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Bolton to press UK on stronger response to Iran, Huawei
The Hill8/11/19
White House national security adviser John Bolton plans to urge British officials to take a tougher line on Iran and Chinese telecom firm Huawei during a meeting in London this weekend.
Iran says tanker seized at Gibralter will be released soon
New York Times8/13/19
The British and Gibraltar authorities will soon release an Iranian oil tanker that has been held for more than a month, an Iranian official said on Tuesday.
North Korea says it tested new type of missile, further enhancing its arsenal
North Korea said on Sunday that the two projectiles it fired a day earlier were a new type of missile, making this the third new short-range ballistic missile or rocket system the North has successfully tested in less than a month as Washington struggles to resume talks on denuclearization.
U.N. investigating slew of North Korean cyberattacks on financial bodies
Japan Times8/13/19
U.N. experts say they are investigating at least 35 instances in 17 countries of North Koreans using cyberattacks to illegally raise money for weapons of mass destruction programs.
Trump considering North Korea envoy as next ambassador to Russia
Reuters8/12/19
Stephen Biegun, the diplomat who has been leading efforts to revive stalled U.S. denuclearization talks with North Korea, is under consideration to be President Donald Trump's next ambassador to Russia, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday.
Aegis Ashore is up and running in Romania
National Interest8/12/19
Aegis Ashore is a land-based version of the U.S. Navy's SM-3 missile-interceptor.
Bringing Russia's new nuclear weapons into New START
Lawfare8/13/19
The last treaty that limits the U.S. and Russia's nuclear weapons, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), will expire in February 2021 unless both states agree to its extension.
Roll for initiative: NATO's navies need a wargaming series
War on the RocksJared Samuelson
NATO's navies should draw a lesson from history and begin wargaming for a potential future European conflict now.
Intermediate-range missiles are the wrong weapon for today's security challenges
War on the RocksTom Countryman and Kingston Reif
The U.S. pursuit of new ground-launched intermediate-range missiles is militarily unnecessary, would divide NATO, and would lead Russia to increase the number and type of intermediate-range missiles aimed against NATO targets.
The Chinese government released its 10th defense white paper on July 24.
Kashmir's escalatory potential
Arms Control WonkMichael Krepon
Narendra Modi and Amit Shah will need to ask themselves about their exit strategy as tensions in Kashmir continue to heighten.
Can America still protect its allies?
Foreign AffairsMichael O'Hanlon
Is the United States still as committed to extended deterrence in a world where their primary geopolitical rivals are China and Russia?
SPECIAL REPORT: Great Power Competition Extends to Arctic
National DefenseConnie Lee
As the climate warms and thick barriers of ice continue to melt, the Arctic is now becoming a hot spot for economic activity.


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Malaysia's opposition up in arms over ban
Opposition lawmakers have been up in arms the day after the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Azalina Othman imposed a ban on all debate relating to debt-ridden state fund 1MDB and alleged transfers into Prime Minister Najib Razak's bank accounts.
On Thursday (Mar 17), they challenged the order in parliament and forced the Speaker to make a decision.
"It's the speaker that decides whether it's subjudice. I don't listen to the minister," said MP for Indera Mahkota Fauzi Rahman.
Ms Azalina argued it was prejudicial to raise issues relating to 1MDB, given the Malaysian Bar has sought a judicial review on the attorney general's decision not to prosecute the prime minister.
Malaysia's Attorney-General Mohd Apandi Ali has cleared Mr Najib of any criminal wrongdoing. He said the US$681 million deposited in Mr Najib's accounts, of which US$621 million was later returned, was a donation from the Saudi royal family and not from 1MDB.
Opposition MPs were also quick to welcome a new government proposal to criminalise political donations from overseas.
"How can they continue to support Najib and at the same time support the proposal? It doesn't make sense," said MP for Kulai Teo Nie Ching.
Currently there is no law governing political funding in the country. The government proposal will ban foreign political donations and specify that all donations must be timely declared and banked into the party's accounts, and not personal accounts. Otherwise they will be deemed as gratification.
Mr Najib has been facing incessant queries not just from opposition lawmakers but also international media over the huge amount of money found in his accounts. Two Australian journalists were deported on Tuesday after they attempted to ask Mr Najib about the money in his accounts.
On Wednesday in parliament, Mr Najib took all criticism in his stride and responded to the accusations.
"It's clear that all these (allegations) are orchestrated, but not to worry, I have my responsibility to the people, the probe will continue by PAC and other relevant authorities on 1MDB and RM 2.6 billion, the accountability process will continue," he said.
The next step in the investigation will take place at the end of March, when the bi-partisan Public Accounts Committee is expected to table its findings on 1MDB in parliament.
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It was 1933 when Winifred Steiner was finishing her studies Long Beach Community College in California. She wanted to go on to Berkeley to complete her BA, but she didn't have the money to pay for the difference after she was offered a scholarship that wasn't enough to cover all the expenses. Winnie thought her chances of finishing her four-year degree were over; until her adviser, Jessie Anderson, loaned her the $500 she needed.
It was one woman helping another woman.
When Winnie graduated from UCB two year later, she began to repay the loan. It took her three years to repay Anderson and a lifelong friendship had formed.
It was one woman supporting another woman.
When Anderson died in 1963, she bequeathed the exact amount she had loaned to Winnie 30 years earlier – $500. This gave Winnie an idea: Why not use the same $500 to help more women further their education? In 1965, she used the bequest, increased with an additional gift from Anderson's widower, to establish The Anderson Scholarship at the University of California Santa Cruz.
It was one woman leaving a legacy for another woman.
Nearly 30 years later, I was the lucky recipient of the scholarship that is awarded to entering first-year women students with scholastic promise and demonstrated ability. For four years, I had the honor of meeting with Winnie and her family at a yearly luncheon honoring past and present recipients. Just as with Winnie's education, the $500 helped bridge the gap between what my parents could afford to pay and the actual tuition bill.
It became one woman helping over 50 women.
The generosity extended from Jessie Anderson 75 years ago has inspired decades of support for UCSC students. It's been 15 years since I received The Anderson Scholarship. Since graduating with a BA in Feminist Politics, I've gone on to have my own success; owed, in small part, to Winnie and Jessie.
Now it's time for this woman to pay it forward.
Today, I contacted UCSC to find out how I can repay the $500 I was awarded back into The Anderson Scholarship. $500 may not go as far today at it went into 1933, but it's the legacy that will remain priceless.
One woman helping another woman; inspiring that woman to help more women. Thank you, Winifred Steiner, for selecting me to be a link on this beautiful chain.


