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John Martin Caswell
James Exum Caswell
About John Martin Caswell
1/1862 - 2/21/1935
John Martin Caswell was born on an unknown day in January 1862 in Walton Co., Florida and died on February 21, 1935 in Montgomery Co., Texas. Actual date of birth is unknown. He lived to be about 73 years old.
He was married in Walton Co. FL.
Children: G. Cleveland Caswell (Nov.1888), Katie A. Caswell (Aug.1890), Mary V. Caswell (Aug. 1892) & Johnnie Caswell (April 1898).
His parents were James Exum Caswell (born in FL) and Margaret Civility Ann Walker Caswell(born in GA). He is the Grandson of "Sills" Sylvanus Exum Caswell(born in GA) and Lucy Vaughan Caswell (born in SC).
Census 6/14/1880 Precinct 2 FL (Walton County) 18 yrs old
family#9 - Evan E. Caswell (age50), Cevility Caswell (44), Cevility A. Caswell (20), John M. Caswell (18), Isom W. Caswell (17), Lucey E. Caswell (16), Sylvanies Caswell (14), Mary Caswell (12), William C. Caswell (9), Margarett Caswell (7), Micheal F. Caswell (5), Giles B. Caswell (3)& William Evans (48). Even is a farmer, Cevility keeps house, Isom & John are laborers. Even was born in AL, his father was born in GA and mother in SC. Cirie was born in GA as were her parents. Cevility A., John & Son were born in GA, others in FL.
Additional information about Walton County, FL around 1880: Click here to see a map from this timeperiod.
Census 6/1/1885 Euchee Anna FL (Walton County) 23 yrs old
Family# 15 - J. E. Caswell (age 55), Cirie (48),Cirie (26),John (24),Ioeme ?(male)(23),Lousa(19),Sylman(18),Polly(16),Charles(15),Margart (13), Michael (11),Burns(9). J.E. is a farmer, born in AL, his parents were born in GA. Cirie was born in GA as were her parents. Cirie, John, Ioeme & Margert were born in FL. Others in GA.
Census 6/23/1900 Carthage TX (Panola County) 38 yrs old
#494, #501 -John Caswell (age38 -born Jan. 1862), Martha E. Caswell (34- April 1866), G. Cleveland Caswell (13 -Nov.1888), Katie A. Caswell (9 -Aug.1890), Mary V. Caswell (7 -Aug. 1892) & Johnnie Caswell (2- April 1898). John and Martha have been married 14 years, they have 4 children, all are living. All were born in FL. John's father was born in AL and his mother in GA. Martha's parents were born in FL.
Census 1/19/1920 Conroe TX (Montgomery County) 58 yrs old
# 61,#70 - J. M. Caswell (age58), Martha Caswell (55)& (daughter -married)Velma Christian (21).John and Velma were born in FL, Martha in AL.John's father was born in FL and mother in GA. Martha's parents in AL. John is a larborer.
Census 4/17/1930 Montgomery TX (Conroe County) 68 yrs old
family# 507 - John M. Caswell (age 69), Martha Caswell (64), (grandson) John C. Mc Cullough (16)& (granddaughter) Vergie Mc Cullough (15).John was born in FL, his father in FL and mother in GA. He is a Merchant/Grocer. Martha was born in AL, as were her parents. Grandchildren born in TX. They own their home, valued at $5000. John was 23 and Martha was 21 when they were married. They can all read & write.
U.S. Events
Click on any of the News, Events, or Discoveries buttons above to see historical things that happened during John Caswell's life. These are only some of the major events that affected the life and times of John, his family, and friends. For example, John is 1 years old when Abraham Lincoln issues the "Emancipation Proclamation" freeing slaves.
2 1864 Battle of Olustee is a Confederate victory. Union troops pull back
3 1865 Battle at Natural Bridge (Wakulla County) is a Confederate victory.
3 1865 May 10th -- Union troops occupy Tallahassee. While Tallahassee was the only Confederate state capital east of the Mississippi River that had not been captured, Union troops occupy the capitol following the surrender of the major Confederate armies in the east.
8 1870 During the 1870s, the remaining Seminole Indians begin establishing trading posts and other economy with local settlers.
20 1882 The Florida Central and Western Railroad Company was created. It combines the Florida Central, Jacksonville, Pensacola, and Mobile railroads.
21 1883 Three railroad companies are merged to form the Florida Transit and Penisular Railroad Company. Thee are: Florida Transit Railroad Co., Peninsular Railroad Co, and the Tropical Florida Railroad Co.
22 1884 Most railroads in Florida are passed into the hands of a single company owned and operated by a single management, under the name of The Florida Railway and Navigation Company. It has more that 500 miles of main track in operation and about 300 miles of track under construction. The longest route was the "Western Division" which ran from Tallahassee to Jacksonville - 209 miles.
44 1906 An attempt to drain the Everglades and convert it to farmland begins.
55 1917 Seminole Indians become a Florida tourist attraction.
66 1928 The Tamiami Trail opens. It opens the southernmost 275 miles of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to U.S. Route 1 (SR 5) in Miami, Florida to tourist. It also destroys many of the Seminole Indian waterways and hinders their economy.
3 1865 Mendel publishes his papers on genetics and introduces the concept to the public.
7 1869 Cro-magnon Man fossils are found in France
15 1877 Edison invents the phonograph permitting music and voices to be recorded and replayed.
17 1879 Edison invents the electric light bulb.
27 1889 The first calculating machine is invented and uses punch cards
33 1895 Wireless telegraph and the "antenna" are invented but it covers a very short distance.
35 1897 First ship to shore message is sent using an improved form of wireless telegraph
38 1900 The cause of yellow fever is discovered. It is proven that the fever is spread by mosquitoes. This rallies an effort to provide better mosquito control.
38 1900 Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams"
39 1901 First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent.
40 1902 The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered.
41 1903 Wright Brothers complete the first successful flight with an airplane at Kitty Hawk
42 1904 The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming
44 1906 Electrons are discovered by Thomson
44 1906 Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes
44 1906 The triode vacuum tube is invented
50 1912 The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people.
51 1913 Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant
52 1914 The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed
61 1923 Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes
61 1923 Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"
62 1924 Insecticides are used for the first time on crops
64 1926 Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
65 1927 The first television transmission was announced in England
66 1928 Big bang theory was introduced
20 1882 NEWS HEADLINES: Edison creates the first large power station in New York City, making it the first place in America to have electricity.
23 1885 NEWS HEADLINES: Eastman invents the box camera. For the first time photography becomes affordable for the average citizen.
46 1908 NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile
50 1912 White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out.
51 1913 NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures
55 1917 NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism.
57 1919 NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty.
1 1863 Abraham Lincoln issues the "Emancipation Proclamation" freeing slaves.
3 1865 American Civil war ends with General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA. Reconstruction begins in the "old South"
6 1868 An eight-hour work day is established for federal employees.
13 1875 Tennessee enacts Jim Crow law.
14 1876 The National League of Baseball is founded
47 1909 The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)
48 1910 Boy Scout and Girl Scout Organizations are introduced in America and the concept of a "week end" meaning time off from regular work begins to take root. The British Empire covers 1/5th of the world land area.
65 1927 Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
67 1929 Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
68 1930 Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
70 1932 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.
71 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone!
72 1934 Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains.
72 1934 Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
73 1935 Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
47 1909 The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe
52 1914 World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days.
55 1917 Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes.
57 1919 The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I.
58 1920 Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made.
Martha Ward
Born on April 22, 1866 and died on May 10, 1952
The Children of John Martin Caswell
Katie Ann Caswell
Born in Freeport, Florida on August 6, 1890 and died in Conroe, Texas on an unknown day in April 1976. She was 85 years old.
She married Richard C. Hatcher on 2/12/1912 in Beclair, TX....
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Arianna Occhipinti is a vigneron in Vittoria, Sicily who inherited her passion for the vine and wine at the young age of 16 when she attended VinItaly with her vigneron uncle of another iconic winery, COS. Though Arianna studied oenology at the University of Milan, she has taken a very hands off approach to grape growing and winemaking by following organic principles. She hand harvests only healthy grapes, relies on spontaneous fermentation and uses minimal sulfur.
This is a young fresh red wine. A blend of 70% Frappato and 30% Nero D'Avola grown at an altitude of 280 meters above sea level. The soils are medium density, red sand and chalk from sub Apennine limestone. Indigenous yeast fermentation with 15 days maceration. The wine ages for 6 months in concrete vats.


