana's deadhead payroll in tall clover.
Fortunately, our dear friends Scott McKay at The Hayride and Jeff Sadow at Between The Lines had these must read rebuttals today.
The Second Annual Jackson Parish Sports Hall of Fame banquet was held last Saturday night at Jonesboro's First Baptist Church Family Life Center.
This year's inductees were John Baily, Jonesboro-Hodge High School; Fred Clay, JHHS; Grady Staggs, Ansley High School; Stuart Toms, Quitman High School; and Edwin Walker, Walker High School.
See a copy of the program here.
Today again, the loons at The (Baton Rouge) Advocate editorial page try to make their case for – you guessed it, more taxes.
Because of large state budget cuts, some services once funded with state tax dollars will have to be funded with local dollars — or not at all.
Louisiana's homestead exemption law limits the ability of local governments to raise money, which makes them more reliant on state funding for local services.
Louisiana leaders can use this funding crisis as an opportunity for thoughtful reflection on the state's tax structure.
There's just no end to it for these people.
Several Jackson Parish candidates for office have withdrawn as candidates for public office in the October 2 primary race according to documents from the Louisiana Secretary of State (LA SOS).
Withdrawing from the District Three Race for the Jackson Parish School Board was Dennis Hicks and from the District Four race, Mable Houston. That leaves incumbents Mary Saulters and Gerry Mims unopposed for re-election in each district, respectively.
Withdrawing from the race for Mayor of the Village of Hodge was Hope Meeks. That leaves incumbent Quenten Causey unopposed for re-election.
Last week, Roger Curry, a candidate for the Town of Jonesboro's Chief of Police was disqualified in that race.
The Monroe City Council will meet in regular session, Tuesday, July 27 at city hall, 400 Lea Joyner Memorial Expressway. The pre-council work session will be a t 6:00 PM and the council meeting will be at 6:00 PM.
(b) Introduce an Ordinance adopting the authorized Millage Rate(s) and providing for the Levying of Special and General Taxes for the City of Monroe for the year 2010.
As will the issue of the Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) water meters.
(c) Introduce an Ordinance authorizing James E. Mayo, Mayor, to enter into a contract for a Water and Sewer Rate Study with Burns & McDonnell and further providing with respect thereto.
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LA Leaders Urge Boycott|of Trump Businesses
Matt Reynolds / October 26, 2016
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Whatever the result of this year's general election, Los Angeles city leaders on Wednesday sent a clear message to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump by calling for a city boycott of the real estate mogul's businesses.
The Los Angeles City Council voted 12-0 to back a measure proposed by California Senate Democrats in July 2015. State Sen. Isadore Hall III, D-Compton, introduced the resolution asking individuals and private businesses to boycott The Trump Organization and its affiliates.
First District Councilman Gil Cedillo and 11th District Councilman Mike Bonin, both Democrats, put forward a City Council resolution to support the measure in March. The city will now formalize its support for the measure in the city's 2015-2016 State Legislative Program.
Speaking at a morning meeting, Cedillo urged the council to follow the state Senate by divesting itself from Trump. He said he was "repulsed" by the candidate's attacks on immigrants, the disabled and women.
"He has admitted to groping and assaulting and attacking women. He is a scourge of American politics and will go down as that, and we should be equally repulsed by his conduct," Cedillo said.
Adopted last year, the Senate resolution cited comments Trump made during the Republican primary season, which saw Trump ultimately beat a packed field of 16 other candidates including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz of Florida and Texas, respectively.
"Presidential candidates including Donald Trump have unfairly demonized and falsely blamed undocumented immigrant families for a range of problems and challenges facing the United States," the resolution states.
It also cites comments the reality show host made when he announced he was running for president on June 16, 2015.
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists," Trump said.
The resolution passed in the state Senate on Sept. 11, 2015, but is not enforceable by law. It highlights the positive contributions of immigrants to the health of the economy and cultural diversity and called for an "end to hate speech and racist rhetoric."
The "Senate condemns in the strongest terms possible the racist rhetoric against immigrant families made by presidential candidate Donald Trump," the resolution states.
ESPN, Macy's, NBCUniversal and Univision have cut ties with Trump because of comments he has made in one of the most divisive and bitterly fought campaigns in the history of U.S. presidential politics.
Trump has made several inflammatory remarks about immigrants. In addition to calling for Mexico to pay for a wall on the U.S. border, Trump also suggested that a federal judge presiding over a lawsuit against Trump University is biased because of his Mexican heritage. The judge in question, U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, was born in Indiana.
Progressive California group Courage Campaign announced on Monday that 60,000 people had signed a petition calling for Nike to end its ties with Trump and move its flagship store out of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan.
Gucci and Starbucks have faced growing pressure to vacate Trump Tower after a 2005 video emerged earlier this month in which Trump can be heard bragging to a giggling "Access Hollywood" host about being able to grope women because of his celebrity.
