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She's been out of the public eye for a while now but it seems Kim Kardashian has been back for Christmas as the reality star ha showed off her new lip piercing.
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Life story, in his own words as related to his Grandson, Mark Mangum, on October 25, 1987 at the age of 81.
This book is dedicated to my father, Gene Mangum, who has done so much for me. This record was transcribed from audio cassette tapes. Every effort was made to use Grandpa's own words, but in some places they were inaudible and I did the best I could. Much of the spelling, especially on names and places was my best guess, so don't rely on it for genealogical purposes. Some of the facts and dates seem to conflict, probably due to Grandpa's memory not being totally accurate. This isn't all of the history that is available, but I hope it brings back some special memories to my father, of his own father. I LOVE YOU DAD!
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La région de Kayes est la première région administrative du Mali. Elle s'étend sur . Son chef-lieu est la ville de Kayes.

Géographie

La région de Kayes est limitée au sud par la Guinée, à l'est par la région de Koulikoro, au nord par la Mauritanie et à l'ouest par le Sénégal.

Plusieurs fleuves et rivières traversent la région : le Baoulé, le Bafing et le Bakoye qui se rejoignent à Bafoulabé pour former le Sénégal. Dans la région se trouvent les chutes du Félou (à  de Kayes), les chutes de Gouina (à  au sud-est de Kayes sur le fleuve Sénégal), le lac Magui et le lac de Doro.

À la frontière guinéenne, le climat est assez humide. En remontant vers le nord, on traverse une zone soudanienne puis on arrive à une zone sahélienne. Kayes connaît des températures très élevées, faisant d'elle la ville la plus chaude d'Afrique.

Les grandes villes de la région sont Kayes, Nioro du Sahel, Diéma, Yélimané, Sadiola, Bafoulabé, Kéniéba et Kita.

La région de Kayes compte  couvrant une superficie de .

Dans la région sont situés deux parc nationaux (Kouroufing et Wango), un sanctuaire des chimpanzés et une zone d'intérêt cynégétique dans le cercle de Bafoulabé, et la réserve totale de faune de Talikourou dans le cercle de Kita, ainsi que la réserve de la biosphère de la boucle du Baoulé.

Démographie
La région compte  en 2009.

La population a été multipliée par près de 1,5 depuis 1998, soit un taux d'accroissement moyen annuel de 3,5 % entre 1998 et 2009. Le cercle de Kayes a connu la plus forte augmentation de la population (+57 %) suivi par ceux de Diéma et Yélimané (respectivement +49 % et +47 %).

Les femmes représentent 50,7 % de la population.

Différentes ethnies vivent dans la région : Soninkés, Khassonkés, Malinkés, Maures, Peuls et Bambara.

Transport et économie

La région est très enclavée. Le désenclavement au niveau routier est actuellement en cours.
Les axes Dakar-Kayes, Nouakchott-Kayes et Kayes-Diema-Bamako ainsi que Kita-Kati sont bitumés.

La ligne de chemin de fer Dakar-Niger traverse la région en passant par Kayes, Bafoulabé et Kita avant de rejoindre Kati et Bamako.

La région est desservie par l'aéroport international de Kayes Dag Dag, deuxième aéroport du pays en termes de trafic aérien après celui de Bamako. Des travaux en vue d'extension sont en cours.

La région de Kayes est riche en minéraux : or, diamant, fer, bauxite, etc. Les mines d'or de
Sadiola et celles de Yatela sont exploitées respectivement depuis 1996 et 2001.

Le barrage hydroélectrique de Manantali, construit sur le Bafing, est géré par l'Organisation pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Sénégal (OMVS). Le  les présidents malien Amadou Toumani Touré, sénégalais, Abdoulaye Wade et mauritanien Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz et le Premier ministre de Guinée Kabiné Komara ont procédé à la pose de la première pierre de l'aménagement hydroélectrique de Felou.

La région de Kayes étant la principale région d'émigration vers la France, les transferts d'argent des émigrés constituent la source de revenus la plus importante pour la région. Le montant des transferts des migrants vers les familles s'est élevé à  de francs Cfa en 2008 selon Badara Aliou Macalou, ministre des Maliens de l'extérieur

Histoire
La région de Kayes est le berceau du Royaume du Khasso fondé au début du xviie siècle.

En 1855, Faidherbe, gouverneur du Sénégal, fait construire un fort à Médine qui sera assiégé par El Hadj Oumar Tall, en guerre contre le souverain du Khasso en 1857.

En 1892, Kayes devient la capitale du Haut Sénégal-Niger. La construction de la ligne du chemin de fer de Dakar au Niger, inaugurée en 1904, fait de Kayes une ville-carrefour. Dès lors, le chemin de fer prend une place importante dans la vie des habitants ; elle est décrite dans le roman d'Ousmane Sembène Les Bouts de bois de Dieu.

La région est historiquement marquée par le phénomène de l'esclavage par ascendance, dont certaines formes persistent encore aujourd'hui.

Politique
Le , Bandiougou Diawara (Adéma-Pasj) a été élu président de l'assemblée régionale de Kayes pour un mandat de . Il est secondé par deux vice-présidents, Djadjéni Sidibé (Adéma-Pasj) et Famory Michel Dansoko (Urd).

Culture et éducation

La région de Kayes est considérée comme le berceau de la teinture à l'indigo.

Plusieurs langues sont parlées dans la région : le bambara, le malinke, le khassonké, le soninké et le peul.

Au niveau de l'enseignement, la région de Kayes est divisée en trois académies : Kayes, Kita et Nioro (académie créés en 2010).

L'académie de Kita compte 4 centres d'animations pédagogiques (Kita 1 et 2, Diéma et Bafoulabé. En 2008, les  (,  et ) accueillent , les , dont  accueillent . L'académie de Kita compte également  et .

Le Festival de Kayes Médine Tambacounda, initié depuis 2005 par Guéguen Alice Dakouo avec comme objectif de "promouvoir les échanges culturels entre les pays pour la paix entre les peuples" et "développer un tourisme durable par la promotion des richesses culturelles" est organisé à kayes et dans sa région.

Le Festival de Gouïna, initié depuis 2003 par Fousseyni Fainké sur les abords des chutes de Gouïna, se tient au mois de janvier de chaque année.

Subdivisions administratives

La région de Kayes est divisée en sept cercles (Bafoulabé, Diéma, Kayes, Kéniéba, Kita, Nioro du Sahel et Yélimané) regroupant .

Jumelages et coopération décentralisée

Le conseil régional de Tambacounda (Sénégal) et le conseil régional de Kayes (Mali) ont signé le  à l'hôtel de région à Tambacounda un accord de coopération dans différents domaines, notamment l'éducation et la formation la santé, les équipements publics collectifs de base, la promotion de l'emploi, le tourisme, l'environnement et les ressources naturelles, l'action sociale et les mines.

