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The Legacy Of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI At Catholic University
Following Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's death on Dec. 31, The Catholic University of America community remembered the former pontiff who visited the campus on April 17, 2008 and left an indelible mark on the University.
"The Catholic University of America mourns his death along with the Church and so many other people whose lives he touched. We will remember him for his love of education, dedication to teaching, and deep theological insight, which he shared in person at the University when he visited in 2008," said University President Peter Kilpatrick said. "At that time, Benedict gave a historic speech at the Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center about the value and importance of Catholic education."
"Through our grateful prayers for him, may Pope Benedict soon stand with the saints in blessed awe before God," said Father Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P., Catholic University's chaplain and director of Campus Ministry.
Catholic University is one of only three universities in the United States to have hosted a Pope on its campus and it is the only one to have done so three times — St. John Paul II in 1979, Pope Benedict XVI in 2008, and Pope Francis in 2015.
In the first two visits, St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI used the occasion to address educational leaders gathered from around the United States. In 2015, Pope Francis celebrated Mass on the East Portico of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in front of a congregation of 30,000 people gathered on Catholic University's mall.
During his visit to Catholic University's campus, Pope Benedict rode in his vehicle in front of the Pryzbyla Center. He stretched his arms out to the crowd gathered, smiling and waving to those gathered outside.
He made his address inside the Great Room at the facility, where he was surrounded by cardinals, bishops and educators who rose to their feet in applause.
Diocese of Trenton Bishop David M. O'Connell, C.M., then the president of Catholic University, welcomed Pope Benedict XVI to campus.
"We are profoundly humbled and deeply grateful that you have asked to spend some time with us during your historic, apostolic visit to our country," Bishop O'Connell said at the time. "Your own experiences as a university professor create a special bond between us, Your Holiness. It is not, however, simply a matter of a shared academic profession that joins us today but, rather, it is a shared vision of truth, a shared conviction of faith, and a shared sense of hope that leads us once more, as Catholic educators, to an encounter with the person of Jesus Christ who is the Truth, who calls us to faith, who strengthens us in hope and, finally, redeems us in love."
Pope Benedict reminded the educators of their calling during a rousing address and encouraged them on their mission.
Watch Pope Benedict's speech:
Before parting with the gathered group at Catholic University, Pope Benedict XVI added, "To all of you I say: bear witness to hope. Nourish your witness with prayer. Account for the hope that characterizes your lives by living the truth which you propose to your students. Help them to know and love the One you have encountered, whose truth and goodness you have experienced with joy."
A Memorial Mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI will be celebrated at 5:10 p.m. on Jan. 12 in St. Vincent's Chapel. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend.
About Catholic University's mission: Dedicated to advancing the dialogue between faith and reason, The Catholic University of America seeks to discover and impart the truth through excellence in teaching and research, all in service to the Church, the nation and the world.


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What the Government Isn't Telling Us About COVID
You don't need to watch the movie Fight Club to know what the first rule of fight club is. As we've heard many times, it's "You do not talk about fight club."
As I watched the apparent COVID media strategy of the Alberta government, and several other provincial governments in recent days, I wondered if they're all taking a page out of the 1999 movie?
The information sharing has slowed to a trickle on COVID, despite the fact parts of Canada are clearly seeing a sixth wave. The problem is, they're not talking about it.
Disappearing Data
During the pandemic, there have been many people, from news reporters, to doctors, to others who have taken the data Alberta Health Services (AHS) has placed on its website and turned it into very useful information. These have included charts and graphs, so detailed that it became very easy to track where we were when it came to COVID.
Perhaps nobody has done this better than journalist Aryn Toombs, who works for the independent news provider LiveWire Calgary. Aryn created the amazing website Charting Alberta COVID and still maintains it.
Several weeks ago, I noticed the detailed information from Aryn and others changed drastically, so I asked Aryn last week whether AHS had cut back on the data it had been sharing with the public.
Here's Aryn's reply, reprinted with his permission. "So there's two types of changes that were made: the first was the obvious surface level changes - fewer geo maps, fewer charts, fewer data tables.
The other side is less obvious, but within the data presented, there is less information. The master spreadsheet for example completely removed status for patients, meaning its now impossible to determine active cases, recovered cases, and deaths.
The geo maps that are left have far less information on them, making it harder to determine where in the province things are occurring like spikes in cases or deaths, or where people are being vaccinated.
So it's a dual combination of less information being presented to the public, but also less data being shared, so that if the public wanted to delve deeper into how things are going in the province, that is no longer possible.
But it's also worth pointing out that policy changes have rendered even what little data we have left as being mostly useless. The data as its presented now is backwards facing. It's a historical reflection of what we've seen, because there simply is not enough testing in this province going forward to have a precise picture of where we stand. For that, all we have left is wastewater data, and even that is under the gun."
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
The question is why? Why has AHS suddenly started sharing less data with the public?
It's not as if AHS is no longer tracking COVID. It is. It has the information. It doesn't have as much because it stopped much of the testing it was doing months ago. What has changed is, far less is being shared with the public, so the question then becomes, why is this being done?
In my opinion, it's pretty simple. It's all part of a general movement in Alberta and many other Canadian provinces to talk less about COVID and share less information. There's a time-tested public relations practice that if the government spends less time talking about an issue, there's less media coverage and less of a concern in the minds of most citizens.
Out of sight out of mind.
Granted, there must come a time when this has to happen. We can't continue to spend truckloads of money on COVID the way we have for the past couple of years. The question is, is now the time to do that, when the sixth wave has already hit in parts of Canada?
Late last week, health officials in Ottawa and eastern Ontario urged people to resume social distancing and wearing a mask indoors. In the last week that masks were mandated in Ontario, around 14,000 new daily cases were discovered. Last week, there were predictions from experts that Ontario will see 100,000 to 120,000 new infections every day very soon.
The sixth wave is already here. Despite that, health restrictions in almost every province have been scrapped. Governments have moved on from COVID. We're on our own now.
The Media Loses Interest in COVID
If the Alberta government does have a strategy to talk less about COVID, it is working.
It's been weeks since Premier Jason Kenney appeared at a news conference to talk about COVID. Health Minister Jason Copping and the Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw now only do one news conference a week and they only talk about some basic data like hospitalizations, ICU cases and deaths. As I watched their news conference last Thursday, I could almost picture them walking a tightrope between saying COVID is still here and we need to take precautions, but not wanting to alarm anyone to raise calls for renewed health restrictions. It was interesting to watch.
Only three reporters attended last week's news conference and two were at the one the week before. Maybe the media is tired of talking about COVID too. The government's plan seems to be working.
I would prefer the media to talk about how the data from AHS has changed and why. I know Aryn and others like Dr. Joe Vipond have been making that point for weeks.
Alberta isn't alone in this effort. Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health hasn't done a news conference in weeks and Saskatchewan reports COVID numbers even less frequently than Alberta.
The problem is, I've seen the following comment so often in social media for the last two weeks that it scares me – "I know more people today with COVID than any time in the last two years."
Sure, the number of people going to hospital and the ICU with COVID has remained fairly stable. People will get COVID, just like the flu. But do we really know enough about the long-term effects of COVID, to simply say "It's like the flu. People may get it, but they'll recover." Tell that to the millions of COVID long haulers in North America.
Despite that, governments are closing testing sites, sharing less data, talking less about COVID and providing fewer forecasts about what may happen in the future.
The first rule of Fight Club is, you do not talk about fight club. Or COVID apparently now too.
The 7 Phases of COVID
We've seen five COVID waves in Alberta, but we've actually gone through seven phases.
The Most Shocking Newser of 2021
This news conference was almost forgotten at the end of the year, but not by me.
3 Things I Won't Miss About Pandemic TV
TV journalism is starting to get back to normal. Thank God for that.
Lazy Journalism is Hard to Watch
I want to scream when I watch newscasts and sports highlight shows on TV and here's why.