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On May Day: We Stand for Dignity at Work
This May Day — Labour Day for so many — the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) stands in solidarity with everyone who experiences violence and harassment in the world of work, everyone who is fighting to end it, and those who are forced to silently endure it. We know that a world without violence is possible. We invite you to join us to create and celebrate that future.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and in less than two months, governments, employers and workers' representatives of 187 members states will have an historic opportunity to unite and take a crucial step forward to ensuring the elimination of gender-based violence, specifically in the world of work. In June 2019, the ILO-led International Labour Conference will consider the adoption of a new instrument on ending violence and harassment in the world of work.
Despite the prevalence of violence and discrimination against women in the world of work globally, none of the ILO conventions adopted in its 100 years of existence focus specifically on gender-based violence and its direct link to gender-based discrimination. The time is right for the proposed ILO instrument on Violence and Harassment against Women and Men in the World of Work, which has the potential to establish a uniform set of minimum standards that will require states, employers, unions, and other key actors to prevent, identify, and provide redress in cases of gender-based violence in the world of work.
CWGL recognizes the importance and opportunity for leadership in the ILO's 100th year to ensure that everyone experiences dignity at work, in any work they decide to pursue. We also see the critical need of recognizing the value of all work, including that which is unpaid and under-paid such as women's unpaid care and domestic work. Further, it is crucial to ensure formal recognition of the existence and impact of domestic and intimate partner violence in a woman's world of work. As a feminist human rights organization, we are committed to moving beyond awareness of gender-based violence, and demanding greater accountability for ending it. This instrument is one foundational step on this greater journey.
Over 25 years ago feminists and activists from across the world galvanized to demand the recognition of women's rights as human rights and violence against women as a human rights violation. This was formally achieved at the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights in 1993; this victory was supplemented by political commitments adopted by governments in Cairo on reproductive rights in 1994 and Beijing on a range of women's human rights concerns in 1995.
These gains reflect formal guarantees of rights in numerous international treaties and have shaped national legal and policy reform in many countries around the world. However, the persistence and pervasiveness of violence and discrimination against women in the world of work globally, which is a negative consequence of how current economic systems and policies are structured, make the adoption of a dedicated international instrument absolutely necessary.
A new instrument from the ILO anchored in the commitments of governments, employers, and unions will be an important step toward accelerating the achievement of gender equality, which based on predictions and at the current pace will take more than 200 years to achieve. Women cannot and should not wait that long for equality and justice.
Join the Effort: #ILOendGBV
This is an important moment for women's rights organizations to join with labor right's movements and together support a new instrument that reinforces international legal standards which recognize women's rights as human rights, and may be used as an additional legal tool for advancing and protecting women's rights to work and at work, i.e., decent conditions of work.
CWGL is the global coordinator of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign, which happens between November 25 and December 10, and is run by more than 6,000 organizations in 187 countries. In response to women's rights activists who identified the value of a year-round platform to share resources and promote their work to end gender-based violence, CWGL launched www.16dayscampaign.org. This platform supports a shift "from 16 to 365" to fully activate the global community beyond the core 16 days. Beginning in 2018 the 16 Days Campaign offered #ILOendGBV as a global call to action, to support the adoption of an instrument that would be a crucial first step to ending violence and harassment in the world of work.
In the lead-up to the International Labour Conference in June, join us to advocate for a crucial step to end gender-based violence in the world of work.
Download our toolkit and use #ILOendGBV and our social media shareable content to spread the word about this opportunity to advance dignity for all in the world of work.
Follow #ILOendGBV and 16 Days on our social channels for updates and ways to take action, in particular to support partner organizations including the International Trade Union Confederation, ActionAID, and more.
About the Center for Women's Global Leadership: With feminist values, CWGL strengthens and bridges voices for human rights toward social justice and self-determination. Working at the intersection of gender, human rights, and economic policy, the Center utilizes an intersectional, rights-based approach to strengthen the collective impact to transform civil society. To this end, CWGL operates within a participatory strategy to:
Convene those closest to the issue to explore and exchange holistic ideas and solutions;
Research with an action-oriented lens, guided by partners and constituencies around the world who are committed to realizing rights for themselves and others; and
Advocate with, and for, those traditionally excluded from decision-making, guided by evidence stemming from collective research.

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08.19 am – Showered Py the dog.
10.01 am – Received 2 letters today.
One was BP's promotion back in June 2009.
12.03 pm – Started preparing for lunch.
Chopped up the red chili, green bird's eye chili and scallions.
Continued with the almost Mexican tofu.
Sambal belacan with half a tablespoon of olive oil.
Took out the remaining half tofu from the fridge.
Sliced out a thin lemon.
Decided to change the name from "almost Mexican" to "sambal" tofu.
Next was the simple salad dressing.
01.00 pm – Got my caffeine fix.
02.15 pm – Went on a trailer spree.
Alice in Wonderland Trailer 2.
05.18 pm – Started preparing for tomorrow's lunch.
Took out the steak and chicken breast.
Let it sit in the water.
Put the marinade and meat together in a resealable bag.
07.30 pm – Went to Evergreen for dinner.
08.00 pm – Collected the tickets at GSC.
09.30 pm – Watched Avatar @ GSC. Awesome movie!
08.46 am – Had breakfast.
09.07 am – Showered this ganas fella.
to draw out my money.
why my visa card transactions were not shown online. Turns out, you gotta wait 4 days before it's displayed.
04.24 pm – Afternoon break.
07.08 pm – Went over to Manhattan Fish Market for dinner.
The super duper delicious seafood platter for two.
09.15 pm – Fringe s02e05.
10.55 pm – Party time!
03.25 pm – Supper time.
Was happy that their awesome cabbage was still available.