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*Recent ruminations from LUPEC Boston, in case you missed 'em in the Dig.
As you read this, we're living it up in New Orleans for the five days of boozy revelry known as Tales of the Cocktail. In addition to attending the classes, parties and tasting rooms that fill the days and nights, LUPEC Boston will team up with our New York brethren to host our very own Spirited Dinner at the Redfish Grill.
Times are tough with the current oil spill in the Gulf—several LUPEC members will take a break from the Tales action to help with relief efforts there. In light of this, we're excited to support local restaurants during the festival.
We're also pumped about the welcome cocktail we've created for this event, which combines Dubonnet Rouge, allspice dram and Combier L'Original (the original triple sec), with sparkling wine. Never before available in the US, Combier has just been released in Boston and is coming to a bar/liquor store near you soon.
Distilled in the heart of France's Loire Valley, Combier is made from hand-selected orange peels sourced from Haiti, sugar beets from Normandy and a proprietary blend of ingredients from the Loire Valley. The Combier family developed their recipe in 1834. The liqueur is made in a triple distillation process (hence "triple sec") where ingredients are distilled three times in the same copper pot stills first used by the Combier family. The taste is more natural, versatile and stable than the sugar- and water-based concoctions that pass for triple sec today.
With the Anacaona Aperitif, ingredients from France, Haiti and the Caribbean mingle in the glass. We've named the drink for Queen Anacaona, one of the earliest Taino leaders to fight off Spanish conquest of Haiti in the late 15th century. She resisted in vain but is revered to this day as one of the nation's founders.
Drink with us vicariously by mixing up one of these tonight!
Stir ingredients with ice and strain into an aperitif glass. Top with 2 oz brut sparkling wine.
TALES OF THE COCKTAIL IS JULY 21ST-25TH IN NEW ORLEANS. TO KEEP UP WITH LUPEC'S SHENANIGANS IN REAL TIME, FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @LUPECBOSTON.
If you are a fan of LUPEC Boston you are likely aware that we are big fans of gin. We love this spirit for its versatility, mixabilty, and approachability when introducing cocktail neophytes to the wonderous world of classic cocktails. At Tales of the Cocktail this week, a plethora of seminars on gin await; at the top of our list is The Botanical Garden, led by the lovely and talented Charlotte Voisey, Portfolio Ambassador for William Grant & Sons, USA.
As we discussed a few weeks back, the botanical blend chosen by a master distiller is what sets his or her brand apart from all others in the marketplace. Juniper must be play a leading role but the rest are up to the choice and taste of the master distiller. We caught up with the Charlotte to delve a little deeper into the topic of botanicals, a little preview of what's to come during the Botanical Garden seminar on Thursday morning.
LUPEC Boston: What are the most important factors distillers look for when selecting botanicals?
Charlotte Voisey: The most important thing is consistency of the berries/seeds/botanicals. As they are natural products there can be differences from harvest to harvest so checks are needed to look at the oil content of the botanicals to make sure that they meet the distiller's specifications.
LB: Are there common botanicals that can be found in all/most gins besides juniper? Any particular reason for this besides tradition?
CV: Generally most gins will contain angelica, coriander and citrus elements and mainly because these botanicals work together well for a good general balance of flavor and character. Floral botanicals help give a lovely sophisticated nuance to some gins. I believe that tradition played a part for a while, but recently the selection of botanicals used has opened right up.
LB: Does seasonality affect a botanical blend as it may with wine, like a good vs. bad vintage?
CV: In general there will be no difference during the year as the botanicals are just the berries or seeds that will be produced at the same time every year. Some botanicals definitely have a time during the year when they are at their best and this is when they are harvested, but as long as this is kept consistent each year then so will their quality and their contribution to the balance of flavor of the gin in question.
What are the most important botanicals beside juniper? What kinds of flavors or aromas do they impart?
Juniper is the most important as it has to be, by law, the most dominant botanical. The other botanicals all bring something to the party but it is really the balance obtained between all of the extracted oils that is the important factor. It is no use having a really dominant nose that simply swamps everything else.
Can you suggest some go-to herbs, mixers, or other ingredients that bartenders can keep in mind while developing Hendricks cocktails to enhance different facets of the flavor profile?
Hendrick's has a lovely delicate floral characteristic that bartenders do well not to overpower; strong, bitter and herbaceous ingredients can certainly be used in Hendrick's cocktails but are best done with a light hand. Hendrick's seems to play delightfully in four main flavor directions – spicy, floral, citrus and refreshingly clean.
Do you have a favorite botanical?
Juniper is the almighty botanical and therefore the most respected, as without it we have no "gin". But I do love to draw on the refreshing subtle cucumber essence in Hendrick's when I am mixing.
Don't miss a chance to taste for yourself at the Botanical Garden seminar this Thursday, July 22 @ 10:30 a.m.
In a week LUPEC Boston will be joining 10,000 revelers to converge on the Crescent City for five blissful days of libations, education, and cocktail preservation. As if that wasn't enough to make our little hearts flutter, we're thrilled to be teaming up with our LUPEC NYC brethren to host a Spirited Dinner at The Redfish Grill.
With the recent oil spill crisis in the Gulf it's now more important than ever to support the the hospitality and seafood industries of Louisiana. We'll be teaming up with the gals of LUPEC NYC to serve a spectacular dinner at the fantastic Redfish Grill on Bourbon Street. If you're heading down to Tales, we hope you'll come and join us! Check out the menu & cocktails below, which we'll be writing about and posting recipes for in the coming weeks. Details below.
Thursday, July 22 8 p.m. – 11 p.m.
In just 13 days the ladies of LUPEC Boston will descend upon the New Orleans along with roughly 10,000 other mixologists, brand ambassadors, cocktail writers, and die-hard cocktail enthusiasts. Its one of our favorite weeks of the year – and one of out drunkest – and we've already begun prepping our livers. We hope you'll indulge us as we get into the spirit and raise a glass to one of New Orleans', greatest bartending broads, the late Flo Woodard.
Woodard, also known as "Ms. Flo", became a bartender at the Court of Two Sisters in the early 1970s and held court behind the stick there for over 30 years. At the time, the company was looking for "someone with integrity and longevity, someone that could make the customers want to always visit our business again for our total experience," Flo told the New Orleans Time-Picayune in 2009. This former hostess was a perfect fit. Female bartenders were virtually unheard of in the Crescent City in those days and The Court of Two Sisters were ahead of the times.
Woodard was a self-taught bartender who learned her craft from the pages of bar books, but the special brand of hospitality she practiced was innate. Flo was revered by customers for more than what she put in their glass. Her affable personality and zest for sharing stories brought scores of loyal bar patrons, including celebrity fans, from Cesar Romero to Tyler Perry to the entire cast of "The Young and the Restless" (a favorite show of Ms. Flo's) to John Wayne's son, Patrick.
Ms. Flo's talent for engaging guests was also her passion: "Bartending has allowed me the opportunity to talk to people from all over the world. Many of them have shared much of their lives and secrets with me. When they call me Mama or Auntie, I know that I am the lucky one. I get to share my work time with people that I love. That is very big. They are very special to me. I have been blessed. That little girl from Mississippi found the rest of her family," said Flo in her 2009 interview with the New Orleans Time-Picayune.
Flo was a star mixologist in her own right, who believed a good drink depends on to top of the line liquor, the right mix of ingredients, a fresh twist, and perfect glassware. In 2007 her Crescent City Cooler placed Second in the Tales of the Cocktail annual drink competition. Her famous Hurricane recipe was also reknown.
Let's raise one of these to Ms. Flo and those who tend bar in her tradition by lifting our spirits with a good drink.
Place mint leaves into a frosted Collins glass. Add the simple syrup and both bitters and muddle for 10 seconds. Add the juice from 2 lime wedges, Bacardi Light and ginger ale. Fill the Collins glass with ice and stir with a bar spoon. Top with cranberry juice. Serve with a straw.
Garnish: Garnish with a lime wheel and mint sprig.
Thanks to LUPEC's passion for a killer party, I'm stuck writing their column this week.
They evidently learned nothing in the hangover seminar I moderated at Tales of the Cocktail. Bourbon Belle, Barbara West, Saucy Sureau and Pink Lady all attended, and even though Pink Lady scribbled copious notes, I'm left to cobble something together as she sleeps off her fun in their coven-like hotel room. Her writing is illegible and I'm preliterate, so we make a great team. But still: Was she drunk when she took these?
Had the ladies listened to what Wayne Curtis and I said, they might have made this morning's deadline. Sure, it was the last evening of Tales of the Cocktail, but the girls should have eaten dinner rather than lounging by the pool, sipping tiki drinks. Downing a quart of milk would have been better than nothing.
After their first rotation around the Carousel Bar, they should have had some water. Instead, they ordered Vieux Carrés in to-go cups for the cab ride over to New Orleans' hot new cocktail bar, Cure.
Instead of imbibing drinks based on cognac and rye, they should have stuck with one spirit, narrowing the blend of congeners with which they pummeled their livers to one concise list. Vodka is the best for this, which makes true cocktailians scowl. Gin—the original flavored vodka—would have worked too.
Once they tired of drinking cocktails, they shouldn't have ordered cava, which accelerates the ethanol administration process through carbonation. And they most definitely should have gone home when they found the Old Absinthe House closed at 4am. Beignets from Café du Monde seemed the perfect solution, but sipping nips of Chartreuse as they walked there? Surely not.
According to one study, hangovers cost US employers $148 billion annually through lateness, absenteeism and conflicts with coworkers. Had I been unavailable to guest-author for the ladies, it would cost the Dig, too.
Shake and strain. Also great after a day in the fridge.
And when that doesn't work, I'll show them how to drink a PBR in the shower, how the cold beer in your insides, the hot water on your outsides and the cold can against your forehead is truly one of God's great gifts to us. Vigorous exercise—another possible cure—may ensue.
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*LUPEC Boston's latest ruminations, in case you missed 'em in this week's Dig.
Ever lie to your doctor about how many drinks you have each week? In the bright glare of the examination room, checking off the "7 or more" box may make you feel bashful. LUPEC suggests dispensing with the shame – after all, for centuries, alcohol and medicine have been closely intertwined.
Many ingredients of modern mixology trace their roots to the pursuit of good health: gin, digestif liqueurs, and of course bitters, the key ingredient in the "cocktail" which spawned a whole new era of drinking in the 19th century. Without bitters, we'd all still be drinking slings.
Without Peychaud's bitters, we'd never have the Sazerac, the official cocktail of New Orleans. In the early 1800s, Creole apothecary Antoine Amadee Peychaud began bottling and selling his signature bitters as a "solution for what ailed one, irrespective of malady". Though a pharmacist by trade, Peychaud became famous for this aromatic tincture, which he mixed with Sazerac de Forge et Fils brandy (the spirit du moment) and served to fellow masons after hours in the back of his shop.
The Sazerac has gone through many transformations in subsequent decades. Later generations added absinthe, then Herbsaint when absinthe was outlawed; rye took the place of cognac. Some bartenders even add a little Angostura bitters to their concoctions, but few would argue that without Peychaud's, you can't have a Sazerac.
As you read this, members of LUPEC Boston and thousands of other cocktail enthusiasts are descending upon the Crescent City for the annual Tales of the Cocktail conference, where we will drink many Sazeracs. Follow our hijinks through our "Live Blog" updates to the Weekly Dig's website, making sure to take your medicine, as prescribed below.
Take two rocks glasses and fill one with ice to chill for serving while preparing the drink in another glass. In the bottom of the prep glass, muddle the sugar cube and bitters until the sugar is dissolved; a splash of water can execute the process. Add the rye and several ice cubes, and stir to chill. Take the serving glass, toss out its ice, and add the splash of Absinthe, Pernod or Herbsaint. Swirl it around to coat the inside of the glass, and then pour out any liquid that remains. Strain the chilled cocktail into the prepared glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.


