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Obama's failed promise of a first-year immigration overhaul
By Josh Hicks
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Reporter who covered Maryland politics and government
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"When we talked about immigration reform in the first year, that's before the economy was on the verge of collapse ..."
"And so we had to take a whole series of emergency actions to make sure that we put people back to work — cutting taxes for middle-class families and small businesses so that they could stay open or pay the bills; making sure that states got assistance so they didn't have to lay off teachers and firefighters and police officers; saving an auto industry that was on the brink of collapse. And so that took up a huge amount of time in the first year."
"And what I confess I did not expect — and so I'm happy to take responsibility for being naive here — is that Republicans who had previously supported comprehensive immigration reform — my opponent in 2008, who had been a champion of it and who attended these meetings — suddenly would walk away. That's what I did not anticipate."
— President Obama during a town hall interview hosted by Univision and Facebook, Sept. 20, 2012
Polls show President Obama maintaining a clear and consistent advantage over challenger Mitt Romney among Hispanic voters, but an interview last week on the Spanish-language television network Univision suggested that the current administration has left something to be desired with the demographic.
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos held Obama accountable for a promise the former Illinois senator made during his 2008 bid for office, when he said, "I can guarantee that we will have, in the first year, an immigration bill that I strongly support."
"I want to emphasize 'the first year,' " Ramos said. "At the beginning of your governing, you had control of both chambers of Congress, and yet you did not introduce immigration reform. And before I continue, I want for you to acknowledge that you did not keep your promise."
The president acknowledged only that he was naive to think Republicans would negotiate with him on immigration, and he excused his lack of progress on the issue by saying he spent most of his first-year dealing with an economic crisis.
Let's take a look at Obama's inaugural year in the White House and his record on immigration to determine whether his statements tell the whole story. Did his promise fail to materialize because of Republicans and the economy, or does the president deserve some blame here?
Obama said repeatedly during his 2008 campaign that "presidents are going to have to deal with more than one thing at a time." That's the standard he set for himself: No excuses; presidents just have to juggle.
Obama turned to that line frequently as the economy started to nosedive around September 2008. He even used it once to rebuff Sen. John McCain's suggestion that the two candidates postpone a presidential debate to help lawmakers reach a bailout deal for the financial sector. "It is going to be part of the president's job to deal with more than one thing at once," the Democratic candidate said.
Obama unquestionably inherited an economy in tatters, but his predecessor signed a major piece of legislation to stave off complete collapse before leaving office. President George W. Bush approved the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which provided about $700 billion in bailout money for the auto and financial industries. (Many people believe Obama was responsible for TARP, but his administration only managed the program once it was in place).
The Obama administration, along with a Democratic-controlled House and Senate, implemented additional measures to deal with the continuing recession when the new president took office. Perhaps the most notable bill was the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which authorized about $833 billion for investments in infrastructure, education, health, clean energy and for helping states balance their budgets. It also included temporary tax breaks.
Obama approved the Recovery Act less than a month after taking office. And while his administration had to manage the resulting stimulus programs and their many complicated layers, the president was free to lead further legislative negotiations.
So, what else did Obama accomplish with Congress during his first year? He enacted a bill in May 2009 that allowed bankruptcy judges to modify loans to help people keep their homes; he signed legislation in November to extend unemployment benefits and tax credits for first-time homebuyers; and he approved a $3 billion "cash for clunkers" program in June that provided tax incentives for drivers to buy more fuel-efficient cars.
Administratively, the Obama White House also had to manage the restructuring and bankruptcy processes for GM and Chrysler, although most of that work was wrapped up by July 2009. (We explored how those deals unfolded in a previous column.)
Obama said during his Univision interview that he was too consumed by economic problems to tackle other big issues. But he launched the effort to overhaul the nation's health-care system in March of that year, telling the audience at a White House forum that a plan was likely to be in place before Congress's summer recess. That was less than two months after taking office.(Reuters produced a handy timeline of how the health law came about).
For what it's worth, the president's first law, which he signed nine days after taking office, was the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which made it easier for women to sue employers over pay discrimination.
As for immigration, Obama called for comprehensive reform in June 2009. But the likelihood of any progress on that front was slim, with the president and lawmakers already haggling over big issues such as health care, financial regulation and energy policy.
A report from the New York Times noted that the Obama administration showed virtually no will to lead on the issue.
Here's what the Times said about the matter:
"Aides to Mr. Obama say he does not intend to get out in front of any proposal until there is a strong bipartisan commitment to pass it. That stance has the potential to paralyze the process, since lawmakers are looking to him to use his bully pulpit, and high approval ratings, to help them fend off any political backlash among their constituents."
