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Learning from a messy presidential debate -- Oct. 1, 2020 column
Not that time stood still during the first presidential debate, but at one point I desperately checked the clock: How much longer can this last?
The 90-minute dumpster fire, street brawl, fiasco, expletive-deleted storm – pick your description -- still had nearly 30 agonizing minutes to go.
The way President Donald Trump behaved, he seemed determined to ensure he'd never again have to debate Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump broke the debate rules his campaign had agreed to, insulted Biden repeatedly and made many baseless claims.
His blab-athon – by one count he interrupted Biden or moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News more than 120 times – was over the top.
It was classic, classless Trump -- shocking but not surprising.
Trump is a showman, and his fans love his "gladiator" style. This time, even his allies said his jabs missed the mark.
Biden did not take Trump's bait. He mostly kept his cool, though he called the president a "clown" and said, "Shut up, man," when Trump was talking over him. Vigorous and sharp, Biden was not the least bit sleepy.
This doesn't mean Biden's performance was flawless. In a rare policy moment, he refused to say whether he supports ending the filibuster in the Senate or adding justices to the Supreme Court, both favored by progressive Democrats.
Trump again refused to offer any details of his supposed health care plan.
The bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates promised Wednesday to consider format changes so the two remaining presidential debates will be more substance oriented. Good luck with that.
Trump who trails Biden in most polls, tries to deflect attention from his record on the coronavirus by sowing confusion and distrust in our revered institutions – public education, public health and the electoral process, among others.
The president continues to claim, falsely, the only way he can lose is if Democrats steal the election.
The presidential winner should be decided Election Night, he says, even if millions of mail-in ballots are uncounted. He wants to install Amy Coney Barrett as the ninth Supreme Court justice to help settle the election.
Without evidence, he constantly claims Democrats will flood the polls with fraudulent votes and voters. Meanwhile, voter intimidation and suppression are in the air.
Trump and his family are recruiting an "army" of supporters to watch for fraud at early voting places and on Election Day.
"We need every able-bodied man, woman to join Army for Trump's Election Security Operation," Don Trump Jr. said in a video the Trump campaign posted on social media Sept. 23.
President Trump told Sean Hannity on Fox: "We're going to have sheriffs, and we're going to have law enforcement and we're going to have, hopefully, U.S. attorneys" at the polls.
But when Trump observers tried Tuesday to enter early voting places in Philadelphia, they were turned away. Trump tweeted:
"Wow. Won't let Poll Watchers & Security into Philadelphia Voting Places. There is only one reason why. Corruption!!! Must have a fair Election."
Three exclamation points do not make corruption the only possible reason poll-watchers were denied entry. As usual there's more to the story.
Tuesday was the first day of early voting in a few satellite locations where people could register and vote. Rules are different at those locations than at regular polling places, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Election officials are also following safety restrictions because of the pandemic, the paper said.
Every state sets its own election rules. In Virginia, a poll watcher must be registered to vote, and the state limits on the number of poll watchers allowed per party in polling place.
As we go into the final weeks of the 2020 campaign, we can expect more Trumpian efforts to erode confidence in the election.
But remember this: Our neighbors, mostly volunteers, work the long hours at the polls and tabulate the ballots. State officials, not Trump, certify the winners.
I've been a city poll worker, and I know how hard these volunteers work for a fair election.
After the debate, analysts kept using the same word to describe it: chaos. Messy and stinky work too.
I won't be surprised if democracy's longest hour and a half was a preview of the election chaos ahead.
Posted by Marsha Mercer at 6:14 PM
Labels: 2020 presidential campaign, Amy Coney Barrett, Chris Wallace, Commission on Presidential Debates, Joe Biden, President Donald Trump, Sean Hannity
Dan September 30, 2020 at 7:14 PM
Thanks for another excellent column. I was stunned at what I saw and heard. I've experience every debate since Nixon/Kennedy, but never imagined that what we saw was possible. But it was. God help us!
Marsha Mercer October 8, 2020 at 10:05 AM
Many thanks, Dan. It was a terrible night for America and our standing in the world.
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Most Italophiles have seen photos of Burano, with its canal-facing rows of crazy-coloured houses; and many visitors to Venice have done the 40-minute hop across the lagoon to this small island, where tourist hordes flock in season, drawn by the island's traditional lace-making – even if most of the lace sold here is machine-made on the other side of the globe. Few people stay over, however, to treasure those colours and a surprisingly lively local scene when the crowds have gone. This is a splendidly unique side of Venice – though for the frequent, rather than the first-time, visitor.
Venissa describes its Burano operation (the other, very different in character and setting, is on the neighbouring island of Mazzorbo) as an 'albergo diffuso' – a scattered hotel, with 13 suites in five houses dotted around the island. Reception and, if you want it, breakfast is a 15-minute walk away across the footbridge on the mothership on Mazzorbo.
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First-ever Glastonbury Festival brought back to life with rare colour photos
The late Robert Blomfield captured the extraordinary images at the original Worthy Farm gathering in 1970
Jackie Butler
Erin Santillo
The inaugural Glastonbury Festival has been brought back to life with an extraordinary gallery of previously unseen colour photographs.
They were captured on Kodachrome film by the late Robert Blomfield, a doctor, part-time hippy and amateur photographer.
Pictures from what in 1970 was called the Pilton Pop Folk and Blues festival are few and far between and shot almost exclusively in black-and-white, reports SomersetLive.
Mr Blomfield passed away in December 2020 and his vast collection of colour images is now being archived by his sons.
Here we take a look back at what he captured from the original Worthy Farm gathering.
Michael Eavis charged £1 a ticket for a line-up that was originally to be headlined by The Kinks before they pulled out after the posters were printed. It was Marc Bolan and T Rex who eventually took top billing, en route to another gig elsewhere in Somerset.
Do you have any memories of the first Glastonbury Festival or are you in these photos? Do tell us all about it in the comments below or contact jackie.butler@reachplc.com.
A group of festival-goers drinking tea beside a VW camper van at the first Glastonbury Festival
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The main stage and audience between sets at the first Glastonbury Festival
The main stage at the first Glastonbury Festival
A general view of tents and a camper van with the stage behind at the first Glastonbury Festival
A group keep warm and play the guitar at the first Glastonbury Festival
A group of festival-goers cook on an open fire at the first Glastonbury Festival
Festival organiser Michael Eavis being interviewed for television in front of the stage at the first Glastonbury Festival
A young man and woman walk to the site at the first Glastonbury Festival
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Clay (in cowboy hat) conducts a clinic in Langley, BC.
My husband checked out this weekend and boarded a plane headed for Langley, BC, to teach a clinic. At first I was looking forward to 3 days in my pjs, hanging out with the babies on my own. But 3 summers storms, 2 power outages and 1 escaped buffalo later – the countdown for Clay's return home to Saskatchewan couldn't tick by fast enough.
Obviously, taking care of our infant twins was my biggest priority. Lydia, Clay's assistant, looked after the buffalo scenario which involved hooking up a trailer and trying to load the wooly creature inside, in the middle of the night. And I doubt it could have been any darker outside… But after a couple of hours and a wee bit of yelling, Lydia, along with David our barn manager and another friend got the animal back into the corral with the rest of her buddies.
Lydia: assistant horse trainer / babysitter <smile>.
I opted for the BBQ.
Boiling water on the BBQ helped me get the bottles sterilized and got me through in a pinch, but I'm extremely glad the power is back on now!
I guess if life in the country were easy, it would be crowded out here.
Life as a horse trainer's wife sometimes also means being separated temporarily from my husband so he can conduct clinics, attend shows or work on horse deals. But more often than not, the lifestyle means we all get to hang together as family at events or down at the "office" – meaning, the barn.
Not that I'm a big fan of keeping babies in the dust. But in the future, I hope our children will take an interest in the horses and will want to spend time with us in the arena. Of course their interests and ambitions remain to be seen… with my luck they'll probably want to snowboard or scuba dive, or do anything other than horses… Oh karma, you are a tricky thing!
But until they're big enough to decide what they want to do, we get to choose. So last weekend, Clay, myself, the babies and my mother traveled out to the Reinin' In The Sun show, held in Armstrong, BC, over the August long weekend.
The twins made their first trip through the mountains - and they were certainly glad when it was over!
The weather was fabulous, and not too hot this year.
And as always, the RITs crew put on a fantastic event with lots of extra perks for contestants.
This included a Brats and Beer BBQ, Friday night cow horse classes, a Saturday evening dinner, cold water on the sidelines and great camaraderie.
This is Deanna Paulsen along with Barb, hard at work in the show office. Deanna is a bride-to-be and will marry professional horse trainer, Jesse Beckley this coming September. I know it's early, but congratulations guys!!
All in all, it was another great show!
My Stable Life will return with some more great shots of the RITs event, courteously provided by Krystina Kowalick. Stay tuned!
yay lydia!!! we can now add buffalo whisperer to her repetoir of tricks…..


