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How a collapse of Italy's government could see it lurch right
ROME — Italy's hard-line populist interior minister has brought his government to the brink of collapse by calling for an early election that could see the country lurch toward the far-right.
Matteo Salvini is leader of the League, a staunchly anti-immigration party that currently governs in coalition with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement. Salvini is also one of Italy's two deputy prime ministers, alongside 5SM leader Luigi Di Maio.
Though the M5S began as the senior partner, the League has recently been climbing in opinion polls, edging toward the 40 percent of public support it would need to govern alone.
Even if he fell short of this electoral threshold, Salvini could go into government with the Brothers of Italy, a far-right nationalist party.
Its leader, Giorgia Meloni, said an early election could produce a government willing to make "politically incorrect reforms that Italy needs," The Associated Press reported.
Were Salvini to win an early election, "it would make it one of the most right-wing governments in Europe," according to Lorenzo Castellani, a politics professor at Rome's Luiss University.
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Europe has seen a shift toward that extreme in recent years, with far-right, anti-immigration and anti-Islam parties breaking into the political mainstream in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and beyond.
In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban championed what he calls his "illiberal democracy," eroding democratic institutions and deploying anti-Semitic rhetoric, according to his critics.
Until recently, the Austrian government was propped up by a far-right party, the Freedom Party of Austria, which was founded in the 1950s by former Nazis.
Some of these parties have alleged links with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who squarely aligned himself with their worldview when he declared in June that liberalism was "obsolete." Last month, Salvini himself denied that his party sought millions in Kremlin funding through a secret oil deal.
Salvini has pledged to deport half a million people and has barred entry to ships carrying refugees.
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He was criticized earlier this year after skipping celebrations marking Italy's 1945 liberation from the fascist rule of Benito Mussolini, who spent the last two years of World War II overseeing a puppet republic in Nazi-occupied northern Italy.
Salvini's and Di Maio's parties have been something of an odd couple since they joined forces after an election in May 2018. They have been bickering for months over several domestic policy issues, including disagreements over taxes and a high-speed rail link to France.
Italy's Minister of Labor and Industry Luigi Di Maio, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini give a news conference in Rome last year.Remo Casilli / Reuters file
Salvini has styled himself as a man-of-the-people who for most of the summer has decamped to the beach. He began the coalition last year with a little more than half the public support of the M5S. But these roles have since flipped, with the League topping Italy's polls in May's European Parliament elections, and today scoring as high as 38 percent in opinion polls.
On Thursday the party said the disagreements with its bedfellow had become too much.
"We have to acknowledge that, after having accomplished many good things, for too long now the League and the 5-Star movement have disagreed on fundamental issues," the League said in a statement.
"Italy needs certainties and courageous choices," it added. "Every day that passes is a day lost. To us, the only alternative to this government is to call for new elections and let Italians decide."
Although Salvini's intervention appears to make the current government unworkable, an early election is not certain. Italy's parliament is currently on its summer recess and has not held a vote in the fall since the end of World War II, according to Reuters.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, a law professor who belongs to neither party, said on television that Salvini must explain to Italians why he wanted to bring down the government and condemned "the crisis he has unleashed," Reuters reported.
The prime minister could call a "motion of confidence" in the government, and will resign if he loses. But the president, Sergio Mattarella, is the only person with the power to dissolve parliament.
Instead he may opt to install a government of technocrats — apolitical experts, rather than tribal politicians — so the 2020 budget can be passed and any election can be postponed until next year.
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Italy is the world's eighth largest economy but has Europe's second largest sovereign debt burden after Greece. It has already angered the European Union by threatening to break its budget rules, and Salvini is already setting up another clash next year by seeking major tax cuts.
Catherine Fieschi, an expert on populism and director of the British think tank Counterpoint, believes that if Salvini gains power he might switch focus from immigration to the economy in a bid to be taken more seriously than the other populist firebrands with whom he is currently associated.
"His ambition has been driven by a real sense that Italy has been humiliated in Europe," she said. "Putting Italy back at the heart of Europe is important to him, and he knows he can't do that by being a troublemaker all his life."
Claudio Lavanga reported from Rome, and Alexander Smith reported from London.
SOURCE : https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/italy-s-salvini-calls-elections-raises-possibility-far-right-rule-n1040701
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Today, when I logged into Amazon Associates website, I found this new feature from Amazon, it's Amazon Native Shopping Ads, which is not entirely a new thing, but a better way to display related products on your pages.
Earlier, I was using Amazon Product Links below the post on one of my blogs, it wasn't working too well but was enough to pay the monthly hosting bills.
Part of the reason for its below average Performance was because the Product Links showed a handful of products I had selected at the a time of creating them.
How does Native Ads work?
