AS SOMEONE who is something of a music fanatic, I've always found what goes on behind the scenes of creating records to be almost as intriguing as the finished product. And, I imagine, I'm not alone.
Problem is, recording studios have traditionally been places that are shrouded in great secrecy; you know the sort of thing… hidden country retreats where the great and the good of music convene in private behind firmly closed doors. It's almost like the creative part is all done cloak and dagger, before being packaged with bright lights and billboards and marketed to the hilt.
"Surrey is the place historically," says Rob Granville, producer at West Street Studios, which you'll find in what used to be a storage space above The Star pub in Dorking. "You take a look at a map of the county and anyone with even an inkling of interest in music can point out somewhere of significance – whether it's where a rock star lives or a gig they went to.
"Here in Dorking, there was the Strawberry South studio at the top of South Street, which was opened by 10cc's Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart, in 1976, in a former cinema.
While Ebony and Ivory might be neither star's defining moment, there is something wonderfully surreal about the thought of McCartney and Wonder browsing West Street's antiques shops.
Though the Strawberry South studio had closed by 1983, Surrey is certainly packed full of rock royalty and tales. Another Beatles-related story concerns McCartney getting the idea for Eight Days a Week while in a cab to a certain John Lennon's house in 1964 – at the time, the Beatle lived on the St George's Hill estate in Weybridge.
These days, Eric Clapton lives in Ewhurst Green, while Brian May has a place in West End and the Rolling Stones are still largely based around their stomping ground of Richmond. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Sadly, though, even with so much rock royalty on the doorstep, a lot of Surrey's biggest and most famous studios are no more, with dance music and the ease of modern production methods replacing the need for grand rooms and big budgets. One of the few that still survives is Fisher Lane in Chiddingfold. Built in the early 1980s, it has been responsible for classic albums from artists including Genesis, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton and The Cure. Most of the grander studios weren't so lucky, however.
One lost to album notes and memories is Ridge Farm, in Capel, which is now available for holidays, weddings, corporate events and retreats rather than the musings of rock's elite.
"We were one of the first residential studios in the UK," says Ann Needham, who was manager of the studio, which started in the early 1970s and finally closed at the end of 2002.
The studio and accommodation at Ridge Farm were housed in a group of buildings dating from the 17th century and set in 13 acres of grounds. As is the way with residential studios, the band, producer and engineer would live in the house for the duration of the recording and mixing process, which could last for a month or even longer. To keep them all happy, facilities like swimming pools and tennis courts would have been available and housekeepers to look after them all. Ridge Farm had clients ranging from Ozzy Osbourne and Oasis to The Three Tenors during its lifetime.
And, unfortunately, that was the way for most... Surrey Sound in Leatherhead, where the first three Police albums were recorded, passed by the wayside, as did Comforts Place in Lingfield, which was owned by producer Andy Hill and his wife Nicola Martin – who created the group Bucks Fizz. Another studio to go the same way was Jacobs, which was located near Farnham and has an impressive list of credits including The Queen is Dead by The Smiths, Woman in Red by Stevie Wonder and Pablo Honey by Radiohead.
"In the end, I had 30 years of looking after bands 24/7, often two at a time," says owner of Jacobs, Andy Fernbach. "We lived with them, fed and watered them, and maintained and operated two state-of-the-art studios, which they had access to whenever they needed.
It's only rock and roll but they obviously all like it, and while we can't necessarily talk about the frontman who drove a lawn tractor into the studio's swimming pool after a jaunt on the A31 at 6am, or the time a keyboardist was found wailing on a dinghy, in the very same swimming pool, after one too many shandies, there are many stories we can share.
For instance, it would be rude not to mention the session at Jacobs where The Smiths considered using Status Quo's Rick Parfitt on The Queen is Dead, when the two bands were both recording at the studio, or the time Nigel Kennedy, having arrived in his paisley Jag to do a Primal Scream session, had to abort after no one could wake the band up.
Of course, there are still many studios that continue, although most are closer in scale to West Street rather than Fisher Lane. One of the most successful in Surrey is Black Barn Studios, which opened near Ripley in 1985 and has been the location of choice for the Manic Street Preachers, The Who and Paul Weller. In fact, The Modfather now owns the studio and recorded last year's 22 Dreams there in its entirety.
Some have changed tack completely, such as John Franklin, whose Lakeside Studios can be found at the Lakeside Complex in Frimley Green. With a background in the music industry that included being managing director for pop group The New Seekers, who rehearsed at his Blackwater flat, he now concentrates mainly on voice-over sessions with the likes of Jim Davidson, Penelope Keith and Keith Chegwin.
"In the Seventies, I ran Bob Potter's studios in Mytchett," says John. "Among other bands that recorded there were Marmalade and The Jam. I remember that The Jam wanted to record everything at once, even though we had a very basic multi-track facility. The recording equipment was purchased from an auction that had been set up to sell off Telstar producer Joe Meek's assets after his death.
While music making may be more accessible these days – and it's surely not long before a blue plaques-alike scheme starts picking out the bedrooms where some of today's most famous recordings were created – I can't help wondering if some of the magic has been lost.
Surely, Surrey's rock and roll elite could group together to preserve some of the county's heritage with a magical mystery tour through the birthplaces of some of this nation's greatest artists and albums. I'd certainly buy a ticket to ride.
• In the four years that John Lennon lived in Weybridge from 1964, The Beatles cemented their status as the world's biggest band.
• Ringo Starr is a keen photographer and has a house in leafy Cranleigh.
• The Faces' Kenney Jones owns Hurtwood Park polo club in Ewhurst and singer Mick Hucknall lives by Burhill Golf Course in Walton-on-Thames.
• Status Quo's Francis Rossi is happy living the quiet life in Purley's Webb Estate.
• Discover life down The Farm with Genesis' Mike Rutherford.
• Genesis Publications in Guildford has been creating limited edition hand-bound books mainly about rock stars and bands for over 35 years.
• Queen guitarist Brian May lives with his wife, the actress Anita Dobson, in the West End area, near Woking, where they have an animal rescue centre in the garden.
• Ginger dreadlocked Surrey songsmith Newton Faulkner once worked at Fanny's Farm Shop near Redhill.


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Q: Is it true that $E(X|X'\beta)=X$ while $E(X|W'\gamma)\neq X$ when $W$ contains $X$? Consider the following real- valued random vectors
(1) $X:=(X_1,...,X_k)'$ of dimension $k\times 1$
(2) $W_1:=(X_1,...,X_k, Z)$ of dimension $(k+1)\times 1$
Let $\beta \in \mathbb{R}^k$ and $\gamma \in \mathbb{R}^{k+1}$.
Consider $E(X|X'\beta)$ and $E(X|W'\gamma)$. Is it true that $E(X|X'\beta)=X$ while $E(X|W'\gamma)\neq X$?

A: The first assertion, that $E(X\mid X'\beta)=X$, is not true. The conditional expectation should be a function of $X'\beta$, and none of the $X_1,\ldots,X_k$ is expressible as such a function (except in trivial cases of $\beta$). For example if the $X_1,\ldots,X_k$ are iid, and if we take $\beta=(1,\ldots,1)'$, then $X'\beta=\sum X_i$ and $E(X_j\mid X'\beta)=E(X_j\mid\sum X_i)=\frac1k\sum X_i$, which is not equal to any of the $X_i$.

