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How to Get Our Immigration Courts Back to Enforcing Federal Law
By Mark Metcalf and Hans von Spakovsky on May 18, 2017
Fox News, May 17, 2017
With the backlog of immigration cases hitting a record high of 585,930 cases in April according to Syracuse University, the initiative announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions last month in Nogales, Ariz., to hire more immigration judges is a vital step in bringing our immigration courts back to enforcing federal law. This includes the long overdue hiring of an additional 50 immigration judges this year and another 75 next year under a "streamlined" hiring process.
Now that Sessions has "already surged 25 immigration judges to detention centers along the border" and the Trump administration ended the Obama era "catch and release" policy, we may once again see U.S. immigration courts fulfilling their mission: trying the cases of those who have entered or remained here illegally.
Why are these moves important? Because the huge backlog of untried cases and the prior "catch and release" policy allowed many illegal aliens to disappear, never to be seen again. Their numbers are stark evidence of a breakdown in the immigration court system that only accelerated during the Obama years.
Ending the "catch and release" policy — a policy Border Patrol agents rightly refer to as the "catch and run" policy — was a critical first step.
"Catch and release" is the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) policy of arresting illegal aliens, giving them court dates, and then releasing them. Unsurprisingly, many of those released never showed for court.
The numbers tell the story. In 2016, 39 percent of aliens who were free pending trial failed to show up for their hearings. In 2015, 43 percent did the same. Over the past 21 years, 37 percent of all aliens the U.S. permitted to remain free before trial — some 952,000 people — were ordered removed for dodging court.
Courts are three times more likely to issue removal orders for evading court than removal orders from cases that were actually tried. Predictably, American immigration courts have the highest "failure-to-appear" rate of any court system in the country, averaging more than 45,000 per year.
This is why "surging" more judges to immigration detention facilities along our border is critically important.
Deploying judges who can swiftly conduct hearings to grant relief to the deserving and direct removal of offenders not only assures due process to all claimants, but it also serves to warn others away from illegal entry. In short, alert and empowered courts harden our borders.
Restoring the authority of immigration judges is just as important. At the end of 2008 — right before Barack Obama became president—federal immigration courts reported a backlog of 186,108 cases.
By the end of 2016, backlogged cases had increased 300 percent to 542,411, and now we have reached almost 586,000 cases. Much of this backlog resulted from procedural changes directed by Justice Department political appointees that radically slowed down court cases. In 2006, 233 immigration judges completed 407,487 cases. Yet in 2016, more than 270 judges completed only 273,390 cases.
At the same time that these Justice Department appointees nearly halted adjudication, DHS political appointees refused to enforce removal orders issued by the immigration courts. Today unexecuted removal orders stand at 953,506 — a 58 percent increase since 2002—and the great majority of these orders were issued to those who evaded court.
One final note of concern that few mention: From 2003 through 2015, 62,409 asylum applicants from the 36 "Specially Designated Countries" — countries that DHS designates as aiding and abetting terrorism — entered the U.S.
Forty percent of this group (24,975) received asylum. From the remaining asylum seekers, 3,095 never showed for their court hearings and were ordered removed. Within this group of absconders were 338 people from Iran, Sudan and Syria, countries the U.S. identifies as "State Sponsors of Terrorism."
Never has there been an accounting to Congress or the public about what became of these people from terrorist safe-havens who claimed asylum before disappearing into the United States.
On top of that, almost no one noticed another alarming fact that came out of former FBI Director James Comey's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 3. Comey said that out of over 2,000 "violent extremist investigations" about "300 of them are people who came to the United States as refugees."
The bottom line is that America has a well-organized immigration court system that can help secure our borders and remove violators while also redeeming the persecuted. But it works only if it has enough judges to handle its cases and if illegal aliens are detained, so they actually show up for court.
Eight years of intentional neglect can't be reversed overnight. But Jeff Sessions seems intent on making sure that all of this finally happens by empowering judges, prosecutors, and enforcement officers to do their jobs.
He is restoring common sense and effectiveness to an immigration court system that, until recently, had neither.
Topics: Immigration Courts, Attrition and Enforcement
Yet Another Caravan Forming to Test American Border Resolve
Migrants Chanting 'Biden! Biden!' Attempt to Rush Border
BIA Decision Highlights Difficulty in Identifying Asylum Fraud
Some Misunderstanding About the Qualifications To Be an Immigration Judge
BIA Decision Shows Congress Needs to Revise the Grounds for Removal
Misunderstanding the Numbers: Aliens Who Disappear Before Trial
U.S. Immigration Courts & Aliens Who Disappear Before Trial
Panel Transcript: Asylum Fraud and National Security