The Amazon Native Ads are pretty much like other Links provided by Amazon, and serve the same purpose, that is, show products from their store. Amazon Native Ads have three options to generate the codes. Recommended Ads, Search Ads and Custom Ads. And I think you can figure out the use case.
How the Amazon Native Ads are effective?
Most people, who use Amazon Affiliate Links, have to write a lot of content around products where they can put the relevant links.
The Amazon Native Ads automatically display related products based on the keywords used in the post. Which means, the visitors who read the posts might actually find the products relevant and they might be interested in them. Which means more sales.
If you are already signed up with Amazon Associates and use it to recommend products on your blog, you should give it a try. Not only because it shows the related product, but it is also Responsive Ad, which means it is mobile friendly. And if your blog gets most of its traffic from Mobile, (mine gets 80%) then it's going to work great.
What I've found that the current links I use on my blog for recommending products, doesn't even show on mobile most of the time.
The only problem in my case if that the blog I am using Amazon ads, has the majority of its traffic from India, and the USA is 2nd most. But I've found a solution for this which worked extremely well for me. And that is, Geo Targeted Ads, I'm using this plugin called WP Ads Pro with an add-on which lets bloggers display Ads depending on the location of visitors. I've actually written about it.
Anyway, I'll be using it for a while and update this post with more info. Meanwhile, if you have tried it you can share your experience with us in the comments.
As people trust Amazon, so they buy through Native Shopping ads as well and they convert good. I used to use when I just started my blog two years ago and after 7-8 months I stopped using and now I came to know that I was making money with these ads too, so again I started to use on my Ease Bedding Dot Com's Sidebars and below the posts.
I think these looks very neat and add value to the overall user experience. Will try adding these to my sites. Thanks!


The Infertility Overachievers: 36 weeks!!!
While I know 37weeks is considered "Term", however for us 36 weeks has always been our goal. When I went into preterm labor at just 23w5d, I never thought we would make it this far. Myself and Dr E felt for SURE that Mr London was going to come early. After 11 weeks on bedrest, and countless doses of procardia (my anti contraction medicine), we have finally made it!! WOOHOOOO!!!!!
Yay!! Congrats at making it to your goal point! Now we're ready to see this little boy of yours!
WAHOO!!! Ok, London, you can come out now!!
WOOOHOOO!! :) Just a bit longer!


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On one of my open source projects (check you my github profile) I use some dynamic type discovery and loading. I need these because I want to load every type that implements an interface or has a specified attribute. I also need to be able to load types that reference my asssembly (not known to my assembly).
Few days after, I received 2 new issues: You library is blowing out with my application.
Hum… ok.. fine, But it really works on my machine… Let's digg a bit more about ReflectionTypeLoadException shall we. ReflectionTypeLoadException Class Reference.
There is also another array of exceptions (LoaderExceptions property). This exception array represents the exceptions that were thrown by the class loader. The holes in the class array line up with the exceptions.
Hum…. yup, the problem wasn't on my library but on some missing dependencies of the application, but because the library tries to enumerate all the types on the AppDomain, it burst in flames.
So, what can we do? Not much really, just work with the good eggs and ignore the others.
Bottom line… Even if your code is working nice, tested and feels good, on a disfunctional context, it can be a bomb ready to explode.


TORONTO, Dec. 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eastmain Resources Inc. ("Eastmain" or the "Company" - TSX:ER, OTCQX:EANRF) reports results for 5 holes (1,558 m) drilled in late 2018 at the Percival discovery ("Percival") and presents its focused exploration program for 2019 on the 100%-owned Clearwater Property (the "Property") in James Bay, Québec. The early 2019 exploration program will focus on testing the extent and continuity of the Percival discovery (see PR dated Nov. 13, 2018). Additionally, the program will evaluate the potential of the 14-km long Knight-Serendipity volcano-sedimentary Horizon ("KS Horizon").
Percival is located 14 km ESE of the Company's million-ounce Eau Claire gold deposit, within the 20-km long Cannard Deformation Zone (see FIGURE 1) and within the southern leg of the KS Horizon. Percival is a hydrothermal gold system hosted in a thick metasedimentary sequence with locally interbedded intermediate to felsic volcaniclastic rocks. Results from the new drilling provide a further understanding of the mineralization controls, namely by defining lithological and structural settings, within the host stratigraphy while identifying at least two gold mineralized zones within the metasedimentary package (see FIGURES 2-6).
Improved interpretation: Follow-up drilling focused on testing the Percival gold bearing zone, with holes drilled to the NE and SW of the discovery holes (ER18-822 and ER18-823). It extended the strike of the zone to a minimum length of 200 m and tested the 70o SE dipping stratigraphy to approximately 250 m downdip.
