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CFMMEU handed hefty penalty in NSW coercion case
The CFMMEU has been hit with a major financial penalty with the Federal Circuit Court penalising the union and five of its officials $486,500.
The union was found to have organised unlawful blockades and work disruptions targeting Sydney concreting company De Martin and Gasparini (DMG) in 2015.
The Federal Circuit Court found the CFMMEU and its officials Brian Parker, Robert Kera, Salvatore Manna, Michael Greenfield and Luke Collier took action intended to coerce DMG to enter into a CFMMEU enterprise agreement.
CFMMEU - $404,500
Brian Parker – $17,000
Michael Greenfield - $13,500
Luke Collier - $7,500
Robert Kera - $21,500
Salvatore Manna - $22,500
On 13 February 2015 Mr Parker, Mr Kera and other CFMMEU officers, carrying union-branded flags, attended a rally involving more than 70 DMG employees outside the main entrance to Barangaroo site. The DMG employees were taking part in protected industrial action.
On 14, 16 and 17 February CFMMEU officials unlawfully blocked the main entry gate and vehicle access gates preventing subcontractors from entering the site.
Over the three days subcontractors were prevented from attending work and subjected to abuse. Workers were called 'f*ing scabs' and 'filthy dogs' and concrete trucks were turned away, with at least one driver complaining of being harassed by a CFMMEU official.
Then CFMMEU NSW branch secretary Brian Parker told DMG's general manager: "we are not mucking around anymore" and "we will keep fighting until the end".
Former CFMMEU official Luke Collier, who was involved in blocking vehicle access to the site, directed others to: "Stand on the road guys. There's not enough police to take us all away."
Handing down his penalty judgment Judge Manousaridis described the conduct of the CFMMEU officials as serious because it was intended:
"…to signal to operators of trucks and workers that they would be prevented from entering the Barangaroo Site to carry out work."
ABCC Commissioner Stephen McBurney said the extent of the penalties against the CFMMEU and its senior officials highlighted the gravity with which the Courts viewed the union's practices.
"Penalties in cases brought by the ABCC since its re-establishment on 2 December 2016 have now exceeded $10 million. Total penalties against the CFMMEU and its officials currently stand at $9.62 million," Mr McBurney said.
"Time and again we see the Courts commenting on the seriousness of the CFMMEU's unlawful behaviour.
"Sadly senior officials like Mr Parker, Mr Kera, Mr Manna and Mr Greenfield are not first offenders. The striking feature of the history of offending produced to the Court by my agency is the absence of either contrition or remorse."


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Indie Lee is a natural eco-friendly skincare brand that I'm eager to get more acquainted with. On today's agenda is the Indie Lee Clearing Mask - a product geared towards congested skin with promises to detoxify and purify in a gentle manner.
Today's subject is the Emma Hardie Amazing Face Protect & Prime SPF 30. This beautiful lightweight yet hydrating sunscreen also boasts makeup priming and glow-giving properties along with UVA and UVB ray protection. Let's see if it lives up to its expectations.
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Tecno Mobile, makers of Tecno phones has sparked a new selfie passion among its smartphone fans with the launch of Camon X and Xpro sporting 24 megapixel front camera to deliver higher picture resolution.
The Chinese device maker pitches that the new Camon X and Camon X Pro also sport "enhanced" cameras compared to their predecessors, that are optimised for low-light conditions.
Let's have a look at what it has to offer and if it is actually worth the extra cost.
Though the phones look strikingly similar and can be easily confused, both devices are the continuation of the Camon lines and direct upgrades to the Camon CX, CX Air and CM, Tecno's first full view smartphone with 18:9 aspect ratio.
The unique selfie camera features include the "4-in-1" mode, which means it uses four different small cells to balance colour, lighting and combines them into one picture; Bokeh effect mode to place more focus on your face than the background; Intelligent adjustable flashlight, "Artificial Intelligence -powered" selfies beautification and 3 High-dynamic-range(HDR) mode for portrait and group selfies.
Camon X Pro looks very much like the Camon X, as it comes with the same 18:9 aspect ratio and reduced bezels.
Also, it retains the same polycarbonate build with the camera and flash arranged horizontally at the top left corner. You can choose from two colour variants which is the Midnight Black and Bordeaux Red respectively.
The newly introduced Camon devices are housed in a rectangular shaped box with the phone and device name beautifully designed.
When the box is removed, the first thing one would see is the phone with a sticker and the key specs; 6.0 inch FHD+ 2.5D display, Android 8.1 Oreo, 2.0GHz Octa-Core, Mediatek Helio P23, 4GB RAM, 64GB ROM, 16MP back camera with Quad-Ring Flash, 24MP front with Dual Flash, the fingerprint sensor, Face ID, 3750mAh battery.
When it comes to the accessories, just like most Tecno products, there is nothing to worry about as it is packaged with all the the usual suspects: a user manual, warranty Card, SIM Ejector Tool, 3-pin wall adapter charger, one USB 2.0 Cable, Boom play Music card, one phone case and a pair earphone.
The earphone is a little different from what we are used to especially on the Camon series. This particular one is quite beautiful, comparing it with that of the Phantom 8. It could be said that it has the best headphone compared to other Tecno devices as it is loud and the audio quality is great too.
Also, the device accepts two Nano SIM cards and a slot for MicroSD card, the volume controller buttons, power ON/OFF button and the SIM/SDcard slots are found on the right-hand side.
The audio jack, noise cancellation, USB 2.0 port and the mono speaker can be found at the bottom of the phone.
Battery capacity appears to be the same on both smartphones with fast charge also included. This means there is a 3,750mAh non removable Li-Po battery. However, battery capacity also depends on other display resolution which in this case weighs more on the battery among other things.
Between the Tecno Camon X and X Pro, there is the same chipset but different in other hardware aspects. You will find a an Octa-core MediaTek MT6763T processor running at a maximum speed of 2.0GHz. This is combined with a Mali GPU for graphics rendering.
The upgrade between both smartphones is seen in terms of storage space and memory.
Displays: Camon X has a HD+ screen while Camon X Pro has a FHD+ screen.
Price: Camon X is cheaper than Camon X Pro.
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Q: Will it help to set NVARCHAR(15) column as index if it's used in WHERE LIKE clause? I'm setting up a SQL Server (t-Sql) table that contains a column that's defined as NVARCHAR(15) that may be selected in a WHERE clause using LIKE statement, as such:
SELECT *
FROM [table]
WHERE [Name] LIKE @SearchName
  AND [other] = @something
  AND [etc] AND [etc]

@SearchName - may contain wildcards specified by an end-user
The question I have, will it help to define my Name column as a nonclustered index?
PS. This table may contain millions of records, and it can be updated [1-10] thousands of times a day. So I'm trying to minimize the number of indexes in this table that may not be necessary.

A: It depends on how many rows would be returned. If the Name column contained more than (approx.) only 10% different values then because you are doing a SELECT * an index on [Name] probably wouldn't be used.
If the selectively of [Name] is higher and the rows aren't very wide, then Yes an index would be beneficial.
Just noticed the bit about wildcards..If it's only a wildcard suffix then an index might be used.
You would be better off creating an index that contains all the WHERE filter columns in the order of most selectivity.
Ultimately, why not create the index and monitor it's usage. SQL Server 2005 onwards has some built in reports for doing this. You can find these reports by starting SQL Server Management Studio and right-clicking a database name. From the menu that appears, click the Standard Reports, and then select the Index Usage report.
You can also do this directly in TSQL:
SELECT
    OBJECT_NAME(dm.[object_id], dm.database_id) AS [object_name],
    dm.index_id,
    dm.user_seeks,
    dm.user_scans,
    dm.user_lookups,
    dm.user_seeks + dm.user_scans + dm.user_lookups AS user_reads,
    dm.user_updates AS user_writes ,
    dm.last_user_scan,
    dm.last_user_update
FROM
    sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats dm
WHERE
    dm.database_id > 4    -- filter out system databases
    AND OBJECTPROPERTY(dm.OBJECT_ID, 'IsUserTable') = 1
    AND dm.index_id > 0  -- filter out heaps
ORDER BY
    dm.user_scans DESC

A: Well, I'm afraid it will not help. First of all, because you have wildcards in queries and query like '%searchtext%' is very very heavy. Secon - amount of data and frequency of updates.
I advice you to create full-text index and use full-text search:
SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE CONTAINS(Name, '"chain*" OR "full*"')

This will be much faster and you can also use wildcards.