The City Council's action arrived amid reports that someone had vandalized Trump's Hollywood Star with a sledgehammer and pickaxe, obliterating his name.
In July, the British-born artist Plastic Jesus built a miniature border wall around the star adorned with barbed wire and "keep out" signs.
Cedillo said after the vote that anti-immigrant rhetoric has led to a spike in hate crimes against Latinos in LA County.
"It is important that the city of Los Angeles take a stand against anyone who incites hate, discrimination, and intolerance. It is our responsibility to take a stand and make a statement. We want to be on the right side of history. We are a city that is inclusive, tolerant and welcoming of all races, religions, and talent," Cedillo said in a prepared statement.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.
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Online Kaddish, Shabbat burials: Jewish legal authorities grapple with pandemic
Coronavirus outbreak has prompted an unprecedented flurry of questions for rabbis on how to adapt group prayers, seders, and ritual immersion to crisis
By Ben Harris	3 April 2020, 7:46 am Edit
French Rebbe Philippe Haddad prepares the Shabbat service for visioconference to address congregation members at the Copernic Synagogue in Paris on March 28, 2020, on the twelfth day of a lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) in France. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)
JTA — As the coronavirus pandemic forces Jews around the world to contemplate a Passover holiday in which large family gatherings will be all but impossible, an unusual question posed to a group of Israeli rabbis led to an extraordinary answer.
The question was whether it might be permissible for families to use internet-enabled videoconferencing to celebrate the Passover seder together even as they are sequestered in separate homes. Orthodox Jewish practice normally prohibits the use of electronics on the Sabbath and Jewish festivals, but might the unprecedented restrictions suddenly thrust upon billions of people permit an exception?
Remarkably, 14 Sephardic rabbis last week answered in the affirmative.
Some conditions were attached. The computer would have to be enabled prior to the onset of Passover and remain untouched for the duration of the holiday. And the leniency would only apply to the current emergency.
But given the unique importance of the seder ritual and the extreme conditions now in effect, the rabbis wrote, the use of videoconferencing technology is permitted "to remove sadness from adults and the elderly, to give them the motivation to continue to fight for their lives, and to avoid depression and mental weakness which could bring them to despair of life."
Illustrative: A Passover table setting. (The Israel Project)
The coronavirus pandemic has upended so many parts of life that it's perhaps little surprise that it's also having a significant impact in the field of Jewish law, or halacha. The sudden impossibility of once routine facets of observant Jewish life has generated a surge in questions never considered before — and modern technology means that Jews the world over are more able than ever to ask those questions and share their answers.
"I don't think there's ever been anything like this because of the proliferation of questions and because of the extraordinary means of communications," said David Berger, a historian and dean of the Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University.
Among the questions rabbis have had to confront during the corona crisis: Is it permissible to constitute a Jewish prayer quorum over internet-enabled videoconference? Can married couples be physically intimate if the woman cannot immerse in a ritual bath because they are closed for public health reasons? How should burials be handled if authorities prohibit Jewish rituals around the preparation of bodies? Can synagogue services be livestreamed on Shabbat?
Rabbis are also beginning to consider some agonizing possibilities. Several Conservative movement authorities have published papers about what Jewish ethics has to say about medical triage, anticipating a moment when doctors may have to make difficult choices about who gets treatment.
"This has been 'yomam valaylah' — it's been day and night," said Rabbi Elliott Dorff, the co-chair of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, the Conservative movement's authority on questions of Jewish law. "Once this is all over, this is going to be a really interesting case study of how halacha evolves quickly when it needs to."
A body wrapped in plastic that was unloaded from a refrigerated truck is handled by medical workers wearing personal protective equipment due to COVID-19 concerns at Brooklyn Hospital Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, March 31, 2020. (AP/John Minchillo)
In Romania, the government's recent declaration that any coronavirus fatalities had to be buried immediately presented Chief Rabbi Rafael Shaffer with a tortuous dilemma: What if a Jewish person died on Shabbat? Burying the body immediately would have resulted in a clear violation of the Jewish Sabbath, but allowing the body to be cremated is also a severe violation of Jewish law.
"The burial should be done on Shabbat if necessary," Shaffer told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency after consulting with rabbinic authorities in Israel. "If it's the only possibility to avoid cremation, then it should be done on Shabbat by non-Jews."
For the moment, that situation remains in the realm of the theoretical. But other halachic questions are of urgent necessity. Many of the recent opinions have explicitly invoked the principle of "she'at had'chak" — literally "time of pressure," a concept in Jewish law that permits a reliance on less authoritative opinions in emergency situations.
