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john foggin in Uncategorized April 16, 2017 2,964 Words
NaPoWriMo: Breaking Point
Just past the half way point of Poem-a day-April. Starters from Carrie Etter. Starters from Jo Bell. More starters than you can shake a stick at. I'm going to stick at the business of fine-tuning and editing whatever your starters have turned up. Last week it was first lines. This week it's line breaks. So, no ideas for new poems. Just things to think about once you've got drafts you think may have legs.
Just one thing before we get started properly. At the end of the day, you really hope someone is going to read what you've written, and someone's going to care, someone's going to be moved, someone's going to be entertained, or brought to tears, or to see the world just that bit differently. Otherwise, what's it for? You really hope someone will like it enough to publish it, and you'll put up with all the polite 'thanks for sending us your poems but……..' for joy of the one that says 'we loved your work and we can't wait to publish it.'
I was mithering some time ago about the frustrations of having won a competition, the prize for which was to have a collection published. The frustrations came from long delays and unanswered emails, the feeling that perhaps it had all been a mistake or a dream. And then, yesterday, what arrived but the proofs. There it was, with all its lovely stuff about moral rights asserted, its ISBN, its pages for dedications and acknowledgements, its Contents page…80 lovely pages. It's a collection, what's more, that came out of a collaboration with one of my ex-Sixth Form students, Andy Blackford. Not having seen each other for 45 years, we set out to swap a poem a week for a year, workshopping and critiquing as we went. And just like everyone up to their poetic oxters in NaPoWriMo we had no idea what would become of it. It was enough to be writing for each other. So hold on to that thought as you struggle with a nonet or a pantoum today, and maybe all your dreams will come true. I'll make a wish for you.
Right. Line breaks. This will be a slightly edited version of a post I wrote some time ago. I hope it'll be useful.
There should be a reason why every line ends where it does.
Contrary to the truth universally acknowledged that British children aren't taught standard English and the conventions of writing it down, here's the actual truth.. What they HAVE to be taught has been there in black and white in the Framework for the Literacy Hour for years. Politicians don't trouble themselves with this kind of detail. Maybe they should. So spare a thought for the teachers of 4-7 year olds who have to make sure that young children know how to use a full stop correctly. And, as a corollary,that they have grasped the concept of a sentence sufficiently for them to recognise one when they've written it. Think for a moment about that. You know a sentence when you see one. You just read some. Now tell yourself what a sentence is, or what it has to do to be a sentence. Maybe you say it has to have a finite verb in it. Forget for a moment how you'd set about explaining that to a 6 year old. Now get a copy of Bleak House, open it at chapter one and read the first 30 lines or so. Lots of full stops. Sentences like these.
Implacable November weather.
Fog everywhere.
Not a finite verb in sight. Why does it work? Because these are oral sentences, written down. All grammars leak. So keep this in mind while I spend a Sunday ruminating on the business of when a poem is or isn't a poem, and how curious and puzzling and endlessly shifting is this business of lines and line breaks. And I'm going to start with (and maybe stay with) punctuation.
Think about this handwritten letter. I assume it's in sentences….Jane Austen wrote it. I wouldn't like to proof read the punctuation, though, because the words are close together. You don't just need space around words, but space between them. White space is punctuation, and you need white space to put those visually insignificant punctuation marks in. The more white space you have, the easier it is. Here's a thing. 5 and 6 year olds have to learn how to write instructional texts, and the easiest way to to get them started is to write recipes.
What's the first thing?
Ingredients. And equipment.
You will need.
What comes next? A colon. You will need:
A new line.
And then you can write a list.
What comes between items in a list?
Commas.
Or, even more fun,
*Bullet points.
A new line for each.
See how the white space lets you see clearly. And what next? Instructions. A numbered list, and a new line for each number.
Take three eggs, and separate the yolks and the whites. (Full stop)….and so on.
You don't need to define a verb (and I can't anyway. I can tell you what it does). In each line, it'll be the first word in the sentence. But the text you produce will be easy to read because there'll be a lot of white space. The space shows you how to read. The text will look a bit poem-like, because it it'll have a justified left margin and a raggedy right-hand margin.Hold on to that.
Now, a different kind of thought. Here's a couple of pages from Dickens.
One thing I used to tell A level students (and, indeed, undergraduates) who were daunted by 500 page novels, was that dialogue moves the narrative and the plot along, so you can't ignore it. On the other hand, a densely printed stretch of text is likely to be reflective or descriptive, and if you're reading a 19thC novel in particular, the first sentence of the paragraph should tell you what's in the paragraph, and you can ignore the rest. (This is just for a first reading, to get the shape and sweep in your mind, you understand…I never did synopses or Coles notes). What you rely on is the amount of empty space. If there's a lot of it, you can't ignore the text. This is hard on Thomas Hardy, but there you go.
'And your point….?' I hear you ask. I guess it's that poetry is largely empty spaces round not a lot of words, and that there's no hiding place for any word that's not doing a job. And also that you become very conscious, as a reader, of the curious tension between what your eye tells you and what your ear tells you, and, for me, this is one of the great pleasures of poetry. One the other hand, as a writer, it's one of the things that frightens me, because I can hardly ever explain to myself why I make a line break where I do, except that it sounds right. 'Sounds' rather than 'feels', although that's at work too. Whatever it means.
You have to admit that working in traditional forms can often solve that problem, whatever other technical problems it creates. Iambic pentameters/ blank verse…wonderful. Close to natural speech rhythms, di DUM di DUM …five of them…and end on a stressed syllable. Line breaks? Sorted. Syllabics? Haiku? Sorted. Any rhyming poetry and you have the line-breaks for every rhyming line.
Then along comes Modernism, with its ears finely attuned to the strict rhythms of all the traditions that fed it, and careful craft apprenticships of its inventors, so it knew just which rules it was breaking, and why.
Along comes Free Verse. There's a seductively misleading name for you. Same in the visual arts, of course. Picasso and Braque and Matisse and the rest could all handle paint and line and perspective. They served their time and knew what the rules were stopping them doing and just how to break them and why.
If you want an impassioned and wholly idiosyncratic take on this you could do a lot worse than spend 20 minutes with Bob Dylan's musings on 50-odd years in the business of singer-songwriting. It's a sort of 'Tradition and the individual talent' lecture, but a lot more fun than T S Eliot. Just Google Bob Dylan Musicares speech. You will not for a second regret it. What he constantly returns to is the trope that everything he ever created he learned from repeated absorption in other writers' work., in older traditions. Here's a flavour of what he said…it's even better to listen to