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Q: Send variable from one Jenkins pipeline to another one I have one Jenkins pipeline (declarative) that produces unique variable.
And value of this variable is required for another pipeline (scripted).
How can I transfer it?

A: I found simpler way,
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Ukraine's economy likely to shrink 35% on year in 2022, ministry says
KYIV, Aug 26 – The Ministry of Economy expects a decline in GDP of at least 30-35% in 2022, and for the next year it has developed four macroeconomic scenarios, which, depending on the conditions, give from 0.4% further decline to 15.5% of economic growth, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko has reported.
OECD must lead reconstruction effort in Ukraine after war, Yermak says
KYIV, Aug 30 – The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) should become one of the key players in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, Head of the President's Office of Ukraine Andriy Yermak said.
Ukraine's public debt drops 8.2% to $96.79-bln: ministry
KYIV, Aug 30 – The total public debt of Ukraine, after the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) devaluated the hryvnia official exchange rate against the US dollar by 25% in July, decreased by 8.2% in US dollar terms, to $96.79 billion, while in hryvnia it increased by 14.8%, to UAH 3.539 trillion, according to data on the website of the Ministry of Finance.
Oxford Economics downgrades Ukraine's economic growth to grow 4% in 2021
KYIV, Aug 27 - Oxford Economics has downgraded the forecast for Ukraine's GDP growth in 2021 to 4% from 4.4% in the July forecast, and the risks of further lockdowns and expectations of tightening fiscal and monetary policy led to a deterioration in the forecast for economic growth in 2022 from 4.2% to 3.5%.
PM rules out massive lockdown measures if coronavirus cases accelerate
KYIV, Aug 28 – Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said the government will not consider the introduction of severe restrictive measures in the event of a second wave of coronavirus spread but will rely on adaptive quarantine and localization of disease outbreaks.
IMF's $1.98-bln tranche may arrive in Ukraine in H2 2018: ministry
KYIV, Aug 29 – The tranche from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the amount of $1.98 billion after the fourth review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) will arrive in the second half of 2018, the Finance Ministry forecast.
Russian hackers target Ecumenical Patriarch
LONDON, Aug. 29 – The Russian hackers indicted by the U.S. special prosecutor last month have spent years trying to steal the private correspondence of some of the world's most senior Orthodox Christian figures, The Associated Press has found, illustrating the high stakes as Kyiv and Moscow wrestle over the religious future of Ukraine.
Poroshenko: Ukraine is ready to break friendship treaty with Russia
KYIV, Aug 28 – President Petro Poroshenko said Ukraine is legally ready to terminate the treaty on friendship, cooperation and partnership with Russia, concluded in 1997, and expects the relevant documents from the Foreign Ministry.
Poroshenko urges LPG price hike probe
KYIV, Aug. 30 – President Petro Poroshenko urged law enforcement agencies Wednesday to investigate steep liquified petroleum gas price hike, but failed to address concerns that 40% of the market is now controlled by Russian President Vladimir Putin's ally.
Kharkiv regional governor named to head presidential administration
KIEV, Aug. 29 – President Petro Poroshenko has announced the appointment of Kharkiv regional governor Ihor Rainin as head of the Presidential Administration.


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ISU research into conversations about diabetes among African American families
July 25, 2019 By O. Kay Henderson
Prof. Tera Jordan
A team of Iowa State University researchers interviewed 20 African American families with a high risk for Type 2 diabetes and discovered frequent miscommunication about the disease between parents and their adult children. Tera Jordan, a professor of human development and family studies at ISU, says her interviews with the families often turned into interventions.
"They had never really talked about the diagnosis, the ways in which medical providers had been advising them to eat or to take their medicine," Jordan says, "and so that then raised some questions among the adult children: 'Why haven't you shared this with me? I would like to know this. We're going to talk more after we leave the interview today.'"
These conversations are a follow-up to a larger study of families in Iowa and Georgia that found an elevated rate for Type 2 Diabetes among African Americans in their middle to late adulthood.
"We wanted to know more about how these parents communicated about Type 2 diabetes with their now-adult children who are 25 to 27 years of age," Jordan says.
The conclusions from those follow-up conversations have been published in a medical journal. Jordan says the study has insights that may help doctors and nurses give better advice to their African American patients. African Americans are twice as likely to have diabetes as white Americans. According to the American Diabetes Association, more than 13 percent of adult African Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes/
Filed Under: Health / Medicine, News Tagged With: Iowa State University


