The first time hitchhiking, something that is always special. A bit scary sometimes as you don't really know what to expect. How did that go with Zoë, whose first hitchhiking trip was 888, the European Hitchhiking day?
I took the train from Maastricht to Utrecht to join a pre-888 meeting, the hitchhikers gathering. I wanted to find someone I could travel with, as I didn't want to hitch alone. At the meeting I quickly found my partner. We got lost in Utrecht for two hours the next day as we were trying to find our spot. Some guy gave us a lift from the city and dropped us on the highway. There we waited for two hours.
Yes, and we were afraid that some police-car would stop to jail us, but a nice guy actually stopped and brought us to the first petrol station. There it finally really started. Until then I actually thought it was all just a big joke, that this whole hitchhiking thing wouldn't work.
Did it meet your expectations for the first time hitchhiking?
It was way better. I thought it was just from the highway with your thumb up. But it wasn't. It was just hitching from petrol-stations and it was quite safe, and really fun. Actually I didn't know what to expect, I thought I was going to die, haha. It did take longer than I thought though.
I decided only two days in advance to join, the day I heard about 888. I wanted to do something different, I was looking for some excitement and adventure. When I arrived the next day at the Utrecht meeting, everyone was fully prepared, with maps, signs and lists of the petrol-stations. I was a bit in shock then. I had zero preparation and came with a half-broken suitcase.
Next is buying a backpack! I was hitchhiking with a suitcase and that doesn't work. It was even broken a bit, so I had to carry it along the highway and also in Paris when I got lost hitching out. So I am not hitchhiking anywhere until I have a good bag! Then, maybe hitchhiking across Australia or somewhere and meeting people along the way.
Going back home from Paris, you hitched by yourself. Were you afraid?
Yes, very much. I kept pushing my departure back for very long, to see if there was anyone who wanted to join me. But nobody did, so I had to go by myself. I was afraid in Paris itself, but once I was on the highway I was fine.
With a big smile but I am also picky. I was looking for families, couples and women to hitchhike with. I think you have to be, it is one thing to hitchhike and trust people, but another to ... you know, I am a woman and also from South-Africa, where bad things happen relatively often. So what could happen to me is much more on the forefront of my mind. So I am definitely more picky. I actually ended up waiting at one petrol-station for some hours more as I could have, as I let a lot of cars go without talking to the drivers.
My last ride was going to Liège, which is about 20 kilometers away from my destination, Maastricht. But the final petrol-station, where we arrived at 12 at midnight, was closed. So I thought, I want to get home, but I don't want to spend the night here as a woman alone in the middle of the night with nobody there. So they dropped me at the train station, where I spend the night. That was really cold. That is by the way the next thing I really have to buy: a sleeping bag!


