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Steel sculpture in Queens, New York
Seen in summer 2018
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The Unisphere is a spherical stainless steel representation of the Earth in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, in the New York City borough of Queens. The sphere, which measures 140 feet (43 m) high and 120 feet (37 m) in diameter, was designed by Gilmore D. Clarke as part of his plan for the 1964 New York World's Fair. [1]
The Unisphere is located atop a 20-foot-tall (6.1 m) base with over 500 steel pieces representing the continents, as well as three steel rings representing the first artificial satellites orbiting Earth. Around the Unisphere is a reflecting pool measuring 310 feet (94 m) in diameter and surrounded by 48 pairs of fountain heads.
Commissioned to celebrate the beginning of the space age, the Unisphere was conceived and constructed as the theme symbol of the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair. The theme of the World's Fair was "Peace Through Understanding" and the Unisphere represented the theme of global interdependence, being dedicated to "Man's Achievements on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe". The Unisphere was restored after the conclusion of the World's Fair, but fell into disrepair in the 1970s, and was restored in the early 1990s. The Unisphere was made a New York City designated landmark in 1995.
1.1 Construction
1.2 World's Fair
1.3 Rehabilitation
2.1 Globe
2.2 Pool and fountains
2.3 Structural foundation
3 Climbs on the Unisphere
5.2 Sources
Attractions and Geographical Features of Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
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Attractions and geographical features of Flushing Meadows–Corona Park:
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National Tennis Center
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World's Fair station (demolished)
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, a former ash dump in the borough of Queens, was used for the 1939/1940 New York World's Fair. At the conclusion of the fair, it was used as a park. [2] [3] The Flushing Meadows site was selected in 1959 for the 1964 New York World's Fair. [4] Gilmore David Clarke and Michael Rapuano, designers of the original World's Fair layout, were retained to tailor the original 1939 park layout for the new fair. [5] [6]
The Unisphere under construction in the 1960s [7]
A crane eases the last segment of the Unisphere into place to complete the structure
New York City parks commissioner Robert Moses was president of the World's Fair Corporation, which leased the park from the city until 1967, after the fair's completion. [8] Moses announced plans for the Unisphere in February 1961, [9] and a model of the proposed work was unveiled the following year. [10] The Unisphere was initially conceptually designed by Clarke in aluminum with metallic mesh continents. [6] [11] It underwent a further refined industrial design in stainless steel by industrial designers at Peter Muller-Munk Associates. [12] [13] The final design was similar to the original, except for the inclusion of fountains surrounding the Unisphere. [6]
The Unisphere was constructed by American Bridge Company, a division of US Steel. [6] [11] The sphere was built within 110 days. [14] The last landmass was installed on August 13, 1963. [15]
During the 1964 fair, dramatic lighting at night gave the effect of sunrise moving over the surface of the globe. Additionally, the capitals of nations were marked by lights. [16] One of these lights is placed at the location of the Kahnawake Indian Reservation, which the Mohawk ironworkers requested to be placed there to honor their labor. [17]
In 1966, after the conclusion of the fair, US Steel donated $100,000 to make the Unisphere a permanent attraction at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. [18] The park was reopened the next year following a major renovation, and the Unisphere was permanently retained as a park feature. [19] In subsequent years, the Unisphere fell into disrepair, being covered in grime by the 1970s, while the pools were shut off and tagged with graffiti. [16]
In 1989, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation announced a multimillion-dollar rehabilitation of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Among the projects was a complete restoration of the Unisphere. The project, which began in 1993, included numerous structural repairs and removal of years' worth of grime accumulation on the steel. The fountains, shut off since the 1970s, were replaced, and new floodlighting installed. [20] [21] Furthermore, two of the surrounding lawns were planted with rose gardens. [22] The restoration was completed in May 1994. [20] That year, the Annual Building Awards in Queens gave the Unisphere an award for best rehabilitation. [23] In May 1995, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Unisphere an official city landmark. [24] [1]
The Unisphere's fountain reopened on August 12, 2010, after a $2 million restoration of its pumps, valves, and paintwork. [25] [26] In addition, the globe and its surroundings, including its reflecting pool and fountains, were renovated at a cost of $3 million. [1] In the September 2010 Brooklyn/Queens tornadoes, the landmass representing Sri Lanka was blown off the Unisphere; the piece was reinstalled the following year. [27]
Seen in 2010
The Unisphere is the world's largest globe. It measures 120 feet (37 m) in diameter, rises 140 feet (43 m), and weighs 700,000 pounds (317,515 kg). [16] Including its 100 short tons (91 t) inverted tripod base, which is made of a sturdy low-alloy steel, the Unisphere weighs 900,000 pounds (408,233 kg). [16] [22] The sphere is constructed of Type 304L stainless steel. The continents on the sphere are fabricated with a special texture-pattern by Rigidized Metals Corporation. [28] The Unisphere is tilted at an angle of 23.5 degrees, which is the Earth's normal tilt. [16]
Three large orbit rings of stainless steel encircle the Unisphere at various angles. These orbit rings are believed to represent the tracks of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space; John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth; and Telstar, the first active communications satellite. [16] [29] The early design was to have a ring for each of a dozen satellites in place at the time of the Fair. This proved impractical, not only in the number of satellites, but also in the height of their orbits and the fact that geostationary satellites had no orbit path. As a result, a symbolic number of three was chosen for aesthetic reasons. [29] The three rings were connected with aircraft cable to the rest of the structure. [16]
The landmasses of the Unisphere are made of metal sheets that are laid in contours. The shapes had to be placed at regular intervals while also accurately representing the globe, and could not be cross-braced or overly thick; furthermore, wind was trapped by the shapes' concave inner surfaces. As such, a stress transfer pattern was developed, and the meridians and parallels were varied in dimension, thereby making the Unisphere structurally stable as well as accurate in design. [16]
Pool and fountains
The Unisphere is centered in a 310-foot-diameter (94 m) circular reflecting pool, with a floor of poured concrete surrounded by a bulkhead of granite and concrete. Forty-eight pairs of fountainheads, on the outer edge of the pool, are designed to obscure its tripod pedestal. The effect is meant to make the Unisphere appear as if it is floating in space. There are plaques facing the four major paths that extend north, northeast, southeast, and south from the Unisphere. [16] From the perimeter of the reflecting pool, the Unisphere is meant to depict the Earth as seen from 4,000 miles (6,400 km) away. [30]
Structural foundation
The then-newly built Unisphere during the 1964–1965 World's Fair
Close-up of Africa
The Unisphere is built on a concrete foundation, which includes the piling ring that supported the Perisphere of the 1939 World's Fair. [16] [11] The marshy soil of Flushing Meadows needed special consideration during the original 1937 Perisphere construction. The Perisphere, and subsequently the Unisphere, which used the same platform, employed a foundation of 528 pressure- creosoted Douglas fir piles of 95 to 100 feet (29 to 30 m) in length. Before construction of the Unisphere, three piles were tested for structural integrity and all were found to be sound throughout their entire length. [31]
Climbs on the Unisphere
The Unisphere was climbed in 1976 by George Willig (the so-called "Human Fly" who would later climb the World Trade Center), and Jerry Hewitt as part of a short film called The Third Stone Directed by Paul Hornstein. The Unisphere was not again scaled until September 6, 2019, when Glen Schleyer, a member of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion, climbed the Unisphere to hang up a banner protesting the 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires. He chose the Unisphere because it celebrates the World's Fair theme of "peace through understanding". [32]
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Viktor Frankl, Happy Birthday
By Amber Shimel on Mar 26, 2017 with 1 Comment
A psychiatrist and the founder of logotherapy, Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) is an important figure in the history of psychotherapy and psychology. In a rare appearance from 1972, his TED talk on the importance of believing in others has garnered nearly a million views. This short, four minute lecture encourages us to look for the best in others. For this, and for his many other contributions to this important field, we say thank you, and Happy Birthday.
Victor Frankl was trained as a physician and expressed an early interest in psychology. He worked in hospitals in Austria before being sent to a concentration camp, along with his wife and parents. Both of his parents and his wife would perish during the Holocaust. His only family member to survive was a sister, who had emigrated to Australia. Through his harrowing experiences in the concentration camps, he developed his theory of logotherapy, which is considered the hallmark of the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy. This theory is based on Frankl's belief that man's ultimate goal is to find meaning in life. He believed that many addictions, frustrations, and feelings of emptiness in man results in the existential feeling of being confused or unaware of the true meaning of life. He wrote about the experience of weekend neurosis, which results from the lack of work on the weekends. Without the distraction of work, he noticed that many ended up with a greater feeling of angst from feeling unsure of the meaning of their life, or life in general.
He further believed that love is the true and only salvation of mankind. Through his many personal dark experiences, his only saving thought was of his wife, and his love for her. He believed that any man that was married experienced the same saving grace of thinking of love during their most trying times in life. He also noticed and wrote about his experiences in concentration camps that involved the basic categorization of two different types of men, those with morals, and those without. He found that this was true on either side of prisoner or guard. In any situation, there seemed to be those that operated with a guiding sense of right and wrong, and those that did not. He felt that this was an inherent quality in man, that was difficult to change through the course of life.
Viktor Frankl left the concentration camp when it was liberated at the end of the war, but he never forgot those experiences. He went on to earn numerous degrees, to teach at The University of Vienna, Harvard University, Duquesne University, and to also receive 29 honorary doctoral degrees. He left a lasting legacy in the field of psychotherapy and psychology. He believed wholeheartedly, and wrote about extensively, the meaning and usefulness of suffering. He went on to marry again and have a daughter, who practiced child psychology. On his birthday, and with great respect, we thank Viktor Frankl for his contributions to this field, and for his bravery in the face of insurmountable odds. The resiliency of the human spirit is in bright display in the study of Viktor Frankl's life. Happy Birthday, Dr. Frankl.
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Testing
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Setup tests
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First, create a `local.py` file:

```bash
cp testing/config/settings/sample.local.py testing/config/settings/local.py
```

