YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–During a public meeting Friday–chairman of the National Assembly commission on national security–defense and interior affairs Vahan Hovanessian severely criticized Armenian Foreign Ministry–saying that the department "is in shambles."
Hovanessian said that no other ministry operates as poorly as the foreign ministry.
"Often times we view our foreign ministry as merely a center for diplomatic operations coordination in Yerevan… Although–I don't see major strides within the diplomatic realm," stated Hovanessian–who is a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation parliamentary bloc.
"The foreign ministry is that link–often times the only correct link–which is to secure investmen's for our country–a proper image and–finally–to find allies not only in the political–but also in the economic sphere from the international arena. That has not been done–and that is the reason for my criticism," asserted Hovanessian.
"Armenia's diplomatic establishment working outside of Armenia and that working in Yerevan are cut off from one another. This signals that there are wheels to be turned within the government which utilize enormous resources–and the wheels that are turning are not turning other wheels," analogized Hovanessian–explaining "The resources allocated for and spent on the foreign ministry from the budget–do not correspond with the output of the ministry."


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The budget deal between Congress and President Obama to avoid another debt-ceiling showdown could cost some Americans thousands of dollars in Social Security benefits. The deal gets rid of the "file-and-suspend" strategy that allows a retiree's spouse to collect benefits even when the retiree is not. Under an amendment to the bill, the changes will only affect future filers and not anyone who has already implemented the strategy.
Americans who wait longer before claiming Social Security receive a larger monthly benefit. File at 70 and you get your maximum benefit, a monthly paycheck that is up to 76 percent bigger than the one you would have received if you filed at age 62.
Using the file-and-suspend strategy, a retiree can file and immediately suspend their Social Security benefits to lock in the maximum benefit later on. At the same time, the retiree's spouse can start receiving their spousal benefit right away without affecting the amount of the retiree's benefit at 70.
The strategy has also allowed ex-spouses and spouses who care for grown disabled children to receive special Social Security benefits immediately even if the retiree is not claiming his or her benefits.
Soon, that will no longer be the case, thanks to the budget deal.
The new rule goes into effect in six months.