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There are quite a number of low cost Windows 8/8.1 out in the market. These range from 7 inchers to 8 inchers and in some rare cases 10 inchers. Microsoft doesn't charge those who are bundling Windows on devices below 9 inches so that has been an interesting proposition for most OEMs and other Microsoft partners. Like the first Windows 8.1 tablet from Lenovo we were drooling over some time back. What we have not seen however is an explosion of such budget Windows tablets in the African market or even their popularity surging. That could change when one of the biggest brands in mobile in Africa today, Tecno, unveils its new WinPad tablet running Windows 8.1.
Tecno has turned heads in the African market where it operates at the moment. With a factory to churn out its devices in Ethiopia, the company is widely popular in the Kenyan and Nigerian markets. It is in the latter market where the WinPad 10 is launching in the next two days with Kenya and a few other African countries being the next likely destinations.
We have few details about the tablet's specifications. We were after all tipped by someone in the know who wishes to lie low for now. Besides the obvious 10.1 inch (1280x 800 pixels) IPS display that gives it its name there will also be a 2 megapixel camera for Skyping, a 5 megapixel camera at the back, an Intel Atom Z3735F processor clocked at 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 32 GB internal storage (expandable up to 64 GB), a hefty 7,000 mAh battery, a 3-in1 keyboard (i.e stand, case and of course, keyboard) and dual "BOOM" speakers. Of course you've heard of the Boom thing elsewhere. The Tecno WinPad 10 tablet will also come with built-in 3G connectivity and Bluetooth 4.0 for pairing with that keyboard.
The price? It will go for 57,000 Naira (that's an equivalent of about Ksh 28,260 or $287).
While it will initially ship with Windows 8.1, an update to Windows 10 will be available for free immediately it goes live at the end of July.
Buyers of the Tecno WinPad 10 will also be getting one full year of Office 365 and of coure the 1 terabyte of OneDrive that comes with it for free. To top that will be the 60 minutes worth of free Skype talk-time anywhere in the world.
SOURCE: www.techweez.com


The rebel attitude made of marquetry "The heroic warrior" immortalized by Alberto Corda.
Shadow puppet of the greatest picture in the world.
110 cigars humidor in dyed figured sycamore. Flag and portrait in Marquetery.
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NBC News claims to have obtained sworn declarations from four witnesses who "corroborate" Christine Blasey Ford's sexual misconduct accusations against Brett Kavanaugh. The documents were sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee as evidence meant to support Ford's accusations.
The documents, first reported by USA Today, are statements from Ford's husband and three family friends who support her allegations against Kavanaugh.
These documents affirm that Ford has been telling people close to her about this alleged assault — and naming Kavanaugh — for at least 6 years.
These are not corroborating witness statements to Ford's allegations against Kavanaugh. This is sworn hearsay by Ford's husband, her son's baseball coach, her friend, and her neighbor. These four "witnesses" are declaring, under oath, that Ford told them about her accusations at some point in the past six years, not to any firsthand knowledge of any assault or any of the events Ford alleges.
As for the potential witnesses who Ford alleges were at this 1980s party where she was allegedly assaulted, they all deny that any assault was committed. Kavanaugh, his friend Mark Judge, a classmate named Patrick Smyth, and a woman named Leland Ingham Keyser have all denied knowledge of the supposed party or any misconduct by Kavanaugh.
There is no evidentiary bombshell here.


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This Year's Hempfest Through the Eyes of an Anthropologist
by Brendan Kiley • Aug 18, 2015 at 11:59 am
Out-of-towners at Hempfest: University of Rochester-based researcher Joe Orman (left) and Sacramento-based comedian Ngaio Bealum (right). bk
By the end of his first day at Hempfest, anthropology student Joe Orman was shivering and starting to turn blue. He had come from the University of Rochester to study whether legalization was changing cannabis culture in Washington State—but Friday had turned into one long thunderstorm, which dumped more rain on Seattle than the city had seen all summer and chased away herds of festival-goers. Orman stuck it out anyway.
"I'm asking people if they've seen changes in the community," he said while we huddled under an abandoned vendor canopy, our raincoats and notepads dripping. "Has it gone from an activist festival to something more commercial? There are 10 different vape places right over there," he said, gesturing to a few of the hundreds of vendor booths at Hempfest. (This year, vendor spots went for $350 on the low end for a blanket space and $1,399 on the high end for a tent in a high-traffic location.) "Or has it always been like that? Is this the first year vendors have outnumbered the activists?" By Sunday, he hoped to have an answer.
Aminifu from the First Church of Rasta in Los Angeles. bk
This year's Hempfest brought some of the usual sights: Friendly strangers sharing joints; gaggles of voluble pot-smokers and few older, taciturn Rastafarians; families who've been coming for years (shortly after 4:20 on Sunday, one 20 year-old passed a pipe to her parents and said she'd been at every Hempfest since she was born); the occasional herd of red-eyed teenagers bumbling down a pathway while eating French fries or an enormous cherry pie directly from the tin.
But recent tensions between the recreational and medical constituencies—which were exacerbated this year after lawmakers in the Republican-dominated Senate clamped down on medical marijuana's longstanding but less-regulated marketplace—were evident throughout the weekend.
During one "Hemposium" panel on Sunday afternoon, attorney Rachel Kurtz lamented "misguided people" in the recreational industry "thinking an unregulated medical market was undermining their ability to make a profit…. Medical isn't the problem. The reason people aren't making money is because 502 [Washington's 2012 initiative to legalize marijuana] is so severely regulated." The audience cheered in agreement. Roughly an hour later at the main stage, entrepreneur AC Braddock of Eden Labs avoided mentioning medical marijuana, but warned the crowd that only the recreational cannabis industry could adequately inform the public about consumer-health issues such as pesticide contamination.
The main stage on sunny Sunday. bk
One thing everyone seemed to agree on: Hempfest is still relevant, both as a cultural celebration and a place to agitate for legalization across the United States. "It ain't over 'till it's over!" the white-bearded Rick Cusick, associate editor of High Times and a board member of NORML, bellowed from the main stage.
Pals on Sunday at 4:20. bk
Pepper and Chloe, two young women from Pennsylvania who sat under a pedestrian overpass during Friday's storm, agreed. "Until it's legal everywhere, it's still necessary to protest discrepancies in the law," said Chloe, who recently moved to the Seattle area. "And just because we have recreational stores doesn't mean we need to shut down medical stores. Patients should have access to affordable medicine." Both said they knew medical-marijuana patients, including a friend of Pepper's who uses cannabidiol (CBD) to control seizures. "Her mom got her the oil," Pepper said. "If she were to be caught with that, she could go to jail." (In May, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Grassley asked the Department of Justice to reevaluate federal prohibition of CBD.)
None of the users I met said legalization had had much of an impact on their marijuana use. "It's the same," said Ralph, a young man from Bremerton. "You just don't have to trip out on cops as much."
But a few of the vendors said legalization had brought them to Hempfest for the first time.
A cloning bucket from Mad Garden Supplies. bk
In a quieter corner of the festival, Michael McGuire of Mad Garden Supplies showed off his "cloning bucket": a large drum with a lid holding that holds plant clippings (on that afternoon, lavender) and gently spits water onto their undersides, encouraging the clipping to grow roots. "You use a little cloning gel on the shoots," he said, "and 12 days later you come back and there will be roots."
Sunday afternoon was hot and bright, with people looking for shelter from the sun instead of the rain. The anthropology student was beaming—the folks at Hempfest were even friendlier than he'd expected and he had collected plenty of data. "Anthropologists study intersectionality," Orman said, and Hempfest's nexus of celebration, commerce, and activism involved a whole network of cultural issues: prison reform, Black Lives Matter, veterans' affairs, public health, agriculture. "Marijuana is a great way of showing how social policy can change the law," he said. "People here really want to talk about three things—culture, political activism, and community. Hempfest really brings those together." Just then, a young woman walked past and gave him a random high-five.
Orman's smile grew even wider: "See what I mean?"
Another satisfied customer. bk