Afterwards edit the `local.py` as for a regular RDMO instance.

Running tests
-------------

```bash
# from the root directory of the rdmo repo
pytest
pytest -x                                                       # stop after the first failed test
python --reuse-db                                               # keep the database between test runs
pytest rdmo/domain                                              # test only the domain app
pytest rdmo/domain/tests/test_viewsets.py                       # run only a specific test file
pytest rdmo/domain/tests/test_viewsets.py::test_attribute_list  # run only a specific test
```

Coverage
--------

```bash
pytest --cov                    # show a coverage report in the terminal
pytest --cov --cov-report html  # additionally create a browsable coverage report in htmlcov/
pytest --cov=rdmo/domain        # only compute coverage for the domain app
```

Testing the app
---------------

Tests can also be run from the `rdmo-app`. To do so, create a `pytest.ini` in your `rdmo-app` directory:

```
[pytest]
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE = config.settings
testpaths = tests env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/rdmo
python_files = test_*.py
```

where the path `env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/rdmo` might be adjusted to your system. The path `tests` is the directory in your `rdmo-app` where you can put custom, site-specific tests. Please refer to the [pytest documentation](https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/assert.html) on how to write tests.

Next, create a file `conftest.py`:

```
import os

import pytest
from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.admin.utils import flatten
from django.core.management import call_command
from rdmo.accounts.utils import set_group_permissions

@pytest.fixture(scope='session')
def django_db_setup(django_db_setup, django_db_blocker):
    with django_db_blocker.unblock():
        fixtures = flatten([os.listdir(fixture_dir) for fixture_dir in settings.FIXTURE_DIRS])

        call_command('loaddata', *fixtures)
        set_group_permissions()
```

This file is used to load test data (so called fixtures) into the database before testing. The fixtures reside in a directory `fixtures` in your `rdmo-app`. In order to use the same fixtures as the RDMO repo does, copy all files in https://github.com/rdmorganiser/rdmo/tree/master/testing/fixtures to the local directory `fixtures`. In addition to the fixtures, XML test data needs to provided in a directory `xml`. Similar to before, RDMO test data can be obtained from https://github.com/rdmorganiser/rdmo/tree/master/testing/xml.


