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Effects of gender and age on energy use by young Boer goats
Title Effects of gender and age on energy use by young Boer goats
Authors Tovar-Luna, I, Puchala, R, Sahlu, T, Goetsch, AL
Journal Livestock Science
Pagination 86 - 94
Date Published Jan-05-2017
Abstract Boer goats (7/8 and 1/8 Spanish breed) were used to characterize effects of gender and age on the ME requirement for maintenance (MEm). There were eight animals of each gender, doelings, intact males, and wethers castrated at 2 mo of age. Kids were weaned at 3.7 mo and thereafter consumed a 50% concentrate pelleted diet ad libitum while in group pens at most times. Measurement periods consisted of three segments of 12, 10, and 4 days with consumption ad libitum and near MEm and while fasting, respectively. Maintenance segment measures began at 4.9, 7.8, 11.7, and 14.8 mo of age in periods 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively. Feed intake data, feces and urine collections, and a calorimetry system were used to determine ME intake and heat energy (HE). The MEm estimate was based on fasting HE and the slope (km) of the regression of recovered energy (RE) against ME intake with intake near MEm and while fasting, and kg was RE with ad libitum intake relative to ME intake above MEm. BW (kg) during the maintenance segment was 20.6, 30.8, 46.5, and 57.1 for doelings, 25.9, 40.1, 67.3, and 76.9 for males, and 23.1, 35.1, 53.9, and 65.0 for wethers in periods 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively (SE = 1.85). km was similar among genders and periods (P > 0.05; 70.2, 69.5, and 69.7% for doelings, males, and wethers, respectively; SE = 1.25). Fasting HE and MEm were affected by gender × period interactions (P < 0.001). Fasting HE (kJ/kg BW0.75) was 277, 272, 281, and 281 for doelings, 288, 327, 334, and 398 for males, and 274, 303, 274, and 305 for wethers (SE = 10.1); MEm (kJ/kg BW0.75) was 382, 390, 399, and 420 for doelings, 412, 469, 492, and 569 for males, and 384, 417, 426, and 439 for wethers in periods 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively (SE = 14.2). kg tended (P = 0.067) to vary among genders (61.5, 48.1, and 52.7% for doelings, males, and wethers, respectively; SE = 3.91). In conclusion, MEm was not greatly different between doelings and wethers and increased for both as the study progressed, whereas that for males was greater, with the difference increasing considerably as age rose.
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DOI 10.1016/j.livsci.2017.03.016
Short Title Livestock Science
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Russian and Chinese support for secular Arab nationalism in the conflict in Syria opens up possibilities for the Arab World to move beyond the sectarianism and division of the post-Nasser era.
Of the two great Communist powers of the 20th century, China had always played a smaller, quieter, more subtle role in geo-politics vis-à-vis the USSR.
This phenomenon has largely continued in the 21st century with Vladimir Putin's Russian Federation expanding upon traditional alliances made during the Soviet years.
Yet China's global outlook cannot be overlooked and there are many signs that China is looking to play a more active role in global affairs alongside Russia and other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
"#ASSAD TO #RiaNovosti & #Sputnik: #Reconstruction will be done mainly by #Russian, #Chinese and #Iranian companies".
He clearly knows who his friends are and these countries will be given the opportunity, perhaps better called the monumental task of rebuilding Syria. Beyond this however, the Tweet implies that far from being worried about his presidency, he and the Syrian Arab Republic are not going anywhere.
Damascus will not be they graveyard of Assad but will be the graveyard of 'regime change' and 'nation building' policies.
The task of rebuilding Syria will be a major step towards enhancing China's presence on the global stage. Whilst Russia has helped to stabilise the political situation in Syria and her military and advisors have made key gains in rolling back terrorist control of the country, China is set to focus more on the 'soft side' of the process, namely humanitarian aid and infrastructural reconstruction.
This combined with Iran and Russia cooperating against ISIS in a more public manner than ever, shows clearly that the regional balance of power has shifted as has the global balance of power.
Theoretically NATO could have been part of this coalition, but the long term agenda to use NATO as a means of thwarting cooperation between Russia, Middle Eastern and Eastern states has taken precedent over forming a global coalition against ISIS. By engaging in unnecessary conflicts against non-threats whilst ignoring legitimate threats and negating essential areas of cooperation, the NATO powers have sown the seeds of their own demise.
By sitting out the most important re-ordering of the world since the early 1990s, the NATO powers have in the words of Donald Trump, made themselves obsolete. Even if an America led by Trump were to reorganise her priorities, in certain respects it will have been too little, too late.
Once the battle against ISIS ends the next battle, not just in Syria but also across the wider Arab world, will be the battle for ideas and the accompanying soul searching in respect of understanding just who is and is not a friend of secular Arab states.
Russia's commitment to helping anti-extremist Arab states, China's expertise in infrastructural re-development, and Iran's emerging role as a moderating force in the region, are slowly but surely limiting the poisonous influence the Gulf States have had on secular Arab states. This coincides with the dwindling influence a corrupt and confused West will be able to exert on the Arab world over the next 20 years and beyond.
Russia's aid to Syria in her hour of need ought to be understood as a beacon of hope in an Arab world which has suffered from terrorism, theocratic dictatorship and war for far too long.
Syria's victory is all but assured due to Russian assistance. However it is now for the Arabs to face their own political identity crisis, one which has burned ever since the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916.
There are broadly three styles of governance the Arabs can choose from.
2. Varieties of secular Arab Nationalism, including varieties of Ba'athism.
Option 2 in its various guises has always been the most modern, forward looking, rational and effective way for Arab states to be governed.
Colonel Nasser, the most renowned exponent of modern, secular Arab nationalism, brought his country prosperity, respect and prestige. Yet even during his rule Arab states and politicians within Arab states remained divided, even before foreign powers mastered the art of exploiting and maximising such divisions.
Whether Syrian chauvinism, which divided Nasser's United Arab Republic, the Ba'athist split between Syrian and Iraqi Ba'athists in 1966, or the political chaos which paralysed Iraq in 1963, Arab infighting has repeatedly retarded the progress of politics in the secular Arab world.
Many in the Arab world have simply given up hope, but the slow but assured victory in Syria is demonstrative of the fact that the possibility of genuine hope still exists.
The clear message to the Arabs is this: Yes, the Wahhabists are coming for your throats, yes the western powers are coming for your resources, true the Arab League is thoroughly useless in its present form, but there is a better way.
A combination of strong leadership with a commitment to alliance with the Great Powers that will not betray the secular, modern, educated Arab world, can restore the Nasserist dream, a dream betrayed by the Arabs themselves.
The USSR was always a strong friend of modern, forward looking Arab regimes. However Arab disunity impeded much of the progress that could have been made with the help of the USSR.
Now though history is repeating itself, but it mustn't have the same end.
The leaders in Baghdad must look to Damascus and learn valuable lessons should they wish their country to survive.
Libya which has become something of a non-state since the execution of Gaddafi, also must find a kind of leadership which can destroy the terrorism wreaking havoc in this once stable and wealthy country.
Irrespective of what the Arabs choose, global alignments have changed.
The Russia-Chinese axis which may well grow to include other great eastern powers has the ability to provide both a practical and moral leadership which can be of great assistance to the wider non-western world.
If this new reality is ignored by the Arab world, more and more Arab countries will sink into the abyss of instability, poverty and extremism.


