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Senate Dems wary of DeVos' possible conflict of interest
GOP supporters praised her as a change agent
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Melissa Nann Burke, Detroit News Washington Bureau Published 12:24 p.m. ET Jan. 17, 2017 | Updated 8:10 a.m. ET Jan. 18, 2017
Betsy DeVos confirmation hearing
Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the next secretary of education, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017 in Washington, D.C. DeVos is known for her advocacy of school choice and education voucher programs and was a longtime leader of the Republican Party in Michigan. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos looks to former Sen. Joe Lieberman before testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Carolyn Kaster, AP
Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos arrives with former Sen. Joe Lieberman, right, before testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Carolyn Kaster, AP
Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos talks to Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., before testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Scott was to introduce her to the committee. Carolyn Kaster, AP
Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Carolyn Kaster, AP
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, right, looks to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, as he questions Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos, center, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Carolyn Kaster, AP
Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the next secretary of education, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill Jan. 17, 2017 in Washington, D.C. DeVos is known for her advocacy of school choice and education voucher programs and was a longtime leader of the Republican Party in Michigan. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the next secretary of education, greets Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander before her confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Jan. 17, 2017 in Washington, D.C. DeVos is known for her advocacy of school choice and education voucher programs and was a longtime leader of the Republican Party in Michigan. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the next secretary of education, prepares to testify during her confirmation hearing with former Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut, before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, Jan. 17, 2017 in Washington, D.C. DeVos is known for her advocacy of school choice and education voucher programs and was a longtime leader of the Republican Party in Michigan. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee members, from left, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colorado, request a second round of questions during the confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the next secretary of education, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Jan. 17, 2017 in Washington, D.C. DeVos is known for her advocacy of school choice and education voucher programs, and was a longtime leader of the Republican Party in Michigan. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee member Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, questions Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the next secretary of education, during her confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, Jan. 17, 2017 in Washington, D.C. DeVos is known for her advocacy of school choice and education voucher programs, and was a longtime leader of the Republican Party in Michigan. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the next secretary of education, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Jan. 17, 2017 in Washington, D.C. DeVos is known for her advocacy of school choice and education voucher programs, and was a longtime leader of the Republican Party in Michigan. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, and Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, talk during Betsy DeVos' confirmation hearing for secretary of education before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill on Jan. 17, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Brendan Smialowski, Getty Images
Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the next secretary of education, testifies at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Jan. 17, 2017 in Washington, D.C. DeVos is known for her advocacy of school choice and education voucher programs, and was a longtime leader of the Republican Party in Michigan. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee member Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, questions Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the next secretary of education, during her confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Jan. 17, 2017 in Washington, D.C. DeVos is known for her advocacy of school choice and education voucher programs, and was a longtime leader of the Republican Party in Michigan. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Billionaire businessman Dick DeVos attends the confirmation hearing for his wife, Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the next secretary of education, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, Jan. 17, 2017 in Washington, D.C. DeVos is known for her advocacy of school choice and education voucher programs, and was a longtime leader of the Republican Party in Michigan. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Committee members listen to Betsy DeVos during her confirmation hearing for secretary of education before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill on Jan. 17, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Brendan Smialowski, Getty Images
Betsy DeVos speaks during her confirmation hearing for Secretary of Education before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Tuesday.(Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP/Getty Images)
Washington — Supporters praised education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos of west Michigan as a change agent on Tuesday, but Democrats remained wary of her lack of experience as an educator and the potential conflicts of interest posed by her extensive investments and financial holdings.
At a hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, said he believes DeVos' views are in the mainstream of public opinion, and that her critics' are not.
"Betsy DeVos is on our children's side. She has dedicated her life to helping children, especially low-income children, have the opportunity to attend a good school," Alexander said.
But Sen. Patty Murray, the committee's ranking Democrat from Washington state, questioned whether DeVos' wealth would pose problems for the administration of President-elect Donald Trump.
"As a billionaire with hundreds, if not thousands, of investments made through complex financial instruments — many of which are made in ways that are not transparent and hard to track — you need to make it very clear how you will be avoiding conflicts of interest should you be confirmed," said Murray, a former preschool teacher and school board member.
"That goes for your investments, as well as the massive web of investments made by your immediate family."
Murray was disappointed the committee was holding the hearing before the Office of Government Ethics completed its review of DeVos' financial holdings and potential conflicts of interest. Murray also criticized DeVos for declining to provide three years of tax returns, as requested by the committee.
DeVos sought to assure the senators that anything deemed a conflict of interest would be divested. She and her husband, Dick, would also discontinue their political contributions if she is confirmed by the Senate to lead the U.S. Department of Education.
"Where conflicts are identified, they will be resolved. I will not be conflicted," DeVos said.
Support from Republicans
The 59-year-old school choice advocate also said her family's investments in a student loan financing company and a chain of for-profit online charter schools are in the process of being divested. She added that she would only accept $1 as her salary.
Murray also raised concerns about DeVos spending her time and fortune fighting to "privatize" public education and gut investments in public schools, referring to DeVos' support for charter schools and taxpayer-funded vouchers that parents of students may use at private schools.
Alexander countered by arguing that DeVos deserves credit, not criticism, for using her fortune to support her ideas.
"Would her critics be happier if she had spent her time and her money trying to deny children from low-income families the choices of schools that wealthy families have instead of trying to help them?" said Alexander, a former education secretary for President George H.W. Bush.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, noted that while she and DeVos don't agree on all issues, she has no doubts that DeVos "cares deeply" about educating all kids.
"Any suggestion made that your nomination is linked to your political donations is really unfair and unwarranted," Collins said, referring to remarks by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the former Democratic presidential candidate.
In her testimony, DeVos pledged that she'd be a "strong advocate for great public schools," while supporting parents' right to seek alternative education options for their children.
DeVos explained her choice philosophy — that there's no one-size-fits-all model of learning, and that parents embrace options such as charter and magnet schools, as well as religious, virtual and home schooling.
"Too many parents are denied access to the full range of options … choices that many of us here in this room have exercised for our own children," said DeVos, who herself attended and sent her own children to private schools in Michigan.
"Why, in 2017, are we still questioning parents' ability to exercise educational choice for their children?"
DeVos acknowledged that most U.S. students will continue to attend public schools, and insisted she is not seeking to undermine or erode them.
"But if a school is troubled, or unsafe, or not a good fit for a child — perhaps they have a special need that is going unmet — we should support a parent's right to enroll their child in a high quality alternative," DeVos said. "It's really pretty simple."
She pushed back against the suggestion by Sen. Michael Bennett, D-Colorado, that failing Detroit charter schools are protected from scrutiny, and that charter transparency and oversight are lacking in Michigan.
"I believe a lot has gone right in Detroit and Michigan," DeVos said, noting that 122 charter schools have closed in Michigan since 1994. "The notion that there's no accountability is ... false news."
DeVos, who grew up in Holland, said her greatest educational influence was a public school teacher named Elsa Prince — her mother.
The former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party also said that, if confirmed, she would work with Congress to ensure the bipartisan 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act will be implemented as lawmakers intended. She vowed to eliminate "burdensome" federal regulations, returning more control to states and school boards.
She pledged to work with Congress and stakeholders to reauthorize the Higher Education Act. DeVos called for action on escalating debt that can take decades for some graduates to pay off.
Dems go on offensive
Sanders pressed DeVos on whether public colleges and universities should be tuition-free, which he proposed in his presidential campaign.
