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Inside Giuliani's new push to flip the script on Trump's impeachment
By Josh Lederman and Kristen Welker with NBC News Politics • Updated: 23/12/2019
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych looks on before signing an agreement in Kiev on February 21, 2014. - Copyright Sergei Supinsky AFP / Getty Images file
WASHINGTON — Even as President Donald Trump awaits a trial in the Senate, his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani is moving full speed ahead with new allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden and the former ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, the very individuals targeted by Trump in events that triggered his impeachment.
In recent weeks, Giuliani — himself under federal investigation for his Ukraine activities — has cryptically teased what he calls new "proof" buttressing charges about Biden and purported corruption during the Obama administration, attempting to flip the script by contending that Democrats — not the president — are the ones guilty of obstruction and collusion with a foreign power to influence elections.
The allegations point to four Ukrainian would-be whistleblowers he says Yovanovitch silenced through visa denials, and include two multibillion-dollar schemes he says he's uncovered and that Yovanovitch and the Obama administration conspired to cover up.
In tweets and interviews, the former New York City mayor has been intentionally vague about both the allegations and his newfound proof, while vowing to eventually reveal it to the Department of Justice and a trio of senators.
"All in good time," Giuliani told NBC News via text message when asked when he'd produce the evidence.
But documents obtained by NBC News, interviews with people familiar with Giuliani's activities and a review of his public comments show he's relying almost entirely on assertions by Ukrainians whose credibility is questionable at best. In some cases, the allegations have already been thoroughly debunked.
Giuliani's allegations have found a receptive audience in Trump, who says Giuliani will "make a report" to Attorney General William Barr about his "good information." In the Senate, Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham and two other Republican chairmen are seeking interviews with Ukrainians and Americans with purported knowledge about what Giuliani alleges.
That has created the prospect that even as the Senate holds a trial on whether to remove Trump from office, Senate Republicans could counter-program the trial by carrying out their own publicized probe into Biden and his son Biden and alleged Ukrainian meddling in 2016.
Here's a look at what's known and unknown about Giuliani's new allegations:
$5.3 billion in squandered U.S. cash
Giuliani's first allegation centers on $5.3 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars he says were mishandled and even "laundered" during the Obama administration on Biden's and Yovanovitch's watch.
On Twitter, Giuliani cited documents from Ukrainian auditors he says show "much of the $5.3B in U.S. aid" was misused and "given to the embassy's favored NGOs" — nongovernmental organizations. He says the U.S. Embassy "directed the police not to investigate."
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, right, testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in the second public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump\'s efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Susan Walsh
The United States has never given $5.3 billion to Ukraine. Even Israel, the largest recipient of U.S. assistance, has never received more than $3.8 billion in a given year.
A 2017 report from Ukraine's Accounts Chamber, the parliamentary auditing agency, and reviewed by NBC News does mention $5.3 billion in U.S.-funded "international technical projects" — during the last full year of the Obama administration — but not all the money was from the United States. Although the report concludes the funding wasn't well-directed toward Ukraine's top economic priorities, there's no suggestion of intentional misconduct and no reference to laundering.
Giuliani hasn't explained his claim that the U.S. urged Ukraine's police not to investigate. But his reference in the same tweet to "favored NGOs" offers a window into his emerging claim.
For months, Giuliani has alleged that an anti-corruption nonprofit in Ukraine called AntAc colluded with the Democratic Party to dig up dirt on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. AntAc received funding both from the U.S. and from a philanthropy founded by billionaire George Soros, a fact Giuliani's associates have used to fuel conspiracy theories.
Giuliani worked closely with John Solomon, a former columnist for The Hill newspaper, on articles about alleged Ukrainian election-meddling, including a column in March that said the U.S. Embassy pressured Ukraine to drop an investigation into AntAc.
The column included a letter from George Kent, then the No. 2 in the embassy, to the Ukrainian prosecutor's office that said the U.S. was confident its money was being well spent on anti-corruption activities in Ukraine and that a probe into AntAc based on its receipt of U.S. funding was "misplaced." At the time Kent sent the letter, Yovanovitch wasn't yet the ambassador.
Kent, in his testimony in the impeachment hearings, said that the effort by the former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko — one of Giuliani's key witnesses — to investigate AntAc was "completely without merit."
$7.5 billion in laundered Ukrainian funds
Since his investigative trip to Ukraine and eastern Europe this month, Giuliani has been teasing a revelation he says is coming about another scheme, this one worth $7.5 billion.
It involves a claim that former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who plundered the country's assets before being ousted, had laundered $7.5 billion through an elaborate conspiracy involving Franklin Templeton, a U.S. investment firm, which purchased Ukrainian bonds nearing that amount starting a decade ago. They were later sold.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych looks on before signing an agreement in Kiev on February 21, 2014.Sergei Supinsky
No proof has been produced publicly. A Franklin Templeton spokeswoman said the allegations are "not logical and entirely false," pointing out that the money went from the firm to Ukraine's government — the exact opposite of what's alleged.
The unproven allegations have been peddled for years by Lutsenko and more recently by Ukrainian lawmaker and former journalist Oleksandr Dubinsky. Giuliani met with both men while in Europe this month.
After his meeting with Giuliani in Kyiv, Dubinsky posted a video to social media in which he said he'd told Giuliani about the alleged scheme. A spokeswoman for Lutsenko told Ukrainian media he had also told Giuliani that Yovanovitch had blocked him from investigating the stolen funds.
"She was OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE and that's not the only thing she was doing. She at minimum enabled Ukrainian collusion," Giuliani wrote this month on Twitter.
Yovanovitch declined through an attorney to comment on Giuliani's allegations. But the Franklin Templeton theory dovetails with Giuliani's repeated assertions that Yovanovitch "perjured herself" in her impeachment testimony.
Lutsenko says when he was prosecutor general, Yovanovitch impeded his efforts to obtain Justice Department help investigating money laundering and Yanukovych's graft. Yovanovitch testified he wasn't serious about those aims and just wanted high-profile meetings with the U.S. attorney general and the FBI director.
Yovanovitch testified she encouraged Lutsenko to meet with the FBI's legal attaché at the embassy, the normal process for requesting law enforcement cooperation between countries, but that Lutsenko "didn't want to share that information."
Not so, Lutsenko said alongside Giuliani in an interview this month with One America News Network, the far-right television outlet that traveled with Giuliani to Ukraine. He held up a letter he sent in 2017 to the legal attaché about the Franklin Templeton allegations, as evidence that Yovanovitch perjured herself by saying he never contacted the attaché.
A former senior U.S. official said the letter in question was spurious and offered no proof any of the money was in the U.S., and that because the legal attaché works for the Justice Department, it's possible Yovanovitch wouldn't have even known about it.
At the same time, Giuliani has been tweeting about connections between Franklin Templeton and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who ran the impeachment investigation.
Giuliani has echoed suggestions by Lutsenko that Schiff stood to benefit because he had a financial interest in Franklin Templeton. Schiff's public financial disclosure shows he owns some of the firm's mutual funds along with other various similar investments. There's no evidence Schiff had any involvement in or knowledge of the firm's purchase of Ukrainian bonds years ago.
Visas blocked for Ukrainian whistleblowers
Giuliani says he has four witnesses ready to testify that Yovanovitch "personally turned down their visas because they were going to come here and give evidence either against Biden or against the Democratic Party." He said he also now has "documentary proof."
It's unclear why any of the individuals would need to travel to the U.S. to provide evidence about corruption, or whether Giuliani perhaps hoped to arrange meetings between them and Trump as he sought to deliver dirt about the president's opponents.
Giuliani hasn't disclosed a list of the four individuals or described the proof. But the likely list can be gleaned from other assertions he and his associates have made about Ukrainians unable to get visas to come to the U.S.
The first is former Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who preceded Lutsenko. Trump and Giuliani allege Biden bribed Ukraine with $1 billion in U.S. aid in 2016 to fire Shokin so as to shut down investigations into Burisma, the Ukrainian natural gas company whose board Hunter Biden joined.
Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko speaks at a trial in Kyiv in 2017.Danil Shamkin
While in Europe, Giuliani also interviewed Shokin, who told him and One America News that at Biden's demand, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko pressured him to wind down the investigation into Burisma. But it's never been clear that Shokin was actively investigating Burisma in the first place, and critics say Shokin was in fact leveraging the threat of opening a Burisma investigation to solicit bribes.
Yovanovitch and other U.S. officials deposed in the impeachment inquiry testified that pushing Ukraine to replace Shokin was official U.S. policy, precisely because he was seen as failing to sufficiently investigate corruption.
Documents given to Giuliani by Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Derkach and obtained by NBC News show Giuliani has also been absorbing allegations that under Yovanovitch, the U.S. Embassy was acting as a puppet master for Ukraine's recently formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau, or NABU.
The documents circulated by Derkach, who was trained at a KGB school in Moscow, include emails between NABU officials and U.S. embassy officials in 2017. Derkach had said they show the NABU "leaked" information to the U.S. about ongoing criminal cases, including investigations into Mykola Zlochevsky, the Ukrainian oligarch who founded Burisma.
Giuliani has acknowledged that in January he tried and failed to get the Trump administration to grant Shokin a U.S. visa.
In her impeachment testimony, Yovanovitch says she didn't block the visa for Shokin, but concurred when State Department consular officials suggested withholding a visa because of his "known corrupt activities." She says she notified Washington of the decision and that senior State Department officials stood behind it even as Giuliani was pressuring the White House to overrule them.
Giuliani says that's another example of perjury by Yovanovitch. He says he now has State Department records showing the reason stated for the denial was that Shokin had undergone an operation two years earlier "and hadn't recovered yet."
Giuliani didn't explain that unusual claim, which would not normally preclude a visa, and hasn't produced the records. But Yovanovitch in her testimony suggested Shokin had lied in his visa application by saying he was coming to visit family, not provide evidence about corruption, as he now claims.
A State Department spokeswoman didn't respond to requests for comment about Shokin's visa application or Giuliani's claim.
A second Ukrainian likely on Giuliani's list is Andriy Telizhenko, the former Ukrainian diplomat who says he witnessed the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington collude with the Democratic National Committee in 2016. Telizhenko traveled to Ukraine with Giuliani on his trip and told NBC News he now can't return because his visa is being blocked by "Soros people" with influence over the U.S. Embassy.
A third Ukrainian who says his visa was blocked is Mykhaylo Okhendovsky, who chaired Ukraine's Central Election Commission until the Parliament fired him last year.
In an interview alongside Giuliani, Okhendovsky told One America News that Kent, the former deputy under Yovanovitch at the U.S. Embassy, tried to block his visa. He said when he appealed to Yovanovitch, she brushed him off. Okhendovsky says while he now holds a U.S. visa, he's been told it won't be renewed once it expires.
The fourth Ukrainian appears to be Kostiantyn Kulyk, a former prosecutor who compiled a dossier about Hunter Biden. Giuliani says in a One America News segment that Kulyk made a formal application to come to the U.S. to divulge what he knows, but that the U.S. Embassy hasn't responded.


