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MAN REMANDED OVER DISSIDENT REPUBLICAN SPY CHARGES
Man remanded over terror spy charges
A MAN suspected of spying on security force members has faced a court on Saturday.
Anthony McDonnell, from Upper Springfield Road, west Belfast, is accused of collecting five vehicle registrations, between October 1 and December 12 last year.
The 43-year-old was also charged with having addresses and vehicle registration details of security force members on 14 December 2012.
He was remanded in custody.
The defendant was arrested on Thursday as part of a PSNI investigation into dissident republican terrorism.
Appearing in Belfast Magistrates Court on Saturday, McDonnell spoke only to confirm that he understood the two charges against him.
A detective constable from the PSNI's Serious Crime Branch told the court he believed he could connect him to the charges.
Under cross examination, the detective confirmed that since the searches before Christmas, numerous items including computer storage media were being examined as part of a "forensic strategy" in the "live" investigation.
The officer told the court and Mr Breen that by the time the case is next before the court on 31 January, the PSNI would try to have a timetable for the results of the examinations.

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The Genesis of the Golden Age - Accounting for the Rise in Health and Leisure
Carl-Johan Dalgaard
(Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen)
Holger Strulik
(University of Goettingen, Department of Economics)
We develop a life cycle model featuring an optimal retirement decision in the presence of physiological aging. In modeling the aging process we draw on recent advances within the fields of biology and medicine. In the model individuals decide on optimal consumption during life, the age of retirement, and (via health investments) the timing of their death. Accordingly, "years in retirement" is fully endogenously determined. Using the model we can account for the evolution of age of retirement and longevity across cohorts born between 1850 and 1940 in the US. Our analysis indicates that 2/3 of the observed increase in longevity can be accounted for by wage growth, whereas the driver behind the observed rising age of retirement appears to have been technological change in health care. Both technology and income contribute to the rise in years in retirement, but the contribution from income is slightly greater.
Carl-Johan Dalgaard & Holger Strulik, 2012. "The Genesis of the Golden Age - Accounting for the Rise in Health and Leisure," Discussion Papers 12-10, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics.
Handle: RePEc:kud:kuiedp:1210
File URL: http://www.econ.ku.dk/english/research/publications/wp/dp_2012/1210.pdf
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Aging; Longevity; Retirement; Health; Health Technology;
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Cops seized $22 million in marijuana cash from a Miami hydroponics shop owner. He won't lose it all
Published: Feb 9, 2018, 1:51 pm • Updated: Feb 9, 2018, 1:52 pm
By David Ovalle, Miami Herald
MIAMI — The Miami Lakes man found with $22 million in suspected marijuana cash stuffed in orange buckets inside his house pleaded guilty Wednesday — but he won't be losing all his money to the feds.
Luis Hernandez-Gonzalez agreed to let the U.S. government take $18 million of the cash. He'll get to keep about $4 million, plus his house, his business and five Rolex watches.
The 46-year-old pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to money laundering and structuring bank deposits to avoid reporting the true amounts to the government.
U.S. Judge Robert Scola will sentence Hernandez-Gonzalez on April 20 — coincidentally, the annual day marijuana fans celebrate the plant. He faces up to 30 years in prison, but his defense lawyers are hoping to get him a sentence below the bottom of the sentencing guidelines, which is five years behind bars.
Previously: Miami pot raid leads police to $24 million stashed in buckets
Hernandez-Gonzalez made national news when detectives raided his Miami Lakes home in June 2016, discovering most of the cash in 24 orange Homer's All-Purpose buckets from Home Depot. They were hidden in a secret compartment above a closet. An additional $600,000-plus was found at his business.
Miami-Dade narcotics detectives hauled away the money in a pickup truck, then spent more than a day exhaustively counting the huge stacks of bills. Investigators raided his businesses and home after he was caught on a phone wiretap giving growing advice to Miami marijuana growers arrested by federal agents in Tennessee.
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Hernandez-Gonzalez is well-known in the marijuana trade. He ran Blossom Experience, a North Miami-Dade store that sells fans, lights, fertilizers and other equipment for indoor gardening. Cops believe that the business, while legal, caters to marijuana traffickers growing weed in clandestine labs inside homes.
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Analysis Of ' I, Tituba, Black Witch Of Salem Essay
Gender and belief
Equity and justice is what we want to achieve for in our life, although it could not happen in every event. Under the institution of slavery, the unfairness is extreme obvious. Racism, Sexism and belief is the three major element separating people into different position at the time they born. " Life is too kind to men, whatever their color(108)", pointing out in the novel, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, which is written by Maryse Conde. The story is talking about life of Tituba, a black girl in the slavery period. Her birth is because of raping. Although her mom finally finds someone who really loves she, it doesn't last for a long time. Killing by her white master since she hurts him. The life for Tituba is extremely hard, because she is a black. Her gender makes it even worse. According to the her growth environment, she has a totally different belief from the other blacks. Making them afraid of Tituba. Their goal of life are also not the same. The novel is suggesting that a man can change the life of a woman. Men and women are not equal.
