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A National Emergency and Border Security
Justin Smith explains how President Trump is using his authorized National Emergency power to keep making America great again despite of Dem Party subversion to keep America weak.
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President Trump Counters Bad Border Deal
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"We want to have a safe country. I ran on a very simple slogan – 'Make America Great Again.' If you're going to have drugs pouring across the border, if you're going to have human traffickers pouring across the border in areas where we have no protection, in areas where we don't have a barrier, then, [it is] very hard to make America great again." ~ President Donald J. Trump, Rose Garden Speech February 15th 2019
President Trump simultaneously declared a national emergency for humanitarian and national security reasons along the border. In the same breath, he noted on February 15th that he would sign the omnibus bill and the bad Border Deal it contains; and in fact, he signed it shortly afterwards, acquiring authority over the $1.375 billion appropriated for the wall, while declaring his intention to spend eight billion more dollars through his authority under the national emergency declaration.
The President was left with very little choice from an intransigent, duplicitous Democratic Party leadership in control of the House, at the moment, such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had vowed "not $1 for the wall". He took a head on approach to avoid another partial government shutdown, however unwise a course it may be, while he diverts $6.5 billion to build portions of the wall that the Democrats have refused to authorize.
Americans across the board want The Wall built. These Democrats are against the American people and against U.S. Sovereignty. [Blog Editor: In November 2016, Donald Trump was elected President largely on the promise of a big beautiful wall. YET most recent polls show American disfavor for a border wall. Why? No one can give a definitive answer (unless of course you are a lying Leftist). But here is something to mull over as you hear the Left-Stream Media quote polls most Americans do not want a wall: Those same polls back in November 2016 told Americans Crooked Hillary would win the vote to become President. Those polls were wrong then and I STRONGLY suspect those polls are wrong NOW!]
The Republican Party got smoked and beaten badly in this deal. Who in the Hell was negotiating for them?
Making the declaration was a strong move for national security and to gain further momentum for the Republicans leading up to the 2020 election, since the Border Deal was a farce of a deal, that only funded 55 miles of the wall, rather than the 200 miles requested.
During his speech on Friday at the White House Rose Garden, President Trump stated: "We're going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border, and we're going to do it, one way or another. We have to do it. ... We're talking about an invasion of our country."
Many previous presidents have declared national emergencies prior to this, including George W. Bush and Barack Obama. There were already 31 active national emergencies in the U.S., before President Trump's declaration marked the 32nd.
One should also note, when Obama used his pen to counter U.S. immigration law and implement DACA, to safeguard Illegal Aliens, he eroded U.S. sovereignty, and he went against the Constitution and the express will of the American people. On the other hand, President Trump's actions are in line with his Constitutional edict to defend and protect U.S. borders and the Constitution.
However, the abdication of Congress, in the face of this and many other dire problems, i.e. out-of-control spending, and its relinquishing of its own power and authority over the decades, gave all previous presidents extraordinary power to act in the face of a national emergency, through numerous laws passed by Congress. President Trump has referred to the 1976 National Emergencies Act found at 50 U.S. Code 1601-1651.
In light of all this, there is still no way to see this so-called compromise as a anything less than a major loss, once one views the fine print in the Border Deal, which is even worse than it first appeared. It's the fine print that should have had Republicans turning their backs on this deal. And it's no wonder the Democrats were in such a rush to sign, not just to avoid a shutdown.
Not even 24 hours had elapsed from the introduction of the 1,169 page bill to the vote. House rules require 72 hours for representatives to review a bill.
According to Daniel Horowitz, writing at Conservative Review, the bill limits construction to just the Rio Grande Valley sector, disallowing any concrete barriers, while section 231 of the bill prohibits construction even within this area in five locations, that are either state or federal lands. And, much worse, this bill gives veto power to local officials, who may not want the wall in their area.
The Rio Grande area is in dire need of significant security measures and an actual physical wall. However, it is home to some of some of the most hardcore "progressive" liberals, and giving these local Democrat satraps a veto over the wall is nothing less than a poison pill.
Prior to the President signing the bill, former border officials told Fox News, and several other media outlets, that expanded protections for potential sponsors of unaccompanied migrant children were "land mines" that make the bill worthy of a presidential veto.