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'Tenet' Reviewed
Christopher Nolan's ongoing effort to make time a cinematic property
Christopher Nolan is fascinated by the ways in which time can be used to tell a story, to rejigger narrative, to help us understand ourselves. In a story, time is a tool like any other, a resource to heighten drama and obscure facts to manufacture surprise, all while exploring questions of identity and how we become the people we are. Eventually in Nolan's narratives time inevitably folds in on itself, collapsing, bringing the story to a single point in . . . time.
Consider Memento. Nolan, adapting a short story by his brother, Jonathan, tells a bipartite story—one strand following Leonard (Guy Pearce) in living color as we travel backwards in time to learn why he has killed Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) in the basement of an abandoned building; the other in black and white as Leonard explains to an unseen antagonist on the phone his "condition" (a form of amnesia that precludes the formation of new memories)—in an attempt to answer a quandary Leonard poses in the film's final moments: "I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there."
Are we defined by our actions or how we think of ourselves? How better to answer that question than by experiencing the world as Leonard does, mucking about with editing and structure and color to allow us to experience the world as he does? By restructuring a noir to show us the world through the eyes of a man with no immediate past and a distant memory revealed to be, ultimately, untrustworthy, we realize the question is even thornier and more complicated than it sounds.
Nolan's Inception and Dunkirk play with our conception of time as constant. The dream-within-a-dream conceit of Inception and the one week/one day/one hour structure of Dunkirk are not dissimilar, especially given the way that Nolan ends up collapsing these time frames in on each other—literally in the case of Inception, with its perpetually falling van, exploding elevator shaft, and collapsing snow base operating simultaneous levels of the dream; impressionistically in Dunkirk, with the one week on the beach serving as a sort of limbo or purgatory, a realm from which there is no escape. Men stripped of hope stare with dead eyes out into an endless expanse of water, foam flecking up on the beach, awaiting salvation in the form of a ship and a plane that are coming at some point in the future while we watch them languish in the present.
Nolan literalizes the concept of time as a three-dimensional space in Interstellar, a movie about relativity and time slippage and the horror of losing your family due to the vagaries of time. Time, time, time: It's everywhere in Interstellar, a movie less about movement through space than movement through moments. Nolan literally moves epochs around in a very real sense in this movie, using footage from a Ken Burns documentary about a Dust Bowl past to suggest one possible, blighted future. And that future itself slips and slides in fits and starts, ultimately doubling back to one collapsed NOW—the tesseract, the eternal library, the moment where Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) decides to leave Murph (Mackenzie Foy) and also where he tells Murph (Jessica Chastain) how to save humanity.
As one character in Interstellar puts it, "Time is relative, okay? It can stretch and it can squeeze, but—it can't run backwards. It just can't." What Tenet presupposes is: Maybe it can?
Review: Tenet
Tenet is the culmination of Christopher Nolan's fascination with time, an audacious and gaudy effort to make it run backwards and forwards simultaneously on the biggest screen possible with the loudest speakers imaginable. It's aggressively complicated, from the basic plot to the science underpinning what we see on screen to the logical paradoxes that threaten to pull the rug out from underneath the movie at every point. Indeed, one character wearing a shiny white lab coat trying to explain "inversion"—the process by which our characters can manipulate objects and make them reverse their entropy, thus seeming to move backward through time—suggests that the nameless Protagonist (John David Washington), and by extension the viewer, not think too hard about it. Just let it flow over you. Just feel it. Just go with the flow . . . of time.
Occasionally Nolan's ambition may have gotten the better of him here. Particularly in the film's final set piece, where a combination of "inversion," mask-wearing, and questionable sound-mixing renders the action onscreen almost indecipherable. You can feel him trying to do something we've never seen before; the action in this portion of the film is aggressively new, tinkering with our perceptions and forcing our brain to try to process the cinematic splendor before us in a radically nonlinear way. Seeing two characters attack the same building at the same instant while moving through different, well, streams of time, I guess, is mind-bending. It is a pure and literal manifestation of Nolan's obsession with chronology, a use of the tools and tricks of cinema to show time flowing in both directions at once.
I'll be honest: I'm not entirely sure it works.
And yet, there was something so wondrous about seeing a big-ass movie on a big-ass screen directed by a guy who simply knows how to make a big action set piece sing. I was literally just sitting in the IMAX auditorium with a big grin on my (masked) face during the opening assault on an opera house in Russia as Protagonist's CIA team sweeps in to exfil an undercover agent who has been made by the bad guys. The tracking shots, the swooping cameras, the movement, the compact hand-to-hand action, the big explosions: It was just glorious to get to watch something awesome and audacious on a 50-foot screen after watching six months of The Old Guard and Extraction and Greyhound—fine films all, but films that absolutely could have doubled as mid-budget BBC series without anyone really noticing—on a 60-inch plasma.
Tenet's complications are smoothed by Nolan's wry sense of humor. There's a knock on Nolan that his movies are bereft of humor, that they're too dark and dour. I don't know where this comes from, but it's nonsense: from the robots TARS and CASE in Interstellar to the gags in the Batman movies about hockey pants and the rich going broke differently and "death by exile" all the way back to the bit in Memento where the hotel clerk has rented Leonard two different rooms in order to earn a few extra bucks, there's a very dry, very British sense of humor underpinning his work.
And Tenet is no exception. The bit in the trailers about crashing an airplane into a building—"Don't be so dramatic," Neil (Robert Pattinson) says, when Protagonist balks—is an obvious point of comedy. But there's more elsewhere; pretty much the whole five-minute stretch of the movie where Protagonist meets with Sir Michael Crosby (Michael Caine) in a yacht club is class-as-comedy gold. It helps that Washington has excellent comic timing; without spoiling the punchline, a suggested vacation destination for Kat (Elizabeth Debicki) and her billionaire arms-dealing husband Sator (Kenneth Branagh) is literally laugh-out-loud funny.
Tenet is ambitious and messy and big and bold. Nolan's reach might have occasionally exceeded his grasp, but what a joy to see him reach. It's a movie worth seeing in theaters on as large a screen as possible.
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Nolan, Ranked
This isn't a ranking of Christopher Nolan movies, exactly. At least not by quality. It's a ranking of Christopher Nolan movies you should watch ahead of this movie in particular, a suggested syllabus if you want a primer on the films that best reflect the concerns of Tenet. His movies from least- to most-interested in time. (If I could find the movie streaming for free, I included a link to the service it's streaming on; otherwise, I went with VOD.)
10. Insomnia (HBO Max)
9. The Dark Knight Rises (VOD)
8. The Dark Knight (VOD)
7. Batman Begins (HBO Max)
6. Following (The Criterion Channel)
5. The Prestige (VOD)
4. Dunkirk (VOD)
3. Inception (Prime)
2. Memento (Kanopy)
1. Interstellar (FX Now)
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For over 80 years, victory, legend, and tradition have been part of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's 500 mile race. At this year's 100th running of the Memorial Day Classic, a legendary name is planning to return.
Eddie Sachs Jr., owner of Eddie Sachs Racing, is the son of famous racer and personality Eddie Sachs. The senior Sachs, who lost his life in a 1964 crash at the 500, is memorialized as one of the top contenders in USAC Sprints, Midgets and IndyCar, and accepted as the fan favorite during the 1960's golden era.
Sachs Jr., has expanded ESR adding a CFO, marketing head and president to his organization. The goal is to find others interested in partnering to return the Sachs name to the Speedway.
"The pull in my heart to compete at Indy has always been a part of me", revealed Sachs Jr. "Though ESR has been competing in USAC Silver Crown and Sprints since 2010, and Midgets for a bit longer, we recognize the finances necessary to fully compete at Indy are significant.
The 'Road to Indy', as most veterans know, was the path taken by a host of great drivers including Foyt, Mears, and the Andrettis. The sometime treacherous journey evolved from the grass routes of competition into USAC Midgets, Sprints and eventually the Indy 500. It was a different time, and considered by many, a more enjoyable era.
Many believe the ESR story will resonate across an extensive audience of race fans and the public; pushing back marketing constraints because of its true-life narrative and power to touch a huge physiographic profile of people.
Fans can look for the Eddie Sachs name to be back at the 100th running of the INDY 500 - the largest single-day sporting event in the world – broadcast throughout the world.