In the beginning of the story, the author portray a life of a black woman, "Too many storm clouds had gathered over [Abena 's] short life: her village had been burned to the ground, her parents had been stabbed to death trying to defend themselves, she had been raped, and now she had to endure this brutal separation from" (Conde, 4). All the events she meets have been described as storm clouds, a climate we experience a lot. It is a metaphor. Showing the hard life of a black woman. All the obstacle come together. It explains why she doesn't laugh for several month, and the situation of her is terrible. A representative of the black woman.
Man has the ability to change t...
...limited by her race, but also limited by her gender. Man has much more power than a woman has. A woman has no rights to make the decision.
Being a black is hard. Being a black woman is even worse. The experience of Abena and Tituba has fully explained this truth: man can change the life of a woman, whether he has power or not. They have the ability to do it. Yao brings happiness to Abena, although it doesn't last for a long time. The happiness breaks by her white master, a person who use his power to satisfy his desire. He doesn't regard Abena as a human being but his property. He can do anything he wants. Same as Tituba, she falls in love with John, a slave. She is free, gets turn into a slave because of her husband. She doesn't want to leave him. This make her life totally different. So, it is really unfair between male and female under the institution of slavery.
Essay on Summary Of ' I, Tituba, Black Witch Of Salem
- In Maryse Condé novel, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, Tituba is the victim of the spread of colonial ideology. Colonial ideology is established early in the novel and plays a role throughout. Colonial ideology is the reason Tituba is a slave to white men throughout the play. Colonial ideology is the reason why Tituba's opinion is considered irrelevant by other characters in the play. Tituba's life is filled with lost, misery, and disappointment because of the ideology shared by other characters in the novel.... [tags: White people, Black people, Slavery, Race]
- Gender and belief Equity and justice is what we want to achieve for in our life, although it could not happen in every event. Under the institution of slavery, the unfairness is extreme obvious. Racism, Sexism and belief is the three major element separating people into different position at the time they born. " Life is too kind to men, whatever their color(108)", pointing out in the novel, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, which is written by Maryse Conde. The story is talking about life of Tituba, a black girl in the slavery period.... [tags: Black people, Slavery, White people, Race]
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- "I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem" by Maryse Conde "Witchcraft-the power or practices of witches" Webster's New World Dictionary. Witchcraft is a term which sprouts many different meanings. As stated above, it is attributed to witches. But what is a witch. Probably an evil haggish-like women who has signed a pact with the devil if we think of it in the English sense. So witchcraft must be evil doings; putting curses on people to make their life miserable, using wicked spells to transform humans to frogs etc.... [tags: Witchcraft]
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé Essay
- As the story of Tituba unfolds, it reveals a strong and kind hearted young woman, very different from the Tituba we meet in The Crucible. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem unveils for the reader, Tituba's life, loves, and losses. Her long and arduous journey through life is inspired by her many female counterparts, yet also hindered by her insatiable weakness for men, who also press upon her the realities of life. Tituba's life is one full of magic and wonder, yet also fraught with suffering.... [tags: Maryse Condé]
Essay on I Am A Black Slave Woman Named Tituba
- 1. Who am I. I am a black slave woman named Tituba. My parents Abiodun and Abiona, were originally from Yoruba Nigeria before they were captured from their villages in Nigeria, brought to Barbados and sold into slavery. They worked in Rev. Parris' plantation for many years and that is where I was conceived. Similar to my parents, I worked in Rev. Parris' plantation until I was twelve years old. After a hurricane hit Barbados and destroyed many plantations, Rev. Parris separated me from my parents and bought me to live in Salem, Massachusetts.... [tags: Salem witch trials, The Crucible, Witchcraft]
Tituba´s Viewpoint of the Salem Witch Trails Essay
- Outline:The story portrays Tituba in a new light and can be reflected on leading up to and during the trials. Intro: In the story I, Tituba, it is shown that Tituba has quite a different life and is portrayed as an almost entirely different person than that in any background we read or what I knew about the Salem witch trials. Tituba is typically shown to be a dark witch of some sort who single handedly ruined an entire community in Massachusetts. In the story however she is seen having much more of a background and a real life than just being a witch.... [tags: portrays, story, topic, evidence]
- Accusations of witchcraft ran rampant in the 17th century colonial settlements in the United States. The individuals accused, mostly women, were put on trial and punished, if found guilty. The most well-known of such cases on public record are the Salem Witch Trials. Between February, 1692 and May, 1693, hearings and prosecutions were set up to deal with those accused of dabbling in the dark arts in the cities of Andover, Salem, and Ipswich, all in Massachusetts Bay. These trials came to commonly be referred to as the Salem Witch Trials because some of the most notorious cases were heard in the Oyer and Terminer courts in Salem.... [tags: Salem witch trials, Witchcraft, Salem]