"No one thinks you can permit biblical violations for a pressure that doesn't amount to threatening lives," said Rabbi Aryeh Klapper, the Orthodox dean of the Center for Modern Torah Scholarship. "But maybe you can rely on less authoritative understandings of what the biblical prohibition is."
The Conservative movement, which tends to take a more flexible line on matters of Jewish law than Orthodox authorities, has supported a number of leniencies under the rubric of she'at had'chak.
In March, Dorff and his law committee co-chair, Rabbi Pamela Barmash, issued an opinion permitting a prayer quorum to be constituted over internet-enabled videoconference. That opinion, which temporarily suspended a nearly unanimous 2001 ruling that such a quorum was not permissible, would enable the recitation of the Mourner's Kaddish by people isolated in their homes. Common practice is that the mourner's prayer can only be said if 10 Jewish adults are gathered in one physical location.
The law committee also has expressed support for loosening various restrictions around physical touch between married couples should Jewish ritual baths be forced to close. Couples that closely observe Jewish law traditionally refrain from any form of touch for the period of the woman's menstruation and for a week after, resuming contact only after immersion in a mikvah.
View of a luxury mikveh (ritual bath) for women, in the Israeli settlement of Alon Shvut on August 25, 2015.(Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)
But the committee posted a letter on its website this week from Rabbi Joshua Heller asserting that under certain circumstances, and only for the period of the coronavirus crisis, a woman could resume sexual relations with her husband after showering in 11.25 gallons of water — a rough approximation of the Talmudic measure of 40 kabim.
"I think we are learning from earlier historical epochs of crisis and taking inspiration from the flexibility that our predecessors showed," said Rabbi Daniel Nevins, a committee member and the dean of the rabbinical school at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
To be sure, not all rabbis have accepted these leniencies.
After Rabbi Daniel Sperber, a liberal Orthodox rabbi in Israel, issued an opinion permitting some forms of physical touch between married couples should ritual baths become inaccessible, another Israeli Orthodox rabbi, Shmuel Eliyahu, called the opinion a "complete mistake."
Israel's two chief rabbis, David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef, said the opinion permitting videoconferencing at the seder was "unqualified."
And Rabbi Hershel Schachter, a leading Orthodox authority at Yeshiva University, wrote recently that a prayer quorum could not be constituted by participants standing on nearby porches — even if they could all see each other.
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men use "social distancing" as they pray outside the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters, in Brooklyn, New York, March 20, 2020. (AP/Mark Lennihan)
"The 10 men must all be standing in the same room," Schachter wrote.
But Schachter, who has personally published no less than a dozen opinions on matters related to coronavirus, has shown flexibility in other areas.
Schachter has ruled that a patient discharged from a hospital on Shabbat can be driven home by a family member because it's dangerous to remain in the hospital longer than necessary and taxis carry their own risks of coronavirus transmission. He has said that isolated individuals who suffer from psychological conditions that might endanger their lives if they were unable to communicate with family may use phone or internet to communicate on a Jewish holiday.
Zooming in to reciting Kaddish, the mourners' prayer, at home. (Photo montage, Gil Be'eri)
And in a ruling that has wide applicability at a time when many people are preparing to host Passover meals for the first time, he suggested a workaround for the obligation of immersing utensils in a ritual bath before using them. Since baths are now closed for such purposes, Schachter ruled that one could use the utensils without immersion by first declaring them legally ownerless — a workaround that would normally not be permitted.
Many rabbis have expressed concern that such loosening of the rules, even if expressly done only to address a pressing (and presumably temporary) need, might nevertheless create new norms of behavior that will outlast the current crisis. If so, it wouldn't be the first time.
According to a recent article by Rabbi Elli Fischer, during the 19th-century cholera epidemic, there were so many mourners that Rabbi Akiva Eger, who led the Jewish community in Poznan, Poland, ruled that it was permissible for many mourners to recite the Mourner's Kaddish simultaneously. At the time, the practice was that only one person recited Kaddish at a time.
Given the numbers of the dead, that practice would have left people with few opportunities to recite the mourner's prayer. The practice of reciting the Mourner's Kaddish as a group remains the dominant one in synagogues today.
"I do think that our people are wise enough and insightful enough to understand the difference between this crisis situation and normal situations," Barmash said. "I think in some sense that fear is giving in to a low opinion of our people. And I think that our people are wise and insightful and do recognize the distinction."
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Pilularia americana, the American pillwort, is an unusual species of fern.  The fronds essentially consist of the petioles only, any form of flattened laminae having been lost.  It is in the aquatic fern family Marsileaceae, and is related to the water clovers and also to Azolla and Salvinia.

