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She was born March 6, 1922 in Bokchito, Oklahoma to parents Samuel Louis Prentice and Eula Jones Prentice. She received her BS in Education from Oklahoma Southeastern University. She resided in Bartlesville since 1943. She retired from Phillips Petroleum Company in 1983 where she worked as a Research Technician for 40 years. She was a member of the Jane Phillips Sorority, valuable volunteer at Concern since 1998, member of Board of Directors at Concer, member of Church Women United and a member of Bank of Oklahoma Senior Advantage Center. She was voted volunteer of the year at Concern in 2008 and Civitan of the Year in 1963.
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- Sep 12, 2016 5:30 am
British Airways wants to get more people into its business and first class seats, so it's launched a multi-pronged campaign to scale up visibility of the products. As part of that effort, some lucky business class passengers are going to be given free upgrades to first class.
— Grant Martin
Filed under "The Rich Getting Richer:" British Airways announced last week that it's giving away free first class upgrades to a portion of its business class passengers through December 11th of this year.
There are constraints, of course. Passengers need to be traveling international long haul and be booked in a semi-flexible or fully-flexible fare class, which usually means that the initial ticket is going to cost over $10,000 — but for those that apply, the deal is a steal.
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Business Class (branded as Club World) on long haul British Airways flights comes with a lie flat seat, a personal wide-screen television and well-respected in flight service. In 2014, Skift ranked British Airways in the top 10 of best international business class experiences.
First Class, the focus of this promotion, widens those amenities to include more lavish seats, better in-flight service and a spectrum of on-the-ground add-ons — plus a hefty price tag to boot.
British Airways has been marketing its premium cabins aggressively over the past two years as the industry starts to shift towards selling more business and first class seats over letting them fly empty (or upgraded). To that end, the carrier has regularly been competitively pricing its international business class cabins — so well, in fact, that they often compete with economy fares. Earlier this year for example, the airline launched $2,000 business-class fares from the U.S. to Europe for travel through the summer — a ticket that can easily cost $1,500 in economy.
With its new promotion, British now seems to be building out the narrative that its first class is also within reach of everyday travelers.
To take part in the promotion, travelers must specifically call British or a licensed travel agent and then book travel in the R, D, C or J fare classes. After that, an upgrade for only one direction can be requested. A full profile of the promotion is available on britishairways.com.
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No Retreat! The Italian Front: 1943 - 1945 - Inside the Box by GMT Games
Here's a look at the game's components. Following on the success of No Retreat! Where the Russian Front of World War II beckons, and then taking the action to the African Front, and then the French Front, game designer Carl Paradis presents the fourth chapter in this...read more
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1940: The Fall of France (Panzer Grenadier - Avalanche Press)
In the spring of 1940, the French Army appeared invincible. They awaited the expected German offensive with great confidence, ready to repel their ancient foes and overwhelm them in 1941 with a massive wave of new armored divisions. Instead it was the German panzers...read more
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Top 5 WW2 Pacific Games
Bart and the guys from HAMTAG take a look at their favorite games in the Pacific arena of World War II.read more
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Wacht Am Rhein 2nd Edition - Strategic Board Game (Decision Games)
Wacht am Rhein, the Battle of the Bulge, is a grand-tactical simulation of that enormous battle!. The more than 2,380 counters represent every formation, at company and battalion levels, which fought there, including US, German, British, French, Canadian and Belgian units. Infantry, armor, anti-...read more
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Empire of the Sun (GMT)
Empire of the Sun (EotS) is a strategic level look at the entire War in the Pacific from the attack on Pearl Harbor until the surrender of Japan. Players are cast in the role of MacArthur, Yamamoto, Nimitz, and Mountbatten as you direct your forces across the breadth of the globe from India to...read more
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V-Commandos (Triton Noir)
V-Commandos is a WW2 commandos co-operative board game. Players can either select a pre-generated mission or create their own by combining objective cards, then they assemble a team from famous Allied corps: U.S. Raiders, British SAS., Devil's Brigade, SOE, etc. During...read more
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RAF: The Battle of Britain 1940 (Decision Games)
A second printing of John Butterfield's award winning RAF update in which players can solo as the British or the Germans or can play head-to-head.
France has fallen. England stands alone against the might of a triumphant Germany, defended only by the Spitfire and Hurricane squadrons of...read more
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Quartermaster General: "Decide World War 2 by Establishing and Destroying Supply Chains" (Griggling Games)
Quartermaster General is a fast-paced game that puts YOU in command of the major powers of the Second World War. In Quartermaster General, supply is crucial to keep your armies and navies fighting; destroy your enemies? supply lines and their forces will surrender!
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Second World War at Sea: Arctic Convoy (Avalanche Press)
... Arctic Convoy is the newest boxed game in the Second World War at Sea series. It covers the Allied attempts to push convoys through the Norwegian and Barents Seas while German aircraft, submarines and surface ships try to stop them. Famous convoy operations like those of PQ12 and PQ17,...read more
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The Line of Beauty
The first three plates in the Universal System of Household Furniture, the directory published by Ince & Mayhew between 1759 and 1762, contain Ornaments for Practice and include instructions for novice designers on how to draw.
The first plate includes the following description:
Plate I – containing several pieces of Foliage properly adapted to young beginners in their first practice of Drawing, being extremely necessary to bring the Hand into that Freedom required in all kind of Ornament, useful to Carvers, Cabinet-Makers, Chasers, Engravers, etc, etc. ….
The next plate is called A Sistimatical Order of Raffle Leaf from the Line of Beauty and is described as a compleat Leaf of Foliage; the principal Sweep or Centre Line is that Foundation and Basis of the whole Order of Ornament; that must be first drawn and made perfect (which can only be done by freedom of Hand) before you proceed any further;
It was interesting to learn from an article in the RIHA Journal[i], that William Hogarth was promoting the theory of the line of beauty in his book Analysis of Beauty which was published in 1753. He saw the line of beauty as an S-shape, or an inverted S-shape, which he considered conveyed liveliness and activity, which would excite the viewer. This was in contrast to straight lines, which were seen as inanimate.
It is interesting to see William Ince used the phrase Line of Beauty and it would seem likely that Hogarth's book was important to him when learning his trade. His apprenticeship with John West started in 1753, so the book would have just been available.
Incidentally a raffle leaf was an architectural ornament. The Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture's definition is: Serrated, indented, or crumpled leaf-like enrichment with waving indented frond-like (or raffled) edges. Raffling is applied to the notched edges of carved foliage in architectural ornament.
I have also discovered that the Universal System of Household Furniture was not known to have been advertised in America until 1766. An advertisement appeared in the South-Carolina & American General Gazette (Charleston) on July 18, 1766. It read: "Robert Wells, At the Great Stationary and Book Shop on the Bay, has imported for sale Chippendale's and Ince and Mayhew's designs of household furniture from London." The advertisement appeared again in 1772.[ii]
[i] Anne Puetz, Drawing from Fancy: The Intersection of Art and Design in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London RIHA Journal
[ii] Morrison H. Heckscher, English Furniture Pattern Books in Eighteenth-Century America http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/48/American-Furniture-1994/English-Furniture-Pattern-Books-in-Eighteenth-Century-America (Dixon, p.68, no.19).
The Universal System of Household Furniture
Further to last week's post, I had a look in the British Newspaper Archives for Ince & Mayhew and then searched again for Mayhew and Ince.
The results supported my findings. The firm was called Ince & Mayhew, apart from the eighteenth century articles and advertisements which came out when the firm was still in existence, which referred to Mayhew and Ince. Any furniture for sale at auction stated Ince & Mayhew.
Interestingly in the 1870s and 1880s there were a series of advertisements in many local papers looking for copies of furniture directories. They all read the same:
OLD BOOKS WANTED on Cabinet Making by Hepplewhite, Ince and Mayhew, or Chippendale. Will give £2 2s for either…..
The amount offered was sometimes £2 10s.The address given for replies was 41 Porchester Road, London, later Evering Road, Stoke Newington.
In 1878 the advertisement appeared in the following papers: Bristol Mercury, Liverpool Mercury, Worcester Journal, Sheffield Independent, York Herald, Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald, Leeds Times, Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Hampshire Advertiser, Belfast Telegraph. In 1879 it was in the Liverpool Mercury, in 1880 the Glasgow Herald and in 1881 the Gloucester Citizen, Bury Free Press, Leeds Times, Banbury Advertising and the Lancaster Gazette.
On 12th May 1894 the Birmingham Daily Post ran a report on an Important Sale of Books at Sothebys at which The Universal System of Household Furniture consisting of 300 designs and 95 plates by Ince and Mayhew had been sold for £25[i], proving a very good investment for the collector.
As reported last week, the 1762 edition of the Universal System was specially scarce and a copy in perfect condition was priced by Batsfords in 1940 at £150[ii]. In 1996,Christie's sold a copy of an intermediate issue, dated about 1765, for £6,325 and in 2011 they sold a copy for £8,125. A first edition, dated 1760, was sold by Bonhams in 2013 for 6500 USD (£4,973 ) and a copy was sold by them from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne, M.D. in 2015 for £6,875 including premium.
What has astonished me though is a copy of the Universal System being sold by Potterton Books of York, London and New York for £18,000. This version is printed on twentieth century mottled calf, has gilt decorative borders and red morocco lettering pieces. It is described as a Handsome book.
William Ince invented and drew 75 of the 95 plates as well as the title page and I've been looking at some of them in my Dover Publications edition. Items such as the library steps and the Ladies' Dressing Table are really delightful!
[i] According to the National Archives Currency Converter, £25 in 1890 would be worth close on £1500 in 2005. £2 2s would be roughly £100.
[ii] Davis, Frank, The World of Art in Wartime, Furniture "Convenient to the Nobility and Gentry The Illustrated London News on 25th May 1940.