The Controversy Of The Salem Witch Trials Essay
- The citizens of Massachusetts Bay Colony were undoubtedly aware of the warnings of Scripture against witchcraft. For example, Leviticus 19:31 states, "Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God." Other scriptures also warn against witchcraft. Yet, in the years 1692 to 1693, witchcraft was certainly on their minds. During that time, the mysterious circle of girls was a questionable day by day occurrence. The other girls in the community that were not accepted into the circle felt left out.... [tags: Salem witch trials, Witchcraft, Puritan]
Essay on Titub Salem Witch Trials
- Tituba: Salem's Resident Witch The Salem Witch Trials were a monumental moment in American history. They began in Salem in 1692 when two girls and a village slave named Tituba attempted to look into their futures ("Salem witchcraft trials" - American History). Shortly after, the village girls began to behave in a peculiar manner by crawling under things and making abnormal noises. Eventually, the girls started to screech exclaiming that they were being tortured ("Salem witchcraft trials"- World Book Advanced).... [tags: Salem witch trials, Witchcraft, Sarah Good, Salem]
- The Salem Witch Trials The witch trials of the late 1600's were full of controversy and uncertainty. The Puritan town of Salem was home to most of these trials, and became the center of much attention in 1692. More than a hundred innocent people were found guilty of practicing witchcraft during these times, and our American government forced over a dozen to pay with their lives. The main reasons why the witch trials occurred were conflicts dealing with politics, religion, family, economics, and fears of the citizens.... [tags: History Salem Witch Trials]
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PPAs Could be the Answer to Unlocking Tribal Solar Potential
By SCF Team Solar News September 29, 2019
There are approximately 17.6 terawatt-hours (TWh) of potential solar generation within mainland Native American territories; over four times the current utility-scale solar generation in the U.S. (4.2 TWh). Much of this land is ideal for solar and could be suitable for Community Solar and Microgrids, due to the remote nature of many tribal communities and their distance from existing electrical grids.
Until recently, tribal communities have primarily depended on federal funding to finance renewable energy. Government resources don't often fund project costs in entirety, leaving many opportunities untapped. There is urgency surrounding these issues, however, as approximately 14% of Native American households do not currently have access to electricity.
Why Solar Works for Native American Tribes
The fossil fuel industry has often been exploitative of Native American tribes. Projects such as the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines have threatened sacred land as well as the health of crucial water sources. These examples serve as the latest in a history of encroachment, making commercial solar energy an ever more urgent desire for tribes looking to separate from the coal and gas industries permanently.
Many communities, such as the Navajo Nation, have seen fossil fuels fail to even support its power generation needs. In early 2019, the Navajo saw its largest coal plant cease operations, losing over 1,000 jobs and 2.25 gigawatts of power generation, despite over 70% of its community already lacking access to power. These energy production & job losses must be compensated for, and solar energy may be the solution. Recently, several tribal-owned companies such as Navajo Power have sprung up to provide off-grid solar and storage systems locally.
In many other communities, third-party energy resources prove challenging to maintain and unreliable in many circumstances. The Spokane Tribe of Washington state lost power for five days after the Cayuse Mountain Fire destroyed over 18,000 nearby acres in 2016. In addition to the economic benefits and job creation possibilities, solar could provide a way for these communities to become self-sufficient in their energy generation capabilities, no longer reliant on distant sources.
Why PPA Financing Can be an Ideal Solution for Tribal Energy Needs
There are still potential hurdles in launching a solar PPA on tribal land, due to variances in local governance and difficulty in grid access. The benefit PPA financing provides makes it an excellent solution for Native American communities, however. As previously mentioned, federal funding is often only partial and can result in lengthy delays and project mismanagement. A PPA with a private company such as Sustainable Capital Finance instead takes advantage of tax incentives, resulting in faster and more reliable completion.
With recent additions to SCF's offerings, a tribal solar installation could be paired with a large-scale storage solution as well, making for a more reliable off-grid solution. These kinds of solar + storage pairings become even more valuable in remote areas, where many tribal communities are located.
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Q: Determination of complex logarithm on spiral set So, I was trying to understand the determination of the complex logarithm for sets 'trickier' than $\mathbb{C}$ minus a half line, and took the spiral $V=\{r\cdot e^{ir}\colon r\geq 0\}$ ( which begins at $0$ and rotates counterclockwise), and defined $S=\mathbb{C}\backslash V$ the set on which to find the logarithm determination. My first idea, since our teacher had done this in other examples, was to find a  continuous determination of the argument $\theta:S\rightarrow\mathbb{C}$ and from it take $g(z)=log(|z|)+i\theta(z)$ to be the new determination of the logarithm, but I can't see how to get neither the $\theta$ to  be continuous on $S$ nor an immediate new determination for the logarithm. Can you give me any clues on how to proceed? Thanks beforehand.