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Jamie Foxx Gets Candid About Dating In Hollywood
By Niki Cruz
Oct. 28 2016, Updated 6:05 p.m. ET
Jamie Foxx is single, single, single. The actor-musician may be singing about being "All in Love" but he's not attached to anyone, or at least this is what he told E!
When Foxx was asked about his love life, the singer wasn't coy and straight out said that he was single. "How did James Brown say it? I'm 'single and ready to mingle.'"
Foxx continued and was insightful about love and how tough it is to find it in Hollywood. "Love's hard anywhere though. It's really hard out here. But I been out here so long, it's like you just sift through, sift through…"
The last time the Inquisitr reported on Jamie Foxx's love life, he was denying reports that he was hooking up with actress Katie Holmes. At the time, he said the rumors had hurt his relationship with an undisclosed woman, but it sounds like maybe those rumors did more damage than what we originally thought.
At the time, Foxx said that the romance rumors affected his relationship. Of the rumors that he's dating Katie Holmes, Foxx told Dish Nation the following:
"No, we're not dating. I'm not the person who wants to be defined by anybody I date. So, even if I was dating someone, no one would know anyway. But it affects my situation because I got a girl who's like, 'Yo, who's this [expletive]?'"
He continued, "The second time [the rumors] happened… we get together to do an animation thing and then somebody flips a picture to make it seem like we're holding hands. I said, 'If it was a real relationship, why didn't they just get that? Why didn't they get us kissing?'"
This is my jam: You Changed Me by Jamie Foxx / Chris Brown @V103 ♫ #iHeartRadio #NowPlaying https://t.co/hgkOD6VjTV pic.twitter.com/f64RguuXTK
— O.T. Russaw jr (@ORussaw) May 12, 2015
Chris & Jamie Foxx on set of You Changed Me! @chrisbrown #ChrisBrown #TeamBreezy #YouChangedMe pic.twitter.com/Km3mCfUURQ
— Loyal To CB and JB (@CB_and_JB) May 9, 2015
Although he's not lucky in love currently, his current single "You Changed Me" which features Chris Brown, is blowing up the charts. He also just released a single called "Like A Drum" featuring Wale. This is all to gear up his next album, which he's calling "Hollywood."
The Grammy winner's next album is set to drop on May 18 and is the fifth studio album. His last "Best Night of My Life" came out in 2010.
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The NAC SEA Relief Fund
An initiative of the New Apostolic Church South East Asia
Update on Kiamba, Primary School Project, Sarangani Province
NACSEA Relief braved the challenges for this project and commenced hauling for a period of one-month and daily 7-hours one way pick-up/delivery works (2-hours single motor trip and another 5-hours by foot carrying building materials up to site). The villagers and LGU on the other hand were committed to cooperating and ensuring security of the construction workers and haulers in their daily tasks.
The construction works started last January 28, 2018 and funded by NAK Humanitas. The project consist of 1-building with two classrooms complete with school furniture, wash area, water systems, male and female toilets, and faculty building. The two rooms will be used as primary classrooms and 50-T'boli students, will benefit from this project.
The school building spans an area of 9m x 7m per classroom while the faculty building is 7m x 6m. Both buildings are sturdy wooden structure erected on a concrete foundation with steel-reinforced flooring, wooden roof beams and GI metal roofing supported by hardwood frames and windows made of hardwood shutters.
Target completion of this project will be by last week of March 2018 and planned to be turned over to the Department of Education by 2nd week of April 2018.
Enclosed are photos for your ready reference. Would also like to share some comments from the T'boli community:
As per Edwin Kuyan, Chieftain, the villagers knows that education is the path out of poverty, but they live very far away from schools and have little income to support their children. He thanked very much NACSEA Relief, Inc. on behalf of the T'boli's for its great assistance for providing learning facilities to help improve the functional literacy and give opportunities to their children to have access to quality education.
Mr. Juanito Sampan, Barangay Captain of Tamadang in Kiamba, Sarangani Province was also very grateful and proud that NACSEA Relief has undertaken this venture to help improve the educational environment and bring hope for a brighter future of the students. He further mentioned that everyone is empowered to continue and sustain this great development in Datal Bong.
NACSEARelief
Annual meeting on 7th March 2018
KIAMBA PROJECT ACCOMPLISHED
© 2021 The NAC SEA Relief Fund


On October 14, 1962 Soviet missiles were discovered in Cuba just 90 miles south of Key West. Key West, due to its close proximity to Cuba, prepared for possible invasion. Large numbers of US troops gathered here to invade Cuba and defensive measures included HAWK missiles to shoot down Soviet planes and barb wire and machine gun emplacements along the beach to deter invasion by Cuban and Soviets troops to Key West. The US Navy blockaded Cuba instead. On October 27, the Soviets agreed to remove their missiles from Cuba and the United States agreed to withdraw our missiles from Turkey and war was averted.
Forty seven years ago, on November 26, 1962, President Kennedy came to Key West to inspect the HAWK missiles sites shown above and to reassure Americans it was safe to vacation in Key West once more.
John Kennedy is one of the seven US presidents who have used the Little White House in Key West, Florida.
Harry Truman once was quoted as saying, "There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know." We at the Little White House phrased it as "History is a process of discovery". It seems we are always learning some long forgotten fact and discovering a "new" story that has relevance to the Little White House.
Larooco Captain Morris, his wife, unidentified crew & FDR March 21,1926.


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package org.avineas.log4j;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Dictionary;
import java.util.Hashtable;

import org.apache.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator;
import org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator;
import org.osgi.framework.BundleActivator;
import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext;
import org.osgi.framework.Constants;
import org.osgi.framework.ServiceRegistration;
import org.osgi.service.cm.ManagedService;

/**
 * Bundle activator for this log4j bundle. The activator listens for
 * configuration changes and when an update is received, re-configures
 * log4j with the new configuration.
 *
 * @author Arie van Wijngaarden
 */
public class Activator implements BundleActivator, ManagedService {
    private static final String PID = "log4j.configuration";
    private static final String FILE = "file";
    private Dictionary<String, String> properties;
    private ServiceRegistration<?> registration;

	@Override
	public void start(BundleContext context) {
	    properties = new Hashtable<String, String>();
	    properties.put(Constants.SERVICE_PID, PID);
	    String path = context.getProperty(PID);
	    if (path == null) {
	        path = "configuration/log4j.xml";
	    }
	    properties.put(FILE, path);
	    updated(properties);
	    registration = context.registerService(ManagedService.class.getName(),
	        this, properties);
	}

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    @Override
    public synchronized void updated(@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") Dictionary args) {
        if (args != null) {
            properties = args;
            properties.put(Constants.SERVICE_PID, PID);
        }
        String file = properties.get(FILE);
        if (file != null && new File(file).canRead()) {
            LogManager.resetConfiguration();
            if (file.endsWith(".properties")) {
                // Load as property file.
                PropertyConfigurator.configure(file);
            }
            else {
                // Load the file as DOM file.
                DOMConfigurator.configure(file);
            }
        }
    }

	@Override
	public void stop(BundleContext context) {
	    // Strictly spoken not needed.
	    registration.unregister();
	}
}


Country star Buck Owens had one of his biggest hits with "The Streets of Bakersfield," and he opened this music venue in its namesake city to celebrate the rock-meets-country musical style known as the Bakersfield Sound. Today, music fans come to Buck Owens' Crystal Palace for the downhome food, music memorabilia, and modern-day star sightings. To complete your musical tour of Bakersfield, check out the historic Trout's—then experience the Central Valley city's other cool features, like its Basque cuisine and the Kern River.


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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by cajunsmoker, Jun 3, 2006.
Click on the "BROWSE" button, select your file and click the "OPEN" button. If you wish to have ImageShack automatically resize your picture, click the radial and select the size you'd likeit to be before uploading. Then click on the "HOST IT!" button and several links to your image will be provided for you to use.
Now "Copy & Paste" the link you want to use. If I have several pictures then I paste the links into Word or Notepad. Once you leave the website you cannot get back to the link unless you are a registered member and are logged in. So I strongly recommending copying them immediately as you upload each one. I like to use the "Thumbnail for forums (1) link.
If you didn't save the links the first time then you'll need to upload the pictures again.
Thanks for your help Bob. I tried it out on the test site and got it working now. Am posting pics on Beef board.