The Times article noted that members of both parties at the time were leery of supporting an immigration overhaul with unemployment levels still high. It quoted Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) saying the government should enforce existing laws before considering changes, especially when "Congress is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to create new jobs, which should go to legal U.S. workers."
The takeaway here is that Obama showed little will to lead on this issue during his first year, and many members of his own party seemed uninterested in comprehensive changes at that time — not just Republicans.
Let's look at how Obama dealt with immigration after 2009, even though he promised to enact revisions during his first year.
The president mentioned immigration only once during his 2010 State of the Union Address, saying, "We should continue the work of fixing our broken immigration system — to secure our borders and enforce our laws, and ensure that everyone who plays by the rules can contribute to our economy and enrich our nation."
Again, Obama offered no specific policy proposals on what needed to be done to reach a compromise.
This is in stark contrast to Bush, who delivered a prime-time television address outlining a five-point plan for overhauling the nation's immigration laws in 2006. The former president talked in-depth about what he expected: A temporary worker program, criminal background checks for immigrants, biometric identification cards and requirements for a "pathway to citizenship" that would include paying taxes, learning English and proving several years of employment.
(UPDATE: A White House spokesman pointed out that the White House in May 2011 released a "Blueprint for Building a 21st Century Immigration System." This shows that Obama, like Bush, provided specific proposals for immigration reform, but it does not affect our Pinocchio rating below, because the blueprint came out during the president's third year in office, not his first.)
One year after Bush's address, the Senate filibustered the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, with 18 out of 46 Democrats voting against a cloture motion that would have pushed the bill to a vote.
Obama pressed for Congress to pass the DREAM Act before Republicans won the House majority during the 2010 midterm election. That bill would have made children of illegal immigrants — up to age 35 — eligible for residency so long as they are going to school or serving in the military and don't have criminal records.
According to a report in The Washington Post, Obama lobbied lawmakers to support the measure, but the Senate failed to produce the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.
In this case, four Democrats voted against cloture, helping to kill the measure. Once again, both parties were at fault for blocking changes to immigration law. In fact, five GOP lawmakers voted for cloture, which is more than the number of Democrats Obama failed to bring on board.
Meanwhile, Obama in 2010 enacted the health-care law, negotiated a bipartisan tax deal, gained approval for a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia and rallied enough support from members of both parties to repeal the "don't ask don't tell" policy that prevented openly gay citizens from serving in the military.
Obama asked again for a bipartisan agreement to overhaul immigration laws after 2010, but Republicans demanded stricter border enforcement first. The two sides never made a concerted effort to forge an agreement, even though immigrant activists had recommended to the president several Republicans whom they thought would work toward a deal with him.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) reached out to immigrant activists in April 2012 to begin crafting a bill similar to the DREAM Act, but Obama showed no interest in working with the Republicans on that. The president instead took unilateral action, using his executive authority to defer deportation proceedings for children of illegal immigrants so long as they meet certain requirements.
The Pinocchio Test
It's clear that the Obama administration had its hands full overseeing various stimulus and bailout programs during its first year, but most of the heavy lifting was done before the end of summer. And the president signed the most important piece of stimulus legislation of his term — the Recovery Act — a month after taking office. This left plenty of time to hammer out deals on non-economic issues.
Overall, it's an exaggeration for the president to suggest that he had no time to address immigration in 2009 — especially for someone who insisted that presidents have to deal with more than one thing at a time. He did, after all, set Congress on a path toward overhauling the health-care system that year, and he signed a law making it easier for women to sue employers over pay discrimination.
The fact that the president failed to lead on immigration or forge an agreement during his entire term shows that the issue ranked lower on his priority list than health care, the arms-reduction treaty, repealing "don't ask don't tell" and stopping pay discrimination toward women.
The president certainly faced opposition from Republicans and even members of his own party on this issue. But a guarantee is a guarantee, regardless of whether he miscalculated the will of Congress to compromise.
Obama failed to deliver on a promise, and he blamed Republicans instead of acknowledging any real responsibility for that failure. He earns two Pinocchios.
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Congratulations to Wellhouse Leisure, whose new Hyundai i800 motorhome, has just won Motorcaravan of the Year 2011, at the recent Stratford Motorhome Show.
Beating off stiff competition from other leading motorhome manufacturers, including VW and Fiat, the success of the Hyundai was attributed, in no small part, to its innovative, well equipped kitchen, which includes not just the usual sink and hob that you would expect to find on a vehicle of this size, but also an oven and grill. To accommodate the oven, Wellhouse needed to find a lower height fridge than the standard solutions available. Turning to Penguin Refrigeration for help, we suggested two 12 volt fridge options – the Vitrifrigo C47 or BRK35. Looking for maximum volume Wellhouse opted for the larger 47 litre C47, with its easy access pull out drawer and adapted their design to suit.
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Is it time to talk about rebuilding cities destroyed by the rains? – 01/14/2022
Home » News » Is it time to talk about rebuilding cities destroyed by the rains? – 01/14/2022
