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Commission recreates Park County Fair Board
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For a brief moment last month, commissioners did away with the Park County Fair Board.
However, just a few seconds later, they recreated it and reappointed all of the old board's members to the new, slightly different one.
The unusual maneuver basically formalized changes commissioners made to the fair board earlier this year.
In February, county commissioners did away with having a fair director and staff controlled by the board and shifted the grounds'management to an events coordinator and staff who answer to the commission.
"When we took all of that over, we were operating in violation of state statutes," said Commission Chairman Joe Tilden.
"Arguably in violation," threw in Commissioner Loren Grosskopf, before the commission's unanimous Oct. 13 vote to effectively recreate the board.
Commissioners' problem in taking over the fairgrounds' management is that old fair board had been set up under a state law that gave it the authority to "control, maintain and manage the fairgrounds."
In other words, the commissioners were taking powers they'd previously delegated to the board.
In creating the "new" board, commissioners made it clear that the body only advises commissioners on the planning, preparation and production of the fair — and that the commissioners control all staff on the fairgrounds.
"Basically, this just clarifies their (board members') responsibilities more definitively," explained Commissioner Lee Livingston.
Park County Commission Chairman Joe Tilden
While the most dramatic changes took place this year, county-directed buildings and grounds crews had — with the agreement of the fair board — taken over much of the fairgrounds' maintenance in 2011.
Commissioners made the additional changes, in part, because of continuing conflict between their buildings and grounds staff and board-directed fair staff. Commissioners had also been unhappy with the state of the grounds under the board.
"They were in charge of building maintenance and everything going on down there, and they weren't doing their job," Tilden said. "As simple as that."
Three of the five board members quit in April in response to commissioners' takeover, laying off the fair's then-director in their final act.
Park County Events Coordinator Echo Renner has been heading up the fair's operations since then.
"The fair has seen many changes over the past 103 years, but it's still the Park County Fair," Renner said in a recent email. "We have one of the best fairs in the state. We have an excellent fair board, and they are doing a great job. I'm confident we can continue to work together to produce a fabulous Park County Fair in 2016."
The "new" Park County Fair Board (made up of the same members as the old one that met last month) held its first official meeting on Tuesday night.
The fair board members had learned of their pending dismissals and reappointments in an email some time before the commissioners' vote — which caught some off guard.
"I sure would have liked some face-to-face time with the commissioners discussing what was happening," said Fair Board Vice Chairman Troy Wiant.
Wiant said he'd like to discuss a proposed fair board job description with commissioners, saying their initial draft may minimize the board's role in setting the fair's budget. Fair Board Chairman Steve Martin said he also has questions about how things are going to work.
Because commissioners abolished the old "Board of Trustees of the Park County Fair Association" and created the new Park County Fair Board, the board will likely need to rename or change its bank accounts — a process board treasurer Sara Skalsky said may be messy.
The fair board hopes to meet with commissioners soon.
Commissioners remain confident that they made the right choice in shuffling the fair's management.
"I think it was handled just right," Tilden said.
~By CJ Baker
by CJ Baker, Park County Commission, Park County Fair
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Home News Iyase Stool: Delta chief arraigned for alleged impersonation
Iyase Stool: Delta chief arraigned for alleged impersonation
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The contention over the Iyase title of the Ogwashi-Uku Kingdom in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State has taken another legal dimension with the arraignment of a business tycoon, Collins Afuwa before the state High Court sitting in Asaba.
In suit number A/206c/2019 between the Inspector General of Police and Chief Collins Uche Afuwa, the defendant was arraigned on a five-count charge of impersonation, disobedience to law, disobedience to a lawful order issued by the constituted authority, provoking a breach of peace by offensive publication and forgery.
When the charges were read in court, the defendant pleaded not guilty.
The presiding judge, Justice M. Omovie granted him bail with conditions which included two sureties of a public officer not below salary grade level 12 and N1 million in like sum.
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In count one of the charge sheet, the defendant has arraigned for impersonation punishable under section 484 of the Criminal Code Act Cap 38 Laws of the Federation 2004 as applicable in Delta State.
According to the particulars of offence, Afuwa had between July 2010 and September 2019 at Ogwashi-Uku and Asaba within the jurisdiction of the court presented himself as the Iyase of Ogwashi-Uku to be a person lawfully installed, crowned and assumed and performed the duties of Ogwashi-Uku within Ogwashi-Uku and Asaba.
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The watching brief counsel for the nominal complaint (Chief Mike Nwukoni), Francis Okolie told journalists that by the order of the court dated 25th June 2020 the defendant was served through substituted means.
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Suffering in the shadows: More than 600 LGBTQ people killed in the US in past two decades
The first online database of its kind catalogs the violent deaths of more than 600 LGBTQ people in the last 20 years.
Suffering in the shadows: More than 600 LGBTQ people killed in the US in past two decades The first online database of its kind catalogs the violent deaths of more than 600 LGBTQ people in the last 20 years. Check out this story on coloradoan.com: https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2018/10/31/more-than-600-lgbtq-people-killed-us-past-two-decades-since-matthew-shepard-murder/1670264002/
Jacy Marmaduke and Saja Hindi, Fort Collins Coloradoan Published 3:34 p.m. MT Oct. 31, 2018 | Updated 2:19 p.m. MT Nov. 9, 2018
University of Wyoming sophomore Claire Olson rests her head of freshman Hayden Higgins' shoulder during a candlelight vigil on the 20th anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death on Friday, Oct. 12, 2018, at Prexy's Pasture on the University of Wyoming campus in Laramie, Wyo.(Photo: Timothy Hurst/The Coloradoan)Buy Photo
Editor's note: For months, a team of eight Coloradoan journalists has worked to bring you the stories, photos and videos in "Matthew Shepard: The nation's window into hate." To support the local journalists who will continue this important work, subscribe today with this introductory offer for new subscribers.
Matthew Shepard's murder shook much of the nation from a slumber that deadened empathy for a LGBTQ community plagued by decades of discrimination. But the nightmare didn't stop just because some woke up.
More than 600 LGBTQ-identifying people have been killed in acts of violence in the United States and Puerto Rico since Oct. 12, 1998, the day Shepard died at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, after he was brutally attacked near Laramie, Wyoming.
A 2016 Gallup poll estimated that 4.1 percent — or 10 million — of the nation's population identifies as LGBTQ. While federal data lists sexual orientation as a factor in only one reported hate crime in 2016, the Coloradoan verified 67 violent deaths of LGBTQ people in the same year, 28 of whom were victims in the Pulse nightclub shooting. To advocates, that number suggests that the actual number of hate crimes suffered by the community is much higher but remains hidden by a national patchwork of uneven laws and inconsistent reporting.
The Coloradoan scoured media archives, online memorial pages, police records and advocacy reports to tell the stories of the nation's LGBTQ residents lost to violence in the first online database of its kind. Reporters tracked all verifiable violent deaths, not just those prosecuted as hate crimes, as five states lack hate crime laws while numerous other state laws lack protections for either gender identity, sexual orientation, or both.
DATABASE: Search through 600+ LGBTQ homicides since Matthew Shepard's death