Just when we thought things couldn't get any better.... they do! Another epic work party attended by approximately 45 volunteers.
Surrounded by storm damage from the previous day, the sun was shining and the wind had dropped.
We continued the battle against the Rhododendron as well as continuing the mammoth task of tidying up the woodland by creating habitat piles and burning a lot of debris.
The bonfire was also put to good use cooking sausages on our new frying pan complete with 5 foot handle..... great to cook with on a roaring bonfire, but a little harder to wash up!
It was great to see so many new faces, particularly families. The children were kept amused with bug hunts, playing on the recently fallen tree and of course getting stuck in with the work. We need some correct size gloves and smaller tools for the children to use, so will be starting a fundraising scheme shortly to get them kitted out!
Todd was able to pick a new tree to site his bird box which had come down (with its tree) in the New Year storm.
We will be back again on Sunday 16th March to carry on the work, please do come and join us.
This work party featured in the Stour & Avon Magazine, read about it here.


Christa Miranda is asking David Syz about his motivation on producing documentaries about globalization.
Businessman, former State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Filmmaker: In his third «career», David W. Syz turns his focus towards globalization and the problems arising with this phenomenon.
Unemployment is one oft he most crucial problems of mankind. Though this topic has a global dimension, solutions are always sought at a national level. In a global economy all nations are competing against each other. Is this the reason why all countries refuse to learn from the others?
Our world would have the resources to nourish 12 billion people. Yet worldwide, one billion people are suffering from chronic hunger. How is this possible? Find out!
What went wrong in the fight against poverty that still over a billion of people have to live with less than a dollar a day although huge amounts of money have been invested?
Is global trade an economic blessing or a public nuisance? Who pays in the end for the cheap prices of goods? And how does globalization spark off war for market share, jobs and political power?


Enjoy this 11 Day Package, Traveling through the Highlands of the South Peru Andes Discovering the Magic Incas World, Visiting the Ancient Capital City of the Incas Cusco, Passing through The Sacred Valley, Trekking the Famous Inca Trail to Machupicchu, Puno and the Beautiful Titicaca Lake.
The first day you will be greeted at Cusco International Airport and driven in private transport to your hotel. After, arrival at your hotel you will receive an introduction covering, your itinerary, the City of Cusco, suggested restaurants, and all necessary information for your Journey. The afternoon is free to rest, acclimatize, and visit museums in Cusco.
Today you will have a full day journey through both the rich history and stunning scenery in the Sacred Valley of Incas. You will be picked up from near the square around 7:30AM by a private bus. Then you will head towards the scared valley the colonial towns and Inca Ruins of Pisaq, Ollantaytambo, Chincheros. We will then head back towards Cusco and you will be dropped off at your hotel around 5:30PM. In the evening you will have free time to sample a wide restaurants and entertainment options in Cusco.
The trail climbs steeply up the opposite side of the valley wall, towards the second pass. About halfway upthere is a small round roofless stone building, This Inca archaeological remains is known as Runcuracay. The building is thought to have been a astronomic site. After the trail continues climbing towards the second pass "the Abra de Runcuracay", which is at around 3900m.
The final section of the magic inca trail, from Wiñayhuayna to Intipunku is an easy hike, following a broad level path, which winds comfortably through scrub and light woodland. Colorful butterflies flutter across the trail. After no more than an hour, the trail Comes to a narrow flight of stone steps leading upwards into a small stone structure with a grass floor a few meters square. This is Intipunku, the Gateway of the Sun, and through the rectangular doorway you can see the Machupicchu. From Intipunku, a pathway leads directly to Machu Picchu itself, before arriving to machu picchu there is needed to hike for about 1 hour by steeply down hill and before tour in machu picchu is needed to check out the inca trail and after make the tour. The tour usually takes two hours and after free. Leisure time to explore machu picchu, bus drive is provided to get aguas calientes town where the train station is.
Early in the morning, we will take the tourist bus to go to Puno, arriving in the afternoon.Transfer to our hotel.
Today you will visit Lake Titicaca and its region. With a motorized boat you will explore "la Isla flotante Uros", "la isla Taquile", and "la isla de los Tejedores". The islands offer an impressive landscape and a great view of Bolivia. In the afternoon there will be served a local lunch and afterwards you have some time off. After returning in Puno you will be transfered to your hotel.
In the morning, transfer to the Juliaca's airport, to take our flight back to Lima, end of our services.


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Silvio M. CATOR
Haiti HAI
Olympic Medals
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Considered the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti has won two Olympic medals. The last one (as of 2012) was won by Silvio Cator. After making his Olympic début in 1924, Cator became a Haitian sporting hero when he won a silver medal in the 1928 long jump. Just a few weeks later, Cator jumped into the record books, breaking Edward Hamm's World Record with a 7.937 m jump, making him the first man to break through the 26-foot barrier. Possibly, Cator was also the first man to jump further than 8 metres, although information regarding his 1929 jump of 8.04 metres is sparse, and his jump supposedly had too much back wind. Cator's 7.937 is still Haiti's national record, making it the longest standing national record in track and field. Cator, who also played for the Haitian national football team, has the Stade Sylvio Cator in Port-au-Prince named after him.
Personal Bests: HJ – 1.85 (1924); LJ – 7.93 (1928).
High Jump Athletics