For many years, numerous critics have complained about the apparently close relationship between the National Education Association -- America's enormous teachers' union -- and the Democratic National Committee. Until recently, there was not much anyone could do other than complain.
Recently, however, on Geoff Metcalf's streaming Internet talk show, Landmark Legal Foundation President Mark R. Levin discussed documents his organization compiled showing that the NEA used tax-exempt general revenue to influence the election of candidates seeking public office -- for which it has neither paid income taxes nor reported to the IRS as required by the Internal Revenue Code.
As a direct result of the documents Landmark uncovered, it has now filed formal complaints against the NEA with the IRS, the FEC and the Inspector General of the Treasury Department detailing its extensive findings.
Today, Metcalf's interview with Levin details not only Landmark's case against the NEA, but also the players -- the people and organizations -- involved in this matter.
Question: This discovery of yours could be considered payback personified.
Q: Please explain for our readers what Landmark Legal Foundation discovered in these revealing documents you got your hands on?
A: All right. First of all there are a whole bunch of documents that the federal Election Commission got during a four-year investigation of the AFL-CIO and the Democratic National Committee. Somebody -- I believe the Republican National Committee -- filed a complaint saying basically, "Hey look: This is a violation of the campaign laws that this union and the Democratic Party are coordinating campaign activities -- and that is not permitted under our campaign laws."
Well, a federal judge decided that it was permitted. So whatever we think about the campaign laws wasn't exactly a fruitful area to pursue.
Q: So what did you do next?
A: When that ruling came out in July of last year, we contacted the FEC and we told them, "We want you to release all the information that you collected through subpoenas from whatever parties you subpoenaed and make it public as you normally do."
Q: How did the FEC respond?
Q: ... and then you had an early Christmas!
A: (laughing) Yeah. That's right. Our main focus in this area is on the NEA. We went in and we copied all documents relating to the National Education Association. Understand, they were not investigating the National Education Association. They were investigating this coordinated activity between the AFL-CIO and the DNC. But the NEA is the most powerful, the largest and the wealthiest union in America -- it's got 2.6 million members -- and the AFL-CIO is a combination, sort of an overarching group of several unions, like the Teamsters and so forth. The NEA is the most powerful, so their name pops up all over the place. So we copied those materials and we took them. Then, four days later, the Federal Election Commission put them back under seal under pressure from the NEA and the AFL-CIO.
Q: OK, so you got your hands on the documents before the judge resealed them. What did you find?
A: When we went through them, we said, "Good Lord!" It is Christmas time in May -- as you said.
Q: I was blown away when I found out that the NEA wasn't only a participant in a lot of the party-platform things, and so forth, but actually had veto power.
A: That's the point! This is the structure. They sent up a national coordinating committee -- steering committee -- this is where the wealthiest, most powerful, most influential members sat. They were from the Democratic National Committee in 1996 these documents talk about. They were from the Democratic Senatorial Committee, the Democratic Congressional Committee (meaning the House races), the 1996 Clinton-Gore Committee, the AFL-CIO, Emily's List and, of course, our friends at the NEA. They sat on this national coordinating committee steering committee and they decided what the issues would be, how much money would be spent and what the strategy would be.
Q: What is so amazing and appalling was they actually withheld their financial commitment until they had input into the policy.
A: Into the policy at the state level. They set up 50 of these same kinds of steering committees in every state where, typically, the state Democratic party and the affiliates of these national unions -- like in Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania State Education Association and so forth -- would sit on these state committees. Candidates would contribute to these committees and these committees would help decide what the strategy would be in congressional races, in gubernatorial races, senatorial races -- they would pull the strategy together and then they would send it up the ladder to this national committee, we were talking about and this national committee could approve it, modify it, or reject it.
Q: Mark, what is so astonishing is allegedly these people are smart enough to execute this scam and to get the control over the process -- and the essence of it is the process -- but they could still be stupid enough, myopic enough or arrogant enough to not report any of that? Did they report any of this stuff to the IRS?
A: Well that's a good question. Under the Internal Revenue Code, if you are not a tax-exempt organization -- and many people do not know this: Unions are tax exempt, they don't pay taxes -- but if they spend one plug nickel on political activity intended to influence races at the national, state or local level, outside their own union, they have to report that on their income-tax forms and pay a corporate income-tax rate on those expenditures. Now their tax forms are public. So we went back and got all the tax forms for the National Education Association, from 1994 up until the most recent one that they filed in June. And on every one of those federal tax returns they said that they spent zero money on political activity.
A: They spent millions for sure.
A: The AFL-CIO -- see it's not clear where that money is coming from. They've got a big shell game going on. If you say where is "that money," they say, "Well it's in a PAC." Of course, political action committees can spend it.
Q: Yeah, but what happens if you follow the chain of custody of that money? Where did it come from? Did it come from union dues?
A: That's the point. Here's what I'm saying: If you look at the NEA budgets (which we have) and strategic plans (which we have), they are using their membership dues -- which is the general operating money, the tax exempt money -- and funneling it into political activity. That's what their own documents say.
They say, $300,000 and some odd dollars to coordinate with local democratic candidates. They're the ones who say in 1996 they spent $9.6-million for a wide array of political activity. And they spend tens of millions of dollars every year -- and this is important and it wasn't covered in the news articles -- they spend tens of millions on what are called "uniservers."
A uniserver is an NEA employee, way down at the school district level, in every school district. Ostensibly they are supposed to be helping with contract negotiations and grievances and so forth -- but the other part of their job is they are the biggest army of precinct workers in America. These people help organize political activity for the NEA right there at the school district level. They don't report any of those salaries on their federal tax returns either. All that information has now been compiled and filed with the Internal Revenue Service and we are asking them to conduct an audit and to force these people to do right by the law.
Q: Before we get into the heavy nitty gritty, you filed two complaints -- one with the IRS and one with the FEC -- right?
A: Well, last summer we filed two complaints, as you said. One with the IRS and one with the FEC after going through a bunch of the NEA budgets and strategic plans and handbooks. We also filed against several state affiliates. This year, we have used the information we gleaned from the Federal Election Commission search that is under seal now -- as well as some new information relating to the NEA's spending and the spending in a half dozen or so states such as North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska -- and we've taken that information and filed it against those state affiliates of the NEA as well.
Q: What, if any, reaction or comments have you had back from the IRS? I read news stories in which IRS types say, yeah under normal circumstances they are compelled to report this kind of spending. What, officially, have you heard from either the IRS or the FEC?
A: Two things: First, with respect to the IRS, they are not allowed to tell us anything really. There is a section in the Internal Revenue Code, 6103, that prohibits them from acknowledging any audit of any kind. Hopefully what we are doing is prodding the media to continually contact the NEA and ask them if they are being audited. In the past they have said, "Oh, of course not!" So, if we now get a "No comment!" from them, we know they have some problems.
But the best news you just touched on was in the Associated Press article in which the current head of that part of the IRS that oversees non-profit organizations, like the unions, basically said, "Look -- based on the public record some of this stuff looks like it goes over the line." And another long-term IRS official who writes manuals for tax-exempt groups on how to comply with the law said he wouldn't be surprised at all if they were audited.
Q: I've been involved in some political activity stuff and we have always avoided 501 (c) (3)s specifically because they don't give sufficient protections -- and it's frankly easier to go with a for-profit corporation and spend everything.
A: ... they have to report it.
Q: You betcha! And since 1994, the union hasn't. Now that brings up the next question -- prior to 1994, did the NEA report political activity and spending?
A: Have no idea. We haven't gone back that far. You have to understand: We've got two offices full of NEA stuff. We're just not in a position to go any further back. There is also some question whether the IRS is in any position to go any further back than six years. My understanding is if they do audit the NEA, they only have 50 or 60 auditors for non-profit groups, or in that ballpark, we've been told. They'd have to take around 10 percent of them to look at the NEA.
Q: Hey, the potential return on the investment of the resources would be well worth it.
A: I told them when you're done auditing all those conservative groups, maybe you can spend a little time on the NEA. You're exactly right. For example, what happened with the Heritage Foundation about four years ago was that a former Democratic congressman, David Skaggs, from the Boulder Colorado area, read an article in the Miami Herald that bothered him. He cut it out, attached his letter to it, sent it to the IRS whining about the Heritage Foundation and 30-days later they launched what turned out to be a four-year audit of the Heritage Foundation -- based on a newspaper article.
Q: Hey, my boss -- Joseph Farah and the Western Journalism Center -- got audited. And when he asked why they were asking the kind of questions that were not financial in focus, the dumb auditor reportedly told him, "This is a political thing."
Q: ... and arguably doing half their auditors' work for them.
Q: Mark, come on -- be real. Congress doesn't have the stones for this. They'll talk the talk, but they don't want to get anywhere near the essence of something that would eviscerate their checkbooks.
A: I can understand that the Democratic Party, as is clear from our documents, has essentially become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the NEA and the AFL-CIO.
Q: What I don't understand is why the Republicans don't seize this as a target of opportunity to rub their nose in it?