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El Reichspräsident va ser la prefectura d'estat d'Alemanya sota la Constitució de Weimar sancionada l'11 de novembre de 1919, que va establir una república federal ("República de Weimar") amb nou estats i l'elecció d'un president per votació popular, el qual alhora tenia la facultat d'elegir al canceller perquè formés un govern. El president podia dissoldre el gabinet i vetar les lleis del poder legislatiu. Les seves facultats incloïen la facultat d'intervenir els estats federals, amb la finalitat de prevenir problemes d'ordre social.

Després de l'abdicació forçada de l'emperador Guillem II i la proclamació de la República Alemanya el 9 de novembre de 1918, el cap d'Estat d'Alemanya va rebre el títol de Reichspräsident (literalment, "President de l'Imperi"). Segons la Constitució de Weimar, era elegit de forma directa per la població i tenia un gran nombre de competències, entre elles la de convocar eleccions, nomenar al canceller, dissoldre el parlament i, sobretot, promulgar decrets d'emergència (Notverordnungen) amb valor legislatiu immediat, encara que revocables pel parlament.

Mentre el primer President del Reich, el socialdemòcrata Friedrich Ebert, va fer un ús discret i moderat d'aquestes competències, després de la mort d'aquest, el 1925, va ser elegit president l'ancià i políticament poc expert Paul von Hindenburg, que havia estat cap de l'Estat Major alemany durant la Primera Guerra Mundial i es declarava a si mateix monàrquic. Quan, a conseqüència de la crisi econòmica mundial, el 1930, es va trencar el govern de gran coalició entre els partits democràtics, Hindenburg va acudir a nomenar canceller a Heinrich Brüning (Partit de Centre), qui no comptava amb una majoria parlamentària, i qui va començar a governar a través de decrets d'emergència, dissolent el parlament cada vegada que aquest amenaçava de revocar un d'aquests decrets. Per tant, entre 1930 i 1933, el veritable poder de govern a Alemanya requeia en l'anomenada camarilla de consellers de Hindenburg.

El 1932, Hindenburg va ser reelegit en les eleccions presidencials, derrotant Adolf Hitler, el seu principal contendent. No obstant això, el gener de 1933, Hindenburg el va nomenar Canceller.

Després de la mort de Hindenburg el 1934, Hitler va assumir també el càrrec de cap d'Estat sota el títol de Führer und Reichskanzler ("Cabdill i Canceller del Reich"), consolidant així el seu poder de govern totalitari. Contràriament al que havien fet els seus predecessors, Hitler es va instal·lar a la Cancelleria del Reich, on va construir un búnquer per a ell i tot el seu seguici. Després del seu suïcidi, a finals de la Segona Guerra Mundial, el va succeir l'almirall Karl Dönitz durant tres setmanes, fins que es va entregar a les tropes nord-americanes.

Entre 1945 i 1949, formalment no va existir cap Estat alemany, de manera que tampoc hi havia Cap d'Estat.