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Tesla (TSLA) Continued Beating Pricce Targets, Facebook (FB), AmerisourceBergen (ABC), Walgreens (WBA) Stocks Gained While Moderna (MRNA), Conagra (CAG) Lost
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Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) increased to $816.04, up +7.94 percent. Morgan Stanley, which lifted its price target to $810 on Wall Street, boosted Tesla on the day, gaining from RBC's favor on Thursday. The broker has thus lifted its rating from 'Underperform' to 'Sector Perform' on the flagship benefit of the electric vehicle. According to the Bloomberg list of billionaires, Elon Musk today became the world's richest man ahead of Jeff Bezos in this stock market rally.
Twitter, Inc. (TWTR) was down to $52.33, dropping -1.75 percent. Facebook, Inc. (FB) increased to $268.74, up +2.06 percent. On Thursday, after the Capitol Hill incidents, Twitter and Facebook briefly removed Donald Trump's account as part of steps aimed at cracking down on repeated allegations regarding the U.S. presidential election in November.
AmerisourceBergen Company (ABC) increased by +3.73% to $110.13 while Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (WBA) rose by +5.18% to $45.26. AmerisourceBergen to purchase Alliance Healthcare from Walgreens Boots Alliance for $6.5 billion or $6.275 billion in cash and 2 million shares in AmerisourceBergen.
Moderna, Inc. (MRNA) was down to $115.09, down -1.01 percent. The company's CEO predicts that his new coronavirus vaccine can cover anyone vaccinated for up to two years. Following the FDA's approval earlier, the vaccine received the European green light. It should also be remembered that, according to distributor Takeda Pharmaceutical, Japanese authorities should not allow the vaccine until May because of local specifications.
Conagra Brands, Inc. (CAG) fell -5.46% to $33.78. For the current year, with demand for snacks, the U.S. food company issued better-than-expected profit guidance. In the fiscal third quarter, quarterly adjusted earnings were forecast to be between 56 and 60 cents, compared to a median of 57 cents. Organic growth was more than 8 percent for the three months ended November. In the following quarter, it's projected to be between 6 and 8 percent.
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When Tyra Banks presents you with Tyra mail, you listen, even if you're Ariana Grande.
The America's Next Top Model host posted a photo of Grande on Instagram and Twitter with the caption "What a pony. What a "tail" @ArianaGrande is telling with this shot to get lost in. #GrandeFierceness". Grande fierceness indeed, and the shout-out immediately caught the singer's attention. She replied in the best way possible with zero chill (relateable) and asked what Banks would do to her hair in an imaginary ANTM makeover episode.
True to her self-love ethos, Banks replied saying that Grande "better not touch that tail" and explained that she teaches Personal Branding and that her lecture even touches on the power of Grande's pony.
We can't get enough of the cute exchange and appreciate Banks's "power of the pony" motto. Now BRB, we're grabbing hairspray, extensions, and going to call Chris Appleton ASAP to give us a Grande-inspired snatched pony.


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Yes, we're known for our commercial and industrial metal fabrication, but we also do lots of residential projects as well.
We love to show our creative side on pieces such as this custom made wrought iron chandelier – a current work in progress at our shop.
We just completed these custom made metal stair handrails and they're ready for installation.
If you'd like to add some customization to your home, please give us a call – 226-347-9778.
We decided to create a custom-made fire bowl… for ourselves!
So many homeowners are choosing an industrial look when updating or decorating their home. Along with a metal fireplace surround, we custom made a mild steel window dressing for these Windsor, Ontario homeowners.
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This timely and relevant collection of fascinating stories about groundbreaking Canadian women, present and past, offers an inspiring, one-of-a-kind look at Canadian history.
Canadian women have long been trailblazers, creating art, making discoveries and setting records --- and often battling incredible odds and discrimination in the process. Here, award-winning children's writer Elizabeth MacLeod presents biographies of more than one hundred of these remarkable women, from the famous, such as Margaret Atwood, to the lesser known, such as multi-award-winning mathematician Karen Yeats. There are stories of activists and architects, engineers and explorers, poets and politicians and so many more. Each category pairs a historical groundbreaker with a present-day woman making her mark in that same field. Included are stories of Indigenous women, immigrants, women with disabilities and women from the LGBTQ+ community. Together, they tell the story of Canada. And together they offer a vision of what's possible, to inspire all children to blaze trails of their own.
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Riza's Catering on Bastille Festival with its delicious Sauerkraut !
15 years ago RIZA's Catering a German Luxembourgish Catering Company started as a Pioneer of German Sausages in Queensland using the traditional German recipe and spices combined with local products to archive the very best and exclusive German Sausage without any compromises, just as you would experience it in Germany.
In that time we have served grilled sausages and fresh backed rolls to thousands upon thousands of satisfied customers at every imaginable kind of event, festival and corporate functions in Queensland and New South Wales.
And now here we are at the Bastille The Food Wine Art Revolution, with our 3 traditional dishes from the Pays des trois Frontière (tri-border region).
Is a famous dish from Alsace a historical region in northeastern of France prepared with hot Sauerkraut, Riesling wine, Frankfurter sausage, Mettwurst sausage and other different kind of salted cuts of pork served with steamed potatoes and Dijon mustard.
Is a dark-hued blood sausage sauteed and served with our homemade Kappes-Teerdich a mash potato sauerkraut combination and topped with caramelized onions.
Is a dish so iconically, ridiculously French, the name is based on the verb croquer (to bite) and monsieur (mister), and its first recorded appearance on a Paris café menu was in 1910.
Our Croque Monsieur is traditionally made with the finest ham and served between two slices of butter bread and a mouthwatering melted Gruyère cheese.
The dish becomes a Madame when it's topped with a fried egg.


Cable companies are still worried about drops in revenue that may come as the economic pinch encourages subscribers to cut out premium TV services. That may be why, despite consumer backlash, they've made recent moves to adopt bandwidth caps and metered usage plans. But they may be getting another revenue option, as the Obama administration is backing Cablevision's attempts to sell a networked DVR service to its customers.
For the most part, it seems that current customers aren't cutting their cables, but there may be fewer new customers out there. At Sanford Bernstein's 25th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference in New York, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts expressed concern over a higher than normal drop in subscriber growth in the second quarter of this year. "It's still a scary time," Roberts said. "We're really not seeing a surging of disconnects. We're just not seeing a surging of orders."
Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt echoed these sentiments. He noted that there is a definite population of customers ditching cable TV, though it is happening in a "very minute, hard-to-measure way." His real concern is with the increasing amount of content available for Internet streaming. "I have just made a simple observation that if, at an extreme, you could get all of the programming you get over cable for free on the Internet, over time people will stop buying... a video offering of cable or satellite or telco, and just buy broadband," he said during the conference.
That's a pretty striking admission: cable companies are afraid that their Internet offerings are starting to compete with their media offerings. Which may explain why they're so excited about capping usage despite customer outcry.
When we took a look at recent quarterly results for ISPs, we noted that results from cable companies, including Time Warner Cable, didn't support the notion that bandwidth caps were necessary to fund future network upgrades or ensure that cable companies can remain profitable. But cable companies certainly want to experiment with options beyond simple flat-rate pricing. "I still think some notion of you-use-less-and-pay-less, use-more-and-pay-more, will ultimately be what happens," said Britt during the conference.
If the cable companies are desperate for additional sources of revenue, though, they got some good news this week. Cablevision has been experimenting with one money-generating concept that has been a long time coming: the remote storage DVR. The RS-DVR uses centralized storage that's accessed from a standard set-top box instead of dedicated DVR set-top box with local storage.
The widespread use of these devices has long been contested by content providers, and even other cable companies. However, the US Solicitor General has urged the Supreme Court to refuse the appeal of the prior ruling, meaning Cablevision has a significant ally in its fight to roll the service out over the objections of content owners. Cablevision believes the centralized storage will reduce the barriers to entry for customers and reduce the service and support needed for traditional DVRs. The fact that it can charge for the use of the service can't hurt matters, either.
Addressing consumer needs with "out of the box" thinking like that behind Cablevision's RS-DVR is probably a better path to increasing revenue than arbitrary bandwidth caps. Ultimately, metered pricing may be handled in a way that's fair to customers, but it isn't guaranteed to magically raise revenues—especially if the relative minority of high data users begin cutting down to keep their bill under control. And there's the very real possibility it will send the industry's customers looking for alternatives.


