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Microsoft's Classic Hit Solitaire Game Has Now Been Inducted Into the World Video Game Hall of Fame
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Microsoft originally distributed its game of Solitaire on every single version of its operating system from 1990 all the way through Windows OS 8.1. Now the ubiquitous game is a downloadable casual videogame, and it has easily been installed on more than a billion computers worldwide! Its popularity made it an obvious choice for such a prestigious award from the Video Game Hall of Fame.
The World Video Game Hall of Fame was created in 2015. Their official home office is in The National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. Each year the Video Game Hall of Game decides on a select group of new inductees to honor for their accomplishments.
According to the World Video Game Hall of Fame, they felt that, "Microsoft Solitaire demonstrated that there existed a vast market for games that appeal to people of all types, paving the way for the growth of the casual game market. While it was not a new game, Microsoft Solitaire was tremendously influential and is, perhaps, one of the most widely played games of all time." A spokesman for Microsoft, Paul Jensen, who is a studio manager for Microsoft Casual Games, said the induction of Microsoft Solitaire was quite historic. Mr. Jensen added that, "We are humbly honored to have the opportunity to work on a game that has such broad appeal, is localized into 65 languages, and played in over 200 markets around the world, including Antarctica."
For those feeling nostalgic for a game of solitaire, or any other classic casual gaming favorites, be sure to check out: Spider Solitaire , Klondike Solitaire, Solitaire FOG, Speed Solitaire !


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Get Ready for the GDPR: Fix Susceptible Email Systems
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is meant to protect the personal data of EU residents, no matter where the data resides. The regulation enforces data privacy rules on how organizations collect, store, and use the information, including digital identifiers like email addresses, information exchanged over email, as well as email contact lists (most emails are encompassed by "personal data" protected by the GDPR).
Email is a particularly weak link for companies because of its role as a communication tool, and the fact that it is still the number one threat vector for cybercriminal exploits. In the first quarter of 2018 alone, the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ blocked almost 9.5 billion threats — 82 percent of those were email related.
Email is a predominant avenue of attack because it's a ubiquitous and widely used mode of communication. A 2017 survey by the Radicati Group, a marketing research firm, found that 269 billion email messages were sent every day that year. And aside from the volume, email is also used by a whole range of people, from young students to CEOs of multinational companies. It has become a part of everyday life, so people usually open emails and scroll though the content or click on links nonchalantly. Cybercriminals rely on this mindset and employ a variety of tactics to try and take advantage of users:
Phishing: This is an old but still widespread technique that involves a cybercriminal impersonating a trusted company associate and then asking the would-be victim for personal information or account details. Phishing is sometimes used to gain deeper access into a corporate network. Email is just one of different forms of phishing.
Business email compromise (BEC): In a BEC scam, cybercriminals compromise the email of an executive and try to trick an employee or finance executive into sending funds to a fraudulent account.
Spam: Spam is another old but still used technique. Based on our findings in 2016, 71 percent of ransomware was delivered through spam. Cybercriminals would create legitimate-looking emails — anything from seemingly official work-related emails to marketing emails — and attach malicious files or links. They could deliver all kinds of malware to compromise a user's or enterprise's system.
[READ: InfoSec Guide: Mitigating Email Threats]
How enterprises can secure email systems and comply with the GDPR
Enterprises can use a variety of solutions to comply with the GDPR and to also help better protect and manage user data. To start with, email systems should have the following:
Ability for data subjects (users whose personal data are collected) to access their own data. This mandate by the GDPR is part of giving users more control over their personal information. Since data subject rights are a fundamental part of GDPR, this is a necessary responsibility for enterprises that collect and process email addresses or email content from their customers, suppliers, and other organizations.
Encryption capabilities. Since emails can contain sensitive personal data like credit card details, social security or national identification numbers, and more, they should be encrypted by the email system. Established email services already offer automated and customizable encryption.
Archiving and organization features. Enterprises also have to ensure that they will be able to comply with requests for data deletion (or "the right to be forgotten"). Emails and related data should be organized so that users' personal data can be erased as requested, and systems have to be able to cease further dissemination of data. Companies must also be prepared to inform users of the details of the personal data collected and how it is being processed. A good archiving system and data retention policies can help with these requirements.
Be ready for a breach. Breach notification is a major component of the GDPR — the regulation gives companies 72 hours to report a data breach after discovery or penalties could be imposed. Security solutions should be able to identify indicators of compromise and detect breaches in email systems. Administrators or data protection officers (DPOs) should then follow breach reporting procedures, which depend on the severity of the breach.
Secure servers and databases where data is stored. Email servers should be monitored 24x7, have security solutions installed, and be protected by limited accessibility. If a third party stores the data, physical or cloud-based, enterprises should make sure the service provider is GDPR compliant.
Installing state-of-the-art security
Because email has become commonplace, its security can be taken for granted. Enterprises need to be more cognizant of the risks of unsecured email systems and invest in comprehensive security solutions or email service providers with built-in security features. Organizations, either as controllers or processors, should implement state-of the-art security measures in line with the GDPR. They must deploy effective measures against malware and protect personal data. For email systems, this means installing solutions that will protect organizations from malicious links and attachments, phishing attacks, BEC attacks, and more of the common email-borne threats that can compromise personal data.
[READ: Curbing the BEC Problem Using AI and Machine Learning]
Email threats often contain suspicious attachments that deliver malicious software, making sandboxing an essential defensive measure for enterprise systems. Sandboxing gives administrators the ability to isolate and analyze potentially malicious files in a separate environment without compromising the whole network. For sophisticated email threats, smart sandboxes can provide more advanced information gathering and analysis.
Network administrators should install comprehensive email security solutions, with gateway protection such as antispam filters, customized filtration levels for inbound emails, web reputation tracking, and custom threat intelligence. These features help stop targeted attacks before they can reach users' machines.
It is also important to educate employees on identifying social engineering tactics and avoiding phishing attacks. A large part of safe email practices is about building a culture of privacy and awareness in an enterprise. People need to become more informed about the different threats, and learn what they can do to help.
Of course, every enterprise is unique and there is no silver bullet solution that will automatically safeguard every system against every attack. Effective solutions need a tailored and multifaceted strategy that can adapt to evolving threats and shifting priorities of enterprises.
Learn how we addressed different aspects of GDPR compliance.
Trend Micro Solutions
Trend Micro™ InterScan™ Messaging Security stops email threats in the cloud with global threat intelligence, protects your data with data loss prevention and encryption, and identifies targeted email attacks, ransomware, and advanced threats as part of the Trend Micro™ User Protection Solution. The hybrid software-as-a-service (SaaS) deployment combines the privacy and control of an on-premises virtual appliance with the proactive protection of a cloud-based pre-filter service.
Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery™ appliance provides detection, in-depth analysis, and proactive response to attacks that use exploits. As a part of our Trend Micro Network Defense Solution, it includes specialized engines, custom sandboxing, and seamless correlation across the entire attack life cycle allow it to detect threats like zero-day attacks — even without any engine or pattern update.
Trend Micro™ Hosted Email Security™ solution is a no-maintenance cloud solution that delivers continuously updated protection to stop spam, malware, spear phishing, ransomware, and advanced targeted attacks before they reach your network. As part of the Trend Micro™ User Protection Solution, it protects Microsoft® Exchange™, Microsoft® Office 365™, Google Apps, and other hosted and on-premises email solutions.
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James L. Shea Benjamin R. Civiletti Sarah H. B. Kahl Mitchell Y. Mirviss Christopher T. La Testa
Venable honored for its contributions to the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau and Equal Justice Council
Venable received the "Trailblazer" award at the Maryland Legal Aid Equal Justice Council's 11th Annual Awards and Recognition Breakfast, held May 22, 2008.
The Maryland Legal Aid Bureau is a private, nonprofit, multi-funded law firm providing free legal services to low-income persons in Baltimore City and across Maryland. The Equal Justice Council promotes equal justice by increasing and diversifying the Legal Aid Bureau's resources, serving as its advocates and ambassadors and educating the public about Legal Aid's programs.
The Legal Aid Bureau is grateful for the strong financial support from The Venable Foundation and is equally appreciative of the guidance and advocacy of former Legal Aid Bureau member Benjamin R. Civiletti and current Equal Justice Council member James L. Shea.
Venable attorneys in attendance at the awards ceremony include Sarah H. B. Kahl, Mitchell Y. Mirviss, Christopher T. La Testa and Gerard Treanor, who accepted the award on behalf of Venable.
Venable was honored as a "Trailblazer" in 2003. In 2005 and 2006, Venable was awarded the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau's Equal Justice Council Pacesetter Award.
Venable attorneys devoted more than 23,533 hours to pro bono services in 2007.


