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An Interview with Randy Benson: The Searchers
Randolph Benson's documentary film The Searchers will premiere at the Texas Theater in Dallas on November 21, 2016. The film explores the unique subculture of JFK researchers from the standpoint of an outsider who found himself, over time, becoming an insider. It will also be making its debut on DVD.
Benson's work has appeared on the Bravo Network and Canal Plus – France, and his film Man and Dog received several awards, including a Gold Medal from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Student Academy Awards. He currently teaches at the Center for Documentary Studies in Duke University. I talked to him about the process of making his new film.
So who are the searchers of the title?
Who are they? The searchers are average citizens – normal people, curious people – who realized there was more to the [JFK assassination] story and information not covered by the media. The media wasn't doing their job so they took it upon themselves to ask the unasked questions. Most of the first generation critics [those who started right after the assassination] started and never let it go. In a nutshell, they were normal people who have become marginalized – a lot of which was intentional by the CIA. They created the term "conspiracy theorist." That term instantly became an intellectual scarlet letter.
And your film focuses on these first generation critics?
Not necessarily. The narrative thread is John Judge, who was generation 1.5. But I do cover the history of the subculture of the research community. The first generation was critical to tell the story and explain why anyone would commit any amount of their lives to this subject. There is that question – and it is a question for anyone doing anything – is why bother? They could have done anything. It was because they had questions that weren't being answered. Because people from both generations helped reveal everything from the crimes of Vietnam and the crimes of Watergate, which led to the Church Commission, which revealed how our media was being controlled by intelligence agencies and had institutional protection.
The broader world of how things work, rather than a limited conspiracy in this one case.
I don't necessary feel that conspiracy is a holistic term. What we're really talking about is an institutional analysis. The really good researchers felt the same way, John Judge especially. Institutions, as I have learned, do not exist without natural protections. The intelligence community and the media are the same.
How long have you been working on this film? How did it start?
I'm going to answer this…in a kind of long way, so bear with me. From the time I was a child it was just assumed in my house that the assassination was done by elements in this country. I felt bad because my father was a fighter in the Cold War stationed on the East-West German border. Anything happens within 15 minutes, he was in the air. Bay of Pigs, the attempts on [Charles] De Gaulle, any major movement of any Iron Curtain country, he was in the air. He found out Kennedy was assassinated at dinner in the officers club. He wasn't scrambled. For my father - he was in World War II, Korea – when protocol at that level is not followed there is a meaning to it.
[My father] was the patriot of patriots. "Yeah, they killed that bastard," was his attitude. So when Oliver Stone's JFK came out it piqued my interest again. I thought it was a really good drama and it had information – I mean, I didn't know there had been a trial.
Now the films I like to make – the stories that draw me in – are about people who have been marginalized. People who do things that have to be done but no one pays attention to. My personal question was who is uncovering this information? So in 2001, it reached a point that this is a film I want to make. Why are they doing what they're doing and why isn't the media doing it? It seems like it should be their job.
I looked online and the only online presence at that time was JFK Lancer. So that November, I flew down to Dallas, no camera, just to see what was up. I learned there were two communities – there were researchers who were scholars…and there were those who lived up to the conventional wisdom – the classic "conspiracy theorist." The scholars were doing good important work and revealing documents not just about Kennedy, but a whole part of American history that I had no idea existed.
Someone at Lancer told me about COPA [the Coalition on Political Assassinations] and by the summer of 2002 I realized what I had to do. So I drove to Washington, D.C. to meet John Judge and film him at American University, where he honored JFK's famous speech there. I shot the first frame of film on June 10, 2002. I thought at that time it would be a well-researched, short thirty-minute film. I would spend a couple years on it. But after spending a year looking at the footage and reading everything I could get my hands on pro and con, I just realized that I had no idea what I was taking about. If I were going to make a film like this, I would have to learn and meet as many researchers as I could. Spend the time. Documentary filmmaking is always about story, character, and access.
Early on I realized this would not be a two-year project. Now, fourteen years later I feel like the film is done. The story that I am telling is told as well as it can be told.
Who is the audience for this story?
I'm asked all the time who my audience is. I have a card above my edit station that reminds me every day, who is my audience? And the answer is me, before I started this project. I was intellectually curious, considered myself well-informed, but had no idea about how so much about my country - and the world - truly works and how our institutions work.
That person represents a huge part of our population that can affect change. I came from a middle-class family and never wanted for anything. Always knew I would go to college. But no one I went to college with would have believed everything I've learned. Hopefully people seeing the film will help them reconsider and start a dialogue.
For many years now you've been going to conferences and interacting with researchers. Have you found them to be nutballs?
Over the years, I met maybe three or four people who fit that description. The rest are doctors and lawyers and academics, the majority of whom are just normal successful people who were curious. The really respected researchers are as far from that stereotype as you can possibly be. Dr. Gary Aguilar is one of the most respected surgical ophthalmologists in the country. I have this great sequence in the film, all in one continuous shot, which starts with him seeing someone in his office and he asks if we can walk and talk into the elevator. We go down and walk out into San Francisco General Hospital and there is a young professional woman eagerly waiting on Dr. Aguilar. She shakes his hand and he walks into a conference room with a bunch of doctors who stand up and the applause is deafening. He proceeds to give a presentation on a new surgical technique for surgery that he had perfected. That one shot sums it all up for me.
You almost have to be that good to retain your respect if you're going to write about this sort of thing. Dr. Cyril Wecht is another example, someone who is the absolute top of his field in forensic pathology – the building is named after him at Duquesne University, and Albert Brooks just played him in the new Will Smith movie. He is the professional expert on CNN when things happen, the OJ trial, JonBenet Ramsey, etc., and yet he's had this double life as probably the most visible figure on the medical aspects of the JFK case. If he wasn't the pinnacle in his field, he would be easier to discredit. Instead, from what I can see the media basically pretend that part of his biography doesn't exist.
He has been able to pursue the science of the conspiracy to kill JFK and still remain the most respected doctor in his field in the world. If anyone needs an analysis with anything to do with forensic pathology, he's the guy. Not just the media – other experts bring him in for a second set of eyes. He is involved in almost every single prominent case in the world. Every profession, every walk of life, there's a certain amount of hyperbole – he's the best of all time, the greatest, etc. I was skeptical when I first saw him referred to America's most respected at pathologist. But I found out, it's true.
So did the CIA kill Kennedy?
Sometimes I find myself looking at old interviews I did with John Judge…he broke down the intelligence agencies in such an interesting way. People think, it's the CIA and I guess there are other things, NSA and maybe military intelligence. But John in detail would describe all 13 major intelligence organizations working in the United States and the CIA is the smallest. The military intelligence of the Coast Guard is bigger and has more money than the CIA. The black budget is enormous. So when people say the CIA killed Kennedy, I find it interesting that it stops there. What people tend not to know is that's just one of 13 intelligence agencies – that we know of – and sure if you want to say they killed him, that's fine, but put it as one-thirteenth.
Its so limiting to say the CIA killed him. The assassination is the ultimate onion where you have the real story on the inside. The HSCA [the House Select Committee on Assassinations, the last official investigation of the assassination] said that there was a conspiracy, but also that other people might have been involved, but we can't guarantee they were working together.
Which is the most ridiculous conclusion possible.
As John said, it was Shoot Kennedy Day in the knoll.
The onion just keeps getting peeled back and the CIA-did-it is just another level of the onion peeling, which all goes back to the Joint Chiefs. I think John's analysis is dead on. It's so astute because in the end he understood human nature on a visceral level. What makes people human. I don't think he would have been as good a researcher if he hadn't been a peace activist. He was a conscientious objector in Vietnam who, in one of his defining acts, helped Vietnam veterans return home. He was in the middle of the winter soldier movement to get them the help they deserved and get them back into civilian life. All his research was approached in human terms. In the film, he appears passionate, divisive, brilliant, and antagonistic at times, but in the end he sums it up by saying by working together, we can change the world. That's the final message of my movie and it's Johns final message. Together we can change the world.
In addition to the showings at the Lancer Conference and the Texas Theatre this November, The Searchers will also be available on DVD.
Yes, starting with a boxed set which includes the film, as well as almost 34 hours of never before seen interviews with Mark Lane, Dr. Gary Aguilar, Josiah Thompson, Dr. Cyril Wecht, Jim DiEugenio, Lisa Pease, Walt Brown, Jim Marrs, Rex Bradford, James Fetzer, Debra Conway, and Adele Edison. You will be able to buy it at the website as boxed set and then I will start making the festival rounds. Starting at European film festivals and markets. There will also be a stand alone DVD for those who just want the film itself.
TRAILER FOR THE SEARCHERS
Excellent interview of Randy. There are grammatical errors in this piece and I would hope that it is edited and cleaned up. But all in all, outstanding and can't wait to get my hands on a DVD.
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For my card this week, I grabbed a retired Stamp of the Month (I can't even remember which month it is from…I think April or May 2014). On White Daisy Cardstock, I used White Embossing Powder on the flower image and then watercolored the image using a waterbrush and multiple ink colors including: Thistle, Pixie, Hollyhock, Pear, Indian Corn Blue, Canary, and Glacier. Watercoloring using dye ink is a technique that I had forgotten about until I recently joined the Technique Toolbox: Creative Uses for Dye Ink Online Card Class. I'm loving the inspiration I am finding there!
I trimmed the white daisy cardstock while it was still wet (I got a little impatient!!) and the cardstock tore slightly but I thought it added charm to the card. I then used a small hole punch to create a divot in the cardstock and tied retired White Daisy Sassy Strands around the card. The sentiment is from the retired stamp set, Card Chatter-Sympathy in Indian Corn Blue Exclusive Ink™. After I had all of the elements on this card I matted the Glacier Cardstock onto a scrap piece of gray/blue cardstock that I had in my stash. I then added these layers onto a White Daisy Cardstock card base using Thin 3D Foam Tape and added a few (retired) Licorice Opaques for the final embellishments.
This week I wanted to give myself a challenge for the card I created for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #98. I wanted to use product entirely from my stash. No new stamp sets, embellishments, etc. Being a CTMH consultant I have my fingers on new product constantly…which is AWESOME….but once a product retires I tend to throw it to the back of my stash and focus on entirely new. So this week I dove into my stash to use it up!!
I'm curious to know if I'm the only one who has this tendency. Do you continually use from your stash or do you tend to grab new product?!?
Making sympathy cards is so difficult for me but you have made a gorgeous one here. Love the soft colours and the stamp was perfect.