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Fortune names Apple's head of retail Angela Ahrendts #4 in 2013 list of top executives
Cody Lee on November 21, 2013
Last month, Apple announced that it had finally found its new head of retail after nearly a year of searching. Her name is Angela Ahrendts, the current CEO of British fashion house Burberry, and she's believed by many to be a great choice.
And apparently Fortune agrees. The business news outlet has named Ahrendts #4 in its 2013 list of top executives. The list is an annual affair, and is filled with execs who defied expectations, led big turnarounds, and delivered big results…
Here's what Fortune had to say about Apple's incoming retail leader:
"Ahrendts was already having a banner year as the CEO of British fashion house Burberry. The stock was up 29%, vs. the FTSE 100's 10%, despite fears of a slowdown in greater China and continued ennui in Europe — when she shocked the luxury and tech worlds with news that she was decamping to Cupertino, Calif., to head up Apple's retail and online stores. Ahrendts takes the reins in 2014, and she will oversee an operation with some $20 billion in annual sales (compared with Burberry's $3.2 billion)."
Ahrendts's new role makes her the top woman executive at Apple, and her success will be no easy feat. Remember that the company's previous SVP of retail, John Browett, lasted less than a year before he was ousted by Tim Cook last fall.
But hopes are high for Angela, who many believe will help lead Apple into the future where wearables and other fashion-meets-tech products are expected to be popular. Ahrendt knows fashion, knows retail and knows how to be successful.
Here's Tim Cook on the hire:
"I am thrilled that Angela will be joining our team," said Cook. "She shares our values and our focus on innovation, and she places the same strong emphasis as we do on the customer experience. She has shown herself to be an extraordinary leader throughout her career and has a proven track record."
Speaking of Cook, he made Fortune's 2013 list of top executives as well. The CEO came in at #47—a huge drop from last year's #2 spot—because Fortune says that Apple—who is the world's most valuable company—didn't have a good year.
Ahrendt will officially start at Apple in the spring of 2014.
Angela Ahrendts starts role as SVP of Retail and Online Stores at Apple
Cook to troops: Apple to "elevate" its in-store and online shopping experiences
Angela Ahrendts apparently not interested in taking the reins of another company
Checkra1n for Linux is purportedly almost complete
A roundup of some of our favorite tech deals from around the web
iTunes movie deals: Clerks, Hackers and Reservoir Dogs under $5, music movies under $8, It Chapter Two under $10, and more
EA is retiring its Tetris iOS games in April 2020


Barbara Jean Green, age 89, passed away at Hospice Inpatient Unit at UVMC, in Troy on July 17, 2018. She was born December 25, 1928 in Troy, Ohio to Oscar and Mary (Williams) Elifritz.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her loving husband of 41 years, Charles (Bud) Green, daughter, Becky Green, son, William Ray Green, two sisters, Linda Morrison and Peggy Casey.
She is survived by one daughter, Sheila (Doug) Maclin, one granddaughter, Monica (Chris) Durand, one great grandson, Logan Durand, one great granddaughter, Brittany Durand and one sister, Delores Welbaum of Nipomo, California.
Barbara had worked at the Famous Store in Troy during her high school years, was a manager of Burger Chef in Vandalia, and was a motor route carrier for the Troy Daily News for many years.
She enjoyed crafts, gardening and being with family.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, July 23, 2018 at 12:00 Noon at the Baird Funeral Home, Troy, with burial at Casstown Cemetery in Casstown, Ohio.
Visitation will be on Monday from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM at the funeral home.
Contributions may be made to your favorite charity. Condolences may be expressed to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome.com.


When you take out the metal screen, is there a special gasket you need for that?
From what I was told by the PO, he did the jet kit from dynojet, but removed it for the stock setup, as he said it felt mroe powerful. I did get the whole jet kit in the spare parts bin, Should I change anything out? I do have a full Yoshi RS3 exhuast from what I was told from another thread on here.
By metal screen, you mean the screen in the intake? Leave that alone. There isn't any really benefit to removing it. Without it, the possibility exists for the bike to catch on fire in the event of a back fire.
Use a normal filter made for the bike.
The bike has to be running too lean if it has the stock jets with a pipe and 3x3 . You should re-install it.
The screen I was referring to is the hidden metal screen in the oil.