While the rain is falling, it may be too early to talk about reconstruction, but it is essential that we start designing strategies in the face of recent climate disasters. In recent weeks, several Brazilian cities were partially or totally destroyed by the rains, characterized by some experts as extreme events, given the atypical intensity and volume resulting from climate change. That is, from global warming that incurs changes in water volume, temperature, soil composition, etc.
Thousands of people saw their homes and belongings flowing through the waters of rivers that quadrupled in volume. In recent days, with the truce, a portion of affected residents have already returned to their homes.
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Amidst the devastation, the question that remains is: where to start over? A question that also needs to be answered by the public authorities, as the prevention of similar events in the future requires coordinated and direct action by municipal, state and Federal Government administrations.
In this sense, it is worth returning to a very recurring theme in this column, climate adaptation, which was, more precisely, the subject of the text "We need to prepare a transport system for extreme weather events", published in July 2021.
As I wrote on that occasion, adaptation actions aim to "reduce people's exposure and vulnerability to the inevitable effects of climate change", which requires the realization of evidence-based predictions, that is, concrete data on social impacts. , environmental and economic, for the purpose of making estimates and forecasts.
Citing a specific example, after the rains in southern Bahia, a bridge was completely swallowed by the Rio dos Frades, located in the municipality of Porto Seguro/BA, leaving countless villages completely isolated. The boat remained the only option for transporting people and goods, but as the days went by, the volume of the river was reduced and, little by little, sections of the road reappeared, making it possible for 4×4 cars, experienced motorcyclists and brave people to pass. foot.
Among the crossing options, certainly, the option for the boat continued as the alternative with less risk, guaranteeing the people of the region the return home and the transport of goods and everything else that is necessary to ensure the maintenance of life. The rumor circulates among residents that the city hall is already prepared to rebuild the road, now submerged, this time 1 meter higher so that the tragedy does not happen again.
The need to talk about the challenges in the Buffalo Valley comes from the demand to rebuild and restore the living conditions of the affected populations. However, without forgetting the urgency of adapting the infrastructure in order to make it more resilient to extreme weather events so that disasters of the same magnitude do not happen again, which probably requires more than increasing the height of the bridge.
In other countries that have gone through tragedies associated with floods, the approach was no different, since the application of intensive resources in the reconstruction of cities was not accompanied by the incorporation of climate adaptation measures.
However, in an emerging economy such as Brazil, or in a developing one, reducing the time between extreme weather events will make the task of reducing social distances even more difficult and challenging, given the disproportionality of the effects of natural disasters on the most vulnerable people, in mostly women, black, indigenous and impoverished people.
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Cole Pelacek, 14, and Tanner Brown and Travis Skinner, both 13, will represent southwestern Ontario in San Antonio, Texas, the heart of football country, by playing teams from both Texas and Oklahoma at a Football University (FBU) international event later this month.
After going through a summer tryout process that included stops in London and Burlington, the trio will fly out Dec. 27 for 10 days of both games and training with former pros.
"I'm hoping that we'll have pretty tough teams to play against, to test how good we are and prove to the Americans that Canadians play just as well," said Brown, a defensive back and along with Skinner, a London Junior Mustangs product.
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"It was actually a pretty cool experience to hear that I made it because I didn't think I would.
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There is a reason that small businesses stay small, and why some would-be larger businesses shrink.
They think that their business isn't a sales organization. The cardinal sin of most small businesses is that they believe that their business is not a sales organization. They believe their business is a design firm. They believe their business is an accounting firm. They believe their business is whatever they do to create value for customers. But because they do not put sales first, they never have enough customers.
They don't understand the principles of selling. When a small business owner finally understands that they are a sales organization first and foremost, they struggle because they do not understand the principles of selling. Most of the time, they treat every sale like a transaction. They don't understand the sales process, or funnels, or pipelines. They believe they need to present what they do and provide a quote, almost always by email. Because they do not understand sales, they struggle.
Eventually, they hire a salesperson.
They don't know how to hire and manage salespeople. The real problem with a small business hiring a salesperson is they have no idea how to hire or manage them. First, they believe that someone who has sales listed on their resume is qualified to sell. After all, they know more about sales than a business owner, right? Then, they get bamboozled by "salespeople" who collect the salary and produce no results. After going through this a couple times they believe there are no good salespeople available. So . . .
They stop hiring salespeople altogether. Because the small business owner doesn't know how to hire or manage salespeople, they give up. Well, first they hate salespeople. And then they give up. They try to do the selling themselves, or they let a good and loyal employee do the selling for them.
They don't spend the money to build their capacity for growth. When a small business owner is fortunate enough to figure out how to grow, they resist spending the money to scale and keep pace with what should be their real growth rate. Because they cut corners and fail to make investments, they never grow into what they might have been had they been a sales organization first.
The key to growth is, was, and always will be sales. Your company, regardless of what you do, is a sales organization. Embracing that is the first step on the path to growth.