Geophysics Airborne Survey: Eastmain completed a Helicopter-borne VTEM™ and Horizontal Magnetic Gradiometer Geophysical Survey (VTEM Plus) along the KS Horizon (550 line-kms covering 12 kms of the KS Horizon) which includes the Percival discovery. Interpretation will be available in January and will help focus work at Percival and other prospective targets along the KS Horizon (see FIGURE 1).
Improved infrastructure: A 14 km winter trail connecting the road-accessible Eau Claire Project and camp to the Percival discovery will be opened in January. The trail will provide improved access and cost efficiency for the winter campaign.
2019 Winter Drill Program: A three-month, 20-hole (5,500 m), focused drilling campaign is planned to begin in mid-January. The program is designed to expand on the discovery while further identifying gold mineralization controls and distribution within the argillite-mudstone sedimentary package at Percival. Building on a likely successful Winter Program, a second extensive campaign will be planned for the second half of 2019 and will include additional drilling of the discovery area and test additional targets delineated along the KS Horizon, using newly acquired geophysical and soil geochemistry information.
Gold has been intersected in all holes testing for breccia units within the metasedimentary package which hosts the Percival gold mineralization. Discovery drill holes ER18-822 and ER18-823 traversed the most strongly mineralized portion drilled to date intersecting strongly silicified, sulfide rich, mineralized breccia zones where both matrix and clasts have been replaced by silica. The new holes confirm the lateral extent of potentially gold bearing breccias while intersecting less intense silicification and sulphide concentrations. Significant intercepts and hole location information are presented in Tables 1 and 2 below.
The type and intensity of alteration in the initial discovery holes suggests proximity to a syn-volcanic hydrothermal source. Preliminary interpretations strongly suggest that increases in breccia thickness, intensity of alteration (namely silicification) and to a lesser degree high sulphide content, are all controls that can be used to determine the extent, orientation, and occurrence of gold mineralization within the new zones to guide future drill testing. Oriented core measurements taken during the fall program will also assist with targeting gold bearing mineralization in the next phases of drilling.
Holes ER18-825 and ER18-828 highlight the absence of the mafic volcanic footwall seen in holes ER18-822 and others drilled further to the east. A NNW trending fault structure is magnetically inferred in this area and may represent a potential offset of stratigraphy and mineralization. One drill hole (assays pending) is testing this potential structure.
Three additional holes (887 m) were completed this week at Percival. All three holes were collared to the west of the discovery holes, aimed at testing interpreted lateral extension, structural interpretation and possible plunge of breccia units in the sedimentary host package. Results from these holes will be available in January 2019.
Percival is located 14 km ESE of the Eau Claire deposit (see FIGURE 1) in the Knight sector of the KS Horizon, on the Clearwater Property. The KS Horizon is characterized by an extensive package of metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks metamorphosed from upper greenschist to lower amphibolite facies. The horizon is also affected by deformation related to major crustal scale structures specifically the Cannard Deformation zone at the Percival discovery. The stratigraphy at the Percival comprises foliated, predominantly south facing metasedimentary rocks underlain by marine mafic metavolcanics.
The Knight sector is interpreted to be at the south-western end of the prospective volcano-sedimentary sequence. Holes ER18-822 and ER18-823 were drilled on a single section (see FIGURE 5) to undercut gold mineralization exposed in a sequence of silicified metavolcanics and metasediments during the Company's summer surface exploration program. These two holes intersected a silicified, sulfide rich, and gold mineralized brecciated interval of approximately 50 m in true thickness which extends from surface to a minimum vertical depth of approximately 100 m.
Holes ER18-824 to ER18-828 were drilled to flank Percival discovery holes ER18-822 and ER18-823, testing for the extension of the brecciated units over a NE strike length of 200 m and across stratigraphy over 250 m.
To view Figures 1-6, please click on the following link: http://www.eastmain.com/_resources/news/Images/ER-181220-Percival.pdf.


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These days, it seems as if celebrities are all about killer deals (lust-worthy real estate notwithstanding). From Kate Bosworth's $50 jeans to Lily Aldridge's $40 jacket to Selena Gomez's $8 tank, A-listers everywhere are scoring big with Emma Roberts and Lupita Nyong'o joining rank. Both recently spotted in pieces from mall store favorite, Forever 21 (Gigi Hadid is a known fan), each effortless look offers further proof that great style does not require a massive budget. And while most affordable items donned by celebs see an instant sell out, Lupita and Emma's looks are still in-stock—each for only $25. Perfectly suited to August's scorching temps, shop Lupita's pretty maxi and Emma's transitional topper for cool-girl style at a guilt-free price.
On vacation in Bali wearing a Forever 21 printed maxi.
Cool in a Forever 21 camo jacket.