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ROCHESTER HILLS -- The lyric of the Stills Young Band's "Long May You Run" -- "we find things to do in stormy weather" -- was seldom more appropriate than during Stephen Stills and Judy Collins's concert on Saturday night, June 9, at the Meadow Brook Amphitheatre.
The show, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the two artists' meeting -- and a subsequent romantic relationship that inspired Crosby, Stills & Nash's indelible "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" -- was dampened, and then some, by constant rain, including a deluge that hit early in the show. That chased any of the criminally small crowd of less than 2,000 who chose to remain on the lawn into the pavilion -- or out of the venue altogether-- and even then wet mists managed to infiltrate even the center portion of the covered seats throughout the night.
Despite that, there were surely worse "things to do," even on a rainy evening, than spend 100 minutes listening to Stills and Collins. Though career wear and tear was evident to varying degrees for each of them, the pair still presented a likeable and at times revelatory 17-song set spiced with insightful storytelling -- none moreso than when Stills and Collins recounted how they met during 1968, at a Cream concert in Los Angeles, before playing "Who Knows Where The Time Goes?," the Sandy Denny song which Stills said he "begged" his way into play for Collins' album of the same name.
Mostly the night celebrated Collins' still-impressive voice and Stills' still-exciting guitar playing, with hot solos deployed during near every song and especially on the Buffalo Springfield pairing of "For What It's Worth" and "Bluebird" that closed the main body of the show. Stills said at one point that loved being able to play other people's songs -- noting that he's played many of his own hits "to death" -- and Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows," the title track from the duo's 2017 album, and Stills' rendition of Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" were highlights.
And Collins a capella delivery of "Maria," a mother singing about her dreamer daughter's deportation fears, held Meadow Brook in silent, reverent attention.
The show ended appropriately with the latter half of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," sending everyone home soggy but still satisfied they'd seen a bonafide musical moment that's been a long time coming.