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NC school vouchers on hold
February 25, 2014 | by Rob Port
Part 60 of 60 in the series Educating America
By Mary C. Tillotson | Watchdog.org.
About 4,000 North Carolina families must wait for the courts to untangle a legal challenge involving the state's voucher program before they'll know what schools their children can attend next year.
SETBACK: Though vouchers cost about half what public schools require to educate students, North Carolina's voucher law is being challenged in court.
"While we respect the court's decision, we are deeply disappointed on behalf of the thousands of working-class families who desired this educational option," said Darrell Allison, president of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina, in a statement. "We will not yield until every parent and child from a poor or working-class background has the same educational opportunities that many of their wealthier peers have."
Wake County Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood put a temporary stop to the voucher program Feb. 21, after refusing to dismiss the lawsuit brought by the North Carolina Association of Educators and 25 other plaintiffs.
The lawsuit alleges the voucher program shortchanges public schools, diverting funds from public schools to private schools.
But the program is perfectly legal, according to Richard Komer, senior attorney for the Institute for Justice, which is intervening in the lawsuit on behalf of affected families.
The state's constitution designates certain money for public education, and that money must be spent on public education, Komer said. But that doesn't prohibit the state from spending on school vouchers.
The program allows 2,400 students to receive scholarships of $4,200 each. Tens of thousands of students are eligible for the program, and about 4,000 applied, said Terry Stoops, director of research for the John Locke Foundation.
North Carolina public schools, in contrast, require $8,195 to educate each student, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
The Center for Education Reform called the decision "appalling."
"This injunction represents a shameful preservation of an unacceptable status quo," Kara Kerwin, president of CER, said in a statement. "The blocking of Opportunity Scholarships when only 30 percent of low-income children in North Carolina demonstrate proficiency on state tests is egregious."
Attorneys representing parents plan to appeal, according to Carolina Journal Online.
Contact Mary C. Tillotson at mtillotson@watchdog.org.
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RE: The tariff classification of women's knit wearing apparel from various countries.
In your letter dated April 6, 2007, you requested a classification ruling. Your samples are being returned as requested.
The submitted sample, style number 03552, is comprised of two women's 100% cotton, knit garments, an upper body garment and a sleeveless pullover. The pullover (the inner garment) is tacked to the upper body garment (the outer garment) at the bottom of the armholes and is worn as a layered garment. The pullover is longer than the upper body garment. The two garments are not permanently attached and are considered two separate garments. The outer surface of each garment measures more than 9 stitches per 2 centimeters in the horizontal direction. The upper body garment features a deep V-neckline that extends below the bust, short hemmed sleeves, a kangaroo style front pocket at the waist, and a hemmed bottom. The pullover features a scoop neckline and a hemmed bottom.
You suggest that style 03552 be classified as one garment in heading 6110, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). However, the outer garment and inner garment are not permanently attached and can be worn as two separate garments.
The applicable subheading for style 03552, the upper body garment, will be 6114.20.0060, HTSUS, which provides for other garments, knitted: of cotton: other: women's. The duty rate will be 10.8% ad valorem.
The applicable subheading for style 03552, the pullover, will be 6110.20.2079, HTSUS, which provides for pullovers, knitted: of cotton: otherother: women's. The duty rate will be 16.5% ad valorem.
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Q: Importing Libraries In Next.js Which Reference The Window Object I'd like to import dat.gui in my Next.js project, but when importing it the normal way (import * as dat from "dat.gui), I get the error "window is not defined", so apparently the script references the window object somewhere in the initialization.  One way to circumvent this is using dynamic imports, but as far as I understand, this means the code from the library is not bundled in the page build but dynamically imported after the page script loaded and started to execute.
It is basically fine, but might be a little bit slower, and also cumbersome to work with as I need to do everything which references the library after the loading process finished.  So I wonder, is it also possible to include a library such a dat.gui in the build without running the initialization on the server?  Or is my understanding of dynamic imports totally wrong?

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Hi Georgie... how wonderful to get some new stuff to work with. I fear that my Christmas presents from now on in will consist of bilge pumps and drip trays!


extension to the X protocol.
and hotplugging of input devices (to be added and removed on the fly).
libxi6. Non-developers likely have little use for this package.
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The goal of the kibbutz movement, founded in 1910 (first kibbutz: Degania), was to create a new society and a New Man who fits that society according to the ideology of the socialistic Zionism. The new society should be as egalitarian and just as possible. The kibbutz developed an elitist conception of being a model for, and a facilitator of a new sane and just Jewish society (Dar). The new man should be a competent farmer, worker, and an effective self-defender, educated above average and last but not least, fit into community life.
The kibbutz movement created a special educational system in order to get along with its goals. The childrens house, the peer group, the family, the school and the community all have to co-operate as interchangeable units of a co-ordinated system of both formal and informal education.
In the first decades the childrens houses (with collective sleeping arrangements) were in the centre of kibbutz education. But during times the families got more and more influences on educational practice.
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This is a bit silly, because the most salient fact about the French elections is the degree to which they show a France that is moving steadily to the right. "Sixty-five per cent to the right, in fact," as I am told by Louis Dreyfus of the Nouvel Observateur. Only 30 percent of even the dwindling blue-collar electorate can now be counted upon to vote Socialist or Communist. The surprise "centrist" figure in the contest, Francois Bayrou, is an upper-crust Catholic from the elite ranks of Giscard d'Estaing's rump conservative faction. The front-runner, Nicolas Sarkozy, is a "law-and-order" hard-liner who promises to get tough with young Muslim slum-dwellers and rioters. The superficially glamorous Socialist, Segolene Royal, who got the nomination only by forcefully repudiating her party's Old Left, has pitched herself as the spokeswoman for the holy trinity of the tricolor, the Marseillaise,and Joan of Arc. M. Le Pen smirks broadly and says that everyone is moving his way in one form or another. And he isn't completely bluffing. There is a reason why the French Communist Party, which used to dominate the working class, the unions, and much of the lumpen intelligentsia, is now a spent force that represents perhaps 3 percent of the electorate. And that reason, uncomfortable as it may be, is that most of the Communist electorate defected straight to the National Front. Moreover, as Louis Dreyfus adds rather gloomily, none of Le Pen's last-time voters (who put him in the second round against Chirac and knocked the Socialist candidate out of the race) have any reason not to vote the same way this time.
Add to this the rather peculiar fact that a huge tranche of voters—most recently as large as 40 percent—simply refuse to tell the opinion polls (who last time got everything calamitously wrong) how they intend to cast their ballots. Again, the best intuitive explanation of this reticence is that many people are embarrassed to declare a Le Pen allegiance in advance. If I am wrong about this, then why are the other candidates so obviously seeking to appeal to his first-round supporters?
There are other ways in which what one might call the "atmospherics" favor the right. A few nights before I arrived in Paris, there had been another explosion of violence between young immigrants and the police. This time it was not in the "suburbs" (or bidonvilles, as they used to be called), which are so poor and nasty that no middle-class people ever have to see them except from the ring-roads. The fighting took place in and around the Gare du Nord, a major railway hub in the city and the station at which Eurostar trains arrive from London and Brussels. While I was still in town, a series of suicide bombs had been detonated in Algeria and Morocco, by an al-Qaida affiliate, which openly declares that former French North Africa is only the front line in a war to conquer Europe. These attentats could have been designed—conceivably even were designed—to intensify the sense of national, ethnic, and religious polarization in France itself.
Le Pen may still be proven wrong next weekend in his overconfident assertion that people will vote for the real thing rather than a surrogate. Sarkozy, and others, may draw his fangs by stealing his voters. But some of us can remember a time when—as someone once put it—if you heard people discussing La Revolution in a French cafe, you realized that they were talking not about the last one, but the next one. I don't think it is sufficiently appreciated that France has now become the most conservative major country in Europe, where different defenses of the status quo are at war only with different forms of nostalgia and even outright reaction.


