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Meet Our Candidates: Barbara LaWall for Pima County Attorney
Posted on July 27, 2016 by Anna C.
The Arizona primary election will be held on August 30, 2016. Reproductive health care access has been under attack, both nationally and statewide, but Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona has endorsed candidates who have shown strong commitment to reproductive justice. To acquaint you with our endorsed candidates, we are running a series called "Meet Our Candidates." In order to vote in the primary election, you must register to vote by August 1 — and can even register online. Make your voice heard in 2016!
[I]ncumbent Barbara LaWall is running for reelection to continue serving as Pima County Attorney — a position she has held for five terms since first being elected in 1996. She was the first woman to hold that office, and she has used her position to bring her vision for the Pima County Attorney's Office to life. Earlier this year, in a television interview with Jim Nintzel, she said that when her predecessor retired, she ran to fill his seat so she could "engage the community and forge relationships with neighborhoods and schools and businesses." This kind of community outreach could allow the prosecutor's office to give children the resources they needed to make good life decisions, steering potential criminals down a more productive path. Just as preventive health care saves money and anguish down the road, so too do programs designed to prevent crime from flourishing.
"The primary element of human liberty is the freedom to control our own bodies, and a major aspect of that is the freedom to make our own medical decisions."
Despite the improvements that have been implemented over the past two decades, Ms. LaWall says she's not ready to retire. As she told Nintzel, "I am still very much engaged in this office. It is my calling and my passion … I have a few more ideas that I'd like to bring to the office, and I'm ready to keep on going." In the below interview, she elaborates on some of the positive changes she has made as Pima County Attorney, as well as some of the ideas she plans to enact during her next term.
Her work as Pima County's top prosecutor was recognized earlier this year, when the Arizona Women Lawyers Association presented her with the 2016 Sarah Herring Sorin Award — an award that was named in honor of Arizona's first female attorney, and that was given to Ms. LaWall "in recognition of her long-time support and encouragement for the advancement of women in the legal profession."
Ms. LaWall's candidacy is endorsed by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, and on July 24, she kindly took the time to answer our questions about her record as Pima County attorney and her campaign for reelection.
Tell us a little about your background.
I grew up in Tucson. My grandparents on both sides were immigrants who came to this country to find the American dream. My parents were first generation Americans and the first in their families to graduate from high school. My dad was an auto parts salesman and my mom worked as a secretary on the airbase. My sister and I were the first generation to attend college.
I have been a public servant my entire life. My first career was as a public school teacher teaching high school English at TUSD high schools for several years. I left teaching and went to law school, believing a law degree would help me make a more profound difference in educational policy than just being a classroom teacher. I wanted to do a lot more to help youth in our community.
While I was in law school, my marriage dissolved and I found myself as a single mom struggling to get through law school and raise my daughter. I needed a job and took a position as a law clerk in the county attorney's office. That job changed my life.
During law school, I participated in an internship program where third year law students are appointed to represent the State in Justice Court. I discovered that being a prosecutor was my calling and my passion.
After graduation and passing the Arizona Bar, I became a deputy county attorney and worked my way up through the office. I started as a line prosecutor and became a supervisor of various felony trial teams. I was promoted to manage the Criminal Division and the entire criminal prosecution function of the office as chief criminal deputy. Then I learned about budget, personnel, and administration as chief deputy of the office.
I have prosecuted every type of crime imaginable, from DUI to domestic violence, child abuse and molestation, burglary, robbery, assault, kidnapping, drive-by shooting, narcotics trafficking, sexual assault, and homicide. I have prosecuted thousands of cases and have tried more than 100 jury trials.
As a supervisor and chief criminal deputy, I was responsible for training and mentoring other prosecutors, for evaluating and making tough decisions about charging, declining, proceeding or dismissing prosecutions and whether to offer pleas or take cases to trial. As chief deputy, I was responsible for the overall administration of the office, including personnel matters and the office budget. After 20 years of working my way through the office, in 1996, I ran for office and was elected Pima County Attorney.
I have spent my entire legal career doing justice and protecting the public safety of this community by prosecuting the offenders who threaten and endanger us all. My policy has been to see that violent, dangerous, and seriously repetitive felony offenders wind up behind bars.
When I first became a prosecutor, victims had no rights. They had no right to be heard at sentencing or at hearings, no right to be present in the courtroom, and, in fact, they were excluded from the courtroom. They had no right to participate in the criminal justice process. They had no rights whatsoever. I have always been a fierce and passionate advocate for victims of crime, and am really proud of my participation at the very beginning in the successful fight for victims' rights in Arizona.
As a prosecutor, and as a person, I have been forever altered and changed by the work I do, particularly by the thousands of victims I have met and served and on whose behalf I have relentlessly worked.
Serving victims of crime and being in a position to help them, to truly help, is a tremendous honor. Victims of crime have had their lives unalterably shattered and immutably changed by being victimized, and I am proud I get to fight on their behalf to see they get the justice they deserve.
I continue to advocate on their behalf and devote my office resources to ensuring that victims of crime are well served throughout the criminal justice process. I have created and implemented special programs in my office to assist and support crime victims at every level of the justice system, including misdemeanor, juvenile, and felony crime victims. I am very proud of the progress my office has made protecting victims of crime.
Because of my leadership, the Southern Arizona Children's Advocacy Center for child victims of abuse and molestation was developed. I created the Tucson SafeBaby and Amber Alert programs, which later became state law. I established the Kids-In-Court and Courthouse Dogs programs. Through the Lock Up Your Gun and Communities Addressing Responsible Gun Ownership (CARGO) programs more than 78,000 free gunlocks have been distributed to firearm owners with children at home.