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Sax Legend (And Lady Gaga's Partner In "Glory") Clarence Clemons Dies At Age 69
Idolator Staff | June 19, 2011 8:52 am
Lady Gaga's "The Edge Of Glory" video may have severely underwhelmed us (and other critics), but now the "sidewalks of New York"-themed visual has taken on a poignant new significance — it's the last appearance of legendary saxophonist Clarence Clemons, who died of complications related to the stroke he suffered last weekend. The beloved musician also provided the much-buzzed-about sax for Gaga's "Hair" and "Highway Unicorn," but of course that was just the cap on a long and vital career as both a solo artist and member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band since 1972. Head below for some concert footage of one of Clemons' incomparable sax solos as we pay tribute to this great artist.
There's something circular about Clemons passing just after his appearance in the "Edge Of Glory" video, considering that the tune was originally conceived when Gaga witnessed the final moments of her own grandfather's life on his deathbed.
In addition to The Boss, Clemons (also known as "The Big Man") has also played with such powerhouse artists as Aretha Franklin and Jackson Browne, and was also an actor who appeared in such films as Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and once lent his voice to The Simpsons.
Rest in peace, Big Man.
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Pininfarina Teorema Concept – Beautiful Car About The Future Of Self-Driving Cars
2025 Bugatti Spartacus Hyper-SUV Designed By Sajdin Germond
Italian design firm Pininfarina has showcased a long and low concept that previews a world of electric powertrains and automatic transmissions.
Pininfarina has been particularly busy with projects for production studios. Following the recent announcement that Pininfarina will design a 1000-horsepower electric truck for Detroit startup Hercules, the long-standing Italian designer has revealed this Teorema concept. Mounted on an electric skateboard frame, with the battery hidden under the floor, the Teorema concept was created for a self-driving future with an emphasis on maximizing interior space.
In terms of appearance, the overall shape of the new car is peculiar. The front face adopts an in-line design, which can reduce the resistance and increase the downforce when the airflow passes through the wheel arch, and can also better dredge the airflow in the front of the car. At the same time, its cockpit is covered with large-scale glass material to enhance the interior permeability of the vehicle. In terms of the rear, it also adopts an unconventional design and is highly recognizable. It is worth mentioning that the new car is not equipped with conventional mirrors and rear windows on both sides. In the future, driving will rely on automatic driving advanced assistance technology to make it safe to drive on the road.
In terms of body size, its length and height are 5400mm and 1400mm respectively. Inside, the new car also uses an unconventional 1+2+2 seating layout, with the seats co-created with furniture maker Poltrona Frau and designed to fold into a bench. At the same time, the car also provides a driving mode and a leisure mode. In the leisure mode, the front seats can be rotated to facilitate communication with the rear passengers. In terms of power, there is currently no official announcement of more information, and we will continue to pay attention.
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#include <netbsd/net/if_dl.h>
#include <netbsd/net/raw_cb.h>
#include <netbsd/net/route.h>

static int sockaddr_dl_cmp(const struct sockaddr *, const struct sockaddr *);
static int link_usrreq(struct socket *, int, struct mbuf *, struct mbuf *,
    struct mbuf *);
static void link_init(void);

/*
 * Definitions of protocols supported in the link-layer domain.
 */

DOMAIN_DEFINE(linkdomain);	/* forward define and add to link set */

const struct protosw linksw[] = {
	{	.pr_type = SOCK_DGRAM,
		.pr_domain = &linkdomain,
		.pr_protocol = 0,	/* XXX */
		.pr_flags = PR_ATOMIC|PR_ADDR|PR_PURGEIF,
		.pr_input = NULL,
		.pr_ctlinput = NULL,
		.pr_ctloutput = NULL,
		.pr_usrreq = link_usrreq,
		.pr_init = link_init,
	},
};

struct domain linkdomain = {
	.dom_family = AF_LINK,
	.dom_name = "link",
	.dom_externalize = NULL,
	.dom_dispose = NULL,
	.dom_protosw = linksw,
	.dom_protoswNPROTOSW = &linksw[__arraycount(linksw)],
	.dom_sockaddr_cmp = sockaddr_dl_cmp
};

static void
link_init(void)
{
	return;
}

static int
link_control(struct socket *so, unsigned long cmd, void *data,
    struct ifnet *ifp)
{
	int error, s;
	bool isactive, mkactive;
	struct if_laddrreq *iflr;
	union {
		struct sockaddr sa;
		struct sockaddr_dl sdl;
		struct sockaddr_storage ss;
	} u;
	struct ifaddr *ifa;
	const struct sockaddr_dl *asdl, *nsdl;

	switch (cmd) {
	case SIOCALIFADDR:
	case SIOCDLIFADDR:
	case SIOCGLIFADDR:
		iflr = data;

		if (iflr->addr.ss_family != AF_LINK)
			return EINVAL;

		asdl = satocsdl(sstocsa(&iflr->addr));

		if (asdl->sdl_alen != ifp->if_addrlen)
			return EINVAL;

		if (sockaddr_dl_init(&u.sdl, sizeof(u.ss), ifp->if_index,
		    ifp->if_type, ifp->if_xname, strlen(ifp->if_xname),
		    CLLADDR(asdl), asdl->sdl_alen) == NULL)
			return EINVAL;

		if ((iflr->flags & IFLR_PREFIX) == 0)
			;
		else if (iflr->prefixlen != NBBY * ifp->if_addrlen)
			return EINVAL;	/* XXX match with prefix */

		error = 0;

		s = splnet();

		IFADDR_FOREACH(ifa, ifp) {
			if (sockaddr_cmp(&u.sa, ifa->ifa_addr) == 0)
				break;
		}

		switch (cmd) {
		case SIOCGLIFADDR:
			if ((iflr->flags & IFLR_PREFIX) == 0) {
				IFADDR_FOREACH(ifa, ifp) {
					if (ifa->ifa_addr->sa_family == AF_LINK)
						break;
				}
			}
			if (ifa == NULL) {
				error = EADDRNOTAVAIL;
				break;
			}

			if (ifa == ifp->if_dl)
				iflr->flags = IFLR_ACTIVE;
			else
				iflr->flags = 0;

			if (ifa == ifp->if_hwdl)
				iflr->flags |= IFLR_FACTORY;

			sockaddr_copy(sstosa(&iflr->addr), sizeof(iflr->addr),
			    ifa->ifa_addr);

			break;
		case SIOCDLIFADDR:
			if (ifa == NULL)
				error = EADDRNOTAVAIL;
			else if (ifa == ifp->if_dl || ifa == ifp->if_hwdl)
				error = EBUSY;
			else {
				/* TBD routing socket */
				rt_newaddrmsg(RTM_DELETE, ifa, 0, NULL);
				ifa_remove(ifp, ifa);
			}
			break;
		case SIOCALIFADDR:
			if (ifa != NULL)
				;
			else if ((ifa = if_dl_create(ifp, &nsdl)) == NULL) {
				error = ENOMEM;
				break;
			} else {
				sockaddr_copy(ifa->ifa_addr,
				    ifa->ifa_addr->sa_len, &u.sa);
				ifa_insert(ifp, ifa);
				rt_newaddrmsg(RTM_ADD, ifa, 0, NULL);
			}