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This Is What It's Like to Bicycle to Work from Jamaica Plain
By David Ertischek | June 5, 2019
Jamaica Plain resident Kyle Vining regularly bicycles to work from the Woodbourne neighborhood and shared his helmet cam of his riding in the Boston Bike to Work Day. Vining has been a vocal proponent for the city to improve road safety for bicyclists, pedestrians, and drivers. He's documented numerous occasions of unsafe driving, including MBTA drivers riding through red lights, pedestrians almost getting hit and more. "I regularly commute year-round by bike to work in Longwood Medical Area. I enjoy commuting by bike because I enjoy the outdoors and it saves me time.
Traffic Advisory: Arborway, Jamaicaway, and Riverway on June 4-7
Traffic will be going slower on the Arborway, Jamaicaway and Riverway from Tuesday through Friday this week during the week due to tree maintenance.
The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) will be conducting rolling lane closures going both directions from 9 am to 3 pm. Traffic changes will be marked, and a police detail will be on site, according to a press release from DCR.
After Police Officer Struck in Forest Hills, Councilors Continue Push to Make Area Safer
By David Ertischek | May 8, 2019
Is it only a matter of time before a pedestrian, bicyclist, driver or passenger dies in an accident in the Forest Hills area that could've been avoided? After a Boston Police officer was hit while working a detail on Monday, residents, city councilors and the MBTA are pushing hard to make the area safer. Thankfully, it appears the officer did not suffer life threatening injuries after a dump truck collided with a van, which then hit the vehicle the officer was in at Ukraine Way and Hyde Park Avenue, reported WCVB. Local resident Kyle Vining has witnessed safety issues in the Forest Hills area, and has complained to the city to improve the area since at least 2016. Vining tweeted after the accident:
"My heart is heavy and my spirit is sad today to hear that a @bostonpolice officer was struck today at the very intersection I have been complaining to @BostonBTD and @marty_walsh to fix for the last 3 years since I moved to Forest Hills."
Stonybrook Neighborhood Slow Streets Meeting May 8
There will be a community meeting to discuss the traffic diverter pilot project that was previously installed on Dungarven Road in the Stonybrook neighborhood on May 8. The Boston Transportation Department (BTD) installed the pilot traffic diverter on Dungarven Road, which was just south of the intersection with Gartland Street, on June 15, 2018 and removed in October 2018. At the upcoming meeting, the BTD will share a summary of data and observations collected before, during and after the traffic diverter was installed. Resident feedback that was collected will also be shared, and residents will be able to provide feedback at the meeting. The strategy of the diverter was supposed to:
Discourage people from driving the wrong way on Washington Street
Discourage drivers from cutting through Hatoff's driveways
Discourage and eventually end wrong-way driving on Williams Street
Reduce the number of people navigating the low-visibility intersection of Dungarven/Kenton
Reduce the volume of thru traffic on Kenton Road
This public meeting will be at 6:30 pm on May 8 at English High School (144 McBride St.).
Forest Hills Doesn't Have a Bluebikes Station…But It Will…
By David Ertischek | April 19, 2019
You would think that one of the major MBTA stations, a hub of transportation for the area if you will, would have a Bluebikes station. But alas, Forest Hills doesn't currently have a station for anyone to get on a bicycle and pedal away. Bluebikes is a public bicycling sharing system and there are more than 260 Bluebikes stations across Boston, Brookline, Cambridge and Somerville, with more than 2,500 shareable bicycles. But currently there isn't a station at Forest Hills. Currently, the nearest Bluebikes stations to Forest Hills are located at Williams and Washington streets (about .5 mile away); Curtis Hall (about .6 mile away); and Archdale Road and Washington Street in Roslindale (.8 mile away).
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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — Daphne Babrow's son, Evan, is only 5 months old and she's already thinking about getting pregnant again. The decision won't be easy.
Babrow, a public health consultant from Fayetteville, Georgia, is part of a growing number of cancer survivors who are not only winning the battle against the disease, but who also are going on to have safe and successful pregnancies.
"If you maintain some part of your fertility, pregnancy is clearly an option," said Dr. Carolyn Runowicz, a gynecologic oncologist and director of the Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Connecticut in Farmington.
There are no specific guidelines or timetables for women wanting to get pregnant after cancer treatment, she said. Some breast cancer survivors are told to wait at least two years to make sure aggressive tumors don't recur.
Runowicz warns patients up front that some cancers and cancer treatments may leave a woman infertile. For instance, certain chemotherapy and radiation procedures can send a woman into premature menopause. Other gynecologic cancers may require removal of reproductive organs.
For those reasons, Runowicz said, it is very important for women to discuss fertility options with a doctor before undergoing cancer treatments.


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The PT6 Community
John Saabas Extraordinary Journey
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Employees' Contribution to the PT6 Engine Excellence
PT6 Engine: All in the Family
Pratt & Whitney Canada is widely regarded as a great place to work. So it's no surprise that the children of long-time employees sometimes find themselves walking in their parents' footsteps. Here, we talk to two employees who have made working at P&WC a family affair.
When it comes to being proudly PT6, P&WC's Michael Johnson has his father to thank.
Michael Johnson remembers being at the Singapore Airshow in the mid-1990s: "[I was] an obnoxious little kid running around the P&WC booth!" He could never have imagined that one day he would work in Communications for P&WC in Longueuil, Quebec, alongside Bob Milonja, Senior Coordinator, Marketing Shows & Exhibits, who ran the booth at the show and whose patience he undoubtedly tried on occasion.
Michael has been a Communications Advisor in the Communications department at P&WC since late 2010 and found his way into the company through a strong interest in aviation. That's not surprising since his father, Stephen, has worked for P&WC since the early 1980s and is today a Technical Representative in Customer Service.
"My father moved the family to Singapore in the early 1990s to work at the P&WC Maintenance Repair & Overhaul (MRO) facility there," recalls Michael. "Those were pivotal years for me. I started to develop a real interest in aviation, and my exposure to my father's job obviously played a big role in that."
Michael (right) and his brothers posing in front of the P&WC booth at the 1996 Singapore Air Show.
However, Michael knew that engineering was not to be his calling. He says that he and his father are very close, but Stephen is definitely left brain while his son is right brain. When it was time to go to university, Michael opted to study communications.
"A couple of years after graduation, I heard that P&WC was looking for a young and dynamic communications advisor with a strong new-media background, so I applied for the position," says Michael. "I think Dad and I were equally surprised and proud when I got it."
Now, three years later, Michael is involved with broader communications and advertising initiatives consistent with his career goals. He has lunch once a week with his father, often spending the time talking about the PT6 engine and developments with the website.
Michael says that it's very convenient to have an always-on-call go-to technical guy who never seems to tire of taking his calls or answering his emails. He knows that whenever he posts anything on PT6Nation.com, he'll get at least one like and one share: His dad is one of the site's biggest fans and an active Facebook user.
Just one more example of keeping it in the family.
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// DX8Mouse.cpp
// Implementation of our DirectX 8 mouse handling code
// (c) 2002 Marty Dill

#include "Fizz3d.h"
#include "DX8Mouse.h"
#include "DirectX8.h"
#include "Engine.h"
#include "Log.h"

static const char* moduleName = "DX8Mouse";