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Why The Republican Party Is What It Is
"A reactionary is a person who holds political viewpoints that favor a return to a previous state (the status quo ante) in a society."
often use the term "reactionaries" to describe those folks on the right who have a problem living in the 21st century, a problem coming to grips with present reality. I sometimes differentiate between reactionaries and conservatives because conservatism doesn't necessarily involve reactionary politics, though it often does, especially as we watch conservative behavior today. Most of the conservatives we see dominating the Republican Party these days are—without the slightest doubt—reactionaries.
As most of you know, I was born and raised in Kansas. I lived there until I was about 30 years old. I worked there. I played there. I became a conservative there. I was baptized into an evangelical faith there. The political Kansas I knew was mostly a right-of-center place, with pockets of leftish resistance here and there, and for the most part its politics was not radical or reactionary. Today, though, like a lot of red states Kansas has been radicalized and has turned into one of the most reactionary places in the country.
Nothing could better demonstrate the change from a mild, if not moldy, conservatism into a radical and fiery reactionaryism than what emerged in Kansas recently. Last week, as nearly everyone knows by now, the Kansas House passed a bill that, according to Time,
would permit businesses and government employees to deny service to same-sex couples on the basis of their religious principles.
That Jim Crowish bill, which has been condemned far and wide by progressives, passed 72-49 and is now being considered by the state senate, which is expected to either water it down significantly or kill it. Apparently there are some Kansas Republicans left who haven't been completely radicalized by religious zealots in the state. But the fact that such a reactionary piece of legislation passed one side of the legislature in 2014—2014 for God's sake—says a lot about not only about the Republican Party, but it speaks to why it is that our national government is so profoundly, if not dangerously, divided.
At the heart of this ascendance of a rabid reactionary politics in Kansas and elsewhere—there is an anti-gay bill in Idaho that is even worse than the one in Kansas—is the anxiety that (mostly but not entirely white) evangelical and fundamentalist Christians feel deep in their bones over the loss of cultural dominance they and their Iron Age theology once enjoyed. Most of the theological angst started with the Supreme Court ruling in 1962 (Engel v. Vitale) that government-composed prayers could not be used in public schools, then just after that blow came atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair's victorious lawsuit in 1963 (consolidated with Abington School District v. Schempp) in which the Supreme Court put the kibosh on the Lord's Prayer and Bible reading in government schools.
If I heard it once, I heard it a gazillion times from the conservative church folk I knew back home: "They kicked God out of the schools! Why do you think things are so bad!"
So, it started with those two court rulings, but other rulings followed that were specifically related to Bible-based anxiety over a rapidly changing culture. There was Griswold v. Connecticut (which found that because of the Constitution's now strangely controversial "right to privacy" states could not prohibit the use of contraceptives by married people; later this freedom was extended to all couples via Eisenstadt. V. Baird; and now we are fighting over the Affordable Care Act's contraception coverage mandate). Skipping over the landmark 1973 Roe V. Wade case (which isn't necessarily—even though it has mostly become—a case involving evangelical theology), we come to Lawrence v. Texas, a 2003 case that effectively struck down all sodomy laws in the country and paved the way for the eventual legitimation of same-sex marriage, which is now driving right-wing Christians into convulsions not seen since the Gadarene Demoniac.
Along with—perhaps partly because of—these culturally significant court cases, public opinion has evolved in the direction of progress and against the forces of Bible-inspired conservatism. Holy Book-believing Christians have essentially lost the fight over whether the Bible or a secular Constitution will be the ultimate law of the land. This has led to a backlash, a serious and divisive backlash, among folks who take the Bible seriously and who genuinely—I repeat: genuinely— believe that America is going straight to hell because it has turned its back on God and his Word.
More important, though, than all the talk of cultural anxiety and ancient theology is what these Bible-believing folks have been up to lately. In order to turn their biblical notions and reactionary tendencies into public policies like the one proposed last week in Kansas, they have increasingly and fanatically turned to grassroots politics.
These religious reactionaries have educated themselves and essentially taken over the Republican Party's organizational structure. One such reactionary lives right here in Southwest Missouri. I used to go to the same evangelical church he did and used to believe a lot of the same things he believes. His name is John Putnam. He's from Carthage and he is the Chairman of the Jasper County Republican Party.
Mr. Putnam has essentially written his own bible on how to take over and transform the Republican Party from the ground up. He notes that there are some "183,000 precincts in the 50 states" and he outlines how the system works:
The voters of each precinct, according to their state's laws, can elect or appoint one man and one woman to represent the people of that precinct in their political party's organizational structure (sometimes called the party "machine"). The precinct chairs/executives become members of their county committee and elect their county committee's Chair and Vice-Chair who, in turn, help elect their Party's State Committee; plus, they largely influence which candidates will run (and most likely be elected) in their party's primary election and who, subsequently, will carry their party's banner in the November General Elections.
All of this represents the nuts and bolts of party organization. It is how a political party can be commandeered by a zealous minority and how such zealotry can come to represent the face of the party. It it why the Republican Party is so schizophrenic. It is why its national leaders are so afraid to actually lead. It is why Washington is suffering from legislative paralysis. You think I am exaggerating? Putnam goes on to point out that,
Nationwide, half of these positions sit empty and most voters no longer even know they exist. If Constitutional conservatives will fulfill the precinct leader's role and elect Constitutional conservative chairs and vice-chairs to their county committees, we can cleanse our representative form of government in very short order. This is assuming the men and women who fill the precinct position have the wisdom of Cleon Skousen gleaned from The Five Thousand Year Leap and the virtue of George Washington (see Glenn Beck's Being George Washington).
If that stuff about cleansing doesn't scare you, then you don't know who Cleon Skousen and Glenn Beck are. Perhaps now you can see why the Republican Party looks the way it does. This kind of tactical action is going on, has been going on, all over the country. Mr. Putnam provides local zealots everywhere, those who have a biblical ax to grind, with essential knowledge of how to go about that grinding. Become "party officials" at the local level, he says. Why? Because:
…party officials have a strong influence on who wins the Primary because of their influence in recruiting and endorsing candidates. They also influence whether the Party stays philosophically true to its platform. There is no reason why YOU cannot become a Precinct Patriot and be one who influences these decisions.
If you ever wondered why a disturbed and disturbing man named Todd Akin became the Missouri GOP's U.S. Senate candidate in 2012, now you know why. Even after Akin was disgraced, even after his horrific views on women and rape were revealed, even after the Republican establishment abandoned him, John Putnam came to his defense and supported him. And even with that robust defense of a man clearly out of touch with reality, perhaps because of that robust defense, John Putnam remains in charge—in charge!—of the Jasper County Republican Party.
That tells you all you need to know about what is wrong with the GOP. At the ground level, where it often matters most, the reactionaries are running the asylum.
Tagged Carthage, gay segregation bill, glenn beck, Jasper County Republican Central Committee, John Putnam, Kansas, Leon Skousen, Republican Party
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2014/02/19/why-the-republican-party-is-what-it-is/
"To Transform A Nation" Means A Holy War, Man!
"Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen."
n case you didn't know, there is about to be another American Revolution.
Or, take your pick, another Civil War.
Now, either this revolution or civil war will be fought by an Angry God, or by Angry God-worshipping fundamentalist Christians who are outraged that women want, and until recently were getting, control of their own reproductive lives.
Or the war will be fought by zealots who are outraged that people of the same sex can kiss each other in public and otherwise get treated as equals under law.
Or the war will be fought by folks who are upset about both reproductive and marriage freedom, mixed with a lot of outrage over ObamaCare.
In any case, Christian jihadists here in America are letting it be known they are prepared for the worst.
Let's start with Rick Joyner, a Christian pastor who is the founder and head of a right-wing religious group called MorningStar Ministries. He is also the president of an organization called The Oak Initiative, which describes itself as,
a grassroots movement to Unite, Mobilize, Equip, and Activate Christians to be the salt and light they are called to be by engaging in the great issues of our time from a sound biblical worldview.
By its own admission, this group of Christian zealots exists to encourage its members "to transform a nation"—that's this nation, folks—and to become "change-agents and facilitating change in every aspect of our culture as we, the Oak Initiative, become infused into the areas of social, cultural, and political impact wherever we find ourselves."
The short of it is that this group, and others like it, have as a goal to remake America in ways compatible with fundamentalist Christianity, and these people are using the Republican Party, at the local, state, and federal levels, as a jihadist vehicle to accomplish their goal.
One of The Oak Initiative's board members is Lieutenant General William "Jerry" Boykin (retired), who, incredibly, at one time was the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence under George W. Bush. Boykin, a fundamentalist zealot, became relatively famous for his remarks in 2003 related to the War on Terror, remarks made while serving as the, uh, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, and remarks that claimed that his Christian God was "bigger" than the Muslim "idol."
In a follow-up statement—part of which was redacted by adults in the Pentagon—a statement meant to apologize for and explain the juvenile and stupid claims that upset so many here and abroad, Boykin wrote:
• I believe that God intervenes in the affairs of men, to include nations, as Benjamin Franklin so eloquently stated. Yes I believe that George Bush was placed in the White House by God as well as Bill Clinton and other presidents.
• As a Christian I believe that there is a spiritual war that is continuous as articulated in the Bible. It is not confined to the war of terrorism.