The Sparrow Sisters, Sorrel, Nettie and Patience, are famous in Granite Point. Their nursery is flourishing and Patience's healing powers are very important to the inhabitants of the town. When Henry Carlyle moves into town to work as the new local doctor he's intrigued by them. He doesn't understand the sisters very well though. He doesn't believe in anything but science, but he wants to know how Patience works. He's curious and doesn't expect to feel a deep connection to her at all, but something happens to him when he sees her.
The Sparrow Sisters is a beautiful story about a remarkable woman who has the most amazing healing powers. The Sparrow Sisters are fascinating and they each have their own special features. I loved that about them and couldn't wait to find out more about their abilities. Patience is special and she has such a remarkable personality. I enjoyed reading about the way she handles situations very much. Henry is a kind man, but he has his beliefs and it isn't easy to change them. I loved reading about the connection he has with Patience and couldn't wait to find out what would happen to them. I instantly liked the main characters. What I also liked were the setting and Ellen Herrick's way of writing.
I knew I was going to like this book as soon as I read the first sentence. It was love at first sight for me. I think the story is fantastic. It's a contemporary fairytale. There's magic in Ellen Herrick's words, they're both beautiful and enchanting. I think this novel is absolutely brilliant. If you like the genre, you will definitely fall in love with this story. The Sparrow Sisters is a book I want to read again and again and again.
Oh my gosh. I absolutely adore fairytale-esque books. Your gushing has got me interested - plus I really like the simple beauty of the cover. Lovely review, Suze!
The cover of the paperback is even more stunning as it's iridescent. It's such a great book, you'd love it.
I would love this book. Unfortunately, people's opinions can turn to the worst when disaster strikes. This cover is really lovely.


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Top 20 Metro Areas Get 28% of Road Stimulus, 61% of Transit Stimulus
By Elana Schor
Cities are getting a disproportionately small share
of the road money given out by the White House's stimulus plan, but the
nation's top 20 metro areas are doing better when it comes to transit
— taking in 61 percent of the transit stimulus cash allocated so far,
according to an analysis by Streetsblog Capitol Hill.
That share for the top 20 cities (viewable in graphic form here) can be compared to the 28 percent of road money received by the same metro areas, according to a New York Times analysis published today.
But it's important to note that the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) got $8.4 billion in the
stimulus law, a much smaller share than the $26.6 billion that went to
roads. Does 61 percent of a much smaller pie balance out 28 percent of a larger pie?
The same 20 metro areas generate 46 percent of the nation's GDP, the Times found.
Asked to respond to the Times' piece, which echoes a report issued last month
by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a spokeswoman for the U.S. DOT
pointed to its focus on road projects to the exclusion of transit:
A tunnel vision focus on where
highway dollars are going does not give a complete picture of the impact the
Recovery Act is having on cities around the country.
Billions of dollars in
transit money are already out the door and more is on the way to help our urban
centers with their vital transportation systems that carry millions of people
U.S. DOT's contention is correct, in a sense; large cities did receive
the lion's share of the stimulus' transit cash. Still, only 10 percent
of cities' transit stimulus money could be used to close deficits in
their operating budgets, which amounted to small potatoes for many large urban systems.
And what's most stunning about the transit data may well be the metro areas that have gotten no targeted money yet from the FTA: Baltimore, St. Louis, Phoenix, Miami, and New York City.
The Times road-money data remains dismaying news for advocates who had pushed for cities to get a
direct share of the transportation stimulus, only to see states and
local metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) control the process.
What's more, as my colleague Ryan noted,
the shortchanging of cities is a powerful argument for focusing more federal attention on cities'
transportation needs. The recently unveiled $450 billion bill from the
House transport committee does its part for urban planning, but its lack of performance targets to guide cities' choice of projects remains a major question mark in that legislation.
(A couple of notes about Streetsblog Capitol Hill's analysis: The source material was the FTA's publicly available tally
of stimulus grants. Also, a liberal interpretation of city boundaries
was used, with suburban areas in a 50-mile radius counted as part of
metro areas.)
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New Analysis: Major Cities Still Shortchanged by Transportation Stimulus
By Elana Schor	| Feb 19, 2010
The Obama administration's awarding of $1.5 billion in competitive transportation stimulus grants on Wednesday sparked elation in cities such as Kansas City and New Orleans. But those celebrations were more than just anecdotal evidence of the so-called TIGER program's urban impact, according to a new analysis from the Brookings Institution's Rob Puentes. (Chart: The Avenue) […]
Report: Cities Not Getting Their Share of Stimulus Transpo Money
By Elana Schor	| Jun 16, 2009
The nation's largest metropolitan areas — which account for 63 percent of the U.S. population and 73 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) — have received less than half of the surface transportation money allocated so far under the Obama administration's economic stimulus plan, according to a new report compiled for the U.S. Conference […]
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New Stimulus Data: Road Funds 77% Under Contract, Transit at 74%
By Elana Schor	| Mar 26, 2010
As of the end of February, nearly $5.4 billion of transit stimulus money, or 74 percent, was under contract for projects in the 50 states and D.C., according to a Streetsblog Capitol Hill analysis of data released today by the House transportation committee. (Photo: DMI Blog) The success rate of transit stimulus spending was slightly […]
Killing the Myth of the 'More Shovel-Ready' Road Stimulus
By Elana Schor	| Sep 2, 2009
During debate over the White House's $787 billion economic stimulus law, transit advocates watched as their projects were shortchanged and more "shovel-ready" road projects got the lion's share of the transport pot — about $8.4 billion, compared with $26.5 billion for highways and bridges. (Photo: DMI Blog) But transit money is getting put to use […]
Obama Talks Urban Policy as LaHood Seeks More Urban Transpo Money
By Elana Schor	| Jul 13, 2009
Obama during the "sprawl is over" speech last February The White House Office of Urban Affairs, which has drawn criticism for its inactivity at a rocky economic time for the nation's cities, capped a day-long summit today with a speech by President Obama. Referencing his formative years as a Chicago community organizer, Obama urged the […]
What if America's Urban Economies Were National Ones?
By Elana Schor	| Jan 21, 2010
The U.S. Conference of Mayors released a report this week with some dire conclusions for the nation's cities: Even the payroll growth that many prognosticators anticipate this year won't make a dent in double-digit urban unemployment. Half of the 363 biggest metro areas won't return to their pre-recession jobs levels until 2013 or beyond. (Chart: […]


