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Sunset Report Takes Half Step Forward, More Change Needed at State Environmental Agency
Today, the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission staff released their report on the Texas Commission on Environental Quality. The Sunset Avisory Commissioners will meet to take public testimony – December 15th or 16th and will vote on their recommendations to the legislature on January 12, 2011.
The public can respond to the Sunset staff report up until the Commissioners meet. To read a copy of the report, click here. To access the form for submitting your comments on the staff report, click here. You can submit comments to the Commission up to the date that the Commissioners vote on their recommendations to the legislature. To submit a comment, click here.
Below is a statement from the Alliance for a Clean Texas (ACT). The ACT partner organizations include: Sierra Club, Public Citizen (Texas office), Environmental Defense Fund, Texas IMPACT, Air Alliance of Houston, Texas Campaign for the Environment, Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) Coalition, Environment Texas, Texas League of Conservation Voters, ReEnergize Texas, the Enviromental Integrity Project, Texas Center for Policy Studies, Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance, Hill Country Alliance, National Wildlife Foundation, Clean Water Action and the Baptist Commission on Christian Life.
Is the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) – the state's environmental agency – doing a good enough job protecting the health of Texans? The Sunset Advisory Commission Staff Report on TCEQ, issued today, is a first step in answering that question. The report contains a number of positive recommendations that, if adopted by the Sunset Advisory Commission and ultimately enacted by the Texas Legislature, will help strengthen the TCEQ in carrying out its responsibilities to protect the environment and public health for all Texans. However, the report failed to make recommendations to resolve a number of chronic problems plaguing the agency.
"We are pleased that the Sunset staff found merit in the issues and recommendations we presented relating to enforcement effectiveness and transparency, compliance history, public participation and other important areas within the agency," commented former TCEQ Commissioner Larry Soward, who has been working with Air Alliance Houston on their Sunset recommendations. "We commend the Sunset Staff for their thorough research and very insightful findings and recommendations on these issues and look forward to working with the Sunset Commission members as the process progresses."
"The Sunset staff has made some excellent recommendations about increasing penalties for pollution and raising the rates that polluters pay," said Tom "Smitty" Smith of Public Citizen. "The big ticket item that the staff report avoids is Texas' flawed permitting program. We hope that the TCEQ and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continue to work together to fix our state's permitting flaws and that this vital issue will not be further complicated by needless politics and grandstanding."
"This is a great start to make the TCEQ a better agency, but we regret that the Sunset Staff did not recommend other changes that would have helped address the issues and problems that citizens face regularly when dealing with the TCEQ, such as the agency's regulation of toxic hot spots around the state," commented Air Alliance Houston's Matthew Tejada. "We will continue to work to get these other very significant issues addressed either by the Sunset Advisory Commission or by the Legislature."
Bee Moorhead, executive director of the interfaith group Texas Impact, said TCEQ reform legislation should start with the basics. "Lawmakers need to adopt a statutory mission statement that says TCEQ's job is to protect human health and the environment. Period. Texans deserve an agency that is there to protect their health, not the bottom lines of polluters," she said.
Eric Allmon with the Texas Center for Policy Studies commented that, "We appreciate the recognition by the Sunset Commission Staff that an open and inclusive process for decision making at the TCEQ is important." He continued to say, "many of the Staff's recommendations are a step in the right direction, but further steps to give the public an independent voice in TCEQ's decisions, along with a close examination of TCEQ's decision making procedures, would help ensure that the agency is acting with the full benefit of the public's input."
"We are pleased that the sunset staff report agreed that water and gas rate cases should be moved to the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC), and said the Office of Public Interest Counsel should be strengthened," said Cyrus Reed of the Lone Star Sierra Club. "However, we are disappointed in their recommendation regarding water quality regulation between the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) and the TCEQ. We also believe TCEQ is better suited to handle uranium mining and coal combustion wastes and are sorry that the staff report did not address this."
The staff report also took up the controversial issue of low-level radioactive waste. "The Sunset Commission should recommend the legislature immediately put a stop to the proposed rule to import additional radioactive waste from 36 states, and analyze the health and financial risks to the state of Texas," said Karen Hadden, executive director of SEED Coalition.
The Sunset Advisory Commission will hold its public hearing on December 15th or 16th to hear public testimony on TCEQ. They will vote on reforms on January 12th. These recommendations will be then reviewed and voted on by the entire Texas Legislature this coming session.
The Alliance for Clean Texas (ACT), a statewide coalition of environmental, public interest and faith organizations, developed a reform platform with detailed plans to tighten permitting, strengthen enforcement and allow the public more input into critical regulatory processes. Over the past two months, hundreds of Texans have voiced their recommendations for improvements to TCEQ at town hall meetings throughout the state. From El Paso to Beaumont, Texans have described how TCEQ failed to protect their health and property. Citizen after citizen shared tales of how the agency
ignored clear evidence that a proposed plant would affect their health or livelihood
ignored the cumulative impacts of combined emissions from dozens of proposed coal plants, or thousands of oil and gas wells
failed to act when a polluter emitted far more that it was permitted
assessed fines that were meaningless
failed to look at the combined impact of air and water emissions
ignored federal laws
overruled the recommendations of their staff and administrative law judges in permitting matter
More information on these town hall meetings plus the coalition's detailed permitting and enforcement recommendations can be found on www.acttexas.org.
Check out our earlier blog for an example of an issue that has Texans concerned about how protective TCEQ is about their health and well-being – Radiation in Houston's Tap Water Compounded by TCEQ 'lowballing' radiation scores in drinking water throughout Texas.
By promoting cleaner energy, cleaner government, and cleaner air for all Texans, we hope to provide for a healthy place to live and prosper. We are Public Citizen Texas.
Audit of Texas Environmental Agency to Be Released (abcnews.go.com)
By Giving ExxonMobil a Slap on the Wrist, Feds Tell Polluters, 'Don't Worry About Enforcement in the Trump Administration'
Good Bills Being Heard in House Environmental Reg
HEARING ON NUKE DUMP NOW SET FOR SATURDAY
TCEQ Status Update on Las Brisas Application an Effort to "Fast-Track" the SOAH process