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Given a point $z\in S$ there is a unique $\tau\in[0,2\pi[\>$ such that $z=|z|\,e^{i\tau}$. Draw the ray from $0$ through $z$. This ray intersects the spiral $V$ in two points $a$, $b$ such that $z\in[a,b]$, and there is  an $n\geq0$ such that
$$a=(2n\pi+\tau)e^{i\tau},\qquad b=\bigl(2(n+1)\pi+\tau\bigr)e^{i\tau}\ .$$One has $|a|<|z|<|b|$, so that
$$2n\pi+\tau<|z|<2(n+1)\pi+\tau\ ,$$
or $$2n\pi<|z|-\tau<2(n+1)\pi\ .$$ This implies
$$n=\left\lfloor{|z|-\tau\over2\pi}\right\rfloor\ ,$$
so that your desired "spiral logarithm" $\ell$ can be written as
$$\ell(z)=\log|z|+\left(2\pi\left\lfloor{|z|-\tau\over2\pi}\right\rfloor+\tau\right)i\qquad(z\in S)\ .$$You can easily check that the discontinuity along the positive real axis is only apparent. In reality the function $\ell$ is analytic in $S$,
and satisfies
$$\ell'(z)={1\over z}\qquad(z\in S)\ .$$

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The Weekly Man
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Episode 9: Monday – Jack
Posted on September 15, 2019 by biffmitchell
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Jack's face wrinkled as he lifted the sock to his nose to detect anything that didn't smell like sock or foot sweat but it was definitely foot sweat and nothing else—no electronic insects, nanobots, remote controlled motes or other spy devices, although he had to admit the technology was probably so advanced by now that anything they put in his apartment would likely be too small to be seen and wouldn't smell like anything, especially anything as strong as his foot sweat. It would be light years more advanced than the cameras and infrared of Crosby's days, the listening devices and satellite images. He wondered about the dead fly on the top shelf in the bedroom closet. How had it gotten in there? The closet was concealed in the wall so tight that it was impossible to see any telltale cracks to give away its location. But every once in a while he found a piece of clothing that he was sure wasn't his and he wondered why they would leave strange clothing in his closet.
Insidious bastards.
He lifted the other sock to his nose.
Nothing un-sockish.
It took fifteen minutes to sniff, feel and inspect his way to be fully and safely clothed in a grey sweatshirt with no markings to provide a target, torn blue jeans and ripped Nike running shoes. Maybe the strange clothing had been left by a previous tenant but he'd been here several years now. He would have come across everything they might have left behind. And also, his memory had been playing tricks on him lately; in fact, his memory had always been a tricky thing. Why hadn't he looked into this clothing thing before now? But then, why? And why the hell was he worrying about clothing in his closet? It was time for the next installment of The Unseen. His weekly online comic.
Monday.
Why did he suddenly have that thought? What the hell was Monday? Were they putting thoughts in his head now, confusing him with random ideas that didn't make sense? Fuck them. His mind was too strong for that shit no matter how much or how hard they tried to mess with it. He was a hero. A real, genuine hero. Well…a hero in his comic. He was the main character and the feats of courage of his main character were his feats of courage because they came out of this mind. They were his creation and the main character, Panther, who was the leader of The Unseen, was Jack.
He was actually a much better looking hero in the comic than he was in real life. For instance:
Come: Muscular
Real Life: Skinny
Comic: Standing tall and erect
Real Life: Stooped
Comic: Confident stride
Real Life: Short, tentative steps
Comic: Steely eyes that look into the soul
Real Life: Darting eyes that rarely made contact
There was a lot to be said for spending the greater part of your life online and so little to push you out of the sack into the coarse reality of the real world, which was how he viewed it—a cruel place full of vindictive creatures called people, a world where everyone was fighting for control and the vast majority of the world was losing at a pace that would have the entire human race enslaved by the end of the 21st Century.
But not in The Unseen…not in the treehouse…not as long as Panther, Leopard, Jaguar, Cougar and Bobcat, Lynx and Tiger were there to fight The Tyranny through the powerful medium of example. The Unseen was likely one of the most unseen comics on the web but it paid the bills. Another thing he sometimes wondered about, but there was time to wonder about that later. He opened the secret compartment in his closet and removed the collapsible drafting desk, the pens and pencils and inks, the paper and erasers, the rulers and brushes and other equipment. Best to keep such things concealed when your art was a force against The Tyranny.
He pulled the livingroom curtains shut and assembled his drafting desk by the window, snapped on a halogen light and arranged his equipment. This was how he'd done the first Unseen comics, with ink and paper, years ago as a kid, up in the treehouse. Much later he'd tried doing it with software and publishing directly to the web but it didn't have the same feel. There was something missing in the flow of lines that failed to recreate the blood and sinew of brushes and pens. After a few months he'd gone back to drawing the strip and scanning it. There was something more human in the process and wasn't that what the comic was all about? Humanity—about our right to be human beings, free to speak and act and form our own destinies—everything The Tyranny was trying to take away from us.
Crosby would have been proud of him.
He penciled in the panels lightly: six rows, each containing four panels. It was the way he started most strips, though he would wander from the straight lines as the strip progressed, letting one panel spill into another, changing the sizes and shapes of panels, erasing borders and letting images from one panel bleed into the surrounding panels. He had no idea how the strip would look because he had no idea how the story would unfold until he started creating it. Nothing was ever planned in The Unseen.