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Nostalgia, when done right, is charming. When we rolled into Williams, AZ prior to our train trip to the Grand Canyon, I felt we had discovered a little town that had gotten nostalgia just right. Carol was still a bit unsettled from seeing our accommodations for the next two nights. Even after I had explained how the guy backing up next to us in his pickup with his personal belongings neatly tied off in hefty bags had made his reservation using Expedia.com, she remained skeptical, suspecting I'd once again booked us into a hotel occupied by characters in a Rob Zombie movie.
The walk through town changed her fears to cheers. Williams had resurrected its Route 66 roots from the death caused by Interstate 40 into something of a living museum, mixing the reality of its reduced circumstances with a nostalgic embrace of its heyday during the golden age of the American automobile.
The real Radiator Springs photo credit David and Donna's Great Adventures
A few of the skeletal remains of the old town were left intact, a couple of others were repurposed as museums, complete with the old tower-style gas pumps fronting a classic "garage" that now sold tchotchkes ranging from Route 66 refrigerator magnets to Betty Boop posters and more Route 66 refrigerator magnets. Carol remembered Williams as the model for Radiator Springs in the Disney movie Cars, which came as a relief that she no longer was seeing the town as the setting for The Devil's Rejects or House of 1000 Corpses.
Nostalgia at its warmest...
We had luckily timed our arrival to be there for the annual classic car weekend, drawing dozens of 50's era and earlier gearheads from out of the surrounding woodwork. Then it all started to go to hell for me.
I had hoped to avoid what I knew would be a lame gunfight reenactment preceding boarding the Grand Canyon Express the next morning. I would not be disappointed in its lameness, and even Carol second-guessed her initial interest. On board, we shared an upstairs scenic domed car with a group who talked among themselves like it was a private car. That they were from Alabama, which had just recently voted to return itself to antebellum times did not advance the camaraderie. The end of my personal interest in excursion trains came when those lame gunfighters reenacted a train robbery. I immediately offered myself as a hostage, just so I'd get pulled off.
At the car show the next morning, we were enjoying the exquisitely restored, polished chrome '56 Chevys, '55 Thunderbirds and cherry red street rods, when I chanced upon a '63 Cadillac boasting a Trump 2020 flag. In an instant my nostalgic portal collapsed, and now all I could see were lumbering guzzlers spewing leaded gas, no seat belts or air bags, with steering wheels designed to become harpoons in a head-on crash, and all those sparkling classics darkening back now to an era of jim crow, polluted rivers and back alley abortions. I saw in that flag a dark side to a nostalgia that I wanted no part of.
And it's coldest
"I'm over that Route 66 road trip," I said to Carol. And along with the Deep South, I was now writing off the Old West too. In my epiphany, I did not see nostalgia as a charming harkening back anymore, but a regressive rearing of an ugly head again.
What I needed was perspective, and I'd gotten it in Sedona, though only by the accident of non-planning.
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Judge won't make official OK contracts with LGBT language
Melinda Deslatte, Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards' attempt to force the state attorney general to sign off on legal contracts that include anti-discrimination language to protect LGBT people was thrown out Monday by a state judge.
Judge Donald Johnson dismissed the case, saying the law doesn't spell out clearly what the attorney general's authority is in reviewing the contracts and whether Attorney General Jeff Landry's role is only "ministerial" in nature, as the governor's office suggested.
"I believe the law is uncertain, that it does not provide the court with a clear path," the Baton Rouge state district judge said.
Edwards' lawyer, Matthew Block, said the governor intends to appeal the decision.
The Democratic governor issued an executive order in April requiring language barring discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity to be included in most state contracts, except if the contractors are religious organizations.
Lawmakers have refused to add such protections into Louisiana law.
The Republican attorney general says Edwards' order exceeds the governor's legal authority and establishes a new protected class of people that doesn't exist in statute. Landry has blocked dozens of contracts to let state agencies and boards hire outside lawyers that contain the anti-discrimination language.
Edwards sued Landry in September, saying the stalled contracts were disrupting the normal operations of state government.
Landry issued a statement applauding Johnson's ruling.
"I will not cower to executive overreach," the attorney general said. "Rather, I will continue to defend our constitution and the will of the people."
No contracts besides those for hiring outside lawyers were affected by the judge's decision.
The governor's office noted that Johnson didn't rule on whether Edwards' executive order was legal, but instead on the more technical aspect of the attorney general's authority in reviewing contracts for hiring private attorneys to work for state agencies.
"This was in no way a ruling on the merits of the executive order," Edwards spokesman Richard Carbo said in a statement.
It wasn't clear whether the contracts would be resubmitted without the anti-discrimination language required under Edwards' order.
"The governor is reviewing his options," Carbo said. "But he will not let this issue distract from the important issues facing our state today, nor will he allow state operations to be crippled by the injection of politics into the process of approving legal counsel."
The dispute is one of many between the two statewide elected officials, who have clashed repeatedly since both took office in January on financial and legal issues.
Donald Price, a lawyer representing the governor, said Landry's office is supposed to do a "ministerial" review of contracts for agencies and boards to hire outside lawyers, making sure the lawyers are qualified to do the work and the fee structure complies with state law. Anything beyond that, Price said, exceeds the attorney general's authority.
Chester Cedars, a lawyer for Landry's office, said the constitution and state law provides "a great deal of discretion" in the attorney general's review of the contracts as the chief legal officer for Louisiana. A lawyer may meet the minimum qualifications established in law, for example, but may not have enough experience in the type of work involved in the contract, Cedars said.
Contracts at the Office of Elderly Affairs, at the Corrections Department and on medical malpractice cases are among those stalled because of the argument. Offices overseen by other Republican statewide elected officials have seen contracts rejected as well, including agencies led by the secretary of state, insurance commissioner, agriculture commissioner and treasurer.
Elizabeth Murrill, an attorney in Landry's office, said the LGBT clause wasn't the only point of contention in some of the contracts. But Price said agencies "were getting routine denials based on the anti-discrimination language."
Edwards' anti-discrimination order is similar to orders enacted by two former Louisiana Democratic governors — but he added language protecting against discrimination based on gender identity, a provision that protects transgender people.


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My son asked: 'Dad, where did my intelligence come from'?
I replied. 'Well, son, you must have got it from your mother, cause I still have mine'.
While shopping for vacation clothes, my husband and I passed a display of bathing suits. It had been at least ten years and twenty pounds since I had even considered buying a bathing suit, so sought my husband's advice.
'What do you think?' I asked. 'Should I get a bikini or an all-in-one'?
'Better get a bikini', he replied. 'You'd never get it all in one'.
My wife asked me if I believed in religion.
I said "Not until I married you".
I said "Now I believe in Hell".
She said, 'I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds'.
Saturday morning I got up early, quietly dressed, made my lunch, grabbed the dog, and slipped quietly into the garage. I hooked up the boat up to the truck, and proceeded to back out into a torrential downpour. The wind was blowing 50 mph, so I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio and discovered that the weather would be bad all day.