The findings highlight horrifying themes in the deaths of LGBTQ people in the U.S. and underscore a lack of data on the prevalence of hate violence faced by the LGBTQ population.
Among our findings:
Transgender and gender nonconforming people, particularly transgender women, face the highest murder risk among the LGBTQ population. More than 45 percent of victims in LGBTQ homicides we tracked were transgender and gender nonconforming people.
LGBTQ people of color made up about 61 percent of victims tracked between 1998 and 2018, although people of color represent less than 40 percent of America's population.
Dozens of LGBTQ people are killed each year, with verifiable tallies increasing even as America made strides toward workplace and marriage equality. The 2016 death toll was the highest of any year we tracked, with 67 LGBTQ people killed; 28 were Pulse victims who we could confirm identified as LGBTQ. 2017 was close behind with 53 deaths.
Some died in acts of gruesome violence, like Frank Yazzie, a gay Navajo man who was cut in half and stuffed in two trash bags in 2009. Some died soon after they embraced their true selves, like Terrianne Summers, a 51-year-old transgender woman shot in her driveway in 2001, not long after she came out.
Some victims never made headlines, like the black transgender woman found in a building in Highland Park, Michigan, in 2011. Her body was so badly burned that we'll never know her name.
Coloradoan reporters spent months researching, reporting and fact-checking our database, which we believe is the first of its kind in terms of scope, detail and sourcing.
But we know it doesn't include every LGBTQ person who met a violent end over the past 20 years. And that's a problem, said Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project.
"I just don't think these things get the attention they deserve from law enforcement," she said. "And I think this data helps prove that point."
If police don't label a homicide a hate crime and report it to federal authorities, the FBI doesn't include it in the agency's annual hate crime report. That makes it near-impossible to identify the magnitude of hate-related violence against LGBTQ people and assess needs for solutions like police protection, law enforcement training and funding for community organizations.
"There's a hidden wave of violence in this country that we don't know about because we don't have the data," Beirich said. "People are basically suffering in the shadows. We have no clue what's going on."
Exploring the stories
The clearest theme in our findings: Transgender and gender nonconforming people are in danger in America.
Though they make up only 9 percent of the LGBTQ population, according to a Williams Institute report, transgender and gender nonconforming people made up more than 45 percent of the deaths in our database.
Among the 243 verified transgender people killed in the last two decades were 18-year-old Ukea Davis and 19-year-old Stephanie Thomas. The best friends were sitting at a stop sign in Washington, D.C., when an unknown assailant pulled up beside them and sprayed them with bullets in 2002. They share a headstone.
Davis and Thomas weren't involved in sex work, but dozens of transgender victims were.
One was 25-year-old Felicia Moreno, a Latina transgender woman involved in sex work in California. A man shot her in the head after having sex with her. Someone called the police after they saw Moreno's killer dump her body in a cul-de-sac.,The ensuing police chase ended in the killer's death.
But police are more often a source of strife, not protection, for sex workers, said Audacia Ray, director of community organizing and public advocacy for the Anti-Violence Project, a nonprofit with a mission to end violence against LGBTQ and HIV-affected communities. That can leave transgender women involved in sex work with nowhere to turn.
"One of the things that often makes transgender women sex workers more vulnerable is that sometimes, sex work is one of their very few options for earning money" in the face of employment and housing discrimination, Ray said.
Pick-up violence — which happens after a victim meets their attacker for sex — betrayed another vulnerability for LGBTQ people. It was a factor in dozens of murders in the last 20 years.
Pick-up violence claimed the life of Michael Scott Goucher, a 21-year-old white gay man who met one of his assailants online. The night of their second arranged meetup in 2009, two attackers stabbed Goucher 45 times, buried his body in the snow and drove away.
The extreme brutality of Goucher's murder isn't isolated, evidenced by the murders we tracked. Attackers used screwdrivers, iron rods, gasoline, boulders and other makeshift weapons to kill and assault LGBTQ people, often going far beyond the violence necessary to end a life.
That level of brutality, often called "overkill," doesn't always mean an act of violence is a hate crime, but it's often a good indication, said Graham Baxendale, who was a University of Wyoming visiting professor at the time of Shepard's death. He's conducted research and taught classes about hate crimes.
"When you dehumanize and 'other' a whole section of the community, both socially and as an individual, you're able to perpetrate much more horrendous things against them," he said.
Aaron McKinney, one of the men who attacked Shepard, struck him in the face and head between 19 and 21 times with the butt of his .357 Magnum pistol, including three final, and fatal, skull-crushing blows.
In an intercepted jail letter McKinney wrote to Shepard's other attacker, Russell Henderson, while the two were awaiting trial, McKinney used a gay slur to describe Shepard.
Overkill was apparent in the death of Rosa Avina, a 27-year-old Latina lesbian woman kidnapped in California in 2007. Her attackers bound her, put a bag over her head and trapped her in an abandoned boat next to a burn pile they set on fire. She managed to escape the boat with severe burns covering 95 percent of her body, but died two days later.
Baxendale said the violence almost seems to provide a psychological relief to the person committing the act.
"Often this will be a matter of scapegoating this community for whatever ills may have befallen your community or your life," he said, "and so that sort of rage can be exorcised around the body of your victim."
Why there are discrepancies
Whether due to nonexistent laws or inconsistent reporting, local law enforcement agencies rarely report LGBTQ deaths to federal authorities that track hate crimes — even if the killer used slurs, responded violently to information that a person was gay or transgender, or showed signs of overkill.
Between 1999 and 2016, for example, the FBI reported 39 LGBTQ people killed in bias-motivated crimes nationwide.
A Coloradoan analysis of that same period counted 445 potentially bias motivated homicides in our database out of the 522 violent deaths during those years.
To get to 445, we excluded killings perpetrated by the person's romantic partner or former romantic partner, because many instances of intimate partner violence in our database didn't outwardly appear to be bias-motivated.
We don't know that all those killings were bias-motivated, and murders carried out by a person's romantic partner can still be bias-motivated. But training to help police officers recognize the influence of bias in violent deaths could help fill the gaps in the data, said Beirich, of the SPLC.
Beirich said that while some agencies take hate crimes "very seriously," most police training programs don't have a module on hate crimes. The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center once had a program called "Train the Trainer" that offered hate crime training for state and local police officers, but the program ended in 2009, according to a ProPublica report.
As of November 2017, 38 states didn't require police training academies to teach future law enforcement officers about hate crimes, ProPublica found.
"Law enforcement should be dedicated to protecting our most vulnerable communities, and this is one of them," Beirich said. "Not taking hate crimes seriously when you know there's a ton of animus against the LGBTQ population — I just think it's irresponsible."
The light that expanded training could shine on hate violence is as necessary as ever, our findings show. 2016 was the deadliest year of the last two decades for LGBTQ people, with an estimated 67 violent deaths tracked in our database.
Beirich and Ray suggest the death toll is in part due to a violent backlash against social progressions like same-sex marriage and expanded acceptance for LGBTQ people.
Progress, Beirich said, is a bitter pill for some to swallow. Steep it in a political climate that beckons bigotry from the shadows, and the result can be deadly.
While Albany County Sheriff David O'Malley, one of the lead Laramie police investigators on Shepard's murder case in 1998, said there are places in the U.S. where the LGBTQ community still faces bias from the legal system and law enforcement, he said he's seen empathy and concern grow, sometimes from within departments.
