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James "Yank" Rachell (* 16. März 1910 in Brownsville, Tennessee; † 9. April 1997 in Indianapolis, Indiana) war ein amerikanischer Blues-Musiker, der die Mandoline als Blues-Instrument populär machte. Daneben spielte er Gitarre, Mundharmonika und Geige. Er machte Aufnahmen mit Sleepy John Estes und Sonny Boy Williamson.

Biografie

Yank Rachells erste Begegnung mit der Mandoline ist eine der großen Blues-Legenden. Dem achtjährigen war von seiner Mutter ein Ferkel anvertraut worden, das im Herbst geschlachtet werden sollte. Der Junge tauschte das Ferkel gegen eine Mandoline ein, die er gehört hatte und die er unbedingt haben wollte. Seine erzürnte Mutter soll gesagt haben: "Wenn wir alle im nächsten Herbst Schweinefleisch essen, dann kannst du diese Mandoline essen."

Rachell brachte sich das Spielen auf der Mandoline selbst bei. Hambone Willie Newborn, der 1929 als erster Rollin' And Tumblin aufnahm, gab ihm den letzten Schliff. Die beiden traten in der Gegend um Brownsville zusammen auf, wo Rachell auch den Gitarristen Sleepy John Estes kennenlernte, der sein langjähriger Partner werden sollte.

Rachell und Estes bildeten mit dem Jug-Spieler Hammie Nixon ein Jugband-Trio, das sich Mitte der 1920er in Memphis (Tennessee) einfand. Hier waren Rachell und Estes später mit dem Pianisten Jab Jones als die Three J's Jug Band eine der erfolgreichen Musikgruppen der Beale Street. Ab 1929 machten sie einige Aufnahmen, von denen vor allem Divin' Duck Blues erfolgreich war.

Mit der Depression kam das Ende der Memphis-Blues-Szene, und Rachell ging zurück nach Brownsville, wo er heiratete und für die Eisenbahn arbeitete. An Wochenenden machte er weiterhin Musik. Bei einer solchen Gelegenheit traf er Sonny Boy Williamson, mit dem er von da an häufig zusammen spielte. 1938 gingen die beiden nach Chicago, um dort Aufnahmen zu machen. Ihre Zusammenarbeit endete erst 1948 mit dem Tod von Williamson.

Rachell zog nach St. Louis, 1958 dann nach Indianapolis. Anfang der 1960er setzte ein Blues-Revival ein, in dessen Sog auch Rachell, Estes und Nixon wieder zusammen auftraten. Kurz vor seinem Tod 1997 nahm Yankell ein letztes Album auf, Too Hot For The Devil (1996), womit die Zeitspanne zwischen seinen ersten und letzten Aufnahmen rekordverdächtige 67 Jahre erreichte.

Yank Rachell hatte einen nicht unbedeutenden Einfluss auf andere Musiker. B. B. King soll ihm gesagt haben: "Leute wie du machten Leute wie mich erst möglich." Zu den Songs von Rachell, die später von anderen Musikern aufgegriffen wurden, zählen unter anderem Loudella Blues (ein Hit für Jimmy Rogers) und Gravel Road Woman (aus dem Blind Boy Fuller I Don't Want No Skinny Woman machte). Und der Divin' Duck Blues gilt als Blues-Klassiker erster Güte.

Bibliografie

 Richard Congress: Blues Mandolin Man: The Life And Music Of Yank Rachell.

Diskografie

 Yank Rachell (1964)
 Chicago Style
 Mandolin Blues
 Blues Mandolin Man (1986)
 Pig Trader Blues (1995) (mit David Morgan)
 Too Hot For The Devil (1996) (mit Allen Statyner und Pat Webb)
 James "Yank" Rachell, Volume 1 und 2

Weblinks
 [ Biografie bei All Music Guide (engl.)]

Blues-Musiker
Mandolinist
Musiker (Vereinigte Staaten)
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1910
Gestorben 1997
Mann


In addition to winning the Big Prize, I won lots of teasing and derision from my school mates, who repeatedly noted I would get to spend a lovely weekend in Chicago with MY TEACHER. No worries, Mrs. O and I got along fine, and it was only one night away from home.
So we went to Chicago. We checked into a nice hotel. At 17 years old, I think it may have been the first time I ever had my own hotel room. It was novel and exciting. At the junket we were to meet the movie's director — the now-late John Hughes — who was making his directorial debut after much success as a writer of such movies as National Lampoon's Vacation and Mr. Mom. We would also meet two of the movie's stars – Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall.
I have only a vague memory of the junket. I think we were in some type of hotel banquet room. Molly went first, then AMH, then Director Hughes. I remember Molly being a bit snotty, or at least her sounding that way. In hindsight, the tonal quality of her voice just makes her sound snotty, even today. AMH was a nervous geek, a big surprise. Hughes droned on about things very uninteresting to a 17-year-old. Looking back, the ironic thing is that it was Hughes' stuff that would hold the most interest for me today.
I remember asking Molly about The Facts of Life, and how TV was different from movies. This was my One Question. She had been in the FoL cast during the show's first season, before they pared it down to fewer lead characters. She recoiled in embarrassent at the thought that anyone had seen that. Maybe I should have been embarrassed too, that I had seen it? No biggie I guess. We finished, had a nice dinner, saw the movie, went back to the hotel, and flew home immediately the next morning. And so it was, my brief brush with fame, at 17.
Now, I've told you that story, in order to tell you this one.
I've never been a big reader of books in my adult life. This is a source of some personal shame and disgrace for me. I'm an educated man. I should WANT to read more books, right? I get one or two down in a year, but that's it. I am, however, a voracious reader of periodicals. Newspapers, magazines, both physical and electronic. I love the medium. I can't get enough. My friend John gives me all of his old magazines after he is done with them, and I get through most of them. Time, Newsweek, Bloomberg, The Economist, Esquire, SI, Rolling Stone.
I always thought I wanted to be a critic, perhaps working for Rolling Stone or some other big time rag. I love the artform. After a lot of nagging from my buddies, I finally watched the movie Almost Famous a few years ago, and it connected with me in a very profound way. I was that kid, William Miller, or at least wanted to be. I also learned from Phillip Seymour Hoffman that being a critic was the Epitome of Uncool, which would have been a tragic lesson for me at the age of 17.
In college, I briefly majored in Journalism, and also briefly in English, worked on college newspapers, etc., but life took me in a different direction. I'm now settled in as an IT Guy, and while the ship has sailed on those aspirations, at least professionally, I am still an admirer of the form. Which brings me to Roger Ebert.
I started watching Sneak Previews on PBS way back in the day. Gene and Roger sniping at one another — it was all a little uncomfortable — but mesmerizing. Two guys so passionate about what they do that they seemed to want to kill each other over it. Yet it the midst of the fracas, you could tell there was deep respect and admiration, for one another, and for the work. I followed them to commercial television and At the Movies, where the high drama continued.
I always appreciated Roger's style a bit more that Gene's. Roger was softer. You could tell he loved movies so much, and he wanted a reason to like a particular film. He seemed to give a lot more borderline thumbs-ups calls than Gene. Gene would far more frequently stand on principle, to dislike a movie in its whole, even if it had some redeemable aspects. It was the chemistry between the two that brought me to the TV, though. Gene's glass was half-empty; Roger's was half-full. When Gene passed, I thought it was the end of something very special.
Roger has had a long, successful career. Recently, his illness has been well documented. If you have a chance, read the Esquire article from earlier this year. It is so engaging, horrifying, and uplifting. Yet the spirit of the man is intact, despite all that has happened. While he has lost the ability to speak, he has become so prolific in other ways. From his online journal, his movie reviews, his books, and his Twitter activity, the volume of work he is producing is simply astonishing.
Perhaps when his voice was silenced he needed new avenues to express himself. That seems very reasonable. But I think it is more than this. There is a new urgency, a newfound desire, a reawakening if you will — a need to take his prodigious talents in new directions. Politics, religion, humanities, art, self-reflection — all of these are woven together in the voluminous amounts of work product he is producing today. This, on top of his day job as a movie critic, a job at which he is still the finest in the world. He is, extraordinarily, at the absolute peak of his literary and artistic powers today.
So what it is it? Maybe it is the sense of one's own mortality, that sense that time is drawing to a close. Roger lost his jaw and voice because of thyroid cancer, and its return must always loom. There is also the fact that Roger is 68 years old as I write this, and setting cancer aside, time is going to someday run out for all of us, regardless of how we get there.
So what do we take from this? Time is short. Say what you gotta say while you can say it. And if you can, go out blazing hot, because the only certainty any of us has is that eventually time will run out.
Inspiration is a funny thing. You get it at different times in your life, from different sources, for different reasons, to do different things. Sometimes, inspiration reminds you of something you always wanted to do. Roger inspired me when I was 17, and I visited his town of Chicago. Here I sit writing today, 27 years later, and he is still at it.