According to the California State Controller website, the State of California is currently in possession of more than $8 billion in Unclaimed Property belonging to approximately 32.5 million individuals and organizations. California has an Unclaimed Property Law where it takes possession of unclaimed property. This law requires unclaimed property "holders" (such as corporations, business associations, financial institutions, and insurance companies to name a few) to annually report and deliver property to the California Controller's Office. The "holders" need to have had no customer contact for three years before the property is handed over to the Controller's Office. There are many reasons unclaimed property exists, including people forgetting about old accounts, customers move but don't provide a forwarding address or new contact information, and in some cases the owners die and the heirs do not know about the accounts. Handing the property over to the State of California is known as escheatment. The property being handed over is known as escheated property.
Escheatment is common in real estate transactions as escrow holders and title companies hold money for consumers, some of which is never claimed by the rightful owner. Recently, one taxpayer attempted to claim an escheated property under the California Unclaimed Property Law. They claimed to be the assignee of Financial Title Company that was a suspended corporation, which lacked the legal capacity to claim the property. The taxpayer claimed they were not subject to a lack of capacity based on the company's suspension because they obtained a judicial assignment of rights to the funds, not a voluntary assignment. According to the state statute, however, "an assignee of a suspended corporation is subject to the same incapacities with respect to commencement of actions during the period in which the corporate powers and rights are suspended." In essence, per the statute, the taxpayer was not entitled to claim the escheated property being held in the name of the suspend company. The State Controller's Office denied the claim and no escheated property was handed over to the taxpayer.
If anyone is curious if they have any unclaimed property, check out the State Controller website for your state and see what rules and statutes they have in place. Maybe a portion of the $8 billion California is holding belongs to you!
One opinion was written in regards to three separate appeals arising out of an action to quiet title a real property located on Blue Gum Avenue in Capitola, CA. A quiet title action is brought to establish, or "quiet", title or an interest in real estate between adverse parties. The Blue Gum property was sold at a foreclosure sale in August 1998. Bank United filed an unlawful detainer action against Michael S. Ioane, Sr. shortly after the foreclosure sale. In June 1999, the court entered judgment ordering that Bank United take possession of the property and a writ of possession be issued.
Shelly Ioane filed for bankruptcy. She and Michael Sr. filed an adversary proceeding against Bank United (and others) in the bankruptcy case. In the complaint, the Ioanes contend the foreclosure sale was invalid and the writ of possession was invalid. They asked for possession of the property (among other requests). On July 10, 2000, the bankruptcy court granted summary judgment in favor of Bank United. About the same time, the Ioanes also filed in federal court a separate civil suit against Bank United (and others) asking the same. In August 25, 2000, the federal court dismissed the action with prejudice.
The property was deeded to Thompson and his wife in 2001. The Ioanes filed a quiet title action against the Thompsons (among others) in the Santa Cruz Superior Court. The superior court entered judgment in favor of the Thompsons, including their costs, but did not purport to quiet title in the Thompsons' favor. The appeals court affirmed that judgment on December 19, 2003.
Between 2003 and 2015, individuals in the Ioane family filed many documents and raised many court complaints against the Thompsons (among others). In January 2016, pursuant to a motion made by Thompson, the trial court entered a vexatious litigant prefiling order against Michael Sr and Shelly Ioane. They appealed that order on March 14, 2016. A vexatious litigant prefiling order prohibits them from filing new litigation while representing themselves in the California courts without first obtaining leave of (permission by the) court. The vexatious litigant statue was enacted to "curb misuse of the court system" by "persistent and obsessive litigants."
There are many more details to this case that would take many more pages to list. However, both sides made a few mistakes over the 14+ years of court actions. The appellate court reversed the trial court's decision. They vacated the order granting summary judgment to the Thompsons because the appellate court decided there exists a triable issue of material fact as to his chain of title. Briana Ioane had brought some evidence to the original trial which the trial court disallowed. However, the appellate court decided that evidence should have been allowed. Thus, the decision to overturn the granting of summary judgment. The appellate court also vacated the order declaring Michael Sr and Shelly vexatious litigants. They were declared a vexatious litigant via a federal court first, which the trial court extended to them. For this reason, and also because the original decision was based on summary judgment and not a litigation decision, the order was reversed. Finally, the parties are to bear their own costs on appeal. After all those years and court filings, decisions, etc., it appears the parties get to start all over again.
Does Zestimate Work for You?
An attorney and homeowner in Illinois is suing Zillow, claiming the company's Zestimate tool is impacting her ability to seller her home because it undervalues her home. She is attempting to sell her home for $626,000. Homes directly across the street sell for about $100,000 more than her asking price, but they do have more square footage. At the time of the filing of the complaint, the most recent Zestimate for her home is $562,000.
Zillow states that the Zestimate tool is not an appraisal. It is "Zillow's estimated market value" and is created using its proprietary formula. Zillow claims that they have a 5 percent median error rate, which means that 50% of the time, the Zestimate is within 5% of the actual selling price. This sounds great, unless it's your home that is undervalued by 20% or more. Having a Zestimate that greatly undervalues your house can make it difficult to sell your house at market value.
Surprisingly enough, the lady suing Zillow is not asking for any monetary damages. She's simply asking for an injunction to stop Zillow from posting a Zestimate on her house. Homeowners, realty agents and appraisers have been critical about the Zestimate tool for years. It's a proprietary algorithm and no one outside of Zillow appears to know exactly how it works.
Zillow has also conceded that improvements can be made. In fact, they have launched the Zillow Prize. This is an open competition for people to create a better Zestimate tool. Though not technically an admission that would be legally usable in court, the contest itself supports this plaintiff's position that the Zestimate tool could use some improvement.