The Border Deal is one massive betrayal of the American people, in what Daniel Horowitz framed as "a blatant amnesty for the world's worst cartel smugglers. Section 224 (a) prohibits the deportation of anyone who is sponsoring an "unaccompanied" minor illegal alien; anyone who says they might sponsor an Unaccompanied Child, and anyone who lives in a household with a UAC or a household that potentially might sponsor a UAC. ... "the very people paying the cartels to invade us."
This invasion is driven by the intentional skewing of the UAC law, that sets forth what constitutes a true "refugee". Central American teenagers are only supposed to be treated as refugees, if they are a victim of sex and drug trafficking or have no relatives in America, and yet, nearly each and every one of them is self-trafficked by their own extremely illegal relatives, who reside in America. Rather than saying "No Deal" or forcing much needed changes to the bill, the Republicans went ahead with this miserable fleecing of the American people, which rewards these Illegal Aliens with a de facto amnesty.
And from the Center for Immigration Studies, Jessica Vaughn's interpretation was even grimmer: "We can call this the MS-13 Household Protection Act of 2019."
In justifying his emergency declaration, President Trump repeatedly acknowledged and honored the presence of the Angel Moms in attendance, as he retold the stories of their children's deaths at the hands of Illegal Aliens. Some of the Angel Moms in the Rose Garden urged the president not to sign the bipartisan bill, noting that it contained several measures that incentivized illegal immigration.
At one point in his speech President Trump exclaimed:
"We're talking about an invasion of our country with drugs, with human traffickers, with all types of criminals and gangs. We have some of the greatest people here; I know -- they've been with me from the beginning of my campaign, almost from the first week -- the Angel Moms. Unfortunately, we have new Angel Moms.
One incredible woman just showed me her daughter who -- we're talking about killed -- in the year of 18. I said, I haven't seen you before. She said, 'No, I'm new.' I said, that's too bad. It's too bad. It's so sad. Stand up, just for a second. Show how beautiful your girl was [in the picture she held]. Thank You."
The President called his actions necessary given the scale of the problem along the southern border, as he responded to CNN Jim Acosta's suggestion that he had "concocted" an emergency for political gain, whereupon the President responded: "Ask these women [Angel Moms] if there's a national emergency."
He expects to be met by numerous legal challenges, even as the ACLU sharpens its pencil. He also expects to win in the Supreme Court.
Under the Emergency Declaration, President Trump will attempt to appropriate discretionary military funds to close the gap between the nearly $1.4 billion Congress appropriated for The Wall and the $5.7 billion he has long demanded. However, now the president is reaching for $8 billion, by taking $600 million from the Treasury, the Treasury forfeiture front and $2,5 billion out of the Defense Department. His staff is also looking at using drug interdiction funds and the $3.5 billion they discovered in the military construction budget, that certainly won't conflict with the President's constitutional mandate to defend America.
Declaring the emergency also puts a companion statute in motion -- 10 U.S. Code 2808, that gives the president authority to create military construction projects using funds appropriated for other military projects, such as a $10 billion account approved by Congress last September, for the Army Corps of Engineers, with its military and civilian workforce of 37,000 people.
Once he declares an emergency, a companion statute, 10 U.S. Code 2808, says the president can create military construction projects, using funds originally intended for other military projects such as a $10-billion account that Congress approved last September. That money involves the Army Corps of Engineers, with its military and civilian workforce of 37,000 people, which is why a border wall might become a military project
Love him or hate him, no one can say that President Donald Trump isn't standing up for America. He isn't usurping any powers, not when Congress gave it to him, because they are risk-averse and want to pass the buck to him rather than accept responsibility themselves -- dodging accountability and evading its Constitutional duty. Yes -- Love him or hate him -- President Trump is ideally suited to lead America at this pivotal moment precisely due to his ability to go where no other President would, being a warrior for the American people, whom he so obviously loves
Source links and text embraced by brackets are by the Editor.
Posted by SlantRight 2.0 at 12:46 PM
Labels: Angel Moms, Border Wall, Daniel Horowitz, Donald Trump, Illegal Aliens, Jessica Vaughn, Justin Smith, MS-13 Household Protection Act, National Emergency, Omnibus Budget, Open-Border Dems
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Een ingeklede vergelijking is een algebraïsch vraagstuk in de vorm van een tekst. P. Wijdenes zegt hierover (in Wiskunde voor accountants, dl. I, 1949): "Het is de gewoonte in de boeken eerst de theorie van de vergelijkingen te leren en daarna vraagstukken te geven, die met vergelijkingen kunnen worden opgelost. Het zijn eigenlijk deze, die aanleiding geven tot de eerste. De vergelijkingen, die men moet oplossen om de gestelde vragen te beantwoorden, zou men "uitgeklede" kunnen noemen."