// Constructor
DX8Mouse::DX8Mouse() :
	device(NULL), acquired(false)
{
}

// Destructor
DX8Mouse::~DX8Mouse()
{
}

// Sets up the mouse device
int DX8Mouse::initialize(void* initParameter)
{
	// This -must- be the HWND of the main window ...
	Assert(initParameter != NULL);

	HWND hwnd = reinterpret_cast< HWND > (initParameter);
	SetFocus(hwnd);

	Trace("Creating mouse device");
	DX8::CreateInputDevice(GUID_SysMouse, &device);

	HRESULT hr;

	Trace("Setting mouse data format");
	hr = device->SetDataFormat(&c_dfDIMouse);
	if(FAILED(hr))
		CEngine::CriticalError("Unable to set mouse data format!!");

	Trace("Setting mouse cooperative level");
	hr = device->SetCooperativeLevel(hwnd, DISCL_FOREGROUND | DISCL_EXCLUSIVE);
	if(FAILED(hr))
		CEngine::CriticalError("Unable to set mouse cooperative level!!");

	return 0;
}

// Updates mouse position
int DX8Mouse::update(MouseData* data)
{
	Assert(data != NULL);

	if(!acquired)
	{
		HRESULT hr = device->Acquire();
		if(FAILED(hr))
			return 1;

		acquired = true;
	}

	HRESULT hr = device->GetDeviceState(sizeof(DIMOUSESTATE), (LPVOID)&state);
	if(FAILED(hr))
	{
		acquired = false;
		return 1;
	}

	data->dx = state.lX;
	data->dy = state.lY;
	data->dz = state.lZ;
	data->leftButton = state.rgbButtons[0];
	data->rightButton = state.rgbButtons[1];
	data->middleButton = state.rgbButtons[2];

	return 0;
}

// Destroys/releases the mouse device
int DX8Mouse::destroy(void)
{
	if(device != NULL)
	{
		Trace("Releasing mouse device");
		device->Unacquire();
		device->Release();
		device = NULL;
		acquired = false;
	}

	return 0;
}

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Bandera monumental puede referirse a alguna de las banderas de gran tamaño que se mencionan en los siguientes artículos:
Bandera Bicentenario, en la Plaza de la Ciudadanía en Chile.
Banderas monumentales de México, un conjunto de banderas monumentales ubicadas en México.
Plaza de los Tres Poderes, en Brasilia, Brasil.
Plaza de la bandera nacional, en Bakú, Azerbaiyán.
Plaza de la Bandera, en Lima (Perú) cuenta con una bandera monumental izada domingos y días festivos.

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The Sea To Sky Report blog is an excellent resource on Northern Gateway issues featuring a run down of media activity on the topic in recent weeks. Chris McLeod, a UVIC Indigenous Governance student, collects key quotes from people and articles about Indigenous issues across the province to give readers a taste of what's happening in the media. Check out the northern-gateway posts here!
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The process of previewing and publishing your authored content is a two-step process. First you must upload your project to a CMS (Content Management System), then you configure the content and publish it via your CMS.
Are you set up with Liquid Cinema's Enterprise CMS?
1. Go to 360FLIX to create an account or log in if you already have one.
2. Once you have created an account, you will automatically become the owner of a new Project Team. Go to Team Settings and give your team a name and thumbnail that corresponds to your authored project. Learn more about teams on 360FLIX.
3. Generate a 6-digit Activation Code from the 360FLIX CMS. The Activation Code is unique to your project and user profile, and valid for 10 minutes only. Learn more about Activation Codes.
4. In the Liquid Cinema Authoring tool from the top menu, choose 'CMS' > 'Activation'.
5. You will see a pop-up window with empty 6-digit field. Copy-paste the Activation Code that you just generated in Step 3 and press 'ok'.
6. Once your activation is successful, your User Profile and Project Team will be displayed.
8. The following pop-up screen shows a drop-down menu. Select the Project Team that your authored project is part of and hit 'ok'.
9. Go back to the 360FLIX CMS and look at the Projects List. (a quick way to find the project list is by clicking on the 360FLIX logo). You can verify that your upload is successful, when you see your new project is listed.
Every time a user subscribes to 360FLIX, they become the owner of a Project Team. One Project Team can include many videos (Projects) that are part of its deployment. For instance, if you have created a VR series about cars, you can publish all car videos (Projects) under the same Project Team, which will show up on the same app. If you wish to have multiple app deployments with each their own content, you will need to create multiple Project Teams, meaning multiple subscriptions to 360FLIX.
For more on Project Teams, visit 360FLIX.
Liquid Cinema offers enterprise clients a fully customized CMS to cater to high volume traffic and specific needs. Once set up, you will be provided your own CMS URL.
In the Liquid Cinema Authoring tool from the top menu, choose 'Tool' > 'Settings'.
The Application Settings Panel will open. On the Main tab under CMS, choose 'Custom' from the drop down menu.
A new field will show to the right of the drop down menu. Enter the destination of your CMS's URL.
In the Liquid Cinema Authoring tool from the top menu, choose 'CMS' > 'Activation'.
5. You will see a pop-up window with empty 6-digit field. Copy-paste the Activation Code that you just generated in Step 5 and press 'ok'. 6. Once your activation is successful, your User Profile and Project Team will be displayed.


