Meet the East Bay woman making some of the world's most sought-after costume wings.
From the Victoria's Secret fashion show runway to the world of cosplay conventions—and a Katy Perry ad along the way—Angela Jarman's fairy wings have become legendary.
Jarman—whose first job was as a graphic artist—and her former husband ran a Halloween costume company in Vallejo, Bump in the Night Productions, where she initially sold her fairy wings. She also hosted children's parties, for which she dressed as a fairy, for more than a decade.
A few years ago, a friend's dog came in from a romp outdoors, and Jarman spotted two tiny insect wings on its fur, multifaceted and iridescent. "I thought, 'Gosh—they could be fairy wings.' " The commercial fairy wings available at the time were usually fabric and glitter, but Jarman imagined something more insectlike, translucent with wispy edges, like what she saw in the David Bowie cult movie classic, Labyrinth. So, she set out to create them herself.
Jarman draws out the wings in pencil before sending her designs off to be professionally water-jet cut from aluminum sheeting. Then, Jarman spends hours sanding the sharp edges—her least favorite task—and sends them away to be powder coated for a smooth, colored finish. The final steps include adding iridescent plastic film, made taut with a heat gun, and painting on intricate shadings with ink before hand cutting the signature lacelike edges of the wings.
Since starting on eBay in 2003, Jarman has sold on Etsy and now has a Shopify website. Her wings, priced from $100 to $600, often sell out within five minutes of being posted. (She sometimes sets the posting time for 6 a.m. so her international clients have a shot at nabbing a pair.) While Jarman can produce about 10 sets in a week, she has slowed down her production recently to focus on new—and flashier—design elements: She's experimenting with increasingly ornate and layered wings, as well as affixing Swarovski crystals or velvet coating to the frames.
Besides Halloween and costume parties, major fairy-themed events take place in L.A. and in Oregon. Locally, Jarman wears her wings to San Francisco's Edwardian Ball. "The big wings do get in the way," she admits. "When the place gets packed, I have to take them off and take them to coat check." fancyfairy.com.


Tie game. Bottom of the ninth. Who do you want at the plate? While Red is no doubt drafting an Ode to JD Drew, citing once again how the grand slam in the the 2007 World Series was the greatest play in history, I'll take Big Papi. The latest victim to His Papiness was one Michael Kirkman.
A first-pitch, lead-off double to Gomes, an intentional walk to Pedroia, and one more pitch to end the game. Six pitches, three runs, one loss, thanks for playing.
The Red Sox are an astonishing 37-24 and showing no signs of slowing down. Tomorrow, Professor Doubront takes on the Angels and the Bruins look to sweep the Penguins. Happy Friday!


The Thunder Bay Karst Preserve combines two adjoining preserves obtained by the conservancy in the 1990s.
The Stevens Twin Sinks Preserve is a 31-acre parcel purchased in 1993 with gifts from William and Archie Stevens and other members and friends of the MKC. In it are two sinkholes separated by a fragile saddle ridge, each about 200 feet in diameter and 85 feet deep.
The 2.5-acre Bruski Sink across Leer Road was donated to the Conservancy in 1996 and made part of the Thunder Bay preserve.
Though there are more than 200 sinkholes in Michigan's northern lower peninsula, most are located on private property. Only the sinks at Thunder Bay Karst Preserve and Shoepac Lake State Forest Campground to the west are available for public access. The MKC restricts access to the Stevens Twin and Bruski sinks to protect their thin soil cover, as well as for safety reasons.
Visitors to the preserve can follow walking trails that offer views of the sinkholes and a nature trail near the Stevens Twin Sinks. MKC volunteers mow the trails monthly during spring and summer. A spur on Sinkhole Trail leads to earth cracks which indicate the sink continues to slowly collapse and widen. Nature Trail branches off and returns to Sinkhole Trail after meandering through a beech grove. Another short trail follows the south and east walls of Bruski Sink.
A thick layer of Devonian limestone and shale, known as the Traverse Group, underlies Alpena and Presque Isle counties. Below that, about 800 feet deep, lies the Detroit River Group, which contains large amount of the evaporites anhydrite and gypsum. These minerals dissolve much more readily than limestone, and as the Detroit River Group rocks erode and create caverns, Traverse Group rocks above collapse into the caverns, creating sinkholes.
Evidence for the dissolving of the Detroit River Group evaporites shows up where the water that goes underground in the sinkholes returns to the surface from submerged sinkholes in Lake Huron, 20 miles to the east. The resurgent water is saturated with gypsum.
The grouping of the Twin and Bruski sinks indicate they are aligned along joint trends in the rock. Water worked its way along joints and cracks in the limestone to reach the underlying evaporites.
The fact that the sinkholes are not filled with the glacial outwash (sand and gravel) that covers the bedrock elsewhere, indicates they grew deeper after the last glaciers melted (it is not known how deep glacial outwash fills the sinkhole bottoms), but the exact relationship between the glacial deposits and sinkhole formation has yet to be discovered.
Along with sinkholes, an earth crack in the northeast corner of the preserve is more than 150 feet long. Such cracks are caused by "slumping" of rock as the layers beneath erode away. The hummocky terrain in the preserve and to the east results from large rock blocks collapsing and settling, and often shattering in the process.