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Nokia "considering Windows Phone 7"
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New Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is considering running Windows Phone 7 on the company's future smartphones, according to reports.
Elop, who joined Nokia from Microsoft earlier this month, was brought in to shake-up the company's ailing smartphone business. One of the more radical measures he's considering is the adoption of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, sources close to Nokia told Venture Beat.
Nokia's operating system strategy is currently in disarray. As well as running its own Symbian^3 OS on its latest handsets, the company has also dabbled with Maemo Linux on high-end smartphones and tablets.
Separately, the company has joined forces with Intel to develop the open-source MeeGo operating system, although that has yet to appear on any Nokia handsets.
In a statement sent to PC Pro, Nokia denied it was considering yet another OS. "Our platforms are Series 40 [the OS used on basic mobiles], Symbian and MeeGo," the company stated. "That stance was reinforced strongly by our management during Nokia World and we currently have no plans to use other operating systems."
Windows Phone 7 is expected to be released later this autumn, and has won backing from handset manufacturers such as HTC, LG and Asus, as well as all five of the UK's mobile phone networks.
Earlier this week Nokia announced a further delay to its flagship N8 smartphone, piling further pressure on a company that is struggling to compete with the iPhone and the leading Android handsets.
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Anwärter der VP  bezeichnete den niedrigsten Mannschaftsdienstgrad (OR1) der Volkspolizei-Bereitschaften sowie der übrigen uniformierten Volkspolizei der DDR bis 1990.