"Senator, I think that's a really interesting idea," DeVos replied. "We have to consider the fact that nothing in life is free, and somebody's going to pay for it."
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, brought up the $25 million that Trump agreed last month to pay to resolve lawsuits over his Trump University real estate seminars.
Warren asked DeVos to commit to enforcing rules to ensure no for-profit colleges receive federal funds unless they are preparing their students for gainful employment and "not cheating."
"I will commit to ensuring that institutions which receive federal funds are actually serving their students well," DeVos said, adding that she would review the "gainful employment" rule for effectiveness.
"I do not understand how you cannot be sure about enforcing" existing rules, Warren said. "Swindlers and crooks out there are doing back flips when they hear an answer like this. If confirmed, you will be the top cop on the beat."
School-gun issue raised
Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, asked DeVos if she thinks guns have a place in and around schools. DeVos said she thinks that's a matter best left to states and locales to decide.
"You can't say definitively today that guns shouldn't be in schools?" Murphy said.
DeVos referred to an earlier exchange with Republican Sen. Mike Enzi about a school in Wyoming.
"I would imagine there's probably a gun in that school to protect against potential grizzlies," DeVos said.
"If Trump moves forward to his plan to ban gun-free school zones, will you support that proposal?" said Murphy, who represents a state where 20 school children and six adults in Newton were shot dead by a 20-year-old gunman in December 2012.
"I will support what the president does," DeVos said. "If the question is around gun violence and the results of that, senator, please know my heart bleeds and is broken for those families who have lost any individual to gun violence."
DeVos' family, including her sons and daughters, sat behind her during the hearing on Capitol Hill, where she was introduced by Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, a member of the committee, and former Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, an independent. Her husband, Dick , who unsuccessfully ran for Michigan governor in 2006, also was there.
Some spectators hoping to watch DeVos' hearing had to filter into an overflow room across the hall. Four young women who did secure seats in the main hearing room wore orange #DearBetsy T-shirts from groups representing sexual assault victims.
Last week, they were among those on Twitter who launched a hash-tag campaign calling on DeVos to ensure robust enforcement of Title IX at the U.S. Department of Education.
DeVos said sexual assault at "anytime, any place" is a problem, but she demurred when Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pennsylvania, asked if DeVos would commit to upholding a 2011 guidance from the Department of Education urging campuses to better investigate and adjudicate allegations of sexual assault.
"It would be premature for me to do that today," DeVos said.
Regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, she said she embraces equality and believes "every student should have the assurance of a safe and discrimination-free" educational environment.
She suggested senators who asked about DeVos donations to anti-LGBT groups were mistaking donations made by her family members and donations from 15 to 20 years ago.
Democrats complained that committee members were only allowed one round of questions, five minutes each, and they repeatedly asked Alexander to permit more questions. Alexander said he was following the process used for education nominees of Democratic President Barack Obama.
The committee will vote on DeVos' nomination Jan. 24 if her ethics office agreement is complete by Friday, Alexander said. If approved, her nomination would proceed to the full Senate for a vote.
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Home News Martha's Vineyard Public Broadcasting Station appears built on thin air
Martha's Vineyard Public Broadcasting Station appears built on thin air
Barry Stringfellow
The rainbow-emblazoned MVPBS van and white dog are often present at Island events.
Daniel J. Adams of Vineyard Haven drives a colorful rainbow-striped van emblazoned with "Martha's Vineyard Public Broadcasting Station" (MVPBS) on the side, and an image of "the White Dog," his company logo. Some days, Mr. Adams, MVPBS president, can be seen walking along the sidewalks of Vineyard Haven, his dog and mascot by his side.
On his company website, Mr. Adams purports it is "The World's #1 source for Island news in the arts, culture, entertainment, and education."
Although MVPBS claims to be a nonprofit organization, accredited by the Better Business Bureau (BBB), with an FM radio station "coming soon," The Times was unable to verify any of those claims.
Several people familiar with Mr. Adams through their business dealings described a pattern of inconsistencies, misrepresentations, and advertising purchased but not delivered.
Dubious claims
Even to a casual observer, the immediate assumption is that Mr. Adams is somehow connected to the well-known Public Broadcasting System, or one of two nonprofit radio stations that broadcast to the Island.
In frequently asked questions section of his website, Mr. Adams answers the question, Is MVPBS a PBS affiliate?
"No. MVPBS incorporated is independently owned and operated of Dukes County, Massachusetts, only. MVPBS Inc. is NOT affiliated in any way with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Public Radio, the American Broadcasting Company, MVP Business Systems of California, or any of their respective network affiliates. MVPBS Inc. is an independent nonprofit corporation of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."
MVPBS Inc. registered as a nonprofit with the Massachusetts Secretary of State in March 2014, according to filed documents. Although MVPBS states it is a nonprofit, a spokesperson at the Massachusetts Secretary of State's office said that MVPBS Inc. is not listed as a 501(c)(3) corporation.
Neither MVPBS Inc. nor Martha's Vineyard Public Broadcasting Station could be found on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website that lists nonprofits, or on Guidestar, a website with a database of 2.2 million IRS-recognized nonprofits.
The cornerstone of the MVPBS is an FM radio station. A current post on the MVPBS webpage, which trumpets the organization's five-year anniversary, promises that FM radio is "coming soon."
In fact, Mr. Adams' application has been rejected twice.
In a three-page letter dated Sept. 29, 2014, Peter H. Doyle, chief of the audio division at the Federal Communications Commission, rejected, for a second time, the MVPBS application for a Low Power FM radio station (LPFM).
"Although the [application] states that MVPBS has operated as a 'not-for-profit, educational resource entity' since January of 2010, it does not state that MVPBS had any legal recognition under the laws of Massachusetts or clarify what type of entity MVPBS may have been prior to its March 2014 incorporation as MVPBS, Inc.," Mr. Doyle wrote.
Mr. Adams has also made liberal use of the Better Business Bureau (BBB) logo on the MVPBS website and other social media.
"They are not a BBB Accredited Business, and are illegally using our trademark/Seal," Paula Fleming, vice president of communications and marketing at the BBB, said in an email to The Times dated June 23. "We will be sending a trademark infringement to the business today."
Falsified name
Matt Stamas, musician and administrative assistant in the Oak Bluffs tax collector's office, said Mr. Adams used his name on an application to the FCC without his permission, and that he subsequently ended up in a legal battle with Mr. Adams.
"He wanted me to be the music director for [MVPBS], and he said, 'I'm getting this thing up and running, and we're all going to get paid,' but I never received any paperwork to fill out," Mr. Stamas told The Times. "It was totally bogus. He used my name to file an FCC application, saying I was his music director, which isn't true. I wouldn't have known if it weren't for the scam alert page."
Mr. Stamas was referring to a Facebook page, "Scam Alert: MVPBS," that has attracted a steady stream of comments from MVPBS detractors.
"I wrote to Dan and said, 'You're not authorized to use my name on anything,'" Mr. Stamas said. "Then he wrote the attorney general and said that I had sexually harassed somebody in his organization. So I hired a lawyer, spent $300 to send him a letter in February that if he continues with these statements about me, he will face a lawsuit for libel. The letter was sent to the post office box on the [MVPBS] website, and it came back as undeliverable. I don't know yet if it has been received."
Mr. Stamas said Mr. Adams has a history of confrontational behavior.