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Home›News›Abu Dhabi›Abu Dhabi road upgrades aim to reduce speed-related accidents
Abu Dhabi road upgrades aim to reduce speed-related accidents
Speed bumps and other measures to slow traffic will be installed across the emirate over the next two years to reduce speed-related accidents, especially those involving pedestrians.
The safety plan, designed by the municipality, Abu Dhabi Police and the Urban Planning Council, includes improvements for footpaths and pedestrian crossings.
The municipality carried out traffic studies in 402 sectors of Abu Dhabi city, including all residential communities.
Michael Dreznes, executive vice president of the International Road Federation, was full of praise for the emirate's urban planners.
"They have good data to tell them where their problem areas exist and they know what needs to be done," Mr Dreznes said
"I have met many Abu Dhabi road engineers in the course of our training programmes and they are among the top-tier professionals in our industry."
Khalifa City and Mohammed bin Zayed City will have their own road plans with roundabouts to be replaced by traffic lights and lighting, drains and pedestrian crossings installed.
In the first four months of the year, 1,837 people in Abu Dhabi were caught driving over 200 kph, police said. Their vehicles were impounded and they were sent to public prosecution.
In March, the municipality completed its speed control zones project and six speed-change warning signs were installed on the city's main streets to alert motorists to reduce speed in these areas.
Nationally, traffic authorities have also come up with measures to curb tailgating, such as installing traffic cameras in Dubai and adding chevron road markings on motorways.
But Dubai's tailgating cameras have yet to be activated. The plan was to have them operational as of July 1 last year but they were delayed by logistical problems, said Maj Gen Mohammed Al Zafeen, the Federal Traffic Council director.
Drivers caught tailgating are fined Dh400 and have four black points added to their licences.
At a meeting on December 30, the council approved plans to add chevrons.
The first set was to be added to a motorway in Abu Dhabi as a trial to observe their effectiveness, but no date was given for implementation.
Road safety experts said the markings would help to ease tailgating and the risk of rear-end collisions.
"Research has shown that the use of chevrons is generally highly beneficial," said Robert Hodges, chief operation officer at Emirates Driving Institute.
"Using chevrons in the UAE will most likely guide and advise those drivers who habitually tailgate for reasons such as inattention, distraction and tiredness."
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package com.thinkaurelius.titan.graphdb.attribute;

import com.thinkaurelius.titan.core.attribute.Cmp;
import org.junit.Test;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import static com.thinkaurelius.titan.core.attribute.Text.*;

/**
 * @author Matthias Broecheler (me@matthiasb.com)
 */

public class TextTest {

    @Test
    public void testContains() {
        String text = "This world is full of 1funny surprises! A Full Yes";
        //Contains
        assertTrue(CONTAINS.evaluate(text, "world"));
        assertTrue(CONTAINS.evaluate(text, "wOrLD"));
        assertFalse(CONTAINS.evaluate(text, "worl"));

        assertTrue(CONTAINS.evaluate(text, "this"));
        assertTrue(CONTAINS.evaluate(text, "yes"));
        assertFalse(CONTAINS.evaluate(text, "funny"));

        assertFalse(CONTAINS.evaluate(text, "a"));
        assertFalse(CONTAINS.evaluate(text, "A"));

        assertTrue(CONTAINS.evaluate(text, "surprises"));
        assertTrue(CONTAINS.evaluate(text, "FULL"));

        //Prefix
        assertTrue(CONTAINS_PREFIX.evaluate(text, "worl"));
        assertTrue(CONTAINS_PREFIX.evaluate(text, "wORl"));
        assertTrue(CONTAINS_PREFIX.evaluate(text, "ye"));
        assertTrue(CONTAINS_PREFIX.evaluate(text, "Y"));

        assertFalse(CONTAINS_PREFIX.evaluate(text, "fo"));
        assertFalse(CONTAINS_PREFIX.evaluate(text, "of 1f"));
        assertFalse(CONTAINS_PREFIX.evaluate(text, "ses"));

        //Regex
        assertTrue(CONTAINS_REGEX.evaluate(text, "fu[l]+"));
        assertTrue(CONTAINS_REGEX.evaluate(text, "wor[ld]{1,2}"));
        assertTrue(CONTAINS_REGEX.evaluate(text, "\\dfu\\w*"));

        assertFalse(CONTAINS_REGEX.evaluate(text, "fo"));
        assertFalse(CONTAINS_REGEX.evaluate(text, "wor[l]+"));
        assertFalse(CONTAINS_REGEX.evaluate(text, "wor[ld]{3,5}"));

        String name = "fully funny";
        //Cmp
        assertTrue(Cmp.EQUAL.evaluate(name.toString(),name));
        assertFalse(Cmp.NOT_EQUAL.evaluate(name,name));
        assertFalse(Cmp.EQUAL.evaluate("fullly funny",name));
        assertTrue(Cmp.NOT_EQUAL.evaluate("fullly funny",name));

        //Prefix
        assertTrue(PREFIX.evaluate(name,"fully"));
        assertTrue(PREFIX.evaluate(name,"ful"));
        assertTrue(PREFIX.evaluate(name,"fully fu"));
        assertFalse(PREFIX.evaluate(name,"fun"));

        //REGEX
        assertTrue(REGEX.evaluate(name,"(fu[ln]*y) (fu[ln]*y)"));
        assertFalse(REGEX.evaluate(name,"(fu[l]*y) (fu[l]*y)"));
        assertTrue(REGEX.evaluate(name,"(fu[l]*y) .*"));

    }

}

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package org.workcraft.formula.encoding.onehot;

public class AndFunction<BooleanNumber> {

    private final BooleanNumber var1Number;
    private final BooleanNumber var2Number;

    public AndFunction(BooleanNumber var1Number,
            BooleanNumber var2Number) {
        this.var1Number = var1Number;
        this.var2Number = var2Number;
    }

    public BooleanNumber getVar1Number() {
        return var1Number;
    }

    public BooleanNumber getVar2Number() {
        return var2Number;
    }
}


> >> both states raid is broken for more complex setups.
> >> hook and install file.
> >> will be added to initramfs and used for the assembling things.
> >>  madm.conf file will be created on the fly during bootup.
> >> Tested normal raid 1 setup with and without mdadm.conf modified.
> >> Not tested yet uuid assembling from commandline and partitionable raid!
> > you show an example mkinitcpio.conf HOOKS line?
Dan if you use simple raid hook just replace it with mdadm.
and just replace raid with mdadm in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf to test this.


Whether you are looking to escape the city, or nestle right into the heart of it, we have what you need. Our selections come with a design twist, of course!
Eating pretty has never been so easy. From a Banksy chocolate cube with a red 'balloon' on the top, to a cake inspired by Damien Hirst's spot paintings, this afternoon tea is truly stunning in every sense of the word.
The passion fruit cremeux is inspired by infamous pop art artist Yayoi Kusama, and a layered coconut flavoured cake is baked on Mark Rothoko's rectangular forms. You really have to see this afternoon tea for yourself to know just how intricate the cake craftsmanship truly is.
Enjoy all of these in The Rosewood's stunning Mirror Room, which is what is says on the tin. Elegant, imaginative and a real treat.
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If you are looking for luxury and relaxation combined, then Fishmore Hall in the rolling Ludlow hills is the place to be.
The spa is a real treat for design-lovers. The four treatments rooms, two thermal cabins, a steam room, a sauna and an outdoor Cedar wellness pool are all architecturally inspired by the natural world.
Named SPAshell, it was created by Spa Creators, renowned design consultants. With a sleek urban design featuring Siberian larch wood and eco-friendly materials, it blends perfectly into the calming hills of the Shropshire countryside.
Even the dining is inspired by art. The hotel's fine-dining restaurant Forelles, led by head chef Andrew Birch, is one not to miss. It serves a decadent six course tasting menu, which featured on BBC's Great British Menu, as well as an A la Carte treat. All dishes are executed with an artistic eye for a visual treat. We recommend the Scallop Hand Dived Orkney Scallop dish, which is Instagram heaven.
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by Sandra Staebell | July 1, 2009 · 12:00 pm
An Illustrious Career
An exhibit celebrating the career of children's book illustrator Dorothy Grider opened at the Kentucky Library & Museum on July 1, 2009. Driven to become an artist from the age of eight, this Bowling Green native became Rand McNally's most popular children's book illustrator in the late 1940s, and her work often stood alone in coloring books, picture books, and activity publications. Illustrating more than 100 books, including six as both author and illustrator, her work is available today in more than 200 libraries around the world.
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Civil War Diary Edited by Nancy Baird Receives Award
The Military Order of the Stars and Bars has selected Josie Underwood's Civil War Diary, edited by Nancy Disher Baird as the winner of the 2009 Basil W. Duke Award, which recognizes the publisher who reissues the best work in Confederate history.
Available for the first time in print, Josie Underwood's Civil War Diary offers a vivid, firsthand account of a family that owned slaves and opposed Lincoln, yet remained unshakably loyal to the Union. Josie's father, Warner, played an important role in keeping Kentucky from seceding. Among the many highlights of the diary is Josie's record of meeting the president in wartime Washington, which served to soften her opinion of him. Josie describes her fear of secession and war, and the anguish of having relatives and friends fighting on opposite sides, noting in the spring of 1861 that many friendships and families were breaking up "faster than the Union." The diary also brings to life the fears, frustrations, and deprivations of living under occupation in strategically important Bowling Green, KY known as the "Gibraltar of the Confederacy" during the war. Despite the wartime upheaval, Josie's life is also refreshingly normal at times and she recounts travel, parties, local gossip, and the search for her "true Prince."