In 2008, O'Malley and Matthew Shepard's mother, Judy Shepard, were part of a group who spoke to LGBTQ law enforcement officers from across the world during an event in Washington, D.C. Of the officers gathered, 100 percent had come out to their departments, O'Malley said.
"What it says to me is that law enforcement administrators are starting to see the light," he said.
It will take time, though, advocates say, for nationwide understanding of the factors at play.
Take the other man for whom the nation's hate crime law is named after.
O'Malley said James Byrd, Jr.'s story is as familiar as racism to the nation. He was chained to a pickup and dragged to his death by three white men in Jasper, Texas, in 1998. The story mirrored the violent deaths of young black men dating back to the nation's founding and beyond.
"People have been victimizing African Americans for as long as I can remember in my life and still today," O'Malley said.
Anti-discrimination laws born from the civil rights movement began to shine light on the ugliness of racial discrimination decades ago. But until the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was passed in 2009, that same ugliness affected the LGBTQ community with little response from lawmakers.
The law didn't stop violence against the LGBTQ community. But it made a statement about America's values, O'Malley said.
"People had an issue (with Shepard's death not being considered a hate crime) because it's not written up there," O'Malley said. "It's race, religion, national origin, color. It didn't say sexual orientation and gender, gender identity and disability. That wasn't in there. Now it's in there on a national level. And it should be."
The database developed by the Coloradoan includes all violent deaths of LGBTQ people in America that the Coloradoan could verify between Oct. 12, 1998, and Oct. 1, 2018. View it here.
Not every act of violence against a person who identifies as LGBTQ is considered a hate crime, and this database doesn't indicate whether each killing was ruled a hate crime.
In states where hate crime laws have been adopted, suspects can face additional criminal charges if law enforcement determines the attacker targeted the victim because of specific characteristics defined in the law. In some states, those include gender identity and sexual orientation.
LEARN MORE: Many US states lack LGBTQ hate crime protections 20 years later
We started with annual hate violence and intimate partner violence reports from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, which collects data and analyzes trends in violence against LGBTQ people. Many of the deaths noted in earlier reports didn't include names, but we were able to gather names for most victims by piecing together identifying information from other reports, including media reporting advocacy studies and police records.
Next, we searched through several reports and online listings of LGBTQ murder victims, including Gay History Wiki, International Transgender Day of Remembrance, In Memoriam: Lesbian Murder Victims, Unerased: Counting Transgender Lives, the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition's 50 Under 30 report and a Human Rights Campaign report documenting hate crimes between 1998 and 2002. We fact-checked entries and included all names we could verify through media reports, advocacy reports or police records. We noted our sources for each entry.
We searched for deaths from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
Victims and information we didn't include
Advocacy organizations reported some deaths to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs with no name or only a first name, either because more information wasn't available or for privacy reasons. Six of these reported deaths were in 1999 and 2000, and three were in 2012. Additionally, media reports indicated an unidentified transgender woman died in California in 2005, but we were unable to verify her name and other details.
You'll notice the word "unknown" throughout the database. We listed a person's ethnicity or sexual orientation as "unknown" when we couldn't adequately verify those factors. Our sources generally didn't indicate the sexual orientation of transgender victims, for example. Many media reports didn't specify race identify if a person is white, but they often did for people of color.
You'll also notice victims of intimate partner violence in the database. We included these to highlight the prevalence of domestic violence in LGBTQ relationships. Domestic violence occurs as often or more often in LGBTQ relationships as it does among the general population, noted the Human Rights Campaign, citing a 2010 report by the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey.
We didn't include victims of the Pulse shooting if we couldn't confirm they identified as LGBTQ. For a full list of all 49 victims, visit the Orlando Sentinel memorial page.
We didn't include heterosexual victims who were targeted because their attacker believed they were LGBTQ. Similarly, we didn't include victims whose attackers used the gay panic defense or people victimized at gay clubs unless we found other indications that they identified as members of the LGBTQ community.
We didn't include LGBTQ people who died by suicide or young children killed because of LGBTQ bias, unless we found indications that the child identified as LGBTQ.
Gender identity refers to a person's sense of their gender, which can differ from what they're assigned at birth. Sexual orientation refers to the gender to whom a person is sexually or romantically attracted.
We used the term "gender nonconforming" as an umbrella term for people whose behavior or appearance didn't conform to traditional expectations of gender. This could include people who cross-dressed but didn't identify as transgender, and people who didn't identify as one gender. We also used "gender nonconforming" to describe someone who defied traditional gender expectations but we couldn't determine whether they identified as transgender.
We used other terms such as "queer" and "femandrogyne" when it was clear a person identified as such.
If you have information about a violent death that isn't in the database, additional information about a listed victim, or would like to report a broken link, contact Jacy Marmaduke at jmarmaduke@coloradoan.com or Saja Hindi at shindi@coloradoan.com.
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Sports gaming technology leader Low6 announced Friday that it successfully completed its latest funding round, just ahead of a planned Initial Public Offering (IPO).
Just before IPO, Low6 Completes a Funding Round
Based in Birmingham, UK, Low6 completed its latest round of funding, raising $5 million. The announcement comes just in time with a planned IPO, which is expected to be completed this year. The money raised from the funding round will be used by the company to help fund its ongoing growth. Specifically, the company plans to expand significantly overseas in the US market.
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Besides the US, in 2021, Low6 inked multiple agreements with football clubs in the UK. More recently, Low6 appointed Ben Barker as its new chief revenue officer in January. As a proven industry specialist, Barker brings more than 20 years of experience. Before joining Low6, he has taken the role of CMO at Monterosa.
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Jamie Mitchell, co-founder and group CEO at Low6
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Q: MySQL optimize OR with multiple tables i'm trying to find a better solution, because the actual query takes too long.
lets assume you have 3 tables: tasks, adresses, persons
now we have a string like "tobias london" - we will split the string by spaces and get ["tobias","london"]
(of course we could have a more complex string with more words)
now we want all tasks, that has matches in adresses OR persons
AND ALL words must match
actual query example:
SELECT
  tasks.task_id
FROM
  (
    tasks,
    (SELECT
      adress_id AS id,
      'adress_id' AS typ
    FROM
      adresses
    WHERE adresses.city LIKE 'tobias%'
      OR adresses.street LIKE 'tobias%'
    UNION
    SELECT
      person_id AS id,
      'person_id' AS typ
    FROM
      persons
    WHERE persons.name LIKE 'tobias%') f0,
    (SELECT
      adress_id AS id,
      'adress_id' AS typ
    FROM
      adresses
    WHERE adresses.city LIKE 'london%'
      OR adresses.street LIKE 'london%'
    UNION
    SELECT
      person_id AS id,
      'person_id' AS typ
    FROM
      persons
    WHERE persons.name LIKE 'london%') f1
  )
WHERE (
    f0.typ = 'adress_id'
    AND tasks.adress_id = f0.id
    OR f0.typ = 'person_id'
    AND tasks.person_id = f0.id
  )
  AND (
    f1.typ = 'adress_id'
    AND tasks.adress_id = f1.id
    OR f1.typ = 'person_id'
    AND tasks.person_id = f1.id
  )