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For the past 3.5 years I feel like I've been sheltering Sophia a bit, especially over the winter months. On the one hand, I would love for her to socialize with other kids all year. On the other hand, if she gets colds then her life becomes very limited. It's a tough balance to find. Instead of 2 hours of chest therapy each day, this amount doubles.
1) Magical. Then my wand could zap the bacteria and virus' before they reached my kids. I could also make dinner with a swish of my wand. Handy. Maybe I could also wear a cape or a pointy hat or something, and really embarrass my kids.
2) Psychic. I would know which playdates and programs had the fewest sick kids and plan my life around that. I could also win the lottery a few times before anyone got suspicious. If you were nice to me, I could help you win too.
3) Time traveler. I could just avoid winter all-together. I don't like getting cold anyway. Also, my husband wouldn't feel sad that he missed out on skiing for another season in a row. Sounds like a win-win.
Since I am stuck being a regular old human, I guess I just have to do what I can… like pack lots of hand sanitizer, educate the teachers/program leaders at the local community centre, talk to my friends before each playdate. Seems like good sense. Not as much fun as being magical though. That would be cool.
Sophia starts sports, art, music, and preschool next week. I've loaded up her schedule so we can get an idea of what she really likes doing, and I think she's been itching to get out of the house more. Her favourite question these days is "And then where are we going?".
I won't give up my dreams of having super-human powers, but until I wake up with a cape under my pillow I will just keep doing my best.
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Monday Experts – 18 June 2018
Posted by Bozza on June 19, 2018 June 20, 2018
With the Saints winless since Round One, the Monday panel shows have spent much of the last few months applying the blowtorch to the club and Alan Richardson. With the long-awaited second win in the bank after Saturday nights efforts on the Gold Coast, was there a change of tune?
"Get running and back your legs," is how Alan Richardson recounted his three quarter time address to the AFL360 team. "It was about run. No matter where the ball was it was about getting the ball. It was pretty simple really, we were just going to outnumber wherever the ball went," Richardson said.
With the coach a regular on Monday night, it was no surprise that there was a sense of celebration about the comeback victory. Hosts Gerard Whateley and Mark Robinson both spoke excitedly of the win in the shows opening segment and Jade Gresham's winning goal was given a number of airings with it part of the program's "Close Shave" segment. With their access to the coach, it was always going to be his insight that would be of most interest to Saints fans.
"It was an amazing comeback, an amazing moment," Richardson described the feeling. "The emotion of defeat and victory is shared by so many in a football club," he said. "It was a special moment for all our staff, it was a pleasing moment for everyone."
He expressed that his view that the club had been in strong in the face of the intense scrutiny that they had been under. "I've been really proud of our program…we've been really strong as a group," he enthused before suggesting other clubs he had been a part of had not fared as well in the face of similar challenges.
He described how he approached his 3/4 time huddle. "I grabbed the guys before they broke up into their lines," he explained. "I didn't give any specifics there was nothing tactical or technical," he said before detailing the focus of his address was on running out the game strong. Despite the season his team had, the coach was confident that his team could still claim victory. "While we haven't had victory in recent weeks, we've had really strong finishes."
While his team's dominance of the clearances was a positive, trailing by 31-points not all was going well. "Our outside game wasn't working for us some of our entry stuff was as poor as its been actually," he explained. Along with emploring the team to outnumber the Suns at the contest, there were personnel changes too. "We put a couple of runners to the back and some speed in front of the ball so we didn't just bomb it away," he explained.
The changes made and the message delivered, it was up to the players and Richardson was effusive in his praise of their efforts. "Really it was the players just willed themselves to get to the ball and kept surging it forward," Richardson said. "With a little bit more composure on entry," he stressed. "I was really proud of the last quarter in general but so pleased that the guys were able to execute in such a pivotal moment."
Asked about his involvement in the singing of the club song, the first time he has done so, he explained that a Jarryn Geary headlock had played a role in getting him in the circle. Despite the requirement of the skipper's strong-arm tactics, it was something he was glad to be a part of. "It was one of those nights, we'd been under a lot of pressure..to be able to join in with the boys…I couldn't resist that one"
A program that doesn't like to waste time on the positives, Talking Footy opened with a heavy focus on the Blues disaster against the Dockers. Interestingly though, despite Carlton's 10 goal defeat and a goalless first half, Wayne Carey was surprisingly upbeat about the way the Blues had played out the game.
After 50 minutes, 'Did St Kilda's win just paper over the cracks,' was how the conversation finally turned to events of Saturday night. Campbell Brown, who must have spent the Hawks 2008 Premiership Reunion tuned into the Saints game was particularly animated. "They went up there as strong favourites, you can't forget that," he said. "They were completely outplayed for three quarters. They stole that win, don't get too excited," he spat out.
Wayne Carey, given his 'glass half-full' approach to Carlton's 57-point defeat, was surprisingly disparaging of the Saints win. "To be 39-points down against a side like the Suns has covered over a lot of cracks," Carey said. Not content with this, he then made it clear that he was still more impressed with the Blues than the Saints. "We should have led with the Saints," he surprisingly stressed, seemingly of the view that it much more impressive to be horrible for much of a game and lose by 10-goals than win by two points.
"If the game had finished 90-seconds earlier," Sam Maclure, with a strange stretch of logic, jumped in to support Carey. "We'd be talking about them losing to the Suns and their feeder team not kicking a goal." When it was explained to him that a game ends when it ends, he didn't bother explaining why he is less interested in who wins a game than who leads a minute and a half from the end. "It (winning) shouldn't change the way we talk about the Saints," he muttered stubbornly.
Carey, not certain he'd made a big enough goose of himself wasn't finished yet though. In announcing Hunter Clark as the Rising Star nominee, Luke Darcy suggested that the good news continues for St Kilda. A point that Carey disagreed with. "I'm not sure the good news continues for the Saints though Darce," Carey said.
Gary Lyon agreed with Gerard Healy's assessment that despite the win there was 'still some cracks that are gaping holes'. "Nobody at St Kilda will think that was the panacea that will fix the problems," Lyon told the panel.
Lyon delivered a pointed criticism of the Saints forward structures. Noting that they had won the Inside 50 count in their losses to Sydney, West Coast and Adelaide he was of the view wasn't for lack of opportunities that they were losing games. "Their forward line is an horrendous mess, he surmised before Jonathan Brown interrupted.
"Do you think the connection with the midfield is a bit of an issue?" The 2007 Coleman Medallist asked.
"I don't think there is one," Lyon bitingly replied. Healy agreed with the former Melbourne skipper. "And its slow if it comes," he said. "That's what you'd like to see change. A little more endeavour and a little more speed off half back."
It wasn't all brickbats for the Saints forwards, Gary Lyon nominated Tim Membrey as his Couch Gem for the week. "Under pressure when the club's been under pressure that response has impressed me," Lyon said noting the forwards strike rate improving from 25% in Rounds 1-9 to 85% in rounds 10-13. "And a big one in the last quarter," he remarked in relation to Membrey's important goal during the final quarter surge.
Tom Morris suggested that the recovering Dylan Roberton may not play again. He advised that Roberton is wearing a defibrillator for three months and his heart is not in a good way amidst whispers that he may have played his last game.
Not a lot of time allocated to the Saints. Their breakdown of Gold Coasts failings in the last quarter did highlight the withering nature of the Saints assault.
Damien Barrett suggested the win did nothing more than press pause on the pointy endedness of the speculation surrounding the coach. He was also of the view that for as many questions were answered by the Saints there were an equal amount left unanswered in their falling behind by 39-points.