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Ny utgave av NBS-Nytt – Nr. 4/2022
17.12.2022 /0 Comments/in Arkiv Oslo Upcoming Events, NBS-Nytt/by NBS
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Kontaktmøtet 2023 – Abstract Submission Poster Deadline 12 January
Contact Meeting 2023
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Kontaktmøtet 2023 – Registration Deadline December 10 – Last Chance!
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Kontaktmøtet 2023 – Speakers & preliminary program updated – Early Bird – ÅPENT !
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The BRCA2/RAD51 axis is required to protect cells against transcription-replication conflicts
NBS invites you all to the second NBS online seminar of 2022! The seminar series is a collaboration between all local NBS branches with talks by researchers from Bergen, Oslo, Trondheim, Tromsø and Ås. The seminar will be held on zoom and is open for all. This month we are proud to present a talk by Prof. Ian Hickson from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Prof. Hickson is director of the Center for Chromosome Stability at UCPH and will give a talk about the BRCA2/RAD51 axis and transcription-replication conflicts:
Tuesday June 7th at 11.00 (Open for all!)
Zoom webinar: https://uio.zoom.us/j/7801877377
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NBS Online Seminar Series – April 26th at 14.30 | NAD replenishment therapy for Parkinsons disease: from the bench to the bedside
NBS invites you all to the national NBS Seminar series! The seminar series is a collaboration between all local NBS branches with talks by researchers from Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Tromsø and Ås. The seminar will be held on zoom and is open for all!
Title: NAD replenishment therapy for Parkinson's disease: from the bench to the bedside
Speaker: Charalampos Tzoulis, Department of Neurology, UiB
Tuesday April 26th at 14.30 (Open for all!)
Passcode: 39692239
Link to zoom meeting → https://uib.zoom.us/j/66256372254?pwd=TTdhV2lTTjIyUmszZGZDTUNaN3VDZz09
Parkinson's disease is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders, affecting approximately 1-2% of the population above 65 years of age. The disease is characterized by the formation of Lewy bodies, death of dopaminergic neurons in a part of the brain called substantia nigra, and a corresponding loss of dopamine signaling. There is no cure for Parkinson's disease, and all treatment options are symptomatic treatments with no effect on disease progression.
Charalampos Tzoulis is a Professor of Neurology and Neurogenetics at the University of Bergen and Haukeland University Hospital, and an expert on movement disorders and neurodegeneration, including dementia and parkisonism. His research focuses on exploring the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson's disease (PD) with the aim to improve patient diagnosis and develop neuroprotective therapies.
Charalampos Tzoulis is the Principal Investigator of the research group Neuromics at the University of Bergen and co-Director of the Neuro-SysMed Center of Excellence for Clinical Research in Neurological diseases, where he leads the research on PD and are running two clinical trials aimed at improving treatment for patients with Parkinson's disease. Since 2022, he is also the Director of the K.G. Jebsen Center for Translational Research in Parkinson's Disease at UiB.
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Myers, David P. (1989). Experiments and observations on the behaviour and brain of the aging female mouse with special reference to dementia of the Alzheimer type. PHD thesis, Aston University.
The objective of this research was to investigate the effects of normal aging and the additional effects of chronic exposure to two experimental diets, one enriched in aluminium, the other enriched in lecithin, on aspects of the behaviour and brain histology of the female mouse. The aluminium diet was administered in an attempt to develop a rodent model of Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (DAT). With normal aging, almost all assessed aspects of behaviour were found to be impaired. As regards cognition, selective impairments of single-trial passive avoidance and Morris place learning were observed. While all aspects of open-field behaviour were impaired, the degree of impairment was directly related to the degree of motoric complexity. Deficits were also observed on non-visual sensorimotor coordination tasks and in olfactory discrimination. Histologically, neuron loss, gliosis, vacuolation and congophilic angiopathy were observed in several of the brain regions/fibre tracts believed to contribute to the control of some of the assessed behaviours. The aluminium treatment had very selective effects on both behaviour and brain histology, inducing several features observed in DAT. Behaviourally, the treatment induced impaired spatial reference memory; reduced ambulation; disturbed olfactory function and induced the premature development of the senile pattern of swimming. Histologically, significant neuron loss and gliosis were observed in the hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, amygdala, medial septum, pyriform and pr-frontal cortex. In addition, the brain distribution of congophilic angiopathy was significantly increased by the treatment. The lecithin treatment had effects on both non-cognitive and cognitive aspects of behaviour. The effects of aging on open-field ambulation and rearing were partially ameliorated by the treatment. A similar effect was observed for single-trial passive avoidance performance. Age-dependent improvements in acquisition/retention were observed in 17-23 month mice and Morris place task performance was improved in 11 and 17 month mice. Histologically, a partial sparing of neurons in the cerebellum, hippocampus, entorhinal cortex and subiculum was observed.


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package zipkin2.server.internal.kafka;

import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnClass;
import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.EnableConfigurationProperties;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Condition;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ConditionContext;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Conditional;
import org.springframework.core.type.AnnotatedTypeMetadata;
import zipkin2.collector.CollectorMetrics;
import zipkin2.collector.CollectorSampler;
import zipkin2.collector.kafka.KafkaCollector;
import zipkin2.storage.StorageComponent;

/**
 * This collector consumes a topic, decodes spans from thrift messages and stores them subject to
 * sampling policy.
 */
@ConditionalOnClass(KafkaCollector.class)
@Conditional(ZipkinKafkaCollectorConfiguration.KafkaBootstrapServersSet.class)
@EnableConfigurationProperties(ZipkinKafkaCollectorProperties.class)
public class ZipkinKafkaCollectorConfiguration { // makes simple type name unique for /actuator/conditions

  @Bean(initMethod = "start")
  KafkaCollector kafka(
      ZipkinKafkaCollectorProperties properties,
      CollectorSampler sampler,
      CollectorMetrics metrics,
      StorageComponent storage) {
    return properties.toBuilder().sampler(sampler).metrics(metrics).storage(storage).build();
  }
  /**
   * This condition passes when {@link ZipkinKafkaCollectorProperties#getBootstrapServers()} is set
   * to non-empty.
   *
   *
This is here because the yaml defaults this property to empty like this, and spring-boot
   * doesn't have an option to treat empty properties as unset.
   *
   *
{@code
   * bootstrap-servers: ${KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS:}
   * }

   */
  static final class KafkaBootstrapServersSet implements Condition {
    @Override
    public boolean matches(ConditionContext context, AnnotatedTypeMetadata a) {
      return !isEmpty(
        context.getEnvironment().getProperty("zipkin.collector.kafka.bootstrap-servers")) &&
        notFalse(context.getEnvironment().getProperty("zipkin.collector.kafka.enabled"));
    }

    private static boolean isEmpty(String s) {
      return s == null || s.isEmpty();
    }

    private static boolean notFalse(String s){
      return s == null || !s.equals("false");
    }
  }
}

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Q: Program returns Incorrect eigenvalues The set of eigenvalues_new1 of (matnew1) and eigenvalues_new2 of
(matnew2) should give the square of the set of eigenvalues of (mat)..
But in this code I am getting negative eigenvalues for matnew1 and
matnew2..
Above all the square root(abs(eigenvalues_new1))  and
square root(abs(eigenvalues_new2)) are different from eigenvalues of the
matrix (mat) at least in case of one value.
import numpy as np
import random
import cmath
import math

for i in np.arange(1,2,1):
    MS = random.uniform(0.001,100)
    MD = random.uniform(1e-5,0.1)

    alpha = 0.5*((MD**2)/(MS**2))

    if(alpha < 0.01):
        mu = 1e-10
        MR = 1e+5

        mat = np.array([[0,0,MD],[0,mu,MS],[MD,MS,MR]])
        #print(mat)

        eigenvalues, eigenvectors = np.linalg.eig(mat)

        matDag = np.conjugate(np.transpose(mat))
        matnew1 = np.matmul(mat, matDag)

        matnew2 = np.matmul(mat,mat)
        #print(matnew1)
        #print(matnew2)
        eigenvalues_new1, eigenvectors_new1 = np.linalg.eig(matnew1)
        eigenvalues_new2, eigenvectors_new2 = np.linalg.eig(matnew2)

        print(eigenvalues[0],eigenvalues[1],eigenvalues[2])
        print(eigenvalues_new1[0],eigenvalues_new1[1],eigenvalues_new1[2])
        print(eigenvalues_new2[0],eigenvalues_new2[1],eigenvalues_new2[2])

A: When I run this (you should have shown this output) I get:
100000.04370532616 7.718450571376183e-17 -0.043705325975408056
10000008741.067133 -4.0160149511470067e-14 0.0019101560620918938
10000008741.067133 -4.0160149511470067e-14 0.0019101560620918938

The second and third lines are very close to the square of the first:
In [5]: 0.0437**2
Out[5]: 0.0019096900000000003

In [6]: 100000.043705**2
Out[6]: 10000008741.001911

The negative entries are in the middle column and are approximately -4e-14. Since in the top row you have 7e-17 the second and third rows should the the square of that. However I would treat the 7e-17 as being either zero or all rounding error: really you have an eigenvalue close to zero. Likewise the -4e-14 should be treated as zero.
Your matrix has this structure and this determinant:
In [18]: M
Out[18]:
⎡0   0   MD⎤
⎢          ⎥
⎢0   μ   MS⎥
⎢          ⎥
⎣MD  MS  MR⎦

In [19]: M.det()
Out[19]:
   2
-MD ⋅μ

Since the determinant is the product of the eigenvalues and mu is very small the product of your eigenvalues needs to be small. That means that your large eignavlue has to be balanced by another very small one. Taken together that means that your matrix has a poor condition number and you can't expect to accurately compute the smaller eigenvalue.

