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Comments on right to return to appease Israelis in Palestinian President Abbas' bid for full status at the UN prompted ire and protests in Hamas-ruled Gaza
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Palestinians march during a protest against president Mahmoud Abbas in the Jabaliya Refugee Camp, northern Gaza Strip Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. (AP Photo)
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Abbas resignation demanded by West Bank demonstrators
Remarks by Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas seen as questioning Palestinian refugees' right to return to their former homes got a warm welcome from Israel on Saturday but received an angry reception in Gaza.
The Palestinian leader's office meanwhile sought to dampen the impact of the remarks.
"Abu Mazen's courageous words prove that Israel has a real partner for peace," Israeli President Shimon Peres said in a statement, using the name by which the Palestinian president is informally known in Arabic.
But the Abbas comments sent thousands of Palestinians onto the streets in protest in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip where they burned his picture and chanted "Out, Out, Abu Mazen."
In an interview broadcast on Friday night by Israel's Channel 2 television, Abbas said he had no intention of trying to regain his childhood home in the northern town of Safed in Galilee, today located inside Israel.
"I want to see Safed," he said in English. "It's my right to see it but not to live there."
In a direct pitch to Israeli viewers aimed at assuaging their concerns ahead of a Palestinian bid to seek upgraded UN status, he reiterated his acceptance of the Israeli state within the borders that preceded its capture of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day war.
"Palestine for me now is '67 borders with east Jerusalem as its capital," Abbas said.
"This is Palestine for me. I am a refugee, I am living in Ramallah, I believe that the West Bank and Gaza is Palestine and the other parts is Israel."
He reiterated that the Palestinians would submit a bid this month to seek upgraded UN status.
In September 2011, Abbas made a high-profile bid at the UN General Assembly for full-member status, which stalled before it was put to a vote in the Security Council where the United States had pledged to use its veto power.
At this year's annual UN gathering, he said he would seek to obtain non-member state ranking by the end of 2012, in a move that would only require a simple majority in the 193-member General Assembly and is certain to pass easily.
Washington and Israel are both opposed to the move.
Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina insisted that the did not represent a policy shift and said that giving up the right of return would create "a catastrophe for the Palestinian generations to come."
"The right of return is among the issues that are still pending in the negotiations with Israel," he said in a statement. "A television interview does not mean negotiations and the aim of the interview was to influence Israeli opinion."
Abbas was born in Safed in 1935 in what was then British-ruled Palestine. With the founding of the Jewish state in 1948, he fled into exile along with hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs.
"These are significant words," Peres said. "We must all treat them with the most respect.
"These positions stand exactly in line with those of Israel and with the clear majority of the population, which supports the solution of two states for two peoples. This is a brave and important public declaration."
Abbas also pledged that as long as he remains in his post there would be no armed resistance to Israeli occupation on the part of his western-backed Palestinian Authority.
"As far as I am here, in this office, there will be no third armed intifada, ever. We don't want to use terror; we don't want to use weapons. We want to use diplomacy."
In a dig at his Hamas rivals, Abbas said that frequent rocket fire into Israel from Gaza served no purpose.
"I am not sure that there is justification for firing rockets from Gaza or elsewhere," he said.
"It doesn't bring results and it doesn't bring peace closer," he added.
In Gaza thousands demonstrated against Abbas's remarks, in protests called by the militant Islamic group that has said it will never recognise Israel.
In Jabaliya refugee camp about 3,000 people chanting "Out, out, Abu Mazen!" marched and burned his picture, while thousands more protested in Gaza city and in the southern town of Khan Yunes.
On Friday, Gaza's Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya told worshippers after weekly Muslim prayers that Abbas "has no right to give up refugee rights. He does not speak in the name of the refugees."
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Manchester Man
Abbas s such a Zionist tool. If someone kicked me out if my house and then I say "I don't have the right to return", I would expect someone to slap me up and down till I become a man again. Abbas has completely lost legitimacy and is completely out of touch with the Palestinians.
Maybe more realistic
Dear Manchester Man: maybe Abu Mazen is just more realistic than other ones... Maybe he sees the fact that it makes no sense to play the rule of the victim for eternity, because it avoids any positiv movement forward to the future. Millions and millions of people in the world experienced deportation or displacement in the past and even today on a daily basis. The palestinians are not alone with this fate. Just remember 6 million jews who got deported from Nazi Germany to concentration camps and got killed even before they could articulate the wish to go home again. Of course palestinians are not guilty for the fate of the jews and this does not justify Israelian occupation,but history very often is far away from being fair and there are many examples that the 'historic clock' cannot be turned back again. So again, maybe Abu Mazen is just more realistic and tries to built somehow a future on the status quo to move forward. If you remain in the victim's role this will never happen.


I have a new love. It's a love so true and pure I get a little misty whenever I think about it. Please don't think me shallow when I tell you the object of my affection is, well, an object. It's my electric blanket.
I had long forgotten what a beautiful thing a pre-warmed bed was. I have suffered under pounds of blankets for far too long. For Christmas my husband generously relieved my cold-footed misery with a gift of a dual-control velour king-sized electric blanket–complete with auto shut off and a darn near angelic reheat function. It was love at first plug-in.
I had an electric blanket years ago when I was single. It now gently keeps my little girl warm. For so long, I have lived without a truly warm bed, deciding I really didn't need to spend that much money on a blanket when I could just sleep in socks.
But I was wrong. I needed this.
When I slip into a luxuriously warm bed at the end of long day, I feel so genuinely blessed. I know most of the world has never had this experience nor will they ever. Just thinking about my gift of a warm bed on a cold night makes me warm on the inside (pardon the pun).
Okay, so, yes, I know I live in southern Texas. Yes, I know most of the country simply laughs at what we call winter. (Which, by the way, we laugh at what most of the country calls summer, but I digress.) I firmly admit I can't handle the cold. It's just not in my blood, which has thinned out after a lifetime of southern living.
Which is why, I love my electric blanket. If I knew who created such a miraculous invention as a way to warm a bed without setting in on fire, I think I'd kiss him or her, provided he or she was among the living.
My husband lamented that he's now been replaced. I told him that wasn't true.
Jeanna Pruitt Weeks, educator, consultant, blogger, teaches home school. Member of the Ink Blots.
Let me preface my rant with the statement that I am an old mom. I had my first child at age 36. I am 42 my kids are 5, 4, and 1. I try hard not to let my children lose out because mommy is an old fogey. I take my kids for walks, to the park, let them "practice" the piano, and get into tickle fights with them. Because my life just wasn't stressful enough, I have taken on the task of homeschooling my oldest little darling–an exercise not for the faint of heart. I have a couple of collegiate degrees under my belt, I felt I should be able to handle the kindergarten curriculum without too much trouble.
I just can't help feeling old. Take today for example, I took my daughter to the library to let her check out some books. My other two hoodlums were in preschool. It was a nice break and reminded me that there is, indeed, life beyond math and phonic.
Things were going well until we were checking out. Across the foyer from the circulation desk at our library is a large open multi-purpose room. Today, the purpose was to host the "Mommy and Me Yoga" class never giving it more than a passing thought. I just couldn't comprehend how I could make it work with three preschoolers. Yoga, as I have practiced and understand it, is supposed to be about being calm and peaceful, focusing on your essentials of being like breathing and muscle control. There is nothing calm about my three kids, and there is no peace for me when they are all awake in the same room.
As we were waiting patiently in line, we couldn't help but notice all the activity across the way from the gaggle of tots and moms laughing and packing up to go home. My daughter asked what all of the kids were doing in the other room. I pretended not to know. I couldn't avoid the conversation altogether. The moms were rolling up yoga mats, all the while smiling and chatting. They seemed like a happy lot, those moms in their yoga pants, ponytails and big smiles were almost young enough to be my kids.
That's when it hit me: I am just too old to be at peace with community yoga. Right now, I don't think I could find the mental peace to even pretend I would enjoy it. After shaking my head at myself for the comparisons (the negative ones aimed at me), I decided I am okay with this. I've been dealt a different hand to play, and I need to stop trying to peek at someone else's.
Without blinking her eye, she said "Oh, yes, mommy!" Mommy's age crisis over for the morning.