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Again a wedding reception came on the roof. Everyone started getting married one by one, and yet another topic that was as difficult as picking out the clothes to wear at the ring was on the agenda. What gifts can be bought for married friends is as important as what to wear in a wedding.
There are many golden rules for choosing a gift, but first of all you have to be careful about your friend's proximity. If there is a strong connection between you and your married friend, you should make your gift choice according to it, even if it is possible to count on you what you need. Do not stop if you have the chance to get help from your friends for your chosen gift. However, if you are a person who does not want such help and decides to choose the gift as a complete surprise, you can make your friend happy by purchasing a gift that suits your taste or budget.
In recent years, photojournalism has increased significantly. Wedding photographs, especially for newly-married couples, have a separate prescription. If you want to give your newly married friends not only a gift but also a spiritual gift, the decorative frames you put on your wedding day can be a great choice. At the moment of the wedding, you will be sure that the frames of your happiest moments and the pictures of the immortalized photographs are sure to keep you in the corner of your house.
The gifts you will choose for your new married friend who is particularly talented in the kitchen are likely to be from the kitchen products. A fabulous waffle machine, which will especially sweeten your morning, can be one of the first choices you may have.
If you have a serious sense of tea or coffee addiction, you will not get a better gift than a tea or coffee machine if you get it in line with the kitchen colors.
American services, which are the sine qua non of love-filled meals, are among the most popular gifts of recent times. If you want your friend to sign up for great presentations in your new home, American service will be a pretty good gift choice.
With a love-filled breakfast set you can choose a great gift that reminds you every time you use it.
There may also be a bedding set or a special cushioning pattern that allows a person to fall in love even when looking at a gift option you can choose for your newly married friend. You know how to immortalize your friend and love details in these special bedding models.
It is possible to make an unforgettable reminder for your husband by marking the date of his wedding, which is the most immortal moments, on the pillow calendar.
The cup set, which your newly married friend will be happy to sip on a Sunday morning after a wonderful morning breakfast, is among the most stylish gifts. You may even print their names or pictures on the cups they have used to make these cups even more special for them.


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You are here: Home › 49 Venues Under Consideration in Joint 2026 World Cup Bid
49 Venues Under Consideration in Joint 2026 World Cup Bid
By Zach Spedden on August 16, 2017 in World Cup
As part of their joint 2026 World Cup bid, the United States, Mexico, and Canada are considering a total of 49 stadiums for the event.
The list of proposed sites features and interesting mix. Overall, 44 cities–including 34 in the U.S., seven in Canada, and three in Mexico–have been sent requests for information, with the U.S. side made up largely of NFL stadiums. Out of the stadiums for that league's 32 teams, only one–Buffalo's New Era Field–did not make the list, while two that are expected to open in 2020–Inglewood (Los Angeles) and Las Vegas–are mentioned.
The list of 49 facilities across the three countries can be found here, and it does provide some insight into what venues could be options as organizers move forward with the bid. Under the current arrangement, the U.S. will host 60 of 80 games, while the remaining 20 will be evenly split between Canada and Mexico. The list of venues will be narrowed in the coming weeks, with interested cities having until next month to declare their interest. More from ESPN FC:
The organizers will reach out to each of the cities on the list and those hoping to be selected will have until Sept. 5 to declare their interest.
Those cities will then have until early January 2018 to prepare their bid to become a World Cup host, if they make the initial shortlist, which is set to be announced in late September.
Between 20-25 venues are set to be included in the final bid to FIFA, with the committee anticipating that 12 or more locations will be official host cities, if the North American bid is successful.
The official bid is to be sent to FIFA by March 16, 2018. Should the joint bid of the United States, Canada, and Mexico prove successful, it would be the first time the World Cup is hosted by multiple nations since Japan and South Korea's combined effort in 2002.
Image of Chicago's Soldier Field courtesy concacaf.com
RELATED STORIES: Committee Formed for United 2026 World Cup Bid; U.S., Mexico, Canada Announce Joint Bid for 2026 World Cup; FIFA to Include 48 Teams in 2026 World Cup; Joint Bid Discussed for 2026 World Cup
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See Woodchat Shrike at Wikipedia .
The global distribution of the Woodchat Shrike is available HERE .
Woodchat Shrikes are a strongly migratory species. Their breeding range extends from the north-western and central northern African coastal fringe through most of Iberia into southern Mediterranean Europe, parts of Asia Minor, the southern side of the Caucasus mountain range, the East coast of the Mediterranean Sea and further eastward into Iraq and on into southern to central Iran. Woodchat Shrikes spend the northern winters across the entire width of the continent in sub-Saharan Africa, and in the southern third of Yemen, plus the far south-western corner of Saudi Arabia. While on migration they can be found basically anywhere between breeding grounds and winter quarters, i.e. northern Africa, parts of the Middle East and in Arabia.
In Europe Woodchat Shrikes are found as breeding migrants in Iberia (except the western, near-coastal part of Portugal), southern France, the Alps, Italy (except the Po river downs) and around the Adriatic coastline into near-coastal Greece and along the western Black Sea coastline up to the Danube delta. They are also found on basically all Mediterranean islands and also sometimes farther inland, e.g. in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe.
During the breeding season Woodchat Shrikes stay in rather open country with scattered trees, shrubs or in copses. They have also developed a preference for open cultivated country, preferably with orchard trees interspersed with open areas, often with patches of sandy ground.
S. Cuturilov and I. Medenica report spotting a Woodchat Shrike, nominate race "senator", near Kursumlija, South-east Serbia, in May 2016.
D. Wilczynska reports spotting a Woodchat Shrike, race "badius", in western Sardinia in June 2016.
We have not seen a Woodchat Shrike, race "niloticus", in Europe yet. D. Wilczynska reports spotting one in Georgia, on the southern slopes of the Caucasus, in June 2018.
Just like other shrikes of the genus Lanius, Woodchat Shrikes are known to spike their prey on thorns for future consumption.