We're going to France to check out their new system for providing FREE, immediate access to counsel for every arrestee. Country by country, Europe is using the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (one of my favorite documents- read it and read it again at http://goo.gl/sQh6cy) and other conventions to require actual access to legal counsel for children and adults under arrest! (Learn more April 24, 2014 at http://jjustice.org/counsel-station-house-summit).
Last summer, my new friend Dominique Hill, a West Indian attorney trained and working in France, visited Chicago to learn about how different NGOs coordinate legal aid to poverty-stricken People of Color. She practices with a racial justice lens in family, contract, housing law and more. When she heard about what First Defense does, she told us about Bordeaux, France. Surprisingly, it sounds a lot like Chicago — and gives us some inspiration for what could happen here, to prevent police crimes and the routine denial of access to civil and human rights for detainees.
She said: in France, the poorest Black, Arab and other immigrants, especially youth, have suffered notorious police violence and human and civil rights abuses during custodial investigations. This came to light when DNA evidence exonerated many people who had served decades for wrongful convictions based on false confessions (sounds familiar, right?). In addition to the settlements they got from the government, they demanded a systemic solution for a systemic problem.
While there was already a right to counsel for detainees, there was no real access to lawyers in police stations (déjà vu, n'est-ce pas?). With pressure from the European Union and Human Rights Court, France instituted a policy to prevent future false confessions and change the culture of policing to require officers to promptly report misconduct or face termination and prosecution: free lawyers are to be immediately available to every arrestee. So it is possible, just as First Defense Legal Aid has been advocating for some time!
Through the Chicago Community Trust Emerging Leaders fellowship, I will travel to see first-hand the logistics of how access to counsel is provided to all. So far, I've heard from Ms. Hill that all police in France must call from a list of volunteer defense attorneys as soon as they make an arrest, then wait 2 hours for defense counsel to arrive before talking to the suspect. The volunteer list is managed by a bar association, that asks members if they'll take shifts on-call, and if so, when and for what stations. If they are then called in, the municipal government issues a nominal payment of ~$30-$50 (USD equivalent?). Here in Chicago, prosecutors are the only attorneys police call for their detainees, and those they hold under arrest are not even given access to make their own phonecalls until after the investigation is over.
According to Ms. Hill, police follow the rules and report on their peers who don't, knowing that defense counsel will be involved immediately to document injuries and other evidence, and point them out as accomplices if they do not come forward. Dominique explained that prosecutions and termination of police have increased, while deaths and hospitalizations of suspects have decreased, because the police stations are open to advocates to watchdog the investigations and protect the rights of arrestees regardless of their race and ability to pay. Could all this be true? Is there a best practice that can lead to the same desperately needed results in Chicago? I am about to lead a delegation to the source, to find out.
Of course, the French legal system varies from ours. But, we are at a very similar place in Chicago as they were in Bordeaux when this change came about: Last year, a federal jury acknowledged a code of silence at every level of our police department including the superintendent; "60 Minutes" named Chicago the false confession capital(http://www.cbsnews.com/news/chicago-the-false-confession-capital/); exonerees' stories and City pay-outs are making local, national, and international news; former commander Jon Burge is behind bars; yet the City of Chicago has made no new policy to interrupt and prevent the epidemics of false confessions and police misconduct. Meanwhile, the police accountability movement is growing: families of those killed by Chicago police officers successfully demanded the indictment of young Rekia Boyd's killer, an off duty cop, after 70+ such killings, primarily of Black youth, evaded the criminal system (recent news story at http://goo.gl/BQVf0o).
Please stay tuned as we find out more, and from more perspectives, on the ground. We will host a series of public forums upon our return, to report back to the community, discuss what we've learned and what it could mean for Chicago, and what we must do to get everyone real access to counsel during that crucial first 48-72 hours people are currently held incommunicado (without contact with anyone but police and prosecutors).
On a related note, you probably already know that we are committed to including those most impacted by police injustice, at every level of First Defense's work. As a result, we are working to help a young social justice leader be able to join this important fact-finding delegation. If you would like to contribute any amount to their travel expenses, please contact me at Eliza@First-Defense.org.


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Senior Terrell Pollard has already been accepted to the Culinary Institute of America.
For most part of Terrell Pollard's life he wanted to be a sports agent. When he started his high school career he transition his career path to wanting to be a chef. At age 14, Pollard started to pursue his dream of becoming a known chef. While training, Pollard cooks for his family dinner nights on occasion. Terrell is also very studious student, which is why he's admirable with his cooking.
Terrell Pollard set goals for himself so he can fulfill his goal of becoming a chef. He has worked so hard to get accepted to his dream college at the Culinary Institute of America. This is a big step in Pollard's passion and determination to carry on his dream. While pursing his passion he will be specializing in the Italian cuisine and culture. In his hopes of becoming a chef, Pollard has a desire to open his own restaurant to attract newcomers at his future Italian based establishment. His main objective is to bring people together from all different cultures and backgrounds while enjoying fantastic foods and exotic dishes.
His favorite dish to make is eggplant lasagna. Not only is it the easiest to make, but he sees people around him the happiest when they're enjoying this particular dish. Terrell likes to expand his region of dishes, making fried or baked chicken on other nights as well. He's very grateful that he found something not only he enjoys but his father enjoys as well. His father played an important role in helping Terrell pursing his career in food. They both cook for the family when it comes to dinners, cook outs, household family events, and more. He's very proud of his work, because he puts in the most work to making the best dish possible.
In the fall of 2020, Terrell will be attending to Culinary Institute of America, where he plans on getting his bachelor's degree in Culinary Management. When he graduates from the Culinary Institute, he plans on traveling the United States to visit various restaurants to study their foods and see how he can improve his own meals. Terrell wants to visit a particular restaurant that's owned by his idol, Guy Fieri. He has been very fond of his work let alone the many business he has opened. He wants to travel to Guy's American Kitchen and Bar because he wants to learn from not only his idol, but arguably one of the best chefs in the world.
When Terrell meets his goals for building his own restaurant, he wants to take part in giving back to a school that supported him all the way through of reaching his goal. Central Catholic is very close to him in many ways. People believed in him since attending Central Catholic when he started as just a freshman. He wants to give back to the community in a way of starting a Culinary program at Central Catholic. With great determination and passion Terrell can do anything to bring joy and happiness to everyone.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame revealed the Class of 2019 and rapper LL Cool J has been left out in the cold for the 5th time!
LL has been nominated an impressive five times but is yet to actually make it past the nomination stage.
Hip-Hop artists do not fare well as far as inductions go. To date, only a few have been inducted: Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, N.W.A, Tupac Shakur and Run-DMC.
But there is some good news, Janet Jackson was among those who will be inducted in the Class of 2019. Alongside Jackson, Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks, Radiohead, The Cure, Def Leppard, Roxy Music and the Zombies will also be inducted.
Kraftwerk, Todd Rundgren and John Prine, Devo, Rage Against the Machine, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan and MC5 were also rejected.
The 34th annual Rock Hall induction ceremony takes place on Mar. 29 at Brooklyn's Barclays Center.