Jeanna Pruitt Weeks, educator, consultant, home schools. Jeanna is writing a blog to help other home schoolers. She has published articles in the Beauregard Daily News and other magazines.


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"CAN I GET YOUR DIGITS?": ILLEGAL ACQUISITION OF WIRELESS PHONE NUMBERS FOR SIM-SWAP ATTACKS AND WIRELESS PROVIDER LIABILITY
Nathanael Andrews, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University
In a SIM-swap attack, a hacker uses text messages sent to a wireless customer's phone number to reset passwords and access critical accounts. These SIM-swap attacks are often targeted at cryptocurrency (e.g., bitcoin) holders and can result in thousands or even millions of dollars in losses. Wireless providers are often the weakest point exploited by hackers in SIM-swap attacks. These hacks are even more insidious because they rely primarily on social vulnerabilities rather than technical skill: hackers pressure accommodating customer service agents or bribe wireless provider employees in order to gain control of a wireless providers account and phone number. The wireless account and phone number provide a gateway to all the wireless customer's digital accounts through password reset codes sent to the victim's phone number, which is controlled by the hacker. Yet, wireless providers have failed to protect this gateway. Experience has shown that it is surprisingly too easy for a hacker to gain control of a wireless customer's phone number. This note argues that wireless providers should be liable for negligence according to a reasonableness standard of care. Such a standard would motivate them to do more to protect wireless customers.
Wireless customers are being harmed by hackers. Wireless providers are positioned to prevent that harm by blocking unauthorized control of customer phone numbers. This note provides background on the SIM-swap attack, addresses policy arguments supporting the liability of wireless providers, examines how liability of wireless providers can be found under statutory federal law, and argues that common law negligence is the most appropriate route to wireless provider liability. The policy-based arguments address victims with a pressing need for remedy, wireless providers as the least cost avoider, and wireless providers as the most competent avoider. The law-based arguments address the roles of the FCC and the FTC in SIM-swap attacks and distinguish developments in negligence common law liability for general data breaches. In short, this note argues that SIM-swap attacks give rise to important harms, wireless providers should be liable for those harms, and negligence with a reasonableness standard of care is the right standard for liability.
Nathanael Andrews, "CAN I GET YOUR DIGITS?": ILLEGAL ACQUISITION OF WIRELESS PHONE NUMBERS FOR SIM-SWAP ATTACKS AND WIRELESS PROVIDER LIABILITY, 16 Nw. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 79 (2018).
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2012 Frog eBike Concept Review, We already talked about the Frog FZ750 Rana that is on display now at the SFMOMA, and the word on the street is that the folks at Frog Design are already missing their favorite lobby decoration. Looking to draw from the design-changing ethos that was first created by the FZ750, Frog designer Jin Seok Hwang (New York office) took stylus to hand, and inked what he hopes will be a new influence in modern motorcycle design — though this time around the exercise is being done with an electric motorcycle.
What should strike you first about Hwang's design is the massive hole where an internal combustion engine would normally reside. That is no mistake, as Hwang is hoping to convey both a figurative and symbolic message about the transition from petroleum-based fuels to electrons. The motor is in the rear wheel, while the batteries are housed in the bottom of the chassis.
While a tank shape has been retained, we're not quite sure how a rider would grip the sides of the bike with their legs when cornering. Still, it is an impressive concept from a company with a strong pedigree in industrial design. Will it influence designs to come? Only time will tell.
2012 Frog eBike Concept The overriding expression I aimed to capture is the resulting visual impact of the electric motor replacing the traditional combustion engine and its related systems. The large mass of the combustion engine, formerly a defining feature of a motorcycles profile, is now a symbolic void. 2012 Frog eBike Concept The new electric motor's copper coils moved inside a hubless rear wheel, at once streamlining the motorcycles composition and providing for a highly efficient and direct transmission of power.
I was very conscious about retaining the emotional impact of the iconic motorcycle silhouette however, and as such repurposed the bulky volume formerly known as the gas tank. It has become an ergonomic affordance for the rider, a support underneath and in front of the rider hugging his or her bike at great speeds. This design 2012 Frog eBike Concept element provides a continuous formal transition from the back of the seat to the front of the instrument cluster and down around the void, transforming into the new location for the bikes fuel: the batteries.


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The Administrative Law of Deregulation: The Long Road for the Trump Administration to Undo Obama-Era Regulations
Posted: August 9, 2017 | Author: bbabarjournal | Filed under: Legal Analysis, Summer 2017 Vol. 61 #3 |Leave a comment
by Daniel Lyons
Dysfunction among Washington's elected branches has thrust the administrative state—the alphabet soup of federal agencies that together do the day-to-day work of governing the republic—into the nation's political spotlight. Frustrated by his inability to get the Republican-led Congress to pass his legislation, President Obama governed by "pen and phone," leaning on the administrative state to accomplish much of his second-term agenda. From immigration reform to transgender rights to climate change, agencies became the primary engines driving the White House's policy agenda.
Unsurprisingly, President Trump has focused on undoing many of these agency initiatives. As a candidate, Trump campaigned on a platform of deregulation, arguing that agency regulations inhibit economic growth. And as president, he moved quickly to reverse certain Obama-era administrative initiatives and established agency-level task forces to identify others for repeal. White House advisor Stephen Bannon described these efforts as a fight for the "deconstruction of the administrative state."
But how, precisely, can an agency conduct an about-face and reverse a policy decision that it only recently adopted? The answer is surprisingly complex, turning in part upon the way the agency formulated its policy and how long it has been in effect. The answer is also extremely important. Each year, agencies enact more rules than Congress and hear far more cases than the federal court system. Administrative process is the primary legal check on what is often called the "headless fourth branch of government." The Trump administration's deregulation campaign will withstand court challenges only to the extent that it gets agency process right.
The easiest agency decisions to reverse are so-called interpretive rules and policy statements. These are agency statements that, in theory, create no new rights or responsibilities for regulated entities, but rather simply clarify what the agency currently believes that existing law already requires. Because these so-called "nonlegislative rules" do not change the law, they are exempt from the Administrative Procedure Act's notice and comment process. As a result, agencies are generally free to issue or revoke these statements at will, subject only to the agency's own procedures for doing so.
Perhaps the most high-profile interpretive rule in President Trump's crosshairs was the Education Department's guidance regarding transgender students. In January 2015, the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights issued an opinion letter explaining that under the agency's regulations implementing Title IX, schools are permitted to separate bathroom facilities by sex, but "must treat transgender students consistent with their gender identity." The agency followed this with a second letter, in May 2016, explaining that a student's sex under the statute equates to his or her gender identity. The opinion letters had legal consequences. The Fourth Circuit deferred to the first letter in G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board, a 2016 decision reversing the dismissal of a transgender student's suit for bathroom access.[1] Four months later, a federal district court in Texas enjoined the letter on the ground that it changed the law and therefore was not merely an interpretive rule.[2] In October 2016, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Gloucester County.[3]
On February 22, 2017, the agency issued a new opinion letter that withdrew and rescinded the earlier two letters. It explained that the earlier letters "do not contain extensive legal analysis or explain how the position is consistent with the express language of Title IX, nor did they undergo any formal public process." The Supreme Court then vacated and remanded Gloucester County back to the Fourth Circuit to reconsider its decision in light of the new letter. In the meantime, several states including Massachusetts have stepped up to fill the void in transgender rights left by the agency's most recent action.[4]
Recent Regulations: The Congressional Review Act
Regulations enacted during the final months of the Obama administration were susceptible to rescission via the Congressional Review Act, a 1995 law enacted as part of Newt Gingrich's Contract with America to encourage greater legislative oversight of agency rulemaking.[5] The Congressional Review Act requires agencies to report to Congress whenever enacting a rule with a $100 million impact on the economy. Congress then has 60 legislative days to pass a joint resolution disapproving the rule. The Act provides expedited debate procedures, including a prohibition on filibusters. If both houses pass the resolution and either the president signs it or Congress overrides a presidential veto, the rule is voided and the agency is prohibited from issuing any rule "substantially the same" as the rejected rule.
