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Ayşe Kadıoğlu
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http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/ayse/
Siyaset Bilimi Lisansı, Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (ODTÜ), Ankara, Türkiye, 1982;
Uluslararası İlişkiler Yüksek Lisansı, Chicago Üniversitesi, ABD, 1984;
Siyaset Bilimi Doktorası, Boston Üniversitesi, ABD, 1990.
Karşılaştırmalı Siyasal Sistemler,
Vatandaşlık Çalışmaları,
Siyasal İdeolojiler: milliyetçilik, uluslararası işçi göçü, kadın ve İslam, faşizm, liberalizm.
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden (2010) "The pathologies of Turkish republican laicism", Philosophy and Social Criticism (Sp. Iss. SI), Vol.36, No.3-4, 489-504 (AHCI)
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden (2009) "Political participation from a citizenship perspective", Middle East Law and Governance, Vol.1, No.1, 90-116
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe (2007) "An Oxymoron: the origins of civic-republican liberalism in Turkey", Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.16, No.2, 171-190
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe (2007) "Denationalization of citizenship: the Turkish experience", Citizenship Studies, Vol.11, No.3, 283-299 (SSCI)
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe (2007) "The Pigeon on the bridge is shot", Middle East Reports online
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe (2005) "Civil society, Islam and democracy in Turkey: a study of three Islamic non-governmental organizations", The Muslim world, Vol.95, No.1, 23-41 (AHCI)
Another empire?: a decade of Turkey's foreign policy under the justice and development party, Öktem, Kerem and Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden and Karlı, Mehmet (eds.), İstanbul: Istanbul Bilgi Universitesi Yayınları, June 2012
Symbiotic antagonisms: competing nationalisms in Turkey, Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden and Keyman, Fuat (eds.), Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, March 2011
Vatandaşlığın dönüşümü: üyelikten haklara, (Prepared by: Kadıoğlu, Ayşe), İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, May 2008
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden, Zaman lekesi, İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, February 2006
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden, "Necessity and state of exception: the Turkish State's permanent war with its Kurdish citizens", Turkey Between Nationalism and Globalization, Kastoryano, Riva (ed.), London: Routledge 2014, 142-161
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden, "Genos versus devlet: conceptions of citizenship in Greece and Turkey", In the Long Shadow of Europe: Greeks and Turks in the Era of Postnationalism, Anastasakis, Othon and Nicolaidis, Kalypso and Öktem, Kerem (eds.), Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, March 2009, 115-142
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden, "Aydınlanma, vatandaşlık ve kadın: Türkiye örneği", Aydınlanma ve vatandaşlık, Keyman, Fuat (ed.), İstanbul: Osmanlı Bankası Arşiv ve Araştırma Merkezi, November 2008
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden, "Vatandaşlık ve siyasal katılım", Prof. Dr. Ergun Özbudun'a Armağan (Essays in Honor of Ergun Özbudun), Yazıcı, Serap and Gözler, Kemal and Keyman, Fuat and Göztepe, Ece (eds.), Ankara: Yetkin Yayınları, June 2008, 225-246
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden, "Vatandaşlığın ulustan arındırılması: Türkiye örneği", Vatandaşlığın Dönüşümü: Üyelikten Haklara, Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden (ed.), İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, May 2008, 31-54
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden, "Türkiye'de vatandaşlığın anatomisi", Vatandaşlığın Dönüşümü: Üyelikten Haklara, Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden (ed.), İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, May 2008, 168-184
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden, "Vatandaşlık: kavramın farklı anlamları", Vatandaşlığın Dönüşümü: Üyelikten Haklara, Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden (ed.), İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, May 2008, 21-30
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden, "Muslim feminist debates on the question of headscarf in contemporary Turkey", The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought, Abu-Rabi, İbrahim M. (ed.), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, June 2006, 609-624
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden, "Can we envision Turkish citizenship as non-membership?", Citizenship In A Global World: European Questions and Turkish Experiences, Keyman, Fuat and İçduygu, Ahmet (eds.), London: Routledge , October 2005, 105-124
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden, "Citizenship and individuation in Turkey: the triumph of will over reason", Civil Society, Religion and The Nation: Modernization In Intercultural Context: Russia, Japan, Turkey, Steunebrink, Gerrit and Van der Zweerde, Evert (eds.), Amsterdam: Rodopi, October 2004, 191-212
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden, "Milliyetçilik - Liberalizm ekseninde vatandaşlık ve bireysellik", Milliyetçilik, Alkan, Mehmet Ö. (ed.), İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, April 2002, 284-292
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden, "Türkiye'de vatandaşlık ve bireyleşme: iradenin akıl karşısındaki zaferi", Liberalizm, Devlet, Hegemonya, Keyman, Fuat (ed.), İstanbul: Everest Yayınları , March 2002, 258-282
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden, "Sunuş", Ne Mutlu Türküm Diyebilene: Türk Ulusal Kimliğinin Etno-Seküler Sınırları, 1919-1938, Yıldız, Ahmet (ed.), İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, October 2001, 9-13
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe Gülden, "Die leugnung des geschlechts: die Türkische frau als objeckt in grossen gesellschaftsentwürfen", Die Neue Muslimische Frau: Standpunkte & Analysen, Pusch, Barbara (ed.), Würzburg: Ergon Verlag Vürzburg in Kommission, September 2001, 31-50
Akçapar, Burak and Akgün, Mensur and Altunışık, Meliha and Kadıoğlu, Ayşe, "The debate on democratization in the broader Middle East and North Africa: a civic assessment from Turkey: Istanbul Paper = Genişletilmiş Orta Doğu ve Kuzey Afrika'da demokratikleşme tartışması: Türkiye'den sivil bir tespit: İstanbul Çalışması ", The Atlantic Alliance at a New Crossroads: International Conference, Istanbul, Turkey: Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), June 2004, 1-26
Cumhuriyet İradesi-Demokrasi Muhakemesi: Türkiye'de Demokratik Açılım Arayışları (Republican Will-Democratic Reason: Search for a Democratic Disclosure in Turkey) (Istanbul: Metis, 1999).
(http://www.metiskitap.com/Catalog/Book/4315)
Vatandaşlığın Dönüşümü: Üyelikten Haklara (Transformation of Citizenship: From Membership to Rights) (Istanbul: Metis, 2008).
(co-edited with Fuat Keyman) Symbiotic Antagonisms: Competing Nationalisms in Turkey (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2011). (http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/upcat/id/1672)
(co-edited with Kerem Öktem and Mehmet Karlı) Another Empire? A Decade of Turkey's Foreign Policy Under the Justice and Development Party (Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2012). (http://keremoktem.com/books/another-empire)
Refereed Journals (in chronological order):
"Citizenship, Immigration, and Racism in a Unified Germany with Special Reference to the Turkish Guestworkers," Bosphorus University, Journal of Economics and Administrative Studies, 6/1-2, 1992, pp. 199-211.
"Devletini Arayan Millet: Almanya Örneği" (A Nation in Search of Its State: The German Case), Toplum ve Bilim, 62, Fall 1993, pp. 95-111.
"Women's Subordination in Turkey: Is Islam Really the Villain," The Middle East Journal, 48/4, Autumn 1994, pp. 645-661.
"Impact of Migration Experiences on Gender Roles: Findings of a Field Research in Turkey," International Migration, 32/4, 1994, pp. 533-560.
"The Paradox of Turkish Nationalism and the Construction of Official Identity," Middle Eastern Studies, 32/2, April 1996, pp. 177-194.
"Migration Experiences of Turkish Women: Notes from a Researcher's Diary," International Migration, 35/4, 1997, pp. 537-557.
"Republican Epistemology and Islamic Discourses in Turkey in the 1990s," The Muslim World, LXXXVIII/1, January 1998, pp. 1-21.