It's been at least a decade since I last attended any kind of Games Workshop event, so it was was something of a novelty for me heading to the Ricoh Arena for Warhammer Fest. New venue and new format from my perspective and I had a pretty fun day truth be told. Between the retail areas, the studio demo pods, seminars and of course Golden Demon I had no trouble filling my day (and emptying wallet!) with all manner of Horus Heresy and Warhammer paraphernalia. After picking up a pre-release Alpharius (no, not that Alpharius, the other one) for Kev I scored myself a nice event only 30th anniversary Land Speeder with MkVI crew, the Warhammer World only Praetor and Traitor Librarian, an Ixion Hale and some rather nifty Warhammer gear ideal for the forthcoming Tarssis Heresy event.
Previews and teasers of the forthcoming 2.0 release of Age of Sigmar notwithstanding the big news for me was understandably the long-awaited official reveal of Adeptus Titanicus with confirmed release date of August. The re-imaging of the war engines in a larger scale was something I was originally unsure about as, but now I've seen them in the flesh I am a convert. The Warlord in particular has a far more dominant presence on the field than its smaller 'Epic scale' predecessors creating a far more dramatic impression of a true engine war. The Knight Questor Banners are not just there to show off the scale, but serve a function of harassing fast movers in comparison with the lumbering Battle Titans. The Warlord, Reaver, Knights and Buildings are all plastic with all bar the Warlord coming with a variety of weapon options. The kits are already magnet friendly by design (although not included), so planning for inevitable alternative loadout expansion packs looks simple. The Warlord that comes both in the Grand Master boxed set and separately has a fixed configuration of twin Volcano Cannons and Barrage Missiles. Decals appear to be included for at the very least Legio Gryphonicus (War Griffons) and Legio Mortis (Death Heads) along with Knight familiar households. I've little doubt more decal options will follow from Forgeworld.
Release is not too far away now and ideally after Tarssis thank goodness as I need no more distractions. The core rules book, Warlord and Knights kits and the Grand Master box bundle are due for release August with the Reaver to follow a month later and the Warhound (not shown) likely the month after that. The Warhound is apparently done but Specialist Games were keeping their powder dry one assumes to keep some surprises back for the Forgeworld Open Day in July. The weekend I am at Tarssis, oh the irony!
The other big event was of course Golden Demon, which I entered for the first time in 20 years with a Leviathan Dreadnought in the 40K Vehicle category. Technically it's Horus Heresy but whose splitting hairs. There were some stunning entries as expected being the Golden Demon classics, particularly I felt in the fantasy and specialist games categories, which I thought was really encouraging. Age of Sigmar seems to have really fired a lot of painters imagination and I can only see that getting better with the wave of new releases and a new version of the game. Sadly my Word Bearers effort didn't meet the cut for a finalist pin but there's always next year and/or a different category. I think my mistake was playing it safe and not choosing a theme outside of my comfort zone or doing a miniature not part of an army. I'll be uploading some proper photos of the Word Bearers as they progress in their own gallery section, but for now you can check out my efforts on Instagram, or of course live as they are painted on Twitch TV!
Until then I'm going to leave you with my absolute favourite mini of the entire day; Simon Egan's forthcoming Horus Heresy Character series Knight-Commander Jenetia Krole. This was completely unexpected as I had no idea he'd been working on sculpting her but one of the nicest figures in my humble opinion so far. Not the biggest but certainly makes up for it in dramatic poise. A miniature I cannot wait to paint in the future.


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Arts Access presents "A Series of Fortunate Events". Join us at RLT for the Theatre Showcase, one of the five talent showcases featuring artists with disabilities in film, music, theatre, literature, and visual art.
The Theatre Showcase is a survey of theatrical performances featuring artists with disabilities who range in age and performance style. Comprised of four acts featuring a wide range of local talent.
More information on other showcases (film, music, literature and visual art) is available from the A Series of Fortunate Events web site.
Al Riggs is a singer-songwriter in the Durham / Chapel Hill club and theater community who will be performing show tunes.
Doug Kapp was already active in Raleigh's theatre community before he decided to earn a degree in theatre from UNCG in 2010. While Doug has always been legally blind his vision loss was only peripheral until he experienced a downturn with his sight in 2011. Doug's limited sight made it hard to convince others to cast him for productions, even though he is an experienced and talented actor. Doug says it is all about finding the perfect part which he found in Raleigh Little Theatre's "Much Ado About Nothing" in 2015.
Governor Morehead Theatre Group (GMTC) is comprised of students who attend the Governor Morehead School (GMS) in Raleigh. GMS was established in 1845 and is the flagship school in North Carolina that serves the special needs of blind and visually impaired students, in a unique residential setting. Earlier this year GMTC was started by a group of fifteen GMS students. The students came together to develop and showcase their acting skills and talents. The students recognize the importance of theater education and are reaping the benefits by building skills in leadership, communication, teamwork, responsibility, and creative problem-solving. The Series of Fortunate Events Theater Showcase is the group's first public performance!
For more information, see the Theatre Showcase page on the Fortunate Events web site.
All of Raleigh Little Theatre's performance spaces are physically accessible. Restrooms that meet the 2010 ADA checklist for existing facilities are located in the lobby of the theater (note: the theater will close this summer for construction that will improve accessibility).
Greeters trained as sighted-guides will be available outside the theater to help patrons make their way into the facility. Ushers also trained as sighted guides will help to guide patrons to their seats. Wheelchair accessible seats are available, please note your seating request when you purchase tickets. Service animals are welcome to this performance, please note this on your ticket form as well.
Tickets are $10 per person ahead of time and $15 at the door. All proceeds from ticket sales support the work of Arts Access.


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Il Parco nazionale di Kirindy-Mitea è una riserva naturale di circa 72.000 ha ubicata nel Madagascar occidentale (regione di Menabe), circa 70 km a sud di Morondava.

Territorio
La zona protetta si trova nella regione di Menabe, popolata dall'etnia Sakalava. Si affaccia sul canale del Mozambico, ed è caratterizzata dalla presenza di ecosistemi molto vari.

Dal punto di vista idrologico va segnalata la presenza dei laghi Ambondro e Sirave e del fiume Kirindy.

La zona costiera del parco è un susseguirsi di baie, spiagge, mangrovie, dune costiere, isolotti e lagune salmastre.

Flora
Nella parte occidentale del parco si estende la foresta decidua secca di Kirindy, che verso sud cede gradualmente il passo alla foresta spinosa, a prevalenza di Didiereaceae e Euphorbiaceae.

Un inventario ancora parziale ha permesso di classificare 182 differenti specie vegetali. Tra di esse meritano di essere menzionate:
 tre specie differenti di baobab: Adansonia grandidieri, Adansonia fony e Adansonia za
 il farafatsy (Givotia madagascariensis)
 il farehitsa (Uncarina stellulifera)
 Albizia greveana, Colvillea racemosa, Hazomalania voyroni.

Fauna

All'interno del parco vivono 6 differenti specie di lemuri, presenti con un'altissima densità.
La foresta di Kirindi è l'unico luogo in cui sia stato osservato l'elusivo lemure pigmeo-topo (Microcebus myoxinus), di abitudini notturne al pari di Mirza coquereli, altra specie presente nel parco.
Durante il giorno invece è facile incontrare il lemure dalla coda ad anelli (Lemur catta), il lepilemure dalla coda rossa (Lepilemur ruficaudatus), il sifaka di Verreaux (Propithecus verreauxi) ed il lemure bruno
(Eulemur rufus).
Altri mammiferi che è possibile incontrare sono il votsovotsa (Hypogeomys antimena), un grosso roditore presente solo in questa riserva e in poche aree circostanti, ed il fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), il principale predatore del Madagascar.

Numerose le specie di uccelli che popolano il parco; tra di essi meritano una menzione il fenicottero maggiore (Phoenicopterus roseus) e il fenicottero minore (Phoeniconaias minor), che formano colonie miste molto numerose nelle acque dei laghi Ambondro e Sirave; nello stesso habitat è possibile incontrare anche l'alzavola di Bernier (Anas bernieri) e il martin pescatore malachite del Madagascar (Corythornis vintsioides).