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Swiss Cryptocurrency Lawyer Criticizes Obtuse Nature Of ICOs, Is Numb To Irony
This guy is a real Joggel.
Thornton McEnery
By JHG (Julien29) (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Sometimes you read a paragraph that is so perfect you have to sit back, kiss your fingertips and just give it up to the comic justice of the universe.
Like this one...
One of the top lawyers in the booming cryptocurrency industry says the legal structure he helped set up to raise funds for new virtual currencies is "old, inflexible and stupid" and may no longer be fit for purpose.
Well, who would understand the vagaries of an inflexibly obtuse legal structure for a financial product better than a guy who helped create that very system and lives in actual Switzerland?
Luka Mueller's MME law firm helped set up foundations in Switzerland for Tezos and some of the world's biggest ICOs, including those of Bancor and Ethereum. Many foundations applied for non-profit tax status. The money raised in the ICO is treated as a donation that may not be returned.
Regulators in the United States, the UK, and elsewhere are looking at whether an ICO should have similar investor protection to an initial public offering (IPO) for a company.
Oh man, you guys, he's not seeing it.
Mueller told Reuters cryptocurrency groups involving U.S. participants or gaining backing from investors should set up companies instead of the Swiss foundations he helped popularize.
"If you structure your token sale in a way that it would look like an initial public offering, then even if you launch a (blockchain) protocol, the foundation is maybe not suitable," he said.
"If...the background is more an investor environment rather than a technical environment, yes, do all the registrations. If you want to sell it, if you want to be active and actively promoting it in the US, apply U.S. law."
The crypto market is so troublingly unregulated that even the Swiss are saying "Someone should watch where the money is going" out loud.
"The Swiss foundation actually is a very old, inflexible, stupid model," he said. "The foundation is not designed for operations"...
"You as a user must be absolutely clear — and if you don't understand it keep your fingers away — that if you have an ether or a bitcoin, and it does not work, you have nobody to claim against," he said.
We're now days away from The Caymans announcing that it will outlaw cryptos for being "Sketchy af."
Top Swiss cryptocurrency lawyer questions 'stupid' ICO structure [Reuters]
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Jose Canseco Needs A Lawyer For An ICO That Merges Celebrity Crypto With Unwanted Hugs
Don't everyone line up at once.
Swiss Irony
Swiss Bitcoin Entrepreneur Is Only Kind Of Saying That New York Is Like North Korea
He's just saying that Ben Lawsky is "Kim Jong Un-ish."
Sears Unsubtly Threatening An ICO
Hey, if Kodak can do it...
Cryptocurrency At The Crossroads
Thornton joined the Above the Law to talk cryptos, he was full nonsense!
IRS Fines Swiss Bank For Being A Bank In Switzerland
The US Government contemplating cracking down on leopards for having spots.
Jeff Skilling Is Out Of Prison And Into Crytpo Because Free Will Is A Fallacy
The ex-CEO of Enron is shockingly intrigued by a market in which pump n' dumps are fine n' normal.
Nebraska Octogenarian Likens Cryptocurrencies To A Wayward Teen
Warren Buffett thinks cryptos "will come to a bad ending" because of course he does.


According to a news release issued by trucking giant YRC Worldwide (YRCW), it's "entered into a tentative agreement with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters [IBT] to address the company's competitiveness, re-entry into multi-employer pension funds and progress toward long-term growth." YRC said details of the agreement will be made available only after approval by IBT and the company's own board, expected this week.
The trucking concern said the deal will be submitted for ratification by YRCW employees who are Teamsters, with completion targeted for late October .
"This tentative agreement is an important step toward the completion of our comprehensive recovery plan," said Mike Smid, president of YRC and COO of YRCW. "As our business continues to improve, the implementation of this tentative agreement will allow us to continue to provide our customers with a comprehensive portfolio of services that is competitive and reliable."
YRCW, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Overland Park, KS, is the holding company for such operations as YRC, YRC Reimer, YRC Glen Moore, Reddaway, Holland and New Penn. It also provides China-based services through its Jiayu and JHJ joint ventures.


I was so excited when the box arrived! I couldn't wait to try it out. Then I found out...I'm a wuss. A total wuss! Let's start at the beginning. I didn't shave my pits for 3 weeks so I could show you just how hairy I can get. Teehee! So if it's going to gross you out...stop reading now. Day after day, the SO begged me to shave. When the Tria Hair Removal Laser arrived and I finally shaved my armpits, I don't know who was happier, him or me. It was getting uncomfortable and prickly!
Then I read the manual and realized a lot of things. For example, it cannot be used on certain skin tones and hair colors. If you have medium brown or dark brown/black skin tones, the laser is not safe to use. Those skin types may absorb too much laser light and result in burns or scars. Eek! It also only works on naturally brown or black hair and well, basically, you're out of luck if you have blond, red, white, gray, or dyed hair. Sorry.
Before your first use, you have to charge the device for 2 hours and then activate it either online or by phone. Then, you have to be clean shaven before starting the treatment. In the first 3 months of treatment, I should be doing this twice a month. Then, I am to continue this once a month until the 6th to 8th month. After that will be occasional maintenance treatments. You're supposed to spot test treatment areas to determine what level to use the laser on. There's 5 laser settings. There's a slight pinching-plucking feeling as the laser beeps and says, "I'm done. Move to the next spot." Since I don't like waxing, you can tell I'm a bit sensitive to pain. This was slightly uncomfortable for me as I moved the settings up because I really was pushing my pain threshold. I can't handle a 3. Depending on where I was doing, level 2 was also a tad painful. For example, on my armpit, there's areas where I don't feel anything on a 2 and areas where a 2 can cause discomfort. I have heard that your skin gets desensitized to this as time goes on so not to worry. I could, however, handle level 5 just fine on my legs. After the first month of treatment, I don't expect to see much change yet. You can shave between treatments but don't pluck or wax. So far, I'm okay with it, having completed two treatments separated by two weeks. Other than a bit of warm in some areas, I never suffered from any redness or after effects from the laser. Stay tuned for next month's post so I can tell you how it's going!
Oh, thanks for keeping it real with those photos! I can't wait to hear about next month!
You know, for 3 weeks unshaven, you were nowhere near as hairy as most people would be, lol!
I agree with Cheap is the New Classy. Most people could braid it after 3 weeks, j/k LOL!
I can't wait to read your update next month.
I had no idea you could laser at home!!! I'm definitely going to look into this. Thanks for the reviews!
I am following along with your progress!
You are a brave, brave lady! Brava! I wasn't aware of the danger of burns for darker skin tones. Good FYI.
This is a cool idea. I can't wait to follow the reviews and see if it works.
There is no way I could go without shaving under my arms for three weeks!! Of course, your growth looks like it is slower than mine would be--lucky you!!
If you think your pits are hairy, you should see mine after not shaving for a week! I shave every day because of it. I'm also fair with black hair, so good to know I could use this.
I'd have no problem going that long without shaving, especially in the winter, lol. I think I would be a little nervous about the pain.
I want to try tshis so bad, but yikes, I do not take pain well. I think it is worth it though lol.
It is nice to hear how an actual person feels and handles the device. I read about it on their website, but I just wasn't sure about it. I can't wait to see what happens next!
Oooh, I like that you can adjust the laser. I think just knowing that would help me, as I can be a bit of a wimp when it comes to pain. I HATE waxing.
This could work for me, it sounds easy enough to use.
It's weird that you have to activate it.
Sounds cool. I've not shaved my underarms for probably 15 yrs. I use an Emjoy that plucks/tweezes the hairs. It hurt like the dickens the first couple times. I don't even flench whatsoever. Now, if I win an laser another area, if might.
Surprised to hear it has to be activated via phone or online. I'd have to do online...no smart phone.


Whilst wrongful trading may seem easy to define, the reality is often very different. There are many reasons why a company may find themselves facing charges of wrongful trading.
Wrongful trading and fraudulent trading are often confused, but there is a key difference and this is the presence of dishonesty.
Wrongful trading is defined as when a business is facing financial difficulties but continues to trade, amassing debts hoping that matters will improve. Whereas fraudulent trading is where a company trades knowing that they will not be able to pay creditors, but continues to do so anyway. Fraudulent trading is far more difficult to prove, as the prosecution will be required to reflect dishonesty, meaning it is potentially easier to explore wrongful trading instead.
It can be difficult for Directors of companies to face up to financial struggles, in some cases they may not be fully aware of their company position. The recession saw a great many allegations of wrongful trading, brought about not through incompetence or deliberate risk taking, but a lack of awareness and naivety.
Courts will usually look at a great many factors when presented with a case of wrongful trading, including the various circumstances that led to the financial difficulties, which is why there is no 'set' way to deal with wrongful trading, each case is different.
Directors also need to consider that if they are part of a Limited company their personal assets can become at risk and be used as a stop gap to fund any shortfall to pay creditors.
If you are facing charges of wrongful trading your best first option is to take legal advice, but there are also preventatives which should assist in avoiding future allegations.