I've been involved in online communities for many years. I've seen and been in projects that span every possible traditional barrier to collaboration (location, culture, language, politics, religion, gender, etc, etc). This experience combined with my time in government has given me some useful insights about the key elements that make for a constructive online community.
What I came to learn was the art and craft of community development and management. This skill is common in the technology world, particularly in large successful open source projects where projects either evolve to have good social infrastructure or they fail. There are of course a few exceptions to the rule where bad behaviour is part of the culture of a project, but by and large, a project that is socially inclusive and that empowers individuals to contribute meaningfully will do better than one that is not.
It turns out these skills are not as widespread as I expected. This is problematic as we are now seeing a horde of "social media experts" who often give shallow and unsustainable advice to government and companies alike, advice that is not rooted in the principles of community engagement.
The fact is that social media tools are part of a broader story. A story that sees "traditional" communications turned upside down. The skills to best navigate this space and have a meaningful outcome are not based in the outdated premise that a media office is the single source of communications due to the media being the primary mechanism to get information out to the general public. There will continue to be, I believe, a part for the media to play (we could all use professional analysis and unbiased news coverage, please). However, as governments in particular, we will have a far more meaningful and mutually beneficial relationship with citizens where we genuinely and directly engage with them on matters of policy, service delivery, democratic participation and ways that government can facilitate public and private innovation.
You might be lucky and have some media people who have adapted well to the new world order, but any social media strategy limited to the media office will have limitations in delivery that starts to chafe after a while.
It is when you get your customer service and policy people engaged online that you will start to see genuine engagement, genuine community building and the possibility to leverage crowdsourcing. It is when you start to get people skilled in community engagement involved to work alongside your media people and in collaboration with the broader organisation that you will be able to best identify sustainable and constructive ways your organisation can apply social media, or indeed, whatever comes next.
Below are some vital skills I would recommend you identify, hire or upskill in your organisation. Outsourcing can be useful but ideally, to do this stuff well, you need the skills within your organisation. Your own people who know the domain space and can engage with imprimatur on behalf of your organisation.
In my time in online communities I came to understand the subtleties in what we in the geek world refer to as "herding cats". That is, working with a large number of individuals who have each their own itch to scratch, skills, interests and indeed, vices. Individuals who have a lot to contribute and are motivated for myriad reasons to get involved.
I learnt how to get the best out of people by creating a compelling narrative, having a meaningful goal, uniting people over what we have in common rather than squabbling over what is different.
Herding cats is about genuinely wanting people to get involved, recognising you can't "control" the conversation or outcomes, but you can encourage a constructive dialogue. Herding cats ends up being about leadership, building respect, being an active part of a live conversation, setting and encouraging a constructive tone, managing community expectations and being a constant presence that people can turn to and rely upon. Cat herding is about building community.
Finally, herding cats is about managing trolls in a constructive way. Sometimes trolls are just passionate people who have been burnt and feel frustrated. They can sometimes become your greatest contributors because they often care about the topic. If you always engage with trolls in a helpful and constructive way, you won't miss the opportunities to connect with those who genuinely have something meaningful to contribute.
You need to know the communities of interest. The thought leaders, where they are having their discussions, what one-to-many points (technical, social, events) can you tap into to encourage participation and to get your finger on the pulse of what the community really thinks. Community research is about knowing a little about the history and context of the communities involved, about the right (and wrong) language, about if and how they have engaged before and getting the information you need to build a community of interest.
Topic research means your community engagement person needs to know enough about the domain area to be able to engage intelligently with communities of interest. Your organisation is effectively represented by these people so you need them to be smart, informed, genuine, socially and emotionally intelligent, "customer service" oriented and able to say when they don't know, but be able to follow it up.
This skillset is about intuitively trying to include others in a process. Trying to connect the dots on communities, perspectives, skills and interests to draw people from industry, academia and any other relevant groups into the co-design of your project. By getting knowledgable, clever and connected people in the tent, you achieve both a better plan and a community of (possible influential) people who will hopefully want to see your initiative succeed. Co-design isn't just about creating something and asking people's opinion, but engaging them in the process of developing the idea in the first place.
A little thanks goes a long way. By publicly recognising the efforts of contributors you also encourage them to continue to contribute but whatever you are engaging on needs to be meaningful, and have tangible outcomes people can see and get behind.
Real outcomes of your online engagement are key in managing public expectations.
It is vital that you have internally the skills to monitor what is happening online, analyse both the content generated and the context around the content created (the community, individuals, location, related news, basically all the metadata that helps you understand what the data means).
By constantly monitoring and analysing, you should be able to identify iterative improvements to your online engagement strategy, your project, policy or "product". Most people focus on one of these three (usually the latest toy with pretty but meaningless graphs spruiked by some slick salesperson), but it is by turning the data into knowledge and finally into actions or iterative improvements that you will be able to respond in a timely and appropriate manner to new opportunities and challenges.
UPDATE – quick shout out to the rather useful Online Engagement Guidance and Web 2.0 Toolkit for Australian Government Agencies. This was a funded outcome from the Gov 2.0 Taskforce.
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This is an interesting comment on the skill-set that is needed in the future of community engagement – specifically, from my perspective, engaging the community for some sort of outcome; which is always the goal of change management practitioners.
How do you propose that the skill-set needed is sourced or grown within? It would seem to me that this is a bit of a void, where everyone recognises that it is needed, but 'engaging with the risk' of getting and using this skillset is a challenge for our SES and senior leaders, where the path of 'no risk' (albeit, continually demonstrated to be lower in effectiveness) is to go with what we have gone with for so long.
Who has these skills? Not only to apply to the issue, but also to grow these skills and capability internally? Do we find our best customer service officer and give them 'all power' and see what happens?


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Fall Camp Preview: Storylines to watch
We'll be posting daily online updates from fall camp starting Saturday. In-depth position previews for Cal can be found on our Football Blog. 1. Zach Maynard under center — and in the spotlight With the departure of Kevin Riley, Cal's quarterback competition figured to be the team's most wide-open in
Sports in Brief: Derrick Hill signs with hometown Raiders
Derrick Hill got to play close to home when he came to Cal in 2006. Now, he'll fight for the chance to play even closer as a professional. The Bears' former nose tackle, who first played football at Oakland's McClymonds High School, signed with the NFL's Oakland Raiders as an
Lyles scandal overshadows otherwise festive Pac-12 Football Media Day
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Cal head coach Jeff Tedford munched on a Dorito and talked comedy during lunch at Tuesday's inaugural Pac-12 Football Media Day. "They film Modern Family here," he said, referring to the event's Fox Studio Lot venue. Funny he mentioned that, because the conference — Cal included
Report: Cal received services of controversial scout
Cal's football program is one of two others to have used the recruiting services of Will Lyles, a Houston-based scout currently under NCAA investigation for his involvement with the University of Oregon. Invoices obtained by The Oregonian show that both Cal and LSU bought recruiting packages from Lyles which included
Tedford picks Maynard as the Bears' starting quarterback
In recent years, Cal football coach Jeff Tedford has kept the public waiting to find out who will be starting under center. That won't be the case this season. Tedford announced Saturday that junior Zach Maynard will be team's starting quarterback, ending a competition that began at the close of