Tra gli anfibi si può citare la presenza di Dyscophus insularis, Laliostoma labrosum, Ptychadena mascareniensis, Boophis doulioti, Scaphiophryne brevis, Scaphiophryne calcarata.

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Voci correlate
 Aree naturali protette in Madagascar
 Flora del Madagascar
 Fauna del Madagascar

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A quick-thinking good Samaritan launched his rowboat and helped save three teen boys who fell into the water in Lake Ronkonkoma Wednesday.
Jeff Miller says he was on shore in his yard when he heard yelling coming from the lake. He grabbed a pair of binoculars and saw a capsized boat in the chilly body of water.
"I just grabbed the rowboat that I have on the side of the house, dragged it down and went out," he says.
"My friend passed out, so we tried to lift him up to the boat," recounts Ruben Jadan, a 14-year-old who was among the three boys who went overboard. "I was so cold my legs were getting paralyzed. I was holding my phone up to call the cops."
Ruben's dad says he had told his son not to go out that far, but at this point he's just grateful he's alive. And he credits Miller's fast response for the happy ending.
As for the boys, Ruben says they are all doing OK.


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In addition to his role at Dean Omar Branham Shirley, Trey is a partner at the firm. Branham's practice focuses on employment and labor law and includes litigation relating to employee safety and rights. Branham's early success can be attributed to his family, particularly his mother.
Before joining Dean Omar Branham and Shirley, Trey Branham completed his undergraduate degree at Florida State University. The firm's reputation for aggressive advocacy in the area of litigation has made Trey a sought-after lawyer.
Trey Branham is also a criminal defense attorney at Dean Omar Branham Shirley. Branham says that while his clients do not want revenge, they wish to use the justice system to stop these vicious acts. Branham also expresses displeasure with employers who only think about profits and ignore the welfare of their employees and the safety of their products. Those are some of the reasons Branham has a passion for working as an attorney.
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Duty Drawback is a refund of customs duties collected on an imported product which is subsequently re-exported.
(click here to learn the details about duty drawback).
Drawback Fundimentals
In 1980, the US, congress amended the duty drawback law to allow the rebate of 99% of all taxes, duties, and fees paid when goods are re-exported within 3 years of entering the U.S. Similar rebate arrangements are offered by many other countries.
Duty Drawback, or "Drawback", is a fundamental principle of international trade law and policy under which duties, taxes and fees paid on imported merchandise are refunded upon the exportation of qualified articles. Duty drawback has been part of the international trade policy of the United States since the founding of the country, and the concept of drawback exists in the trade policies of nearly all developed nations. See for example, the concept of "Inward Processing" in the European Union. Duty drawback essentially is an export promotion program intended to eliminate and recover the costs of duties, taxes and fees on merchandise sold on international markets. It is one of the few export incentive programs acceptable under World Trade Organization rules. In the United States, drawback is codified at 19 U.S.C § 1313 and is administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("Customs").
Petroleum, Petrochemicals, Chemicals and Plastics – The provision of the drawback statute that is most significant to Charter and its clients is subsection (p), the so-called petroleum and chemicals derivatives drawback section (see 19 U.S.C. 1313(p)). Subsection (p) permits the recovery of customs duties (and, in certain cases, taxes and fees) paid on importation of goods classified in specified eight-digit (8 digit) descriptions of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule when matched against exports of the same classifications, provided that the exports occur within 180 days after import. This section applies to petroleum, petrochemical, chemical and plastics products and, because it permits direct and indirect substitutions, Charter Brokerage is able to identify potential recoveries often overlooked by other tax recovery service providers.
Unused (Non-Manufacturing) Drawback – This provision of the drawback statute (19 U.S.C. § 1313(j)) allows for a refund of duties, taxes and fees on imported merchandise exported in essentially the same condition. Imports can be matched to exports by direct identification or by substitution (i.e. the export is "commercially interchangeable" with the import). This type of drawback can apply to all types of imports, and the export must occur within three years after the import.
Manufacturing Drawback – These provisions of the drawback statue (19 U.S.C. § 1313(a) and (b)) allow for a refund of duties (no taxes and fees) paid on imported merchandise based upon the production and export of articles from imported, duty-paid merchandise or similar ("same kind and quality") domestic merchandise, which is substituted for the imported merchandise. This type of drawback can apply to a variety of manufacturing operations and various time limits apply.


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Tags: Puzzle
Developer: Carbonated Games
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I just finished reading The Hobbit last night. I have seen all the movies. I think though that if I had read the book first I would be rather disappointed and not like the movies so much. I'm usually a book purist when it comes to film adaptations. For instance, I really prefer the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice instead of the new Kiera Knightly one. I think that both book and movie have their merits here. I can say that I thoroughly enjoyed both the book and the movies.
For the movies I did like all the parts of the movie that weren't in the book. The one thing though I wish they hadn't done is the use of Orcs in the films. There is no character in the book that is an orc, and they could have used a goblin instead, though goblins are more terrible to look at as they have depicted them.
Legolas and Tauriel do not come into the book. However, I did like the little romance between Kili and Tauriel. Radagast only is mentioned a couple times and doesn't come into the book at all. Thorin's death in the book is much less dramatic in the book than in the movie. The end of the battle in the movie drew tears on my part. I suppose the movie had much more romance in a way to die than the book did. I did like how the movies went more into individual dwarves than the book. I liked the depth of character of Balin, though he must have an extraordinary long life. In the book he and Gandalf come to visit Bilbo long after their quest is over. Evidently Dain, the cousin that Thorin called upon to help takes over as King Under the Mountain after Thorin's death.
It wasn't clear to me why the movie left out some of the stuff in the book, while adding so much that wasn't there. You'd think that they'd take the whole book and then add stuff. There are plenty of Hobbit purists out there and they've written plenty of articles about differences and the merits of each. These are my thoughts. I hope that more people read the book because of the movie.


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There is much occurring in the realm of finance in Europe and around the world. These revolutionary changes demand study and platform participation in the CCAF Benchmarking report is mutually beneficial. For this publication, it is a vital touchstone of academically rigorous research to truly gauge sector growth and opportunities.
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Gain an insight into the revolution at Che Guevara's Museum.
This tour features a combination of simple and good standard hotels and casas particulares, which are simple, private, bed and breakfast-style accommodations that allow for an authentic insight into the Cuban way of life. Cuba combines increasing popularity with very limited good quality hotel options and the properties we use may vary from departure to departure. The specific accommodation for each departure as well as the exact order of your itinerary will be confirmed in the final travel documents.
We recommend an extremely flexible approach to booking a holiday and travel in Cuba.
This tour features a combination of simple and good standard hotels and casas particulares, which are simple private bed and breakfast-style accommodations that allow for an authentic insight into the Cuban way of life. Cuba combines increasing popularity with very limited good quality hotel options and the properties we use may vary from departure to departure. The specific accommodation for each departure as well as the exact order of your itinerary will be confirmed in the final travel documents.
On selected dates, the tour continues further through the interior to Santiago de Cuba and provides a rare glimpse into eastern Cuba's history, culture and mountain scenery. Please click here to view.
We thoroughly enjoyed our visits to Havana and Trinidad. Trinidad in particular was small and colourful with lots of music and good restaurants. We had a dance at our morning coffee/cocktail stop which was fun and enjoyable. The thing we will remember most about our trip to Cuba was the music everywhere at all times and of course the cocktails!
The city of Trinidad contained much of what was great about Cuba in a nutshell. It was lively, friendly, very photogenic with a history that went back over 500 years.