Nothing, I submit, articulates the mindset of right-wing Christians—who, again, have hijacked the Republican Party to do their dirty work—better than those two statements: God guides history and history is essentially a battle between Good Spirits and Evil Spirits.
Magical thinking like that is everywhere these days, in caves in Tora Bora or in, well, Virginia Beach, Virginia, home of Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network.
Robertson, fresh off from citing the death penalty in Leviticus for gay folks and suggesting that two gay men kissing makes him barf—no word in yet on what two women kissing does to him, but I have my suspicions—and claiming that "the Bible didn't talk about civil rights," asked:
Which is going to take precedence, the Supreme Court of the United States or the holy word of God?
Apparently, the answer is "the holy word of God," at least the version interpreted by Pat Robertson. On Wednesday the religious freak suggested that Americans follow the Egyptians and "rise up against" ObamaCare, which, of course, is "state socialism," even though Republicans invented it. In any case, God, obviously, is opposed to folks having health insurance because if you just pray hard enough, and, more important, send Pat Robertson thirty-bucks a month, you don't need no stinkin' health insurance.
And if you think an Egyptian-like revolt here in America is only a figment of Pat Robertson's twisted, fundamentalist mind, then you don't know Larry Klayman, who founded Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch and writes a column for the popular source of Christian lies about Obama, World Net Daily. Klayman wrote on Tuesday that the President "is a closet religious Muslim through and through" and then suggested the possibility of a military revolt against him:
…given the state of affairs generally in this nation, which borders on total political, economic, moral and ethical collapse, is it inconceivable that one day the military in this country could rise up in support of not only the American people but themselves, and remove Obama and his radical Muslim, socialist comrades by whatever means prove necessary to preserve the republic?
Yes, he went there. But that's expected from a zealot who is fearful that a non-peaceful revolution "could again prove necessary to restore the republic."
But Barack Obama is not just an enemy of the United States. American Family Association talk show maiden, Sandy Rios, said about the President:
I long ago crossed the line in trying to be careful about how I speak about him because as far as I'm concerned he's an enemy of the faith. I believe he is. He presses all things immoral, all things unbiblical and he claims to be a Christian which to me is even worse, it's worse.
Okay, I can see how Obama is an enemy of America. He wants to destroy it and then turn it over to the Chinese or the Muslims or whoever else would want it at that point. What I don't see is how he is "an enemy of the faith." Perhaps, weirdly, it is his faithfulness to his, uh, one and only wife that makes him an enemy, or his two lovely children?
Whatever it is, we know that a real friend of the faith would be somebody like, oh, Donald Trump! Yeah, Trump is someone that right-wing Christians can get behind. And Bob Vander Plaats, that freaky Christian zealot from Iowa, is doing just that. He has invited the mammon-crazed, divorced (twice!) birther to speak at something called, falsely, the Family Leadership Summit. Praise God, who we are told, knows how many hairs are on Donald's strange looking head, if not how few synapses are firing at any one time inside it.
Speaking of a lack of lively synapses, there's Glenn Beck. Last week he said,
we are not fighting with the president of the United States, we are not fighting with the Democrats, we are fighting evil.
Except that the other day he said President Obama was a "ridiculous piece of garbage." But, now that I think about it, I guess you don't have to be an evil piece of garbage. On Tuesday Beck said:
…we are in so much trouble … if we don't wake up and, as a nation, start to insist that our nation's laws follow the laws of nature's god and nature's laws, we're in trouble, man; we're in real trouble. The darkness is astounding.
Yes, "we're in trouble, man." The darkness, the darkness of religious dogma, is astounding. But what is more astounding is that such dogma has a home, a relatively comfortable home, in the Republican Party.
And whether sober-minded Democrats, or even the few sober-minded Republicans left out there, want to admit it or ignore it, these dogma-loving zealots have taken over local precincts and local elective offices, state party committees and statehouses, and have a sizable contingent in the Congress of the United States.
Yep, we're in trouble, man.
Tagged christian jihadists, glenn beck, Larry Klayman, Obamacare, Pat Robertson, revolution, Right Wing Watch, second american revolution, second civil war, World Net Daily
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/to-transform-a-nation-means-a-holy-war-man/
Why There Is No "Liberal Movement"
Wanna know what's wrong with the left in this country? This:
That was from yesterday. Here's today's HuffPo header:
Some liberals and progressives, now joining libertarians in the wacky wing of the Republican Party, are aghast that the government—all three branches being involved—is snooping around the Internet looking for terrorists. What did people think was happening since the country—Democrats as well as Republicans, liberals as well as conservatives—demanded that 9/11 never happen again?
And the right wing crazies, those like Ann Coulter, have a slightly more nuanced take on all this:
Coulter Blasts Obama For NSA Snooping: Cares More About 'Harassing Americans' Than Fighting Terrorism
The un-delightful Ms. Coulter, as reported by Mediaite, sees things through a pair of Obama-hating glasses:
Ann Coulter did not object to the news about NSA phone snooping on principle, but does have a problem with it under this particular president. She told Sean Hannity tonight that under an "honorable administration," the government should be able to collect phone records, but said that President Obama, with all the other scandals that have come out, has proven to be untrustworthy and he cares more about "harassing Americans" and his political opponents than actually fighting terrorism.
Those are the kinds of people that HuffPo and The Progressive Change Campaign Committee and The New York Times editorialists are getting in bed with, rolling under the covers with, and who knows doing what with.
Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who broke the story on the allegedly widespread NSA surveillance scheme by publishing leaks about it, has been an Obama critic almost from the beginning, often getting credit for criticizing the President "from the left." Bullhockey. Greenwald could jump in the political sack with Rand or Ron Paul, or both, and enjoy every minute of it. As the Rooted Cosmopolitan put it, Greenwald,
is not a liberal or progressive with a broad sense of the common good.
No, he's not. I have followed his Tweets for months and some of them have shocked me in terms of their breathtaking hysteria related to President Obama. Not only that, Greenwald doesn't respect those on the left who don't spend all their time denigrating the President. He once tweeted in support of someone who said of Obama supporters, "Obama could rape a nun on NBC and you'd say we weren't seeing what we were seeing." Greenwald's reply:
No – she'd say it was justified [and] noble – that he only did it to teach us about the evils of rape.
The guy who wrote that, who doubled-down on the rape "joke," is the one who broke the story on the NSA surveillance. That's why I will wait until more sober minds have examined this issue'before I trash the man in the White House who has actually offered to hand back significant executive power to Congress.
By the way, Greenwald told CNN:
There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal, and that is to destroy privacy and anonymity, not just in the United States but around the world. That is not hyperbole. That is their objective.
If that sounds like Glenn Beck instead of Glenn Greenwald then you don't know Glenn Greenwald.
There are questions that need answered related to this NSA story, for sure. But people can't have it both ways. They can't demand that the government keep us safe from terrorists who want to kill us, while expecting government officials not to use technical means to do so.
And all of this stuff is especially ironic in an age in which people share all kinds of private information with strangers on the Internet or through emails.
In any case, the hysteria from the left—Obama is now George W. Bush—is why liberals cannot have a "movement" in the way conservatives can. They almost always let the perfect not only be an enemy of the good, but kill it in its tracks.
by R. Duane Graham on June 7, 2013 • Permalink
Tagged glenn beck, glenn greenwald, government spying, huffington post, liberal movement, NSA, NSA survillance, President Obama, war on terror
Posted by R. Duane Graham on June 7, 2013
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/why-there-is-no-liberal-movement/
The U.S. Government Bombed The Boston Marathon, Or Just Another Day In The World Of Right-Wing Nuttery
I only listened to a little Glenn Beck on Wednesday morning because, frankly, a little Glenn Beck goes a long way in terms of destroying brain tissue, and, to be honest, I don't have that much brain tissue to spare these days.
Naturally, since Glenn Beck specializes in peddling conspiracy theories for cash, Glenn Beck has a conspiracy theory regarding the Boston Marathon bombing, which, as far as I can tell, involves Barack and Michelle Obama and Joe Biden and the Saudi Arabian foreign minister and the Saudi ambassador and Janet Napolitano, who will, when this plot is unraveled, be "the first to fall," says Beck. Oh, yeah, I think the pigmented comedian Dave Chappelle is involved too, because he converted to Islam in 1998 and since then, well, the world has gone to hell.
Because he is a capitalist without a conscience, Glenn Beck won't let a terrorist attack go to waste without least attempting to make a profit from it. And this latest conspiracy theory—involving a Saudi man who police—and, for Allah's sake, even Fox News' Bret Baier—says was merely a victim of the bombing and not a suspect or participant on behalf of the government, is so stupid and unbelievable that, of course, it has legs in the world of right-wing nuttery. (You can see Beck's take on Bret Baier here.)
Let me tell you that the evening of the Boston Marathon bombing, I was at a local high school baseball game watching my kid play. Standing beside me was a dad of another player on our team. I knew this guy to be a right-wing fanatic (chances are, around these parts, someone you are standing next to at a ball game is a right-wing fanatic), and, it happens, a Glenn Beck fan. He was checking his phone for updates on the bombing and, lo and behold, he told me that "they" just found out that the perpetrator was a "Saudi national." "Who could have guessed that?" he said sarcastically.
Playing along, I said, "Of course!" Who else, I said only to myself, would want to kill spectators at a marathon but those damn Saudis! They've always hated long-distance runners, especially long-distance runners from Ethiopia who win, and they hate people who would stand and applaud their efforts. Kill the infidels!
Needless to say, I later found out the truth about the Saudi national and that Matt Drudge and Alex Jones and Glenn Beck and others were trying to make a buck off the whole thing. And I sort of felt a little guilty for not telling the guy at the baseball game that he was, dammit, out of his mind for believing anything that came from his right-wing "sources."