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In the "Poor and Foolish" thread, I put this Note From Rod on a reader's comment:
[NFR: …If you are living in poverty, and cannot afford to have more babies, or your having babies would be a heavy burden on the children you already have, then you are a fool if you continue to have sex, or continue to have sex without contraception. Period. The end. I cannot even believe this is a point of contention. People are not animals; we have free will. — RD]
A reader named Maria filed this thoughtful and informative comment in response:
Rod, I agree with you on almost everything, but this is one of those times that I don't (though of course people aren't animals and have free will), after working as a yearlong, full-time volunteer/case manager for low-income pregnant and parenting women in Washington, D.C.
It all comes down to sex. There is a huge difference in the way most lower-income people with whom I worked thought about sex and the way my friends and I grew up thinking about sex.
I grew up in an upper-middle class family with two stable, loving, working, married parents. Besides learning in this environment and in Catholic schools that sex and marriage (or at least commitment) go together, I learned from a very early age that I have agency over my choices regarding sex, that having sex has consequences that could deter me from pursuing what I want out of life: an education, a career, a stable environment, a healthy family, spiritual integrity.
Most importantly, I learned by how I was treated at home and by the example of my parents that I have inherent value regardless of what anyone thinks of me, regardless of whether I'm in a relationship or not. I learned that I should HAVE goals in the first place.
The women I worked with in D.C. — many of whom continued getting pregnant and having kids after multiple fathers had ended up abandoning them or in jail — did not grow up understanding sex in this way, nor did they grow up cultivating a healthy self-esteem in the way I had.
Many of them did not grow up with fathers, and were never taught that "hey, you're a beautiful person; you don't need to have sex with the first guy who comes around and makes you feel special." Many of them were abused – physically/emotionally/sexually – as children, which impacted how they viewed themselves and their own sense of agency. Most did not seem to know what a healthy relationship was or think that it was possible for them to have one.
The biggest thing – many of the young women had never seen another example in their own families or communities! They had never SEEN their mothers or sisters or fathers decide, "hey, these lifestyle decisions aren't healthy, I'm going to make some better choices." One woman – mother of 6 small children who had 2 or 3 different fathers between them- once flat-out asked me about my own experiences, and was utterly SHOCKED when I told her I hadn't had sex yet, even though I have a boyfriend. She wasn't disrespectful or condescending, she was just shocked; she hadn't seen it done before. The choice not to have sex is never presented as an option! (It should also be noted that many of the men feel that condoms are emasculating or just refuse to use them, leaving the burden of contraception entirely on the woman.)
One 16-year-old mom who dropped out of school to take care of her baby and is living with her boyfriend (who also dropped out of school and works more than full-time) has birth control that is causing her to be depressed and even suicidal at times, but she said she can't use condoms because she's allergic to latex, and she thinks if she told her boyfriend she wanted to stop having sex for a while, he would dump her and move along to the next girl. Right now, he is the only support she and her baby have. She was born outside the U.S. but came here as a child, and because she didn't finish high school, she's not eligible for the Dream Act benefits for the right to work in the U.S. Meanwhile, she can't find daycare for her baby, so she can't return to school. She's utterly stuck. What's going to happen to her? Her baby is likely going to grow up thinking that "stuck" is default.
I don't mean this as a lecture but just wanted to voice some of the things I've seen in this regard. I realize I've gotten away from the original thread discussion.
I totally reject the left's "whenever you feel ready, consent is all that matters, just use protection!" approach to sex and agree with you that stable, two-parent families (assisted by economic opportunity and good education) is really the only solution to these types of problems. I just don't think you can dismiss people as fools when they have grown up thinking in a completely different way about sex and inevitability.
I really appreciate this comment. It reminds me of something a friend of mine who taught in a rural school in the Deep South told me once about her middle-school students. All of them were poor, all were black. She herself was once a welfare mom during a hard period of her life, and felt a special burden in her heart to help these kids avoid what she went through.
She told me that it was incredibly despairing to try to reach them. None of them seemed to believe her when she told them that if they worked hard in school and stayed on the straight and narrow, they could go to college and better themselves. She said pretty much all the girls wanted nothing more than to get pregnant by some boy — they said so in class, without shame — and the boys saw their own manhood as tied up in getting a girl pregnant. Marriage was not on anybody's mind. Your story, Maria, reminds me a lot of what my friend said. She told me she might as well have been talking to them in a foreign language. One day during a conversation about this, she told the female students that dropping out of school to care for your baby is almost guaranteed to condemn them and their children to lives of welfare dependency.
"They didn't care," my friend said. Welfare was a way of life for these kids. That's all they had ever known. It was normal. That's when my friend knew the power of what she was up against.
The point I was trying to make is that the only real way any of this changes is for kids to come to believe that they aren't fated to live that way. There may be no one in their lives to offer them a way out, and even if someone does, like my teacher friend, the pressures on them to reject the message in a bottle they've found are powerful. I think about the young black woman I wrote about in Little Way who had to leave her family far behind in order to pursue her education and break the cycle of poverty (which she did), because they wanted to tear her down and prevent her from succeeding.
From what you've seen, Maria, do you have a better solution? I'm not blaming these kids for reacting to the world in the way they have been conditioned by the adults who have failed them, but I am saying that the culture they carry in their heads, their habitus, condemns them to repeat the mistakes of their parents, and sets their own children up for the same thing. Income redistribution is not going to change that. How could you possibly redistribute income enough, and invent government programs sufficient to ameliorate the direct and secondary effects of single parenthood on a child's long-term economic well being (e.g., given that their educational achievement will have something to do with their own financial success and stability)?
UPDATE: Great comment from reader RB:
I am trying to see things from a hypothetical poor student's point of view, as much as I'm able, because I'd want to help such children, too.
The analogy that popped to mind was that of a college professor exhorting students to what they must do to grow and succeed, because otherwise they'll be stuck in a middle-class lifestyle. I know I would remain unimpressed and unconvinced.
I'm so accustomed to how I relate to my husband, procure and prepare food, and raise my children that I likely could not go back to the Japan of my father's birth even if my father and grandmother convinced me it was best, and even though I spent years there as a small child.
Heck, I haven't even taken my big family camping, because even that feels like changing to a different life, different tribe. I think, taking care of 7 kids, including the two diapered toddlers, is challenging enough in my nice middle-class home–can I do this, while pretending to be homeless, in the rain? Most days I feel like I work hard enough without feeling cocky enough to say, Hey, time to level up and make it twice harder for a totally unknown result!
My friends who camp with their families assure me that everyone feels closer to God and learns self-reliance, and it's totally possible to do with babies, and their happy attitudes and personal success are just enough for me to be willing to learn more, but not quite enough to take the plunge in the current cold weather. I'll wait for sunnier skies before risking it.
A teacher can exhort her kids all year, but it's when she loves them, and with her concern welcomes them into her different country, invites thrm in to see what it's like, that they may consider emigration, because they've seen what life is like there, and how people get their food and make it.
This is what I do with friends who are nervous about not having baked bread or sewn things before–I just invite them into my home and apprentice them for a few hours.
I think this is why we are called to break bread with different people, because sharing that taste of life, and how to bake it, is more convincing than lots of passionate description of it, and warnings about the unsuitability of the old bread, and disapproval.
At least, that's what it would take for me. The boy on the other thread sounds like the sort of son that yesteryear families woukd have been lucky to have. My FIL grew up in a large, poor family on a farm, and as a kid was able to drive tractor with one hand and shoot a pheasant for dinner with the other. He acquired his master's degree based on an athletic scholarship and supported by coyote pelt bounties. (He's shot that many.)
My husband has the same skills, same coked-up-mule work ethic, STEM college degree, middle-class job, we live in the same town, but are half as successful. My FIL is having to partially support his children, who are, like him, smart, hard workers. Like the boy's family on the other thread, we still have economically obsolete values and we regard our kids as our greatest joy even if by newer values we should have had only two, or none at all. (Which is so sad. These are my favorite people–I can't imagine life without them.)
So what would it take for me to give up my current family/resource management values? A great deal. I liked butchering a deer with my husband last night and baking bread. I like helping friends with their garden. I like the old ways because I think they nourish human families and spirits, and I'll cling bitterly to them
even despite the economic reality that it's become nearly impossible to provender a family through legal hunting and fishing in the manner people could a generation or two ago might. Like the boy on the other thread, my FIL values family and that helps us a great deal. Family is everything. Many consider me no better than the boy's mother, for all that I am married and my husband loves me and provides. I'm still economic deadweight, to the new way of thinking.
So there is the question of converting people from unhappy chaos to happier order, and my answer is through one-on-one friendship. I think churches and 12-step recovery has that well addressed. But how to persuade people to leave family behind, avoid family formation, for the sake of economic success? Especially when the delays in family formation get longer and it becomes a new normal to expect people to become secular monastics so as to be better workers? I'm not convinced. I wouldn't be able to persuade someone to leave their family for economic reasons because I am just as "bad" as they are. I'm with Erin Manning on this. I'd rather put my energy into changing to system to better reflect values that lead to human flourishing, than in trying to turn kids into economic cogs and trade one kind of bottom-rung servitude for another. Sheer economic self-interest wouldn't work at this point anyway; those whom I know on welfare often live as high or higher than the frugal families I know who refuse assistance because they value work. Only their antiquated values keep them off the dole.