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Vancouver, British Columbia - Copper North Mining Corp. ("Copper North" or the "Company") (TSX.V:COL) announces that it plans to raise up to $800,000 by way of a non-brokered private placement (the "Private Placement").
The Private Placement will consist of the sale of up to 10 million flow-through units (the "FT Units") and up to 6 million units (the "Units"). Both the FT Units and the Units will be priced at $0.05. Each Unit will consist of one common share of the Company (a "Share") and one non-transferable warrant (a "Warrant"). Each Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one additional Share at a price of $0.05 for a period of 60 months from closing. Each FT Unit will consist of one flow-through share of the Company and one half of one non-transferable warrant (each whole warrant, a "FT Warrant"). Each FT Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one Share at a price of $0.05 for a period of 24 months from closing.
The Company intends to use the proceeds from the flow-through portion of the Private Placement for exploration at the Carmacks Project and/or the Thor property. Copper North intends to use the proceeds from the Unit portion of the Private Placement for working capital and general corporate purposes.


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Q: Rellanar un campo con un UPDATE Tengo una tabla llamada Federation con los siguientes campos:
IDFEDERATION--->Primary key,
FEDERATION,
PRESIDENT,
COUNTRY,
IDCOUNTRY-->Foreign Key de Country

Y una tabla country con los siguientes campos:
IDCOUNTRY--->Primary key,
ENGLISHNAME,
SPANISHNAME,
LOCALNAME,

Pues bien, lo que quiero es rellenar el campo IDCOUNTRY de federation con los datos de idcountry de la tabla de country,el caso es que me lo piden de la siguiente manera...

c)    Mostrad la instrucción UPDATE que servirá para poblar el campo idCountry de Federation. Para realizar dicho UPDATE utilizad una consulta que obtenga idCountry de Country, utilizando el campo country de Federation y localName de Country.

Hice esto y probé alguna cosa mas pero no consigo lo que se me pide
UPDATE federation
SET federation.idcountry = (
SELECT country.idcountry
FROM country
WHERE federation.country and country.localname);

Estoy un poco liado ahora mismo, necesito algo de luz.

A: No estás lejos de la solución, básicamente te hace falta la condición de igualdad en tu consulta, pero además yo la haría un poco menos verbosa.
UPDATE federation
   SET idcountry = (SELECT country.idcountry
                      FROM country
                     WHERE country.localname = federation.country);

En lenguaje coloquial, esto se leería algo como: Para cada fila de federación actualiza el campo idCountry con el idCountry de la tabla country para el que country.localname sea igual a federation.country.

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The Asian Baptist Women's Union (ABWU) held their 13th Assembly Conference on 29 August until 1 September at Georgetown Baptist Church in Penang, Malaysia. Mrs Yeoh Lye Chan, Chairperson of the Women's Department (WMU), shared a brief write-up of the event on behalf of all the delegates representing Singapore that attended.
The link redirects to a blog post on the Convention website, posted on 11 September 2018 .
On 21 November 2015, Grace Baptist Church (GBC) embarked on a Rebuilding Programme that reached its completion in the second week of July 2017. GBC has since returned to its premise at 17 Mattar Road, on 17 September 2017. Below is a link to a video edited and produced by members of GBC, for their Thanksgiving and Anniversary Service in 2017.
The link redirects to a video posted on Grace Baptist Church, Singapore's YouTube channel, uploaded on 15 Sep 2017 .
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Q: Duplicate NDVI measurements on Graphs in Google Earth Engine I have created the following code below for graphing the NDVI at areas of interest and printing it to the user interface. The problem I am having is that on the same date there are two different NDVI measurements / values being shown on the graph.

var ROI = ee.Geometry.Point([141.041807, -34.033391]);

var kulkurna_A = ee.Geometry.Polygon([
  [
    [141.045513, -34.031637], [141.045252, -34.031597], [141.045002, -34.031647],
    [141.044686, -34.031915], [141.044520, -34.032018], [141.040777, -34.035606],
    [141.040349, -34.036386], [141.041069, -34.036233], [141.041372, -34.035775],
    [141.042721, -34.034827], [141.043463, -34.034567], [141.045337, -34.031958]
    ]
    ]);