In the last two decades as the Pima County Attorney, I have implemented numerous special criminal justice and community programs that never existed before in the office.
Several of these programs are designed to help and assist individuals who commit crimes due to drug addiction and mental illness. I established the first Pima County Drug Court, and special diversion programs for adults, and created 18 unique neighborhood restorative justice Community Justice Boards for juveniles to help them avoid prosecution.
Six years ago, I developed a Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison program that provides residential treatment instead of prison to addicted prison-bound defendants. It has demonstrated a tremendous cost-savings (far less than half the cost of prison) and maintains a continuous success rate of 70 percent.
I recently obtained additional grants that expanded the Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison Program — doubling its size — and provided expanded services to defendants in felony Drug Court and felony Mental Health Court.
Also, I recently obtained a planning grant to develop a collaborative misdemeanor problem-solving court to assist individuals who commit misdemeanor crimes due to addiction or mental illness or both.
I am also an active participant with the core planning group that obtained a grant from the MacArthur Foundation to reduce the Pima County Jail population and eliminate racial disparities.
I am proud of my leadership with all of these initiatives and my proven ability to collaborate and coordinate with community-based agencies as well as other agencies within the criminal justice system.
I have stood up for Planned Parenthood both personally and professionally in my position as County Attorney.
When the Pima County Board of Supervisors has been challenged repeatedly with regards to its allocation of funding to Planned Parenthood, my office provided the civil legal advice and representation to support the Board's contributions to the fullest extent permitted by law.
When Planned Parenthood filed suit challenging the state's ability to enforce a law that would have restricted abortion rights, I stood with Planned Parenthood — in contrast to the Arizona Attorney General's Office and the other county attorney's offices — and filed my own brief in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals publicly siding with the respondent abortion providers who challenged the constitutionality of the 20-week fetal pain ban. I took the position that the law was unconstitutional and should not be enforced, and was pleased when the position I took alongside Planned Parenthood was upheld by the court.
Since 2010, Arizona has spent more than $1 million defending unconstitutional abortion restrictions that have been blocked from taking effect. Most recently, the Legislature passed HB 2599, which lays the groundwork to kick Planned Parenthood out of AHCCCS, our state Medicaid program. If that happened, AHCCCS patients couldn't choose Planned Parenthood for their preventive health care and birth control needs. In 2013 a similar bill has been overturned. What do you think about the resources that Arizona has spent defending these laws?
I am dismayed by the resources Arizona has ill-advisedly spent attempting to defend unconstitutional restrictions on abortions that have been approved by our state Legislature and signed into law by our governor.
As noted above, I am proud to have taken an official position in my capacity as Pima County Attorney in which I stood with Planned Parenthood and successfully challenged such unconstitutional legislation.
I am proud of my proven track record of successfully defending in the courts a woman's constitutional right to choose.
Recently, Tucson Unified School District voted to include comprehensive sex education in their classrooms, but progress has been slow. Could we tap into Pima County public health funding to work within existing statewide law to improve sexuality education for our students?
As a former teacher and as a mother of a daughter who graduated from local public schools, I am a very strong advocate for comprehensive sex education in our public schools. I applaud Planned Parenthood's support for this type of education. Moreover, I applaud Planned Parenthood's efforts to facilitate funding for comprehensive sex education in our schools.
However, as Pima County's attorney and the County Health Department's civil legal advisor and representative, I am ethically prohibited from publicly advocating for any position the County or the County Health Department should take or how they should allocate their funding.
Accordingly, I am not at liberty to respond directly to this question insofar as it relates to exploring this particular funding mechanism.
Conflicts of interest arise on a fairly regular basis in the County Attorney's Office because of Arizona's structure in which our prosecutor's office also serves as the civil attorney and legal advisor to the county government.
One of the complexities of my job is ensuring that my Office and I do not run afoul of the ethical rules adopted by the Arizona Supreme Court pertaining to how we are required to deal with these conflicts of interest.
On your website, you speak of the privilege of fighting for justice for victims of sexual assault. What progress has your office made in the handling of sexual assault cases, and are there any other changes you'd like to make?
One of the most important elements of progress my office has made in the handling of sexual assault cases is the successful lobbying I did, along with my office, to establish constitutional and statutory rights for victims in Arizona.
These rights ensure that victims of sexual assault are entitled to be informed about, to observe, and to participate in all court proceedings from initial appearance, to arraignment, to pretrial conferences, to trial, and beyond.
They have the right to provide input to the court with regards to whether the perpetrator will be released from jail pending trial, and the right to express how they have been impacted by the crime and can give their input at sentencing. They also have the constitutional right to refuse an interview.
Another of the most important elements of progress my office has made in the handling of sexual assault cases is the work I did in collaboration with others to envision, design, develop, and implement the Southern Arizona Children's Advocacy Center (SACAC), which serves as a one-stop service center for child victims of sexual assault.
I am tremendously proud to have been the driving force behind the vision, funding, construction, and deployment of the SACAC. The SACAC is a child-friendly environment in which the forensic interviewer can conduct interviews of the victim with the prosecutor, the police and CPS social worker listening from the next room so that the victim does not have to be interviewed more than once.
One of two specially trained courthouse dogs is available to sit with and to comfort the victim while she or he explains the details of the horrible abuse. Child-sized examination tables and equipment, including a colposcope purchased with funds donated by my office and law enforcement, in rooms with child-friendly décor, are used by specially trained forensic nurses to conduct physical examinations and to collect physical evidence.
And stuffed animals and backpacks filled with supplies are available to children who wait in comfortable rooms with age-appropriate books, toys, and TV shows, with cozy furniture, while social workers determine where they will be taken for temporary custody.