These songs didn't come out of thin air. I didn't just make them up out of whole cloth. Contrary to what Lou Levy said, there was a precedent. It all came out of traditional music: traditional folk music, traditional rock 'n' roll and traditional big-band swing orchestra music.
I learned lyrics and how to write them from listening to folk songs. And I played them, and I met other people that played them back when nobody was doing it. Sang nothing but these folk songs, and they gave me the code for everything that's fair game, that everything belongs to everyone.
For three or four years all I listened to were folk standards. I went to sleep singing folk songs. I sang them everywhere, clubs, parties, bars, coffeehouses, fields, festivals. And I met other singers along the way who did the same thing and we just learned songs from each other. I could learn one song and sing it next in an hour if I'd heard it just once.
If you sang "John Henry" as many times as me — "John Henry was a steel-driving man / Died with a hammer in his hand / John Henry said a man ain't nothin' but a man / Before I let that steam drill drive me down / I'll die with that hammer in my hand."
If you had sung that song as many times as I did, you'd have written "How many roads must a man walk down?" too.
Here's a legend (yes he is) who is clear about what's obvious. The more you listen, the better you hear. The more you practise, the easier it will look. There's no short cuts.
Problem is, of course, you may not have fifty years to spare; I certainly don't. And that still leaves us with the business of the free verse most of us are wedded to in one form or another, or unrhymed irregular stanzas, or whatever. And line breaks. I've honestly tried to get to grips with it, to get beyond the intuition of the ear, and the feel of internal rhythms. Pasted into the back cover of one of my workbooks is a photocopy of an article by Dana Gioia (I Googled him).
'Thirteen ways of thinking about the poetic line'.
Every now and then I have the feeling that I sort of get it, but more often I have the same sense of hopelessness I got from Euclidean geometry when I was eleven. I 'got' the first couple of axioms, but when I tried to see how they all interacted they turned into wool. It's still worth struggling with it. Line by line it all seems like commonsense. Have a go. See what you think. I like Number 4.
Yup. I'll vote for that. Also for number 13.
The line break is nearly always audible (and always visible) even if only as a tiny pause or echo.
I really 'get' that..it's that business of the tension between what your eye and your ear are simultaneously telling you. It says you have to listen.
What else? I've had workshops with Mimi Khalvati and with Jane Draycott, both of whom seem exquisitely at ease with the technicalities of form and line. Mimi even startled me by counting the lines of one of my poems, and declaring herself happy to find there were 26. I still don't get it. At the end of the day, for all the elegance of their analyses, what I carried away was the awareness that it was coming down to the fact that they had more finely attuned ears than mine, that they could spot the tiniest of bum notes when I couldn't. And perhaps that Dylan has it right. You just have to get on and do it and listen as hard as you can to as much poetry as you can.
But here's a game you might like to play. It comes out of my genuine puzzlement about prosepoems, about my inability to see what they're for. (I guess Carrie Etter will put me right on that). One of the reasons for this is that I've been reading a lot of Hilary Mantel of late, and being struck, again and again and again, how much of her prose actually seems to be veined with what feel and sound like poems. (Whatever that means). How about this from ** The giant, O'Brien.
The Giant: 'If only I could get a good poet. Somebody to recite at him. A good poet can recite a man to death. A poet takes a person's earlobe between his finger and thumb and grinds it, and straight away that person dies. With a wisp of straw and a cross word they drive a man demented. They chew flesh and set it on the threshold and when a man steps over it he drops to his knees and expires.
The poet has his memorial in repetition, and the statesman in stone and bronze. The scholar's hand lies always on his book and the thinker's eyes on canvas travel the room to rest on each human face; the rebel has his ballad and his cross, his bigot's garland, his wreath of rope. But for the poor man and the giant there is the scrubbed wooden slab and the slop bucket, there is the cauldron and the boiling pot, and the dunghill for his lights; so he is a stench in the nose for a day or a week, so he is a no-name, so he is oblivion. Stories cannot save him. When human memory runs out, there is the memory of animals; behind that the memory of the plants, and behind that the memory of the rocks. But the winds and the sea wear the rocks away, and the cell-line runs to its limit, where meaning falls away from it, and it loses knowledge of its own nature. Unless we plead on our knees with history, we are done for, we are lost. We must step sideways, into that country where space plaits and knots, where time folds and twists: where the years pass in a day.
Just take that first paragraph, and think what happens if you put line breaks in it. Like this:
A good poet
can recite a man to death.
A poet takes a person's earlobe
between his finger
and thumb
and grinds it
and straight away that person dies.
With a wisp of straw
and a cross word
they drive a man demented.
They chew flesh and set it
on the threshold
and when a man steps over it
he drops to his knees and expires
Why those line breaks? What changes if you make the lines longer?
A good poet can recite a man to death.
A poet takes a person's earlobe between
his finger and thumb and grinds it
With a wisp of straw and a cross word
they drive a man demented. They chew flesh
and set it on the threshold
he drops to his kness and expires.
What have you got that the prose hasn't? What have you lost, if anything, that the first version had? I think it's flatter. Less engaged, more 'reasonable', less angry. Or try the second paragraph, or at least part of it:
But for the poor man and the giant
there is the scrubbed wooden slab
and the slop bucket,
there is the cauldron
and the boiling pot,
and the dunghill for his lights;
so he is a stench in the nose for a day or a week,
so he is a no-name,
so he is oblivion.
Stories cannot save him.
Maybe it's because most of my first drafts come from writers' workshops where I write flat-out in continuous 'prose' that I feel comfortable with this kind of game. Except that it isn't prose, any more than these extracts from Hilary Mantel are prosaically prose. There must be some kind of governing rhythm in there that comes from things like repetitions of all kinds. Maybe it's a question of learning to listen for it and its tricks. Anyway, if your Sunday is lacking spice, have a go with this game. At least, unlike Milton and Browning and all the other indefatigable toilers, you've got a word processor that lets you create version after version at the touch of a key. Aren't we the lucky ones?
I hope you're all on the crest of a wave this Easter. Keep riding it. No wipeouts.
**Hilary Mantel, The giant O'Brien [Fourth Estate. London,. 1998]
Carrie Etter
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Mimi Khalvati
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montagentle says:
Excellent John. 10/10 🙂
wow!! thank you! I've never had 10/10 for anything
I'm sure you've had the equivalent when it comes to poetry!