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Youngkin is cleaning up the criminal-smelly Virginia school systems.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2023/01/05/glenn-youngkin-keeps-getting-more-popular-as-virginians-want-him-to-keep-addressing-education-n2617970
Maybe it's just art.
https://www.theonion.com/what-to-say-if-you-catch-your-partner-watching-pornogra-1849905565
https://asiatimes.com/2018/06/pakistan-a-land-of-connectivity-within-the-sco/
Adam works for CNN now.
https://babylonbee.com/news/adam-kinzingers-mom-lets-him-open-one-jan-6th-present-on-jan-6th-eve
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3799464-cnn-hires-just-retired-gop-rep-adam-kinzinger/
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The America First Editor: What is up with the economy, LL?
The Fat Cat: 2023 is going to be a time to be prepared.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stagflation.asp
Here is a building project that will help the economies of many countries. It looks like the kind of project where diversity would really be helpful. Not much expertise is required.
Business can't support Liberal Democrats and expect law and order. You get what you pay for.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/08/nyc-grocers-demand-clampdown-on-shoplifters-as-violent-heists-escalate/
We have fake money, news, politicians, and even bikinis. I draw the line there.
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Just like survival of the fittest works in nature it works with humans. When they don't face prison, punishment, or any penalty, they lose their edge. The ability to survive close calls (911).
https://nypost.com/2023/01/04/burglary-suspects-arrested-after-calling-911-to-help-move-their-belongings/
It takes only one mistake.
Here is the Democratic Party spokeswoman explaining inflation, but first she is explaining going to jail from a few years back.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cardi-b-goes-viral-asking-about-her-tax-dollars/
https://www.facebook.com/according2hiphop2/videos/cardi-b-speaks-on-worldwide-inflation-and-its-impact-on-everyday-working-class-p/1712933739092437/
Loyal reader RW shows us how to make, do, and undo efficiently, quicker, and better. Where have you been ?
RIP—Robbie Bachman https://nypost.com/2023/01/13/bachman-turner-overdrives-robbie-bachman-dead-at-69/
One Catholic Bishop wakes up. The Pope is a commie.
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2023/01/17/catholic-diocese-takes-a-hammer-to-radical-transgender-agenda-leftist-tears-and-tantrums-follow-n690035
Space is more dangerous than America, and Alec Baldwin.
https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/hubble-watches-black-hole-devour-star/
https://nypost.com/2023/01/19/alec-baldwin-could-face-5-years-in-jail-over-rust-shooting/
China's world domination is not based on 2022 birth rates. It's based on crooked American politicians.
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/01/17/chinas-population-drops-for-first-time-in-decades-spells-trouble-for-xis-dreams-of-world-domination-n690101
This commie is worse than Gretchen Whitmer, the Governor of Michigan, & Joey.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/01/19/we-need-to-talk-about-the-authoritarian-cult-surrounding-jacinda-ardern-n690812
DeSantis is the man.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/01/19/desantis-were-looking-for-a-flat-ban-on-communist-chinese-land-purchases/
The Supremes still have their Democratic spy. He/she/they/them will write a book one day. Maybe define woman in the process.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/01/19/supreme-court-leak-draft-report-n2618502
What is going on with Jamie Lee Curtis ?
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/01/18/jamie-lee-curtis-deletes-instagram-post-showing-photo-of-naked-child-stuffed-in-a-box/
Google parent (Alphabet) to lay off 12,000 employees.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/20/google-parent-alphabet-to-lay-off-12000-workers/
We know Hunter had access to Top Secret documents. The lawn guy also had access.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/18/hunter-biden-had-access-to-dads-corvette-stored-in-garage-where-classified-docs-were-found-photos/
The Governor, Gavin Newsom, lets the killing continue. He will make a good Democratic 2024 candidate.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/17/cartel-style-execution-kills-6-including-baby-in-california/
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2023/01/18/cartel-killing-in-california-n2618428
Our first 2023 Dis-Honors. Free Tito–the Bolivian cat lost in transit.
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2023/01/18/the-pulitzer-prize-dis-honors-robo-torts-stolen-gin-ports-and-buying-cars-with-contents-in-your-shorts-n690055
I knew security was a joke with Joey and Merrick Garland.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/17/report-doj-permitted-bidens-personal-attorneys-to-search-for-classified-documents-without-fbi/
NHL news and a big waiver.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ivan-provorov-skips-pride-night-nhl-warmups
Geraldo Riviera is waived from Fox News to The View. No trade was available. Just kidding.
More Georgia football news. People don't buckle-up.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/18/devin-willock-tragic-crash-details-revealed-in-georgia-football-death/
Microsoft lays off 10,000 employees. No one knows how many are Americans. I'm an American First Feline.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/01/18/blue-screen-of-unemployment-microsoft-to-lay-off-10000-employees/
RIP—-David Crosby.
https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/19/david-crosby-crosby-stills-and-nash-dead-dies-81/
Naked-eye Comet ZTF
Image Credit & Copyright: Óscar Martín Mesonero (Organización Salmantina de la Astronáutica y el Espacio)
Explanation: Comet C/2022E3 (ZTF) is no longer too dim to require a telescope for viewing. By January 19, it could just be seen with the naked eye in this rural sky with little light pollution from a location about 20 kilometers from Salamanca, Spain. Still, telescopic images are needed to show any hint of the comet's pretty green coma, stubby whitish dust tail, and long ion tail. Its faint ion tail has been buffeted by recent solar activity. This visitor from the distant Oort cloud rounded the Sun on January 12. and is now sweeping through stars near the northern boundary of the constellation Bootes. Outward bound but still growing brighter, Comet ZTF makes its closest approach on February 2, coming to within about 2.4 light-minutes of our fair planet.
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I was planning to make the time to breathe some life into this blog over my 14 days in Beijing, but apparently WordPress, and just about every non-Chinese blogging platform, is blocked in China. At least it was for me.
I'm sure this young man has nothing at all to do with that. He was one of thousands of sentries assigned to security duty during the Olympics. His position was near the 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, the centerpiece of the Games, one of dozens of striking architectural wonders that left the 1 million or so visitors staring in awe.
I was told that his particular branch fell somewhere between army and police, a national guard of sorts. Typically these recruits are from rural areas far from Beijing, serve a four year tour of duty, are given free food and lodging, and earn between 50 and 100 Euros/month –savings are more than enough to go back home a start a small business if they choose.
More from Beijing when I get around to organizing some notes. In the meantime, you can check out some photos here.
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The monument commemorates eleven black labrador dogs who saved soldiers lives in the Vietnam War. It was re-dedicated in October 2008 to all dogs that have worked in the service of the nation.
Eleven black Labrador tracker dogs were used by the Australian Task Force in the Vietnam War. It was Australian Army policy that the dogs not be brought home at the end of their service. The dogs were the core of Combat Tracker Teams that were used from 1967 until the last combat troops left in late 1971.
Trained from the age of about 10 months at the Tracking Wing of the Ingleburn Infantry Centre in New South Wales, two dogs were assigned to each of the Australian battalions based at the Task Force base at Nui Dat, in Phuoc Tuy Province.
The fate of Australia`s war dogs, once their service came to an end in Vietnam, caused consternation in Army circles and anguish to their handlers. After much discussion about the issue, and with the matter having been raised in Parliament, the Army decided in 1968 that at the end of their working lives the dogs would be kept by the battalion as a reserve, then given as pets to European or Australian families resident in Saigon. Only as a last resort, if no home could be found, would they be destroyed. In the event, none of the 11 dogs who served in Vietnam was put down, with homes being found for the ten who survived.
Man`s best friend throughout the ages.
In honour of the dogs that have served Australia overseas with the Royal Australian Regiment and did not come home. Without their help many more lives would have been lost.
Mans best friend throughout the ages.