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As Outside, So Inside: America's Aging Prison Population
By Robert Winters, JD, Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Purdue Global University
Raise the question of healthcare in the U.S. corrections system, and typically the issue at the forefront is mental health. To be sure, mental health is a significant, expensive, and ongoing challenge for correctional systems at all levels. But a quieter yet steadily growing problem has crested the horizon and creeps inexorably closer. Just as U.S. society as a whole is facing the issue of the aging of the massive Baby Boom generation—with the accompanying implications for the Social Security system, healthcare, and a host of other facets of American life—our prisons contain a steadily growing cohort of elderly inmates, many of whom will likely die incarcerated.
Research by the Pew Charitable Trusts conducted in 2013 examined a broader trend of sharply rising healthcare costs in state and federal prison systems. Across 44 states submitting data to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), correctional healthcare spending grew to $6.5 billion in 2008 from $4.2 billion in 2001. While the overall correctional population grew 15 percent from 1999 to 2011, states reported that per-inmate healthcare spending grew 32 percent just from 2001 to 2008.
A significant factor in that cost increase is the proportion of offenders aged 55 and older. In 2001 the number stood at 40,200, which was actually a slight decline from the 1999 figure of 43,300. But by 2008 the total was 77,800, an increase of 94 percent. The over-55 population grew even more sharply after 2008, reaching 121,800 in 2011. Just as in the general population, older individuals tend to have more chronic illnesses, and inmates 55 and older incur healthcare costs typically double to triple those of younger offenders. (Some research proposes rates as much as eight times higher.)
Slicing the data somewhat differently presents an even more daunting picture. Calculations likewise based on BJS data show that the population of inmates age 65 and older grew 63 percent from 2007 to 2010 while the overall correctional population increased only 0.7 percent—a rate 94 times greater. Looking at sentencing yields little reason to expect a change in these trends: about 10 percent of state prisoners are serving a life sentence, and among federal inmates, 11 percent of those 51 and older are serving sentences of 30 years or longer.
Simply defining "elderly" in the context of correctional populations is a challenge (and creating standardized criteria would be the first step in addressing the problem). Some researchers and groups, including the National Institute of Corrections, set the lower limit at age 50; others, including the BJS, use 55 instead. States using starting ages that range from 50 to 70, with some states having no official criteria at all. This hodgepodge makes obtaining standardized data on needs and costs across the full range of state and federal agencies next to impossible.
Furthermore, research conducted in 2003 and 2006 suggested that the average inmate is in physiological terms 10 to 15 years older than his or her chronological age. This is the result of a combination of factors, in part the stressful conditions of incarceration but to a great extent living conditions prior to being incarcerated, especially poor healthcare in general and in a majority of inmates a history of substance abuse. (A 2001 study estimated that between 60 and 83 percent of offenders have used illicit drugs at some point, and a 2006 research survey revealed that 56 percent of state inmates and 50 percent of federal inmates reported having used drugs in the month prior to being incarcerated.)
Even in society at large, many experts warn that the U.S. healthcare system is unprepared to deal with a large population of elderly patients. The situation within the correctional system is worse. While geriatrics training for correctional healthcare staff is an obvious requirement, custodial staff members need relevant training as well. Such training needs to focus on understanding age-related conditions (including cognitive deficits such as dementia), how those conditions impact the correctional setting, and how to identify offenders who require immediate assessment by a healthcare professional. In some cases adjustments are fairly simple—understanding, for example, that an inmate who seems noncompliant may actually be suffering from hearing loss or dementia.
Speaking of dementia, the condition is most prevalent among the elderly, and furthermore offenders tend to have a higher frequency of risk factors for dementia such as previous traumatic brain injury, substance abuse, and low educational attainment. Research on the subject in the correctional environment is limited, but estimates range from a frequency of 1 to 30 percent in the prison population—a range that is, granted, so broad as to be almost useless. Clearly further investigation is warranted.
Adapting facilities for elderly inmate populations will be one significant requirement. Such adaptations include showers and latrines that are wheelchair-accessible and appropriate beds. (Climbing to the top bunk is clearly not an option for many of these inmates.) Adaptation also means ensuring less-mobile offenders have appropriate access to dining facilities, pill call, commissary service, education, and other services that may be located an extended distance from housing. Yet concentrating and segregating the elderly from the rest of the population does have its drawbacks, such as the stabilizing effect such offenders tend to have on the population as a whole and the positive effect on morale from friendships and interactions with younger inmates.
Finally, in this age of budget battles it is impossible to ignore the cost factor. More elderly offenders means more and more spending on healthcare. Various agencies have already pursued solutions ranging from privatization to increased reliance on state resources such as university and charity hospitals. The expansion of Medicaid in some states under the Affordable Care Act will extend benefits to virtually all inmates, but the utility of that solution is limited since it is still financed with tax dollars from the same limited pool that funds correctional budgets. The main significant option is to find alternative sentencing measures for elderly offenders such as supervised release. But something will have to be done—the numbers make that clear.
Corrections.com author, Robert Winters, holds a Juris Doctorate degree and is a Professor with Kaplan University. He is also a member of the National Criminal Justice Association and serves as a Western Regional Representative, a member of the National Advisory Board and their National Elections Committee.
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a discrimination lawsuit against supermarket chain Food Lion, saying it fired a Jehovah's Witness who requested certain days off for his religion.
The complaint was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court. A company spokeswoman said she hadn't seen the lawsuit.
According to the complaint, Victaurius L. Bailey was hired at a Food Lion in Winston-Salem in June 2011. Bailey is a minister and an elder, and as such needed Sundays and Thursdays off.
Bailey's manager accommodated him. But when he was transferred to a store in Kernersville, the manager there said he wasn't going to be able to give him Sundays off. The complaint said Bailey was then fired.
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Dallas Cop Watched as Woman's Kids Taken at Gunpoint, Ignored Her Cries for Help, Drove Off
"[The gunman] jerked my son out the car. That policeman drove off. He drove off. He didn't come back."
Dallas, TX -- A Dallas police officer is on administrative leave and could actually be fired for ignoring the pleas of a mother whose children were kidnapped at gunpoint.
Two weeks ago, Miesha Kilson was being chased down by a crazed maniac with a gun, Steven Douglas. During the chase Kilson hit a curb which left her vehicle disabled. Douglas then came over to Kilson's vehicle and proceeded to kidnap her children at gun point.
"He reached into the windows, pulls it out," said Kilson. "And as the window exploded in my face, I actually thought he shot it; I didn't know at the time. But I did see his hands up and he pulled [the window] out. And I looked over, and as I looked up out that passenger window, I swear I saw an angel 'cause I saw a police car right at my car."
In that police car was 28-year veteran of the Dallas PD, Cpl. Les Richardson. Richardson watched the frantic Kilson begging him for help as her kids were being pulled out of the vehicle by a madman.
"That man [Richardson] looked up, he said, 'What's going on?'" said Kilson. "Right at my window, directly. I said, 'Get him, get him!' As [Douglas] got the gun, Maya said, 'Get out, get out!' [Douglas] saw the policeman, so he moved the gun. He jerked my son out the car. That policeman drove off. He drove off. He didn't come back."
After a chase involving other police officers, Douglas was eventually stopped and killed as he attempted to fire on police.
Disciplinary hearings were held Thursday in which Dallas police commanders recommended that Officer Les Richardson be terminated by Chief David Brown. It's now up to Brown whether to fire Richardson or not.
The four allegations against Richardson are: dereliction of duty, improper comments, failure to immediately clear upon the completion of a call and use of tobacco products in a city vehicle.
These actions, or rather, inaction, by Richardson have set a new low in police misconduct.
The idea that police protect you is a misconception as they will seldom prevent violence. They normally show up after the violence or crime has been committed and then try and find a culprit, or in this case, they just ignore the crime taking place and leave.
The average response time to a 9-1-1 call is 10 minutes nationwide. In some cases the dispatchers do not even take the caller seriously and the victim ends up dead, when a crime could have actually been prevented.
The reality is that police act as revenue collectors for the state and are there to enforce the law only.
They most assuredly do not "protect and serve."
Richardson may very well stay on the force despite his dereliction, as the Supreme Court ruled that the police do not owe a specific duty to provide police services to individuals based on the public duty doctrine. In other words, police do not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm.