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Question: How Many Wives And Concubines Did David Have?
How many wives did David have and what were their names?
How many wives and concubines did King Solomon have?
What was a concubine in Bible times?
Who has most wives in the world?
Does God approve of polygamy?
Who did Isaac marry?
How many wives King David had?
How many wives and concubines did David have in the Bible?
Do concubines still exist?
Why do kings have many wives?
Who was King Solomon's wife in the Bible?
How many wives and concubines did Abraham have?
David then took wives in Hebron, according to 2 Samuel 3; they were Ahinoam the Yizre'elite; Abigail, the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; Maacah, the daughter of Talmay, king of Geshur; Haggith; Abital; and Eglah..
They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, "You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods." Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray.
In Judaism, a concubine is a marital companion of inferior status to a wife. Among the Israelites, men commonly acknowledged their concubines, and such women enjoyed the same rights in the house as legitimate wives.
Indian politicians court man with 'world's biggest family:' 39 wives, 127 offspring. At last count, Ziona Chana has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren. They all live with him in his 100-room, four-story house perched among the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram.
Although Christians inherited some biblical texts that describe numerous examples of polygamy among devotees to God, most Christian groups have historically rejected the practice of polygamy and have upheld monogamy alone as normative.
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six wivesDavid was married to Ahinoam, Abigail, Maacha, Haggith, Abital, and Eglah during the 7-1/2 years he reigned in Hebron as king of Judah. After David moved his capital to Jerusalem, he married Bathsheba. Each of his first six wives bore David a son, while Bathsheba bore him four sons.
1 Kings 11:3 in the Bible. "And he had 700 wives who were princesses and 300 concubines, and his wives gradually inclined his heart. In Solomon's old age, his wives inclined his heart to follow other gods, and his heart was not complete with Jehovah his God like the heart of David his father".
While concubines are taboo, they are everywhere, but are not allowed to speak, and certainly not to strangers. … She moved to Shenzhen to work as a hostess in a karaoke bar, and, before she knew it, had become the concubine of an older man. As is often the case, he did not tell her he was married.
Kings in myth and epic often have more than one wife. It is fairly typical that while one of the wives has been married for political gain or for wealth, the king has another wife whom he loves — the king is divided in mind, heart and body as well.
Bathsheba, also spelled Bethsabee, in the Hebrew Bible (2 Samuel 11, 12; 1 Kings 1, 2), wife of Uriah the Hittite; she later became one of the wives of King David and the mother of King Solomon.
Abraham and Keturah had six sons. One modern commentator on the Hebrew Bible has called Keturah "the most ignored significant person in the Torah"….KeturahSpouseAbrahamChildrenZimran (son) Jokshan (son) Medan (son) Midian (son) Ishbak (son) Shuah (son)3 more rows
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Simeon Bolaji believes Horoya can take a very important step forward in the CAF Champions League with a result at home to Al Ahly in the quarter finals.
The Guinean side will entertain the Reds in the first leg of the last eight on Friday.
"We are very happy with what we are doing on the field and wish to continue that streak on Friday," he told Footballlive.ng today.
"The game against Al Ahly is very important as it could provide us with an important step forward in the knockout stages of the Champions League.
"Al Ahly a very strong team at home and are very experienced in Africa.


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It became known as a "gift" made James Mattis for Ukraine
As it turned out, the Minister brought with him for defense equipment.
Special envoy of the US state Department in Ukraine Kurt Volker argues that the U.S. Secretary of defense James Mattis during his visit to Ukraine on August 23-24 and brought military equipment for the armed forces.
"I agree that Ministers of defense do not come with empty hands. The Minister of defence (John.Mattis — ed.) brought a certain defence equipment for the Ukrainian army," said Walker in an interview, "Direct", reports Inforesist.org
The special representative noted that the United States will never recognize the annexation of Crimea, and the restoration of Ukraine's sovereignty must be through security in Ukraine.
"The restoration of Ukraine's sovereignty must be through security in Ukraine, in Kiev, now have to talk about how people should live, which are located in the East of Ukraine, now it is a very dramatic story," said Kurt Volker.
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When tinkerers take on a finely detailed motor model kit, the result is big passion on a small scale. Every screw, every color has to be perfect to ensure that the flat engine on the shelf is the spitting image of the one in the Porsche 911.
The Porsche flat-six boxer engine model kit made by Franzis Verlag is a hot item in the Porsche Museum gift shop in Zuffenhausen, and no wonder. It's a miniature masterpiece—a sentiment shared by fans. A concealed electric motor slowly sets the model in motion. Tiny light diodes flash red: 1 – 6 – 2 – 4 – 3 – 5. The ignition sequence is perfect; the sound comes from a small speaker under the 1:4-scale flat engine. The finished model was achieved with a grand total of 290 pieces, at least two hours of assembly time, and not a drop of glue on the fingers. Instead, the parts are fit and screwed together, as with the original, a six-cylinder Porsche 911 from 1966.
Porsche fans wouldn't be Porsche fans if they didn't approach this kit with exacting attention to detail. One of them turned it into a functional model that can generate up to 3,000 rpm. "Incredible," says Frank Wessels, with an admiring whistle. The fifty-two-year-old model enthusiast from Havixbeck, near Münster, Germany, inspects his version of the 911 model. "It's amazing that such engine speeds are possible! The engine has to have special bearings made of metal for that. Otherwise it would be tricky—just in terms of the play between the parts alone. You'd quickly have a piston-smasher on your hands." He laughs and turns the engine, positioned on the workshop cart in front of him, to face him. Then he suddenly becomes thoughtful. A small lathe, a bit of brass—that's all it would take to put some bearings on the crankshaft. Not a problem. His garage is well equipped and as tidy as can be. Wessels also tinkers with full-sized cars, of course, but his passion is reserved for model building. It took him only two hours to assemble the engine model. In the process, he noticed details that he wanted to refine further.
"As true to the original as possible—but also as practical as possible."
Details, mind you, that would have made some heads spin, had the Franzis Verlag publishing house included them. Cylinder heads, for example: "Our display engines always involve some small degree of compromise. They have to be durable and you have to be able to assemble them without glue," explains John Anson, engine designer for Franzis Verlag and the "father" of the small flat-six engine. The cylinders, for instance, cannot be inserted individually; instead, they're combined in a single piece per bank. The engine case is split horizontally rather than vertically to simplify the assembly. Why didn't Porsche engine designer Hans Mezger think of that? Anson brushes off the suggestion with a smile. "No, no. The original has the best solution. But we model makers have to strike the right balance: as true to the original as possible—but also as practical as possible." Wessels is understanding. As a matter of fact, he's delighted. "That leaves more to do for crazy fanatics like me." His engine, of course, has a metal tension band around the blower housing and the matching decal. With gasket paper, chrome foil, brass screws, and the painstaking application of spray paint, a miniature masterpiece took shape.
In the town of Nördlingen in Bavaria, local residents Thomas Müller and Joachim Nießlein also tinker with their model kits. "Take a look at that!" Thomas Müller—one of the organizers of the legendary ducktail meeting—taps the photo with his finger. "The exhaust pipe looks good this clean." Joachim Nießlein nods. He's reconstructed no fewer than five miniature engines. Walter Röhrl has one of them, a present for his seventieth birthday. "He was absolutely thrilled," says Müller. For Nießlein, the "Röhrl engine" is his masterpiece. Except for the biplane that he built and flies himself. On a 1:1 scale, that is.
Nießlein's passion is creating a patina, or the impression of aged construction parts. The process takes hours. With the exhaust, for example, Nießlein first coated it with a suitable paint and then rubbed it with oil paint and turpentine. The dark oil paint remained in the small grooves in the plastic. The simple molded part thus became a work of art—with the addition of tension bands made of super-thin sheet aluminum just 0.4 millimeters thick. "More of a foil," says Nießlein. He's always put a good deal of time into building the engine kits. After what has often turned out to be weeks of painstaking effort, the stunning results inspire covetous glances in the living rooms and workshops of his friends.
The ideas take shape in collaboration with Müller—one fine example being the exceptionally detailed carburetor on the "Röhrl engine." Even the shielding plates are replicated—the unheralded shields meant to protect the carburetor against heat. For the next engine, Nießlein will attempt to replicate the carburetor actuator.
This is not exactly what Martin Koschewa, responsible for marketing at Franzis Verlag, had in mind when he first contacted Jörg Thilow of the Porsche Museum. His original idea was to sell only functional models in the shop—engines without a specific model: "They were our first model kits. They were really only intended to illustrate how an engine works." But after a quarter of an hour on the phone, Thilow said that Porsche would help Franzis Verlag create a replica of the first version of the iconic 911 engine, exactly as Hans Mezger had developed it. And they did, offering design drawings from the archive and visits to Porsche Classic—they pulled out all the stops.
The results are compelling. So it makes perfect sense that in the next phase of their collaboration Porsche and Franzis are set to bring a further model to market in the autumn of 2018. And it's a doozy: the legendary Fuhrmann engine. A 1:3-scale prototype is already complete, including the vertical shaft camshaft drive.
The finely crafted air filters and very detailed carburetor surely make things somewhat trickier for the model builders. "Oh, do you really think so?" asks Thilow with a wink. He seems to have an inkling that fans like Frank Wessels and Joachim Nießlein will disappear into their hobby rooms on the first day of Christmas holidays 2018 and make their 1:3-scale Type 547 kits into very special miniature works of art.
The heart of the high-performance sports car is a flat-six engine.