this is extremely slow, because of the OR within the WHERE-clauses (and this is just an example with 2 words)
anybody know how to make it better than this?
EDIT: as requested a small db-fiddle:

CREATE TABLE `adresses` (
  `adress_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `street` varchar(200) NOT NULL,
  `house_number` varchar(6) NOT NULL,
  `postal_code` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL,
  `city` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`adress_id`),
  KEY `street` (`street`),
  KEY `postal_code` (`postal_code`),
  KEY `city` (`city`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=7 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

/*Data for the table `adresses` */

insert  into `adresses`(`adress_id`,`street`,`house_number`,`postal_code`,`city`) values
(1,'first','1',12345,'London'),
(2,'second','2',23456,'Paris'),
(3,'third','3',34567,'Okawa'),
(4,'fourth','4',45678,'Berlin'),
(5,'fiveth','5',56789,'ABCDE'),
(6,'sixth','6',65535,'DFGHJH');

/*Table structure for table `persons` */

CREATE TABLE `persons` (
  `person_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`person_id`),
  KEY `name` (`name`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=9 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

/*Data for the table `persons` */

insert  into `persons`(`person_id`,`name`) values
(1,'Anna'),
(2,'John'),
(3,'Michel'),
(4,'Olivia'),
(5,'Pavel'),
(6,'Peter'),
(7,'Sarah'),
(8,'Tobias');

/*Table structure for table `tasks` */

CREATE TABLE `tasks` (
  `task_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `person_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
  `adress_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
  `description` varchar(200) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`task_id`),
  KEY `person_id` (`person_id`),
  KEY `adress_id` (`adress_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=8 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

/*Data for the table `tasks` */

insert  into `tasks`(`task_id`,`person_id`,`adress_id`,`description`) values
(1,1,2,''),
(2,2,3,''),
(3,3,4,''),
(4,5,6,''),
(5,4,1,''),
(6,1,4,''),
(7,3,3,''),
(8,8,1,'');

SELECT
  tasks.task_id
FROM
  (
    tasks,
    (SELECT
      adress_id AS id,
      'adress_id' AS typ
    FROM
      adresses
    WHERE adresses.city LIKE 'tobias%'
      OR adresses.street LIKE 'tobias%'
    UNION
    SELECT
      person_id AS id,
      'person_id' AS typ
    FROM
      persons
    WHERE persons.name LIKE 'tobias%') f0,
    (SELECT
      adress_id AS id,
      'adress_id' AS typ
    FROM
      adresses
    WHERE adresses.city LIKE 'london%'
      OR adresses.street LIKE 'london%'
    UNION
    SELECT
      person_id AS id,
      'person_id' AS typ
    FROM
      persons
    WHERE persons.name LIKE 'london%') f1
  )
WHERE (
    f0.typ = 'adress_id'
    AND tasks.adress_id = f0.id
    OR f0.typ = 'person_id'
    AND tasks.person_id = f0.id
  )
  AND (
    f1.typ = 'adress_id'
    AND tasks.adress_id = f1.id
    OR f1.typ = 'person_id'
    AND tasks.person_id = f1.id
  )

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

| task_id |
| ------: |
|       8 |

db<>fiddle here

A: Redesign the schema.  The use of typ to pick between two table is a very bad idea in a Relational Database.  (As you are finding out.)
After that, it may be useful to have a FULLTEXT index on the columns that could have "tobias%" or "london%".  But the problem then comes because the address and person name are in different tables.
If you had both in the same table:
SELECT ...
    WHERE MATCH(firstname, last name, address, city)
          AGAINST("+tobias* +london*" IN BOOLEAN MODE)

And have this index on the table
FULLTEXT(firstname, lastname, address, city)

(Be aware of limitations of word length, etc.)
Another approach
Consider making a separate table (Search) with perhaps two columns:

*

*words - a mashup of all the things that users might search on (names, city, etc)

*task_id (or whatever is the necessary key) -- for joining to the other table(s)

Then use it (for example) thus:
SELECT ...
    FROM Search
    JOIN ... ON Search.task_id = ...
    WHERE MATCH(Search.text) AGAINST ("+word1 +word2" IN BOOLEAN MODE)
    ...

It helps to eliminate any 'short' words when building the query.
This technique takes extra effort when inserting rows.  And there is redundant data in the database.  (This is a no-no, but is often necessary for performance.)


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'Flirtatious' woman calls 911 to ask officer for ice cream, report says
03/06/2018 9:37 am PST
Melissa Harbor
By Shannon McLellan, WKMG
TAVARES, Fla. -- (WKMG) -- A woman was arrested for misuse of 911 after she repeatedly called an officer to her hotel room then "flirtatiously" asked him to bring her back ice cream, according to the arrest report.
Melissa Harbor called 911 a reported 32 times and the non-emergency number twice within 24 hours, police said. The report says the first 27 times were from Leesburg, and the last 5 were in a hotel room in Tavares.
An officer said he responded to Harbor's hotel location four separate times. The first time, Harbor told him that she called 911 because she "heard a noise from inside her hotel room and was scared," the report says.
The officer said when he was called back a second time to the hotel, Harbor was "very flirtatious and suggested I bring her back some ice cream."
The officer responded to the hotel room one more time, when Harbor claimed she called 911 by accident, according to the report. The officer writes he warned her that this was the last time they were going to give her a warning for calling 911 with no emergency.
Harbor then called 911 again, claiming that she was trying to call Domino's Pizza and that the call was an accident, police said.
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De onechte honingvlokreeft (Abludomelita obtusata) is een vlokreeftje uit de familie Melitidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1813 door George Montagu. A. obtusata komt onder meer voor in het Belgische en het Nederlandse deel van de Noordzee.

Beschrijving
De onechte honingvlokreeft is een bruin gekleurde vlokreeft. Het heeft een slanke lichaamsvorm en groeit tot 9 mm in standaardlengte. De soort is bruinachtig van kleur en heeft geen rostrum. Als lid van de Amphipoda-orde is Abludomelita obtusata gonochorous en seksueel dimorf, waarbij de vrouwtjes groter zijn dan de mannetjes. Bovendien hebben mannetjes ook een duidelijk paar tweede klauwen. Een typische levensduur van Abludomelita obtusata is ongeveer een jaar.