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Clitheroe Youth Forum
About Our Project
Welcome to our site,
This project came about because I went to the Old Clitheroe Town Hall in 2008 to look at the Remembrance Books for those who died in the two World Wars - 1914-1918/19 and 1939-1945. I was taken aback to discover that there was only a Remembrance book for those who fell in the First World War. This however is a lovely book and a tribute to those involved in making it.
I made enquiries about a book for the Second World War with the Town Clerk. He was not aware of one but thought if anything it might be in the local Library. Unfortunately this wasn't the case. I also made approaches to the Ribble Valley Borough Council and Local Museum but no joy.
I then wrote letters to all concerned and asked if it is/was proven that no book existed - which turned out to be the case - would they care to help with some funding. I offered to supervise the work needed to be done to make sure the 71 men and one woman had a Remembrance Book made in their Honour.
The letters I received back were sadly negative. Each Authority stated although they agreed 'in principle' that a Remembrance Book should exist, for whatever reason one had never been commissioned. They were satisfied that the casualties were acknowledged through their names being included in the War Memorial and in a paper list held by the Library. So no offer of funding was made.
Even the local branch of the Royal British Legion, whom I approached very early on, were at a loss to know why no such book existed but were unable to offer any practical assistance or funding.
I was disappointed by these responses, and knew that it would be almost impossible, as an individual, to get funding to support such a project. I then decided to raise the issue at a meeting of the local Clitheroe Youth Forum, which I helped to start up 10 years ago, and of which I am Chairman.
The young people didn't know of a Second World War and certainly had never been to their Local War Memorial in the Castle Grounds.
I explained that I was trying to get due recognition for those who came from Clitheroe and had died in the war. I was delighted when the young people agreed to help me, and we then formulated a plan to work out what needed to be done.
This was and is a massive task. When I met officials from the Heritage Lottery they explained that it wasn't enough to just have a Remembrance Book to attract the funding - it had to be wider and broader.
I then sought some partners to get the ball rolling. With the help of Andrea at the CVS in Clitheroe we came up with the local Braille group; ITZone – a local web design group; the County Museum Services, and Clitheroe Library. The Heritage Lottery Officials were especially keen on a DVD/film being made of the project along with sound recordings. They also wanted an in depth studyof at least 6 soldiers and if possible the same again from local people who had lived through the War, or knew family members who had lived in that period. We would get basic historical information from that period as to the part Ribble Valley played during 1939-1945. And we would also research all the men and women killed. It took some considerable time to complete the application for funding – with invaluable assistance from Andrea at CVS (Thanks Andrea).
While we waited for a decision, the young people did small bits of research. I had decided that even without funding I would have gone ahead but on a smaller scale.
We were delighted when the decision was made in late 2009 to grant us funding. Even then the paperwork was difficult to do and this was even after being given the official blessing to proceed but I got it done in the end.
I then made a contact via Beryl at the Art and Craft Studio who recommended that I contact Marion from the local Digital Camera Club. We met and she then introduced me to Roger Leach who kindly offered to film the project with the involvement of the young people. I am delighted to have Roger and Marion with us. I was also seeking out a calligrapher and by one means or another I was given Norman Kelly to contact who has been another stalwart. He has already given some of the young people a taster session on calligraphy.
At the same time Chris Tattersall of ITbraille offered to help with a Braille Book and he too has involved some of the younger people in this work.
Whilst all this has been going on we have had a photographic launch in the local paper announcing the £21,200 award which comes in phases.
This money is to pay for the creation of the website, the Book of Remembrance, trips of historical significance and a trip to London to visit the Cenotaph hopefully on Remembrance Sunday.
As I write this we are off to the Manchester War Museum on Tuesday 6th April and Eden Camp in North Yorkshire on the 8th April -Easter period. Two long days -I'm sure but will be interesting.
We have also been on BBC Radio Lancashire asking for local residents of the Ribble Valley to come forward with information on loved ones who were in the war or lived through it as well as any hopefully who were in the fighting and able to be filmed. Arron Ripley and Daniel Dewhurst spoke well on the John Gillmore show.
Anyone who has memories -photographs -ration books or stories of that period are welcome to contact us and since the radio programme and another letter in the local Clitheroe Advertiser and Times I have had ten calls.
I have also been in contact with Andrew at the North West Sound Archives and he is putting together a tape of all the people who have mentioned World war Two in their talks with him.
The young people will then go and listen to these and give their own recordings on what they have heard and our project and will keep this updated.
We are also going on the local Clitheroe Radio/Internet this Friday to again spread the word.
Roger and I have already visited the BAC History Museum at Warton as English Electric as it was known back in the War built at least 3,000 bombers, serviced fighters and fitted radar.
We hope to visit Castle Cement soon as they made the casings for the Dam Buster Bombs and black tarmac for the runways.
Roger and I have also discovered the underground bunkers at Dunsop Bridge used by the RAF Observer Corps.
We are also going to record those men and women killed since the end of the 1945 conflict and already know of two killed in Ireland.
We also hope to put on the website all those who survived the War.
We are also collecting historical photo's of the Ribble Valley from that period and due thanks will be given to those who support this project.
We will also be holding an exhibition of our work in the Castle Museum and a Celebration 'Thank You' to all those involved.
We should have the bulk of this work completed by mid summer and finishing off in Mid November. However the website is an ongoing process.
Even at this stage I would like to thank those who have been supportive especially the young people.
Morgan Rawcliff has already been filmed speaking about her Grandfather who served in the War and survived and was decorated. Her Grandfather died several years ago but his family have his diaries, metal tin, whistle, badges, photographs and much more and Morgan was a real little trooper when speaking of him. Well done Morgan who is aged 11.
More reports to follow.
Mel Diack M.B.E
Clitheroe Youth
Ribble Valley Remembrance
Web Site Review
Forest of Bowland Project
WWII Project Celebration
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Innovation fund by GSMA closes application, Thursday 19 - ITREALMS
The Innovation Fund call for application by the Global System for Mobile Association (GSMA) is set to close by tomorrow, January 19, 2023, reports ITREALMS.
The fund which was opened on Thursday 24 November, 2022 was set up in anticipation to improve responses to humanitarian crises.
GSMA also called on Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), International NGOs, humanitarian agencies, start-ups, SMEs and social enterprises with digital solutions that enable early action in humanitarian crises situations were invited to apply.
"Organisations with mobile and digital solutions which anticipate and enable early emergency responses to humanitarian crises can now apply for the GSMA Innovation Fund for Anticipatory Humanitarian Action.
"This initiative, funded by the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, will test innovative use-cases, partnerships and business models to improve access to digital-enabled solutions for those vulnerable to, and impacted by, humanitarian crises. The Fund will also generate evidence and insights from these innovations, enabling more effective early responses. With grants of up to £250,000, the Fund will support digital innovation projects that leverage mobile technology and help scale solutions together with the mobile industry, supporting some of the 300 million people globally in need of humanitarian assistance and protection.
"As the number of people requiring humanitarian assistance continues to rise, it is more important than ever to act early. Innovative mobile-enabled solutions to anticipate extreme events can contribute to making responses timely, effective and cost-efficient." Says Max Cuvellier, Head of Mobile for Development, GSMA. "In this context, we are proud to announce the launch of the GSMA Innovation Fund for Anticipatory Humanitarian Action, in partnership with the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). The Fund's ambition is to support digital innovation and collaboration in anticipatory action from organisations operating in a wide range of settings."
The GSMA Innovation Fund for Anticipatory Humanitarian Action builds on the success of previous rounds of the GSMA Innovation Fund such as the Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and Adaptation.
Chris Porter, Humanitarian Head of Profession, UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said: "We are pleased to support the investment in digital technology that will enable anticipatory humanitarian action. The UK is committed to supporting mechanisms to better manage and anticipate humanitarian emergencies. Acting early can prevent loss of life, protect the safety and dignity of people affected, and prioritise those most in need. Our partnership with the GSMA's Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Programme helps put our commitments, including in the UK's International Development Strategy and those with our fellow G7 members, into action."
The GSMA is inviting applications from non-profits, start-ups, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and social enterprises which use digital technology, particularly mobile, to deliver solutions to countries which have faced, or are more likely to face, natural hazard disasters and other humanitarian crises. It is expecting to see applications which encompass a diverse range of solutions, including those which support pre-positioning and early deployment activities, the dissemination of early warning messages, and systems that will enhance communication between organisations and affected communities.
For more information on the GSMA Innovation Fund for Anticipatory Humanitarian Action and to apply for the fund please visit here: https://www.gsma.com/innovationfund
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Russia In Rebellion
Russia has come under the international spotlight recently due to the protests that are currently going on concerning recent elections that many think were fraudulent. These protests need to be put in context within domestic Russian politics and also the possible influence of outside forces should be examined.
The political system that Russia operates under is called "sovereign democracy," a term coined by Vladislav Y. Surkov. Sovereign democracy is a system which "preserve[s] the electoral process but hollow[s] out institutions capable of challenging the Kremlin's power." [1] It is essentially a system designed to keep the Kremlin in power but channels the anger of people into the voting booth. To accomplish this end, Surkov used a mixture of the youth movement Nashi, the United Russia party, and the might of the Kremlin to help Vladmir Putin consolidate his authority over his first two terms. (The group Nashi is a pro-Kremlin youth movement that is extremely nationalistic and patriotic which may have plans to turn their membership into political candidates to run the country. [2])
Over his two terms, Putin consolidated and centralized power at the federal level, ejected corporate interests, and expanded the Russian economy. [3] This centralization of power at the federal level has come at the expense of regional governments and helps in turning Russia more and more back to the Communist era when all power was in the hands of the federal government. This concentration of power by Putin has been going on since 2000 when legislation was passed that gave "the Russian president power to replace any regional leader and disband any parliament guilty of enacting legislation 'in violation of federal law.'" [4] However, one could argue that centralization of power was needed as in the late '90s there was a large gain in regional autonomy which could potentially have weakened the rule of law and had negative implications of Russian state integration. [5]
The current protests are taking place due to election fraud which kept Putin's United Russia party in power of the Duma, although with a smaller majority. There are a total of seven political parties in Russia, though the most powerful party is Putin's United Russia. United Russia's main goal for the country is to keep power in the hands of the Kremlin and is extremely nationalistic and emphasizes law and order. While they have political allies such as the Right Cause party, there are still exists a major opposition to the Kremlin in the form of bloggers, banned political parties, and environmentalists. Essentially, the political battle in Russia is between the old guard who wants to uphold Soviet style authoritarianism and liberals.
However, in this battle, outside forces are currently at play. Putin has been reported as stating his refusal to negotiate with protesters and has accused the US of backing the protests. While it may seem as if Putin is trying to blame the protests on America, this accusation may have some merit.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is backing several NGOs and political groups in Russia. [6] This is reminiscent of the US backing civil societies in Egypt and then having them spring to action when the Egyptian revolution came about. It also may remind one of the current situation in Syria where the US is backing the moderate Islamic civil society group Movement for Justice and Democracy.
In addition to this, the new US ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, is on the board of directors for both the NED and Freedom House. [7] Thus, there is a case to be made for US-meddling in the Russian protests elections. The US has had problems with Russia, especially over NATO expansion and the American missile defense system. Tensions have also been ratcheting around the Iranian nuclear program and the ongoing situation in Syria.
It seems that the protest movement, which must like the Arab Spring is a legitimate desire of the people for radical governmental reform and change, may be co-opted by the United States and made to serve US interests. Thus, the people of Russia must remain vigilant of outside forces while at the same time ensuring that their voices are heard and demands met.
1: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/world/europe/putin-takes-another-swipe-at-russian-protesters.html
2: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4491633.stm
3: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/6365190.html
4: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=7454
5: http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/ponars/pm_0039.pdf
6: http://www.ned.org/where-we-work/eurasia/russia
7: http://politicalscience.stanford.edu/faculty/michael-mcfaul
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Labels: Analysis, Europe, Foreign Policy
Constitutional Expert: Obama Can Detain US Citizens
This article was originally posted on Washington's Blog on December 21, 2011.
Top Legal Expert: "President Obama … Says That He Can Kill [Any American Citizen Without Any Charge and] On His Own Discretion. He Can Jail You Indefinitely On His Own Discretion"
By: Washington's Blog
I've previously noted that Obama says that he can assassinate American citizens living on U.S. soil.
This admittedly sounds over-the-top. But one of the nation's top constitutional and military law experts – Jonathan Turley – agrees.