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September 25, 2017 Harvey Can't Mess With Texas: A Benefit Concert for Hurricane Frank Erwin Center, Austin, Texas, Sept. 22, 2017
September 13, 2017 A Willie big concert for hurricane relief "Harvey Can't Mess with Texas" benefit, set for Sept. 22 at Austin's Frank Erwin Center, to feature Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Lyle Lovett, Ryan Bingham and more
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof… — The Bill of Rights
That phrase. That phrase you keep using. I don't think that phrase means what you think it means.
Somewhere in our history, the meaning of the First Amendment got flipped around.
The Founding Fathers were looking to differentiate their new country from Great Britain. In the United States, there would be no state religion. Back in Britain, the state religion was the Church of England and the King was its leader. The founders wanted to make it clear that there would be no Church of America with the President as the national holy man.
That was a darn good idea. Can you imagine if the religious leader of our country was the President? Head of Church Calvin Coolidge? Okay, I'll buy that. Head of Church Bill Clinton? Uh oh.
The Founders were trying to keep the State's grubby paws out of religion. They were not trying to completely remove God from public life.
Oaths in courtrooms have invoked God from the beginning. Several Chaplains were on the very first Federal payroll. George Washington mentioned God in his Inaugural Address. So has every President since.
Thomas Jefferson was the most religiously progressive of our Founding Fathers. But even Jefferson, a Deist, cited God four times in the Declaration of Independence. The notion that the Founders wanted to protect Americans from ever hearing a prayer in public is comically absurd.
Where the heck did people get the idea that church and state must be completely separate?
Apparently, it was Baltimore, 1963. And Madalyn Murray O'Hair was to thank. Or blame.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair is a great hero and a great villain of atheist history.
On one hand, she bravely went on talk shows and wrote articles in the 60s that educated people about what atheism is and demonstrated that atheists are regular Americans as opposed to Communist infiltrators.
On the other hand, O'Hair made atheists look like jerks with her obnoxious crusades to try to remove "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" from the currency.
In my ideal world, atheists would be seen as normal folks who just happen to know that there is nothing supernatural in the universe. Due to O'Hair, atheists have an unfortunate reputation as malcontents who want to be a thorn in the side of Christians.
O'Hair founded an activist organization called American Atheists in 1963. The Netflix original film "The Most Hated Woman in America" shows how O'Hair (played by Oscar winner Melissa Leo) quietly transformed American Atheists into her own personal cash machine, taking the donated estates of like-minded atheists and squirreling away the money in overseas accounts.
In the 60s, O'Hair ticked off a whole lot of Christians. But her real mistake was that she trusted one shady co-worker with her financial secrets. The film's drama comes from the 1995 incident where a former office manager of American Atheists kidnapped O'Hair and held the feisty old lady hostage until she paid him $1 million.
"The Most Hated Woman in America" is educational, gripping, and sad.
In the end, Madalyn Murray O'Hair learned the truth the hard way. The truth is that people who believe in God are mistaken – nothing more, nothing less. Christians aren't robbing anyone of their civil rights. And they aren't defying the Constitution when they worship in public.
It is telling that Ms. O'Hair was done in not by the worship of God, but by the worship of money.
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Did you see the 2 equal signs in __'abc' == 'def'__?

This __==__ means __is equal to__.
The single equal sign that we have seen before means __assign a value to a variable__.

To make it more confusing: you can use the assignment after an if method like this:

    a = 0

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Change the = into == and see what happens.

I can guarantee you that you will forget typing the second equal sign regularly. I also
still forget it sometimes.