In any case, all of this embarrassing nonsense leads me to post the segment below from Wednesday night's Rachel Maddow Show, which, in case you think this conspiracy stuff is harmless fluff, will change your mind about how pervasive, sick, and thus, dangerous, it is in terms of our national well-being. Because people like Alex Jones and Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity can, thanks to Fox "News," talk radio, and the Internet, reach millions of folks, they are making us dumber as a society.
As Steve Benen wrote:
…let's not overlook the fact that last week, Beck used his Internet show to push a bogus claim about a Boston suspect, but his arguments quickly drew attention from the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, the chairman of the House subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency, the chairman of the House subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, and the chairwoman of the House subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security — all of whom are Republicans, and all of whom took Beck's nonsense seriously.
There's a strain of madness running through contemporary Republican politics…
Tagged Boston Marathon, Bret Baier, conspiracy theories, glenn beck, Janet Napolitano, rush limbaugh, Saudi Arabia
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/the-u-s-government-bombed-the-boston-marathon-or-just-another-day-in-the-world-of-right-wing-nuttery/
To Hell With The Republican Party
"GOP dying? Good!"
kay. I'm warning all of you who don't like profanity to click away.
On Tuesday I heard yet another segment on television—perhaps the millionth by now— about what Republicans need to do to reform themselves.
Finally, I am here to say: Who gives a damn? Who cares what Republicans need to do to reform themselves? I used to. I used to care. Now I don't. You know why? Because the party is beyond reform, that's why.
As we get some bad economic news today—the economy didn't grow last quarter—just think about why that is. The Republican Party has done its best to sabotage the economic recovery, mostly just because it hates Barack Obama and loves political power.
And think about this: My own senator, Roy Blunt, practically begged for funds for his constituents in Joplin, after a tornado ripped through our town in 2011. But then, when a super storm named Sandy ripped through the northeast, where all those goddamned liberals live, he said to hell with the goddamned liberals. He, and thirty-five other Republicans—most of whom have taken federal funds for disasters in their own states—voted "no" on Sandy relief.
Well, to hell with him, to hell with them, and to hell with the Republican Party.
I don't like the GOP. I hate what it stands for. I want it to die and go away. I don't want to waste time worrying if it can reform itself because those who mean to reform it sometimes sound as ridiculous as those who want it to remain the way it is, or, God forbid, make it worse.
Example: David Brooks is by all accounts one of the most reasonable Republicans on the planet and one who liberals love to cite. But when he can say that there ought to be a "second G.O.P." and that this new G.O.P. would "be filled with people who recoiled at President Obama's second Inaugural Address because of its excessive faith in centralized power," there is no real hope for the party.
Did Brooks even watch that inaugural speech before he wrote that "excessive faith in centralized power" phrase? Are you kidding me? President Obama, in that speech, said this:
Through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society's ills can be cured through government alone. Our celebration of initiative and enterprise, our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, these are constants in our character.
Can David Brooks hear? Can he read? Is he having a love affair with Rush Limbaugh's brain? Brooks said the new reformed group of Republicans would be one that "recoiled" at the "excessive faith in centralized power" that Obama expressed in his speech. Except that Obama expressed no such a thing.
What the President did do was explicitly acknowledge our national "skepticism of central authority" and called government-only solutions a "fiction," and celebrated "initiative and enterprise" and "hard work and personal responsibility," which he called "constants in our character."
Maybe David Brooks thinks only Republicans can seriously use language like that, I don't know. But I do know there is something seriously wrong with a political party when a moderate member, one who gets accolades from Democrats like me for not being a crazy conservative, can grossly mischaracterize a Democratic speech and remain a respected "moderate."
Okay, I admit I could tolerate a party full of David Brooks types, even if they say stupid things like "excessive faith in centralized power" when there was no excessive faith in centralized power.
But I can't tolerate a party that would put a man like Reince Priebus back in charge. Priebus has been reelected as Republican National Committee chairman. He's once again the official spokesman for the party.
Someone explain to me why a political party that supposedly wants to reform itself would put one of its most disgusting leaders of all time back on top. Oh, let me remind you of what this slimy bastard said while the tragedy in Benghazi was still warm:
If there were a God who gave a damn about this world, Reince Priebus would be putting out fires in hell about now. But instead, the creep has been put back in charge of the Republican Party, which may amount to the same job.
Not only is Priebus the leader of the Republicans' War on Decency, he recently was auditioning for a part in the GOP's War on Democracy. He favors Republican-controlled states "looking at" an outrageous scheme to thwart the will of the people by changing the way those states allocate Electoral College votes.
As if the Electoral College isn't stupid enough without the Republican Party devising a way to make a future 47%-of-the-vote-getting presidential candidate the winner. Does anyone think a party that would even contemplate such a thing is redeemable? Huh?
Want more? I finally heard about remarks made last Saturday by newly elected Tea Party Senator Ted Cruz. The remarks were about two of President Obama's picks for cabinet members, Democrat John Kerry—who has three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star and a Bronze Star from his service in Vietnam—and Republican Chuck Hagel—who has two Purple Hearts and flesh-wrapped shrapnel from his time in Vietnam.
Here's how HuffPo reported the remarks Cruz made on Saturday:
"Okay, we've got two pending nominations, John Kerry and Chuck Hagel," he said in responding to a question at the National Review Institute summit in Washington. "Both of whom are very prominently — "
Cruz took a pregnant pause. "Anti-us?" said a moderator.
"Less than ardent fans of the U.S. military," he continued.
Can you believe that? Can you believe a man would first tolerate the moderator's disgusting "anti-us" remark and then say that combat veterans and war heroes were not fans of the military? I can. That's what this goddamned party has come to.
You can Google "Ted Cruz military service" and you will find that the arrogant SOB never served a day in the military, let alone won any medals, as did Kerry and Hagel. Cruz was, however, a champion debater at, uh, Princeton. Good for him, the brave asshole.
Lest you forget, Ted Cruz is one of the bright lights in the Republican Party. Political strategist Mark McKinnon, who like David Brooks gets credit for being a "moderate" Republican, called Cruz, "the Republican Barack Obama."
That, my friends, is from the lips of a moderate Republican. There's no hope for the party, is all one can conclude.
And there is no hope for a party that encourages law enforcement officials, in this case sheriffs, to disobey the law. All over the country these "lawmen" are saying they will not obey any of Obama's executive orders related to guns. Here in Missouri, the Republican-drunk legislature may soon entertain a bill introduced by a gun-slinging legislator,
making it a felony to enforce any executive order or federal law that bans the possession of a semiautomatic firearm, among other provisions.
You tell me if such lawlessness by a political party can be fixed.
Finally, I will end this tirade with more on the gun issue and with what happened to Neil Heslin, whose six-year-old boy was killed at Sandy Hook. Heslin was testifying emotionally during a public hearing in Hartford, Connecticut. He was in favor of doing something positive, like changing our insane gun laws, sort of as a way to memorialize the dead.
Initial reports on Tuesday were that Heslin was "heckled by gun nuts" in the audience. That heckling meme made it all around the country in no time. Then what followed the heckling meme was another meme pushed by right-wingers:
No, a Sandy Hook parent did not get "heckled by gun nuts"
Well, I have seen the video. I watched Neil Heslin's face. I heard his tortured words. I felt his pain. He was obviously still stunned by the death of his little boy. He was understandably full of emotion. He was trying to find something good from the tragedy. He asked a rhetorical question,
Why anybody in this room needs to have one of these assault style weapons or military weapons or high capacity clips?
Greeted with appropriate silence, Heslin then said,
And not one person can answer that question or give me an answer.
At that point, more than one person mouthed out ridiculous statements like "Second Amendment shall not be infringed" and "you will not infringe our rights." Real classy folks.
Now, I don't give a damn what you call this, whether you call it "heckling" or whether you call it something else. What I call it is indecent. And it is the Republican Party that has made the world safe for extremist gun freaks who don't have the decency to respect a still-grieving father in a moment like that.
And it is the Republican Party that not only enables such indecency, but also enables those gun freaks who demand that they have the right to play with military-ish guns and fantasize about how they need those big-ass guns and clips to combat a tyrannical government. The Republican Party makes that possible.
Add all this up and more—I didn't even mention the party's still hot War on Women or that Marco Rubio had to kiss Rush Limbaugh's ass and get his blessing on immigration reform—and, as far as I'm concerned, the once-great party of Lincoln is irredeemable, hopeless. And I don't want to hear any more bullshit about its agonizing efforts to reform itself.
To sort of follow up on my outburst, I present below a stunning "Rewrite" segment from Lawrence O'Donnell's Tuesday evening show. It's about what happened to Neil Heslin:
Tagged David Brooks, Electoral College, glenn beck, Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee, Roy Blunt, rush limbaugh
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/to-hell-with-the-republican-party/
Shyst!
"Let's just call Beck and Limbaugh FreedomWorks' whores and be done with it."
don't know how many of you out there caught the following from Media Matters, but it is just too sweet to ignore:
Former FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey says the conservative outlet that helped launch the Tea Party paid Glenn Beck at least $1 million last year to fundraise for the organization, an arrangement he said provided "too little value" for the money.
"The arrangement was simply FreedomWorks paid Glenn Beck money and Glenn Beck said nice things about FreedomWorks on the air," Armey, the former House majority leader, told Media Matters Friday. "I saw that a million dollars went to Beck this past year, that was the annual expenditure."
Armey, who left the organization this past fall after a dispute over its internal operations, said a similar arrangement was also in place with Rush Limbaugh, but did not know the exact financial details.