In theory, the Congressional Review Act gives Congress greater oversight of agency action, restoring some of the power lost in INS v. Chadha[6] (which invalidated the legislative veto, a process that permitted the House or Senate to unilaterally invalidate certain agency action). But in practice, a successful joint resolution is exceedingly difficult to achieve, because absent a veto-proof majority, it requires the approval of the president, who is unlikely to agree to repeal one of his agencies' major rules. In fact, prior to President Trump's inauguration, the Congressional Review Act had been successfully deployed only once, to invalidate a 2001 Department of Labor ergonomics rule passed in the twilight moments of the Clinton administration and repealed shortly after President George W. Bush's inauguration.
But the current Congress successfully passed, and President Trump signed, a record fourteen resolutions of disapproval.[7] One of the most far reaching of these was the voiding of the Department of the Interior's Stream Protection Rule, which took effect on the final day of Obama's term. The rule would have prohibited mining practices that adversely affected streams and water supplies and would have required mining companies to restore streams and mined areas such that they could support all uses that they could have supported prior to mining activities. Congress passed a resolution of disapproval in January 2017 and President Trump signed it on February 16. As a result, the agency reports, the rule was nullified and "the regulations that are now in effect are the same as those that were in effect on January 18, 2017," the day before the new rule would have taken effect. The agency is "in the process of amending all the regulations altered by the Stream Protection Rule back to the form in which those regulations existed on January 18, 2017. When complete, these amendments will be published in the Federal Register."
Older Regulations: Notice and Comment Rulemaking
Older regulations may be rescinded primarily via the notice and comment process outlined in the Administrative Procedure Act—the same process the agency went through to enact the regulation.[8] First the agency must promulgate a notice of proposed rulemaking, which usually includes an explanation why the agency seeks to take action and the text of the rule the agency proposes to adopt (but in the deregulatory posture, it could instead identify the text the agency proposes to delete). The agency then must invite public comment, which occurs in two rounds: an initial comment period and a reply comment period. After the comment period has closed, the agency must review the comments filed and will ultimately issue a final rule, which becomes binding after publication in the Federal Register (and expiration of the 60-day Congressional Review Act clock).
Deregulation via notice and comment rulemaking differs in two important ways from the other avenues discussed above, both of which can potentially derail the agency's plans. First, the public has the opportunity to provide input into the agency's process. One need not be a lawyer to comment on a proposed rule, including a proposal to rescind an existing rule. Most open agency proceedings are listed at www.regulations.gov, where one can file a comment by uploading a document or even simply by typing into a text box and pressing "submit." This comment process is not merely window-dressing. By law, agencies must review and respond to these comments in its final rule. More specifically, while an agency need not address every point in every submission, it must respond to significant comments in a reasoned manner to show that the major policy critiques were considered by the agency.
Second, opponents can seek judicial review of the agency's decision. Like all final agency action, a decision to revoke or modify an existing rule is subject to review under the Administrative Procedure Act's "arbitrary and capricious" standard. In the deregulatory context, the touchstone case is Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association vs. State Farm Insurance Co., in which petitioners challenged the Reagan administration's rescission of a Carter-era rule mandating that cars contain either automatic seatbelts or airbags.[9] The Supreme Court explained that both adopting a new rule and repealing an existing rule change the legal baseline, and therefore in both cases the agency must "examine the relevant data and articulate a satisfactory explanation for its action."[10] Furthermore, because repeal involves a reversal of the agency's previous views on the issue, this explanation should include a discussion of why the agency had changed its position.
In State Farm, the Department of Transportation justified the repeal by arguing that, contrary to the agency's original estimate that 60% of cars would have automatic seatbelts and 40% would have airbags, the agency now believed that over 99% of cars would choose the seatbelt option. And this was problematic because new studies showed that most Americans would deactivate the automatic seatbelts, meaning the regulation would not measurably improve automobile safety. The Supreme Court unanimously vacated this repeal because the agency failed to explain why it did not simply adopt an "airbags only" rule instead, which, from a safety perspective, would seem to be a logical response if automatic seatbelts were deemed ineffective. The Court explained that the agency could repeal the rule completely, but it had to explain why it chose that path rather than the other options that were on the table.
Learning from State Farm, the Trump administration is beginning the notice and comment process to repeal select Obama-era regulations. One of the first out the gate is the Federal Communications Commission's notice of proposed rulemaking to repeal the classification of broadband providers as common carriers. In a series of orders between 2002 and 2005, the Commission had classified broadband access as a lightly-regulated "information service" under the Communications Act. In 2015, to bolster its legal arguments in support of net neutrality, the agency reversed those orders and instead classified broadband access as "telecommunications service" subject to common carriage regulations. The Commission's 2015 decision was a 3-2 party-line vote. The two dissenting Republican commissioners now constitute a 2-1 majority, and have proposed to repeal the 2015 decision. Consistent with State Farm, the notice of proposed rulemaking stresses the unintended consequences of the 2015 order, including a decline in broadband investment and a weakening of privacy laws. It also stresses that repeal would restore the agency's original classification, and thus draws upon the agency's prior deliberations to justify its current decision. Unsurprisingly, many of the comments have challenged these factual assertions, and the final rule must address these comments if the Commission decides to proceed with the repeal.
Politics and the Administrative Law of Deregulation
Of course, adhering to State Farm is a bit of a fiction. Ultimately, in these cases the agency has not suffered a change of heart, but of personnel. The Trump administration's decision to repeal Obama-era regulations stems from a change to a political regime that favors less regulation. The same was true of the Reagan administration's deregulation efforts, which drove the agency's position in State Farm. In partial dissent in that case, then-Justice Rehnquist suggested that the Court should call a spade a spade and allow politically driven reversals. He would have held that "[a] change in administration brought about by the people casting their votes is a perfectly reasonable basis for an executive agency's reappraisal of the costs and benefits of its programs and regulations."[11] The majority did not directly respond to this point, although one might argue that if it worked reciprocally, such an explanation would eviscerate judicial review of agency action. A general regulatory or deregulatory mood may explain an agency's broad goals, but it says nothing about why any particular rule is justified on the facts relevant to its merits. The Court was right to require a policy, rather than political, explanation for an agency's action.
Lessons for the Trump Administration
By reversing policy statements with which it disagreed and passing Congressional Review Act resolutions against Obama's eleventh-hour initiatives, the Trump administration has identified the low-hanging fruit in its deregulatory project. The lesson of State Farm is that repealing other, longer-standing policies will not be as easy. It will require agencies to undergo the same time-consuming process as they did to enact the rules that they seek now to undo—and to overcome similar opposition from those who support the status quo.
And this is where the Trump administration's focus on short-term gains may hurt its longer-term goals. As an initial volley against the administrative state, President Trump announced a government-wide hiring freeze.[12] As Obama-era employees departed, this attrition has left agencies short of the personnel needed to do the blocking and tackling required under State Farm. His proposed agency budget cuts compound the problem, by denying agencies the resources they need to implement deregulation.[13]
As he left office, President Harry S. Truman remarked of his successor, "He'll sit there and say, 'do this' and 'do that' and nothing will happen. Poor Ike—it won't be a bit like the Army." The Trump administration may soon learn a similar lesson the hard way. If the White House is serious about achieving lasting deregulatory change, it must do so methodically, on an agency-by-agency, regulation-by-regulation basis, and avoid securing minor budget victories at the expense of losing the agency resources necessary to effect that change.
[1] G.G. ex rel Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board, 822 F.3d 709 (4th Cir. 2016), vacated and remanded, Gloucester County School Bd. v. G.G. ex rel Grimm, 137 S.Ct. 1239 (2017).
[2] Texas v. United States, 201 F. Supp. 3d 810 (N.D. Tex. 2016).
[3] Gloucester County School Bd. v. G.G. ex rel Grimm, 137 S.Ct. 369 (2017).
[4] See Massachusetts Session Laws 2016 c.134, available at https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2016/Chapter134https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2016/Chapter134.
[5] 5 U.S.C. § 801 et seq.
[6] 462 U.S. 919 (1983).