Verspreiding
Deze soort wordt in hoge concentraties gevonden in België (35%), het Verenigd Koninkrijk (32%) en Nederland (19%). Vóór 1994 was er geen duidelijk distributiepatroon voor Abludomelita obtusata. In de periode 1994-2001 werd Abludomelita obtusata echter waargenomen in de buurt van kustgebieden van de Noordzee en ook aan een oostelijke kustlijn van de Noordzee, maar minder vaak. Na 1994 zijn de verspreiding en dichtheid van de soort sterk toegenomen. Hij leeft in mariene sedimenten van elke korrelgrootte, maar met een voorkeur voor een slibgehalte van 10-40%, rond de kusten van de zuidelijke Noordzee.

Melitidae

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Happy opening to Eddie Izzard's solo show Charles Dickens' Great Expectations! A stage adaptation of Dickens' iconic novel written by Izzard's brother Mark, the play features many of the English author's most popular characters—all of whom are portrayed by the celebrated stand-up and Tony nominee. TDF talked to the Izzard siblings and...
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48 Hour Open House Barcelona 2013 - Day 1
Barcelona's a dream city if you're a fan of architecture and will probably make you a fan if you're not. There are tons of beautiful buildings both in and around the city some of which you can visit and others that are private. Each year for two days Barcelona holds a city-wide open house when about a hundred buildings, some normally not open to the public, are open for visits free of charge. It's a great opportunity to see some of the "hidden treasures".
Two years ago Diana and I had gone to both days (Day 1 story and Day 2 story) but last year we were living in Stuttgart so we couldn't attend so we definitely weren't going to miss this year. We were up bright and early on Saturday morning and headed straight to the Casa Sayrach, which I had really wanted to see:
This private building is right down the street from where we were living and I passed by it regularly on the way to the metro. Designed by Manuel Sayrach i Carreras and built in 1918 as an apartment building, it's one of the last modernist buildings to be constructed in Barcelona. What I really like about it is the undulating roof, the small vertical bars between the facade and the roof line (you'll have to look carefully), how it's designed to take advantage of it's corner location, and oh, of course the tower.
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I pretty much could have stopped after this one building as, like I said, it was the one I really wanted to see this year...but...we kept moving on. Our next stop was at the Palau Moja, which is located about a block or so from our new apartment. From the outside, this former palace-like private residence, which was built in 1714, isn't too much different from many of the other buildings in the area with it's small balconies, shutters, and so on:
But inside it's a different story. It felt very similar to some of the castles we had seen in Germany like Schloss Ludwigsburg or even Schloss Hohenschwangau with it's Baroque styling, which seems somewhat out of place in Barcelona but I guess to each his own. What's cool is, looking at just the photos in this one post, how different the architectural styles are in Barcelona.
While in line at Palau Moja, we ran into Vladimir and he told us about a nearby private apartment and artist's studio that had been renovated and was open for tours. The apartment is located in a modernist building near La Raval neighborhood just on the other side of La Rambla.
The apartment wasn't anything special as far as it's layout or location but that's what made it interesting to see. It's long and narrow, which is pretty standard for apartments in the older parts of the city. Where we're living is very similar, which creates challenges when renovating them for more modern tastes. The architect in this project removed a bunch of walls and opened it up as much as possible (top is before):
The results were fairly good with lots of relatively open spaces (for a Barcelona apartment). The things that I liked about this particular stop were that it was a "normal" private apartment, the architect was leading the tour, and they saved the original "hydraulic" floor tiles in as much of the space as possible. A view from the kitchen towards the living room:
It's tough to see more than a few buildings each day as the lines can take an hour or more and the tours can last around 30 minutes. Diana and I were dedicated to visit at least one more building on our first day and we chose to head to the Palau Macaya.
This former palace-like residence built in 1901 was designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, who was a prolific Catalan modernist architect responsible for a ton of beautiful buildings around Catalunya including (what is now) the Cordoniu cava factory, the Casaramona textile factory (La Caixa Forum), and the Casa Amateller (located next door to Casa Batllo). Actually, Puig i Cadafalch should probably be more famous than he is but he tends to get overshadowed by Gaudi even though their styles tend to be very different.
Like the Casa Amatller, Puig i Cadafalch put a bunch of mini scenes on the building facade. One of my favorite touches was at the house's entrance where he showed himself hanging out with a donkey on one side and riding a bicycle on the other side. He did this to point out the difference between the laid-back countryside and the hustle and bustle of city life...with a bicycle!
Diana checking out the details at the Casa Macaya (note the clover detail on the ceiling):
All in all, it was a very busy but very fun day. Diana and I got to see four different buildings in four different styles spanning approximately 300 years...all within walking distance...and that was just Saturday!
More Family Visits Barcelona!
A couple of months ago my uncle sent me an email that he and my aunt would be in Barcelona for a couple of days around Halloween. There plan was to board a cruise ship that would float all the way back to the United States. Whatever! I was just happy to have some family visit me in Spain!
A lovely sunny Halloween day checking out the Sagrada Familia with my aunt and uncle:
They arrived on Wednesday afternoon and hung out until Diana and I could meet them later for dinner. Of course we took them to our favorite local restaurant, El Glop, which is where we held our wedding reception. I'm not sure if it was the Cava sangria, but they both gave it their thumbs up.
The next morning we met up at the Sagrada Familia where Diana was kind enough to wait in the 45-minute line while the three of us walked around the outside and had a chance to catch up. We got back to Diana just as she was about ten people from the ticket booth. My uncle looked at me and asked if they can just jump in line like that. Of course you can! They ducked under around the ropes and, about two minutes later, were inside the church.
They both really enjoyed and were impressed by the church. We talked about Gaudi and Barcelona architecture while we walked over the the nearby La Paradeta, which is another of our favorite restaurants. Again, they seemed to be impressed but, hey, it's easy to do only the best things when you have just 40 hours together!
After lunch, they came back to our (new) apartment. We opened a bottle of Cava and talked for a couple of hours. It was nice to have family visit our home. (Note to other family...and friends...when are you coming?) When it was time for us to say our goodbyes, I asked them to take a photo with me in front of the Canaletas fountain down the street. The tradition says that you'll come back to Barcelona if you drink from this fountain. Here's hoping for a swift return!
A couple of interesting notes. First, my aunt and uncle paid about $550 U.S. per person for an all-inclusive cruise that went all the way back to the U.S. That seems downright cheap. I'm not really that into the idea of taking a cruise but, hey, I'm a little more interested when I heard that. Who knows, maybe one day...
The other interesting thing was when my uncle called me the next morning to say goodbye. He wanted Diana and I to know how much they enjoyed visiting with us and how impressed they were with Barcelona. My uncle even said at some point in the conversation that his expectation of the city was something like Cleveland, Ohio, based on brief visits to other parts of Spain but that the reality was something culturally more like New York City but way cleaner. It was definitely a huge compliment. And, guess what! He and my aunt were already talking about coming back for an extended visit. Woohoo! I knew there was something about that fountain!
Thanks for stopping by and Diana and I can't wait to see you guys again soon!