Tyler Jolley was born in the era of the Star Wars and the Indiana Jones sagas. He has been enamored with science fiction and adventure stories ever since. In order to support his hobby of writing he decided to pursue dentistry. Snowboarding, mountain biking, road biking, fly fishing, bird hunting, camping, hiking, and backpacking are the things he enjoys doing with his family. He also enjoys lecturing internationally on temporary orthodontic implants. However, his true passion has always been fiction writing.When life gets stressful he escapes to unseen worlds to find relaxation. His career has been the vehicle to let him write without worry. He finds inspiration from most of his adolescent patients. He continues to dream up fun and thrilling books to this day.


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ePayBL (ePayment des Bundes und der Länder) ist die Bezeichnung für ein Softwareprodukt, das eine Entwicklergemeinschaft von Bund und verschiedenen Bundesländern entwickelt und jeweils im Einsatz hat. ePayBL – die Basiskomponente einer Zahlungsverkehrsplattform – ermöglicht die Verarbeitung von Einnahmen für Gebühren, Verkäufe usw. öffentlicher Einrichtungen insbesondere mithilfe online-tauglicher Zahlverfahren.

Die Entwicklergemeinschaft entstand in der Folge der Initiative BundOnline 2005. Heute wird die Fortentwicklung durch den Bund und die Länder Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, und Thüringen gemeinsam strategisch geplant. Die Entwicklergemeinschaft finanziert und organisiert die technische Infrastruktur inklusive der Entwicklung, Bereitstellung, Wartung sowie Pflege der Software, mit deren Hilfe jeweils individuelle Verwaltungssoftware (IT-gestützte Verwaltungsverfahren oder IT-Fachverfahren) für die Vereinnahmung von Geldern an das jeweilige Haushalts-, Kassen- und Rechnungswesen des Bundes bzw. Landes oder der Kommune angebunden werden können.

Die ePayBL-Software steht den öffentlichen Einrichtungen des Bundes und der beteiligten Länder sowie Trägern der kommunalen Selbstverwaltung zur Nutzung offen, die sich an der Weiterentwicklung beteiligen. Jede öffentliche Verwaltung und jede Organisation der an der Entwicklergemeinschaft beteiligten Länder darf die Software nutzen, sofern sie sich zu mindestens 50 % in öffentlicher Hand befindet. Jedes Mitglied der Entwicklergemeinschaft gewährleistet den eigenen Betrieb der ePayBL.

ePayBL unterstützt die Zahlungsarten Überweisung, SEPA-Lastschrift, Kreditkarte (mit Mastercard und Visa), Giropay, PayPal und paydirekt. Eine öffentliche Einrichtung kann im Rahmen ihrer Möglichkeiten entscheiden, in welchem Zusammenhang sie welche Zahlungsarten zulassen will. Für die unterschiedlichen Einsatzbereiche bietet die ePayBL über zuschaltbare Module umfangreiche Funktionen wie z. B. das Erstellen elektronischer Rechnungen, die auch direkt online bezahlt werden können, die Verwaltung von SEPA-Mandaten und ein Webshop-System. Das Open-Source-basierte Webshop-System dient dazu, Verwaltungsleistungen dem Bürger online, übersichtlich und in vertrauter Art und Weise zugänglich zu machen. Bestellung oder Kauf inklusive medienbruchfreier Zahlung gewähren ein Angebot, das die Anforderungen eines E-Government abdeckt

Die Bezeichnung "die ePayBL" hat sich etabliert und "ePayBL" ist als Wort-Bildmarke beim DPMA geschützt.

Besonderheiten bei Zahlungen an öffentliche Einrichtungen
Einnahmen und Ausgaben der öffentlichen Verwaltung sind nach den Haushaltsplänen des Bundes und der Länder gegliedert und unterliegen den Regelungen der jeweiligen Haushaltsordnungen. Öffentliche Einrichtungen verfügen nicht direkt über ihre Einnahmen – im Wesentlichen sind dies Steuern und Abgaben – und haben von daher kein 'eigenes' Konto. Einnahmen der öffentlichen Einrichtungen werden stattdessen über die Bundeskassen, Landeskassen oder kommunalen Kassen direkt in den jeweiligen Haushalt überführt. Darüber hinaus gelten für den Datenzugriff auf und die Abrechnung mit öffentlichen Kassen spezielle Bedingungen. Die Online-Zahlung (Internetzahlung) von Geldbeträgen an Bundes- und Landeskassen steht daher unter besonderen Anforderungen, beispielsweise an die Datenübermittlung an die Kassen: Die ePayBL-Software als Eigenentwicklung der Verwaltung darf die Haushaltssysteme des Bundes und der Länder über abgestimmte Schnittstellen zur Übermittlung von Daten ansprechen. Die Entwicklergemeinschaft passt die Software der ePayBL und der dazugehörigen Module regelmäßig an weitere Anforderungen – z. B. bezüglich Sicherheit, Barrierefreiheit und Datenschutz und rechtliche Änderungen – an.