[7] Pub.L. 115-4 (Feb. 14, 2017) (SEC Disclosure Rule); Pub.L. 115-5 (Feb. 16, 2017) (Stream Protection Rule); Pub.L. 115-8 (Feb. 28, 2017) (SSA Rule implementing NICS Improvement Act of 2007); Pub.L. 115-11 (Mar. 27, 2017) (NASA rule on government contracts); Pub.L. 115-12 (Mar. 27, 2017) (DOI rule on land use plans); Pub.L. 115-13 (Mar. 27, 2017) (Education Department accountability rule); Pub.L. 115-4 (Mar. 27, 2017) (Education Department teacher preparation rule); Pub.L. 115-17 (Mar. 31, 2017) (DOL Drug Testing Rule); Pub.L. 115-20 (Apr. 3, 2017) (DOI Rule on Alaska Wildlife Refuges); Pub.L. 115-21 (Apr. 3, 2017) (DOL employee injury recordkeeping rule); Pub.L. 115-22 (Apr. 3, 2017) (FCC Data Privacy Rule); Pub.L. 115-23 (Apr. 13, 2017) (HHS Title X rule); Pub.L. 115-24 (Apr. 13, 2017 (DOL rule on municipal savings plans); Pub.L. 115-35 (May 17, 2017) (DOL rule on state savings plans).
[8] See 5 U.S.C. § 553.
[9] 463 U.S. 29 (1983).
[10] Id. at 30.
[11] Id. at 59 (Rehnquist, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part).
[12] See Presidential Memorandum Regarding the Hiring Freeze, January 23, 2017, available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/23/presidential-memorandum-regarding-hiring-freeze.
[13] See President Trump's Taxpayer First Budget, available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/taxpayers-first; see Gregory Kreig and Will Mullery, Trump's Budget By the Numbers: What Gets Cut and Why, CNN.com, May 23, 2017, available at http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/23/politics/trump-budget-cuts-programs/index.html.
Daniel Lyons is an Associate Professor of Law (with tenure) at Boston College Law School, where he specializes in administrative law, telecommunications, and Internet law.
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Kyle Coffino is a Women's and Gender Studies major, in addition to pursuing two additional majors in Sociology (with a concentration in Criminology) and African and African Diaspora Studies. He has been awarded multiple honors including the Time Out Youth Tonda 2015-2016 Scholarship, the UNCG Class of 1955 Scholarship, and a WGS Course Cone Scholarship. When outside of the classroom, Kyle engages WGS scholarship through discussions with his peers and family and thinking critically about present-day events. Kyle says the most transformative idea he's learned in WGS is that "colonialism affects EVERYTHING" and that prior to WGS he never thought of its affects on today's society.


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The highly anticipated Regal Cinemas 13 will open in Lynbrook with a slate of events starting June 17. The grand opening is scheduled for June 21.
To address parking concerns near the theater, village officials changed some regulations, which are depicted above.
As the summer blockbuster season begins, Lynbrook's Regal movie theater will host a slate of grand-opening events from June 17 to 21, culminating with the premiere of "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom." The announcement came after a series of project delays.
The long-awaited Regal Cinemas 13, at 321 Merrick Road, will open to the public for the first time on June 17 with "Regal Family Fun Day," an event showcasing family-friendly films. On June 18, the theater will host "Movies You Love at Regal," presenting blockbuster films, and on June 19, superhero movies will be shown, with the theme "Superheroes for a Cause." The full schedule of movies and times can be viewed at regmovi.es/2LJlEVn.
The three-day event will include the showing of 10 recent releases and themed movies for $3 each. The theater will also offer $3 popcorn and $3 soft drink deals. All proceeds from June 17 to 19 will go to charities, including the Children's Medical Fund of New York, Variety the Children's Charity of New York and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Long Island. Showtimes were not available at press time.
On June 20, Regal is hosting a "Regal Reception," a private, invitation-only event that will include a movie screening. On June 21, the theater will have its official grand opening, with the first-run release of "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" and festivities that will include sweepstakes and giveaways.
The Regal Entertainment Group hired the Syosset-based Blumenfeld Development Group to complete the 83,022-square-foot, $21 million project. The new building replaces an antiquated movie theater that was closed in January 2016 and razed that August. Construction began shortly after the old building was torn down, but the project faced many weather-related setbacks.
Former Mayor William Hendrick had targeted a Thanksgiving 2017 opening, but the date had to be pushed back several times. The most recent delay was caused by issues with the building's standpipe system, which is a series of pipes that extend from the fire hydrant outside the theater and connect the water supply to the building's sprinkler system. Beach, who took office after Hendrick died last October, said the theater had to pass four inspections, including one by the county's fire marshal, before it could open.
At a public meeting on June 4, Building Department Superintendent Brian Stanton announced that the theater passed all inspections, and he gave Regal a certificate of occupancy. He also noted that the company began training its employees for the grand opening.
The theater has 13 auditoriums, 12 of which vary in size from 60 seats to 100. Six are on the first floor, and seven are upstairs. Auditorium 13 is a special Regal Premium Experience theater, which seats 160. RPX is comparable to an IMAX theater, with a larger screen and seats that can vibrate and have built-in speakers.
Amenities in the theater include king-size recliners with remote controls and padded footrests, digital projections with an emphasis on crystal-clear pictures, 3D projection systems, Regal Express kiosks that offer automated ticket purchasing and mobile tickets that can be sent to a smart phone via the Regal app. The only refreshment stand in the building is on the first floor, near the building's entrance.
One amenity that the theater will not offer, however, will be parking. The old building had 51 parking spaces in a lot adjacent to the theater, but because of the new facility's size, there no longer is a parking lot. Beach has expressed confidence that there will be enough parking, though, because most of the shops on Atlantic Avenue and the surrounding municipal lots are not in use during peak movie hours in the evenings and on weekends.
In addition, the company Impressive Parking struck a deal with village officials to provide valet parking. Cars will be driven to the nearby Pistilli building, at 303 Merrick Road, for $5 per vehicle. When the building is in use during the day, 50 spots will be available, and there will be 120 vacant spaces at night and on weekends.
In addition, Beach said, officials have an agreement with Regal that there must be 695 parking spaces in the village that permit four-hour parking for the theater so patrons can go to the movies without worrying about two-hour parking restrictions.


Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly says he has been told by doctors that he won't need to undergo chemotherapy or radiation treatment after having surgery to remove cancerous cells in his jaw.
Kelly says he found out the news on Wednesday.
He said he had the left side of his jaw and the teeth on that side of his mouth removed in surgery on June 7. Kelly was released from the hospital three days later.
He says he's scheduled for a follow-up with doctors in two months to see if the cancer stays away.
The American Cancer Society estimates about 2.2 million Americans are diagnosed with this form of cancer each year. The society adds that death from these types of cancers is uncommon. About 2,000 people die each year, and that rate is dropping.
Risk factors include smoking and alcohol consumption.
Kelly's diagnosis stems from pain he began experiencing in his jaw in December. He initially thought it was an infection, but grew concerned when antibiotics failed to help.
Tests eventually led to doctors removing a nickel-sized cyst from his gums and nasal cavity during an operation in early March. Follow-up tests revealed the cancer.
It's the latest operation Kelly has required over the past two years. He's also had surgery to correct back, neck and hernia problems.
Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2002, Kelly still holds nearly every significant career Buffalo Bills passing record: 35,467 yards, 237 touchdowns and 26 300-yard games.
Kelly spent 11 seasons with the Bills before retiring following the 1996 season, and has since made Buffalo his home. Known for his fearless, swashbuckling style, Kelly was the face of Bills teams that made four consecutive Super Bowl appearances in the early 1990s, only to lose them all.
Kelly intended to draw upon his faith and family, and the perseverance he's developed in facing other challenges in his life both on and off the field. Kelly's son, Hunter, was born with Krabbe disease, an inherited degenerative disorder of the central and peripheral nervous systems. Given little more than three years to live, Hunter died at the age of 8 in 2005.
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Florida Orchestra's 'Ravel & Brahms' shows how composers overcame writer's block
In works by Ravel and Brahms, and an opener, the composers' defeats of writer's block shine.
By Andrew Meacham
Published February 27 2016
Updated February 28 2016
TAMPA — Maurice Ravel started a composition in 1913. When World War I broke out, he fled Paris, leaving the musical sketches on his desk. Johannes Brahms took 22 years to compose Symphony No. 1 in C minor, in part because of the burden of high expectations.
Both composers triumphed, their work showcased this weekend in the Florida Orchestra's Masterworks concert, Ravel & Brahms, which opened at the David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts.
Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major, led by Spanish pianist Javier Perianes, was composed between 1929 and 1931, after he visited the United States and was influenced by jazz. Those pieces and an introductory composition, Andrew Norman's Unstuck, combined for an unusual theme assembled by music director Michael Francis — those periods when nothing worth saving comes out of the creative faucet.
The Ravel piece begins with piano and piccolo, a glissando sliding into a melodious segment that could be mistaken for Gershwin. Perianes is an emotive artist, capable of evoking growling discontent or meditative trance from the keys. He complemented the orchestra's plucked strings, floating flute and moody woodwinds, either with furious interludes or serene resolutions.
After giving one of the most memorable performances of the season and two curtain calls, Perianes gave a brief encore before intermission, from Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor.
The main event, Brahms' 45-minute Op. 68 from Symphony No. 1, came about between gaps from 1854 to 1876. Part of the problem was his talent. Brahms had been saddled at a young age with comparisons to Beethoven. He looked to composer Robert Schumann as a mentor, but in a complicating twist, also fell in love with the composer's wife, pianist and composer Clara Schumann.
All of those life events, including self-doubt and his unfulfilled bond with Clara, are reflected in four movements. Some 60 musicians filled Ferguson Hall with deep horns, full strings and briefly sweet violin and oboe solos. The resolutions in between, especially in the final movement, reveal the power of a musical mastermind.
The evening's most charming event might be the first, a 10-minute Unstuck. Norman, 36, is an architecture buff and 2012 Pulitzer finalist in music, who, according to his website, is "inspired by patterns and textures he encounters in the visual world." In 2008, Norman could not nail down a coherent structure for the piece he was composing. His epiphany came when he noticed a copy of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five on his bookshelf and remembered a key line from the novel: "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."
That line and Vonnegut's work itself, which jumps back and forth in time, inspired Norman to embrace the seemingly fragmented pieces of musical thought, rather than "overcome" them. The result is something to behold. In the first few minutes alone, Francis evokes furious clashing from strings and percussion, then a kind of melting sound, then a three-cello solo while the rest of the orchestra freezes in place.
Between all that, a herd of symphonic cattle get ready to stampede. You can feel them, about to make a mockery of some barbed wire fence. It's an amazing piece to begin a cleverly constructed program.
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THEOSOPHY, Vol. 83, No. 3, January, 1995
(Pages 71-74; Size: 10K)
INTELLIGENCE IN NATURE(1)
THE PRIMITIVE religions, all without one exception, reflect the most important of the once universal beliefs, such, for instance, as an impersonal and universal divine Principle, absolute in its nature, and unknowable to the "brain" intellect, or the conditioned and limited cognition of man. To imagine any witness to it in the manifested universe, other than as Universal Mind, the Soul of the universe -- is impossible. That which alone stands as an undying and ceaseless evidence and proof of the existence of that One Principle, is the presence of an undeniable design in kosmic mechanism, the birth, growth, death and transformation of everything in the universe, from the silent and unreachable stars down to the humble lichen, from man to the invisible lives now called microbes. Hence the universal acceptation of "Thought Divine," the Anima Mundi of all antiquity. This idea of Mahat (the great) Akâshâ ... is the oldest of all the doctrines now known to, and believed in, by man. Therefore they cannot be said to have originated with Plato, nor with Pythagoras, nor with any of the philosophers within the historical period. Say the Chaldaean Oracles: "The works of nature co-exist with the intellectual spiritual Light of the Father. For it is the Soul which adorned the great heaven, and which adorns it after the Father."
The Kosmos is "the Son" with Plato, having for his father and mother the Divine Thought and Matter. The "Primal Being" (Beings, with the Theosophists, as they are the collective aggregation of the divine Rays), is an emanation of the Demiurgic or Universal Mind which contains from eternity the idea of the "to be created world" within itself, which idea the unmanifested LOGOS produces of Itself. The first Idea "born in darkness before the creation of the world" remains in the unmanifested Mind; the second is this Idea going out as a reflection from the Mind (now the manifested LOGOS), becoming clothed with matter, and assuming an objective existence ("The Mind in Nature," H.P.B. Articles, II, 220-222).
The Active Power, the "Perpetual motion of the great Breath" only awakens Kosmos at the dawn of every new Period, setting it into motion by means of the two contrary Forces -- the centripetal and centrifugal forces, which are male and female, positive and negative, physical and spiritual, the two being the one Primordial Force --and thus causing it to become objective on the plane of Illusion. In other words, that dual motion transfers Kosmos from the plane of the Eternal Ideal into that of finite manifestation, or from the Noumenal to the phenomenal plane. Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form. They existed as Ideas, in the Eternity, and, when they pass away, will exist as reflections. Neither the form of man, nor that of any animal, plant or stone has ever been created, and it is only on this plane of ours that it commenced "becoming," i.e., objectivising into its present materiality, or expanding from within outwards, from the most sublimated and supersensuous essence into its grossest appearance (The Secret Doctrine, I, 282).
Occult philosophy reconciles the absurdity of postulating in the manifested Universe an active Mind without an organ, with that worse absurdity, an objective Universe evolved as everything else in it, by blind chance, by giving to this Universe an organ of thought, a "brain." The latter, although not objective to our senses, is none the less existing; it is to be found in the Entity called KOSMOS (Adam Kadmon, in the Kabbalah). As in the Microcosm, MAN, so in the Macrocosm, or the Universe. Every "organ" in it is a sentient entity, and every particle of matter or substance, from the physical molecule up to the spiritual atom, is a cell, a nerve centre, which communicates ... with the brain-stuff or that substance on the plane of divine Thought in which the prime ideation is produced. Therefore, was man produced in the image of God -- or Divine Nature. Every cell in the human organism mysteriously corresponds with a like "cell" in the divine organism of the manifested universe; only the latter "cell" assumes in the macrocosm the gigantic proportions of an intelligent unity in this or that "Hierarchy" of Beings. This, so far as the differentiated, divine Mind is concerned, on its plane of ideation. This eternal or ABSOLUTE THOUGHT -- lies beyond and is, to us, inscrutable ("Problems of Life," Lucifer).
The Doctrine teaches the Presence of a Universal Life (or motion) within which all is, and nothing outside of it can be. This is pure Spirit. Its manifested aspect is cosmic primordial Matter coeval with, since it is, itself. Semi-spiritual in comparison to the first, this vehicle of the Spirit-Life is what Science calls Ether, which fills the boundless space, and it is in this substance, the world-stuff, that germinates all the atoms and molecules of what is called matter. However homogeneous in its eternal origin, this Universal Element, once that its radiations were thrown into the space of the (to be) manifested Universe, the centripetal and centrifugal forces of perpetual motion, of attraction and repulsion, would soon polarize its scattered particles, endowing them with peculiar properties now regarded by Science as various elements distinct from each other ("Elementals," H.P.B. Articles II, 135).
Every member of this varied ethereal population, from the highest "Gods" down to the soulless Elementals, was evolved by the ceaseless motion inherent in the astral light. Light is force, and the latter is produced by the will. As this will proceeds from an intelligence which cannot err, for it is absolute and immutable and has nothing of the material organs of human thought in it, being the superfine pure emanation of the ONE LIFE itself, it proceeds from the beginning of time, according to immutable laws, to evolve the elementary fabric requisite for subsequent generations of what we term human races (Ibid., p. 127).
As soon as this privation of matter is transmitted by energy to universal Æther, it becomes a material form, however sublimated. ... The Vedantin and Buddhist Philosophies alike, speaking of it [the divine thought] as of Absolute Consciousness, show thereby that the form and progress of every atom of the conditioned universe must have existed in it throughout the infinite cycles of Eternity. And, if so, then it must follow that once there, the Divine Thought manifests itself objectively, energy faithfully reproducing the outlines of that whose "privation" is already in the divine mind. Only it must not be understood that this Thought creates matter, or even the privations. No; it develops from its latent outline but the design for the future form; the matter which serves to make this design having always been in existence, and having been prepared to form a human body, through a series of progressive transformations, as the result of evolution. Forms pass; ideas that created them and the material which gave them objectiveness, remain (Ibid., p. 140).