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Chapter 2: The Change
What is Barack Obama's legacy? A closer look at how an historic presidency shaped the party and the country.
The Wilderness is a documentary from Crooked Media and Two-Up about the history and future of the Democratic Party. Pod Save America's Jon Favreau tells the story of a party finding its way out of the political wilderness through conversations with strategists, historians, policy experts, organizers, and voters. In fifteen chapters, the series explores issues like inequality, race, immigration, sexism, foreign policy, media strategy, and how Democrats can build a winning majority that lasts.
[clip of President Obama] If we are really serious about winning this election, Democrats, then we can't live in fear of losing. This party, the party of Jefferson and Jackson, of Roosevelt and Kennedy, has always made the biggest difference in the lives of the American people when we led not by polls, but by principle; not by calculation, but by conviction; when we summoned the entire nation to a common purpose, a higher purpose; a party that doesn't just focus on how to win, but why we should; a party, a party that doesn't just offer change as a slogan, but real meaningful change.
David Axelrod: There was a general sense, as I think there still is, that politics itself had been overrun by money, had been overrun by conventional thinking, that—as he used to say, that our politics were small and our challenges were large, and we needed to transcend the smallness of our politics. And I really think people were hungry for that.
[clip of Oprah Winfrey] For the very first time in my life I feel compelled to stand up and to speak out for the man who I believe has a new vision for America.
[voice clip] I feel a change in the air.
[news clip] The Iowa caucuses, the Democratic caucuses in Iowa, the first big test in the 2008 presidential campaign.
[clip of CNN] Huge, huge victory for Barack Obama right now in Iowa.
[clip of President Obama] We are choosing hope over fear.
[voice clip] I never thought it would happen. I don't believe it. Unbelievable. [chanting]
Jon Favreau: This is a show about the Democratic Party's journey out of the political wilderness. In the first episode, we got a history lesson about the party from its founding, through the election of Barack Obama—a victory that led to the biggest Democratic majorities since LBJ was president. It also made a lot of people hope that politics might become less polarized and dysfunctional. So much for that! In this episode, we're going to relive the Obama years and find out why the first Democratic president since FDR to win twice with over 50% of the vote, still saw Democrats lose nearly a thousand seats during his presidency, followed by the most crushing defeat in the party's history. I'm John Favreau and you're listening to The Wilderness.
Jon Favreau: On November 4th, 2008, Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States. He won 365 electoral votes and more actual votes than any candidate in history. Democrats picked up 21 House seats, eight Senate seats and controlled 27 state legislatures. I was there that night and every night until a few months after the start of Obama's second term. For eight years, I wrote hundreds of speeches with the man I look up to more than anyone besides my own father. So I am the furthest thing from a neutral observer here. But it's a fact that Obama passed more liberal legislation and won more progressive victories than any Democratic president since Lyndon Johnson. He saved the American auto industry. He signed Wall Street reform and created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He repealed Don't Ask, Don't Tell and put two women on the Supreme Court. He used diplomacy to stop Iran's nuclear program, negotiated the first global climate deal, normalized relations with Cuba, ended combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, took out Osama bin Laden, and presided over the creation of 12.3 million new jobs, and passed a health care law that has now covered more than 20 million Americans. He won two terms and left office with an approval rating of nearly 60%.
[voice clip] Raise your right hand and repeat after me—
[clip of Justice Sotomayor] I, Sonia Sotomayor, do solemnly swear—
[clip of Justice Kagan] I, Elena Kagan do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without—
[overlapping clips of President Obama] A comprehensive long term deal with Iran that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon . . . no longer will tens of thousands of Americans in uniform be asked to live a lie . . . United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaida . . . make no mistake, the Paris agreement establishes the enduring framework the world needs to solve the climate crisis . . . [sings] Amazing grace, how sweet the sound . . . every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad. And by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago every day . . . the overall output of our economy, our GDP, is increasing. We now know that the economy has been growing for the better part of a year . . . today, after over a year of debate, today, after all the votes have been tallied, health insurance reform becomes law in the United States of America. [applause]
Jon Favreau: Look, I'll be honest, it's also a fact that during President Obama's time in office, the Democrats lost almost a thousand seats, from Congress, to governorships, to state legislatures. Partisanship and gridlock got worse. Not everyone was feeling the recovery. And by Election Day of 2016, 60% of voters told exit pollsters that the country was seriously off track. So what the hell happened? It's complicated, but it all starts right here:
[overlapping news clips] —a crash of the titans, Wall Street in panic mode this morning, comes after one of the most dramatic days in Wall Street history . . . Wall Street shaken to its very foundation today . . . as thousands of Lehman Brothers bankers packed their boxes.
Jon Favreau: When Obama took office in January 2009, he was handed an economy in crisis.
[TV clip person 1] Listen, I, this is the biggest point drop that has, that's ever been seen in a day.
[TV clip person 2] Wait, wait. When you say we've never seen that before, are you talking about in the history of the market?
[TV clip person 1] In the history of the market, you've never looked at a market—
[voice clip] The Fed is asleep. Bernanke has no idea what it's like out there. None!
Jon Favreau: A financial sector that wasn't well regulated—it sold millions of people homes they couldn't afford, and then sold off their risky mortgages to make even more money, only to have it all blow up in their face when the housing bubble burst.
[voice clip] Fourteen million people took a mortgage in the last three years. Seven million of them took teaser rates or took piggyback rates. They will lose their homes. This is crazy.
Jon Favreau: Banks stop lending, global markets tanked, and the entire financial system was basically frozen when we got to the White House. Millions of people lost their homes and their jobs, and we had no idea where the bottom was. I don't think any of us were fully prepared for how terrifying those first few months would be, and that includes President Obama. He was calm and cool, like he always is, but you got the sense in those early days that when he was lying in bed at night, he might be thinking: how the fuck did I get myself into this?
Gene Sperling: I used to have like a knot in my stomach every morning thinking: what was it going to feel like to be on the economic team that allowed a second Great Depression to come in?
Jon Favreau: Gene Sperling was director of the National Economic Council for Presidents Clinton and Obama.
Gene Sperling: Our economy was losing 700,000 to 800,000 private sector jobs each and every month. If you have the largest banks that are 75% of the banking economy and they're going down, there's a run on the banks, you truly could have a Great Depression, 15%, 20% unemployment—the amount of people losing everything, losing their ability to retire, losing their home, going through long-term unemployment that they may never recover from. Obama had to put the fire out. He had to stabilize. I think that what he went through was unimaginable.
Jon Favreau: What we also didn't imagine was that Republicans in Congress would refuse to cooperate on anything, even in the middle of a crisis. They opposed Obama's decision to save the banks—which started under Bush—they opposed Obama's decision to save the American auto industry, and then they opposed the Recovery Act. So Obama puts this stimulus plan together and he makes a third of it tax cuts, partly because he knows that Republicans like tax cuts and he thinks that'll get their support. And right before he leaves for Capitol Hill to let Congress know what's actually in the plan, Republicans put out a press release saying that they were against it. And that's when we all realized that none of this shit was on the level.
[news clip] Republicans are filibustering, they are insisting that it not even be talked about on the Senate floor.
[voice clip] A bridge loan to nowhere, a down-payment on many billions to come.
[voice clip] Honestly, this package, the largest spending package in the history of this country, just doesn't get it right.
[clip of Rep. Tom Price] My names Tom Price, I represent the sixth district of Georgia—what the American people are saying is that they're tired of the same old thing in Washington, which is spending and borrowing and spending and borrowing—it's an irresponsible act and it's a selfish act.
Jon Favreau: We had a majority in the House, but in the Senate, we didn't have the 60 votes you need to break a Republican filibuster until Senator Arlen Specter switched parties and became a Democrat in April of 2009. Not much room to govern when you have margins that thin, Republicans who've decided to obstruct everything, and quite a few conservative Democrats in the Senate from deep red states. Despite all this obstruction, Obama was still able to pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This was an 830 billion dollar stimulus package that was divided into three parts: tax cuts, assistance for the poor, and long-term investments in everything from education to infrastructure.
[clip of President Obama] The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that I will sign today is the most sweeping economic recovery package in our history.
[news clip] The federal government is stepping into it to stabilize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two mortgage giants.
[voice clip] Too big to fail.
[clip of President Obama] The federal government provided General Motors and Chrysler with emergency loans to prevent their sudden collapse at the end of last year. Only on the condition that they would develop plans to restructure.