La région de Kayes a signé des accords de coopérations avec les régions françaises Île-de-France et Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Ce dernier ayant permis de développer un projet de lutte contre le diabète en région de kayes en partenariat avec l'ONG Santé Diabète. Plusieurs collectivités françaises ont aussi des accords de coopération avec des villes de la région de Kayes.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Collectivité territoriale au Mali
 ISO 3166-2:ML

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Investment opportunities in Ghana are bright – President
Accra,- President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has encouraged members of the black business community in the United States of America (USA) to take advantage of the numerous investment opportunities in Ghana as the country builds back strongly from the ravages of the COVID-19.
He told them that it was a great time to invest in Ghana, "for the opportunities are bright."
The President made the call when he addressed the "Africa Flagship Programme" session of the 45th Annual Legislative Conference of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL), held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
He was the Keynote Speaker at the "Africa Flagship Programme" of the week-long Conference that will explore policy solutions having the biggest impacts on Black Americans.
The National Black Caucus of State Legislators is America's premier organisation representing and serving the interests of African American State legislators.
Speaking on the "Intersectionality of Ghana's post-COVID economic development strategy and that of the US," President Akufo-Addo said despite the real difficulties posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Ghana was doing some things right and sending out the right signals to the global investor community.
"Last year, 2020, Ghana recorded FDI of US$2.65 billion from 279 projects. For 2021 alone, the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) recorded Foreign Direct Investment of US$973.38 million, 173 projects for the first three quarters of the year, with large ticket projects in the pipeline to boost FDI flows by the close of the year" he said.
Ghana was among the first countries in the world to put together a medium-term response strategy to address the impact of COVID-19 on the economy and to outline an economic recovery, revitalisation, and transformation plan to build back better and stronger, the President said.
"We have identified the relevant sectors of the economy requiring the needed investment that will help accelerate the rebound and growth of the Ghanaian economy, as was witnessed in the immediate years before the pandemic struck, which saw, between 2017 and 2020, our average annual GDP growth rate of seven per cent as one of the fastest in the world. We call the recovery package the Ghana CARES 'Obaatampa' Programme," he said.
President Akufo-Addo told the gathering that the GH¢100 billion Programme, aimed at stabilising and revitalising the Ghanaian economy, had two phases, the Stabilisation Phase, which was implemented between July to December 2020; and the Revitalisation and Transformation Stage, currently under implementation and would end in 2023.
"We are focusing our energies on supporting commercial farming and attracting educated youths into agriculture, building Ghana's light manufacturing sector, fast-tracking efforts at digitisation, developing Ghana's housing and construction industry, establishing Ghana as a Regional Hub, and strengthening the enablers of growth of our economy," he said.
"However, the most attractive and the greatest selling point of Ghana is and has always been her people, the Ghanaian people. The welcome that you find in Ghana, with all due respect to you at this gathering, is unique, and like none anywhere else."
President Akufo-Addo assured the investor community that Ghana remains a safe country in West Africa.
"Our police and security agencies work hard to keep Ghana an open and happy place, where we are not embarrassed to see ourselves as each other's keeper."
He urged the investor community to either invest in Ghana through the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre or set up as a Free Zones enterprise, stressing that government had instituted a number of fiscal incentives for the investor depending on the nature of the activity or the location of the investment.
President Akufo-Addom, who extolled Ghana's democratic credentials, which has seen the country conducting eight presidential elections in the 28-year period of the Fourth Republic, indicated that investors are optimistic about the Ghanaian economy.
"We have done the heavy lifting required to transition our economy into a growth economy, and are now establishing sustainability and irreversibility."
"We are spearheading regional integration and cooperation in industrialising Africa, and currently hosting the Secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which comprises fifty-four (54) states, with a combined GDP of three trillion United States dollars (US$3 trillion)," he said.
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Our friendly café is known for a variety of speciality breakfasts. A full English breakfast is available for you to enjoy. This includes two strips of bacon, two sausages, two eggs, beans, mushrooms, and tomatoes, and white or brown toast. You're free to pick from chips or hash browns, as well as tea or coffee. All of this costs just £5.90.
The early starter breakfast contains scrambled egg, beans, bacon, and hash browns. Your choice of tea or coffee is also included. The early starter breakfast is available for just £4.90.
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Should you wish to sit in, we're sure to have room for you. Our premises has the capacity to cater for up to 37 people. Customers rate the quality of our food and service highly. That's because we work hard to ensure your experience is always positive at Café La Cigale.
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Q: Distribute application as virtual machine but require external storage I'd like to distribute a Web application as a VM image in order to make distribution, installation and maintenance as easy as possible for customers (virtual appliance). This image should include everything software related (application, Web server, database, etc.). Since I cannot know how big the data is each customer is going to store I'd like to plug in storage separately.
Is there a standard way of providing an image where the customer at deployment time can add a volume that is, e.g., automatically mounted at a specific location that can then be used by my application? The best way would be for this working without having to log onto the virtual machine and manually mount volumes or something.
As for the format I'm thinking about the usual suspects VMDK and OVF if that's important.

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Quite a few appliances do not bother and come with a static size allocation for initial use. Documentation may explain how to size and install larger disks.