I urge you to follow the Media Matters link and read it all. And if anyone out there, and I am talking to conservative lurkers, doubts that much of the conservative movement these days is nothing more than a vehicle for shysters to, well, shyst and enrich themselves, then, as usual, scribble your doubts in the margins of a $100 bill and send them to me.
I will get back to you with more evidence in due time.
Tagged Dick Armey, FreedomWorks, glenn beck, Media Matters for America, rush limbaugh, Tea Party
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/shyst/
"Stupid FEMA Trucks"
By now we have all been reminded, through various statements he has made in the past, how Mitt Romney feels about FEMA and firemen and policemen, about those faces of government that folks in a heap of storm trouble rely on, in this complex society, whether the need is rescue, recovery, or rebuild.
We know all about that in Joplin. More than a dozen federal agencies were on the ground here after our tornado, and in our community of about 50,000 folks, more than 800 FEMA employees were doing their thing here, so much so that people normally a little suspicious of government, like the president of our Chamber of Commerce, said,
FEMA was an absolute champion.
Millions upon millions of dollars from American taxpayers have flowed into this area for all kinds of purposes, from housing to debris removal. President Obama has been here two times, pledging each time to keep government's commitment to partner with private efforts to get Joplin back on its feet.
As we see the horrendous pictures on television of the destruction brought on by a much larger storm than the devastating Joplin tornado, as we see government workers of all kinds on the ground doing what it is they do in the wake of such destruction, we should remind ourselves of how strong is the anti-government spirit that animated Mitt Romney to say "we cannot afford" to do the kinds of things that those government workers, firemen, cops, and, yes, FEMA folks, are now doing all over the Sandy-ravaged Northeast.
Or animated Romney to say, in the context of FEMA and disaster relief:
Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that's even better.
That anti-government spirit is strong, indeed. Last year, the popular conservative, Glenn Beck, announced that he was going to bring ordinary people, including religious leaders, together to, as one report put it,
step up and help the less fortunate by providing goods and services for the poor and for people who are faced with a disaster like Hurricane Katrina or the Joplin, Missouri tornado.
"God forbid if there is a Joplin or Katrina," Beck said. "If we have done our job so well that when the stupid FEMA trucks come rolling down, we say 'Man, turn around, push off,' that's when Man will be free again."
"Stupid FEMA trucks." I wonder how many Glenn Beck, anti-government conservatives in the path of Hurricane Sandy feel that way about FEMA trucks today?
Locally, here where FEMA and the federal government has played such a crucial role in our post-tornado recovery, a local blogger, a man who sometimes writes the in-house editorials for the Joplin Globe , a man who is often a guest Globe columnist, wrote earlier this year:
America was great because of the lack of government controls, by and large. I want to go "back" to that principle and simply allow government to do the minimum needed to prevent anarchy. Otherwise let the "people" sort it all out on their own. I don't care how "complex" society becomes. The Constitution is so basic to any society that it will work fine regardless of new technology.
As for "needs" of people, That has NEVER changed in history. And by and large the Constitution ignores those needs other than defense against foreign "needs".
Give people freedom and they will by and large as a nation do fine.
This writer, again a man with a voice on the Joplin Globe's editorial page, including authoring some of its own editorials, said he wants to go back to a time when there was just enough government to "prevent anarchy." Let people "sort it all out on their own," he said, no matter how "'complex' society becomes."
"Give people freedom," this writer says, and "by and large" they'll do just fine.
By and large. I wonder, as I see folks all over the Northeast in shock at what has happened to them, what has happened to their communities, if they are by and large doing just fine. I wonder if all those storm victims, including conservative ones, want to sort it all out on their own. I wonder if those victims long for a shoestring government just big enough to prevent anarchy.
Yes, I wonder.
Tagged Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, glenn beck, Hurricane Sandy, Joplin, Joplin Globe, Joplin tornado, Mitt Romney
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/stupid-fema-trucks/
Akin Is "Our Guy" Says Ozark Billy
Southwest Missouri congressman Ozark Billy, who recently and stupidly said, "We're not the land of the free anymore," has now thrown his considerable weight—that's not really a metaphor—behind the embattled Todd Akin, according to Politico:
First-term Rep. Billy Long, who represents the conservative southwestern portion of the state, said Akin was the party's candidate, whom he planned to support.
"The people of Missouri voted for him, and he's our guy," Long told POLITICO. "And either you're for Todd Akin and I'm not for Claire McCaskill. … He's been an underdog his whole life, he won a lot of races he wasn't supposed to win, so I think he can win."
Yep, against the stream of establishment sentiment, our own Ozark Billy is making a gallant stand for ignorance and bigotry, but he's not the only local embracing Todd Akin's "gaffe," which, of course was not a gaffe but a rare moment of honesty and clarity.
Jasper County pooh-bah and resident Christian moralist-slash-Glenn Beck fan, John Putnam, said Mittens "needs to rescind" his demand that Akin give up the fight, and he offered this:
I think Reince Priebus and Roy Blunt and all the people need to support the candidate that the folks from Missouri nominated and picked in the primary. I think the GOP party bosses that are trying to drum him out are creating a bigger split in the party than Todd Akin is.
We'll see whether Romney, true to form, or Priebus or Blunt waffles on Akin and accepts the Jasper County Republican's godly counsel, but I have to admit that, for once, I agree with John Putnam. Party bosses—and right now there ain't no bigger boss than Mittens—are creating a "split" in the party between evangelicals, who actually believe the nutty stuff they say, and regular party guys—characters who wouldn't know Jesus if he jolted them with a bolt of overdue lightning—who use those evangelicals to obtain political power.
But my guess is that the evangelicals who are being used will, despite their Akin-induced dissatisfaction with the party honchos, nevertheless come to GOP Jesus and work hard to get their superiors elected, what with that Black Devil, Barack What's-His-Unholy Name, lurking in the electoral shadows.
Meanwhile, the Black Devil's Missouri handmaiden, Claire McCaskill, will likely save her job, despite the fact that the faithful, led by conservative crusader and buffet king Billy Long, will try their best to exorcise her evil self from the United States Senate.
Tagged Billy Long, Claire McCaskill, glenn beck, Roy Blunt, Todd Akin
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/akin-is-our-guy-says-ozark-billy/
Speaking Lies In Love
"That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love…"
hile I was on my daily walk this morning, I thought I would check in on Glenn Beck, who without his Fox gig hasn't been as prominent in the political news—a commentary itself on how Fox legitimates weirdness.
On Beck's radio program was a man named James Robinson, a televangelist who has fallen madly in love with Glenn Beck and who is helping to make Mormonism safe for evangelicals to embrace as part of the Christian brotherhood.
Robinson, who believes progressives want to impose a "secular progressive theocracy" on America, was on Beck's show this morning to express his affection for Glenn and to promote a so-called leadership conference—"Under God: Indivisible"—Robinson is holding in Arlington, Texas, on July 27. (His event precedes by a day one sponsored by Beck, which he laughingly calls: "Restoring Love: Coming Together To Heal A Nation ♥").
I want to quote from a website Robinson set up, which explains the purpose of his conference:
The afternoon session is for pastors, priests, rabbis, and any other concerned citizens who want to join in leading America back to our foundational values of Family, Faith, and Freedom. Topics covered in this session will help teach leaders how to discuss moral concerns and current issues without being partisan. The afternoon session will include an open discussion and will provide critical information to leaders concerning how to make a positive impact on the culture and on national direction.
Let me pull out something that should have caught your eye:
Topics covered in this session will help teach leaders how to discuss moral concerns and current issues without being partisan.
"Without being partisan." What can that mean? Before I comment on that blazing bit of dishonesty, let me cite Proverbs 6: 6-19:
There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
Now, there is only one valid interpretation of what Robinson is up to with this gathering of prominent right-wing Christians and professional fleecers. The evangelist is trying to educate the attendees, whom he calls "leaders," on the art of deception, in terms of talking about fellow-Christian and brother-in-the-Lord Obama and the Democratic Party without using the words "Obama" and "Democrat."
Some of the leaders, having perfected partisan hate-talk, apparently need some remedial training in public-speaking dishonesty, such being necessary to better serve the Lord.
Among those leaders who will be speaking and presumably "learning" how to disguise their Obama-hate as constructive, non-partisan criticism is Father Jonathan Morris, a regular contributor to Fox "News" with the awesome responsibility of obliquely blessing the network's nattering nastiness toward Obama. Morris recently said of the Administration's attempt to ensure women have access to contraception through their health insurance:
Any national media outlet that fails to report the obvious raping of our First Amendment rights by this Health and Human Service mandate, is trumpeting either woeful incompetence or shameless bias.
Obviously, Robinson has some work to do on Morris. Likewise with another speaker he has invited, Ralph Reed. In case you don't know, Reed, who loves Jesus almost as much as he loves money and the Republican Party, was the head of the Christian Coalition throughout much of the 1990s, when the group went after Bill Clinton with a vengeance normally reserved for the Almighty (oh, that's in Romans 12:19).
So obviously partisan was the Christian Coalition that The Washington Post began a story on it this way:
The IRS has rejected the Christian Coalition's 10-year struggle to win tax-exempt status, dealing a major setback to a mainstay of the Republican Party and to the political-business empire that turned broadcaster Pat Robertson into a power broker of the religious right.
Morris and Reed are just a few of the speakers—including Glenn Beck himself—who might find it difficult to learn how to bash Obama and the Democrats without sounding partisan, but come to think of it, when you make a living shaking down religious folks with sophistry and fear, learning how to do so without sounding like the partisan hack you are will probably come easy.
As for Beck, if you visit his website today, you will find just why he needs Robinson's reorientation session, as he promotes the event right next to a story on Obama, complete with skull and crossbones:
Tagged glenn beck, James Robinson, Jonathan Morris, Restoring Love: Coming Together To Heal A Nation, Under God: Indivisible
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/speaking-lies-in-love/