"He's been threatening people with lawsuits for libel and things of that nature, saying he's going to take people to court, but there's been no action at all," Mr. Stamas said. "There are people who donated but are reluctant to come forward; I guess they're concerned what he'll do, or they're just embarrassed."
Several people who spoke to The Times critically about Mr. Adams would not speak on the record for fear of retribution, they said. Tim Hanjian, owner of Eco Island Pest Control in Oak Bluffs, had no such reservations.
"Summer of 2013, he told me he was broadcasting the Sharks games on MVTV, and he was offering ad spots," Mr. Hanjian said. "I agreed to $600 for the season. Later I find out he's got nothing to do with MVTV, and that he didn't broadcast any games."
Rather than spend money on legal fees to retrieve his $600, Mr. Hanjian said he's considering a class action suit, given the number of people who claim to have been deceived by Mr. Adams. "At least we have to shut him down so he can't take any more people's money," Mr. Hanjian said. "He's still operating."
Martha's Vineyard Television (MVTV) is a nonprofit community-based public access television station. MVTV President Stephen Warriner told The Times, "He is a member here, which anyone can be for the membership fee. But we don't allow advertising. To the best of my knowledge, he didn't broadcast any Sharks games."
Support for MVPBS
Mr. Adams did not return calls or emails from The Times. However, an administrator with the company, who spoke off the record and asked not to be identified, called to say that MVPBS is in fact a BBB member and that the company belongs to "a number of business organizations, including the Martha's Vineyard Chamber of Commerce." She also said that the "Scam Alert: MVPBS" Facebook page is the result of one business owner seeking revenge against Mr. Adams. "She's someone with an axe to grind. I've even offered to meet her," the administrator said.
Martha's Vineyard Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Nancy Gardella confirmed that Mr. Adams is a member in good standing with the organization. "Dan joined the chamber last year," she said. "He went through a rigorous process to be vetted," she told The Times. "When the allegations were brought to our attention last summer, we checked with the BBB, and there were no issues. He attends events and activities, and he's been totally fine. I think the person that set up the Facebook page is expressing her severe disappointment."
The originator of the "Scam Alert: MVPBS" Facebook page, reached via Facebook message, would not identify himself or herself, or speak on the record with The Times.
Correction July 2, 11:21 am – in an earlier version of this article Stephen Warriner was incorrectly quoted that MVTV does not have sponsored content. MVTV does allow for sponsorships that would be similar in style to PBS, but does not allow advertising. Mr. Adams has submitted content to MVTV but did not broadcast Sharks games.
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Easter Egg Roll Significant Dates
Since 1878, American presidents and their families have celebrated Easter Monday by hosting an 'egg roll' party. Held on the South Lawn, it is one of the oldest annual events in White House history. It has changed and evolved through the years and each First Family has put their stamp on the popular public event. From the roll's origins to the latest official souvenir eggs, we take a look at this Easter Monday tradition at the Executive Mansion.
Congress approved the legislation protecting the public turf and grounds of the U.S. Capitol; egg rolling was among the activities unable to be done on the grounds.
It rained on Easter Monday, so the new law did not have to be enforced.
The first annual White House Easter Egg Roll was held after President Rutherford B. Hayes agreed to open the White House Grounds on Easter Monday to children who wanted to roll Easter eggs.
Young egg rollers marched into the East Room, hoping for a personal audience with President Grover Cleveland. When he came down from his office to greet them, he was charmed.
President Benjamin Harrison added music to the Easter Egg Roll, ordering the United States Marine Band, known as "The President's Own," to play lively tunes while the children romped on the South Lawn. John Philip Sousa, who directed the band, took delight in treating the Egg Roll guests to rousing marches. The president's grandson Benjamin Harrison "Baby" McKee enjoyed the day with a new child's cart and toy pony.
President Woodrow Wilson and First Lady Edith Wilson were on hand for what would prove to be the last Easter Egg Roll for five years. The highlight of the day was the appearance of 11-month old Ellen Wilson "Baby" McAdoo, daughter of the president's daughter Eleanor and her husband, Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo.
The Easter Monday Egg Roll was transferred from the White House Grounds to the grounds of the Washington Monument.
Saying that "nothing that is an article of diet should be destroyed," District of Columbia food administrator Charles Wilson announced that wartime restrictions on food consumption meant that destruction of eggs as part of the Easter Monday Egg Roll could not be allowed, and that the 1918 Egg Roll was cancelled.
It was reported that the White House Easter Egg Roll with music from the Marine Band would be revived and that First Lady Florence Harding planned to join in the festivities by coloring Easter eggs herself.
The White House Easter Egg Roll was held for the first time since 1916; between 50,000 and 60,000 children attended. President Warren G. Harding, First Lady Florence Harding and presidential pet Laddie Boy, an Airedale terrier, were on hand, along with characters from the children's' play "Alice and the White Rabbit," then currently appearing in Washington.
The White House Easter Egg Roll was broadcast on radio for the first time, by station WRC in Washington, D.C. The Marine Band's music was heard but President Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover did not speak. A space in the center of the South Lawn was roped off to allow Girl Scouts to perform a maypole dance at 3:00 p.m., witnessed by Mrs. Hoover.
Maypole dances appeared again, performed by Girl Reserves of the YWCA. President Hoover circulated among the children gathered on the South Lawn, but a bad cold and a wrenched back forced Mrs. Hoover to watch from an upstairs window.
On a rainy Easter Monday the crowd of children and their parents and guardians were greeted by President and Mrs. Hoover and their two grandchildren, Peggy Ann and Herbert "Peter" Hoover III. The Marine Band provided music for a variety of folk dances, such as the Virginia reel and folk dances from Britain and Sweden, performed by the Playground Department of the Washington, D.C. Public Schools and by Girl Reserves from the YWCA.
Wartime restrictions closed the White House Grounds, so the Easter Egg Roll took place on the Capitol's West Lawn. The White House did not host a Easter Egg Roll during World War II from 1943 to 1945.
Food conservation efforts caused President Harry S. Truman to reluctantly cancel the Easter Egg Roll.
The Truman renovation of the White House made the South Lawn a construction zone, and the Easter Egg Roll was canceled for the duration.
White House Easter Egg Roll was held on the White House grounds for the first time since 1941.
On a wet and chilly Easter Monday, President Dwight Eisenhower appeared at the Egg Roll before a smaller-than-usual crowd; this would be the last presidential appearance at an Easter Egg Roll for 16 years.
The White House announced that the Easter Egg Roll tradition would be continued under the new Kennedy administration.
At the annual Easter Egg Roll the biggest attraction for children on the South Lawn was Caroline Kennedy's fenced-in playground. White House Guards had to patiently explain to children that Caroline wouldn't be able to play there today since she was with her family in Palm Beach, Florida.
One of First Lady Pat Nixon's staff members put on a white jumpsuit and Peter Rabbit mask and shook children's hands along the South Lawn's circular driveway. The tradition of an official White House Easter Bunny was born.
The Nixons were in Florida, but volunteers dressed as clowns organized the first recorded Egg Roll races, and winning children received a "Nixon" ball point pen. Egg Roll races have become an Easter Monday favorite.
President Gerald R. Ford and First Lady Betty Ford were the first presidential couple to attend the Easter Egg Roll since the Eisenhowers hosted in 1960.
President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan hosted a hunt for wooden eggs that bore the signatures of famous people. Wooden eggs soon became the official White House Easter Egg Roll keepsakes.