A: They might -- some of them might. What concerns me is this has been going on for year after year after year -- and you would think, for self defense purposes, they would want to know something about this. The problem is the NEA funds the campaigns of some of the more liberal Republicans and assists them -- like Arlen Specter, and maybe a few in New England and so forth, so they're not as likely to want to look into this.
But this is really not a Republican or Democratic issue in the sense of wanting to make sure that the membership dues are spent honestly. Look, the NEA has 2.6 million members. Also, non-members have to pay fees in certain states to the NEA. The question for all these members, Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative and everything in between is, "Aren't you paying your dues because you want your union to represent you?"
Q: I can't tell you how many complaints I get from union members that are upset because they might embrace conservative principles and yet they are compelled in many cases to actually take time off without pay to participate in some kind of political activity they were instructed/ordered to do. The Beck Amendment was supposed to mitigate some of that.
A: I agree. But I would think even liberal Democrat members would want their money used to help get advice on contract negotiations and things of that sort -- not money funneled from the NEA to a state for political activity in some local race. These are serious matters -- and if I was a NEA member, spending as much as I would on dues -- in some states you can go over a thousand dollars, I wouldn't want them wasting my money on politicians and political activity.
Q: Unfortunately, it is the union leadership that has that symbiotic connection. I was amazed and absolutely blown away to read recently that the union honchos actually sat on committees and had veto power.
Q: We used to think the tail was wagging the dog -- hell, they are the dog!
A: They reported it and paid taxes on it. The National Association of Manufacturers was another one that spent between five to six million dollars, they reported it, and paid taxes on it. But all this under the radar stuff is -- well, you can understand why they want to keep it under seal. They don't want anyone to know, not their members, not the IRS, not anybody.
Q: Who sealed these documents after you initially got your hands on them?
A: First the FEC -- and then they were prepared to release thousands more but the AFL-CIO and the DNC went into federal court and got a Clinton judge, who actually has a Labor Union background, and she put in place a grant of their motion for a preliminary injunction which simply means she forced the government to keep these documents under seal. Not just the FEC -- if Justice had them , all these groups -- and she has scheduled a hearing for sometime in October.
Q: Mark, has the FEC responded to your complaint yet with a hearing date or anything like that?
A: No. The FEC is notoriously slow. We got a letter from them last year saying they had received our complaint -- and that's par for the course.
Q: And the IRS isn't supposed to tell you anything?
A: The IRS isn't supposed to tell us -- I'm not a fool when it comes to the IRS -- but I suspect they are going to have to do something and they are going to have to do it relatively soon.
Q: Several people have suggested/recommended that you make sure to copy and back up all these documents you have in some secure cyber/digital/lock box and that you maintain real good fire insurance.
A: Well, we've got 400 of them, so they are going to have to track them all down in a nice bound copy from one end of the country to the other.
Q: It has also been suggested that if or when the Republicans speak out on this scam, their co-conspirators in the mainstream press from the New York Times to Dan Rather will respond with the spin "GOP Attacks Teachers." And the NEA will lean on their members to put pressure on elected officials because if or when they are compelled to pay interest and penalties, the union will be forced to come back to the members to get more money to pay the potential fines.
A: My only problem with that analysis is the Republicans aren't getting a heck of a lot out of this now, are they? What's to lose really? We don't coordinate with them -- unlike the unions -- we don't take our lead from them or, if we did, we would have gone out of business a long time ago.
Q: How can people find you if they want to either help you or get more information?
A: The best way is always online. You can find us and you can find this complaint and the additional casework we are involved in. Our phone number is (703) 689-2370. We don't harass folks for money. We generally send out a newsletter four or five times a year.
Q: This has been percolating for a while. The FEC -- well, they're the FEC -- we don't really expect much from them. But the IRS will probably be compelled to do "something." I also would think that somewhere along the line -- just based on my personal interaction with union members upset with unions spending money on stuff that is the antithesis of what certain members embrace -- that there could potentially be a class-action suit somewhere?
A: Well, I guess there could be some kind of fraud theory. But we already have the template laid out in the Beck decision. They already have a constitutional right to demand their money back -- and to demand an accounting for it.
It would seem to me you would want to go through that process first and, if you come up empty, you would consider some kind of civil action based on fraud. Because if they are going to go back to all these teacher union members and say, "Sorry, we don't spend any money on politics," well, we have exhibits that say they do.
And, by the way, it's too expensive to reproduce them and send them all out, but we're happy to send a few of them out to some people. Like I said, we've sent out 400 of them at considerable expense. But we wanted to make sure that they got to different parts of the country for people to examine.
Q: One of the NEA lawyers was very, very confident that they had complied with the law. Well, I've read the law, and I know lawyers can argue anything -- that's what they get paid for -- but it seems that dog ain't gonna hunt if you ever get this stuff before a judge.
A: I've never met an opponent who wasn't confident going into the fight -- and in nine cases out of ten, they sulk away with their tails between their legs. The NEA is an extremely powerful force with enormous resources. They are very cocky. And I'm glad they're confident because, if I were them, I'd be a little less so.
Our position is simple. We're not the IRS. We're not the U.S. Attorney. We're not a federal judge. We can't make the final decision about the NEA. But we can bring this information to the public, to the NEA membership and to the Internal Revenue Service and demand that they treat the NEA at least the way that they treated Joseph Farah, the National Rifle Association, the Christian Coalition and scores of other non-profit and for-profit organizations.
Q: This original investigation that these damning documents resulted from was looking at the AFL-CIO. I know you are focused on the NEA, but the obvious question is: "Does the AFL-CIO file these IRS form 990s?
Q: ... except the NEA?
A: No, the NEA files one but on that line -- line 81 -- where they are required to report the amount of money they spent on political activity, they put zero. The Associated Press went back and checked the AFL-CIO tax returns for the same period in which all this money was being spent and all this coordinated activity was going on -- and the AFL-CIO reported zero also.
And they are not only supposed to report the amount of money on that form, but then, typical of the IRS, there's another form, in which if it's anything more than zero, you're supposed to give a detailed explanation of your expenditures and where the money is coming from and so forth.
Q: OK, if the AFL-CIO is guilty of the same oversight as is the NEA, how come you haven't filed an IRS complaint or a FEC complaint against them?
A: We just learned about this. And there is another group that is taking a very close look at that piece of the equation because there are a number of groups and none of us are that big. The National Legal and Policy Center which has been eyeballing the AFL-CIO for something like a decade and a half.
Q: The AFL-CIO's skirts may be dirty. But it was just a few weeks ago that everyone was shocked and amazed when President Bush was struggling to get approval for the energy development in that little section of the park up in Alaska, it was (and correct me if I'm wrong) the AFL-CIO that stepped up and supported the drilling.
Q: Over the years I have gotten very, very cynical about this kind of stuff. I don't believe anything happens in politics by coincidence. Traditionally, all those unions have been in virtual lock step with the Democratic party and if they say the sun will rise in the northwest tomorrow morning, that's the party line.
A: Yeah, well, you might be right. But the Teamsters are a little different though. The Teamsters endorsed Reagan. I remember that because I worked on that campaign in 1980. Generally speaking, I think you are right. And I think what you're saying is the fix is in -- nothing is going to happen.
Q: That's the feeling I have. When it comes to campaign finance, these guys in the 87 square miles surrounded by reality will talk the talk, but they don't want to mess with the system. It's the mother's milk of their existence.
A: If that's true -- and no amount of evidence of potential fraud or improper conduct is going to persuade even the Internal Revenue Service, which has a penchant for investigating even innocent people, to do its job -- then pretty much all is lost.
Q: And the republic is finished?
A: I'd say so. Let me say this. We are not done. We are going to continue to collect information. If another batch of this information is released, we're going to go through it -- and I just want to make it clear if any of these NEA types are listening -- we want them to know we are not done. We are going to stay on top of this. We don't care what the leadership says or what the leadership wants. They don't get to make all these decisions about whether they are complying with the law or not. We hope the membership agrees with us because it's an awful lot of money that's going unaccounted for. And the idea that the word politics doesn't mean politics -- I'm sick of that kind of stuff too, the idea that their own documents are lying and the idea that they didn't sit on this coordinating committee -- or as the official of sat on it for the NEA said, "I was just there gathering information." Information for what?
Q: And he had veto power over that information. OK, you've got the IRS complaint and the FEC complaint -- is there any prospect or any discussion or any interest from anyone -- even one of the gadflies in Congress -- a Ron Paul, Bob Barr, Jim Traficant -- anybody who might join you in calling for some kind of congressional hearings? Now we know it isn't going to go anywhere -- but is there any kind of congressional traction on this story at all?
A: So far -- I'm not going to get into who -- but there have actually been two pretty powerful committees that have asked for a copy of our information.
A: I would normally agree with that. Except what the documents show is that the NEA is the Democratic Party. Normally, where these Republicans would cower -- and they often do -- now, it's a question of self-defense. I'm really trying to keep this out of the partisan arena because I really think what is being done here is a violation of law regardless of who is involved. But I will tell you that two very powerful committees have contacted us -- we have provided them with the information and they are now investigating. But we don't rely on Congress to get the job done.