The first panel was almost always the same. It showed the Treehouse—a rickety wooden construction lodged into the massive branches of a giant oak. A rope with knots spaced a foot apart hung from a trap door at the bottom of the house. It was the only way in and it was intended to be a test: only those strong enough to climb the ladder were allowed into the house.
The second panel moved into the house where the seven 'gifted ones' sat crossed-legged in a circle. Panther was the biggest and the strongest and the deadliest, though he'd never actually done anything deadly in any episode of The Unseen.
It was their mission to save the world from The Tyranny—the combined forces of all evil in the 21st Century. There was one stipulation: victory had to be achieved through peaceful means and example. Still, it was generally assumed that Panther would be deadly if ever the need for deadliness arose. Strangely, all seven members looked alike—even the one female member, Bobcat. They had willed themselves to look this way to confuse The Tyranny.
Bobcat's dialogue balloon said, "I think we need to invoke the Fourth Prerogative. Motorcades of The Tyranny have been spotted on the back roads around Knitsburg. They're getting closer."
Bobcat's dialogue flowed into the next panel showing a night scene dominated by a leafless apple tree framing a dirt road where the headlights of several black cars lit up the road ominously, like spotlights searching for something. Jack had no idea what the Fourth Prerogative was. It had just come into his head when he gave Bobcat something to say. This was the way he developed his comic strip. This was the way he lived his life. If you didn't know what you were going to do next, you had the advantage over your enemies. Of course, there were some things he did by design: he rose at the same time every day, went to bed at around the same time, but he was indoors, safe in his flat when he did these things. They would always know where to find him when he was home. There was nothing he could do about that short of going into hiding, but for some reason he'd never been able to do that. Later, he would do a search on Knitsburg and find out if there was an actual place by that name. Then he'd research it for a while for details he could use in the strip.
In the next panel, a close up of Cougar's eyes wide with a few beads of sweat beginning to appear on his face added impact to his dialogue, "The Fourth Prerogative?" Obviously, this was something the Unseen took seriously, something that could only be used as a last resort, something so awful that defeat might actually be a preferable option to using it.
He didn't know where he was going next with the story. Time to do something else and let my subconscious work out the details. He trusted his subconscious. He knew that all the stories he would ever tell in The Unseen were already playing out deep in the tunnels of his interior mind.
It was time to see if he could make contact with her. He needed to make contact even though they'd never actually met and she was most likely working for the Tyranny and she would probably put a bullet in his head without blinking. But that didn't stop him from loving her.
Why are you doing this? Why do you keep playing with death?
He knew that he should stop contacting her. She was the kind of unknown that he'd been avoiding all his life. Being in love and having a relationship was suicide. It was an Achilles' tendon that gave the Tyranny a target to aim at.
Jesus, Jack…what're you thinking? There is no Tyranny, except in The Unseen. Get a grip.
Sometimes his fictional life slipped into his real life and vice versa, although, in both lives dark forces were at work and danger was always just a few breaths away.
He turned on his laptop and opened his mail. A rush of excitement flashed through his abdomen and chest. He loved that feeling when he saw that he had mail from her in the list: olsen@yhehdllh.com. He'd tried tracking down the domain name but had never gotten anywhere. It was like olsen@yhehdllh.com didn't exist but there it was, in the list, and it worked. It was there, even though it shouldn't have been. One more reason to suspect her. Only They could do something like this, only They had the power and the resources. He opened it.
She went on for about three pages, talking about the church, about her life, about what was going on in the world, about her feelings for him. Sometimes he wondered what they would have to talk about if they ever did meet. They talked about everything under the sun and the moon in their emails. The endings were always the same:
Vine. Her name was Vine. Or was it really?
How do you know anything about someone until you've come face-to-face?
Through their emails.
Yes, he knew her better than if he'd been face-to-face with her for a thousand years. She was so real in her words, in the things she wrote to him, the confessions she'd made, the secrets she'd shared. Yes, what a fool he'd been. He needed to meet her. He needed more than just her emails in his life. He wrote back:
And he went on for several pages, talking about everything in his life, even as little as that was but he had a good imagination.
Meanwhile – Valerie Vine
"So, Jack, we're going to meet tonight." Valerie Vine smiled as she read Jack's email. She knew he had the best intentions when he wrote that he would see her tonight but she knew there was no way in the world that he would meet her in real life. He might be there but he would find every reason in the world to avoid meeting. He'd never told her that he suspected her of being with the Tryanny, that notorious world of espionage and evil just below the surface of everyday life but she knew him probably more than he knew himself and she knew that he'd been at their rendezvous points time and again but found some last minute excuse to mistrust her and believe that she was leading him into a trap. Still, she showed up over and over, never expecting him to show himself but believing that, someday, the circumstances would lead to them meeting. It might be something like accidentally bumping into each other during one of his paranoid escapes from people who weren't really after him.
Although that might not always be the case.