President George H.W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush, accompanied by several of their children and grandchildren and by first pet Millie, presided over the White House Easter Egg Roll. The White House kitchen staff hard-boiled and colored 5,000 real eggs, and 23,000 wooden eggs were used for egg hunts.
Vice President Dan Quayle and wife Marilyn filled in for president and Mrs. Bush. The story-tellers and performers on hand included Babar the Elephant, puppeteer Shari Lewis, Smokey Bear and walking six-foot eggs. All painted wooden eggs were painted yellow to honor military personnel in Iraq and Kuwait.
White House Easter Egg Roll festivities were broadcast live on the internet for the first time.
The White House Easter Egg Roll was closed to the public and replaced with a smaller event for children of active duty and reserve military personnel serving in the Iraq.
For the first time, tickets to the White House Easter Egg Roll were distributed online. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were joined by their children Malia and Sasha and Mrs. Obama's mother Marian Robinson to help with the egg roll races. White House and guest chefs presided over a "kid's kitchen," where children were shown how to make healthy snacks.
At the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, President Obama shot basketball hoops with kids and read aloud from Dr. Seuss's "Green Eggs and Ham."
Cooking stations, craft spaces and storybook corners were featured at the White House Easter Egg Roll, which included appearances by the President and Mrs. Obama as well as the Easter Bunny, Spider-Man, the Cookie Monster from "Sesame Street" and small yellow Minion creatures from the animated film "Despicable Me."
First Lady Melania Trump, President Donald Trump, and their son Barron, presided over the 139th Easter Egg Roll, which included a visit from Sesame Street's Elmo and soccer demonstrations led by the D.C. United Soccer Team.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump elected to cancel the 2020 Easter Egg Roll, as did President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden in 2021. In 2021, the commemorative eggs featured a bunny rabbit wearing a surgical mask.
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About the White House Historical Association
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy envisioned a restored White House that conveyed a sense of history through its decorative and fine arts. She sought to inspire Americans, especially children, to explore and engage with American history and its presidents. In 1961, the nonprofit, nonpartisan White House Historical Association was established to support her vision to preserve and share the Executive Mansion's legacy for generations to come. Supported entirely by private resources, the Association's mission is to assist in the preservation of the state and public rooms, fund acquisitions for the White House permanent collection, and educate the public on the history of the White House. Since its founding, the Association has given more than $100 million to the White House in fulfillment of its mission.
To learn more about the White House Historical Association, please visit WhiteHouseHistory.org.
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The Army recently published a comprehensive assessment of the Iraq War (The U.S. Army in the Iraq War, Volumes 1 and 2). Its findings have implications for Department of Defense force planning and current policy in the Middle East, including decisions related to Syria and Iran, as well as efforts to address the use of hybrid warfare and gray zone operations by China and Russia. Join us to unpack these issues in conversation with Michael Gordon, national security correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and author of "The Endgame," covering events in Iraq from 2003-2011; COL (retired) Frank Sobchak, co-editor of the U.S. Army Iraq study; and Barbara Leaf, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and senior fellow at The Washington Institute. The conversation was moderated by Bradley Bowman, senior director of FDD's Center on Military and Political Power. FDD founder and president Clifford D. May delivered opening remarks. More on this event: https://www.fdd.org/events/2019/04/08/lessons-learned-from-the-iraq-war/
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(12 Nov 2018) LEADIN: Dozens of companies from across the world are exhibiting their products at the Baghdad International Fair. The event is an opportunity to expand business in the Iraqi market. STORYLINE: Visitors arrive for the 45th Baghdad International Fair. It's an important gateway for companies seeking to expand their business in Iraq. More than 300 international companies from 17 countries are showcasing their products and services to the local business community at the Iraqi capital's fairground. This year, a large space has been reserved by Iranian businesses. Iraq has vital economic, political and religious ties with neighbouring Iran. More than 60 Iranian are companies displaying their products, including carpets, machines and food production. Iraq-Iran trade exchange has averaged about 7 billion US dollars a year. However this year it could reach up to 8.5 billion, according to the Iranian ambassador to Iraq, Iraj Masjed. He says despite the newly re imposed US sanctions against Tehran, the two neighbours plan to expand their trade, mainly in commerce and vital commodities such electricity and gas. "The blockade imposed by the Americans is an embarrassment to them. No one followed their example. It will not affect the relations between the two countries, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Iraq," says Masjed. Japan is just one of the many countries exhibiting products here, from cars to photocopiers. This year's trade fair comes after Iraq declared victory over the Islamic State group. Large parts of the country's infrastructure were left destroyed and the fighting has proved a heavy burden for the economy. The fair opened under the slogan 'We are determined to build and reconstruct as we were determined to liberate and achieve victory'. European companies, like tool maker Ingco and car manufacturer Renault, are also taking part. The Egyptian pavilion is awash with the country's vibrant crafts. As well as foreign companies, around 400 Iraqi businesses are also represented. The Baghdad International Fair runs until 19 November. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Google+: https://plus.google.com/b/102011028589719587178/+APArchive Tumblr: https://aparchives.tumblr.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/771b9e5a93e125c1a48c03af6c250f2b
DECEMBER 13, 2001 War Against Iraq Participants debated the merits of war against Iraq. Among the topics they addressed were the goals of any potential military action against Iraq, the need to resume weapons inspection in the country, and Iraq's links to international terrorism. Ivan Eland Director, Cato Institute Defense Policy Studies William A. Niskanen Chairman, Cato Institute James Woolsey Director (Former) Central Intelligence Agency
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FIFA is the international governing body behind the World Cup, soccer's biggest competition and the largest sporting event in the world. Everything seems sportsmanlike at first, but the closer we look at the impact the event has on the host country and the profit it reaps for its organizers, the more things start to resemble... something much worse. Check out our video to see what we mean. Learn More: Throw FIFA Out of the Game http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/opinion/sunday/throw-fifa-out-of-the-game.html?_r=0 "MOST people associate FIFA, the organization that oversees international soccer, with the quadrennial joy of the World Cup. But as the 2014 tournament begins next week in Brazil, FIFA is plagued by levels of corruption, graft and excess that would shame Silvio Berlusconi." John Oliver rips FIFA to shreds, and explains why he'll still be watching the World Cup http://www.vox.com/2014/6/9/5792958/watch-john-oliver-rip-fifa-to-shreds-and-explain-why-hell-still-be "Its leader is infallible. It compels South American countries to spend money they don't have building opulent cathedrals," John Oliver said on Sunday night's show. "And it may ultimately be responsible to deaths of shocking numbers of people in the Middle East." For some in Brazil, World Cup means evictions http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/for-some-in-brazil-world-cup-means-evictions/2014/01/24/73799036-7f83-11e3-9556-4a4bf7bcbd84_story.html "PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - Where there was once a soccer field in this city in southern Brazil, there is a highway." The 2022 FIFA World Cup Could Be Deadly for Qatar's Migrant Workers http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-14/the-2022-fifa-world-cup-could-be-deadly-for-qatars-migrant-workers "With the 2014 World Cup in Brazil now less than 30 days away, eight workers have died building stadiums for the event." The Billion-Dollar Business Of The World Cup http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2014/06/05/the-billion-dollar-business-of-the-world-cup/ "How big of a business is soccer's quadrennial tournament for FIFA (International Association of Federation Football), the sport's international governing body?" Pelé Scolds Brazil on World Cup Spending http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/sports/soccer/pele-scolds-brazil-on-world-cup-spending.html "The Brazilian legend Pelé criticized his country's organization of the World Cup, saying that billions of dollars have been spent unwisely." Brazil forcibly displaced thousands of people to make way for the World Cup http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/06/18/brazil-forcibly-displaced-thousands-of-people-to-make-way-for-the-world-cup/ Unfortunately, this otherwise great sports event has a terrible dark side: In order to construct the necessary facilities, the Brazilian government forcibly displaced thousands of people. FAQ: Setting the record straight http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/02/36/32/63/faq_en_neutral.pdf "So far, the World Cup in Brazil has cost $15 billion USD. The taxpayers have footed the bill, FIFA hasn't spent anything." ______________________________________________________________ NowThis World is dedicated to bringing you topical explainers about the world around you. Each week we'll be exploring current stories in international news, by examining the facts, providing historical context, and outlining the key players involved. We'll also highlight powerful countries, ideologies, influential leaders, and ongoing global conflicts that are shaping the current landscape of the international community across the globe today. More from NowThis: » Subscribe to NowThis News: http://go.nowth.is/News_Subscribe » Like NowThis World on Facebook: https://go.nowth.is/World_Facebook » Tweet @NowThisNews on Twitter: http://go.nowth.is/News_Twitter » Connect with Judah: Follow @judah_robinson on Twitter – Facebook: http://go.nowth.is/LikeJudah » Connect with Versha: Follow @versharma on Twitter – Facebook: http://go.nowth.is/LikeVersha http://www.youtube.com/nowthisworld
As Iraq emerges from the shadow of war and occupation, it has sought to regain influence as a major actor in an ever-more volatile region. Though the 'new Iraq' attempts to project an independent foreign policy, renewed instability and violence inside the country has challenged the state's ability to develop a coherent and unified foreign policy stance.