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The Lagos State Government is seeking Public and Private collaboration in water transportation to foster growth and investment in the sector to impact traffic congestion in the state.
Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu the Lagos state governor disclosed this during the maiden edition of Lagos Waterways Investment Summit organised by the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) in collaboration with Future Cities Nigeria (FCN) in Lagos on Thursday.
The theme of the event was "Lagos State Transportation: Transformation and Investment Opportunities".
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 * <pre>
 * BasicOCSPResponse       ::= SEQUENCE {
 *    tbsResponseData      ResponseData,
 *    signatureAlgorithm   AlgorithmIdentifier,
 *    signature            BIT STRING,
 *    certs                [0] EXPLICIT SEQUENCE OF Certificate OPTIONAL }
 * </pre>
 *
 * @deprecated use classes in org.bouncycastle.cert.ocsp.
 */
public class BasicOCSPResp
    implements java.security.cert.X509Extension
{
    BasicOCSPResponse   resp;
    ResponseData        data;
    X509Certificate[]   chain = null;

    public BasicOCSPResp(
        BasicOCSPResponse   resp)
    {
        this.resp = resp;
        this.data = resp.getTbsResponseData();
    }

    /**
     * Return the DER encoding of the tbsResponseData field.
     * @return DER encoding of tbsResponseData
     * @throws OCSPException in the event of an encoding error.
     */
    public byte[] getTBSResponseData()
        throws OCSPException
    {
        try
        {
            return resp.getTbsResponseData().getEncoded();
        }
        catch (IOException e)
        {
            throw new OCSPException("problem encoding tbsResponseData", e);
        }
    }

    public int getVersion()
    {
        return data.getVersion().getValue().intValue() + 1;
    }

    public RespID getResponderId()
    {
        return new RespID(data.getResponderID());
    }

    public Date getProducedAt()
    {
        try
        {
            return data.getProducedAt().getDate();
        }
        catch (ParseException e)
        {
            throw new IllegalStateException("ParseException:" + e.getMessage());
        }
    }

    public SingleResp[] getResponses()
    {
        ASN1Sequence    s = data.getResponses();
        SingleResp[]    rs = new SingleResp[s.size()];

        for (int i = 0; i != rs.length; i++)
        {
            rs[i] = new SingleResp(SingleResponse.getInstance(s.getObjectAt(i)));
        }

        return rs;
    }

    public X509Extensions getResponseExtensions()
    {
        return X509Extensions.getInstance(data.getResponseExtensions());
    }