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William F. Whalen, III
William F. Whalen, III, 85, of Pennsburg, widower of Margaret M. (Dolan) Whalen, with whom he shared 48 years of marriage, died on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Cedar Crest.
Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, he was a son of the late William F., Jr. and Rachel (Manning) Whalen.
He was employed as a Territory Sales Manager, selling leather goods for Buxton Leather Goods, retiring in the late 1990's. He earned his Bachelor's degree from American International College, Springfield, Massachusetts. He was a U.S. Marine, having served during WWII and the Chinese invasion.
He was a member of Most Blessed Sacrament Church in Bally. He was an avid fly fisherman, bird and deer hunter, loved camping, traveling to Maine and the outdoors. Most of all he loved his family.
Surviving are two children, Michael K. Whalen and his wife, Stacy, of Bechtelsville, and Kathleen A. Schirmer, and husband, Commander Paul E., of Annapolis, Maryland; five grandchildren: Angela, Tara, Hunter, Aleka and Jared; and a sister, Betty Jane Lynch of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He was predeceased by a sister, Jean Tremblay.
A funeral mass will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, June 8, 2012 at Most Blessed Sacrament Church, 610 Pine Street, Bally with Msgr. Edward J. Coyle officiating. The burial will follow the service in the church cemetery. A viewing will be held from 9:00 to 10:45 a.m. in the church.
Arrangements are entrusted to Mann-Slonaker Funeral Home, East Greenville. Offer words of comfort to the family at www.mannslonakerfuneralhome.com.
Memorial contributions may be made on his behalf in memory of his wife Margret to University of Philadelphia, Cancer Center at Gifts Accounting & Administration, University of Pennsylvania, Franklin Building, 3451 Walnut Street, Room 433, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6205 and in his memory to The Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20420.


The naval ensign is like the national flag, but white.
The Naval Division of the Royal Fiji Military Forces was formed in 1974, four years after independence. As of about 3 years ago, the Fiji Navy had 6 patrol and coastal craft, 1 training vessel, and a presidential yacht (the Cagidonu). Fiji has traditionally relied heavily on New Zealand for defence arrangements, but since independence most of Fiji's army has been overseas on UN assignments. Apparently this is a major source of revenue for Fiji.
National Defence: 3600 men (91.7% in Army and 8.3% in Navy). White Ensign. Source: Encyclopaedia Universalis Yearbook, 1998; flag as reported in Album des Pavillons 1990.


This is by far my new favorite make-ahead morning treat. It's all the warm and cozy feels, served up with a buttery, caramely drizzle. Need I say more?
The first time I made baked oatmeal I was a little disappointed, it tasted bland and plain. I had such high hopes, but I didn't give up, and I'm so glad I didn't because this baked oatmeal is it! Sweet, but not overly sweet, oh so filling, and delicious. And want to know what else I love about this recipe? You don't even have to wait for the oven to preheat. You put it in a COLD oven. SO easy!
But the very best part of this baked goodness…a brown butter glaze.
As a kid growing up there was always a debate in our house—well, we debated a lot of things— but this particular debate: to butter oatmeal or to not butter oatmeal? I remember my dad always sneaking a pat of butter into his bowl of oatmeal—guess you know which side of the debate he was on! Perhaps you aren't on team butter for your oats, that's ok! But ya'll…butter and baked oatmeal were made for each other, and better still? Make it brown butter–all rich and toffee-like–it's breakfast as it should always be. And alas you also see why this blog will never be called the skinny pumpkin!
To make your life even easier, you can brown the butter ahead of time and just reheat it to drizzle the morning of, it's delightful.
One last little thing, this recipe is so versatile, you can make it with whatever berries you have on hand, or say you don't have any, mix in a teaspoon of cinnamon into the dry ingredients, yum!
Whisk together the eggs, oil, milk, yogurt and vanilla. In a separate bowl, whisk together the oats, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Combine the egg mixture and the oat mixture. Pour half of the oat mixture into an 8×8 baking dish.
Sprinkle on half of the berries. Pour on the rest of the oat mixture.
Sprinkle on the remaining berries, and gently stir just to cover the berries. Then cover and refrigerate overnight.
In the morning put the dish into a cold oven, and bake at 350 degrees for 40 to 45 minutes.
Serve with brown butter glaze and enjoy every wholesome yummy bite!
While oats are baking or the night before, brown butter for drizzling–please don't skip this step–it's just so good. If you have never browed butter, this tutorial from Jessica at How Sweet Eats is excellent! Trust me, you need brown butter in your life.