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Jose was born in Cuba and came to the States at the age of 3. In January 2007 he joined the Wexler family as a policy processor and on his road to becoming a manager, he has held many hats within the company. He is passionate about his team, the business and assisting others. He is happily married and has two sons: one an 8-year-old football player and the other a newborn. Jose is a strong believer that with teamwork and an open communication anything is possible.
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Marc started with Wexler in 2006 after closing the second of his two jewelry stores. He comes from a family line of jewelers including his father and uncle who started the first store back in 1945. He took pride in the relationships he developed over the years and was known for his knowledge and honesty. Upon leaving retail it was a logical transition to start insuring jewelry stores. Marc continues with the integrity, fine service, and commitment to his clients. Marc is married with three adult kids and four grandchildren.
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Victoria Edwards is an Account Executive and Producer in our Southern California Office. She has specialized in Jewelers Block and Fine Art insurance for over 20 years. Before joining Wexler, Victoria worked at Sotheby's Auction House in New York and Beverly Hills.
Jacob Wasserman
Jacob began his career with Wexler in 2014 and has served positions in various departments. He graduated from Florida State University with a bachelor's degree in risk management and Insurance. Prior to joining the Wexler Team as an Account Executive/Producer, Jacob interned with Brit and MS Amlin in London, as well as Arthur J. Gallagher UK and Arthur J Gallagher in Miami. Jacob is licensed in all 50 states and focuses on commercial property & casualty insurance with a specialization in Jewelers Block & Pawnbrokers Insurance.
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Tyler was born and raised in South Florida and followed his parent's legacy of graduating from Florida State University where he majored in Risk Management Insurance. He now enjoys living in sunny Southern California. He has been a producer with Wexler since 2017. Tyler prides himself on providing first-rate service and creating relationships with his insureds that go beyond any transaction.
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Suzanne (affectionately known as Suzie) started her sales career selling copiers, main-frame software, and programming tools. She was then recruited as a Corporate Director at Tiffany & Co, selling recognition Business to Business. Through her friendship with Paul Isaac, she learned about Wexler Insurance Agency, and the rest is history, being a part of our team ever since. Suzie loves that she has had the wonderful opportunity to chart her own course.
Shayna Citron
Shayna Isaac Citron began her career with Wexler Insurance Agency in 2001. Ms. Citron's areas of expertise are within the high commodity industries and the insurance necessary to protect them. Shayna's exposure to the jewelry industry began at an early age in her family's jewelry store that was founded in the 1940s in Beaufort, South Carolina. This positioned her to fully appreciate her jewelry clients' challenges as well as successes. With many different insurance carriers to choose from, Shayna is dedicated to obtaining the most dependable coverage for her client's property and their liabilities. Prior to representing Wexler Insurance, Shayna was the Director of a Corporate Wellness Center in Alpharetta, GA. Shayna earned a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from the University of South Carolina and is a licensed Property and Casualty Insurance Agent and Broker. She currently resides in Golden, Colorado with her husband and two children and has clients throughout the United States.
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Lauri joined the Wexler Team in 1999 as an Administrative Assistant before transitioning to the Claims/Survey Department in 2005. She is the first point of contact for clients reporting a claim. She strives to quickly determine the appropriate course of action for a client filing a claim and then guide them through the reporting and resolution process. Along the way, she is available to address questions and serve as a liaison between the client and their insurer. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with family and friends.
Jordan Wasserman
Jordan has been with Wexler Insurance since 2014. He is a graduate of Florida State university, with a business degree in Insurance/Risk Management. Jordan also previously worked with Arthur J. Gallagher to gain experience and broaden his knowledge of the insurance industry. Jordan is a dedicated insurance professional who goes the extra mile to service the insurance, and other risk management needs, of his clients.
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Coverholder / Insurance Professional
Gary began his career as an insurance producer at Wexler Insurance Agency in 1992. He was directly responsible for creating several specialty lines insurance products including Wexler's Pawnbroker Package Policy. Gary became an owner of Wexler Insurance Agency, Inc. in 1997, and he was the founding partner of Wasserman & Wexler, LLC. During his tenure at Wexler, he successfully consummated several mergers and acquisitions including the recent sale of Wexler Insurance Agency, Inc. and its affiliated companies to Jewelers Mutual Group. In addition to serving as Vice President of Wexler Insurance Agency, Inc. for Jewelers Mutual Group, he is a Lloyd's Coverholder and licensed insurance broker. His extensive knowledge of insurance includes Jewelers Block, Fine Art, Pawnbroker Package Policies, Cash in Transit/Check Cashing/ATM Coverage, General Property & Casualty, Kidnap & Ransom, Workplace Violence and Professional Lines such as E&O, D&O EPLI and Cyber Liability. His clientele consists of a wide range of customers from large publicly traded companies to small mom and pop businesses.
Erika Wexler
Erika has been working with Wexler Insurance since January of 2017. She was born and raised in Miami, FL and has since moved to New Jersey. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Central Florida and her Master's and Specialist's Degrees from the University of Florida. Erika grew up learning about insurance and the importance of customer service from her father, who has been in the insurance business his entire working life. Erika is a hardworking agent who is dedicated to ensuring her clients have the best policy to fit their needs.
Pinchas Schechter
Pinchas has been an Agent with Wexler Insurance Agency, Inc. since 1999. His first experience in the jewelry industry was as a diamond cutter in 1979. Pinchas graduated as a Graduate Gemologist from the Gemological Institute of America in 1989, is a lifetime member of the GIA Alumni Association, and a past owner of a retail jewelry store. With this vast knowledge of the jewelry industry, Pinchas is able to advise his client's regarding coverage, security, as well as any other aspects that will aid to ensure optimal coverage Pinchas is a hands on agent who looks forward to taking care of his clientele. A native of Miami Beach, he is married, has seven children and nineteen grandchildren.
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Patsy joined our team in November 2017. She has been in the insurance industry since 2006 and started as a customer service representative at an Allstate Insurance agency. Her passion is to assist others, build strong customer relationships, and drive brand loyalty. Patsy loves what she does and is always eager to learn more. She enjoys spending time with her family and do-it yourself projects.
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Steve has been in the insurance business since 1981 and has been a licensed insurance agent since 1985. Steve was formerly the president of Wexler Insurance until its sale to Jewelers Mutual in 2020. Specializing in placing Jewelers Block policies and all types of insurance coverage, Steve has always pride himself on exceptional service and trying to understand the needs of his insureds to help their business grow. Steve is married, has two children in the business with him, Erika and David, and resides in Pinecrest Florida.
Amanda Schaeffer
Amanda Schaeffer is an Account Executive and Producer in our Cincinnati, OH office. She specializes in Jewelers Block with over 15 years of experience. Amanda began her career with an internship for International Jewelers Block and Fine Arts Services, in their personal jewelry department. Upon graduating from Xavier University in 2002, she began with Wexler Insurance with a focus on Jewelers Block and commercial lines. Her free time is dedicated to fun adventures with her husband of 10 years, Michael, and their 4-year-old triplets.
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David joined the Wexler Insurance team in 2018 after graduating with his bachelor's degree from the University of Central Florida. He comes from a generation of insurance agents, with both his father and grandfather working in the industry for many years. Needless to say, insurance runs in his blood. As a hardworking and dedicated agent, he will go above and beyond to make sure his clients get the best possible service and policy to suit their needs.
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Ronnie is a third-generation jeweler who grew up in the jewelry world, working both in wholesale and retail since she could talk. She joined Wexler in 2004 to share her firsthand jewelry experience in the industry. She was born in New York and raised in Miami and is a true ocean beach girl at heart. She holds a master's degree in Mental Health Counseling, her diverse educational background and training allow her to provide her clients with a unique and well-rounded approach. She always loves to find the solution to all problems. She enjoys life to the fullest and spoiling her two amazing munchkins. She lives by the words "Believe you can and you're halfway there".
Howard Baker
Howard was born and raised in Miami. After graduating from University of Florida in 1987, he started his career in sales working for Nestle Foods. As his roots were in the South Florida area he wanted to remain close to home. In 1996 he joined the Wexler team. Howard has spent the past 25 years learning about and understanding the nuances of the Jeweler's Block insurance industry. He prides himself with superior customer service. He loves to spend time at the gym and in the mountains of Colorado hiking and biking. He is never far from his phone and is known to answer client calls at all hours of the day and night 7 days a week. Howard is happily married with three grown children.
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An Accountant with a master's in business, Minelia joins us with over 10 years of experience in Insurance Accounting and Operations. Her diverse insurance background covers the areas of Health, Life, Investments and Travel and has dealt with National and International Carriers to include Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. Minelia brings valuable Carrier and Agency perspective and is a true professional who loves analytical challenges. She puts her heart into every task at hand.
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Greg started with us in early 2018, joining us all the way from Johannesburg, South Africa. He comes from a long line of insurance agents, from his grandfather to his father (and his father's twin brother). Greg started his insurance career in 2005, specializing in transport fleet and goods in transit insurances, and then moving into the specialized area of Jewelers Block insurance in 2015. He is passionate about the service experience, and always goes the extra mile for his clients, business associates and team-mates. Greg is married and has 2 beautiful kids, and currently resides in Miami, FL.. Greg lives by his motto "Make it Happen".