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How DAOs Will Transform the Customer Experience
Two words: stakeholder alignment.
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CoinDesk Insights
Jan 10, 2022 at 9:34 p.m. UTC
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Paul Brody
Customers don't always behave they way companies expect them to, especially when they take their user behavior to extremes.
Promising unlimited data for your phone will help you sell a lot of phone contracts, but what happens when if you use 64GB of roaming data in Brazil? The answer, I learned, is that you get disconnected.
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) have the potential to change how organizations and marketplaces work by requiring market participants to take a financial stake in the ecosystem as a whole, and put that asset at risk for bad behavior. When you're both the customer and the owner, your behavior is likely to be different.
Paul Brody is EY's global blockchain leader and a CoinDesk columnist.
A good example of this is the business of selling customer data. DAOs should be able to do this as well, but in these cases with a much more transparent process for approving a privacy policy and where the benefits of those data sales flows back to stakeholders, who are also the customers who provided the data in the first place. Most business models prioritize returning the benefits of data monetization to shareholders, and that's by design. In a DAO, the alignment between customers and stakeholders can be much higher.
In reality, DAOs are likely to suffer from some of the same principal-agent problems that exist in the traditional world. In theory, customers can buy stock in a company and participate in the benefits that come from making use of their data as well. They can also vote out the management team. In practice, this rarely happens.
Read more: Paul Brody - Choosing Who We Trust
And, if we're not careful, DAOs could end up like this, too. But we're early enough in the era of DAO development that we have the opportunity to experiment with the technology.
I see three big opportunities with DAOs to avoid simply re-creating the corporate model.
The first involves sustaining much more of an open contributor model with a relatively smaller entrenched management team. Because most DAOs operate as digital organizations built on open-source code, improvements are often based on code and they can be suggested by anyone and voted on widely. The results will also then be visible in the performance of the ecosystem.
The second opportunity comes from implementing privacy in voting while limiting that process to verified stakeholders. Thanks to tools like zero-knowledge proofs, we can now build voting models for DAOs that do not have a risk of becoming a popularity contest. The first DAOs to make use of this technology are being developed now.
Lastly, we can use smart contracts to enable delegated voting rights. This is going to be enormously important because it will allow stakeholders to be efficient in their operations. Most shareholders and fund managers don't vote on many corporate initiatives because they can't keep track of them.
I have many of my personal assets in S&P 500 index funds. That's 500 companies to track, which is impossible even for a full-time financial analyst. Smart contracts could allow me to delegate my voting rights to industry professionals who track particular sectors or topics, like data privacy.
Read more: Alyssa Hertig - What Is a DAO?
Andreessen Horowitz, a top venture capital firm that has invested heavily in Web 3, recently delegated many voting rights across a range of entities with which it is involved including non-profits, universities, startups that use these ecosystems and other crypto community leaders.
These entities don't have any obligation to prioritize returns to the venture capitalists, but they are expected to constructively contribute to the success of the ecosystem as a whole. In this model, design points that prioritize the health of the ecosystem as a whole – rather than the returns to a particular group of powerful stakeholders – are likely to be successful.
The simplest business models are the easiest to run, but ecosystems are the future of the technology business. They are also complicated and delicate and, as we keep seeing, large companies, with their focus on shareholder returns above all else, find that balancing act difficult to sustain. Simpler is always easier, but if we're going to have complexity, perhaps it will work out better as a DAO.
The views reflected in this article are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the global EY organization or its member firms.
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This study presents evaluation of real-time performance of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) operational Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast (HWRF) modeling system upgraded and implemented in 2013 in the western North Pacific basin (WPAC). Retrospective experiments with the 2013 version of the HWRF Model upgrades for 2012 WPAC tropical cyclones (TCs) show significant forecast improvement compared to the real-time forecasts from the 2012 version of HWRF. Despite a larger number of strong storms in the WPAC during 2013, real-time forecasts from the 2013 HWRF (H213) showed an overall reduction in intensity forecast errors, mostly at the 4-5-day lead times. Verification of the H213's skill against the climate persistence forecasts shows that although part of such improvements in 2013 is related to the different seasonal characteristics between the years 2012 and 2013, the new model upgrades implemented in 2013 could provide some further improvement that the 2012 version of HWRF could not achieve. Further examination of rapid intensification (RI) events demonstrates noticeable skill of H213 with the probability of detection (POD) index of 0.22 in 2013 compared to 0.09 in 2012, suggesting that H213 starts to show skill in predicting RI events in the WPAC.
Weather and Forecasting, 30(5), 1355-1373.


Mike Hussey's Almacantar has secured a £47.5m loan from Deutsche Pfandbriefbank to finance its purchase of 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2.
Almacantar bought the 190,000 sq ft office-led block from Blackrock for under £120m in July, reflecting a yield in the region of 5%.
The 1.2-acre site occupies a key location on the edge of Soho, 100m south of Tottenham Court Road.
Charles Balch, head of Real Estate Finance International, UK & CEE at pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank said: "The transaction is our second deal together and shows our commitment to this existing client in the expansion of their portfolio.


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Outcome of patients with Myelofibrosis relapsing after allogeneic stem cell transplant: A retrospective study by the Chroni Malignancies Working Party of EBMT
Allogeneic Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (allo-HSCT) remains the only curative approach for Myelofibrosis (MF). Scarce information exists in the literature on the outcome and, indeed, management of those MF patients who relapse following transplant. We hereby report on the management and outcome of 202 patients who relapsed post allo-HSCT for MF.
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Q: Hypen is not supporting GraphQL I am new to graphQL, When I am trying to define a schema with hyphen/dash it shows error. But underscore is not making any issues.
# Type of Hello
enum HowAreYou{
  Hello-Hello
  Hai-Hai
}

throw (0, _error.syntaxError)(source, position, 'Invalid number,         expected digit but got: ' + printCharCode(code) + '.');
 ^
GraphQLError: Syntax Error GraphQL request (176:9) Invalid number,     expected digit but got: "H".

175: enum HowAreYou{
176:   Hello-Hello
         ^
177:   Hai-Hai

A: That's intentional -- per the specification, hyphens are not a valid character when naming entities in GraphQL. Names are supposed to meet this pattern:
/[_A-Za-z][_0-9A-Za-z]*/

That means only letters, numbers and underscores are allowed, and names cannot begin with a number.

A: We can specify the required enum in our schema part and write the corresponding custom in our resolver part.
const typeDefs = `
  enum Color {
    RED
  };
`

const resolvers = {
  Color: {
    RED: '#FF0000',
  }
};