Turley:
Is the second most cited law professor in the country
Has worked as both the CBS and NBC legal analyst during national controversies
Ranks 38th in the top 100 most cited 'public intellectuals' in a recent study by a well-known judge
Is one of the top 10 lawyers handling military cases
Has served as a consultant on homeland security and constitutional issues
Is a frequent witness before the House and Senate on constitutional and statutory issues
Turley said yesterday on C-Span (starting at 15:50):
President Obama has just stated a policy that he can have any American citizen killed without any charge, without any review, except his own. If he's satisfied that you are a terrorist, he says that he can kill you anywhere in the world including in the United States.
Two of his aides just … reaffirmed they believe that American citizens can be killed on the order of the President anywhere including the United States.
You've now got a president who says that he can kill you on his own discretion. He can jail you indefinitely on his own discretion
I don't think the the Framers ever anticipated that [the American people would be so apathetic]. They assumed that people would hold their liberties close, and that they wouldn't relax …
Government Says It Can Assassinate or Indefinitely Detain Americans on American Soil Without Any Due Process of Law
The Government Has Never Given a Rationale for Assassination
While one might assume that the government has given a valid justification for the claim that it can assassinate anyone anywhere, the Washington Post noted yesterday:
In outlining its legal reasoning, the administration has cited broad congressional authorizations and presidential approvals, the international laws of war and the right to self-defense. But it has not offered the American public, uneasy allies or international authorities any specifics that would make it possible to judge how it is applying those laws.
"They've based it on the personal legitimacy of [President] Obama — the 'trust me' concept," [American University law professor Kenneth Anderson] said. "That's not a viable concept for a president going forward."
Under domestic law, the administration considers [assassinations] to be covered by the Authorization for Use of Military Force that Congress passed days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. In two key sentences that have no expiration date, the AUMF gives the president sole power to use "all necessary and appropriate force" against nations, groups or persons who committed or aided the attacks, and to prevent future attacks. [But the government just broadened the authorization for use of military force from those who attacked us on 9/11 to include the Taliban and the vague category of "associated forces".]
The authorization did not address targets' nationality or set geographical boundaries, and there was "nothing about the permission of the government" of any country where a terrorist might be found, the former official said.
And see this.
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Labels: Repost, United States
Who Are The Real Traitors?
It was recently reported that Bradley Manning is now on trial for allegedly releasing US military documents to Wikileaks, Many civilians and government officials are condemning Manning's actions on the grounds that the leaks damaged national security. However, one should ask who the real traitors are to this country.
Manning released information that revealed that US troops had committed war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. These are admirable deeds that, once they came to light, should have been addressed immediately and the soldiers who committed those war crimes punished. However, the government and media have reacted in such a manner that they have made Manning's actions seem criminal. Instead of dealing with the fact that war crimes had been committed, instead the media and government pushed that the idea that what Manning had done was wrong and had endangered national security. How does one endanger national security by exposing war crimes? Reality has been turned on its head! These same government officials who condemn Manning for releasing such information argue that the United States is a country based on the rule of law, however they betray that ideal by demonizing Manning and calling for his head.
It is quite interesting to note that the same politicians in Congress who are calling Manning a traitor to his country have had a major hand in the destruction of the United States by backing two wars, massive bailouts of financial "institutions," allowed for the country's industrial base to be dismantled and sent overseas, and essentially selling their country of the highest bidder. Not only in doing this have they tarnished the name and reputation of America but they have also racked up $15 trillion debt of which they insist that social programs are to blame rather than the wars and bailouts. They have betrayed their country by not protecting it from robber barons. These same politicians have also betrayed the country by acting as if the Constitution were a fictional document. By passing legislation such as the Patriot Act, they have turned their back on their country and the American people.
These politicians are the real traitors to the country. In betraying the country they have damned present and future generations of Americans.
Labels: United States, War
Blackwater Going Back To Iraq?
It was reported recently by Russia Today that the infamous private military company Blackwater may be returning to Iraq, but under the name Academi.
After the 2007 massacre that involved Blackwater employees gunning down Iraqi civilians, the company changed its name to Xe Services as to "[reflect] the company's shift away from providing private security. " The company is now changing its name again to Academi in order "to reflect changes the company has undergone since a group of investors bought it in December 2010 from founder Erik Prince." (Prince himself is now busy raising a private army for the United Arab Emirates.)
This is not good for the Iraqis as private military firms are not necessarily legally responsible for their actions, sometimes to the point that
Even if major crimes are done, the state cannot do anything as mercenaries enjoy significant protection. "In passing Coalition Provisional Authority Order 17 of June 2003, the Iraqi provisional government granted exemption from prosecution to all personnel action on behalf of the coalition- including PMC employees." This allows for PMCs to go about and do literally whatever they please, without fear of any consequences whatsoever and could potentially have the employees do things that they wouldn't have done so before if they were under the law, like torturing and killing civilians for example.
While US troops are leaving Iraq, private military firms are coming in with between 4,500 and 5,000 people, about the size of an Army brigade.
In addition to this, while it has been reported that US troops are leaving Iraq, in reality that is a falsehood due to the fact that
There are an estimated 400 arms deals between Baghdad and Washington, worth $10bn, with an additional 110 deals, worth $900m, reportedly pending. Many of these, as part of the deal, require US trainers, who would be working through the Office of Security Co-operation in the embassy. Bloomberg news reported that this "newly established office will have a core staff of 160 civilians and uniformed military alongside 750 civilian contractors overseeing Pentagon assistance programmes, including military training. (emphasis added)
Let's hope that they don't get back in.
Labels: Middle East, United States, War
War Drums (Poem)
I hear them
I hear them yelling
I hear them screaming
On their war drums
"Bomb them"
"They are a threat"
"Global security is at risk"
The drums are beating
They are beating faster and stronger
Than ever before
Yelling for bombings
Yelling for invasion
Yelling for actions
But, the real question is this:
Do they understand what they are saying?
They are yelling
Yelling for more death, more bloodshed, more pain
They argue for bombings, for invasions,
But they fail to realize how many people will die
How many innocent people, how many soldiers will die
First they went into the Graveyard
Pre-planned and with no evidence
Linking the victim to the crime
Without stopping they went
To the Oil Fields
Lies served as their bombs, Deception, their artillery, Propaganda, their bullets
And rained hell, but not just on the people, on the soldiers as well
Yet, they still beat the war drums
Pleading for more tears, more destruction, more suicides
I pray for this not to happen
But I can still hear them screaming
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Bitter Tears (Poem)
I hear the loud, overwhelming chants
Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can!
I look up on the stage to see a man
Whose vision and courage seem to challenge
The current status quo
He is different, he is new, he is energized
With ideas about how to make this country great again
For the first time in years, I leave my jaded self behind
And allow myself to believe
To be lost in an illusion
My heart is brimming with hope for change
Change that brings us back to our roots
Brings us back to who we once were
To who we truly are
So filled with hope and joy that
I run, nay sprint to the booth
To cast my vote
A vote for restoration
A vote for sanity
Near the House in the bitter cold
I see him come on the stage
His voice ringing out loud
He speaks of bringing change to the country
I am filled with hope
And yet I- I was wrong
Unbearable
No change, no restoration
Only more pain and destruction
The pain is too deep
Welling up inside me
The tears begin to flow
These bitter tears flow
Out onto my cheeks
I no longer smile
I can no longer hold my head up in pride
Like a candle, my hope has been blown out
I sit curled up tight in a ball
Not just for me
But for my country
The Council on Foreign Relations and the "Grand Area" of the American Empire
Please note that this article was originally posted on andrewgavinmarshall.com on December 13, 2011
The Council on Foreign Relations and the "Grand Area" of the American Empire
By: Andrew Gavin Marshall
Important: The People's Book Project is currently in need of support, as it has run out of funds. Please donate to help ensure that this project can move forward and help support an effort to provide a new examination of our world, and a new understanding in how we can go about changing it! Thank you.
Chapter Excerpt: The Making of the American Empire
The process of establishing an American Empire during and after World War II was not – as has been postulated (by those who even admit there is such a thing as an 'American Empire') – an 'accident' of history, something America seemingly stumbled into as a result of its unhindered economic growth and military-political position as arbiter of world peace and prosperity. A vast literature has developed in the academic realm and policy circles – particularly within Political Science and the think tank community, respectively – which postulates a notion of 'American empire' or 'American hegemony' as accidental, incidental, benevolent, reluctant, and desirable.
Robert Kagan is a prominent American neoconservative historian. He is a Senior Fellow at the prestigious think tank, the Brookings Institution, was a founder of the neoconservative think tank, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), formerly worked at the State Department in the Reagan administration under Secretary of State, George Shultz, and served for over a decade as a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and is, of course, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Kagan has written a great deal on the notion of American hegemony. As he wrote in the journal, Foreign Policy, in 1998, "the truth about America's dominant role in the world is known to most clear-eyed international observers." This truth, according to Kagan, "is that the benevolent hegemony exercised by the United States is good for a vast portion of the world's population." Samuel Huntington, another Council member and prominent American strategist, wrote that, "A world without U.S. primacy will be a world with more violence and disorder and less democracy and economic growth than a world where the United States continues to have more influence than any other country shaping global affairs."[1] This "Benevolent Empire" – as Kagan titles his article – rests on such fundamental ideas as the notion "that American freedom depends on the survival and spread of freedom elsewhere," and that, "American prosperity cannot occur in the absence of global prosperity." For half a century, Kagan wrote, Americans "have been guided by the kind of enlightened self-interest that, in practice, comes dangerously close to resembling generosity."[2]
Sebastian Mallaby, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, former Editorial Board Member and columnist at the Washington Post as well as correspondent and bureau chief for The Economist, wrote in the journal Foreign Affairs, that "empire's are not always planned," referring to America as "The Reluctant Imperialist."[3] Lawrence Summers, another prominent economist, politician, and policy-maker for the Clinton and Obama administrations, referred to America as "history's only nonimperialist superpower."[4] Niall Ferguson, a prominent British liberal economic historian, has written extensively on the open acknowledgement of "American Empire," but stipulates, as he did in his book Colossus, "that the United States is an empire and that this might not be wholly bad." Referring to America as an "Unconscious Colossus," Ferguson stressed that, "a self-conscious American imperialism might well be preferable to the available alternatives."[5] Ferguson in fact stresses the need for Americans to "recognize the imperial characteristics of their own power today [writing in 2005] and, if possible, to learn from the achievements and failures of past empires." This, Ferguson felt, would reduce the so-called "perils" of being an "empire in denial."[6]
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., famed American liberal historian and adviser to President Kennedy, wrote that the United States enjoys "an informal empire – military bases, status-of-forces agreements, trade concessions, multinational corporations, cultural penetrations, and other favors," yet, contends Schlesinger, "these are marginal to the subject of direct control," and instead, "far from ruling an empire in the old sense," America "has become the virtual prisoner of its client states."[7] Some other commentators referred to America as a "virtual" or even "inadvertent" imperial power.[8]
The notion of America as a "reluctant imperialist" or a "benevolent empire" is not a new one. This has been the mainstay within the academic literature and policy-planning circles to both advocate for and justify the existence of American domination of the world. The concept of the reluctant, yet benevolent great power presents an image of a dutiful personage coming to the aid of those in need, following the responsibility which is derived from great power; that America's rise to economic prominence – also seen as the product of free and democratic initiative and ideals (thus negating America's long history of being a slave state and subsequently a brutal industrial society) – was the precursor to America being thrown the title of 'global power,' and with that title bestowed upon it – like a child-king still unsure of his own abilities to rule – took up the activities of a global power with a desire to bring the rest of the world the same altruistic truths and enlightened ideals which made America flourish so; that America's gift to the world was to spread freedom and democracy, in the economic, political, and social spheres. This myth has been a constant foundation for the advocacy and justification of empire. Its importance rests most especially on the ideals and global public opinion which prevailed as the great European empires waned and ultimately collapsed through two World Wars.
The colonized peoples of the world had had enough of empire, had suffered so immeasurably and consistently under its tutelage, that the concept of empire was so discredited in the eyes of the world's majority as to be incapable of justifying in the formal imperial-colonial sense. At home, America's domestic political situation and public opinion had been largely isolationist, seeking to refrain from an expansive foreign policy, leading many American presidents and strategists to bemoan the struggle for empire beyond the continent on the reluctance of the American people and Congress to pursue aggressive expansionism (save for the expansion across the continent, wiping out Native American populations for American Lebensraum and the slow, increasing expression of trans-sovereign rights in Latin America, long considered "America's backyard").