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Technicolor Asia and Malaysia 's KRU Studios Announce Partnership for Digital and Analogue Services
By kru-admin 09/11/2011 October 1st, 2015 English
Paris (France), Bangkok, (Thailand), Cyberjaya, (Malaysia) – November 9, 2011 – Technicolor (Euronext Paris: TCH) and KRU Studios today announce a collaboration on digital and analogue services for KRU Studio's slate of domestic and international feature films.
The multi-picture deal includes a full spectrum of services including digital post and film laboratory services, Dolby 5.1 sound mastering, 35mm prints as well as digital cinema mastering for KRU Studio's selected Stereoscopic 3D films in digital cinema packages (DCPs).
"Stereoscopic 3D is not only becoming the industry's standard format for exhibition internationally, but it will also set a new benchmark for local films in enhancing viewers' cinematic experience. Having Technicolor as our technical partner will allow us to achieve the international standards of visual and audio quality at par with the world's best," said Norman Abdul Halim, Executive President of KRU Studios.
"We are very happy to have the opportunity to collaborate with KRU Studios, which is such an important player in feature film production in both 2D as well as 3D technologies. Stereoscopic 3D is becoming the key factor to worldwide success for the movie industry. Technicolor supports the Stereoscopic 3D format, with both the digital workflow as well as the proprietary Technicolor 3D on film technology," said Sergio Bosso, Managing Director of Technicolor Asia .
KRU Studios, established in 1992, is known for its superior photo-real visual effects and digital audio and video production which is attributed to its cutting edge technology and state of the art equipment.
The first project under this collaboration is a family comedy feature film entitled Cinta Kura-Kura followed by 29 Februari, Vikingdom and Ribbit. Unlike the other feature films, Cinta Kura-Kura will not be available on Stereoscopic 3D.
About Technicolor
Technicolor is home to industry-leading creative and technology professionals committed to the creation, management and delivery of entertainment content to consumers around the world. Propelled by a culture of innovation and underpinned by a dedicated research organization, the company's thriving licensing business possesses an extensive intellectual property portfolio focused on imaging and sound technologies. Serving motion picture, television, and other media clients, the company is a leading provider of high-end visual effects, animation, and postproduction services. In support of network service providers and broadcasters globally, Technicolor ranks among the worlds' leading suppliers of digital content delivery services and home access devices, including set-top boxes and gateways. The company also remains a large physical media service provider, being one of the world's largest film processors and independent manufacturers and distributors of DVDs and Blu-ray™ discs. Euronext Paris: TCH www.technicolor.com
About KRU Studios
KRU Studios ("KRU") is a leading media and entertainment company in South East Asia . Founded in 1992, KRU has since diversified, and now provides a comprehensive range of services related to the media and entertainment industry, specializing in both production and distribution capabilities. Operating from its 15 acre facilities in Cyberjaya, KRU is known for its superior photo-real visual effects and digital audio and video production which is attributed to its cutting edge technology and state of the art equipment.
As an influential and trend setting organisation with offices and representatives in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the United States, KRU is well positioned to deliver its world class services in areas related to the production of motion pictures, television programs, music and other entertainment content.
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The Phoenix City Hotel (Guangzhou Fenghuangcheng Jiudian) is located opposite Litchi Park near the center of Guangzhou. The hotel has good connectivity to the city by means of buses and taxis, and is about 45 minutes from Baiyun Airport. There is a transportation centre near the hotel, where frequent shuttle buses operate. There are a variety of shops, banks, and vegetable markets nearby, and it is 23 kilometers from Canton Fair Pazhou Complex. The hotel has 573 guestrooms, which feature balconies with either lake or mountain views, pillow-top beds, climate control, high-definition satellite televisions, Internet access, mini-bars, separate bathtubs and showers, bathrobes, slippers and makeup/shaving mirrors. Extra towels and bedding, laundry, wheelchair accessible and smoke-free rooms are available. The Phoenix City property offers three restaurants, complimentary breakfast, a swimming pool, tennis court, tour desk, ATM banking, business center, technology helpdesk, car rental service, on-site parking, full-service health spa, and sauna. Event facilities include conference rooms, a ballroom, exhibit space, and banquet facilities. The hotel provides an area shuttle within 10 km and an airport shuttle.
- 28 km to East Railway Station; - 37 km to Guangzhou Railway Station; - 40 km to New Baiyun Airport.
Three restaurants serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner; complimentary hot and cold buffet breakfast and cocktail hour; picnic area, Western restaurant.
Health club, spa services, sauna, billiards, clubhouse, fitness facilities, nightclub, tennis, swimming pool, running path.
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Lots of restaurants in the area. Plan to eat locally before the show.
Very easy to drive. Just off I285 then N on Roswell Rd.
hard to find, theatre behind shopping center down alley way!
The theatre is in the shopping center with Trader Joe's, in the back.
The weather was sunny and warm.. I wore a light jacket - the theatre was a little chilly..
Act 3 Productions is behind Pier 1. Drive around to the back you will see it immediately.


Sara Jane Morgan is trying to balance teaching with caring for her ailing, stubborn grandmother. When school lets out for the summer, the plans are for Grandma to teach Sara Jane to quilt as they finish up the Appalachian Ballad quilt Grandma started as a teenager. But things don't always go as planned. Andrew Stevenson is hiding from his past-and his future. He works as a handyman to pay the bills, but his heart is as an artisan, designing homemade brooms. When Sara Jane's grandmother hires him to renovate her home, sparks fly between Drew and his new employer's granddaughter. Still, it doesn't take Sara Jane long to see Drew isn't what he seems. Questions arise, and she starts researching him online. What she discovers could change her life-and her heart-forever.