			mkactive = (iflr->flags & IFLR_ACTIVE) != 0;
			isactive = (ifa == ifp->if_dl);

			if (!isactive && mkactive) {
				if_activate_sadl(ifp, ifa, nsdl);
				rt_newaddrmsg(RTM_CHANGE, ifa, 0, NULL);
				error = ENETRESET;
			}
			break;
		}
		splx(s);
		if (error != ENETRESET)
			return error;
		else if ((ifp->if_flags & IFF_RUNNING) != 0 &&
		         ifp->if_init != NULL)
			return (*ifp->if_init)(ifp);
		else
			return 0;
	default:
		return ENOTTY;
	}
}

static int
link_usrreq(struct socket *so, int req, struct mbuf *m, struct mbuf *nam,
	struct mbuf *control)
{
	switch (req) {
	case PRU_ATTACH:
		sosetlock(so);
		return 0;
	case PRU_DETACH:
		sofree(so);
		return 0;
	case PRU_CONTROL:
		return link_control(so, (unsigned long)m, nam,
		    (struct ifnet *)control);
	default:
		return EOPNOTSUPP;
	}
}

/* Compare the field at byte offsets [fieldstart, fieldend) in
 * two memory regions, [l, l + llen) and [r, r + llen).
 */
static inline int
submemcmp(const void *l, const void *r,
    const uint_fast8_t llen, const uint_fast8_t rlen,
    const uint_fast8_t fieldstart, const uint_fast8_t fieldend)
{
	uint_fast8_t cmpend, minlen;
	const uint8_t *lb = l, *rb = r;
	int rc;

	minlen = MIN(llen, rlen);

	/* The field is missing from one region.  The shorter region is the
	 * lesser region.
	 */
	if (fieldstart >= minlen)
		return llen - rlen;

	/* Two empty, present fields are always equal. */
	if (fieldstart > fieldend)
		return 0;

	cmpend = MIN(fieldend, minlen);

	rc = memcmp(&lb[fieldstart], &rb[fieldstart], cmpend - fieldstart);

	if (rc != 0)
		return rc;
	/* If one or both fields are truncated, then the shorter is the lesser
	 * field.
	 */
	if (minlen < fieldend)
		return llen - rlen;
	/* Fields are full-length and equal.  The fields are equal. */
	return 0;
}

uint8_t
sockaddr_dl_measure(uint8_t namelen, uint8_t addrlen)
{
	return offsetof(struct sockaddr_dl, sdl_data[namelen + addrlen]);
}

struct sockaddr *
sockaddr_dl_alloc(uint16_t ifindex, uint8_t type,
    const void *name, uint8_t namelen, const void *addr, uint8_t addrlen,
    int flags)
{
	struct sockaddr *sa;
	socklen_t len;

	len = sockaddr_dl_measure(namelen, addrlen);
	sa = sockaddr_alloc(AF_LINK, len, flags);

	if (sa == NULL)
		return NULL;

	if (sockaddr_dl_init(satosdl(sa), len, ifindex, type, name, namelen,
	    addr, addrlen) == NULL) {
		sockaddr_free(sa);
		return NULL;
	}

	return sa;
}

struct sockaddr_dl *
sockaddr_dl_init(struct sockaddr_dl *sdl, socklen_t socklen, uint16_t ifindex,
    uint8_t type, const void *name, uint8_t namelen, const void *addr,
    uint8_t addrlen)
{
	socklen_t len;

	sdl->sdl_family = AF_LINK;
	sdl->sdl_slen = 0;
	len = sockaddr_dl_measure(namelen, addrlen);
	if (len > socklen) {
		sdl->sdl_len = socklen;
#ifdef DIAGNOSTIC
		printf("%s: too long: %" PRIu8 " > %" PRIu8 "\n", __func__, len,
		    socklen);
#endif
		return NULL;
	}
	sdl->sdl_len = len;
	sdl->sdl_index = ifindex;
	sdl->sdl_type = type;
	memset(&sdl->sdl_data[0], 0, namelen + addrlen);
	if (name != NULL) {
		memcpy(&sdl->sdl_data[0], name, namelen);
		sdl->sdl_nlen = namelen;
	} else
		sdl->sdl_nlen = 0;
	if (addr != NULL) {
		memcpy(&sdl->sdl_data[sdl->sdl_nlen], addr, addrlen);
		sdl->sdl_alen = addrlen;
	} else
		sdl->sdl_alen = 0;
	return sdl;
}

static int
sockaddr_dl_cmp(const struct sockaddr *sa1, const struct sockaddr *sa2)
{
	int rc;
	const uint_fast8_t indexofs = offsetof(struct sockaddr_dl, sdl_index);
	const uint_fast8_t nlenofs = offsetof(struct sockaddr_dl, sdl_nlen);
	uint_fast8_t dataofs = offsetof(struct sockaddr_dl, sdl_data[0]);
	const struct sockaddr_dl *sdl1, *sdl2;

	sdl1 = satocsdl(sa1);
	sdl2 = satocsdl(sa2);

	rc = submemcmp(sdl1, sdl2, sdl1->sdl_len, sdl2->sdl_len,
	    indexofs, nlenofs);

	if (rc != 0)
		return rc;

	rc = submemcmp(sdl1, sdl2, sdl1->sdl_len, sdl2->sdl_len,
	    dataofs, dataofs + MIN(sdl1->sdl_nlen, sdl2->sdl_nlen));

	if (rc != 0)
		return rc;

	if (sdl1->sdl_nlen != sdl2->sdl_nlen)
		return sdl1->sdl_nlen - sdl2->sdl_nlen;

	dataofs += sdl1->sdl_nlen;

	rc = submemcmp(sdl1, sdl2, sdl1->sdl_len, sdl2->sdl_len,
	    dataofs, dataofs + MIN(sdl1->sdl_alen, sdl2->sdl_alen));

	if (rc != 0)
		return rc;

	if (sdl1->sdl_alen != sdl2->sdl_alen)
		return sdl1->sdl_alen - sdl2->sdl_alen;

	dataofs += sdl1->sdl_alen;

	rc = submemcmp(sdl1, sdl2, sdl1->sdl_len, sdl2->sdl_len,
	    dataofs, dataofs + MIN(sdl1->sdl_slen, sdl2->sdl_slen));

	if (sdl1->sdl_slen != sdl2->sdl_slen)
		return sdl1->sdl_slen - sdl2->sdl_slen;

	return sdl1->sdl_len - sdl2->sdl_len;
}

struct sockaddr_dl *
sockaddr_dl_setaddr(struct sockaddr_dl *sdl, socklen_t socklen,
    const void *addr, uint8_t addrlen)
{
	socklen_t len;

	len = sockaddr_dl_measure(sdl->sdl_nlen, addrlen);
	if (len > socklen) {
#ifdef DIAGNOSTIC
		printf("%s: too long: %" PRIu8 " > %" PRIu8 "\n", __func__, len,
		    socklen);
#endif
		return NULL;
	}
	memcpy(&sdl->sdl_data[sdl->sdl_nlen], addr, addrlen);
	sdl->sdl_alen = addrlen;
	sdl->sdl_len = len;
	return sdl;
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Pension funds facing 'new realities', says Mercer
By Shayla Walmsley2011-01-28T15:45:00+00:00
GLOBAL - Pension funds will rethink their exposure to emerging market currencies as they face "new realities" in 2011, according to a report by consultancy Mercer.
Divyesh Hindocha, global consulting director, said: "The tendency among institutional investors has been to focus on the first aftershock of the crisis.
"With the second and third aftershocks, investors will need to step back and look at what it will mean for them in the long term."
Divyesh claimed the need for revaluation went beyond short-term tactical allocation to the implications for pension funds of broader macroeconomic trends.
"Investors need to be reviewing their strategies," he said.
In macro terms, the report divides the developed world into "hair shirt" Europe, which is getting its financial house in order, less stable peripheral Europe and the US, which has yet to move decisively in the direction of fiscal stability.
"At some point, the structural faults need to be addressed - notably, how to sustain growth past the artificial stimulus created by policymakers," Divyesh said.
Yet global economic rebalancing is likely to entail currency changes in emerging markets, with the appreciation of those markets' currencies - particularly the renminbi.
"These are not cyclical points - this is structural," said Divyesh. "Investors might conclude, for example, that emerging market currencies are a decent exposure to have - and that they should have much more than they currently have."
He added: "Investors have tended to be wary of emerging markets, but with structural changes they have to rethink them."
Meanwhile, the decline of sovereign debt as a low-risk investment requires a revisited approach to investing in bonds.
At the same time, forecast pressure over the next few years should encourage pension funds to scrutinise their portfolios for robustness within an inflationary environment.
"These are not easy things to think about," said Divyesh. "For trustees meeting once a quarter, these are not straightforward issues. We're bringing these issues to our clients - but it will take a while."
BlackRock hires in readiness for boom in fiduciary activity
Alex Pollak to join the asset manager's UK fiduciary business as head of clients ahead of an expected increase in tenders
Hymans: UK DB trustees offer financial advice to retiring members
This trend is likely to grow as a further 11% of trustees have plans in place to offer this service in the next 12 months
Fiduciary managers and consultants set for UK rule change
Providers hiring staff, recalibrating services to prepare for mandatory tendering rules that come into force on 10 December