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Six lessons learned from Norwich City's difficult day at Old Trafford
Published: 10:05 AM January 13, 2020 Updated: 7:07 PM November 22, 2020
Emi Buendia battles with Dan James during the second half of Norwich City's 4-0 loss at Manchester United Pictures: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images - Credit: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd
After a heavy loss at Old Trafford, David Freezer assesses the state of Norwich City's survival scrap as Premier League pressure builds ahead of a crunch clash with Bournemouth.
Todd Cantwell thanks the away fans - Credit: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd
1 - Away fans can truly be proud
It's been a weekend of doom and gloom for Norwich City, so let's kick-off with an enjoyable element of this demoralising defeat.
The away fans well and truly did themselves proud after the final whistle, putting the Old Trafford regulars and tourists to shame. Had a neutral entered the stadium just before full-time they would have thought it was City who were victorious.
Rather than heading for the exits early like many of the home supporters, those hardy away fans sang loud and proud to give Daniel Farke and his players a healthy dose of support at the end of a tough day.
That wasn't in recognition of the performance which had just seen the Canaries deservedly beaten, but of the journey which has taken the club back to famous stadia like Old Trafford.
With your team bottom of the table and facing a tough final stretch of the season, it would be easy for fans to turn angry and bitter - but there were no signs of that, at all.
Tim Krul made a costly error - Credit: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd
2 - Avoidable mistakes yet again
Yet on the pitch it was clear that City weren't at the same level as their opponents, with all four goals featuring very avoidable problems.
From Todd Cantwell showing Juan Mata on to his stronger left foot ahead of the fine cross for Marcus Rashford's first, to Emi Buendia not tracking Brandon Williams and Tim Krul's rash charge which led to the penalty, and Max Aarons heading the ball straight to Mason Greenwood in space - City played their part in United's success.
The technical quality of Mata, Rashford and Anthony Martial of course helps but for the third there were essentially 10 City players marking two men and United still managed to score.
At 45 conceded so far the class of 2019-20 are on course to test the unwanted record of 77 conceded by the team of 2004-05, the Canaries' worst record in the top flight.
They're averaging just over two conceded per game so at least Derby's record of 89 (for a 38-game PL season) in 2007-08 shouldn't be under threat.
Daniel Farke shared a moment with the City fans - Credit: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd
3 - Resisting meltdown is crucial
There seemed to be a sense among many City fans that United were vulnerable in the lead up to this game - but that lacked perspective.
Yes,they may not be hitting the heights they want under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, but they remain firmly in the mix for Champions League qualification this season.
Add to that mix just one home defeat in the league, with Old Trafford wins over Chelsea (4-0), Leicester and Tottenham, as well as being the only team to have prevented champions elect Liverpool from winning.
So while United may have had a three-game wobble, they are still operating at a totally different level to a promoted club like Norwich. For added emphasis, for the financial year 2018-19, the Red Devils generated £627m, City's revenue was £33.7m.
They may be struggling to recapture their glory days on the pitch but United remains a massive club, so as much as losing 4-0 hurts, this defeat is not the reason City are deep in relegation trouble.
Mario Vrancic had a day to forget at Old Trafford - Credit: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd
4 - Midfield mix needs a refresh
The lack of influence from midfield was probably the biggest disappointment for the Canaries.
Farke left Mario Vrancic and Alex Tettey on the bench at Preston so that he could stick with that partnership at Old Trafford, which had shown promise and balance.
However, the central mix was nowhere near the standard required and both Vrancic and Kenny McLean struggled to have any kind of creative impact.
Tettey kept dropping wide to help break up play, while Todd Cantwell and Emi Buendia were at least causing some attacking problems, but Vrancic made 30 accurate passes - fewer than eight of the United players, and five of his team-mates. That was simply not offering enough influence.
With Ondrej Duda's loan sealed it seems likely that the Slovakia international will quickly enter the fray, with both McLean and Marco Stiepermann failing to make the number 10 position their own, teeing up a fresh start.
Adam Idah made his first Premier League start - Credit: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd
5 - Passing left Idah with no chance
The victim of that lack of influence fro midfield was young Adam Idah, faced with a difficult first Premier League start as Teemu Pukki and Josip Drmic were unfit.
It was always going to be a huge step up from an FA Cup tie at Preston which had seen both teams make a raft of changes, with little pressure on the result.
So it didn't help the Irish prospect that when he was up against the world's most expensive centre-back in Harry Maguire, signed from Leicester for £80m, and another international in Victor Lindelof, that most of the balls coming his way were in the air.
As City scrambled to keep their head above water in defence, it meant the supply line just was not reaching the 18-year-old.
So it's no slight on Idah that he endured a difficult day, as it seems unlikely that Pukki or Drmic would have fared much better, with so few penetrative passes getting in behind the home defence for him to chase.
Max Aarons is continually being linked with a move away from Carrow Road. Picture: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images - Credit: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd
6 - Six-pointer will be like a cup final
There's no playing down the magnitude of Saturday's clash with Bournemouth at Carrow Road, or the Last Chance Saloon, as it may be renamed for the day.
The Cherries are in freefall, losing nine of their last 11 after their 3-0 home loss to Watford. They've taken four points from those 11 games, three fewer than the Canaries in the same timeframe.
If City are to have any chance of keeping things interesting for the remainder of the season then they simply have to bring an end to their eight-game home run without a win - the joint worst in the club's Premier League history.
With Watford's impressive resurgence - taking 13 points from Nigel Pearson's seven games in charge - City are eight points adrift, so a draw would not be enough.
On the back of a deserved 4-0 thrashing optimism is going to be in short supply, but these situations can also create heroes, if someone can step forward and provide the spark for a survival push.


VocalEssence kicked off its 40th season Sunday with a bash at Orchestra Hall that only the most soulless curmudgeon could find dissatisfying.
As much a birthday party as a concert, it had a little of everything: tenors on roller skates, clattering tap dancers, an original choral work extolling the audience to turn off those cell phones, comic monologues by Garrison Keillor, a once-banned randy aria from a Handel opera and a clangorous appearance by the University of Minnesota Marching Band, complete with its crack flag squad.
There was some perfectly lovely music, too.
Philip Brunelle was barely out of college when he founded VocalEssence — then known as the Plymouth Music Series — in 1969. In his first season, then-24-year-old Brunelle talked Aaron Copland into coming to Minnesota to conduct a concert of his vocal music.
The indefatigable Brunelle has been pushing the envelope ever since. He now heads one of the biggest choral organizations in the country, with 132 singers, a full-time administrative and educational staff and an impressive résumé of recordings and commissions.
VocalEssence champions new vocal work and performances of neglected music from the past. Nothing is too big or too obscure — and audiences are often as mystified as they are charmed. The organization's courageous programming, in fact, reflects Brunelle's talent to make audiences appreciate programs while they sometimes are enduring them. It's a rare and wonderful gift, and the Twin Cities is better for it.
Sunday's concert, for the most part, was a compendium of highlights that served to display the astonishing breadth of the organization's activities — from comedy routines on "A Prairie Home Companion" to seldom-heard works such as Benjamin Britten's "Paul Bunyan" opera and local composer Libby Larsen's monumental oratorio "Coming Forth Into Day."
A major highlight of the program was the organization's 120th commissioned work: a choral setting of Psalm 77 titled "O Joy!" by Kitty Brazelton, a New England composer who straddles the rock-punk-experimental genres. It's a lovely piece that blends foursquare harmonic writing with antiphonal elements and then suddenly shifts into a rock ballad kind of rhythm before returning to an exuberant conclusion.
The long list of performers involved in the gala included soprano Maria Jette, tenors Vern Sutton and Dan Dressen — all longtime Brunelle collaborators — tap dancers Kaleena Miller and Ricci Milan, dancer/choreographer James Sewell and the Moore by Four jazz vocal group led by Sanford Moore.
If there was a retrospective element to the concert, it was downplayed. Always pushing forward, Brunelle ended the evening in characteristic fashion by urging the audience to attend the next VocalEssence event: a performance Oct. 17 at the Cathedral of St. Paul that features the seldom-heard "Te Deum" by Hector Berlioz.
The massive work requires a big choir and a full orchestra with 12 harps. "We'll have 'em," Brunelle promised.