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As the summer wears on, events begin to snowball in a rush to fit in as much outdoor entertainment as possible before the leaves turn. (Don't look too closely, the colors are already emerging.) Here's our list of fun places to eat and drink this week. Know others coming up? We do this every Thursday, so let us know, too.
Hurley Corn Festival: Saturday, Aug. 15, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine, Hurley Reformed Church, 11 Main St., Hurley. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Hurley Heritage Society's late-summer harvest festival. It features local produce and specialty foods, along with corn chowder, bluegrass and folk music, antiques, quilts and a sneak peek at the many artistic renditions of Hurley roosters that will be auctioned off next month. Admission is free; a donation is suggested at the gate.
Schoharie County Family Farm Day: Saturday Aug. 15, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine, various locations. Grab a cooler bag and some sturdy shoes and hit the road to see where your food comes from in this third annual tour, which features 22 participating farms and four farmers' markets. Activities vary from venue to venue: feed the pigs at one place, buy some cheese at another. The Schoharie County Beverage Trail happens in tandem, so tastings abound. Download a printable guide here (PDF).
Phoenicia Flea at Westwind Orchard: Saturday, Aug. 15 and Sunday, Aug. 16, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. rain or shine, 215 Lower Whitfield Road, Accord. The Flea visits Ulster County this month, bringing its curated collection of food, drink and merchandise to the organic pick-your-own farm for the weekend. Westwind Orchard, a 2015 Good Food Award winner for its raw honey (and a finalist for its raspberry jam), will crank up its wood-fired pizza oven and host a collection of fellow artisan food producers from the Catskills, the Hudson Valley and downstate.
Music on the Mountain Concert and BBQ: Saturday, Aug. 15, 4 to 7 p.m., Plattekill Mountain, 469 Plattekill Road, Roxbury. The ski resort turns into a mountaintop pig roast and concert venue, welcoming the Meeker Hollow String Band. The music is free; the all-you-can-eat pork barbecue, along with burgers and sides, are available for sale, along with a selection of local and craft beers. Bring a blanket or lawn chairs. Ski lift rides will also be running.
Heather Ridge Farm Supper Club: Saturday, Aug. 15 and Sunday, Aug. 16, 7 p.m., 989 Broome Center Road, Preston Hollow. This month's on-farm supper club features the bounties of "Abundant Summer," and includes vegetarian options for each of the five courses (specify in advance). Dinner is $65/person plus tax and gratuities. Reservations are required. For more on the supper club, read our profile of Chef Rob Handel from earlier this week.
Monticello Bagel Festival: Sunday, Aug. 16, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., along Broadway in downtown Monticello. It's all bagels all day at this event, which has grown exponentially in its first two years and this year expects to host 20,000 bagel fans. There's a bagel triathlon, bagel chain-making and pretty much anything else you can think of to do with bagels, including devour. There's live music all day, and lots of other non-bagel vendors participating.
where can I get raspberries and peaches in this area for making jam?


So think about this. People often think that their city is the best in several different ways. Wherever they live has the greatest bars, the most beautiful women, the best tacos, whatever.
But how do people come to hold these opinions? Well, one way would be to try to remember the best members of the category in question that the person has ever experienced, remember which city each was experienced in, and note that most or all are from their own city. The problem here is that, even if there are no differences in quality between cities, any person is going to have experienced more in the city they are from. So chances are that the top 10 will mostly be populated by things from their own city, regardless of actual quality differences.
For example, if I've had 100 tacos in my home town of London, 5 tacos in Toronto, and 5 tacos in New York, chances are my top 10 tacos will mostly be from London even if New York truly has, on average, the best tacos.
This may seem obvious. But there is one surprising consequence: this also applies when you substitute "worst" for "best" in the above reasoning. Thinking of the bottom 10 will lead one to their own city more often than not. So, paradoxically, I bet most people would say that their own city has both the best of the best and the worst of the worst, depending on how you ask it. "The worst tacos? Well, I got really sick after that one at Taco Bell in London, so London has the worst tacos." "The best tacos? Well, Si Senor in London has great tacos, so I guess London has the best tacos."
I bet that if you surveyed people from a given city, asking half of them about the worst city for any given thing, and half of them about the best city for the same thing, both groups would choose their home town the most. Yet another example of how people are dumb and their brains betray them.
It reminds me about how celebrities die in threes. ...because you stop counting at three.
And, by the way, my city's women have the best tacos.
Italy anywhere has the hottest women I've ever seen. My city of choice? London, England... God I miss it.
The Mexican food here is the best, because I live in a section of America that has become recently annexed by Mexico. I win.
However, the bars here are mediocre.
apparently (as I learned last weekend) the TacoBell on Dundas Street East(near the Beer Store)at one time sold beer, it was the only location in London (and Canada???) to do so. Apparently it was a time when ordering a beer through a drive thru window wasnt a bad thing.


The Charlestown Skateboard Park is situated near the Charlestown Family Activities Park at 1000 Park Street. The Skateboard Park is free and open to the public. It is not inside the fenced in area of the Park and is skate-at-your-own-risk.