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IITs set to get 25 per cent of govt loans for higher education instituteshttps://indianexpress.com/article/education/iits-set-to-get-25-per-cent-of-govt-loans-for-higher-education-institutes-5078222/
IITs set to get 25 per cent of govt loans for higher education institutes
Under RISE, all centrally-funded institutes (CFIs), including central universities, IITs, IIMs, NITs and IISERs, can borrow from a Rs 1,00,000 crore corpus over the next four years to expand and build new infrastructure.
Written by Ritika Chopra | New Delhi | Updated: February 26, 2018 7:23:46 am
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According to sources, in addition to loans for infrastructure development, about Rs 9,000 crore will be available for building robust research ecosystems, like world-class laboratories, in CFIs. (Photo for representation)
THE INDIAN Institutes of Technology (IITs) will corner the largest chunk of loans on offer under the new funding model — Revitalising Infrastructure and Systems in Education (RISE) — for all centrally-run institutes, announced in the Union Budget this month.
Under RISE, all centrally-funded institutes (CFIs), including central universities, IITs, IIMs, NITs and IISERs, can borrow from a Rs 1,00,000 crore corpus over the next four years to expand and build new infrastructure. However, The Indian Express has learnt that a quarter of this amount — Rs 25,000 crore — will be set aside exclusively for the 23 IITs.
The second largest share, Rs 20,000 crore, will be earmarked for central universities. While the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) can borrow up to Rs 11,300 crore, the new IIMs will get Rs 4,500 crore, and five IISERs Rs 5,000 crore.
According to sources, in addition to loans for infrastructure development, about Rs 9,000 crore will be available for building robust research ecosystems, like world-class laboratories, in CFIs.
With the introduction of RISE, all financing for infrastructure development at CFIs will be done through the Higher Education Funding Agency (HEFA), which was set up by the government as a Section 8 company (a company with charitable objectives) last year to mobilise funds from the market and offer 10-year loans to centrally-run institutes.
Till last year, CFIs in higher education, on an average, would get fixed Budget grants of Rs 10,000 crore every year for this purpose. According to government officials, the shift from grant assistance to loans would assure more funds, greater accountability and timely completion of projects.
In order to mobilise funds for the Rs 1,00,000 crore corpus, HEFA will need an equity of Rs 10,000 crore, of which Rs 8,500 crore will be provided by the government. The remaining equity will be provided by Canara Bank, which partnered with the government to set up HEFA, and other corporations.
The HRD Ministry will soon seek the Union Cabinet's approval for providing the government's share of the HEFA equity.
All the infrastructure and research projects sanctioned by HEFA are to be completed by December 2022. Sources said the funding agency will release money directly to the vendors or contractors on certification by the executing agency and the educational institute.
Loans taken from HEFA, under the RISE programme, must be paid back over 10 years. There will be different modes of loan repayment for different institutes, based on their internal revenue. For instance, central universities set up before 2014 will be eligible to borrow through the 90:10 window, which means that they will have to repay 10 per cent of the principal amount from their internal resources. The remaining principal amount and the interest accrued on the loan will be paid by the government to HEFA.
IITs and IIMs which are over a decade old will repay the whole principal amount over 10 years, and the interest will be paid by the government. Technical institutes set up between 2008 and 2014 can avail loans through the 75:25 window. In other words, they will have to give 25 per cent of the principal amount. The balance principal and loan interest will be taken care of by the central government.
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As kids we probably all heard it at one time or another, and as adults, we surely say it to our own children if we have them: "What do you want to be when you grow up? You can be anything you want!" Some little kids have pretty predictable dreams of being a doctor or a teacher, but some kids dream really, really big. They want to grow up to be explorers, superheroes—or even kangaroos and lions.
Fiona Smart, a classically trained singer, and songwriter, is the author of the song and accompanying book, I Can Be a Superhero. Written about and for her first daughter, Fiona wanted to encourage kids to use their imaginations, dream as big as they possibly can for their futures, and foster a love of reading in families.
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Forbes (USA): how the universe made our existence possible?
July 26, 2020 IMMScience
Main source — Ethan Siegel (Ethan Siegel), a group of sources "Starts With a Bang"
We can learn about the history of the Universe by looking at ourselves. The body of an adult is a delightful complex system, created from trillions of cells and about 1028 atoms of the constituent elements of all matter on Earth. The story of the creation of man tells us not only about the evolution and history of the Earth but for the Universe as a whole.
Our existence has affected not only the survival, prosperity and fill various ecological niches, but the universe as a whole. The history of our emergence requires consideration of all stages of the development of our cosmic predecessors, starting with the previous generations of stars and merger of ancient galaxies to the Big Bang. Even dark matter plays a crucial role in human existence in this Universe. Humanity has gone 13.8 billion years to appear on Earth, and we finally managed to reconstruct the cosmic history of our creation.
So at a basic level to understand what is a human being, you need to look at the main components of his body to atoms. Oxygen is the main component of our bodies, then there is carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and calcium. In total, there are about 56 elements of the periodic system components a minimum of 0.1 milligrams the average person, including light and heavy elements that play an important role in our biological processes.
For the past 200 thousand years of human existence on Earth, each subsequent generation inherits the previous one. Any live specimen comes from a parent organism (or organisms) and genetic material (and all possible mutations) are transferred from parents to child. Thus, any living organism on the planet is connected in its history with a continuous line of life age of four billion years.
However, all that has ever existed species consisted of the same components as the person of the same elements and atoms. All they need is a safe house where you will be able to become a stable form of life that can reproduce and maintain itself for billions of years. This house could be a rocky planet like Earth orbiting a relatively stable star like the Sun. There is no guarantee that the evolution of something like a human is inevitable, but for each planet in the Universe with similar conditions, we should provide that opportunity.
In this case, the question is the following. What needs to happen for the formation of life on a planet like Earth orbiting a Sun like star? We can't just say: "the universe was so created," because science doesn't work like that. In science, if you want to answer the question about the Universe, you have to ask the Universe itself. We do this by creating a hypothesis, conducting experiments and observations and coming to certain conclusions.
Fortunately, this method successfully gives us the answers to our questions.
First we need ingredient is necessary for life elements that make up the periodic table. Carefully examining the Earth and other bodies of the Solar system, including meteorites falling on the planet, we can determine which elements are present and in what amount, in cosmic bodies contain all the necessary nutrition.
The study of the Universe involves the study of large massive stars; supernova education; small, of Sun-like stars; the star remains like white dwarfs and neutron stars; cosmic rays and Big Bang. This information will help us understand where it comes most of the elements. Thus, to create the Universe, allowing the existence of man, we must understand what is required.
Perhaps the answer will surprise you, but we need it all. However, you cannot take all items at the same time.
If our universe began with the Big Bang, the only elements that were then, are the hydrogen, helium and a little lithium (element # 3). The reason is simple: in the early hot stages you have a lot of protons and neutrons at high energy, but also you have a lot of photons, particles of light that repel the protons and neutrons from each other if they collide.
Only when the universe expands and cools enough, protons and neutrons can create heavier elements, and it takes time. However, by this time the environment is less dense and active, and the electric force repelling the two helium atom is so strong that the particles cannot overcome it. During the Big Bang created only the lightest elements. For heavy items you need to wait for star formation.
Left dozens, maybe hundreds of years, the universe had cooled sufficiently, and gravity has collected enough matter in different places to begin the formation of stars. In order for that to happen, the Universe needs:
to be born with certain deficiencies in some areas will be more substance than others;
enough to cool down in order to allow the formation of stable atoms of ionized atomic nuclei and free electrons;
to attract enough matter in one place, so the gas cloud could explode and create the stars;
the explosion must allocate a sufficient amount of energy to the inside of the star has started nuclear fusion.
The first point is the key proof of the expansion of the Universe. The second paragraph is the source of the CMB. The third step takes the most time, those tens or hundreds of millions of years. However, the fourth stage causes a misunderstanding.
Usually in the formation of stars gas cools, giving energy through its heavy elements. If there is no such elements, the only way to cool down the formation of gaseous hydrogen, however, is extremely inefficient. In consequence, the first stars, which astronomers call population III very different from the present.
In General, the formation of new stars, the universe creates some heavy and massive blue stars. However, a new star is usually small, only 40% of the mass of the Sun. Due to the lack of heavy elements is the middle star of population III were to be 10 times greater than the Sun. This means that they all lived a little and disappeared in an explosion of supernova.
In a sense it is good. Supernovae can not only create a certain number of heavy elements, but they also lead to the formation of neutron stars that may merge together and create the heavier elements like iodine, gold, platinum and tungsten. These first stars important as the fact that they created supernovae.
The problem is that the early star clusters have a low amount of matter, whereas supernovae throw out the matter with great speed. If you do the calculations and compare data "how much material it took to create the first stars of" data "how quickly supernovae emit matter", you'll be faced with a puzzle.
The ejected matter spreads too fast for the existing mass. This means that heavy elements must have been extremely fast to jump into intergalactic space.
It's bad! You need to hold onto this stuff, we need him to form a new generation of stars, specifically to create:
subsequent generations of stars to finally get the stars of small mass;
rocky planets, so we can get worlds like Earth, and not just gas planets;
life, because it is needed for the chemical processes that are possible only in the presence of heavy elements.
Normal is based on the atoms of the Universe is not enough for this. All existing gas, dust and black holes is not enough to create a gravitational force sufficient to hold this matter. In a Universe consisting only of atoms, massive structures like the milky Way is impossible. To create them we need another material: dark matter.
With dark matter, these early star clusters and protogalaxies have sufficient gravity to hold matter, scattering from supernova explosions and other disasters. It allows you to attract more and more matter. Over time accumulates enough matter, including heavy elements for the formation of the more developed stars. These stars are less massive, they are not only the elements of the periodic table, but also white dwarfs, which collide and explode, which leads to the formation of elements such as carbon, nitrogen and calcium that are basic to the human body.
In the end, after billions of years of individual galaxies such as the milky Way, have enough heavy elements to the formation of new stars was around them to create a rocky Earth-like planets. It is believed that approximately 9.2 billion years after the Big Bang, in the area of star formation in the milky Way formed a number of stars, one of which is our Sun. Its protoplanetary disk will develop in such a way that there will be four rocky planets of the inner zone and the outer gas giants. On the third planet from the Sun, the Earth, once formed life, that will lead to the emergence of man.
None of these events were not predetermined. If we rewind time back to the time of formation of the Solar system and then again start the clock, it is very unlikely that we'll be able to form a life, even if we've done it a billion times. However, if we wind the clock back to the early stages of the hot Big Bang, it will be inevitable, the universe is filled with stars, galaxies, rocky planets, solar-type stars and trillions over trillions of chances of the formation of life.
The reason is simple: the laws and basic ingredients of the Universe will remain the same. The universe, born from normal matter will produce light elements. Filled with flaws, the universe will form a generation of stars. The universe with dark matter will pull the discharged materials and forms stars with heavy elements. Universe with the second generation stars form rocky planets and solar-type stars. And the universe with rocky planets like the earth, will make possible the emergence of life, its preservation and prosperity of millions of years. Everything else can be random, but not something that made our existence possible. And depends on all of us, confused we like it or not.
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Economic Voices: A Reading List
Sarah Skwire July 17, 2020 EconLog Library
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A little while ago, I mentioned on Econlog that I have a history of fascination with economic thinking as expressed in non economic works–and particularly with the economic thinking of people who are in the daily grit of working blue collar jobs and doing household work. I think their diaries and letters and interviews and books of advice tell us at least as much about the economic circumstances under which they were written as do articles by economists–probably more. If you're looking for this kind of material, you can't go wrong by haunting used bookstores and poking through their collections of advice books, home economics texts, and collections of tattered old magazines. Economics is everywhere, and while an increasing amount of attention has been paid to
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Alberto Mingardi writes "Shakespeare in Love" and the Humanity of Business.
Scott Sumner writes Sadie Alexander: The First African-American Economist
Scott Sumner writes Gold hoarding during the Great Depression
Scott Sumner writes Praise and Blame: Meritocracy and Utilitarianism
A little while ago, I mentioned on Econlog that I have a history of fascination with economic thinking as expressed in non economic works–and particularly with the economic thinking of people who are in the daily grit of working blue collar jobs and doing household work. I think their diaries and letters and interviews and books of advice tell us at least as much about the economic circumstances under which they were written as do articles by economists–probably more.
If you're looking for this kind of material, you can't go wrong by haunting used bookstores and poking through their collections of advice books, home economics texts, and collections of tattered old magazines. Economics is everywhere, and while an increasing amount of attention has been paid to texts like these by historians and scholars of literature, I don't think that economic historians have given them as much attention as they merit.
Here's a reading list of texts I really like (in no particular order) to get you started:
'Round About a Pound a Week, by Maud Pember Reeves (1913)
This is the book that began my fascination. Maud Pember Reeves, a Fabian Socialist, undertook her groundbreaking demographic study in the early years of the 20th century to try to understand why poor families are poor. To answer the question, Pember Reeves and her colleagues asked mothers in a working poor neighborhood of London (where the average income was "'round about a pound a week) to record their expenses. Their findings are fascinating as an early example of this kind of social science and as historic economic data, but they are perhaps most valuable for their continuing importance to our discussions about poverty today.
All Our Kin, by Carol Stack (1974)
After I made Steve Horwitz read 'Round About a Pound a Week, he pointed me to Carol Stack's similar study of networks of exchange and support among Black families in the late 1960's. Her analysis of swapping will be fascinating for economists, but her larger observation that families find ways to function even in the worst of circumstances is a vital contribution and, again, one that is still relevant to discussions today.
Working, by Studs Terkel (1974)
This collection of interviews with working people of every age and in every profession is a great read and a gripping way to understand the meaning of work to the people who do it. From grocery store checkout clerks, to gravediggers, to lawyers and doctors, Studs Terkel spoke to everyone, and the conversations he recorded provide us with a remarkable way to humanize the work that makes the market possible.
How to Run Your Home Without Help, Kay Smallshaw (1949)
After WWII, the job market in England changed, and it suddenly became all but impossible for anyone but the very wealthy to have daily in-home help. Smallshaw's book of advice to English housewives who are suddenly having to make do without a "daily" captures this moment of transition, and provides readers with a fascinating picture of household production from a time that's not that long ago historically, but is almost unimaginably far-removed technologically. The chapter on laundry alone is worth the price of the book.
The Bachelor Girl's Guide to Everything, by Agnes M. Miall (1916)
Live Alone and Like It, Marjorie Hillis (1936)
These advice books about managing money and maintaining homes were written specifically for single working women living away from their families–a relatively new population in 1916, and a rapidly growing one in 1936. Aside from the data the books contain about salaries for a variety of jobs and prices for household and personal goods from corsets to carpeting, they capture the best and most up to date financial advice being given to women in the first half of the 20th century.
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Rocket Scientist Walker to Talk at AES
Saul Walker—rocket scientist, co-founder and chief engineer of API and creator of the first 500 Series audio modules—will be a presenter at the 139th AES seminar on Saturday, October 31.
ProSoundNetwork Editorial Staff
New York, NY (October 23, 2015)—Saul Walker—rocket scientist, co-founder and chief engineer of API and creator of the first 500 Series audio modules—will be a presenter at the 139th AES seminar on Saturday, October 31.
"The Rocket Scientist in the Recording Studio," to be held from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm at the Jacob Javits Center in New York, is open to all attendees with either FREE Exhibits-Plus or All Access badges. It will be moderated by Alex Case, associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and AES Incoming President-Elect.
"Everyone in the audio industry—make that everyone who listens to music—owes a huge debt to Saul Walker," said Case. "He has shaped the sound of modern recording as much as anyone."
At the seminar, Walker will tell the inside story behind the development of the 500 Series, which literally changed the shape of audio processors with its compact form factor, and included landmark products like the 512 Mic Preamp, the 550A EQ and the 500 Lunchbox. As if that weren't enough, Walker is the inventor of the 2520 op amp, which paved the way for modern audio technology.
Walker's console system designs are still highly sought after even after four decades, and he has created automated film post-production consoles for major film studios worldwide (API stands for "Automated Processes, Inc.").
Walker was a high-level rocket scientist who designed digitally controlled spectrum analyzers for NASA, the US Navy, and more. Case will help navigate the conversation with the inventor, engineer and educator whose career has had such far-reaching influence, from missiles to mixers, from outer space to rack space.
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Democrats like Beto O'Rourke espouse their views on projects like the Green New Deal and tax hikes. However, people won't go for costly programs or tax increases. What the liberals eat up is framing Trump as the reason why the shooting in a New Zealand mosque occurred. Will this be effective in 2020?