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Rita Ora has opened up about her split with Scottish singer/DJ Calvin Harris. The 24-year-old singer and X-Factor judge who dated the 31-year-old DJ for about a year spoke to Marie Claire magazine about what caused their breakup.
"There was a reason why I split up with him. [...] It was more of a thing where I was in awe. I was at that point in my relationship where I felt he could do no wrong," she said. "I thought he had my back and that he'd never steer me wrong. But then 'I Will Never Let You Down' came out, and everything started to go a bit weird. I don't know if it was because business was mixed with personal or what."
Harris has moved on in his love life, and is dating American singer/songwriter Taylor Swift. Reports that Harris and Swift are dating started earlier in March, when the two were pictured shopping in Nashville, dressed similarly. Later, the two were spotted at a Kenny Chesney concert, getting cosy in the audience. The couple made their relationship public when Swift kissed Harris during the Billboard Music Awards 2015, held at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas on 17 May.
Previously, during an interview with Kiss FM UK, the music producer gushed about the 25-year-old Bad Blood hitmaker. "It's going absolutely fantastic. It's interesting because obviously there's different things written about it every day and even if we don't do anything publicly for a while, someone will make something up. For me it could be a lot worse and I'd still be like insanely happy with her so I'm good with it," Harris said.


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What You Need To Know About The New Federal Rules For Driverless Cars
Plus, a new acronym
By Kelsey D. Atherton
Cover Of Driverless Car Policy
The seats turned backwards to the dashboard is a nice touch.Department Of Transportation
Yesterday, the President of the United States did something unusual. In an op-ed published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Barack Obama explicitly made the case for putting people inside of robots and moving them around. That is, he argued in favor of driverless cars, which is a less horrific statement of the same thing.
Self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles, are in development from Google, Apple, and Uber, as well as others, and they bring the promise of perfect, more efficient travel, with cars communicating automatically to each other and deadly human error a thing of the past.
It is an exciting potential future, but if it's to come to fruition, it needs rules. And, ideally, it needs one set of rules for the entire United States, so that a driverless car works the same in Montana as it does in Massachusetts. To that end, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, put together an official "Federal Automated Vehicles Policy." It's 116 pages long. Where we're going, we definitely need bureaucracy.
Here are the three biggest takeaways.
This is always, and will always, be about safety.
The subtext is that roads, even after a century of refinement, are still pretty deadly, and they're deadly because of human failings. Putting automated cars in charge could change that. From the policy:
For DOT, the excitement around highly automated vehicles (HAVs) starts with safety. Two numbers exemplify the need. First, 35,092 people died on U.S. roadways in 2015 alone. Second, 94 percent of crashes can be tied to a human choice or error.2 An important promise of HAVs is to address and mitigate that overwhelming majority of crashes. Whether through technology that corrects for human mistakes, or through technology that takes over the full driving responsibility, automated driving innovations could dramatically decrease the number of crashes tied to human choices and behavior. HAVs also hold a learning advantage over humans. While a human driver may repeat the same mistakes as millions before them, an HAV can benefit from the data and experience drawn from thousands of other vehicles on the road.
Government sees driverless cars as both inevitable and good.
The policy statement explicitly compares driverless cars (or, in the new government jargon, "highly automated vehicles,") to seat belts and air bags. From the policy:
New vehicle technologies developed in the 20th century—from seat belts to air bags to child seats—were once controversial. But after having saved hundreds of thousands of American lives, they are now considered indispensable. Advanced technologies developed in the first part of the 21st century—like automatic emergency braking and lane departure warnings—are already making U.S. roads safer. How many more lives might be saved today and in the future with highly automated vehicles? DOT is committed to finding out.
Liability for accidents could get weird.
The goal of the policy is to avoid having 50 different, competing sets of rules for driverless cars between states. Right now, when you're traveling on highways between states, apart from speed limit changes, the roads are mostly interchangeable as long as all goes well. In the event of an accident, but in the event of accidents, the rules for liability vary state to state. To get everyone on board with driverless cars, states are going to have to come up with liability rules that apply to human occupants, and also ones that might apply instead to the company that made, programmed, and trained the driverless cars. From the Policy:
States are responsible for determining liability rules for HAVs. States should consider how to allocate liability among HAV owners, operators, passengers, manufacturers, and others when a crash occurs. For example, if an HAV is determined to be at fault in a crash then who should be held liable? For insurance, States need to determine who (owner, operator, passenger, manufacturer, etc.) must carry motor vehicle insurance. Determination of who or what is the "driver" of an HAV in a given circumstance does not necessarily determine liability for crashes involving that HAV. For example States may determine that in some circumstances liability for a crash involving a human driver of an HAV should be assigned to the manufacturer of the HAV.
The full policy paper is a deep dive into the government's first, best attempt at what, exactly, our roads looks like with autonomous vehicles doing the driving. While we don't yet know what the future of driverless cars looks like, thanks to its technical nature of the policy, we can at least rest assured that it will at least have some of the same frustrating mundanity as it does today.

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CommVault and XIOtech Announce Disk-Based Data Protection for Unix
Thursday Sep 26th 2002 by Wayne Kawamoto
CommVault Systems and XIOtech Corporation recently announced a joint solution designed to improve backup performance and recovery access.
CommVault Systems, a provider of unified enterprise data management solutions and XIOtech Corporation, a subsidiary of Seagate Technology, announced a "Disk-Based Data Protection" solution that combines CommVault's Galaxy backup and recovery software with XIOtech's adaptive storage architecture.
According to the companies, the joint disk-based backup solution offers the ability to use XIOtech's MAGNITUDE storage platform as a primary backup medium, which may reduce backup-media access time and increase backup and recovery performance.
"The flexibility and strength of Galaxy's media management capabilities maximize device performance. It doesn't treat the disks as serial media, but as random access media which capitalizes on the strengths of XIOtech's adaptive architecture," said Dan McCormick, vice president of worldwide marketing for XIOtech. "This is in contrast to the typical virtual tape library solution, which does not fully take advantage of the performance available through virtualization. The primary business benefit of this solution is the speed and ease with which companies can restore critical data."
XIOtech says that its virtualization technology combines the performance and capacity of up to 64 disk drives into a central storage pool that can be accessed simultaneously by disparate servers, operating systems, and applications. In addition, the MAGNITUDE storage platform is designed to be easy to use and offers seamless scalability and on-the-fly storage configuration and management.
CommVault Galaxy release 4.1 is designed to expand high performance data protection for heterogeneous enterprises. Galaxy platform and application support includes: Solaris, RedHat Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, SharePoint Portal, Active Directory, SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, IBM AIX, HP-UX, and True64. Among many capabilities intended to shrink the backup window, Galaxy 4.1 may enhance serverless backup, including block-level incremental backup of Oracle databases across Microsoft Windows, UNIX and Linux deployments, to practically eliminate I/O load on the database server.
CommVault's unified browser interface should provide a single point of control for managing, scheduling, aging and cataloging backup copies of data. Via centralized storage policies, Galaxy customers may combine the fast access of disk as a primary target for backups with the longer-term retention and disaster recovery capabilities of tape. With storage policies, the administrator may configure the Galaxy backup scheme to migrate backup data from the backup disk library to tape or other media after a given retention parameter is met.