Gene Sperling: When you're in the government, you do have to live with those constraints like few others do. The things that were done, were done not because they were the ideal, they were done because of all the terrible options that we had, they were the least terrible. You have to stabilize these banks and these major financial institutions. And even though you're doing it to protect Main Street people, the perception still is you're helping the culprits, and not just the culprits, but the multimillionaire culprits. I personally would have taken a little bit more action than we did to make clear to people that he represented their anger, their pain. But I think the key point is it was a risk aversion for the American economy. It was a kind of a Boy Scout, we're-going-to-play-everything-as-straight-as-possible. But there's no doubt that it was extremely unpopular. I mean, look, it's not like we weren't alive at the time.
[news clip] Washington may be deeply divided along party lines, but there's one thing Democrats and Republicans agree on: that it's an outrage or AIG Financial Products Division to get another round of huge bonuses.
[voice clip] Something is dramatically out of whack here.
[TV clip] There's not been a single prosecution of a high-ranking Wall Street executive or major financial firm, even though fraud and financial misrepresentations played a significant role in the meltdown—
[voice clip] Almost not at all subject to criminal prosecution when it violates the law.
Jon Favreau: At some point, thank God, the free fall stopped. The banks started lending again, the auto industry showed signs of life, and the economy lost fewer jobs with each passing month. But people were still losing their jobs, people were still losing their homes, they were still going bankrupt. And when they turned on the news, they saw these assholes on Wall Street getting richer, and they were pissed, and they should have been.
Clare Malone: My name is Clare Malone. I'm a senior political writer at FiveThrityEight.com. The 2008 crisis broke a lot of people's faith in the way, not just: oh, man, I can't believe that these people were giving out bad loans. But also the fact that the government didn't punish the bankers. I think it made a lot of sense to a lot of people that CEOs should be punished. And you looked a couple of years later and CEOs were getting big bonuses again.
Jon Favreau: A lot of this anger came from our own side, from Obama voters and people on the left.
Heather McGhee: I think that the defining experience of our time, of the past generation say, has been that of failure by the people in power to address the big issues of our time.
Jon Favreau: Heather McGhee was on the inside in 2009. She ran a couple of the task forces that were advising work on the Wall Street reform bill.
Heather McGhee: The Obama administration's emphasis on governing to preserve the economic system, which was deeply threatened, ended up not answering our desire not to preserve the system, but to change the system. There are lots of ideas that were sort of left on the floor, with the exception of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. We really weren't going to go at the heart of restoring the balance of power between Wall Street and the rest of the economy.
Jon Favreau: Eventually, the anger and frustration over the crisis and the government's response leads to new movements on both sides of the political spectrum. Here's historian Michael Kazin of Georgetown University.
Michael Kazin: On the left, you had the Occupy Movement, really more of an insurgency.
[chants] We are the 99%.
[news clip] The Wall Street protesters are again backing into Zuccotti Park in New York City.
[news clip] Protests have spread to nearly 1,400 cities across the U.S. and several—
[voice clip] Stop resisting.
Michael Kazin: And then on the right, there was the Tea Party, which was very well organized, well-funded, in every state.
[clip of Sarah Palin] The Tea Party movement is not a top-down operation. It's a ground-up call to action.
[voice clip] I think it's about taking back America.
[voice clip] Take it back to what it used to be. We just don't like the direction is going.
[voice clip] We have finally awoken and we are not going to stop until we take down this government.
Michael Kazin: Comparing the two, the passion—there was a lot of passion on both sides—but in terms of actually movements which could get behind candidates, understood how to win elections, how to canvass, how to do messaging: the right had all the advantages there, and the left, hardly any.
Jon Favreau: The Tea Party wanted everyone to know that the government was big, out of control, and the source of all their problems. And they decided that there was no better target than President Obama's attempt to pass health care reform. Obama knew this wasn't going to be easy to pull off in the middle of an economic crisis. I think he also knew that anger over the economy meant that he might not have a Democratic majority in Congress after the midterms. 2009 was his only chance. He had a small window. He had a razor-thin margin in the Senate, and that meant he would have to make all sorts of compromises that pissed people off. David Axelrod, senior adviser to President Obama at the time, was in the thick of it.
David Axelrod: I mean, remember, seven presidents had tried to pass something like the Affordable Care Act. Seven presidents had failed, and Barack Obama got it done. And that's made a difference in the lives of tens of millions of Americans. So I don't have a lot of patience for people who say: well, it wasn't good enough. Let's take the public option, for example. I remember that debate, and I remember people saying: well, you know, we shouldn't be for this if there's not a public option. Well, that's fine, but then there wouldn't have been an Affordable Care Act.
Jon Favreau: Obama originally proposed the plan with the public option, which would have allowed people to buy into a program just like Medicare. It was a great idea, would have lowered costs, would have forced private insurance companies to lower costs—Republicans hated it, called it a government takeover. And it scared some of the Senate Democrats away, which meant we didn't have 60 votes to pass it, and a lot of other Democrats were pretty angry about that. Faiz Shakir, current National Political Director of the ACLU, former senior adviser for Harry Reid, captures this disappointment.
Faiz Shakir: I think that Obama of 2015, '16 would look back at Obama of 2008 and 2009, 2010 and say: damn, I wish I had a second chance at that. He's so much of a pragmatist, so locked into pragmatism that you're operating in a political window of what is politically feasible, rather than constantly trying to exercise and challenge that window. The most obvious is Obamacare itself. Right? And the reflection on that one is how much he invested personally, and as a strategy, in a bipartisan approach. Imagine in retrospect, if on day one you come out guns blazing: we're doing this damn thing, the reconciliation, I know I'm not going to get a single vote over there, public option is on the table.
Jon Favreau: Reconciliation is how they pass budgets in the Senate, and it only requires 51 votes instead of 60. Some senators, like Bernie Sanders, pushed Obama to pass the public option through reconciliation. But we didn't even think we had 51 Democrats who were willing to do that. I think what they were worried about, and what Obama was probably worried about, was getting rid of that 60 vote rule to pass something as big and controversial as the public option. Eight years later, this has not stopped Trump in the Republican Congress from using reconciliation to try to repeal Obamacare, and pass a gigantic tax cut. But I digress. After a year of trying, and multiple near-death experiences, we ended up with the bill that would eventually cover 20 million Americans, and end some of the insurance industry's worst practices, like discriminating against people with preexisting conditions. But it was a messy process, and a messy compromise, and we knew it would take a while for people to feel the benefits of this law.
Theda Skocpol: I think that the Affordable Care Act was the greatest triumph of the Obama-era Democratic Party, but it was a terrible political failure.
Jon Favreau: Theda Skocpol, political scientist and professor at Harvard University.
Theda Skocpol: After a year and a half of working on all of the details of a complex piece of legislation, they were all completely attuned to the leaves on each tree, and no longer had much of a sense of the shape of the forest. And I heard many, many Democrats say to me: it's too complex to explain. But the other side was attacking the entire concept of the law.
Jon Favreau: Thomas Edsall, columnist for The New York Times, agrees.
Thomas Edsall: The Republican Party was able to twist and turn, especially on the Obamacare issue, and turn Obamacare into a real liability for the party.
[voice clip] Anyone over the age of 74 has to go before what is effectively a death panel.
[chants]
[overlapping voice clips] And what you're going to give us is the care of Zambia . . . I'm tired of looking at the TV and screaming and seeing what's going on their country . . . this whole Obama administration is unconstitutional . . . we do not need socialized medicine at any time., we need to have freedom of choice . . . he's raising taxes like crazy and we need freedom, we didn't vote for this health care that he planned . . . it's not about health care, it's about controlling the American people, it's as simple as that, that's what they're doing . . .
[chants] No more Obamacare.
Jon Favreau: I remember that during one of the many moments where it seemed like the Affordable Care Act was going to fall apart, a few of President Obama's advisers argued that he should pull the bill. They told him that if he didn't give up on the ACA and try to pass something smaller and more incremental, his approval ratings would tank and he might lose reelection in 2012. And Obama turns to them and he says: you know, I didn't come here to put my approval ratings up on a shelf to admire, I came here to govern, I came here to do the hard things, and if trying to do the hard things makes me a one-term president, so be it. And that's how he governed, especially in those first few years. He knew the political situation he was in. We all did. Worst economy since the Great Depression. People on the left angry that Obama didn't do more to punish the banks, a well-funded, organized, energized Tea Party on the right. And then you throw a universal health care bill into the mix. Good times. Here's David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager and senior adviser, to sum it all up.
David Plouffe: Listen, crappy economy—people were feeling no better by Election Day '10 than they were on Election Day '08. So you're going to own all that. You pass health care, you passed Wall Street reform, you try and pass Cap and Trade—so voters are seeing a lot of government activism and they had a hard time squaring that with how that's helping me.
Jon Favreau: So, yeah, it was a pretty shitty place to be in heading into an election.
[clip of Anderson Cooper] In any midterm election, of course, it's common for the party in power to lose seats. But tomorrow, Democrats could be looking at historic losses.