    /**
     * RFC 2650 doesn't specify any critical extensions so we return true
     * if any are encountered.
     *
     * @return true if any critical extensions are present.
     */
    public boolean hasUnsupportedCriticalExtension()
    {
        Set extns = getCriticalExtensionOIDs();
        if (extns != null && !extns.isEmpty())
        {
            return true;
        }

        return false;
    }

    private Set getExtensionOIDs(boolean critical)
    {
        Set             set = new HashSet();
        X509Extensions  extensions = this.getResponseExtensions();

        if (extensions != null)
        {
            Enumeration     e = extensions.oids();

            while (e.hasMoreElements())
            {
                DERObjectIdentifier oid = (DERObjectIdentifier)e.nextElement();
                X509Extension       ext = extensions.getExtension(oid);

                if (critical == ext.isCritical())
                {
                    set.add(oid.getId());
                }
            }
        }

        return set;
    }

    public Set getCriticalExtensionOIDs()
    {
        return getExtensionOIDs(true);
    }

    public Set getNonCriticalExtensionOIDs()
    {
        return getExtensionOIDs(false);
    }

    public byte[] getExtensionValue(String oid)
    {
        X509Extensions exts = this.getResponseExtensions();

        if (exts != null)
        {
            X509Extension   ext = exts.getExtension(new DERObjectIdentifier(oid));

            if (ext != null)
            {
                try
                {
                    return ext.getValue().getEncoded(ASN1Encoding.DER);
                }
                catch (Exception e)
                {
                    throw new RuntimeException("error encoding " + e.toString());
                }
            }
        }

        return null;
    }

    public String getSignatureAlgName()
    {
        return OCSPUtil.getAlgorithmName(resp.getSignatureAlgorithm().getObjectId());
    }

    public String getSignatureAlgOID()
    {
        return resp.getSignatureAlgorithm().getObjectId().getId();
    }

    /**
     * @deprecated RespData class is no longer required as all functionality is
     * available on this class.
     * @return the RespData object
     */
    public RespData getResponseData()
    {
        return new RespData(resp.getTbsResponseData());
    }

    public byte[] getSignature()
    {
        return resp.getSignature().getBytes();
    }

    private List getCertList(
        String provider)
        throws OCSPException, NoSuchProviderException
    {
        List                    certs = new ArrayList();
        ByteArrayOutputStream   bOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        ASN1OutputStream        aOut = new ASN1OutputStream(bOut);
        CertificateFactory      cf;

        try
        {
            cf = OCSPUtil.createX509CertificateFactory(provider);
        }
        catch (CertificateException ex)
        {
            throw new OCSPException("can't get certificate factory.", ex);
        }

        //
        // load the certificates and revocation lists if we have any
        //
        ASN1Sequence s = resp.getCerts();

        if (s != null)
        {
            Enumeration e = s.getObjects();

            while (e.hasMoreElements())
            {
                try
                {
                    aOut.writeObject((ASN1Encodable)e.nextElement());

                    certs.add(cf.generateCertificate(
                        new ByteArrayInputStream(bOut.toByteArray())));
                }
                catch (IOException ex)
                {
                    throw new OCSPException(
                            "can't re-encode certificate!", ex);
                }
                catch (CertificateException ex)
                {
                    throw new OCSPException(
                            "can't re-encode certificate!", ex);
                }

                bOut.reset();
            }
        }

        return certs;
    }

    public X509Certificate[] getCerts(
        String  provider)
        throws OCSPException, NoSuchProviderException
    {
        List                    certs = getCertList(provider);

        return (X509Certificate[])certs.toArray(new X509Certificate[certs.size()]);
    }

    /**
     * Return the certificates, if any associated with the response.
     * @param type type of CertStore to create
     * @param provider provider to use
     * @return a CertStore, possibly empty
     * @throws NoSuchAlgorithmException
     * @throws NoSuchProviderException
     * @throws OCSPException
     */
    public CertStore getCertificates(
        String type,
        String provider)
        throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchProviderException, OCSPException
    {
        try
        {
            CertStoreParameters params = new CollectionCertStoreParameters(this.getCertList(provider));
            return OCSPUtil.createCertStoreInstance(type, params, provider);
        }
        catch (InvalidAlgorithmParameterException e)
        {
            throw new OCSPException("can't setup the CertStore", e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * verify the signature against the tbsResponseData object we contain.
     */
    public boolean verify(
        PublicKey   key,
        String      sigProvider)
        throws OCSPException, NoSuchProviderException
    {
        try
        {
            Signature signature = OCSPUtil.createSignatureInstance(this.getSignatureAlgName(), sigProvider);

            signature.initVerify(key);

            signature.update(resp.getTbsResponseData().getEncoded(ASN1Encoding.DER));

            return signature.verify(this.getSignature());
        }
        catch (NoSuchProviderException e)
        {
            // TODO Why this special case?
            throw e;
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            throw new OCSPException("exception processing sig: " + e, e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * return the ASN.1 encoded representation of this object.
     */
    public byte[] getEncoded()
        throws IOException
    {
        return resp.getEncoded();
    }

    public boolean equals(Object o)
    {
        if (o == this)
        {
            return true;
        }

        if (!(o instanceof BasicOCSPResp))
        {
            return false;
        }

        BasicOCSPResp r = (BasicOCSPResp)o;