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Prepare to Meet Higher Demand for School Bus Techs
March 9, 2018 • by James Blue • Bookmark +
An internship program could be an effective way to prepare students — as well as school transportation operations — for the future. Shown here are students who worked in a co-op program.
Students ride your school buses on a daily basis, but have they had a chance to experience the school bus shop?
More specifically, have you considered hosting an internship program for students who are interested in working on large vehicles?
That thought came to mind as I reviewed a recent report by TechForce Foundation. The nonprofit's report, titled "Transportation Technician New Entrant Demand," shows a heightened need for vehicle techs in the U.S. in the coming years.
After analyzing data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), TechForce found that the estimated demand for new entrant vehicle technicians is much higher than previously reported. New entrant technicians are those needed to fill the growth in new positions and to replace those who leave the field.
The TechForce report reveals that the newly projected BLS average annual new entrant demand — 75,900 auto technicians for the 2016 to 2026 period — is much greater than the previous BLS projected demand — 23,720 technicians for the 2014 to 2024 period.
The demand for diesel technicians is similar. According to TechForce, the newly projected BLS average annual new entrant demand of 28,300 diesel technicians far surpasses the previous projection of 7,690.
"BLS had underestimated the replacement component of demand — replacing existing technicians who have retired, been promoted, or decided to find a new career," explained Greg Settle, TechForce's director of national initiatives. "That methodological problem has been rectified with the new projections just issued by the BLS for the 2016-2026 period."
Settle added that three key factors have exacerbated a shortage of technicians.
"We're caught in the middle of a strong growing economy, a 'catch-up' demand for technicians created by the Great Recession of 2008, and the increasing complexity of vehicles," he said.
SBF has devoted a great deal of coverage to the pervasive issue of school bus driver shortage, which even impacts the shop (see our 2018 Maintenance Survey). But less has been said about technician shortage.
Even if you don't currently have a shortage of technicians, have you thought about your need for the coming years? Is your district projecting growth in student enrollment, which will require more buses and therefore more people to maintain them? Are some of your experienced techs likely to retire in the next few years, leaving big shoes to fill in the shop?
To that end, an internship program could be an effective way to prepare students — as well as your own operation — for the future.
As one example, Cobb County (Ga.) Schools offers programs in which students can gain experience in the school bus garage. As we reported in our March 2017 issue, the district's work-based learning program helps technical school students figure out if they want to go on to a trade school. These interns have learned, among other things, how to install and repair school bus seat covers and how to run a tire program.
Also, Cobb's corporate classroom program recruits special-needs students who have high-functioning skills and an interest in working with their hands. The Cobb transportation team has taken on several of these students as interns as they work toward graduating from high school and making the transition to working adult life.
Programs like this provide a great opportunity for students to experience a line of work that could lead to a fulfilling career. The interns can also help the school bus maintenance crew with its current workload, and they might even become future employees.
In January, the TechForce Foundation held a summit to discuss its FutureTech Success campaign, which encourages young people to pursue careers in the technician profession. Jennifer Maher, CEO and executive director of TechForce, pointed to a misconception that must be corrected in order to meet the increased demand for new technicians.
"For decades, students have been told there's only one road to success, and that's through a four-year degree," Maher said. "They've been led to believe that working with your hands and using one's natural tactile intelligence is a 'less-than-desirable pathway.' But it's simply not true, and America needs its skilled technicians to keep it rolling. Today's vehicle technician jobs are in high demand and provide a solid middle-class career path."
That's a message that the school bus industry would be wise to repeat.
Related: Apprentice, Intern Programs Groom Great Workers
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using Poco::Task;
using Poco::Thread;
using Poco::Event;
using Poco::AutoPtr;

namespace
{
	class TestTask: public Task
	{
	public:
		TestTask(): Task("TestTask")
		{
		}

		void runTask()
		{
			_event.wait();
			if (sleep(10))
				return;
			setProgress(0.5);
			_event.wait();
			if (isCancelled())
				return;
			setProgress(1.0);
			_event.wait();
		}

		void cont()
		{
			_event.set();
		}

	private:
		Event _event;
	};
}

TaskTest::TaskTest(const std::string& name): CppUnit::TestCase(name)
{
}

TaskTest::~TaskTest()
{
}

void TaskTest::testFinish()
{
	AutoPtr<TestTask> pTT = new TestTask;
	assert (pTT->state() == Task::TASK_IDLE);
	Thread thr;
	thr.start(*pTT);
	assert (pTT->progress() == 0);
	pTT->cont();
	while (pTT->progress() != 0.5) Thread::sleep(50);
	assert (pTT->state() == Task::TASK_RUNNING);
	pTT->cont();
	while (pTT->progress() != 1.0) Thread::sleep(50);
	pTT->cont();
	thr.join();
	assert (pTT->state() == Task::TASK_FINISHED);
}

void TaskTest::testCancel1()
{
	AutoPtr<TestTask> pTT = new TestTask;
	assert (pTT->state() == Task::TASK_IDLE);
	Thread thr;
	thr.start(*pTT);
	assert (pTT->progress() == 0);
	pTT->cont();
	while (pTT->progress() != 0.5) Thread::sleep(50);
	assert (pTT->state() == Task::TASK_RUNNING);
	pTT->cancel();
	assert (pTT->state() == Task::TASK_CANCELLING);
	pTT->cont();
	thr.join();
	assert (pTT->state() == Task::TASK_FINISHED);
}

void TaskTest::testCancel2()
{
	AutoPtr<TestTask> pTT = new TestTask;
	assert (pTT->state() == Task::TASK_IDLE);
	Thread thr;
	thr.start(*pTT);
	assert (pTT->progress() == 0);
	pTT->cancel();
	assert (pTT->state() == Task::TASK_CANCELLING);
	pTT->cont();
	thr.join();
	assert (pTT->state() == Task::TASK_FINISHED);
}

void TaskTest::setUp()
{
}

void TaskTest::tearDown()
{
}

CppUnit::Test* TaskTest::suite()
{
	CppUnit::TestSuite* pSuite = new CppUnit::TestSuite("TaskTest");

	CppUnit_addTest(pSuite, TaskTest, testFinish);
	CppUnit_addTest(pSuite, TaskTest, testCancel1);
	CppUnit_addTest(pSuite, TaskTest, testCancel2);