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Carsten Wünsch (* 1972 in Dresden) ist ein deutscher Kommunikationswissenschaftler.

An der Technischen Universität Dresden studierte Wünsch ab 1992 Kommunikationswissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft, Philosophie und Wirtschaftswissenschaft. Nach seinem Abschluss 2000 als Magister arbeitete er als wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft an der TU Dresden und am Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft der Universität Leipzig.

Mit einer Dissertation zum Thema "Unterhaltungserleben: Ein hierarchisches Zwei-Ebenen-Modell affektiv-kognitiver Informationsverarbeitung" wurde Wünsch 2005 summa cum laude promoviert.

2009 hatte er eine Vertretungsprofessur an der Universität Augsburg; 2010 wurde er Juniorprofessor an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. 2013 folgte er dem Ruf an die Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.

Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind empirische und theoretische Rezeptions- und Wirkungsforschung.

Hochschullehrer (Bamberg)
Deutscher
Geboren 1972
Mann
Kommunikationswissenschaftler

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The duet of Diana Rikasari and Dinda Puspitasari is back with the third volume of #88LOVELIFE: Priorities. The previous two volumes of the book made huge successes both nationally and internationally. More than 100,000 copies of the two books have been sold.
The books have also been promoted in many international book fairs, including Frankfurt International Book Fair 2015, London Book Fair 2015, Putrajaya International Book Fair 2016 in Malaysia, and Tokyo Art Book Fair 2016. Moreover, #88LOVELIFE was awarded as the Best Non-Fiction Book of 2015 by MPH bookstore in Malaysia, and it has been translated into Vietnamese to satisfy the request from the readers in Vietnam.
Diana admitted that when she and Dinda made the first book, they never planned to make the second book and let alone make it into a trilogy. "It was spontaneous. I thought it would be cute to write a quote book because I've always liked to write quotes," said Diana. And with the help of Dinda, a book containing 88 relatable quotes with eye-catching illustrations was made and became a mega best-seller.
The production process of the book itself was relatively fast. In the beginning, Diana and Dinda agreed that they didn't want to rush the process due to many things that were going on in their life at the time. "Dinda was getting married and I just found out that I'm pregnant, so we decided to take it slow." But it turned out that the process was much faster than they expected. The absence of deadline turned out to create Diana's good mood to write and finished earlier than expected. Meanwhile, Dinda has her own reason to speed up the process. "She was getting married so she wanted to finish all her work before the wedding day," said Diana. In the end, Dinda only spent three weeks to finish the illustration, which was only 2 days before her wedding day.
For the illustration, Dinda said the third book was quite challenging for her because she doesn't want it to be similar to the previous two volumes. Moreover, both Dinda and Diana want the book to be more mature. Dinda used their trip to Japan and their experience of visually exploring Japanese design as her inspiration in working on the illustration for the book. As for the cover, the girls decided to choose marbling color pattern as it gives a more mature look and they both just love it.
With the huge success of the other two books, people have a quite high expectation for this volume. In fact, even before the book was officially launched in Jakarta, POP, imprint Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia as the publisher announced that it's already going through its second printing as there's a demand in a quite large number from another country.
#88LOVELIFE – Vol. 03: Priorities is now available in Gramedia bookstore and it will also be available in MPH bookstore, Malaysia later this month.
02. For Design Enthusiast; The Apartment Rising Stars Edition!


Added by Tom Kersten at 2011-05-20 10:36 pm. Updated at 2011-05-27 05:41 pm.
Removing the explicit render :action => 'show' in WikiController#show will not effect existing functionality but will allow sub-classes of the controller to handle various render formats using a respond_to block. An example of what this will allow is for a gem to add support for additional formats (such as PDF) for a wiki page without affecting existing routes.
Is this ready? I heard you and Holger chatting about it and wasn't sure if this is the final result.
As far as I know, it is ready to go. I have applied the patch locally and in our production site with no impact. I believe the only task remaining was to create this ticket so any necessary future discussions could use it as a reference.
Thanks. We might be able to include it into 2.0.0.
Cool. Let me know if there is anything you'd like to see me do on my end to make it easier on yours.
Let me know if there is anything you'd like to see me do on my end to make it easier on yours.
Only thing I saw was that if you prefix the commit log with an issue, it helps us associate the commit to the issue. I added some examples to Git Standards.
Added to unstable in ce8bb652c6e7. Thanks for the patch and let us know if you come across any other refactorings.
Got it. Will do...and thanks for merging it in!