Yet another element of progress my office has made in the handling of sexual assault cases is to establish a specialized prosecution Special Victims Unit (SVU) that handles sexual assault cases against women, children, and men who have been victimized.
My SVU prosecutors are specially trained to handle these cases, which are among the most complex and difficult to prosecute. The SVU prosecutors work tremendously well with our victims, alongside specially trained victim advocates who are there from the crime scene to the courtroom, literally holding the hands of victims, providing them with tissues and water as needed, and being a constant support.
We regularly target violent, dangerous, and predatory sex offenders for trial in order to obtain the full range of prison sentences possible. [For example], Caleb Soto Diaz, the Santa Cruz River rapist, sentenced to 45 years in DOC for his violent attack and rape of a female runner; Bryan Scott Graff sentenced to 84 years in prison for kidnapping and a violent sexual assault; Juan Salas-Perez sentenced to three life sentences for repeatedly sexually assaulting a victim between the time he was 8 and 10 years old; Gilbert Lopez Fimbres sentenced to 117 years in prison for the continuous sexual abuse of his 6-year-old granddaughter.
Additionally, I have specially trained detectives who work to track down witnesses to ensure that we can hold predatory offenders accountable at trial. My office works closely with and supports the Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault, and we have an excellent working relationship with the forensic sexual assault nurse examiners (SANE) who conduct forensic sexual assault examinations and testify at trials.
Also, my office provides highly specialized training to law enforcement officers on matters relating to prosecuting and proving sexual assault cases, particularly the most difficult cases in which there is little corroborating evidence beyond the victim's testimony.
Moreover, my office led the development of a specialized, formal multi-agency sex assault protocol for the handling of sexual assault cases in Pima County. (A copy of that protocol can be found on my office website.)
A sub-specialty in my Special Victims Unit is sex trafficking. I have prosecutors specially trained in handling these cases. I am proud to have hosted a three-day law enforcement training on sex trafficking for officers from across the state of Arizona, teaching them how to spot the signs an individual may be a victim of sex trafficking and what evidence could be used to prove charges against the perpetrator(s).
My office partners with the U.S. Attorney's Tucson office prosecutors, as well as with federal, state, and local law enforcement officers on a Human Trafficking Task Force. I have provided public education forums on how to spot victims of sex trafficking and have facilitated the development of shelter that provides housing for victims of sex trafficking in Pima County.
One of the changes I intend to make in my next term as County Attorney is to increase my office's leadership in connection with the interdiction of sex trafficking and the provision of services to sex trafficking victims.
Last year, my office prosecuted almost two dozen sex trafficking related cases. This is a serious problem in our community, and I am committed to obtaining the financial and human resources necessary to address it more comprehensively.
Why do you think it's important that people make their own health care decisions?
Accessible and affordable comprehensive health care is absolutely a basic human right that must be made available to all. Respect for personal autonomy requires that each person is entitled to make his/her own health care decisions and have those health care decisions respected and implemented, and not interfered with by the government.
Our democratic nation was founded upon the concept of individual liberty. Our Declaration of Independence states that it is a self-evident truth that we are endowed with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Our federal and state Constitutions ensure that each of these rights is protected against governmental interference.
The primary element of human liberty is the freedom to control our own bodies, and a major aspect of that is the freedom to make our own medical decisions, including especially those relating to our own personal reproductive health.
A woman's personal health care, including the right to choose an abortion, should be between her and her doctor, and the government should not interfere. Women's reproductive freedom must be protected. It is a sacred obligation of our government to protect and defend this critical and important liberty interest.
Why was it important for you to be endorsed by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona?
I am proud that I have repeatedly been endorsed by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona. It has always been important to me to receive support and recognition for my legal, moral, and financial support of a woman's right to make her own health care decisions and to ensure that those decisions are respected and implemented.
As a woman, as a mother, as a former teacher, and as a prosecutor who serves crime victims, I am well aware of the negative impacts women and girls face when they are denied the freedom of bodily integrity — whether that denial is imposed by the government or by an individual abuser.
I am proud to be a solid 100 percent pro-choice Democratic elected official. I have always been firm and consistent in my support for accessible reproductive health care and choices, including abortion. On the personal level, as a married college undergraduate without health insurance, I was truly fortunate to be able to access the health care services of Planned Parenthood of Tucson and receive affordable exams and birth control, which allowed me to plan my family and complete my education without an unplanned pregnancy.
I have dedicated my entire professional life to supporting the autonomy and freedom of women and girls, indeed all people (including those in the LGBTQ community) to make the decisions about their own bodies and their own health care and to be treated fairly, justly, and equally under the law.
Because the mission of Planned Parenthood aligns directly with my own personal mission in this regard, and because I have always stood with Planned Parenthood, I am proud to have Planned Parenthood's ongoing and continuing endorsement.
To learn more about Barbara LaWall, you can visit her website and like her on Facebook! You can also check out the official website of the Pima County Attorney's Office.
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For the fourth time in our nation's history, and the second time in the past 20 years, the candidate who got the most votes lost the election for president.
That's because — as we learned in 2000, if not in civics class — individual voters don't pick the president. Under the Constitution, the Electoral College does.
The Electoral College has no caps and gowns, diplomas or basketball team. Each state gets a number of "electors," equal to the number of members it has in Congress.
On Nov. 8, we cast ballots not for Hillary Clinton, Gary Johnson or Donald Trump, but for a slate of electors pledged to support them.