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Election 2014: Welcome to Year Three of the Citizens United Era
Michael I. Niman
Pundits have been calling this year's election a "Republican tsunami," terming the GOP victories in the Senate, House and state legislatures "historic." I suppose "tsunami" is rather accurate, being a big wave that destroys vulnerable communities in its path. And "historic" works as well, as history certainly predicted this year's electoral outcome, seeing how every second-term president's party lost Senate seats in their final mid-term election for the past eight decades. History was dead-on for Obama, with the president's party losing eight Senate seats so far (with a ninth still in play in Louisiana), just like Ronald Reagan did in 1986. In the House, Obama's party lost 10 seats, compared with the previous president's party's 30-seat second-term loss.
Incoherent results
If you're searching for some sort of coherent message in this year's vote totals, don't hold your breath. It was a good year for right-wing Republicans, but it was also a good year for left-wing progressive ballot initiatives, such as voter-initiated minimum wage hikes. The odd thing is that these initiatives won by huge margins in the same states where voters elected right-of-crazy Republican senators, empowering the party that used filibusters to scuttle such wage hikes on the federal level for the past six years.
Voters in Arkansas voted to raise their minimum wage by a bona fide landslide, 66 percent to 34 percent, while at the same time voting Republican member of Congress Tom Cotton into the Senate by a 17-percent margin. He's the same Tom Cotton who described food stamp recipients as "addicts" (perhaps addicted to eating?) and voted to cut Medicare and Social Security.
Voters in Nebraska supported a minimum wage hike by an 18-percent margin while voting in Tea Party backed Republican, Ben Sasse, a former venture capital adviser and protégé of societal devolutionist Paul Ryan. In South Dakota, voters also raised the minimum wage, by a 10—point margin, while electing former Republican governor Mike Rounds, an outspoken opponent of the increase, to the Senate. The same voters defeated an anti-abortion fetal "personhood" measure by 28 percent. Rounds, however, is a radical anti-abortion wacko who, as governor, signed a rabid anti-abortion law onto the books. It proved so repugnant to South Dakota voters that they went on to overturn it with a ballot initiative. Voters in Alaska won a minimum wage increase by a whopping margin of 38 percent, while also electing a new Republican senator and legalizing pot.
Try to extract a coherent conclusion from these tallies. Reince Priebus, chair of the Republican National Committee, thinks he found one, explaining that these results evidence an "embrace of the values of conservative governing." Janet Hook of Fox News's corporate partner, The Wall Street Journal, argues that "the election results reinforced the party's basic conservative identity."
It gets more confusing. Responding to a national exit poll commissioned by ABC News, 34 percent of voters claimed that, presumably by electing Republicans, they were voting in opposition to President Obama. Sixty-one percent, however, said they were also either dissatisfied or angry at Republicans in Congress. By a margin of 53 to 44 percent, voters claimed to hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party (what Republican-fed pundits refer to awkwardly as the "Democrat Party"). As bad as these numbers are for Democrats, the Republicans (the Republic Party?) fares worse, with voters dissing them by a margin of 56 to 40 percent. Go figure.
None of this data seems to make any clear sense. Yet, the news spinners in the corporate media and NPR ran with a partial data set, contextualizing the dissonance and chaos in these numbers as a clear mandate for a corporatist agenda that they fraudulently term "conservative."
Our short experiment with democracy
There's a much bigger, and certainly much more historic and ominous, story here. And it's not getting any major press. The United States engaged in a short experiment with democracy, commencing in 1965 with the Voting Rights Act and ending in 2011 with the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, allowing political action committees, oligarchs, and corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money, including untraceable anonymous "dark" money, on swaying the electorate through persuasive and often propagandistic ads, mailings, calls, and the infrastructure to propagate them. This election marks Year Three of our post-democratic electoral dystopia. With approximately four billion dollars spent on this year's election, it is also the most expensive mid-term election in US history.
What does this mean? The independent research group, The Center for Responsive Politics, crunched the numbers from 2000 to 2010, documenting how money "almost always" wins elections. In the House, the high-rollers won 93 percent of the elections. In the Senate, money ruled 83 percent of the time. And this was all before the 2011 Supreme Court negation of campaign finance laws opened the door for unlimited amounts of money while hiding the identities of the entities buying our politicians. It's not likely you're going to win an election without a rich sponsor to bankroll your campaign. And rich sponsors are unlikely to bankroll your campaign unless you promise to make them richer or otherwise carry their water by supporting their pet political depravities. We call this form of government a "plutocracy." Plutocrats usually win at the end of the day.
Why isn't the main news meme about Year Three and the triumph of plutocracy? Follow the money and you'll find the answer. The vast majority of this year's record-breaking campaign expenditures went to ad buys, primarily in television, but also across all other media platforms. For the bean-counters in the corporate media, election ads represent a windfall that, along with Christmas ad spending, powers them through the year. The ads are well crafted and focus-group-tested, sometimes measuring viewers' brain activity as they watch. And the ads work, even for candidates whose views are diametrically opposed to the electorate, as evidenced in this year's incoherent voting patterns. Public radio and television offers no real alternative to corporate media, choosing mostly to emulate the corporate media's bias, chasing many of the same corporate dollars in the form of underwriting rather than advertising.
Among the top campaign contributors are the oil, gas, coal, pharmaceutical, and "defense" industries. So it doesn't take a crystal ball to predict what hoops the new Congress will jump through to please their masters. Expect quick action on bills to pressure the Obama Administration to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, roll back power plant emissions standards, lift export restrictions on gas, build expensive new tactically obsolete weapons systems, green-light global trade deals giving away the house to corporations, extend patent monopolies for pharmaceutical companies, and continue subsidies to the carbon energy industries while defunding scientific research and anything having to do with reality-based environmental policies that stand in the way of short-term environmental plunder. Welcome to dystopia.
The Alpha Hog
Mitch McConnell, the presumed new Senate majority leader, has already stated that approving the Keystone XL pipeline and lowering corporate tax rates will be his top legislative priorities. Environmentalists have termed the Keystone XL pipeline, which will bring a particularly toxic and environmentally destructive oil to the global market, an "end game" for the climate.
McConnell isn't the typical hog in the plutocracy's pen. He's more of an alpha pig, having served his masters as one of the most outspoken activist politicians fighting to nullify bipartisan campaign finance laws, filing amicus briefs toward that end in the Supreme Court. In reward for his service, the Center for Responsive Politics reports that McConnell received over $31 million in contributions over the past five years, with only four percent of that total coming from "small" donors.
The plutocrats' win is a bit more complicated, however. Even with all of these well-crafted ads airing ad nauseum, the election results show that few eligible voters actually voted for the winning candidates. This year, almost two thirds of eligible voters chose not to vote. These are the highest voting abstinence numbers since the middle of World War Two. Technically, the majority of the electorate voted for nobody. None of the above. Nada.
Among those who did vote, the number of white voters, a group that leans Republican, increased by four percent since the 2012 election, while the number of nonwhite voters decreased by almost 11 percent, in part due to newly crafted voter restrictions. The number of elderly voters, those over 65 years-old, increased by a whopping 53 percent during the same time period, while the number of voters aged 18-29 decreased by 37 percent. The result is a demographically skewed electorate that does not represent the American people. Jezebel columnist Erin Ryan expressed her frustration to her youthful audience, writing, "We don't have to let the out-of-touch paranoia of the elderly dictate the direction of the country." Whatever.
An Al Jazeera poll of non-voters—the two thirds majority that stayed away from the polls—showed that 52 percent leaned Democratic, while only 27 percent leaned Republican. It's well known that low turnout in American elections favors Republicans, hence Republican-run state governments have been instituting voter suppression laws mostly targeting minorities and youthful voters—the Democratic base. Still, while Republican voter suppression efforts can affect a close election, I think this year's election results fall at the feet of voters who could have voted but opted out of the whole democracy thing. By doing so, they, in effect, cast the winning votes for our newly elected and guaranteed-to-be-unpopular Senate.
The responsibility for their absence at the polls belongs to this year's crop of mostly uninspiring and sometime downright repugnant Democratic candidates, as well as with President Obama. In many cases, the Democrats, afraid to upset their own corporate sponsors, ran as Republican-lite candidates. Republican voters, however, will vote for the real thing, while Democrats and progressives, left without a choice, will stay away from the polls. The Democrats are also paying the price for the Obama hope thing. The fact that President Obama incited hope and promised progressive change, only to extinguish hope and betray the trust of a generation, has condemned us to suffer the new political reality in Washington. Winning back that trust, which is essential to beating the odds and reestablishing a democracy, will take a lot more from the Democrats than a Hillary Clinton.
Mike Niman is a professor of journalism and critical media studies at SUNY Buffalo State. His columns are archived at mediastudy.com and available globally through syndication.