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Een Fokker-machine vliegt van P naar Q en een Douglas-machine van Q naar P. De afstand PQ is 1650 km. De Douglas vliegt 45 km per uur meer dan de Fokker. Nadat de Fokker 4 uur gevlogen heeft, passeren ze elkaar en daarna hebben beide machines nog evenveel tijd nodig om hun eindpunt te bereiken. Bereken de snelheid per uur van elke machine. (Eindexamen Mulo-B 1943).

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An all girl trip to the magical Westfjords
"We decided it was time to create a women-only tour led by women, where we'd take care of most of the planning. All the girls have to do is show up and have a magical time!"
We will be visiting amazing locations. This is a chance to truly connect with nature in great company," says Birna Hronn Bjornsdottir, co-owner of LGBT travel agency Pink Iceland, which has teamed up with lesbian owned and operated travel companies Diva Destinations (UK) and GoBeyond Reisen (DE) to offer a 12 day all girl trip to the Westfjords in May 2014.
According to Birna the trip starts with a 2 day stop in Reykjavik, Iceland's capital city, where members of the group will get a chance to explore the city and get to know each other and guide Lilja. From there the group will head off West, spending days in West Iceland and the Snæfellsnes peninsula, which has been called "Iceland in miniature" because so many national sites can be found there. A ferry will then take the ladies over Breidafjordur bay to the Westfjords where the focus will be on the nature, geothermal pool dipping and hiking.
"While all our tours offer great value for money," Birna says, "I think it's relatively safe to say that this is the longest and probably the best value journey we at Pink Iceland have created so far."
Seems like a lot of action? Birna smiles. "We've designed the trip so there is never too much time spent in the car. If you're in a relatively good shape the hikes should be quite easy."
The tour is be fittingly titled "Women Only West" and is mostly aimed at foreign guests. Still Birna underlines that local ladies, whether gay, bi or trans, are of course welcome.
"We always encourage the participation of the local community, when possible, and will certainly do our best to let it know what we're up to," she says. "And while the LGBT community in the West Fjords is small, hopefully some local women will join us at some point."
Great reaction
The "Women on West" tour seems to have garnered a lot of attention since Pink Iceland advertised it online. "Women are already signing up," Birna says, "and we've also gotten response from a few ladies who are considering joining." So we think it's pretty safe to say the tour is getting great reaction given the fact that it isn't untill in May 2014 or in more than seven months.
With all the attention the Pink Iceland team have been up to their ankles answering all kinds of esquires regarding the tour. "Like whether we'll get a chance to see puffins," Birna says and assures us that it will be included. "We will meeting the charismatic clowns of the sea at Latrabjarg." For those who are not familiar with Latrabjorg, it marks the western most point of Europe and is home to millions of birds, including guillemots, razorbills and of course puffins. Being 14 kilometer long and up to 440 meters high also makes it Europe's largest bird cliffs.
And while most of the emails in regards to the trip have been from women, the staff has also received a fair share of emails from men asking for a similar trip to the Westfjords. Birna says the guys needn't worry about being left out. "I'm happy to announce that a men-only tour is scheduled sometime in 2014. With minor adjustments," she says and winks.
Time for some girl power
Up untill now Pink Iceland has made a name for itself by offering a wide spectrum of tours for both sexes. "Women Only West" will be the company's first tour exclusively aimed at one gender.
"The idea really comes out of an ongoing discussion with our guests, which made us think that to there might be a gap in our offering, "Birna explains to us. "And because there have been so many nature loving women who've come by the office before heading out on elaborate self-drives around the country, we decided it was time to create a women-only tour led by women, where we'd take care of most of the planning. All the girls have to do is show up and have a magical time!"
Asked whether she thinks lesbians and gay men have different needs when it comes to traveling Birna hesitantly answers "yes", which is then quickly followed by a "no". "It's a fact that people like the company of others like-minded. While we haven't necessarily focused on offering gender specific tours, some of our trips seem to attract mostly men and others women."
But have Birna and her partner in life and business, Eva María Þorarinsdottir Lange, ever been on an women-tour-only? "We usually travel alone or with our best friends, who are mainly gay men. So you could say we've often been on an almost all men-tours," she says laughing, but it's clear from everything that she's excited about the idea of trying something new.
To find out more, Birna says its simply best to send an email to pinkiceland@pinkiceland.is
By Roald Eyvindsson