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"People will join the Equality March because they trust the police to protect them" — EUAM Gender Adviser Søren Sønderstrup
The Kyiv Equality March, celebrated this year on 18 June, is a chance for the city's residents and visitors to come out in favour of equal rights for the LGBTI community. After a widely praised organisational effort last year, including a firm commitment from the then newly established National Police of Ukraine to ensure that the event took place peacefully, this year's march is expected to draw substantially bigger numbers.
With the Equality March on the horizon, EUAM Gender Adviser Søren Sønderstrup gives his views on the current state of play with regard to equal rights in Ukraine.
How would you describe the current environment for LGBTI rights in Ukraine?
There has been progress, but the atmosphere is still confrontational and surprisingly emotional. This is because there are many vocal opponents of equal rights for LGBTI people. Opposition is based on the widespread idea in Ukraine that different sexual orientations or gender identities are a choice or something that people get infected with. As if you become gay just by talking to a gay person!
Most people have come round to the view that you shouldn't discriminate against anyone based on their ethnicity, but in Ukraine as an example, it is still debated whether the Labour Code should permit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, or whether the word gender is a threat to the family and traditional Ukrainian values.
The Labour Code now complies with Human Rights standards but any talk of LGBTI issues still evokes fear and anger in many people.
I would ask opponents of equal rights if they really think that someone would willingly choose a sexuality that puts them in danger of physical violence, bullying and discrimination. Being LGBTI is not a disease – the real social disease is not recognising and accepting people for who they are.
You mentioned though that there was some progress on LGBTI issues in Ukraine?
There certainly is. One major value change that the Maidan brought with it was an emphasis on inclusiveness. At a political level there is greater support for the recognition of difference. Last year's Equality March is a great example. The Police and National Guard also made sure that freedom of expression and assembly were protected and made this a priority. Also, when you look at the media coverage of the event last year, it was largely positive. This is a radical change.
Reform of the Labour Code to prevent discrimination on the basis of sexuality and gender identity admittedly met a lot of resistance when it was debated in the Ukrainian Parliament last year. The President then ensured that discrimination in the workplace was prohibited as part of Ukraine's obligations in the EU Association Agreement.
While there is support at a political level, it will take time for this to translate into a greater understanding of what it means to be LGBTI and general Human Rights among ordinary people.
What challenges do LGBTI people in Ukraine face?
I know many LGBTI Ukrainians who refuse to join the Equality March because they are scared that if they are photographed there, they will be ostracised by their families or fired from their job. Socially being LGBTI remains a great stigma and many families feel the 'disgrace' of having an LGBTI child. A large number of gay people live a secret life, which is a danger to their health and wellbeing. And there is still far too much violence or hate crimes against LGBTI people or their defenders.
I can give you an example of both the violence and the shame that LGBTI people face from my own experience. I was beaten up when with a gay friend in Dnipro a few years ago. The friend did not want to report the issue to the police because he feared this would expose his sexuality. I did report the crime, but the police officer on duty had trouble believing this was a hate crime. Even though the gang that beat us up were shouting derogatory words for gay people. In the end the case was never followed through.
EUAM's mandate is to assist reform in the civilian security sector – how would you evaluate progress there?
EUAM's position is that human rights are equal rights for everyone no matter what their sexuality. We promote equality as a basic human right for all.
As I mentioned earlier, there has been progress at a political level, but all too often LGBTI rights are something that suffers from a lack of awareness. There are times when criminal cases aren't followed through, or hate crimes are not treated as such. Many people working in law enforcement or rule of law institutions still treat LGBTI issues as a taboo and fail to appropriately support victims.
I'd like to say that the fact that more people are expected to join the March this year is an indication of trust in the police as defenders of human rights. People will join the March because they trust the police to protect them.
"People will join the Equality March because they trust the police to protect them" — EUAM Gender Adviser Søren Sønderstrup is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License.


The Sindh High Court (SHC) restrained the private respondents from causing any hindrance to access of the Hindu religious community to the Mari Mata temple, from where a taziya is taken out on Ashura.
Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, who headed the two-judge bench, passed this direction on a petition against alleged encroachment over land of the place of worship by a converted Muslim woman.
Justice Helpline, a non-governmental organisation, had approached the court seeking custody of the worship place of the Hindu minority.
The petitioners said that Mari Mata Temple, which is located on plot 303-B at Sister Sequeira Street, Rattan Talao, on Akbar Road, is a historic place of worship of the Hindu community.
After riots broke out in the city in 1992, following the demolition of Babri Masjid in India, the woman, Lakshmi Bai, had saved the temple by placing a taziya there, recalled the petitioners.
Bai, who later converted to Islam after the 1992 riots, is now illegally occupying the property, they alleged. They added that Bai was not allowing members of the Hindu community to visit the temple and worship there.
Therefore, the court was pleaded to order the authorities to retrieve the temple from the private respondent and hand it over to the Hindu community to look after it and perform their religious rites.
During Thursday's proceedings, Abdullah, the husband of the respondent, Bai (now Fatima), appeared in response to the court's notice. He informed the judges that he visits the temple in the evening to light diya and then leaves. However, he undertook that the he has never nor will create any hindrance for the Hindu community in using their temple.
Taking his statement on record, the judges ordered the woman and her husband to abstain from causing any hindrance in the way of the Hindu community from worship in the mandir or its compound.
The petitioner, Atam Parkash, further says that they intend to withdraw the permission to keep taziya, which was granted by the Panchayat. While disposing of the petition, the judges observed that in case the petitioners withdraw permission, it will be open for them to act in accordance with the law and also to pursue their remedy as per law.


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Link Between Gum Disease And Cognitive Decline In Alzheimers
A new study, jointly led by the University of Southampton and Kings College London, has found a link between gum disease and greater rates of cognitive decline in people with early stages of Alzheimers disease.
Periodontitis or gum disease is common in older people and may become more common in Alzheimers disease because of a reduced ability to take care of oral hygiene as the disease progresses. Higher levels of antibodies to periodontal bacteria are associated with an increase in levels of inflammatory molecules elsewhere in the body, which in turn has been linked to greater rates of cognitive decline in Alzheimers disease in previous studies.
The latest study, published in the journalPLOS ONE, set out to determine whether periodontitis or gum disease is associated with increased dementia severity and subsequent greater progression of cognitive decline in people with Alzheimers disease.
In the observational study, 59 participants with mild to moderate Alzheimers disease were cognitively assessed and a blood sample was taken to measure inflammatory markers in their blood. Participants dental health was assessed by a dental hygienist who was blind to cognitive outcomes. The majority of participants 52 - were followed-up at six months when all assessments were repeated.
The presence of gum disease at baseline was associated with a six-fold increase in the rate of cognitive decline in participants over the six-month follow-up period of the study. Periodontitis at baseline was also associated with a relative increase in the pro-inflammatory state over the six-month follow-up period. The authors conclude that gum disease is associated with an increase in cognitive decline in Alzheimers disease, possibly via mechanisms linked to the bodys inflammatory response.
Limitations of the study included the small number of participants; the authors advise that the study should be replicated ideally with a larger cohort. The precise mechanisms by which gum disease may be linked to cognitive decline are not fully clear and other factors might also play a part in the decline seen in participants cognition alongside their oral health.
However, growing evidence from a number of studies links the bodys inflammatory response to increased rates of cognitive decline, suggesting that it would be worth exploring whether the treatment of gum disease might also benefit the treatment of dementia and Alzheimers disease.
Professor Clive Holmes, senior author from the University of Southampton, says: These are very interesting results which build on previous work we have done that shows that chronic inflammatory conditions have a detrimental effect on disease progression in people with Alzheimers disease. Our study was small and lasted for six months so further trials need to be carried out to develop these results. However, if there is a direct relationship between periodontitis and cognitive decline, as this current study suggests, then treatment of gum disease might be a possible treatment option for Alzheimers.
Dr Mark Ide, first author from the Dental Institute at Kings College London says: Gum disease is widespread in the UK and US, and in older age groups is thought to be a major cause of tooth loss. In the UK in 2009, around 80% of adults over 55 had evidence of gum disease, whilst 40% of adults aged over 65-74 (and 60% of those aged over 75) had less than 21 of their original 32 teeth, with half of them reporting gum disease before they lost teeth.
A number of studies have shown that having few teeth, possibly as a consequence of earlier gum disease, is associated with a greater risk of developing dementia. We also believe, based on various research findings, that the presence of teeth with active gum disease results in higher body-wide levels of the sorts of inflammatory molecules which have also been associated with an elevated risk of other outcomes such as cognitive decline or cardiovascular disease.
Research has suggested that effective gum treatment can reduce the levels of these molecules closer to that seen in a healthy state. Previous studies have also shown that patients with Alzheimers disease have poorer dental health than others of similar age and that the more severe the dementia the worse the dental health, most likely reflecting greater difficulties with taking care of oneself as dementia becomes more severe.
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Belarus: From 1 January 2014 ordinary and commercial courts will be merged into a single system of courts of general jurisdiction.
From 1 January 2014 ordinary and commercial courts will be merged into a single system of courts of general jurisdiction.
On 29 November 2013 the President of Belarus signed a set of statutory acts on judicial reform, namely Decree No. 6, Edict No. 529 and Edict No. 530.
The reform leads to a merger of the Superior Commercial Court with the Supreme Court. This will result in creation of a single superior judicial body in charge of civil, criminal, administrative and economic matters, i.e. the Supreme Court. This will be in charge of a single system of courts of general jurisdiction in Belarus, which will comprise ordinary and commercial courts. Due to the merger, regional commercial courts and the commercial court of the city of Minsk are to be renamed as corresponding economic courts. The Supreme Court is given authority to provide courts of general jurisdiction with organizational support, material and technical supplies as well as personnel. Moreover, the powers with which the Superior Commercial Court is currently invested will be transferred to the Supreme Court.
As stated in Decree No. 6, the reform is aimed to unify law on the judiciary, to improve the quality of administration of justice, to further contribute to the specialization of courts and judges as well as to improve provision of material and technical supplies and personnel.
The reform also leads to creation of a single system of law enforcement bodies with the Ministry of Justice in charge. The powers and duties of ordinary and commercial courts as to law enforcement are to be transferred to law enforcement bodies by means of succession.
The new legislation entered into force on 1 January 2014.
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Nagyvezekény (szlovákul Veľké Vozokany) község Szlovákiában, a Nyitrai kerület Aranyosmaróti járásában.