World War II, then, presented a new opportunity, and a new challenge for America in the world. The opportunity was to become the worlds most powerful empire history had ever witnessed; the challenge, then, was to justify it in explicitly anti-imperial rhetoric. America, thus, was not a reluctant or accidental empire, nor, for that matter, a benevolent one. America was chosen to be an empire; it was strategised, discussed, debated, planned and implemented. The key architects of this empire were the bankers and corporations which arose out of America's Industrial Revolution in the late 19th century, the philanthropic foundations they established in the early 20th century, the prominent think tanks created throughout the first half of the 20th century, and the major academics, strategists and policy-makers who emerged from the foundation-funded universities, institutes, think tanks, and the business community, and who dominated the corridors of power in the planning circles that made policy.
No sooner had World War II begun than American strategists began calling for a new global American empire. Henry R. Luce, a Yale graduate and founder of Time Magazine, Life, and Fortune, was among America's most influential publishers in the first half of the 20th century. A strong supporter of the Republican Party and virulent anti-Communist, Luce was also a staunch advocate of fascism in Europe – notably Mussolini's Italy and Nazi Germany – as a means of preventing the spread of Communism. In 1941, Luce wrote a famous article in Life entitled, "The American Century," in which he stated that, "the 20th Century must be to a significant degree an American Century." Luce wrote that America has "that indefinable, unmistakable sign of leadership: prestige." As such, unlike past empires like Rome, Genghis Khan, or Imperial Britain, "American prestige throughout the world is faith in the good intentions as well as the ultimate intelligence and ultimate strength of the whole American people."[9] Luce felt that the "abundant life" of America should be made available "for all mankind," as soon as mankind embraces "America's vision." Luce wrote:
It must be a sharing with all peoples of our Bill of Rights, our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, our magnificent industrial products, our technical skills. It must be an internationalism of the people, by the people and for the people… We must undertake now to be the Good Samaritan of the entire world.[10]
While Luce was perhaps the first theorist to posit the specific concept of "the American Century," the actual work done to create this century (or at least the latter half of it) for America was chiefly initiated by the Council on Foreign Relations, and the prominent strategist Dean Acheson, among others. As Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Dean Acheson delivered a speech at Yale entitled, "An American Attitude Toward Foreign Affairs," in which he articulated a vision of America in the near future, and as he later recalled, it was at the time of delivering this speech that Acheson began "work on a new postwar world system." Acheson declared in his speech that, "Our vital interests… do not permit us to be indifferent to the outcome" of the wars erupting in Europe and Asia. The causes of the war, according to Acheson, were in "the failure of some mechanisms of the Nineteenth Century world economy," which resulted in "this break-up of the world into exclusive areas for armed exploitation administered along oriental lines." Recreating a world peace, posited Acheson, would require "a broader market for goods made under decent standards," as well as "a stable international monetary system" and the removal of "exclusive preferential trade agreements." Essentially, it was an advocacy for a global liberal economic order as the means to world peace, and without a hint of irony, Acheson then called for the immediate establishment of "a navy and air force adequate to secure us in both oceans simultaneously and with striking power sufficient to reach to the other side of each of them."[11] Dean Acheson was also closely involved in the Council on Foreign Relations' plans for the shaping of the post-War world order.
The Council on Foreign Relations and the 'Grand Area'
Before America had even entered the war in late 1941, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) was planning for America's assumed entry into the war. The CFR effectively undertook a policy coup d'état over American foreign policy with the Second World War. When war broke out, the Council began a "strictly confidential" project called the War and Peace Studies, in which top CFR members collaborated with the US State Department in determining US policy, and the project was entirely financed by the Rockefeller Foundation.[12] The War and Peace Studies project had come up with a number of initiatives for the post-War world. One of the most important objectives it laid out was the identification of what areas of the world America would need to control in order to facilitate strong economic growth. This came to be known as the "Grand Area," and it included:
Latin America, Europe, the colonies of the British Empire, and all of Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia was necessary as a source of raw materials for Great Britain and Japan and as a consumer of Japanese products. The American national interest was then defined in terms of the integration and defense of the Grand Area, which led to plans for the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank and eventually to the decision to defend Vietnam from a Communist takeover at all costs.[13]
In 1940, the Council on Foreign Relations also began a wide-ranging study of the war-time economic needs of the United States (prior to U.S. entry into the war), called the Financial and Economic Experts, which divided the world into four main blocs: continental Europe (which was dominated by Germany at the time), the U.S. –Western hemisphere, the United Kingdom and its colonial and commonwealth nations, and the Far-East-Pacific Area, including Japan, China, and the Dutch East Indies. The study compiled a list of each region's main imports and exports. Upon completion of the study in the fall of 1940, the Council sent its conclusions and policy recommendations to President Roosevelt and the State Department. The conclusions stated that the United States needed larger export markets for its products, and specifically that the U.S. needed "living space" (or as the Nazi German state referred to it, Lebensraum) throughout the Western hemisphere and beyond, as well as trade and "economic integration" with the Far East and the British Empire/Commonwealth blocs. The report stated bluntly, "as a minimum, the American 'national interests' involved the free access to markets and raw materials in the British Empire, the Far East, and the entire Western hemisphere."[14]
This was the foundation for the Grand Area designs of the Council in the post-War world. The Grand Area project emphasized that for America to manage the "Grand Areas" of the world, multilateral organizations would be needed to help facilitate "appropriate measures in the fields of trade, investment, and monetary arrangements." The study further emphasized the need to maintain "military supremacy" in order to help facilitate control of these areas. As the Council's 1940 report to the U.S. State Department stated: "The foremost requirement of the United States in a world in which it proposes to hold unquestioned power is the rapid fulfillment of a program of complete re-armament," which would "involve increased military expenditures and other risks."[15]
While the Grand Area project was made and designed for the United States during World War II, it included plans for the post-War world, and included continental Europe in its designs following the assumed defeat of Germany. Thus, as economist Ismael Hossein-Zadeh wrote, "making the Grand Area global." The idea behind the "Grand Area" was "even more grandiose – one world economy dominated by the United States," and the study itself suggested that the Grand Area "would then be an organized nucleus for building an integrated world economy after the war."[16] As Shoup and Minter wrote in their study of the Council, Imperial Brain Trust, "the United States had to enter the war and organize a new world order satisfactory to the United States."[17] Benevolent, indeed.
Following Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry into the War, the Council concluded as early as 1941 that the defeat of the Axis powers was simply a matter of time. As such, they were advancing their plans for the post-War world, expanding the Grand Area to:
include the entire globe. A new world order with international political and economic institutions was projected, which would join and integrate all of the earth's nations under the leadership of the United States. The Unification of the whole world was now the aim of the Council [on Foreign Relations] and government planners.[18]
As a part of this planning process, the U.S. Department of State formed the Advisory Committee on Postwar Foreign Policy in late December of 1941, of which the first document that was produced, "stressed the danger of another world depression and the need to provide confidence in world economic stability." Thus, "the United States had to be involved with the internal affairs of the key industrial and raw materials-producing countries." A key question in this was, as one postwar planner articulated, "how to create purchasing power outside of our country which would be converted into domestic purchasing power through exportation." The idea was about "devising appropriate institutions" which would fulfill this role, ultimately resting with the formation of the IMF and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (later known as the World Bank). The postwar planners had to continually construct an idea of an international order, directed by the United States, which would not so easily resemble the formal colonial period or its methods of exerting hegemony.[19]
Recommendations of the Council suggested that such new international financial institutions were necessary in terms of "stabilizing currencies and facilitating programs of capital investment for constructive undertakings in backward and underdeveloped regions." These plans included for the establishment of an International Reconstruction Finance Corporations and an "international investment agency which would stimulate world trade and prosperity by facilitating investment in development programs the world over." These plans were drafted in recommendations and given to President Roosevelt and the Department of State.[20]
One Council member suggested that, "It might be wise to set up two financial institutions: one an international exchange stabilization board and one an international bank to handle short-term transactions not directly concerned with stabilization." Thus, the Council drafted in 1941 and 1942 plans that would result in the formation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which formally emerged from the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, an event that is commonly acknowledged as the "birthplace" of the World Bank and IMF, thus ignoring their ideological origins at the Council on Foreign Relations two-to-three years prior. The internal department committees established in the Department of State and Treasury were well represented by Council members who drew up the final plans for the creation of these two major institutions.[21]
Whereas the League of Nations had been a major objective of the Rockefeller Foundation and Carnegie Corporation-funded Council on Foreign Relations following World War I, so too was the United Nations near the end of World War II. A steering committee consisting of U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and five Council on Foreign Relations members was formed in 1943. One of the Council members, Isaiah Bowman,
suggested a way to solve the problem of maintaining effective control over weaker territories while avoiding overt imperial conquest. At a Council [on Foreign Relations] meeting in May 1942, he stated that the United States had to exercise the strength needed to assure "security," and at the same time "avoid conventional forms of imperialism." The way to do this, he argued, was to make the exercise of that power international in character through a United Nations body.[22]
The "secret steering committee," later called the Informal Agenda Group, undertook a series of consultations and meetings with foreign governments which would be essential in creating the new institution, including the Soviet Union, Canada, and Britain, and the Charter of the United Nations was subsequently decided upon with the consent of President Roosevelt in June 1944.[23] The Informal Agenda Group was made up of six individuals, including Secretary of State Cordell Hull. All of them, with the exception of Hull, were Council members. President Roosevelt had referred to them as "my postwar advisers," and aside from formal policy recommendations, they "served as advisers to the Secretary of State and the President on the final decisions." By December 1943, a new member was added to the Group, Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., who was not only a Council member, but was also a former top executive at United States Steel and was the son of a partner in the J.P. Morgan Bank. After the Group had drafted the recommendations for a United Nations body, Secretary Hull had asked three lawyers to rule on its constitutionality. The three lawyers he chose were Charles Evan Hughes, John W. Davis, and Nathan L. Miller. Both Hughes and Davis were Council members, and John Davis was even a former President of the Council and remained as a Director.[24] John D. Rockefeller Jr. subsequently gifted the United Nations with $8.5 million in order to buy the land for its headquarters in New York City.[25]
[1] Robert Kagan, "The Benevolent Empire," Foreign Policy (No. 111, Summer 1998), page 26.
[2] Ibid, page 28.
[3] Sebastian Mallaby, "The Reluctant Imperialist: Terrorism, Failed States, and the Case for American Empire," Foreign Affairs (Vol. 81, No. 2, March-April 2002), page 6.
[4] Ibid, page 2.
[5] Niall Ferguson, "The Unconscious Colossus: Limits of (& Alternatives to) American Empire," Daedalus (Vol. 134, No. 2, On Imperialism, Spring 2005), page 21.
[6] Ibid, pages 21-22.
[7] Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., "The American Empire? Not so Fast," World Policy Journal (Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring 2005), page 45.
[8] Michael Cox, "Empire by Denial: The Strange Case of the United States," International Affairs (Vol. 81, No. 1, January 2005), page 18.
[9] Geir Lundestad, "'Empire by Invitation' in the American Century," Diplomatic History (Vol. 23, No. 2, Spring 1999), page 189.
[10] Bruce Cumings, "The American Century and the Third World," Diplomatic History (Vol. 23, No. 2, Spring 1999), page 356.
[11] Ibid, pages 358-359.
[12] CFR, War and Peace. CFR History: http://www.cfr.org/about/history/cfr/war_peace.html
[13] Joan Roelofs, Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism (New York: State University of New York Press, 2003), page 74.
[14] Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pages 43-45.
[15] Ibid, page 45.
[17] Laurence H. Shoup and William Minter, Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy(Authors Choice Press, New York: 2004), page 118.
[18] Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), page 48.
[19] Ibid, pages 49-51.
[20] Laurence H. Shoup and William Minter, Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy(Authors Choice Press, New York: 2004), pages 166-167.
[22] Joan Roelofs, Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism (New York: State University of New York Press, 2003), page 159.
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Q: Dynamically add a route in a Nuxt3 middleware I have a Nuxt3 project where I'd like to add new routes based on an API call to a database. For example, let's say a user navigates to /my-product-1. A route middleware will look into the database and if it finds an entry, it will return that a product page should be rendered (instead of a category page, for example).
This is what I came up with:
export default defineNuxtPlugin(() => {