There was something less than one hundred percent about Jack. He'd appeared as a blip on the Agency's data scans a few years ago—something to do with his birthdate being out by one day, a discrepancy between two documents in which the birthdates should have matched. It was probably nothing. Discrepancies like that were common and were usually reconciled with a call or two—some civil servant likely entered one wrong number when he or she was busy or hungover. It could have been anything and most likely nothing important.
Valerie came across it when she was assigned to clean up a batch of anomalies like Jack's birthdate. She'd made the standard enquiries, a phone call to the hospital and calls to various government services. There were discrepancies in the birthdate, and they all swore their information was accurate. Accurate communication between government departments was always a hit and miss thing but something strange was noticed by the data scan software and it raised a code that no one had seen before. It had something to do with a pattern. Even the programmers were stumped. They'd never seen anything like it before but were quick to point out that the data scanning software was third generation AI and was capable of coming up with its own error codes on the fly when it was trying to describe an anomaly it had discovered.
Anomaly. Valerie loved the word. It described the unknown in a chilling way, like the Starship Enterprise heading into some anomaly in space that everyone knew was going to be anything but good. It had been over a year now since she'd come across the anomaly with Jack and she hadn't progressed much in finding out what it was. That fact alone triggered a healthy dose of suspicion but during her investigation of Jack she'd never come up with anything to suggest that he was any kind of a threat to society or anyone else and was likely more of a threat to himself.
He had a weekly comic and he was paranoid as hell. The strangest thing, though, was that every bit of information she had on him related to Monday. And it was the only day he would contact her. She chalked this off to a number of reasons. Maybe it was the only day of the week that he would have outside contact and spent the rest of his time on his comic strip. Or maybe he was hiding from the Tyranny the rest of the week.
Back to Jack
Darkness was his friend, his protector, but he was always aware that the darkness could betray him, that it could work just as well for his enemies. It all depended on how well you used it and Jack was a master. He understood the nuances of light. He understood the shades and shadows in the absence of light, the gradual layers where borders crossed and merged. He was confident that, tonight, he'd avoided them, that he'd penetrated their net and they would be frantic in their efforts to locate him. Good luck with that—he was the master of darkness and they would be scrambling through alleys, streets and parks looking in all the wrong places.
At least, that was the theory. Cockiness was the road to doom. He knew they were smart and that they had a sophisticated surveillance apparatus, a network of tentacles that stalked every corner of the darkness. He had to keep going. Staying in one spot for too long was certain doom. He imagined them as a camera set for a very long exposure. Anything that walked across the field of view would be unseen in the final picture because it wouldn't have been still long enough to have created an impression. He was that ghost of light evading their sensors with his continuous movement.
There was the blue church. There was the bar. The Last Drink.
Stupid name for a bar.
It was in a section of the city where most of the buildings were run down, condemned or slated by their owners for 'accidental' fires. Maybe it wasn't so stupid after all.
He scanned up and down the street looking for anything or anyone suspicious. The street was deserted. He wondered for a moment where all the people were but thought that, given the neighborhood, they would be safely indoors and not on the dimly lit street between the blue church and The Last Drink.
A cool autumn night breeze swept down the alley concealing Jack. It smelled good, like rotting leaves, but he didn't have time to enjoy the fall ambience. He hunched his shoulders and hurried across the street, eyes darting in every direction for the slightest movement, the turn of a leaf, the hint of a shadow. They were looking for him but if she were one of them they would be waiting for him inside the bar.
If she were one of them.
A rush of panic gripped his stomach and caught his breath for a second. He knew so little about her other than the reams of information in her emails and so much of that was so detailed that she had to be on the level, but they were smart and were more than capable of providing her with a convincing script because, after all, he wasn't there to actually see her writing the emails—they could have been written by anyone, including a team crafting every word and sentence to get into his head and…
Stop thinking, Jack. She's on the level and she's been patient with you. More than patient. Don't disappoint her again. You love her. She's not one of them. She loves you. She's everything she says she is. A fan of yours. She loves your comic strip. She loves you. She's on the level. She's not with them.
He pushed open the big oak door of The Last Drink and went inside where the bar's name immediately made sense. First, there was the smell of stale beer, tobacco and something heavy and offensive that he couldn't identify. It was dark. About a dozen people sat in booths along the walls talking quietly or just brooding over their drinks. There was a stage that likely hadn't seen live entertainment in years and was now loaded with cardboard boxes and old furniture.
And there she was. At the back of the bar. Wearing a dark gray jacket over what looked like a red dress. Her long legs stretched under the table and her hands cupped around a glass half full of beer. She was beautiful. She was alone. He looked around the room again. Behind a mahogany bar that was likely worth more as scrap wood than a bar a tall skinny bartender with a goatee looked at him disinterestedly. Jack ignored him. He looked back at her. Was her name really Vine? If so, was it her first name or her last name? He'd read so many of her opinions on so many things and read about so many personal experiences but he had no idea where she worked. Was she a teacher? A lawyer? A store clerk? He didn't know and he'd never asked. If she wanted him to know then she would tell him. Maybe she was involved in some conspiratorial plot to bring down the government or maybe she led a secret life writing bestselling novels under a pen name. Or maybe she was one of them. Maybe this was a trap. Maybe the bartender wasn't as innocuous as he appeared. Maybe the customers seated in their dark booths stooped over their half empty glasses were getting ready to pounce.