[clip of CNN] We now project the Republicans in the next Congress will be the majority.
[news clip] Look at the swath of red, a sweep, just a bloodbath for the Democrats in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and out through the West. This is just the House of Representatives . . . You cannot underestimate how much change in America is now colored red.
[clip of President Obama] As the head of the party, if it doesn't do well, I've got to take responsibility for it.
Jon Favreau: Midterm elections are almost always pretty bad for the incumbent president's party. Still, 2010 was even worse than we imagined. Democratic turnout was low, especially among young voters, and Republicans ran the table. They won 63 House seats, the most in a single election since 1938. They won five Senate seats, and 680 state legislative seats, giving Republicans full control of 25 state legislatures. Worst of all, they won these seats in a census year, which meant that Republicans would get to gerrymander the shit out of congressional districts all over the country, and basically lock in their House majority for years to come. It was a brutal loss for us. And since Republicans were hell bent on obstructing even the most bipartisan policies from Obama, the new Congress made it nearly impossible for the president to pass any big legislation on the economy or anything else. Politics after 2010 felt more polarized and divided than ever before. A big part of the opposition from the right was their usual big-government-coming-to-steal-your-freedom-type stuff. But from the moment Obama started running for president, and especially from the moment he won, there was also something else. Something that seems a lot more obvious from where we sit now.
[ad break]
Jon Favreau: To recap, Democrats really shit the bed in the 2010 midterms. People were still suffering from the recession and Obamacare wasn't popular, but none of these factors fully explain the deepening divide between Democrats and Republicans in the Obama era. To find some answers, I talked to:
Lynn Vavreck: Lynn Vavreck.
Jon Favreau: Lynn's a professor of political science and communication at UCLA, and a contributing writer to The Upshot at The New York Times.
Lynn Vavreck: People are sorting themselves into the political parties in a more efficient way than they ever have before. So if you're a liberal, you have figured out: I should be a Democrat. So liberals are slowly figuring out they belong in the Democratic Party, and conservatives are slowly figuring out they belong in the Republican Party. So part of it is that sorting that is still happening from the wake of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act in the South. But the second part of it is contemporary. And you could make a good case that the election and presidency of Barack Obama was a very clear signal to people about what a Democrat and therefore the Democratic Party was quote unquote "for." And so we've got this long-time series on this question: which of the parties is more likely to help Blacks in America? And the results are pretty stable over time, but after the election of Barack Obama you see that people are much better at figuring out that it's the Democratic Party that's more likely to help Blacks in America. It was because of who he is. He was a Black man in the White House. And that was informative to a lot of people who didn't really think too hard about what the Democratic Party stood for before. You can just see it in the data. It's a shift. It is the election of that man.
Jon Favreau: Yeah. So that's tough to hear. But it's in the data. And it's also the book-end to the history we learned about in episode one. From the moment LBJ signs the Civil Rights Act in 1964, we start to see Southern and conservative whites leave the Democratic Party. And partly it's because many Republican politicians tell them, implicitly and sometimes explicitly, that Democratic policies favor people of color over whites. And even though this country finally elects its first Black President, Obama's rise to power only accelerates that trend.
Adam Serwer: I think a lot of white Americans experienced his presidency as a kind of psychic wound to their pride.
Jon Favreau: This is Adam Serwer, deputy politics editor at The Atlantic.
Adam Serwer: All these issues that were not necessarily racialized to begin with, became racialized under Obama because they were associated with a Black president. They think—in Michael Tesler's book, he says that opinions about Portuguese water dogs became racialized because of the Obamas pet dog. The fact of him being the first Black president, the fact of him having a Muslim father and his middle name being Hussein, and the fact that his father was not a citizen—all these factors about his identity became extremely salient parts of the narrative against him that you would see in conservative media, and in some cases, you know, from conservative legislators.
[voice clip] Donald Trump says Obama wasn't born here.
[news clip] Fox put up a graphic that referred to Michelle as Senator Obama's, quote "baby mama"—
[voice clip] A fist bump, a pound, a terrorist fist jab—the gesture everyone seems to interpret differently.
[voice clip] The headline was: Obama's Hip Hop Barbecue Didn't Create Jobs.
[voice clip] I didn't realize that was supposed to happen.
[voice clip] Hopefully, while they were gathered, they passed one of those great old big hats that one of the hip hop pals wore, so that way everyone could empty their pockets and open their checkbooks.
Adam Serwer: Those stories not only said something about Obama, but it said something about those communities and who was hurting them, who was harming them and who they should feel threatened by. And this all shaped Republicans' understandings of who they are and their relationship to the coalition that elected Obama.
Van Jones: I think people forget the majority of white people in America voted against Obama both times.
Jon Favreau: That's Van Jones, political commentator and former special advisor to President Obama for green jobs.
Van Jones: The majority of white people in every state but four, voted against Obama both times. The majority of white people in California voted against Obama both times. This idea that: well, we elected a Black president so anything else we do—well no. WE elected a Black president and some white folks helped. But that's not the same.
Jon Favreau: The president tried as hard as he could to navigate this reality during his time in office. He didn't want to ignore racial conflict, but he was often careful not to say or do anything to inflame it. I always thought the writer Ta-Nahisi Coates put it best when he said "For eight years Barack Obama walked on ice and never fell. Nothing in that time suggested that straight talk on the facts of racism in American life would have given him surer footing." The truth is Obama never stopped being the guy from that 2004 convention speech who said:
[clip of President Obama] There is not a Black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America, there's the United States of America.
Jon Favreau: That's how he walked on that ice. It's how he approached governing and campaigning. So when the 2012 election comes along and the Republicans and the Republican media want to make it about Obama, Obama does everything he can to make the campaign about a choice between two economic visions for the future. From the very beginning, he says that the defining challenge of our time is the growing economic inequality that hurts middle-class people, working-class people, poor people of all races everywhere.
[clip of President Obama] The market will take care of everything they tell us: if we just cut more regulations and cut more taxes, especially for the wealthy, our economy will grow stronger. Sure, they say: there will be winners and losers, but if the winners do really well, then jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle down to everybody else. But here's the problem, it doesn't work.
Jon Favreau: The winner of the Republican primary, Mitt Romney, ends up being the perfect foil for Obama's message. He's this private equity guy who's proposing all these tax cuts for the rich, and he comes off as out of touch at a time when people in both parties were still pretty pissed off about Wall Street's role in the financial crisis. We really couldn't have asked for a better opponent.
[clip of interviewer] Anyone who has questions about the distribution of wealth and power in this country, is envious, is it about jealousy or is it about fairness?
[clips of Sen. Mitt Romney] You know, I think it's about envy. I think it's about class warfare. I think when you have a president . . . I'm in this race because I care about Americans, I'm not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there . . . there are 47% of the people who are dependent upon government . . . and so my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them.
Jon Favreau: During the campaign, Obama always used to say: that if we won this one, it would break the fever in Washington. The idea being that if we beat the Republicans by a healthy margin, it would force them to rethink their obstruction strategy and that maybe they'd start cooperating.
[news clip] President Obama has won a second term as president of the United States.
[clip of President Obama] The task of perfecting our union moves forward. We are an American family and we rise or fall together as one nation and as one people. [cheers]
Jon Favreau: Well, he certainly won, but the fever only got worse. Thomas Edsall sums it up.
Thomas Edsall: Well, basically, politics has become a form of tribal warfare on both sides. People see the enemy in very negative terms. There is no empathy for the adversary. That's a very dangerous position to put yourself in.
[voice clip] If you did some homework and do some studying, you can see he's a radical communist, and he like, and he's a basic Muslim, and health care will just turn—this is a stepping stone for takeover by communism, like Hitler did in Germany.
[voice clip] Do you believe that the federal government has a right to exist in to government lives—
[response] If it has the right to exist, but not in the form it exists today. It's operating outside—
[voice clip] Do you believe the EPA should be disbanded?
[response] I think it does a lot more harm than good.
[voice clip] When your wife goes into a restroom, you assume the only other people going into that restroom is going to be a person of the same gender.
[voice clip] I really felt that Don't Ask, Don't Tell was wrong.
[voice clip] [unclear] is against God and against humanity.
[chanting] We are standing here together, making Democracy. Enacting the phrase, "We the people."
[voice clip] The Koch brothers are selling off our state, they're cutting wages, they're shipping [unclear] low wages and un-benefited jobs.
[voice clip] Abortion is the greater evil things than slavery.
[voice clip] Shush me.
[voice clip] I just did.
[voice clip man 1] So why do you carry that flag?
[voice clip man 2] Because this is my heritage. My family fought to save their farm under this flag.