Is pot bad for your heart? While some advocates claim cannabis is harmless, others say it's damaging one of the most important parts of our body; the cardiovascular system. As cannabis use increases in popularity, both recreationally and medicinally, it is becoming increasingly important to understand these potential effects.
Scientists agree on a few notable effects cannabis has on the heart. For example, the research is consistent that THC can increase heart rate, affect blood pressure, and decrease the amount of exercise it takes to induce angina (chest pains). For those already at risk for cardiac complications, there is concern these effects could trigger dangerous cardiac events. While there isn't much research on this, there is limited evidence of an association between cannabis use and strokes or the triggering of heart attacks.
There have also been a few reports of healthy, young patients having fatal cardiac events with THC in their system but no other medications or drugs. While unnerving, these reports are extremely rare, and tell us very little. In the large scale, longitudinal studies researchers have not been able to show any statistical tie between cannabis use and increased cardiovascular mortality.
Despite these potential risks, research also shows cannabis can benefit our heart. Cannabis is associated with a lowered risk of obesity; and since obesity has been shown to contribute to heart disease, experts suggest this may lower the risk of heart disease as well. THC has been shown to reduce damage from heart attacks, while CBD has an antiarrhythmic effect. And there is limited evidence that cannabis use decreases the risk of diabetes.
Cannabis can also help the heart as an anti-inflammatory agent. In a recent 2017 study, researchers from the American Heart Association concluded that cannabis is protective against peripheral vascular disease, preventing the narrowing and spasming of blood vessels with its anti-inflammatory properties.
Is cannabis helpful or harmful? It may be both. While more rigorous controlled studies are needed to fully understand the risks and benefits, it's clear that cannabis is a powerful substance with the power to affect our cardiovascular system. Like most medications, it might be helpful for some conditions and harmful for others. Patients considering using cannabis should talk to a doctor about whether it is a safe option for them.
The active ingredient in marijuana is THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), and many tissues in your body have THC receptors. That means marijuana can have some effect on virtually every organ, and that effect is also virtually unknown. Unlike FDA-approved medications, marijuana has no established dosage, safety or efficacy studies.


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Liang hits stride to share lead at Classic
Source: Agencies | October 17, 2009, Saturday | Print Edition
CHINA'S Liang Wenchong and Andrew Martin of Australia each shot six-under 65s yesterday to be joint leaders after the second round of the China Classic.
Liang, who won the Asian Tour Order of Merit in 2007, fired six birdies, while Martin carded eight but bogeyed the second and third holes at the Royal Orchid International Golf Club in Shunde, south of Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong Province.
Their eight-under 134 totals put them two strokes clear of the South Korea's Park Jun-bum (66) and Australia's Stephen Leaney (69) at the US$500,000 tournament, part of the OneAsia series that rivals the Asian Tour.
Overnight leader Craig Scott (72) of Australia was a stroke further back at five-under, along with China's Huang Wenyi (68) and Australian Brad McIntosh (71). The trio was one shot ahead of Koreans Park Jae-kyung (69) and Sung Sea-woo (72) and Irishman Eddie Barr (72).
Guangdong native Liang, joint runner-up in last month's Asia-Pacific Panasonic Open in Japan, is aiming to become the third Chinese winner of the Midea event following victories by Yuan Hao in 2005 and Zhang Lianwei in 2006. Thai legend Thaworn Wiratchant won in 2007, while Korean teenager Noh Seung-yul emerged victorious last year.
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"I really want to win because I haven't won for three years in China and the Midea is one of the major events in our golfing calendar," he said.
In Las Vegas, American Tom Pernice Jr took a share of the first-round lead at the Las Vegas Open on Thursday firing a nine-under 62 to jointly head the leaderboard with Troy Matteson and Spencer Levin.
The 50-year-old Pernice Jr, whose last win on the PGA Tour was more than eight years ago, took just 26 putts and hit all but one green in regulation.
Matteson was set for the outright lead after producing four successive birdies on the back nine but he bogeyed the 17th and needed another birdie on the last to have a share of top spot.
Levin, who is half Pernice Jr's age, took his share of the lead thanks to a bogey-free round that included an eagle on the par-five 16th.
The only non-American in the top-10 was Briton Martin Laird, a shot off the lead after his eight-under 63, finishing off his round in style with four successive birdies.