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Valuing Each Individual: Haruyoshi Sawatari on Working in Games After Final Fantasy 15
It can be difficult to have a voice in Japan, not least of all because social conformity is hammered home pretty hard right from the beginning of one's schooling, if not at home before then. Students serve each other lunch and, allergies aside, everyone eats the same thing. Show up to class with a haircut that may be considered fairly mild on the 'wild' scale, and someone in the staffroom may straight-up take you to get it changed. As with many things, there are pros and cons to this: on one hand, individuality being somewhat suppressed can be restrictive of expression; on the other, it potentially gives rise to greater awareness and consideration for those around you.Go to school. If you're a square peg, just grit it out while you get beaten into a round hole. Graduate. Go and work for a large company. They'll take care of you, pay your salary, contribute to your pension and insurance, likely ignore your feedback. Sometimes it can take something like a giant wrecking ball, rolling through and tearing up everything in a city to inspire people to see things differently.
Haruyoshi Sawatari, most famous in the West for his work on a couple of chapters of Final Fantasy 15 DLC – now with Delightworks – takes his time when answering questions, and speaks quite softly while doing so. It's almost jarring when you consider his bleached-blond hair. You don't see that very often, and quiet thoughtfulness isn't a typical association.
At this moment, in a meeting room away from the hustle and bustle of BitSummit, he is trying to think of recent games that have inspired him, but his mind seems to keep skipping back twenty years or more. Eventually he reigns himself in at 2004, a time that, ironically, was soon followed by some stagnation in the Japanese development scene that was only broken (perhaps appropriately) quite recently.
"At that time," he says, "the game industry had been going in this direction where there were set formulas that you implemented, and then you just improved the graphics with each release. The same storylines, gameplay and so on, just with higher quality graphics."
Then, in 2004, the wrecking-ball took shape. "Katamari Damacy came and just broke through that mould. It created something new, and I felt really strongly about, well, about a game developer that was willing to go through with everything and deliver something new and unique."
As our time together slowly ticked by, the obviousness of this answer would only grow. Now no longer bound by that particular PR cycle, Sawatari was openly averse to the idea of discussion of Episodes Gladiolus or Prompto ("Mr. Tabata had a vision and, pretty much, with all of the DLC and everything, I just ticked off the boxes and I made it according to his vision. I can't really say anything more than that.") and much more interested in discussing his own development dreams, his work with Delightworks and the true potential of Japanese development talent once it gets divorced from the primary sausage factories.
"While I can't talk about other projects that I'm currently working on, each of these projects is going to be something new and different," he says when pressed about how he might break a mould or two himself. "Delightworks, well, as a company, we don't really have this one specific formula that we stick to. We're very open to challenges and looking to expand and try new things out. One of the key goals I had this time, especially working with Area 35 [on Tiny Metal], has been having a small team of four members and trying to create a game of such a high-quality standard as Tiny Metal turned out to be.
"With indie games, you know, they want to try something new. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but I've always been interested in indie games and I'm interested in supporting these developers who are trying to do something different."
I've always been interested in indie games and I'm interested in supporting these developers who are trying to do something different.
There's little doubt that companies such as Delightworks are helping to make an impact with Japan's indie scene, not least of all because Fate/Grand Order has pulled in billions. That scene has been growing organically for many years, but it also has some uniquely Japanese obstacles to overcome. This year's BitSummit shows how far things have come, however. Everything is more clearly signposted, sponsorships have increased, and everyone seems to have a clearer idea of what they're doing and how to approach at least the first few steps regarding making things happen. But growth is still needed.
"You know, if you look at each individual Japanese game developer, they're all very highly-skilled, but they also all tend to flock towards big organisations such as Square-Enix or Capcom. Everything works when they're in a big company," Sawatari tells me ahead of the catch. "But when they leave, there's not really much of a structure for Japanese indie game developers to create their games, much less to project them overseas on their own. So, the path to marketing their games in other countries isn't so easy and they face a whole bunch of new barriers and obstacles."
This, more than any one specific title (although he did display an obvious, continued affection for Level 35's Tiny Metal), seems to be what is presently driving the man. He has respect for his colleagues, for his countrymen and other creative professionals, and he wants to give them a shot at the kind of spotlight that certain Western indie titles (Celeste, Golf Story, Dead Cells, Hollow Knight, Beat Saber) have been soaking up.
"What Delightworks wants to do is, well, we want to tap into all of this potential that these indie game developers in Japan have, and show the real depth of Japanese indie game developers. I want to be a big part of that; to help sell their work, to help get their games overseas. We want to support ambitious developers."
It's the kind of goal I can get behind. Despite Cave Story's origins as both a Japanese classic and one of the first of the modern indie wave, awareness of Japanese games that aren't associated with a major publisher is scant. Perhaps it's no surprise then that Sawatari himself comes from the AAA scene; it's where his experience working as a producer was sewn. Perhaps just as unsurprisingly, he's hoping to change things from how they worked in the past.
"More often than not, developers and publishers are separate. Not just physically; both camps have their own distinct mentality: 'you guys make the games, we sell the games,'" he says. "My approach is to put all of that together, almost like a three-legged race, for want of a better example, with everyone working on this title together, making this game together. Because of this approach, I'm able to actively advise and give recommendations more efficiently."
What Delightworks wants to do is… show the real depth of Japanese indie game developers.
He obviously seems to enjoy and gain satisfaction from this more intimate approach, from getting to know each developer and their own unique personality. I take a shot in the dark and ask him about his dream game, what he might do if given untapped access to all that money that Fate/Grand Order has been raking in, and which team he might make it with.
"I don't really have a specific team in mind to work on the game," he responds, his tone unsure if it wants to be thoughtful or entertained. "Rather, I have different individuals that I would like to have on board."
As for the project itself, "I would like to make a splatter-action horror game. I do have an idea in my mind, but I don't want to talk about it, because, you know, once it's out there it could easily become someone else's idea. I've been in the industry for twenty years and have seen a lot of different things, but I'd like to do something like that."
That was something we didn't see coming, which is perhaps the point. Sawatari is trying to give smaller Japanese teams a means by which to get organised, to create something unique, to actually express themselves in ways they couldn't were they on a larger (and perhaps safer, certainly more familiar) road. And, hey, he himself seems fairly happy, even if a splatter-action game doesn't seem to be on the cards for the foreseeable future.
"I've been working to challenge myself, to try new things. At Delightworks, it's now easier, especially with all these indies – I get to work with many similar-minded game developers. It's more freedom to do things, overall."
Tim Henderson is a veteran Australian games journalist who now lives in Osaka. Read his feature about the revival of the Japanese games industry here and his recent chat with Koji Igarashi. Feel free to say hello on Twitter here.
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// Provides control sap.ui.webc.main.Tree.
sap.ui.define([
	"sap/ui/webc/common/WebComponent",
	"./library",
	"./thirdparty/Tree"
], function(WebComponent, library) {
	"use strict";

	var ListMode = library.ListMode;

	/**
	 * Constructor for a new Tree.
	 *
	 * @param {string} [sId] ID for the new control, generated automatically if no ID is given
	 * @param {object} [mSettings] Initial settings for the new control
	 *
	 * @extends sap.ui.webc.common.WebComponent
	 * @class
	 *
	 *
Overview
 The sap.ui.webc.main.Tree component provides a tree structure for displaying data in a hierarchy.
	 *
	 *
Usage

	 *
	 *
When to use:

	 *

	 *
To display hierarchically structured items.

	 *
To select one or more items out of a set of hierarchically structured items.

	 *

	 *
	 *
When not to use:

	 *

	 *
To display items not hierarchically strcutured. In this case, use the List component.

	 *
To select one item from a very small number of non-hierarchical items. Select or ComboBox might be more appropriate.

	 *
The hierarchy turns out to have only two levels. In this case, use List with group items.

	 *

	 *
	 *
Keyboard Handling

	 *
	 * The sap.ui.webc.main.Tree provides advanced keyboard handling. The user can use the following keyboard shortcuts in order to navigate trough the tree:
	 *

	 *
[UP/DOWN] - Navigates up and down the tree items that are currently visible.

	 *
[RIGHT] - Drills down the tree by expanding the tree nodes.

	 *
[LEFT] - Goes up the tree and collapses the tree nodes.

	 *

	 *
	 *
	 * The user can use the following keyboard shortcuts to perform selection, when the mode property is in use:
	 *

	 *
[SPACE] - Selects the currently focused item upon keyup.

	 *
[ENTER] - Selects the currently focused item upon keydown.

	 *

	 *
	 * @author SAP SE
	 * @version ${version}
	 *
	 * @constructor
	 * @public
	 * @since 1.92.0
	 * @experimental Since 1.92.0 This control is experimental and its API might change significantly.
	 * @alias sap.ui.webc.main.Tree
	 */
	var Tree = WebComponent.extend("sap.ui.webc.main.Tree", {
		metadata: {
			library: "sap.ui.webc.main",
			tag: "ui5-tree-ui5",
			properties: {

				/**
				 * Defines the component footer text.
				 */
				footerText: {
					type: "string",
					defaultValue: ""
				},

				/**
				 * Defines the component header text.

				 *

				 * Note: If the header slot is set, this property is ignored.
				 */
				headerText: {
					type: "string",
					defaultValue: ""
				},

				/**
				 * Defines the height of the control
				 */
				height: {
					type: "sap.ui.core.CSSSize",
					mapping: "style"
				},

				/**
				 * Defines the mode of the component. Since the tree uses a sap.ui.webc.main.List to display its structure, the tree modes are exactly the same as the list modes, and are all applicable.
				 *
				 *

				 *

				 * Note:
				 *
				 *
				 *

				 *
None

				 *
SingleSelect

				 *
SingleSelectBegin

				 *
SingleSelectEnd

				 *
MultiSelect

				 *
Delete

				 *

				 */
				mode: {
					type: "sap.ui.webc.main.ListMode",
					defaultValue: ListMode.None
				},

				/**
				 * Defines the text that is displayed when the component contains no items.
				 */
				noDataText: {
					type: "string",
					defaultValue: ""
				},

				/**
				 * Defines the width of the control
				 */
				width: {
					type: "sap.ui.core.CSSSize",
					mapping: "style"
				}
			},
			defaultAggregation: "items",
			aggregations: {

				/**
				 * Defines the component header.