[voice clip man 1] Who was working that farm? My ancestors were.
[voice clip man 2] My family was! They were poor! Do you know how much a slave cost back then?
[voice clip guy 1] What is this golden year that Republicans want to go back to? What year? The 60s, the 70s?
[voice clip guy 2] I don't, I don't want to go back to that technology, but I want to go back to that level of freedom. I want—
[voice clip guy 1] The level of freedom for who?
[voice clip guy 2] For everybody.
[voice clip guy 1] —couldn't vote at some point. African-Americans and others had to ride in the back of the bus.
[voice clip guy 2] I'm telling you.
[voice clip guy 1] You want to go back there? We don't want to go back there.
[chanting]
Jon Favreau: Like I said before, when it comes to the Obama presidency, I'm anything but a neutral observer. Of course we made mistakes. Of course there are things we could have done better. I also wonder how the Obama of 2016 would have approached the early years of his presidency. But by the end of 2016, his approval rating was around 50 in a pretty divided country. The economy was finally improving and creating lots of jobs. And after Obama won in 2012, which was a worse economy, a lot of us felt that even though partisanship and polarization were as bad as ever, the demographics of the country as a whole were moving in an unmistakably progressive direction, and that Obama might actually become the first two-term president since Reagan to be followed by a successor of the same party. Well, we fucked that one up. And now as we look back on all the political, economic and racial turmoil that Obama's Democratic Party was able to navigate but not solve, the question a lot of us keep asking over and over is how did we not see this coming?
[clip of Donald Trump] You know, all of my life I've heard that a truly successful person, a really, really successful person, and even modestly successful, cannot run for public office. Just can't happen. And yet that's the kind of mindset that you need to make this country great again. So, ladies and gentlemen, I am officially running for president of the United States and we are going to make our country great again. [applause, chants]
Jon Favreau: The Wilderness is written and directed by me, Jon Favreau of Crooked Media. It's produced by Zach Akers and Skip Bronkie of Two Up, and Ruth Lichtman. Tanya Somanader of Crooked Media is our co-producer. Andrea B. Scott is our editor, and David Fox is our assistant editor. Our archival producer is Rebecca Kent, and our archival researcher is Gianna Jefferson. Music by Marty Fowler. Sound design and mixing by Joel Robbie. Tracy Lien is our lead interviewee researcher. Additional writing from Zach Akers and Andrea B. Scott. John Maynard and Dan Kelly were our recording engineers. Fact checking by Anna Altman. Promo segment editing from Alison Grasso. Agency Services from Ben Davis at WME. Legal services from Dean Bahat at Ziffren Brittenham and Chad Russo at Ramo Law. Clearance counsel is Kathryn Alimohammedi from Donaldson + Califf. Thanks for listening.
Chapter 6: The Path
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World's largest marine park created in the Antarctic Ross Sea
Protecting the Ross Sea, in the Southern Ocean, had been on the commission's agenda for around six years, and conservationists had been arguing for a no-fishing zone there for a decade, said Andrea Kavanagh, a director of the Southern Oceans Sanctuaries Campaign at Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington. "The Ross Sea has much more value as an intact marine ecosystem than as a fishing ground". Additionally, a 110,000 sq km "special research zone" will be established on the outside of the no-take zone, allowing catching of krill and toothfish only for research purposes. The Associated Press reported the two nations submitted a proposal in 2012 that was rejected five time because of concerns from Ukraine, Russia and China.
The deal, put together by New Zealand and the U.S., became a reality after Russian Federation - the last country holding out on the creation of the protected area - agreed to the move.
Twenty-four countries and the European Union made a milestone in sealing the deal of creating the largest marine protected area in the world in the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in Hobart.
A landmark global agreement to create the world's largest marine park in the Southern Ocean has been brokered in Australia, after five years of compromises and failed negotiations.
The Ross Sea is named after British explorer Sir James Ross and his great, great, great granddaughter Phillipa Ross said the family was thrilled it was safeguarded.
The worldwide agreement was made on Friday, at the conclusion of two weeks of discussions at the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, which took place in Hobart, Australia. Scientists believe that the marine park can be a platform for a deeper understanding of climate change impacts.
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The agreement will go into effect in December.
New Zealand and the United States put forth the proposal to create this marine protected area, or MPA, in 2011. "Secretary (John) Kerry reached out to Russian President (Vladimir) Putin and (Foreign Minister Sergei) Lavrov and I think that helped a great deal to convince Russia to come on board", Evan Bloom, head of the USA delegation at the meeting, said.
A almost 600,000-mile area of Antarctica's Ross Sea got universal protection on Friday.
The Ross Sea MPA agreement follows CCAMLR's establishment in 2009 of the world's first high-seas protection zone - the South Orkney Islands southern shelf MPA - a region covering 94,000 sq km in the South Atlantic.
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Syria sends warning to Turkey
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Syrian rebels launch Aleppo offensive to break siege
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Barack Obama campaigns for Hillary Clinton despite Federal Bureau of Investigation review
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Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, an anti-Assad force linked to al-Qaeda, said it carried out at least one suicide bombing. The Syrian army claimed it repelled all rebel attacks without losing any territory.
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Ultra-endurance athletes conquer 1,000 km bike ride
Ultra-endurance athletes conquer 1,000 km…
L to R: Sam Ehlers, Mark Gray and Pete McAdam on the recumbent during their 1000 kilometer Brevet across Manitoba.
Traveling around Manitoba can be rewarding, but may take some effort.
If you have access to a vehicle, and wanted to travel to some prominent towns, you could start in Winnipeg, travel south to Morden, then East to La Riviere, and north to Dauphin, that would take some time. Then, to get back via the same route, would also take some time, and probably a few tanks of gas.
That distance, is roughly 1,000 kilometers.
Now imagine travelling by bicycle.
Mark Gray enjoying the company and scenery during the 'Tour de Toba'!
That's exactly what four ultra-endurance Manitoba cyclists just did a few weeks ago. They started on the Friday of the August long weekend, and finished on Sunday.
They received no help during the event, but there was a time limit of 75 hours in which to complete the trek.
These people are the Manitoba Randonneurs, and this event is called a Brevet.
"The further I rode with the Manitoba Randonneurs, the more my focus shifted from the challenge itself to the sheer enjoyment of riding all day with such great people," says event organizer, Sam Ehlers. "For me, the events have become a day long (or more) celebration of cycling and I'm always looking forward to the next one."
Kevin Champagne flying down Highway number 3 en route to finshing a 1000 kilometer Brevet.
Pete McAdams, a local pillar in long distance cycling, had a 'Spot Tracker' on his person, and people could get the link from the Facebook page and follow his progress, which was uploaded almost instantaneously.
"Sue Lucas, another Manitoban ultra-racer who lives in Dauphin, just went to the website, and knew exactly where we were during our journey," says McAdams. "She wasn't waiting outside wondering where we were: she could follow us from her iPhone. She surprised all of us by bringing home-made cookies for us! This really was spectacular!"
The last Brevet, held on Saturday August 16, had a total of eight participants, with four brand new riders who have never completed a Brevet before. Two of the eight participants were women.
Second from right is Candy Badger, a local active sportswomen who belongs to the Manitoba Randonneurs.
"Being able to complete a 200 kilometer, 300 kilometer and 600 kilometer randonneur ride has been one of the highlights in my cycling career," says Candy Badger, who participated in one of the 300 kilometer Brevets earlier this year.
"As a female rider and a woman in my early fifties, I feel such a sense of accomplishment, in an arena which is still fairly male dominated, I feel my teammates respect me as I do the group and the bond which is formed is an amazing feeling. I love being on my bike and endurance riding gives me the sense of freedom and power, to know that I have the fitness level to travel the distances. "
Sam Ehlers with his son Lochley and his wife Jessica, celebrating his 1000 km Brevet triumph.
"It was very exciting for us at the last 200 kilometer event to have some brand new faces out there," Ehlers adds. "And it was such a beautiful day for a bike ride. I am sure this will be a memorable experience for all."
The next event will be the last Brevet of the season; it's 200 kilometers long and will be mostly on gravel roads. However, if a person does not have the confidence to tackle such an event, there are alternatives.
"There are a few riders who are just going to ride a portion of the event with us, thus it will not be an 'official' Brevet, but any company is welcome," says Ehlers. "These people are going to start the event in the middle, and finish it with us, or another alternative is to start with us, and break-off some where's during the event. We enjoy the company and the participants enjoy coming out."
Ehlers adds, "If anyone has any ideas similar to that, they can contact me directly, or ask questions to the members of the Facebook site. We all pitch-in to solve the problems, and make it a memorable experience."
Celebrations in Oak Bluff by four Manitobans who prevailed in the1000 kilometer bikeride. L to R: Mark Gray, Sam Ehlers, Kevin Champagne and Pete McAdams.
All photos by Gregory McNeill
Categories: Outside Winnipeg, SportsBy Gregory C. McNeill September 9, 2014
Author: Gregory C. McNeill
Greg has been writing stories and taking pictures of local cyclists, runners, and triathletes for over 4 years. He is a member of fatbikemanitoba.com, volunteers with trail building at www.2wheelrevolution.ca, and is a participant in long distance cycling with www.manitobarandonneurs.ca
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Nice Story Gregory. Bravo to the Manitoba Randonneurs. Nice adventures.