Iraq | Kuwaiti Consulate sponsors special event for children with autism On the World Autism Awareness Day April 2nd, the Kuwaiti Consulate distributed gifts to over 400 children during an event organized for children with autism, as well as children with disabilities (speech impairment and slow movement) aiming to put a smiles on their faces. The event was attended by many people including these children's parents, officials and members of the diplomatic corps of the Kuwaiti Consulate. The PR manager of Bahoz Center for rehabilitating children with disabilities expressed the need for individuals and institutions to care more for children with disabilities. العراق | القنصلية الكويتية ترعى احتفالا خاصا لأطفال مصاببن بمرض التوحد  بالتزامن مع ذكرى اليوم العالمي للتوحد ، والذي يصادف في الثاني من ابريل / نيسان من كل عام، وزعت القنصلية الكويتية في مدينة أربيل خلال احتفال نظم لأطفال مصابين بالتوحد، بالإضافة إلى أطفال من ذوي الإحتياجات الخاصة ( صعوبة النطق ، وبطئ الحركة) الهدايا على أكثر من 400 طفل ، وذلك بهدف رسم الإبتسامة على وجوههم، وحضر الاحتفال عدد كبير من ذوي الأطفال المرضى والمسؤولين وأعضاء السلك الدبلوماسي في القنصلية الكويتية. وعبرت مديرة علاقات مركز باهوز لتأهيل الأطفال من ذوي الإحتياجات الخاصة، عن ضرورة اهتمام الأفراد والمؤسسات أكثر بالأطفال من ذوي الاحتياجات الخاصة. Contact A24 | News Agency: NewsDesk@arab24.com
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The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began with the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition. The invasion regime toppled the government of Saddam Hussein. However, the conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government. An estimated 151,000 to 600,000 or more Iraqis were killed in the first 3–4 years of conflict. The United States officially withdrew from the country in 2011 but became re-involved in 2014 at the head of a new coalition; the insurgency and many dimensions of the civil armed conflict continue.
The invasion began on 20 March 2003, with the U.S., joined by the United Kingdom and several coalition allies, launching a "shock and awe" bombing campaign. Iraqi forces were quickly overwhelmed as U.S. forces swept through the country. The invasion led to the collapse of the Ba'athist government; Saddam was captured in December 2003 and executed by a military court three years later. However, the power vacuum following Saddam's demise and the mismanagement of the occupation led to widespread sectarian violence between Shias and Sunnis as well as a lengthy insurgency against U.S. and coalition forces. The United States responded with a troop surge in 2007 to attempt to reduce the violence. The U.S. began withdrawing its troops in the winter of 2007–08. The winding down of U.S. involvement in Iraq accelerated under President Barack Obama. The U.S. formally withdrew all combat troops from Iraq by December 2011.
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World Cup commonly refers to:
FIBA Basketball World Cup
FIFA World Cup, association football
Rugby World Cup, rugby union
World cup competition, a type of global sports competition
World Cup can also refer to:
IAAF World Cup in Athletics
ITU Triathlon World Cup
Sudirman Cup (mixed team)
Thomas Cup (men's team)
Uber Cup (women's team)
Bandy World Cup
Bandy World Cup Women
Baseball World Cup (former)
Women's Baseball World Cup
World Cup of Softball
FIBA Basketball World Cup (men's)
FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup
Wheelchair Basketball World Championship
ICC World Twenty20 (cricket)
Indoor Cricket World Cup
Women's Cricket World Cup
Dubai World Cup (horse racing)
Show Jumping World Cup (equestrian)
IFAF World Cup
Association football
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The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War. The current champion is Germany, which won its fourth title at the 2014 tournament in Brazil.
The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the World Cup Finals. 32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month.
The 20 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina and inaugural winners Uruguay, with two titles each; and England, France and Spain, with one title each.
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The Chess World Cup is the name given to a number of different chess tournaments. The format and significance of the tournaments has changed over the years.
In 1988–99, the Grandmasters Association organised a series of six high-ranking World Cup tournaments in the form of a 'Grand Prix'.
In 2000 and 2002 FIDE, the World Chess Federation, staged their "First Chess World Cup" and "Second Chess World Cup" respectively. These were major tournaments, but not directly linked to the World Chess Championship. Both the 2000 and 2002 events were won by Viswanathan Anand of India.
Since 2005, a different event of the same name has been part of the World Chess Championship cycle. This event is being held every two years. It is a 128-player knockout tournament, in the same style as the Tilburg tournament from 1992-94, or the 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2004 FIDE World Championships.
The event was held in 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk, and subsequently FIDE has given preference to bids for the Olympiad that also contain a bid for the preceding World Cup. During the 2015 finals of the World Cup, the main organizer commented "We received the right to host the Olympiad and then we were given an additional event – the World Cup."
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The Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (2 August 1990 – 17 January 1991) for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm (17 January 1991 – 28 February 1991) in its combat phase, was a war in the Persian Gulf region waged by coalition forces from 34 nations led by the United States against Ba'athist Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
The war is also known under other names, such as the Persian Gulf War, First Gulf War, Gulf War I, Kuwait War, First Iraq War, or Iraq War before the term "Iraq War" became identified instead with the 2003 Iraq War. The Iraqi Army's occupation of Kuwait that began 2 August 1990 was met with international condemnation, and brought immediate economic sanctions against Iraq by members of the United Nations Security Council. US President George H. W. Bush deployed US forces into Saudi Arabia and urged other countries to send their own forces to the scene. An array of nations joined the Coalition, the largest military alliance since World War II. The great majority of the Coalition's military forces were from the US, with Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and Egypt as the next-leading contributors, in that order. Saudi Arabia paid around US$36 billion of the US$60 billion cost.