Fekvése
Aranyosmaróttól 7 km-re délre, a Sirocsina-patak bal partján fekszik.

Elnevezése
A Vezekény szó a török bazakan (= dísz, díszecske) szóból származhat, amelyből a besenyő eredetű Osli nembeli Vezekény nemzetség neve származik. A Vezekény helynevet személynévi eredetűnek is tartják.

A település első fennmaradt írásos említésében 1209-ben Wezeken alakban szerepel. Mivel az első bécsi döntés nem érintette, ezért a település utolsó magyar hivatalos formája 1906-tól Nagyvezekény, korábban kötőjeles formában használták.

A szlovák jogrend értelmében a településeknek vagy azok részeinek ma is csak egy hivatalos szlovák neve van, tehát a magyar helységnévhasználat a kormányrendeletek mellékletei ellenére nem minősülnek hivatalos magyar helynévnek, de az 534/2011 sz. szlovák kormányrendeletének melléklete, illetve előzményei amúgy sem érintik.

Története
A települést 1209-ben "Wezeken" néven említik először. Egykor a garamszentbenedeki bencés apátság birtoka, majd 1228-ban a nyitrai püspökségé. A 13. század során a Hont-Pázmány nemzetség és a Maróthy család a birtokosok. 1381-ben "Eghazaswezekyn" alakban említik. 1618-ban a környező területekkel együtt török fennhatóság alá került. 1652. augusztus 25-én a királyi hadak itt csaptak össze a törökkel, a bizonytalan végkimenetelű csatában négy Esterházy esett el.

Vályi András szerint "Nagy, és Kis Vezekény. Két faluk Bars Várm. Nagy-Vezekénynek földes Ura az Esztergomi Káptalanbéli Uraság, Kis-Vezekénynek pedig Bocskay, és Szmertsnik Uraságok, lakosaik katolikusok, 's más félék is; Kis Vezekény amannak filiája; fekszenek Ar. Maróthoz 1 1/2 mértföldnyire; határbéli földgyeik középszerűek, mint vagyonnyaik."

Fényes Elek szerint "Vezekény (Nagy-), (Velke Vozokány), Bars m. tót falu, Ar. Maróthoz délre 1/2 mfd., 386 kath. lak., s termékeny jó határral. F. u. az esztergomi káptalan. – Vozokány mezején 26-ik aug. 1652-ben igen keményen megverték a magyarok a törököket, s ezen alkalommal 186 keresztény rabot szabaditottak meg. Azonban siralmas leve ezen győzelem a fényes érdemü Eszterházy családra; mert az elesett 48 magyarok közűl 4 Eszterházy maradt a csatatéren, u. m. László, Kristóf, Ferencz s Márton, kiknek neveik örökitésére gr. Eszterházy Imre esztergomi nagyprépost 1734-ban oszlopot is állíttatott e vérmezején, de a felirás már alig olvasható. Ut. p. Verebély."

A trianoni békeszerződésig Bars vármegye Verebélyi járásához tartozott.

Népessége
1880-ban 465 lakosából 422 szlovák, 16 német, 15 magyar anyanyelvű és 12 csecsemő; ebből 446 római katolikus, 18 zsidó és 1 református volt.

1890-ben 431 lakosából 414 szlovák és 6 magyar anyanyelvű volt.

1900-ban 463 lakosából 437 szlovák és 18 magyar anyanyelvű volt.

1910-ben 471 lakosából 407 szlovák, 60 magyar, 4 német anyanyelvű, ebből 466 római katolikus és 5 zsidó vallású.

1921-ben 527 lakosából 525 csehszlovák és 2 magyar volt.

1930-ban 540 lakosából 535 csehszlovák és 3 magyar volt.

1991-ben 534 lakosa mind szlovák volt.

2001-ben 526 lakosából 514 szlovák és 1 magyar volt.

2011-ben 508 lakosából 484 szlovák volt.

2021-ben 448 lakosából 440 szlovák, (+1) cigány és ruszin, 3 egyéb és 5 ismeretlen nemzetiségű volt.

Neves személyek
 Itt született 1886. december 15-én Kolecsányi Kálmán kertészeti szakember.
 Itt született 1938. június 13-án Elo Havetta filmrendező.

Nevezetességei
 Szent Miklós tiszteletére szentelt római katolikus temploma eredetileg gótikus stílusú volt. 1742-ben barokk stílusban alakították át.
 Az 1652. évi csata emlékműve.
 A község fúvószenekara.
 Lipa népi énekkar.
 Vozokanček népi gyermekcsoport.

Jegyzetek

Források
Keglevich Kristóf 2012: A garamszentbenedeki apátság története az Árpád- és az Anjou-korban (1075-1403). Szeged, 199.
Štefan Rakovský a kol. 1969: Zlaté Moravce a okolie. Bratislava, 156-157.
 Lajoš a kol. 1964: Nitra slovom i obrazom. Bratislava, 40.