	return pSuite;
}


This chick Maria works at a DPS high school dresses like a complete sloot not only sleeps with the Athletic Director at the school but also co-workers of hers. She likes to have multiple sugar daddy's who are married so they can support her child. All while being in a relationship!!
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'There is no message. There is no messenger. There is no money. And there is no infrastructure,' says one top Republican.
That harsh assessment comes as Republicans survey the damage from the devastation of a "blue tsunami" in California which wiped out five GOP-held House seats — with more still threatened — while handing every statewide seat and a supermajority to the Democrats in both houses of the state legislature this week.
The latest blows wiped out two more GOP seats in Southern California: Democrat Katie Porter, an UC Irvine professor, on Thursday was declared the winner over Republican Rep. Mimi Walters in a district which represents the beating political heart of Orange County, and Democrat Gil Cisneros completed the rout Saturday, winning the neighboring open seat formerly held by Republican Ed Royce.
Republicans like Madrid also mourned another low point this week: the defeat of Southern California Assemblyman Dante Acosta, marking the demise of the last GOP Latino legislator — in a state where Latinos comprise the fastest-growing electorate.
"The California Republican Party isn't salvageable at this time. The Grand Old Party is dead," wrote former state GOP Assembly leader Kristin Olsen, who startled fellow Republicans with a brutally frank op-ed this week saying Republicans must acknowledge their "serious problem" in California, particularly the effects of toxicity of President Trump.
Madrid argues that many California Republican leaders remain in complete denial of the fact that their continued support of Trump presidency has sealed the fate of the GOP — and last week's midterm elections revealed the true extent of the GOP's rot in California, where the state party has now shrunken to third party status.
Republicans looking at the ashes of the midterm results say they must envision what a new party will look like — after the current structure and its leadership has been entirely disassembled.
"That's the question: how do you start over?,'' said Joel Fox, a longtime GOP strategist who publishes the "Fox & Hounds Daily" commentary site. He says the answer will be more wide-ranging than finding "one dynamic leader" — celebrity or billionaire — to rescue their cause.
"The rise of the Republican Party may really depend on the Democratic Party,'' Fox said, and how it handles the heady times of having a $14 billion surplus and a supermajority under the leadership of the incoming Governor-elect Gavin Newsom. If progressives try to push their agenda too far, and land too many pro-tax ballot measures in front of the voters in future ballots — including revisions of the landmark property tax measure Prop. 13, soda taxes and oil taxes — it's possible they will create an opening for the GOP to return to viability.
Not everyone agrees that Trump is the cause for the party's bottoming out. This week, former state GOP chair Shawn Steel, a member of the Republican National Committee, argued in an op-ed published in the Washington Examiner that "it's not Trump" who lost Orange County dominance for the party. He laid the blame on millions of dollars in "dark money" raised by Democrats, who he said were aided by better organization and help from the tech industry in Silicon Valley. And — without any substantiation — Steel also claimed Democratic voter registration drives produced "borderline fraudulent turnout rates" in some key districts.
But a growing number of Republicans in the party's #NeverTrump wing — which includes prominent strategists like Rob Stutzman and Luis Alvarado — insist that a new beginning will rely heavily on a full-throated repudiation of Trump's caustic divisiveness. They believe the rebuilding process could require years, if not generations, to rid the state GOP of the taint of a president who is blamed for ramping up anti-immigrant sentiment in a state that is home to more immigrants than any other in the country.
This isn't the first time the dilapidated Republican Party in California has faced a dire outlook — or debated the notion that it must be completely overhauled. In 2007, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was lambasted by Republicans when he delivered an address to their state convention warning that the GOP was "dying at the box office'' because they lacked inclusive messaging and policies, particularly to minorities who now dominate the state's demographics.
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Finally Seeing the Light in Key West
The schedule has been really hectic for the past month or so, and I'm feeling the energy leaving my body and sleep in the chair instead of getting things done. So today, I got myself up and started wandering in Old Town Key West looking for something new to write about. As I left the Southernmost Point and headed down Whitehead Street I saw the spire of the Key West Lighthouse in the distance and like a beam in the night it gave me an idea.
I've told visitor's a thousand times to stop by the lighthouse when you visit Hemingway's House it is right across the street. Here I've been writing about Hemingway and other historic Key est sites and I've forgotten the lighthouse.
 The Key West Lighthouse was built in 1847 to aid the ships that navigated the dangerous reef off of Key West. Key West residents were getting very rich from the salvage business that booming prior to the installation of the lighthouse. The original light house was 46 feet tall and had 15 oil lamps and a 15 inch reflector, but it was raised to 86 feet tall in 1894. The lighthouse was built at it's current location after the original lighthouse was destroyed by the hurricane of 1846. Today this is the 15th oldest surviving lighthouse in America.
Barbara Mabrity took over as the lighthouse Keeper after her husband died in 1832. She tended the lamps for 32 years until at age 82 she was fired for making statements against the Union, which controlled the Key West and the Key West Lighthouse during the Civil War. In 1846 a hurricane destroyed the light station, killing 6 of her children after the family sought shelter in the tower. The original keeper dwelling was torn down and replaced with the present building.
The Key West Lighthouse was deactivated in 1969, and turned over to Monroe County. In 1972 the lighthouse was turned over to the Key West Art and Historical Society, who has added safety features and restored the tower and the turned the Keepers Quarters into a museum. In 1998 the entire site was nominated for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places as a National Landmark. This gives the Key West Lighthouse the same status as the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
The Key West Lighthouse is open to the public daily and is so worth the walk up the 88 step spiral staircase to look out at the breathtaking scenery that surrounds you. The story of Barbara Mabrity and her family and the effect that the lighthouse had on the Key West economy of the day makes this a very special place that shouldn't be overlooked when in Key West. ;o)
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After a week you will have burned 500 x 7 = 3500 calories from stored fat. This means you lose 1 pound of body fat per week. On a monthly basis, that is 4 pounds. With 52 weeks in a year, that is 52 pounds in a year.
When you put on weight, it often is the case that it happens slowly. So then you can, if you want to, plan on losing weight the same way, slowly. Relax and do not try to accomplish too much, too soon. Take this one step at a time and reach success.
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You spend hour after hour building a website that people will love and buy from.
Then you launch – with your expectations set pretty high – only to hear nothing but the infamous crickets at the end of the day.
However, if this is something you've either experienced or are currently experiencing, know that you're not alone. WordStream reports an average of only 2.5% conversion rate across a range of industries.
You visit a site, and it has been really well designed. You love every visual element on the site and feel enchanted with it. But that's not why you visited the site. You're not there to see how beautiful their design is.
You are there to get a specific value.
So when that value is not clear to see, easy to find or even there at all, you bounce. In fact, you probably never visit the site again seeing as you can get whatever you were looking for elsewhere.
That's exactly what your visitors do, too. They bounce when they don't find what they're looking for on your site. No matter how beautiful it is, they still need that specific value!
Obviously, you don't want people bouncing or missing the value of what you're offering. You want people to come to your site, feel at home and ultimately convert.
Here are a few tips to help you more easily convert your website traffic.
If you have the option to take the stairs or use an elevator, you'd mostly pick the elevator. We often react negatively to hard stuff.
A study from Ogilvy PR and Change the Equation revealed that six in ten Americans (63%) report that they've had difficulty doing some type of math, including estimating distances or weight (35%), figuring out how much savings they need for retirement (34%), and calculating tax (24%).
While this post isn't about math, the study drives home the point that people nearly always prefer simplicity to complexity. Hence, if your copy is hard to understand, it's equally going to be hard to get visitors to convert.
As a freelance writer myself, I know that simplicity is key. You should make what you are saying simple enough for anyone to understand. Sometimes you have to leave messaging for a while and come back to it with fresh eyes to edit.
And that's okay – it helps avoid messaging that stresses visitors out.
Take Trello as an example of clear, easy-to-understand messaging.
There are a number of complex ways Trello could have explained their product.
Instead of "Trello lets you work more collaboratively and get more done", they could have gone with "Use one reliable platform to collaborate with your team and expedite your work process".
But that's too wordy. It's not as simple to understand as "Trello lets you work more collaboratively and get more done".
Plain messaging makes conversions easy for visitors.
That moment other people are doing something, so we want to do it too.
Often in the world of digital marketing, once we see how a company is using a new tactic, tool or strategy to get results, we instantly become copycats. We try to appropriate that new strategy and see how it works for our business.
Now, here's a surprising bit of news: website visitors do the same.
When they land on your site and see that people actually come to your site and use your product, they get inspired to do business with you.
In a study by Stanford University Assistant Professor of Marketing Pedro Gardete, it was revealed that if someone next to you on a flight buys something, like say an in-flight movie or a Coke, you're 30% more likely to buy something yourself. That's the power of peer pressure.
Peer pressure convinced her to take an action (the tweet). She saw how other startups have grown from zero to millions and decided she should send me a tweet.
So how do you inspire visitors to take specific actions on your website?
Yelp uses user-generated content. Once you land on Yelp, you can immediately see other people sharing reviews about companies they're doing business with. Hence, you instantly know that Yelp is trustworthy.
Sumo flaunts testimonials from well-known gurus, logos from reputable brands, and big numbers to implement peer pressure. The implication is that if you're not using Sumo and 500K websites, gurus and brands are, there's probably something you're missing out on.
Peer pressure is a great tool to boost conversions. When people come to your site and can't find proof that other people are using your product or service, they'll have a hard time believing your promises. And that's just bad for business.
3. No hard-sell = easy conversions.
People have different intentions when browsing the web.
Some are fine with giving over their personal info (or even spending money) to get whatever they are looking for. Others are not.
Experienced marketers know there are a huge chunk of people who need to be nurtured before they convert.
This is why content marketing strategies like content upgrades and expanded guest posts work incredibly well. They are both based on the idea of nurturing leads before making specific demands of them – thereby boosting conversions.
Expert marketer Bryan Harris recently shared how he had to nurture his 6,000 subscribers with seven different emails before launching a product. After those emails, the product brought him $25,000 in one week.
Generally speaking, asking visitors to convert as soon as they land on your site is often not the right approach. Nurture them with the info they're looking for, and they'll be more likely to convert.
Let's say you run a coworking space, for example.
A freelance writer is looking for information on whether or not to start using a coworking space. She knows the space will help her take her job more seriously. But that's the only benefit she knows it can provide. She's not sure whether that's enough reason to use a coworking space.
But that's what she's on your site for. She wants information.
Unfortunately, she visits your product or even homepage and the first thing she's seeing is a list of prices for your different spaces. This would have been the right approach if she's ready to buy. But it's not at this point where she's looking for information.
The same freelance writer lands on your site, and the first thing she's seeing is a page describing the biggest benefits of a coworking space that she can't ignore. And then, only at the end of that page does she see a BUY BUTTON.
So she's a lot more likely to convert because she's been educated on how much bang she's getting for her buck first.
Sometimes, after all is said and done, one crucial factor that can make or break conversions is your sign-up process.
Rebecca Kelley, the former content marketing manager for Intego, wrote a post about how her company was getting decent click-through rates from a PPC campaign and everything was looking awesome… until she decided to track the amount of people who actually made a purchase. She found that less than 1% of users from all that traffic were actually buying their products.
If you're looking for inspiration for a good sign-up process, Canva provides a near-perfect example of a breezy sign-up process. Once you land on their homepage, you get the option to sign up via Facebook, Twitter or Email. Easy stuff.
Conversions are an important goal for every marketer. They are a critical measure of growth. Personally, I always ask all my freelance writing clients for the conversions they're aiming at per post that I write for them. I just don't see why I should write content without a specific goal in mind.
However, once you've succeeded in converting traffic into users and customers, you need to continue to court them. The first thing you'll want to do is thank them and ask them to take another action that'll then contribute to your bottom line. I recently wrote a piece where I share 9 awesome things you can use your thank you pages for (instead of just using them to say thank you). You can access the piece here.
Don't forget that converting website visitors is a long and ongoing process. I'd love to hear your tips and stories of success in the comments section below.
Guest Author: Victor Ijidola is a freelance business writer and content marketer for hire. He's been featured on sites such Inc.com, The Next Web and MarketingProfs, and runs the business Premium Content Shop.