				 *

				 * Note: When the header slot is set, the headerText property is ignored.
				 */
				header: {
					type: "sap.ui.core.Control",
					multiple: true,
					slot: "header"
				},

				/**
				 * Defines the items of the component. Tree items may have other tree items as children.

				 *

				 * Note: Use sap.ui.webc.main.TreeItem for the intended design.
				 */
				items: {
					type: "sap.ui.webc.main.ITreeItem",
					multiple: true
				}
			},
			events: {

				/**
				 * Fired when a tree item is activated.
				 */
				itemClick: {
					allowPreventDefault: true,
					parameters: {
						/**
						 * The clicked item.
						 */
						item: {
							type: "HTMLElement"
						}
					}
				},

				/**
				 * Fired when the Delete button of any tree item is pressed.

				 *

				 * Note: A Delete button is displayed on each item, when the component mode property is set to Delete.
				 */
				itemDelete: {
					parameters: {
						/**
						 * the deleted item.
						 */
						item: {
							type: "HTMLElement"
						}
					}
				},

				/**
				 * Fired when the mouse cursor leaves the tree item borders.
				 */
				itemMouseout: {
					parameters: {
						/**
						 * the hovered item.
						 */
						item: {
							type: "HTMLElement"
						}
					}
				},

				/**
				 * Fired when the mouse cursor enters the tree item borders.
				 */
				itemMouseover: {
					parameters: {
						/**
						 * the hovered item.
						 */
						item: {
							type: "HTMLElement"
						}
					}
				},

				/**
				 * Fired when a tree item is expanded or collapsed. Note: You can call preventDefault() on the event object to suppress the event, if needed. This may be handy for example if you want to dynamically load tree items upon the user expanding a node. Even if you prevented the event's default behavior, you can always manually call toggle() on a tree item.
				 */
				itemToggle: {
					allowPreventDefault: true,
					parameters: {
						/**
						 * the toggled item.
						 */
						item: {
							type: "HTMLElement"
						}
					}
				},

				/**
				 * Fired when selection is changed by user interaction in SingleSelect, SingleSelectBegin, SingleSelectEnd and MultiSelect modes.
				 */
				selectionChange: {
					parameters: {
						/**
						 * An array of the selected items.
						 */
						selectedItems: {
							type: "Array"
						},

						/**
						 * An array of the previously selected items.
						 */
						previouslySelectedItems: {
							type: "Array"
						}
					}
				}
			},
			methods: ["walk"]
		}
	});

	/**
	 * Perform Depth-First-Search walk on the tree and run a callback on each node
	 * @param {function} callback function to execute on each node of the tree with 2 arguments: the node and the level
	 * @public
	 * @name sap.ui.webc.main.Tree#walk
	 * @function
	 */

	/* CUSTOM CODE START */
	/* CUSTOM CODE END */

	return Tree;
});