He felt a sickening clump in the pit of his stomach. Sweat shimmered on his forehead. Sweat bunched in uncomfortable patches under his shirt. He felt dizzy. Why? He was sure she was on the level. Not one of them. She was beautiful and he loved her and he was sure she loved him.
A short slender man wearing a baseball cap backwards walked by her booth and winked at her.
He was out of there in a flash.
A Few Minutes Later – Valerie Vine
From the corner her eye, she'd seen him come in, stop just before the bar and look around. She knew that he'd seen her. At first he'd looked relaxed and then suddenly he looked worried, uncertain. Some guy in a baseball cap walked by her table and winked at her. She looked back where Jack had been standing but he wasn't there. The front door was still closing on his exit.
Well, Valerie, what excuse will he use this time?
(Hope you're enjoying your coffee break. Have a great Monday and remember, it only lasts 24 hours and then it's Tuesday, just two days away from Friday Eve.)
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Pregnancy and motherhood alters women's brains, studies say
Pregnancy and former motherhood has been found to permanently alter a woman's brain, specifically its structure and how it and the body may react to future treatments or hormones later in life, recent studies say. - photo by Mandy Morgan
Pregnancy and motherhood has been found to permanently alter a woman's brains, specifically how it and the body may react to future treatments or hormones later in life, a recent study says.
Researchers wanted to see how women who had given birth to children would respond to "estrogen hormone treatments, which are often prescribed to treat brain disorders in middle-aged and older women," reported CTV News.
They tested rats who had experienced motherhood, as well as rats who hadn't and found the estrogen treatment improved the learning of those rats that had been mothers, but impaired the learning of the other rats.
"Our most recent research shows that previous motherhood alters cognition and neuroplasticity in response to hormone therapy, demonstrating that motherhood permanently alters the brain," said Liisa Galea, head researcher of the study.
Being aware of how women's bodies may react to certain hormones in brain treatments could aid in knowing what will or won't actually help, or what could be dangerous with treatments.
"Pregnancy and motherhood are life-changing events resulting in marked alterations in the psychology and physiology of a woman," Galea said. "Our results argue that these factors should be taken into account when treating brain disorders in women."
Other studies have shown that many of the changes that take place for mothers are emotional changes in the brain including the regions that control empathy, anxiety and social interaction, reported the Atlantic.
"On the most basic level, these changes, prompted by a flood of hormones during pregnancy and in the postpartum period, help attract a new mother to her baby," the Atlantic wrote. "In other words, those maternal feelings of overwhelming love, fierce protectiveness and constant worry begin with reactions in the brain."
Women will often also experience postpartum depression, as well as an increase in obsessive compulsive behaviors, something that was studied to better understand changes in the brain, due to motherhood.
"In new moms, there are changes in many of the brain areas. Growth in brain regions involved in emotion regulation, empathy-related regions, but also what we call maternal motivation," Pilyoung Kim, a maternal brain researcher, told the Atlantic. "In animals and humans during the postpartum period, there's an enormous desire to take care of their own child."
Having children is a huge physical change for women, but changes in the brain, leading to severe emotional changes, is just one more thing many mothers may experience.


Barack and Michelle Obama are back.
The former President and First Lady jumped at the chance to undermine Donald Trump.
And they sent one letter that has everyone fearing the worst.
Obama is a long-time gun grabber who once completed a survey for a State Senate run where he expressed support for a state level ban on the manufacturing, sale, and possession of hand guns.
As President, he supported a national gun registration database scheme and spoke favorably about Australia's gun confiscation program.
So it was no surprise he leapt at the chance to exploit the shooting in Parkland, Florida to push his gun grabbing agenda.
Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama fired off a hand-written note to the survivors of the shooting who are now anti-gun activists.
The Obama's praised them for their work to gut the Second Amendment and disarm American citizens.
"Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama penned a letter to the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School heralding them for their efforts to get new gun laws passed.
On Saturday, students from Parkland, Florida, will join their peers and like-minded Americans on the National Mall for the first-ever March for Our Lives to push for gun control.
Former President Obama first spoke out about the Valentine's Day mass shooting, in which 17 students and teachers were killed, the day after the massacre.
Obama described his failure to pass stricter gun control that would've trample on the rights of Americans and ban guns as his biggest disappointment as President.
Like all the gun grabbers in the media and in Washington, Obama is jumping on the bandwagon to exploit the grief of the Parkland students to push his political agenda.
They smell an opportunity to parade sympathetic victims in front of the camera and use them for emotional blackmail to pressure Republicans into caving in to their demands to grab guns away from Americans.
Do you wish the Obama's just would go away?


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It's H-1B Visa Filing Season, but is it "Cheap Labor"?