    const router = useRouter()

    addRouteMiddleware('routing', async (to) => {
        if (to.path == '/my-awesome-product') {
            router.addRoute({
                component: () => import('/pages/product.vue'),
                name: to.path,
                path: to.path
            })

            console.log(router.hasRoute(to.path))   // returns TRUE
        }
    }, { global: true })

})

To keep it simple, I excluded the API call from this example. The solution above works, but not on initial load of the route. The route is indeed added to the Vue Router (even on the first visit), however, when I go directly to that route, it shows a 404 and only if I don't reload the page on the client does it show the correct page when navigated to it for the second time.
I guess it has something to do with the router not being updated... I found the following example in a GitHub issue, however, I can't get it to work in Nuxt3 as (as far as I'm aware) it doesn't provide the next() method.
When I tried adding router.replace(to.path) below the router.addRoute line, I ended up in an infinite redirect loop.
// from https://github.com/vuejs/vue-router/issues/3660
// You need to trigger a redirect to resolve again so it includes the newly added

route:
let hasAdded = false;
router.beforeEach((to, from, next) => {
  if (!hasAdded && to.path === "/route3") {
    router.addRoute(
      {
        path: "/route3",
        name: "route3",
        component: () => import("@/views/Route3.vue")
      }
    );
    hasAdded = true;
    next('/route3');
    return;
  }
  next();
});

How could I fix this issue, please?
Edit:
Based on a suggestion, I tried using navigateTo() as a replacement for the next() method from Vue Router. This, however, also doesn't work on the first navigation to the route.
let dynamicPages: { path: string, type: string }[] = []

export default defineNuxtRouteMiddleware((to, _from) => {
    const router = useRouter()

    router.addRoute({
        path: to.path,
        name: to.path,
        component: () => import ('/pages/[[dynamic]]/product.vue')
    })

    if (!dynamicPages.some(route => route.path === to.path)) {
        dynamicPages.push({
            path: to.path,
            type: 'product'
        })
        return navigateTo(to.fullPath)
    }
})

I also came up with this code (which works like I wanted), however, I don't know whether it is the best solution.
export default defineNuxtPlugin(() => {

    const router = useRouter()

    let routes = []

    router.beforeEach(async (to, _from, next) => {

        const pageType = await getPageType(to.path) // api call

        if (isDynamicPage(pageType)) {
            router.addRoute({
                path: to.path,
                name: to.path,
                component: () => import(`/pages/[[dynamic]]/product.vue`),
            })

            if (!routes.some(route => route.path === to.path)) {
                routes.push({
                    path: to.path,
                    type: pageType,
                })
                next(to.fullPath)
                return
            }
        }

        next()
    })
})

A: I suggest you use dynamic routing within /page directory structure - https://nuxt.com/docs/guide/directory-structure/pages#dynamic-routes
The [slug] concept is designed exactly for your usecase. You don't need to know all possible routes in advance. You just provide a placeholder and Nuxt will take care of resolving during runtime.