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LG G6 Leaked in Fresh Photos Showcasing Dual Rear Cameras, Brushed Metal Design
LG's next flagship G6 smartphone has already been part of several leaks hinting the design of the device. Now, the smartphone has been spotted in new leaked photos shared by a South Korean website, showcasing the overall design alongside features such as rear-mounted fingerprint scanner and dual rear camera setup, in-line with earlier leaks. Alongside, new leaked case renders have surfaced online – matching the design of the latest leaked images.
New leaked images shared by Under KG show off a brushed metal design for the LG G6, showing a matte finish that's different from the glossy black version that was leaked previously. The rear fingerprint scanner module looks to double as the power button, while the smartphone retains the 3.5mm jack, and a large SIM card slot hatch hinting at the inclusion of microSD card support.
In the meanwhile, case maker Ringke has listed several LG G6 cases which give out the design of the upcoming flagship. The new leaked case renders also gives an impression that LG G6 will indeed come with in different versions. Some of the transparent cases of the alleged LG G6 show that the handset will include 3.5mm audio jack at the top while mono-speakers alongside USB Type-C charging port at the bottom. The G6 branding at the back of the handset is again teased in the new leaked case renders. The left panel is seen housing the volume rocker buttons while the SIM slot is seen at the right.
The alleged case renders of the G6 smartphone are listed on Amazon by case maker Ringke and were first reported by Android Pure.
The new leaked case renders again hint that LG G6 will sport metal design which will be a departure from the company's current plastic body in the LG G5, which sports a modular design. An earlier report claimed that LG was running additional safety tests on the G6 ahead of its actual launch. The company is also rumoured to adopt a new 'heat pipe' cooling technology to conduct heat away from the processor.
Based on preliminary leaks, the LG G6 flagship will be the only other non-Pixel smartphone to feature Google Assistant out-of-the-box. The G6 is widely expected to come with waterproofing capability and this is said to be one of the reasons why LG's next flagship will ditch the removable battery to give way to water resistance. LG is also rumoured to come with dated Snapdragon 821 processor as Samsung has reportedly first dibs of the latest Snapdragon 835 processor.
LG's much-anticipated G6 flagship smartphone is expected to be unveiled at the company's February 26 event just ahead of MWC 2017 in Barcelona. The event will begin on February 26 at 4.30pm IST (12.00pm CET).
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Traditional Texas nachos are given a little bit of festive flair in this eye-catching, easy holiday appetizer that will kick any Christmas party up a notch!
Since moving to Texas two-and-a-half years ago, I've enjoyed discovering foods that I'd never encountered in any of the other states I've lived. From candied jalapeños to sausage balls to kolaches to pimento cheese, it's been a fun and tasty learning experience.
One of the foods that surprised me the most was the "Texas Nacho." Texas nachos are nothing like the nachos I'd been eating my whole life. To me, nachos meant a giant plate of tortilla chips topped with mounds of cheese, beans, salsa, possibly some chicken or beef, and loads of other toppings.
To eat them, you just grabbed a chip from the pile and hoped for the best. Some chips would be completely plain, while others would be so drenched in toppings they would fall apart before they reached your mouth.
Texas nachos, however, are different. A true Texas nacho is a tortilla chip individually topped with cheese and one slice of pickled jalapeño.
The first time I had these Texas-style nachos, I was sold! Not only were they a lot neater and easier to eat than the nachos I was used to, but I loved that each chip had the perfect proportion of ingredients. Nobody needs to elbow anybody out of the way to scoop up the last bit of cheese. Yep, Texas nachos are a thing of simple beauty.
That said, I had to mess with them…just a little!
With the holidays around the corner, I wanted to make a slightly modified version of a Texas nacho that would retain the simple sophistication of the original, but add a little bit of festive flair. I found the perfect ingredients at our local H-E-B.
H-E-B has become my go-to store to visit any time I want to experiment in the kitchen. They have such a huge selection that I know I can find any ingredient I could ever need. I mean, they even have an entire section devoted JUST to Mexican cheese.
My newest discovery at H-E-B is La Vaquita® Queso Fresco.
If you're unfamiliar with queso fresco, it's not a melting cheese — I like to call it a finishing cheese. You hand-crumble it onto your favorite Mexican dishes as a beautiful and delicious finishing touch.
I thought that the white, snowy texture of the queso fresco would make it ideal to sprinkle over my Holiday Texas Nachos. I also added some pomegranate seeds and cilantro because their vibrant colors tie in so well with the holidays, and they add amazing flavor. If you haven't had pomegranate seeds paired with Mexican food before, you're in for a treat!
I'm pretty sure the only thing that could make these better would be to serve them up alongside a pomegranate margarita.
Dress up your nachos, holiday style! These nachos are perfect appetizer for a casual Christmas party.
Line a baking sheet with foil and spread chips in an even layer.
Top each chip with shredded quesadilla cheese and place one pickled jalapeño slice in the middle.