        return resp.equals(r.resp);
    }

    public int hashCode()
    {
        return resp.hashCode();
    }
}

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PASSING THE TORCH: Andris Berzins (left) seen as the oligarchs' puppet, has to work to gain people's trust.
On June 2, Berzins was elected as the new president of Latvia. 53 Saeima deputies voted for him during the second vote of the presidential election - 44 voted against.
In the wake of the vote replacing current President Valdis Zatlers with Andris Berzins as the next president of Latvia, the chorus is rising rapidly throughout the country against the extreme grip, real or perceived, that the so-called oligarchs have over the country's politics and business interests.
The voting results prove that the parliament is controlled by oligarchs, believes the Unity political bloc, said Unity press secretary Laila Timrota. Only new Saeima elections can help ease the oligarchs' grip on Latvian politics, believes Unity.
"The parliament, which President Valdis Zatlers has proposed to dissolve because a majority of Saeima members did not wish to work in the interests of society, has elected a new president without taking into account society's opposition," said Unity Chairwoman Solvita Aboltina.
Unity cannot quit the government and join the opposition at a time when the parliament is about to be dissolved and an unpopular president has been elected with the help of oligarchs, however, Aboltina said. She holds that changing the makeup of the ruling coalition, with just four months remaining until the emergency Saeima elections, would be impossible.
"We must not let the political crisis develop into a new economic crisis," said Aboltina.
President Zatlers said of the June 2 vote against him that the vote will convey a negative signal to the populace. "When I proposed Saeima's dissolution, I was aware that my chances of being re-elected will decrease," said Zatlers.
The president also noted that the vote was similar to the vote on the requested search of MP Ainars Slesers' (For a Good Latvia) home. Most likely, Berzins was elected by the same political forces, said Zatlers.
"Today's vote was a negative signal. It shows that there is a connection, and Slesers' vote was not a coincidence," emphasized Zatlers afterwards.
With the election of Berzins, a new presidential era has not begun, but a huge step backward has been taken in achieving political independence from Latvia's oligarchs, former Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga said on June 2.
The former president did not wish to comment on Berzins' election, but after considering it a bit, she said that President Zatlers wished to begin a new era and break the 20-year influence of oligarchs in politics in proposing the dissolution of parliament.
The Estonian newspaper Aripaev wrote in its editorial that the results of the Latvian presidential elections show that there is reason "to feel sorry for Latvia," reports BBN. The title of the article in the Estonian newspaper is called - Oligarch Andris Berzins elected as Latvian president.
"There is a problem in the country if the current president proposes to disband the parliament as a last resort to curb the power of so-called oligarchs, and is then forced to watch how one of these oligarchs, a former banker, is given his job," the article claims.
The article goes on to say that although Estonia definitely has its share of powerful businessmen who tend to mix politics with business (Vjatcheslav Leedo, Nikolai Ossipenko and Tiit Vahi, to name a few), the overall situation seems to be relatively better than in Latvia. In the opinion of Aripaev, the reason was the speed of privatization, which meant that most of Estonia's larger enterprises were acquired by foreigners, which did not allow local businessmen to amass assets.
"Another difference is that, unlike in Latvia, Estonia has never had such large banks as Parex, that belonged only to a few local businessmen, and most of the banks were acquired by foreigners relatively quickly," the newspaper points out.
"The third area where Estonia has done better than Latvia is independent media. Unfortunately, the exodus of Bonnier, parent company of Aripaev, from the Latvian press market did nothing to increase transparency," the article says.
The Estonian politician also points out that Berzins has since come out with some peculiar announcements, and that the election process itself leads to suspicions.
The result of the first vote of the presidential election in Saeima demonstrates that Harmony Center has concluded a certain political agreement with Ventspils Mayor Aivars Lembergs, the conditions of which are unknown, but as a result, Berzins "will be elected the next president of Latvia," said political scientist Iveta Kazoka. Kazoka said that this should have happened already in the first vote, but since one ballot slip was not valid, a repeat vote was held.
Looking at Harmony Center's ideological stance, there is no rational explanation for the party to support Berzins. No one from this party has previously attempted to argue in what way Berzins is a better candidate than Zatlers. It is clear that a political agreement has been made, Kazoka said.
Latvia's international reputation will suffer after the presidential vote, Foreign Minister Girts Valdis Kristovskis (Unity) said. "I believe that we must take into account the emergency nature of this election, as well as the theme brought up by President Zatlers in fighting the influence of oligarchs in Latvian politics. Seeing that after such an announcement by Zatlers he was not re-elected, the international assessment of the Saeima vote will not be flattering," Kristovskis said.
According to the foreign minister, this will leave a depressing impression to the international community, which pays much attention to issues of corruption.
"[Berzins] has been elected and must be congratulated. However, a shadow of doubt will linger over him," the politician added.
"If someone hopes that I will be led by a leash, then I say - it won't happen," said Berzins.
Though he lacked any notable support by the people of Latvia, Berzins nonetheless commented that he feels like a president "elected by the people," promising to do more than the duties set for a president in the Constitution.
At a press conference, Berzins promised that residents will feel life becoming better over the next four years. He apologized that many people have left Latvia, pointing out that only about 1.9 million people are left in Latvia at the moment.
We haven't heard the last of President Zatlers, though, as he said on June 6 that after his term of office expires [July 7], he "definitely won't be standing on the sidelines," though he has not made a decision yet on his future endeavors.
"These [new] political processes [are ones] I have initiated, so naturally I won't be standing on the sidelines," the president declared, adding that he does not rule out any of the possibilities widely mentioned in the media, which include his establishing a new political party, joining the Unity alliance, or setting up a new NGO.
Berzins will be the fourth Latvian president since the country regained independence in 1991 and the eighth president since the country was established in 1918.