Sandro opened its first womenswear store in Marais, France in 1984. In 2008, the company launched a menswear collection—now, they have more than 200 boutiques worldwide. Sandro's Marylebone store stocks both menswear and womenswear ranges, both of which embody effortless style and versatility. Designed by mother and son duo Evelyne and Ilan Chetrite, Sandro offer a complete range of clothing, shoes and accessories, from every day wear to something for special occasions.


Details on HER NAME IN BLOOD's Major Debut | JaME U.K.
Metalcore band HER NAME IN BLOOD have revealed more details about their major debut.
The band's first release on Warner Music Japan will be a mini-album titled BEAST MODE. It will contain nine songs, all of which were produced and arranged by the band and mixed by Colin Brittain. BEAST MODE will hit stores on September 9th.
A trailer for the release has also been uploaded. You can watch it below.


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Een basversterker is een elektronisch apparaat om het signaal van een elektrische of akoestische basgitaar of een contrabas te versterken. Omdat het signaal van een bas – meer dan bij andere instrumenten – vooral de laagste tonen van het(hoorbare) geluidsspectrum bevat, moet een basversterker enkele bijzondere eigenschappen hebben.

In de eerste plaats is de toonregeling aangepast: de kantelfrequenties van de toonregeleenheden liggen anders dan bijvoorbeeld bij een gitaarversterker. Zo liggen de kantelfrequenties van de hier getoonde basversterker op 60 Hz (Low), 250 Hz (Low-Mid), 800 Hz (Mid), 2,5 kHz (Mid-High) en 8 kHz (High), hoewel de frequenties van de open snaren van de basgitaar variëren van 41,20 Hz tot 98 Hz.

In de tweede plaats moet een basversterker een voeding hebben die voldoende krachtig is om ook de laagste tonen zonder problemen weer te geven. De versterking van lage tonen tot een gehoormatig vergelijkbaar niveau vereist immers veel meer energie dan die van hoge tonen. Die energie moet de basversterker kunnen leveren.

Een basversterker bestaat uit een voorversterker en een eindversterker. Bij de meeste basversterkers zijn voor- en eindversterker gecombineerd in één kast. Er zijn echter ook losse basvoorversterkers en baseindversterkers in de handel. Een basversterker wordt aangesloten op een of meer speciale basluidsprekerkasten.

Net als bij gitaarversterkers bestaat ook bij basversterkers de keuze tussen buizen- en halfgeleiderversterkers ('transistorversterkers'). Omdat basversterkers dikwijls grote vermogens moeten kunnen leveren, is de eindversterker meestal van het halfgeleidertype. Grote vermogens, van bijvoorbeeld 400 watt, zijn uiteraard ook met buizen mogelijk, maar dergelijke versterkers worden nagenoeg ontilbaar (en, niet te veronachtzamen: ook bijzonder duur). Buizenversterkers geven zelden meer dan 150 watt en gaan bij hun piekvermogen licht vervormen, wat een klank geeft die bij sommige bassisten erg geliefd is, met name in de garagerock en aanverwante stijlen. Bij transistorversterkers met grote vermogens gaat het erom het signaal juist zo zuiver ('clean') mogelijk in de luidsprekers te krijgen. Vaak is het gemiddelde vermogen tijdens gebruik minder dan 100 watt, maar liggen de pieken van de aanslag (zeker in geval van slappingspel) een stuk hoger. Daarom moet er extra vermogen (headroom) over zijn.

Een halfgeleidereindversterker wordt vaak gekoppeld aan een buizenvoorversterker vanwege de bijzondere klankeigenschappen van de buizen, die ook door bassisten gewaardeerd worden. Een dergelijke koppeling van buizenvoor- en halfgeleidereindversterker wordt een hybride versterker genoemd. Maar er zijn ook veel all-transistorbasversterkers in de handel, die meestal wat goedkoper zijn dan de hybride modellen.

Geluidsapparatuur

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


It's time to get this baby done. I bought the kit from Miss John'aLee @ The Scrappy Appleyard, herself, when we met at the quilt show in Des Moines over a year ago.
The fan blades all cut out and ready to sew. Don't laugh, but I really lay my stuff out like this while I am working. I am fastidious about how I keep my sewing room and my projects as I work on them. I like everything all neat and tidy. Except for the floor. That gets all trashed with threads and fabric scraps.
I've got lots of pressing to do!
I LOVE this pattern and have thought about ordering...first I must get through my dozens of WIPs. I will love watching you complete this.
This is going to be beautiful! I need to finish something so I can start something new.
This quilt is so beautiful. I met Johna'Lee last year in Paducah. The quilts are even more beautiful in person.
I wish your sewing inspiration would rub off on me. Maybe I just have too many things I want to do, and not enough time. =-) Someday.
Gonna be another pretty quilt!


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Quiz Sheets in the Sports Category
Sports and athletics. From team sports such as basketball, soccer, football, and rugby to individual activities such as swimming and running.
RPE QUIZ (5 words)
Example: What does the acronym RPE stand for?: [m] Rating of Perceived Exertion, What does the RPE scale measure?: [m] The intensity of your exercise, What is the hardest working muscle in your body?: [m] Heart, What is the main health benefit of being a 6 or above on the RPE scale?: [m] Makes your heart stronger and more efficient
Created by jmahuri - 2019-08-16
Category: Culture -> Sports
Constitution and Procedures Quiz (7 words)
Cheer 2019-2020
Example: Uniforms:All Uniform money must be paid BEFORE____________.: May 24, 2019, Misc:If a cheerleader must be absent from school or practice, the sponsor must be notified____ hours ahead of time.: [m] 24, Expectations; Practice:NO attempting to_______ people other than Stroman Cheerleaders.: stunt, Expectations; Practice: No chewing _____.: [m] gum
People of Sports (7 words)
Match the person will sports they played
Example: Micheal Jordan: [m] Basketball+Baseball, Christiano Ronaldo: [m] 1, Roger Federer: [m] 1, Tiger Woods: [m] 1
Example: Micheal Jordan: [m] 1, Christiano Ronaldo: [m] 1, Roger Federer: [m] 1, Tiger Woods: [m] 1
World Cup Quiz (9 words)
Example: What is the most common surname of World Cup Players?: [m] Gonzalez or Gonzales, What is the most common score in a World Cup finals match?: [m] The most common score in a World Cup finals match is 1-0, What is the only country to have appeared in every World Cup final from 1930 – 2010?: [m] Brazil, Which was the only host country to have ever been eliminated in the first round?: [m] South Africa in 2010


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Ikot Akpan Essien is a town located in the Oruk Anam Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.
It is as well one among the major towns of the Abak/Midim Clan both in the southern region of Nigeria.

History

Ikot Akpan Essien  town was formally the headquarters during the then Anam local government or Anam Council after it formal locations which was shifted from Ikot Okoro and latter to Urua anwa both today in Oruk Anam LGA.