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Another type 23 heading off to where all the type 23's spend all their days abroad.
East across the Med, turn right, down the canal.
Iron Duke will make the return.
We only have 13 of these frigates, and the grey navy is now being stretched well beyond its capabilities.


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Q: Do all the jobs in a bash shell exactly form a session? Process, process group, and (process group) session are concepts of Linux.
If I am correct, in a bash shell, the process groups started in it are called jobs.
Do all the jobs started in a bash shell exactly form a session? "Exactly" means no more and no less.

A: Not every shell process, only a login shell creates a new session (more details below). At the start the session has obviously only one member, the shell itself. Each newly forked process belongs automatically to the same session. A process may remove itself from its session by creating a new one with setsid(). There is no other way for a process to change its session.
Summary:

session members = login shell
    AND all child processes (and their child processes, etc.)
    EXCEPT child processes that have created its own sessions

A remaining question is if all processes spawned by the shell are always started as "jobs", i.e. one process group per command. While this is normally true, I do not know for sure for non-interactive shells.

UPDATE
This question was about bash, but the same can be said about other similar command line oriented shells with job control.
As @StéphaneChazelas pointed out, a session is created by the program that manages logins at a terminal or pseudoterminal device. A session is strictly tied with its terminal.
The user must log in first, only then his or her shell program can be determined from the corresponding record in the passwd file. That shell program gets execed - PID remains the same. A session is thus created inside a process which becomes the user's login shell.