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"Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." —Aeschylus
It was the night of April 4, 1968, when word spread that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had been slain by an assassin in Memphis. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, then campaigning in the Democratic primaries, was at an event in a black neighborhood in Indianapolis. He asked campaign aides, "Do they know about Martin Luther King?" They did not. Senator Kennedy's words to the crowd, delivered impromptu with scarcely a glance at the notes in his hand, kept the peace that night, at least in that part of Indianapolis, and continue to resonate with wisdom and consolation. (Click here for an audio version [NPR].) Two months later, RFK himself was assassinated in Los Angeles.
"To tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world"
Remarks by Robert F. Kennedy on the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
. . . In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it is perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. For those of you who are black—considering the evidence there evidently is that there were white people who were responsible—you can be filled with bitterness, with hatred, and a desire for revenge. We can move in that direction as a country, in great polarization—black people amongst black, white people amongst white, filled with hatred toward one another.
Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and to replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand with compassion and love.
For those of you who are black and are tempted to be filled with hatred and distrust at the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I can only say that I feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man. But we have to make an effort in the United States, we have to make an effort to understand, to go beyond these rather difficult times.
My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.
So I shall ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King, that's true, but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love—a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke.
We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times; we've had difficult times in the past; we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; it is not the end of disorder.
But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings who abide in our land.
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.
Early morning, April four,
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They cannot take your pride
In the name of love . . .
—U2, "Pride (In the Name of Love)" (1984)
Photograph by Dan Weiner: Martin Luther King, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, 1956.
See also "There Is a Creative Force in This Universe" (1/16/12) on MLK's work with the Poor People's Campaign at the time of his death.
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Bahamas - International Business Company Guidance
Bahamas – International Business Company Guidance
Bahamas – IBC Requirements and Qualifications
Minimum number of Directors One
Minimum number of shareholders One
Annual Government Fee on Share Capital of US$5,000 US$350
Disclosure to Government of beneficial owners No
Public disclosure of directors and officers Yes
Corporate Secretary permitted Yes
Registered Address Yes – All IBCs must have a physical address situated in the Bahamas.
Corporate or Personal Income Tax None
Accounts to be audited No
Benefits of Incorporating your IBC in the Bahamas
No fixed limit on the amount of authorised capital.
Only one director and one shareholder are required.
The sole director can be the same person as the sole shareholder.
An IBC can use fractional shares or registered shares.
No public records are maintained as to the identity of shareholders or directors.
Company may have at least one director, who may be individual or corporate and of any nationality.
Meetings may be held by telephone or another electronic means.
An existing company, whether incorporated locally or in another jurisdiction, may continue as an IBC.
The corporate domicile of an IBC may be changed from the Bahamas to another jurisdiction.
An IBC may merge or consolidate with another IBC or with an ordinary company under the – Companies Act, provided that the surviving entity is an IBC.
An IBC may also merge with a foreign company.
Bahamian IBCs are exempt from all business license fees and do not require a license under the Business License Act.
Shareholders are exempt from all income taxes, capital gains taxes and corporate taxes.
Exemption from inheritance, succession and gift taxes, stamp duties in respect of transfers, and foreign exchange control regulations.
IBC Requirements
An IBC is a company that does NOT:
Carry out business with persons residing in the Bahamas.
Own an interest in real property situated in the Bahamas or lease property for any other use than as an office.
Carry on banking, trust, or insurance business.
Provide a registered office for companies.
Makes or maintains deposits with a person carrying on business within the Bahamas.
Makes or maintains professional contact with counsel and attorneys, accountants, bookkeepers, trust companies, management companies, investment advisers or similar persons carrying on business within the Bahamas.
Prepares or maintains books and records within the Bahamas.
Holds meetings of its directors and members within the Bahamas.
Holds a lease of property for use as an office from which to communicate with members, or to prepare or maintain company books and records.
Holds shares, debt obligations and other securities in an IBC or an ordinary company.
Holds shares, debt obligations, or other securities which are owned by any person, IBC, or ordinary company resident in the Bahamas.
While no financial reporting requirements exist, an IBC must keep certain documents, such as share register, minutes of meetings and resolutions at the company's registered office in the Bahamas.
An IBC is allowed to do any the following:
Transact foreign exchange business without Exchange Control restrictions.
Issue shares that may have more or less than one vote per share; be voted only on certain matters or only upon the occurrence of certain events; be voted only when held by persons who meet specified requirements; or entitle participation only in certain assets.
Issue options, warrants or rights, or similar instruments.
Issue convertible securities.
Purchase, redeem, or otherwise acquire and hold its own shares.
Guarantee a liability or obligation of any person and to secure any of its obligations by mortgage, pledge, or other charge of any of its assets.
Protect the assets of the company for the benefit of the company, its creditors and its members, and any person with a direct or indirect interest in the company.
Hold Board of Directors' meetings anywhere and by means of electronic telecommunications.
An IBC is entitled to carry on legitimate business without having to specify in an "objects clause" a specific purpose for the company. The memorandum is required to contain:
Name of the company.
Address of the IBC's registered office and agent within the Bahamas.
Objects or purpose for which the company is to be incorporated, which can simply refer to the Act.
Currency in which the shares of the company will be issued.
Authorised capital of the company, giving total number of par value and no par value shares that the company is authorised to issue.
Number of classes and series of shares; the number of shares of each such class and series and their par values or no par values.
Designations, powers, preferences and rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of each class and series of shares that the company is authorised to issue.
Number of shares to be issued as registered or bearer shares and whether they are exchangeable.
Manner in which a required notice to members is to be given to the holders of shares issued to bearer.
Mergers & Consolidation
An IBC may merge or consolidate with another IBC, an ordinary company, a subsidiary, or a foreign company. When an IBCs merge or consolidate with ordinary companies, the directors of each constituent company promoting the merger or consolidation must approve a written plan containing:
Name of each participating company and the name of the surviving company or the consolidated company.
Designation and number of outstanding shares of each class and series of shares and the voting entitlement of each such class and series for each participating company.
Specifications of each such class and series entitled to vote as a class or series in each participating company.
Terms and conditions of the proposed merger or consolidation.
Any Amendments to the Memorandum or Articles of the surviving company to be brought about by a merger.
Everything required to be included in the memorandum and Articles for a company incorporated as an IBC.
Where the parent company is an IBC and merges with one or more subsidiaries, the parent will approve a written plan or merger containing:
Name of each participating company and the name of the surviving company.
Designation and number of outstanding shares of each class and series of shares, and the number of shares of each class and series of shares in each subsidiary company owned by the parent company for each participating company.
Terms and conditions of the proposed merger, including the convertibility of shares, debt obligations, other securities or money or other property.
When IBCs merge or consolidate with foreign companies, the following provisions apply:
Bahamian IBCs must comply with the provisions of the IBC Act and foreign companies must comply with the laws of their own country.
Where the surviving company or the consolidated company is a foreign company, it must submit to the Registrar:
An agreement promising to honour any future claim, debt, liability, or obligation of a Bahamian IBC, or to protect the rights of IBC shareholders.