"Citizenship and Individuation in Turkey: The Triumph of Will Over Reason," CEMOTI , 26, 1998, pp. 23-43 (also translated into Turkish and published in Fuat Keyman (ed.), Liberalizm, Devlet, Hegemonya (Liberalism, State, Hegemony), Everest, Istanbul, 2002, pp. 258-283/Reprinted in English in Steunebrink G. and E. van der Zweerde (eds), Civil Society, Religion, and the Nation: Modernization in Intercultural Context, Russia, Japan, Turkey (Studies in Intercultural Philosophy 13, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2004).
"An Islamic Critique of Modernity in Turkey: Politics of Difference Backwards" (co-authored with Menderes Çınar), Orient , 40/1, March 1999, pp. 53-69.
"Civil Society, Islam and Democracy in Turkey: A Study of Three Islamic NGOs," The Muslim World, 95/1, January 2005, pp. 23-43.
"Denationalization of Citizenship?, The Turkish Experience," Citizenship Studies, 11/3, July 2007, pp. 283-301.
"An Oxymoron: The Origins of Civic-Republican Liberalism in Turkey," Critique, 16/2, Summer 2007, pp. 171-190.
"Political Participation from a Citizenship Perspective," Middle East Law and Governance, Inaugural issue, 1/1, January 2009, pp. 90-116.
"The Pathologies of Turkish Republican Laicism," Philosophy and Social Criticism, 36/3-4, 2010, pp.489-504
Book Chapters (in chronological order):
"The Human Tie: International Labor Migration" in Canan Balkır and Allan M. Williams (eds), Turkey and Europe, Pinter Publishers, Ltd., St. Martin's Press, London, New York, 1993, pp. 140-157.
"Is Racism Being Combated Effectively in Germany? The New Immigration Legislation," in Goran Rystad (ed.), Encountering Strangers: Responses and Consequences, Lund University Press, Sweden, 1996, pp. 73-93.
"Cinselliğin İnkarı: Büyük Toplumsal Projelerin Nesnesi Olarak Türk Kadınları" (Denouncing Sexuality: Turkish Women as Objects of Grand Social Projects), Bilanço 98, 75 Yılda Kadınlar ve Erkekler (Women and Men in 75 Years) (Istanbul: Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, 1998), pp. 89-101 (also translated into German and published in Barbara Pusch (ed.), Die neue muslimische Frau (Istanbul: Orient-Institut and Goethe-Institut, 2001), pp. 31-50.
"Democratic Citizenship," Günay Göksu Özdoğan and Gül Tokay (eds), Redefining the Nation, State, and Citizen (Istanbul: Marmara University Research Centre for International Relations, 2000), pp. 59-69.
"Milliyetçilik-Liberalizm Ekseninde Vatandaşlık ve Bireysellik" (Citizenship and Individuation along the Nationalism-Liberalism Axis) in Tanıl Bora (ed.), Modern Türkiye'de Siyasi Düşünce Tarihi (History of Political Thought in Modern Turkey), Vol. 4 (Istanbul: İletişim, 2002), pp. 284-292.
"Can We Envision Turkish Citizenship as Non-membership" in Fuat Keyman and Ahmet İçduygu (eds), Citizenship and Identity In a Globalizing World: European Questions/Turkish Experiences (London and New York: Routledge, 2005), pp. 105-123.
"Muslim Feminist Debates on the Question of Headscarf in Contemporary Turkey," Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006).
"Aydınlanma, Vatandaşlık ve Kadın: Türkiye Örneği," in Fuat Keyman (ed.), Aydınlanma, Türkiye ve Vatandaşlık (Istanbul: Osmanlı Bankası Arşiv ve Araştırma Merkezi, 2008).
"Vatandaşlık ve Siyasal Katılım" (Citizenship and Political Participation), Ergun Özbudun'a Armağan Cilt I (In Honor of Ergun Özbudun, Vol. I), (Istanbul: Yetkin Yayınları, 2008).
"Genos versus Devlet: Conceptions of Citizenship in Greece and Turkey," Othon Anastasakis, Kalypso Nicolaidis and Kerem Oktem (eds), In the Long Shadow of Europe: Greeks and Turks in the Era of Postnationalism (Leiden: E. J. Brill, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009).
"Necessity and State of Exception: Turkish State's Permanent War with its Kurdish Citizens" in Riva Kastoryano (ed.), Turkey Between Nationalism and Globalization, (Routledge, 2013).
NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS AND POLICY-PAPERS
Zaman Lekesi (Time Stain) (Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi Universitesi Yayınları, 2006), http://www.bilgiyay.com/p/541/zaman-lekesi.
Blog/T24:
http://t24.com.tr/yazarlar/ayse-kadioglu-2
Essays and Policy-Papers (in chronological order):
"Tarihsel Açıdan Alman Milliyetçiliği, Vatandaşlık Kavramı ve Göç Politikaları" (German Nationalism from a Historical Perspective, the Concept of Citizenship and Immigration Policies), Türkiye Günlüğü, 17, 1991, pp. 104-109.
"Alaturkalık ile İffetsizlik Arasında Birey Olarak Kadın" (Women Between Being A la Turca and Unchaste), Görüş, TÜSIAD publication, no.9, May 1993, pp. 58-62.
"Türkiye'de Yaşanan Hizipleşme ve Dreyfus Meselesi" (Sectarian Tendencies in Turkey and the Dreyfus Affair), Birikim, 59, March 1994, pp. 98-101.
"Milletini Arayan Devlet: Türk Milliyetçiliğinin Açmazları" (A State in Search of Its Nation: The Dilemmas of Turkish Nationalism), Türkiye Günlüğü, 33, 1995, pp. 91-101 (reprinted in Adnan Küçük et al. (eds), 21. Yüzyılın Eşiğinde Türkiye'de Siyasal Hayat (Turkish Political Life at the Turn of the Twentyfirst Century), Vol. II (İstanbul: Aktüel Alfa Akademi, 2005), pp. 807-821.
"Cumhuriyetin Kuruluş Yıllarında Türk Milliyetçiliğinin Çelişkisi ve Seçkinlerin Tavrı" (The Paradox of Turkish Nationalism in the Founding Years of the Republic and the Republican Elite) in Nuri Bilgin (ed.), Cumhuriyet, Demokrasi ve Kimlik (Republic, Democracy, and Identity) (Istanbul: Bağlam, 1997), pp. 277-282.
"Kamusal Alan ile Özel Alanın Yeniden Eklemlenmesi: Demokratik Vatandaşlık" (Rearticulation of the Public and the Private Realms: Democratic Citizenship), Diyalog, 1, 1996, pp. 119-134 (an extended version of this article is translated into German and published in Kursat-Ahlers, Elçin, Dursun Tan and Hans-Peter Waldhoff (eds), Globalisierung, Migration und Multikulturalitat, IKO-Verlag fur Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Institut fur Soziologie der Universitat Hannover, 1999, pp. 257-274).
"Cumhuriyet Kadını: Vatandaş mı, Birey mi?" (Republican Women: A Citizen or An Individual), Varlık, 1069, October 1996, pp. 12-15.
"Sıradan Milliyetçilik: Sürekli Milliyetçilik" (Banal Nationalism: Permanent Nationalism), Varlık, 1076, May 1997, pp. 2-6.
"Yeni Alman Sağı: Bir Başka Tarihbilim Tartışması" (The New German Right: Another Debate of Historiography), Toplumbilim, 7, October 1997, pp. 63-70.
"Laiklik ve Türk Liberalizminin Kökenleri" (Secularism and the Origins of Turkish Liberalism), Defter , 11/33, Spring 1998, pp. 41-63.
"Su Canavarının Karaya Çıkışı: Devlet ve MHP" (Landing of the Sea Monster: State and the Nationalist Action Party), Birikim, 122, June 1999, pp. 23–28, http://www.birikimdergisi.com/birikim-yazi/3880/su-canavarinin-karaya-cikisi-devlet-ve-mhp#.VtA774uZbdk.
"Yirminci Yüzyılın Başında Aidiyet Biçimleri" (Senses of Belonging at the Turn of the Twenty First Century), 8. Ulusal Kalite Kongresi, 3–4 November 1999, CD-ROM, TÜSIAD, KalDer.
"Sosyal Bilimsel Sancılar" (Social Scientific Pains), Doğu-Batı, 2/7, May-June-July 1999, pp. 171–186.
"The Debate on Democratization in the Broader Middle East and North Africa: A Civic Assessment from Turkey," Istanbul Papers 3, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) and the German Marshall Fund of the United States, June 2004 (co-authored with Burak Akçapar, Mensur Akgün, Meliha Altunışık –this policy paper was also translated into Turkish and Arabic).
"Eastern Union," Oxfordforum, Oxford University Student Union, Summer 2006, pp. 38-39.
"Citizenship and Participation," The CSD Bulletin, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, 13/2, Summer 2006, pp. 16–17.
"The Pigeon on the Bridge is Shot," MERIP online, February 16, 2007, http://www.merip.org/mero/mero021607.
"The Headscarf and Citizenship in Turkey," Social Science Research Council blog, Immanent Frame, April 23, 2008, http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/04/23/the-headscarf-and-citizenship-in-turkey/.
"The Spirit of Convivencia," The Cost of No EU-Turkey III: Five Views, Open Society Foundation, Istanbul, May 2011 (available in English and Turkish), http://www.aciktoplumvakfi.org.tr/pdf/the-cost-of-no-eu-turkey-III-five-wiews.pdf.
"From Oblivion to Memory: Skeletons in the Turkish Republican Closet" (co-authored by Orhan Miroğlu), What Does Turkey Think? (edited by Dimitar Bechev), European Council on Foreign Relations, London, June 2011, http://www.ecfr.eu/page/-/ECFR35_TURKEY_AW.pdf.
"The Role of Islam in the Democratic Transformation of Arab Countries: can Turkish Laicism be a Model?" Democracy on the Precipice: Council of Europe Democracy Debates 2011-12 (Council of Europe publication, 2012),
https://rm.coe.int/CoERMPublicCommonSearchServices/DisplayDCTMContent?documentId=090000168046eb9b.
"Skeletons in the Turkish Closet: Remembering the Armenian Genocide," openDemocracy 50.50 inclusive democracy, April 24, 2015, https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/ayşe-kadıoğlu/skeletons-in-turkish-closet-remembering-armenian-genocide.