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Perspectives Daily - History of What The Pope and Trump Have Said About Each Other
Noel Ocol
As we reported yesterday, the Pope made it very clear, on the flight back from Portugal on Saturday, that his agenda for his upcoming meeting with US President Trump will be Peace. To find an open door between the two, he said, and enter through it and talk about common things then go on. Now, with this much anticipated meeting between two of the world's most polarizing world figures happening next week, our friends at America Magazine put together this interesting video of the history of what they had to say about other, in social media and other interviews.
Of course, we'll bring you details of what transpired from that meeting when they become available.
"We are worried and pained by the deaths, the violence, the lack of the most basic goods, the divisions, and the violations of human rights".
This statement was made by Bishop Espinoza, the secretary general of the Latin American bishops' council, regarding escalating violence in Venezuela.
Speaking during a recent Latin American Bishop's assembly in San Salvador, Bishop Espinoza urged the church to respond to the crisis by providing supplies. "We call on the diocesan communities of Latin America and the Caribbean to initiate projects of charity with our Venezuelan brothers and to think about ways to make them effective, despite obstacles that may arise," he said. The South American country of 31 million has been besieged by a deep political crisis since the country's president moved to expand his power, taking over the functions of the opposition-controlled congress and, more recently, pushing for the constitution to be reformed.
Weeks of large-scale street demonstrations have led to violent clashes with police, leaving nearly 40 people dead and drawing international condemnation. The country has struggled with a deep economic recession and runaway inflation that's caused shortages of both food and medical supplies. A recent survey by a Venezuelan university found about 75 percent of the population had lost an average of 19 pounds last year because of the lack of food.
Now here's an interesting headline. According to a recent study by the PEW Research Center, Babies born to Muslims will begin to outnumber Christian births by 2035.
And that's it for Perspectives Daily today. Join us again tomorrow when I bring you more news and stories through the Perspectives of a catholic lens. Thanks for joining us.


Can we delete our memories?
What does it mean to be a victim of circumstances? What is the difference between people who take personal responsibility for their lives, and those who seemingly choose not to? Is it possible for us to live in a world where people consistently actualize their potentialities? And most importantly, what ways of thinking about human behavior will allow the last question to come to fruition?
Today I want to talk about memory, and what's wrong with some of our standard conceptions of how memory works, and even fundamentally what memory is. If you open up a brain and look inside it you won't see any memories. You don't open up a neuron as if it was a storage container and memories come spilling out. What about a network of them makes this story any different? How the heck changes in the strength of connections between cells cause a memory to be stored and experienced later is not something cognitive science has been able to address yet.


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Karim Khudsiani () es un guionista, presentador de televisión y actor iraní.

Carrera
Con experiencia en diferentes áreas del cine, siguió la escritura de guiones como su profesión principal.

Como escritor

 Saye roshan 2011 (serie)
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Q: Creating an empty signature field in .pdf file using itextsharp library This code should create a pdf file that contains an empty signature field:
Imports iTextSharp.text
Imports iTextSharp.text.pdf
Imports System.IO

Public Sub createPdfFileWithAnEmptySignatureField()
    Dim strOutputFilePath As String = "C:\Temp\File_ready_for_signing.pdf"
    Dim strFieldName = "myEmptySignatureField"
    Dim document As Document = New Document
    Dim writer As PdfWriter
    writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, New FileStream(strOutputFilePath, FileMode.Append))
    document.Open()
    document.Add(New Paragraph("This text element is successfully added, but the empty signature field is missing from this document, for some reason..."))
    Dim field As PdfFormField = PdfFormField.CreateSignature(writer)
    field.SetWidget(New Rectangle(222, 222, 222, 222), PdfAnnotation.HIGHLIGHT_OUTLINE)
    field.Name = strFieldName
    field.Flags = PdfAnnotation.FLAGS_PRINT
    field.SetPage()
    Dim tp As PdfAppearance = PdfAppearance.CreateAppearance(writer, 1222, 1222)
    tp.Rectangle(0.5!, 0.5!, 71.5!, 47.5!)
    tp.Stroke()
    field.SetAppearance(PdfAnnotation.APPEARANCE_NORMAL, tp)
    writer.AddAnnotation(field)
    document.Close()
End Sub

It creates a pdf file with a text but the empty signature field is missing.
This is how an empty signature field should look.