Map.addLayer(kulkurna_A, {color: 'blue'}, 'Kulkurna_A');

var kulkurna_B = ee.Geometry.Polygon([
  [
    [141.041761, -34.031699], [141.041590, -34.031794], [141.039482, -34.033245],
    [141.038768, -34.034018], [141.039511, -34.035584], [141.039796, -34.034948],
    [141.039535, -34.033698], [141.040783, -34.032723], [141.041335, -34.032393],
    [141.041793, -34.031935]
    ]
    ]);

Map.addLayer(kulkurna_B, {color: 'red'}, 'Kulkurna_B');

//Center the Map
Map.setCenter(141.041807, -34.033391, 15);

var ens = [
ee.Feature(kulkurna_A, {label : 'Kulkurna A'}),
ee.Feature(kulkurna_B, {label : 'Kulkurna B'})
];

var collection =  ee.FeatureCollection(ens);
//print(collection); //Un comment to see values in console

// NDVI: NIR B5 and RED B4
var addNDVI = function(L8) {
var nir = L8.select('B5');
var red = L8.select('B4');
var ndvi = nir.subtract(red).divide(nir.add(red)).rename('NDVI');
return L8.addBands(ndvi);
};

// Apply the cloud mask and NDVI function to Landsat 8 imagery and print the chart
var l8 = ee.ImageCollection("LANDSAT/LC08/C01/T1_RT_TOA")
      .filter(ee.Filter.calendarRange(2013,2019,'year'))
      .filter(ee.Filter.calendarRange(1,1,'month'))
      .filterBounds(ROI)
      .map(addNDVI);

//------------------------------------------------
//Start graphing results
//------------------------------------------------

// Create an empty panel in which to arrange widgets.
// The layout is vertical flow by default.
var panel = ui.Panel({style: {width: '400px'}})
    .add(ui.Label('NDVI Charts'));

// Define customisation options.
var options = {
  title: {label: ens},
  hAxis: {title: 'Time'},
  vAxis: {title: 'NDVI'},
  lineWidth: 2,
  pointSize: 3,
  series: {
    0: {color: 'blue'}, //Colour of Chart
}};

//Graph all regions on same chart
var all_regions_graph = ui.Chart.image.seriesByRegion({
  imageCollection: l8,
  regions: collection,
  band: 'NDVI',
  reducer: ee.Reducer.mean(),
  scale: 30,
  seriesProperty: 'label'
      })
      .setChartType('ScatterChart')
      .setOptions({
  title: 'Kulkurna A & B',
  hAxis: {title: 'Time'},
  vAxis: {title: 'NDVI'},
  lineWidth: 2,
  pointSize: 3,
  });
//Print graph to User Interface, .set(x, name of graph) where: x = UI vertical position
panel.widgets().set(2, all_regions_graph);

//Graph individual region on its own chart
var kulkurna_A_graph = ui.Chart.image.seriesByRegion({
  imageCollection: l8,
  regions: kulkurna_A,
  band: 'NDVI',
  reducer: ee.Reducer.mean(),
  scale: 30,
  seriesProperty: 'kulkurna_A',
 })
      .setChartType('ScatterChart')
      .setOptions({
  title: 'Kulkurna A',
  hAxis: {title: 'Time'},
  vAxis: {title: 'NDVI'},
  lineWidth: 2,
  pointSize: 3,
  series: {0: {color: 'blue'}},
  });
//Print graph to User Interface, .set(x, name of graph) where: x = UI vertical position
panel.widgets().set(3, kulkurna_A_graph);

//Graph individual region on its own chart
var kulkurna_B_graph = ui.Chart.image.seriesByRegion({
        imageCollection: l8,
        regions: kulkurna_B,
        band: 'NDVI',
        reducer: ee.Reducer.mean(),
        scale: 30,
        seriesProperty: 'Kulkurna B'
 })
      .setChartType('ScatterChart')
      .setOptions({
  title: 'Kulkurna B',
  hAxis: {title: 'Time'},
  vAxis: {title: 'NDVI'},
  lineWidth: 2,
  pointSize: 3,
  series: {0: {color: 'red'}},
  });
//Print graph to User Interface, .set(x, name of graph to show) where: x = UI vertical position
panel.widgets().set(4, kulkurna_B_graph);

// Add the panel to the ui.root.
ui.root.add(panel);

A: Looking at the image collection it appears that you the polygons that you are interested in are on the edge of two overlapping landsat scenes WRS_ROW 83 and 84 respectively hence why you are getting two values for each date.
To stop this from happening you can filter the image collection by a metadata property by adding in the following line on line 51 of your code:

// Apply the cloud mask and NDVI function to Landsat 8 imagery and print the chart
var l8 = ee.ImageCollection("LANDSAT/LC08/C01/T1_RT_TOA")
      .filter(ee.Filter.calendarRange(2013,2019,'year'))
      .filter(ee.Filter.calendarRange(1,1,'month'))
      .filterBounds(ROI)
      .filter(ee.Filter.eq('WRS_ROW',84))
      .map(addNDVI);

Hope this helps!