A: If you insist on resolving method called before each route change, the Nuxt's replacement for next() method you're looking for is navigateTo
https://nuxt.com/docs/api/utils/navigate-to
And I advise you to use route middleware and put your logic into /middleware/routeGuard.global.ts. It will be auto-executed upon every route resolving event. The file will contain:
export default defineNuxtRouteMiddleware((to, from) => {

  // your route-resolving logic you wanna perform

  if ( /* navigation should happen */ {
    return navigateTo( /* your dynamic route */ )
  }
  // otherwise do nothing - code will flow and given to.path route will be resolved
})

EDIT: However, this would still need content inside /pages directory or some routes created via Vue Router. Because otherwise navigateTo will fail, as there would be no route to go.
Here is an example of one possible approach:
https://stackblitz.com/edit/github-8wz4sj
Based on pageType returned from API Nuxt route guard can dynamically re-route the original URL to a specific slug page.

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Thomas Dreßen (ur. 22 listopada 1993 w Garmisch-Partenkirchen) – niemiecki narciarz alpejski, dwukrotny medalista mistrzostw świata juniorów.

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Po raz pierwszy na arenie międzynarodowej Thomas Dreßen pojawił się 1 grudnia 2008 roku w Kaunertal, gdzie w zawodach uniwersyteckich zajął 48. miejsce w slalomie. W 2011 roku wystartował na mistrzostwach świata juniorów w Crans-Montana, gdzie jego najlepszym wynikiem było 21. miejsce w zjeździe. Podczas rozgrywanych rok później mistrzostw świata juniorów w Roccaraso zdobył srebrny medal w gigancie. W zawodach tych rozdzielił na podium Norwega Henrika Kristoffersena oraz Žana Kranjca ze Słowenii. Na tej samej imprezie był też między innymi czwarty w kombinacji, przegrywając walkę o medal z Krajncem. Kolejny medal zdobył na rozgrywanych dwa lata później mistrzostwach świata juniorów w Jasnej, gdzie był drugi w zjeździe. Uplasował się tam między Norwegiem Adrianem Smisethem Sejerstedem a Austriakiem Marco Schwarzem. Był tam także czwarty w gigancie, w którym walkę o podium przegrał o 1,85 sekundy z Rasmusem Windingstadem z Norwegii.

W zawodach Pucharu Świata zadebiutował 21 lutego 2015 roku w Saalbach, zajmując 39. miejsce w zjeździe. Pierwsze pucharowe punkty wywalczył 28 listopada 2015 roku w Lake Louise, gdzie zajął 23. miejsce w tej samej konkurencji. Na podium zawodów tego cyklu po raz pierwszy stanął 2 grudnia 2017 roku w Beaver Creek, kończąc rywalizację w zjeździe na trzeciej pozycji. Wyprzedzili go tam tylko Aksel Lund Svindal z Norwegii i Szwajcar Beat Feuz. W sezonie 2017/2018 zajął trzecie miejsce w klasyfikacji zjazdu. W tej samej klasyfikacji był też drugi w sezonie 2019/2020, ulegając jedynie Feuzowi.

W 2015 roku został mistrzem Niemiec w zjeździe i superkombinacji. W 2017 roku wystąpił na mistrzostwach świata w Sankt Moritz, gdzie zajął między innymi dwunaste miejsce w zjeździe i czternaste w superkombinacji. W 2018 roku wystartował na igrzyskach olimpijskich w Pjongczangu, zajmując piąte miejsce w zjeździe, dziewiąte w superkombinacji i dwunaste w supergigancie.

Osiągnięcia

Igrzyska olimpijskie

Mistrzostwa świata

Mistrzostwa świata juniorów

Puchar Świata

Miejsca w klasyfikacji generalnej
 sezon 2014/2015: -
 sezon 2015/2016: 109.
 sezon 2016/2017: 68.
 sezon 2017/2018: 8.
 sezon 2018/2019: 89.
 sezon 2019/2020: 9.

Miejsca na podium w zawodach
  Beaver Creek – 2 grudnia 2017 (zjazd) – 3. miejsce
  Kitzbühel – 20 stycznia 2018 (zjazd) – 1. miejsce
  Kvitfjell – 10 marca 2018 (zjazd) – 1. miejsce
  Åre – 15 marca 2018 (supergigant) – 3. miejsce
  Lake Louise – 30 listopada 2019 (zjazd) – 1. miejsce
  Val Gardena – 20 grudnia 2019 (supergigant) – 3. miejsce
  Wengen – 18 stycznia 2020 (zjazd) – 3. miejsce
  Garmisch-Partenkirchen – 1 lutego 2020 (zjazd) – 1. miejsce
  Saalbach-Hinterglemm – 13 lutego 2020 (zjazd) – 1. miejsce
  Saalbach-Hinterglemm – 14 lutego 2020 (supergigant) – 3. miejsce

Bibliografia
 Profil na stronie FIS

Niemieccy narciarze alpejscy
Niemieccy olimpijczycy
Uczestnicy Zimowych Igrzysk Olimpijskich 2018
Urodzeni w 1993
Ludzie urodzeni w Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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partly sunny, locally slight or moderate thunderstorms
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+9.2 km - Brunni-Alpthal (SZ)
Weather in Unteriberg/Euthal (SZ), 19.07.2019
On Friday we can expect cloudless weather. Morning temperatures will be around 11 °C. During the day they will reach a maximum of 24 °C. Low temperatures at night will be around 11°C. We have weak southerly winds.
On Saturday it will be cloudless all day. During the night isolated showers or thunderstorms will prevail. Morning temperatures will be around 11 °C. During the day they will reach a maximum of 26 °C. Low temperatures at night will be around 14°C. Southerly winds are weak.
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Students in Catholic elementary and high schools encounter God through in their prayer, their coursework, their social activities, and in each other. Read stories of how students, teachers, and parents in Catholic Schools are Lighting the Way.
Technology helping Butler Catholic preschoolers
New technology is helping Butler Catholic students from preschool to Grade 8 to be prepared for the future.
It takes a village to raise a child, as the saying goes, or, in the case of Saint Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin Catholic School, some help from the neighbors.
Regional schools' successes
Keeping students safe and learning in school remains a priority this year, but the board president of the North Hills Regional Catholic Elementary Schools sees another big challenge—engaging the community.
Sharing values and a new future
Merging elementary schools is never simple, especially in the midst of a pandemic. But teachers, students and parents at the new Ave Maria Academy are rising to the occasion.
Celebrating Our Lady of the Rosary Feast Day
What a sight in the sky near near Archangel Gabriel Catholic School in Robinson earlier today! Students and teachers were outside, praying below a balloon rosary to celebrate the annual feast day of Our Lady of the Rosary.
A sports season unlike any other
In classrooms and gymnasiums and on playing fields, Catholic students are cooperating with new health and safety protocols, while understanding there are no guarantees in the age of COVID.
by Bob De Witt	 September 25, 2020 October 7, 2020
Keeping students safe and learning
Students are learning an unexpected lesson as they work with their teachers and parents to receive a quality Catholic education during the coronavirus pandemic.
by Bob De Witt	 September 15, 2020 September 25, 2020
Back to school, 2020
On September 8, 2020, Catholic elementary students stepped back inside classrooms across the Diocese of Pittsburgh for the first time in nearly six months.
by Bob De Witt	 September 8, 2020 September 24, 2020
School miracle amid COVID-19
Like many principals, Ed Sharbaugh was struggling to fill classrooms and pay bills in the midst of a pandemic. Then a miracle happened.
by Bob De Witt	 August 7, 2020 September 24, 2020
Committed to Catholic education
Through changes and challenges, Lauren Little's commitment to quality Catholic education has never wavered.
by Bob De Witt	 July 29, 2020 September 14, 2020
Catholic schools are a family affair
Renamed school "taking flight, bold in the spirit"
More than a century after a Catholic elementary school in New Castle first welcomed students and 70 years after it reopened, educators and faith leaders are ready for another new beginning.
by Bob De Witt	 June 29, 2020 September 17, 2020
Teachers, parents 'doing an amazing job'
Their dining room has turned into a classroom. Mornings are spent online, learning lessons about math, reading and vocabulary. And the family's fervent faith is helping them through challenging times.
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Mazhdabad (, also Romanized as Mazhdābād; also known as Mazdābād) is a village in Eshqabad Rural District, Miyan Jolgeh District, Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 306, in 83 families.