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Your Annual Dementia Test
It's that time of year to take our annual senior citizen test.
Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles.
As we grow older, it's important to keep mentally alert. If you don't use it, you lose it!
Below is a very private way to gauge your loss or non-loss of intelligence.
Take the test presented here to determine if you're losing it or not.
The spaces below are so you don't see the answers until you've made your answer.
OK, relax, clear your mind and begin.
1. What do you put in a toaster?
Answer: 'bread.' If you said 'toast,' give up now and do something else.
Try not to hurt yourself.
If you said, bread, go to Question 2.
2. Say ' silk' five times. Now spell 'silk.' What do cows drink?
Answer: Cows drink water. If you said 'milk,' don't attempt the next question.
Your brain is over-stressed and may even overheat.
Content yourself with reading a more appropriate literature such as Auto World.
However, if you said 'water', proceed to question 3.
3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks,
what is a green house made from?
Answer: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said 'green bricks,' why are you still reading these???If you said 'glass,' go on to Question 4.
4. It's twenty years ago, and a plane is flying at 20,000 feet over Germany
(If you will recall, Germany at the time was politically divided into West Germany and East Germany .)
Anyway, during the flight, two engines fail. The pilot, realizing that the last remaining engine
is also failing, decides on a crash landing procedure. Unfortunately the engine fails before he can do
so and the plane fatally crashes smack in the middle of 'no man's land' between East Germany
and West Germany .
Where would you bury the survivors? East Germany , West Germany , or no man's land'?
Answer: You don't bury survivors. If you said ANYTHING else, you're a dunce and you must stop.
If you said, 'You don't bury survivors', proceed to the next question.
5. Without using a calculator!
You are driving a bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales .
In London , 17 people get on the bus.
In Reading , six people get off the bus and nine people get on.
In Swindon , two people get off and four g et on.
In Cardiff , 1 1 people get off and 16 people get on.
In Swansea , three people get off and five people get on .
In Carmathen, six people get off and three get on. You then arrive at Milford Haven.
What was the name of the bus driver?
Answer: Oh, for crying out loud!
Don't you remember your own name? It was YOU!!
Never mind, it part of getting old.....
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A Talking Parrot
A honeymooning couple had purchased a talking parrot and taken it to their room, where much to the groom's annoyance, the bird kept up a running commentary on their love-making.
Finally the groom threw a large towel over the cage and threatened to give the parrot to the zoo if he didn't quit it.
The next morning, packing to return home, the couple couldn't close a large suitcase. The groom said, "Darling, you get on top and I'll try". That didn't work. Figuring they needed more weight on the lid, she said, "Sweetheart, you get on top and I'll try". Still no success. Then he said, "Look. Let's both get on top and try".
At that point the parrot yanked away the towel and said, "Zoo or no zoo.
This... I gotta see" !!!
On a beautiful Summer's day, a father and his eight-year-old son were lying on the grass by the river bank, looking up at the sky and watching the wisps of cloud float gently overhead.
After a few minutes of silence, the boy turned to the father and said: "Dad, why are we here"?
"That's a good question, son. I think we're here to enjoy days such as this, to experience nature in all its glory, the vastness of the sky, the beauty of the trees, the song of the birds, the rippling flow of the water. We're here to help make the world a better place, to pass on our wisdom to future generations who will hopefully profit from our achievements and learn from our mistakes.
We're here to savor the small triumphs of life - passing your school exams, the birth of a new member of the family, promotion at work, a win for the home team. And we're here to comfort those dearest to us in times of distress, to provide kindness and compassion, support and strength, to let them know that, no matter how bad a situation may seem, they are not alone.
Does that answer your question, son"?
"Not really, Dad".
"No"?
"No, what I meant was, why are we here when Mom said to pick her up over an hour ago"?
The Eleventh Commandment
Last week a very important meeting took place among God, the Pope and Moses. They were troubled because the President of the United States was behaving in an inappropriate manner and there were many people who saw nothing wrong in what he had done. They decided that the only course of action left was to create an 11th Commandment to get their message across.
Now, the problem remained exactly how to word this new commandment so that it matched the other commandments in style and holy inspiration. After great meditation and discussion they concluded: "Thou shalt not comfort thy rod with thy staff".
This Won't Hurt A Bit...
Fred goes to a doctor and says, "Doc, I want to be castrated".
Doc says, "Look, I don't know what kind of cult you're into or what your motives are, but I'm not going to do that sort of operation".
Fred: "Doc, I just want to be castrated, and I'm a little embarrassed about talking about it, but I have $5,000 cash right here. Will you do it"?
Doc says, "Well, OK, I guess I could make this one exception. I don't understand it, but OK". He puts Fred to sleep, does the trick, and is waiting at the bedside when Fred wakes up.
"Well, Doc, how'd it go" Fred asks?
"It went fine, just fine. It's really not too difficult of an operation. As a matter of fact, $5,000 is a lot to pay for such a simple task and I felt a little guilty about taking that much. So while I was operating I also noticed that you had never been circumcised, so I went ahead and did that, too. I think it's really better for a man to
be circumcised, and I hope you don't mind my ..."
"CIRCUMCISED!" yells Fred. "THAT'S the word"!!!
A Mexican Woodpecker and a Canadian Woodpecker...
A Mexican woodpecker and a Canadian woodpecker were in Mexico arguing about which place had the toughest trees. The Mexican woodpecker claimed Mexico had a tree that no woodpecker could peck.
The Canadian woodpecker accepted his challenge and promptly pecked a hole in the tree with no problem.The Mexican woodpecker was amazed.
The Canadian woodpecker then challenged the Mexican woodpecker to peck a tree in Canada that was absolutely 'im-peckable' (a term woodpeckers like to use). The Mexican woodpecker expressed confidence that he could do it and accepted the challenge.
The two flew to Canada where the Mexican woodpecker successfully pecked the so-ca lled 'im-peckable' tree almost without breaking a sweat.
Both woodpeckers were now terribly confused. How is it that the Canadian woodpecker was able to peck the Mexican tree, and the Mexican woodpecker was able to peck the Canadian tree, yet neither was able to peck the tree in their own country?
After much woodpecker pondering, they both came to the same conclusion: Apparently, your pecker gets harder when you're away from home.
Maybe an Hemophiliac
A lady-of-the-night was visiting her doctor for a regular checkup. "Any specific problems you should tell me about" the doctor asked?
"Well, I have noticed lately that if I get even the tiniest cut, it seems to bleed for hours" she replied. "Do you think I might be a hemophiliac"?
"Well, hemophilia is a genetic disorder and it's most often found in men," answered the doctor. "But, some woman do get hemophilia. Tell me, how much do you lose when you have your period" asked the doctor?
After some quick calculating, the hooker replied, "Oh, about seven or eight hundred dollars, I guess".
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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Women need a reason to have sex -- men just need a place.
....Billy Crystal
I love the lines the men use to get us into bed. "Please, I'll only put it in for a minute." What am I, a microwave?
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Do you know why God withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.
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Eventually, all men come out of the bathroom dressed as a majorette.
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There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked."
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We got new advice as to what motivated man to walk upright: to free his hands for masturbation.
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March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion, out like a lamb.
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You know why God is a man? Because if God was a woman she would have made sperm taste like chocolate.
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Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
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A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
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When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
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Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.
....Lyndon B. Johnson
Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?
God made man before woman to give him time to think of an answer for her first question.
A married couple were delighted when finally their long wait to adopt a baby came to an end. The adoption center called and told them they had a wonderful Japanese baby boy, and the couple took him without hesitation.
On the way home from the adoption center, they stopped by the local college so they each could enroll in night courses.
After they filled out the form, the registration clerk inquired, "What ever possessed you to study Japanese"?
The couple said proudly, "We just adopted a Japanese baby and in a year or so he'll start to talk. We just want to be able to understand him".
A Farmer Was Selling his Peaches Door to Door.
He knocked on a door and a shapely 30 something woman dressed in a very sheer negligee answered the door.
He raised his basket To show her the peaches and asked, 'Would you like to buy some peaches?'
She pulled the top of the negligee to one side and asked, 'Are they as firm as this?'
He nodded his head and said, 'Yes ma'am,'' and a little tear ran from his eye.
Then she pulled the other side of her negligee off asking, 'Are they nice and pink like this?'
The farmer said, Yes,' and another tear came from the other eye. Then she unbuttoned the bottom of her negligee and asked, 'Are they as fuzzy as this?'
He again said, 'Yes,' and broke down crying.
She asked, 'Why on earth are you crying?'
Drying his eyes he replied, ''The drought got my corn, the flood got my soy beans, a tornado leveled my barn, and now I think I'm gonna get screwed out of my peaches'.
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YSU women fall to hot-shooting Oakland in home finale
The Penguins could not overcome a double-digit deficit as the Golden Grizzlies shot over 55 percent from the floor Sunday.
by: Chase Evans
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – Youngstown State had three players reach double figures but could not overcome a hot-shooting Oakland squad and dropped its home finale, 86-73, on Sunday afternoon at Beeghly Center.
The Penguins fall to 13-14 overall and 6-10 in Horizon League play while the Golden Grizzlies improve to 11-16 overall and 6-10 in the league.
Chelsea Olson led the Penguins with 18 points and eight rebounds, while McKenah Peters had 14 points and Ny'Dajah Jackson added 11 points.
Oakland's Chloe Guingrich scored a game-high 23 points on 10-of-13 shooting and posted a double-double with 10 rebounds. Four other Golden Grizzlies reached double figures, including Alona Blackwell and Kahlaijah Dean with 13 points each, Breanne Beatty with 11 and Brianna Breedy with 10. All seven Golden Grizzlies players who played more than eight minutes had at least seven points.
The Golden Grizzlies shot 57.9 percent in the fourth period, and the only quarter they shot below that was the second. Oakland also converted 17 YSU turnovers into 21 points, and the Golden Grizzlies outscored the Penguins 16-5 in transition.
The Penguins close out the regular season with a pair of games in Wisconsin next week beginning with a match at Milwaukee on Thursday at 8 p.m. Eastern.
Courtesy: YSU Sports Information
by Vince Pellegrini / Jan 18, 2021
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WKBN) – Struthers powered past Villa Angela-St. Joseph at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, 74-49.
The Wildcats stay unbeaten at 12-0.
HERMITAGE, Pennsylvania (WKBN) - This Tuesday, the Game of the Week rolls into Western Pennsylvania for a trip to 'The Hive'.
Hickory welcomes Sharon for a rivalry-tilt. The Hornets are unbeaten while Sharon has stumbled out of the gate.
by Josh Frketic / Jan 18, 2021
CANFIELD, Ohio (WKBN) - The high school girls basketball game between South Range and Poland has been postponed following what appeared to be a serious injury to Raiders senior Izzy Lamparty.
The game was stopped tied at four with 5:35 remaining in the first quarter.