Credit Karma encourages you to "know your odds" in a series of new spots, part of an ad campaign titled "Know Your Odds".
One of the ads features a guy reincarnated into a worm who is approached by a pigeon and… you imagine what follows. "Odds of being reincarnated the way you wanted: Not great. Odds of getting approved for a credit card: Pretty great," the voiceover says at the end of the commercial, urging then viewers to find out what their odds are at the company's website.
Other spots in the campaign feature a woman at a potluck, whose odds of being asked for the recipe are not great at all, a guy whose odds of beating his genetic clone in a fight are not great either, and more.


It's the YPN's 14th anniversary! Celebrate our biggest annual event at the Heritage Center. Enjoy appetizers and a social with other area young professionals. There will be a cash bar as well.
Meet the new team co-leads of the YPN and elect our next Vice President. There will be member and business awards and door prizes. RSVP below!
The YPN gathers on or near Cinco de Mayo in honor of the organization's formation on this holiday in 2005. This is the network's largest annual event and also its annual meeting where we elect our vice president, present annual awards, and introduce the next round of YPN leadership whose terms run from May to May. Remember, you must be a current 2019 member to be able to cast your vote for Vice President.


If the recipe says add 3 grated carrots, can we go ahead and call the cake vegan?
As the founder of an online platform - this being the word of choice since magzine is too intimidating sometimes and blog has been butchered by social media - a consistent ability to generate content is a must.
Let's think about that for a second.
This means that every week an article should appear, or a piece of writing is required to surface out of the buzzing and chaotic backend of my mind. As a writer, musician, artist, or "creative" human in general, it is known that producing work can be one of the most simultaneously daunting and exhilarating of processes.
Anxiety is a very real and seldom addressed inevitability in the creative process, however quite recently more articles, posts, and satirical memes have cropped up making the topic more open for discussion. To be very clear, I'm not talking about anything serious or even necessarily medical, but merely the immense feeling of being overwhelmed by the thoughts in your own mind. The "creative genius" within you, which you are required to then harness, and formulate into substantial and meaningful work.
The ideas. The process. The vision you have for your work, can very often come with a significant serving of anxiety on the side.
It usually goes a little something like this ... Where do I start? What do I write about? Which pen do I use or which color palette will suit this painting best? Where is the right beat? What angle do I take the picture from? and at what point can we call the image composition groundbreaking?
Creativity is a gift, and being able to produce work that people can relate to on a personal level is the point of what we do as artists.
But I have a suggestion, for the days when you don't feel so creative, for the days when you're staring at a blank word document wondering what ever happened to your inspiration, to that brilliant story whose character's names you can no longer recall. To that dream you had of a beautiful image you wanted to manifest into reality, but somehow lost the ability to paint or draw.
My suggestion is let it go.
Move on. Draw something else. Do some free writing, challenge yourself to listen to a new genre of music in the hopes of coming across a fresh source of enlightenment.
Break the rules and ignore what is expected of you for that week or day or moment in time. Post an image instead of an article, create a section on your website that allows for days like these to happen. For improvisation, and motivation and allow space for your mind to play.
On Radical, our Instagram account acts a tumblr-ish space for ideas to keep rolling, and images that inspire to remain present, reminding our audience of who we are and what we stand for. A vibrant, bold, colorful and at times eccentric platform for the discussion of all things inspirational. This is a platform that encourages the sporadic "creative genius" to arrive when it feels like it, and leave when it is tired for the time being.
In my first year of college, my Creative Writing 102 professor assigned us a Ted Talk that I still reference to this day. It features Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert discussing how she views her own "Creative Genius" as a force that comes and goes when it pleases. As an entity of its own, which she has no actual power or control over. A liberating idea. I would highly recommend this talk to anyone looking to find an explanation for the elusive creative genius, and if that doesn't get the juices flowing, I left my own theory below.
The Carrot Cake Theory: I think of my creativity the way I think of carrot cake, it's a desert I can eat on any day due to the diversity of its nature. It uses ingredients that I can rationalize to myself as being both "healthy" and "satisfying" in any given state of mind. It is a sweet and sour, sometimes bitter, seemingly harmless sugary cake, a vague creation. But it succeeds in fulfilling its purpose every time. Much like my ability to write, sometimes bitter other times sweet but in the end the outcome is unpredictable and subjective, and I've learned to just go with it. Because the words that come out in moments of spontaneity, are often my best work.