Over the summer of 2009, Americans witnessed something quite extraordinary: Thousands of citizens not usually involved in politics gathered in public protest and energetically confronted government officials about the policies of an administration they had elected just a few months earlier.
Polls suggest that many Americans share the protesters' views. Voters' opinions about Obama's performance as president generally have reversed since February. The Rasmussen poll indicates that as of August 23, 41 percent strongly disapproved of his performance, and only 27 percent strongly approved.1 Concerning health-care reform—a central goal of the administration—a large majority of voters opposed a "public option," feared the government more than the insurance companies, and disagreed with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that the companies are "villains." Just 19 percent of Americans rated American health care overall as poor; 48 percent rated it as good or excellent.2 Such figures indicate a trend of declining support for the agenda of the Obama administration and its congressional supporters. If this trend continues, there is a possibility of serious Democratic losses in the 2010 mid-term elections.
The growing opposition to the policies of Democratic leaders is not a partisan issue; registered Democratic voters are challenging Democratic officials at raucous public meetings. So-called "Blue Dogs"—Democratic representatives who are either fiscally conservative on some issues or were elected in conservative districts—are taking issue with the party leadership. Many of these representatives face a stark choice: to buck their leaders and vote as their constituents wish, or to follow their leaders and face the wrath of angry voters.
But the most startling phenomenon has been the tea parties, in which hundreds of thousands of Americans have assembled under their own impetus, wearing T-shirts that read "Don't Tread On Me" and carrying signs advocating liberty and opposing dictatorship. Speakers at these events have denounced politicians of both parties who have supported increases in government power and spending. Many of the protesters have begun to recognize and advocate a principle—the principle of individual rights—and a corollary of that principle, that the proper purpose of government is to secure these rights, not to control its citizens' lives.
The split between the politicians and the American citizens has seldom been so starkly displayed as when the Democrats accused senior citizens carrying hand-lettered signs of being a "mob" in the pay of organized groups. In contrast to these independent citizens, organized union members, loyal to the Democratic leadership, rode to public town meetings on buses, distributed manufactured signs, and shut the doors on opponents. Meanwhile, many elected officials canceled meetings with their constituents, unwilling to face protesters who have read and understood the legislation better than they have.
Despite such attempts to smear the protesters and shut them out of public meetings, the protests continue to enjoy strong popular support. The Obama administration's plan for a radical overhaul of the U.S. economy is facing principled, grassroots opposition across the nation.
Why are these protests happening now?
The answer is not that President Obama has put America on a new course, away from capitalism and toward statism. America has been on that path for three generations, courtesy of both political parties. The administration of George W. Bush, for instance, greatly expanded government power. President Bush doubled the national budget, doubled the deficit, added a digit to the national debt, signed the largest entitlement bill since the 1960s, ordered his cabinet to cooperate in regulating carbon dioxide as a "pollutant," signed Sarbanes-Oxley, distributed economic "stimulus" checks, asked for $700 billion as business handouts, and never vetoed a spending bill. Where were the protesters then? If Americans were agitated primarily by the trend toward statism, what stopped thousands of them from rising up and venting their anger at these actions? The truck toward statism is only part of the reason for the reaction against Obama. What is the rest of the explanation?
The answer begins with Bush's party affiliation: He is a Republican. This title carries the appearance of long-standing, fundamental support for the free market and for capitalism. Although no Republican in three generations has defended capitalism in a principled way, Republican rhetoric continues to use pro-capitalist language, mainly to oppose Democrats. Ronald Reagan's assertion that "government is the problem" continues to resonate among supporters of the free market. However, few Republicans have been willing to face the inescapable fact that the federal budget and debt grew exponentially under both Reagan and his Republican successor, George H.W. Bush. Republican lip service to the free market has muddied the waters and continues to make it difficult for people to see that Republicans were, in fact, throttling freedom under a maze of growing federal controls. Hence there was no uprising against Republicans or their policies.
Following eight years of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush appeared to offer the best hope to regain that alleged free-market, low-tax legacy. Once again, most people did not see that the free-market image of this Republican was a mirage that bore no relation to his actions. This image gained power when Bush was touted as an alternative to his leftist Democratic challengers. This contrast of images obscured the fundamental differences between Bush's policies and a truly pro-capitalist position. This obfuscation—instigated by the Republicans—deeply confused many honest Americans about the nature of his policies, and caused enormous harm to their understanding of both capitalism and conservatism. This split between appearance and reality—between the image of a pro-freedom Republican and the reality of a welfare-state Republican—made it difficult for people to recognize that no candidate in either party was willing to defend capitalism. As a result, any real discussion of capitalism—properly understood as a truly free market, in which individual rights are protected by the government—was obliterated from public discourse.
In his systematic treatment of the philosophy of Objectivism, Leonard Peikoff wrote that "[p]recisely because of their pretense," conservatives "are the main source of political confusion in the public mind; they give people the illusion of an electoral alternative without the fact. Thus the statist drift proceeds unchecked and unchallenged."7 George W. Bush is the quintessential example of this point.
Enter Barack Obama, whom no one confuses with a friend of industry, capitalism, or national self-defense, but who stood as an alternative to four more years of Bush-like policies under John McCain.
As the leader of the Democrats—the party that carries an historical reputation for expanding government power, higher taxes, and limitless spending—Obama reasserted and rejuvenated his party's traditional commitment to the statist course. This commitment permeates his speeches. He regards businessmen not as valuable producers, but as conniving parasites who must be placed under comprehensive government controls, including a "czar" to approve executive pay. He expressed this desire in an angry rant against financial managers who received contracted bonuses.8 Obama regards doctors not as lifesavers, but as predators willing to sacrifice their patients to needless operations in order to get money.9 He regards the police who respond to reports of a burglary as cops who act "stupidly," before the relevant facts are clear. He regards overseas regimes that have pledged to continue to attack the United States as deserving of apology. Meanwhile, he wants to prosecute American intelligence officers who used "harsh" interrogation techniques against enemies who have killed Americans. Obama and his administration are overtly and publicly committed to an ideologically radical leftist agenda.
Obama's choice of advisors has helped to define his antibusiness agenda. He hired, for instance, John Holdren as his director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Holdren has expressed his views of industry in print since the 1970s: "A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States."10 Such views are consistent with a range of policies planned by the administration, from stringent business regulations being drafted by the Congress and Obama's economic czars, to cap-and-trade legislation intended to strangle industry, to unremitting attempts to place the medical industry under comprehensive government control.
Obama, of course, does not intend to be clear about his socialist identity. He is trying to come across as a "reasonable," moderate "centrist." But his attempts to appeal to moderate voters are angering the hard left and alienating the independents. Meanwhile, an increasing number of astute American voters on the right are largely unmoved.12 Many people are seeing him as a skilled orator who is trying to save his agenda.
This is the clarity that Obama has brought to the American political scene. To see a president's clear and principled commitment to an ideology—any ideology—is precisely what America has needed for decades. This sight has helped many people understand the issues at a more fundamental level than they ever have. Obama and his congressional allies have unwittingly launched a grass-roots movement that is actively questioning the role of government in our lives. Although a large portion of the protesters remains confused about the principles at stake, an increasing number are gaining clarity. They are coming to see the Democratic proposals for health-care "reform," for instance, not as a matter of new programs backed by good intentions, but as an attack on individual rights and an effort to impose a dictatorship—as signs at tea parties attest. And many are beginning to see that the Republicans as well have been guilty of such attacks.