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Prog 2083's (2018) time travel-themed Survival Geeks cover for the story Geek-Con (progs 2082–2086) written by Gordon Rennie and Emma Beeby, and drawn by Neil Googe with colours by Gary Caldwell v…
… containing no less than 48[1] external [non-2000 AD] references (not including the twelve monkeys) and taking two weeks of Mr. Googe's time to complete
We'll start with the main Survival Geeks' characters, indicated by numbered red dots, and from there work our way around in a roughly clockwise direction; Twelve Monkeys' Jeffrey Goines is indicated by a numbered magenta dot and eleven magenta circles for the monkeys (two monkeys are paired, and one is located extreme bottom left, almost out of frame); everyone else is numbered with maroon dots [blue hyperlinks notwithstanding – anyone not indicated, including the weird sheep-type thing and a couple of nicely designed alien cosplayers in the foreground, are red herrings]:
Cthulhu Howard
Geek-Con Rufus cosplayers
Geek-Con Clive cosplayer
Barillion sphere planet alien from Galaxy Quest (DreamWorks Pictures, 1999)
Tyrell Corp. uniform from Blade Runner (Warner Bros., 1982)[2]
Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) from series four and five (2010–2013) of the current run of Doctor Who (BBC Cymru Wales, 2005– )
Phil (Bill Murray) with The Groundhog [or "Punxsutawney Phil"] (played by Scooter) from Groundhog Day (Columbia Pictures, 1993)
Kyle Broflovski (voiced by Matt Stone), Stan Marsh (voiced by Trey Parker) and Eric Cartman (voiced by Brandon Hardesty) from South Park [UK site link] (Viacom Media Networks/Debmar-Mercury/20th Television, 1997– )
Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) from the Star Trek episode Mirror, Mirror (CBS Television Distribution, 1970)
Spock (Leonard Nimoy (1931–2015)) from the Star Trek episode Mirror, Mirror
Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) from the Star Trek episode Mirror, Mirror
Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) from Back to the Future (Universal Pictures, 1985)
Marvin [the paranoid android] (Warwick Davis, voiced by Alan Rickman (1946–2016)) from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Buena Vista Pictures, 2005)
Frank [a "pooka," by the way] (James Duval) and Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) from Donnie Darko (Pandora Cinema/Newmarket Films, 2001)
Marvin [the paranoid android] (Stephen Moore, voiced by David Learner) from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, TV mini-series (BBC Two, 1981)
Rick and Morty[3] (Cartoon Network/Warner Bros. Television, 2013– )
Booster Gold (DC Comics)
Austin Powers (Mike Myers) from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (New Line Cinema, 1997)
Samurai Jack (voiced by Phil LaMarr) (Warner Bros. Television, 2001–2017)
Kamelion (voiced by Gerald Flood (1927–1989)), Doctor Who companion
Philip J. Fry (voiced by Billy West) from Futurama (20th Television, 1999–2013) [Bender (voiced by John DiMaggio) appears in the story in prog 2082]
Turanga Leela (voiced by Katey Sagal) from Futurama
K9 [or K-9], Doctor Who companion cosplayer
Doctor Who cosplayer (based on Tom Baker's fourth Doctor, 1974–1981)
William "Bill" S. Preston Esq. (Alex Winter) from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (Orion Pictures/De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1989) [Grim Reaper (William Sadler) from Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (Orion Pictures, 1991) appears in the story in prog 2082]
Theodore "Ted" Logan (Keanu Reeves) from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
David Freeman (Joey Cramer) with "Puckmaren" alien from Flight of the Navigator (Buena Vista Pictures, 1986)
Spock from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Paramount Pictures, 1986)
Lt. Sulu (George Takei) from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Timecop (Universal Pictures, 1994) TEC (Time Enforcement Commission) uniform
Soviet Superman [or "Supermanski"] from Mark Millar's non-canonical Superman: Red Son (Elseworlds, 2003)
Mike Wazowski (voiced by Billy Crystal) and James P. "Sulley" Sullivan (voiced by John Goodman) from Monsters, Inc., (Pixar Animation Studios, 2001)
Aaron (Shane Carruth) and Abe (David Sullivan) from Primer (THINKFilm/IFC Films, 2004)
Makoto Konno (voiced by Riisa Naka [Japanese], Emily Hirst [English]) from The Girl Who Leapt Through Time [時をかける少女 Toki o kakeru shōjo] (Kadokawa Shoten, 2006)
Gabe Law/Gabriel Yulaw/Lawless (Jet Li) from The One (Columbia Pictures, 2001)
Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt) from Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys (Universal Pictures, 1995) [and twelve monkeys (circled)]
Ashley J. "Ash" Williams (Bruce Campbell) from Ash vs Evil Dead (Starz, 2015–2018), The Evil Dead franchise
"Real life" Men in Black (Columbia Pictures, 1997) [image based on CCTV footage], conspiracy theory
Lola (Franka Potente) from Lola rennt [English: Run Lola Run] (Prokino Filmverleih, 1998)
Edge of Tomorrow (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2014) United Defence Force recruitment poster
"Titor Time", referring to supposed US military time traveller from the year 2036, John Titor, a hoax perpetrated in 2000–2001 by computer scientist John Rick Haber[4]
"Visit Taured," a non-existent country where Andorra is located[5]
Geek-Con characters