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León () is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of 5,138 km2 and has a population of 423,012 (2021 estimate). The capital is the city of León.

Municipalities
 El Jicaral
 El Sauce
 La Paz Centro
 Larreynaga
 León
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 Santa Rosa del Peñón
 Telica

References

Departments of Nicaragua


GOAL is an Irish based international NGO with Programmes in Humanitarian Response, Rural Development and the street children. The Humanitarian Response Programme focus on nutrition intervention activities, working with the ministry of Health to monitor the Roving nutrition, health and food security status with its current intervention areas in Oromiya, SNNPR and Amhara Region. The Rural Development Programme focus on health, education, nutrition, water and sanitation with cross cutting issues in gender, environment protection and HIV/AIDS, in Sidama, Borena and West Hararghe Programme Offices. The Street Children programme which is located in Addis works with on and off street children by focusing on the strengths of children and young people and through partnership building, collaboration and networking with various stake holders, the programme supports diverse community structures and initiative through approaches that are Street and Care focused.


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Justia Dockets & Filings Ninth Circuit California Eastern District Russell et al v. Lodi Unified School District et al. Filing 26
Russell et al v. Lodi Unified School District et al.
ORDER signed by District Judge Morrison C. England, Jr on 3/3/2017 ORDERING 1 Complaint and 19 Amended Complaint be SEALED. ORDERING Plaintiffs to appropriately redact the minor's name in both 1 and 19 and re-file both documents as soon as possible, but no later than 3/16/2017.(Washington, S)
1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 8 9 10 C.R., by and through his mother LISA RUSSELL, and LISA RUSSELL, Plaintiffs, 11 12 13 14 No. 2:16-cv-00062-MCE-EFB ORDER v. LODI UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Defendants. 15 16 Upon review of the docket, it appears that Plaintiffs have inadvertently neglected 17 to redact the minor's first name in paragraph 37 of the Complaint (ECF No. 1) and 18 paragraph 39 of the Amended Complaint (ECF No. 19). The Court therefore orders that 19 ECF Nos. 1 and 19 be sealed to prevent further disclosure to the public. 20 In addition, Plaintiffs are ordered to appropriately redact the minor's name in 21 paragraph 37 of the Complaint (ECF No. 1) and paragraph 39 of the Amended 22 Complaint (ECF No. 19), and re-file both documents as soon as possible, but no later 23 than March 16, 2017. 24 25 IT IS SO ORDERED. Dated: March 3, 2017 26 27 28 1


Flava house is the new laboratory for street dance and culture of Sleepwalking ( notorious breakdance crew from Smolyan). Mid-February 2013, they turned to us to make the interior of a place they just rented at "Tsar Simeon" 70 in Sofia. The area has so far been used by Street Art Academy, and the task was to transform the place into a dance hall and cultural events venue in … 11 days. Budget and time were very limited. We had to design while building. The program included locker rooms, dance floor, seating for visitors, reception and a DJ console. Stocktaking: 187 used pallets, 194 OSB and MDF panels, affixed with 2320 screws , 25 sparaycans and a new place on the cultural map of the city.


According to RTS, the secretary general of the Swiss People's Party (UDC), Martin Baltisser and his substitute Silvia Bar, were found guilty of racism at Bern's regional tribunal on 30 April 2015.
The affair started when posters carrying the slogan: "Kosovars stab Swiss!" in German were posted as part of a campaign to stop mass immigration into Switzerland. Le Matin reported that the accused had requested that the charges against them be discharged, their lawyer claiming the text targeted foreign criminals and not a group of people. Their lawyer added that the slogan, which was posted in 2011, referred to an actual event that occurred in the resort of Interlaken and left a UDC candidate badly hurt from a knife attack involving a Kosovar.
According to swissinfo.ch, the case against the defendants pointed out that the campaign poster stayed on the UDC and Initiative to stop mass immigration websites until the end of 2013.
Le Matin also reported that Martin Baltisser, one of the accused, claimed he had never expressed or even had racist thoughts. Bern's regional tribunal thought otherwise.


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Boris Borisovitj Rohdendorf (, Rodendorf, född den 12 juli 1904 i Sankt Petersburg, Kejsardömet Ryssland
, död den 21 november 1977 i Moskva, Sovjetunionen, var en rysk entomolog och kurator vid det zoologiska museet vid Moskvauniversitetet samt hade en ledarroll vid paleontologiska institutet vid Sovjetunionens vetenskapsakademi.