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Retailers and restaurants say eliminating cash at their stores makes them more efficient. But opponents argue that cashless stores exclude millions of Americans without bank accounts.
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"Indeed, before we understand the work we do, it stands under us. Research as a vocation, then, puts one in service to those unfinished stories that weigh down upon us individually and collectively as the wait and weight of history . . . It is re-search, a searching again for what has already made its claim upon us and is making its claim upon the future."(Romanyshyn, 2007, 113-117).
The archetype of the wounded healer and the wounded researcher are central to the "wounded clinician". In this keynote, Caroline and Peter will explore how our individual and collective wounds define us and inform our work in alternative sexualities.
Past and current impact of woundedness will be explored in relation to clinical practice and research in to alternative sexualities. Where do our wounds intersect and/or mirror the issues in society at large? How would resolving the wounds in the clinician help resolve the woundedness of those who practice alternative sexualities? Potential future directions will be probed related to working with alternative sexualities in these times. As clinicians and researchers what are we called to resolve in ourselves? What is the claim the future calls forth in our profession?


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New nano-sized sensors provide unprecedented data on how heat diffuses in and out of living cells.
The gallium nitride nanomembrane (GaN NM) is shown attached to a cell. When a pulsed laser is directed onto the nanomembrane, heat is transferred to the cell via a gold microdisc. By monitoring the emitted photoluminescent light (blue arrows), the researchers can calculate the thermal transport properties of the cell.
Tiny flat sensors that stick to the surface of living cells can provide detailed measurements of heat transfer at the cell surface. Developed at KAUST, these new sensors resolve some of the practical challenges of working with these tiny cells as well as enable novel diagnostic techniques1.
Professor Boon Ooi, his Ph.D. student Rami Elafandy and co-workers developed these sensor devices from gallium nitride nanomembranes that are just 40 nanometers thick. They also show that the sensors can identify different types of cancer cells.
ElAfandy explains that optical, mechanical and electrical properties of living cells have been extensively studied and yet there is little data of their thermal properties, mainly because of the challenges of working with tiny cell volumes and irregular cellular shapes.
After attaching the sensor to the cell surface, the researchers applied a pulsed ultraviolet laser beam, heating the nanomembrane and causing a photoluminescent emission of light at a frequency dependent on the temperature of the nanomembrane. This temperature, in turn, depended on how well the heat was transferred into the cell.
Therefore, by measuring the frequency of the photoluminescent light, the researchers could calculate not only the thermal conductivity of the cells—how well they allow heat to flow—but also the thermal diffusivity, which takes into account how well the cell stores thermal energy.
During tests, the researchers identified strong differences in thermal diffusivity between breast and cervical cancer cells as well as between sub-types of breast cancer cells.