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The Iraqi Civil War is an ongoing armed conflict in the Middle East. In 2014, the Iraqi insurgency escalated into a civil war with the conquest of Fallujah and Mosul and major areas in northern Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS). This has resulted in the forced resignation of the Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, airstrikes by the United States, Iran, Syria, and at least a dozen other countries, the participation of Iranian troops and military aid provided to Iraq by Russia.
In the course of their Anbar campaign, ISIL militants seized at least 70% of the Anbar Province by June 2014, including the cities of Fallujah,Al Qaim,Abu Ghraib and half of the provincial capital of Ramadi during the Anbar campaign.
In early June 2014, following further large-scale offensives in Iraq, ISIL seized control of Mosul, the second most populous city in Iraq, the nearby town of Tal Afar and most of the surrounding Nineveh province. ISIL also captured parts of Kirkuk and Diyala provinces and Tikrit, the administrative center of the Salahuddin Governorate, with the ultimate goal of capturing Baghdad, the Iraqi capital. ISIS was believed to have only 2,000–3,000 fighters up until the Mosul campaign, but during that campaign, it became evident that this number was a gross underestimate. There were also reports that a number of Sunni groups in Iraq that were opposed to the predominantly Shia government had joined ISIS, thus bolstering the group's numbers. However, the Kurds—who are mostly Sunnis—in the northeast of Iraq, were unwilling to be drawn into the conflict, and there were clashes in the area between ISIL and the Kurdish Peshmerga.
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The Iraq War began in 2003 and involved a two-phase conflict comprising an initial invasion of Iraq led by US and UK forces and a longer, seven-year phase of occupation and fighting with insurgents.
The conflict was followed by further insurgency, which later escalated in 2014:
Iraqi insurgency (2011–13), the surge in sectarian violence that occurred immediately following the end of the 2003 to 2011 Iraq War
Iraqi Civil War (2014–present), an ongoing conflict that began when the initial two year long insurgency escalated in January 2014
American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–present), a multi-national campaign beginning in June 2014 to rid Iraq of ISIL influence and deliver humanitarian aid to Iraqi minority religious and ethnic groups.
Iraq War may also refer to:
Mesopotamian campaign (1914–1918)
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The Army recently published a comprehensive assessment of the Iraq War (The U.S. Army in the Iraq War, Volumes 1 and 2). Its findings have implications for Department of Defense force planning and current policy in the Middle East, including decisions related to Syria and Iran, as well as efforts to address the use of hybrid warfare and gray zone operations by China and Russia. Join us to unpack these issues in conversation with Michael Gordon, national security correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and author of "The Endgame," covering events in Iraq from 2003-2011; COL (retired) Frank Sobchak, co-editor of the U.S. Army Iraq study; and Barbara Leaf, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and senior fellow at The Washington Institute. The conversation was moderated by Br...
(12 Nov 2018) LEADIN: Dozens of companies from across the world are exhibiting their products at the Baghdad International Fair. The event is an opportunity to expand business in the Iraqi market. STORYLINE: Visitors arrive for the 45th Baghdad International Fair. It's an important gateway for companies seeking to expand their business in Iraq. More than 300 international companies from 17 countries are showcasing their products and services to the local business community at the Iraqi capital's fairground. This year, a large space has been reserved by Iranian businesses. Iraq has vital economic, political and religious ties with neighbouring Iran. More than 60 Iranian are companies displaying their products, including carpets, machines and food production. Iraq-Iran trade exchan...
FIFA is the international governing body behind the World Cup, soccer's biggest competition and the largest sporting event in the world. Everything seems sportsmanlike at first, but the closer we look at the impact the event has on the host country and the profit it reaps for its organizers, the more things start to resemble... something much worse. Check out our video to see what we mean. Learn More: Throw FIFA Out of the Game http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/opinion/sunday/throw-fifa-out-of-the-game.html?_r=0 "MOST people associate FIFA, the organization that oversees international soccer, with the quadrennial joy of the World Cup. But as the 2014 tournament begins next week in Brazil, FIFA is plagued by levels of corruption, graft and excess that would shame Silvio Berlusconi." Joh...
Iraq | Kuwaiti Consulate sponsors special event for children with autism On the World Autism Awareness Day April 2nd, the Kuwaiti Consulate distributed gifts to over 400 children during an event organized for children with autism, as well as children with disabilities (speech impairment and slow movement) aiming to put a smiles on their faces. The event was attended by many people including these children's parents, officials and members of the diplomatic corps of the Kuwaiti Consulate. The PR manager of Bahoz Center for rehabilitating children with disabilities expressed the need for individuals and institutions to care more for children with disabilities. العراق | القنصلية الكويتية ترعى احتفالا خاصا لأطفال مصاببن بمرض التوحد  بالتزامن مع ذكرى اليوم العالمي للتوحد ، والذي يصادف في ا...
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The Swiss Are Onto Something: Facebook, Libra and the Case for Decentralization
A recent letter from the U.S ... dollar ... decentralization ... military intervention in Libya and Iraq are illustrative of something critical ... These events all have a strange commonality ... Iraq announced it would dump the dollar in 2000 ... U.S ... Or the tragedy of 9/11 being used to justify military intervention in a country totally unrelated to the incident, Iraq ... ....
Iran Remembers When U.S. Killed 300 of Its Citizens, Now Americans Should Too
Newsweek 03 Jul 2019
"To this day, significant portions of the country's authorities do not believe the event was an accident, but a deliberate message sent to Iran over its decision to plant underwater mines in the Persian Gulf amid the Tanker War phase of the Iran-Iraq War. The event is perfect ......
Preacher accused of lying
Enterprise-Journal 02 Jul 2019
The site also provides examples of articles and Internet postings announcing church or martial arts events in which Kimball is described as Green Beret or Special Forces ... He also mentioned that he fought in Iraq and had fellow soldiers die in his arms, even to the extent that he suffers PTSD from those events....
Trump's stranglehold on Iran
The Hill 30 Jun 2019
Bill Clinton did exactly the same thing in November 1998, when he called off a missile strike on Iraq ... In any event, Tehran would have responded as it has in the past, not with a direct attack on U.S ... forces could do to a country four times the size of Iraq, with its military facilities dispersed and hardened....
Finland's news in Latin: 'For such a crazy idea we had a remarkable run'
The Observer 28 Jun 2019
It reported on world affairs from the death of Princess Diana and 9/11 to the Iraq war and the 2008 financial crisis, as well as major cultural and sporting events and Finnish news likely to be of interest to an international audience....
Iran bids farewell to 150 martyrs of 1980s war
Press TV 27 Jun 2019
Thousands of Iranian people have taken part in a funeral procession in the capital, Tehran, to honor 150 mostly unidentified martyrs of the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s....
Past U.S.-Iran Confrontations Hold Lessons for Current Crisis
The Washington Institute 27 Jun 2019
On several occasions over the past three decades, Washington has grappled with similar challenges of escalation, coercion, and deterrence, including the naval convoy operations during the Iran-Iraq War, the lethal assistance that Tehran provided to Shia militant groups "resisting" the U.S ... TROOPS IN IRAQ (2003-2011)....


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Taiwanese sailor dies of heatstroke in Shanghai
An elderly sailor from Taiwan died of multiple organ failure triggered by heatstroke on Wednesday morning, the latest victim of the unprecedented summer heat scorching the Chinese business hub.