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With two weeks to go before the start of lectures, I had the perfect opportunity to explore Italy! I perused the new trustroots.org site to see what interesting people and places I could find, and what a treasure I found! A remote little village by the name of Trassilico, located in the Apuan Alps. To get there I found a car share from Venice to Lucca (a rather peculiar city entirely enclosed by a great big wall), took the train north to Gallicano for an hour. Next was a drive along the winding route up and up and up to the mountain tops for another half hour, swaying from side to side, the view increasing in spectacularity. In close proximity were even greater mountains, capped with snow. Sound familiar? And little did I know that the couple I was staying with had only moved to this haven at the beginning of the year, from Innsbruck! It was almost as if I was still in Austria, hearing German again and minding my steps in the snow and ice. Not only that, but by night I could see the lights of Barga, a not so far away town, "the most Scottish town in Italy".
Trassilico is incredibly peaceful, with alleys too small for cars to drive down, and houses hobbled on top of each other. 1000 or more people used to live there, but now only 70 or so remain, the young leaving the old behind, and a lot of empty and ruined homes which are possibly owned by your uncle's cousin's neighbour's nephew. For some, the perfect opportunity to buy a piece of land and a house, and live the sustainable dream. There was a tranquility about Trassilico, sitting up high ever so still and peaceful, especially at the summit where the fortress lies. Dramatic sunrises and sunsets are the norm in Tuscany, pink and velvet, red and velour, and at the right time of year the sun sets through a perfect hole carved into of one of the mountains. Taking a shower involved looking over terracotta tiles and mountaintops. I didn't have any idea of the time, most of the time. I simply slept, helped with errands like log piling and gardening, went for walks and read. I finished Amanda Palmer's book, The Act of Asking, and I want to give and love and hug everyone. (Would anyone like to Ask me for it?) I learnt so much from my very generous hosts, especially in knowledge, from thoughts on GM crops to making art out of money. In the past they had created rather striking artwork with a variety of different valued notes, and watched the people all stare and gather around their work, simply because people are drawn to money, whether they like it or not. On another occasion they gave out doodled and cut up €5 notes in return for €3 entry. They inevitably made a loss. They didn't mind.
South to Batignano was the next port of call. Getting there involved a 2 hour hike down a mountain bike route, uncertain if I was going the right way but presuming that as long as I kept going downwards I'd eventually end up somewhere. Technically I suppose I didn't, because all that I found was two dead ends, daunting private signs and weird industrial looking plants next to a river. I scrambled my way up a hill and came to a main road, and a lucky guess led me to Gallicano and the train station beyond. I reached Grosseto a few hours later, via a change in Pisa, unfortunately not long enough for me to hunt down the tower that leans. Knowing that the bus to Batignano leaves a few minutes after the train arrives I quickly figured out how to use the ticket machine and jumped onto the bus, rather impressed with myself. But suddenly a familiar face appeared and it took me more than a moment to realise it was my friend! I shouldn't have gotten on the bus at all, but I had no internet all day to check my email. We dashed off to arrive in another stunning setting, this time a home that had originally been a convent. The Sun had just set and I had foolishly assumed that the brightest object in the sky must be Jupiter. I was immediately corrected, for it was Venus, with the distinctly red Mars directly above. Yet Jupiter was in fact up there, behind me, with Saturn too. Four planets at once, seen all with the naked eye! Never have I seen such a thing.
The following week was filled with eating beautiful food, drinking an unlimited supply of wine and helping with things like weeding, olive tree pruning, and mending a torn up quilt. By day the convent revealed itself to me in a completely new light. My friend is apprentice to a sculptor, thus pieces of stone are found dotted around the place in every form, from rough and ginormous to chiselled and fine. More dramatic sunsets. I found myself standing by the window one evening for about half an hour, unable to avert my gaze. The heavens just wouldn't stop giving. I cut my hair, all but one dread, and I still can't stop running my fingers across my scalp. In fact, nobody even noticed that I had done such a thing, until I couldn't take it more and finally announced at lunch time, "has nobody noticed that I cut my dreads!?!" The winds came, la tramontana, greeting us all the way from Serbia. As the winds crescendoed I did more sewing and as they diminuendoed I did more weeding. The conversation was nothing less than stimulating; we discussed evolution, psychology, Buddhism, the history of the convent (involving Napoleon and potentially Galileo)… all in great depth. There wasn't a topic that one of us knew nothing about.