Bake at 350 for about 5 minutes or until cheese is evenly melted.
Remove the chips to a serving platter.
Crumble the queso fresco by hand over each chip.
Sprinkle on chopped cilantro and pomegranate seeds.
To learn more about La Vaquita® cheeses, visit LaVaquitaCheese.com or check out their Facebook page. Ibotta has some great offers as well.
My husband would love these! I'll have to make them for him, thanks for sharing!


Is the IO Blender effect going away in the future?
There is no question that virtualization has taken a stronghold in enterprise environments. The benefits of virtualization have been realized and highly adopted.
Running mixed workloads like virtualization will prompt the IO Blender effect. Compound this with upcoming trends (VDI, Big Data, etc.), and the effect will only worsen—unless you properly plan ahead for it!
How do you plan/design for mitigating/minimizing the IO Blender effect?
1) Adjust organization of VMs for like workloads - This may involve different SAN configurations to ensure like-workloads are organized rather than providing a single array of disks. Like workloads are more predictable and can be planned for.
Make no mistake, this is not an easy task. Organization of workloads takes a significant amount of analysis and the behavior of applications in your environment. In many instances this may result in a larger number of storage pools in your environment to manage.
2) Utilization of storage offloading functions - Hypervisor vendors have been working hard with storage vendors to offload many storage functions from the hypervisor to the storage controllers. This allows the storage system to more efficiently handle the operation, reduces pressure on the hypervisor, and helps reduce congestion on any storage connections (local, fibre, or network).
3) LUN Alignment – This is mostly an issue with older Operating System versions. Newer versions will auto-align on installation and should not be an issue. However, with that said, spending the time to ensure LUN alignment is correct will reduce the IO overhead and relieve pressure on the storage controller and subsystems that perform the operations. LUN alignment has the ability to have a significant and positive impact on systemic health!
4) Understand the workload that is being placed on the storage system AND what will be placed on the system in the future. Understanding the workload will help system admins and storage admins ensure proper grouping of like-workload types. Being able to proactively plan where workloads are going to be placed will ensure optimal performance will be maintained and identification of capacity constraints BEFORE they occur.
5) Utilize expandable and extensible storage systems – Storage systems are exceptionally difficult to replace. High cost and the role in the compute environment is difficult to overcome. Storage migration functions in the hypervisors help ease the transition, though. With that being said, being able to expand a storage system in some fashion ensures the decisions you make now can be adapted, adjusted, and enhanced to meet the needs of today and tomorrow. Adjustments and enhancements may include: addition of trays of disks, support for multiple disk types (SAS/FC, SATA, SSD), SSD-based caching, upgradable firmware to add support for future features, additional controllers, swappable HBAs/NICs, etc.
6) Utilize SAN storage that is designed/optimized for virtualization. A small number of vendors are bringing virtualization-focused storage solutions to the market. Large storage vendors are re-tooling their solutions to address issues introduced by virtualization too.
Make a conscious effort to vet and evaluate storage solutions outside of the box. Storage systems with a penchant for virtualization have immediate value outside of the ability to store VM data. Additional functions, like performance metrics, provisioning, management, functional offloading, migration of VM workloads in tiers of storage, etc. all have value beyond storage connectivity and RAID configurations.
7) Utilize up-to-date infrastructure – The IO Blender effect has a way of highlighting the bottlenecks in your virtualization environment. By staying up to date with infrastructure technologies, the bottlenecks can be reduced or eliminated!
- 10Gb networking: for IP-based storage solutions, 10Gb networking can ensure storage requests are not being held up at the NIC level. 10Gb can provide more than ample bandwidth between the compute and storage tiers.
- Fibre channel HBAs: Similar to 10Gb networking, utilizing faster/more efficient HBAs ensure that data requests are not clogged up in the fabric.
- Servers: CPUs, memory, PCI expansion cards, etc… all have a role in ensuring peak performance. CPU performance is increasing in some fashion all the time. Memory is getting denser and faster (which reduces the need to go to storage in many cases). PCI busses are speeding up and the cards that are used are faster and more efficient.
- SSDs, Tiering, and offload functions: SSDs provide a significant increase in performance, if utilized properly. SSDs, in conjunction with automated tiering functions, provide amazing value to all workloads. Offloading hypervisor functions to the storage systems allow the storage system to more efficiently handle the request without sustained impact to the compute and network/fabric.
With virtualization comes the IO Blender effect. The IO Blender effect is not going to go away any time soon. By understanding the cause, impacts and ways to minimize the effect, though, you can help ensure a healthy, efficient, and optimal virtualization environment!


Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has rolled out her universal child care plan. The intention is to make preschool and childcare more affordable for working families by taxing wealthy families with net worth of $50 million and higher, then creating government subsidies and grants that are extended to private schools, cities, and states.