I found some similar questions:
iTextsharp - Create Empty Signature Field -
how can you create a signature field for a PDF template?, but they don't fully answer my question.
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mkl solved it. Here's the final version:
Imports iTextSharp.text
Imports iTextSharp.text.pdf
Imports System.IO

Public Sub createPdfFileWithAnEmptySignatureField()
     Dim strOutputFilePath As String = "C:\Temp\File_ready_for_signing.pdf"
    Dim strFieldName as String = "myEmptySignatureField"
    Dim document As Document = New Document
    Dim writer As PdfWriter
    writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, New FileStream(strOutputFilePath, FileMode.Create))
    document.Open()
    document.Add(New Paragraph("The following is an empty signature field:"))
    Dim field As PdfFormField = PdfFormField.CreateSignature(writer)
    field.SetWidget(New Rectangle(50, 740, 120, 780), PdfAnnotation.HIGHLIGHT_OUTLINE)
    field.FieldName = strFieldName
    writer.AddAnnotation(field)
    document.Close()
End Sub

A: There are a number of errors in your code:

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*Your signature field is 0×0 in size, i.e. it is invisible.
You define the signature field location and size here:
field.SetWidget(New Rectangle(222, 222, 222, 222), PdfAnnotation.HIGHLIGHT_OUTLINE)

The Rectangle constructor is declared as
/// <summary>
/// Constructs a Rectangle-object.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="llx">lower left x</param>
/// <param name="lly">lower left y</param>
/// <param name="urx">upper right x</param>
/// <param name="ury">upper right y</param>
public Rectangle(float llx, float lly, float urx, float ury)

Thus, you use the same coordinates for the lower left and the upper right corner. So your signature field has a 0×0 size and, therefore, is invisible.
Assuming you thought the latter two parameters were width 222 and height 222, you should have used
field.SetWidget(New Rectangle(222, 222, 444, 444), PdfAnnotation.HIGHLIGHT_OUTLINE)

*Your signature field has no field name. Yes, you set the Name property:
field.Name = strFieldName

but this only sets the name of the widget annotation. For a form field to work properly, though, the form field itself needs a name while the annotation name is optional:
field.FieldName = strFieldName

*You create the PDF file in Append file mode:
writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, New FileStream(strOutputFilePath, FileMode.Append))

This generally is a bad idea as a concatenation of PDFs is no valid PDF document anymore. You should use the Create file mode instead:
writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, New FileStream(strOutputFilePath, FileMode.Create))

With these changes applied you get this:

By the way, probably another error is your choice of appearance size:
Dim tp As PdfAppearance = PdfAppearance.CreateAppearance(writer, 1222, 1222)

In particular as you merely draw a tiny rectangle on it:
tp.Rectangle(0.5!, 0.5!, 71.5!, 47.5!)

Unless this indeed is desired, you'll have to use better matching sizes.