Clarity is the first step toward understanding, and understanding is the prerequisite to rational evaluation. For three generations now, America has needed a blunt confrontation with the policies that have been leading the nation toward dictatorship and into bankruptcy. Such confrontations were stillborn in 1940, 1964, and 1980 because in each case Republicans failed to stand up, on principle, for capitalism, liberty, and individual rights. Republicans repeatedly collapsed into the quicksand of compromise and accepted the welfare state principles of their opponents while arguing about the "proper" amount of government coercion they would enact. The trend toward statism continued, because the incremental steps accepted by Republicans obscured the stark difference between America's founding vision and its statist future.
Obama has given active-minded Americans a close-up view of this future. His vision—a government bureaucracy to administer medicine, an environmental agency to shackle industry, and the institutional mechanisms for bringing the government into the most intimate details of our lives—is where we have been headed for decades. But until now this destination has been hidden by the smoke and mirrors of rhetorical obfuscation. Obama's strident efforts to impose this agenda are enabling people to see that future with clarity.
But even this does not fully explain why the protests have erupted now. Obama has energized the opposition because his plan is not some abstract utopia to be found in the distant future. He wants it now. He has asked Congress to pass both health-care and environmental legislation this year, and Congress has produced the bills. At a rally in August, he restated this pledge: "I promise you, we will pass [health-care] reform by the end of this year."14 By putting forth firm dates when these measures are to become law—by saying that more than one-third of the U.S. economy could be under direct federal control as early as next month—he has motivated a large segment of the American electorate to stand up against these plans. Millions of Americans are deeply disturbed not only by Obama's particular aims, but also by his ideological framework. Many are coming to see the issues, even if imperfectly, in terms of dictatorship versus individual rights.
Republicans should have brought forward a positive, principled alternative to the statist trend years ago. They failed. Obama has now done the job for them. He has presented the stark alternative from the other side, by specifying and demanding a comprehensive agenda that carries no pretense of individual liberty. He has created an alarming sense of urgency by demanding that this agenda be made into law now.
Many Americans are now able to see Obama's plans as an assault on the founding principles of this nation. In addition, many Americans realize that time is running out—that the future is here, today. These two factors are energizing otherwise nonpolitical Americans to literally rally around the flag, to confront their elected representatives, and to turn against the administration in droves.
Military history provides an illuminating parallel to Obama's explosive effect on American political life. By 1945, Japan had lost the war with America—but Japanese leaders evaded that fact and refused to make the decision needed to end the war. When the United States issued its demand for surrender ("the alternative is prompt and utter destruction") and dropped two atomic bombs, the Japanese could no longer evade the facts or postpone the decision. The shock of the bombs made Japan's alternative clear: to continue the war until they were burned into the bedrock, or to change the nation's course. Had the Americans not forced the Japanese to confront that alternative and that deadline, the Japanese leadership could have reacted incrementally to events and manipulated the population in order to keep its power. Had it done so, Japan might have remained on the path of war past the point where reform was possible. The bombs forced the Japanese to make a life or death decision now.
The Democrats—shocked in their own way by the public response to their transparency—spent the late summer trying to obfuscate these issues. They have portrayed the protesters as "un-American," the Republicans as obstructionist, and themselves as reasonable. Such attempts are further isolating the Democrats from millions of Americans, many of whom are beginning to see that the Democrats rather than the protesters are opposed to America's founding principles. Unlike the atomic bombs dropped on Japan—which turned Japan away from dictatorship and toward freedom and individual rights—Obama's bomb is intended to move America more quickly into authoritarian rule, and ultimately into dictatorship. Rather than acquiesce to the ultimatum, however, many Americans are standing against it.
The protests and the polls are clear: Americans have, by and large, rejected the radical leftist agenda. But the issue is not yet closed. The Democrats have one last resource—one secret weapon—with which they can save their plans while avoiding political suicide in the next election. That weapon is the Republicans.
If the Republicans compromise—if they accept federally-mandated health insurance in the guise of a "co-op" or the like, or a cap-and-trade bill that is marginally less draconian than the Democratic version—they will have once again capitulated to their opponents, abandoned liberty, and ruined the opportunity to redirect this nation toward its founding moral principle: individual rights, protected under a constitution in a free republic.
President Obama has made the issue of freedom versus statism clear, and has forced an immediate decision on the American people and their representatives. His most astute opponents are correct to see his plans as attacks on their individual rights. But many people remain confused about the nature of the threat because they lack an understanding of the principles needed to grasp the cause and meaning of the trend toward statism and to reverse that trend. Those principles begin with the rights enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, and with the founding purpose of our government: "to secure these rights." To grasp the meaning of this seminal statement, we must understand that the right to life does not mean the right to coerce others into providing us with the needs of life. It means the right to live our lives free of such coercions.
The essence of the capitalist system is freedom: each man's freedom to pursue his own goals, to pursue his own happiness, to keep the material products of his efforts, and to deal voluntarily with others. But to reestablish and maintain their freedom, Americans must assert, with full knowledge of the principles at stake, that they have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that the only proper moral purpose of government is to secure these rights. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid, not of their party, but of their country's founding principles, by understanding those principles and guarding them as if their lives depended on it—because they do.
1 Rasmussen Reports, August 23, 2009, http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll.
2 Rasmussen Reports, August 10, 2009, http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/august_2009/on_health_care_51_fear_government_more_than_insurance_companies. Rasmussen Reports, August 7, 2009, http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/august_2009/25_agree_with_pelosi_that_health_insurers_are_villains.
3 Statement of Linda Douglass, which followed a post by Macon Philips, "Facts are Stubborn Things," on the White House Blog, Tuesday, August 4, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts-Are-Stubborn-Things/. A White House blog statement of August 17, "An Update on Reality Check," asked that information from others not be submitted without permission.
4 Statement from Democratic National Committee Communications Director Brad Woodhouse on the Republican Party and Allied Groups' Mob Rule. DNC Press Office, August 4, 2009. See also DNC video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtTBkxvBq88.
5 Remarks at a fund-raiser for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds, http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/07/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5226148.shtml.
6 CNN Interview, December 17, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI53fHNygpI.
7 Leonard Peikoff, Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (New York: Penguin, 1993), p. 376.
10 Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, and John P. Holdren, "Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions" (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co, 1973), pp. 278–79.
11 Rasmussen Reports, July 31, 2009, 76 percent of Americans see Obama as a liberal, and 48 percent as very liberal—another trend that has increased over the past six months, http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/july_2009/48_say_obama_is_very_liberal.
12 For heckling of an Obama aide by a leftist, "progressive" audience, "Valerie Jarrett Heckled and Hissed at Netroots Nation," Huffington Post, August 15, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/15/valarie-jarrett-heckled-a_n_260329.html.
13 Dorothy Rabinowitz, "Obama's Tone-Deaf Health Campaign," Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2009, p. A17.
14 "Obama vows to pass healthcare reform," Reuters, August 5, 2009, http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE56M0HE20090805.