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A New Portrait of Rural America
The American Communities Project uses its data and on-the-ground reporting to explore differences and blow up the mythology of rural America.
In Pennsylvania's Exurbs and Urban Suburbs, Political Organizing Has Been Intense Since 2016. What Could It Mean for 2020?
by Lara Putnam	August 06, 2019
There's a lot of speculation about which demographics will be key to Democrats' fortunes in 2020. What those analyses rarely discuss is the space where political change actually happens: the local social contexts in which individual voters experience politics, including the 2020 election cycle.
Voters' perceptions aren't formed in a vacuum. What we hear about candidates, how we feel about what we hear, and what we do about our feelings are all shaped by the personal networks in which we live. Campaign professionals tend to treat the social and organizational terrain as a given and put up the best numbers they can. But the social/organizational context isn't a constant — or a given. It is a built environment. And in recent years, that terrain is being remade.
The remaking is not uniform, but patterned across space in consistent ways. In Pennsylvania, where I live, grassroots organizing in reaction to Donald Trump's 2016 election has been most intense in the Urban Suburbs and Exurbs.
In Pennsylvania, what happens in the Urban Suburbs and Exurbs has a major impact statewide: Together the two county types account for one-third of the state's population.
Understanding the Breadth and Depth of Mobilization
It's well understood that grassroots mobilization since Trump's election has centered in the suburbs and been led by suburban women. But systematic analyses that identify which suburbs, how great their mobilization, and their consequences have been scarce.
A good place to start: Count and map the groups listed in Indivisible's "Find your local group" portal, almost all first posted in the first half of 2017. The organizations listed are a grab bag. They include some local progressive groups that antedated Trump's election, others that seem never to have come into existence, and still others that exist solely as information exchanges, such as Facebook groups or email lists. But one-third or more of the groups listed have thrived. Relying on Indivisible HQ more for moral support than marching orders, they have dived into municipal and regional politics, marshaling volunteers to lead ballot initiatives and challenge incumbents from township coroners to U.S. representatives.
Meanwhile, most counties or congressional districts we studied show additional post-2016 grassroots groups that never listed themselves on that portal. While the Indivisible portal is not a complete guide to the grassroots groups active in any given locale, it is the best rough indicator of the local intensity of civic activism in reaction to Trump's election.
One might have thought that the pace of group formation would simply reflect the number of Clinton voters in a given locale. But that's not the case, as this scatterplot of Pennsylvania counties shows. The 20 counties with no groups posted did vote heavily for Trump. Almost all of them are very small and very rural. Beyond that there is no correlation.
When aggregating listings by county type, a systematic pattern emerges — here again, it is not simply a matter of partisan prevalence.
Big Cities had lots of listings. (In Pennsylvania, Big Cities include only Philadelphia County.)
Urban Suburbs and Exurbs had even more.
Middle Suburbs, Rural Middle America, and Graying America had about half as many.
Across the nine (very small) counties representing Working Class Country and Graying America in Pennsylvania, a single group contact was posted.
Rather than partisan lean, what the per capita frequency of Indivisible listings is most highly correlated with is the portion of adults with master's degrees or higher in the county. This correlation between per capita frequency of Indivisible listings and postgraduate educational attainment is even stronger than its correlation with three closely related characteristics:
the portion of adults with college degrees,
median household income, and
how rural the county is.
Surging Democratic Power in the Exurbs
It's worth remembering that the strength of anti-Trump activism in the Exurbs — disproportionately well-educated and traditionally Republican — was not a forgone conclusion in 2016. In the Exurbs, Trump actually performed slightly better than Romney, although not as strongly as he performed in the Middle Suburbs or, to an even greater degree, Rural Middle America, Graying America, and Working Class Country.
So Pennsylvania's Exurbs were home to significant numbers of people who weighed Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton and chose Trump. But the Exurbs were also home to many people — retired and professional women in particular— who were appalled by that choice. And they haven't stopped organizing since.
Since we don't have unified statewide (much less nationwide) granular data on campaigns for offices like township supervisor or school board, it's hard to track systematically the change in the texture of local political life in the middle-to-upscale suburbs: both the denser, peri-metropolitan Urban Suburbs, and the more diffuse and demographically homogeneous Exurbs.
When studying local reporting, however, the surge is clear. In both Urban Suburbs and Exurbs, new grassroots groups have poured massive energy into down-ballot races, including town and county councils and school boards. That activism on behalf of Democratic contenders has been particularly revolutionary in the Exurbs, where down-ballot offices had long remained in Republican hands. For example, in Chester County, no Democrat had ever been elected to a county "row office" in its 300-year existence. Things changed in 2017 when four offices were up for election, and Democrats flipped all four.
What Happened in 2018 and 2019 Elections
That organizing — not just energy — just accelerated in 2018. It spurred Conor Lamb in a March 2018 special election in a congressional district that Trump had won by 20 points. Grassroots women from the Urban Suburban and Exurban stretches of the district pounded the pavement in their own neighborhoods and spent weekends canvassing communities farther afield. In 2019, some of the same groups helped flip a state senate seat in that region, knocking doors overtime to keep GOP margins as low as possible in the district's wealthiest, most conservative parts.
So how did Trump's gains over Romney hold up in the nationalized contests of the 2018 midterm elections? For two years, retired teachers, librarians, and Girl Scout moms had founded groups, recruited candidates, and canvassed across Pennsylvania's Exurban and Urban Suburban counties (and in parts of other counties most like them).
Republican gubernatorial challenger Scott Wagner did not match Trump's numbers in any county in the state — and fell short by double digits in 12 counties. Meanwhile, Republican Senate challenger Lou Barletta, who claimed to be "Trump before Trump," campaigned on his anti-immigrant record as mayor and congressman — and lost to incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D) by 13 points.
When looking at which Pennsylvania counties' votes had shifted since this senate seat and governorship had last been contested, stark differences appear across county types.
Gubernatorial Race
Gov. Tom Wolf (D) lost ground from where he stood in Pennsylvania's rural counties four years earlier.
In Graying America and Working Class Country, the Democrats' decrease in support continued at close to the 2012-2016 pace.
In contrast, in Rural Middle America counties, Wolf's decline in support was far less steep than what Clinton had faced in 2016.
Elsewhere, Wolf gained ground.
In Philadelphia County, a Big City, Wolf slightly improved his margin from 2014.
He made large gains in the Exurbs and Urban Suburbs.
He significantly improved in two College Towns — Cumberland and Dauphin counties — adjacent to the state capital, Harrisburg.
In the populous Middle Suburbs, Wolf's gain from 2014 to 2018 was as large as Hillary Clinton's decline from what Obama's 2012 showing had been.
Senate Race
Pennsylvania's senate race had the same geographic profile. How much of Trump's 2016 gains over Romney in 2012 did Barletta hold as gains over Casey's showing in 2012? Barely any, even in the most rural, aging counties.
In the Urban Suburbs, senate results showed Democratic commitment powering forward. These counties had swung hard against Trump, yet were still nowhere near a ceiling in 2016. Meanwhile, the Exurbs, which had edged rightward in 2016, saw Democratic gains in 2018 not just compared with 2016 but also compared with 2014 and 2012.
An Antidote and a Call
What happens in Pennsylvania's Urban Suburbs and Exurbs is a big deal — for state politics and for America's electoral college. And paying attention to the local social and organizational terrain in electoral politics should be an important antidote to the demographic determinism that poll-driven commentary can imply. The electoral shifts that have occurred since 2016 are not geographic or demographic destiny, but the result of thousands of hours of mostly-invisible volunteer labor building on preexisting networks of connection. These local webs of communication and commitment will shape voters' experiences of the 2020 campaigns. For people worried about outcomes in 2020, that should call them to action right now.
Lara Putnam is UCIS Research Professor and Chair in the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh. She is active in grassroots political organizing in southwest Pennsylvania.
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The first time I remember wanting to be a teacher I was in first grade. I was so in love with the idea of teaching that my parents created a classroom for me in our basement. When my brother and I would get home from school, I would make him sit in the desks, and I would teach him lessons from the books I had. Throughout my life, I never took my eyes off the goal of being a teacher, and when I got to college I majored Agriculture Education at The University of Kentucky. Through college, I worked along many schools, helping with tutoring, spending time in the classroom observing. During my student teaching, I was offered my job at Oldfields.
Q.	What do you like to do in your spare time?
In my spare time, I enjoy playing board games, doing puzzles, hiking, biking, and backpacking. I am very passionate about the outdoors and environmental science.
Q. What do you love about Oldfields?
Oldfields has been a part of my life since I came here for high school. There are many things I love about this school, but my favorite would have to be the traditions we have here. The traditions bring us together to build a sense of community that travels through generations. Even though we have different experiences while we are here, these traditions allow each of us to truly be an Oldfields Girl. I love how this community is here for each other, and we lift each other up whenever we can. Oldfields creates an atmosphere where you know that your peers, teachers, and staff really care about you and want to help you succeed.
Q. What advice would you give to the students?
The advice I would give to the students would be that from time to time, remember to try something new; you could be surprised by what you never knew you would like. Also, do at least one thing every day that will help you get one step closer to a larger goal you have in life.
Thanks, Clark! We can't wait to see the path your career will take. We are delighted it led you back to Oldfields.