Every four years, the state's electors meet, usually in their respective capitols, and cast ballots for president and vice president. Their ballots will be sent to Washington where, under the 12th Amendment, Vice President Joe Biden will count them in front of the entire Congress.
Thus, Mrs. Clinton received 700,000 more votes in 2016, out of more than 120 million cast. (Some surveys project that margin might widen to 2 million after final results are certified.)
Trump, however, carried more states and picked up support across a wider swath of the country, picking up a decisive 58-point lead in electoral votes.
Some of the original arguments for the Electoral College have vanished with time.
In 1787, overland travel was arduous, and it took days for news to pass from one side of the country to another. Newspapers were few and not widely circulated. Some founders apparently worried that each state would back its own favorite son for president, furthering national division and leading to domination by the biggest states.
People across the political spectrum will argue that the Electoral College still works well. Candidates, they argue, have to pay attention to all the states. (Mrs. Clinton might now wish she'd spent more time in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio.) Without the college, they argue, campaigns would focus on a few media centers, bombarding the airwaves and the cloud with even more attack ads.
Maybe so, but the fact remains: The majority, in this case, did not rule.
Of course, we won't be ditching the Electoral College any time soon. Amending the Constitution requires a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress and approval by three-fourths of the states. Republicans — who benefited from the college in 2000 and again this year — are unlikely to jettison it.
Ten states and the District of Columbia, however, have joined a compact agreeing that their electoral votes will go to the top vote-getter nationwide, regardless of their own results. This compact only takes effect when enough states sign on to equal 270 electoral votes, the winning margin in the Electoral College.
So far, only "blue" states have signed on, but North Carolina might want to join them.
After all, don't we like majority rule?
A version of this editorial appeared in the Wednesday, Nov. 16 edition of The Wilmington Star-News, a Gatehouse Media newspaper.


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SECTION I – PART 1 THE ORIGINS & HISTORY OF ASHKENAZIC JEWRY
UNIT 1 – HOW THE JEWS GOT TO CENTRAL & SOUTHERN EUROPE
1.1 EARLY JEWISH SETTLEMENT
Jewish settlement in Western Europe dates back to antiquity. Legend even tells of Jewish communities in France and Germany as far back as the time of Ezra's return with Babylonian Jews to Jerusalem. At any rate, by the time of the Roman Empire, Jewish merchants and suppliers accompanied the Roman legions on their journeys of conquest through France and Germany. Many settled in those communities, where their descendants would become the nucleus of the settlements destined to dominate Jewish life in the early Middle Ages. They did not assimilate into the pagan society of the Roman world, and were certainly not tempted to imitate the ways of their primitive, barbaric, tribal neighbors. In addition, though they stayed apart from European life, they generally were not mistreated under Roman rule, and this enabled them to develop their own religious and social infrastructure. They also maintained contact with the Babylonian center of Jewish life, supporting its great yeshivas and submitting to the authority of the Geonim. If Jewish life until the sixth century in Western Europe was not idyllic, it was not uncomfortable either.
1.2 THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. THE RISE OF THE CHURCH
All of this changed in the fifth century with the fall of the Roman Empire and the Christianization of Western Europe. The Church, its early popes and spiritual fathers, were bitterly anti-Jewish. The preaching's of the Church regarding Jews were vitriolic and poisonous. Before the rise of Islam, the church viewed the Jewish people as the only obstacle to Christian hegemony in the world. Jewish refusal to conform to the beliefs of the majority brought the Church frustration, which it vented wildly and viciously against the Jewish people. Thus, almost fifteen centuries ago, the seeds of violent anti-Semitism were planted deep in the soil of Europe. Since this hatred was not only socially acceptable but religiously worthy, a bloody litany of pain accompanied the Jews throughout their European experience.
1.3 MOSLEMS VS CHRISTIANS. HOW IT AFFECTED THE JEWS
In the eighth century, the Moslem conquest of Europe was stopped by the Battle of Tours in 732, and though this may have relieved the direct Moslem pressure on Europe, Christian Europe nevertheless found itself hemmed in by its Arab adversary. The Arab world was more technologically skilled, economically developed and educationally advanced. Worse, it controlled all the trade routes, land and sea, to the East. Spices, precious metals, silks and fine cloth all had to be brought to Europe from the East, and the Moslems had a stranglehold on this trade. In the early Middle Ages, Christian Europe did not yet dare to attempt the conquest of the East by force of arms. Thus, the enmity of Christianity to Jewry was forced to soften, on the surface at least, since Jews were able to penetrate the Arab world and serve as the conduit for bringing Eastern goods to Western Europe.TheJewish "network" throughouttheworldwasofgreatadvantage. "So long as Isaac of York trusted his brother


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Mercedes-Benz G-Class Celebrates 400,000 Wagens & Counting
Forty years ago the Cold War was the hot topic. West Germany needed a 4×4 capable of stopping the Iron Curtain, so that is why the Mercedes-Benz G-Class is celebrating 400,000 wagens & counting. The G-Wagon is the anglicized acronym for the Geländewagen. In German, this means cross-country or 'overland wagon'. It was Mercedes-Benz's answer to thwart a western invasion across the Fulda Gap.
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With that doomsday scenario in-mind, designers offered a rugged body-on-frame that could be pressed into frontline service while also transporting troops and their gear. Of course, it was adopted by many NATO countries to fill thousands of roles, and it has also become the most popular SUV in countries around the world. If Germany had a Jeep, this would be it, as families cherish them as heirlooms and rites of succession. If you are reading this, you know we are the world's best resource for buying and selling G-Wagens of every vintage, so click the button below to find one for yourself.
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Archer Dreamland: Waxing Gibbous
Holy shit, Dutch! (Holy shit indeed, Other Dutch.)