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Why Bernie Might Declare Victory in Iowa Even If He Loses
Sharon	Health-and-Medical
Bernie Sanders campaigning in Iowa in late January.
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
There are plenty of reasons for the leading Democratic presidential campaigns to be on edge two days out from Iowa's caucuses. For one, it's an airtight race between four front-runners and a fifth candidate with (some measure of) momentum, and an uncertain impeachment schedule has kept three of them away from the state in crunch time. But among the most disconcerting worries to the campaigns — the one that amounts to the biggest ultimate question mark— is a potential muddle on caucus night once the results are announced. That's because this year, the Iowa Democratic Party is set to announce three results on caucus night, which might give two, or even three, different candidates reason to cheer. For the first time, the party won't just reveal the final "state delegate equivalent" totals that the candidates earn based on a calculus that tallies up all the outcomes from caucus sites of different sizes — from big cities like Des Moines and Iowa City to remote rural areas — but also two raw-vote totals: the initial one when all caucusgoers are asked who they back, and the second one, once lower-voting campaigns are eliminated and Iowans backing them get to support their second picks.
In theory, this added degree of transparency should give campaigns interesting data about the shape of their support. But the Associated Press and other news organizations have said they'll report the winner based on the state delegate equivalent total, which ultimately counts toward the nomination, as usual. And most campaigns designed their organizations in the state to maximize delegates, a task often achieved by making sure they had robust presences even in smaller, less populated parts of the state. Campaigning in a caucus state is inherently different than campaigning in a primary state, where the raw vote is almost always the only total that matters.
Yet earlier this month, Bernie Sanders adviser Jeff Weaver, his 2016 campaign manager, told the AP that "the first impression is probably the most accurate portrayal of who won the night," raising the possibility that multiple candidates could declare victory based on the different measures announced by the state party. He did note that, like every campaign, Sanders would be trying to win all three counts, but the upside for Sanders to focusing on the first raw total, specifically, is straightforward: At least some Iowa polls have shown he is the second-choice candidate of fewer Iowans than other contenders like Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg. That means Sanders could lose ground in the realignment portion of the evening, especially if more moderate candidates like Amy Klobuchar are eliminated and their backers support others in that ideological lane, or even Warren. (Sanders is likely to make the viability threshold in most caucus sites, so he probably doesn't have to worry about his backers redistributing their support to other candidates.) Printed pre-caucus materials that Sanders's campaign has circulated tells backers the process "should take less than an hour," which is only true in many sites if the initial alignment is the only one needed. And Sanders said on Saturday at an appearance in Indianola, Iowa, "we will know very, very early who wins the Democratic caucuses" — apparently doubling down on this notion.
Yet the other top-tier campaigns have largely been silent about whether they're considering putting an extra emphasis on any of the other metrics on caucus night. So I asked around.
Buttigieg's national press secretary Chris Meagher replied in an email. "The only thing that counts in Milwaukee is delegates," he wrote, referring to the party's national nominating convention in July. "And this year, more than any other, Democratic voters are looking for a nominee who knows how to win." Warren's team sounded a similar note, landing the two campaigns that are widely thought to have the best on-the-ground organizations firmly in the delegate-total camp. "All news organizations are considering State Delegate Equivalents (SDEs) as the measure of the Iowa caucuses," a campaign aide told me. "We agree."
After a Biden speech in Waukee on Thursday morning, I caught up with former Iowa governor and agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack, who's been backing, stumping for, and advising Biden all over the state. "It doesn't matter at the end of day, how many — total — people show up. What matters is delegates. It's sort of like this: Are you a football fan?," he asked me. (Sort of — since I'm a Jets fan — but I just said yes.) "So Kansas City was down to the Tennessee Titans 24-0 at halftime. Was the game over? No, turns out there was a second half to play and they scored 51 points, and they won 51-27." (This isn't what actually happened in this year's AFC championship game, but the Chiefs did mount a comeback to win.) "That's kinda the situation here," he continued. "The halftime is gonna be when the first round of raw numbers comes in. You can't declare a winner at that point. You gotta wait till the game is over."
I asked Vilsack if he was concerned about the different totals that would be made public. "I'm concerned that folks in your business need to understand what winning actually is," he said. "It's about delegates, because at the end of the day you could have a million people show up in one precinct and not have anybody else show up in another precinct, and you could be smoked on delegates."
Weaver, for his part, said he believes "it is true that you are potentially going to get a different first-round winner from the realignments — that is certainly true — but voters and the media are sophisticated enough to understand that." Still, Weaver — who was one of the Sanders allies at the center of pushing this policy change as part of the Democratic National Committee's post-2016 Unity Reform Commission — stood by his stance that he would be watching the initial raw count, no matter what his rivals say, and no matter what caucus history or delegate rules dictate. "Because Iowa is first and plays a critical role in telegraphing to subsequent states and the District of Columbia," he insisted, "it's important that people in those states have a way of comparing it to what happens in their own states."
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The study surveys two large sets of activities concentrating on digital libraries to examine the following questions: Does digital library research inform digital library practice? And vice versa? To what extent are they connected, now that nearly a decade has passed since they began? Examined were research projects supported by the first and second Digital Library Initiative (DLI), digital library projects listed by the Association for Research Libraries (ARL) and Digital Library Federation (DFL), and selected literature, focusing on the last five years. Methods concentrate only on examination of visible or "surface" sources or records, i.e. information that can be gathered from web sites, open literature, and published data. Limitations of the method are acknowledged; accordingly, caveats are made about conclusions. From this data we conclude that the two activities are not as yet demonstratively connected. A set of differing interpretations and conclusions are included.
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In this lesson, students will develop perspective about historical events through art, poetry, and music. Students will gain insight about how significant historical events can inspire art that conveys emotions and mood. This allows students to develop conceptual 'big ideas' about hardship, fairness, equity, and the quest to bring change for the better. After analyzing sculpture, poetry, and a musical composition, students will experiment with metaphors and create their own poetry.
Develop a familiarity with the origins of "The Black National Anthem" in reference to author, time, purpose, circumstance, and mood.
Recognize the effect that music and rhythm have on written words.
Teachers should be familiar with the civil rights movement in US history. Teachers can use this Civil Rights Timeline to refresh their understanding.
Teachers will also need a basic understanding of the role James Weldon Johnson played as a civil rights activist during the Harlem Renaissance. Visit this website for a brief Biography of James Weldon Johnson.
Teachers should be familiar with "Lift Every Voice and Sing (Black National Anthem)," performance is availble to watch in the Resource Carousel above. The text of the original poem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," is also in the Carousel.
Students should be comfortable working in pairs/quads. Also, they should have general knowledge about civil rights in the U.S. with post Civil War events to the early 1900's. The students should know how to construct a biographical timeline to identify events in one's life.
Students should have previously analyzed and interpreted visual art to explore and discover concepts.
Students should be familiar with metaphor used in poetry to help others gain perspective.
Preview sculpture and decide if a large image has clear resolution or to display in through a projector on the screen or wall, or on a white board, or a computer wired to a monitor or each pair of students has a copy of the visual representation of The Harp sculpted by Augusta Savage in 1939. A photograph of a scaled replica is located within the Resource Carousel available for you to use.
Have a large area vertical, top-bottom board or chart paper to allow for students to assemble a timeline from a link provided with 81/2" x 11" print outs placed in a sequence of the civil rights related historical events.
1. Display an image of the sculpture The Harp using the Resource Carousel above. Don't tell students the name of the sculpture. Have students examine and discuss the sculpture. Explain that this sculpture was displayed at the 1939 New York World's Fair and it stands about 16 feet high.
What are the things you could touch (people, places, or things) if you were looking at this work of art. e.g. man, God's hand, people, muscles, family, instruments.
3. Ask students why the artist chose to capture this particular image.
What title would you give this sculpture? Tell why.
After they have a chance to generate their own title and tell why, then share the name of the Sculpture: The Harp sculpted in 1939 by Augusta Savage. She was inspired by the poem, written by James Weldon Johnson, Lift Every Voice and Sing, and the song written by his brother, Rosamond.
1. Have students explore the events leading up to and surrounding the time the poem was written in 1900. The purpose is to let the reader build their knowledge about civil rights and how this poem connects to history. This website by ThinkQuest provides students with a timeline of important events to the African American history.
3. Divide students into five groups. Each group will need to research 4 dates at ThinkQuest. Each group should read about the event(s) during the time periods they receive, then report to the class in one or two sentences summarizing the event(s) and placing it along the timeline in large classroom display. Have chalk/markers available to allow for students to piece the timeline together from earliest events to 1900(writing of the poem).
4. Add James Weldon Johnson to the timeline (1871-1938). Within the timeline in a contrasting color to allow students to underscore his experiences in context of significant historical events related to civil rights movement.
5. Have students read about Johnson. Display Johnson's poem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, on a whiteboard using the Lift Every Voice and Sing image gallery located within the Resource Carousel. You can also print and distribute the poem to students.
6. Ask students to think carefully and describe what types of feelings the poem evokes. Explain that poems, like music, use words to affect the emotions of the audience. The teacher can model a 'think aloud' with a line or stanza and then draw an inference about feelings, mood.
1. Explain that the poem Lift Every Voice and Sing was set to music by the poet's brother, J. Rosamond Johnson. Explain to students that words of a song are called lyrics. Now they are going to examine how the poem's words take on a different level of meaning when set to music.
2. Ask students what kinds of music they listen to. What is special about music that creates special feelings, memories, or meanings?
3. Have students listen to the anthem's message of unifying African Americans in their struggle for equal rights in this country.
4. Have students watch the musical version of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" in the resource carousel above.
5. Have students discuss the effect of the music on the words of the poem.
How does the music affect the mood and emotion of the lyrics?
What do you think the singer(s) wants listeners to feel when they hear the song?
What emotions or feelings to you hear? Joyfulness, sadness, anything else?
How does one person singing (solo) compare to a group of people singing together?
Why do you think people sing together, such as in a choir?
6. Discuss the rhythm in the music selection. Ask students to identify the tempo of each the piece. Do they prefer a fast tempo or a slow one? Why?
7. Compare and contrast the words as a poem with the words set to music. Which has more of an effect on them? Which do they prefer? Why?
9. Think aloud the imagery from those key words. Model think aloud: I see African Americans marching with hope that they will be treated with fairness and equality.
Revisit The Harp from the Engage step and select a noun from the lists students created.
The vocabulary the students brainstormed will provide rich content for them to create an individual stanza of a poem about The Harp.
Have each group member individually write a line of poetry about The Harp.
Have students draw a picture of their group's stanza on a seperate sheet.
Students should then bring their images to a section of the wall and create a large picture moasic.
Explain that moasics could be described as image poems.
Have students read their class poem. Ask them to think about what they see as they read each line. What images come to mind?
Does the moasic that they created reflect the images they think about when they read their poem?