The 64-year-old sailor, surnamed Zeng, began his ship inspection and repair work on July 13 and showed serious symptoms of heatstroke 10 days later, according to the Jinshan branch of the Shanghai General Station of Exit and Entry Frontier Inspection.
Zeng's condition deteriorated on Tuesday. He died early Wednesday morning at a Shanghai hospital.
Over 10 people have died of heatstroke in Shanghai this month, local health officials said Tuesday.
The Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention said the persisting high temperatures this summer have caused a spike in the number of heliosis patients in the city.
Temperatures in Shanghai surpassed 39 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, the ninth straight day for temperatures to rise above 38 degrees Celsius, the Shanghai Meteorological Center said.
The center said that with 25 days of temperatures at or above 35 degrees Celsius monitored so far, this July has been the hottest for Shanghai since weather records started 140 years ago.


West Davidson finished second in a Central Carolina Conference match at the Warrior Country Club in Salisbury on Thursday.
Salisbury won the match with a 141, followed by West, 159, East Davidson, 164, Central Davidson, 168, and Lexington, 224.
Andrew Kahn fired a 3-over par 38 for the Dragons, followed by Austin Pleasants, 39, and Jake Hartman and Nathan Curry, 41.
Forrest Reynolds led Central with a 37, followed by Derrick Nutter, 41, and Chris Crews and Austin Mabe, 45.
Justin Wood and Wes Cline each shot 40 for East, while Scott Swaim and Bryce Deweese shot 42.
And for Lexington, Patrick DeZego fired a 49, followed by Michael Winston and David Fulp, 56, and Griffin Gray, 63.
The final CCC match will be Monday at Colonial Country Club in Thomasville.


"The Extra" is mostly a pulpy comic book that's equal parts bromance, over-the-top Hollywood satire and blood-spewing horror tale.
It's dark and ridiculous, but like any death match story worth its salt, it traffics in just enough plausibility to make us feel unsettled.
As the extras fight for their lives, the behind-the-scenes bloodlust transforms the book from sci-fi bombast into a deliciously depraved morality tale.
Sure, "The Extra" is brutally over the top, and its characters function more as types than flesh and blood. But Shea's broad strokes are pretty vibrant and never less than fully entertaining.
You know, it's a spectacle. Can't wait to see the movie.
By Erik Himmelsbach, Los Angeles writer and producer.
Nathanael West set his outrageous Hollywood apocalypse, The Day of the Locust, in the Depression; Michael Shea sets his in a depressed near future that West would have recognized and appreciated.
The future of The Extra reads as an all-too-likely extrapolation of the present day, with a government run by a coterie of multinational corporations known as the Corps and a highly stratified and static social order that pits the lower classes against the middle classes for the benefit of the upper classes.
Shea's prose is brutal and his mood savage in this horror show glimpse of things to come. The Extra presages a dystopia we Westerners can witness going up, brick by brick. Bare knuckles satire at its finest.
THE EXTRA packs more violence, hilarity and speed-freak action in its throw-away asides that most science fiction books build an entire story around. This is a hot ticket.
I have been reading Michael Shea religiously for years, and while his work is always original, always disturbing, I do not believe he has ever written a book as exuberant, energetic and gleefully mordant as The Extra. In Mr. Shea's witty extrapolation of current trends in popular entertainment, a downtrodden trio of urban gladiators must survive the most lethal technology Hollywood can devise in order to earn a few clacks, sell a few tickets, and escape the "zoo" of L.A. In other words, it's show business as usual: you're either killing or dying.
Horror, humor, action, pathos, bread, circuses, giant mechanical spiders — oh hell, where can I buy a ticket?
All the hallmarks of Shea's much-lauded storytelling are here: strong, sinewy sentences–muscular metaphors–crafty characters immersed in action both horrific and hilarious. What's really new is a greater generosity of spirit. As the action revs up, we get to love these characters. And when the sawed-offs start blasting through the crush of spider-hordes, you feel both the recoil of the shotguns and the leaping hopes of our heroes' hearts.
Michael Shea puts his people in the damndest nightmares. He puts you in there with them, and drives the whole lot of you through a delirium of breakneck action and mad invention– hillarity and hellfire itself. Wanna be in the movies? Step inside…….
Michael Shea has been writing dazzling books of fantasy and horror since the early eighties, and over the intervening decades, readers who come to him for the first time invariably wind up asking, Where has this guy been all my life? Shea offers a combination of gifts unique to him, I think: an innately edgy feel to the writing; a descriptive ability comparable to that of Jack Vance; a wild blazing, imaginative capacity; a sense of humor permanently set to what reflemen used to call "rock and roll." THE EXTRA starts out at a dead run and accelerates from there, effortlessly wrapping the reader into its tale of gone-to-hell L.A. and a little bank of gutsy starvelings with blood on their hands.
With The Extra (Tor; 283 pages; $22.99), Michael Shea, the Bay Area author of "Nifft the Lean," finds a new wrinkle in "the most dangerous game." Set in a near-future Hollywood, the novel satirizes the current reality-TV craze while delivering plenty of fast-paced, gory thrills.
In the not-too-distant future, humanity is so decimated by poverty that people will do anything for money.
An innovative producer gives the poor hope by offering them work as extras in a series of "live death" films where they'll be stalked by giant, blood-thirsty mechanical monsters.
The job is easy – survive.
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Jim Frenkel / TOR Books purchased a trilogy via agent Eleanor Wood of Spectrum Literary Agency, based upon Michael's story THE EXTRA. The original short story was included in his World Fantasy Award finalist collection from Arkham House, POLYPHEMUS.
COPPING SQUID, an astonishing new collection of Cthulhu Mythos fiction by World Fantasy Award winner MICHAEL SHEA, is up for ORDER NOW in a linen-jacketed, signed, limited edition of 250 copies.
Perilous Press's New Millennium Mythos Library, an ambitious plot to revive high-quality small press genre literature for the bibliophilic cultist on a budget.
COPPING SQUID will be available in an affordable, illustrated trade hardcover edition, wherever eldritch vistas of unfathomable transmogrification are sold.
Michael Shea and S.T. Joshi will both attend the World Fantasy Convention on Halloween weekend in San Jose, CA to celebrate the book's release.
All WFC who purchase the book at the convention will be entered in a drawing to win a signed original Steve Gilberts illustration from Copping Squid.
Now available in quality illustrated hardcover and a signed, limited edition with distinctive jacket art.
Collectors can now own a 563 page single author collection – a massive tome packed with superb stories by Michael Shea, an introduction by Laird Barron.
This collection of his finest fantasy, science fiction, horror and Cthulhu Mythos tales includes the two short novels "I Said the Fly" and "The Color Out of Time" as well as "Fat Face," "Grunt 12 Test Drive," "The Rebuke" and may others.
ONLY 500 limited edition cloth copies are available from Centipede Press!
A cross between Nyctalops, Whispers, and Famous Monsters!
Originally published Halloween 2005, the goal of Chimera is to publish some fiction, literary essays, film criticism and publishing memoirs in a single package.
Contents include: Dave Curtis on James Turner's Arkham House ; Stuart Galbraith IV on War of the Gargantuas; a 30-page John Stewart portfolio; an artist's portfolio by German psychedelic artist Helmut Wenske; Stuart David Schiff on the Origins of Whispers; a small artist portfolio from Mark Tansey; plus: Sigmund Freud, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Flannery O'Connor, Patrick McGrath, Henri Fuseli, Max Ernst, and others. Oh yeah, there's a lot of essays on film noirs Mildred Pierce, Woman in the Dunes, Detour, and Double Idemnity. Did we mention Michael Shea's "The Autopsy" in a bizarre typographic treatment?