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Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak at this launch. Before I start I just want to say how clear Samantha Power's remarks were.
I totally agree that we cannot continue to exponentially increase the budget and the humanitarian aid footprint. In fact, I had a very useful meeting with the World Bank in the last hour looking specifically at these issues.
So I think Samantha has given us some important and central instruction on the things we need to look at over the coming year and beyond.
I would like to start with a story that I have already told. A few weeks ago, I was in Mekelle in Tigray in northern Ethiopia. I met a group of women, survivors of sexual assault, in a safe house Natalia [Kanem] funded by your excellent agency [UNFPA].
It was an extraordinarily difficult and moving meeting. I must admit that sometimes during this meeting I felt the need to leave, to stop the difficulty of the meeting. I have the impression that we have all been in these circumstances. I felt so bad for the women – about 25 of those women with their kids running around – who were forced to talk to us.
Of course, the tragedy was that they could barely speak to us with clarity due to the trauma that had yet to be taken away from the terrible things that had happened to them in the previous months.
As I have said elsewhere, what struck me most, what summed up the real tragedy of this situation, was their reaction when we asked them what they wanted for the future of their children. They did not talk about education for their children, nor about the future safety and security of their families. Their concern was food – the food of today. They had neither horizon nor hope for the future. They just needed to survive.
I think that was perhaps the most tragic aspect of this meeting.
This type of experience is not limited to particular countries. This is a situation that we know happens so often in so many parts of the world.
I echo Samantha's remarks on the need to put the needs and voices of women and girls at the center of how we do business.
Crises like the one that caused their pain that day, which has been painful to them for months, as Samantha says, can only be resolved through political solutions.
I honor Jeff Feltman and others who are doing their best under very difficult circumstances.
But today, as we launch this Global Humanitarian Snapshot 2022, my goal is that this appeal can at least help restore a glimmer of hope to these women and many others like them around the world.
The message is urgent.
Humanitarian needs continue to increase. As we heard earlier this year, 235 million people were already in need of humanitarian assistance. Now that is increasing in 2022 to reach 274 million.
It is an astonishing number. And that's a doubling of the needs over the past four years.
To give you an idea of the magnitude of this challenge: If everyone in need of emergency assistance lived in one country, it would be the fourth most populous country in the world.
It is a shame for us.
In most of these crises, women and girls suffer the most, as pre-existing gender inequalities and protection risks are heightened.
A frightening statistic that struck me in my recent reading is that every three months in lockdown we see an increase of 15 million incidents of gender-based violence. It tells us something deeply sad and mean about humanity.
This tells us something extraordinarily important about who should be our aid priority.
And that tells us something about the need to tackle power inequalities in a very central way. And [this goes] beyond the management of the humanitarian community.
This global snapshot for 2022 includes the world's largest humanitarian appeal of $ 4.47 billion for Afghanistan, closely followed by appeals in Syria and Yemen.
As Samantha said, the drivers of these calls are quite familiar.
Mainly conflicts and the political instability that goes with it, the growing climate crisis and the impact of the pandemic.
Instability has worsened in several parts of the world this year, notably in Ethiopia,
Myanmar and now Afghanistan, while those protracted conflicts Samantha referred to continue to elude all efforts to resolve.
The scale of the climate crisis means that no corner of the world is immune to intensifying shocks and therefore the need for assistance either.
I join others in congratulating Samantha and her team at USAID for joining the Climate Charter, which is clear, succinct and important.
COVID-19 has already killed nearly 2 million people in the countries included in this GHO, while also contributing to an increase in poverty. I think the World Bank estimates that 20 million more people have fallen into poverty as a result of the pandemic.
And as we have known for a few days, the pandemic has not left us yet.
These multiple forces – pandemic, climate, conflicts, disasters – have forced 1% of the world's population to forcibly relocate.
Forty-five million people in 43 countries are on the brink of famine. And of course, several million more are approaching this appalling situation.
It should be remembered – I had the privilege to see it and I imagine many others here as well – that when crises arise, it is the communities themselves who are always the first to react. They are the first responders to the needs of people affected by the crisis.
And their help, without for a moment disparaging the generosity of many countries and the United States here in Washington, but their generosity often shames the rest of us. I saw it very clearly, especially this year in northern Ethiopia and Syria.
So we have to stand here in solidarity with them. For the generosity of the inhabitants who help those they see by their side.
Going forward, the 2022 GHO explains how we can support 183 million of the world's most vulnerable people – a lower priority from 274 million, at a cost of $ 41 billion, a 17% increase from compared to last year.
Not surprisingly, this is the largest ever appeal for humanitarian aid in the world.
It sets out detailed plans on which our colleagues from these countries have been working for months in the agencies which know their business so well. These are detailed plans, based on objective assessments, to meet food security and nutrition needs; health; water, sanitation and hygiene; gender equality; protection and education – often the orphans of these calls – shelter; and other essentials.
This year, we were aiming to reach 153 million people through country-level plans.
Thanks to everyone's generosity, we were able to reach 107 million of these people.
It is an astonishing achievement. Seventy percent of our goal was achieved with some kind of assistance.
Emergency health services, sanitation, outpatient care.
In Yemen alone, we have been able to reach 10 million people with outpatient care. I know Yemen and I know how difficult this environment is to exploit.
2.4 million women and girls in 39 countries have received the services they need to tackle gender-based violence, and it's never enough like I saw that day in Mekelle.
He helped us fight acute hunger in six countries threatened by famine: Burkina Faso,
Ethiopia, southern Madagascar, northeast Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen. This included the withdrawal of half a million people on the brink of famine in South Sudan.
This year we have also made progress in the way we do business in important areas.
Collaboration has improved between international agencies and local frontline responders.
But we still forget them. We still don't see them clearly as the first responders. And we still don't support, strengthen their capabilities, or extend their footprint beyond our own. [This is important] partly for respect, but also for efficiency.
We have ensured that humanitarian aid targets the needs of women, girls and people with disabilities, and that it supports neglected sectors such as protection and emergency education.
There was more prioritization of work on sexual exploitation and abuse, a duty of care to our staff and to those with whom our staff are in contact.
I would like to thank Natalia Kanem who was the champion this year, trying to get us in international agencies to put this issue at the top of our agenda because it is a duty of diligence. It has to come first to those of us who have these responsibilities.
And finally, I want to repeat what I said earlier, namely that funding is a mark of solidarity. But let's not forget that the first palpable and perceptible solidarity for people in crisis is their neighbors.
I want to tell a story of my stay in Gaziantep, on the Turkish border with Syria, at the end of August. Gaziantep is a city that has been inundated with Syrian refugees and has hosted so many of them for so many years. I met in a local community center with young students in their early teens. On one side of the room were Turks, on the other Syrians, all living together in this community, helped by this center.
I asked a young woman on the Turkish side: "You saw these people come to your town and take over your services and turn some of your people away for treatment in clinics and hospitals: how did it go? She said it was an opportunity to show our solidarity.
She was a young teenager from Gaziantep. And the question was not prepared.
She was the one talking, and she was talking to all of us.
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Kenyans are arguably the most consumers' of social media in Africa. Their presence is felt by the online community with Twitter and Facebook being the major platforms used. Social media has helped Kenyans speak freely about contentious issues where different people share their input, values and opinion on weighty social, political and economic matters. It has also eased communication across the globe as well as improved socialization.
However social media has brought out some rather unusual behaviors and habits among the Kenyans. Some of the content published by Kenyans is met with criticism, laughter wonder excitement and disgust in equal measure by the online communities. Some of the content published which include photos, blog articles, what's app status updates, comments on posts have gotten some of them on the wrong side of the law, some have gotten the individuals ridiculed and laughed at and some have made people 'socialites'- read popular among the online community.
Kenyan women are known to have the most atypical of habits on social media. Ranging from all platforms on social media, these are notably the 5 most peculiar habits the women portray on social media.
This is a situation where female social media users create pseudo accounts disguised as men with the intention of flirting with other female social media users. This is especially rampant among the KOT. Many ladies have fallen victims to these habits, and have ended up dedicating their time and resources creating relationships with the 'cat fishers' only to realize they were also women.
Kenyan ladies are especially notorious of this habit. They screenshot private conversations between them and their friends, families or workmates and publish them on social media. Some do it with the pure intention of maligning and disparaging other peoples name while others do it for shallow short-sided gains over their adversaries.
Kenyan women are ostensibly infamous for this trait. Many at times, you might log in to your favorite social media platform hoping to get a glimpse of the latest happenings in the world only to find your timeline bombarded by photos of all the meals some ladies had in that day. The photos are mostly from trendy restaurants, or home cooked meals replete on social media sites.
Kenyan ladies are best known to communicate through their Whatsapp statuses. The status updates which are changed as regularly as after 10 minutes communicate about their feelings, where they are going or doing, and sometimes coded messages meant for a specific follower. Need to know what a woman is thinking any given day or time, just check their Whatsapp status.
Recently, photos of a Kenyan lady who had photos hoped herself in countless images with various world celebrities and major tourist attractions across the globe went viral. The Kenyan woman achieved Internet notoriety with her delightful travel-themed photo series, which chronicles her very beautiful, very fake Asian vacation. Well, she may have been lucky to find someone to sponsor her to an all paid vacation at China but this just goes to prove how creative Kenyan women are in photoshop.
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The following is a roundup of regional economic news compiled by the Idaho Department of Labor during April.
Three of four school district levies in northern Idaho were approved in March. West Bonner School District was the one coming up short. Its $3.5 million one-year levy failed. Passing were the Wallace School District's $4 million levy for two years, the Kellogg School District's $5.56 million levy for two years and the Lakeland Joint School District's $4.8 million-a-year levy for two years.
Nebraska-based West Corp., which hired about 200 call center employees in Spokane last year, is moving forward with a smaller wave of additional call center hiring. Over the next several months, West Corp. will add 30 employees to its Spokane Valley location. The company currently has about 650 employees in downtown Spokane and 330 in Spokane Valley. A portion of the company's hiring is seasonal – usually around the holidays.
Rivercrossing LLC, an affiliate of Liberty Lake-based real estate development company Greenstone Corp., plans to build 282 homes in two new subdivisions. The combined value will be over $50 million in the city's River District. The homes are likely to range in price from $200,000 to $280,000.
Sportsman's Warehouse, the Utah-based national outdoor recreation and sporting goods chain, plans to re-enter the Spokane market with a new North Side store. New Sportsman's Warehouse stores hire an average of 50 employees.
A New York company has paid $4 million to purchase the assets of ReliOn Inc. of Spokane, which produces fuel cell systems. The 45 jobs will remain in Spokane. ReliOn originally was a subsidiary of Avista Corp. It was launched in 1995 as Avista Laboratories before spinning off as a privately held startup.
Federal bank regulators have approved the merger announced last year of Umpqua Bank and Spokane-based Sterling Financial Corp. Umpqua is paying about $1.9 billion in stock for Sterling, the largest financial institution headquartered in Spokane County. Sterling has around 660 area workers and more than 2,600 across the service area, which includes Idaho, Oregon and California. It has 176 branches in those states and Washington. As of Dec. 31 Sterling Financial Corporation had assets of $10.3 billion.
Rockwood Clinic PS of Spokane plans to open a primary care clinic and has started renovating a 4,800-square-foot space in a strip mall in Spokane Valley.
The Coeur d'Alene Tribe donated $1.2 million to 52 educational programs in northern Idaho. In 1992, tribal leaders agreed to return 5 percent of the tribe's net gaming revenues to education as part of a gaming compact with the state. The Coeur d'Alene Tribal Council considered 150 requests totaling more than $4 million. The funds will be used to support a variety of educational efforts including reading, music, arts, science, vocational and GED preparation classes and college scholarship programs. Funds were primarily distributed to organizations in Kootenai and Benewah counties but also to schools as far away as Meridian, Sugar City and Wilder. The latest round of donations brings the tribe's total contributions to education to $21.4 million. Among those receiving funding were the Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls, Kellogg, Kootenai, Lakeland, Plummer-Worley and St. Maries school districts, Boys and Girls Club of Kootenai County, Excel Foundation, Habitat for Humanity of North Idaho, school backpack programs for weekend meals, Coeur d'Alene Charter Academy, Kootenai Technical Education Campus, North Idaho College Foundation, NIC Booster Club, St. Vincent de Paul of North Idaho, Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Center and TESH.
Sandpoint-based Unicep Packaging LLC acquired a new manufacturing line for sealed single-dose products with enclosed applicators. Unicep provides packaging and formulation mixing for gels, liquids, lotions and creams for the medical device, over-the-counter, veterinary, cosmetic and personal hygiene markets. The production line packages topical products in disposable containers called SwabDose, which are sealed tubes with built-in swabs. Unicep expects to produce hundreds of millions of SwabDose units annually.
Gov. C. L. "Butch" Otter proclaimed April 2 as Unmanned Aircraft Systems Day in recognition of the first statewide meeting for aerospace companies. AMN Solutions in Lewiston organized the Idaho – Advancing Aviation Expo and UAS Conference in Coeur d'Alene. In addition to aerospace companies and their suppliers, public officials and educators spent time learning about industry growth opportunities. Speakers included experts on 3-D printing, advanced composites and growing commercial applications for unmanned aircraft systems, a marketplace expected to approach $15 billion in five years. Exhibitors provided opportunities for the public to learn more about the individual businesses. Job seekers also attended an associated career fair.
The Service Corps of Retired Executives, a national organization of individuals who provide advice to small businesses, recently began providing services in north central Idaho. Members of the Mid-Columbia Tri-Cities Chapter will provide free management and marketing consultation. The group regularly meets joins the Clearwater Economic Development Association in Lewiston to meet with business owners. In March, workshops were held in Moscow and Orofino. To schedule a meeting with a SCORE mentor, call the association at (208) 746-0015.
Clearwater County extended the lease on the county owned Clearwater Valley Medical Center in Orofino after the governor signed legislation making it possible for counties to extend leases for up to 35 years without a public auction. The old limit was 20 years. With a longer period to amortize new projects, the hospital will now be able to undertake construction work. The hospital broke ground on a 20,000-square-foot clinic on April 7 and should be ready for business next March.
With demand for wood products rising, Tri-Pro Cedar Products recently went from a 40-hour shift to a 60-hour shift at its sawmill near Orofino. The mill began operating in the late 1940s as Konkol Lumber and was purchased in 2007 by the Merritt family, which owns mills in Oldtown near Priest River and Athol north of Coeur d'Alene. The Orofino mill employs about 50.
Patrons of Joint School District 171 passed both maintenance and operations levies totaling $4.57 million for two years and a plant facilities levy totaling $1 million over 10 years.
State Hospital North, the 60-bed psychiatric facility in Orofino, plans to make several improvements in the next year or two including the repair of the retaining walls, a new water well and irrigation system, demolition of an obsolete smokestack, addition of a new sign, roof improvements and kitchen upgrades. The hospital budget is $7.5 million a year, down from $10 million before 2008. Like other psychiatric hospitals nationwide, the Orofino facility has reduced the length of the average stay. It provides short-term stabilization for adults during a mental health crisis and returns them to their communities as soon as possible. About 130 people work at the hospital.
Voters approved levies for three school districts in March. Highland School District in Craigmont approved a one-year, $499,000 supplemental levy. Kamiah School District got a one-year $650,000 supplemental levy. Nezperce School District secured an 11-year, $400,000 capital improvement bond.
Latah County commissioners used $7,000 from the county's fund for rural community development to finance a permit for construction of a new community center for Viola, an unincorporated community north of Moscow. The current center was declared unsafe for moderate to heavy foot traffic two years ago. Construction will cost $281,000. Five acres were donated for the new center, which should break ground in May. The new center will provide more space, a commercial kitchen and better parking.
Hundreds of high school students from Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska participate in the annual Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival every spring. Students meet renowned jazz performers, compete in vocal and instrumental performances and attend concerts and workshops. In addition, hundreds of jazz lovers enjoy the music at the festival, which has been held in Moscow since 1967. It is the largest jazz festival west of the Mississippi and Moscow's largest tourism event.
The Palouse Knowledge Corridor will hold a five day "boot camp" for entrepreneurs June 21 to 25 in Moscow and Pullman. Experts in value-added agriculture, animal health and technology and innovation will participate. Created by the University of Idaho and Washington State University, the corridor seeks to foster and attract high-technology companies that are developed by or benefit from work at the two research universities just eight miles apart. Learn more at pkcecamp.com.
An improving economy, increasing enrollment at Washington State University and exceptionally low vacancy rates have fueled a construction boom in Pullman. Last year, Pullman broke its prior record for the value of new construction. When adjusted for inflation, 2013's value of $75 million exceeded the 2005 peak by 3 percent. In 2013, the city issued about 300 permits for new apartments, a new $14 million delivery center for Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, an $11 million Marriott Residence Inn Hotel and a $3.8 million addition to the Hilltop Inn. It appears construction activity will remain at a high level. Permits for new houses and apartments in the first three months of 2014 were higher than in the first three months of 2013. The university started building a 104,000-square-foot residence hall in March. The new 270-bed dorm with a café, fresh market, recreation area and outdoor courtyard is estimated to cost $40 million and is to be completed in June 2015. It will help accommodate record enrollment the past three years. Crews are also nearing completion on the $61 million football operations building that will house weight facilities, locker rooms, equipment and training rooms, coaches' offices and a kitchen. Work started in March 2013 and is on schedule for completion in May. A 192-unit apartment complex is being reviewed by the city. Housing permits at 10 so far this year match 2013, but three preliminary subdivision applications have been submitted. The school district passed a $53 million bond last year to modernize Pullman High School and add six new classrooms to Franklin Elementary. In addition, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories is planning a new child care center in the Industrial Park. Relay Application Innovation is going to be the first business in the Palouse Business Park development near the hospital, and Sherman Williams and Taco Bell are both opening new stores.
Voters in the Genesee, Potlatch and Kendrick school districts approved maintenance and operations levies in March. Potlatch's one-year levy was $1.39 million, $100,000 lower than the current year. Kendrick approved a one-year levy for $825,000, the same as this year's. It makes up one-third of the district's core funding. Genesee renewed its one-year $935,000 levy for the third straight year. The levy passed with a 72.7 yes vote in Latah County, where 121 ballots were cast.
The Appaloosa Museum and Heritage Center honored its founder George B. Hatley by naming a recent addition after the founder in March. Established in 1975 by the Appaloosa Horse Club to collect, preserve, study and exhibit objects and information that illustrate the history of the Appaloosa horse, the museum is one of Latah County's biggest tourist attractions. The museum and the Appaloosa Horse Club are on the/Moscow-Pullman Highway near the state line, offering educational programs for local youth. Together the club and museum employ nearly 30 people.
In March, the University of Idaho celebrated the completion of the $2.8 million renovation of the 62-year-old Niccolls Building that houses the School of Family and Consumer Sciences. The project included modernizing the foods and child development laboratories. It will allow the university to work with the Idaho State Department of Education and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to carry out the new pulse crop initiative that was included in the farm bill passed by Congress earlier this year.
Frozen MOTO, founded in Weiser in 2010, moved to Lewiston last year. The company makes building kits that replace the rear wheel of a dirt bike with a track and front wheel with a ski, turning it into a snow bike that is lighter and more nimble than a snowmobile. The kits cost about $5,500 and can be installed with ease on any model dirt bike. Now the company is gaining traction. Last year, it built about 100 kits. This year, it expects to build more than 1,000. Last fall, it signed a deal with a Russian distributor and may add a Japanese distributor this year. Being located near Idaho's only seaport makes shipping easier.
Lohman Helicopter in Lewiston appears in a recently released edition of My Ford magazine and soon will be featured in Ford commercials on TV. Ford filmed a Lohman crew spraying weeds in rugged central Idaho. The company uses super-duty trucks to bring its helicopters to remote locations for challenging jobs. Lohman specializes in aerial spraying of crops, timber and rangeland. It also does aerial seeding after fires, sets air conditioners on buildings, puts up power poles, flies salt blocks or fence posts out to remote locations for cattle and surveys game animals and power-line patrols.
Lewis-Clark State College held a STEM showcase in March where high school students demonstrated their skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics learned through workforce training developed by the college. Using a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, the college developed a model for STEM training including Solid Works three-dimensional modeling software, which responds to the needs of manufacturers. It's also providing professional development for high school teachers. Working with the Clearwater Economic Development Association, which conceived the program, and Valley Vision, the college also created mentoring and job shadowing programs with local manufacturers. The school also held a daylong camp for girls to encourage careers in STEM occupations. Students from north central Idaho and southeastern Washington attended workshops ranging from solar engineering and wind energy to video editing and math. The annual camp welcomes kindergarteners to high school seniors.
Lewis-Clark State College dedicated its business division building in late March after a $1.9 million renovation turned the 102-year-old Fine Arts Building into Thomas Jefferson Hall. Architecture firm Castellaw Kom and general contractor Kenaston Corp., both of Lewiston, preserved the building's historic feel while updating office spaces and classrooms with modern technology.
Voters in the Culdesac School District approved a two-year, $250,000 supplemental levy on March 12.
Happy Bento, a restaurant serving Japanese and other Asian cuisine including sushi, in Kamiah.
Imprint Graphics, a store offering personalization by an embroidery machine and selling gift items, in Grangeville.
Northwest Handmade Goods in downtown Lewiston, selling work by skilled crafts people in Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Verizon Wireless announced plans to hire 25 more full-time and part-time workers for its various Treasure Valley stores.
White Water Surgery Group began work on its future headquarters in March in Boise's West End. The company plans to only occupy 8,000 square feet of the 21,000-square-foot building and lease the rest as office space.
Albertsons will merge with Safeway later this year. The $9 billion deal will create the second largest grocer in the country. No word yet on how the merger will effect employment levels at Albertsons corporate offices in Boise.
Credit Suisse gained control of most of the failed Tamarack Resort's assets in March. Using $80 million in credit bids, the bank gained various properties at the resort including the ski area.
Pioneer Federal Credit Union will open its first branch in Boise later this year. The Mountain Home-based credit union has 12 branches in southern Idaho.
Boise U.S. Employees Federal Credit Union approved a plan to merge with Icon Credit Union. Boise U.S will adopt Icon's name and the merger takes effect June 1.
The first phase of the Idaho Highway 16 extension project should be completed this summer. The $39 million dollar project will connect State Street to Chinden Boulevard. Eventually the Transportation Department would like to extend Highway 16 to Interstate 84.
Rafanelli & Nahas has purchased the Key Financial Center building and parking garage in downtown Boise. The Boise-based developer plans to remodel the entry way and parking garage and move its offices there from southeastern Boise.
Ferguson Technologies and Agilefront are merging into Royal Jay. The combined technology company will specialize in custom product and application development.
Boise-based ECCO group is buying Public Safety Equipment Group of England. Both companies specialize in lighting for emergency vehicles.
Capital Educators Credit Union will break ground on a new Meridian branch. Construction is planned to be completed this fall.
U.S. Ecology of Boise is buying the environmental services and waste management company, The Environmental Quality Co. The $465 million stock deal is expected to be completed by the third quarter, pending regulatory approval.
The University of Idaho will rebuild and expand its McCall Field Campus for $40 million. The university will tear down all but one of the main buildings on campus. The project will take up to 15 years. Funds would be donated.
The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association announced Sun Valley Resort will host the U.S. Alpine Ski Championships in 2016 and 2018. It will be the first time in 65 years that the Idaho resort has hosted the national championships.
The Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation hosted the International Ski Federation Western Region Spring Series of alpine racing. The race's corporate sponsor was Bentley Motors. About 240 world-class athletes hit the slopes in Sun Valley.
Jason Miller, executive director of Mountain Rides in Ketchum was awarded two 2014 I-way Leadership awards from the Community Transportation Association of Idaho and the Idaho Transportation Department, Division of Transportation Performance. According to CTAI, his was instrumental in consolidating four different transportation organizations into one multi-modal agency, acquiring and placing 20 new bus shelters, organizing a new vanpool program that has grown to the second largest in the state, securing grants resulting in $3.3 million in new capital funding and $2.4 million in operating funding, increasing ridership by 51 percent, and establishing the first bike share program in the state.
Friedman Memorial Airport will use a $18 million Federal Aviation Administration grant to move and repave some runways, reconfigure and expand the terminal, and construct new hangars demolished for new runways. This renovation should be completed by the summer of 2015. The airport will match about $1.5 million, through funds raised from an additional ticket charge of $4.50. Other projects are in planning and design stage continuing through the second half of 2015, with another $16 million to be released by the FAA.
Cox Communication submitted remodeling plans for its transmission building in the Warm Springs Industrial Park. The company plans to remove satellite dishes from the rooftop, move parking spots to flow better with the bike and pedestrian route and enhance curb appeal.
Burley Western Stockmen's, an animal feed and farm implement store, will close after 70 years in business. J.R. Simplot Co., long-time owner, cited lack of efficiency as a factor in the closure, which idles eight workers.
Aguacaliente will start construction of a $150 million geothermal energy plant in Malta that will put out 25 megawatts of electricity in 2016. The plant will be on the Walker Ranch near the existing U.S. Geothermal plant, originally built in the 1970s by the U.S. Department of Energy. Both plants will draw geothermal water from the Raft River Aquifer, a pool up to 6,000 feet underground with temperatures ranging from 275 degrees to 300 degrees. The company's test wells found fractures in the surface that provide access to the water. Aguacaliente plans to drill 18 wells – half for reinjecting used water back into the aquifer. The company estimates 800 jobs will be created during construction of the plant. Manufacturing the equipment will take place at locations inside and outside Idaho. Workers running the plant must have electrical, water chemistry, mechanical and technical skills.
A group of Ketchum-based investors plans to open a $10 million multilevel care center in Twin Falls in late 2015. TanaBell Health Services of Chubbuck will operate the center, which will offer cottages and patio homes, assisted living apartments and dedicated care for customers with higher needs like Alzheimer's, dementia and other physical limitations. TanaBell will hire about 50 employees including housekeepers, cooks, servers, maintenance and repair workers, certified nursing assistants and a limited number of registered and licensed practical nurses. The center will not accept Medicare or Medicaid patients.
Chobani announced it is exporting yogurt to Malaysia, Singapore and Panama sending product from its plants in Twin Falls and New Berlin, N.Y. Singapore is the fifth largest importer of Idaho goods at $433 million in 2013 with a population of approximately 5.4 million. Malaysia with a population of 30 million, is 8th importing $242 million from Idaho, while Panama is almost double the size of Idaho at 3.7 million and imported $4.3 million in 2013. Idaho is ranked 40th in export values while the state of New York is third in the nation.
The College of Southern Idaho Board of Trustees voted to raise tuition to offset declining enrollment. The cost per credit hour will increase from $110 to $115, raising approximately $500,000 to cover 80 percent of the budget shortfall anticipated next fall.
Maverik Convenience store and gas station in Twin Falls.
Kimberly's River Coffee has changed its name to Scoot's Brew HaHa and moved to Kimberly's Red Cap Corner, carrying locally manufactured items from Chobani, Clif Bar and the Twin Beans Coffee Co.
The Bellevue Country Store closed to undergo a major remodel reopening midsummer.
Crossroads Point Business Center in Jerome has three new businesses, two in the construction stage while a third will start construction this summer. Rush Truck Center is constructing a facility to service International trucks. Later this year, the center will move into a 40,000-square-foot building, hiring 35 to 40 workers.
Intermountain Gas Company is building an office and shop, relocating from their existing office in Twin Falls. There will be approximately 25 employees working out of this space.
Animal Health International has plans to build a distribution center for food animal and companion this summer.
Pocatello will lose over 400 jobs in the coming weeks due to the closure of the Heinz processing plant. To refocus on economic development efforts, the city will more intensely market its airport business park to potential new employers. Officials believe the airport business park has a great deal of economic development potential with its access to air transportation and the interstate highway. Additional infrastructure is likely needed for the 700-acre site that Airport Manager David Allen said is well suited for industrial use, distribution, even office and commercial retail. Mayor Brian Blad estimates it will take about $10 million to bring companies and industry into the airport. According to city officials, one company has already committed to the park if the upgrades are made.
Idaho State University's Accelerator Center and Michigan-based Niowave Inc. received three Small Business Innovation Research grants to create new, compact accelerators for commercial use. Niowave builds superconducting electron accelerators, using the element Niobium to solve challenges in health care, national security and energy development. It uses superconductivity to efficiently accelerate electrons to high velocity where the electrons can then be used as a tool for a number of purposes. Howard Grimes, Idaho State vice president for research and economic development, said partnership such as the one with Niowave allows continuity between research and economic development that could lead to investment-grade opportunities.
Students from Idaho State University's Society of Physics held court with some of Idaho's young people at Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck recently to talk about physics. Their goals were to fuel curiosity about science and encourage careers in science, mathematics, engineering and technology. The event included various displays including one that allowed young people to experiment with positive harmless static electricity and another using liquid oxygen to freeze ice cream. The Society of Physics plans to take its demonstrations to classrooms throughout eastern Idaho.
Bear Lake Memorial Hospital broke ground on a new wing in April. It will include 11 new patient rooms, two labor-delivery rooms, an intensive care unit and a coronary care unit. The expansion has been planned for five years. Most of the funding came from employee donations totaling $200,000 and a $500,000 donation from Liz and Ted Schmidt. The expansion should be completed in fall 2015.
J.R. Simplot Co.'s Aberdeen processing plant will close April 30. The plant is one of three in Idaho being closed by Simplot in favor of a more automated plant being completed in Caldwell. The Aberdeen plant employed more than 250 workers.
The ARTitorium in downtown Idaho Falls is on schedule for a late-summer opening. The original building was constructed in the 1930s and is currently being remodeled to meet technology needs. The ARTitorium will be a digital museum for children as they create art in a variety of mediums like recording audio, film and animation.
Battelle Energy Alliance received a five-year extension on its contract to manage the Idaho National Laboratory. The new contact allows Battelle to continue operations management through Sept. 30, 2019. Battelle Energy Alliance is composed of Battelle Memorial Institute, URS Corp., The Babcock & Wilcox Co., Electric Power Research Institute, National University Consortium and the Idaho University Consortium.
A site plan was filed for Home2 Suites in Idaho Falls. Home2 Suites is a Hilton brand name. The hotel is slated for construction in the Snake River Landing development and will cover 94,425 square feet with parking for 112 vehicles.
Kmart announced the closure of its Rexburg location. The store currently employs 63 – mostly part-time workers. The closure is expected to take place in mid-July. The company hopes to transfer some of the employees affected by the closure to other Kmart and Sears locations in the area.
This entry was posted in Employment News and tagged idaho department of labor, idaho economy, regional news on April 30, 2014 by Idaho Department of Labor.