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Homebuyer Tax Credit Claims and Payback
By Kay Bell Published February 21, 2013 Bankrate.com
The first-time homebuyer tax credit has made it possible for many people to own a house.
The original first-time homebuyer tax credit provided buyers with a tax credit of up to $7,500. The tax break subsequently was expanded, with a new credit limit of $8,000 for first-time homebuyers and $6,500 for homeowners seeking to move into another residence.
But as with all things tax, in order to get the most of this tax benefit, homeowners must follow the Internal Revenue Service rules.
And a key homebuyer tax credit rule kicked in with 2010 tax filings. Folks who claimed the very first version of the tax break on their 2008 tax returns had to make their first repayment installment last year. The payback continues this filing season.
Paying Back the 2008 Tax Year Claim
The original first-time homebuyer tax credit was not a true credit. Rather, it essentially was an interest-free loan from Uncle Sam, and every loan has payback terms. In this case, the credit is to be repaid in 15 equal payments of $500 each tax-filing time, beginning with 2010 returns.
That first repayment last year was recorded on part four of Form 5405, and that amount is then transferred to line 67 of the "payments" section of Form 1040. You'll continue to repay the credit each filing season until it's paid off, but you might not have to file a Form 5405 for future payments.
If you bought the home in 2008 and owned and used it as your main residence for all of 2011, you can enter your 2011 repayment directly on line 59b of Form 1040 without attaching Form 5405.
Lump-Sum Payback Triggers
Nowadays, however, few people stay in the same house for 15 years, so the IRS devised a way to get the original homebuyer credit back from those folks.
When you quit using the home as your main residence, for example by selling or renting the property, then you have to pay the balance of the $7,500 credit in full when you file the tax return for the year in which your living arrangements changed.
There are some exceptions -- what the IRS calls disposition situations -- which could get you off the lump-sum repayment hook.
You transfer your home as part of a divorce settlement. Your former spouse then is responsible for making the rest of the repayments.
Your home is destroyed, condemned or disposed of under threat of condemnation. If you buy a replacement home within two years, you can continue to repay the credit in annual installments.
If you die, any remaining annual installments are not due. However, if the credit was claimed on a joint return, the surviving spouse pays only his or her half of the remaining credit amount.
And if you sell the house on which you claimed the $7,500 credit, your profit will determine how much you must pay back. When you sell, either by your choice or as part of a foreclosure, you only have to repay the credit up to the amount of the gain on the sale, if any.
Claiming Subsequent Homebuyer Tax Credits
Form 5405 is a multipurpose IRS document. In addition to recording payback of the original homebuyer credit, it is used to claim subsequent versions of the tax break.
When the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, often referred to as the stimulus bill, became law in 2009, it included changes to the homebuyer tax credit.
The maximum first-time homebuyer tax credit amount was increased to $8,000 or 10% of a property's purchase price, whichever was less.
A second credit of up to $6,500 was created for current homeowners looking to buy another house.
The tax break was made a real credit, meaning that in most cases the money??would not have to be paid back.
This credit was available to qualifying taxpayers who closed on the purchase of their homes by the end of November 2009. But the still-struggling housing sector prompted Congress to extend this tax credit even further.
The Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of 2009 was signed into law Nov. 6, 2009, and gave credit-eligible homebuyers until June 30, 2010, to close on a property.
And some taxpayers still can claim the first-time homebuyer credit for 2011. You qualify if you (or your spouse if married) were a member of the uniformed services, U.S. foreign service or an employee of the intelligence community on qualified official extended duty outside the United States for at least 90 days between Jan. 1, 2009, and April 30, 2010. In these cases, a qualifying homebuyer can claim the credit for a home bought before May 1, 2011, or if they signed a written binding contract by that date and closed on the house by June 30, 2011.
Three-Year Residency Required
While there's no longer an automatic payback of the latest version of the homebuyer tax credit, you could still owe the IRS if you don't live in your home long enough.
To get the homebuyer tax credit outright, you must live in the house as your principal residence for three consecutive years after purchase.
If you move out within 36 months of purchase, you must pay back the full credit. The same exceptions as those that apply to the original first-time homebuyer credit could save you from the payback requirement.
But if you simply move, either because you, for example, sold the home on which you claimed the credit or converted it to rental or business use, you must give back the $8,000. You'll do so via your tax return filing for the tax year in which your residential circumstances changed, again using Form 5405. This time, fill out part three.
You also need to be aware the payback could cause other tax trouble.
"They now owe the $8,000 and also could face an estimated tax penalty," says John Sheeley, an enrolled agent with his own tax practice in Goshen, N.Y. "It's not something most people are thinking about. If you sell your house, that's a life-changing event. But something like this, that they might have this tax issue, doesn't occur to them."
And even when they are made aware of the tax costs, that's still not enough to prompt some homeowners to change their plans.
One of Sheeley's clients was a single man who bought a home in Brooklyn using the $8,000 tax credit. "Subsequently he meets the love of his life, who won't leave Manhattan," says Sheeley. "Now he plans to rent the place in Brooklyn to an unrelated third party, which triggers a recapture of the first-time homebuyer credit."
Sheeley explained the tax consequences to his client, but in this case love conquered the tax code.
He headed to the neighboring borough, says Sheeley, because his sweetheart wouldn't move to Brooklyn for $8,000.
Copyright 2012, Bankrate Inc.