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Home Government New York AG sues to dissolve NRA for huge insider fraud
New York AG sues to dissolve NRA for huge insider fraud
Powell, LaPierre's former chief of staff, had his salary increased from $250,000 to $800,000 in just three years as a reward for his loyalty to LaPierre, the suit states
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[ Editor's Note: Well it looks like Wayne LaPierre's days of using the NRA as a piggy bank might be over. I must say it could not have happened to someone more deserving, but one of countless more that sit in high positions to serve themselves more and more.
The NRA members were the people who really got screwed in this deal, but I am not too sure how many of them care. This is what encourages CEOs of such organizations to loot the funding, because they can, and there is no one with a big enough bank account to take them on.
Although I was never a big fan of Ollie North, he did try to take on the board, but got nowhere. There had to be many people inside the operation that knew this was going on, but the mindset of people like these is they viewed their supporters of a good cause as chickens to be plucked.
While we look at other places around the world having rampant corruption, we are surely among the best, despite our being more sophisticated in our style. I will be waiting to see if the New York AG goes after the NRA auditors and accountants.
Gosh, silly me would be suspicious that they might have been in on the scam. That said, I hope the members get their money back so they can form a new org to represent them better than the bandits that they had…. Jim W. Dean ]
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New York attorney general seeks to dissolve NRA in suit accusing gun rights group of wide-ranging fraud and self-dealing
…by Carol D. Leonnig
August 6, 2020 at 11:42 a.m. EDT
The chief executive of the National Rifle Association and several top lieutenants engaged in a decades-long pattern of fraud to raid the coffers of the powerful gun rights group for personal gain, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by the New York attorney general, draining $64 million from the nonprofit in just three years.
In her lawsuit, Attorney General Letitia James called for the dissolution of the NRA and the removal of CEO Wayne LaPierre from the leadership post he has held for the past 39 years, saying he and others used the group's funds to finance a luxury lifestyle.
She also asked a New York court to force LaPierre and three key deputies to repay NRA members for the ill-gotten funds and inflated salaries that her investigation found they took.
James accused the NRA leaders of flouting state and federal laws and signing off on reports and statements they knew were fraudulent, while diverting millions of dollars away from the NRA's charitable mission to benefit themselves and their allies.
The attorney general requested that the court bar the four men — LaPierre, general counsel John Frazer, former treasurer Woody Phillips and former chief of staff Joshua Powell — from ever serving in a leadership position for a New York charity in the future.
"The NRA's influence has been so powerful that the organization went unchecked for decades while top executives funneled millions into their own pockets," James, a Democrat, said in a statement.
Her investigation, which began in February 2019, found a "a culture of self-dealing, mismanagement, and negligent oversight at the NRA that was illegal, oppressive, and fraudulent," according to a statement by the attorney general's office.
Meanwhile, D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine announced Thursday that his office filed a separate lawsuit against the NRA Foundation, which is based in Washington. Racine accused the organization of being a puppet of the NRA, despite legal requirements that it independently pursue charitable purposes. Instead, Racine said his office found, the foundation repeatedly loaned the NRA money to address its rising deficits.
James said at a news conference Thursday that she is seeking to dissolve the NRA because of the brazenness of the group's violations of law.
"The corruption was so broad and because they have basically destroyed all the assets of the NRA," she said. "Enough was enough … No one is above the law, not even the NRA."
Her office cited as a precedent its previous action against the Trump Foundation, which led President Trump to shut down the charity in 2018 amid allegations that he used it for his personal benefit.
The New York lawsuit against the NRA paints a picture of widespread wrongdoing at the influential gun rights group, and a freewheeling atmosphere in which top officials repeatedly took advantage of their positions for their personal benefit.
In one new revelation, the attorney general said her investigation uncovered that LaPierre recently arranged a post-employment contract for himself with the NRA worth $17 million. He never sought board approval for the deal, the suit claims.
The lawsuit also claims LaPierre failed to report large sums of personal income to the IRS. James's office said it found that the NRA chief funneled personal expenses through an outside public relations firm, allowing him to avoid reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars of personal income.
James said Thursday that she was referring those findings to the IRS. She also said that if her office uncovers criminal activity, it will be referred to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
In response, the NRA said Thursday that it was filing its own lawsuit against James, alleging that the New York attorney general has violated the group's free speech rights.
"This was a baseless, premeditated attack on our organization and the Second Amendment freedoms it fights to defend," NRA President Carolyn Meadows said in a statement. "You could have set your watch by it: the investigation was going to reach its crescendo as we move into the 2020 election cycle.
"It's a transparent attempt to score political points and attack the leading voice in opposition to the leftist agenda," she added. "This has been a power grab by a political opportunist – a desperate move that is part of a rank political vendetta. Our members won't be intimidated or bullied in their defense of political and constitutional freedom."
Trump also decried the legal action against the organization, which spent millions on his behalf in 2016, calling it a "terrible thing" as he spoke to reporters Thursday morning at the White House. He said the NRA had been "decimated" by legal expenses and suggested the group should relocate from New York to Texas.
The scope of the allegations by the New York attorney general represents a serious challenge to the longtime political juggernaut , which has been riven in the past two years by infighting about use of the group's funds.
Longtime NRA member Rob Pincus, a critic of LaPierre's leadership, said Thursday in a statement that "none of us who have been pushing for NRA reform are celebrating today's announcement."
"It is tragic that the NY AG's office is having to step in to clean up the NRA," he added.
NRA money flowed to board members amid allegedly lavish spending by top officials and vendors
The group's bitter internal battle burst into public view in April 2019 at the NRA's annual convention in Indianapolis, when then-NRA President Oliver North was forced out by LaPierre after pressing for an internal financial review.
The Washington Post and other news organizations subsequently revealed how the NRA directed funds to board members and how LaPierre racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in charges at a Beverly Hills clothing boutique and on foreign travel.
The Post also reported how, after a mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla.,Pierre told close associates he was worried about how easily he could be targeted and needed a more secure place to live and sought to buy a $6 million, 10,000-square-foot French-style country estate in Westlake, Tex.
The suit expands on previous allegations that LaPierre improperly charged the NRA for private jet travel and luxury vacations that had no clear business purpose. The filing claims LaPierre billed the NRA more than $500,000 for private charter flights he and his family took to visit the Bahamas eight times over three years.
Last year, a spokesman for LaPierre told The Post his visits to the Bahamas were for NRA business. But the New York attorney general's investigation found the trips were private vacations.
In four years, LaPierre was reimbursed by the NRA for $1.2 million in expenses that were personal trip, golf fees and gifts, the suit claims.
LaPierre also spent $3.6 million of NRA money for private travel consultants to arrange private jets and executive car service for his and his family's use over just two years, the suit says. And he set aside several millions each year for private security for him and his family.
LaPierre also enjoyed the largesse of NRA vendors who hoped to keep their organization's business, the suit said. One vendor gave LaPierre and his wife an all-expense paid trip to Africa for a safari adventure; another frequently loaned LaPierre and his family the use of his 107-foot yacht on his visits to the Caribbean.
Phillips, the former treasurer, is accused in the suit of arranging a NRA deal worth more than $1 million that benefited his girlfriend. The lawsuit also claims that shortly before he retired in 2018, Phillips obtained a contract for himself worth $1.8 million. On paper, Phillips's contract called for him to provide advice and consulting services for the new treasurer; but the new treasurer said he knew nothing of the contract and never received any services from Phillips, the suit claims.
Powell, LaPierre's former chief of staff, had his salary increased from $250,000 to $800,000 in just three years as a reward for his loyalty to LaPierre, the suit states, and allegedly pocketed an additional $100,000 he was not entitled to as a housing allowance. In addition, Powell also arranged for his wife and father to earn money through NRA contracts.
The lawsuit accuses Frazer, who was general counsel to the NRA, of failing to make sure the nonprofit was governed properly and followed state and federal laws, and it claims he certified false or misleading annual statements.
James said Frazer failed to comply with the rules on board governance, to make sure the board was aware of and voting on major financial transactions and to follow the NRA's conflict of interest policy.
A central fraud embedded in NRA finances, James's suit claims, was a secret agreement to pass questionable expenses through its Oklahoma-based advertising agency, Ackerman McQueen.
Under this agreement, the suit alleges, LaPierre and his inner circle of trusted deputies rerouted millions of dollars in lavish personal expenses for themselves, their families and allies through Ackerman McQueen. The goal was to avoid having the board or other members of the NRA know that the charitable organization was paying so much money for LaPierre's membership fees at golf clubs, private jets and designer suits, the lawsuit said.
Ackerman McQueen then billed the NRA for these large, unexplained sums, calling them "out-of-pocket" expenses, suggesting they were related to the company's advertising work for the NRA.
The attorney general's office said it found that Ackerman McQueen billed the NRA $70 million in just 2017 and 2018 for its public relations work, including "out-of-pocket" expenses.
A very large portion of those hidden expenses were for personal trips and expenses for LaPierre. In a deposition in a separate lawsuit last year, LaPierre acknowledged he did not report any of the NRA-paid expenses as personal income to the IRS and claimed they were business expenses.
In its statement, the attorney general's office said this practice "did not comply with IRS requirements, and, as a result, all such expenses should have been included by the NRA in taxable personal income for LaPierre."
The partnership between the NRA and the public relations firm began to crack after James, then a candidate for New York attorney general, announced in summer of 2018 that she planned to launch an investigation of the NRA if she won. LaPierre hired a new law firm, led by Angus McQueen's estranged son-in-law. That attorney, Bill Brewer, urged that the NRA to audit Ackerman McQueen's bills in preparation for James's probe.
How a hard-charging lawyer helped fuel a civil war inside the NRA
At LaPierre's direction and with Brewer's help, the NRA ejected its in-house lawyer and sued Ackerman McQueen, accusing them of concealing details of the nearly $40 million the NRA paid the firm each year.
Last spring, North announced in Indianapolis he would not seek a second term as president, warning about exorbitant payments to Brewer's firm and reports of financial mismanagement.
"There is a clear crisis," North said in his letter announcing his departure.
Tom Hamburger contributed to this report.
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Size Doesn't Matter – Man Builds $200 Tiny Eco-Homes from Ordinary Household Junk
By Sumitra on April 6th, 2012 Category: Architecture, Pics
A tiny house doesn't necessarily have to be shabby. And a stylish one doesn't really have to cost a lot of money. Proving these points is carpenter Derek Diedricksen, who makes small wooden dwellings out of junk at $200 apiece. They look nothing like junk, though. The decorative detailing in these houses make them pretty interesting places to live in.
The largest structure made by 33-year-old Derek is Gypsy Junker – 24 square feet in size and 5ft 10 inches high. The smallest one is just 4ft tall. But then the interiors of these houses are so pretty that anyone would be interested to spend at least one night in them. Everyday junk is used in the building process, like the glass from the front of a washing machine that becomes a porthole-like window and a sheet of metal is used as a flipdown counter. Castoff storm windows, shipping pallets and discarded cabinets are used as well. Stained glass windows and the likes are used for that decorative touch. Some of the houses built by Derek are also portable, ranging from 4 to 24 square feet in size.
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I'm especially in love with these portable homes. I suppose you could really live anywhere you liked in these little mobile box homes. But then, there's always the danger of someone wheeling you away in the dead of the night. According to Derek, "It's meant as a secure sleeping place, a micro mobile shelter. For festivals it's a single sleeper: a tent alternative, but one that is not going to tear as easily and offers a little more security."
Photo: RelaxShack
More of Derek's handsome craftsmanship has been illustrated in his book – "Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, Cozy Cottages, Ramshackle Retreats, Funky Forts." Sure is a long name for a book. He also has a YouTube series called 'Tiny Yellow House', which has become pretty popular. Derek says he has been passionate about carpentry ever since he was a kid. He was always obsessed with tiny architecture, and when his dad gave him a book called 'Tiny Houses' for his 10th birthday, Derek was hooked for life. "There's no better place than inside someplace that is unconventional and bizarre. It helps you think outside the box instead of sitting in some white-walled room." I couldn't agree with him more. What about you? Would you consider living in a tiny, $200 space?
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