Irrevocable power to the Registrar to act as agent in the above procedures.
Agreement that it will honour awards due to IBC shareholders.
A certificate of merger or consolidation issued by the appropriate authority of the foreign jurisdiction where it is incorporated or such evidence as the Registrar considers acceptable.
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United States Senator from Nebraska
from Nebraska
Assumed office
Serving with Deb Fischer
Mike Johanns
15th President of Midland University
December 10, 2010 – December 31, 2014
Stephen Fritz
Jody Horner
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation
December 19, 2007 – January 20, 2009
Michael O'Grady
Sherry Glied
Benjamin Eric Sasse
Plainview, Nebraska, U.S.
Melissa McLeod
Harvard University (BA)
St. John's College, Maryland
Yale University (MA, MPhil, PhD)
Senate website
Benjamin Eric Sasse ( /ˈsæs/ SASS;[1] born February 22, 1972) is an American politician, author, professor, and academic administrator who serves as the junior United States senator from Nebraska, a seat he was first elected to in 2014. Sasse is a member of the Republican Party.
Born in Plainview, Nebraska, Sasse earned a doctorate in American history from Yale University. He taught at the University of Texas and served as an Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.[2] In 2010, he was named president of Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska. In 2014, he successfully ran for a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate, defeating Democratic nominee David Domina by a margin of 65% to 31%.[3]
3 Midland University
4.1 2014 election
4.2 Tenure
5 Political positions
5.1 Abortion
5.3 Criminal justice
5.4 Donald Trump
5.6 Guns
5.7 Health care
Sasse was born on February 22, 1972, in Plainview, Nebraska, the son of Gary Lynn Sasse, a high school teacher and football coach, and Linda Sasse.[4] He graduated from Fremont Senior High School, Fremont, Nebraska in 1990[5] and was valedictorian of his class.[6]
Sasse graduated from Harvard University in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in government. He also studied at the University of Oxford during the fall of 1992 on a junior year abroad program.[5] In 1998, Sasse obtained a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from the Graduate Institute at St. John's College. He also obtained Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy, and Ph.D degrees in history from Yale University. Sasse's doctoral dissertation, "The Anti-Madalyn Majority: Secular Left, Religious Right, and the Rise of Reagan's America", won the Theron Rockwell Field[7] and George Washington Egleston[8] Prizes.[5][9]
Early career[edit]
From September 1994 to November 1995, Sasse worked as an associate consultant at the management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group. For the next year, he served as consultant/executive director for Christians United For Reformation (CURE).[5] During his tenure, CURE merged with the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals (ACE), and Sasse became executive director of ACE in Anaheim, California.[10]
From January 2004 to January 2005, Sasse served as chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Legal Policy in Washington, D.C. and as a part-time assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, commuting to Austin to teach. Sasse left the Department of Justice to serve as chief of staff to Representative Jeff Fortenberry (R-Nebr.) from January 2005 to July 2005.[5]
Sasse then advised the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C., on national security issues from July to September 2005 as a consultant. He moved to Austin, Texas, to resume his professorship full-time from September 2005 to December 2006.[5]
From December 2006 to December 2007, Sasse served as counselor to the secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Washington, D.C., where he advised the secretary on a broad spectrum of health policy issues, from healthcare access to food safety and security.[11]
In July 2007, Sasse was nominated by President George W. Bush to the post of assistant secretary for planning and evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.[12][13] His appointment was confirmed by the Senate in December 2007[14] and he served until the end of the Bush administration, in January 2009. During his tenure at HHS, Sasse took an unpaid leave from the University of Texas.[5]
During 2009, Sasse advised private equity clients and health care investors and taught at the University of Texas.[15][16] In October 2009, he officially joined the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs' Center for Politics and Governance as a fellow, before being appointed president of Midland University.[17] While at Texas, he was critical of Obama-era proposals to expand public health care programs. He criticized public option proposals as a step towards single-payer health care and, ultimately, health care rationing. He supported a plan for lowering the cost of Medicare by raising the eligibility age and cutting benefits.[18] He also coauthored a paper proposing limits to Medicaid reimbursements for hospital care for the uninsured.[19]
Midland University[edit]
Sasse was announced as the 15th president of Midland Lutheran College (now Midland University) in October 2009. At age 37, he was one of the youngest chief executives in American higher education when he took over leadership of the 128-year-old institution in the spring of 2010. Sasse's grandfather, Elmer Sasse, worked for Midland for 33 years, mainly as vice president of finance.[20] The school was experiencing financial and academic difficulties; Sasse has been credited with "turn(ing) it around," rebranding "Midland Lutheran College" as Midland University, instituting new policies (including spot quizzes and class attendance), and "prodigious fundraising."[21][22]
Sasse was officially installed as president on December 10, 2010.[23] When he was appointed, enrollment was at a historic low and the college was "on the verge of bankruptcy."[20][24] During his tenure as president, enrollment grew from 590 to 1,300 students.[20][25] When nearby Dana College was forced to close, Sasse managed to hire much of the faculty and enable most of the students to transfer to Midland.[25]
When Sasse announced his intention to run for U.S. Senate, he offered to resign his post at Midland. Instead, the Board asked him to stay at Midland under a partial leave of absence;[26] in October 2013, his employment contract was amended to reduce his remuneration.[27] Sasse stepped down as president of Midland on December 31, 2014.[28]
U.S. Senate[edit]
2014 election[edit]
Main article: 2014 United States Senate election in Nebraska
In October 2013, Sasse announced his candidacy for the United States Senate seat occupied by Republican Mike Johanns, who was not running for reelection.[29] As of October 2013, his fundraising total of nearly $815,000 from individual donors in his first quarter broke Nebraska's previous record of $526,000 from individual donors, set in 2007 by Johanns while he was the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.[30]
Upon announcing his candidacy, Sasse expressed strong opposition to the Affordable Care Act. His primary opponent, Shane Osborn, questioned the depth of Sasse's opposition to the ACA, publicizing articles and speeches Sasse delivered during and after the act's passage through Congress; according to the Omaha World-Herald, "Osborn's campaign appears intent on questioning whether Sasse is a true conservative."[31] The Osborn campaign cited, among other pieces, a 2009 Bloomberg Businessweek column titled "Health-Care Reform: The Rush to Pass a Bad Bill", stating that "There's an emerging consensus that this [an individual mandate] might be a good idea",[32] and a 2010 speech in which Sasse said Republicans would probably lack the votes to repeal the ACA, stating that "a middle-class entitlement has never been repealed", and opining that Republicans had failed to offer a viable alternative, preferring to stage "symbolic repeal votes".[33] Sasse's response to the Osborn campaign's assertions was that in his articles and speeches, he was describing the political landscape rather than giving his own opinions on the merits of the ACA's provisions; to a World-Herald reporter, he declared, "I have never changed my position on thinking Obamacare is a bad idea".[31]
On May 13, 2014, Sasse won 92 of 93 counties[34] and secured the Republican nomination with 109,829 votes, or 49.4% of all votes cast; banker Sid Dinsdale came in second, with 49,829 votes (22.4%), followed by Osborn, with 46,850 votes (21.1%).[35]
On November 4, 2014, Sasse won the general election for the U.S. Senate, defeating Democratic nominee David Domina with 64.4% of the vote to Domina's 31.5%.[36]
Sasse speaking at 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference
Tenure[edit]
Sasse assumed office as a United States senator on January 3, 2015. He was officially sworn in when the 114th Congress convened on January 6, 2015.
In February 2019, Sasse was one of sixteen senators to vote against legislation preventing a partial government shutdown and containing 1.375 billion for barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border that included 55 miles of fencing.[37]
In March 2019, Sasse was one of twelve senators to cosponsor a resolution that would impose a constitutional amendment limiting the Supreme Court to nine justices. The resolution was introduced following multiple Democratic presidential candidates expressing openness to the idea of expanding the seats on the Supreme Court.[38]
Sasse has been appointed to serve on the following committees in the 116th Congress:[39]
Committee on Finance
Select Committee on Intelligence
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Subcommittee on Economic Policy
Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance
Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment
Political positions[edit]
Abortion[edit]