"Waxing Gibbous" is the second time this season that an Archer episode has ended by abandoning the show's usual commitment to comedy in favor of something far weirder and more ambitious. The last time the show went in on this outside-the-box mode, we got the surprisingly heroic rebellion of Dr. Krieger/Aaron Leibowitz against his evil Nazi masters. This time, we're following the bloody handiwork of Krieger's latest robotic creation instead, and the tone's not so much "hidden heroism" as it is "outright horror."
Maybe the move to FXX has given the show's animation team more leeway, but I can't remember an episode of Archer ever disturbing me the way Dutch's Last Supper-inspired vengeance on Len Trexler did tonight. Kudos to the show's team of animators and directors; the slow panning shots of the fate of Trexler's goons, before the final reveal of the whole grisly scene, might be the most artistically ambitious thing Archer's ever done. And while there's a hint of the gratuitous happening, it's all in perfect service of re-establishing Barry/Dutch as the most dangerous thing in the Archer universe as we head into the last two episodes of the season.
There's more to "Waxing Gibbous" than just cyborg murder tableaux, though; although it mostly offers up the same "moving pieces into place" structure as last week's lackluster "Sleepers Wake," "Gibbous" fixes that episode's most galling problem by keeping its meandering inside the core Archer family (with a few welcome additions along the way). The whole conceit of Dreamland is that these characters are strong enough to support pretty much any story Adam Reed and company can throw at them, and seeing Archer and Mother, Cyril and Poovey, and Lana and her entourage all bickering and arguing with each other is a reminder of why that is.
On the subject of Ms. Kane, she is, as we suspected last week, an undercover cop—specifically for the IRS, which is presumably why her mind was on Al Capone's syphilitic death during her ill-fated stand-up set a few episodes back. Lana ends up teamed up with Archer's discarded "friend" Trinette, who makes an unexpectedly great addition to the show's regular ensemble. Maggie Wheeler—who I'm just now realizing, somehow, was also Janice on Friends—has always been an enjoyable presence on the show's guest star roster, but she's never gotten a chance to really dig into the banter like this before. Add in Cecil Vandertunt—still Eugene Mirman, still perfect—for Trinette and Lana to be consistently creeped out by, and you've got a surprisingly reliable comic team. (It doesn't hurt that this is the most Lana's sounded like herself all year, equal parts exasperated, sarcastic, and just a little bit insecure.)
Speaking of great comedy duos, the episode opens with a fantastic showdown between Archer and Mother, as she casually allows her henchman Zerk to throttle the life out of his battered, sleep-deprived body in a particularly chokey game of Pictionary/charades. (Unsurprisingly, Charlotte is thrilled by all of these developments.) Although Mother finally relents, it's one more step on Sterling's path to complete collapse, ushered along by Charlotte's poorly labeled collection of uppers and downers.
The tight structure of Dreamland makes it easy to verify Archer's claims of sleeplessness; we haven't seen him catch any shut-eye since the night of Woodhouse's death (three nights ago, by my count), a period during which he's taken any number of beatings and wounds. Like the war flashbacks, Archer's disintegration—he even fucks up his "monologue to kidnapped passenger" bit—feels significant, even if it's not clear what the show is building toward with it, either in the Dreamland universe or in the hospital bed where he's still in his coma. Archer's typically not at its best with serialized storytelling, so we'll see if the show can handle some kind of legitimate late-season twist with all this stuff.
In the end, though, everybody—including Cyril and Poovey, hoping to drop off the ransom and get Jeffrey Tambor's crimelord off their backs—ends up at Trexler's mansion. Copious bloodstains and talk of werewolves aside, there's something weirdly comforting about seeing most of the show's characters in one place; we haven't had a big "everybody babbles stupid shit at each other" scene all year, and it's a reminder of how fun Archer's conversational chaos can be. Of course, that comfort doesn't last long; not when there's a murderous robot lurking in the shadows, apparently ready to add our heroes to his gallery of horrors.
Stray observations
"I'm sorry, all I'm getting is 'Gerk.'" Mother is wonderfully ice-cold in that opening scene. And hey, she finally found someone who's hourly!
Ditto when she interrupts Charlotte's childhood story, lest it be harder to chop off her foot and mail it later on: "Don't do that. Don't humanize yourself."
Poovey's fantasy sequences just get sweeter and sweeter. Fung, you're an inspiration to us all.
"Oh, come on. White, divorced, cop, access to a firearm? Cuckold? Statistically, you're already dead."
Poor Lana can't convince Trinette that the IRS is cool, not even by trotting out the Lindbergh kidnapping. "Oh yeah, I bet they were so happy to get their dead baby back."
Everything to do with Trinette's food-based auto solutions were gold, too, from Lana's "Maybe, with your crazy jibber-jabber about Spanish omelette ingredients!" to the whole "Tater hutch" conversation with Cecil.
Cecil seems to be wearing Cyril's horrible jungle outfit from "El Contador."
Archer on ghosts: "There's just so few of them who are friendly. I mean, basically, you've got… Casper?"
Obscure reference alert: Pantagruel is a literal giant, from François Rabelais' Gargantua And Pantagruel. Alaska P. Davidson was the FBI's first female special agent, until J. "Edna" Hoover—whose disparaging nickname is itself a call back to Archer's first season—kicked her out. And Marcus Garvey was a well-known and powerful civil rights advocate, who died in 1940, seven years before Dreamland takes place.
Line of the episode: I feel bad always giving this to whatever's the creepiest thing Cecil Vandertunt says on any given week, but Mirman's just having so much fun. "That's why we'd have a safe word… Which only I would know," isn't funny on paper, but he takes it into hilarious Vincent Price territory with the deranged laugh on the second half.