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Q: Xcode debugger doesn't display variable information after installing CocoaPods Podfile I just installed CocoaPods and added a pod to my project in Xcode so that I could use the Google Maps SDK for iOS, and now I'm not able to get types or values for any variables in the debugger console. The only way I can see a variable's value is through a print statement in the code.
I'm using Swift 2.0 in Xcode 7.0 beta, and I followed these instructions almost exactly to install the pod into my project: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/ios-sdk/start. The only thing I did differently was to change the second line in the Podspec from "platform :ios, '8.1'" to "platform :ios, '9.0'".
I looked at the answers to this similar question: Xcode debugger sometimes doesn't display variable values?, but I was already using a debug build, and I'm pretty sure my problem is related to CocoaPods, because everything was working fine before I added that to my project.

A: This is known issue, you can find more info and starred isuue here.
TL-DR - Quick workaround:
Add Objective-C bridging header file and add #import <GoogleMaps/GoogleMaps.h>"
Remove all "import GoogleMaps" from your swift files
PS: Tricky stuff - you have to remove all imports from your swift files - I have forgotten to remove the one and it causes this debug issue.

A: I hade the same problem dunno if you solved it but, for me this happened because googlemaps was causing too many errors. So the workaround is remove all your googlemaps import in the projekt and add an import to googlemaps in your bridging header instead.

A: Updating to version 1.10.21020.0 of Google Maps SDK for iOS fixed the problem.