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WASHINGTON, Nov 5 2013 (IPS) - Deep cuts in food aid for poor people in the United States are poised to bring higher demands on charities and food pantries across the country that provide food to families in need – and which are already overstretched.
The nearly 50 million U.S. citizens who currently rely on government food aid are set to see a substantial decrease in their assistance as part of a federal cut that came into effect on Nov. 1.
According to recent statistics, some 14 percent of U.S. households are currently dependent on food assistance, widely known as food stamps or formally as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme (SNAP).
The federal cuts come at an already difficult time for millions of people in the United States, many of whom are still struggling to recover from the recent economic crisis.
Indeed, the depressed economic situation currently affecting the country exposes the larger and indirect implications of the cuts. As people have less money, they're also less likely to make donations to distribution centres, which means food pantries are likely to be even tighter in the months to come, Schaller says.
The Nov. 1 cuts are happening as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) – commonly known as the "stimulus package" – that aimed at boosting the national economy, including through a temporary expansion of the food stamp programme.
Since then, the ARRA has provided over 45 billion dollars in food assistance funding, or did until Friday, when several related provisions expired.
Further, while the ARRA cuts will take away as much as five billion dollars from the food stamp programme, duelling legislation is currently being debated in Congress that could further subtract an additional 40 billion dollars from the programme over the next 10 years.
"We've talked about this issue with the families coming to us, and they're just worried to death that they're not going to be able to feed their families," Eldridge says.
Advocates say that the situation was already critical before the Friday cuts. Slow economic growth in the aftermath of the recession, and a recent government 16-day shutdown that left thousands of families with no income, has only contributed to an increased demand on food donors.
According to U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics, in as many as 37 U.S. states, food stamp demand went up between 2012 and 2013, with states such as Illinois and Wyoming seeing the highest percentage increase. But even in those states where demand did not go up in the past year, the aggregate amount of households that rely on food stamps is still high.
At 21 percent, Mississippi has the largest proportion of its population currently depending on food stamps – nearly 630,000 people. Oregon, Tennessee and West Virginia are next, where people relying on food stamps are at around 20 percent of the total state populations.
In West Virginia, one of the states that will be most affected by the cuts, SNAP benefits went down from nearly 42 million dollars in September to a little less than 39 million, a West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) spokesperson told IPS. The nearly three-million-dollar cut for November will affect almost 300,000 people in the eastern state.
States that see their SNAP funds decreased often have no alternative funding to replace the loss.
"Clients were notified of this change via mail for [the] decrease effective November. Workers were provided tools to educate recipients of this decrease in advance," the DHHR spokesperson told IPS. However, West Virginia is not going to supplement this loss with other funds and is not currently aware of any plans to support other donor organisations such as food pantries.
Other states are likely to face similar situations.
Days before the Nov. 1 ARRA expiration, Al Franken, a Senator from Minnesota, joined 38 other lawmakers in organising a letter calling for Congress to stop the new SNAP cuts that is currently under legislative scrutiny.
"I met with farmers and farm leaders from across Minnesota who want us to ensure that we don't hurt children, seniors, and families in Minnesota and across the country by slashing SNAP funding," Sen. Franken said in a statement on Oct. 28.
The senators urge Congress to approve a bill that will not include those changes that are designed to raise new barriers to participation in the programme.
In the meantime, advocates can do little but wait.
I am 75 years old and have 5 children all who are successful!!Not one of My family has ever taken one dime from the feds!! I never made a lot of money but it was good and We watched what We spent and lived within our means!! It really aggravates Me to go to a grocery store and see people buying top end food items and then pay with food stamps!!Most of these people are dead beats!!
I was a supervisor at a meat processor and many times over the years I would stop and offer these homeless jobs!! I even offered to give them a ride to work and only rarely did any of them take Me up on the offer and the longest that the few that did take the job ever stayed was 2 days!!
I retired at 70 and in all My working life I was never out of a job!! Most of these people would rather live off the rest of Us and just maybe if they use the food stamps to buy hamburger,potatoes,beans and staples instead of T-bone steak ,jumbo shrimp,lobster,etc they will get by just fine!!
Some one that truly needs it on a temporary basis to get back on there feet,fine but do not expect sympathy from Me when I see them shopping with food stamps while talking on their smart phone(I never owned one)wearing gold chains etc.! I can truly say that never have I seen anyone using Food stamps that truly looked like they needed them!!
Dwain, you are 75 but you still have time to try to be in the place of the "others" that have been not as lucky as you. Maybe it´s worth the effort. Your vision will be wider and you won´t have to spend time justifying yourself.


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Q: Can a suspended user still post and vote? This question is about this user on TeX.SE.
He is suspended network-wide for one year, from 23 April 2019 to 23 April 2020, after a conflict on TeX.SE Meta.
As I read in this article, he can't vote, ask, answer and comment.
However, looking at his activities, he can still post questions, answers and comments, like any unsuspended users.
How can it be possible? Is there a hole in the system?
This is only one particular case. I believe there are many other cases across the network.

From this answer by Jeff Atwood, he probably posted as a new user and then had his accounts merged. I think there should be something to fix this bug (this is definitely a bug), by e.g. not allowing account merging on suspended users, or only allowing account merging on any user a limited number of times. Otherwise, the suspend system clearly no longer works, and that is not something we want.

A: There is not a hole in the system.  It is not a bug.  It is not realistically feasible to completely prevent sock puppeting.  To be clear, this behavior does violate Stack Exchange rules.  Creating a sock puppet to evade your suspension and post while you are suspended is a clear violation of Stack Exchange rules.  However, it is difficult to proactively prevent someone from doing this.  We rely on users to report instances of ban evasion.  Enforcement is based on detection and reaction rather than prevention.
If you see future instances of this, please flag it for moderator action, and provide as much evidence of the connection as possible.
Some tips to help you provide evidence of sock puppeting: From what I have seen, this user is repeatedly creating new accounts to evade their suspension.  The new accounts are often listed under usernames like Mdayq or Mdayq7.  Sometimes the user explicitly reveals the connection in their post or comments.  It might be useful to know that this user goes by user49915 at Latex.org.  Moderators have tools to investigate alleged sock puppeting, but the more evidence you can provide them, the more helpful your flag will be and the more likely that they can make a good informed decision.
Be prepared that moderators will have their own criteria for whether to act or not.  Many moderators might act only if they are certain that this is a case of sock puppetry, as the consequences for getting this wrong are not good.
Some tips for moderators: If you find evidence of ban evasion, I recommend unceremoniously deleting the sock puppet account with the reason "This user was created to circumvent system or moderator imposed restrictions and continues to contribute poorly".
Separately: This user often cross-posts the same question on both Stack Exchange and on an external site.  We don't have a policy forbidding that on Stack Exchange, but if you hold the personal opinion that this is detrimental to the site, you are free to downvote such questions; you always have that right, and it may send a signal over time.