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The Challenge of Stability and Security in West Africa
By Alexandre Marc
This book seeks to critically examine the challenges of fragility and security in West Africa, along with the factors of resilience. It seeks to investigate key drivers of conflict and violence, and the way in which they impact the countries of the subregion. Along with emerging threats and challenges, these include the challenge of youth inclusion; migration; regional imbalances; extractives; the fragility of political institutions and managing the competition for power; security; and land. The book explores how the subregion, under the auspices of the regional organization ECOWAS has become a pioneer on the continent in terms of addressing regional challenges. This book also seeks to identify key lessons in the dynamics of resilience against political violence and civil war, drawn from countries such as Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Cote d'Ivoire that can be useful for countries around the world in the midst of similar situations. Finally, it draws on knowledge and findings from a series background papers written by leading experts, and provides insights from the perspectives of academics and development practitioners
1 An Overview of Conflict and Violence in West Africa
The Nature of Violence and Conflict in West Africa
The Rapidly Changing Nature of Violence in West Africa
2 Addressing Emerging Threats: Trafficking, Maritime Piracy, and Religious Extremism
The Scourge of Narcotrafficking
Maritime Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
The Rise of Religious Extremism in West Africa
Recommendations for Addressing Emerging Threats
3 Tackling the Complex Challenges of Youth and Migration
The Challenge of Youth Inclusion: Promise or Peril?
Migration: A Subregion on the Move
4 Redressing Regional Imbalances and Distributing Mineral Resource Revenues More Equitably
The Time Bomb of Regional Imbalances
Avoiding the "Resource Curse" by Recognizing and Addressing Social Grievances
5 Managing the Competition for Power in Order to Reduce the Fragility of Political Institutions
The Postcolonial Centralization of Power
Military Coups
The Lost Decade: The Unexpected Impact on Democratization
The End of the Cold War and the Collapse of the State in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, and Sierra Leone
Difficult Steps toward Democratization
Citizen Engagement: A Call to Action
Citizenship and the Ethnicization of Politics
Recommendations for Reducing the Fragility of Political Institutions
Annex 5.A: Political Leadership in West Africa
6 Reforming the Security Sector
Authoritarianism, Ethnicization, and the Degradation of the Security Forces since Independence
Human Rights Violations, Abuse of Power by the State, and the Weak Rule of Law
Defense Budgets in West Africa
Challenges of Reform
Areas in Need of Reform
Recommendations for Reforming the Security Sector
7 Addressing the Challenges of Legal Pluralism and Improving the Management of Land
The Challenge of Legal Pluralism
Options for Land Management
Recommendations for Addressing the Challenges of Legal Pluralism and Improving the Management of Land
8 Lessons in Resilience: Learning from the End of the Conflicts in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d'Ivoire
Descriptions of the Conflicts
9 Improving the Way Donors and Development Agencies Support Stability
Integrating the Stability Dimension into the Planning of Development Policies
Supporting Institutional Development
Using Development to Support Lagging Regions
Strengthening Local Governance
Improving Land Management and the Management of Extractives
Improving Prospects for Youth and Displaced Persons
Supporting Security Sector Reform and Strengthening Justice and the Rule of Law
Increasing Transparency, Strengthening Accountability, and Supporting Regional Institution Building
1.1 Violence after the End of the Cold War
1.2 Legacy of Guinea-Bissau's Protracted and Violent Anticolonial Insurgency
1.3 Theories of Civil War and Political Violence: Greed versus Grievance
1.4 Overlapping Forms of Violence in Nigeria
1.5 Guinea-Bissau's Fragility Trap
1.6 Subregional Conflict Systems: The Example of the Mano River Basin
2.1 Niger: Holding Fast in a Troubled Neighborhood
4.1 Lessons from Ghana on Transparency in Extractives
5.1 Citizen Participation as a Lever of Good Governance
5.2 The Politicization of Ethnicities in Guinea
6.1 Centers of Excellence for International Peacekeeping in West Africa
6.2 A New Chapter for Guinea-Bissau
6.3 Sustained Reform of the Security Sector in Sierra Leone
6.4 Senegal: A Model for Civil-Military Relations
8.1 The Important Role of ECOWAS in Developing West Africa's Security Architecture
8.2 Women's Role in Peacebuilding in West Africa
1.1 State-Based Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa, by Subregion, 1960–2012
1.2 Fatalities from Organized Violence in West Africa, 1989–2012
1.3 Estimates of Fatalities from Organized Violence in East, Central, and Southern Africa, 1989–2012
1.4 Combination of Drivers That Created and Sustained Conditions for Civil War in Côte d'Ivoire
1.1 Conflict Systems in West Africa
2.1 Flow of Cocaine from Latin America via West Africa to Europe
2.2 Piracy Incidents in the Gulf of Guinea, 2012
3.1 Intraregional Migration within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
1.1 Selected Conflicts in West Africa
2.1 Estimated Value of Flows of Some Trafficked Goods in West Africa
4.1 Access to Electricity and Education in the North and South of Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria
4.2 Access to Electricity and Education in Nigeria, by Ethnicity and Religion, 2008
4.3 Access to Electricity and Education in Côte d'Ivoire, by Ethnicity and Religion, 2013
4.4 Access to Electricity and Education in Ghana, by Ethnicity and Religion, 2009
4.5 Gross Domestic Product and Significance of Extractive Industry Investment in West Africa, by Country, 2005 and 2012
5.1 Fatalities as a Result of Election-Related Violence in West Africa
5.2 Successful Military Coups in West Africa since 1960, by Country
5A.1 Election-Related Violence in West Africa, 1990–2013
5A.2 Manner in Which Longest-Serving Leaders in West Africa Left Office
5A.3 Years in Office of West African Leaders as of 2014
5A.4 Number of Military Coups in Africa, by Subregion, 1960–2010
5A.5 Presidential Term Limits in West Africa, by Country
7.1 Land-Related Conflicts in West Africa


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Correction: Hospital Closure story
Published: Tue, June 21, 2016 12:26 PM Updated: Tue, June 21, 2016 12:26 PM
BELHAVEN, N.C. (AP) — In a story June 20 about a new medical clinic in Belhaven, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Dr. David Herman is CEO of Vidant Health. He was the CEO of Vidant Health in 2014 when the Pungo hospital closed but no longer holds that position.
A corrected version of the story is below:
Vidant opens 24-hour clinic after closing Belhaven hospital
Vidant Health is opening a 24-hour clinic in Belhaven, where it closed a hospital in 2014
BELHAVEN, N.C. (AP) — Vidant Health is opening a 24-hour clinic in Belhaven, where it closed a hospital in 2014.
According to the Daily Reflector of Greenville (http://bit.ly/28Ip2y4), the 12,500-square foot clinic opening Monday brings together three medical practices and a 24-hour medical clinic at one location.
Vidant closed Pungo Hospital in Belhaven, in part because North Carolina lawmakers refused federal funding to expand Medicaid that would pay bills of poor patients. Then-Vidant CEO Dr. David Herman said at the time that the hospital had provided more than $2 million in unpaid health care since 2011, when Vidant took it over.
Belhaven residents protested and Mayor Adam O'Neal went to Washington to complain, saying the town has suffered and people have died while en route to other facilities.
While the new clinic does not have the same emergency services that Pungo offered, it will have minor emergency services, but not as much as a full emergency room would. The nearest emergency room is in Washington, North Carolina, about 30 minutes away by car.
The clinic also will offer other services such as pre-natal services, rehabilitation and X-rays. It also will have a general family practice, including two full-time doctors, and a full-service lab.
"Access to health care is critical," Dr. Greg Jones said. Jones and Dr. Mark Beamer will have their offices in the new clinic and see their regular patients, as well as new patients.
He said the clinic is currently looking for another doctor.
According to Jones, people with major injuries likely will need to go to the hospital in Washington or Greenville, but minor injuries will be treated at the clinic.
CommentsCorrection: Hospital Closure story


Rare has confirmed that The Hungering Deep, a free DLC for Sea of Thieves, is set to launch May 29th.
Players can participate in a story event as they follow the trail of riddles and rumours to piece together what happened to 'Merry' Merrick, the proud owner of a pair of matching peg legs.The DLC will also add new features like the drum, ship's flags, speaking trumpet (for shouting at other pirates) and selectable tattoos and scars.
Alongside these new features, The Hungering Deep offers time-limited campaign items such as a special figurehead, unique drum variant and speaking trumpet, plus the Hungering Tattoo Set and some scars perfect for born survivors. Also arriving at the Shipwright during The Hungering Deep but remaining once the campaign ends is the new Shark Hunter ship livery set with hull, sails, figurehead and flag.
Sea of Thieves was released earlier this year on Xbox One and Windows 10 PC.