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As digital technology platforms continue to become the norm for today's enterprises, digital customer experience wouldn't be satisfactory without an assurance that the user's data will be secured. In this third installment of our Digital Transformation Strategy Essentials series, we'll focus on adaptive security and compliance, and why it is important to have an adaptive defense strategy when it comes to protecting your digital assets.
In the past, we have witnessed how hackers were able to collect data on about 1.5 million enterprise clients of Verizon Enterprise Services. The United States Democratic National Committee also fell victim to hacking as thousands of its emails were published on Wikileaks. But arguably the biggest attack on data security is the double whammy on Yahoo, which caused an impact on not less than 1.5 billion customer accounts on two separate occasions, one in August 2013 and again in late 2014. Both Yahoo security breaches were discovered in 2016.
These events show how data breaches have become common in recent years, and they are expected to escalate using more advanced methods in the future. Security breaches are not just breaches. They are, in fact, attacks that disrupt business operations and cost millions of dollars in lost profits and damage control activities. And as attacks become highly sophisticated, developing more advanced security measures should be a strategic priority for all digital businesses.
Trust as Business Currency
Analyst firm, Forrester, recently stated in their predictions report, "In 2017, the basic fabric of trust is at stake as CEOs grapple with how to defend against escalating, dynamic security and privacy risk." For this reason, analysts foresee enterprises investing heavily on security this year and beyond. "Firms allocated 10% of their security technology budget to data security in 2016, and 44% of firms have plans to increase spending here from 2016 to 2017," adds Forrester.
Forrester also stated in its report that between 2016 and 2017, more than half of the enterprises that experienced data security breaches had increased their spending on security after the event. For example, Forrester reported, "A PwC study of UK firms found that cybersecurity spending rose from an average of £3 million in 2015 to £6.2 million in 2016. On the other end of the spectrum, J.P. Morgan Chase has doubled its budget to $500 million, while Bank of America's CEO has gone from committing $400 million in 2015 to a blank-check approach in 2016."
Notably, cybersecurity budgets are growing, but they vary considerably among different companies and industries. While one could argue that every security technology investment is data security, it is important to determine whether the money is worth spending on a particular service or technology.
Toward Adaptive Security Architecture
Gartner predicted that among the trends in digital transformation strategies for 2017 is adaptive security architecture. As digital technology platforms and application architectures evolve, security also needs to be more fluid and adaptive. Relying on perimeter defense and rule-based security alone is not enough, especially for today's modern enterprises that are increasingly adopting cloud-based services and open APIs for clients and consumers to integrate with their systems easily.
While traditional detection and blocking methods cannot be dismissed, adaptive security architecture dictates that companies must focus on automating security and compliance at a scale to ensure that sensitive information is stored securely, without compromising convenience or accessibility.
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Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and lives in Brisbane. He has published ten books of poems including The Ash Range, winner of the Victorian Premier's New Writing Award; The Epigrams of Martial, winner of the Wesley Michael Wright Prize; and New and Selected Poems 1971–1993.
His cultural history Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture, 1901–1939 (UQP, 2001) received Special Mention as an outstanding contribution to Australian Culture in the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies national awards.
Mangroves (2003) is Duggan's most recent UQP title. It won the 2004 ALS gold medal for outstanding work, and was awarded The Age Poetry Book of the Year award in 2003.<#InMedia#><#AuthorVideo#><#AuthorWebsite#><#AuthorTwitter#><#AuthorFaceBook#>
Laurie Duggan:Selected Poems 1971-1993
From poems reflecting on the poetry 'scene' to the laconic translations of Martial, Duggan's wit is refreshing, irreverent and - in its parodic form - ruthless. His sense of shape and editorial skills are as apparent in the reflective Blue Hills 'serial' poem as they are in The Ash Range, a 'documentary' or epic poem mapping the territory of Gippsland. This selection, made by the poet himself, is a generous representation of more than twenty years of writing and includes previously unpublished recent and early work.
The Passenger is a collection of poems that shows Duggan's continued interest in place the ways of rendering the world and the world of experience as both present and as fragile. 'One of the most versatile, politically aware and entertaining poets in Australia.' The ALS Gold Medal Judges' Report 'Duggan's technical and emotional range, his grasp of history and ability to let the record stand - all take on a richness and freshness rare in local poetry.' Carl Harrison-Ford, Sydney Morning Herald Winner of The Age Poetry Book of the Year award (for Mangroves), 2003


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All I wanted for my birthday was to learn how to make Julia's amazing korokke. Julia is one of my mother's very best friends and someone I consider to be part of my family. They've known each other since before I was born, and I grew up going over to their house, going on road trips together, and spending holidays with them.
I learned to ride horses with Julia's instruction, while her husband introduced my brother and I to the awesome world of computer games. I was too young to notice it at the time, but they were very influential in my life, encouraging me in my academics but also my hobbies as well. I'm thankful every Thanksgiving I've had so many amazing role models in my life. I know that sounds super cheesy, but you haven't met them! Our families go camping together, horse trail riding together, and even thrift shopping with one another! I especially like playing board games at their house, and wish my work hours didn't prevent me from seeing them as often as I'd like.
Julia's son got me set on this idea when he mentioned that his favorite part of Thanksgiving was his mom's croquettes, which is served with the traditional okonomi sauce (sosu), but also ranch dip. It just wasn't Thanksgiving without it, in his opinion.