Sasse's campaign website indicates that he is pro-life, stating "even one abortion is too many".[40] In 2019, he introduced the "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act", calling for unanimous support among the Senate for protecting babies born after failed abortion attempts.[41][42]
China[edit]
Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou, daughter of the company's founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested in Canada on December 1, 2018 at the request of U.S. authorities. Sasse said that China is undermining U.S. national security interests, often "using private sector entities", and "Americans are grateful that our Canadian partners have arrested the chief financial officer."[43]
Criminal justice[edit]
He opposed the FIRST STEP Act. The bill passed 87-12 on December 18, 2018.[44]
Donald Trump[edit]
In early 2016, during both parties' presidential primary election seasons, Sasse announced that he would not support Republican front-runner Donald Trump should Trump become the party's nominee; he was the first sitting senator to make such an announcement.[45] Sasse questioned Trump's commitment to the U.S. Constitution, in particular accusing him of attacking the First Amendment; stated that Trump had refused to condemn the Ku Klux Klan; and suggested that Trump "thinks he's running for King".[46] He stated that if Trump won the party's nomination, then he would vote neither for him nor for Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, but would probably "look for some third candidate—a conservative option, a Constitutionalist".[46] He did not say that he would leave the party if Trump was nominated.[47]
Trump, asked about Sasse's third-party suggestion, replied, "That would be the work of a loser."[47] Several Nebraska Republican politicians, among them state senators Bob Krist and Beau McCoy and U.S. senator Deb Fischer, took exception to Sasse's statements. Krist described them as "very immature" and declared that Sasse should "quietly and in a statesmanlike manner allow the system to work out and provide the leadership that needs to be provided"; Fischer said that voting for a third-party alternative would essentially guarantee a Clinton victory.[48]
In Sept 2017 Sasse appeared in an interview for CNN's "State of the Union" segment, he told host Jake Tapper that he thought about leaving the GOP "every morning" and said that he thought of himself as "an independent conservative who caucuses with the Republicans."[49]
Sasse has described Trump as a "'megalomaniac strongman,'" has "called the president's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports 'dumb,' and has described Trump's escalating trade war with China [as] 'nuts.'"[50]
In March 2018, Sasse criticized Trump for congratulating Vladimir Putin on his election win,[51] saying, "The president of the United States was wrong to congratulate him, and the White House press secretary was wrong to duck a simple question about whether or not Putin's reelection was free and fair. It was not. The American people know that, the Russian people know that and the world knows that. The White House refused to speak directly and clearly about this matter; we were weakened as a nation and a tyrant was strengthened."[51]
In July 2018, Politico reported that Sasse had "quietly launched a new political non-profit group, fueling speculation that he might launch a Hail Mary bid for president rather than seek another term in the Senate." However, Politico also reported that Sasse and the President have been talking multiple times each month.[50] Sasse has not ruled out a 2020 presidential bid.[52][53]
In January 2019, Sasse was one of eleven Republican senators to vote to advance legislation intended to block President Trump's intent to lift sanctions against three Russian companies.[54]
Sasse has been criticized for lambasting Trump but voting in line with Trump's positions. WHYY criticized Sasse as "all talk, no action", stating that Sasse and other Republicans in Congress "continue to abet and excuse Donald Trump's relentless assaults on democratic norms and the rule of law."[55] Jennifer Rubin, writing for The Washington Post, wrote that Sasse and Republicans "now face voters increasingly upset about corruption and abuse of power, both of which will not abate so long as spineless Republicans hold the majority in both houses."[56]
Environment[edit]
Sasse has criticized what he refers to as "alarmism" over climate change and has said, "you don't hear a lot of people who put climate as a No. 1 issue... offering constructive, innovative solutions for the future."[57] He has stated that "innovation" is the solution to climate change.[58][59]
Guns[edit]
In Sasse's Senate run in 2014, he received an "AQ" rating from the National Rifle Association (NRA). According to the NRA's press release, the rating was the most favorable that could be given to a candidate who had no voting record on gun-related issues. The NRA endorsed Sasse in the race.[60]
Stated as saying he could support "red flag" gun legislation only if it protects the constitutional rights of gun owners, not taking away guns without due process and would limit people who are convicted of domestic violence or other crimes.[61]
Health care[edit]
In announcing his Senate candidacy, Sasse expressed strong opposition to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), describing himself as "the anti-Obamacare candidate"[62] and later declaring that "[i]f it lives, America as we know it will die."[29] In the Senate, Sasse continued to support repeal of the ACA. In 2017, with Republicans unable to develop a repeal-and-replace plan that could secure a majority in the Senate, Sasse proposed an immediate repeal with a one-year delay in implementation, and called on the Senate to give up its August recess to allow it to work on a replacement measure.[63]
In 2016, Sasse was the only senator from either party to vote against the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, which was intended to address abuse of heroin and opioid drugs by providing funds to the states for treatment and prevention programs and by making the anti-overdose drug naloxone more widely available to first responders and law enforcement agencies. Sasse said he was "distressed by opioid abuse" but questioned whether drug treatment should be addressed at the federal level.[64]
Sasse is the author of The Vanishing American Adult (2017)[65] and Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal (2018) ASIN B07BN4W5GY
Sasse also co-edited the book Here We Stand!: A Call from Confessing Evangelicals for a Modern Reformation with theologian James Montgomery Boice.[66]
Sasse and his wife, Melissa (née McLeod) Sasse, live in Fremont, Nebraska, with their three children. The children are homeschooled.[67][68]
Sasse was raised a Lutheran and baptized in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.[67] As an undergraduate in the early 1990s, he encountered the teachings of W. Robert Godfrey at the Bolton Conference. Sasse identifies this as the time when he and his wife first began to embrace the "reformed faith".[69] He later became an elder in the United Reformed Churches in North America and served on the board of trustees for Westminster Seminary California.[70] He is a member of Grace Church, a Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) congregation, in Fremont.[71]
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And McDonald's location #26095 is now closed! No reason was given and the only notification was a handwritten sign that just says "CLOSED".
Portland Oregon is just a short hop of a flight from Silicon Valley's airport of SJC. Southwest has regular flights from SJC to PDX and Virgin America has direct flights from SFO to PDX.
There is much to see and do while in Portland and the town is so walk-able that no rental car is needed unless you want to venture further from town. Just take the TriMet MAX Red Line light rail train from the airport to your downtown hotel and you're ready to explore.
Downtown Portland is full of great food, coffee and beer as well at tax free shopping.
Famous for the long standing food truck scene, Portland has many to offer.
Thai Basil is one of the few food trucks that may be open on Sunday.
One of the excellent coffee shops to try in PDX is Stumptown Coffee Roasters.
Of the many breweries in Portland, Deschutes Brewery has some of the best brews as well as excellent food.
When the sun rises on your last day in Portland, you'll wish you had more time to explore and taste what this Pacific Northwest town has to offer.
While you're at the PDX airport, you can pick up some Ripstop Rye Pils from Base Camp Brewery at the Made in Oregon store once you're past security. Ripstop Rye Pils comes in an aluminum bottle reminiscent of an MSR fuel bottle.
These bottles are ruggedly designed for camping, so they should do fine in your carry on bag.
San Francisco Zoo debuts new sumatran tiger cub!
The San Francisco Zoo has a new super cute resident, a baby sumatran tiger cub!
Proud tiger parents Larry and Leanne have yet to name their new cub.
The San Francisco Zoo has a page dedicated to the new tiger cub at this link.
Sumatran tigers have an estimated population in the wild of less than 400 tigers.
If you want to help the plight of these endangered animals, you can adopt a sumatran tiger.
If you aren't into cute animals, perhaps you'd be more interested in the particle zoo.
Cold arctic air from the Gulf of Alaska has descended on Silicon Valley and the Bay Area bringing rain, wind, and even some hail to the valley.
Virgin America announced today that the innovative airline will begin flying direct flights between San Jose (SJC) and Los Angeles (LAX) airports. The SJC to LAX flights are scheduled to begin May 1st, 2013. This will be Virgin America's first scheduled flight from the South Bay's main international airport. Read the full press release from Virgin America here.
A true sign winter is coming. The rain was heavy at times. Enough to wash the dust out of the air and make the roads slick.