References

Towns in Oruk Anam


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Front Page » Archives » December 2019 »
" Articles in Category: Rick Gates	"
'A Crime in Progress': 'BradCast' 12/17/2019
Climate crisis; Impeachment madness; 2020 debates; GOP voter purges...
The gods must be angry. But they have very good cause. Among the stories covered on today's BradCast [Audio link to show is posted below]...
At least four were killed and dozens injured as some 27 tornadoes reportedly ripped across the Deep South causing "total chaos" on Monday and Tuesday. In December. Is that normal?;
DNC Chair and former Labor Secretary Tom Perez steps in to help resolve a labor union dispute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles that had threatened to derail Thursday's 2020 Presidential Debate. Now, it won't. And the union workers got a great deal out of it;
Nine Democratic Presidential candidates, led by Sen. Cory Booker (who did not qualify for Thursday's debate), petition the DNC to relax qualification thresholds for upcoming Presidential debates. The Party says it won't;
Another former Trump campaign officials is heading to jail. Rick Gates, Trump's former Deputy Campaign Chair and a top Transition official, receives 45 days in jail, three years of probation and a $20,000 fine for fraud and lying to federal investigators --- to which he pleaded guilty last year. His sentence comes despite prosecutors seeking no jail time after Gates had cooperated with federal officials in Robert Mueller's Special Counsel probe, by helping to to secure guilty verdicts against Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort and longtime Trump associate Roger Stone;
Donald Trump unleashed a bizarre, blistering, six-page, single-spaced, Donald Trumpian rant, disguised as a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [PDF] on Tuesday, decrying his looming impeachment as a "perversion of justice" by Democrats. The jokes seem to write themselves here, but for how pathetically sad, dangerous and threatening to our Constitutional order the behavior of this President of the United States now actually is;
That threat continues to spread to Congress, where the House Rules Committee on Tuesday set terms for Wednesday's House Floor debate on the two Articles of Impeachment against the President, as Rep. Jim McGovern, Chair of the Committee said he looks at Trump's attempt to use Ukraine to help him win the 2020 election as "a crime in progress", with Democrats "trying to prevent the President from rigging the next election";
While over in the Senate, Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused a request from Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to subpoena the testimony of four top Trump officials who were first-hand witnesses to Trump's Ukraine extortion plot. The officials, whose testimony is sought for the almost certain upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate --- in which Senators are supposed to serve as impartial jurors to determine whether Trump should be removed from office --- include Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and former National Security Advisor;
As McConnell continues to rig the Senate trial on behalf of Trump, Plan B for the removal of this President involves the ballot box. There too, Republicans are attempting to rig next year's election results. In Wisconsin, which Trump reportedly won by just 23,000 votes in 2016, a Republican-appointed Circuit Court Judge ordered the removal of more than 200,000 voters from the voting rolls before the 2020 election. The voters were previously set for removal in 2021 as the Wisconsin Elections Commission had planned, and as the League of Women Voters had argued in favor of. A rightwing group sued to have them removed before 2020 instead, and the GOP-appointed judge agreed. Dems vowed today to re-register them;
In Georgia, a federal judge allowed the purge of more than 300,000 voters identified by the Republican Sec. of State for moving or failing to vote in recent elections. But voting rights advocates argue that approximately 120,000 of them should not be on the list at all. The judge allowed the mass removal to move forward on assurances from the state those voters can be quickly restored after further hearings on the matter;
But, it's not just rightwing controlled states where voter registration concerns are rearing their ugly (if expected) head before 2020. Due to what is being described as a "computer glitch" related to the state's new, automatic registration system, as many as 100,000 voters in California may have had their party preference incorrectly changed on their registration files in advance of next year's upcoming March 3rd Presidential primary. The state's rules for who can vote in which party primary are particularly confusing. So, its a very good idea for residents who believe they are registered to check their registration at VoterStatus.SOS.CA.GOV to make sure they are still registered, and for the party they think they are. Those who are registered as permanent "No Party Preference" vote-by-mail voters but who wish to vote for a Presidential candidate in a party primary on March 3rd, will need to make that request with their County Registrar very soon or will receive a vote-by-mail ballot with no Presidential candidate options!;
Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report, as the U.N. climate talks in Madrid end without an agreement, but with much disappointment and rancor, thanks in no small part to sabotage by the U.S., and a new report finds the Greenland ice melt is on track for scientists worst case-scenario predictions of catastrophic sea level rise by the end of the century.
The gods have very good reason indeed to be angry again today...
Article Categories: California, Georgia, BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, DNC, U.S. Constitution, Wisconsin, Impeachment, United Nations, Accountability, U.S. House, U.S. Senate, Voter Registration, Democrats, Republicans, Chuck Schumer, KPFK, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Climate change, Extreme weather, BradCast, Ukraine, Greenland, Jim McGovern, Cory Booker, Election 2020, Robert Mueller, Rick Gates, Tom Perez
Trump Dumps Landmark Anti-Nuclear Pact with Russia, Media Move On: 'BradCast' 2/5/2019
Guest: Former Dep. Asst. Sec. of State Michael Fuchs; Also: Trump fails SOTU 'unity' vow; Inaugural Comm. slapped with federal subpoena...
So, a 30-year old, landmark nuclear arms agreement between the U.S. and Russia is now history. Just like that. And, beyond a few short hours of media coverage, it now seems all but forgotten. No big deal at all. Our guest on today's BradCast, however, strongly disagrees. [Audio link to full show is posted after this summary.]
But first, a few quick items to kick off the show, including...
The Stupidest Man on the Internet (no, not Trump) tweets something incredibly dumb about solar power. (Hint: Solar power works because of the light from the sun, not from its heat.);
The Trump Administration vows that Tuesday night's State of the Union address will be a call for unity and bipartisan cooperation, before the Second Stupidest Man on the Internet (yes, Trump) attacks Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for not winning enough seats in last year's midterm elections;
And federal prosecutors in New York file a subpoena seeking a massive amount of documents from Trump's 2017 Inauguration Committee, looking at virtually every aspect of the record $107 million raised, whether any of it unlawfully came from foreign sources, whether anything was unlawfully offered in exchange for donations, whether even more more was unlawfully paid directly by donors to vendors (and thus, unlawfully undisclosed to the FEC), and where all of that money (legalized bribes, in fact, a disgrace for all modern Presidents) actually went. It all amounts to more seemingly criminal chaos from anything Trump touches, from his inaugural committee, to the Trump Organization (his main private company), to the Trump Foundation (his phony, self-dealing slush-fund and "charity"), to Trump University (his fraudulent scam that settled several cases for $25 million just before he took office), to the Trump Campaign (facing myriad criminal probes and several convictions, guilty pleas and indictments), to the Trump Administration and everyone involved in it --- all being investigated by multiple state and federal probes at this point, at the very same time.
Then, we're joined by former Deputy Assistant Sec. of State for East Asian and Pacific affairs under President Obama, MICHAEL FUCHS, now a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, to discuss the Trump Administration's announced withdrawal over the weekend from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) agreement struck between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The historic pact had been the first to ban an entire class of nuclear weapons, ground-launched cruise missiles with a range between 310 and 3,400 miles.
With the Administration charging that Russia was in violation of the accord (which Fuchs confirms), Trump simply announced the U.S. pull-out, which was answered almost immediately by Russian President Vladimir Putin's own declaration in response that his country would now do the same. In the bargain, Fuchs explains, the U.S. has lost its ability under the agreement to inspect hundreds of nuclear missile sites and other weapons facilities.
What did we gain in return? Well, pretty much nothing, says Fuchs, who calls this "a very big deal", joining me in astonishment that coverage of this historic move to end such an important anti-nuclear proliferation treaty has all but disappeared from the corporate media within hours amidst continuing Trump-induced chaos. "In the age of Trump, nuclear weapons, climate change, things that could potentially end life on earth as we know it only merit fifteen minutes in the news cycle," Fuchs notes.
He goes on to detail what has been lost with the dissolution of "perhaps one of the biggest agreements ever reached as far as reducing the potential threat of nuclear weapons destroying us" and whether Trump's claims that this is all necessary to stand up against a supposedly growing military menace from China is actually true. We also discuss the real reasons that this "gift to Vladimir Putin" seems to have come about, how Trump's dangerous National Security Advisor John Bolton appears to oppose any and all international accords that tie the hands of the U.S. in any way, shape or form, and whether Trump's planned second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un can possibly bear any realistic denuclearization fruit --- particularly on the heels of Trump again sending the message to the world that treaties between the U.S. and other nations are meant to be broken at the whim of an angry, brain-addled, and clueless President of the United States.