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US News Tigray: the Ethiopian authorities say they control Mekele
00:50 29 november 2020 Source: fr.euronews.com
The Ethiopian army accuses the Ethiopian leader of the WHO of supporting the Tigray region
© AFP / FABRICE COFFRINI Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the WHO, is accused by the Ethiopian army of campaigning for the Tiger. The chief of staff of the Ethiopian army criticizes the director general of WHO for supporting this region where violent clashes have been taking place for several days.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Saturday that the army had entered Mekele , the capital of the Tigray region in an offensive against the region's dissident leaders, state television reported. "We've been able to enter Mekele city without innocent civilians being targets," Abiy was quoted as
The Ethiopian military has begun an offensive in Tigray 's capital city of Mekelle, according to reports from the region. But our armed forces after seizing the control of Mekele city will be tasked to hunt down and capture these criminals one by one wherever they may be," he said in comments carried by
The Ethiopian Prime Minister claims to have taken control of Mekele, the capital of the dissident region of Tigray. The ongoing fighting has led to the exodus of thousands of people. View on euronews
© Themba Hadebe / Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, January 12, 2020 - file photo
The Ethiopian Prime Minister claims to have taken control of Mekele, the capital of the dissident region of Tigray. The fighting there has led to the exodus of thousands of people.
In Ethiopia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced this Saturday evening that the federal army had taken control of Mekele, the capital of Tigray. This dissident region, located in northern Ethiopia, is the scene of a military operation that began three weeks ago.
Ethiopia: the African Union tries a new mediation
© AFP - EBRAHIM HAMID Ethiopian refugees who fled the fighting in Tigray bring food back to a Sudanese camp on November 18, 2020. It is a new attempt to mediation in Ethiopia to end the conflict between the government and the dissident region of Tigray. This latest attempt comes from Cyril Ramaphosa and the African Union.
Ethiopia 's military begins offensive against capital of defiant Tigray region, local officials say . The offensive against Mekele — a normally peaceful city of 500,0000 — followed the end of a 72-hour ultimatum issued by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to rebelling leaders of the Tigray region to
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Saturday that the army had entered the capital of the Tigray region in an offensive against the region's dissident leaders, state television reported. "We've been able to enter Mekele city without innocent civilians being targets," Abiy was quoted as saying by
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In Ethiopia, the conflict in Tigray threatens to spread Ethiopia: "final phase" of the offensive in Tigray
The local authorities come from the Front for the Liberation of the People of Tigray , the TPLF, which the government is fighting.
The head of the Ethiopian army, General Berhanu Jula assures us that his troops are "chasing" the members of the TPLF.
For the time being, Tigrayan officials have not reacted to these statements.
Deaths and refugees
Regarding the results of this military offensive, it is very difficult to have independent information. Tigray has been virtually cut off from the world since the start of the conflict.
But according to the NGO International Crisis Group, the fighting has already claimed several thousand lives.
What is certain is that thousands of people have fled this region plagued by violence. And many have found refuge in neighboring Sudan.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) visited a UN-run camp in Sudan on Saturday, not far from the border.
The UN at the bedside of Ethiopian refugees from Tigray
He called on the international community to provide financial assistance to Sudan to cope with the massive influx of refugees from the Tigray region.
Ethiopia: Abiy claims to know the whereabouts of the fleeing Tigray leaders .
© Aude GENET Map locating the Tigray region in Ethiopia and neighboring Eritrea The dissident leaders of Tigray, on the run, are tracked and are in the crosshairs of the Ethiopian federal army, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Monday, less than 48 hours after his proclaimed military victory in this northern region of the country. Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2019, Mr.
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Saturday that the army had entered Mekele , the capital of the Tigray region in an offensive against the region's dissident leaders, state television reported. "We've been able to enter Mekele city without innocent civilians being targets," Abiy was quoted as www.dw.com
Ethiopian government begins offensive in Tigray capital city of Mekelle
The Ethiopian military has begun an offensive in Tigray 's capital city of Mekelle, according to reports from the region. But our armed forces after seizing the control of Mekele city will be tasked to hunt down and capture these criminals one by one wherever they may be," he said in comments carried by www.euronews.com
Ethiopia begins offensive on defiant Tigray capital Mekele
Ethiopia 's military begins offensive against capital of defiant Tigray region, local officials say . The offensive against Mekele — a normally peaceful city of 500,0000 — followed the end of a 72-hour ultimatum issued by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to rebelling leaders of the Tigray region to www.washingtonpost.com
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Posted: July 23, 2020 | Author: Tom | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2020 Elections, Constitution, Coup, COVID-19, Department of Homeland Security, Donald Trump, First Amendment, Portland Oregon, Reichstag Fire, Voter Suppression | Leave a comment
Events unfolding around the country are the previews for coming attractions, and it won't be fun. To look at what is happening in Portland Oregon one might see a trial run for more such activity — currently announced for, or underway in, Kansas City, Chicago and Albuquerque.
Going forward, remember that this is all right from the autocracy 101 hand book. I will explain my thinking in this piece, but two major things are happening. One is that Mr. Donald J. Trump is trying to get video to support his campaign claim that the cities are out of control and that "only I can fix it." Second, and far more ominously, he is laying the ground work for declaring martial law leading into the election. Mr. Trump and his campaign know that he cannot win solely through the support of his base. He needs to keep people from voting for his opponent — voter suppression — and one way to do that is to intimidate the electorate and to make it too hard to vote. It is an election strategy that comes at the expense of American cities and their citizens. It threatens the very foundation of our democracy.
As a reminder, federal law enforcement units in full combat gear have been on the streets in Portland for about ten days. Theoretically, they are there to protect the federal court house from protesters. In fact, they have been patrolling the streets of the city picking up people that look like they might be willing to foment trouble. Let's dive into this further.
The federal government has a duty and a right to protect federal property from destruction. In cases such as the court house in Portland, this would normally entail coordinating with the local city and state authorities for a cohesive plan and would amount to a defensive — rather than offensive — effort to keep trouble makers away. None of this is happening. There is no apparent coordination with local authorities — indeed the mayor and governor have explicitly asked those forces to leave — and they are definitely using offensive tactics with rubber bullets, tear gas, pepper spray and other agents against the crowd. To be sure, there are trouble makers in the ranks of the protesters. However, the vast majority are peaceful. Additionally, with proper techniques and coordination, peaceful protesters are likely to cooperate in identifying the bad apples in the crowd as it is in the best interests of the other protesters to keep it peaceful and to not provoke an over reaction by law enforcement. By all credible accounts, after weeks of protests, the demonstrations in Portland had settled into a peaceful occasion and were slowly dwindling in size. That is until the federal authorities arrived and began using their storm trooper tactics. In military combat gear, the federal authorities wear no name tags or unit identification badges, only a small generic "police" tag on their camos. Reportedly, they are from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agencies of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). One might ask who is guarding our borders from the supposed hoards coming across from Mexico if they are in Portland? One might also ask what training these particular agencies give to their agents regarding community policing?
If you think it is an exaggeration, look at this video of a Navy veteran trying to talk to some of the agents and getting beaten and pepper sprayed while not even raising his arms or making any threatening movements.
All of this on its own is bad. Very bad. But it portends worse things to come. Remember Mr. Trump's words earlier this week.
"I'm going to do something, that I can tell you. Because we're not going to let New York and Chicago and Philadelphia and Detroit and Baltimore and all of these — Oakland is a mess. We're not going to let this happen in our country. Look at what's going on — all run by Democrats, all run by very liberal Democrats. All run, really, by the radical left."
So, first of all, only Democrat mayors are "bad." Secondly, there are currently no violent demonstrations in Philadelphia, Detroit or Baltimore or other cities he is going to "dominate." This is pure, unabashed partisan politics using federal law enforcement agencies for his personal gain.
Additionally, the hypocrisy is all too familiar. The rationale behind the Portland deployment is to protect against citizens expressing their First Amendment rights on federal property. In 2018 Mr. Trump gave full pardons to two Oregonians — father and son — that set fire in 2016 to 139 acres of federal land during Red Flag Warning conditions, endangering firefighters working on another fire nearby. It resulted in a 40 day armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by protesters supporting their cause. He considered these men to be patriots. Peaceful protesters in cities are considered to be criminals.
As I have written in this space before, I was very involved in figuring out Saddam Hussein's next moves during Gulf War I. We figured out after awhile that he pretty much always announced what he intended to do. He couldn't always carry it out, but he was pretty straightforward in his pronouncements. Mr. Trump is the same way. He announces exactly what he plans to do.
Here is the diabolical back drop to his strategy. In my 8 May piece "American Carnage" I wondered aloud about how Mr. Trump could have so badly botched the national response to the pandemic and opined that perhaps it was deliberate. I am now sure of it. He did not create the pandemic, but he is going to use it to his advantage. Similarly, he will use the Black Lives Matter movement to declare that they are terrorists working to destroy America. He already barely hides his racism in this regard. Yesterday in a speech he blamed Mexico (again) and the BLM protests for the spread of the Coronavirus in the South and Southwest. He repeatedly declares that if the Democrats win the election, they will "destroy the suburbs," a not-so-subtle racist canard.
Many pundits and political experts, as well as average citizens, have wondered for weeks and months why Mr. Trump refuses to put forward a national effort to halt the pandemic and to address racial injustice. It dawned on me yesterday that as former Maryland Lt. Governor and National Republican Chairman Michael Steele explained on TV yesterday — this is his plan. In other words, he will use the chaos currently engulfing our country to his advantage. He will trot out again his beliefs that the the Constitution gives him "absolute power" and that "I alone can fix it." These will form the basis for action on his part to interfere in an election that he is already claiming — nearly daily — is rigged. He is against mail-in ballots (even though he, his family, many of his aides and many service members vote by mail) and has installed a long-time ally as Postmaster General. Mail bags mysteriously disappearing? Mail trucks mysteriously bursting into flames? The imagination can run wild.
The point is that we will not succumb to an outright coup on his part. It will be gradual with incremental decisions and policies that set the stage for him to declare the election invalid and that he must stay on to save the country. He is on record multiple times, most recently in his Fox News interview with Mike Wallace, that he will not accept the outcome of the election if he thinks it's rigged. Asked directly if he would accept the results he said,
"I have to see. Look — I have to see. No, I'm not just going to say yes. I'm not going to say no."
Since many of the states will use mail-in ballots, it could be days or weeks before the official results are in. If the election is close as the polls close on Election Night, and the results change dramatically against Mr. Trump when the absentee, provisional and other ballots are counted, he could well declare the entire election a fraud and cancel it. He is on record with the 2018 Florida election — which was very close and looked as if it would go against his preferred candidates — as saying that only ballots counted on Election Day should be valid. He tweeted without offering a single piece of evidence,
"The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged. An honest vote count is no longer possible — ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night."
Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis both won their races.
We already know that Mr. Trump will do anything that benefits him. There is no ethical, moral or legal bottom for him. He now has an Attorney General that acts as his personal attorney and shares Mr. Trump's belief in an Imperial Presidency.
The U.S. military put Mr. Trump on notice after they were used in a political stunt at Lafayette Square in Washington D.C. for his bible thumping campaign photo op that they would not be used for political purposes. Thus, Mr. Trump went to his flunkies in DHS (the top position and most of the sub-agencies are headed by "acting" leaders that do not have Senate approval) in order to create his own personal police force to pursue his personal goals.
Some may think that this is a "Chicken Little" scenario. Alarmist. Couldn't happen here. That's not America. Stop hyperventilating. No way. I hope that you are correct. Personally, I am watching out for our "Reichstag Fire" moment.
Is The Sky Falling?
Posted: April 12, 2019 | Author: Tom | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Constitution, Department of Homeland Security, Donald Trump, Historical Perspective, Mueller Report, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, United States | Leave a comment
…Don't it always seem to go, That you don't know what you've got till it's gone…
—– Joni Mitchell from the song Big Yellow Taxi
From time to time I try to do a self-evaluation as to my perspective on current events under this president's administration. In a nod to Chicken Little, I wonder if things are really as bad as they seem or whether I am falling prey to the hype. Am I running around yelling that the sky is falling for no reason? In my view, there is less hype and more to be genuinely concerned about with this president as time goes by. I worry that the incremental destruction of our political norms and traditions is passing the notice of many of our fellow citizens and that one day we will wake up and realize that what we all assumed was right in these United States is now gone.
The president gutted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). We now have an Acting Secretary of Homeland Security and key department heads are missing or also have "acting" leaders including the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, the Undersecretary for Management, the Director of the Secret Service and the Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Any day, the Director of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will be empty as he becomes the Acting Secretary. Additionally in the DHS the FAA and FEMA are headed by acting directors. There are other key offices empty.
When the president was asked who is in charge at DHS given all the vacancies, he replied, "Frankly there's only one person that's running it. You know who that is? It's me."
There are 716 positions in the government that require Senate confirmation. Of those there are 140 with no nominee. Only six are awaiting confirmation. Positions without permanent leadership include the Secretary of Defense, the president's Chief of Staff, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The other positions are generally department heads or at the Deputy and Assistant Secretary level across the government, in other words, the people that actually get things done.
The president is trying to interfere with the work of the Federal Reserve, an institution previously thought for decades to be above political interference which is critical to its credibility and role in shaping the U.S. and world economy.
The Attorney General of the United States is refusing to release the entire Mueller Report to the Congress. He alone (or will it be with help from the White House?) will determine what will be released. While it may be reasonable to withhold some of the report's information from the general public, refusing to release it to Congress, who is authorized to deal with classified information and grand jury proceedings, makes it impossible to know whether the true story of the investigation will be known. Additionally this week, Attorney General Barr asserted that the government was spying on the Trump campaign. As he said, "I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal. I think spying did occur." When asked to provide proof, he said he could not. How convenient. The man who controls what parts of the impartial investigation may be released can assert whatever he cares to and then not have to provide evidence.
The Attorney General got his job by currying favor with Mr. Trump. His hiring is paying off for the president as Mr. Barr repeats many of the president's talking points and provides further fodder for his assertions that he was "exonerated" (he wasn't), that it was all a "hoax" (the entire intelligence community says it was not), and that it was an "attempted coup" (forgetting that the Special Counsel, Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, FBI Director, etc., etc., etc.) were all this president's appointees. The president procured a personal attorney in Mr. Barr, and the United States lost an Attorney General. (One might ask Mr. Trump and his supporters how a corrupt, phony, political vendetta prone organization could "exonerate" him. A seemingly direct contradiction.)
Additionally, the Attorney General refuses to support the law of the land — the Affordable Care Act twice upheld in the Supreme Court — primarily because that's the president's position. It's kind of scary if a president can seek to overturn laws he doesn't agree with by directing the Department of Justice to work to overturn it, even though it was twice deemed Constitutional.
Speaking of not following the law, it appears that Secretary of the Treasury Mnuchin will direct the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) not to turn over Mr. Trump's tax returns. This in spite of the fact that under the law the Secretary is not to interfere in decisions made by the IRS and the fact that a law is on the books that says the IRS "shall" turn them over to Congress upon request (not "may", "could", "might" or any other modifier). The law is a 1924 statute enacted to uncover fraud within the Executive Branch following the Teapot Dome scandal.
After declaring a National Emergency and sending additional troops to the border, there is no Senate confirmed Secretary of Defense and no Secretary of Homeland Security. Not even nominees. Where is the oversight? Mr. Trump professes that "I like acting. It gives me more flexibility." In other words, he likes people to be unsure in their jobs because it gives him more control over them. Additionally, he does not have to worry about too many tough questions coming during Senate confirmation hearings.
Frustrated by the asylum laws governing immigrants, the president wants to undo them all and in fact argues that we eliminate judges that adjudicate the laws about asylum. As he said this week, "And we have to do something about asylum. And to be honest with you, you have to get rid of the judges."
Among other measures being considered (again!) in the White House is an Executive Order ending birthright citizenship (anyone born on U.S. soil is considered a citizen). So apparently the president and his advisers think that the president can unilaterally overturn the Constitution. In this case, the 14th Amendment.
I could go on and on. I find it very troubling that the assaults on the rule of law continue unabated and indeed, seem to be increasingly frequent and harsh. On the other hand, the president is a known blowhard who continually speaks outrageously and without knowledge of nearly any subject. Should we worry about his pronouncements or is it just more sound and fury rather than substance? If during his presidency he has already told over 9,000 provable lies should we just dismiss most of his statements as more lies? Or is there something there?
I think that there is something there. The president does not seem constrained by any law from taking action, even though many of his most controversial policies have been consistently overruled in the courts. He and his administration willfully ignore attempts at oversight from the Democrats in the House of Representatives. Republicans in the Senate are too afraid of being "primaried" (when did that become a word?) to stand up to him. Where are the limits to his power as he continues to push the boundaries and in many cases break them? Or are these concerns of mine just a gut level reaction to his abominable personality and persistent bullying and belittling?
In my heart I know that Mr. Trump cares nothing about the people of the United States. He cares only of himself and arguably his family. Whatever helps him personally and allows for his family to continue to make money off of the presidency is all that keeps him focused.
My concern is that having rid himself of nearly everyone in his Cabinet and close advisers that stood up to him to point out that his actions were unlawful, immoral or unethical (and in some cases all three) is gone. Now he is surrounded by enablers. I fear that as time goes by he will become ever more autocratic in outlook and action. Reportedly, Mr. Trump models himself after President Andrew Jackson. Remember what President Jackson is said to have remarked about a decision made by the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall, "John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it!" (President Jackson ignored the Supreme Court's decision in Worcester v Georgia. The case involved the sovereignty of Native American tribal lands.)
Mr. Trump is headed in the same direction as Mr. Jackson. He sees no limits on his power and believes that he can ignore the law where it suits him. And why not? Throughout his entire life he has never been held accountable for his actions in any meaningful way. With A.G. Barr's unilateral assertion that the president is exonerated under the Mueller investigation, what is to make him think that anything or anyone will get in his way?
Sometimes I do think that I am Chicken Little. Maybe I worry about the course of our nation a little too much. Unfortunately, I am also a student of history and current events. There are just too many examples throughout time where revolutions and the loss of freedoms did not happen overnight, but rather incrementally and slowly. Most people's lives were not immediately or directly impacted and so they didn't pay close attention or fret over it. And then one day, it was too late. They didn't know what they had until it was gone.
One at a time Mr. Trump's actions may be more annoying than substantive. Put them all together and it paints the picture of a man who knows no boundaries. A president who is slowly eliminating his opposition and consolidating power in his own hands.
An old U.S. Navy saying goes "Eternal vigilance is the price of safety." We should all remain vigilant to the actions of our president.