Ranch dip? On korokke? I had to see this. And then Julia brought some over to my parent's house, and I was hooked. I would have never in a million years thought that ranch would work with croquettes, but it is delicious. I personally liked to alternate between the okonomi sauce and the ranch dip, so each bite sings.
Korokke, or Japanese croquettes, are very similar to the French croquettes, but are usually made with a higher ratio of potatoes to meat and served with the same family of tangy sauces that tonkatsu and a lot of fried foods is served with.
Needless to say, I became fascinated to learn Julia's version. I loved how these croquettes melded American and Japanese cooking in such a casual and delicious way. I would have never thought to pair croquettes with ranch dressing, let alone when she mentioned all the other tweaks she mentioned to me.
For instance, I find that some potato based korroke can be very bland tasting (you need that sauce!), but hers use a very American ingredient, Lipton's onion soup and dip mix, to give it a well needed seasoning and savory taste. She also let me know she's used crushed up cornflakes in the past instead of panko as well, when panko was harder to find in local grocery stores than they are now.
Unlike some korokke recipes, she does not use an egg in the mashed potato mix to bind things together, so it is imperative that you drain the meat if needed so it will not be greasy and cause the korokke to fall apart. I've seen korokke with a higher ratio of meat to potato, but if you go too high, it might not stay together!
First wash and peel the potatoes, then add the salt to a large pot of water and bring to a boil. Add in the potatoes and boil until cooked through and a chopstick easily pierces the entire width of the potato.
Drain the potatoes and mash completely. Mix in one packet of Lipton's onion soup mix.
While the potatoes are boiling, brown the ground beef over medium high heat in a large skillet until all pink disappears. Depending on how fatty your beef is, you may need to drain off some fat. Mix in the onion and heat until they become translucent. Take off heat and mix in two packets of onion soup mix.
Mix together the mashed potatoes and meat/onion mixture and let set aside to cool enough to handle. If it's too hot, it might fall apart when it's being handled or fried.
While the mix is cooling, make up your ranch dip by mixing the milk, mayonnaise, and powder together until completely combined. Set in the fridge to chill and thicken up.
Set up your dredging station by putting the flour, beaten eggs, and panko crumbs in separate bowls, and I recommend a baking sheet lined with parchment paper as a convenient set up for your croquettes.
There's no need to measure out the flour or panko, just pour a bunch in a bowl. If you run out while dredging, just grab some more. This is a giant recipe, so don't be surprised at the amount of dredging material you need.
After you're doing setting up, use your hands to shape the croquettes roughly the size and shape of a large egg (just a little larger than a jumbo chicken egg). The traditional shape for korroke is a patty shape, but this little footballs are delicious and their shape makes it easier to avoid them falling apart.
Once you're done shaping, dredge each croquette in the following order: flour, eggs, then panko. Make sure that each croquette is completely covered in panko. Set on the parchment paper and continue dredging until all of them are coated, refilling your flour, eggs, or panko as needed.
Next, heat your oil to 350°F. The oil should be deep enough to full submerge the croquettes. I like to check the temperature of the oil as I'm really good at overfrying the first sacrificial croquette if I don't. The nice thing about croquettes is that you don't have to worry about them cooking all the way through because they are already cooked inside!
Just fry until golden brown and drain on a paper towel lined plate. Make sure that you don't drop in too many at a time as that might cause the oil temperature to plummet.
Serve piping hot with the okonomi sauce and the ranch dip!
First option: you can freeze them on a cookie sheet in the freezer until solidly frozen right after you have breaded them and before the frying step. Then all you need to do is thaw in the fridge, and fry them up whenever you'd like!


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Clinark - Tribute to Michael Jackson, A Legend and a Warrior
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By Angus Taylor on Thursday, December 9, 2010 - Comment
A poignant set straight from the heart.
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The death of Michael Jackson in June last year coincided with the inclusion of Tarrus Riley's previously released cover of the American singer's Human Nature on his third album 'Contagious'. But Tarrus wasn't the only reggae artist moved by the end of the self titled "King Of Pop".
Bermudian singer Clinark has just dropped his own 18 piece tribute, distributed by East London's Nurture Projects Music. Like Riley junior, Clinark was planning to pay homage with a song before the tragic event, yet instead his project snowballed into a full blown long-player. Recorded at London's Stingray studios and featuring the legendary rhythm section Mafia & Fluxy, It includes both one-drop and dancehall renditions of smashes such as Heal The World and more obscure tracks like Heartbreak Hotel - delivered in a convincing yet distinctive take on Michael's voice.
What is interesting about Clinark's interpretations is the way later material - stripped of the panoply of vocal tics that, according to popular myth, so irritated Quincy Jones - reveals the quality of Jackson's songwriting as never before. And in starting with the protest song They Don't Care About Us, Clinark encourages us to consider the superstar as a voice of the Black Diaspora rather than the eccentric figure popularized by media reports in his latter years. There's also a duet with British singer Adele Harley (who seems to be popping up everywhere these days) on a remix of I'll Be There, released as a single in 2009 after Michael's death.
As with 'Contagious', if you think "smooth soul" and "pop" are dirty words this album may not do much for you. But as a tribute taken in its intended spirit, this is a surprisingly poignant set whose best moments leave even Tarrus' rendition behind.
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First Baptist, Bristol is literally on the state line between Tennessee and Virginia, with our sanctuary being in Virginia by about thirty feet! Founded in 1859, our congregation has grown with the city, and we serve, not just Bristol, but the entire northeast area of the Tri-Cities region. The Tri-Cities metropolitan area includes Bristol, Virginia and Bristol, Kingsport, and Johnson City, Tennessee, with a regional population of nearly half a million people.