"The major problem here with throwing out this treaty is that, it is equivalent to basically throwing the baby out with the bathwater," Fuchs tells me. "Right now Russia is violating this treaty in a specific way, but a lot of the benefits of the treaty are still intact. Which includes the ability of the United States to actually conduct inspections and do verification of a number of different aspects of Russia's compliance with the treaty. By taking ourselves out of treaty, we are taking away our ability to inspect the other things that the Russians are doing here. And not only does that allow Russia to potentially start violating it even more, posing more danger to the United States, but it's giving a giant gift to Vladimir Putin."
Finally, Desi Doyen returns to "cheer us all up" with the latest Green News Report on hellish global warming-related nightmares from Australia to the U.S. to Antarctica; the oil lobbyist now nominated to be the next Interior Secretary; and the Administration's imminent plans to bulldoze the National Butterfly Center wildlife refuge to make way for a new border wall on the banks of the Rio Grande in Texas...
Article Categories: BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, National Security, North Korea, Accountability, SOTU, Immigration, Dept. of Defense, Chuck Schumer, State Department, Ronald Reagan, KPFK, Donald Trump, Nuclear power/weapons, Russia, Military Industrial Complex, Solar, Climate change, Extreme weather, Election 2016, China, Vladimir Putin, BradCast, eminent domain, Austria, Dept. of Interior, Mike Pompeo, Robert Mueller, Antarctica, Rick Gates, Trump Foundation, Trump Organization, David Bernhardt
'Teens Will Save Us' Says Teacher After Florida Massacre and Fascinating '1984' Experiment: 'BradCast' 2/22/2018
Guest: Teacher, writer Dina Leygerman; Also: New Mueller indictments; GOP EAC Chair pushed out; MO's new GOP Guv indicted in sex scandal...
On today's BradCast: Yes, the kids are alright. And, if this past week has been any indication --- along with the results of a fascinating social experiment by my guest today --- they may well save us all. I hope they hurry. [Audio link to today's show follows below.]
First up, however, a boatload of news broke shortly before air today, and we scramble to cover as much of it as we can. Among those stories...
New indictments are filed by Robert Mueller's Special Counsel probe against two former Donald Trump campaign officials. His former campaign chair Paul Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates, who also served on the Trump transition team saw 32 counts added to the 17 felony counts leveled against them in October. The new charges relate to some $30 million in money laundering and tax fraud, based on funds said to have been received while Manafort worked for a Russian-backed Ukrainian President prior to joining the Trump campaign;
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan and the White House have reportedly pushed out, Matthew Masterson, the Republican Chair of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) for reasons that remain unknown The EAC, formed by Congress after the 2000 election debacle to help state election officials with e-voting system standards, has failed in many ways over the years, as we discuss (and as we've reported at The BRAD BLOG for many years.) Still, they remain the only federal agency tasked with that role, even while Republicans have been attempting, for years, to shutter the Commission entirely. Masterson, said to be highly regarded by state election officials, was overseeing cyber-security standards for new voting systems before the 2018 mid-terms, in light of concerns of foreign manipulation of U.S. voting, registration and tabulation systems;
And, also breaking just before air, Missouri's new "family values" Republican Governor Eric Greitens was indicted late Thursday on a felony charge related to allegations that threatened to blackmail a woman he had tied up and photographed nude in his basement during an affair in 2015, prior to his 2016 election.
Then, with the incredibly impressive students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida speaking up, marching, organizing and protesting unapologetically to demand new legislation on guns after a former student killed 17 at their school last week with a legally-purchased semi-automatic AR-15 rifle, President Trump unleashed a Twitter rant on Thursday morning calling for teachers across the country to be armed in response. That call has not gone over well with the Stoneman Douglas students, though many Republican officials and their paymasters at the National Rifle Association (NRA) support the measure to place even more guns into our nations schools.
But, as my guest today, Philadelphia area high school teacher and writer DINA LEYGERMAN argues, the current generation of high schoolers across the country are fierce, a force to be reckoned with and not to be underestimated.
In her recent article headlined "The Teens Will Save Us", Leygerman documents a fascinating social experiment that she has run for a number of years while teaching George Orwell's 1984 to her English class. After similar results of the experiment year after year --- in which, without informing the students, she basically turns her classroom into an Orwellian totalitarian regime over a matter of days, with her as the dictator turning students against each other --- she says that this year, for reasons she discusses, the response by the students was completely different from previous years. The students, she explains, were having none of it, and actually stood up, organized with their classmates and other students in rebellion against her. As she wrote, "For the first time since I've done this experiment, the students 'won.'"
Leygerman joins us for what turns out to be a very hopeful segment, as she explains what happened, why, and how this generation may be very different from the slacker image many have painted them with. "They are participating in marches. They are participating in their student government. They are listening to the news. They're reading the news more, everyday. They are involved. And I think in our current political climate, where everything is so hostile and divisive, they are learning. I walk around and, even in the cafeteria, I'll listen to them talk about DACA, they'll talk about issues that I don't ever remember discussing when I was a kid," she tells me.
It's a fascinating conversation that I hope you'll tune in for. I also get her thoughts on Trump and the NRA's proposal for arming teachers, which she describes as "insane and dangerous" and a "diversion and deflection" from the actual conversation of what should be done about our nation's gun epidemic. Leygerman, who also writes for parenting website Romper, wonders: "Where's the funding coming from? And if it's coming from the government or from the state, why can't we have basic supplies instead?"
Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report, as a chemical giant settles a decades-long water contamination lawsuit, global temperatures continue to sky-rocket, sea levels rise at an ever-quickening pace, and another western state becomes the latest to block Donald Trump's scheme to expand off-shore oil drilling...
Article Categories: Florida, Election Reform, BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, EAC, Accountability, Washington State, KPFK, Donald Trump, Russia, Oil, Climate change, NRA/Gun Violence, Paul Ryan, BradCast, Election 2018, Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Eric Greitens
Real Guns, Fake News, New Russia Indictments: 'BradCast' 2/16/2018
Trump's horrible week; Rubio, Grassley shame after Florida shooting; Russians used GOP 'fake news' and the party is doubling down...
We begin today's BradCast with a somewhat harrowing and breathtaking round-up of what has been an exceptionally bad news week, even for this particular White House. But all of that got considerably worse on Friday. [Audio link to show is posted below.]
New grand jury indictments [PDF] were filed against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities, by Robert Mueller's Special Counsel probe, for alleged interference in the 2016 Presidential election. We detail what the indictment says and doesn't say, and how Donald Trump and his White House are lying about both.
Then, before it disappears into the ether, more coverage of the shameful dodging, denial and misdirection from Senate Republicans --- of particularly shameful note were Senators Chuck Grassley (IA) and Marco Rubio (FL) on Thursday --- following Wednesday's horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Despite some twisted misdirection from Grassley on "mental health" issues (he sponsored the bill passed last year to make it easier for the mentally ill to purchase weapons) and desperate remarks from Rubio on the purported futility of any and all laws regarding guns (or anything else, apparently), we detail the reason why the U.S. has so many mass shootings, according to dozens of peer-reviewed studies from around the nation and the world: the obscene number and easy availability of guns in the U.S., which is unparalleled among developed nations. Period.
Next, Friday's grand jury indictments from Mueller detail a disturbing and well-organized Russian-based scheme to try and undermine the U.S. Presidential election by using social media to spread "derogatory information about Hillary Clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and to support Bernie Sanders and then-candidate Donald Trump."
But the methods and material they used for doing so came directly out of the well-worn GOP and rightwing media playbook. Fake news said to have been spread by Russian social media accounts declaring, for example, "voter fraud" in Florida just days before the election, as cited in the Mueller indictments, was, quite literally, taken straight off of Fox "News" and other rightwing media outlets, where fake news of the type said to have been spread by Russian agents has been used for years to manipulate the U.S. electorate.
Worse still, it appears that Republican officials and candidates for office are now creating their own fake news sites with legitimate sounding names --- from the "Arizona Monitor" to the "Maine Examiner" to "The Free Telegraph" (that one is run by the Republican Governors Association!) --- in order to scam voters with wildly fake and/or slanted "news", meant to appear legitimate.
So, yes, foreign interference in our elections is of concern, but, as we explain today, the far greater threat to American democracy is still "coming from inside the house."
Finally today, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report, as U.S. intelligence agencies contradict the Trump Administration on climate risks, ExxonMobil fights back against climate lawsuits, the corporate media continue to fail on climate change coverage, and a bit of good news, happily, from the Queen of England...