The Time Tunnel (ABC, 1966–1967) Tic-Toc agency recruitment poster
Steven, Geek-Con character
Indred [sic] Cold (aka. The Grinning Man [voiced by Mark Pellington in The Mothman Prophesies (Screen Gems, 2002)]), along with Demo Hassan and Karl Ardo, originally from Visitors from Space: The Astonishing True Story of the Mothman Prophecies (Panther Books Ltd., 1975) by parapsychologist and Fortean author John Keel (1930–2009)[6]
Jase Darkmater, Geek-Con character
Diana (Jane Badler) from V (NBC, 1984–1985) and the reimagined V (ABC, 2009–2011) mini-series
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, alien conspiracist
Geek-Con character
Admiral Al Calavicci (Dean Stockwell) from Quantum Leap (NBC, 1989–1993)
Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits (AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1981)
Polly, a 2.75 m (9 ft) tall, "Blue Avian" extraterrestrial from the "blue sphere" – she wants our seed, apparently – conspiracy theory
Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil again
Fifty Shades of Grey (Vintage Books, 2011) by E.L. James, combined with Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) (Universal Pictures, 2011)
Inspector Qui (Geek-Con character), inspired by comedian/musician Bill Bailey's Doctor Who parody "Doctor Qui" from his live show, Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra (2008–2009) at the Royal Albert Hall
Countess Eternity, Geek-Con character
Kevin (left) and [legs of] Overlord (right), Kevin's alter-ego
Also referenced in Geek-Con, Doctor Who companions/associates (left to right) Leela (Louise Jameson), Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney (1929–2011)) and Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding)
Pikachu [ピカチュウ – a species of Pokémon™ ポケモン (Nintendo Co., Ltd.)] cosplayer
Sam sports a Doctor Poo [featured in HoH No. 176 – Klegg-Hai!] t-shirt
And there may well have been more, but copyright issues became a concern when it came to the branding of the Geeks' t-shirts on the cover, which were ultimately left blank – which also accounts for the distinct absence of Boba Fetts and bikini-clad Princess Leias usually to be seen at such events
The Tyrell Corp. logo appears for only a few seconds in the film, emblazoned on Dr. Eldon Tyrell's (Joe Turkel) dressing gown
The characters Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith are based on Dr. Emmett Brown and Marty McFly from Back to the Future, hence the bemused looks
Who was John Titor, the 'time traveller' who came from 2036 to warn us of a nuclear war? The Telegraph, 21 October 2015
Based on unverified accounts of a well-dressed, bearded man arriving at Haneda Airport, Tokyo, in 1954, claiming citizenship of a country named "Taured", and who supposedly vanished while under guard by Japanese immigration officials in an airport hotel, along with his Tauredian passport (containing multiple, official immigration stamps) and Tauredian driver's licence, both of which disappeared from a security locker in Haneda Airport at the same time
The song titles Your Heart is Like a Broken Bridge and My Love is Like a River Full of Presents appearing on the poster refer to the collapse on 15 December, 1967, of the Silver Bridge connecting Point Pleasant, West Virginia, to Gallapolis, Ohio, killing 46 people and linked in popular culture to sightings of the supernatural Mothman; and the allegedly shared, prescient dreams of local residents of Christmas presents floating down the Ohio River. The bridge collapsed due to a cracked eyebar in a suspension chain link (initially a defect of 2.5 mm (0.1") aggravated by poor maintenance and overloading
Sincere thanks to Neil Googe for his cordial and patient assistance on this entry – visit his website, while we here at HoH contemplate early retirement
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The Apple Inc. logo is seen in the lobby of New York City's flagship Apple store in this January 18, 2011 file photo. (MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS)
By Hayley Tsukayama
Hayley Tsukayama
Reporter covering consumer technology
Apple has reached an iTunes milestone, announcing that the company's iTunes U courses have topped a billion downloads.
The company announced the news Thursday, saying that more than 250,000 students are enrolled in the free educational courses. Over 1,200 universities and colleges — and the same number of K-12 schools and districts — contribute more than 2,500 courses on a variety of topics through the service. These include classes from universities such as Yale, Cambridge, Oxford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Stanford University alone, the company said, has seen more than 60 million downloads.
The company first introduced iTunes U in 2007, and introduced an iPad and iPhone application for the service last January that allowed teachers to create syllabi, post lecture notes and share videos with their students.
Since the service's launch, it has become a truly international affair — something Apple says has spread the reach and influence of participating universities far beyond the borders of their own countries. In the release, Apple said that more than 60 percent of the downloads originate from outside the United States. People in more than 155 countries, including Brazil, South Korea and China, have access to the course content.