A spectacular lightshow has been captured on video, showing lightning bolts strike the spire of the Lakhta Center skyscraper in St. Petersburg, Russia. The city was hit by a powerful thunderstorm on Saturday evening.
Videos recorded by residents show huge bright bolts of lightning as they come down, hitting the top of Europe's tallest building, cascading around the structure, surrounded by dark skies.
Some were amazed by how the building managed to withstand the force of nature reigning down on it, praising the 87-story, 462-meter-tall skyscraper as "undefeatable," and labeling it "the city's main lightning rod." Others were surprised that the lightning didn't cause power outages. "We should ask Nikola Tesla," one user remarked.
The Lakhta Center is designed to house shops, offices and a restaurant with a panoramic view. The building is still under construction and is set to officially open for visitors this fall.


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Макс ван де Сандт (; ,  — , ) — нидерландский пианист и музыкальный педагог.

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Сын и ученик Корнелиса Кристиана ван де Сандта, преподавателя фортепиано в одной из роттердамских музыкальных школ, занимался также под руководством Фридриха Гернсхайма. В 1884 г. учился у Ференца Листа в Веймаре; Антон Брукнер в письме этого года называет ван де Сандта в качестве представителя веймарского кружка, передавшего ему общее восхищение его Третьей симфонией. В 1889—1896 гг. преподавал в берлинской Консерватории Штерна, затем в Кёльнской консерватории, позднее продолжил в Кёльне преподавательскую деятельность, но уже частным образом. Среди учеников ван де Сандта, в частности, Ян ван Гилсе, Вильгельм Ринкенс и Фриц Брун. Автор виртуозных фортепианных пьес.

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It's no secret that Oprah Winfrey can do anything, but she still manages to surprise us with her newfound talents on a regular basis. This week, we found out that she is, in fact, a relationship guru.
In a new video series, Winfrey and her BFF Gayle King answer reader questions about dating, and dish on some of their own experiences as well.
In response to a reader asking for advice about spicing up their long-term relationship, Winfrey revealed a failed time she tried to surprise her long-time love Stedman Graham. Let's just say she did not get the reaction she was hoping for when she greeted him in nothing but a negligee.
"I'm standing at the stairs when he comes in, and he literally comes in, Stedman, walks right past me and says, 'What are you doing?'" she recalled.
King also remembered a time when she greeted now ex-husband William Bumpus wearing a trench coat with her body wrapped in saran wrap. "He went, 'What is that?'" King said. "So, that's not good for your ego."
Ultimately, Winfrey provided this advice: "Ask him what would be spicy." In the same breath she also revealed that while the negligee was a fail, her skills in the kitchen do the trick. "For me, I gotta say making cornbread kind of serves the purpose," she said. "I made some cornbread yesterday, and you would have thought I stripped myself butt-naked. Like, a little cornbread and black-eyed peas goes a long way in my house."
Next, they moved on to whether significant others should have each other's phone pass codes. While Winfrey said she would give hers to her partner if he asked, she told this reader they did not have to give it up."I think you should have your own pass code for your own phone and your personal things on your phone," Winfrey said.
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by Alex Petroski - November 21, 2017
Village Mayor Margot Garant said residents of Port Jefferson Village would get "whacked" by the elimination of the SALT deduction in the federal tax reform bill. File photo by Alex Petroski
Governmental leaders from virtually all levels in New York have come out in opposition to the federal tax reform bill, and now the Port Jefferson Village board can be added to the list.
The village passed a resolution at its Nov. 20 board meeting "expressing its strong opposition to any federal tax reform legislation that would eliminate or limit access to the state and local tax deduction." The SALT deduction, which was enacted about 100 years ago, is a provision that in the past, through federal tax returns, gave a portion of tax dollars back to individuals in higher income and property tax states like New York, New Jersey and California to avoid "double taxation." The deduction was eliminated in the House version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which the body passed Nov. 16, for individuals' income taxes, and limited property tax deductions to $10,000. The Senate's version of the bill, which has not been voted on yet, completely eliminates all SALT deductions. Both the House and Senate versions double the (married filing jointly) standard deduction from $12,000 to $24,000. The bill has been touted by President Donald Trump (R) and other members of Republican leadership as a massive tax cut for middle class families.
"We're going to get whacked," Village Mayor Margot Garant said of the bill during the board meeting.
New York's income tax rate is among the highest in America, with members of the top tax bracket paying 8.82 percent in 2017. On average, the state income tax deduction for New Yorkers making between $50,000 and $200,000 in annual income for the 2015 tax year was between $4,049 and $9,330. The same group of earners deducted on average between $5,869 and $8,158 over the same time period in state and local real estate taxes. The 2015 tax year is latest year with available data according to the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, an organization that provides independent analysis of tax policy.
"New York residents already send $41 billion more to the federal treasury than the federal government returns to New York," the village resolution reads. "The state and local tax deduction is a fundamental principle of federalism and without it our residents would be faced with double taxation, as they would be forced to pay federal income taxes on the taxes they must pay to state and local governments."
Garant joined New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), New York's U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer (D) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D), U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), and U.S. Reps. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) and Peter King (R-Seaford) in opposing the bill. Zeldin and King were among 13 Republicans in the House to vote "no" on the bill, with 227 voting to pass it.
"I view the elimination of the SALT deduction as a geographic redistribution of wealth, picking winners and losers," Zeldin said in a statement. "The proposal taxes additional funds from a state like New York in order to pay for deeper tax cuts elsewhere. For anyone who incorrectly argues that the rest of the country subsidizes our state, I would point out that New York is a net contributor to the federal coffers with regards to both tax policy and spending policy and that is even with the SALT deduction."
According to www.censusreporter.org, about 62 percent of Port Jefferson Village residents earn between $50,000 and $200,000 in annual salary.
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This post was updated Nov. 29 to correct the income tax and mortgage tax deduction amounts under the two bills.
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Q: Sequence and Floor fucntion $a_n = a_{n-1} + a_{\lfloor \frac{n}{3} \rfloor}$ $a_0=5, a_1 =2$
$$a_n = a_{n-1} + a_{\lfloor \frac{n}{3} \rfloor}$$
Prove that there are infinitely many $i \in \mathbb{N}$ such that $13 \mid a_i$
I have no idea for this problem, please help me.
You can see that $i = 5, 10, 22, ...$
$a_2=7, a_3=9, a_4=11, a_5=13, a_6=20, a_7=27, a_8=34, a_9=43, a_{10}=52, ..., a_{22}=247$