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Supporting women's rights in Northern Ireland 'a boy job', confirms Theresa May
Prime Minister Theresa May has made it clear that supporting women in Northern Ireland over their reproductive rights is a 'boy job.'
Last year, in an interview with the notoriously tough journalistic organisation The One Show Mrs May admitted that there were 'boy jobs' and 'girl jobs' in her house.
Now, alongside existing 'boy jobs' such as taking out the bins and operating the television, Mrs May has added 'supporting Northern Irish women's right to control their own bodies with abortion reform' to the list of things that a boy should do.
"I do think it probably best that I stay out of the business of supporting women in Northern Ireland," confirmed the Prime Minister, after a hard day of desperately clinging to power by abandoning whatever functioning scruples she has left.
"I mean, there are plenty of jobs girls can do, like cleaning, and cooking, and fucking the Westminster democratic process into a hole in the ground to cling to power with a wafer-thin majority, but I'm not sure taking sides on abortion reform is one of them."
"In fact, that sounds to me very much like a 'boy job', and therefore something that foolish, silly women like me should definitely not get involved with – at all.
"This sort of thing is best left to the men to sort out. Well, any of them that are brave enough to take on Arlene.
It is also believed, although she has yet to confirm it, that Mrs May sees exercising any sort of authority over the ideological lunacy of the right-wing Brexiters in her cabinet as a 'boy job.'
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Relax: A Manicure Doesn't Cause Cancer
Despite a recent study raising alarms about cancer-causing chemicals, regular customers should feel safe
A mani-pedi appointment is a luxury carved out of a hectic weekly schedule for most people. It's a time to relax, get pampered or prepare for a special event. As summer and wedding season approaches, the masses flock to salons for routine pedicures so they can show off in open-toe heels, sandals and flip-flops. Chances are these people are not thinking about cancer when they are staring at a rainbow wall of nail polish bottles deciding between colors like marshmallow, tropical punch and park ave.
Don't worry: Despite some recent reports and subsequent buzz that nail salons are actually a cancer risk, the nail gels and polishes used in manicures aren't causing cancer.
Dr. Jay Shah, a urologic oncologist at Stanford Medicine who did not participate in the study, told SurvivorNet.com, "while a growing body of medical research shows that chemicals in your environment can slightly increase your risk of getting cancer, it's unlikely that occasional exposure, like getting your nails or your hair done, will do much harm."
So why the new warnings? A new study from researchers at the University of Colorado has identified that nail salons are home to increased levels of cancer-causing chemicals known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), commonly found in nail products, including formaldehyde, known for preserving organic specimens.
Nail technicians who work steadily in a salon for more than 20 years may experience increased cancer risk. The main culprits: Chemicals in products typically used in nail salons. Plus, there's benzene, a proven carcinogen (substances and exposures that can lead to cancer, mostly of the blood).
Lupita Montoya, lead author of the research and Research Associate in The University of Colorado, Boulder's Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering told Forbes that "better policies need to be enacted to protect beauty professionals, because these are the people constantly exposed to the chemicals."
Dr. Shah agrees professional manicurists and hairdressers who are exposed to the chemicals on a daily basis do face health risks. "Hairdressers who handle a lot of hair dyes are historically known to have a higher risk of developing bladder cancer, " says Dr. Shah.
Though, he also points out: "Unless there is some specific cause for you to be worked up for bladder cancer, you don't need to get screened for it."
The researchers at University of Colorado studied workers in 6 nail salons and also modeled the impact of the increased exposure to benzene and formaldehyde over 20 years on the risk of the workers developing certain types of cancer.
But before you cancel your appointment at the nail chain or rethink a hair treatment, note that the study also found that the benzene findings were not consistent with previous nail salon studies. And in other news, the three salons with the highest benzene levels were also in close proximity to gas stations, a known source of high benzene levels. The location of the salon has to raise questions about what is or isn't causing cancer — and the validity of this study.
Cigarette smoke, 100 percent confirmed to cause cancer, also contains high levels of benzene. One has to wonder, is the affected manicurist a smoker? Was she or he a smoker in the past? Does his or her partner, or anyone for that matter, expose them to second-hand smoke? No one knows.
A big red flag: Lauren Teras, Senior Principal Scientist in the Epidemiology Research Program for the American Cancer Society, says no one knows for sure if the participants in the study were exposed to direct smoke, or other non-salon-related sources of pollution.
So, while 70 percent of nail salon workers reported experiencing at least one symptom possibly related to exposure to the VOCs, including eye and skin irritation and headaches — at this juncture, the study is unable to link cancer to chemicals used in nail and hair salons.
If you're worried about exposure to chemicals during beauty treatments, take relief in the fact that it is very important to note that people who visit salons for short periods of time, or do their own nails at home are unlikely to be exposed to a significant concentration of these chemicals.
Bottom line: Further research is needed to assess the health risks of employment in the nail salon industry. Go get your summertime pedicure with ease.
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Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI) just made a huge announcement that is sure to catch investors by surprise. The Orlando-based company is the struggling owner and operator of many full-service restaurants in the United States and Canada. It operates restaurants under the Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, Eddie V's Prime Seafood, and Wildfish Seafood Grille brand names. On January 1, it owned and operated approximately 2,100 restaurants. But that is all about to change, as the company has decided to release its Red Lobster holdings.
Darden is selling Red Lobster, perhaps the most popular of its holdings behind Olive Garden. This is somewhat of a surprise, although the Street was expecting some sort of change. This is because the company announced late last year that it planned to either spin off or sell Red Lobster to improve its financial performance. Both Olive Garden and Red Lobster have been losing customers in recent years, and the company has tried various menu changes and marketing campaigns in hopes of winning back business.
How bad are the financials? Darden suffered a 19.6 percent plunge in profit year over year as its two largest brands continued to struggle with depressed sales and foot traffic. Revenue dipped 1 percent to $2.2 billion, missing Wall Street's expectations. During the most recent quarterly earnings, the stock dropped to 82 cents per share, or $109.7 million, from $1.02 a share, or $134.4 million a year earlier. There are about 700 Red Lobster locations and 830 Olive Gardens in North America. Same-store sales at Olive Garden slid 5.4 percent during the quarter.
Foot traffic into Olive Garden restaurants open at least a year dove 4.9 percent in February. Red Lobster, however, was the most significant laggard. Darden said late last year that it plans to split 705 Red Lobster units from its system, whether by selling it or spinning it off to shareholders. That decision has now been made. Red Lobster is no small enterprise. It brought in $611 million in revenue in the third quarter but saw same-store sales dive 8.8 percent and visits decline 11.9 percent. In fact, only Darden's Longhorn saw an increase in same store sales, rising 0.3 percent on $363 million in revenue.
One of the reasons the Darden's restaurants are underperforming is that they are facing severe competition from local businesses, Ruby Tuesdays, Chipotle, Joe's Crab Shack, and others.
Darden CEO Clarence Otis has noted that Red Lobster has been unable to capture higher-income customers. Thus, the company is selling Red Lobster. Darden believes it can turn things around by focusing on the Olive Garden brand. Darden recently modified the logo for Olive Garden and has been adding lighter menu items, as well as smaller dishes that it says better fit with eating trends in order to capture more diners.
Investors are balking at Darden's plans to sell only Red Lobster, saying that the company should separate Olive Garden and Red Lobster as a pair from its other, more successful chains, which include Longhorn Steakhouse and Capital Grille. But the deal will provide Darden with a significant amount of cash with which to work. Darden will see proceeds of about $1.6 billion, of which $1 billion will be used to retire outstanding debt, leaving $600 million to rebrand and expand the Olive Garden. The company said it expects the deal to close in its first fiscal quarter.
The news isn't being digested well on the Street, as shares are currently down 4 percent, to $48.70. The company is in need of cash and will need to focus on rebranding their menu at Olive Garden in order to attract business. As the economy improves, same-store sales cannot keep sliding. In turn, share prices continue to suffer. The company is in transition, and as such, expect Darden shares to trade with extreme volatility in the next few months.
Disclosure: Christopher F. Davis holds no position in any stocks mentioned and has no plans to initiate a position. He has a sell rating on Darden stock.