Apple is one of several organizations that have been fueling the growth of online classes, along with other notable initiatives such as the Khan Academy, which The Washington Post reported serves more than 239 million students.
The company announced this year that app downloads from its iTunes store as a whole topped 40 billion.
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Obama's One Last Chance to Tackle Dark Money Spending
Posted on December 11, 2015 at 9:59 am
By Justin Miller | Dec 11, 2015
Progressives who have been pressuring President Barack Obama to sign an executive order that would require federal contractors to more fully disclose their political spending got fresh ammunition this week with the release of a scathing report faulting the president's campaign finance "legacy of inaction."
President Obama has talked a big game on campaign-finance reform, says the report released by Rootstrikers, a grassroots anti-corruption group, but he has failed to follow through.
Obama promised to push public campaign financing through Congress, as well as participate in and fix the ailing presidential election funding system. He's repeatedly bemoaned the impact of the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling and the subsequent flood of "dark" money into the political process. And, in the face of a recalcitrant Congress, the report says that he's repeatedly shied away from using his executive power to pass reform.
Now Obama has one last chance to match rhetoric with action. Activists have pressed on multiple fronts for the Obama administration to pull back the curtain on the billions of dollars in undisclosed "dark" money spent on elections. They've called for stepped up enforcement and regulations at the Federal Election Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Internal Revenue Service.
Most recently, progressives have launched a full-court press to get Obama to sign an executive order that would require federal contactors, at least, to fully disclose their political spending, including the money they donate to politically active trade associations and "social welfare" organizations. They argue that as levels of political money soar higher and higher, such an order would at least shine a light on the spending of at least 70 percent of Fortune 100 companies.
"President Obama said in his State of the Union that a better politics means spending 'less time drowning in dark money ... that pull[s] us into the gutter,'" Common Cause President Miles Rapoport said in a statement back in March. "The public interest demands we curb the culture of pay-to-play that infects Washington—but first we have to know who is beholden to whom. That's why it's important that the president use his authority to help build a 'better politics' and sign this executive order."
For advocates behind that campaign, the Rootstrikers report comes just in time.
"President Obama has no one to blame but himself for his failing legacy on money in politics," Kurt Walters, Rootstrikers campaign manager, said in a statement. "It's cynical even by Washington standards—Obama has said for six years that he's outraged at Citizens United but hasn't bothered to do anything to combat the decision's effects. We need action, not empty rhetoric."
The report calls on the president to take action by his final State of the Union address in January, which some have identified as the latest point that executive action could realistically expose dark money spending in the 2016 elections.
Reform advocates are paying close attention to negotiations over the federal spending bill, which among other campaign-finance riders that would curb the president's ability to increase disclosure through executive action. How the White House treats these rider threats will likely signal whether or not the administration plans to act on any part of the disclosure agenda.
"It's fanciful to think the president is sitting uninvolved and then a bill just arrives on his desk," said Walters in an interview. "If it gets to his desk with one or more [campaign-finance riders] on it, it will be because the administration allowed it to be such a low priority that they were willing for it to come on his desk."
In December of 2014, Obama failed to veto the so-called Cromnibus spending bill, which included a rules change that dramatically increased spending limits to the political parties for special accounts that pay for conventions, recounts, and buildings.
Rootstrikers has circulated a petition demanding executive action on disclosure that has already gained 100,000 signatures. That's the threshold that, according to a White House policy enacted in 2011, requires an official response from the administration.
Progressive organizers, which include such Obama allies as Credo and Demand Progress, say they haven't given up. They point to past successes with similar public pressure campaigns on such issues as Internet neutrality and the Keystone XL pipeline, which they say helped force the White House's hand.
"I think you've seen it in a lot of areas, where there's a lot of hard-edged pressure and a month or two later he'll take action," Walters says.
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Baptiste Dupuis (Penmarch,  - Mort pour la France à Rufisque le 24 septembre 1940), est un militaire français, Compagnon de la Libération à titre posthume par décret du 1 Février 1941. Marin-pêcheur breton ayant rallié la France libre après l'armistice du 22 juin 1940, il meurt lors de la bataille de Dakar.