As a downtown congregation, we're excited to be a part of the revitalization of State Street, not only in terms of physical renovations, but more importantly, in terms of spiritual renewal. We're growing into a new chapter of our congregation's life. We offer a traditional worship service on Sunday mornings, and we continue to offer Bible study groups on Sunday mornings as well as at other times of the week.
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Abstract Sediment dredging is a controversial technology for eutrophication control. Its effects on phosphorus (P) cycling are still unclear. In this study, a long term 3 year field investigation was conducted at Dongqian Lake, China, following a sediment dredging project. The amount of iron (Fe) and P forms presented in the sediment from a dredged region (Y region) and a nearby un-dredged region (N region) were monitored and compared. The results showed that soon after the sediment dredging, there were no significant differences in NH4Cl extractable P (NH4Cl-P), NaHCO3/Na2S2O4 extractable P (BD-P) and residual P (Res-P) levels between the Y and N region. However, NaOH extractable reactive P (NaOH-rP) and non-reactive P (NaOH-nrP) were higher, and HCl extractable P (HCl-P) was lower, in the N region than in the Y region. Three years after dredging, considerable reduction in Fe (P < 0.01) was observed in the surface sediment from the N region, contrarily the amount of Fe (P < 0.05) accreted in the newly formed surface sediment from the Y region. Compared with the first year after the sediment dredging, TP increased by 35.2 and 42.3 mg/kg in the sediment of Y and N regions in the third year, respectively. The increased amount of TP in sediments may result from external loadings and existed primarily in two bioavailable forms (BD-P and NaOH-rP) in both the Y region and the N region. This result indicated that it is better to conduct dredging after external P loading has been blocked. In addition, more BD-P and NaOH-rP accumulated in the N region than the Y region. The observed increase in BD-P and NaOH-rP in the N region may result from Fe- and aluminum-adsorbed P from the water column. Our study suggests that Fe cycling in lakes following sediment dredging is an important factor for understanding the environmental effects of sediment dredging. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
GB/T 7714 Jing, Liandong,Liu, Xingli,Bai, Song,et al. Effects of sediment dredging on internal phosphorus: A comparative field study focused on iron and phosphorus forms in sediments[J]. ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING,2015,82:267-271.
APA Jing, Liandong,Liu, Xingli,Bai, Song,Wu, Chenxi,Ao, Hongyi,&Liu, Jiantong.(2015).Effects of sediment dredging on internal phosphorus: A comparative field study focused on iron and phosphorus forms in sediments.ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING,82,267-271.
MLA Jing, Liandong,et al."Effects of sediment dredging on internal phosphorus: A comparative field study focused on iron and phosphorus forms in sediments".ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING 82(2015):267-271.


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This much loved beach house is being offered to like minded families wanting to capture that sense of holidaying at the beach that we all remember as children.
Fresh air, comfortable furnishings and great location is all you need to enjoy your special getaway. Plenty of room for all the family, this beach house has two fully self contained separate levels with air conditioning on the upstairs level. Located in a quiet side street, a little more than a stone's throw from Pippi Beach, you can relax and enjoy your private retreat.
On the lower level there is also a large private outdoor area that is perfect for a BBQ in the fresh seaside air.
Take a short stroll to the end of the street and arrive at the grand expanse of Pippi Beach. Top surfing spot for the experienced, or at the northern end, safe swimming area - patrolled during Summer season.
When the wind is up you may also see windsurfers and kite surfers making spectacular moves.
Air Conditioning: Upstairs , Balcony, Coffee Machine: Nespresso, DVD Player, Ceiling Fans, Gas BBQ, iPod Dock, Laundry: Frontload washer and a dryer, Multiple TVs, Enclosed Yard.


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Q: Universal Covering Space of Wedge Products Today I was studying for a qualifying exam, and I came up with the following question;

Is there a simple description in terms of the subspaces universal covers for the universal cover of a wedge product?

This question came about after calculating universal covers of the wedge of spheres ($\mathbb{S}^1 \vee\mathbb{S}^1$ and $\mathbb{S}^1 \vee\mathbb{S}^n$) and the wedge of projective space with spheres. In these cases, the universal cover looks like the cross product of the sheets of the universal covers of each space in the wedge.
For the case of wedging two spheres, we can use the fact that $\pi_{n\geq2}\left(U\right)$ is isomorphic to $\pi_{n\geq2}\left(X\right)$ for $U$ covering $X$.
I googled around a bit to try and find something, but nothing appeared.
Thanks in advance!

A: If $X$ and $Y$ are two reasonable spaces with universal covers $\tilde{X}$ and $\tilde{Y}$, there is a nice picture of the universal cover $\widetilde{X \vee Y}$ which has the combinatorial pattern of an infinite tree.   The tree is bipartite with vertices labeled by the symbols $X$ and $Y$.  The edges from an $X$ vertex are bijective with the fundamental group $\pi_1(X)$, and likewise for $Y$ vertices and $\pi_1(Y)$.  To make $\widetilde{X \vee Y}$, replace each $X$ vertex by $\tilde{X}$ and each $Y$ vertex by $\tilde{Y}$.  The base point of $X$ lifts to $|\pi_1(X)|$ points in $\tilde{X}$, and likewise for $Y$.  In $\widetilde{X \vee Y}$, copies of $\tilde{X}$ are attached to copies of $\tilde{Y}$ at lifts of base points.  For example, if $X = Y = \mathbb{R}P^2$, then the tree is an infinite chain and $\widetilde{X \vee Y}$ is an infinite chain of 2-spheres.
This tree picture nicely and dramatically generalizes to Bass-Serre theory.

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