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Andrew Tan Group of Companies' donation to help fight COVID-19 reach over P603M
The companies of tycoon Andrew L. Tan under its holding firm Alliance Global Group, Inc. (AGI) have already donated over P603-million to various efforts in the country's fight against COVID-19.
Since the start of the Enhanced Community Quarantine in Luzon last March 17, the group has instituted projects to help both government and other organizations in protecting Filipinos from the spread of the virus:
1. P100-million donation to Project Ugnayan, which was used to distribute food vouchers to thousands of urban poor families in Metro Manila;
2. P250-million worth of disinfectant alcohol distributed to various hospitals, local government units (LGUs), government agencies, and organizations throughout the country;
3. P60-million donation of Megaworld Corporation to Philippine Red Cross for the purchase of four (4) brand new COVID-19 test laboratories that can conduct around 10,000 tests per day;
4. P65-million donation to various LGUs and non-government organizations for programs related to COVID-19;
5. P125-million worth of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) for medical frontliners and grocery bags for poor communities in Metro Manila by Resorts World Manila and its various partners;
6. P3-million worth of food and groceries for healthcare and security frontliners, and construction workers, as well as free transport for medical workers by Megaworld Corporation and Megaworld Foundation;
7. Distribution of over 100,000 meals to healthcare frontliners, government workers, and urban poor families through McDonald's Philippines' Kindness Kitchen.
8. Support to retail partners through waiving of rental charges in various Megaworld Lifestyle Malls
"Along with our healthcare frontliners, our government takes the toughest job in saving more lives against the virus. Our companies are here to support all efforts, and we are continuously looking for ways on how and where we can further extend help and support," says Kevin Andrew L. Tan, chief executive officer, Alliance Global Group, Inc.