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Battle of Maloyaroslavetz
Arc de Triomphe: M.JAROSLAWIETZ
Napoleon had ordered the retreat of the army from Moscow and intended to march west along a more southerly route. The advance guard under Napoleon's stepson, Eugene de Beauharnais, encountered Russian General Doctorov's corps at Maloyaroslavetz. Intending to secure the path forward, Eugene launched his men forward and fierce fighting occurred inside the town and at the bridge. By nightfall the French and Italian forces were in control of the town, but the next day Napoleon decided the more southerly route was too risky, and instead redirected the army to return along the more northerly route that they had used when approaching Moscow. This decision would hurt the army in supplies as the northern route had already been devastated by the armies' march to Moscow.
Chandler, David G. Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars. New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1979.
Smith, Digby. The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill Books: 1998.
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Researchers Develop the First Steerable Catheter for Brain Surgery
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Summary: Researchers have developed a new, flexible and steerable catheter that allows surgeons to guide the device in any direction while traversing the brain's arteries and blood vessels.
Source: UCSD
A team of engineers and physicians has developed a steerable catheter that for the first time will give neurosurgeons the ability to steer the device in any direction they want while navigating the brain's arteries and blood vessels. The device was inspired by nature, specifically insect legs and flagella–tail-like structures that allow microscopic organisms such as bacteria to swim.
The team from the University of California San Diego describes the breakthrough in the Aug. 18 issue of Science Robotics.
The steerable catheter was successfully tested in pigs at the Center for the Future of Surgery at UC San Diego.
Approximately one in 50 people in the United States has an unruptured intracranial aneurysm–a thin-walled, blister-like lesion on a cerebral artery that is prone to rupture. These kinds of lesions affect over 160 million people worldwide, half of them under the age of 50. Of patients that suffer ruptured aneurysms, more than half die.
Half of the survivors experience long-term disabilities. Studies show that a quarter of cases cannot be operated on because of how difficult the aneurysms are to reach.
"As a neurosurgeon, one of the challenges that we have is directing catheters to the delicate, deep recesses of the brain," said Dr. Alexander Khalessi, chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UC San Diego Health.
"Today's results demonstrate proof of concept for a soft, easily steerable catheter that would significantly improve our ability to treat brain aneurysms and many other neurological conditions, and I look forward to advancing this innovation toward patient care."
The current state of the art in aneurysm surgery involves neurosurgeons inserting guidewires into an artery near the groin to take catheters through the aorta and all the way up into the brain. Surgeons use curved-tip guidewires to navigate the brain's arteries and junctions. But these guidewires have to be removed before the catheter's tip can be used to provide treatment.
"Once the guidewire is retrieved the catheter will return to its native shape, often straight, resulting in loss of access to the pathology," said Dr. Jessica Wen, who was instrumental in serving as a bridge between clinicians and engineers, and coordinated work with the Center for the Future of Surgery at UC San Diego.
As a result, it is extremely difficult to place and keep it in the right position to release platinum coils that block blood flow to the aneurysm and prevent a brain bleed.
Steerable catheters are not available for neurosurgery because of how small the brain's blood vessels are. Specifically, devices need to be less than one millimeter in diameter–that's roughly the diameter of a few human hairs–and about five feet long (160 cm). Industrial fabrication methods struggle at this scale.
That's partially because gravity, electrostatics, and the van der Waals force are all similar at this size. So once you pick something up with tweezers, you cannot drop it. If you coax it from the tweezers, it may leap into the air from opposing forces and disappear, never to be found again.
"Unfortunately, many of the most important blood vessels we need to treat are among the most tortuous and fragile in the body," said James Friend, a professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and School of Medicine and the paper's corresponding author. "Although robotics is rising to the need in addressing many medical problems, deformable devices at the scales required for these kinds of surgeries simply do not exist."
Bioinspiration
To solve this problem, researchers turned to inspiration both from nature and from soft robotics.
"We were inspired by flagella and insect legs, as well as beetles mating, where microscale hydraulics and large aspect deformation are involved," said Gopesh Tilvawala, who recently earned a Ph.D. in Friend's research group and the paper's first author. "This led us to developing [a] hydraulically actuated soft robotic microcatheter."
Computer simulations and new fabrication methods
The team had to invent a whole new way of casting silicone in three dimensions that would work at those scales, by depositing concentric layers of silicone on top of one another with different stiffnesses. The result is a silicone rubber catheter with four holes inside its walls, each about one half the diameter of a human hair.
A steerable catheter allows surgeons to deliver therapies, in this case platinum coils that block blood flow to an aneurysm, in the deepest recess of the brain. Credit: UCSD
The team also conducted computer simulations to determine the configuration of the catheter; how many holes it should include; where these should be placed; and the amount of hydraulic pressure needed to actuate it. To guide the catheter, the surgeon compresses a handheld controller to pass saline fluid into the tip to steer it. Saline is used to protect the patient: if the device should fail, then saline harmlessly enters the bloodstream. The catheter's steerable tip is visible on X-rays.
A new way of doing neurosurgery