A: Assume the contrary, i.e., the set $I=\{5,10,22,\ldots\}$ of indices where $a_n\equiv 0\pmod{13}$ is finite (but non-empty!).
Let $N=\max I$ (so certainly $I\ge 22$).
Then $$a_{3N-1}\equiv a_{3N}\equiv a_{3N+1}\equiv a_{3N+2}\pmod {13}.$$ Next, the thirteen terms $a_{9N-4},\ldots, a_{9N+7}$ are in an arithmetic progression modulo $13$, i.e.,
$$ a_{9N-4+k}\equiv a_{9N-4}+k\cdot a_{3N}\pmod {13}$$
for $k=0,1,\ldots, 12$. As $a_{9N-4+k}\equiv 0$ would contradict $9N-4+k>N$, we see from the pigeon-hole principle that two of these terms must be congruent, i.e.,
$$ a_{9N-4}+k_1\cdot a_{3N}\equiv a_{9N-4}+k_2\cdot a_{3N}\pmod {13}$$
with $0\le k_1<k_2\le 12$, and from this
$$ (k_2-k_1)a_{3N}\equiv 0\pmod{13}.$$
As $13$ is prime, we must have $k_2-k_1\equiv 0$ or $a_{3N}\equiv 0$, both of which are absurd.

Apparently, the same argument works with any prime $p$ and sequence with recursion
$$ a_n=a_{n-1}+a_{\lfloor n/d\rfloor},$$
provided $p\le d^2+d+1$ and there exists at least on (small) $a_n$ that is a multiple of $p$.

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DETROIT — The A's placed designated hitter Mitch Moreland on the injured list with left wrist tendinitis and called up outfielder Skye Bolt from Triple-A shortly before Tuesday's series opener against the Tigers.
Moreland had last played Aug. 26. He was on the field for batting practice Tuesday. The A's announced the move minutes before the game; Bolt was already with the A's in Detroit on their taxi squad and thus in uniform and available.
"He's been dealing with it on and off. Last couple of days, it's been a little bit worse," manager Bob Melvin said after the A's 9-3 win. "When he took batting practice today, he could only take a couple of swings and really swing at one kind of full-out. So unfortunately, had to make that move."
This is Moreland's third IL stint this season. He missed 11 games in May with an inflamed rib junction and seven in July for an unspecified reason, which can indicate a stay on the COVID-19-related IL. Moreland is batting .227 with 10 home runs in 81 games in his first season with the A's, having made 55 of 64 starts against right-handed pitchers. His current 10-day IL stint is retroactive to Aug. 27.
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Bolt was recalled for his third stint with the A's this season. He is hitting .109 in 23 games with one home run with Oakland. Defensively, he has played all three outfield positions in his brief major-league tenure. A switch-hitter, Bolt is batting .387 with a 1.143 OPS in 51 games for Triple-A Las Vegas.
Roster talk: With rosters expanding to a 28-man limit in September, teams can add two players starting Wednesday. Bolt was likely to be one September call-up by the A's, who now can add two other players.
Catcher Austin Allen and pitchers Grant Holmes, Adam Kolarek and Sam Moll, who were at Triple-A Las Vegas, also met the A's in Detroit. Those players not called up would form the A's taxi squad for the rest of the trip. Melvin did not indicate postgame if the A's would summon another reserve after needing to activate Bolt.
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With the Triple-A Aviators scheduled to play through September this year, Melvin noted, players not called up Wednesday will still be getting regular game reps.
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Will city allotments, rooftop gardens and vertical planters be part of Manchester's future?
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A 3,000 sq ft allotment is coming to St Ann's Square – and it's unlike any allotment you will have seen before.
It's all about growing the awareness of eating sustainably and what we can do to help. Be inspired by experiments and techniques you can use at home, too, as experimental chef Samuel Buckley runs a practical workshop about fermenting and preserving food on July 25 and 26.
Watch top local chefs Mary-Ellen McTague and Robert Owen Brown battle it out to cook with a selection of ingredients we may be relying on more in the future.
A number of interactive shows are involved with plenty of tasting opportunities along the way. Master Chef star Oliver Bray will also be devising a menu of the future and there is plenty for you to get involved with too, as free activities run every day from 10am-6pm.
Learn how to grow your own edible mushrooms using coffee grounds with FarmLab, a pop-up urban farming experiment from Squirrel Nation, who are seeking to create low carbon food options. You can also take part in workshops from Real Food Wythenshawe and there will be a seed swap from 1pm on Friday 29.
You can even bring along a handful of earth and find out what it is worth! The University of Salford will be working on the allotment and encouraging people to bring down samples of soil from their own gardens to create a map of soil types across Greater Manchester and advise people on the right plants for them.
The final day will be dedicated to a Twitter Q&A session where you are invited to ask experts including Chris Walsh from the Kindling Trust, Jemma Hynes from FoodSync, Dr Michael Hardman from the University of Salford and Professor Amanda Bamford from the University of Manchester about the future of food.
"Many people are worried about climate change and it's interesting to ponder how future changes will affect the food we eat and the crops we grow," says Professor Bamford. However, plants not only feed us, they can be used to insulate our buildings, trap air pollutants and fertilise our soils. As a professor of Plant Sciences I am thrilled to bring the green stuff into the city."
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Alstom was awarded a contract worth over $140 million by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) to perform the mid-life overhaul of 52 P2000 light rail vehicles (LRVs), which operate on Los Angeles' Blue, Green, and Expo lines. The scope of the overhaul includes the upgrade of major systems such as propulsion, HVAC, automatic train control, auxiliary power supply, brake control, communications, and doors, as well as the LRV's bogies.
The overhaul is expected to allow Metro to keep the fleet in service for at least another 15 years, enhancing its comfort, availability, and reliability.
"We are delighted that Metro has recognized and selected Alstom to overhaul the P2000 fleet based on our technical proposal, as well as our past project management experience and performance. Alstom is committed to serving transit agencies on America's West Coast, and overhauling the LRVs will allow Metro to offer high quality service to its customers," said Jérôme Wallut, sr. VP, Alstom North America.
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The front of each coin shows the Geocaching "G" in the style of the X-Files logo, with a shadowy blow-up of the G's center in the background. The back tells what every geocacher knows: "The Tupperware Is Out There". Both the G center on the front and the lettering on the back are done in glow enamel. This set contains the copper red, white, and blue glow versions as well as the copper 10 years colour scheme version.