Article Categories: Election Irregularities, Fox 'News', Florida, Arizona, BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, Election Fraud, Mainstream Media Failure, Accountability, Environment, U.S. Senate, Republicans, Chuck Grassley, Maine, KPFK, Donald Trump, Russia, Climate change, U.K., NRA/Gun Violence, Election 2016, Marco Rubio, BradCast, Exxon Mobil, Jeff Flake, Donald McGahn, Robert Mueller, Rick Gates, Kelli Ward
Team Trump Indictments Suggest AG Jeff Sessions Could Be Facing Trouble: 'BradCast' 10/31/2017
Guest: Journalist Marcy Wheeler of Emptywheel; Also: Reporter Mike Stark violently arrested covering VA's GOP Gubernatorial candidate...
To paraphrase an infamous tweet from the now-suspended Twitter account of long-time dirty trickster and Trump ally Roger Stone, it could soon be Attorney General Jeff Sessions' "time in the barrel", according to my guest on today's BradCast. [Audio link to show follows below.]
The Trump Administration and his supporters have been very busy today, working hard to downplay the Monday indictments unsealed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller against three campaign officials. Two of them, Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, pleaded not guilty. The other, George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty, has been quietly cooperating with prosecutors for several months. The Campaign's former foreign policy advisor, has since been dismissed by Team Trump as little more than a "low-level volunteer" and a "coffee boy" over the 24 hours since the indictments were unsealed, revealing that Papadopoulos was charged with lying to federal prosecutors about conversations he had had with an unnamed "professor" said to be tied to Russia and claiming that Moscow had "thousands of emails" revealing "dirt" on Hillary Clinton.
I'm joined today by investigative journalist MARCY WHEELER of Emptywheel to help separate partisan hope from partisan hype regarding Mueller's investigation. We focus on the Papadopoulos case specifically, discuss whether it reveals "collusion" with Russia (which both the Trump Administration and Russian officials strongly deny), and why she believes, as reported at The Intercept, that, more than anything, the specific charges in that case may signal very bad news for Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
We also discuss what we now know (and don't) about the email hacks, what Mueller may have gained by waiting until Monday to reveal the indictments (Hello, unqualified USDA nominee Sam Clovis! Sam who?), and whether it's possible --- or even likely --- that Papadopoulos may have been wearing a wire during conversations with Trump officials in the months since he agreed to cooperate with federal investigators.
"Papadopoulos plead guilty for lying. We don't know why he lied, and why everyone keeps lying," Wheeler observes, adding a note of caution for the many anti-Trumpers who have been giddy since "Mueller Monday". "There's some smoke there. There may well be fire. I just think that everyone who opposes Trump has to be very careful about screaming 'fire' before we have evidence of fire. We have a legal system to sort that out. And until Trump does something to fire Mueller, or in another way thwart the investigation, we should let the investigation do what our legal system is supposed to do."
Also covered on today's show...
Reporter Mike Stark of ShareBlue, who has been dogging Virginia's Republican Gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillsepsie with questions about his lobbying past in advance of the state's November 7 election next Tuesday, was violently arrested over the weekend. Stark appeared on The BradCast as our guest just last week. We've got details on what happened, including comment from Stark;
A new poll finds Americans very pessimistic about the current state of American democracy and politics (including the vast majority of those who lived through the Vietnam era.);
Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report with what suffices for some 'good news' updates out of Puerto Rico and much more;
And, we end with the breaking news late today of what New York officials are describing as a "terror" attack in lower Manhattan, after a pickup truck plowed into bicyclists, leaving 8 dead and 11 seriously injured as of the end of today's show...
Article Categories: BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, War On Terror, Virginia, New York, Rights And Freedoms, Journalist Intimidation, Accountability, Dept. of Justice, Jeff Sessions, KPFK, Donald Trump, Russia, BradCast, Puerto Rico, Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort, Ed Gillespie, George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Sam Clovis
Georgia U.S. House Special Election Results 'Improbable' Unless Hacked, Voting Group Finds: 'BradCast' 10/30/2017
Guest: Garland Favorito of VoterGA; Also: Special Counsel Mueller unseals Team Trump indictments. One pleads guilty, two plead not guilty...
On today's BradCast: The first indictments by Special Counsel Robert Mueller are unsealed, and we continue to stay on the disturbing case of the state of Georgia's "wiped" election server as revealed late last week. [Audio link to show follows below.]
First up, two Trump Campaign officials pleaded not guilty and one plead guilty, to indictments unsealed on Monday stemming from the Special Counsel's investigation of Team Trump and charges of "collusion" between them and Russia during the 2016 Presidential election. We detail the facts as layed out by the 12-count federal indictment against former Trump Campaign chairman and CEO Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates charging that Manafort received some $75 million in income via his work for now-ousted Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych and the political party which supported him. Both are allies of Russia.
The charges do not include any "collusion" between Manafort/Gates and Russia on behalf of the Trump Campaign, but detail how Manafort, aided by Gates, hid his income from federal officials, failed to register as a Foreign Agent related to his lobbying work in the U.S., and otherwise attempted to launder some $18 million from their many offshore accounts through various schemes in the U.S.
Pleading guilty, according to indictment documents released by the Special Counsel, was George Papadopoulos, an unpaid foreign policy adviser to the Trump Campaign, who allegedly lied to federal investigators about his contacts with an unnamed "professor" said to have told him about "dirt" that Russia supposedly had regarding Hillary Clinton from "thousands of emails" that the US Intelligence Community later said were hacked by Russian agents. Papadopoulos is now cooperating with federal prosecutors.
The White House denies that any of the charges implicate the President or his Campaign. The DNC argues otherwise.
Then, picking up on the disturbing breaking news late last week that officials in Georgia "wiped clean" the Election Server used to program both last year's Presidential Election in the state and this year's U.S. House Special Election in June, we speak with GARLAND FAVORITO of VoterGA.org
The server wipe, confirmed via internal emails, came just days after a bi-partisan lawsuit [PDF] had been filed in July regarding the results of those elections, which were carried out on the state's 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting systems, and after the systems had been programmed via the server that we learned earlier this year had been left completely vulnerable on the Internet for at least 6 months, beginning as early as August of 2016.
The vulnerable server was used to store personal voter registration data for 6.7 million GA voters, as well as ballot programming definition files for the state's computer voting and tabulation systems, and administrative passwords to access those systems. It was first discovered as freely accessible via the Internet by a data security researcher who informed officials at the Kennesaw State University Center for Elections, which has been contracted to handle all of Georgia's elections systems for the past 15 years. The Center left the system up and completely vulnerable during last year's Presidential election and until just prior to the June special election.
Favorito explains the latest developments in that case, as well as his group's new statistical analysis, published a week before the news of the wiped server (and its two backup servers) became public. The report explains what the group sees anomalous election results in the Special U.S. House Election in Georgia's 6th Congressional District in June. The longtime Election Integrity advocate and IT expert details the 72-page report's analysis, concluding that it is "statistically improbable that the reported results are correct" and that they are more likely explained by the manipulation of GA-06 results at the state level, possibly by "external or internal" hackers with free access to the unprotected and now-deleted server.
His conclusion, he explains, is based on analysis of results finding that the Democrat Jon Ossoff soundly defeated Republican Karen Handel by a nearly 2 to 1 margin in the only publicly verifiable results (the mail-in paper ballots) even with a Republican-leaning mail-in electorate. Yet, the Democrat still managed to "lose" somehow, according to the state's highly-vulnerable, easily hackable, unverifiable touch-screen voting and tabulation systems used for early in-person and election day voting.
"The nutshell, the bottom line of it," Favorito tells me, "is that we found that it is statistically improbable that these 6th District runoff results could be correct. And if they are not correct, that means there had to either be some kind of tampering or fraud involved."
We discuss all of that today, including whether GA's Republican Sec. of State Brian Kemp's claims that he knew nothing about the server wipe should be trusted, and whether its still possible to piece together what may have happened in the recent U.S. House race, now that the server at Kennesaw has been mysteriously, if thoroughly, deleted.
All of this comes just days before voters in GA head back to the polls for next Tuesday's municipal elections in Atlanta and elsewhere, which are set to be run on the very same hackable, vulnerable and 100% unverifiable systems...
Article Categories: Diebold/Premier, Election Irregularities, Georgia, BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, Election Fraud, Touch-Screen DREs/BMDs, Accountability, U.S. House, Dept. of Justice, KPFK, Donald Trump, Russia, Election 2016, BradCast, Mike Pence, Election 2017, Jon Ossoff, Karen Handel, Robert Mueller, Brian Kemp, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates