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Taxonomía

Stachyanthus argyrophyllus Mart. & Zucc. ex Baker
Stachyanthus martii DC.
Stachyanthus occidentalis (Keay & É.Miège) Boutique
Stachyanthus zenkeri Engl.

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A: Assuming AC the answer is yes. (I'm not sure what the answer is in ZF).
Hint: Think about even and odd ordinals, and how you might use their existence for your purposes. This actually proves a bit more namely that you can split any infinite set into two sets with cardinality equal to the original set.

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Man City chief hits back at Jurgen Klopp's 'curious' spending comments
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Manchester City have responded to comments made by Jurgen Klopp earlier in the week, when the German said the Reds cannot compete financially with some of the big-spending clubs around Europe.
Via the Daily Mirror, Klopp said on Monday: "It looks like there are four clubs in the world who can do it [spend money] constantly: Madrid, Barcelona, City and PSG. Whatever they need, they do. You cannot compare that. That is the situation."
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The comments do not appear to be unfair, with that quartet seemingly able to spend significantly more than any other club in the world. Manchester United can probably be added to the list as well.
City, though, felt the need to hit back through chief operating officer Omar Berrada.
He said: "I don't know why they would make these comments. I don't know why they would look at other clubs.
"It's not frustration or anger, we just find it curious that they'd be highlighting our spending. We're fine with their spending. The reality is that all the top clubs invest as they see fit.
"Saying us, PSG, Real Madrid and Barcelona always invest £200million is not correct."
Klopp's comments were hardly scathing and were said in response to a question asked reasonably about the Reds' spending. He would certainly not have been anticipating a response like that.
As much as Berrada was at pains to say City are not bothered by the claim, coming out and saying that perhaps suggests the opposite is true.
The rivalry between the clubs looks set to continue this season, starting on Sunday with the meeting at Wembley in the Community Shield.
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Tcl core subsystems per-thread data is good, because it modularises the core. None of the structures or access keys are exported, which is bad, because it makes modification to these subsystems difficult in a CVS world.
If one wishes to track the CVS while writing modifications to core subsystems one needs to minimally impact the existing source files while adding or changing subsystem functionality. Since most subsystem global state is kept in Thread Specific Data, and access to this state is necessary for subsystem modifications, providing an interface would ease coding at the core subsystem level. Modular encapsulation would be preserved by conditionally compiling API elements useful only to subsystem development and not intended for extension development.
The degree of modularity of the core would remain unchanged, access to subsystem TSD would presumably only be used for subsystem development, but would enable that development to proceed more easily - one could extend subsystems as easily as one currently writes extensions. I think the degree of potential abuse is likely to be low.
Each Thread Specific Data structure should be named uniquely for each subsystem.
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Data firm Retention Science unveils its vision of the smartest email marketing
Barry Levine@xBarryLevine	 September 25, 2015 10:00 AM
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Retention Science wants to make marketers' lives easier by adding more intelligence to email marketing.
Today, the Santa Monica, California-based company is announcing the Adaptive Lifecycle email marketing platform, its first offering of an operational tool.
Previously, Retention Science made its living by helping companies better consolidate and target their existing customer data to deliver the best offers and promotions, but that delivery was handled by the customer's existing marketing tools.
The new marketing platform employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to make many of the decisions that burden marketers. Of course, many companies tout their AI and machine learning these days, but the key test is whether it helps marketers.
In its launch materials, Retention Science points out that email marketing platforms often require marketers to manually segment customers, set up multiple campaigns, create workflows, and establish rules, triggers, send times, and frequencies. When a customer leaves an item unpurchased in a shopping cart, the marketer needs to decide what she will instruct the platform to do, at what frequency, and in what order.
By contrast, Adaptive Lifecycle is designed to automatically segment, react in real time to customer responses to emails, provide the offer that is the most relevant for making a sale or keeping a customer, and predict what each customer will do next. In short, Adaptive Lifecycle takes care of the rules and the triggers, although a marketer can override the choices.
It does this, CEO Jerry Jao told me, by analyzing each customer's behavior and by drawing up behavioral patterns found in the anonymous aggregate of all of the campaigns running through Retention Science. To implement the cloud-based platform, a customer company only has to upload its HTML email templates, enter its discounts, and put a JavaScript tag on its site.
"We want to remove the guesswork," Jao said. "Our difference is you don't have to think about it."
This intelligent platform claims a 66 percent increase in open rates, a 57 percent increase in click rates inside emails, and a 45 percent increase in purchases.
Jao compared his platform's autonomous setting up of rules and triggers to Bluecore's, where marketers have to set up the conditions, the rules, and the triggers.


Dr. Kathleen Venema received both her undergraduate degrees (B.Ed. Secondary Pattern; B.A. Hons English) from the University of Winnipeg and both her graduate degrees (M.A. Language and Professional Writing; Ph.D. Language and Literature) from the University of Waterloo. Her previous research, on early Canadian literature, especially exploration writing and imperial women's epistolary writing, has evolved into an extended inquiry into narratives of conflict, illness, aging, disability, and care.
In spring 2015, Dr. Venema completed the Walls-to-Bridges Facilitator Training program, in Kitchener, ON, inside the Grand Valley Institution for Women, a multi-security-level federal prison. The Walls-to-Bridges (W2B) program trains postsecondary instructors to deliver courses inside prisons and jails. W2B courses are unique, both because they bring on-campus students into prisons to learn with students who are incarcerated, and in their commitment to egalitarian circle pedagogy, which emerges out of Frierian principles, Indigenous pedagogy, decolonizing and intersectional analysis, and feminist anti-racist practice. In spring 2016, Dr. Venema facilitated ENGL-3717 Indigenous Literatures and Cultures using the Walls-to-Bridges model at the Headingley Women's Correctional Centre, with seven incarcerated and eight campus-based students.
Dr. Venema's critical memoir, Bird-Bent Grass, published in April 2018 by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, examines how issues related to international development, spiritually-grounded commitments to social justice, war, trauma, loss, and loss associated with dementia's devastations are negotiated in epistolary discourse. Her current scholarship occurs at the intersection of auto/biography, life writing, comics, memory, and critical disabilities studies, and among other focuses, examines how autobiographical texts – including graphic texts – of aging, disability, dementia, and care reference religious traditions and spiritual practices as they narrate end-of-life meaning-making.
Bird-Bent Grass: A Memoir, in Pieces. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2018.
"'And then, nothing': Alzheimer's Archives and the Good (Enough) Death." Death Studies, special issue on "Life's end: Ethnographic perspectives," vol. 42, no. 5, 2018, pp. 298-305.
"Remembering Forgetting: Graphic Lives at the End of the Line." Forthcoming in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, special issue on "Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas," vol. 33, no. 3, 2018.
"Perfect Correspondence: Remembering the Archived Mother." Forthcoming in Lifewriting Annual: Biographical and Autobiographical Studies, vol. 5.
"Untangling the Graphic Power of Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother and Me." Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives, edited by Candida Rifkind and Linda Warley, Wifrid Laurier UP, 2016, pp. 45-74.
Note: Canadian Graphic was awarded the 2016 Gabrielle Roy Prize, which honours the best book of Canadian literary criticism written in English.
"'You can do with all this rambling whatever you want': Scrutinizing Ethics in the Alzheimer's Archives." Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Explorations in Canadian Women's Archives, edited by Linda M. Morra and Jessica Schagerl, Wilfred Laurier UP, 2012, pp. 281-301.
Note: This paper was nominated for the 2013 Hilda Neatby Prize, which is awarded to an English-language academic article published in Canada during 2012 and deemed to make an original and scholarly contribution to the field of women's and gender history as it relates to women.