The following were our first projects, part of an independent study mentored by Sally Harrison in the Spring of 2014.
We thank Sally for giving us the chance, and connecting us with two groups of people doing incredible work.
Community organization APM proposes to revitalize the intersection of Germantown Ave, Susquehanna Ave and 6th street. This proposal, which has been dubbed the "Gateway Project," aims to establish a sense of identity to the community, simultaneously assist in storm water management and beautification, in addition to being living evidence of the benefits of collaboration. By revitalizing the stitching of the urban fabric at a small scale, we are able to promote opportunities for future collaborative development to occur. BRIC and APM share a vision where community collaboration contributes to improve places, we provided design services to help render their vision.
We had the opportunity to work under Dr. Mahbubur R. Meenar, Assistant Director for the Center for Sustainable Communities in Temple University, and his team on their proposal for developing a Green Stormwater Infrastructure plan through a participatory Geodesign process. Sponsored by the EPA's Urban Small Waters Grant program, their project emphasized Green Stormwater Infrastructure while giving residents the opportunity to play a vital role in transforming vacant lots into recreational and community assets. We thank Dr. Meenar for giving us the opportunity to act as facilitators and participants in this project.
For more information and updates on their project check this page out.
We are excited by the catalyzing properties these projects can have to the future of Philadelphia as well as the opportunity we have been given to play a part in that future.


The international short film and animation festival PÖFF Shorts begins today!
Today at 7pm in Kino Sõprus the very first screening of PÖFF Shorts will be the National Competition collection "New Estonian Animation" which will see the world premiere of Ülo Pikkov's animated documentary "Letting Go" (2017, Silmviburlane, Nukufilm, ANIDOX) and the Estonian premiere of Chintis Lundgren's "Manivald" (2017, Chintis Lundgreni Animatsioonistuudio, Adriatic Animation).
PÖFF Shorts will also have the world premiere of the Estonian-Swedish short film "Early Spring" (2017, dir. Rain Tolk, Gustaf Boman Bränngård) on November 25th in the National Competition screening "Spice of Life".
The festival will screen over 250 films from over 45 countries. The festival's main programme consists of 5 competition programmes, two of which are dedicated to short film and two to animation. For the first time ever, short films and animations will go head to head in the PÖFF Shorts National Competition.
See the full programme and schedule HERE! Festival events can be found here.
For ticket information please visit this page.