"This technology is ideal for situations when I need to make a 180 degree turn from the catheter position in the parent artery, and maintaining position and reducing kick-out is critical," said Dr. David Santiago-Dieppa, neurosurgeon at UC San Diego Health. "This advance may ultimately allow us to treat aneurysms, other brain pathologies and even strokes that we haven't been able to in the past."
The work is poised to make a significant difference in the way aneurysm surgery is conducted, physicians said.
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"This type of precision can be realized with steerable tools and the successful deployment of these tools should move us forward in permitting improved access, decreased procedural time, better capacity utilization, decreased radiation exposure and other related and expected benefits," said Dr. Alexander Norbash, chair of the Department of Radiology at UC San Diego Health.
The next steps include a statistically significant number of animal trials and first in human trial.
Funding: The work was funded by the American Heart Association, the American-Australian Association Sir Keith Murdoch Scholarship, UC San Diego's Galvanizing Engineering in Medicine program, the Chancellor's Research Excellence Scholarship, and the National Institutes of Health.
About this neurotech research news
Author: Ioana Patringenaru
Contact: Ioana Patringenaru – UCSD
Image: The image is credited to UCSD
Original Research: Closed access.
"Soft robotic steerable microcatheter for the endovascular treatment of cerebral disorders" by Alexander Khalessi et al. Science Robotics
Soft robotic steerable microcatheter for the endovascular treatment of cerebral disorders
Catheters used for endovascular navigation in interventional procedures lack dexterity at the distal tip. Neurointerventionists, in particular, encounter challenges in up to 25% of aneurysm cases largely due to the inability to steer and navigate the tip of the microcatheters through tortuous vasculature to access aneurysms.
We overcome this problem with submillimeter diameter, hydraulically actuated hyperelastic polymer devices at the distal tip of microcatheters to enable active steerability. Controlled by hand, the devices offer complete 3D orientation of the tip.
Using saline as a working fluid, we demonstrate guidewire-free navigation, access, and coil deployment in vivo, offering safety, ease of use, and design flexibility absent in other approaches to endovascular intervention. We demonstrate the ability of our device to navigate through vessels and to deliver embolization coils to the cerebral vessels in a live porcine model.
This indicates the potential for microhydraulic soft robotics to solve difficult access and treatment problems in endovascular intervention.
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LARB Radio Hour: Hanif Abdurraqib's Love Letters to A Tribe Called Quest and Claire Vaye Watkins's Desert Futurism
By LARB AV - May 24, 2019
In the first of a series of shows from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Eric, Medaya, and Kate, catch up with two friends of the show: Hanif Abdurraqib and Claire Vaye Watkins. First up, Hanif talks about his new book, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, an epistolary appreciation of one of the most influential groups in hip-hop history. As always, Abdurraqib astounds with instant recall of, and insights about, all things pop cultural and their social resonance. Then, Watkins joins the team to discuss her heralded first novel, Gold Fame Citrus: a terrifying, and all-too-possible, representation of Southern California's near future, in which love blooms in a landscape ravaged by drought.
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The White House Just S*it Canned The Hatch Amendment, Calls OSC's Recommendation To Fire Kellyanne Conway 'Violation Of Free Speech and Due Process'
Ursula Faw
I knew this was going to get nuts and fast. Kellyanne Conway has repeatedly violated the Hatch Act, a 1939 law enacted to prevent "pernicious political activities." Simply, the Act provides that a government employee may not do political activities, like campaigning, while on the job. The problem is, in Trump-topia, the Act is rendered completely meaningless, and flagrantly disregarded all the time, because all of Trump's employees are hired solely for the purpose of being sycophants and campaigners for him 24/7/365. Their respective titles are moot, that's everyone's job.
The Office of Special Counsel, a watchdog group, (not to be confused with the Mueller investigation) recommended Thursday that Kellyanne Conway be fired for her most recent violations of the Hatch Act in disparaging Joe Biden, but the ultimate Catch-22 is that only the *resident can make that call — and you think he's going to fire his main fascism mouthpiece, next to Sarah Huckabee Sanders? Oh, please. This is what Trump said about Sewer Rat Barbie last year. Washington Post:
"She'll do the shows that nobody else dares go near," Trump said in a speech last spring praising her. "She'll just — I'll say, do this one or that one. No problem, sir. Others say, sir, do you think I could take a pass please, I beg you please. Great going, Kellyanne. Thank you. What a help."
Violating the Hatch Act is Conway's stock in trade and has been from early on. In 2017, she said, "Go buy Ivanka's stuff, is what I would tell you," which drew a reprimand and she and was off camera for a brief time. In 2018, Conway campaigned for Roy Moore, again in flagrant violation of the Act. She has zero intention of stopping now and has said as much.
"Blah, blah, blah," Conway said last month when asked about the violations. "If you're trying to silence me through the Hatch Act, it's not going to work. Let me know when the jail sentence starts."
[Agency head Henry J.] Kerner said Thursday that her ongoing violations show "this is someone who simply isn't going to stop."
The reprimands of Conway are among a series of Hatch Act violations by Trump administration officials.
In late 2018, the Office of Special Counsel found six White House officials in violation of the law for using their official Twitter accounts to send or display political messages supporting Trump.
Others sanctioned by the Office of Special Counsel for political messages include former interior secretary Ryan Zinke; Stephanie Grisham, the first lady's spokeswoman; Dan Scavino, former White House social media director; and Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
So, of course, the Trump White House turned and attacked the OSC, even though the head of it, Kerner, is a Trump appointee — more accurately a McGahn appointee, but why split hairs? Let the legal and ethical gladiator games begin. New York Times:
The White House on Thursday released an 11-page memo from Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel, rejecting the 17-page report by Mr. Kerner, the special counsel, who was appointed in 2017 by Mr. Trump.