I noted with interest the comments of John Manzi ("Secular Nation," Oct. 7, 2008) in the Charleston Post and Courier and sent a version of this article to the editorial department for publication. Mr. Manzi contends that the United States was founded as a secular nation. There is no doubt that there are secular elements in the founding of America, but there are many more Christian elements that Mr. Manzi ignores.
In support of his claim, Mr. Manzi references a number of historical sources. He alleges, for example, that Thomas Jefferson wrote that "Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man." There is no record of Jefferson ever writing such a statement. There is no doubt that Jefferson was critical of the clergy and believed that Christianity had been corrupted by Jesus' followers, but he never described Christianity in the above terms.
The Constitution sets Sunday aside as a day of rest for the President in Article 1, section 7. Just above George Washington's signature the following phrase appears: "Done in the Year of our Lord . . . One thousand seven hundred and eighty seven." This is direct reference to Jesus Christ.
The 1776 constitution of North Carolina, that remained in effect until 1868, included the following (XXXII): "That no person, who shall deny the being of God, or the truth of the Protestant religion, or the divine authority either of the Old or New Testaments, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department within this State." North Carolina describes itself as a "Christian State" in the 1868 constitution (Art. XI, sec. 7). This same constitution stated that "all persons who shall deny the being of Almighty God" "shall be disqualified for office." These truths hardly support Mr. Manzi's claims.
Mr. Manzi quotes Benjamin Franklin, but he fails to mention that it was this elder statesman who stood up at the Constitutional Convention and appealed for prayer and made reference to three specific passages from the Bible. His most direct was Psalm 127:1: "Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it." He went on to state that if we as a nation fail to acknowledge God's role in the establishment of our nation, then we will do no better than the builders of Babel.
I could go on in my critique of Mr. Manzi's historical research, but you get the picture. He has gone to the internet and found a few quips, some of which do not exist, strung them together and built a case that rests on historical sand.
Francis Newton Thorpe, The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies, 7 vols. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909), 5:2815.


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Not every American was happy to be in an alliance with the Soviets during World War II. The Red Scare of the 1920's, admiration for Hitler's efficiencies of putting people to work in the midst of a worldwide economic depression, building the autobahns and even his anti-Semitism had some support in the United States.
Hitler never really believed that England and the United States would continue to fight Germany, rather than join with the Nazis in a war against the communist USSR. He was almost right. When World War II ended in Europe, General George Patton was gung ho for continuing on into the Soviet Union. Others felt that since we were the only nation with the atomic bomb, better to use it early against the Russians than give them a chance to catch up.
What ensued was the Cold War. Russia, having been invaded twice in twenty-five years by the Germans, sought a defense in depth from the peace. Consequently, the Russians took the eastern parts of Germany and the defeated axis powers and appended them to the western parts of Poland and the Ukraine, enabling the Soviets to move its own borders further west. Now, these adjustments have come back to haunt the Russians, as the new states of Poland and Ukraine are far more Western than their pre-war predecessors.
Since the Berlin Wall came tumbling down in 1989 and the Soviet Union followed suit, the United States and NATO have been nibbling at the edges of Russian interests. Starting with German's effectively unilateral recognition of Croatia that heralded the dismemberment of Yugoslavia, the New World Order of George H. W. Bush thumbed its nose at Russia's interests in its client state of Iraq and waged war to defend Kuwait and hopefully, inter alia, topple Saddam Hussein.
The United States was happy to help Georgia and Azerbaijan break the Soviet hegemony in the Caucasus. It insisted that placing missiles in Poland, over Soviet objections, was a defense against Iran. And since 9/11, when the United States has been a significant presence in Afghanistan and staging supplies for that war in the abutting former Soviet Republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, it is not surprising that Vladimir Putin is feeling a bit oppressed.
Countries, as countless statesmen have noticed over the centuries, have no permanent friends and no permanent enemies, only permanent interests. One of Russia's enduring permanent interests is its desire to have a warm water port for year round access to the sea. So, as the Ukraine started drifting further and further into the Western orbit, the idea of its taking the Crimean peninsula, rich in Russian history as the home of the Black Sea Fleet in Sebastopol, of the famous Yalta conference in World War II, and the site of Russian defense during the Crimean War was too much for Putin to bear. The Russian president takes seriously the Soviet contribution to the victory in World War II especially because his parents lived in Leningrad and his mother lived through the siege.
Now, Vladimir Putin is a disgusting person and something of a thug. But this does not mean that he is wrong in defending Russian interests in the Crimea and Ukraine. The United States invades Iraq and Afghanistan, supports every Israeli aggression, overthrows the government in Libya, thwarts Islamic democracies in Egypt and Algeria, and abets the conflict in Syria, another Russian client, all in the name of democracy and good works. It is not difficult to understand why the Russians are angry.
In short, the map of central Europe today looks like Germany won the war. Maybe the Russians have had enough. The Russian exposure of the NSA bug planted in the world's hard drives is payback. In some ways, Russia remains a superpower.


Ah, July – the most patriotic and festive month of summer with its exploding fireworks, water fun, clear hot skies and laughter. In 2008, you can expect this and a fair amount of challenges with well-earned victories that will be doubly appreciated by month's end. Not to worry, while the celestial influences are determined to teach us more than a few lessons in the coming days, they also will encourage us to take time out to play.
This month starts out in true Cancer form, which can be a bit emotionally turbulent as we struggle to find righteous balance for ourselves, while creating improved conditions for family and friends. By mid-month, we should have our personal lives heading in a more positive direction, freeing our attention to focus on bigger future goals. When the Sun enters Leo on July 22, fresh, creative energy will start to smolder at our very core, encouraging us to let go of the past – and forge ahead into a brighter future – one where calculated risk is met with reward.
When the time comes to flip the page from July into August, take a moment to look back at the month. While there will have been some challenges and struggles, you will see that not only did you recognize previously veiled problems, but you also managed to solve them by facing them head-on. July 2008 may not be the kind of month you can simply sail through, but those who learn the lessons will emerge from these experiences more vibrant, self-assured and strong.
July 1: You may find your energy to be a bit more obsessive and detail-oriented today when Mars enters Virgo. Be sure to utilize this burst of organizational energy to its fullest potential – your desk can be righted, checkbook balanced and you'll still have enough zing for a long mountain hike or swim!
July 2: The Cancer New Moon is likely to tug at your soul. A great time to express your desires, and rectify any existing tensions that exist with family and friends.
July 4: While the Heavens above may seem a bit still, the night sky over the United States will most likely be blazing with color from fireworks. Happy Independence Day!
July 5: When Mercury squares Uranus things have potential to go awry. You may feel a bit edgy (along with everyone else), so do your best not over-think or over-react today. A positive attitude can keep you from saying something you may later regret.
July 6: When Venus trines Uranus, loving energy will fill the air. Expect the unexpected and you just might be rewarded with a happy surprise!
July 9: Lady Luck is with us today, as Jupiter opposes the Sun. If you've been needing a little positive boost on a project or problem, today is the day to get things done.
July 12: Optimism is likely to infect even the darkest of moods as Venus enters Leo. A quick glance in the mirror will reconfirm that limitless potential resides in you.
July 18: The Full Moon in Capricorn will have a grounding effect, especially if you consciously let go of the baggage you've been holding onto like an imprisoning security blanket. The answers you seek are likely to find you this day, provided you are open to receiving them.
July 22: It's a high-energy day as the Sun enters Leo, and the day is ripe for fun. You may find that you feel invincible, but use some good old-fashioned common sense and caution, or the Leo Sun combined with the Mercury/Uranus trine will remind you that you are not.
July 26: There may be a little drama invading communications today, as Mercury enters Leo. Definitely a time to surrender to passion and shed a little inhibition. Drama isn't always bad!
July 28: Venus opposes Chiron until July 31. The lesson of this aspect is that sometimes less really is more. Keep a cool head and lean toward compromise and middle ground and the rewards for your self-controlling efforts can be pretty profound.
July 29: You can almost see the light bulb going on over your head as Mercury conjuncts the Sun. This is an inspirational time of new beginnings, as a higher intellectual cycle is beginning.
Aries, Leo and Sagittarius may find that they are trying to burn the candle at both ends. Rather than complicate things further, it's time to swallow a bit of fiery pride and learn how to ask for help. Try it! You'll be surprised at how effective a little humility can be.
Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn are likely to accomplish great things, but only after becoming more focused. Slow and steady wins the race. Take a breath and be willing to compromise. This is a great time to manifest the things that you want, but you may have to deviate from the original plan to bring about the desired results.
Gemini, Libra and Aquarius are likely to go into social overdrive. Pay attention to the details, because this is the time to build relationships as well as allies. Your over-active mind is likely to complicate things for you this month, so choose your words carefully, especially in negotiations, or you may have a tough time rinsing the taste of foot off your mouth.
Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces may find that by trying to heal the world, they can also heal themselves. A sense of clarity is likely to find you now, and truth is going to be a stronger force than fantasy. Follow your own intuition – it just may lead you to the security you seek.
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Q: VSCode Debugger not Launching I am writing a C++ program in VSCode. However, when I press F5, all it does is build the project. I tried making another simple project in VSCode to see if it works, but no luck. Here is my mini-program
launch.json
{
    // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
    // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
    // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
      {
        "name": "C/C++: clang++ build and debug active file",
        "type": "cppdbg",
        "request": "launch",
        "program": "${fileDirname}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}",
        "args": [],
        "stopAtEntry": true,
        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
        "environment": [],
        "externalConsole": false,
        "MIMode": "lldb",
        "preLaunchTask": "C/C++: clang++ build active file"
      }
    ]
  }