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Posts Tagged As: Hate Group
FRC seeks to refute that they are a hate group by illustrating that they are
Family Research Council released this "clarification" of the reasons that they are (correctly) listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center:
Does FRC claim that "gay people are child molesters?"
FRC has never said, and does not believe, that most homosexuals are child molesters. However, it is undisputed that the percentage of child sex abuse cases that are male-on-male is far higher than the percentage of adult males who are homosexual. This suggests that male homosexuality is a risk factor for child sexual abuse. Homosexual activists argue that men who molest boys are not actually "homosexual;" but scholarly evidence undermines that claim. It also cannot be disputed that there is a sub-culture within the homosexual movement that advocates "intergenerational" sexual relationships. FRC's writings on this topic–unlike the SPLC's–have been carefully documented with references to the original scholarly literature.
We have illustrated clearly that the "scholarly evidence" refutes rather than supports FRC's claims.
As for there being some sub-culture that advocates intergenerational sexual relationships, they must be very sub-culture indeed. So sub that no one knows who they are nor are we aware of any such advocacy.
These blatantly false claims alone would qualify FRC as a hate group.
Does FRC want to "criminalize" homosexuality?
FRC has made no effort to reinstate sodomy laws since the U.S. Supreme Court struck them down in the 2003 case of Lawrence v. Texas. In a 2010 interview on a different topic, the question of whether we should "outlaw gay behavior" in U.S. civil law was raised not by an FRC spokesman, but by MSNBC's Chris Matthews. The spokesman affirmed that FRC (like three Supreme Court justices) believed Lawrence was wrongly decided; but the interview left some viewers with the mistaken impression that "re-criminalizing" homosexuality is a policy goal for FRC. It is not.
You will notice that they do not deny that they want to criminalize homosexuality. Because they do. It's simply not a stated "policy goal".
This bolsters their case for qualification as a hate group.
Does FRC want to kick homosexuals out of the country?
Just days after an interview was posted online in 2008, an FRC spokesman publicly apologized on the FRC website for having used the words "import" and "export" as metaphors for voluntary immigration and emigration by homosexuals. The interview related to legislation which would grant special preference in immigration to foreign nationals who are the homosexual partners of American citizens.
Well, now, where I come from we call that a lie. Rather than "metaphors for voluntary immigration and emigration", what Peter Sprigg actually said was:
I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them into the United States because we believe homosexuality is destructive to society.
I see nothing "voluntary" in that statement. And, frankly, lying about the original statement makes the subsequent apology somewhat suspect.
Does FRC support the execution of homosexuals in Uganda ?
This charge was refuted as soon as it appeared in 2010. FRC has publicly opposed the much-publicized bill (never adopted) in Uganda that would have imposed criminal penalties for various offenses related to homosexual conduct, and the death penalty for something known as "aggravated homosexuality." We responded to requests from Congressional offices for advice on the wording of a resolution condemning the Uganda bill–then reported those contacts as "lobbying," as is required by law. FRC did not "lobby" against the resolution; our advice was limited to suggestions for language that would accurately describe the Uganda bill and the state of international law.
I wasn't in the room. But I'll let you guess whether I believe they are telling the truth.
Tags: Family Research Council, Hate Group
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Yes, hate groups have African Americans too
The Southern Poverty Law Center has long since earned its reputation as an honest monitor of racially based hate groups. At some point they expanded their scope to include hate groups which exist to instigate animus towards gay people as well.
It isn't easy to get on the SPLC's Hate Group listing. This isn't the Maggie Gallagher and Dr. James Dobson and Southern Baptist preacher crowd. Ignorance, prejudice, callous disregard and presumptions of superiority are not nearly enough to quality.
To qualify as a Hate Group, one must engage in active defamation. In other words, a hate group must intentionally spread vicious lies which they must know – or certainly should know – to be untrue for the purpose of stirring up animus against gay people. These are the folks who manufacture fake studies, distort research, make totally fabricated claims, and do so under the presence of telling the real truth that the AMA, the APA, and everyone else with an education and credible reputation are conspiring to keep secret.
In total only 16 groups currently make the cut:
Abiding Truth Ministries (Scott Lively)
America Forever (a dominionist (NAR) site)
American Family Association (Don Wildmon and his son Tim)
American Vision (Gary DeMar)
Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (The Peter)
Bethesda Christian Institute
Biblical Family Advocates (Phil Magnan)
Chalcedon Foundation (Founded by R. J. Rushdoony, headed by his son Mark Rushdoony)
Faithful Word Baptist Church (Steven Anderson)
Family Research Institute (Paul Cameron)
Family Research Council (Tony Perkins)
Illinois Family Institute (David Smith and Laurie Higgins)
H.O.M.E. Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment
MassResistance (Brian Camenker and Amy Cantrada)
Traditional Values Coalition (Lou Sheldon and his daughter Andrea Lafferty)
Westboro Baptist Church (Fred Phelps and his daughter Margie)
Being called a "hate group" is infuriating to those who identify as Christians. (For a year now I've been intending to address hate and love from the perspective of Christian theology, what qualifies as each, where boundaries lie and the difficulty of being human while aspiring to spiritual goals. Frankly, I've put it off because to do it justice is a daunting task, but I really do think it may be time to attack the job.)
In the past, those listed have mostly ignored the SPLC. As they didn't run in circles in which advocating for the cessation of racism was highly admired, they didn't much care what the "liberal activist group" thought of them. But with the addition of some more vocal and politically connected organizations, attention has been given to the SPLC's listing. And, naturally, rather than ponder whether their behavior was hateful and should change, a decision was made to discredit the Southern Poverty Law Center.
So today a collection of Hate Groups protested at SPLC headquarters. It was the rather sad souls that we have become accustomed to seeing: Peter LaBarbera, who organized the event, and his best buddy Matt Barber, the Associate Dean of Liberty University School of Law. Also showing up to represent the "Nazis were gay" viewpoint was Rachel Connor of Scott Lively's Abiding Truth Ministries.