"OSC's draft report is based on multiple fundamental legal and factual errors, makes unfair and unsupported claims against a close adviser to the president, is the product of a blatantly unfair process that ignored statutory notice requirements, and has been influenced by various inappropriate considerations," Mr. Cipollone wrote.
Among other things, he argued that the special counsel was applying an overreaching interpretation of the law to target the president's aide, particularly by applying unjustified standards to social media.
"OSC's overbroad and unsupported interpretation of the Hatch Act risks violating Ms. Conway's First Amendment rights and chills the free speech of all government employees," Mr. Cipollone wrote. The call for Ms. Conway's firing, he added, "is as outrageous as it is unprecedented."
The "free speech of all government employees" is already chilled — by Conway's actions, as Kerner points out:
"In interview after interview, she uses her official capacity to disparage announced candidates, which is not allowed," he said, adding: "What kind of example does that send to the federal workforce? If you're high enough up in the White House, you can break the law, but if you're a postal carrier or a regular federal worker, you lose your job?"
That's exactly the message that is sent. If you're Trump or one of his close circle, you are above the law. And here's where this is going, from Politico reporter Kyle Cheney.
JUST IN: The House Oversight Committee has announced a hearing next week with the Office of Special Counsel to review the Hatch Act allegations against Kellyanne Conway. Conway is also invited to attend.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) June 13, 2019
Note: The hearing is set for June 26, not precisely next week.
Fun fact: Kerner was staff director under John McCain of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which would make him old school Republican.
Second fun fact: Even Fox News is defying Trump on this one. RawStory:
"The office is headed by a man who was appointed by President Trump," Fox News host Shepard Smith noted. "It said, if left unpunished, her actions send the message to all federal employees that they need not abide by the Hatch Act."
Napolitano explained that the regulation prevented federal employees from engaging in partisan attacks while on federal property or using federal assets.
"It seems like a pretty clear-cut case to me, and it seems like her behavior is repeated," Napolitano said.
Unless I miss my guess, the coffee pots are flying into the TV sets at the White House, while Trump tears at his cotton candy hair, watching Fox News betray him. How can he go on without Sewer Rat Barbie, who, as he himself has said, is the only one who will "do the shows that nobody else dares go near?" Propagandists of the Hanoi Hannah and Tokyo Rose caliber are not easy to come by. And Hucky Boo Boo doesn't have Conway's legal training. She makes fallacious arguments, too, depending upon her religious sanctimony to carry the day, but she's not as smart as Conway. Plus, Sanders has fallen on her a$$ recently. Her only propaganda proclamations are on Fox News. She hasn't given a press conference in over ninety days. She's probably s*itting herself in a broom closet somewhere, terrified that if Conway goes down in flames, it's going to be up to her to do Conway's job. Mick Mulvaney is probably gone today as well, maybe to the same gym that John Kelly used to go to hide during the day when the heat got too hot in the Trump kitchen.
It's always an ill wind that blows the day that Fox News goes against Trump. Sewer Rat Barbie may not survive this one. Holy Hannity, Batman.
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13 Comments on "The White House Just S*it Canned The Hatch Amendment, Calls OSC's Recommendation To Fire Kellyanne Conway 'Violation Of Free Speech and Due Process'"
I DID say wait 2 hours.🤐
Oh, honey, you have no idea! Hucky Boo Boo Sanders just quit. I'm writing a piece on that now. I've been glued to my desk all day. WHAT a news day! Gotta run, the post won't write itself.
P J Evans
And it's still Thursday.
I should go look at the Palmer Report. He's got a great running gag where he lists four or five things that have blown up in Washington on any given day and then says, "and it's only four o'clock" whatever time. Yes, it's still Thursday. What a day.
Lil Blue Sock
Sewer Rat Barbie???…..
aaahahaha!!!
Not to be confused with Hurricane Barbie, which is Melania. I haven't come up with the right sobriquet for Ivanka quite yet. I'm working on it. But I think Sewer Rat Barbie fits Kellyanne perfectly. I would go share it with George Conway on Twitter, because he disses everybody in the Trump administration, but I have no clue what his relationship is with his own wife. Not to go all Rona Barrett on this one, but damn, I can't imagine a marriage where the two parties are at opposite poles like those two. Whatever. I guess that subplot will be… Read more »
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If there is no answer from the executive office, OLC should take their case to the bar. That would be a lifetime sentence.
Get Kellyanne disbarred, is what you're saying? You know, back in 2017, right after the election, there was a story about some lawyer pointing out how unethically Kellyanne was behaving. Whether it was at the time of her first Hatch Act violation, I don't recall. But he was advocating some form of censure from the bar. I don't think she cares. I think she may have invested her money wisely, I know she bought a new house in D.C. not long ago, and she's sitting pretty. I don't think she needs to worry about money, so she's going to go… Read more »
Maybe financially, she doesn't care, But I think the sting of losing her law licence and all that entails would mean a lot. She has children to try to explain things to. That is something I would have a hard time with.
It's hard to call this one. Kellyanne made it clear she's not worried about violating the Hatch Act and Trump made it clear he's not firing her. So what happens, she just walks scot free? What kind of a message does that send?
It will be interesting to see where this goes.
VoltOwner
Headline is confusing Hatch Act and Hyde Amendment? Timely though…
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Ursula, as much as you despise Melania, this hag is the one that gets me seething. She is calculating, cruel, mean-spirited, hateful, and a real wise-ass. I can't wait to see her get hers. She's a total *itch and I make no apologies for saying so.
Dino Durrati - July 19, 2019