Every organized thing in this world, visible as well as invisible, has an element appropriate to itself. The fish lives and breathes in the water; the plant consumes carbonic acid, which for animals and men produces death; some beings are fitted for rarefied strata of air, others exist only in the densest. Life to some is dependent on sunlight, to others, upon darkness; and so the wise economy of nature adapts to each existing condition some living form. These analogies warrant the conclusion that, not only is there no unoccupied portion of universal nature, but also that for each thing that has life, special conditions are furnished, and, being furnished, they are necessary (Ibid., pp. 151-52).
IN THE HUMAN WORKSHOP
(1) NOTE--A collation of excerpts from H. P. Blavatsky's writings.


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If both the parties are having consent with each other regarding the transfer of land ,in that case the parties, after writing " agreement of transfer" come to the area patwari for entering the mutation the patwari enters the same in the register and will present the same before the revenue officer of area who further after taking the statement of concerned parties, the mutation by virtue of unregistered transfer is hereby accepted.
The registered transfer deed of land is made by the parties in the condition when the land of one party falls in the boundary limit of Municipal committee or Municipal Corporation and the land of other party falls in rural area. The rate of stamp duty will be charged on the value of land which is having more value than other land under exchange,whether it is urban or rural land/property. The patwari enters the mutation by virtue of registered exchange deed and presents before the area revenue officer and after listening to both the parties the exchange mutation is accepted.
The registry papers by the Registry officer are sent twice in a month to the Tehsildar and the patwari after entering the mutation , sent back to the tehsil office within a month through area kanoongo.
Mutation is done by the patwari within one month of receiving the registered documents. The area revenue officers have to take decision on these without disputed mutations within 3 months. The ancestral mutations are entered by the patwari through chowkidar register and the area revenue officer must give decision within three months. The disputed mutations will be decided by the Sub Divisional Magistrate or Asstt. Collector Grade I within 6 months.
There same is prepared after a period of five years and the jamabandi prefpared after five years consists the implementation of mutations of last 5 years upto 15th of June of that year.
Entry of revenue record in the tehsil office "
The same must be deposited in the Tehsil Office upto 7th of September.
The same are deposited in sadar office upto 30th of April.
Before depositing ion tehsil, the girdawar/kanoongo make initial inspection and in the months of Sept. the kanoongo makes its inspection. The inspection and final verification by the area revenue officer is made before 30th of April.
During preparation of revenue record, while taking record from last revenue record, if there is any minor clerical mistake then through fard badar it can be got corrected.
If the cultivation of any person is changed by mistake the he will present the application with copy of revenue record/cultivation record to the area revenue officer by affixing court fee of Rs. 1.25.
As per the instructions in para 3.21 of Punjab Land Record Manual, the revenue records etc. are prepared every year by the patwari, village wise,. After the girdawari/cultivation record of rainy every year and after winter girdawari,the changes are made as per need . The details of revenue/excess revenue/local rates/surcharge of every cultivator and if any person wants to get the detail of his share of revenues etc. are also given in the same .
For the demarcation of boundaries of land, one application on pucca paper in two copies is given to the area revenue officer and its one copy, after entering in the register, the area revenue officer will send to the concerned girdawar/kanoongo and it will be his duty to give the demarcation on the spot within one month. The area revenue officer will give date to the applicant to present before him so as to know whether the work is completed or not and the applicant may inform him on that date. The revenue officer will make it sure that there should not be more than two presence of the applicant in this regard. The revenue officer will put satisfaction/acceptance note on the report of demarcation presented by the kanoongo of area and the file of demarcation will be kept in record within 15 days.
Date fixed for registry documents of sub registrar to be sent at Tehsil offices upto 16th.
2.Period of entry of additional Rainy girdawari 16th to 30th Nov.


Kratos Defense and Security Solutions Inc. said it supported a Sept. 7 test of a U.S. Navy anti-missile system by helping supply the stand-in for the enemy missile.
The Navy used an advanced short range ballistic missile target for its third test of the model AN/SPY-6(V) air and missile defense radar. The Navy plans to put the radar on its next-generation destroyer (known as the Arleigh Burke-class Flight III model). The new radar promises to deliver improved range, accuracy and reliability over the current SPY-1D(V) radar on destroyers.
The two-stage short range ballistic missile target was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, before it was acquired and tracked by the radar.
Kratos Space and Missile Defense Systems provided payload hardware including mechanical support structures, stabilizing fins, electrical event initiation systems, and staging and separation systems. In addition, Kratos personnel participated in mission planning, payload assembly, testing, target vehicle build-up and launch operations.
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While Turkish investments abroad rise
By GİLA BENMAYOR gbenmayor@hurriyet.com.tr
Turkey is waiting for foreign investors, recently feared to be intimidated by the "trustee mechanism," but at the same time Turkey's international investment trend is rapidly increasing. I personally witnessed this trend last week in both Munich and Paris.
First I was in Munich, where Stepevi, a prominent company in the carpet sector in Turkey, opened its sixth store abroad, actually on one of the city's most popular streets. Their first store abroad was opened 10 years ago in London. Since then, Stepevi has opened other stores in Paris, Milan, New York and Geneva, cities that have a high welfare level and closely monitor design and fashion. The company opened its stores in the most posh neighborhoods of these cities.
Behind this success of Stepevei abroad is no doubt the merging of centuries-old carpet tradition with modern design, technology and innovation. Their factory where 1 million square meters of carpet has been woven is the biggest integrated factory in Europe. The founders of the Stepevi brand, Ayşegül Yürekli Şengör and Cem Şengör, said the cost of opening a store abroad is between 1.5 and 2 million euros. Stepevi gains 70 percent of its turnover from overseas. You can see its products today in a wide spectrum, from hotels in Dubai to luxury lofts in Manhattan and all Cartier stores.
Right after the Munich visit, there was a meeting in Paris on the economic cooperation between Turkey and France.
One of the speakers in the meeting was Yıldırım Group CEO Yüksel Yıldırım. He said they bought 20 percent of French maritime giant CMA and added $600 million of capital. This group became the biggest port manager in Turkey. It has 20 ports and terminals around the world. Seven of them are in Portugal, two of them are in Spain and one of them is in Peru.
Meanwhile, with a $750-million investment in Ecuador, they are preparing to build the biggest container port in Latin America's Pacific coast. The group bought Eti Krom in Turkey, which made them the fourth biggest chrome producer in the world. They have just bought coal mines in Colombia.
The Yıldırım Group has investments from Colombia to Sweden and Kazakhstan, and now they will have new investments in Gabon.
Turkey has many investors like Yıldırım who take bold steps in the global extent but who are not in the media very often.
Another speaker at the Paris meeting, Global Holding head Mehmet Kutman, is another one.
Kutman's Global Ports Holding is growing with giant steps abroad. The company has several partnerships in ports such as Barcelona, Lisbon, Malaga, Bar and Dubrovnik. Kutman said they were preparing for the Venice port bid with their partners and they were even going as far as Cuba.
While Turkey is waiting for foreign investors, its own investors are looking for opportunities in every corner of the world.
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Victoria Abrenica, of Spring Valley, attended the anti-offshore drilling event on Monday at Moonlight State Beach in Encinitas. "I think it's disgusting they want to drill out here," Abrenica said.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article has been updated to include additional information and quotes from Oceana's Brady Bradshaw.
ENCINITAS — A bipartisan group of delegates from across San Diego County gathered on Monday, April 15, at Moonlight State Beach to draw a figurative line in the sand in opposition to the Trump administration's proposal to expand offshore drilling operations along the California coastline.
The event, hosted by marine advocacy organization Oceana, was a significant milestone in the nonprofit's local conservation efforts after receiving unilateral support from County Supervisors Jim Desmond and Kristin Gaspar, as well as mayors and city council members from Encinitas, Del Mar, Solana Beach, Oceanside, San Marcos and San Juan Capistrano.
For the past several months, Bradshaw and others have attended city council meetings around the county to encourage local leaders to publicly oppose a Jan. 4 proposal by former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to develop the National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program (National OCS Program).
The federal program seeks to significantly expand oil and gas exploration and development by approving 47 lease sales — the largest number of lease sales in U.S. history — including seven new leases in California.
Additional leases would allow drilling access to nearly the entire U.S. outer continental shelf, making "more than 98 percent of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources in federal offshore areas available to consider for future exploration and development," according to a department release.