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Jeunesse et engagement

Baptiste Dupuis naît le  juillet 1909 à Penmarch, dans le Finistère, d'un père marin-pêcheur qui meurt dans un naufrage en 1923. Suivant les traces paternelles, il devient à son tour marin-pêcheur dans son village natal où il se marie en 1931.

Seconde Guerre mondiale

Au début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il est mobilisé avec le grade de second maître et participe à la bataille de France. Lors de l'avancée des troupes allemandes, son unité se replie vers Dunkerque avant de déposer les armes et il regagne la Bretagne par ses propres moyens. Ayant pris connaissance de l'appel du général de Gaulle, il embarque dans la nuit du 23 au 24 juin 1940 dans le port de Kérity avec sept camarades de son village avec lesquels il traverse la Manche.

Parvenu en Angleterre, il s'engage dans les forces navales françaises libres et est affecté comme quartier-maître sur l'Aviso Commandant Duboc. Le 23 septembre 1940, il est engagé dans la bataille de Dakar. Alors que son navire se trouve au large de Rufisque, il est grièvement blessé par un obus tiré depuis la côte par les troupes du régime de Vichy. Gilbert Dupuis meurt de ses blessures le lendemain et son corps est immergé au large des côtes du Sénégal.

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Hommages

 À Penmarch, une voie de la commune a été baptisée en son honneur.

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Naissance en juillet 1909
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She holds a Master of Arts Degree in Linguistics from University of Nairobi (UoN), a Higher Diploma in Human Resource Management from Kenya Polytechnic University College, a Bachelors of Arts Degree Education in Linguistics and Literature from the University of Nairobi and Primary Teacher Education (PTE) Certificate from Machakos Teachers' Training College.