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Eight '80's Movies to Rewatch with Your Tween
Amy Bizzarri
Ah … the '80's. Revisit the era of big hair, neon and shoulder pads with your child by your side by re-watching a good old classic 1980's movie. We've compiled a list of movie recos for every type of tween. Remember that ratings were different in the 80's, so check to see if the movie will fit your tween's maturity level before watching. Grab a bowl of popcorn and some candy and make it a movie night that promises to take you back in time.
For the tween in a rush to grow up….
When a tween boy (Tom Hanks!) makes a wish at a carnival genie to be big—he wakes up the next day to find that his body has morphed into an adult. Even though he's still little on the inside, he needs to learn quickly how to navigate the grown-up world, which as all parents know, isn't quite as fun as it seems.
For the tween who likes scary movies….
A cute new pet turns out to be more than just a cuddly companion in this movie that's just scary enough for a tween.
For the tween that still believes in fairy tales…
Princess Buttercup and her true love, the dashing Westley face neverending battles on their way to their happily every after.
For the tween that loves to challenge herself mentally and physically….
While dealing with school bullies, Daniel LaRusso befriends a martial arts master. But when Mr. Miyagi agrees to train Daniel in the ways of martial arts, he learns that it's less about defending yourself and more about developing inner strength, confidence and wisdom.
For the older tween who needs some good belly laughs…
Eddie Murphy stars as Prince Akeem, a wealthy prince who sets off from his insulated kingdom in search of a princess. When he lands in Queens, New York, he tries his best to blend in as an ordinary American … but laughter ensues as his princely ways meet the streets of NYC.
For the tween who already has a few babysitting gigs lined up…
When Chris Parker babysits the Anderson kids, a quiet evening in the 'burbs turns into a night of adventure when the entire crew finds gets tangled up in mischief while out and about in the city of Chicago.
For the tween who loves all things anime…
When two sisters move to the country, they soon discover that the forest near their new town is inhabited by magical spirits called Totoros.
For the tween who believes mermaids are real…
Tom Hanks plays the role of a young NYC businessman who falls in love with a woman only to discover she isn't exactly human … but rather a mermaid eager to experience the landlubbing life.
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18th in a quote
"I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too."
Liv Tyler age
"To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century."
James Buchan nature
"When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us."
Robert Smithson gardening
"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."
Gene Tierney birthday
"In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same."
A. N. Wilson society
Liv Tyler birthday
"I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house."
Sue Townsend birthday
"Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise."
Jonathan Sacks religion
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Apple says iOS 10.2.1 has reduced unexpected iPhone 6s shutdown issues by 80%
Matthew Panzarino @Panzer / 6 years
Over the past couple of iPhone versions users have complained of "unexpected" shutdowns of their devices. Some iPhone 6, 6s, 6 Plus and 6s Plus devices could basically go dark unexpectedly, forcing a user to have to plug them into an outlet to get them to power back on.
Apple has been working on this very annoying bug and it says it has come up with a fix of sorts that should mitigate the problem on a majority of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s devices. The fix is actually already on your iPhone if you have installed iOS 10.2.1 — something that around 50 percent of iOS users have already done. After letting the fix simmer on customer devices, Apple now has statistics to share on how it has improved the issue, citing 80 percent reduction on iPhone 6s and 70 percent reduction on iPhone 6 devices.
Currently, iPhone 7 devices are not impacted by this issue. It's also important to note that there was a similar but different issue that had the same unexpected shutdown symptoms late last year that resulted in a battery recall of some devices. These are not the same issue or fix.
Here is the comment they provided to TechCrunch today:
With iOS 10.2.1, Apple made improvements to reduce occurrences of unexpected shutdowns that a small number of users were experiencing with their iPhone. iOS 10.2.1 already has over 50% of active iOS devices upgraded and the diagnostic data we've received from upgraders shows that for this small percentage of users experiencing the issue, we're seeing a more than 80% reduction in iPhone 6s and over 70% reduction on iPhone 6 of devices unexpectedly shutting down.
We also added the ability for the phone to restart without needing to connect to power, if a user still encounters an unexpected shutdown. It is important to note that these unexpected shutdowns are not a safety issue, but we understand it can be an inconvenience and wanted to fix the issue as quickly as possible. If a customer has any issues with their device they can contact AppleCare.
As far as I'm able to understand what happened here, Apple found that sudden spikes of activity to the maximum power draw could cause older batteries, which had some mileage on them, to deliver power in an uneven manner, which would cause an emergency shutdown of the devices. Brand new batteries would not be affected, but as most phone batteries run through charge cycles they get less effective (this is a well-known byproduct of lithium-ion technology and one reason everyone wants to get rid of it as soon as someone figures out something better) and more susceptible to these kinds of triggering spikes.
Whatever tweaks Apple made to its power management system have enabled them to reduce the shutdowns heavily — but not eliminate them entirely. For those cases where a device still shuts down, folks will be able to restart without having to plug it in on iPhone 6s and 6s Plus devices.
It's also my understanding that there is a fix in on the newer beta versions of iOS that should allow the auto-restart in iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6 models, as well.
At some point a battery will be so worn out that it will need to be replaced, as Apple outlines on its site. A new "your battery needs service" message is also coming to the battery info screen inside Settings on iOS 10.2.1 over the next few days. This will only show up for batteries that Apple feels need it — which will add a bit more transparency to people wondering when Apple considers the battery worn down enough to get swapped out. Though the exact metrics by which it decides that a battery has reached end-of-life are still opaque, Apple does give some hints on its own page about maximum charges and lifetime.
While the issue has not been killed off entirely, this should provide some sort of relief for users who were annoyed by the problem.
Article updated to clarify auto-restart details.


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The 2008 Illinois State Redbirds football team represented Illinois State University as a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC) during the 2008 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Led by Denver Johnson in his ninth and final season as head coach, the Redbirds compiled an overall record of 3–8 with a mark of 2–6 in conference play, placing eighth in the MVFC. Illinois State played home games at Hancock Stadium in Normal, Illinois.

After the team's final game, a loss to Southern Illinois, Johnson resigned from the head coaching position.