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Q: Mock beforeClosed function on MatDialog (unit test purpose) I added a beforeClosed on the init of component to retrieve the datas of a dialog when the user clicks outside it.
It works fine but the unit test is broken. Here is my code :
export class SelectBreed implements OnInit {
    constructor(public dialog: MatDialogRef<SelectBreed>) {}

    ngOnInit(): void {
       this.dialog.beforeClosed().subscribe(() => this.dialog.close({
           "breed": this.formGroup.value.breed
       }))
}

And the broken test :
describe('SelectBreed', () => {
    let spec: Spectator<SelectBreed>;
    const createComponent = createComponentFactory({
    component: SelectBreed,
    declarations: [SelectBreed],
    imports: [TranslateModule.forRoot()],
    providers: [
      {
        provide: MatDialogRef,
        useValue: {
          close: () => {},
          beforeClosed: () => {},
        }
      }
    ]
  })

  beforeEach( () => spectator = createComponent());

  it('should create', () => {
    expect(spectator.component).toBeTruthy();
  });
});

And I get the error :

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'subscribe')

I don't really know how to deal with this subscribe. I tried to add in useValue but without success. Or I must to mock beforeClosed differently I don't know.
If anyone had any idea it is well welcomed, thanks

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Spying on Chinese Living Abroad: A Visit To the City Responsible for China's Police Stations in Europe
The county police department in Qingtian
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Spying on Chinese Living Abroad A Visit To the City Responsible for China's Police Stations in Europe
China's secret police stations abroad have caused outrage around the world. But the idea apparently didn't come from Beijing. The representations came from individual Chinese cities – one of which is Qingtian, a city with many international ties.
By Georg Fahrion
Even many Chinese have never heard of this Chinese city. Qingtian is nestled in a narrow valley among forested mountains, a river dividing the town in half. With just half a million inhabitants, Qingtian is little more than a village by Chinese standards, but from here, secret Chinese police stations were set up all over the world. And visitors to Qingtian will also come across other phenomena that one might not expect in such a provincial backwater.
DER SPIEGEL 50/2022
The article you are reading originally appeared in German in issue 50/2022 (December 10th, 2022) of DER SPIEGEL.
SPIEGEL International
On a morning in late November, Lin Xuefeng is standing in his grocery store in Qingtian. There are packages of coffee beans, Italian pasta and Kinder chocolate on the shelves. Entire Ibérico hams hang in the window. Lin imports and sells European goods, as do many here. His neighborhood is home to the bistro La Maison Rouge, the jeweler Ciao Bella and the men's outfitter Milan Station.
Walking down the main street of this prosperous, peaceful city with its apartment buildings and elegant fashion stores, the matter of dubious police stations abroad doesn't exactly come to mind. But in September, Safeguard Defenders published a report on these stations that made headlines around the world. In early December, the NGO followed up with another report, in which the organization revealed that Chinese police agencies have established offices in 53 countries on five continents, including in Germany. According to the information available, the majority of these stations were set up without the knowledge and consent of the respective governments.
From these stations, pressure was exerted on numerous Chinese citizens to return to the People's Republic and turn themselves in to the authorities there. DER SPIEGEL has also documented one such case. This approach violated the national sovereignty of the countries in question – a principle of which China has always been a vehement defender when it comes to its own interests.
Law enforcement agencies in at least 12 of the affected countries have opened investigations, and high-ranking politicians and representatives of the security authorities have spoken out. "To me, it is outrageous to think that the Chinese police would attempt to set up shop, you know, in New York, let's say, without proper coordination" said FBI Director Christopher Wray, to cite just one example.
Amid all the justified outrage, one salient detail has frequently been overlooked: It wasn't the central government in Beijing that set up these clandestine structures abroad. According to the Safeguard Defenders report, the decision to establish the offices was not made at the national police ministry, nor even at the provincial level. It was made at a level one rung lower on the ladder.
The report indicates that the offices set up abroad are branches of police departments from four Chinese cities – including Qingtian, which is located in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. The Qingtian police are also in charge of the only Chinese police station on German soil that Safeguard Defenders has located - in Frankfurt.
The annual wine fair QWine should be taking place right now in Qingtian, but it was cancelled this year because of the coronavirus. The event had been slated to take place at the local basketball stadium, which Lin Xuefeng can see from the window of his grocery store. "It looks like that thing in Rome," he says, pointing at it. Indeed: The facade of the over-sized structure resembles the Colosseum. "That's the kind of flair we strive for," he says.
Qingtian's ties to Europe are old and deep. The area was once impoverished, a product of the lack of agricultural land due to the mountainous terrain. The city thus had to find other ways to make money.
That search led into the mountains around Qingtian. Veins of pyrophyllite run through the range: a soft, shiny silicate that occurs in local deposits in all sorts of colors – red, yellow, green, blue and pink. People call these chunks of colorful mineral, so pliable that they can be carved with a fingernail, "dragon eggs." From the time of the Ming Dynasty, Qingtian stonemasons made seals for imperial officials using the substance, and later ornate sculptures.
The pyrophyllite opened the world up to Qingtian. "Our ancestors brought the first stone carvings to Europe more than a hundred years ago," Lin, the store owner, explains. The merchants were successful – and they established an emigrant tradition. According to the local authorities, around 330,000 people originally from Qingtian now live scattered around the globe.
Grocery store owner Lin Xuefeng: "Relations between China and Europe are a bit bumpy at the moment."
Returnees like Lin then transformed the place, starting with the culinary arts. The global metropolis of Shanghai is perhaps the only other place in China where you can find Italian cuisine of such consistently solid quality. In Qingtian, this dolce vita has seeped into everyday culture. The men who gather at the Gioielli restaurant after work don't drink the usual baijiu liquor with their cigarette, preferring an espresso instead.
Indeed, Qingtian is an example of something that China and the rest of the world are clearly struggling with: international understanding. Ye Yulu, the owner of the restaurant "Itakake," remembers with affection an elderly regular of her former bar in Brescia, Lombardy, who came to visit her in Qingtian and spent the New Year with her family. Shopkeeper Lin feels the sense of togetherness in China is stronger than in other places, "but foreign countries also have good things. Everyone is equal there, and they have freedom of expression." When Lin, who is in his mid-40s, retires, he can imagine returning to Spain. He loves the climate there. "Relations between China and Europe are a bit bumpy at the moment," Lin says. "But everyone in Qingtian talks to someone abroad every day."
Officials Made No Secret of Police Stations
The pandemic marked a turning point for this lively international exchange. In the spring of 2020, when the first wave of the coronavirus began subsiding in China even as it was still swelling in Europe, the country closed its borders. Since then, Qingtian's emigrant community has effectively been cut off from the motherland.
It appears that the situation lent new importance to an initiative the city had launched back in 2018: the establishment of the "Foreign Service Centers of the Qingtian Police." According to an official website, these centers are designed to "help Chinese abroad solve problems" and "further improve the happiness and sense of belonging of overseas Chinese." The message also includes a telltale sentence: Policing abroad is a "new practice in the new era," it states. This can be read as a reference to the approach of autocrat Xi Jinping, according to which the broader Chinese population is to be subject to stricter controls. The authorities in Qingtian were apparently overly eager to demonstrate their fealty, and apparently didn't consider their initiative to be problematic at all. They didn't even make much of an effort to conceal the establishment of the police stations – indeed, they even bragged openly about them. A news website operated by the state-run China News Service still features photos of the kick-off ceremony for the initiative, with certificates being handed out and a man joyfully saluting.
A shopping street in Qingtian.
Qingtian Police Chief Yan Huarong listed all the functions of the police stations in a speech. They should help compatriots abroad with things like settling disputes, renewing drivers' licenses or clarifying immigration matters without having to travel to China. The tasks of the "service centers" also include "publicizing policies concerning overseas Chinese" – in other words: propaganda. In addition, "Qingtian police could use overseas service centers to gather intelligence" and "the feelings and opinions of overseas Chinese." That suddenly sounds more like intelligence work than any kind of resident services office. The police stations were set up and operated with the help of expatriate Chinese associations. As early as 2019, a publication by the security agencies said that 135 Qingtian-born compatriots had been recruited for this purpose.
"Protect the Interests of Overseas Chinese"
The Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese of Qingtian is located on the 12th floor of a high-rise building on the city's main street. With the reporter from DER SPIEGEL showing up unannounced, the office staff agree after a brief discussion that they have no time. But they do welcome the reporter to check out the Qingtian Emigrant Museum, which is located one floor below.
Hastily summoned, the in-house historian guides the reporter through the exhibition. It includes documents relating to five dragon egg dealers who were stranded in San Francisco in 1884; yellowed black-and-white photos of Qingtian natives and their German-Jewish wives in Leipzig; replacement documents for internally placed persons from World War II in Europe. The historian explains everything in meticulous detail. It's only in the last room, where history approaches the present, that he speeds up the tour.
Reporting Conditions in China
Foreign journalists are often tailed in China. In the case of this story, correspondent Georg Fahrion was expecting it all the more. But in Qingtian, no informer appeared to be expecting the DER SPIEGEL team. On the contrary, many of the inhabitants seemed to be pleased about the visit from Europe.
A large display board on the wall is titled: "Protecting the Interests of Overseas Chinese." Several photos show agency employees conferring at long tables. One caption reads: "On April 8, 2021, the County (Qingtian) Public Service Bureau held a video conference with seven of its service centers in Barcelona, Milan, Frankfurt, etc." When asked if he could also share something about this police work, the historian was silent, before saying, "I think it's better if we end the tour here."
In Qingtian, they are proud enough of their foreign police stations to hang them up in the museum. Have the local authorities really somehow overlooked just how problematic their police stations are under international law? After all, such issues aren't usually within their remit.
The Chinese diplomats who supported the initiative, on the other hand, cannot claim such ignorance for themselves. In a 2018 article, a state-run media quoted Lu Cijun, then the vice consul general in Barcelona, as praising the establishment of the stations. After the international controversy erupted, the Spanish daily El Correo was able to speak with an anonymous official from the Chinese Foreign Ministry. The newspaper quotes him as saying, "I don't see what's wrong with pressuring criminals to face justice."
Even if it is true that the Chinese police stations abroad weren't based on a central government plan, Beijing knew about them and obviously considered them advantageous.
Beijing's Long Arm: China's Secret Police Stations in Europe
By now, people in Qingtian have also registered the fact that other countries take a different view. Alerted about the presence of the foreign reporter, two female employees from the local Foreign Affairs Office rushed to the Emigration Museum. One of them says that she isn't in a position to answer questions about the police stations, but she does agree to forward a list of questions to the Qingtian police leadership. Those questions are never answered.
Afterward, the two women invite the reporter for a hot drink. The museum café serves excellent espresso.
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TalkTalk blockades The Pirate Bay, just BT to go
By Alex Lane
TalkTalk has completed the list of ISPs obeying a court order to block access to The Pirate Bay, while BT continues to negotiate with the UK record industry.
Virgin Media, O2, BE Broadband, Sky, Orange and T-Mobile have all complied with the April 27 court order, granted to the British Phonographic Industry.
The Pirate Bay's Facebook website, which has hosted restrained responses to the blockade, didn't even post to acknowledge the latest denial of access.
The BPI first asked the UK's major ISPs to block The Pirate Bay in November 2011, but the request was met with a demand for a court order.
The High Court ruled in February that The Pirate Bay was illegally infringing the BPI members' copyright by providing magnet links to file downloads, but didn't issue the order until the end of April.
Virgin was first to block The Pirate Bay, which brought upon it a denial-of-service attack that knocked out its websites for several hours, although The Pirate Bay advised against the use of DDoS attacks.
BT wasn't named in the court order, and has meanwhile been pursuing its own negotiations with the BPI, although it's expected to begin blocking The Pirate Bay soon.
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Q: C# Memory error when resizing window I have a simple form with some text box, label, and buttons, the problem is that it throws attempted to read or write protected memory every time I resize the window, there are no background tasks or nothing running when the form is showing, there is no code done yet, I just designed the UI and when I resize this error comes up. any ideas as to why this is? like I said, there is no code done yet, just dragged and dropped controls and arranged them.

this is the code in the .Designer
namespace MyProject
{
    partial class frmMain
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Required designer variable.
        /// </summary>
        private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null;