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Films News > Blog > Bollywood News > 83 Box Office: Ranveer Singh's 83, which has earned Rs 95.92 crore at the box office with a slow pace, will be released on the OTT platform only after 8 weeks.
83 Box Office: Ranveer Singh's 83, which has earned Rs 95.92 crore at the box office with a slow pace, will be released on the OTT platform only after 8 weeks.
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Ranveer Singh's sports drama 83 is failing to perform as expected in theatres. 83 has so far earned a total of Rs 95.92 crore at the box office. But every day there is a decline in the earnings of the film. Due to which many theaters have also reduced the screens of 83. But the makers will release 83 on the OTT platform only after a full 8 weeks.
Ranveer Singh's Sports Drama 83
83, which released massively on December 24, may not be performing as expected but the makers will wait for a full 8 weeks for the film to be released digitally. It has been 2 weeks since the release of the film, so people will have to wait for another 6 weeks to watch 83 on OTT.
In view of the increasing threat of corona, theaters have been ordered to be closed in many places and new Kovid restrictions have been imposed. The effect of which is also being seen on the earnings of the films running in theatres. A winning example of this became Ranveer's 83, which failed to garner the expected audience. However, Hollywood films Spider-Man: No Way Home and Pushpa performed above expectations and created new records in terms of earnings.
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State Laws Vary on the Division of Marital Property in Divorce
November 18, 2014 | by Roy M. Doppelt
If you are thinking of initiating a divorce proceeding, be sure to understand how the state family code could affect your case, particularly how the provisions apply to property division. Each state has the authority to enact laws affecting marriage and divorce. California is a "community property" state, which means that any and all assets and debts accumulated during the marriage are likely to be divided evenly in divorce (with a few exceptions, such as gifts and inheritances). Identifying and characterizing property in a divorce proceeding can affect the couple's settlement, in terms of how the assets and debts are allocated. If you are going through a divorce, it is imperative that you contact an experienced family law attorney from the local San Diego area, who will be fully familiar with the laws affecting your case.
State laws certainly vary with respect to the division of property. A recent, widely publicized case from Oklahoma underscores that state's unique laws pertaining to the division of wealth accumulated during a marriage. According to news reports, oil-man Harold Hamm will pay his ex-wife nearly $1 billion as part of one of the biggest divorce settlements in history. The Hamms were married in 1988 and have no children together. Mrs. Hamm filed for divorce in 2012.
One of the controversial issues in this case was how Mr. Hamm made his fortune: through expertise or sheer luck. Interestingly enough, under Oklahoma law, the money a spouse earns during a marriage can be included in a divorce settlement if it is earned through skill. But if the earnings can be attributable to something beyond the party's control, such as a change in the economy, the money may not be included in the ultimate settlement.
Although Hamm seemed to create this vast wealth, his lawyers attempted to argue that he "stumbled into his billions." But there was much evidence that Hamm's business judgment and leadership abilities contributed to his success. The court did not accept the portrayal of Mr. Hamm as simply lucky in business, but instead pointed out that his skills and efforts led to an increase in value for his company. The court further described Hamm as an "expert in the oil field service business." As for his ex-wife, although the court awarded her almost $1 billion, this amount did not include "support alimony," as it is known in Oklahoma. The court found that she did not present evidence to support her need for alimony, concluding that her share of the marital estate is a substantial sum of money. Subsequent news reports indicate that Mrs. Hamm intends to appeal the judgment, arguing that it greatly undervalues the marital wealth to which she is entitled.
Under California family law, when a couple divorces, the court typically awards each spouse 50% of the marital property, without taking into account notions of skill and luck. In fact, section 2550 of the Code specifically provides that the court shall "divide the community estate of the parties equally."
The Hamm case illustrates the importance of understanding the laws affecting divorce in your specific jurisdiction. An experienced family law attorney would be able to guide you through the process. Roy M. Doppelt has been representing parties involved in family law disputes for more than 20 years. Doppelt and Forney, APLC serves clients throughout Southern California, including San Diego, Encinitas, La Jolla, and Chula Vista. For a free consultation, contact Doppelt and Forney, APLC through our website, or give us a call toll-free at (800) ROY IS IT (769-4748).
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The United States has held the leading position in the world league of capitalism ever since World War One. Now the American capitalist class must wage a constant struggle to maintain and extend this power against the onslaughts of the other capitalist nations. In the eyes of its historians, the American nation holds a special mission, its manifest destiny, its American exceptionalism, which supposedly distinguishes it from all other nations. It is not surprising that it coincides in content with the material interests of the American ruling class. Socialists neither deny or ignore the peculiarities of America's economic development. These undoubtedly exist. The peculiarities of American capitalism are a product of the world market, in which American capitalism has always been an integral part of world capitalism.
No ruling class has ever included in its declarations of war that "The fight is for our class interests." Instead, it is always for God and country, for freedom and liberty, for defence of the homeland, noble sentiments that aims to justify the sacrifice of those who have to do the dying. In today's world or Orwellian double-speak, America goes to war to impose peace, it engages in horrific warfare for humanitarian purposes. Even when having witnessed the carnage and catastrophe of the consequences of the armed conflict, the message is that it was a necessary requirement to destroy the enemy to save them.
Unless the capitalists take drastic steps, they are faced with a working-class opposition, under favourable objective conditions which can develop and transform into revolutionary urgings against the capitalists. More and more workers are acquiring an understanding of the motives for America's foreign policies. They are learning something about this social system of capitalism. In every hot spot around the world, there has rarely been a time when U.S. policy has not been in support of some despot or reactionary government so long as it was pro-American and pro-Big Business. Choosing to side with dictators are not regrettable and deplorable miscalculations in otherwise international good intentions. Some people are beginning to ask why it is that in every part of the world, there has been a long and sordid history of such "mistaken" alliances. Perhaps it is just American presidents have an attraction and weakness for strong-men dictators. Or is it more likely to protect the interests of American corporations they prop up tyrants. As long as capitalism holds sway, the US leaders cannot project a foreign policy of democracy. Even the faded Great Powers of Europe have to submit to the schemes of the White House and the Pentagon. They are marshalled into obedience and acquiescence by the colossal power of America's economic giants dominating over them and resistance or even reluctance may lead to significant damage.
Socialists can accept that American presidents do not try to control the world in a megalomaniac desire for power for its own sake. We can also acknowledge a genuine wish when Trump wants to give up being the world's policeman. But he cannot surrender that role. America is driven to command the world if it is to gain the control and ownership of what its corporations want to ensure economic supremacy. Foreign interventions are the price American business are required to pay for a substantial part of their profits. America's capitalists merely desire the fruits of world power. They have to capture one market after another, control one source of raw materials after another, protect one trade route after another. If the Commander-in-Chief can assert his authority over the world through the power of his nation's economic wealth and industrial power, without direct invasion, all good and well. But when push comes to shove and if the opponent's "narrow" nationalism creates a problem and obstructs the will of the US president then so be it: Send in the marines and war-planes. It isn't personal, it is business. That's the view of American capitalists. It isn't a sinister plot – it is politics – realpolitik. This is simply the capitalist system in normal operation. Military conflict is no aberration but capitalism working as normal. This is merely international capitalist competition at work. To remain top dog and retain top place America must muscle in on every market and squeeze out its rivals. Does the media recognise this rapacious intent heinous. Of course not. None in the mainstream media question the motives, they simply parrot the official line from the appropriate secretary of state department.
However, many workers in America are now beginning to suspect the cost of America's foreign involvements and what appears to them as a permanent war economy is why they are not prosperous, despite the wealth they are producing. They are also recognising all the similarities with America's previous sanctions sabre-rattling and wars with today's confrontation with Venezuela.