In her plan, she says that her tax on the wealthy can alleviate three problems associated with childcare problems: poor supply of facilities in impoverished areas, low salaries for childcare workers, and insufficient educational programs provided at existing facilities.
Instead of charging families a flat rate equal to what other families with children enrolled at the same school would pay, Warren proposes a sliding scale so that parents are provided the highest quality care at a rate that they can afford, per their annual income. Her plan would cost American taxpayers 1.7 billion dollars to roll out over the next 10-years and would serve more than 12 million children during that time frame.
Feelings about her plan are divided with some arguing against taxing the rich to aid the poor. Others feel that requesting wealthy individuals and families to pitch via taxation is a benefit to society. The underlying motive for this plan, according to Warren, is to bring stay-at-home mothers back into the workforce.
Right now, many mothers, she claims, do not work because of an inability to pay for childcare costs. According to a recent survey, some childcare centers cost anywhere from 10 percent to 36 percent of a wage earners income.
Her plan differs from The Family Fun pack which offers a family subsidy of $300 a month for families of children under the age of 18 and free childcare. Whether or not her plan would provide a subsidy for stay-at-home parents that elect not to return to the workforce or place their child in school, is still left unanswered.
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Her plan breaks up families which are coming back strong among the millennial crowd who are seeking tradition. Stay at home moms do not leave their children with the government nanny to shape them, and those formative early years are so very important to bonding with and shaping the child.
Our public education system has done such a wonderful job educating and raising our children, let's just turn over all child raising responsibilities to the government. After all, they've demonstrated their successes in every other field these BOZOS touch!
OMG. This is as bad as asserting that Medicare For All is the same as all hospitals and doctor's offices becoming government-owned.
ALL Warren wants to do is HELP FAMILIES AFFORD CHILD CARE. She is not in ANY way proposing that government take over and own all child care facilities, any more than you having Medicare or Tricare means the hospital is bad because the government owns it. Chances are the last time your elderly parent was in the hospital it was a private hospital, and government INSURANCE, Medicare, helped pay for it. Same thing with child care. It will still be PRIVATELY owned and run. It will just be accessible to everyone, and perhaps twenty years down the line, we could have fewer in jail and less crime because millions of children were better raised and educated.
Please quit with this extreme muddling of the facts.
Show us ALL the other things she is going to "tax the rich" for to see if her plans call for taxing them into poverty. What are the foreseeable harmful consequences? How much more government will be required? How does she plan to keep the program free from the usual federal government waste and corruption? Why should the federal government get involved? Why can't states take care of their own people with problems? You can only tax the rich up to a point before they decide it is not worth making more money, or they put their money offshore. Furthermore how do we know that he numbers are going to accomplish the job? How would she get more if it is not enough?
What about not having kids until you can afford to take care of them including childcare and food and clothes!!!
That will fix the problem, you idiot Elizabeth!!
Always with conservatives, it cannot be done.
It's a little long, so I'll just summarize it. Basically, the article states that parenting styles have changed over the last forty years from the hands-off, "Let-them-play-outside" attitude I was raised with, to an attitude that every waking minute not spent at work has to be spent with the child, interacting, teaching, supervising everything the child does all the time. The article states that mothers—not fathers, mothers—spend nearly four hours a week more parenting their children now than they did in the mid-seventies, and that this time is coming at a cost to their own lives. Rather than spending time with their spouse, their friends, exercising, or decompressing in any way, they are helping with homework, reading to children, and taking them to and from activities after school. Way more than mothers did in the seventies—when they didn't spend so much time at work.
The article then laments the fact that this is done out of economic insecurity. The more and more precarious life in the middle class becomes, the more and more we hover over our children, trying and trying to prepare them to compete economically. Then the article laments how difficult this is on mothers, because education, health care, and child care cost so much more, parents aren't making enough money to afford these things and are under pressure to perform at work, and access to good child care that is also affordable just isn't there.
I mean, really, people. Wouldn't most of us agree that this is, indeed, the case?
Now: Look at who is actually talking about these problems in the political arena today, and discussing and pursuing solutions.
Okay, I'll give Ivanka Trump her due. Around the time her father was elected president, Ivanka was discussing the child care problem in this country and promising work on getting beleaguered parents some help. Good for Ivanka! I was proud of her.
But … what happened to all that? And, I must point out, some argue that the solutions upon which Ms. Trump wanted to work benefitted wealthier parents and children much more than they would have benefitted poorer parents and children.
Seriously, folks. What do we need to solve these problems? Affordable education, so parents don't bankrupt their golden years trying to get Johnny and Jennifer their B.A.'s and B.S.'s. More money in the average person's paycheck, so there's room for health care and child care in the family budget, and families aren't so very scared their children will grow up to be poor. An actual, social infrastructure of good, affordable, reliable child care that all families can access.