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Jailtime for Kavanaugh witness?
Leland Keyser doesn't believe her. That's what she indicated in her testimony to the FBI. Keyser is the closest thing Christine Ford has to a credible witness. Keyser is Ford's longtime friend and party pal. Just like Kavanaugh and Judge used to apparently party and gang rape rooms full of women with no witnesses (according to now discredited Julie Swetnick), Leland Keyser and Christine Ford used to go to high school parties and drink just one beer together.
When Ford remembered that she had been assaulted, and then in 2018 remembered that it was Kavanaugh who did it, she named three other people at that party. She named Kavanaugh's friends Mark Judge and PJ Smyth, and she named her own lifelong friend Leland Keyser. Keyser, along with the others, said she had absolutely no knowledge of any party that Ford and Kavanaugh had been together at. Keyser has now repeated her denial to the FBI.
As we know from the Russian collusion witch hunt, lying to the FBI will get you at least two weeks in jail.
So who do you believe? Do you believe her? Or her? It's no longer Kavanaugh versus Ford. It's Keyser versus Ford. And Leland Keyser has every motive to lie to the FBI in favor of Ford's testimony. She didn't.
In other Kavanaugh news, we have discovered now that he once threw ice at someone in a bar when he was a college student. So basically this is all moot anyway. You can't throw ice at someone when you're a college student and expect to sit on the Supreme Court. I mean, that's just detrimental to his character. Anyone who is capable of throwing ice at someone in a bar is certainly capable of anything. He's simply a loose cannon. You never know when Kavanaugh might just lose it, take an ice cube from his cup, and chuck it at Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the middle of a trial. Actually, it's worth confirming him just to see that. Although, in her frail health that could kill her.
Apparently, an ex-boyfriend of Christine Ford's has sent a letter to Congress stating that he witnessed her coaching students on how to beat a polygraph test. That's not huge news, considering her polygraph test consisted of two yes or no questions about whether her statements was false or made up. She wasn't asked any specific questions about the details of her allegations.
Julie Swetnick's interview with NBC was a disaster. Her allegations of Brett Kavanaugh gang raping her have dwindled down to her being assaulted by unknown people, her seeing unknown people waiting outside of rooms to gang rape women (something no one else remembers), and seeing Kavanaugh standing by the punch bowl and handing cups of punch to girls. Still no witnesses to corroborate her claims.
As expected, Debra Martinez has given the FBI the names of 20 witnesses to contact, interview and add to the investigation. And of course, it won't be considered a "thorough" investigation unless they contact all 20. My question is if she was playing a drinking game with Kavanaugh and one other in a room by themselves, what were these 20 witnesses supposed to have witnessed?
Let's stop pretending this is something it isn't. Democrats are delaying and praying that they will flip two Republicans. But they have their own members to worry about too. Chris Coons, who negotiated the one week FBI investigation with flakey Flake did not sign a Democrat letter to Grassley demanding an additional 24 irrelevant and time consuming interviews for the FBI to include. Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia has not committed to a vote either way. He is facing a tough re-election bid in a conservative state. Democrats may be starting to see how much their overreach is damaging their image. In Florida the polls have tightened to a tie between Nelson and Scott. Nelson, taking his orders from Schumer, didn't even bother to interview Kavanaugh and declared a no vote before Trump even made the selection.
Democrats deserve to be punished at the polls in November. They have literally ruined lives and set an incredibly dangerous precedent in these confirmation hearings. Kavanaugh should be confirmed, if nothing else than to declare that this sort of circus is not how America works. Feinstein should be censured for creating this circus, and Corey Booker should resign simply to save Democrats from the "obvious hypocrite" reputation they have earned. When the founding fathers wrote the words "advise and consent", I doubt they had this sort of circus in mind.
Filed under: 2018 midterms, Booker, Coons, election, FBI, feinstein, Ford, gang rape, ICE, kavanaugh, Keyser, Leland Keyser, manchin, NBC, Ramirez, schumer, Senate, Swetnick
Republicans call Christine Blasey Ford's bluff
What started out as an 11th hour hail mary attempt by Democrats to get a delaying investigation has now blown up in their faces. Democrats have been looking for anything it takes to delay the Kavanaugh nomination long enough to make it a 2018 election issue. Democrats desperately need something to drive their voters to the polls in key Senate races across the country.
But what Democrats didn't bargain for is Republicans challenging Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh to testify, and both of them agreeing. When the Democrats turned an anonymous letter about an alleged assault from 35 years ago over to the FBI, they were hoping for an investigation, smear, doubt, and delay. It didn't matter what the investigation would turn up. Like Russian collusion, all that would matter is that it existed. Instead we are going to have Kavanaugh, who denies even being at the party, versus a liberal Democrat California professor and her infamous DNC supporting lawyer who refuse to even name other people at the party.
Christine Blasey Ford deserves to be heard. So did Juanita Broderick, but Democrats didn't care about that. So we have the party of Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton putting Ford forward as their new champion to stop Kavanaugh. Perhaps, like Broderick, Ford will be able to find other witnesses who were at the party and willing to come forward to testify that they saw Kavanaugh there and drunk. Perhaps, like Broderick who alleged that she was raped by Bill Clinton, Ford will have friends who can testify to what she looked like after the incident. Perhaps she'll have something that gives her any credibility.
Then you have the intrigue. Christine Blasey Ford has a reason to hold a grudge against Kavanaugh aside from the fact that she's a Trump hating liberal. Brett Kavanaugh's mom, also a judge, ruled against Christine Blasey Ford's dad in a 2006 foreclosure hearing. Suddenly the metamorphosis of her story from a suppressed memory about a drunken pool party with an attack by four unnamed boys to Kavanaugh drunk at a pool party attacking her with a friend seems even more suspicious.