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Slash, Marilyn Manson, Alice Cooper: At this year's Metal Hammer Golden Gods awards, Fuse asked hard rockers to admit which pop songs they secretly love.
Amy and Tim talk about hiatus, cursing on stage, Tim being sarcastic, fans on the internet and fan gifts and artwork!
Amy has been chosen as the recipient of the Luella Bennack Award and she will be honored at United Cerebral Palsy's "Women Who Care Luncheon" on Thursday, May 3, 2012, at Cipriani in Manhattan.
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Kevin Zeitler's battle through thumb injury exemplified why he's emerged as 'exceptional leader'
Patrick Maks
CLEVELAND — Kevin Zeitler wasn't even halfway into the Browns' season opener against Pittsburgh when he suffered a thumb injury so significant that the right guard needed surgery hours after the game.
But Zeitler, who came to Cleveland last spring in free agency after four seasons with the Bengals, played the next week in Baltimore and has yet to miss a snap this season.
Widely viewed as one of the NFL's best right guards, he joined the Browns as a building block amid a comprehensive reshaping. So there was no way, Zeitler said, he was going to miss a play.
"We're in the facility every day working hard, you don't want to let anyone down," he said. "You want to be out there playing with your teammates and doing whatever you can to help your team win. You don't think about, you kind of just like 'OK, let's go, let's do it.'"
For that, Zeitler was voted by his teammates to receive the 2017 Ed Block Courage Award, which is given annually to a member of each of the 32 NFL teams who exemplifies the qualities of Ed Block, the former head athletic trainer of the Baltimore Colts, based on courage, compassion, commitment and community.
Zeitler shrugged off the honor and pointed to teammates such as left guard Joel Bitonio, who has bounced back from a 2016 foot surgery.
"I was surprised. I guess in my mind, yes, I hurt my thumb and needed surgery and all that but there's so many other guys who have gone through things that I would consider worse," he said. "I'm honored but I was surprised."
Zeitler, who has started 71 of 72 games in Cincinnati, has started all 12 games for the Browns this season and been an important veteran presence on a team that lost Pro Bowl left tackle Joe Thomas to a season-ending triceps injury earlier this year.
"Kevin is an exceptional leader on our team through the example he provides his teammates of consistently doing things the right way with his consummate professionalism, steady demeanor and dedication to his craft," coach Hue Jackson said. "Kevin will and has done everything in his power to be on the field battling alongside his teammates, and we are fortunate to have someone of his caliber represent the Browns both on and off the field."
To be sure, Zeitler, a former first-round pick out of Wisconsin, said playing through his thumb injury was a new and challenging experience.
"I've never needed surgery before in my life. I've never not been able to use my hand before and, obviously as an offensive lineman, hands are a pretty big deal," he said.
"I think the biggest thing was I didn't have too much time to think about it, we had to get it done and then it was game day right away again. I think kind of not thinking about it helped and you just go out there and make it work."
Zeitler was presented the award at the Providence House Annual Deck the House Benefit Auction at FirstEnergy Stadium, where Annie and Joe Thomas served as honorary co-chairs for the event. Providence House, which fights to end child abuse and neglect by protecting at-risk children, empowering families in crisis and building safe communities for every child, has been the Cleveland Browns Courage House for Children since 1999.
"The Providence House is a great organization I've been involved with for a long time here, they do a great job of offering resources to babies and others in certain situations where a mother's been taken away from her baby or vice versa and it provides excellent resources," Thomas said.
The Providence House cares for roughly 400 children from the Greater Cleveland area, is privately funded and, as such, Tuesday night's fundraiser is key in supporting the organization's mission.
"Tonight's event Deck the House is our No. 1 fundraiser, we're entirely privately funded so it's huge. But what's really cool for us is how our mission and the focus of the Cleveland Browns come together," said Providence House CEO & President Natalie Leek-Nelson.
"Year over year, we come together and watch it get bigger and better every year … Everyone rallying around our community's kids is incredible and tonight is a huge fundraiser for us, but I also think it's a huge message to the community that our organization and this team are here for our kids."
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Today, iPhones have become one of the most popular gadgets used by people of all age groups. With a variety being added to the regime of iPhone apps, there's been an emergence of excellent ways that work wonders for building a stronger business presence. Moreover, the very-popular iPhone has also proved as a fully-equipped tool for leveraging the best potential of Cloud Computing. In this blog, we'll take a closer look at what all iPhone-Cloud Computing integration has to offer you.
iPhone has undoubtedly become an addiction among entrepreneurs, both the novice as well as the established ones. The built-in features of iPhone make it convenient for you to take care of your critical business data. In addition to this, the integration of iPhone with Cloud Computing has enabled business professionals to access their data from any part of the world, at any point of time. Cloud storage also lets you stay updated about your daily business activities on your iPhone, irrespective of where you are.
Microsoft Azure Connectivity Service is what allows you to save all your data on desktop to reach your iPhone. Corporate professionals who love keeping their data locally on the desktop can make the most of this attractive feature.
Other than the data storage gains, iPhone-Cloud Computing integration has served as an excellent tool for enhancing the online gaming experience. With the latest online games being run on iCloud, online gaming has got a whole new definition. iCloud renders an outstanding gaming experience with a great add-on of game synchronization. Being a hard-core game freak, you might definitely want to resume your gaming level from iPad to your handy iPhone. iCloud gaming has actually made this possible. Some of the most popular iOS games that support iCloud feature include: Time of Heroes, Age of Zombies and SeigeCraft.
As per the very popular ABI research, it has been suggested that the latest iPhone apps running in the cloud, will not post any limitations in terms of irregular network availability. It is also being believed that iPhone-Cloud Computing integration will dramatically modify the development and usage of iPhone apps. The iPhone app development professionals will get a new direction for developing apps that can run within a cloud.
Yet another key advantage of integrating iPhone with Cloud Computing is that you'll not be required to invest a lot of money on hardware and software. Since all the computing power and storage is being provided by the cloud, you need not worry about spending hefty sums of cash on hardware. You can choose to transform your tablet computer into an LCD screen that'll serve as a window onto the cloud architecture.
Often iPhone users tend to get anxious with the entire idea of keeping all their important data in the cloud. Well, to be very honest, working in a cloud network is very similar to working in the worldwide network. That means, whatever you're doing on the worldwide network can be performed easily on the cloud network. When it comes to security, Apple has taken all possible measures to ascertain that all your data, apps and media saved in the cloud are protected from hacker's attack or a virus intrusion. With Microsoft and Google already pacing up in the cloud computing arena, Apple would be the third major participant. Some of the industry biggies which have been making good revenues via iPhone-Cloud Computing Integration include Google, Amazon and IBM.
With all the aforementioned benefits and features available with iPhone-Cloud Computing integration, it won't be hard to say that the concept will be successful in attracting a wide count of iPhone lovers residing in different corners of the world. Cloud Computing will give a push to the iPhone mobile app development industry, helping it thrive for many more years to come.
Rick Brown is a tech savvy content writer associated with Mobiers Ltd – iPhone Apps Development Company. You can avail skilled iPhone App Developer with his best advices by getting in touch with him.
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Banksy donates Oscar Wilde stencil to Reading Council. 4 December 2021
5 December, 2021 12 December, 2021 by banksyunofficial
The donation was made public on 4 December at an exhibition curated by Grayson Perry at Bristol Museum. Banksy contributes with the original stencil to the piece he did on the wall of the Reading GAOL prison in March 2021. The idea is that Reading Council now sells the stencil and uses the proceeds to turn the derelict prison into a permanent art centre. It's expected to fetch up to GBP 10 mn in a private sale.
In Banksy's own words:
"I had very little interest in Reading until I was on a rail replacement bus service that went past the jail. It's rare to find an uninterrupted 500m-long paintable surface slap bang in the middle of a town; I literally clambered over the passenger next to me to get a closer look. I promised myself I'd paint the wall even before I knew what it was. I'm passionate about it now, though. Oscar Wilde is the patron saint of smashing two contrasting ideas together to create magic. Converting the place that destroyed him into a refuge for art feels so perfect we have to do it."
The Oscar Wilde stencil on display at Bristol Museum.