Description
The pillwort, along with all other aquatic ferns in the order Salviniales, exhibits heterospory and forms hard, seed-like sporocarps, as do the other members of the order.  The sporocarps are distinctly different from the closely related genus Marsilea because they are globose in Pilularia, while they are flattened in Marsilea.  The ferns in the genus Pilularia also have lost their leaf blades, with only the grass-like stipe remaining.  However, this plant retains the circinate vernation characteristic of most ferns.

Distribution
The range of the American pillwort is well-established throughout much of California and south-central Oregon.  However, mostly only local occurrences have been found elsewhere in eastern North America.  It is uncertain whether this reflects a genuinely sporadic occurrence, or whether this is a reflection of the fact that this is a small, grasslike, extremely easily overlooked plant.  Close examination is often necessary to ascertain that this is a Pilularia.  The species also occurs through Central and South America, although scientific investigation may confirm those plants to be a separate species, P. mandoni A. Braun.

Recent research has determined that the North American plants normally assigned to P. americana are actually two different (cryptic) species. The plants in most of the United States range are true americana, while plants in southernmost California and Mexico are different, and are in fact very close genetically to the Australian and New Zealand species, Pilularia novae-hollandiae, and may possibly be eventually regarded as part of that species.

Cultivation
This plant is easily grown given a suitable habitat and kept uncrowded.
The pillwort also may die out for drier or colder parts of the season, regenerating the next year from the sporocarps.  While it is in the aquatic fern group, it prefers to be emergent (in shallow water, with fronds emerging into the air) or growing completely emersed (fronds completely out of water), though preferring to be rooted in wet mud.

References

Lellinger, David B. A Field Manual of the Ferns & Fern-Allies of the United States & Canada. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1985.
Nagalingum, Nathalie S., Michael D. Nowak and Kathleen M. Pryer. "Assessing phylogenetic relationships in extant heterosporous ferns (Salviniales), with a focus on Pilularia and Salvinia." Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 157(4): 673–685. 2008.

External links

Jepson Manual Treatment
USDA Plants Profile
Flora of North America
Photo gallery

Salviniales
Ferns of California
Ferns of the United States
Flora of Oregon
Flora of the West Coast of the United States
Garden plants of North America
Freshwater plants
Flora without expected TNC conservation status

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Une note parfaite en gymnastique artistique était une note de 10/10 comme défini dans le code de pointage de la Fédération internationale de gymnastique (FIG). Cette note a longtemps été considérée inatteignable, surtout aux Jeux olympiques.

La Roumaine Nadia Comăneci est la première personne à avoir reçu la note de 10/10 aux Jeux olympiques, lors des jeux de 1976 à Montréal. Parmi les autres femmes qui ont accompli cet exploit aux jeux olympiques, citons Nellie Kim, également en 1976, Mary Lou Retton en 1984, Daniela Silivaș et Yelena Shushunova en 1988, et Lavinia Miloșovici en 1992. Le premier homme à avoir obtenu un 10 est Alexander Dityatin aux Jeux olympiques de 1980 à Moscou.

La FIG a changé son code de pointage en 2006. Il n'y a plus de score parfait. Il existe maintenant différents scores, en fonction de la difficulté et de la qualité d'exécution.