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The Shocking Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, November 5th, 1995
I had just landed several days before in the U.S. Elana and I were in Israel leading our second Israel tour. It was only my third visit to the place I have called home for the past 15 years and I was wild-eyed and dreamy. I could not wait to move! I was intoxicated on all things Israel! It was Saturday night in the Holy Land, and about 4pm in Maryland, when I turned on the T.V.
Yitzhak Rabin, the ninth Prime Minister of Israel, had been shot dead! Despite not being a fan of Rabin's risky policies and overtures to the PLO—I burst into tears and did not stop crying for a week.
While in Israel on the tour, many questions came up about the peace process. The right-wing political party Likud had been ousted from power because of the Intifada (the violent Palestinian uprising). Israelis wanted peace with their Arab neighbors and they didn't think Likud had the willingness to negotiate. Shimon Peres, as foreign minister, had already persuaded King Hussein to agree to a set of principles.
In a secret meeting in a London home, the two met and got along so well that the King suggested that he and Peres do the dishes together after the meal. What a sight that would have been—the king of an Arab enemy nation doing dishes with the foreign minister of Israel. Of course, their host would have none of it.
But when Peres presented the set of principles to the prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir (of the Likud party), he was cold to the idea. Peres was stunned.
A couple years later, after the fall of the Soviet empire and the turmoil between Middle Eastern Arab nations (when Iraq conquered Kuwait), there was a feeling that peace was achievable. Rabin defeated Peres in the Labor party primaries and, once again, became prime minister of Israel (he had been prime minister in the 1970s).
Arafat comes to Israel
He set an agenda for peace with the Palestinians and the Arab nations. Arafat, a man with Jewish blood on his hands, was brought from Tunisia (he had been kicked out of Jordan and the Israelis forced him to flee Lebanon) to rule in Gaza. The PLO, a terrorist organization, was named the sole representative (as opposed to Islamic terrorist groups like Hamas) of the Palestinian people.
The feeling, around the world, was that Arafat could be rehabilitated into a statesman; that, yes, a leopard could, in fact, change his spots. It was wishful thinking. He would speak peace in English, wowing the masses, and war and terror in Arabic, appeasing the Arab world. The west said that he had to do that to save face, while the Arabs said that he was just lying to Israel. Israel put up with it because there was no one else with whom to make peace.
Who can forget the most awkward of handshakes: President Clinton in the middle, Prime Minister Rabin, with a somber face, embracing the hand of the murderer, Arafat, as he (the father of modern day terrorism) smiled.
Terror Continues
Despite all the overtures to Arafat, terror increased. Arafat claimed he could not control the Islamic extremists, but we know that the PLO was complicit in many attacks. Israelis were starting to lose faith. Those in middle, who brought Rabin to power, were fleeing to the right, with the realization that it simply did not matter how much we wanted peace—the PLO had no interest.
A Peace Rally
In an effort to shore up support, a peace rally was announced to take place in Tel Aviv next to City Hall—at what we now called, Kikar Rabin – Rabin Square. This very square is where most demonstrations—often against Prime Minister Netanyahu—take place today. It is minutes from my house.
They came in droves and Shimon Peres said, "It was the happiest I'd ever seen him—possibly the happiest day of his life."[i]He said he heard Rabin sing for the first time in his life. The anthem of the event was a song called Shir l'Shalom—A Song for Peace.
Three shots!
As the prime minister and foreign minister were about to leave, the security teams were informed of a threat against the leaders. This was nothing new. The political environment had gotten out of control. Far-right activists portrayed Rabin as a Nazi. They would have pictures of him dressed as Hitler.
They left separately and, as Peres was getting into his car, he heard three shots. Before he could find out what happened, he was pushed into his car and whisked away by security forces. Rabin was rushed to the hospital, where he died shortly thereafter.
If his death were not enough, another gut punch soon followed. It was announced that it was not an "evil, bloodthirsty Arab terrorist" who shot him, but a Orthodox Jewish man. Yigal Amir was part of a group of fanatical Jews who felt it was their duty to stop the peace process at all costs. And that they did. They believed that Jewish law allowed for this. Amir felt he was doing a mitzvah—a righteous act.
In truth, it would only have been a matter of time before it became clear that the Palestinian leadership was not serious about peace. Labor would have lost power in the next election, for sure. It was only the outpouring of compassion, because of the death of Rabin, which caused the election to be close.
A Kiss Goodbye
When Peres found out what happened he was stunned, speechless. He demanded to be taken to the hospital. His security detail refused—it was not safe. He told them that if they did not take him, he would go alone. It was only there that he found out that the shots were fatal.
"Mr. Peres," [the doctor] said, with a crack in his voice, "I am sorry to have to say, the prime minister is dead." It was like someone had attacked me with a knife, my chest laid bare, my heart punctured. I had forgotten how to breathe. I had just seen Rabin's face, smiling like I'd never seen before. There was so much life in him, so much hope and promise. And now "Shir l'shalom," our song for peace, was quite literally stained with blood—in the pages of the songbook Rabin was holding when attacked.[ii]
These bloodstained lyrics were taken from Rabin's jacket pocket, near where he was shot.
He walked into the room with Leah Rabin and the two of them of kissed him goodbye—the wife of his youth, and the man who was his political rival for decades, now his best friend.
Peres was sworn in as prime minister and he was urged by his party to call for early elections. He knew that he would win in the wake of the murder, but he also knew that "to call an early election was to choose to win power using the spilled blood of Rabin."[iii]So, a year later, he lost to Benjamin Netanyahu.
Over the next few years, Arafat rejected peace deal after peace deal. It is much easier to be a freedom fighter than to actually govern your people, oversee an economy and take care of things like electricity and water.
Shalom Haver
At his funeral, President Clinton, who had become close with Rabin, ended his remarks with the phrase, Shalom Haver…Goodbye friend. For the next several years, you could see those words on bumper stickers all across the nation.
The anniversary of Rabin's death was yesterday. I just happened, by chance, to read an account about it today as I was finishing a book (during my workout). To this day, his death affects me greatly. I could not hold back the tears—even while exercising on the elliptical machine—as I read Peres' account of the tragedy. Suddenly, it was 23 years ago in my bedroom. I turned on the TV. "Prime Minster Yitzhak Rabin has been shot."
[i]Peres, Shimon. No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel (p. 207). Custom House. Kindle Edition.
[ii]Ibid
[iii]Ibid