When she swears an oath and testifies before Congress and they ask her questions like "where was the house" and "what were the names of the other people there" and this thing comes apart, Democrats should face severe consequences. Already, rather than people coming forward and saying they remember that party, we have 65 women who knew Kavanaugh in high school saying he was honorable and would never have done this. You would think someone other than Christine Blasey Ford would have remembered Kavanaugh being at that party by now and would have come forward. For Ford herself, she can't remember where the house was, whose house it was, and how she got there or how she got home.
What we have is a liberal professor with a shifting story that cannot be proven or disproven from 35 years ago about to take the stand and try to convince us that Kavanaugh was a drunk rapist as a teenager. She has reason to hate Kavanaugh both politically and personally. The whole story was so implausible that Democrats didn't even use it until the very last minute as a delay/doubt tactic. Now this exhibit at the circus is going to be nationally televised.
In a fair world, Democrats would suffer election losses over this circus. But many Democrats live in the world of Dan Rather, where if they hate someone enough they will know in their hearts any accusation against that person is true. Or perhaps the world of Harry Reid who acknowledged that he will lie to advance the liberal agenda after falsely claiming that Mitt Romney's tax returns were fraudulent. We've seen Spartacus at this circus; Corey Booker trying to turn himself into a martyr and hilariously failing. And of course, the phony Native American Elizabeth Warren trying to fundraise off of the Christine Blasey Ford accusation.
On Monday, the chips are on the table. Ford will face a lot of questions about her parents' foreclosure, about where this pool party took place, about who else was there, about why she waited 35 years. Then we'll all realize there is no semen stained dress. There are no tapes. There are no party going witnesses. She wasn't a campaign volunteer who allowed Kavanaugh into her room cause she just wanted to meet him. She wasn't a former lover, masseuse, or co-worker in the car. She's a hostile operative from the opposing party with plenty of reasons to make it all up and nothing so far to lend her credibility.
Filed under: Christine Blasey Ford, Debra Katz, feinstein, Ford, kavanaugh, metoo, SCOTUS
Borking failed, Dems try Anita Hill II
Democrats have failed again to stop Kavanaugh. This time, it was pretty spectacular. Diane Feinstein came out with a letter yesterday that apparently she had been hiding since summer. The letter, written anonymously by someone who allegedly begged not to have her identity revealed (i.e. fakenews) supposedly accused Kavanaugh of some sort of sexual crime in high school. Kavanaugh attended Georgetown Prep, which is an all boys high school.
When Feinstein had no luck getting the phony letter introduced to the judiciary committee as evidence, she went the Bruce Ohr/Peter Strzok route and forwarded it to the FBI to be investigated. Of course, no investigation is planned. Feinstein has earned her own clown nose in the Kavanaugh hearings, along with Corey "Spartacus" Booker, and Kamala Harris with her "have you ever talked to anyone about anything" line of questioning. And here I was hoping Feinstein was trying to be the reasonable and sane voice of the left in the Judiciary Committee.
Feinstein tries and fails spectacularly with phony anti-Kavanaugh letter
Socialists boycotting Jews? Apparently there is nothing new under the sun. Florida Socialist and Democrat candidate for governor Andrew Gillum has aligned himself with anti-Semitic groups who have called for boycotting Israel. Gillum has happily accepted endorsements from racist groups like Dream Defenders who are part of the BDS movement to harm Jewish people economically through boycotts. This isn't the first time this approach has been tried in history.
Gillum in bed with groups that advocate boycotting Jewish businesses
Despite tax cuts, tax revenues continue to increase at record rates. The government has collected over $1.5 trillion through August. This beat out the previous record set last year. While the deficit continues to run high and Congress continues to avoid spending cuts, it shows that tax cuts do increase revenues when it results in economic recovery. This has been proven now several times. If Congress could get their act together and cut spending (rather than double it along with taxes), we could have a balanced budget some day.
Tax cuts work, booming economy increases revenues
Filed under: anti-Semitic, economy, FBI, feinstein, Gillum, kavanaugh, letter, tax cuts, Trump
Need to Know 8/8/18
Investigative research by the Daily Caller has revealed that the Chinese spy working for Diane Feinstein was not just her driver. Comparing dates and time periods, the Daily Caller identified Feinstein's spy staffer as Russell Lowe, a Chinese-American, who's actual title was "Office Director". He worked with Feinstein in this sensitive role for 20 years while providing information to the Chinese government. Feinstein forced him into retirement when the FBI informed her of his espionage. He now works for the Education for Social Justice organization. Little else about him or his background is known at this point.
Feinstein's Chinese spy "driver" was actually her "Office Director"
A leaked memo from the desk of Democrat Senator Mark Warner is making waves. Warner called for intense regulation of internet platforms to promote his idea of "fairness". Among the proposals, common tools like Google Maps would become publicly regulated and subject to government anti-discrimination rules. The plan would also make internet platforms liable if they don't introduce greater censorship of users. Anonymity of political writers online would become a thing of the past under this plan. The combination of outing anonymous political writers online and subjecting them to potential lawsuits of the government disagrees with the information they share is a very dangerous step towards the destruction of free speech on the internet.
Leaked Democrat memo calls for curbs on internet free speech
Another win for the economy as 2.8 million have dropped off of food stamps since Trump became President. This combined with unemployment below 4% and GDP growth above 4% make it more and more difficult for anyone to argue that the Trump economy has not been amazing so far.
2.8 million fewer on foodstamps
Filed under: china, chinese, driver, economy, feinstein, foodstamps, free speech, GDP, leak, mark warner, memo, office director, Russell Lowe, spy, Unemployment, warner