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To right past wrongs, Spaniards seek present change
By Geoff Pingree Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
February 2, 2005 | MADRID
It was painful for Ana Viéitez Gómez to read the file the Spanish dictatorship had kept on her father. In a single folder, she says, she saw "the destruction of a life."
There were letters from the mayor, the police, even the local priest, denouncing him as a communist, an anarchist, and a mason. Sentenced to life imprisonment, Ms. Viéitez's father, a schoolteacher, escaped Spain after several years in jail for exile in Mexico where, she says, he died at age 46, a broken man.
Viéitez's father was denounced in 1937 - while Spain was mired in civil war - but it wasn't until last year that his daughter finally saw his file. The Spanish Civil War ended in 1939, to be followed by nearly 40 years of authoritarian rule by General Francisco Franco, during which his government imprisoned or executed hundreds of thousands for alleged political crimes.
"Franco kept signing death warrants until his last day," says Aida Lorenzo y Rosa, whose father was executed in Gerona in 1939 after an hour-long trial in which his lawyer, one of Franco's officers, failed to clear him of charges that he was a "danger to the new Spain."
For Viéitez, Lorenzo y Rosa, and others like them, the justice they seek for their family members has been deferred for more than a half a century, and they are willing to wait no more.
For nearly three decades after the dictator's death in 1975, his government's injustices were not mentioned in public, as virtually all political parties - in the name of a peaceful transition to democracy - embraced a "pact of silence."
But today, the silence has begun to erode, and the wish to address Spain's past is growing.
Public memory is being resurrected in a tide of recent books and documentary films about Spaniards' suffering under the dictatorship; volunteers have unearthed mass graves where Republican supporters, after swift execution, were buried; and last month the Socialist government voted to return to Catalonia - a Republican stronghold during the war - all documents that had been taken from the region by Franco's police forces.
The current administration even has proposed renaming the Avenidas del Generalísimo and other public sites that still celebrate Franco's regime.
But no attempt to confront the dictatorship's actions is more daring, or carries more serious repercussions, than the legal efforts being mounted by a collection of victims' groups.
Motivated by outrage over the inability of the Spanish courts to clear the names of those prosecuted by the dictatorship, this coalition - which includes Viéitez's Association of Relatives and Friends of the Second Republic Victims of Reprisals by the Franco Regime - began to take shape in December. At that time organizations across Spain met in Madrid and decided they must work together to effectively confront a legal system that had remained largely unchanged for over 60 years.
Gregorio Díonis, who heads the Nizkor Group, a human rights organization, and who has pursued former dictators in South America, was asked to draft formal legislation.
Among other things, the document would declare illegitimate Franco's 1936 military uprising and subsequent seizure of power, end impunity for living members of Franco's government, classify Franco's actions as crimes against humanity in accordance with the Nuremberg Doctrine - a cornerstone for international agreement about crimes against humanity - and establish all Spaniards' right to know the fate of their ancestors.
Díonis believes that Spain must replace what he calls a longstanding "model of impunity" with a juridical framework explicitly designed to protect civil rights. Such a tradition existed before the civil war, he says, but Franco replaced it with a "legal base that violated international law."
But transforming a decades-old legal system anchored in fear is no small task. And the drive to end impunity for surviving functionaries of Franco's regime is an especially bold gambit, for it may implicate current political leaders.
But citizens like Viéitez, Díonis, and those they represent, are still profoundly angry that no member of Franco's regime has ever been tried or punished. "Justice doesn't ruin a state; lies and repression do," says Díonis, who compares Franco with Hitler and Mussolini. "You can't try the dead. But you can restore the rights of the victims."
The country's legal system can be repaired if it implements "a proper law to deal with Spain's crimes against humanity," insists Lopez Garcia, and establishes a "process - like the Germans and French have had - to deal with the past."
Others, like Juan Gallego Sanz, who heads Living Memory, a group dedicated to Spaniards deported and exiled by Franco, are less optimistic.
Convinced that Spain today is caught in polarized political conflicts like those of the civil war era, Mr. Gallego, whose father, grandfather, and great uncle were imprisoned by Franco, fears that "we won't be able to talk about the civil war until my generation has disappeared completely."
Resistance to a formal acknowledgement of the crimes of the past has, until recently, come from Spaniards on all political sides. A proposal to recognize Franco's victims came before the Congress of Deputies two years ago but was voted down by a conservative coalition.
The actions of the current government, however, have encouraged many who support such initiatives.
A government commission has been formed to investigate the plight of Franco's victims, and when it concludes its work in March, the administration will likely introduce legislation that will fulfill many if not all of the objectives set out by the victims' groups.
"Spain still has a wound," says López García, "and the government-sponsored commission is a golden opportunity."
Díonis also looks to the commission with hope. "Change will happen," he says. "Once the truth is known, it can't be buried again. It's like reading - once you learn, you can't unlearn. And the truth is on our side."
Spain starts to lose fear of the past
Gratitude aplenty for Spain's reconciliation
To take Spain left, prime minister digs up civil war's legacy
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The previous article in this series focused on the European Union. However, the EU is not the only international organization in Europe promoting a broad European integration. The Council of Europe (CoE) is another influential organization in Europe. It was founded in 1949, which thus makes it older than the EU.
In similar fashion as the EU, it has a broad purpose. This is due to the fact that the allied powers considered a broad political, economic and social integration necessary to prevent another atrocious inter-state war in Europe. Therefore, according to article 1(a) of its statute,[1. Statute of the Council of Europe, ETS No. 1] the aim of the CoE is "to achieve a greater unity between its members for the purpose of safeguarding and realising the ideals and principles which are their common heritage and facilitating their economic and social progress."
Treaty-driven integration
Despite its broad aim, the powers of the CoE are limited. While the EU is characterized as an organization of supranational character, the CoE is, in contrast, a fairly traditional international organization. Membership in the CoE does not entail any transfer of sovereignty. Consequently, the CoE and its organs may not bind its member states without consent.
Nevertheless, the CoE has still played a central role in the legal integration of Europe. This is mainly due to the fact that it has facilitated the conclusion of more than 200 treaties between its member states. Many of these have been highly successful. Due to the purpose of this series of articles I will only discuss what is arguably the most famous of these treaties, the European Convention of Human Rights.
Protecting Human Rights across Europe and beyond
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)[2. Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, ETS No. 5] was signed in Rome on the 4th of November 1950. Today, sixty-one years and fourteen amendments later, it is generally considered to be the worlds most advanced international system for human rights protection.
The emphasis here is on the word "system." In itself, a human rights treaty is just a document – plain text. The ECHR on the other hand has a well-functioning[3. Some might contest the fact that the ECtHR is "well-functioning" on the basis that it currently has over 150 000 pending applications. I will not deal with that issue in depth in this article. But, it should be mentioned that the Court in most other aspects functions better than comparable international institutions. One could easily see astronomical pile of applications as indicating that the Court is a victim of its own success.] court system where individuals may file complaints against their member states after exhausting all domestic remedies. And, if he prevails, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is empowered to afford just satisfaction to that person. Even though the execution of these judgments is subject to the consent of the state violating the Convention, they are generally complied with.
The Court has a jurisdiction covering all core civil and political rights. The territorial scope of jurisdiction is also broadly defined in ECHR art. 1: "The High Contracting Parties shall secure to everyone within their jurisdiction the rights and freedoms defined in Section I of this Convention." (emphasis added). This provision is interpreted by the ECtHR as to not only cover acts within the territory of a state, but also acts committed abroad if a High Contracting Party exercises all or some of the public powers there. An example of this can be found in the famous Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda cases, decided by the ECHR this summer, where the United Kingdom was convicted for acts committed by their armed forces during the occupation of Iraq.
The ECHR as a living instrument
The Court has not restricted its expansive reading of the ECHR to the article on territorial scope of jurisdiction. The ECtHR has been developing the rather vague provisions in the Convention actively, across the board. It puts great emphasis on the fact that the ECHR is a "living instrument which must be interpreted in the light of present-day conditions and of the ideas prevailing in democratic States today".
Thus, its method of interpretation often takes the form of so-called inductive-deductive reasoning. When using this two-step process, the ECtHR first looks at the national legislation of the High Contracting Parties in order to induce a common European standard. This common standard is then used as an interpretive tool in order to determine the exact scope of the relevant ECHR right.
By using such an approach the Court is also able to develop its case law over time, in accordance with the changing national laws. Furthermore, it enables the Court to iron out differences in the human rights protection. If you are the only country in Europe having a blanket ban on prisoner voting – as the UK – chances are that the ECtHR will strike it down as a violation of the right to vote.[4. As was the case in Greens and M.T. v. UK, applications nos. 60041/08 and 60054/08]
Due to its "living instrument" doctrine the Court is often criticized for being a judicial activist. This critique is, at least to some extent, understandable in light of the Court's evolutive interpretation. Nevertheless, the use of the common practices of the High Contracting States is a relevant mean of interpretation under VCLT art. 31(3). Either, one can see it as an application of the "subsequent practice" rule in (c), or, perhaps more convincingly, as "any relevant rules of international law in the relation between the parties" under (c), due to the fact that general principles of (national) law are to be regarded as a source of international law.
Reform and the accession of the EU
The picture painted above, of the ECtHR as the driving force behind the development of the Convention is only partially correct. In the last 60 years 14 additional have been enacted. These either amend the ECHR itself, or supplement it with additional rights. Large institutional changes have been made. The ECHR, for example, only handled a very limited number of applications before it was reformed in the 1990s.
The most recent reform happened with protocol 14 which, after being blocked by Russia for several years, entered into force July 2010. In addition to improving the efficiency of the ECtHR this protocol also provides for the accession of the European Union to the convention.
The accession of the Union will be the topic for the next, and final, article in this series. After giving you an (superficial) overview over the most important institutions and instruments on the playing field we will look at the accession more in detail. Is the Union, as an international organization even competent to accede? And what are the implications? These are the sort of questions we will be put forward in that article.
CoE, Council of Europe, ECHR, ECtHR, European Convention on Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights
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'India will buy oil from wherever it has to, even from Russia,' says Union Minister Puri
Puri also highlighted the US and India's commitment to accelerating a just and sustainable energy transition at the ministerial dialogue on India-US strategic clean energy in DC.
8 October, 2022 05:13 am IST
Washington: Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas. Hardeep Singh Puri has said that India will buy crude oil from whichever country it wanted and that New Delhi faces no pressure from Washington to cut its energy buys from Russia.
"India will buy oil from wherever it has to for the simple reason that this kind of a discussion cannot be taken to the consuming population of India," Puri told reporters in Washington.
Puri who was in Washington DC on Thursday held a wide range of meetings with his US counterpart Jennifer Granholm and other top officials of the Biden Administration.
"Have I been told by anyone to stop buying Russian oil? The answer is a categorical No," Puri asserted when asked if India has been under pressure to reduce energy dependence on Russia.
Since the start of the Ukraine conflict. India has sought to carve a middle path between Moscow and its Western critics and so far largely resisted Western pressure to cut its economic ties with the Kremlin.
The US is holding "deep talks" with India over the latter's reliance on Russian arms and oil, according to media reports citing a state department official. The official claimed that Indian representatives are starting to look at other markets to meet their demands as they try to become less dependent on Moscow for oil purchases.
Puri during the press conference also highlighted the US and India's commitment to accelerating a just and sustainable energy transition at the ministerial dialogue on India-US strategic clean energy.
The Union Minister during his stay in Washington also met up with senior officials of the World Bank, Presidential envoy for energy and infrastructure Amos Hochstein and senior representatives of the White House. Puri is scheduled to meet energy business leaders in Houston, where he is reaching on Saturday.
He said that India will navigate through the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries Plus (OPEC+) decision to cut oil production from November by a steeper than expected two million barrels per day (bpd).
"How will this impact India? We are very confident of being able to navigate through the situation," Puri said while speaking to reporters in Washington.
Puri highlighted India is one of the largest oil importer and the demand is expected to rise driven by an increase in India's per capita consumption of energy which currently stands at one-third of the global average. Puri further stressed that the fuel demand is expected to keep rising as the country's economy grows.
"I say this again with the view of confidence and most analysts feel that the 25 per cent of the global increase in demand will come from India in the coming decade, so, I see this 5 million barrels a day consumption going up to six and seven.. the economy is growing at 7 per cent and energy is a critical driver of that economic growth," Puri added.
The 13-nation OPEC group, plus 10 allies led by Moscow, agreed at a meeting in Vienna to slash output. OPEC+ agreed to steep oil production cuts on Wednesday.
Earlier, Indian economist Dr Charan Singh called India 'fortunate' enough as the country is not going to be badly impacted by these policies as it is not on the verge of recession.
The economist also stressed the fact that India may get impacted because of the overall price but can insulate itself as far as the bigger picture is concerned. -ANI
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Hardeep Singh Puri