Here we go again. The start of the H-1B nonimmigrant visa filing season is once again upon us. And once again, immigration practitioners around the country are having difficult conversations with their clients who wish to hire foreign nationals into what are called "specialty occupation" positions. But this year, with President Trump in office, will the conversations be different than in previous years?
Notwithstanding what you read in the news, before an employer can file an H-1B petition with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS"), the employer must first take steps to ensure that hiring the foreign worker will not harm U.S. workers. First, employers must attest, on a Labor Condition Application ("LCA") filed with and certified by the U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL"), that employment of the H-1B worker will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of similarly employed U.S. workers. (More on this below.) Employers must also provide existing workers with notice of their intention to hire an H-1B worker.
Since the H-1B category was created in 1990, Congress has limited the number of H-1B visas made available during each government fiscal year. The current annual cap is 65,000 visas, with 20,000 additional visas for foreign professionals who have graduated with a Master's or Doctoral degree from a U.S. university. As I have indicated in previous articles, in recent years, the H-1B cap has been reached only a few days after the visas were made available.
Over the past year or so, now President Trump has spoken a lot about our immigration system, his theme being that we need to protect American workers. Although a lot of attention was placed on "building a wall" on our Southern Border, and making "Mexico pay for it", a good deal was also said about overhauling other aspects of our immigration system, including the H-1B program.
During his campaign for president, then candidate Trump said the H-1B visa program was a "cheap labor program" that takes jobs from Americans workers.
"Cheap labor program"? Reality or myth?
I've written so much about this in the past couple of years my head is about to spin. There is a plethora (yes, a plethora) of evidence that foreign workers fill a critical need in our labor market, particularly in the STEM fields (i.e., Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). Foreign workers, including skilled foreign workers, help create new jobs and new opportunities for economic expansion.
So how do H-1B workers impact wages? Well, for starters, here are a few things to consider. As I noted above, prior to filing an H-1B petition with USCIS on behalf of a foreign worker, the employer must first file and have certified an LCA with the DOL. The LCA contains several attestations that the employer is required by law to make before the DOL may certify the LCA.
These attestations include, among others, that the employer will pay the required wage rate to the H-1B workers employed pursuant to the LCA. The required wage rate must be the greater of (1) the actual wage level paid by the employer to all other individuals at the job site "with similar experience and qualifications for the specific employment in question," or (2) the prevailing wage level for the occupation in the area of intended employment. Cheap labor program? I think not.
Another attestation the employer must make is that it will offer the same benefits package on the same basis to similarly employed U.S. workers and H-1B workers. Eligibility and participation criteria must be the same for all workers. H-1B workers cannot be denied benefits because they are "temporary employees." The employer must also attest that employment of H-1B workers will not adversely affect the working conditions of workers similarly employed in the area of intended employment.
A violation of any one or more of these attestation can result in serious penalties to the employer, and ultimately in debarment from participating in the H-1B program.
So, what is the empirical evidence as to wages? According to one study, H-1B-driven increases in STEM workers were associated with a significant increase in wages for college-educated, U.S.-born workers in 219 U.S. cities. In fact, a one percentage point increase in foreign STEM workers' share of a city's total employment was associated with increases in wages of 7 to 8 percentage points paid to both STEM and non-STEM college-educated natives, while non-college educated workers saw an increase of 3 to 4 percentage points.
What else you ask? According to another study, from 2009 to 2011, wage growth for U.S.-born workers with at least a bachelor's degree was nominal, but wage growth for workers in occupations with large numbers of H-1B petitions was substantially higher.
There is other data as well. And not only do H-1B workers positively impact wages, they positively impact employment rates as well.
Bottom line, there are too many myths (dare I say "fake news") perpetuated about the H-1B visa category, and not enough focus on the important contributions H-1B workers make to the U.S. economy.
By David W Meyers, Esq. in Uncategorized on February 12, 2017 .


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Sarnia man dies in helicopter crash in Wisconsin
By Kirk DickinsonOctober 30, 2018 7:56pm@KDickinsonNews
A 64-year-old Sarnia man has been identified as the pilot killed in a helicopter crash in Ashland County, Wisconsin.
The Ashland County Sheriff's Office said the Enbridge Energy helicopter, which was travelling west from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, was reported overdue on Monday. The aircraft was last seen over the Birch Hill area of the Bad River Tribal Reservation early in the afternoon, but it never made it to Duluth International Airport where it was scheduled to make a brief stop, or to Madison, which was its planned destination where it was due to arrive at around 5:45 p.m.
Emergency crews including the United States Coast Guard searched the throughout the evening and into Tuesday morning. The crash site was located at around 1:37 a.m. from the air in a remote portion of the Bad River Tribal Reservation.
Police and fire crews responded and found the site at around 6 a.m., where they discovered the body of 64-year-old Dean M. Bass of Sarnia. He is believed to have been the only occupant of the crashed helicopter.
The recovery efforts are ongoing and no further information regarding the cause of the crash has been released.