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DALLAS//: Two-Wins Foundation's co-Founder Terrance Maiden was honored 2nd Annual 40 Under 40 for Dallas Furniture Bank for his outstanding accomplishments and philanthropic work in Dallas. Dallas Furniture Bank and event chair Whitney Brandon of the Dallas Cowboys Football Club as we celebrated 40 individuals under 40 years of age for their civic contributions, inspirational leadership. The evening consisted of Battle of 10 of the best bakers and pastry chefs in Dallas judged by a celebrity panel including Mynetta Cockerell, Executive Chef of Milestone Culinary Arts Center and Viking Cooking School and Rod Hays, chair of the American Institute of Wine and Food D/FW as well as a People's Choice Vote. Terrance stated "I am both humbled and very appreciative of award given to me from such a tremendous organization (Dallas Furniture Bank). Giving back for me is a way of life and it is great to be recognized for my efforts".


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Internet Consolidation and the Rise of Content Distribution Networks
Guest: Russ White Did you know that today Video, gaming and social media account for almost 80% of the world's internet traffic? The change in the composition of traffic has been accompanied by a dramatic change in the way content is delivered
Internet Consolidation and the need for diversity
Guest: Paul Vixie We know you will agree that the Internet has changed quite a bit from its early days, and no we aren't just talking about innovation and new services. We are talking about the consolidation of everything from
A Zen Approach to Making AI Work for All of Us
Guest: Dr. Colin Shunryu Garvey Stephen Hawking's final message in posthumously published book called Brief Answers To The Big Questions, was this: If robots don't get us, climate change will. Some big companies such as Amazon and Google are calling fo...
Artificial Intelligence and Sentient bots
Our guest is professor, author, researcher and psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein. Dr. Epstein is the co-founder of The Loebner Prize . In this episode we examine the cognitive and psychological aspects of our interaction with bots today.
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humans
A Conversation with Lee Rainie of Pew Research Some of the world's most visible tech leaders are divided on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its purported benefits and risks. For example, Mark Zuckerberg is a vocal advocate whereas Elon Musk believes w...
The 411 on Contact Tracing Apps
Guest: Patrick Howell O'Neill In the midst of the COVID19 pandemic, identifying and isolating potentially exposed or infected individuals is a vital strategy of slowing down and preventing the spread of the disease. Governments,
COVID19 Contact tracing apps, a fair bargain for public health?
Guest: Konstantinos Komaitis It is hard to think of COVID19 and technology, and not think of contact tracing apps. They have garnered not just attention and hope as a tool in the process to manage the epidemic, but also angst
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Our guest is Eve Maler, CTO at ForgeRock and one of the pioneers in the field of digital identity. In this podcast we explore what digital identity is, who can have it, and how it is evolving. We talk about how advances in technology
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This program, for newborns through early toddlers, consists of two components: Private Lessons & the Family Class.
 SongSchool and Motor-Skills Development lessons are the private lessons for the youngest children. The students receive two 30-minute lessons per week (60 minutes total), because two lessons per week improves muscle learning and memory. They are taught in your choice of two styles: 1) privately for a family, or 2) in a small, private group of friends. The emphasis is on developing musicality and linguistic ability in children, and equipping parents with skills for raising musically-confident children. This early stage is the most crucial time of a child's development, laying the foundation for their speech, rhythm, pitch, and numerical understanding.
Parents and their little ones also attend a Family Class, where parents and children interact, sing activity songs together, and engage in other musical learning activities.
Practice requirements really don't exist at this age. Parents are simply encouraged to play with their children every day, during feedings, baths, diaper changes, and so on. We will teach you and support you in your efforts to create a warm, loving life for your child, a happy life that is full of music and smiles.
This program, for older toddlers and preschoolers, consists of three components: Private Lessons, the Group Class, and the Early-Reading Class.
 Mommy-&-Me and Daddy-&-Me Lessons are the private lessons for preschoolers. They are a custom blend of student & parent activities, and include both piano and voice. The students receive two 30-minute lessons per week (60 minutes total), because two lessons per week improves muscle learning and memory. Grandparents are welcome as well. Note: Preschool children learn well in groups, so siblings or a few friends of your choice can combine together for one lesson together. Mommy-&-Me and Daddy-&-Me Lessons are the private lessons in our program, so we can accommodate 1-3 students. It is important that they maintain the "private lesson" feel.
Parents and their preschool children also attend a group event, either the Family Class (described in the Ages 0-2 Program, above) or the older kids' Group Class (described in the Ages 5-Adult Program, below) — the choice of which to attend is up to the parents. The child's age, or the age of siblings coming along, will help the parent decide which class is more suited to the family's needs.
The third component of our Ages 2-5 Program is the Early-Reading Class. Preschoolers usually are just beginning their skills in reading words, which means they are ready for the early stage of reading music as well. In the Reading Classes for the students in Ages 2-5, we use games and fun activities to work on pattern recognition, numbers and letters, visual tracking of left to right, quick recognition of positions on a set of lines (early reading of the music staff), and other skills that gradually produce secure, confident readers. Young children can learn to read music fluently before they are adept at reading books. Yes, it's true that Mrs. Lichtenstein learned to read music before she could read books!
Practice requirements at this age are very small. The most important task for the parent is to develop consistency. Simply bring your child to the piano or other musical instrument several times a day, for perhaps 2 minutes at a time. Then the child can be left to experiment and enjoy the instrument. It also helps if the parent practices the little songs we learn at this stage — don't worry, Mrs. Lichtenstein will show you how! Toddlers and preschoolers love to imitate Mommy and Daddy. Seeing your interest will make them be interested as well!
This program, for mature 5-year-olds through Adults, consists of three components: Private Lessons, the Group Lesson, and the Reading Class.
All students attend two Private plus two Group events each week. Our program functions as a school, with the belief that multiple attendance each week encourages healthy social, mental, and physical development in the arts. The burden on parents is reduced, because the biggest problem most school-age music students run into is practicing at home. Practicing at home is still important, and yet our school's program makes the practice easier, clearer, and more joyful. Parents attend the lessons, so they know what needs to be practiced, and can celebrate achievements together with the child. Mrs. Lichtenstein is specially trained in how to encourage the parent-child relationship in musical development.
The weekly Group Lesson consists of a celebration of birthdays (including the composer of the week!), recognition of 7-Day-Practice winners, and an informal recital, followed by musical games and activities. This lesson is called the "Group Lesson," but maybe it should be called "Music Club"! Students love it!
The weekly Reading Class consists of games and activities designed to produce secure and confident readers. Being able to read music fluently makes learning new songs as easy as reading a library book!
Practice requirements vary by age and ability. It is better to practice a little bit every day, and be consistent, than to try to do too much or wait and do a cram session right before the lesson. Recent science studies also show that it helps to practice a little bit shortly before bedtime, and then to practice a little bit more first thing in the morning.
Also, students are motivated to practice, because they want to show their music friends what they learned in their Private Lesson, when they come to the next Group Lesson!
New students are accepted any time of the year. The curriculum is adjusted to the individual needs of each student. Therefore, starting any time of year is fine.


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I aim to serve my community and to encourage them to follow their passions. I feel so often we get trapped in our own heads. We fight and battle with what we think we should be doing, but in reality we control our own futures.
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