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Deeper women's peloton breaks Boels-Dolmans dominance
Despite a WorldTour win drought, Boels-Dolmans riders confident in team strength and happy to see the peloton grow deeper and more competitive.
NAZARETH, Belgium (VN) — A quick glance at the 2019 UCI Women's WorldTour results reveals a new storyline from the season's first five races. German squad WNT-Rotor owns two victories, while CCC Team, Team Virtu Cycling, and Mitchelton-Scott have one win each.
Noticeably absent from the winners list is the most dominant women's team in recent memory: Boels-Dolmans.
Last season, Boels won two of the first five Women's WorldTour races. In 2016 Boels swept all five.
Team director Danny Stam told VeloNews that there is a simple explanation for the change. New teams have stepped up, and rival riders have improved. In fact, the entire women's peloton is more competitive than ever, Stam said.
"There are more good riders and they are spread out, which makes the level higher," Stam said. "It's good that it's not only Boels-Dolmans that is dominating. Cycling needs a platform that everyone finds interesting, and [in] the last five races we have had interesting racing."
Indeed, all five Women's WorldTour races have produced dramatic action and quite different results. Annemiek van Vleuten (Mitchelton-Scott) won Strade-Bianche by powering away from her foes on the final gravel section and then holding off a disorganized chase. Marta Bastianelli won a tactical Ronde van Drenthe — Bastianelli worked with Chantal Blaak (Boels-Dolmans) to reel in a surging Ellen Van Dijk (Trek-Segafredo) in the closing kilometers, and then took the sprint.
At Trofeo Alfredo Binda, Marianne Vos (CCC Team) won a thrilling bunch sprint. Then, Dutch sprinter Kristin Wild won bunch sprints at Driedaagse Brugge-De Panne and Gent-Wevelgem. At the latter race, the final kilometers saw multiple attacks into a headwind as the group sped to the finish line in Wevelgem.
At the finish line in Wevelgem, other pro riders commented on the new dynamic within the women's peloton. Boels is not winning. In fact, the Dutch squad no longer controls the dynamics of the peloton.
"Two years ago you could say that Boels had complete control over the peloton," said Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM). "There are so many strong teams now. I can think of five or eight teams that can win."
In years past, Niewiadoma said, Boels often placed its riders on the front of the peloton, ramped up the pace, and split up the group at crucial moments in the race. This year, multiple teams are able to perform these racing tactics, including new women's squad Trek-Segafredo.
"It feels like everyone is stronger so it's much harder to drop them now," Niewiadoma said.
Niewiadoma pointed to Boels-Dolmans's own roster changes as a potential reason for the shift in the peloton. In 2018, the team's British star Lizzie Deignan inked a deal with Trek-Segafredo during a maternity leave from the sport. Deignan claimed three of Boels's five early-season victories in 2016.
Olympic champion Anna van der Breggen has also been absent from some of the early-season races. Van der Breggen skipped De Panne and Gent-Wevelgem to race South Africa's Absa Cape Epic mountain bike race, which she won.
Van der Breggen will also skip Sunday's Tour of Flanders, a race she won in 2018.
The team is not worried about its dearth of WorldTour wins, Stam said. He pointed to Boels's victories at two lower-tier races in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (UCI 1.1) and Le Samyn des Dames (UCI 1.2) as a sign that the squad is just as talented as in years past. Plus, new rider Annika Langvad finished second at Strade Bianche and Chantal Blaak was second at the Ronde Van Drenthe. Sometimes the difference between victory and second place is simply luck.
"The people from outside make it more of an issue because, it's like, you don't win so much races," Stam said. "But I'm pretty happy. And it's a sign of developing women's cycling"
Indeed, when VeloNews visited the team's hotel in the days before the Tour of Flanders, riders seemed cheerful and laid-back. Sure, the team has not won a WorldTour race yet. But the cobblestone races have never been Boels-Dolmans's forté. The team still expects to dominate at the upcoming Amstel Gold Race, La Fleché Wallonne, and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
Boels swept the Ardennes races in 2017 and 2018.
"I think we are still very strong even if we don't show it yet with the wins. I'm proud of how we have raced," said Amy Pieters. "The season is so long, and I think it's too soon to say it's not good for us."
Blaak, who will lead Boels at Sunday's Tour of Flanders, echoed Pieters's sentiments. Boels still has the firepower to steer the dynamics of races at crucial moments, she said. That fact alone should vault its riders into the winning moves.
And, the parity within the women's bunch is a good thing, even if it has come at the expense of Boels-Dolmans.
"We are not so dominant in the moment but we still are super-strong and we still race in the same way," Blaak said. "I think women's cycling is developing and [is] becoming more professional. It's no longer five riders you need to look for, it's 20. It's a good sign."
Anna van der Breggen eyes Olympic repeat: 'I'm still motivated for it"
Boels-Dolmans targets long-term backer as sponsorship hunt begins


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2 The Digital Economy Bill provides an opportunity to ensure that principles of remuneration for authors reflect technological change. We would like to see an amendment made to the Bill to ensure that ebooks are fully considered in remuneration for lending.
3 We are calling for the Digital Economy Bill to be amended to extend Public Lending Right (PLR) to remote offsite ebook lending.
3.1 PLR was designed to balance the social need for free public access to books against an author's right to be remunerated for the use of their work. The scheme provides authors with a modest payment (around 7p) each time one of their books (written or audio) is borrowed from a public library. Over 22,000 writers, illustrators, photographers, translators and editors receive PLR payments each year under the Public Lending Right Act 1979 and subsequent amendments. There is a minimum payment threshold of £1 and a maximum of £6,600. Although this does not replace the royalties authors would receive if the books had been purchased by each borrower, PLR provides a significant and much-valued part of many authors' incomes, particularly to authors whose books are sold mainly to libraries and to those whose books are no longer in print but are still being read.
3.2 The way we access books is increasingly changing as technology offers new ways to access written works. Libraries are now lending many ebooks:-2.3 million ebook loans were made in the last year alone but authors are not being remunerated for those loans.
3.4 While the Digital Economy Act 2010's extension of PLR to audio-books was a useful and overdue reform, the extension to on-site loans of ebooks was inconsequential as no such loans are made. By contrast, remote e-book lending has increased significantly and is increasing much faster than physical lending.
4 We propose amending the Digital Economy Act 2010 to ensure remuneration is received by writers for remote e-lending at the same rate per loan as for physical books. We believe it is vital that authors receive remuneration for loans of their works irrespective of format, the principle of remuneration that enables authors to work should not be unfairly obstructed by technical and technological change.
4.1 An amendment to the Digital Economy Bill 2016 which would enable PLR for remote e-lending should be considered. This could be achieved very simply by taking measures to amend the Digital Economy Act 2010, omitting the second paragraph (b) under section 43(2) of the Digital Economy Act 2010, which set remote loans outside of the definition of lending under PLR.
4.2 The cost of this measure would be negligible (to pay for 2.3 million loans would cost under £200,000) but the principle is extremely important as was recognised by the Government in March 2013 Department for Culture, Media and Sport statement: Government Response to the Independent Review of E-Lending in Public Libraries in England.


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Q: webpack file-loader does not load background image I've been having this problem for a while and I see that other people have it too, but even though I have the same code as them it is still not working and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
I'm working with react, webpack, babel and scss for a project. At first I create a main component which has a background image tha loaded without problems, but when I added a carousel component I had an error that said that I needed a loader for the images to appear (html images, not bakground). So I looked it up  on the internet and  two loaders appeared: url-loader and file-loader, I installed both and added one in my webpack config file as it was said in the documentation. The images loaded, but the background image of the main component didn't, and not only that, all the styles for the background didn't apply either.
This is my webpack config file, I tried putting both loaders, then only one, then the other, but none of them worked. I tried every solution tha came across stackoverflow but the code isn't working and there is no errors in my terminal.
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I added absolute paht but it's still not working. The image gets fetched because I'd get an error if it isn't so I don't think this is a path issue.
I updated the webpack config file
const HtmlWebPackPlugin = require("html-webpack-plugin");
const path = require("path");
const htmlPlugin = new HtmlWebPackPlugin({
 template: "./src/index.html",
 filename: "./index.html"
});

module.exports = {
mode: "development",
resolve: {
  alias: {
    Assets: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src/assets/')
  }
},
  module: {
    rules: [{
   test: /\.js$/,
   exclude: /node_modules/,
   use: {
     loader: "babel-loader"
   }
 },
  {
   test: /\.s?css$/,
   use: ["style-loader", "css-loader", "sass-loader"]
  },
  {
    test: /\.(png|jpg|gif)$/i,
    use: [
      {
        loader: 'url-loader',
        options: {
          limit: 10000,
          esModule: false
        },
      },
    ]
  }
]},
 plugins: [htmlPlugin],
 devServer:{
   historyApiFallback : true
 }
}

And this is my main component and its scss file (where the bakground image lies)
React component
import React from "react";
import { NavBar } from "../components/NavBar";
import CarouselComponent from "../components/Carousel";

export const MainPage = () => {
    return (

        <NavBar />

Find a new musical to watch!

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            <CarouselComponent />

    )
}

Scss component
body{
    padding: 56px 50px 0 50px;
    background-color: $color-background;
}

.main{
    font-family: $primary-title-font;
    height: 90%;
    background: url(Assets/main_background.jpg) no-repeat center center;
    -webkit-background-size: cover;
    -moz-background-size: cover;
    -o-background-size: cover;
    background-size: cover;

    h1{
        background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(1,50,1,1) 5%, rgba(70,82,25,1) 51%, rgba(78,82,29,1) 87%);
        background-size: 100%;
        background-clip: text;
        -webkit-background-clip: text;
        -moz-background-clip: text;
        -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
        -moz-text-fill-color: transparent;
        position: absolute;
        top: 15rem;
        left: 5rem;
        font-size: 5rem;

    }

    &__btn{
        position: absolute;
        top: 350px;
        left: 459px;
        border-radius: 10% / 20%;
        padding: 1rem;
        text-decoration: none;
        color: $primary-black-color;
        background: $golden-button;
        font-size: 1.5rem;

        &:hover{
            color: $primary-black-color;
        }

        &:active{
            transform: translateY(2px);
        }
    }
}

And this is the carousel component with its scss
React component
import React, { Component } from "react";
import "react-responsive-carousel/lib/styles/carousel.min.css";
import { Carousel } from 'react-responsive-carousel';
import hamilton from "../assets/hamilton.jpg";
import six from "../assets/six_the_musical.jpg";
import hadestown from "../assets/hadestown.jpg";
import theGuy from "../assets/the_guy_who_didnt_like_musicals.png";

class CarouselComponent extends Component {
    render (){
        return (
            <Carousel autoPlay = {true} infiniteLoop={true} interval={4000} showStatus={false} useKeyboardArrows={true} showThumbs={false}>

            </Carousel>
        )
    }
}

export default CarouselComponent;

Scss component
.carousel__box{
    height: 9rem;

    img{
        min-width: 100%;
        min-height: 100%;
    }
}

I'll also add my folder structure in case it's necessary
/project
  /dist
  /node_modules
  /src
    /assets
       (all the images are stored here)
    /components
       card.js
       cardBlock.js
       carousel.js
       navbar.js
    /pages
       main.js
       musicals.js
       notFound.js
    /sass
       (all scss are stored here, there is a styles.scss that imports the rest of files and it's
       called in index.js)
    index.html
    index.js (imports all react component an renders them in index.html)
    .babelrc
    packaje.json
    packaje-lock.json
    webpack.config.js

////// NEW EDIT
I found that if you put esModule: false inside the url-loader options the image gets loaded.