tasks.json
{
    "tasks": [
        {
            "type": "cppbuild",
            "label": "C/C++: clang++ build active file",
            "command": "/usr/bin/clang++",
            "args": [
                "-fcolor-diagnostics",
                "-fansi-escape-codes",
                "-g",
                "${file}",
                "-o",
                "${fileDirname}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}"
            ],
            "options": {
                "cwd": "${fileDirname}"
            },
            "problemMatcher": [
                "$gcc"
            ],
            "group": {
                "kind": "build",
                "isDefault": true
            },
            "detail": "Task generated by Debugger."
        }
    ],
    "version": "2.0.0"
}

main.cpp
#include <iostream>

int main() {
    int sum = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
        sum += i;
        std::cout<<"Sum: " << sum << std::endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

I have tried reinstalling VSCode with no luck. When I try to debug a python script, it works just fine, so the problem is only with C++. How do I debug this debugging error?
CLARIFICATION: I am not getting an error from the debugger. Instead, the debugger for C++ isn't launching at all.

A:
Instead, the debugger for C++ isn't launching at all.

Because you are missing the debugger's path in your launch.json. Add a path to the debugger within the miDebuggerPath.
{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "C/C++: clang++ build and debug active file",
      .
      .
      "miDebuggerPath": "/path/to/gdb"
    }
  ]
}

Or, you can use the Add Configuration button (visible in launch.json) to set up a new debugging configuration.

A: You can do following steps and see if it works:

*

*do not forget to save file with 'ctrl + s' before running it.

*include path of c++ "bin" folder to your environment variables, vs code automatically detects c++ debugger.

*install code runner extension on vs code.

do share your results..


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A Crash Course in Japanese Anime
Little Witch Academia | Courtesy of Trigger/Netflix
James Gates
A Japanese cultural institution since 1917, anime is now a global phenomenon. But with a dizzying array of titles and genres to choose from, where on earth should you begin? Fear not, our handy guide will help you find your way.
To keep things simple, we've focussed on the main genres, with established titles in each genre but also some lesser-known examples for people who feel like digging a little deeper. Unlike the West, many Japanese animated titles often defy easy categorisation, and genres can be mashed together. The titles below are a mixture of feature films, television series and original video animation. These are just the tip of the iceberg, and they are all worth checking out.
Largely self-explanatory. If there are a lot of arses getting kicked, then it's action. Look for: dazzling martial arts, cute girls with comedically over-sized guns and/or swords and anything else which includes ninja or samurai.
Flagship Titles: Dragonball Z, Fist Of The North Star, Ghost In The Shell, One Piece, Lupin The 3rd, Akira
Why Not Try: Kill la Kill, Samurai Champloo, One Punch Man, Ninja Scroll, Space Battleship Yamato 2199
Slice-of-life
The so-called 'ordinary' world can be just as entertaining and compelling as any fantastical setting, and 'slice-of-life' anime bears this out with tales of everyday people that are by turns analogous, instructive and charming. Comedy is heavily incorporated, and schools and workplaces feature heavily, as does some sort of profound life lesson.
Flagship Titles: K-On!, The Comic Artist and His Assistants, Barakamon, My Neighbour Seki, The Wind Rises
Why Not Try: Silver Spoon, Maison Ikkoku, Bartender, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō: Quiet Country Cafe
Drama/Tragedy
Like slice-of-life, only with fewer laughs and an absence of the 'isn't-it-funny-how-things-always-work-themselves-out' vibe. The protagonists may not always come out on top, and a great sacrifice of some sort will have to be made along the way.
Flagship Titles: Angel Beats, In This Corner Of The World, Your Name, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Why Not Try: Byousoku 5 Centimeter, Orange, 91 Days, Wolf Children
As the name implies, anything of historical interest, not just in Japan but around the world. Perhaps not surprisingly, some heavy liberties can and will be taken with the accuracy of the events and individuals depicted.
Flagship Titles: Grave Of The Fireflies, Rose Of Versailles, Folktales From Japan, Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai
Why Not Try: Barefoot Gen, From Up On Poppy Hill, Nobunaga Concerto, Romance Of The Three Kingdoms
Great big bloody robots, usually shooting and/or beating the crap out of one another in a variety of locations. While it may not seem like it, mecha anime is one of the most thematically versatile genres in the medium; political intrigue, speculative science-fiction, psychological drama and slapstick comedy can feature heavily, sometimes in the course of a single episode.
Flagship Titles: Mobile Suit Gundam, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Knights of Sidonia, Gurren Lagann, Aldnoah.Zero, Gunbuster!
Why Not Try: Patlabor, Megazone 23, Giant Robo: The Day The Earth Stood Still, Macross Plus
Some are of them are witches, some of them are wizards, some of them are even aliens, but all possess extraordinary powers and more often than not, understanding and controlling those powers is a challenge all by itself.
Flagship Titles: Sailor Moon, Little Witch Academia, Fullmetal Alchemist, InuYasha, Kiki's Delivery Service
Why Not Try: Fairy Tail, Ah! My Goddess, Slayers
Psychological/Horror
As one would expect: deadly threats to body and mind, be they supernatural or otherwise. Again, as with mecha, horror anime can be surprisingly versatile in subtext and subject matter.
Flagship titles: Attack On Titan, Vampire Hunter D, Gantz, Tokyo Ghoul, Hellsing,
Why Not Try: Blood: The Last Vampire, Perfect Blue, Genocyber, Kowabon, Devilman


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