Last month EaterBoston shared some beautiful photos of Southern Proper, a new restaurant scheduled to open to the public today, in The Girard Apartment building here in the South End. Southern Proper's entrance is at 600 Harrison Avenue and will have outdoor seating later this spring.
The 1,500 square foot restaurant is Chef Jason Cheek's latest venture. When he was asked about the menu by Eater Boston he said, "It'll be heavily oriented toward chicken and beer", but he also indicated patrons will be able to order smoked sausages, lamb, and pulled pork as well. Most of the menu is under $20, continuing a trend in dining here in the South End of more affordably priced restaurants opening (let's hope this trend continues). You can check out the full menu on their website, southernproperboston.com.
Jason Cheek's name might sound familiar to some of you, because he has a distinguished career working at several excellent Boston restaurants including The Maiden, Sam's at Louis, Coppa and Toro. Best of luck to Southern Proper.


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Yao: translation
/yow/, n.
Wade-Giles, Pinyin. a legendary emperor of China who, with his successor (Shun), was a paragon of good government.
/yow/, n., pl. Yaos, (esp. collectively) Yao for 1.
1. a member of an indigenous people of Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.
2. the Bantu language spoken by the Yao.
In Chinese mythology, one of three legendary emperors, along with Shun and Dayu, of the golden age of antiquity (с 24th century BC).
All three were exalted by Confucius as models of virtue, righteousness, and unselfish devotion.
Various Bantu-speaking peoples inhabiting southern Tanzania, northern Mozambique, and southern Malawi.
In the colonial era the Yao were prominent as slave traders. They were never completely united but lived as small groups ruled by chiefs. By 1900 they had come under German, Portuguese, or British rule. Today numbering 2.2 million, the Yao practice shifting (slash-and-burn) horticulture. Most are Muslims.
▪ African people
various Bantu-speaking peoples inhabiting southernmost Tanzania, the region between the Rovuma and Lugenda rivers in Mozambique, and the southern part of Malaŵi.
By 1800 the Yao had become known as traders plying between the inland tribes and the Arabs on the east coast. Much of this trade was in slaves, which led eventually to clashes with European powers who were establishing control over former Yao territory in the 19th century. The Yao were never united but lived as small groups ruled by chiefs who were predominantly military and commercial leaders; by 1900 all Yao chiefdoms had come under German, Portuguese, or British rule.
The Yao are an agricultural people using slash-and-burn techniques to cultivate their staples, corn (maize) and sorghum. Fish provide protein in areas near lakes or larger rivers. In Malaŵi they cultivate tobacco as an important cash crop.
The Yao live in compact villages of 75 to 100 persons under traditional headmen. These headmen, like the chiefs, succeed matrilineally, the office usually going to the eldest sister's firstborn son. On marriage the man leaves his village to live in that of his wife, so that villages are composed basically of groups of women related through the female line, together with their spouses. Yao social life features annual initiation ceremonies involving circumcision for boys. Originally, these ceremonies were closely connected with the worship of ancestor spirits, but through Arab contact most Yao are Muslims, and the rites incorporate Islamic elements.
▪ Chinese mythological emperor
formally (Wade-Giles romanization) T'ang Ti Yao
in Chinese mythology, a legendary emperor (c. 24th century BC) of the golden age of antiquity, exalted by Confucius as an inspiration and perennial model of virtue, righteousness, and unselfish devotion. His name is inseparable from that of Shun, his successor, to whom Yao gave his two daughters in marriage.
Legends recount that after 70 years of Yao's rule, the sun and moon were as resplendent as jewels, the five planets shone like strung pearls, phoenixes nested in the palace courtyards, crystal springs flowed from the hills, pearl grass covered the countryside, rice crops were plentiful, two unicorns (omens of prosperity) appeared in the capital at P'ing-yang, and the wondrous calendar bean made its appearance, producing one pod each day for half a month before the 15 pods withered one by one on successive days.
Two remarkable events marked Yao's reign: a rampaging flood was controlled by Ta Yü; (Ta Yü) and Hou I, the Lord Archer, saved the world from destruction by shooting down 9 of the 10 suns burning up the Earth.
Like Fu Hsi, Shen Nung, and Huang Ti before him, Yao had special temples dedicated in his honour. He is said to have offered sacrifices and to have practiced divination. In choosing a successor, Yao bypassed his own less worthy son in favour of Shun and served as counselor to the new emperor.
▪ Japan
city, Ōsaka fu (urban prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the Nagase River. The city is situated on mountain slopes and a plain in Kongō-Ikoma Quasi-national Park. The central part of the city was a commercial centre during the Tokugawa period (1603–1867). Yao is now an industrial and residential suburb of the Ōsaka–Kōbe Metropolitan Area, with large-scale machinery, chemical, and textile plants along the river. The railway to Ōsaka was opened in 1925. Pop. (2005) 273,487.
Yao — may refer to:* The name of the demiurge in Gnostic scripture * Yao, Chad, a town in Chad * Yao (ethnic group in Africa), the waYao people of south central Africa * Yao (African Language), a Bantu language spoken by the Yao people * Yao, Osaka, a… … Wikipedia
Yao — Otros nombres Mien, iu mien Población total 2.200.000 (aproximada) Idioma Idioma yao Religión Politeísmo Etnias relaciona … Wikipedia Español
yao — ● yao nom masculin Groupe de langues parlées par les Yaos, proches des langues miao et appartenant soit au sino tibétain, soit au thaï. Yao(s) population montagnarde du sud de la Chine, de Birmanie, de Thaïlande, du nord du Viêt nam et du Laos… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Yao Li — (要離) was a famed assassin in the Spring and Autumn Period. Native in the state of Wu, he was recommended to King Helü of Wu by Wu Zixu. His mission was to kill Prince Qingji of Wu (慶忌), who was then in the state of Wei. In order to pretend to be… … Wikipedia
Yao Ye — (zh s|姚烨, born April 10, 1973 in Yangzhou) is a male Chinese sports shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.In 2004 he finished 32nd in the men s 50 metre rifle prone competition.External links* [http://www.issfnews.com/shooters/whoiswho … Wikipedia
Yao — (Jao, Wayao), den Sulu verwandtes Volk in Deutsch Ostafrika, nördlich vom untern Rovuma. Von seinen Sitzen am Ostufer des Nyassasees ostwärts wandernd, verdrängte es, gleich seinen östlichen Nachbarn, den Wagwangara, das friedliche und fleißige… … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
YAO — (Regional » Language Codes (3 Letters)) * Youth Action Officer (Governmental » Police) * Yaounde, Republic Of Cameroon (Regional » Airport Codes) … Abbreviations dictionary
Yao — Yao, Yawo afrikanischer Name, Bedeutung: der am Donnerstag Geborene … Deutsch namen
Yao — Eine Yao Frau. Charakteristisch sind die turbanartig frisierten, sehr langen Haare … Deutsch Wikipedia
Yao — Cette page d'homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Sommaire 1 Patronyme 2 Prénom 3 Toponyme … Wikipédia en Français


The cache is in a private plot in a community garden. It is in a 5 gallon plastic bucket, buried in the dirt with a square wooden board on top of it. Remove the board and spin the dial counter-clockwise to remove the top of the bucket. Inside is a smaller bucket containing the actual cache, the log book and trackables. Please replace the smaller bucket inside the larger bucket when you are done, put the lid back on, spin it clockwise to secure it, and replace the board on top of it. Thanks!
Welcome to the oldest continuous cache in San Francisco County!
The cache is in a private plot in a community garden. It is in a 5 gallon plastic bucket, buried in the dirt with a square wooden board on top of it. Remove the board and spin the dial counter-clockwise to remove the top of the bucket. Inside will be a smaller bucket containing the actual cache, the log book and trackables. Please replace the smaller bucket inside the larger bucket when you are done, then put the lid back on, spin it clockwise to secure it, and replace the square wooden board on top of it. Thanks!
Please be very respectful of the other gardeners and their plots. Do not walk in any of the plots, and please do not pick anything or leave any litter. Having said that, this garden is situated in a National Park, on public land, and is open to the public at all times. You have every right to be there! I consider this geocache a community service and an asset to the park, and I personally welcome you to visit the community garden! Please feel free to sit there and have lunch at the picnic tables, and enjoy the surroundings.
The cache was stolen sometime between May 7 and May 12, 2017 and was replaced on May 30th. All trackables in the cache were lost unfortunately. Also, if you are thinking about dropping a trackable here, please know that they do have a tendency to disappear. Not sure why.
As of May 30, 2017 we are homing in on 4,000 unique visitors! We will have a picnic in the garden later this summer, follow this cache for updates. All are welcome!
July 20, 2014 - we are homing in on 3000 unique visitors!
August 11, 2012 - congratulations to LadyLeo191 who is the 2,000th geocacher to log a successful find of the Green Thumb cache!!! It took just over 8 years for the first 1,000 geocachers to find it, and just over three years for the next 1,000. I don't know if that's because geocaching is catching on, or because Green Thumb is on a lot of "favorites" lists - but in any event - woot!
February 9, 2011 - coming up on 1,500 visitors!
July 12, 2009 - Congratulations to bunkyboo, the 1000th geocacher to log the Green Thumb cache!
July 19, 2009 - met with the delightful bunkyboo family to give them their swag for being 1000th to log the cache. Hopefully they'll log some photos of the "event." Prizes donated by groundspeak.com include book ("The Idiot's Guide to Geocaching") and a really neat geocoin, plus some other stuff.
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Q: Why the Script component inside the Head component of a Nextjs application blocks the dynamic insertion of css rules by the sweetalert library? Below snippet is taken from _app.tsx file. I know that having Script component inside the Head component is wrong but this buggy code is blocking the sweetalert library (which I am using in another page to render pop up) from dynamically inserting the CSS rules.
import Head from "next/head";
import Script from "next/script";
import type { AppProps } from "next/app";

export default function App({ Component, pageProps }: AppProps) {
  return (
    <>
      <Head>
        <Script
          id="branch-io"
          strategy="afterInteractive"
          dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
            __html: `(function(){console.log("hello world")}())`,
          }}
        />
      </Head>
      <Component {...pageProps} />
    </>
  );
}

For example in this page when I click on the button the popup will be displayed without any CSS applied to it.
import swal from "sweetalert";

export default function Home() {
  return (
    <button
      onClick={() => swal("Hello world!")}
      style={{
        width: "25vw",
        height: "25vh",
        color: "white",
        backgroundColor: "red",
      }}>
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    </button>
  );
}

I can resolve the bug by correcting the mistake in the _app.tsx file but my question is why does it happen? Not able to pin point an answer to the question. Any pointers on how to investigate further would be appreciated or Does anybody know why this happens?