It's time I was honest.
Two years ago today I started here, and I've struggled with this concept of honesty every day since.
It's not so much that I don't know what it is I want to accomplish here. I've just been so unsure of myself. Do people really want to hear what I have to say? The past two years I have assumed they didn't and I tried my best to skirt around the edges of making things that meant something to me.
Why do I do that? Why let myself down? Am I afraid? Would it really be any worse, would I get any more flack than I do now, if I was just – honest?
I seem to have spent a good proportion of my adult life traveling alone on trains. I attribute my survival over the past three or four years to this seemingly trivial activity. Spending those few minutes trapped in one spot while having everything move around me at speed forced me to think and made me realise how, in spite of my youth, my own life was passing me by.
They say there is no evidence for faith. What isn't doubted is just another fact to be learned.
But I say there is one particular type of evidence for faith that is experiential. Sometimes there is a knowledge within a person that convinces them of a truth they would be hard pushed to explain rationally. And yet I have seen people like these choose to follow this irrational knowledge and become the most fulfilled and passionate individuals I can name.
Even if I am wrong, I would rather my life be meaningful and beautiful than rational.
I have a message to give to the world, and the passage way is music.
The people won't fall for a facade. I have to believe in what I am doing or no one else will.
I have let go and I am tumbling.
and yet I care more earnestly than I ever have before.
And out of the chaos comes a moment of clarity. This is just where I'm meant to be.