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Former member of the United States Senate, Johnny Isakson has died aged 76
By Love John | December 20, 2021
John Hardy Isakson Death – Cause of Death – John Hardy Isakson, American businessman and politician sadly passed away on the 19th of December 2021 at the age of 76 at his home in Atlanta. According to Wikipedia, in June 2015, Isakson was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease which didn't affect him for a long time. It is unclear if he died of the illness. Isakson served as a United States Senator from Georgia from 2005 to 2019 as a member of the Republican Party.
Reports revealed that he represented Georgia's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005. He was born on the 28th of December 1944, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Isakson was the son of Julia (née Baker) and Edwin Andrew Isakson, a Greyhound bus driver, who later established an Atlanta real estate firm.
Isakson opened a real estate branch for Northside Realty and later served 22 years as the company's president. He was elected for the Georgia House of Representatives in 1976. He served seven terms, including four as minority leader, Wikipedia stated. He will be missed.
Brie Jackson said in a tweet; "Johnny Isakson was a patriot and a gentleman. Georgia has lost an indispensable son" – @POTUS Saddened to hear about the passing of former Senator Johnny Isakson. I had the opportunity to interview him. He was a kind man who loved college football in Georgia . #RIP"
Stacey Abrams said in a tweet; "U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson served the whole of Georgia with attention and fairness. With every interaction, my respect for him grew and never wavered. Though we held different ideologies, I was honored to call him friend. God's peace to his family, loved ones and friends.
"Senator Isakson was one of the most decent human beings I ever had the pleasure of knowing. His career was one of public service, not self service. Georgia has lost a favorite son and our country has lost a true patriot. My heart is with his family and everyone who loved him."
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Painting, for me, is a very intuitive and introspective journey and my approach to making art has changed considerably with my life's experiences.
While once focused primarily outward and interested in depicting my observations of the world around me, I am now much more likely to want to explore relationships of colors, textures and shapes or express inner thoughts or imaginary scenes.
Subject matter, whether it is abstract, floral, figurative, or the landscape, has become almost secondary to the passion of color.
I have become fascinated recently with the idea of lines and what a strong statement a few simple lines can make—a "less is more" concept, reflected in several of my current pieces. The placement of lines in a visual space, along with the juxtaposition of color and shape, is very compelling.
Although I have been painting all my life, I have made the making of art a priority and joyful commitment since the late 1980s. I have taken various workshops over the years, pursue independent study on an ongoing basis and have been exhibiting and selling my work since the early 1990s. Memberships include Mackinac 7 Artists, Ann Arbor Women Artists, Great Lakes Pastel Society and the Oil Pastel Society.


Late in 1987, having graduated from college and headed to Taiwan to study more Chinese, I decided to attend an international conference on Confucianism. At lunchtime on the first day I was sitting by myself, intimidated by the luminaries all around, when a smiling scholar sat down across from me, introduced himself as Roger Ames, and immediately made me feel at home. (Although he did question the wisdom of my intention to attend a graduate school other than Hawaii.) 1987 also saw the publication of Thinking Through Confucius, Roger's seminal collaboration with David Hall; shortly after I met Roger I obtained a copy and was inspired. This, I felt sure, was just the kind of thing that I wanted to do: engage deeply with the Confucian tradition in a manner that also challenged Western philosophy. A basic premise of Thinking Through Confucius is that the ideas and practices expressed in a text like the Analects are centrally relevant to philosophy; insofar as they differ from long-standing assumptions within Western philosophy, this has to do with the narrowness or even parochialism of the Western tradition, rather than with preordained limits to the practice of philosophy itself. Studying Chinese philosophy is therefore not just an intensely interesting interpretive project, but also an enterprise with great significance for the ways we moderns—no matter which "we" one may find most apt—understand our world.


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LAS VEGAS - March 2, 2014 - The Stratosphere Casino, Hotel & Tower is hosting several NASCAR® related events March 3 - 8, 2014, including exclusive access to NASCAR® drivers Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick. A limited number of free tickets and/or wristbands will be available to the public as noted.
Limited number of free tickets will be available Thursday, March 6, 2014 at Stratosphere Ticketing beginning at 10 a.m.
Kyle Busch will discuss his early racing days, take part in an audience Q & A, show video of his early racing career with some never before seen footage, and play a Blackjack game with fans Plus one lucky fan will be picked by Busch to take part in the Blackjack game.
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Nadal in Indian Wells final
At last Rafael Nadal has managed to reach a final for the first time since reaching the Wimbledon final on the 9th of July last year.
Nadal beat Andy Roddick to get a place in the Indian Wells Masters final against Novak Djokovic who beat Andy Murray in straight sets.
Its surprising to see that although Nadal has managed to maintain second ranking behind Roger Federer he actually has failed to reach a tournament final in the last nine months. Interestingly the semi-final match against Roddick was a good chance for Roddick to close the points gap between him and Nadal and I think he has lost a very good chance.
I think Nadal is regaining his form at the right time and this would be good time for him to win a trophy after last winning the French Open last year.
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Nadal is gaining form definitely . He must have been disappointed by Roger's early exit because i think he really wanted to measure his standard before the French Open which is his most beloved one.
After all this is said, I still want to think that Nadal is poised for another win at the Roland Garros if his current form is anything to go by. Go Nadal GO! I am behind you.


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NASCAR Trucks at Phoenix: Rhodes wins Truck Series championship; Chandler Smith wins the race
Phoenix, AZ, Nov 5/21 (by Reid Spencer/NASCAR Wire Service) A bantamweight boxer in the training room, Ben Rhodes punched like a heavyweight on Friday at Phoenix Raceway. On Lap 142 of 150 in the Truck Series championship race, Rhodes tapped the tailgate of Zane Smith's Chevrolet with the nose of his No. 99 Toyota, nudged Smith up the track in Turn 2 and made the pass that secured his first title.
At the time, the pass was for fourth place—as Chandler Smith was running away to victory in a No. 18 Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota that featured superb long-run speed.
Rhodes, who uses boxing as the favorite part of his training regimen, eventually passed Sheldon Creed for third and held that spot to the finish, but he crossed the line ahead of the other three championship contenders—Smith in fifth, John Hunter Nemechek in seventh and Matt Crafton in 12th.
"That was the hardest last 40 laps I think I have ever driven in my life," said Rhodes, who won the first two races of the season and none since. "I was doing things to the race car I probably shouldn't have been doing. It was dumb, but I had everything to lose.
"And we brought it home and won it. I don't even know what to say. This is crazy. Bookends for the season—I'm so proud of my ThorSport Racing group. This wasn't like a vision we had, right, everyone wants to win it, but you just don't know, it's so hard."
Rhodes' title was the fourth driver's championship for ThorSport Racing, with Crafton having won the first three in 2013, 2014 and 2,019. It was the first owner's title for ThorSport.
Entering the race as the favorite, Nemechek never had a chance. After a disappointing 16th-place qualifying effort, he scraped the wall in Turn 1 on the opening lap and got clipped on the left front by the No. 02 Chevrolet of Kris Wright.
Six laps later, Nemechek limped to pit road with a flat left front tire, lost two laps during the unscheduled stop and spent the first two stages fighting to regain the lead lap.
Though Nemechek recovered the second of his lost laps as the highest-scored lapped truck under caution for Tate Fogleman's stalled truck on Lap 101, he could drive up only to seventh before the finish.
"Yeah, I got run in to the first corner, got into the fence, somebody else ran in to us on the left side and this thing is killed pretty much," Nemechek said. "Had a left front tire go flat, went down two laps, got both of our laps back, but just needed more laps, I guess. After all, felt we had the best truck tonight, Playoff-wise for sure."
Zane Smith passed Rhodes for third place on Lap 110, five laps after the final restart. Though Chandler Smith got past both trucks during the final 45-lap run, Zane Smith held the championship position for 32 laps as Rhodes pursued and finally made the title pass.
"We were eight laps away from winning a championship," said Zane Smith, who has not secured a ride for next season. "I tried to use all my tools from my side of the thing, but I just couldn't turn. We fought that all night."
Chandler Smith swept the first two stages and won for the second time in his career after taking the checkered flag at Bristol in September. In the process he clinched the Sunoco Rookie of the Year title.
Stewart Friesen took second place, crossing the finish line 4.694 seconds behind the race winner. Creed ran fourth behind the new champion, followed by Zane Smith, Christian Eckes, Nemechek, Todd Gilliland, Carson Hocevar and Austin Hill.
This was the final race of the 2021 Truck Series season.