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Q: Ansible convert subnet mask to wildcard mask I have a subnet mask in ansible and I want to convert it to a wildcard mask (255 - current) for each octet as so
http://wintelguy.com/2009/20090410_subnets.html
I know I will need to use set_fact with this but I am unsure how to split the mask up and convert each octet.
255.255.255.224
255 - 255 = 0
255 - 224 = 31
So it equals 0.0.0.31
Thanks

A: Doing this with Ansible tasks would get quite complicated. In a template it would get easier. But the best thing you can do is to create a custom lookup plugin.
Something like this:
import ansible.errors as errors

class LookupModule(object):

    def __init__(self, basedir=None, **kwargs):
        self.basedir = basedir

    def run(self, terms, inject=None, **kwargs):

        if not isinstance(terms, basestring):
            raise errors.AnsibleError("lookup expects a string (IP address)")

        parts = terms.split(".")
        l = map(lambda x: str(255-int(x)), parts)
        return [".".join(l)]

Save this in your project as plugins/lookup/wildcard_mask.py, then call it as
{{ lookup('wildcard_mask', '255.255.255.224') }}

Should work with Ansible 1.x - probably needs changes for Ansible 2.x

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Grains sector braces for continued uncertainty in global markets due to coronavirus6 months, 3 weeks ago
Northern hemisphere harvest starts amid a cloudy demand outlook
Grain Brokers Australia 30 Jun 2020, 5 p.m.
As the northern hemisphere grain crop comes in, continued global uncertainty is adversely affecting Australia's markets.
Wheat supplies may be down in some parts of the world this year but demand remains a big unknown.
The northern hemisphere winter crop harvest is underway amid escalating fears that a second wave of COVID-19 infections - particularly in the United States and Brazil - will lead to new lockdowns and lower global grain demand, and exacerbate the enormous economic impact of the worldwide pandemic.
Wheat futures were punished, with technical liquidation and abundant global inventories pressing all three US wheat bourses - Chicago, Kansas and Minneapolis - to new contract lows in last Friday's session.
Trade on the day was highlighted by the absence of substantive buying interest on both the domestic and export front.
Matif milling wheat futures also slipped to a three-month low on Friday. But these may find support this week after the European Commission further reduced its forecast for this season's European Union soft wheat harvest by 4.3 million tonnes to 117.2 million tonnes.
This estimate excludes the United Kingdom. If its wheat crop is 10 million tonnes - and if there is an EU durum harvest of 7.4 million tonnes - the combined total is well below the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) June estimate of 141 million tonnes for the EU27 countries and the UK.
But many in the trade view the European Commission's forecast as far too low, with crop conditions improving in Germany, central Europe and the Baltic States throughout June.
Last Monday, the USDA pegged the US winter wheat harvest at 29 per cent completed, and that number jumped sharply to 41 per cent in this week's report - after seven days of favorable harvesting weather.
The winter wheat conditions were reported at 52 per cent 'good-to-excellent', which was slightly higher than reported a week earlier.
The surprise in last week's numbers was the deterioration in the condition of the US spring wheat crop, which fell six percentage points to 75 per cent 'good-to-excellent'.
Despite beneficial weather across the northern plains, that figure fell a further 6 points to 69 per cent in the latest crop progress update released on Monday this week (US time).
In Europe, the French wheat harvest is picking-up in the south. But there are fears of fusarium disease developing in the northern areas following recent rains.
Initial cuts in the south west are showing good grain protein and test weights, but crop yields are well below the exceptional levels that were seen last year.
FranceAgriMer estimated that 56 per cent of the country's wheat crop was in 'good-to-excellent' condition, which was unchanged from a week earlier.
The French barley harvest is fractionally further advanced and early yields and grain test weights are generally good - and certainly better than the very dry spring conditions indicated.
FranceAgriMer rated the winter and spring barley crop conditions as 51 and 54 per cent 'good-to-excellent' respectively.
Harvest in the Black Sea region has finally started after low temperatures and some wet weather in late May and early June delayed ripening of the crop.
The market is eagerly awaiting early winter crop yield trends, as this will set the tone for global export values in the next few months.
The Stavropol region in the south of Russia is a key export-producing region. Its winter crop harvest is reported to be about 9 per cent complete, and is predominantly barley at this early stage.
Anecdotal reports put early crop yields down by about 40 per cent compared to last year, but cannot be considered representative of all crops in the region at this early stage of harvest.
Further east in Krasnodar, Russia's second-biggest wheat producing region, early barley yields are down year-on-year - but are broadly in-line with local trade expectations.
This bodes well for wheat production, as this crop was sown later and is not expected to have been as severely impacted by frosts and early spring dryness.
Spring wheat crops in Russia and Kazakhstan still have at least six weeks to go before they are 'out of jail'.
It has been relatively dry throughout June, but the chances of rainfall in the next few weeks has improved.
Despite record temperatures in parts of northern Siberia last week, the spring wheat regions remain abnormally cool.
The Ukraine harvest is lagging behind last year's early pace, but has started ahead of the five-year average. About 125,000 tonnes of grain was in the bin as of late last week, predominantly barley. Early yields are poor, averaging about 3 tonnes per hectare, but higher levels are anticipated as the harvest accelerates.