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I would have time to play a game, either sandbox or a retake of one of my existing scenarios.
Like "Falling into a trap", which doesn't need too much preparation.
But it would need at least 7 players, I guess.
I would like to join in, and will be there if I can.
I hope the broadband co has sorted my "dropping" problem by then. Last 2 games I've played I dropped.
I'd give this scenario a second play, Stefan.
Do you plan to change anything?
I would suggest weakening the CSA cavalry in some way, either numbers or morale.
Moving the SW Union force closer could also help.
I see the scenario needs 9 players... Do you think you can get that many involved?
I'd be okay with playing a Union command, might even take the division command in the SW. can you get a Doodle page up?
I think it should already work with 7 players.
I know saturday is a bit short-noticed. If we aren't enough players we can just play a sandbox.
I can play. As I was a division commander last time, I'll be happy to give someone else a chance by taking a minor role.
And as last time, the Union can field 2 CinCs in this scenario.
Think I'll give it a tumble. Just be sure to take it easy on a relative HITS noob.
To MajorByrd, WJ Palmer and Flashman: Please send me a forum mail with your email adress, so you can receive the briefings before the battle.
I DO NOT CARE HOW MANY THE ENEMY ARE, ONLY WHERE THEY ARE.
Let me finish that thought.
I DO NOT CARE HOW MANY THE ENEMY ARE, ONLY WHERE THEY ARE keeping the silverware.
I'd be okay with commanding a Union division, preferably the southern one.
I know i cannot be there.
We have 9 players. May we have our assignments?
Uncle Billy wrote: We have 9 players. May we have our assignments?
I would like to play if possible.
I know there is room for several more. I believe the next two player to show up will be Union men.
I don't want to seem unpleasant over this but Flashman, I really think you need to sit this one out as your connection just isn't working at the moment. Including you in the briefings and assigning you a command is just going to cause aggro for everyone in teh game when you drop connection, which you will.
Once we get you stable and able to stay in a casual game, then you'll be good to go in the scenarios and campaign games.
Until then I fear we will only be wasting time.
Sorry to seem hostile, that's not my intention at all.
We do have a rule in place that says that players must play in at least one casual game before they join a scenario game. This would obviously include staying in the game to the end.
I Will most likely now be able to make it. So count me in.
Don't have to work this weekend so I'll make the time.
Mr. Digby wrote: We do have a rule in place that says that players must play in at least one casual game before they join a scenario game. This would obviously include staying in the game to the end.
He actually finished one yesterday.
But of course, that might have been an exception. Who knows. Playing with an unstable connection could certainly cause delay. Hope you can get it fixed asap mate.
MajorByrd wrote: He actually finished one yesterday.
Hope the game ended well guys. Did you Johny rebs track down Darren?
@kg little mac: Please register in this doodle link.
It looks like we will be 10+ players. Is someone volunteering for hosting?
Indeed they did Martin, in fact they were such good trackers they all turned up at once!
Stefan, Little Mac has played a HITS game, we did the Antietam Bloody lane scenario on the anniversary and he played in that.
Who, Flashman? Well that's good news!