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WhatsApp Vulnerability Allowed Spyware to be Installed on Smartphones
Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp has confirmed a vulnerability that allowed hackers to install spyware on smartphones.
While WhatsApp began life as a simple messaging app, it has expanded into all manner of communications — this includes voice calls, which it has offered since early 2015.
According to a report in the Financial Times, malicious code developed by Israeli cyber intelligence firm NSO could be delivered to users' handsets using an exploit in the voice-call feature on WhatsApp. The code could be deployed irrespective of whether the recipient answered the call.
Facebook issued this update late last night with more details on the vulnerability, saying: "A buffer overflow vulnerability in WhatsApp VOIP stack allowed remote code execution via specially crafted series of SRTCP packets sent to a target phone number."
Tel Aviv-based NSO has long been mired in controversy over its development of mobile surveillance technology, which it says it sells to government agencies to "prevent and investigate terrorism and crime to save thousands of lives around the globe."
Several reports over the past few years have indicated that the technology has been used to target journalists and human rights activists. Back in 2016, Apple issued an iOS update to patch a security flaw after NSO's technology was apparently used to target the iPhone of human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor.
NSO's core product, Pegasus, is essentially spyware that can scrape email and text messages, track calls, access a device's location, and activate the phone's microphone and camera. It's worth noting here that although WhatsApp was used in this instance to distribute Pegasus, WhatsApp messages — which are encrypted — are not thought to have been impacted.
A WhatsApp spokesperson confirmed that it found the vulnerability in early May, and started issuing a fix to its infrastructure late last week. Though that back-end fix alone should have patched the vulnerability, the company is still recommending that users update WhatsApp to the following latest versions:
"WhatsApp encourages people to upgrade to the latest version of our app, as well as keep their mobile operating system up to date, to protect against potential targeted exploits designed to compromise information stored on mobile devices," a spokesperson said. "We are constantly working alongside industry partners to provide the latest security enhancements to help protect our users."
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The timing of this news is notable, as it comes as NSO faces legal wrangles in Israel over its sale of surveillance technology to oversees governments that may be abusing the technology. Amnesty International and New York University (NYU) are filing a petition today at the District Court of Tel Aviv, in support of existing legal action that is asking the ministry of defence (MoD) to revoke NSO's export licence.
"The Israeli MoD has ignored mounting evidence linking NSO Group to attacks on human rights defenders, which is why we are supporting this case," noted Danna Ingleton, deputy director of Amnesty Tech. "NSO Group sells its products to governments who are known for outrageous human rights abuses, giving them the tools to track activists and critics. As long as products like Pegasus are marketed without proper control and oversight, the rights and safety of Amnesty International's staff and that of other activists, journalists and dissidents around the world is at risk."
According to the FT, a U.K-based human rights lawyer was targeted as recently as Sunday using this WhatsApp exploit — the lawyer has reportedly helped journalists and other activists sue NSO in Israel. It appears that the security measures WhatsApp introduced last week may have prevented the attack from succeeding.
A WhatsApp spokesperson confirmed that it believed a number of individuals had been targeted in this way, and that it has briefed a number of human rights organizations on the matter, and also informed U.S. law enforcement.
In a statement issued to the FT, NSO denied having any knowledge of the recent targets of the WhatsApp exploit.
"Under no circumstances would NSO be involved in the operating or identifying of targets of its technology, which is solely operated by intelligence and law enforcement agencies," it said. "NSO would not, or could not, use its technology in its own right to target any person or organisation, including this individual [the UK lawyer]."
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Going after tax cheats to pay for Dems' spending plans? There's just one problem.
Democrats think they can rake in big money through stricter tax enforcement, but they might not get to put it toward infrastructure.
Democrats are relying on greater IRS enforcement to contribute billions toward the cost of their infrastructure plan. | Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
By Brian Faler
Democrats want to raise billions of dollars by giving the IRS more money to go after tax cheats — and use the money to pay for their infrastructure spending plans.
There's one problem: That isn't allowed under Congress' arcane budget rules.
A two-decade-old rule bars lawmakers from paying for legislation with money generated from things like beefing up IRS audits of the rich.
It's a crucial problem Democrats are now confronting behind closed doors.
They are relying on greater IRS enforcement to contribute billions toward the cost of their plans. If they can't tap that, it could blow a big hole in their budget numbers.
Lawmakers are now discussing ways around the rules, with some pushing to overturn them.
"This is an issue we're looking at closely," said Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). "The revenue generated from going after wealthy tax cheats should be counted toward the revenue needed to pay for critical investments in the American people."
"Hundreds of billions of dollars are on the table, and revenue is revenue."
Going after uncollected taxes is among the politically easiest money Democrats are likely to find when it comes to paying for their big-ticket spending packages.
While some lawmakers are skittish about raising taxes, few object to the idea of expanding IRS enforcement, especially after Commissioner Charles Rettig speculated last month that the annual tax gap — the difference between what's owed and what's actually collected — might run as much as $1 trillion annually.
If Democrats can't use that money to pay for their plans, they may have to turn to more controversial alternatives, such as even more tax increases or adding to the deficit.
"I'll note that budget scoring rules block Congress from using that high-return investment as a pay-for – that needs to change," said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), in a hearing last week on the tax gap.
Improving tax collections is also an area of potential bipartisan compromise as the two sides explore whether they might be able to work together on an infrastructure plan.
Republicans, sometimes blamed for exacerbating the tax gap with years of tight IRS budgets, now say they are open to helping the agency go after unpaid tax bills, though some are skeptical there's as much out there as Rettig says.
The quandary facing Democrats is reminiscent of one Republicans confronted when they were working on their 2017 tax cuts.
Back then, they wanted to use dynamic scoring — which takes into account the macroeconomic impact of tax changes — to help cover the cost of their plan. But they ran into what proved to be insurmountable procedural hurdles in the Senate and weren't able to include it.
For Democrats, the problem is budget scorekeeping rule No. 14.
It prevents lawmakers from incorporating into calculations of how much legislation costs any savings from increasing IRS audits or other "program integrity" initiatives across the government designed to make programs more cost-effective — such as cracking down on fraudulent Social Security disability payments.
"No increase in receipts or decrease in direct spending will be scored as a result of provisions of law that provide direct spending for administrative or program management activities," the rule says.
That's because government forecasters have long considered those savings too iffy to be relied upon.
"There are a couple degrees of uncertainty," said Janet Holtzblatt, a former longtime tax expert at the Congressional Budget Office.
For one thing, agency budgets are set one year at a time and just because an administration says it will spend a certain amount of money on a department in the future doesn't mean lawmakers will follow through.
Some are now proposing to make at least some IRS funding "mandatory" so that it is more reliable, but even with that there is an unanswerable question of whether Congress in the future might siphon away other department money that's discretionary.
What's more, lawmakers don't necessarily always know how an agency will spend money. If Congress doesn't include specific instructions, it's possible a department will use the cash in unforeseen ways that have nothing to do with what lawmakers wanted.
"One of the concerns from the perspective of the scorekeepers was that you were not going to give credit for very uncertain savings coming from a certain event" of deciding to boost funding," said Holtzblatt, now a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center.
Aside from the question of whether the money should count is the issue of how much would count if it did.
There's general agreement that hiring more auditors generates savings to the government because they recover more in uncollected taxes than it costs to employ them.
But some doubt Rettig's $1 trillion tax-gap estimate, and experts disagree on how much the agency might recover.
It takes a while to hire and train tax auditors, for example — they don't immediately begin producing revenue for the government.
The Biden administration says its proposal to increase IRS funding as well as expanding income information reporting would generate $700 billion. Budget analysts at the University of Pennsylvania said earlier this month they expect the Biden proposal to generate $480 billion. Last year, CBO said increasing IRS funding by $40 billion over a decade alone would generate $63 billion in savings.
Democrats are still conferring over how to get around the budget restrictions, a top aide said, and there is a range of possibilities.
"There are discussions going on about how is the most appropriate way to make sure that these sorts of things do happen and that we get credit for them," the aide said.
"Leadership, the Budget Committee, the Finance Committee, Ways and Means — all sorts of folks are thinking about this."
There is no easy answer.
They could rewrite the rule. But it affects a number of government programs and any change is supposed to be done by consensus with CBO, the White House budget office and both congressional budget committees. Some see that as unlikely, partly because it would create an inconsistency in how different programs are treated.
Democrats could make the change unilaterally as part of their annual budget. But it's unclear whether the Senate's parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, will allow that, particularly if Democrats try to push their spending plans through using a so-called reconciliation measure, which tend to get extra scrutiny from the chamber's rules referee.
"What does Elizabeth say? Does she let you count that?" said another Democratic aide.
A third option for Democrats would be to leave the current rules unchanged and simply declare that they believe their package is being underwritten by expanded IRS audits, even if that's not what official estimates say.
That's essentially what Republicans did when they were writing what became the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
They had hoped dynamic scoring would go a long way toward making the budget math behind their plan work — no small consideration when then-Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), in particular, wanted their package to be deficit neutral.
But Republicans were forced to abandon dynamic scoring, at least as part of official budget estimates, because of procedural problems in the Senate.
So they instead persuaded Corker to look past government forecasters' estimate and presume the tax cuts would help the economy, and generate a lot of extra revenue in the process, so that the plan's ultimate cost would be smaller than its official $1.5 trillion sticker price.
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Conference Realigment and Tryout Dates Announced - By Taylor Peyton
After dead silent months of September, October, and November; news about the Silverbacks have finally come out. Three big pieces of news were confirmed within a span of a week. Realignment of the NPSL Southeast Conference, dates for Tryouts, and confirmation that Season Tickets will soon be on sale.
With the withdrawal of Myrtle Beach Mutiny, Tobacco Road FC, and almost certainly Carolina Railhawks Reserves from the NPSL, the South Atlantic Conference is no more. It was announced on Sunday, December 4th, that the Silverbacks would instead be playing in the newly-realigned Southeast Conference. It will be split up into two divisions. The Silverbacks will be playing in the East Division with Asheville City, Carolina Discoveries, Georgia Revolution, and Knoxville Force. The West Division will be composed of Birmingham Hammers, Chattanooga FC, Inter Nashville FC, Memphis City, and New Orleans Jesters. There will be a total of 13 games for the Silverbacks, which is three more than they played last year. There will be a home and away game against each of the teams in our division, and one game each against the teams in the West Division that could be home or away. The Southeast playoffs will be composed of the top 3 teams from each division. On the same day that the realignment was announced, the Silverbacks confirmed via Twitter that Season Tickets would be going on sale soon.
On Wednesday, October 7th, the Silverbacks Announced three sets of tryout dates. The first set of dates taking place on December 20th and 21st, the second being on January 3rd and 4th, the third being February 1st and 2nd, with an "Invitation Only Tryout" taking place on May 1st. All tryouts will be held from 9 am to 12 pm at Silverbacks Park. Players trying out will have to pay a fee of $50 if they register online in advance, and Walk-In Registration will cost $60. A Free Silverbacks T-shirt is included in the registration fee.
It's been a pretty boring offseason up until now, but this has been a very exciting week that might have made it all worth it. New opponents, a reignited rivalry with Chattanooga, new Cities to travel to for fans that enjoy going to away games, a longer schedule, and the possibility of a new group of exciting, locally based players are all worth getting excited about. Let's hope the string of exciting news continues.
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Tom Dreitlein's new chapbook, "Map." serves as just that – an excavation and tentative guide through the imprints his childhood and traumas have had on his psyche. He turns them over on these pages, often through intentional and telling lineation, in a vivid voice that carries his reader through the pages like a guide calling through caverns.
If you haven't heard Dreitlein read his poetry, these poems will lack something. His distinctive phrasing needs to be read aloud to appreciate its cadence fully (go ahead and do so yourself, if you can't conjure Dreitlein's voice). Lineation helps; he makes ample use of indentures and white space, playing with the page to draw the reader in and out, creating deliberate wavelengths.
I've spent days with my lips stitched open, my stomach stitched shut. These guts had nowhere to go, but out my mouth.
Lines of italicized text, centered on otherwise blank pages, lead the reader from one poem to the next, intermittently. They're muse-like, riddles and forewarnings, a siren song from the first poem, "My God Can't Have Hands," through to the last. I won't ruin the device for readers who haven't discovered it yet; its efficacy lies in that discovery. But it's a clever one, a wink and a nod that made me re-read it again, just to see how the story changes once I know the ending. And it does, and it doesn't. It depends on who you are, where you are, when.
and he can see there how each tradition is, too, its own brittle prison.
I, too, come from a town that fled a sinking city/and tried to build a utopia/out of recycled church pews/and unused railroad spikes.
in the corner/what is left of my spiral notebook is running together/the way all stories do/when you let them sit too long.
Nonetheless. "Map." has a strong rooting in universal truths. That our families break us as much as they bind us, that gods are as unreliable as clouds and as steadfast as circling drains, that we can grapple with those truths for lives upon lives, and never quite reach what we think we're looking for. But there's comfort in that, and raw, refreshing honesty.
Map is out now from CWP Collective Press, and can be purchased here. Tom Dreitlein can be reached at tomdreitleinpoetry@gmail.com.