The size of the Russian crop is the pressing question.
The Russian Agriculture Ministry has it pegged at 75 million tonnes, but in June the USDA's estimated figure was 77 million tonnes.
IKAR consultancy has increased its forecast to 79.5 million tonnes and SovEcon - which has had the forecast above 80 million tonnes for the entire campaign - raised its estimate mid-month to 82.7 million tonnes.
The lack of demand and commercial activity in the export market remains notable, with consuming nations waiting on the European and Black Sea harvests to ramp-up to full pace - and the weight of new crop supply to pressure prices lower - before extending cover.
However, there already appears to be tightness in Black Sea wheat due to the lack of farmer selling.
According to local analysts, this could easily extend well beyond July as Russian farmers are on the cusp of a huge sunflower seed crop. This is worth a lot more than wheat and takes up double the storage capacity.
After getting their butts handed to them last year, there is a decided reluctance on behalf of exporters to go hard at selling new crop ahead of harvest - especially with historically low carry-out stocks.
Based on last year's experience, going short harvest positions in front of the Russian farmer is quite a high risk, low reward strategy.
Except for Australia and Russia, world wheat production estimates appear to be on the decline - ironically at the same time as most futures markets are falling to multi-month lows.
Carry-out stocks among the major exporters are also estimated to hit multi-year lows. But it is the demand side of the equation that continues to cloud the picture.
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Carroll Community Worship Center (Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA)
From GAMEO
The Carroll Community Worship Center (Mennonite Church USA) was originally known as the Anderson Mennonite Church. The first Mennonite Sunday school in the area was conducted by Henry Easterday and Lee Sailors of the Fort Wayne Mennonite mission in May 1933. The work was sponsored by the Leo congregation until its organization as a separate church in 1940. The building used for worship was an abandoned Baptist church.
The first pastor, Joseph S. Neuhouser, ministered to the spiritual needs of the congregation from its beginning until the 1950s. The membership in 1953 was fifteen; in 2009 it was 59. The congregation also sponsored a mission Sunday school fifteen miles south of Fort Wayne, near Ossian, Indiana. The pastor in 2009 was Verlin Haarer.
In 2015 the Carroll Community Worship Center congregation withdrew from the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference. This move was part of a larger realignment of Mennonite congregations in the 2010s that were formerly part of Mennonite Church USA. These congregations were unhappy with Mennonite Church USA's failure to take stronger disciplinary actions against area conferences and congregations who expressed openness to inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons. Carroll Community Worship Center became part of the Evana Network.
Address: 4506 Carroll Rd., Fort Wayne, IN 46818
Website: Carroll Community Worship Center
Denominational/Network Affiliations:
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Map:Carroll Community Worship Center (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
J. S Neuhouser
Sam Steiner
Neuhouser, J. S and Sam Steiner. "Carroll Community Worship Center (Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 20 Jul 2019. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Carroll_Community_Worship_Center_(Fort_Wayne,_Indiana,_USA)&oldid=148742.
Neuhouser, J. S and Sam Steiner. (1953). Carroll Community Worship Center (Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 20 July 2019, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Carroll_Community_Worship_Center_(Fort_Wayne,_Indiana,_USA)&oldid=148742.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 119. All rights reserved.
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My only success in these matters has come as a result of the study of Western science, yet I will be the first to confess that what matters most to me is the relinquishment of habitual activity, conscious or unconscious, in the movement of breath.
With the accent on relaxation, freeing the direction of mind, and the experience of cessation, I do experience what Dogen's teacher Rujing described as breath entering and reaching the dan-tien, breath exiting the dan-tien. Sometimes. What keeps it alive for me is this notion that Olaf Blanke has put forward, that our sense of self, especially the self that is associated with our sense of location, is a result of the coordnation of the vestibular and proprioceptive senses, along with the senses of vision and of gravity. Distinguishing these senses contributes to their coordination, as far as I can tell, and the lower dan-tien is really an experience of that sense of location in the surrender of activity in the movement of breath, behind (and usually below) the navel.
What's it about. The three sets of abdominal muscles have ligamentous attachments to the rectus muscle, and these attachments are of equal length at a point a couple of inches below the navel.
Looking to be so relaxed, that the only activity in the body is activity generated by the ligaments themselves in response to stretch, and the movement of breath.
The two means of support are autonomically coordinated in the natural movement of breath.
The sense of self-location can occur at the lower dan-tien, a function of the individual senses Blanke described, as part of the autonomic coordination of displacement of the fascia behind the sacrum and lower spine in support of the movement of breath. The ilio-lumbar, ilio-sacral and abdominal ligaments generate activity in response to the weight of the body, the activity serves to align the spine to provide ease at appropriate nerve exits, the nerve exits allow feeling below the skin and throughout the body to guide support in the movement of breath.
I have details in a PDF, here (and a subsequent response more particular to reverse breathing, here).