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Natalie Zemon Davis (Detroit, 8 november 1928) is een Canadees-Amerikaans historica gespecialiseerd in de culturele geschiedenis van het vroegmoderne Europa. Ze is verbonden als adjunct-professor voor geschiedenis en antropologie en professor voor middeleeuwse studies aan de Universiteit van Toronto.

Biografie
Natalie Zemon Davis groeide op in een joods gezin in Detroit. Ze verkreeg haar scholing aan het Kingswood College for Girls. Ze studeerde vervolgens achtereenvolgend aan het Smith College waar ze in 1949 afstudeerde om daarna haar master te behalen aan het Radcliffe College. In de jaren vijftig hadden zowel Davis als haar echtgenoot te maken met de rode schrik in de Verenigde Staten. Haar echtgenoot Chandler Davis werd kortstondig vastgezet en nadat Natalie Zemon Davis terugkeerde uit Frankrijk werd haar paspoort afgepakt. In 1959 behaalde Davis haar PhD aan de Universiteit van Michigan. Ze begon vervolgens met doceren aan de Brown-universiteit en daar op volgde posities aan de Universiteit van Toronto en de Universiteit van Californië - Berkeley. Ze kreeg aansluitend in 1978 een aanstelling aan de Princeton-universiteit waar ze vanaf 1981 de Henry Charles Lea Professor of History werd. Ze was in 1987 de voorzitter van de American Historical Association. In 1996 ging ze met pensioen. In 2010 verkreeg ze voor haar werk de Holbergprijs.

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 "Beyond Evolution: Comparative History and its Goals" in: Swiat Historii edited by W. Wrzoska, Poznan: Instytut Historii, 149–158, 1998.
 The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France, University of Wisconsin Press  2000
 Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002
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Q: Parse Nested JSON with Python and Pandas I would like to parse this json response:
{
    "status": "ok",
    "results_time": "0.6756 sec.",
    "results_count": 1,
    "results": [
        {
            "date": "2017-01-01",
            "site_url": "asana.com",
            "site_title": "Use Asana to track your team's work & manage projects · Asana",
            "site_description": "It's free to use, simple to get started, and powerful enough to run your entire business. Sign up for free today.",
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                "time_on_site_avg": "00:09:25",
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            "traffic": {
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                "percent": 100,
                "countries": [
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                        "country": "United States",
                        "value": 6864349,
                        "percent": 34.4
                    },
                    {
                        "country": "United Kingdom",
                        "value": 1133338,
                        "percent": 5.68
                    },
                    {
                        "country": "Brazil",
                        "value": 705693,
                        "percent": 3.54
                    },
                    {
                        "country": "Canada",
                        "value": 703566,
                        "percent": 3.53
                    },
                    {
                        "country": "Poland",
                        "value": 700182,
                        "percent": 3.51
                    },
                    {
                        "country": "Other",
                        "value": 984474655,
                        "percent": 49.34
                    }
                ],

.........
    }
I would like to export a csv with these field:
audience.visits
audience.time_on_site_avg
audience.page_views_avg
audience.bounce_rate
traffic.countries.country
traffic.countries.value
traffic.countries.percent

I have these code but not success.
import json
import pandas as pd
from pandas.io.json import json_normalize

with open('dict.competitor') as f:
    d = json.load(f)

traffic1 =j son_normalize(data=d['results'],record_path='traffic','countries'])

print(traffic1)

I feel like I am halfway there. I have tried several combinations and advice from other SO posts to get the remaining data. Nothing has worked thus far. I know the issue I am encountering is due to the nesting, just need to find a way to get the desired result. I appreciate your help!