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I suppose I figure that at a moment's notice I'll have a reason to wear one, and one must always be prepared at a moment's notice.
Below is my make up junkie vanity….
Either way, I end up coming across products that change my make up game to another dimension, and I'm not mad at it.
I'm pretty loyal to Bobbi Brown-anything- I love the brand, and they have historically always had foundation for darker skin.
I realize most of the darker skin Youtube beauty gurus stray away from the brand because of the "red" pigment in the foundation- but I actually have red brown skin so it's typically a flawless finish and color match for me!
Anyway, I have been yearning to try other products in the foundation area- especially a demi-matte finish foundation for photography, for filming, and going clubbing, etc.
I do have DRY/combination (oily nose, dry face) skin SO I didn't want something that would dry me out to be alligator skin.
In sashays the Huda Beauty #FauxFilter Foundation!
I love EVERYTHING about it. The coverage, the dry down, the perfume (why does everyone complain about it?), and the color.
I did purchase the shade Coffee Bean 530R which is described as for "Rich skin tones with red undertones"- and to be honest, it's an exact skin tone match like Bobbi Brown…. but it's beautiful and with all my highlighting and contouring it's perfection. I'd say that I'm quite honestly in between the Coffee Bean and Nutmeg shades- Nutmeg being too "yellow golden" to match me, and Coffee Bean being "red red".
I don't have hyper pigmentation or scarring, but if you DO, from the reviews and demos I've seen online you'll definitely want to sample it.
I've been using it daily with warm weather and hot flashes and it's pretty flawless.
So, I know what you're going to say….
I'm a "luxury or nothing" kinda girl so please excuse that. Also, here is a cheaper alternative HERE for my drug-store only beauties.
BRONZING dark skin is hard only because most brands,vendors and companies DO NOT MAKE BRONZERS IN DEEP SHADES! (why, I don't know, but whatever).
Favorite. Up until this point I was using MAC's Raizin Blush as a "bronzer", until I discovered the Bobbi Brown Bronzing Powder in the shade DEEP.
In San Francisco, we don't get a real summer. It's usually high 50's, low 60's throughout the summer months but that doesn't mean I want to miss out! My arms are somehow the darkest parts of my body- with my chest and legs being super light by comparison.
To cheat, and look like I've just been vacationing in Capri or Egypt– I buff my secret friend onto chest, neck, outer part of my arms for a bronze, deepening glow.
Also, I'm a woman of extremes.
I'm either full face of make up, or sans makeup.
I've never really mastered the "no make up, make up" look to be transparent.
When I want to stunt ultra perfect skin, I mix a little of this with my moisturizer- et viola, perfect bronzey skin hunny.
I have been following Ms. Aina since the "lil pumpkin pie" days, and it is so inspirational to see her grow and blossom into the woman she's always wanted to be.
She came out with this buddy a while ago, in her collaboration with MAC DADDY (does anyone else secretly crush over him?)'s brand, Artist Couture.
It's rose gold, and coppery- so I don't ALWAYS use this as a highlighter.
However, since it is a loose pigment, I DO gravitate towards this product for eye shadow looks, annnndddddd…. if you pat some on a clear or peach lipgloss…. HUNNY BUNNY.
It's sickening. It's kunty. It's everythang. Link is here.
I typically go for bold, musky, oriental fragrances. I only seem to venture out of my comfort zone for anything Tom Ford or Versace, to be honest.
Walking around Macy's one day with a friend, changed my mind and my summer.
She's beautiful. There's sparkling pear, rose, and woody vanilla.
She doesn't last all day so pack her in your bag or put some in an atomizer so you can reapply later.
I've had really great make out sessions with her on my neck, back of ears and collarbones.
Something about her makes me reach for her daily, and yes during the day.
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We used to live in Tucson. PF Chang's is a Phoenix based chain and has a nice restaurant in Tucson. We used to really enjoy eating there after church.
When PF Chang's opened here in Stamford, we were excited. Our first few visits seemed plagued by new restaurant opening issues. Confused servers. Poor food. But I gave them the benefit of the doubt.
We visited today for lunch. Hmmm. Something is still wrong.
The place has a lot of people working there, but our food still took forever. Our server also seemed very busy for some reason. Our experience showed that they still have a slow kitchen. The frustrating part was that both tables on either side of us placed their orders after us, yet received their food first. That's not good. No explanation or apology either, but that's because our server didn't deliver the food.
As with other chains, PF Changs has the annoying policy of having some food runner bring us our food instead of our waitperson. I don't understand this policy. The food runner has no idea who placed what order. We've never seen them before. When we finally got our order today, we got all our dishes, but no rice. The food runner seemed annoyed when we asked for rice. How could he possibly deliver our food without rice? - all the dishes come with rice. He also, of course, had no idea what type of rice we had ordered because he didn't take our order.
He went back to the kitchen, and after still more waiting, we received our rice - two bowls - but no spoons or anything to portion out the rice to the diners. Sigh.
So the verdict - the food is ok. It's chain food so I'm not expecting much. But the service still has issues.
I think we'll be much happier going to Kits Thai Kitchen or somewhere else and not bother with PF Changs. It's a shame.
Never liked how this PF was run, from a professional point of view, but this is Stamford and I think poor service is more the norm than not, even for successful chains.
I have not been happy twice with PF, service was awful!
I have been to the Stamford PF Changs approx. 5 times since it opened, and the service has always been sub-par. The quality of the food is equal to the level of service, so it's just not worth any more visits. It gets a lot of traffic from the hotels and office buildings, so it probably won't be going anywhere.


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