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From fresh selection to quality choice cuts, the meat market is an essential asset to any local community. These catchy meat market slogans serve as the perfect inspiration and example to create your own unique brand identity.
Bacon is like meat candy.
Bar-B-Q that will make a grown man cry.
BBQ – It's what's for dinner.
Best BBQ Ribs in the Universe.
Better meat than down the street.
Everyday we make it, we'll make it the best we can.
Handling your meat with precious and care.
I like my pork pulled and my meat smoked.
I love animals, they're delicious.
If it's not falling off the bone, it's gnawing off the bone.
It ain't barbecue, if there ain't no smoke.
It's the best ye ever tasted.
It's sweet to eat meat.
One it hits your lips, its so good.
Package your meat for a real neat treat.
Relax… it's just heat & meat.
That aint burnt, thats FLAVOR.
The sauce is for bread, not for the meat.
We have the best taste in your mouth.
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Embeddedness as Condition and Strategy in Contemporary Art and Cultural Production
Maier, Johannes. 2011. Embeddedness as Condition and Strategy in Contemporary Art and Cultural Production. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London [Thesis]
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This thesis examines the concept of 'embeddedness' as condition and strategy in contemporary art and cultural production. Identifying embeddedness as a motif of contextual proximity and a strategy in contemporary art, the thesis proposes immediacy to be the result of intrinsic mediation. The project's main concern is how embeddedness is contextualised by the current conditions that authors and cultural producers engage with. The primary question is whether and how embeddedness can convey a critical relation to the mediation that it undertakes. These concerns inform and arise from my work as an artist, and my participation in events, some of which I organise. The project claims that embeddedness in art is a critical condition and an editorial concept or a strategic plan that can be set up by the artist.
The investigation begins by looking at conditions of embeddedness by focusing on concepts of subjectivity and by elaborating strategies that I call 'auto-direction'. For example, concepts of subjectivity are taken up in relation to Richard Serra's video Boomerang (1974), in which the performer Nancy Holt reflects on her own spoken words, which are fed back with a short delay via microphone and headphones into her ears. Auto-direction, introduced with the example of Steven Spielberg's initiative of a video diary exchange project between Israeli and Palestinian children, describes the activity of the producer, who self-directs his situated presence. Taking up idioms of embeddedness from artists like Phil Collins, Christian Jankowski and Erik van Lieshout the project examines embeddedness through a comparative analysis between contemporary art, visual culture, media theory, sociology, art theory, psychoanalysis and philosophy. These practices lead to an identification of embeddedness as an author's immanent exposure, a claim taken up through analysis of theoretical texts and literature by Rosalind Krauss, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Gregory Bateson, Hal Foster, Bernard Williams and Alfred North Whitehead.
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This was our first time staying at Hill Byre and it didn't disappoint at all. The grounds are clean and tidy, and there is a shower block and toilets available if you wanted to use them rather than your own, and the land owner was around if you needed anything. On arrival at the site we were met by our marshal for the weekend John, who gave us a choice of places to pitch, and after a bit of messing about with some blocks and chucks the van was in place, (thank you to John for the use of his blocks and valued assistance). We were later arriving on the Friday night due to other arrangements, so it was a quick hello to everyone then some dinner and time for a good night's sleep in the countryside. Unfortunately the weather wasn't really with us all weekend and we had a lot of rain, but that didn't dampen the spirits at all. The rally was free and easy, so we just chilled out and did our own thing all weekend, with the exception of the meal on Saturday evening at the Ragley Boat Stop, and the night time ritual of the glass of Baileys or milky coffee in someone's caravan. We went upstairs when we arrived at the pub, and were joined by other members who unfortunately couldn't come on the rally due to other commitments, but joined us all for the meal which was great. The evening was a scream we didn't stop laughing from the minute we got there to the minute we left, all the usual suspects were involved and a great time was had by all, the food was great and the service was very fast. We then returned to the van for a good night's sleep ready for flag and the pack up to go home. As we mentioned earlier the weather wasn't great and it made for a cold and wet pack up and tow home, we were glad of a warm up when we arrived home. We would definitely stay here again as we thought the site was great and the company as always is fantastic, it's so good to be able to spend quality time with nice people, who just want to have fun and use their caravan, that is what the 4c's is all about friends, fun, laughter and raising money, with some good weather if we are lucky. A big thank you to John and Lynn Beresford for marshaling and their great hospitality and guidance, as always. We will hopefully see you all at Moira Furnace, which is the next rally for us, and that we have good weather for that weekend.
Love Lisa and Mark Chapman.