        /// <summary>
        /// Clean up any resources being used.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="disposing">true if managed resources should be disposed; otherwise, false.</param>
        protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
       {
            if (disposing && (components != null))
            {
                components.Dispose();
            }
            base.Dispose(disposing);
        }

        #region Windows Form Designer generated code

        /// <summary>
        /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
        /// the contents of this method with the code editor.
        /// </summary>
        private void InitializeComponent()
        {
            this.dgvMain = new System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView();
            this.btnAbout = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();
            this.gbFilters = new System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox();
            this.cbFiltered = new System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox();
            this.cbDomain = new System.Windows.Forms.CheckBox();
            this.cbUser = new System.Windows.Forms.CheckBox();
            this.btnNewPsswd = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();
            this.btnLogOut = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();
            this.lblUsr = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
            this.txtUsr = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
            this.lblPassword = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
            this.txtPassword = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
            this.cbShow = new System.Windows.Forms.CheckBox();
            this.lblDomain = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
            this.txtDomain = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
            this.lblUrl = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
            this.txtUrl = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
            this.lblNotes = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
            this.txtNotes = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
            this.btnDelete = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();
            this.gbMain = new System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox();
            this.btnEdit = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();
            ((System.ComponentModel.ISupportInitialize)(this.dgvMain)).BeginInit();
            this.gbFilters.SuspendLayout();
            this.gbMain.SuspendLayout();
            this.SuspendLayout();
            //
            // dgvMain
            //
            this.dgvMain.AllowUserToAddRows = false;
            this.dgvMain.AllowUserToDeleteRows = false;
            this.dgvMain.BackgroundColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
            this.dgvMain.BorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.BorderStyle.None;
            this.dgvMain.ColumnHeadersHeightSizeMode = System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewColumnHeadersHeightSizeMode.AutoSize;
            this.dgvMain.GridColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
            this.dgvMain.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(12, 96);
            this.dgvMain.Name = "dgvMain";
            this.dgvMain.ReadOnly = true;
            this.dgvMain.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(544, 331);
            this.dgvMain.TabIndex = 1;
            //
            // btnAbout
            //
            this.btnAbout.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.RoyalBlue;
            this.btnAbout.FlatStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle.Flat;
            this.btnAbout.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
            this.btnAbout.Image = global::PasswordSavvy.Properties.Resources.info;
            this.btnAbout.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(12, 433);
            this.btnAbout.Name = "btnAbout";
            this.btnAbout.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(48, 55);
            this.btnAbout.TabIndex = 3;
            this.btnAbout.UseVisualStyleBackColor = false;
            //
            // gbFilters
            //
            this.gbFilters.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Transparent;
            this.gbFilters.Controls.Add(this.cbFiltered);
            this.gbFilters.Controls.Add(this.cbDomain);
            this.gbFilters.Controls.Add(this.cbUser);
            this.gbFilters.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(12, 13);
            this.gbFilters.Name = "gbFilters";
            this.gbFilters.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(544, 77);
            this.gbFilters.TabIndex = 3;
            this.gbFilters.TabStop = false;
            this.gbFilters.Text = "Filters";
            //
            // cbFiltered
            //
            this.cbFiltered.FlatStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle.Flat;
            this.cbFiltered.FormattingEnabled = true;
            this.cbFiltered.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(243, 21);
            this.cbFiltered.Name = "cbFiltered";
            this.cbFiltered.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(217, 24);
            this.cbFiltered.TabIndex = 2;
            //
            // cbDomain
            //
            this.cbDomain.AutoSize = true;
            this.cbDomain.FlatStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle.Flat;
            this.cbDomain.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(106, 44);
            this.cbDomain.Name = "cbDomain";
            this.cbDomain.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(71, 20);
            this.cbDomain.TabIndex = 1;
            this.cbDomain.Text = "Domain";
            this.cbDomain.UseVisualStyleBackColor = true;
            //
            // cbUser
            //
            this.cbUser.AutoSize = true;
            this.cbUser.FlatStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle.Flat;
            this.cbUser.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(106, 18);
            this.cbUser.Name = "cbUser";
            this.cbUser.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(53, 20);
            this.cbUser.TabIndex = 0;
            this.cbUser.Text = "User";
            this.cbUser.UseVisualStyleBackColor = true;
            //
            // btnNewPsswd
            //
            this.btnNewPsswd.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.SeaGreen;
            this.btnNewPsswd.FlatStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle.Flat;
            this.btnNewPsswd.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
            this.btnNewPsswd.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(314, 433);
            this.btnNewPsswd.Name = "btnNewPsswd";
            this.btnNewPsswd.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(242, 55);
            this.btnNewPsswd.TabIndex = 5;
            this.btnNewPsswd.Text = "New Password";
            this.btnNewPsswd.UseVisualStyleBackColor = false;
            this.btnNewPsswd.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.btnNewPsswd_Click);
            //
            // btnLogOut
            //
            this.btnLogOut.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.RoyalBlue;
            this.btnLogOut.DialogResult = System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.Cancel;
            this.btnLogOut.FlatStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle.Flat;
            this.btnLogOut.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
            this.btnLogOut.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(66, 433);
            this.btnLogOut.Name = "btnLogOut";
            this.btnLogOut.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(242, 55);
            this.btnLogOut.TabIndex = 4;
            this.btnLogOut.Text = "Log Out";
            this.btnLogOut.UseVisualStyleBackColor = false;
            this.btnLogOut.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.btnLogOut_Click);
            //
            // lblUsr
            //
            this.lblUsr.AutoSize = true;
            this.lblUsr.FlatStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle.Flat;
            this.lblUsr.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(14, 25);
            this.lblUsr.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(3, 6, 3, 3);
            this.lblUsr.Name = "lblUsr";
            this.lblUsr.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(37, 16);
            this.lblUsr.TabIndex = 2;
            this.lblUsr.Text = "User";
            //
            // txtUsr
            //
            this.txtUsr.BorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.BorderStyle.FixedSingle;
            this.txtUsr.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(14, 47);
            this.txtUsr.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(3, 3, 3, 6);
            this.txtUsr.MaxLength = 20;
            this.txtUsr.Name = "txtUsr";
            this.txtUsr.ReadOnly = true;
            this.txtUsr.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(297, 22);
            this.txtUsr.TabIndex = 6;
            //
            // lblPassword
            //
            this.lblPassword.AutoSize = true;
            this.lblPassword.FlatStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle.Flat;
            this.lblPassword.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(14, 81);