Vocation means what you are called by God to be and do. Finding yours starts with prayer.
The following Bible encounters show how the most unlikely of us can be called to extraordinary ministry. You can use the questions and prayers below, either alone or in a small group, to help get you thinking and praying about where God is calling you.
We believe every Christian has a vocation, not just those called to ministry. Find out more about developing discipleship here.
If your vocation is to ministry, you can find out more about the incredible diversity of ministries within the Church of England here.
Peter would not have been in a position to initiate church growth at the point of his calling, but Jesus spotted the potential that lay within him.
How might your potential and personal gifts be used to serve God in the Church and the world?
Lord help us to believe that we are all ordinary people made extraordinary through your vision and your power.
Take our insecurities and feelings of inadequacy, and give us the courage to see ourselves and others as you see us, with gifts and potential to transform your world and build your Kingdom.
Mary was charged by the Risen Jesus to be the first Christian evangelist: not to hold onto Jesus and string out the glory of that extraordinary moment (as the apostles had earlier tried to do on the Mount of Transfiguration), but to go and share her story.
The idea of evangelism can be daunting, but in the Gospels it was very simple – just talking to someone else about the life that faith in Jesus can bring.
How might you help each other to take the fear out of faith-sharing, so as to make it joyous and accessible?
Lord, you call us by our names.
Help us to be confident in our own unique identity. To find opportunities to develop our specific gifts and our passions.
Enable us to hear and recognise the call of Jesus in our lives, and those of others.
Help us to find appropriate and life-giving ways to spread your Good News in a way which draws others to you and helps them experience your radical and extraordinary love.
Joy is the overriding emotion in this chapter of Luke (just as in much of Luke's writings). Responding to a vocation provides a huge sense of purpose in one's life.
How do you cultivate an ethos of security and adventure in your Christian life?
Are there opportunities to get involved in having a go at ministry in your Church?
How might you help foster links between your church and your community?
Lord, enable your church to be the safe harbour as we search and explore a vocation in life and in ministry.
Help it to be the lighthouse too, enabling us all to navigate our lives with skilfulness and joy, risking an adventure in Christ as we follow his leading, believing against the odds that we will discover the vitality of a new vocation.
Do you feel an unlikely person to fulfil a calling in the Church or world?
This Bible passage reminds us that David was a shepherd, the 'runt' of the family, apparently unqualified for the role, and yet the person called by God - something that came as a surprise even to the mighty Samuel himself. Perhaps it was something about his care for his flock, making him the forerunner of our great Good Shepherd.
Samuel was convinced God had chosen the immediately obvious, handsome, physically strong sons of Jesse, but God had other ideas.
Are there other hidden people who might be encouraged to think more about what vocation means for them? Are you one of them?
What are you passionate about in terms of serving God? Are you a pioneer, keen to start something new, or does your passion fit within the existing structures of your local church, the wider church or the community beyond?
Take our insecurities and vulnerabilities and weave them through with your holy confidence, which always reassures us that we have something to offer.
Are you struggling to see how you can use the expertise and experience you've built up over the years to further the work of God?
It is likely you are already making a huge difference, or could do. How can we help and encourage each other to understand how this is happening? How might we see each other as a 'means of grace' for others?
Is God using someone prophetically or creatively so as to bring a new perspective to a job or situation, even where they seem to be swimming against the tide? How might we be strengthened and better equipped to do this?
In Esther's story we see the power of speech being used to change the course of history. How might that same power be released, given the courage required in speaking of God?
Help us to hear clearly what you are asking of us each day, whatever situation we find ourselves in.
You are the God who calls us to stay where we are or to move at your bidding: to seek and speak courageously, sharing your love, defending the vulnerable and bringing dignity to those who have no voice.
Help us to sense your presence, in perseverance and in hope, in those everyday places which can be continuously renewed by your grace.
For more Biblical stories of unlikely heroes called to extraordinary ministries, take a look at the passages below.
Consider reading these together with others so you can discuss and pray about it in fellowship.
Choosing to what to give our life can be complex and a difficult decision.
In twelve reflections this book explores how our past shapes us, how to understand our identity, and how God speaks to us. Each reflection is accompanied by actions to help you explore your vocation to the full.
As a Church we have an incredible diversity of traditions and worship styles. If you find all this a bit overwhelming you are not alone!
Written by Marcus Throup, who leads vocations work in Winchester Diocese, All Things Anglican offers accessible explanations to many of the questions people exploring a vocation to ministry will have but feel nervous to ask. Like what's the point of liturgy? What happens when Anglicans disagree? And just why does the Church down the road do things so differently to how we worship?
Beginning and ending with the Anglican Communion, Marcus reflects on how the reformation has shaped our view of vocation, mission and ministry. In accessible and engaging style, All Things Anglican demonstrates the links between liturgy and scripture and how this comes to form a statement of faith.
This is a fantastic book for anyone exploring a vocation to ministry, or just wanting to know more about Anglicanism more generally.


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Optimum Chiropractic maintains a pricing structure that allows care for all budgets. Many patients elect to bypass their medical insurance and pay directly for care, as chiropractic is extremely cost-effective and affordable, and flexible payment programs can be arranged for patients who have little or no chiropractic insurance coverage. Our rates are competitive with many insurance companies' co-pays.


I love being creative with my food. I am a food combiner and I love mixing together a lot of ingredients for one satisfying and yummy dish. In my eyes, there are no bad foods. Carbs are good, protein is good and fat is good. Brownies, muffins, bagels.. all fine in my eyes. However, if I were to eat them every day, I may be missing out on other parts of my diet and I may find it difficult (at times) to support my training/exercise routine. I think we would all agree that it is easy to overindulge in a few higher-calorie items as opposed to eating a balanced diet rich in nutrient-dense foods. Often times, it takes a high quantity of a calorie-dense item to signal "fullness/satisfaction" compared to a high quantity of volume and nutrient dense foods like fruits and veggies.
Karel and I both enjoy reading ingredients. However, if we really want something as a treat, we aren't going pass on an item because of the nutrient fact label. If anything, it is likely that I am going to go with the "real" option (ex. real ice cream as opposed to splenda added, fat-free ice cream) rather than the heavily processed "healthier" (if that can be true??) option. A treat is on occasion, snacks are for every day. I have to admit, however, I don't crave very many processed, sugary or salty foods. Typically, I crave foods with little to no ingredients because my diet is very balanced and no food is "off-limits". By having a healthy relationship with food, I don't feel those intense cravings because I don't really have any "forbidden" foods. Certainly I emphasize and de-emphasize certain foods because of how they may affect my body, my blood sugar and my daily eating habits throughout the day but I enjoy my heart-healthy lifestyle and diet and I think that shows on a daily basis. In my opinion, it is not just about the food that you eat, when you eat and the calories that you eat but how you see your eating habits during the day and if you are fueling your body throughout the day. I also think people struggle with a healthy relationship with food because of the fear of being judged wherever you are..or perhaps, you judge yourself and you are too hard on yourself. Remember, aim for progress, not perfection. If you think it would be easier to eat healthy if you didn't work, if you didn't have kids and if you just stayed at home all day....well, that aint gonna happen...that's called life. If you are trying to wait for a non-stressful/busy day, weekend or week to "start" eating healthy, you may be stuck in an unrealistic and unmanageable way of thinking about your daily diet. Eating a balanced diet does not need to be complicated but you have to start somewhere.
Take a little time on a daily basis working on 1 part of your diet.
I recommend focusing on either breakfast, pre and post training/exercise nutrition or between meal snacks. Generally, people seeking changes in diet or performance focus on the evening food consumption but I believe it all starts with how you start your day. Those first few hours of your day are critical for how your body is going to perform throughout the day and how you are going to manage your food intake throughout the day. Telling yourself that you are "restricted" from an evening snack is likely not the cause of overeating in the evening. Perhaps by having more snacks throughout the day or adding more fat and protein to meals, can help you feel at ease with what and how much you eat during the evening hours.


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Rep Duffy To Introduce Bill Holding Other Countries Accountable For 'Unfair' Tariffs
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Henry Rodgers Capitol Hill Reporter
January 24, 2019 11:34 AM ET
Wisconsin Republican Rep. Sean Duffy is introducing a bill which he believes will help the economy by making tariffs reciprocal between countries that want to do business with the U.S. Thursday, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
The legislation would make it so that other countries, such as China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and others would be forced to pay the same amount of tariffs as the U.S., making up for a massive deficit on certain items. For example Europe charges Wisconsin 60 percent for butter, while Wisconsin charges them 2.8 percent.
"We have unfair trade relationships with the rest of the world. China charges us 15 percent tariffs on autos and Europe transit 10 percent tariffs on our autos. And you know we only charge 2.5 percent on European autos gave a big deal for us. Europe charges us 60 percent on Wisconsin butter. We charge them 2.8 percent. So this is a bill that will let the president go product by product, country by country and mirror the tariffs they have in our products," Duffy said in a phone call with TheDCNF Wednesday.
"The mission is to not bring us to a trade war. The mission is to bring us to trade peace, again to lower the tariffs and be fair with American workers and American manufacturers," Duffy continued.
Rep. Sean Duffy along with his wife Rachel Campos-Duffy deliver a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
The Wisconsin Republican also said he is optimistic of getting Democrats on board, despite the gridlock in the House, saying, "I think this is an issue that a lot of Democrats will agree with," and that he is "optimistic" he can get enough votes together to get this bill passed.
President Donald Trump campaigned on cutting tariffs with China and has since worked out an agreement with them at the G20 summit. (RELATED: No New Tariffs: Trump Wins Trade Battle With China)
Duffy plans on introducing the legislation on the House floor Thursday afternoon.
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