The High Criminal Court sentenced a Bahraini to five years in jail on charges of receiving cash illegally from a foreign entity in order to run in the parliamentary elections last year. He was also ordered to pay a BD2,000 fine.
His accomplice was sentenced to three years in jail and to a fine of BD1,000, Attorney General Ahmed Al Hammadi said.
According to the case documents, the public prosecution launched an investigation after it was informed that the two defendants had received cash illegally from abroad.
One of the defendant was given the cash to run in the elections and to use it in his electoral campaign.
The investigation revealed that the money would ultimately lead to interference in the domestic affairs of Bahrain through exerting negative influence in a constitutional institution – the parliament- and through taking action that would serve the interests and objective of a foreign entity.
Accordingly, an order was issued to monitor and record the telephone conversations between the defendants, which confirmed the validity of the investigation findings.
The defendants were arrested upon their return from abroad carrying cash exceeding 12,000 Bahraini Dinars and 5,000 Qatari Riyals, without disclosing them to the customs officers.
The Public Prosecution conducted intensive investigations, took statements from witnesses and checked the suspects' bank accounts, finding they received money from abroad through a bank transfer amounting to BD 235,804, in addition to the cash they carried with them into the country.
Based on the indisputable evidence against them, the two men were referred to the High Criminal Court, Al Hammadi said.