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Jean-Philippe Toussaint, né le  à Bruxelles, est un écrivain et réalisateur belge de langue française.

Biographie

Famille et formation
Fils d'Yvon Toussaint, journaliste au Soir, et de Monique Toussaint, fondatrice de la librairie Chapitre XII à Bruxelles, et frère de la productrice de cinéma Anne-Dominique Toussaint, Jean-Philippe Toussaint est diplômé de l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris (1978) et titulaire d'un DEA d'histoire contemporaine. Dans sa jeunesse, il a été champion du monde junior de scrabble.

Carrière d'écrivain
Jean-Philippe Toussaint est l'auteur de romans qui se caractérisent par un style et un récit minimalistes, dans lesquels les personnages et les choses n'ont d'autre signification qu'eux-mêmes. Le premier livre de Toussaint, Échecs, est écrit entre 1979 et 1983. Il ne fut jamais publié en édition papier, mais fait l'objet d'une édition numérique le , avec une préface de Laurent Demoulin intitulée Échecs ou le dynamisme romanesque des puissances immobiles.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint obtient en 1986 le prix littéraire de la Vocation pour son premier roman publié La Salle de bain. Il est lauréat de la Villa Kujoyama en 1996.

En 2002, il commence « Le Cycle de Marie », intitulé Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte, en quatre volets : Faire l'amour en 2002 ; Fuir en 2005, qui obtient le prix Médicis du roman français la même année ; La Vérité sur Marie en 2009, qui obtient quant à lui le Prix Décembre en 2009 et le prix triennal du roman, décerné par la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, en 2013 ; et le quatrième volet Nue, en 2013. Il adapte en 2016 pour le théâtre ce cycle littéraire dans un spectacle mixte mêlant lectures, vidéos et musiques originales composées et jouées sur scène par The Delano Orchestra puis fait paraître en  en un seul volume, intitulé M.M.M.M., l'ensemble du cycle.

En 2014, il succède à Henry Bauchau au fauteuil 9 de l'Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique (ARLLFB).

Ses romans sont traduits en plus de vingt langues.

Œuvre littéraire

 La Salle de bain (Éditions de Minuit, 1985)
 Monsieur (Éditions de Minuit, 1986)
 L'Appareil-photo (Éditions de Minuit, 1989)
 La Réticence (Éditions de Minuit, 1991)
 La Télévision (Éditions de Minuit, 1997)
 Autoportrait (à l'étranger) (récit/essai, Éditions de Minuit, 1999, rééd. 2012)
 Faire l'amour (2002), suivi de « Faire l'amour à la croisée des chemins » par Laurent Demoulin (Éditions de Minuit, 2009)
 Fuir (Éditions de Minuit, 2005)
 Mes bureaux. Luoghi dove scrivo (essai, trad. du français par R. Ferrucci, Venise, éditions Amos, 2005, coll. Calibano 7)
 La Mélancolie de Zidane (essai, Éditions de Minuit, 2006)
 La Vérité sur Marie (Éditions de Minuit, 2009)
 L'Urgence et la Patience (récit/essai, Éditions de Minuit, 2012)
 La Main et le Regard (Le Passage et Louvre éditions, 2012), livre d'art qui accompagne l'exposition « Livre/Louvre de » Jean-Philippe Toussaint, organisée au musée du Louvre
 Nue (Éditions de Minuit, 2013)
 Football (récit/essai, Éditions de Minuit, 2015)
 Made in China (récit, Éditions de Minuit, 2017)
 M.M.M.M. (parution en un volume du « Cycle Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte », Éditions de Minuit, 2017)
 La Clé USB (Éditions de Minuit, 2019)

 Félix Vallotton, intimité(s)... et le regard de Jean-Philippe Toussaint, illustrations (30 gravures) Félix Vallotton, textes Jean-Philippe Toussaint (éditions Martin de Halleux, 2019)
 La Patinoire (ciné-roman, Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2019)
 Les Émotions (Éditions de Minuit, 2020)

 La Disparition du paysage (Éditions de Minuit, 2021)
 C'est vous l'écrivain (Éditions Le Robert, 2022)
 L'Instant précis où Monet entre dans l'atelier (Éditions de Minuit, 2022)

Filmographie
(Réalisateur et scénariste sauf mention contraire)
 1989 : La Salle de bain de John Lvoff, scénario de Jean-Philippe Toussaint d'après son roman homonyme.
 1990 : Monsieur, d'après son roman homonyme
 1992 : La Sévillane, d'après son roman L'Appareil-photo
 1994 : Berlin, 10 heures 46 (en collaboration avec Torsten Fischer)
 1998 : La Patinoire
 2007 : Hors du soleil, des baisers et des parfums sauvages (en collaboration avec Ange Leccia)
 2012 : Trois fragments de "Fuir"

Expositions et spectacles
 2001 : CASO, Osaka
 2002 : Galerie-1 Civa
 2006 : Fondation Espace Écureuil pour l'Art contemporain Toulouse
 2007 : Le Parvis 3, Pau
 2008 : Domaine Orenga de Gaffory, Corse
 2012 : Exposition « Livre/Louvre », musée du Louvre, Paris
 2016 : Spectacle MMMM en collaboration avec The Delano Orchestra, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand
 2019 : Exposition « Jean-Philippe Toussaint décoratif » (avec Ange Leccia et Anna Toussaint), musée des arts décoratifs et du design de Bordeaux
 2021 : La Disparition du paysage, mise en scène et scénographie d'Aurélien Bory avec Denis Podalydès

Distinctions
 1986 : prix littéraire de la Vocation pour La Salle de bain
 1990 : prix André-Cavens de l'Union de la critique de cinéma (UCC) pour le meilleur film belge pour Monsieur
 1997 : prix Victor Rossel pour La Télévision
 2005 : prix Médicis pour Fuir
 2009 : prix Décembre pour La Vérité sur Marie
 2013 : prix triennal du roman de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles pour La Vérité sur Marie
 2014 : membre de l'Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique
 2015 : Grand prix « Sport et Littérature » pour Football

Notes et références

Annexes

Bibliographie

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Stéphane Chaudier (dir), Les Vérités de Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne, 2016, 266 p.,

Liens externes

 Documentation sur Jean-Philippe Toussaint

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Membre de l'Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique
Lauréat du prix Victor Rossel
Lauréat du prix Médicis
Lauréat du prix Décembre
Élève de l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris
Personnalité bruxelloise
Naissance à Bruxelles au XXe siècle
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Chryséis  peut faire référence à :

Nom propre

Dans la mythologie grecque
 Chryséis, une captive des Grecs pendant la guerre de Troie ;
 Chryséis, l'épouse de Démétrios II puis d'Antigone III Doson ; elle est supposée être la mère de Philippe V de Macédoine. ;
 Chryséis, une des Océanides.

Littérature
 Chryséis, fille de la reine d'Argos, dans la pièce de Regnard, Démocrite amoureux.

Astronomie
 202 Chryséis, un astéroïde.