Since Zinke's announcement, Rep. Mike Levin (D-San Juan Capistrano), who currently serves as a member of the House Natural Resources Committee, has co-sponsored two bills in Congress — West Coast Ocean Protection Act (HR 310) and California Clean Coast Act (HR 279) — that would effectively ban offshore drilling on the West Coast and in California, respectively.
Bradshaw said that many state and federal leaders who were not invited to the press conference remain adamant in their opposition.
"Congressman Mike Levin, for example, is one of the leading members of Congress taking this fight to Washington, D.C. and he has not let up since coming into office," Bradshaw said.
At the municipal level, several North County cities adopted resolutions opposing offshore drilling, including inland cities Escondido and Vista, and more than 90 cities have passed similar resolutions statewide.
In February, the San Marcos City Council voted 3-2 to indefinitely table its resolution after several council members expressed concerns that adopting it could lead to a "slippery slope" of future requests to pass judgements on partisan and divisive issues.
Despite voting to strike the proposal, San Marcos Mayor Rebecca Jones attended Monday's press conference to express her opposition to offshore drilling expansion.
Desmond, a former mayor of San Marcos, said that increasing oil and gas production along the coastline could disrupt military operations and jeopardize the county's economy that relies on more than 143,000 active-duty soldiers training, living and working in the area.
Desmond also encouraged residents to say 'no' to offshore drilling expansion.
National City and Coronado are the only coastal cities in San Diego County that haven't passed an offshore drilling resolution.


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When security controls become theatre
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If you go to the supermarket today, it's highly likely that you'll find yourself in a line, two metres apart leading up to a person with a counter that looks like they'd literally be anywhere else than stood at the door counting people in and out of the store. Once you've made it past this Gandalf-like character shouting you shall not pass! It's straight into a labrynth of one way arrows, black and yellow tape, and people who look like they've been searching for the arrow that'll take them to the checkouts since the end of March. Welcome to the…
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Upon seeing the news earlier today that the budget airline Easyjet had been breached, my reactions (in order) were "Woah", followed by "Bloody hell", and finally "Not this **** again!" 9 million affected users, of which over 2200 may have had their credit card credentials compromised. Obviously Easyjet have apologised; informed the ICO and police; and are in the process of contacting customers. To my mind, this sounds eerily familiar to the MageCart attack that compromised British Airways back in 2018, leading to the breach of up to 380,000 customer's data including payment card details. Unfortunately for BA, just 22…
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I started this as a brief introduction, but in making sure I explained the fundamentals, I ended up writing pretty much a chapter of a book on Information Security. If you read this and you are saying "but you're telling my stuff I already know", lucky you! Risk management is one of the very first things I teach my junior analysts at the start of their careers; and it's something you should ensure your stakeholders understand. By giving them an appreciation of risk and its management, you're much more likely to be able to deliver your security messages effectively. You…
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Designing a company network to be secure isn't that difficult: A firewall here; a DMZ there; some next-generation technologies liberally sprinkled around; and a set of policies to ensure that systems are built securely and operated securely. At which point, you kick back in your chair, and bask in the sea of green that are your security dashboards. Sorry, you're not allowed to have it that easy, so here's a pandemic for you to deal with; and by the way, all your staff will now be working from home for the foreseeable future. If your company issues all its staff…
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As the scale of the Covid-19 epidemic became clear in the opening months of 2020, governments around the world began considering draconian restrictions on everyday life in order to contain the spread of the virus and ultimately limit the death rate as a result of it. However, in countries with a mature and functioning democracy, this wasn't just a knee jerk reaction, rather a legislative instrument that balanced the need to protect society with the need to protect individual freedoms. In the main, most western countries appear to have struck an appropriate balance. But what does this look like at…
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Towards a Relational Understanding of the Performance Ecosystem.
Davis, T., 2011. Towards a Relational Understanding of the Performance Ecosystem. Organised Sound, 16 (2), pp. 120-124.
This article seeks to form a deeper understanding of the performance ecosystem by drawing parallels with Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics and Guattari's conception of subjectivity as outlined in Chaosmosis. Through an examination of participation within performance, and a recognition of the mutability of the roles of performer, listener, instrument and environment in the creation of the music event, this article examines the place of subjectivity, the capacity for self-creation, in the formation of a group aesthetic. Such a concept places the creation of meaning not within the individual participant but rather within the relationship between participants in a situation, a relationship that recognises the interaction between individuals, societies and institutions in its production. Such a discussion helps further our understanding of the performance ecosystem as a conceptual tool.


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Regular councils extend outdoor dining.Amend lease salary increase contract
Normal, Illinois (WMBD) —Uptown Normal businesses can continue to offer outdoor dining as an option when servicing their guests.
On Monday night, the city council unanimously approved, and the mayor allowed the company to extend its outdoor dining program as a way to keep it running.
When the state was reopened and entered Phase 5, the town's emergency regulations were set to expire when the Governor's entire state emergency ended.
However, town staff said many companies had come forward and tried to recover from the pandemic closure and demanded an extension as a way to enable additional businesses.
City council members said it was a popular service and could only help the uptown bounce.
"A little homework I did after the packet came out was to talk to five different companies in Uptown, but everyone was very supportive and some were more in Uptown. I thought it would only help bring the business to life. People are still a bit sketchy about going out in public, "said councilor Kevin McCarthy.
The extension will expire on December 31, 2021.
Also on the agenda, the council approved a salary increase for the town manager, Pamela Reese.
According to a council packet, it dates back to April 1st and was based on her performance evaluation held at an executive session in March.
With unanimous approval, Reece's salary will increase from $ 190,550 to $ 196,266.50 in fiscal year 2020-2021 and from $ 196,266.50 to $ 201,000 in fiscal year 2021-2022.
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Looking for ways you can help?
St. Joseph Food Program: Volunteers needed for the garden on North Ballard Road in Appleton. Help build a fence on May 19 or plant the garden on May 26. Volunteers also needed to weed, water and harvest the garden Wednesdays starting May 30. Volunteer applications available at stjosephfoodprogram.com. Contact: Leah, 920-734-9461, ext. 313.
Riverview Gardens: A volunteer open house is planned for 5-6:30 p.m. June 5 at the community center, 1101 S. Oneida St., Appleton. For more information, visit riverviewgardens.org.
Feed the Body, Feed the Soul: Oshkosh Corp. repack event needs volunteers July 12-13 at Menominee Nation Arena in Oshkosh. Volunteers will pack rice and other food staples for families in need in northeast Wisconsin. There will be live music. Contact: Cassie, 920-427-9895.
Friendship Place: Is looking for people to help at a carnival for their members May 31. Run a fortune teller booth, face painting, photo booth, make balloon animals, and other carnival games. Shifts are 10:30 a.m.-noon or 1-2:30 p.m. Call Robbi at 920-729-9975 or email robbi.friendshipplace@gmail.com.
St. Vincent de Paul Appleton: Is seeking two to three volunteers 9-11 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Duties include processing clothing and furniture vouchers. Individuals should be comfortable with computers, adhere to guidelines, while operating with sensitivity and maintaining the confidentiality and dignity of those seeking SVdP serves. Contact Next Step Coordinator, Mary, or Mission Services Coordinator, Amanda, at 920-739-1679.
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Lara Putnam
Power and Inequality
Rethinking the Black Atlantic
Transnational Labor History of the Americas
Women in Latin America
PhD, University of Michigan, 2000
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"Rust Belt in Transition: What has happened in Pennsylvania's, and the entire Rust Belt's, "Middle Suburb" counties, and can it be reversed?" Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Summer 2020 print edition (no. 57)
With Jeremy Pressman and Erica Chenoweth. " Black Lives Matter beyond America's big cities: Here's the new geography of youth activism." Monkey Cage Blog, Washington Post, July 8, 2020,
With Erica Chenoweth and Jeremy Pressman. "The Floyd protests are the broadest in U.S. history — and are spreading to white, small-town America." Monkey Cage Blog, Washington Post, June 6, 2020.
With Theda Skocpol and Caroline Tervo, "Citizen Activism and the Democratic Party," In Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2020).