            this.lblPassword.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(3, 6, 3, 3);
            this.lblPassword.Name = "lblPassword";
            this.lblPassword.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(68, 16);
            this.lblPassword.TabIndex = 4;
            this.lblPassword.Text = "Password";
            //
            // txtPassword
            //
            this.txtPassword.BorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.BorderStyle.FixedSingle;
            this.txtPassword.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(14, 103);
            this.txtPassword.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(3, 3, 3, 6);
            this.txtPassword.MaxLength = 50;
            this.txtPassword.Name = "txtPassword";
            this.txtPassword.ReadOnly = true;
            this.txtPassword.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(297, 22);
            this.txtPassword.TabIndex = 7;
            this.txtPassword.UseSystemPasswordChar = true;
            //
            // cbShow
            //
            this.cbShow.AutoSize = true;
            this.cbShow.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Transparent;
            this.cbShow.FlatStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle.Flat;
            this.cbShow.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Goldenrod;
            this.cbShow.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(17, 134);
            this.cbShow.Name = "cbShow";
            this.cbShow.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(60, 20);
            this.cbShow.TabIndex = 8;
            this.cbShow.Text = "Show ";
            this.cbShow.UseVisualStyleBackColor = false;
            this.cbShow.CheckStateChanged += new System.EventHandler(this.cbShow_CheckStateChanged);
            //
            // lblDomain
            //
            this.lblDomain.AutoSize = true;
            this.lblDomain.FlatStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle.Flat;
            this.lblDomain.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(14, 163);
            this.lblDomain.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(3, 6, 3, 3);
            this.lblDomain.Name = "lblDomain";
            this.lblDomain.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(55, 16);
            this.lblDomain.TabIndex = 7;
            this.lblDomain.Text = "Domain";
            //
            // txtDomain
            //
            this.txtDomain.BorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.BorderStyle.FixedSingle;
            this.txtDomain.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(14, 185);
            this.txtDomain.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(3, 3, 3, 6);
            this.txtDomain.MaxLength = 50;
            this.txtDomain.Name = "txtDomain";
            this.txtDomain.ReadOnly = true;
            this.txtDomain.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(297, 22);
            this.txtDomain.TabIndex = 9;
            //
            // lblUrl
            //
            this.lblUrl.AutoSize = true;
            this.lblUrl.FlatStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle.Flat;
            this.lblUrl.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(14, 219);
            this.lblUrl.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(3, 6, 3, 3);
            this.lblUrl.Name = "lblUrl";
            this.lblUrl.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(35, 16);
            this.lblUrl.TabIndex = 9;
            this.lblUrl.Text = "URL";
            //
            // txtUrl
            //
            this.txtUrl.BorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.BorderStyle.FixedSingle;
            this.txtUrl.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(14, 241);
            this.txtUrl.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(3, 3, 3, 6);
            this.txtUrl.MaxLength = 255;
            this.txtUrl.Name = "txtUrl";
            this.txtUrl.ReadOnly = true;
            this.txtUrl.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(297, 22);
            this.txtUrl.TabIndex = 10;
            //
            // lblNotes
            //
            this.lblNotes.AutoSize = true;
            this.lblNotes.FlatStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle.Flat;
            this.lblNotes.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(14, 275);
            this.lblNotes.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(3, 6, 3, 3);
            this.lblNotes.Name = "lblNotes";
            this.lblNotes.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(44, 16);
            this.lblNotes.TabIndex = 11;
            this.lblNotes.Text = "Notes";
            //
            // txtNotes
            //
            this.txtNotes.BorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.BorderStyle.FixedSingle;
            this.txtNotes.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(14, 297);
            this.txtNotes.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(3, 3, 3, 6);
            this.txtNotes.MaxLength = 255;
            this.txtNotes.Multiline = true;
            this.txtNotes.Name = "txtNotes";
            this.txtNotes.ReadOnly = true;
            this.txtNotes.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(297, 126);
            this.txtNotes.TabIndex = 11;
            //
            // btnDelete
            //
            this.btnDelete.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Firebrick;
            this.btnDelete.FlatStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle.Flat;
            this.btnDelete.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
            this.btnDelete.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(202, 432);
            this.btnDelete.Name = "btnDelete";
            this.btnDelete.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(119, 36);
            this.btnDelete.TabIndex = 13;
            this.btnDelete.Text = "Delete";
            this.btnDelete.UseVisualStyleBackColor = false;
            //
            // gbMain
            //
            this.gbMain.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Transparent;
            this.gbMain.Controls.Add(this.btnEdit);
            this.gbMain.Controls.Add(this.btnDelete);
            this.gbMain.Controls.Add(this.txtNotes);
            this.gbMain.Controls.Add(this.lblNotes);
            this.gbMain.Controls.Add(this.txtUrl);
            this.gbMain.Controls.Add(this.lblUrl);
            this.gbMain.Controls.Add(this.txtDomain);
            this.gbMain.Controls.Add(this.lblDomain);
            this.gbMain.Controls.Add(this.cbShow);
            this.gbMain.Controls.Add(this.txtPassword);
            this.gbMain.Controls.Add(this.lblPassword);
            this.gbMain.Controls.Add(this.txtUsr);
            this.gbMain.Controls.Add(this.lblUsr);
            this.gbMain.FlatStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle.Flat;
            this.gbMain.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(563, 13);
            this.gbMain.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(4);
            this.gbMain.Name = "gbMain";
            this.gbMain.Padding = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(4);
            this.gbMain.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(328, 475);
            this.gbMain.TabIndex = 0;
            this.gbMain.TabStop = false;
            this.gbMain.Text = "groupBox1";
            //
            // btnEdit
            //
            this.btnEdit.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.RoyalBlue;
            this.btnEdit.FlatStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FlatStyle.Flat;
            this.btnEdit.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
            this.btnEdit.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(77, 432);
            this.btnEdit.Name = "btnEdit";
            this.btnEdit.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(119, 36);
            this.btnEdit.TabIndex = 12;
            this.btnEdit.Text = "Edit";
            this.btnEdit.UseVisualStyleBackColor = false;
            //
            // frmMain
            //
            this.AcceptButton = this.btnNewPsswd;
            this.AutoScaleDimensions = new System.Drawing.SizeF(8F, 16F);
            this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font;
            this.CancelButton = this.btnLogOut;
            this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(904, 497);
            this.Controls.Add(this.btnLogOut);
            this.Controls.Add(this.btnNewPsswd);
            this.Controls.Add(this.gbFilters);
            this.Controls.Add(this.btnAbout);
            this.Controls.Add(this.dgvMain);
            this.Controls.Add(this.gbMain);
            this.Font = new System.Drawing.Font("Microsoft Sans Serif", 9.75F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Regular, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point, ((byte)(0)));
            this.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(4);
            this.Name = "frmMain";
            this.StartPosition = System.Windows.Forms.FormStartPosition.CenterScreen;
            this.Text = "Password Savvy";
            this.FormClosed += new System.Windows.Forms.FormClosedEventHandler(this.frmMain_FormClosed);
            this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.frmMain_Load);
        ((System.ComponentModel.ISupportInitialize)(this.dgvMain)).EndInit();
            this.gbFilters.ResumeLayout(false);
            this.gbFilters.PerformLayout();
            this.gbMain.ResumeLayout(false);
            this.gbMain.PerformLayout();
            this.ResumeLayout(false);