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Neil Leyton is a Portuguese-Canadian singer and guitarist born in Lisbon. He has lived and played music in Toronto, London, and Stockholm.

He was a founding member and songwriter in Canadian art-glam indie project The Conscience Pilate from 1995 to 1998, beginning a solo career in 1999. He is also the founder of the Fading Ways record label, one of the first to use Creative Commons licenses. Leyton was a vocal proponent of the Creative Commons giving several seminars and speaking at conferences about its possible uses in the music industry, including Music Tank (London) and Popkomm (Berlin).

He has also played guitar for other musical projects live and in the studio, most notably British glam rockers Dogs D'Amour, Canadian rockers Crash Kelly (fellow Canadian musician Sean Kelly's band) and Canadian power pop outfit Galore. He participated in a side-project with Ky Anto, titled Pretty Volume, and recorded an EP with fellow Canadian guitarist Rich Jones and The Wildhearts' frontman Ginger in the UK. The Hellacopters's Nicke Andersson and Backyard Babies's guitarist Dregen were guests on Leyton's The Betrayal of the Self album, released in 2006 via Feedback Boogie and Fading Ways Records.

In December 2008 he released an exclusive fans-only new album, Metacognitive Apperceptions. Leyton has also produced several independent recording sessions for artists such as Mark Fernyhough and Maria Pettersson.

In 2009 he participated in a new side project with The Hellacopters' Nicke Andersson, called The Point, releasing a 7" vinyl single. He also co-wrote and sang on Andersson's debut solo album Imperial State Electric, on the track "Deja Vu", released in 2010.

At the end of 2010 he released the Elite Nylon album. In early 2011, AWAL released the compilation Out of Synch, featuring mostly acoustic material from Leyton's back-catalogue as well as some unreleased tracks.

In 2016, Portugal's Polk Salad Records re-issued Leyton's The Betrayal of the Self album via the Spanish Distributor Altafonte. Leyton also announced a new upcoming album from his new, Portugal-based project Lusitanian Ghosts, whose first single was titled "Blossom", recorded in the city of Setubal.

Discography

EPs:

 My New Soul (Fading Ways/RCD 2001)
 Beat (Fading Ways 2004)
 Dead Fashion Brigade (Fading Ways 2005)

Albums:

 Down Secret Avenue with the Last Lovers (Fading Ways 1999)
 From the brighter side of her Midnight Sun (Fading Ways 2002/ChangesOne 2003)
 The Betrayal of the Self (Fading Ways / Feedback Boogie 2006)
 A Reckoning (Fading Ways (UK, Canada, Finland) / Finetunes (Germany) / Kunaki (USA) 2007)
 Metacognitive Apperceptions (Fading Ways / Kunaki 2008)
 Elite Nylon (Fading Ways Music Store / Finetunes 2010)
 Out of Synch (Fabulous Generation / AWAL 2011)

With Galore:
 Parader (Riptide/EMI Music Canada 2003)

With The Conscience Pilate:
 Living in a movie scene (Fading Ways 1996)
 Sunday Refugees (Guru Records 1998)

With Pretty Volume:
 Pretty Volume (Fading Ways / Finetunes / Kunaki 2008)

With The Point:
 Give it a try 7" (Fading Ways Finland 2010)

With Lusitanian Ghosts:
 "Blossom" (Single, Lusitanian / Altafonte 2014)

References

Leyton on Creative Commons: *
Music Tank: *

External links
Official Website
Fading Ways Music Canada label site
MySpace Page
Leyton conference on Creative Commons, Helsinki, Finland
Neil Leyton on LastFM
Leyton on Amie Street
Soulshine magazine Interview
Leyton on Jamendo
Noise Finland Betrayal of the Self album review
Digital Copyright.ca on Fading Ways and Creative Commons
Neil Leyton at Internet Archive
Leyton on Five Miles High UK

Living people
Canadian rock guitarists
Canadian male guitarists
Canadian rock singers
Canadian male singers
Year of birth missing (living people)


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var run = Ember.run;

module("integration/active_model - AMS-namespaced-model-names", {
  setup: function() {
    SuperVillain = DS.Model.extend({
      firstName:     DS.attr('string'),
      lastName:      DS.attr('string'),
      evilMinions:   DS.hasMany("evilMinion")
    });

    EvilMinion = DS.Model.extend({
      superVillain: DS.belongsTo('superVillain'),
      name:         DS.attr('string')
    });
    YellowMinion = EvilMinion.extend();
    DoomsdayDevice = DS.Model.extend({
      name:         DS.attr('string'),
      evilMinion:   DS.belongsTo('evilMinion', { polymorphic: true })
    });
    MediocreVillain = DS.Model.extend({
      name:         DS.attr('string'),
      evilMinions:  DS.hasMany('evilMinion', { polymorphic: true })
    });
    env = setupStore({
      superVillain:   SuperVillain,
      evilMinion:     EvilMinion,
      'evilMinions/yellowMinion':   YellowMinion,
      doomsdayDevice: DoomsdayDevice,
      mediocreVillain: MediocreVillain
    });
    env.store.modelFor('superVillain');
    env.store.modelFor('evilMinion');
    env.store.modelFor('evilMinions/yellowMinion');
    env.store.modelFor('doomsdayDevice');
    env.store.modelFor('mediocreVillain');
    env.registry.register('serializer:application', DS.ActiveModelSerializer);
    env.registry.register('serializer:-active-model', DS.ActiveModelSerializer);
    env.registry.register('adapter:-active-model', DS.ActiveModelAdapter);
    env.amsSerializer = env.container.lookup("serializer:-active-model");
    env.amsAdapter    = env.container.lookup("adapter:-active-model");
  },

  teardown: function() {
    run(env.store, 'destroy');
  }
});

test("serialize polymorphic", function() {
  var tom, ray;
  run(function() {
    tom = env.store.createRecord('evilMinions/yellowMinion', { name: "Alex", id: "124" });
    ray = env.store.createRecord(DoomsdayDevice, { evilMinion: tom, name: "DeathRay" });
  });