MILL CREEK, OK--Water-and how much of it is being used-is a concern for some Oklahoma citizens. An organization is trying to limit the water being pumped from an Oklahoma aquifer.
The Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer--which fills the Blue River--is the water source for many Oklahoma cities including Durant, Ardmore, Ada and Tishomingo.
One group says that unless the state regulates how much mining companies can use, the water could dry up.
A mining company wants to drill for rocks--but if they dig into the ground, they may get more than what they're looking for.
"The problem is that the amount of water that flows into those pits is damaging the aquifer," Amy Ford said, from the Citizens for the Protection of the Arbuckle Simpson Aquifer.
Arbuckle Aggregates--based in Frisco, Texas--is just like many other mining companies in this area, are looking for this--aggregates that can be used for roads and gravel.
The Arbuckle Aggregate Company is looking for a permit to mine--but the citizens for the protection of the Arbuckle Simpson Aquifer say that the company is also asking for unlimited water access. They want the state of Oklahoma to regulate how much water can be used.
"It's the unregulated pit water is where our major concern is right now," Ford said.
When mining, excess water is something that is naturally released.
"We don't really know how much they actually use in their operation," Shanon Shirley said, from the Citizens for the Protection of the Arbuckle Simpson Aquifer, "We know there's a lot of excess because we see it laying on the ground, filling up pits all around here, they're pumping into creeks, they're dumping it on the ground."
"Having a massive, unregulated taking of that water--the ramifications are huge, and the consequences could be detrimental to all citizens in this part of the state," Ford said.
Many are worried because the replenishing rate for the Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer is 4 percent, meaning that only 4 percent of rain water makes it back to the aquifer.
Arbuckle Aggregates were contacted but could not be reached today.
"It takes forever to get down to where it needs to be, and these guys are just pulling it out as fast as they can," Shirley said.
Until then, the Citizens for the Protection of the Arbuckle Simpson Aquifer are planning on an open meeting to discuss the possible dangers of using too much water.
The Citizens for the Protection of the Arbuckle Simpson Aquifer have collected dozens of petitions protesting Arbuckle Aggregate's mining application.
The organization will hold an open forum for the community in the near future.


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Short Description: CHILDHOOD HUNGER RELIEF
Sen. Miguel del Valle - Terry Link - Lawrence M. Walsh - Don Harmon - Iris Y. Martinez, Dan Cronin, Martin A. Sandoval, Donne E. Trotter, Louis S. Viverito and Jacqueline Y. Collins
(Rep. Susana Mendoza - Jack McGuire - Sara Feigenholtz - Frank Aguilar - Roger L. Eddy, John J. Millner, Maria Antonia Berrios, Patricia Bailey, Mike Boland, James D. Brosnahan, Daniel J. Burke, Marlow H. Colvin, Barbara Flynn Currie, Jack D. Franks, Jay C. Hoffman, Michael P. McAuliffe, Elaine Nekritz, Cynthia Soto, Karen A. Yarbrough, William Delgado, Harry Osterman, Julie Hamos, Richard T. Bradley, David E. Miller, Kevin Joyce, Eddie Washington, Constance A. Howard, William Davis, Charles G. Morrow, III, Annazette Collins, Monique D. Davis and Deborah L. Graham)
1/11/2005 Senate Session Sine Die
105 ILCS 125/2.5
105 ILCS 125/4 from Ch. 122, par. 712.4
Creates the Childhood Hunger Relief Act and amends the School Breakfast and Lunch Program Act. Requires the board of education for certain school districts to utilize available federal funding to establish a school breakfast program and a summer food service program. Provides that applications for participation in the school food programs shall be filed with the State Board of Education and information about the child's status shall be provided by the Department of Human Services upon written request. Makes changes concerning the breakfast incentive program. Effective immediately.
Senate Committee Amendment No. 1
Makes changes concerning which schools are to have school breakfast programs. Removes provisions requiring school districts and schools to develop written plans to administer the breakfast programs. Makes changes concerning summer food service programs. Further amends the School Breakfast and Lunch Program Act. Removes the requirement that applications be filed through the regional superintendent of schools. Removes the amendatory provisions that require a school district to certify children as eligible for free meals and require the Department of Human Services to provide information about a child's status. Provides instead that the Department of Human Services shall work with the State Board of Education to certify all children that are eligible for participation.
Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the contents of the bill as amended by Senate amendment No. 1 with the following changes. Requires a board of education to implement a school breakfast program in each school within its district only if at least 40% or more students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. Removes the requirement that a board of education operate a summer food service program, identify a non-profit or private agency to sponsor a program, or collaborate with a non-profit or private agency to provide the program (instead, strongly encourages a board to operate a program or identify an agency to sponsor a program). Provides that a summer food service program may (instead of shall) be supported by federal funds and commodities and other available State and local resources. Effective immediately.
House Committee Amendment No. 1
Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the contents of the bill as engrossed with the following changes. Changes the dates in provisions concerning State policy and legislative intent, school breakfast programs, summer food service programs, and reporting school breakfast program information. Provides that a breakfast program must be implemented and operated in each school building (instead of school) within the school district in which at least 40% or more of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches based upon the count on October 31 of the previous year. Provides that a school board shall determine which schools will be required to implement and operate a school breakfast program using the data from the previous school year. Specifies allowable costs for school breakfast program reimbursement. Allows a district to opt out of the school breakfast program requirement if it is determined that the expense reimbursement would not fully cover the costs of implementing and operating a program. Provides for the regional superintendent of schools to make the decision, with appeals of decisions from districts and residents of districts heard by a joint committee made up of the members of the House Elementary and Secondary Education Committee and Senate Education Committee. Provides that a school district may not attempt to opt out of the school breakfast program requirement by requesting a mandate waiver under the School Code. Effective immediately.
House Floor Amendment No. 2
Provides that within 90 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act or by September 1, 2004, whichever date is later (instead of by September 1, 2004), a school board shall implement and operate a school breakfast program.
2/20/2003 Senate Filed with Secretary by Sen. Miguel del Valle
2/26/2003 Senate Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Terry Link
2/27/2003 Senate Assigned to Education
3/4/2003 Senate Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Lawrence M. Walsh
3/5/2003 Senate Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Dan Cronin
3/5/2003 Senate Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Don Harmon
3/12/2003 Senate Postponed - Education
3/13/2003 Senate Committee Deadline Extended-Rule 3-9(a) (ii), regarding the March 13, 2003 reporting deadline.
4/3/2003 Senate Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Miguel del Valle
4/3/2003 Senate Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules
4/4/2003 Senate Third Reading Deadline Extended - Rule 2-10(e) to May 31, 2003
4/15/2003 Senate Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Education
4/15/2003 Senate Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted
4/16/2003 Senate Do Pass as Amended Education; 008-002-000
4/16/2003 Senate Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 29, 2003
4/22/2003 Senate Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Dan Cronin
4/22/2003 Senate Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules
5/6/2003 Senate Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Miguel del Valle
5/7/2003 Senate Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Rules Refers to Education
5/8/2003 Senate Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Be Adopted Education; 008-003-000
5/8/2003 Senate Second Reading
5/8/2003 Senate Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Adopted; del Valle
5/8/2003 Senate Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 9, 2003
5/13/2003 Senate Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Iris Y. Martinez
5/13/2003 Senate Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Martin A. Sandoval
5/28/2003 Senate Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Donne E. Trotter
5/28/2003 Senate Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Louis S. Viverito
5/28/2003 Senate Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
5/28/2003 Senate Third Reading - Passed; 034-022-000
5/28/2003 Senate Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Tabled Pursuant to Rule 5-4(a)
5/28/2003 House Arrived in House
5/28/2003 House Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading
5/30/2003 House Chief House Sponsor Rep. Susana Mendoza
5/30/2003 House Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Jack McGuire
7/24/2003 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. John J. Millner
10/28/2003 House Assigned to Elementary and Secondary Education Committee
11/4/2003 House Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sara Feigenholtz
11/4/2003 House Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Frank Aguilar
11/4/2003 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. David E. Miller
11/4/2003 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Maria Antonia Berrios
11/4/2003 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Patricia Bailey
11/4/2003 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Mike Boland
11/4/2003 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. James D. Brosnahan
11/4/2003 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Daniel J. Burke
11/4/2003 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Marlow H. Colvin
11/4/2003 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie
11/4/2003 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Jack D. Franks
11/4/2003 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Jay C. Hoffman
11/4/2003 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael P. McAuliffe
11/4/2003 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Elaine Nekritz
11/4/2003 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Cynthia Soto
11/4/2003 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Karen A. Yarbrough
11/4/2003 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. William Delgado
11/4/2003 House Sponsor Removed Rep. David E. Miller
11/5/2003 House Motion Do Pass - Lost Elementary and Secondary Education Committee; 009-000-007
11/5/2003 House Remains in Elementary and Secondary Education Committee
12/22/2003 House Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
3/4/2004 House Committee Deadline Extended-Rule 9(b) April 2, 2004
4/27/2004 House Committee Deadline Extended-Rule 9(b) May 14, 2004
4/27/2004 House Assigned to Elementary and Secondary Education Committee
4/30/2004 House Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Extended-Rule 9(b); May 31, 2004
5/11/2004 House Motion Filed to Suspend Rule 25 Rep. Susana Mendoza
5/11/2004 House Motion to Suspend Rule 25 - Prevailed by Voice Vote
5/13/2004 House House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Elementary and Secondary Education Committee
5/13/2004 House House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Elementary and Secondary Education Committee; by Voice Vote
5/13/2004 House Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Elementary and Secondary Education Committee; 010-000-000
5/13/2004 House Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
5/18/2004 House House Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Susana Mendoza
5/18/2004 House House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee
5/27/2004 House Second Reading - Standard Debate
5/27/2004 House Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Standard Debate
5/31/2004 House House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 004-000-000
5/31/2004 House Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Roger L. Eddy
5/31/2004 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Harry Osterman
5/31/2004 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Julie Hamos
5/31/2004 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Richard T. Bradley
5/31/2004 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. David E. Miller
5/31/2004 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin Joyce
5/31/2004 House House Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted by Voice Vote
5/31/2004 House Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Standard Debate
5/31/2004 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Eddie Washington
5/31/2004 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Constance A. Howard
5/31/2004 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. William Davis
5/31/2004 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Charles G. Morrow, III
5/31/2004 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Annazette Collins
5/31/2004 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Monique D. Davis
5/31/2004 House Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Deborah L. Graham
5/31/2004 House Third Reading - Standard Debate - Passed 098-018-001
5/31/2004 Senate Secretary's Desk - Concurrence House Amendment(s) 01,02
5/31/2004 Senate Placed on Calendar Order of Concurrence House Amendment(s) 01,02 - June 1, 2004
5/31/2004 Senate House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Filed with Secretary Sen. Miguel del Valle
5/31/2004 Senate House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Referred to Rules
5/31/2004 Senate House Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur Filed with Secretary Sen. Miguel del Valle
5/31/2004 Senate House Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur Referred to Rules
7/14/2004 Senate House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Rules Referred to Education
7/14/2004 Senate House Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur Rules Referred to Education
7/15/2004 Senate House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Be Approved for Consideration Education; 006-004-000
7/15/2004 Senate House Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur Be Approved for Consideration Education; 006-004-000
8/24/2004 Senate Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Rules
8/24/2004 Senate House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur-Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b)-Referred to Rules.
8/24/2004 Senate House Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur-Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b)-Referred to Rules.