The new type of building blocks "TSUMIBOBO" was certified as the Good Toy of 2013!
TSUMIBOBO is a set of stacking blocks in the motif of Sarubobo doll, a traditional folk craft in Hida Takayama that is made in the hope of bringing children happiness. Maple wood is used for the head part of the piece and cedar for the body. By using cedar wood from forest thinning, Shirayuri contributes to improving the forest environment. The combination of two kinds of wood material with different weights allows the pieces to be stacked in wonderful balance. With a creative mind, people of all ages enjoy discovering limitless ways to play with TSUMIBOBO.
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Q: Android Button ArrayList onClickListener doesn't work. Why? I created an arraylist for the buttons and tablerows.
private ArrayList<Button> btDec = new ArrayList<Button>();
private ArrayList<TableRow> tr = new ArrayList<TableRow>();

Then I want to create a new button and tablerow and add tem to the tablelayout by using the following code in the onCreate() method.
FloatingActionButton fab = (FloatingActionButton) findViewById(R.id.fab);
    fab.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            btDec.add(new Button(this));
            tr.add(new TableRow(this));

            int i = tr.size() - 1;
            btDec.get(i).setId(i);
            btDec.get(i).setText("-");
            tr.get(i).addView(btDec.get(i));
            lo.addView(tr.get(i), new TableLayout.LayoutParams(TableLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, TableLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
        }
    });

All of this code works fine.
But the following code (also in the onCreate() method) doesn't work. If I press the button, nothing happens and it doesn't print anything in the Logcat.
    for(int i = 0; i < tr.size(); i++)
    {
        btDec.get(i).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
        {
            public void onClick(View view)
            {
                Log.i("ButtonListener", "test");
            }
        });
    }

Please help me.

A: The problem is with this code
for(int i = 0; i < tr.size(); i++)
    {
        btDec.get(i).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
        {
            public void onClick(View view)
            {
                Log.i("ButtonListener", "test");
            }
        });
    }

You can't do it in onCreate() because tr list there is empty! You should add onClick listener when you create a button.


Wired Magazine ran an article in the August issue about how Singapore is attracting a large number of scientists with big piggy banks and more freedom (ironic I know) on what they study. The only drawback is the scientists need to devote time to public and gonvernment issues. Even sometimes that pays off.
During the 2003 SARS outbreak, Hibberd's boss asked him to sequence the virus. He developed a diagnostic test, now sold by Roche Pharmaceuticals, and will split royalties with Roche and the government. "In the UK, an academic institution would look down on that," Hibberd says. "Here, I'm totally open."
Guess our government really needs to wake up.
More reading: Union of Concerned Scientists - includes Scientific Integrity in Policy Making report, a must read.