        }

        #endregion
        private System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView dgvMain;
        private System.Windows.Forms.Button btnAbout;
        private System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox gbFilters;
        private System.Windows.Forms.Button btnNewPsswd;
        private System.Windows.Forms.Button btnLogOut;
        private System.Windows.Forms.CheckBox cbUser;
        private System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox cbFiltered;
        private System.Windows.Forms.CheckBox cbDomain;
        private System.Windows.Forms.Label lblUsr;
        private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtUsr;
        private System.Windows.Forms.Label lblPassword;
        private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtPassword;
        private System.Windows.Forms.CheckBox cbShow;
        private System.Windows.Forms.Label lblDomain;
        private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtDomain;
        private System.Windows.Forms.Label lblUrl;
        private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtUrl;
        private System.Windows.Forms.Label lblNotes;
        private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtNotes;
        private System.Windows.Forms.Button btnDelete;
        private System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox gbMain;
        private System.Windows.Forms.Button btnEdit;
    }
}

all controls in the form are drag and drop

A: This is almost certainly not a bug in WinForms or your C# code.  These errors are caused by either P/Invoke gone wrong or native modules loaded into your process.  The native modules could be loaded by you explicitly, or could be the result of AppInit DLLs or DLL's loaded by drivers or other processes.
Enable Managed Debugging Assistants and update your video card drivers.  Check Autoruns and the loaded Modules tab of VS for unexpected dlls.  Process Explorer is another good tool to identify third party modules.