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Mohit Joshi 20 April 2009
Kingston - An armed man has taken some 150 people aboard a plane on the Caribbean island of Jamaica hostage, media reports said Monday.
The hostage-taking is believed to be taking place on an aircraft that had been scheduled to fly from the Sangster International airport in Montego Bay, to Halifax in Canada, the news channel CNN reported.
According to the online edition of local newspaper The Gleaner, at 11pm on Sunday (0400 GMT Monday) the gunman boarded the plane using false identification documents, proceeded to rob passengers on the aircraft, and is currently holding them hostage.
The newspaper also said that at least one shot had been fired on board the plane, although it is not clear if anyone has been injured.
The Gleaner quoted staff at the airport as saying that the hostage-taker appeared to be a Latin-American male. The paper reported that the plane belonged to the CanJet airline, although this has not been confirmed by the company. (dpa)


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What to Do When a Bad Person Owns Your Favorite Team
With Vladimir Putin continuing his brutal and unprovoked murder spree in Ukraine, people around the globe are clamoring for ways to punish the Russian strongman and his friends. To that end, the British government and its people are finally confronting the unpleasant reality that one of Putin's friends owns one of the most successful football clubs in the country. So what's a Chelsea fan to do?
Roman Ambramovich, your classic Russian oligarch who made his billions in sketchy post-Soviet privatization schemes, bought Chelsea FC in 2003 and under his stewardship the club has won five Premiere League titles and five FA Cups, along with a smattering of other lesser titles. Over the weekend, in a pathetically naked attempt to shield the team from presumably forthcoming sanctions, he tried to hand over stewardship of the club to a charitable trust run by – wait for it – the club. Curiously, in his statement he made no mention of Ukraine or Russia. A day later, members of the board of the charity let it be known that they had agreed to no such arrangement and frankly weren't sure it'd be legal. Now Abramovich is coming under pressure to sell the club.
British MP Chris Bryant spoke earlier this week of cracking down on "illicit finance and malign activity," while namechecking Abramovich. On Wednesday, he turned the screws, saying "Roman Abramovich, well I think he's terrified of being sanctioned, which is why he's already going to sell his home tomorrow, and sell another flat as well. My anxiety is that we're taking too long about these things."
Meanwhile, Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss has announced that he's been offered a chance to buy the club, but that price is exorbitant.
"Abramovich is trying to sell all his villas in England, he also wants to get rid of Chelsea quickly," Wyss told the Swiss newspaper Blick. "I and three other people received an offer on Tuesday to buy Chelsea from Abramovich. I have to wait four to five days now. Abramovich is currently asking far too much. You know, Chelsea owes him £2bn. But Chelsea has no money. As of today, we don't know the exact selling price."
You read that right—in addition to owning the club, Abramovich has lent the club roughly two billion pounds. You buy the club, and you're buying a ton of debt.
People have known all along about Abramovich's connections to the Kremlin, but fans and the government went along with it because, well, Russia's part of the global community and sometimes you just kinda have to hold your nose and get on with life. But things changed once Putin started killing innocent people in Ukraine. Abramovich's presence has become for some unacceptable. Now the moral calculus has shifted. But if the goal is to get Abramovich out of Premiere League football, the best course of action is to do nothing—as in, don't go to Chelsea games, don't buy their swag, cancel your cable sports package and let the company know why. The club is currently worth an estimated $2.1 billion; if Chelsea FC fans were to simply turn their backs, that evaluation would start to plummet.
Abramovich could argue with a potential buyer that all the fans would come back as soon as he was no longer involved with the team, and that's certainly true, but if in the meantime the revenue just stopped, Abramovich would start bleeding cash and the value of the team would dwindle.
What could be easier than simply walking away from a team? Chelsea is currently in third place in the Premiere League, 16 points behind first-place Manchester City, with Chelsea having 13 games left to play, Man City just 11. While Chelsea is enjoying a very good season, they have no realistic hope of catching Man City. How hard could it be to walk on a team with no real hopes of winning it all? Especially one that won it all as recently as 2017? We're not talking about bailing on the Boston Red Sox on October 20, 2004.
The NBA went through this in 2014 with Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling mess, when Sterling was caught on tape spewing all sorts of racist garbage. At the time, the Clips had recently finished the season at 57-25, the third-best record in the league, and were ahead of the Golden State Warriors 2 games to 1 in the first round of the playoffs. By May 9, 2014, the league had essentially brokered the sale of the club to Microsoft billionaire Steve Ballmer. Rather than sit idly by as Sterling found the value of his team fall, the NBA assured him a massive payday.
As with Abramovich, people had known for years that Sterling was a piece of garbage. In 2003 and 2006, he was sued for housing discrimination and in each case had to pay multi-million dollar settlements. The idea that this dude was a racist could hardly have come as "news."
It would be a legitimate hardship for most players to walk away and risk negatively impacting their future earnings potential, but for a fan? C'mon. As frustrating as it is to watch Major League Baseball cancel the first week of games, I hardly think there's anyone out there wondering how they're going to fill their time or spend their money in the absence of baseball.
Rather than let the government do its dirty and in the process set potentially dangerous precedents, the easiest, most punishing thing football fans can do is to keep their money in their pocket and spend a little more time with their family. Would that be so hard? The Premiere League season is over in less than three months, and you've got zero chance of winning it all, Chelsea fans. You got through COVID, you can get through this. And if you can't, then you don't really care about Abramovich and his ties to Putin.
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Courage and Consequence
My Life as a Conservative in the Fight
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Narrated by: Karl Rove
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The Triumph of William McKinley
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From New York Times best-selling author and political mastermind Karl Rove comes a fresh look at President William McKinley, who found a message that healed his nation, pried his party away from its bosses, and extended its reach to forge a governing majority that lasted 30 years.
Understand Modern Presidential Campaigns
By Anon on 02-27-16
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By: Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
Narrated by: Michael Quinlan
For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice. James Addison Baker III was the indispensable man for four presidents because he understood better than anyone how to make Washington work at a time when America was shaping events around the world. The Man Who Ran Washington is a pause-resisting portrait of a power broker who influenced America's destiny for generations.
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The story of the most important political campaign in modern times, by the man who went through it side by side with President Obama.
Fascinating book; don't care for the narration
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New York Times best-selling author Newt Gingrich lays out the stakes of the 2020 elections and what the end results could mean for the future of American citizens. Trump and the American Future by Newt Gingrich will lay out the stakes of the 2020 election and provide a clarion call for all Americans on why it is vital to return President Trump to the White House for a second term.
Newt's book is literally the opposite of fake news
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Karl Rove, the man who masterminded the rise of George W. Bush from governor of Texas to the presidency, who advised Bush during two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, who some claim helped seize the 2004 election for Bush, and who was at the center of the Bush administration's two biggest scandals - is back. Since exiting the Bush administration, Rove has quietly become the country's greatest Republican power broker. This up-to-the-minute journalistic report sheds crucial light on Rove's vital behind-the-scenes role.
By Rebecca on 11-29-12
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Narrated by: Neil Gorsuch
Justice Gorsuch draws on his 30-year career as a lawyer, teacher, judge, and justice to explore essential aspects our Constitution, its separation of powers, and the liberties it is designed to protect. He discusses the role of the judge in our constitutional order, and why he believes that originalism and textualism are the surest guides to interpreting our nation's founding documents and protecting our freedoms. He explains, too, the importance of affordable access to the courts in realizing the promise of equal justice under law.
Not a lawyer, LOVED this book.