And who's talking right now about free or at least affordable higher education? It isn't conservatives; it's Bernie Sanders. Who's talking about the fact that the poor and middle classes haven't seen a real pay raise, factoring in inflation, in thirty years? It's not Donald Trump, it's Democrats. Who wants to either fix Obamacare or put in a system of universal coverage—not government ownership of hospitals and doctor's offices, but universal coverage (that's Medicare For All, y'all)? It's not Republicans, it's Democrats. Who's going to campaign on affordable child care for all? It's not Donald Trump, it's Elizabeth Warren.
Why, then, do I wander onto a conservative mother's website, and find a whole menu blaring: Why Liberals Are Wrong?
Mrs. Conservative Momma, why don't you understand: Liberals are the only ones trying to help you with the problems you face every day? Cut the myopic conservative focus on tax cuts, all tax cuts, and only tax cuts. Just cutting taxes is not going to solve all these problems.
If you don't agree with how liberals want to solve the problems, fine. But at least join liberals at the table to solve the problems, instead of blaming them all on hungry Guatemalan children at the border and the fact that we have "too much government," and gathering in your own little alcove to bash us—for actually wanting to solve the problems.
The recent crashes of two 737's should remind everyone of what happens when we just decide government is bad, all bad, and only bad, and start defunding everything and shutting it down.
Government is the people and it is what WE make it.
How very socialist thinking of your party.
Sadly, Senator Warren simply wants to fleece her definition of rich, Supporting extended family and maternity leave HHS has plenty enough for those in need. Child care and preschool isA sliding scale less than $200 a week in most of the country. Coastal big cities charge more. Offer a sliding scale subsidy for family households with incomes less than the median. The cost of $10B to $15B is well within the HHS budget.
What if the stay-at-home mom doesn't WANT to be in the work-force? What if she wants to stay home with her babies?
Nice work if you can afford to do it.
Of course she wants mothers "back in the work force" instead of staying home with and raising their own children , especially during early critical years. This insures that she has a LARGER tax base feeding her Socialist Government Machine – where somehow everyone that serves Congress comes out RICH.
Mmmkay, so no fair bashing liberals who are for generous paid family leave when a baby is born.
Since NOT ALL women can afford to stay home with their babies and very young children.
What about this article is making you think this policy, if put in place, would require that all women work? *Nothing* about this plan requires that. At. All.
Princess TalksRealStupid's real plan is to TAX MIDDLE CLASS AND UPPER CLASS to pay for illegitimate, welfare children, especially if they're illegals. If you're part of the Middle Class, like me, and voted Trump, like me, did you get your Fed Taxes cut in half or more because of the Trump Tax Cuts this year? You know you did. Never believe that old Demoncrap lie that they are going to TAX THE RICH to GIVE TO THE POOR. They tax everybody to give to ELITES.
Enjoy that tax cut, because yours will expire in about seven more years. The very very wealthy got a much bigger tax cut than you did, and they get to keep theirs. Fact.
This plan is exactly what it says. No, she is not going to tax you. No, this is not for illegals.
Just another wizbang golly geewiz program will not accomplish anything. These morons think they can drum up support by saying "we will make the rich pay for it". We all know that it will eventually turn into we, the middle class, will also pay for it.
WOW, here is my comment (bet nobody saw this coming, especially Linda) Get the government out of our homes. What part of 'Freedom' don't you 'Liberal Think Tanks' get? Yes, Linda. You are exactly what conservative minds do not want and yes you think exactly like the perfect liberal. Exactly why we are not one. Government free stuff–is NOT free. And our children are not for sale. Go have your own children if you can afford them or don't have them if you won't sacrifice your own selfness to have them. Stay out of our personal lives Mr. Government Persons.


What actions has HP taken to address the Climate Change challenge?
Climate change is one of the most significant and urgent issues facing business and society today. The science is clear, the impacts are serious, and the need to act is essential.
At HP, we see the need to act not only as our responsibility, but vital to the longevity of our business. HP is working to ensure that our business is resilient, innovating to mitigate the effects of climate change, and adapting to an evolving global business and regulatory environment. We recognize that our customers and investors expect us to do our part to address climate change and sustainability.
HP supports the Paris Climate Agreement as originally adopted by consensus in December 2015, participation in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and other global efforts to address climate change. In June 2017, HP signed the "We are Still In" open letter to the international communities and parties to the Paris Agreement committing to remain actively engaged as part of the global effort to hold warming to below 2 degrees Celsius, and to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy.
HP is reinventing the way that products are designed, manufactured, used, and recovered as we shift our business model and operations toward a circular, low-carbon economy. Working with our supply chain partners, we are reducing the environmental impact of our products at every stage of the value chain.