  var json = env.amsSerializer.serialize(ray._createSnapshot());

  deepEqual(json, {
    name: "DeathRay",
    evil_minion_type: "EvilMinions::YellowMinion",
    evil_minion_id: "124"
  });
});

test("serialize polymorphic when type key is not camelized", function() {
  YellowMinion.typeKey = 'evil-minions/yellow-minion';
  var tom, ray;
  run(function() {
    tom = env.store.createRecord(YellowMinion, { name: "Alex", id: "124" });
    ray = env.store.createRecord(DoomsdayDevice, { evilMinion: tom, name: "DeathRay" });
  });

  var json = env.amsSerializer.serialize(ray._createSnapshot());

  deepEqual(json["evil_minion_type"], "EvilMinions::YellowMinion");
});

test("extractPolymorphic hasMany", function() {
  var json_hash = {
    mediocre_villain: { id: 1, name: "Dr Horrible", evil_minions: [{ type: "EvilMinions::YellowMinion", id: 12 }] },
    evil_minions:    [{ id: 12, name: "Alex", doomsday_device_ids: [1] }]
  };
  var json;

  run(function() {
    json = env.amsSerializer.extractSingle(env.store, MediocreVillain, json_hash);
  });

  deepEqual(json, {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Dr Horrible",
    "evilMinions": [{
      type: "evilMinions/yellowMinion",
      id: 12
    }]
  });
});

test("extractPolymorphic", function() {
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  };
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    json = env.amsSerializer.extractSingle(env.store, DoomsdayDevice, json_hash);
  });

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    "id": 1,
    "name": "DeathRay",
    "evilMinion": {
      type: "evilMinions/yellowMinion",
      id: 12
    }
  });
});


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Green Pledges Require the Backing of Economic Benefits
The UN Climate Change Conference 2021, COP26 is seeing lots of countries make plenty of worthy pledges regarding what they are going to do to tackle climate change, but I fear that few of these pledges will be honoured and most will wither on the vine unless the pledge comes complete with an economic advantage.
Similarly, it is noticeable that some of the biggest influencers of climate change––China and Russia––are making few pledges to reform their worst polluting practices, because to do so would lose them economic advantage. Regarding economy versus climate change, the world currently finds itself in the unfortunate position of whoever blinks last wins.
Although the World Energy Outlook 2020 report commissioned by the International Energy Agency concluded that solar power is now the cheapest source of electricity, for many developing countries coal remains their most economically viable form of energy. In the UK, the last operating deep coal mine closed in 2015, so for the National Grid to achieve its first working day without using coal to generate electricity, as it did in April 2017, was a relatively painless process, with few modern-day economic or political repercussions. The same situation is not shared by the rest of the world, including even the US, where many of President Joe Biden's reformist energy plans are being scuppered from being passed in the Senate by a single Democrat senator, Joe Manchin, who represents the traditionally fossil-fuel powerhouse of West Virginia.
It is a similar situation on a personal level as it is on a governmental one. Economic concerns still outweigh environmental ones. Economics is immediate and all-consuming whereas, wrongly or rightly, environmental issues are still perceived as far-off dates; 2030 for this; 2050 for that; 2070 for something else. They are distant mirages in the future to someone who doesn't have enough money to pay for their next meal tomorrow, or the council tax next week.
Admirable as might be a wish-list of pledges on targets for cutting future greenhouse gas emissions, what is most pressingly required of governments is a comprehensive global strategy for a green economy that makes both renewable sources of energy the most economically advantageous for all world nations and jobs in green-sector industries plentiful, profitable and satisfying for individuals.
Any human intervention on climate change will succeed or fail according to economics and, sadly, economics is no respecter of the environment: while there is money to be made from building sleek electric cars, there may be just as much money to be made from building bleak underground bunkers that can withstand massive temperature rises. I'd like to be able to say that the choice of which vision of the future we want is ours to decide, but I'm not sure that it is. Perhaps the economics is bigger than all of us?
Simon Turner-Tree puts a bit of a downer on COP26.
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Healthcare managers' decision making: findings of a small scale exploratory study
MacDonald, J., Bath, P.A. and Booth, A. (2008) Healthcare managers' decision making: findings of a small scale exploratory study. Health Informatics Journal, 14 (4). pp. 247-258. ISSN 1460-4582
Managers who work in publicly funded healthcare organizations are an understudied group. Some of the influences on their decisions may be unique to healthcare. This study considers how to integrate research knowledge effectively into healthcare managers' decision making, and how to manage and integrate information that will include community data. This first phase in a two-phase mixed methods research study used a qualitative, multiple case studies design. Nineteen semi-structured interviews were undertaken using the critical incident technique. Interview transcripts were analysed using the NatCen Framework. One theme represented `information and decisions'. Cases were determined to involve complex multi-level, multi-situational decisions with participants in practical rather than ceremonial work roles. Most considered organizational knowledge in the first two decision phases and external knowledge, including research, in the third phase. All participants engaged in satisficing to some degree.
MacDonald, J.
Bath, P.A.
Booth, A.
decision complexity; healthcare managers; naturalistic decision making; organizational decision making; work roles
The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield)
Information Studies


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