>> Today, Raqqa->> A top US official in the global fight against ISIS will be stepping down. The State Department has confirmed that Brett McGurk, the special envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat the Islamic State, submitted his resignation on Friday. McGurk was due to leave in February, but sources say he moved up his resignation after President Donald Trump's sudden decision to pull out US troops from Syria.
>> We have won against ISIS.>> And after Thursday's stunning announcement by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, that he'll step down in two months. According to media reports, McGurk's resignation letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the militants were still on the run but not yet defeated.
And that the early withdraw of American troops from Syria would recreate the conditions that gave rise to ISIS. Mattis, in his own scathing resignation letter, said his views on how to tackle global threats were out of alignment with President Trump's. Trump plans to pull all 2,000 US troops from Syria, and has now declared victory, tweeting on Saturday, quote, when I became President, ISIS was going wild.
Now ISIS is largely defeated and other local countries, including Turkey, should be able to easily take care of whatever remains. We're coming home!


Now that we're off to a new year with a new website, let's make a few declarations! I urge you, along with myself, to introduce more aesthetic improvements to your life… We in Cloona have dedicated our time to advancing the cause of well-being for our guests… but it is also important not to forget about beauty in all its forms, for our life without beauty would be a sad tale indeed.
I hope you all like our new website which hopefully is alive and kicking now that you are reading this. It's been a while in the pipeline, firstly because the mills of Cloona turn slowly - despite the smooth, flowing tempo of our retreats, let me add….


For many moms, the decision to leave the workforce to stay home and raise a family is an easy one, but that is not to say it comes without sacrifice. Taking a break from your career can put financial strain on your household and wreck havoc on your resume, not to mention your self esteem. A study presented by the American Sociological Association notes that a mom's choice to stay home can make her feel as if her life is on hold, inciting feelings of guilt and depression.
"I know I'm lucky to stay home with my kids, but I envy my working friends sometimes," says Michelle Brown, a stay-at-home mom in Virginia. "I know I chose to quit my job, but stir craziness and spit up can get to you after a while."
According to the U.S. Census, stay-at-home-moms, or SAHMs in Web-lingo, also tend to be less educated than working moms, a trend that can backfire if they want (or need) to return to the workforce. The New York Times reports that in 2009, economic strife forced many such women back into the job market. Those without the right education often found themselves competing against college graduates laid off from other positions.
Fear of this scenario is forcing many moms to measure their career aspirations against their commitment to staying home with their children. Fortunately for some determined moms, online education presents a welcome compromise.
From iPhone apps that track newborn sleeping patterns to wildly active online mommy groups, today's mothers are decidedly plugged in. This technology provides not just a means for managing life as a stay-at-home parent, but also for investing in the future. Returning to school provides some moms with a new sense of purpose, a snazzier resume and a safety net should financial disaster strike. It also provides these women with new options, no matter how chaotic their lives become.
"Online education benefited me as a mom because it allowed me to work on classes on my own time. I was able to read lecture notes when the kids went to bed or napped," says Amy Reinagel, a SAHM pursuing an online master's degree in public health. "It also didn't require me to find childcare for my kids."
Kevin Silva, former associate director of instruction technology for Chapman University, agrees. "(Online education) eliminates travel to and from campus, which saves and enormous amount of time," says Silva. "(It also allows students) to participate in the course and perform coursework when time is available, instead of being on a specific schedule."
Online education may be a convenient alternative to traditional classroom instruction, but it has its challenges. Experts say that online students must be organized, motivated and prepared to work just as hard as they would in the classroom. Being a stay-at-home parent juggling mommy and household tasks can make overcoming time and motivation hurdles difficult, but it can also nurture the skills (and patience) necessary to tackle them.
Being a parent can feel like a disadvantage in a classroom filled with recent high school graduates, but the skills that are gained by managing family life can actually benefit you in an online learning environment. For instance, a knack for organization, time management and problem solving can help you overcome the challenges of managing both school and family obligations.
"Our day-to-day responsibilities can often be a distraction from any educational activity," explains Silva. "To manage online learning, a student has to try to allocate some amount of time each day to course activities like reading, class participation, lectures and coursework."
Student and SAHM Reinagel agrees: "I needed to be an expert time manager, otherwise I would have been so overwhelmed," she says. "Being able to multi-task was a very important skill that has helped me to be successful in the program."
Moms also tend to be driven, especially when it comes to tasks that will benefit their families down the road. This determination is a major plus among online students who must step away from the daily grind to study, no matter how rough their days have been.
"I am very self-motivated," says Reinagel. "I keep reminding myself that I am doing this for my kids."
Being a parent may benefit you as an online student, but managing school and family life can still be challenging, even with the convenience of online schools. In a world where being a SAHM often means having very little time to yourself, the thought of taking on more work can seem daunting. That doesn't mean it's an impossible feat; you just have to know how to set yourself up for success.
"Pursuing an online education is totally doable with children, but requires a great deal of… support from family," says Reinagel. "I would also ask my professors to look at some of my work ahead of time, or give me an assignment ahead of time if I had a lot going on that week. They were all willing to help because they all wanted to see me succeed."


The camera captures a couple that is looking deep into each other's eyes and smiling broadly. The bride is wearing the Ijunia dress on an island wedding with a lot of handmade details! We were impressed to discover that she organized everything by herself!


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Young Estella (Tipper Seifert-Cleveland) has always considered herself to be a genius, causing a lot of friction in her school that leads to her expulsion. Her downward spiral is further exacerbated by the trauma of witnessing her mother's death in the mansion of renowned fashion tycoon Baroness von Hellman (Emma Thompson), an event that the little girl has always believed to be her own fault. Ending up in London as a street urchin, she lives from day-to-day conning people along with fellow petty thieves Jasper (Joel Fry) and Horace (Paul Walter Hauser). However, her life's greatest ambition is to work in fashion. As her stars align, her path crosses once again with the Baroness, working her way from the clueless newbie all the way up to her most prized designer. As certain truths are revealed about their intertwined fates, Estella unleashes Cruella (Emma Stone), ever ambitious and hungry for vengeance.
Cruella delves a little too deep into soap opera territory with its forced twists and plot devices. The way the plot unfolds makes you feel as though you are watching an edgy revenge-themed telenovela right after the seven o'clock news. It is understandable, though, that such attempt on justifying the journey of a once iconic yet one-dimensional villain cannot really be avoided. Ambitions and motivations are what you need, and sometimes the only clear path towards poetic justice is through those contrived hoops.
However, what makes Cruella a joy to watch is the way this tired storyline is tackled by the director by virtue of the costumes as well as the killer soundtrack. The OST brings you right back to the heart of the 70's. For someone not old enough to have experienced that era, this film makes you feel as though you have lived through it yourself. The images and earworms are just so vivid like that. As such, there is a lot of distraction to keep you busy from noticing the loopholes and recycled storyline.
Acting is another strong aspect of this movie thanks to the combined bravura of the two Oscar-winning Emmas. Thompson is irresistibly larger than life in her avantgarde frocks and campy demeanor. Stone, on the other hand, gives the character a whole new dimension that was kind of lacking in the character's late 90's iteration. What Glenn Close made undeniably iconic, Stone turns a tad more relatable to some extent via the everyday BS this future villain has to go through before making it to the top. While killing puppies is not a universal character flaw we all tend to share, ambition and vengeance, arguably, are.
In any case, it must have been a problem with the script because some things just do not add up. If we are to believe that this is canon to 1996's 101 Dalmatians, the story does not really explain how Cruella de Vil ends up as the frustrated dog killer that she will be in that movie. If anything, Estella's own dogs and even the trio of her archnemesis' Dalmatians actually play pivotal roles in her very own journey. There is one short clip where she appears to be hinting on her dog-murdering future, but there was no follow-up to this. In fact, it's also a happy ending as far as the canines of this movie are concerned.
Or maybe they are just aiming for a sequel that will fully explain Cruella's total transformation? I wouldn't mind seeing that follow-up movie. As for the comparisons with DC's Joker, perhaps the similarities end with both characters being iconic villains as well as their rather flamboyant sense of fashion. Do not expect Cruella to mimic Joaquin Phoenix's Joker's successful attempt at doubling as a social commentary of sorts. That simply does not happen here, and expecting it to do so will just ruin your enjoyment.
Anyway, stay tuned for the cameos in the mid-credits' scene. They make you want to segue straight to 101 Dalmatians, which also happens to be on Disney+. Feels like a movie marathon is coming up!
WRITTEN BY: ihcahieh at 10:07:00 PM