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Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
By: John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character driven and dialogue rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, this is the occasion-ally shocking, often hilarious, ultimately definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime.
Best Audiobook of 2010!
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Narrated by: Jason Culp
The 2016 election was a watershed for the United States. But, as Tim Alberta explains in American Carnage, to understand Trump's victory is to view him not as the creator of this era of polarization and bruising partisanship, but rather as its most manifest consequence. American Carnage is the story of a president's rise based on a country's evolution and a party's collapse. As George W. Bush left office with record-low approval ratings and Barack Obama led a Democratic takeover of Washington, Republicans faced a moment of reckoning.
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Drawing on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Heilemann and Halperin deliver another reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character driven and dialogue rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, Double Down offers a panoramic account of a campaign at once intensely hard fought and lastingly consequential. For Obama, the victory he achieved meant even more to him than the one he had pulled off four years earlier.
About HALF as good as Game Change
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Who is killing America? Is it really Donald Trump and a GOP filled with white supremacists? In this audiobook, Dinesh D'Souza makes the provocative case that Democrats are the ones killing America by turning it into a massive nanny state modeled on the Southern plantation system. Death of a Nation's bracing alternative vision of American history explains the Democratic Party's dark past, reinterprets the roles of figures like Van Buren, FDR, and LBJ, and exposes the hidden truth that racism comes not from Trump or the conservative right but rather from Democrats.
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As a book critic for The Washington Post, Carlos Lozada has read some 150 volumes claiming to diagnose why Trump was elected and what his presidency reveals about our nation. Many of these, he's found, are more defensive than incisive, more righteous than right. In What Were We Thinking, Lozada uses these books to tell the story of how we understand ourselves in the Trump era, using as his main characters the political ideas and debates at play in America today.
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In Power Grab, Chaffetz pulls back the curtain on the world of hypocrisy, political intrigue, and procedural malfeasance that is Washington, DC. With stories you won't hear anywhere else, he shows how the left weaves false narratives, drums up investigations in search of a crime, and refuses to direct congressional oversight towards its appropriate target: the government. Democrats weaponize nonprofit advocacy groups and monetize partisan anger to line the pockets of their political allies.
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Tim Scott, an African-American US senator, and Trey Gowdy, a white US congressman, won't allow racial lines to divide them. They work together, eat meals together, campaign together, and make decisions together. Yet in the fall of 2010 - as two brand-new members of the US House of Representatives - they did not even know each other. Their story as politicians and friends began the moment they met and is a model for others seeking true reconciliation.
Love + Faith + Compassion = Lasting Friendships
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Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in modern American politics. With the saga's final installment, he has delivered yet another stunning literary and historical achievement. In late 1976, Ronald Reagan was dismissed as a man without a political future: defeated in his nomination bid against a sitting president of his own party, blamed for President Gerald Ford's defeat, too old to make another run.
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Justice Anthony Kennedy slipped out of the Supreme Court building on June 27, 2018, and traveled incognito to the White House to inform President Donald Trump that he was retiring, setting in motion a political process that his successor, Brett Kavanaugh, would denounce three months later as a "national disgrace" and a "circus". Justice on Trial, the definitive insider's account of Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court, is based on extraordinary access to more than 100 key figures - including the president, justices, and senators - in that ferocious political drama.
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An even-handed take.
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For the kids, a golden age
By C. Walker on 03-01-20
From the moment he set foot on it, Karl Rove has rocked America's political stage. He ran the national College Republicans at 22, and turned a Texas dominated by Democrats into a bastion for Republicans. He launched George W. Bush to national renown by unseating a popular Democratic governor, and then orchestrated a GOP White House win at a time when voters had little reason to throw out the incumbent party. For engineering victory after unlikely victory, Rove became known as the Architect.
Because of his success, Rove has been attacked his entire career, accused of everything from campaign chicanery to ideological divisiveness. In this frank memoir, Rove responds to critics, passionately articulates his political philosophy, and defends the choices he made on the campaign trail and in the White House. He addresses controversies head-on - from his role in the contest between Bush and Senator John McCain in South Carolina to the charges that Bush misled the nation on Iraq. In the course of putting the record straight, Rove takes on Democratic leaders who acted cynically or deviously behind closed doors, and even Republicans who lacked backbone at crucial moments.
Courage and Consequence is also the first intimate account from the highest level at the White House of one of the most headline-making presidencies of the modern age. Rove takes listeners behind the scenes of the bitterly contested 2000 presidential contest,of tense moments aboard Air Force One on 9/11, of the decision to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq,of the hard-won 2004 reelection fight, and even of his painful three years fending off an indictment process. He spells out what it takes to win elections and how to govern successfully once a candidate has won.
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Deborah T.
Wow! Karl Can Read & Write
The behind the scenes details of what the American people could not, would not be told at the time history unfolded is spelled out in this book. It starts with the simple straight forward biographical information that for the most part related to media attacks in Carl's later public years. Well done and greatly appreciated!
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What did you love best about Courage and Consequence?
It was fascinating how Rove described the election process. He really gave us an insight into the process that gets people elected in this country in the modern era.
What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?
Everyone called Rove the evil genius that got Bush the bumpkin elected, but Rove shows how he supported the President, and how Bush was always the leader. Rove was a key player, but he humbly shows how he was a part of the team, not the leader who lead the team to success. Leadership was Bush, Rove was an important staff aid to Bush.
What about Karl Rove's performance did you like?
Great book, and we should all thank Rove for his candid description of his duties, responsibilities, successes and failures.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No, not possible.
Listen to this book, Cheney's, Bush's,and Rumsfeld's books and you will totally understand the Bush administration.
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Excellent book!
Thanks for providing your personal account of so many historical events in recent history! I have a better understanding of what happened and why. The no-nonsense approach is refreshing in our "smoke and mirrors" political world. I would (& have) recommended this book to others.
Good book.
This book is mostly what I expected. Karl just put details behind the stories. I would recommend this book to anybody.
Bush and Rove the media didn't want you to know.
This book exposed a lot of the liberal biases towards President George W. Bush and Karl Rove. I just like the author do believe that history will look favorably upon the presidency of George W. Bush.
STEPHEN E.
Good political insight
I most enjoyed chapter one, where the author talks about how, when, and where to do things.
Mike Haridopolos
Karl Rove writes a straightforward narrative of what it's like to be involved in modern politics here in America. He gives great insight into the decision making process as well as the actual decisions made during his wildly successful political career. This is a must read book for anyone interested in modern politics.
The Art of Politics
DJT knows how to master deals. Karl Rove knows how to master politics. The book is essentially a blueprint.
W. Abbott
I love this guy. He needs to write more books.
Karl Rove is a political genius and serious historian. Rove & Company played the game brilliantly. A conservative in the fight, yes, not a bystander. But Rove is the rare individual that can stand outside even himself (somewhat) and watch the game being played.
Great Book that gives what we do not hear from the media. Shame on them.