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Joe Biden's Cabinet: a Carbon Copy of Obama's that will Plunge America… into the Past
by Sabrina Martín Rondon
Politics, Opinion
Joe Biden's action plan for the U.S. presidency shows that the Democrat, in addition to being "stuck in the past," would be willing to revive the mistakes made by the Barack Obama administration.
This week Biden announced part of his Cabinet, made up mostly of former officials from the Obama era, of which he was vice president, without taking into account the great failures that they wrote in the history of the United States.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio sarcastically levied serious criticisms of Biden's Cabinet: "Biden's Cabinet picks went to Ivy League schools, have strong resumes, attended all the right conferences, and will be polite and orderly caretakers of America's decline," Rubio wrote.
"I support American greatness. And I have no interest in returning to the 'normal' that left us dependent on China," added,
Biden's cabinet picks went to Ivy League schools,have strong resumes,attend all the right conferences & will be polite & orderly caretakers of America's decline
I support American greatness
And I have no interest in returning to the "normal" that left us dependent on China
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 24, 2020
Biden announced part of his Cabinet made up largely of former Obama-era officials (Wikimedia)
Joe Biden: Back to the failures?
Michael Goodwin published an article in the New York Post where he noted that not only does Biden's fondness for old things worry him, he said he also worries about the policies he will implement.
Biden gave John Kerry a seat in the National Security Council. Kerry is the architect of the flawed agreement with Iran and the man responsible for signing the Paris climate agreement. Two major mistakes by the Obama administration that Biden hopes to revive.
"The deal with Iran coddled and funded the murderous mullahs and their terror brigades while paving the way for them to obtain nuclear weapons. Biden, perhaps unaware of the changes in the Middle East over the past four years, has talked about wanting to return to it," Goodwin notes in his article.
Joseph Humire, a hemispheric security analyst and director of the Center for the Study of a Free and Secure Society, told El American that the Obama administration, of which Biden was vice president, went "very soft" on China, making it the influential country it is today. He emphasized that to Iran he gave away "many privileges".
"The problem was not to sign an agreement with Iran, but how to reach a fair agreement. The way in which that agreement was reached by Obama was very bad and irresponsible, with many gaps, granting many privileges to Iran and getting very little benefits in return, and without any guarantees," he said.
"If Biden wants to take up that agreement again, he has to do it better than in previous years, because the last one only led to more failures," he explained.
Other evidence that Biden would seek to revive more past mistakes is reflected in the election of Antony Blinken as secretary of state. During the Obama administration, Blinken came close to allowing China to become the powerhouse it is today by stealing American technology and even jobs.
"Blinken represents old-school Democrats who, like Clinton or Obama, built a flexible foreign policy in which the United States plays a balanced role," Camilo Bello points out in his article for El American.
With Jake Sullivan as National Security Advisor, Biden would bring back a "rational" approach to relations with China.
Another choice from the past is Alejandro Mayorkas to head up Homeland Security. Mayorkas joined the Obama administration in 2009 as director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. (USCIS). He was promoted to the post of assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and then confirmed in office in December 2014 after a Senate vote.
The future Homeland Secretary was Obama's accomplice in the creation of the punitive immigrant cages. He was also one of the officials who negotiated with the Cuban regime to relax sanctions and facilitate bilateral trade, while the tyranny further repressed the island's population.
Reference should also be made to the appointment of Janet Yellen as Biden's Secretary of the Treasury. A November 25 article by Blommberg noted that "Yellen should reflect on past mistakes. "Yellen has been less concerned about full employment and more about long-term debt than would be ideal at this time. She could change the conversation in Washington in futile ways," the article notes.
The economist and writer in El American, Juan Felipe Vélez noted that "Yellen, as a good disciple of her master, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, believes in government intervention to generate and sustain jobs. This is a position that she expressed during her stay at the FED, despite the fact that her opinion on the country's fiscal policy was not within her competence".
"According to several analysts, the increase in interest rates in 2015 was rushed by Yellen, which led the nation to a small recession in 2016," he added.
"Another important task of the Secretary of the Treasury is to ensure the integrity and security of the financial system. That is, that it is not used to launder the assets of criminals and dictators like Nicolás Maduro. With respect to Venezuela, Yellen has not spoken out about it, and there is a fear of a more lax administration in the face of Venezuela's tyranny, as Yellen may not follow up on the work begun by his predecessor, Steven Mnuchin, of attacking the financial arms of a regime involved in drug trafficking," he said.
If ratified, Joe Biden would assume the Presidency of the Republic next January 20, the moment in which he would be sworn in and, furthermore, would start an administration with officials that served Obama and, were they to not modify their positions, could have the same pitfalls as in the past.
Sabrina Martín Rondon
Sabrina Martín Rondon is a Venezuelan journalist. Her source is politics and economics. She is a specialist in corporate communications and is committed to the task of dismantling the supposed benefits of socialism // Sabrina Martín Rondon es periodista venezolana. Su fuente es la política y economía. Es especialista en comunicaciones corporativas y se ha comprometido con la tarea de desmontar las supuestas bondades del socialismo


Farsightedness, or hyperopia, is a common refractive error such as myopia, astigmatism, and presbyopia.
Signs and Symptoms of Farsightedness?
Hyperopia is usually caused by the eye not growing to the proper length. In general, a nearsighted eye is too long and a farsighted eye is too short although the curvature of the front of the eye can also cause these refractive errors. Hyperopia is different from blurry near vision caused by presbyopia in which the eyes crystalline lens can no longer focus for near vision tasks due to age. Higher amounts of hyperopia can also cause an eye to turn in towards the nose which is called strabismus.
Hyperopia is diagnosed at an eye examination. Your eye doctor will check your distance and near vision and also test your focusing ability.
The simplest way to treat farsightedness is with glasses which can be worn full-time or part-time, depending on the severity of the symptoms. If glasses are not desirable, there are also many contact lens options to treat hyperopia. LASIK surgery is also an option to treat mild cases of hyperopia. Higher amounts of hyperopia can be surgically treated with a cataract procedure called a clear lens exchange. This procedure involves removing the eyes crystalline lens completely and replacing it with a lens which will correct the hyperopia.
What Steps Should I Take If I Think That I Am Farsighted?


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è uno videogioco sparatutto sviluppato dalla Cave e distribuito dalla Taito nel 2004.

Convertito per PlayStation 2 nel 2005, riceverà poi un seguito, Mushihime-sama Futari, sempre ambientato in un mondo fantasioso ricco di insetti e foreste immense. Una conversione distribuita limitatamente per Playstation 2 include anche le figurine di Reco e Kiniro.

Trama
Il mondo di Mushihime-sama è selvaggio e ricoperto da foreste, quando in passato v'era solo deserto. Ora esseri antropodi detti Koujuu vivono nel mondo e permettono al pianeta di continuare a vivere, siccome i loro gusci, ricchi di nutrienti, quando morti e in decomposizione, risanano la terra con la loro Levi-Sense, una fonte d'energia letale per gli umani - Miasma la chiamano; solo alcuni insediamenti umani sono sopravvissuti, in particolare il villaggio Hoshifuri. In cambio, si richiede il sacrificio di una quindicenne ogni duecento anni. La figlia dei reali locali, Reco, è la prossima e le viene donato un braccialetto da un fanciullo nella foresta Shinju, in cui si perse in gioventù: il giorno in cui compie i quindici anni, il Miasma contamina il villaggio.

Per salvare il villaggio, con il suo fedele scarabeo Koujuu Kiniro (il braccialetto è un collegamento telepatico) ritorna nella foresta Shinju per incontrare la dea dei Koujuu in persona.

Modalità di gioco
La conversione per Playstation 2 di Mushihime-sama presenta tutte le modalità originali del cabinato, inclusa quella esclusiva "Arrange"
Original - Una modalità semplice rispetto alle altre: meno proiettili, ma più velocità ad essi conferita
Maniac - Più proiettili e un sistema di concatenaggio dei punti per ottenere migliori risultati
Ultra - La modalità più difficile, tantissimi proiettili da schivare e mantiene la classifica
Arrangiata- Esclusiva della conversione per Playstation 2, è come la Maniac Mode, ma si inizia con il potere di fuoco quasi massimizzato ma nessuna possibilità di continuare dopo aver perduto le proprie vite - rappresentate dalle bombe posseduto dal giocatore, riottenibili durante il corso degli scenari, ma solo in poche circostanze.
È anche possibile usare tutti e tre gli stili di gioco.

Armi

Potenziamenti
S-Power: Attacco concentrato e mobilità incrementata
W-Power: Mobilità minore ma attacco allargato
M-Power: Ibrido tra i primi due

Opzione
Traccia: Segue il giocatore
Formazione: Circonda il giocatore in una configurazione predefinita

Blue Label
Debuttò al Cave Festival 2006. Questa versione aggiornata, presentò alcune aggiunte:
Modalità Originale ed Ultra disponibili sin dall'inizio
Difficoltà maggiore
Equipaggiamento iniziale alterato
Alterate le formazioni

Accoglienza
La rivista Play Generation lo classificò come il quarto gioco più raro per PlayStation 2.

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Collegamenti esterni