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Amy &....is a new series where our Creative Director Amy Powney sits down with some of the women who inspire her. In our second instalment, Amy speaks to Lyn Slater, better known as @AccidentalIcon In her own words, Lyn started a blog, Accidental Icon, because she was having trouble finding a fashion blog or magazine that offered an urban, modern, intellectual aesthetic, but also spoke to women who live 'interesting but ordinary lives'. Women who are not famous, but are smart, creative, fashion forward, thoughtful, engaged, and most importantly clear and comfortable with who they are. A woman after my own heart. Accidentally or not, Lyn has become a global style icon and a beacon for showcasing the power of fashion to not only discuss clothes, but politics, society, environmental and social issues, and at the same time helped to shatter age biases in the fashion industry. I was due to meet Lyn in New York last year, but in my third trimester was delayed waddling around the city, so this conversation is the next best thing. Lyn is one of my all time favourite women in fashion that I have admired from afar, I have said to my friend before that 'I want to be like Lyn when I grow up', but the truth is I want to be like Lyn now. One day when this pandemic is over, I look forward to meeting her in person, until then I will swoon over her across the globe. Enjoy! Love, Amy x
"guess I don't see myself as having a traditional fashion career but see myself as someone who used fashion as a lens to think and talk about the bigger issues in the world"
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MISSION STATEMENT Chicago Blackhawks Special Hockey (CBSH) is dedicated to providing children and adults with developmental disabilities the opportunity to play hockey. CBSH team members range in age from 5 to 55, and include both male and female athletes. The team is comprised of players that have Autism, Down syndrome or other intellectual disabilities. CBSH strive to promote and emphasize the development of sportsmanship, team spirit, increased confidence, pride, and team unity while having a great time in the process.
Donations taken at door, all proceeds benefit CBSH trip to NHL Center Tournament.
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On Tuesday, August 21, Blackhawks Special Hockey will host an afternoon of street hockey as an informational platform in the Chicago Blackhawks Inflatable from 3:00-4:30 p.m. Dedicated to providing children and adults with developmental disabilities the opportunity to play hockey, Blackhawks Special Hockey encourages all interested parties – both participants and parents – to attend what will be a fun-filled day of street hockey. Volunteer staff and coaches representing the organization will be on-site to provide information and answer questions about one of Chicagoland's premier special hockey programs.
Those in attendance will also have the opportunity to see the various community spaces at MB Ice Arena, which is not only the practice home for the Chicago Blackhawks, but a critical space that offers educational programming, beginner hockey classes, youth and adult hockey leagues, and public skate. The new 125,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art facility houses two regulation- sized NHL rinks as well as multipurpose rooms, food and beverage options, and a fitness center.
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To provide training in clinical research in resource-challenged low-middle income countries (LMICs), for fellows who seek a career in global health research, epidemiology, or international health policy at an academic medical center or governmental or non-governmental agency.
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Q: AS3 XML and Line Spacing Problem Background: I'm building this photo gallery in AS3, when user clicks a thumbnail is displays text gathered from an XML file.
Problem Description: Everything runs wonderful on my local machine, but when I upload the files to the server and preview the site from the server, the line spacing on the description text is way different than when I preview the site local.
Below see two images so you can see the difference
Correct one (Preview from Local Machine)
correct Spacing http://www.olemedia.net/lineSpacing1.jpg
Incorrect One (From the Browser)
incorrect Spacing http://www.olemedia.net/lineSpacing2.jpg
Solution: Any suggestions?

A: It is indeed a line break issue that depends on what platform you're on, or rather. how the xml document was saved. Line breaks on windows are \r\n (Carriage Return + Line Feed). if I recall correctly. Flash player interprets both as a newline. I usually do something like this:
var text:String = xml.whatever.text().split("\r").join("");

That will get rid of all the \r's (if they're there) and leave only \n's.

A: Your images don't show up (I think there's a minimum reputation required to post images), but based on the description I'm going to guess that your local machine is windows and the server is unix. It's probably a problem with line-endings being \r\n instead of \n, most editors can do this conversion for you, or there are various tools to convert.
If this isn't right, link to the images so that we can see what's happening.

A: I found the solution. Is a bug with Flash CS4 (mac and windows).
I place my flash file to a Linux server and also to a windows server. Definitely windows server was the problem. I'm not sure why but it is. I'm working from mac, and possibly this effect also on the type of server you publish you swf files.
Thanks everybody, much appreciate your time and dedication.

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