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NYC Mayor Eric Adams Lays Blame Squarely at Feet of Joe Biden During Visit to Border
New York City Mayor Eric Adams took a trip to the border this weekend and managed to throw Joe Biden under the bus on the immigration issue in the process.
Adams arrived in El Paso on Saturday and said the flood of illegal aliens across the border was a "national crisis" that demanded a "national solution," laying the blame squarely at the feet of Joe Biden. He visited the border and a CBP processing center. He immediately showed up Joe Biden's recent visit by going to a place where illegal aliens cross the border, as well as an area where illegal aliens were sleeping in the city, and speaking with illegal aliens — things that Biden couldn't be bothered to do. Fabien Levy, the Mayor's Press Secretary said the illegal aliens said they were there for work. That would indicate they were more than economic migrants.
.@NYCMayor landed in El Paso, Texas tonight to survey the asylum seeker crisis at the southern border.
El Paso Mayor Leeser took us an impromptu visit to an area where asylum seekers have been known to cross the border, as well as an area where many asylum seekers are sleeping. pic.twitter.com/utlT2KmdpD
— Fabien Levy (@Fabien_Levy) January 15, 2023
Outside Sacred Heart Church, asylum seekers overwhelmingly raise their hands to tell @NYCMayor they want to work.
Mayor Adams has been calling on the federal government to expedite work authorization for asylum seekers since last year. pic.twitter.com/K4aFYgW8n3
At @EPCountyTXONA, @NYCMayor met an asylum seeker from Colombia who traveled 5 months to get here.
He says his final destination is Canada. The staff at the county Migrant Support Services Center will work to get him there. https://t.co/gJprMDCZ3H pic.twitter.com/aTvlEJY7Cm
Levy said Adams visited the Office of New Americans-El Paso County, Texas "to learn about what they are hearing from arriving seekers."
"The reality of the situation is these migrants are being promised things before they cross the border that are just not available," Levy said.
.@NYCMayor made another stop at the border this afternoon to hear about @CBP's efforts at the border.
Mayor Adams saw a young boy walking along the side of the wall hoping to get over to the U.S. pic.twitter.com/QgEDRb5thQ
What was funny was that Adams was equating the situation in New York to the situation that border towns like El Paso have had to go through. He said he and El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser were "on the front lines, and we need federal support."
"We are now seeing more people arrive than we have ever seen – averaging over 400 people each day this last week, with 835 asylum seekers arriving on one single day alone, the largest single-day arrival we've seen to date," Adams said in a statement. "All this is pushing New York City to the brink."
The city reportedly received more than 3,100 asylum seekers in the past week, with 835 arriving last Thursday alone.
Since the spring of 2022, Adams noted that the city had taken in around 40,000 asylum seekers, opening 74 emergency shelters and four humanitarian relief centers.
Mayor Adams told Caribbean Power Jam Radio on Friday he expected the influx of migrants to cost the city as much as $2 billion.
El Paso, a much smaller city than New York City, declared a state of emergency in December when they were getting 2500 a day. They've been getting hundreds a day for far longer than New York City. Just before they removed the illegal aliens from the city for Joe Biden's visit, you had hundreds living in the streets. Yet, people only started paying more attention to the problem when the Democratic El Paso mayor and Gov. Greg Abbott started shipping illegal aliens to New York City.
Adams put Biden on blast with his remarks, calling it a "national crisis" which Biden has refused to do. His team has consistently claimed the border is "secure" in a bizarre effort to avoid calling it a crisis, while they pretend it isn't so bad. But it's also why they've avoided providing the "national solution" that Adams called for. We saw with Biden's visit that he had no real solution to stop the flood, that indeed he was just talking about an "app" to make it easier to get into the country. So if Title 42 goes away in the future, it's going to be even more of a mess.
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Lost in the Spanish Quarter
By Heddi Goodrich
HarperVia | September 10, 2019 | 368 pages
Told with the intimacy and ferocity of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels and set in the passionate, intense, and crumbling neighborhood known as the Spanish Quarter of Naples, comes a tale of two students searching for love and belonging in the city they so desperately want to call home. Several years after leaving Naples, Heddi receives an email from Pietro, her first love, admitting that he was wrong. Immediately Heddi is transported back to her college days in that heartbreakingly beautiful city built on the ruins of a legendary empire set against the backdrop of a sleeping volcano. The narrow, winding streets of Naples's Spanish Quarter still sparks the pain of longing and a desire to belong. It is the place she so wanted to call home despite being l'americano. But for Heddi's tribe of university friends, Naples was the first taste of freedom and an escape from their familial obligations. For all of them Naples is a place that they'll never forget: the setting of their unrestrained youth. When Heddi unexpectedly meets Pietro, a fellow student they are immediately drawn to one another and fall into a whirlwind romance. She is searching for the roots she never had, while he is trying to escape his. Naples, alive and fierce, and ultimately elusive, becomes a real university of life. In this poignant, atmosphericcoming of age tale of first love—of a place, of a person—languages and cultures collide while dreams soar and crash in spectacular ways.
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THE SITE AT Orange Hill earmarked for the construction of a new arrowroot factory and administrative complex
SVG aiming to expand arrowroot markets following completion of new factory (+ video)
In 2019, the starch produced by arrowroot grown on the northeastern side of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) managed to fetch as much as US$7.35 per pound on the US market.
But competition, from Thailand specifically, forced the St. Vincent Arrowroot Association out of that market. Thailand's tapioca produced starch sold for less than US$1 per pound.
"The competition was too much for us," Manager of the St. Vincent Arrowroot Association, Selmon Walters explained to SEARCHLIGHT on Tuesday, December 13, while adding that the new factory being built will focus on making sure all international standards are adhered to in an effort to sell to markets in Europe and other places.
The lone arrowroot factory in Owia was destroyed by the 2021 volcanic eruptions and the construction of a new factory at the administrative complex in Orange Hill was also halted by the eruptions.
Walters said on Tuesday that the government of India has provided US1$ million for the construction of the facility which when completed will have new equipment and be built to international standards.
Minister of Finance, Camillo Gonsalves said on Tuesday, during the debate on the Estimates of Expenditure for 2023, said that EC$3.6 million would be spent next year on the revitalization of the Arrowroot Industry.
In the meantime, the starch which is stored, approximately 500,000 pounds, is being sold locally and regionally.
Walters said the local starch is of such a high quality starch that is being sold by other countries who claim their starch is from SVG.
MINISTER OF FINANCE, Camillo Gonsalves, during the debate on the Estimates of Expenditure for 2023
Regionally SVG's starch is sold in the Virgin Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Tortola among other places, and in local supermarkets.
"It is in storage…it can last 10, 15, 20 years once it does not get wet…we did not have a market so we stored what we produced in 2018, 2019 and 2020 so that is why we can supply local and regional markets and do things like the Madongo fest," Walters explained.
He said money from the starch being sold is used for maintenance purposes and the payment of some daily paid workers and that now amounts to only about EC$20,000 a year in sales.
However the figures are expected to increase when the new factory is completed. The old factory employed about 100 persons on rotation, now down to zero, while the administrative aspect of the business employs about 10 persons and around 10 field officers. The field officers have to make sure the plots are being maintained for when harvesting resumes.
"I am hopeful for the industry, the industry has a future. There is a market for the arrowroot starch not only locally and regionally but internationally, but we need a factory that can pass international standards," Walters stressed.
He said in the past, SVG arrowroot starch could not access the European market because the factory at Owia was unable to meet the passing grade of overseas assessors.
"So that is why we will focus on these standards with the new factory," Walters said.
He added that issues like branding and trade-marketing will also be explored.
RELATED ARTICLE: Arrowroot farmers in St. Vincent are concerned that the local industry will continue losing much needed finance.