Our personal systems are designed to help reduce the environmental impact of computing for our customers. HP's systems are increasingly more energy-efficient, easier to maintain and repair, and use fewer raw materials and more recycled content than prior generations of our systems. Through subscription-based services, we enable customers to upgrade to more energy-efficient hardware and software, while also extending the life of our systems through refurbishment programs.
Sustainability drives our efforts across our supply chain—ensuring we operate in an ethical, efficient, and resilient way. Throughout our supply chain, we implement industry-leading practices that help reduce our social and environmental impacts globally while benefiting our business and customers. We believe that our efforts to reduce energy use, lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and reduce water within our operations are critical to our long-term business sustainability and enables us to meet our customers' expectations and needs.
HP has set ambitious climate goals across our value chain to drive progress. As a member of the WWF Climate Savers program, we worked with WWF specialists to develop a science-based target for Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions and a supply chain GHG emissions intensity reduction goal for Scope 3 emissions. Our GHG goals have been approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative, fulfilling a commitment we made in April 2016.
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Crowdserfing — when a large corp uses crowd-sourced volunteering for its own financial gain, without giving back. It offends my sense of reciprocity as well, but nobody is coerced into using Google Maps or contributing data to it. How do we decide what is "right"?
Beauty and Joy of Computing — an introductory computer science curriculum developed at the University of California, Berkeley, intended for non-CS majors at the high school junior through undergraduate freshman level. Uses Snap, a web-based implementation of Scratch.


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Ryan Reynolds Used The Deadpool 2 Trailer To Troll His Wife Blake Lively
Mar. 23. 2018 3:28 PM
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively happen to have the sort of relationship that should give most other people relationship goals. The two seem fairly goofy together, and often bring humor into their respective social media posts. But why stick to social media when you can troll one another on a much wider platform? This week, the first full-length Deadpool 2 trailer dropped, and Ryan Reynolds and co. made sure to mention one of Blake Lively's most popular movies in the trailer. Here's the quote:
Doing the right thing is messy, but if you wanna fight for what's right, sometimes you have to fight dirty. And that is why Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is pure pornography.
Speaking to his pal Dopinder and his new co-worker of sorts Domino, Wade Wilson offers some sage advice about fighting dirty, noting that the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movies is "pure pornography." You may already know that the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants franchise movies are among Blake Lively's most famous gigs; she starred as Bridget in two movies in 2005 and 2008. In addition, the cast is still fond of one another, and even reunited a few months ago. The reference itself is a can't miss moment in the trailer, and one that totally harkens back to all of the fun digs the two have taken at one another in the past.
Over the holidays this year, Blake Lively took her own dig at her partner and his cookie decorating skills.
Like they've never said, like never, ever... @VancityReynolds is the next @MarthaStewart pic.twitter.com/ifeUcahpBw
— Blake Lively (@blakelively) December 22, 2017
The playful banter came just a few months after Ryan Reynolds wished his wife a happy birthday... by cropping her out of a photo.
Happy Birthday to my amazing wife.
A post shared by Ryan Reynolds (@vancityreynolds) on Aug 25, 2017 at 8:20pm PDT
Over the years, we've seen continuous back and forth such as this from the two married actors, but it's pretty next level to figure out how to troll your wife in the trailer for your upcoming blockbuster film. Of course, Deadpool 2 is the perfect project for this sort of reference. The first movie in the franchise had over 100 Easter eggs and references, according to Ryan Reynolds himself, and Wade Wilson is a character who cracks pop culture jokes on the regular. In fact, it's a little surprising there wasn't some sort of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants joke in the first movie, so it's nice to see one pop up in an early trailer for the sequel.
If you haven't caught the trailer for Deadpool 2 yet, you can take a look, below.
Deadpool 2 is hitting theaters on May 18, and we expect to see and hear quite a few more references when the movie does finally hit theaters. In the meantime, you can take a look at what we know about the 20th Century Fox movie with our full guide.
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It was the time of afternoon in Huế when pagoda shadows start their surrender to the beginnings of dusk, when a broken ribbon of golden light falls on the Perfume River from a candle lantern sun hanging low in a hazy silk sky. For a third time, he would miss the slow, sweaty fade to grey, passing time in a small, incense thick room with no windows in a wing of Huong Giang Hotel.
They breathed together, staring up at the ceiling. The massage table was just wide enough for both of them, side to side on their backs and heads tilted together, as long as nobody shifted or wiggled. Some of Thi's straight, coal hair had fallen across his shoulder.
Thi's voice was sweet, almost a sigh, as she followed his gravelly lead, singing the riff covered by horns and strings in Ike and Tina's version.
That made him smile for his turn.
With a dowser's instinct for harmony, Thi shone when they sang the mid-chorus yeah's together.
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