"'Resistance' Women Loved Elizabeth Warren. Here's Why Their Groups Didn't Fight for Her." The American Prospect, March 6, 2020.
"Iowa and Democratic Funders' Delusions," Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, February 6, 2020.
With Gabriel Perez-Putnam. "Grassroots Blossom Across America, Reshaping Country's Political Geography." American Communities Project, September 13, 2019.
"In Pennsylvania's Exurbs and Urban Suburbs, Political Organizing Has Been Intense Since 2016. What Could It Mean for 2020?" American Communities Project, August 06, 2019.
With Gabriel Perez Putnam. "How Today's Anti-Trump Protests Will Shape the 2020 Election." Washington Monthly, July 12, 2019
"The progressive base is more pragmatic than you might think." Vox, March 25, 2019
With Gabriel Perez-Putnam. "What Dollar Stores Tell Us About Electoral Politics." Washington Monthly, March 9, 2019
With Hahrie Han. "The best way for Democrats to win in 2020? By ignoring the candidates for now." Washington Post, April 29, 2019
"On Not Teaching Fast Enough, Far Enough." Association for Political and Legal Anthropology special series Speaking Justice to Power: Local Pittsburgh Scholars Respond to the Tree of Life Shooting, edited by Heath Cabot and Michal Rose Friedman.
With Theda Skocpol. "Accentuate the Activists." The New Republic, September 2018 print issue.
With Theda Skocpol. "Middle America Reboots Democracy." Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Summer 2018 print issue.
"There Is No Civil War." Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, May 2018.
"Digital Fixes Won's Solve the Democrats' Problems." American Prospect, April 2018.
"Who Really Won PA 18?" Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, March 2018.
"The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast." American Historical Review 2016 121 (2): 377-402.
Caribbean Military Encounters: A Multidisciplinary Anthology from the Humanities. Co-edited with Shalini Puri and Lara Putnam, eds. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
"Daily Life and Digital Reach: Place-based Research and History's Transnational Turn." In Debra Castillo and Shalini Puri, eds., Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age. University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
"Borderlands and Border-Crossers: Migrants and Boundaries in the Greater Caribbean, 1840-1940." Small Axe 42 (2014): 7-21.
"Citizenship from the Margins: Vernacular Theories of Rights and the State from the Interwar Caribbean." Journal of British Studies 53, no. 1 (2014): 162-191.
"To Study the Fragments/Whole: Microhistory and the Atlantic World," Journal of Social History 39, no. 3 (Spring 2006).
The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870–1960. University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Information Ecosystems: Creating Data (and Absence) From the Quantitative to the Digital Age
Across the humanities and social sciences, methods of knowledge production are being transformed by an extraordinary expansion of digitized information. This Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded Sawyer Seminar brings fourteen field-leading international scholars to Pitt over the course of the 2019-20 academic year, to set the present moment within a century-long history of information supply and its power-laden consequences.
We trace the interlinked processes through which the creation of data (and its absence) has played out both within society as a whole, and within the academic disciplines to which we turn for our understandings of societies, cultures, and individuals. How are information sources generated, to what end, and with what results for our collective ability to see—or to ignore? This in an inquiry into the social and political life of data, both within the academy and in the wider world.
The seminar reflects our conviction that for scholars across the humanities and social sciences, critical analysis of the factors shaping information supply is not an alternative, but rather a crucial complement, to advanced training in the application of quantitative, computational, and digital methods. Indeed, critical knowledge of context is fundamental to our ability to use tools mindfully for maximum leverage on our research questions.
Travels and Terrains: Transnational Approaches to the History of Race and Anti-Racism in the Post-Emancipation Atlantic World
The last decade has seen an outpouring of scholarship on the international history of racism and antiracism. The digitization of ever-greater swathes of the world's printed past, too, has made new research techniques possible. As a result, the international dimensions of struggles long studied within national frames have received new attention. We have gained vivid portraits of activists, organizations, and publications that linked far-flung sites. Yet in the process, topics deemed central by a previous wave of scholarship—like labor dynamics, land tenure, demography, and political structures—seem to have taken the back seat.
Which aspects of the historical development of race and capital do we understand better now that we are routinely remembering to look beyond borders? What are we failing to see? This essay traces different kinds of connections between Venezuela, Trinidad, and South Africa, and uses them as a springboard to examine the contributions and blind spots of recent work on the transnational histories of race and of capitalism.
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Andrés Ramos Mattei-Neville Hall Article Prize for 2014-2015 by Association of Caribbean Historians for "Citizenship from the Margins: Vernacular Theories of Rights and the State from the Interwar Caribbean," Journal of British Studies (2014)
32nd Annual Elsa Goveia Memorial Lecturer, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, March 2016
Radical Moves awarded special mention for Elsa Goveia Book Prize, Association of Caribbean Historians, 2013-2014
ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship, 2006
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Mayfield confirms shoulder surgery, Browns QB unsure on Week 18 status
Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield revealed after defeat to the Pittsburgh Steelers that he will undergo shoulder surgery during the offseason.
Mayfield has carried the problem – a torn labrum in his non-throwing left shoulder – since Week 2 of the season.
The 26-year-old has endured a difficult campaign, and was sacked nine times against the Steelers on Monday as Pittsburgh kept their playoff hopes alive. The Browns were already out of postseason contention before the game at Heinz Field.
Mayfield has been sacked 43 times across 14 games, up from 26 sacks in 16 appearances last season, while he has also been intercepted on five more occasions (13 to eight).
Only two quarterbacks – Joe Burrow (51) and Ryan Tannehill (46) – have been sacked more times this term.
His 3,010 passing yards is the lowest total of his career, with his tally of touchdown throws also a low mark (17), while his interception percentage of 3.1 ranks as the fifth-worst in the league.
Mayfield's season may now be over, with discussions set to take place within his camp on whether he will be available for the Browns' final game of the season against the Cincinnati Bengals, who have already clinched the AFC North.
"I'm an extremely competitive guy," Mayfield told reporters after Monday's game, in which he at one stage failed to complete a pass on 10 consecutive throws.
"Now it's time for me to start looking at what's in the best interest of me and my health. It's not gonna always be pretty or smooth, but I'm a fighter.
"If anybody ever questions how much I want it, just turn on this tape. It wasn't pretty, but I kept going, kept swinging; that's who I am, and that's what I will continue to be.
"I've continued to lay it out on the line when I haven't been healthy and tried to fight for our guys. Right now, I'm pretty damn beat up, to be honest with you. There's no way around it. I gave it everything I had tonight."
Next season could be Mayfield's last with the Browns. His rookie contract runs through the 2022 campaign.
Emma Raducanu news: Nightmare draw for British No.1 at Australian Open
Raducanu will be playing her first Grand Slam since her breakthrough win at the US Open last September.
Aston Villa vs Manchester United LIVE: Premier League team news, line-ups and more
Follow all the action from Villa Park
Football transfer rumours: Aubameyang to Juventus? Tielemans to Arsenal?
Football transfer rumours: Aubameyang to Juventus? Tielemans to Arsenal?. Today's rumours have been up against it from the get-go
'Nothing to lose, everything to gain' - Billings on his debut
Billings says his Test debut in the fifth Ashes test was "nothing to lose" and "everything to gain"
Novak Djokovic admits attending interview with journalist while Covid positive
The Serbian world number one called it an 'error of judgement'.
Novak Djokovic to be deported from Australia after losing visa challenge
Three judges at the Federal Court of Australia were unanimous in upholding the decision of Immigration Minister Alex Hawke.
England rugby star arrested on suspicion of rape – report
Daily Mail are reporting that an England international and a 41-year-old woman have been arrested after allegations of an attack at a nightclub.
Jurgen Klopp reveals 'long talk' with Curtis Jones over his potential at Liverpool
The 20-year-old has endured a difficult time since October
AFCON: Our selection of African rugby league players
With the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) currently taking place in football, we've decided to make a Dream XIII of African rugby league players.


In Artificial Satellites, early fluent readers learn about the construction and function of a variety of artificial satellites. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they learn about the fascinating man-made objects orbiting our planet. An infographic illustrates various types of orbit, and an activity offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about artificial satellites using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Artificial Satellites also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, a glossary, and an index. Artificial Satellites is part of Jump!'s Space Explorers series.