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El Paso, Texas, mass shooting
Terry Nichols
Patrick Crusius
Report: Domestic extremists killed at least 42 in 2019
By MICHAEL KUNZELMANFebruary 26, 2020 GMT
FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2019 photo, mourners visit the makeshift memorial near the Walmart in El Paso, Texas, where 22 people were killed in a mass shooting that police are investigating as a terrorist attack targeting Latinos. White supremacists and other far-right extremists killed at least 38 people in the U.S. in 2019, the sixth deadliest year for violence by all domestic extremists since 1970, according to a report issued, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, by a group that fights anti-semitism. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)
White supremacists and other far-right extremists killed at least 38 people in the U.S. in 2019, the sixth deadliest year for violence by all domestic extremists since 1970, according to a report issued Wednesday by a group that fights anti-semitism.
The Anti-Defamation League counted a total of 42 domestic extremism-related slayings last year. The gunman who shot and killed 22 people in August 2019 at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, accounted for more than half of them. Patrick Crusius, the suspect in that shooting rampage, is accused of targeting Mexicans at the store and faces federal hate crime charges.
Only the Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols in 1995 and the Pulse nightclub shooting by Omar Mateen in 2016 were deadlier attacks by domestic extremists in the past 50 years, according to the New York City-based ADL.
The ADL's annual Murder and Extremism report says domestic extremists of all kinds killed 42 people in a total of 17 separate incidents last year, down from 53 killings in 2018 but higher than the 41 in 2017.
"This is part of a general trend of increasingly lethal attacks by domestic extremists in the United States," the report says. Four of the deadliest years for extremist-related violence have occurred in the past five years, according to the ADL.
Right-wing extremists killed at least 330 people over the past decade, accounting for 76% of all domestic extremist-related killings.
"This should no longer come as a shock to anyone," the ADL's CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, said in a statement. "Lawmakers, law enforcement and the public need to recognize the grave and dangerous threat posed by violent white supremacy. We cannot begin to defeat this deadly form of hatred if we fail to even recognize it."
The four killings that weren't deemed to be acts of violence by far-right extremists were from the same case: the December 2019 attacks in Jersey City, New Jersey, that killed a police officer in a cemetery and three people at a kosher grocery store.
Authorities said the attackers, David Anderson and Francine Graham, were motivated by a hatred of Jewish people and law enforcement. Both had ties to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, which defies a simple "left-right" classification, the ADL says.
"It is important to remember that extremist murders represent merely the tip of a pyramid of extremist violence in the United States," the report says. "For every person killed by an extremist, many more are wounded or injured in attempted murders and assaults."
Fourteen of the 17 cases of killings by domestic extremists last year involved a single death, the ADL says. One of those appears to be the first killing linked to QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory that centers on the baseless belief that President Donald Trump is waging a secret campaign against enemies in the "deep state" and a child sex trafficking ring run by satanic pedophiles and cannibals.
Anthony Comello, who is charged with killing a New York mob boss in March 2019, displayed QAnon-related messages on his hand during a court hearing. A defense attorney has claimed Comello was deluded by internet conspiracy theories and thought he was helping Trump defend democracy.
"Extremist conspiracy theories can create such a sense of urgency in their followers that some of them may feel motivated to act," the ADL report says.
None of the 42 killings last year was linked to domestic Islamist extremism, a first since 2012. However, a Saudi Arabian aviation student accused of fatally shooting three people at a U.S. naval base in Pensacola, Florida, in December is believed to be motivated by Islamic extremism. The base shootings appeared to be the first lethal foreign terror attack on American soil since the 9/11 terror attacks, the ADL report says. The group's annual tally of domestic extremism slayings doesn't include foreign terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.
"It is clear the threat to the U.S. from Islamist extremists willing to commit violent acts remains a serious one," the report adds.
The ADL, founded in 1913, describes itself as a "global leader in exposing extremism, delivering anti-bias education and fighting hate online."


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