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Q: Youtube search input not interactable I'm trying to make a youtube bot, but when I try to send keys to the search input, nothing appears... Here is the error :
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable

Here is my part of the code that have to interact with the input :
os.system('cls')
driver = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver.exe')
driver.maximize_window()

print('Connection in progress... ')
driver.get('https://youtube.com')
os.system('cls')

WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="search"]')))
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="search"]').click()
search = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="search"]')
search.send_keys('python bot')

And here is the imports :
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from time import sleep
import os

Anyone has any idea?

A: You will have to maximize the window before you perform any action on the element. Here is the working code :) Please mark this answer as accepted if it has helped you.
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=cdriver, chrome_options=options)
    driver.get('http://www.youtube.com')
    driver.maximize_window()
    WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//input[@id="search"]')))
    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[@id="search"]').click()
    search = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[@id="search"]')
    search.send_keys('python bot')


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Ziggy Stardust UK 7″ (1982)
A: Ziggy Stardust
B: Third Uncle
Record Label(s): Beggars Banquet
Catalog Number(s): BEG 83
A Side matrix etchings: BEG 83 A 2 ARUN W-L F/I
B Side matrix etchings: BEG 83 AA1 AIRS AND GRACES W-L F/I
Distributed By: WEA Records
Ziggy Stardust is a cover of the David Bowie classic hit. Third Uncle is a cover of the song by Brian Eno. Initial pressings came in a card sleeve, while a later reissue came in a paper sleeve. There is a version featuring a larger center hole for a juxebox. A rare pressing also exists that changes which side the cut on the sleeve is located (normally, there is a small cut out portion at the sleeve opening on the top on the Ziggy Stardust side, but this rare pressing places the cutout on the Third Uncle side, effectively dubbing Ziggy the B Side). The final pressing of this single was issued in a plain white paper sleeve.


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NYC official will be Christie's state treasurer
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Gov.-elect Christopher Christie is expected to nominate Andrew Eristoff, the former New York Commissioner of Tax and Finance and the former New York City Finance Commissioner, as his State Treasurer, according to a New York Times report. Christie has scheduled an 11AM news conference in Newark.
Eristoff served as a New York City Councilman, representing a heavily Democratic Upper East side district, from 1993 to 1999, and lost a State Senate race in 2002. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Georgetown Law School.
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Normal chest radiographs can be challenging to evaluate and easy to over interpret in the rabbit. The thoracic cavity is small relative to the abdomen, and the heart takes up a large portion of the thorax. The cranial border of the heart is less distinct due to the presence of the thymus, which persists throughout the life of the rabbit. The cranial lung lobes are small and are obscured by a wide mediastinum. The caudal lung lobes have a pronounced vasculature. Additionally rapid breathing makes it difficult to obtain an inspiratory film unless the rabbit is anesthetized and intubated.
Injuries of the thoracic limb may present as a wing droop or an inability to fly. Injuries of the pelvic limb may present as lameness, unequal weight bearing, and/or an uneven grip.
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Its Monday wooohooo and I'm linking up with Kate and her weekly GBU link up.
The Good. My dad and sister came up for their Sunday visit. They visit me every Sunday that it is my weekend with the girlies. We went to the movies to see the Avengers, which everyone had seen but me. It was absolutely hilarious and non stop action. It is definitely one to buy. Thor is going to be my next husband. He just doesn't know it yet.
The bad. I still can't get Em's teacher to call me and will be calling the superintendent today to see if he will grant me a conference with him and the teacher. If this doesn't work out her dad and I have looked into private school options. 2 thousand a year seems to be the best we can do. Which I guess is pretty good considering.
The ugly. I ran out of Dr. Pepper for a day. I was being lazy and didn't want to drive to the store so I settled for flat pepsi. Totally not as good. But on the bright side I have Dr. Pepper and am ready to face the week. Now excuse me while I call the school board.


Remember Cliff Robinson? The sharpshooting power forward was ahead of his time in the NBA, making the 1994 All-Star game and enjoying a long, productive career.
Here's a career update: The player once known as "Uncle Cliffy" now goes by "Uncle Spliffy" — he's a marijuana activist in Oregon.
Robinson will be a featured speaker before 2,500 guests at the 2016 Cannabis Collaborative Conference in Portland on Feb. 3 and 4, according to the Portland Business Journal.
Robinson played 18 NBA seasons between 1989 and 2007, scoring more than 19,000 career points. Oregon voted to legalize recreational marijuana in 2014. Colorado, Washington and Alaska have also legalized recreational use.
As noted by the Portland Business Journal, Robinson's endorsement of cannabis likely makes him the highest-profile active or former athlete to do so in such an open and measured way.
Robinson was suspended for five games by the NBA in 2006 for violating its anti-drug policy. That suspension, which Robinson says was the result of smoking cannabis, came in the 2006 playoffs. It robbed Robinson's New Jersey Nets of a crucial option, and the team ended up losing without him to the Miami Heat.


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U.S. defense contractor Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced Wednesday that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division has been selected to repair the guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) at its shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi when it returns to United States for repairs.
Earlier this month the U.S. Navy issued a tender seeking a commercial semi-submersible heavy lift ship to haul the damaged destroyer back to the United States for repairs as soon as September.
The USS Fitzgerald has been at Fleet Activities Yokosuka since it was involved in a serious collision with the merchant vessel ACX Crystal on June 17, resulting in the loss of seven sailors. The collision caused significant damage to Fitzgerald's starboard side above the waterline and punctured a 13ft by 17ft hole below the waterline where the bulbous bow of the significantly larger containership made contact with the hull.
In a statement, Naval Sea Systems Command said the start date, scope, cost and the time required to fully restore the ship have not yet been determined.
USS Fitzgerald was launched in 1993 at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine and is homeported in San Diego.
In the tender for the transport contract, the Navy said that the furthest possible journey could be as far as Maine on the U.S. east coast, leading some to believe that the destroyer would be repaired at the shipyard where it was built.
The Navy's decision to haul the ship to Ingalls Shipbuilding comes less than a week after Huntington Ingalls Industries agreed to pay $9.2 million to settle allegations that it knowingly overbilled the U.S. government for labor on U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships at the Pascagoula shipyard dating back to 2003.
Regardless of destination, the Fitzgerald will have to pass through the Panama Canal making the Gulf coast shipyard a much closer destination. USS Fitzgerald is expected to arrive in the U.S. as soon as next month, although it could be as late as December.
Bath Iron Works is part of General Dynamics, a direct competitor to Huntington Ingalls Industries. Ingalls Shipbuilding and Bath Iron Works are the only two shipyards building Arleigh Burke-class destroyers for the U.S. Navy.
In the past, Ingalls Shipbuilding has repaired damaged Navy ships including the frigate USS Stark (FFG 31) and the USS Cole (DDG 67), a guided missile destroyer in the same class as Fitzgerald, after it was targetted in a terrorist bombing off the coast Yemen in October 2000. In the case of the USS Cole it was built at Ingalls Shipbuilding in 1995.
The Navy put the cost to repair the USS Cole at about $250 million in 2002, which some experts say could easily be exceeded by the repair bill for the Fitzgerald.
In 1988, when the guided-missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts was severely damaged by an Iranian mine, it was eventually hauled back to Bath Iron Works in Portland, Maine where it was launched just four years earlier.