A: There's likely a much smarter pandas way of doing this (which would be great to see), but here is a loop that should produce the desired result.
Based on what I understand from your question this will produce a DataFrame which looks like this and can be exported to CSV:

data = []

for r in the_json["results"]:

    for d in r["traffic"]["countries"]:
        row = {}
        for key in d.keys():
            row["traffic.{}".format(key)] = d[key]

        for key in r["audience"]:
            row["audience.{}".format(key)] = r["audience"][key]

        data.append(row)

df = pd.DataFrame(data)

df.to_csv("filename.csv")


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My conclusion: Americans are pretty knowledgable about our economic problems, and as they watch public policy evolve they're becoming more wary of major government involvement in the economy. The tea party participants, (whose numbers have been estimated at "300,000+," by Obama backer Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com and "more than 623,000," by tea party sympathizers at pajamasmedia.com,) are evidently more in line with the trend of widespread public opinion than the mainstream media would like you to think."
You can forget, as you go about your daily work, the name of the Secretary of the Treasury, even while remembering significant things about him (he has Wall Street experience, he didn't pay all of his taxes). But the Pew interviewers found that Americans do pretty well on quiz questions these days. A 53% majority said that national unemployment was around 8% and 40% said that the Dow Jones average was hovering around 8000. As you might expect, college grads were more knowledgeable than those less educated, high earners (and middle earners) more knowledgeable than low earners, older people more knowledgeable than young people. Republicans were also considerably more knowledgeable and Independents more knowledgeable than Democrats. And, to a greater extent than I had expected, men were much more knowledgeable than women.


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The Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) was founded on June 23, 1967, and is described as being focused on socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism, and racial equality. It's main goal is for communities to maintain stability and everyone to live in peace and harmony.
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Lunch at Rhône-influenced Willi's Wine Bar on Rue des Petits Champs was also a disappointment: poor service; average food, meat overcooked and undercooked respectively; and extremely expensive wine. The cheapest red on offer was €44.00 and came from a producer that I did not recognise.
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One of the few remaining "underground railroad" sites in Manhattan!
The only documented underground railway site on the island of Manhattan is the Gibbons Underground Railway Site at what used to be known as Lamartine Place, 339 West 29th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues. The current owner of the site has added an "ugly, illegal" floor to the historic house on a block that is of historical importance. The Friends of Lamartine Place are raising funds to protect this historically important house. Fern Luskin documented the importance of the Gibbons Site.
Prior owners of the house — Abby Hopper Gibbons and James Sloan Gibbons — harbored runaway slaves in their home. In addition, the family managed to escape from the house during the Draft Riots by running over the rooftops of the row houses on what was then Lamartine Place and is now just 29th Street.
Julie Finch has been important in raising funds and getting attention for this site. Their work has been assisted by the Historic District Council.
The underground railroad was a fictional railway line that brought fugitive slaves and their families from below the Mason-Dixon line to upstate New York, where they felt safe, or even to Canada if it was felt that their pursuers were prepared to spend a lot of money to get them back. The "stations" on the underground railroad were safe houses.
The fugitives were told to head north in the night, guided by the Big Dipper, "Follow the drinking gourd," as they were told, because it pointed to the North Star (see www.followthedrinkinggourd.org/) and they looked for friendly addresses along the way.
Sometimes people spend years working on preserving a piece of history and they do not get recognition. And then, all at once, the recognition comes. That has happened to two people who have sought to preserve the only "underground railroad" site in Manhattan — Fern Luskin and Julie Finch.
The two women are being honored by the Chelsea Reform Democratic Club on May 4. As the president of the club, Steven Skyles-Mulligan, notes in the club's April Newsletter, "Not all progress is progressive." Sometimes the club, which considers itself progressive, needs to consider the cost of development as well as it is economic.
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But bad news is for the community as Open Solaris has an uncertain future. Oracle has made clear that not all features from Oracle Solaris will be added to Open Solaris. Oracle may not even release the code of most of the new features of Oracle Solaris thus keep an edge over UNIX competitors and community version. While price factor does not matter much, the code factor does matter a lot.
What does this do for Nexenta and others, with business dependencies upon OpenSolaris? We looked to OpenSolaris for a more up-to-date, less buggy Solaris. We are looking at this for one of our siCluster offerings … this might have to change now.
Makes sense from an Oracle perspective though.
BTW: I should say a definitive "UGH" at this. We've been playing with OS for a while, and thought that (outside of the Nexenta offering) it finally hit upon something of enough value that we should be looking seriously at it. These licensing changes do concern me, but more to the point, the changes of the cost structures are unknown right now. Uncertainty is bad.


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If one of you has been brought up to save and the other to spend, this is an argument waiting to happen. There are certain conversations you should have before tying the knot, however difficult and uncomfortable, and money is definitely one of them.
The idea of a drawing up a prenuptial agreement with a London divorce lawyer is hardly the most romantic, but prenups should be as standard for everyone as insurance. After all, anything might happen in the future. Just like you wouldn't buy a house without also buying house insurance, you shouldn't say your marriage vows until you've signed a prenuptial agreement. Just like not having house insurance, not having a prenuptial agreement could quite literally leave you homeless and out in the cold.
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Remember: the whole point of clearing the air about financial matters early on is to increase your chances of a long and happy marriage. When you're working out the terms of your prenup, look through the legal 500 family law website to find London divorce lawyers for both of you.
If marriage isn't for you, you can also get the help of a divorce lawyer in London to draw up a cohabitation agreement. You can still have the insurance against anything that might happen in the future, but without taking the step of marriage.
If you have different attitudes towards money, then you don't have to call off the engagement. Keeping your main bank accounts separate, but having a joint one for your household, is a good way to avoid unnecessary arguments about your partner's spending habits. It can also avoid bringing too much baggage to the relationship if you have debt or student loans.
Thanks to rising tuition fees and a pressure to complete third-level education, more millennials than ever are saddled with large amounts of student loans and debt. As long as you make sure you can make your monthly payments, keeping your debts separate from your finances in your marriage as much as possible is a good idea. Especially if one of you earns significantly more, separate bank accounts encourage you to maintain your financial independence and limit grand gestures like offering to pay off each other's loans — which, while seeming like a good idea at the time, can cause resentment later on.
You may have managed the finance talk before your wedding, but that shouldn't be the last time finances are mentioned, instead, it should be a talk which turns into a regular event. Sitting down every month or few months to discuss financial goals and check in with each other is a good habit to establish early on. Setting out an annual financial blueprint, possibly with the help of a legal 500 family law solicitor, or divorce lawyer in London, is a good way to set targets. This helps you work towards loan repayments, holidays, climbing the property ladder and other important financial developments, which help you achieve your budgeting and spending targets in the long run.
If you establish these patterns of financial responsibility early into your marriage, by the time bigger issues arise down the line like property and children, your foundations will be strong and you can tackle them together as a team. Develop good communication skills, prepare for any eventuality, and add a healthy dose of being realistic. With these tools you can survive financial bumps together for a long, happy and financially secure marriage.
Great tips, especially about having a prenup. I'm always surprised at how many people are shocked when I suggest a prenup when they start talking about getting married.
As I always put it, no one expects a car accident, but you still have auto insurance. No one expects a divorce either, but a prenup is your marriage insurance.