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The Daring Kitchen Challenge this month was kouign amann, which is a French pastry that originated in Brittany. I had never tried kouign amann prior to this challenge, but I am now a huge fan of this pastry. It had the rich, buttery flakiness of a croissant, with the added sweetness of caramelized sugar. While the recipe is a little time consuming, the results were well worth the efforts!
1. Add active dry yeast to warm water and allow to sit for about 5 minutes.
3. On a lightly floured surface, shape the dough into a ball. Place dough in a lightly oiled bowl, and cover with cling wrap. Allow dough to rise for one hour.
4. Shape the cold butter into a 5 1/2" square by placing butter between two sheets of wax paper and beating with a rolling pin. Keep the square of butter chilled in refrigerator until ready to use.
5. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough into a 8" square. Put the square of butter on the center of the dough diagonally. Each side of the butter should face a corner of the dough. Fold the corners of the dough over the butter, as if folding an envelope.
6. Roll the dough into an 18x6" rectangle. Fold the bottom third of the dough up over the middle, and then fold the top third of the dough over. The resulting dough will have three layers of butter and dough. This completes the first turn. Wrap dough in cling wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
7. Repeat the turning process two more times, chilling the dough for 30 minutes between each turn.
8. Roll the dough into an 18x6" rectangle. Sprinkle dough with the 1/2 cup of sugar. Fold dough into thirds again. Now, roll the dough into a 16x12" rectangle. Sprinkle extra sugar over the dough and cut into 12 squares.
9. Grease a muffin tin with oil. Place each square of dough into the muffin tin, pulling the corners of the dough to the center of the tin. The dough should appear like a four-leaf clover.
10. Sprinkle pastries with additional sugar and allow to rise in a warm spot, covered with a light towel, for 30 minutes.
11. Preheat oven to 425 F. Bake pastries for 30-40 minutes, until golden brown. You may need to cover the pastries with foil halfway through if they are browning too much. Remove from oven and allow to cool for a few minutes before removing from pan. Be careful not to leave in the pan for too long, as the caramelized sugar will harden and stick to the pan.
12. Serve warm or cool. Pastries are best the day they are baked.
Mix dough and allow to rise for one hour. Then roll dough into a square, placing the square of butter on top.
Fold dough over the butter, as if folding an envelope.
Roll dough into a rectangle, then fold the bottom third up and the top third down, creating 3 layers of butter and dough. Repeat this process two more times, chilling dough for 30 minutes between turns. Finally, roll dough into another rectangle, sprinkle with sugar, and complete one final turn.
Roll dough into a large rectangle, cut into 12 squares, and sprinkle with more sugar. I used cinnamon sugar on half of my pastries.
Place pastries into muffin tin, pulling the corners two the center, so that pastries resemble four-leaf clovers.
Bake for 30-40 minutes at 425 F, and enjoy!


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I don't know about you, but I love hearing a good underdog story. It doesn't matter if it's about historical battles, Olympic athletes or captains of industry.
Take Netflix for example. In 2004 while Blockbuster was making $6 billion in revenue Netflix was struggling to bring in $500 million.
Netflix was innovative and had started offering more convenience to their customers, first with movies through the mail and then with streaming services made available on numerous devices.
Netflix now has over 31 million subscribers while Blockbuster has declared bankruptcy, closing all of its stores in 2013.
Success stories like this give us all hope that we can start out small and create something truly awesome if we persist. When we see an underdog triumph, it tends to strike a chord and remind us that underdogs can still come out on top.
It's not easy. In your space, there may be businesses selling the same products or services you are. In fact, depending on your business, there could be hundreds or thousands trying to do the exact thing you do.
They may have more experience than you. More fans, followers or customers. They may have more talented people on their team or better connections. They may even have more money to spend on marketing and technology than you do.
Generally, in one way or another, you are the underdog (or at least you feel like the underdog) at times. So how can you possibly compete with businesses like this?
Netflix began by utilizing technology to offer more convenience to their customers.
Is there technology you can introduce in your business like point of sale systems or mobile payment solutions that would make your customers buying experience better or more convenient?
Another good example is Apple going up against Microsoft. Apple was famously founded in Steve Jobs' garage in 1976.
While Apple's success rose and fell over the years, by 2002 the company was facing a huge challenge. Microsoft's market cap was $356.8 billion; Apple's was only $7.7 billion.
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You too can counter big box stores with huge budgets by strategically taking advantage of technology opportunities that exist for small businesses.
Is there technology you could bring into your business like a tablet point of sale system or gift cards that would be a game changer for you?
In your business, if you aren't looking for ways to be different or better and take advantage of the latest technology, there's a good chance your competition is.
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Children's Contact Services
Joanne Commerford and Cathryn Hunter
CFCA Paper No. 35 — October 2015
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Families who use CCSs tend to be experiencing high levels of conflict and multiple and complex issues such as family violence, mental health problems and substance abuse.
It is unclear from the research whether the "best interests of the child" are being met through the provision of supervision services, although in the limited research available many children express positive views about their experiences using these services.
The family law system plays a crucial role in the CCS process with the majority of cases being referred through a court order. It is unclear how recent changes to the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) (FLA) will affect the number and types of families using CCSs.
The research suggests that only a small number of families move to self-management of parenting time arrangements, with many leaving the service for other reasons or remaining in the service for long periods of time.
There are families for whom safe self-management of parenting time may never be possible due to the complexity of the problems these families face and the degree of risk - often related to violence and abuse and parental incapacity (e.g., substance misuse and untreated mental illness).
An integrated social services model is recommended for working with families to assist them in transitioning to self-management.
There is a lack of longitudinal research exploring relationship, safety and wellbeing outcomes for children and families who use these services. Further to this, research exploring how CCSs operate is underdeveloped.
Children's Contact Services (CCSs) are designed to provide a safe, supervised environment for children to spend time with the parent they do not live with, or to facilitate the transfer of children from one parent to another, in circumstances where parents are not able to manage their own parenting time arrangements. This paper is intended for those working in CCSs as well as those working in areas that intersect with CCSs such as family mediation, family law and counselling. It identifies the characteristics of families using CCSs, and key issues in service provision that were identified through a search of Australian and international literature. The issues focused on are: understanding the best interests of children in the context of CCSs; the challenges in working with families to move to self-management of their parenting time; and the potential benefits of an integrated social services model as a strategy for addressing these issues. This paper also highlights the dearth of research investigating outcomes for children and families using the services.
Authors and Acknowledgements
Jo Commerford is a Research Officer and Cathryn Hunter is a Senior Research Officer with the Child Family Community Australia information exchange at the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
The authors wish to acknowledge the valuable contributions of Sue Thompson, ACCSA convenor, Helen McQuinn, Children's Contact Service Co-ordinator at Relationships Australia, NSW, Elly Robinson, Executive Manager, Practice Evidence & Engagement at the Australian Institute of Family Studies, and Rachel Carson, Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Family Studies, for their feedback, and Interrelate for their support with the broader project.
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La Méditerranée est un ancien département français, créé le  (à la suite de l'annexion du royaume d'Étrurie à l'Empire français) avec Livourne pour chef-lieu, Volterra et Pise pour sous-préfectures.

L'île d'Elbe lui fut adjointe en 1811, constituant l'arrondissement de Portoferraio. La partie continentale revint à la Toscane en 1814, cependant que Napoléon  devenait pour quelques mois Empereur de l'Île d'Elbe, selon les termes du traité de Fontainebleau.

Organisation du département
En 1813, le département est composé de quatre arrondissements :
 Arrondissement de Livourne
 Cantons de : Fauglia, Lari, Livourne (quatre cantons), Samminiato, Peccioli, Pontedera, Rosignano.
 Arrondissement de l'Isle d'Elbe
 Cantons de : Porto-Longone, Porto-Ferrajo.
 Arrondissement de Pise
 Cantons de : Bains-Saint-Julien, Barga, Bientina, Borgo-a-Buggiano, Cascina, Castel Franco di Sotto, Ceretto, Fucecchie, Montecarlo, Montecatini, Pescia, Pietra-Santa, Pise (trois cantons), Seravezza, Vicopisano.
 Arrondissement de Volterra
 Cantons de : Campiglia, Castel-Fiorentino, Saint-Gemignano, Guardistallo, Montajone, Palaja, Pomarance, Volterra.

Le département est représenté par trois députés au Corps législatif.

Liste des préfets

Notes et références

Voir aussi
 Liste des départements français de 1811

Ancien département français en Italie
Histoire de la Toscane
Province de Livourne
Division administrative fondée en 1808