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La Fédération russe des échecs ou Fédération de Russie des échecs (en  (FCHR), Chess Federation of Russia ou Russian Chess Federation (RCF) en anglais) est l'organisme national chargé de gérer et de promouvoir la pratique des échecs en Russie. Elle organise entre autres le championnat de Russie d'échecs.

Elle est le successeur de la Fédération soviétique des échecs et a été fondée le 15 février 1992 et son siège se situe à Moscou.

Depuis 2014, la Fédération russe abrite un musée du jeu d'échecs.

Fin février 2023, la Fédération internationale des échecs (FIDE) annonce  que la fédération russe des échecs va quitter, à horizon mai 2023, l'Union Européenne des Échecs afin de rejoindre la Fédération Asiatique des Échecs. Cette décision s'inscrit dans le contexte de l'invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie de 2022.

Conseil de surveillance
Les organes directeurs de la fédération sont le congrès, le conseil de surveillance (conseil directeur), le président et le directeur exécutif (chargé des finances et des questions juridiques). Le président de la fédération est aussi le président du conseil de surveillance. Le congrès se réunit au moins une fois tous les quatre ans.

Président et vice-présidents actuels
En 2020, le président du conseil de surveillance est Andreï Filatov. Il a été élu en 2014 et réélu en 2018.

Les vice-présidents sont Alexandre Joukov, Anatoli Karpov, Natalia Komarova, Andreï Gouriev et Pavel Chinsky.

Anciens présidents
Arkadi Mourachov en fut le premier président de 1992 à 1993.

De 2003 à 2009, Alexandre Joukov était le président.

De 2010 à 2014, la fédération russe a été dirigée par Arkadi Dvorkovitch. Il est devenu président de la Fédération internationale des échecs en 2018.

Histoire
Fin février 2023, la Fédération internationale des échecs (FIDE) annonce que la fédération russe des échecs va quitter, à date du 1 mai 2023, l'Union Européenne des Échecs afin de rejoindre la Fédération Asiatique des Échecs. Cette décision s'inscrit dans le contexte de l'invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie de 2022, et dans une volonté plus large des fédérations sportives russes de contourner les sanctions mises en place envers elles par les instances sportives européennes. En conséquence, la FIDE autorise le transfert de tous les joueurs et joueuses d'échecs russes qui en font la demande, sans frais, dans de nouvelles fédérations européennes. La participation des joueurs russes au championnat d'Europe individuel en mars 2023 est autorisée. Des questions de plus long terme se posent également quant à l'équilibre de la confédération asiatique des échecs : les joueurs russes, réputés très forts, pourraient récupérer des places qualificatives pour le cycle du championnat du monde à des pays qui en sont habituellement les favoris, tels la Chine ou l'Inde.

Notes et références

Liens externes
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  site officiel (en anglais)

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Inactivation of E. coli and E. faecalis by solar photo-Fenton with EDDS complex at neutral pH in municipal wastewater effluents
Irene Garcia-Fernandez, Sara Miralles-Cuevas, Isabel Oller, Sixto Malato, Pilar Fern��ndez-Ib����ez, M.I. Polo-Lopez
Photo-Fenton is a solar disinfection technology widely demonstrated to be effective to inactivate microorganisms in water by the combined effect of photoactivated iron species and the direct action of solar photons. Nevertheless, the precipitation of iron as ferric hydroxide at basic pH is the main disadvantage of this process. Thus, challenge in photo-Fenton is looking for alternatives to iron salts. Polycarboxylic acids, such as Ethylendiamine-N',N'-disuccinic acid (EDDS), can form strong complex with Fe3+ and enhance the dissolution of iron in natural water through photochemical process. The aim of this study was to evaluate the disinfection effectiveness of solar photo-Fenton with and without EDDS in water. Several reagent concentrations were assessed, best bacterial (Escherichia coli and Enterococcus faecalis) inactivation was obtained with 0.1:0.2:0.3 mM (Fe3+:EDDS:H2O2) in isotonic water. The benefit of using EDDS complexes to increase the efficiency of kept dissolved iron in water at basic pH was proven. Solar disinfection and H2O2/solar with and without EDDS, and Fe3+:EDDS complexes were also investigated. Bacterial inactivation results in municipal wastewater effluents (MWWE) demonstrated that the competitive role of organic matter and inorganic compounds strongly affect the efficacy of Fe3+:EDDS at all concentrations tested, obtaining the fastest inactivation kinetics with H2O2/solar (0.3 mM).
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In 2016, Erica Bachelor attended a symposium in Frankfort and learned that children entering the foster care system were being given a trash bag to transport their belongings. She was shocked and saddened. But she knew how to help.
Erica had recently lost her brother in an automobile accident, and her family commemorated his name by forming the Brendon P. Bachelor Foundation. At first, the foundation focused on sports and education, "two things my brother was passionate about," she says. "My brother was truly a special man. He loved people and loved children."
She knew that Brendon would have jumped at the chance to help foster children in the Louisville area. As president of the Bren- don P. Bachelor Foundation, and vice president of marketing for Bachelor Companies, Erica and the board of directors quickly initiated a new program: Brendon's Duffels of Hope.
"A Brendon's Duffel of Hope provides each child with a sense of security and hope, while providing necessities such as toys, toiletries, and clothing," says Erica.
These durable new duffels replace those disposable trash bags for foster children to carry their belongings. Thanks to donations and the help of the community, the Duffels of Hope come supplied with shampoo, socks, and other age-appropriate items of care. "The child will be given something of his or her very own, which gives them a sense of ownership, love, and security while helping to support the community agencies caring for them," says Erica.
The Brendon P. Bachelor Foundation distributes the duffels through a partnership with Home of the Innocents and its programs. The staff members and volunteers at Home of the Innocents provide Duffels of Hope to kids who are discharged from its residential treatment program and are going to a new foster family placement, as well as to homeless young adults entering the aftercare program for independent living and transitional services, and to refugees who are patients at Open Arms Children's Health, the comprehensive pediatric medical center at Home of the Innocents.
"Programs such as Brendon's Duffels of Hope are so important because they uplift the youth in our community," says Erica. "As cliché as it sounds, the youth are our future. We need to make sure we give them all the necessary tools needed for success. Those tools not only include physical items, but also emotional as well. Instilling a sense of confidence and belonging goes a long way in a child's life."
A graduate of Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, Erica has worked in television as a co-anchor with Back 9 Network and E! News online, and has appeared in national commercials, TV shows, and as an actor/producer in several films. She currently resides in Miami and has a home in Louisville that she frequently visits while maintaining constant connections to her Louisville roots and her brother's memory.
"His funeral had so many people from all walks of life attend," she says. "I remember people coming up to me telling me stories about how he changed their lives. He was always involved in the community, and believed that children needed to be seen, heard, and nurtured."
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