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Biden Signs $1.7 Trillion Spending Package — Backed By 18 Senate Republicans and 9 House Republicans
President Joe Biden signed the $1.7 trillion spending package into law on Thursday after a bipartisan group of senior lawmakers hustled the 4,155-page bill through Congress just days after introducing it.
Biden signed the bill while on vacation in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the omnibus was flown to the Caribbean island for the president's signature.
The omnibus bill funds the government for the rest of the fiscal year, pushing back the possibility of a government shutdown until at least October. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) endorsed the bill along with Democratic leaders in Congress to push the massive spending package through ahead of Christmas.
The Senate passed the omnibus on December 22 in a 68-29 vote, with 18 Republicans voting alongside Democrats in favor of the package. The House passed the bill 225-201 the next day as nine Republicans joined Democrats to move the measure through.
Conservative critics of the behemoth spending package said that McConnell should block the legislation and fund the government through stopgap spending bills until a new Congress with a GOP-controlled House is seated next month.
The Republican senators who voted to pass the bill include Roy Blunt of Missouri, John Boozman of Arkansas, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, John Cornyn of Texas, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Jerry Moran of Kansas, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Richard Shelby of Alabama, John Thune of South Dakota, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, and Todd Young of Indiana.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), a leading contender to be the next House speaker, threatened GOP senators on Tuesday over the spending package. McCarthy said that if he becomes speaker, he would kill the legislative priorities of any Senate Republican who supported the bill.
"[W]hen I'm Speaker, their bills will be dead on arrival in the House if this nearly $2T monstrosity is allowed to move forward over our objections and the will of the American people," McCarthy tweeted.
GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah was one of the loudest critics in the upper chamber. While the spending package was in the Senate, he tried and failed to get an amendment tacked onto the bill aimed at reinstating Title 42 authority to border agents at the U.S. southern border.
"This bill before us is legislative barbarism. This is an act of extortion being leveraged on the United States Senate right before Christmas," Lee said during a speech on the Senate floor. "This bill, in all 4,155 pages of its glory — or infamy — was negotiated in secret by four or five members of Congress."
"They wrote it in secret with the design of making an artificial emergency, threatening a shutdown right before Christmas," he continued.
McConnell worked with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to get the legislation through the Senate. McConnell backed the omnibus as a necessary investment in the U.S. military. "The bipartisan government funding bill before this body is imperfect but strong. It will make huge new investments in our Armed Forces while cutting non-defense, non-veterans baseline spending in real dollars," he said in a statement.
The bill allocates $858 billion to military spending, $45 billion more than Biden requested. It has another $772.5 billion in non-defense discretionary spending.
The $1.7 trillion bill is loaded with earmarks, carveouts, and favors for numerous lawmakers. The bill also contains provisions such as $410 million in funding for border security for the countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman. That provision was pointed out by GOP Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina as an example of questionable spending.
The bill also contains $1.2 million for "LGBTQIA+ Pride Centers," $477,000 for the Equity Institute in Rhode Island "to indoctrinate teachers with 'antiracism virtual labs,'" and $3 million for the American LGBTQ+ Museum, according to The Heritage Foundation.
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That money will make it's way right back into the Biden Crime Syndicate coffers.
These Republicans need to be run out of town.