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Alnarp is een plaats in de gemeente Lomma in het landschap Skåne en de provincie Skåne län in Zweden. De plaats heeft 75 inwoners (2005) en een oppervlakte van 37 hectare. De plaats op ongeveer één kilometer van de plaats Lomma, Åkarp en de buitenwijken van de stad Malmö. In de plaats is een vestiging van de Zweedse landbouwuniversiteit te vinden, ook is er een hortus botanicus in de plaats, deze is geopend voor iedereen, ook ligt er een in 1862 gebouwd kasteel in het dorp.

Plaats in Skåne län

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Glee Star Naya Rivera Confirmed Dead At 33
Her body was recovered from Lake Piru after she disappeared last week
Coco Romack 07/13/2020
The actress Naya Rivera, who starred in six seasons of Ryan Murphy's hit musical comedy Glee as the sharp-tongued cheerleader Santana Lopez, has died, according to a statement by a spokesman from Ventura County Sheriff's Office. She was 33. Her body was recovered on Monday (July 13) from a lake outside of Los Angeles after going missing last week.
Rivera was first declared missing on Wednesday (July 8) after going on a boating trip with her four-year-old son, Josey Hollis Dorsey, at Lake Piru. According to multiple reports, the actress had rented a pontoon boat around 1 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. Approximately three hours later, the boat was found by another boater with the young child asleep onboard, alone, wearing a life vest. An adult-sized life vest was also found on the boat.
The news of her disappearance sparked a massive search by local authorities, which finally concluded on Monday, when Rivera's body was found in the lake. No foul play was suspected in her death, which was apparently a tragic accident.
"Today our search teams have recovered a body in the lake... We are confident the body we found is that of Naya Rivera," Ventura County Sheriff Bill Ayub said in a press conference on Monday. "As you can imagine, it has been an extremely difficult time for her family throughout this ordeal."
Rivera was born in Santa Clarita, California, on January 12, 1987. A hugely talented singer and actress from a young age, her first major role was at four years old, as Hillary Winston in the Eddie Murphy-produced series The Royal Family. She also appeared in many national commercials and ad campaigns as a child, and she appeared in frequent guest roles on various programs, including Family Matters, Baywatch, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Rivera made her Glee debut in 2009. Among the accolades her performance received was a 2011 Grammy for the cast's ensemble performance of "Don't Stop Believin'." That same year, she signed with Columbia Records. Her portrayal of Santana's youthful romance with fellow cheerleader Brittany Pierce (Heather Morris) paved the way for the representation of LGBTQ+ and Latinx characters on TV.
"Honestly, I never thought I'd actually be playing a teen lesbian," Rivera told the Los Angeles Times in 2011. "But I'm glad that it did because there have been a lot of fans who have expressed that they've been going through similar situations in their lives. I've heard from girls that are in high school, they're 16, 17, and they're like, 'I came out to my mom,' or 'I came out to my friends, and thank you for helping me do that.'"
Most recently, Rivera appeared on the web series Step Up: High Water, a spin-off of the Step Up film franchise, in the role of Colette Jones.


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