A: This is what worked for me https://webpack.js.org/guides/asset-management/. You need to have css-loader already set. This is not using file-loader or url-loader, so beware of the implications, but it's a simple solution recommended by Webpack. I removed the settings for the file-loader and updated with:
{
  test: /\.(png|svg|jpg|jpeg|gif)$/i,
  type: 'asset/resource',
},

The explanation is this:

When using the css-loader, as shown above, a similar process will occur for url('./my-image.png') within your CSS. The loader will recognize this is a local file, and replace the './my-image.png'

This worked perfectly for me, so hope it helps.

A: if you have webpack 5 then don't install (file-loader, url-loader, raw-loader) they come with 5. Everything will work, just include the image in the css file as you would without webpack.
https://webpack.js.org/guides/asset-modules/

A: Adding esModule: false inside the url-loader options the image helped me, though I'm not sure why, if someone has the same issue you should try this trick.


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Die Geneva Open 2012 waren ein Tennisturnier, das vom 29. Oktober bis 4. November 2012 in Genf stattfand. Es war Teil der ATP Challenger Tour 2012 und wurde in der Halle auf Hartplatz ausgetragen.

Das Teilnehmerfeld der Einzelkonkurrenz bestand aus 32 Spielern, jenes der Doppelkonkurrenz aus 16 Paaren.

Einzel

Setzliste

Ergebnisse

Doppel

Setzliste

Ergebnisse

Weblinks
  der Geneva Open
 Turnierplan Einzel auf der ATP-Website (PDF; 141 kB)
 Turnierplan Doppel auf der ATP-Website (PDF; 144 kB)
 Turnierplan Einzel-Qualifikation auf der ATP-Website (PDF; 139 kB)

ATP Challenger Tour 2012
Tennisturnier in Genf


A bedevilled adolescent defacer who capital to alpha a new activity afflicted his name and got himself a new passport.
Christopher Griffiths, ahead accustomed as Christopher Davies, got a new accomplice and they went on anniversary away together.
But the 43-year-old was confined at Mold Crown Cloister bygone black (October 5) afterwards he accustomed seven counts of breaching the requirements of the blackmailer register.
Jailing him for eight months, Judge Rhys Rowlands said he accustomed it had not been done with a appearance to committing any new offences, but because of his admiration to alpha a new life.
However it was austere because he was on the offenders annals for life.
Griffiths, of Vaughan Way in Connah's Quay, was confined for nine years at Caernarfon Crown Cloister aback in January 2007 for the abduction of a adolescent and authoritative a apocryphal account to access a passport.
He had been appear in August 2011 back his obligations as a blackmailer were explained to him, said prosecuting advocate Richard Edwards.
But badge apparent he had travelled to Egypt afterwards advice them.
An ysis showed that amid June of aftermost year and July of this year he had afflicted his name, acquired a authorization in the new name, had additionally travelled to Dubai and Mauritius, bootless to annals a new address, and had acquired a coffer agenda and a acclaim agenda afterwards registering them with the police.
He was arrested in August and accustomed what he had done.
Alex Leach, defending, said the acquittal account had adjourned him as a low accident of re-offending.
He had been aboveboard and afterwards a abiding aeon of acknowledging with the annals he formed a few accord with a woman who was in cloister acknowledging him.
She was an accomplished woman, able-bodied acquainted of the dangers associated with men with his pastd.
He said she did not apperceive about his accomplishments at aboriginal but she connected to angle by him.
Mr Leach said none of the aggravating appearance commonly associated with such behind activated in his client's case.
"His conduct arose out of his admiration to anatomy a new activity rather than a admiration to accomplish beginning offences," he said.
Judge Rowlands told Griffiths he had again bootless to acquaint the authorities of changes in his life.
The actor had appear some but had been selective.
"I acquire your action was the admiration to move on and actualize a new activity for yourself," Judge Rowlands told him.
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For the first time in forever the theatrical take on a modern classic, Disney's FROZEN JR is set to be performed right here in the Shenandoah Valley! FROZEN JR. is based on the 2018 Broadway musical and brings Elsa, Anna, and the magical land of Arendelle to life, onstage. The song features all the songs you know and love from the animated film, with music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, plus five new songs written for the Broadway production.
A whimsical story of true love and acceptance between sisters, FROZEN JR expands upon the emotional journey between princesses, Anna and Elsa. When faced with danger, the two discover their hidden potential and the powerful bond of sisterhood. With a cast of beloved characters and loaded with magic, adventure and plenty of humor, FROZEN JR is sure to thaw even the coldest heart.
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The Gift of Discomfort | Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life!
We tend to seek comfort and avoid discomfort. Comfort is soothing, easy, peaceful. Comfort is, well, comfortable. But if we explore it more deeply, might discomfort be getting an undeserved, universal bad rap?
Work with me for a moment. Think about the times during your life that you have been comfortable. Comfort with your job. Comfort in your relationships. Comfort with your home. I'll bet a sense of peace comes to mind. But if you dig more deeply, perhaps also a feeling of boredom and complacency?
I propose that being too comfortable too much of the time can become a detriment. When we are too comfortable and confident we can become stale and lose motivation. We are not as aware of nuances and opportunities around us. This kind of complacency can happen to people, companies, communities and nations. When we lose our constructive energy and Curiosity, we lose our edge, risk stagnation and stop contributing to the Highest Good.
Now let's look at the places in your life where you encountered your most significant growth. These are generally places when you were outside your comfort zone. Often they were times when you did not feel like you were in control of the outcome. From divorce, and job layoff, to poor health and bankruptcy. These experiences were probably quite uncomfortable. They required creativity, courage and persistence. You had to take calculated risks and have faith.
Looking back on such times, many people report discovering or developing skills they wouldn't have believed were possible. When the tough time had passed, they found they had grown, learning lessons about themselves and the world, more quickly and deeply than anything they learned during the more comfortable times. And, even more interesting, they enlarged their comfort zone. While they still might not choose voluntarily a divorce or job loss, they are able to see that everything truly is an opportunity. Each time we step outside our comfort zone by being offered an opportunity for greater growth and learning, we enlarge our world by gaining a much broader perspective. The loss we feared becomes a treasured gift.
When an oyster encounters the inevitable sand in its shell, it doesn't whine, complain and give up. It doesn't just recede into its shell to wait it out. It decides to lean into the irritation and create something of exquisite beauty and value. It creates a pearl. I encourage you to stretch yourself. Take some steps outside your comfort zone and embrace the strength and growth it fosters. Make your own strand of pearls, one Baby Step at a time. You're worth the effort.


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Paul Heggen Bio, Age, Height, Wife, Salary, Net Worth KPIX
Paul Heggen
Paul Heggen Biography
Paul Heggen works at KPIX, CBS, in San Francisco/Bay Area as a chief meteorologist. Prior to this, he worked at WNCN and WSMV as a morning meteorologist. Also, Heggen worked at KBJR and KBMT as a chief meteorologist.
Paul Heggen Age
Heggen was born on 22 March 1965 in St. Paul, Minnesota, the United States. He is 56 years old as of 2021.
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Heggen has not shared out details on his exact height in the limelight
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Heggen has not shared information on his exact weight with the public.
Paul Heggen Family
Heggen has managed to keep details on his parents and siblings away from the limelight.
Paul Heggen Education
Heggen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in geography from the University of Denver. Then he received a Master's Degree in Meteorology from Texas A & M University in 2000.
Paul Heggen Wife
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Heggen has kept information on whether he has kids or not private.
Paul Heggen Salary
Heggen annually receives a salary ranging between $62,441 – $102,692, according to KPIX meteorologists' salaries.
Paul Heggen Net Worth
Heggen has an estimated Net Worth ranging between $1 Million – $5 Million.
Paul Heggen Career
Heggen works at KPIX, CBS, in San Francisco/Bay Area as a chief meteorologist. He worked at WNCN and WSMV as a morning meteorologist before. However, Heggen worked at KBJR and KBMT as a chief meteorologist. He also worked as a meteorologist for Newport Television.
Also, he worked at West Virginia Media Holdings as a meteorologist, and also at both KBJR and KBMT TV as their chief meteorologist. Heggen has won six Emmy Awards and multiple "Best Weathercast" and "Best Weather Anchor" awards for his notable work.
Also, he got titled "Weathercaster of the Year" by the Radio, Television, and Digital News Association of the Carolinas. Into the bargain, Heggen received the American Meteorological Society's seal of approval, later he advanced the AMS's seal of approval to the AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist seal.
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