But in hopes of embarrassing this institution know for is advocacy for racial equality, this cluster of unhappy clowns was beefed up by including some African American preachers, some particularly nasty hate-filled African American preachers.
DL Foster I've dealt with before. He's perhaps the most mean spirited, personally vile, directly hateful individual I've encountered (with Robert Gagnon as his competitor). He's the type of guy who blames the suicide of bullied kids on "homosexual activists". He's the sort of fellow who thinks that the beatings and murders of gay people in Jamaica are godly. Oh yeah, and DL is ex-gay.
Tim Johnson, founder of the Fredrick Douglass Foundation, doesn't have a high profile for anti-gay activism. He is, however, a convicted domestic violence felon. On Christmas Day 1995 he beat his wife because "that's the only way I can get her attention." She was hospitalized with a broken nose and toes.
Then included was a collection of ministers from Church of God in Christ, DL Foster's denomination: Pastor Glen Sawyer, New Mt. Zion Church of God in Christ, Elizabeth City, NC; Pastor Wil Nichols, Victorious Praise Fellowship COGIC, Durham, NC; Pastor Jon Robinson, Kingdom C.O.M.E. Ministries, Clairton, PA; and Pastor Kenneth Jefferson, Greater Harvest COGIC. The Church of God in Christ is a Pentecostal Holiness black church and it is HUGE, with about five million members and 12,000 congregations in the US alone. By comparison, the largest non racially specific pentecostal church, the Assemblies of God, has about three million US members.
But perhaps no participant in LaBarbera's little "we got Blaa People too" charade is quite such an example of the type of Blaa People that are so blinded by their evil imagination and their hatred of gay people that they would seek to discredit a respected civil rights organization as Dr. Patrick Wooden, pastor of Upper Room Church of God in Christ. Right Wing Watch caught this particular doozy from an interview with The Peter of just a few days ago (via Joe Jervis):
My belief is that if the medical community would just step forward and just would share with the American people what happens to the male anus, what the problems that homosexuals have with their rectums, the damage that is done, the operations that are needed to sew up their bodies, if you will. And how many of the men don't even give the stitches time to heal, before they're back, they're out there, practicing that wicked behavior. Some are "bleeders", men who are not turned off by ingesting the feces of other men. If the truth was told, people would literally gag. And no one would want to be in a lifestyle like that. Who wants to practice anything that is ultimately going to lead a grown man to – by the time he's in his 40's or 50's or whatnot – having to wear a diaper or a "butt-plug" just to be able to contain their bowels?
Who indeed? Certainly no one I've ever met, encountered, read about, or who ever existed outside the disturbed imagination of Dr. Wooden. If he keeps that sort of nonsense up, the Southern Poverty Law Center may find itself in the unenviable and ironic position of having to add an African American church to its list of Hate Groups.
Tags: DL Foster, Hate Group, Matt Barber, Peter LaBarbera, Southern Poverty Law Center
Gay vandalism claim likely a hoax
[Edited to include Point 6, provided by Jim Burroway]
On October 15, someone called "Pissed" posted a statement on the Chicago Independent Media Center website claiming that they had "put two chunks of concrete through the glass windows and doors of the Christian liberty academy" because of the scheduled Americans for Truth fundraiser featuring Scott Lively that evening.
I think it is a hoax.
Now it's possible that the school was vandalized. It's even possible that the vandalism was performed by outsiders and not staged for media effect. And if that happened, it's likely that the vandals were either gay or gay-supportive. But the statement simply isn't believable.
First off, Peter LaBarbera (who calls himself "Americans for Truth About Homosexuality") claims that the statement was e-mailed to Christian Liberty Academy, Americans For Truth, Scott Lively and others within a few hours of the event. Those who blog know that this is some pretty quick writing.
Which leaves one of three possible scenarios: 1) the perpetrator of the violence rushed home to write a manifesto, research the details of Lively's involvement in Uganda, and find the phone numbers and email addresses of a number of individuals; 2) the event was planned in advance with the decision to use strikingly different language in the statement than in a note accompanying the event; or 3) the author of the statement had no need to research the details contained in the statement or the email addresses to whom it should be sent.
I think the third scenario most likely.
After a while you learn the language of gay activists, the language of anti-gay activists, and (more importantly in this case) what anti-gay activists think is how gay people speak. This particular declaration is a combination of standard anti-gay-speak peppered with the phrase "hate group" and a few anecdotes to make it seem like it comes from a gay or gay-supportive individual.
Take, for example, the following paragraph:
In 2009, Lively and other American homophobes spoke at a conference in Uganda called "Exposing the Truth About Homosexuality and the Homosexual Agenda". This conference stirred the anti-gay atmosphere that already exists in Uganda, a country with laws that punish homosexual acts with up to 14 years in prison. As a direct result of this conference, participants have drafted a bill that, if passed, would increase the sentencing for homosexual acts to life sentences and execution and make it a legal responsibility to report homosexuals in the community. Lively has also co-written a book called "The Pink Swastika" which claims that homosexuals created the Nazi Party and were responsible for the Holocaust, a book that has been repeatedly denounced as inaccurate by historians.
While this might fly with someone who was unaccustomed to reading the rants of those on both sides of the Culture War, this raised red flags with me.
Few gay activists, especially of the 'throw bricks' variety, know the name of the Ugandan conference. In fact, here at Box Turtle Bulletin – the source of that source and the most thorough reporter of its detail – we referenced only once that this was the stated theme of the conference.
Note the passivity of the language. Gay activists tend to discuss this event as being primarily driven by the Americans. This takes the opposite stance – they only "spoke at" the conference. (The truth lies in between. The American anti-gay evangelists were not the original organizers, but were the stars of the show. As published American authors with claims of political and religious authority, they were granted the opportunity to speak before the Ugandan Parliament, were treated with deference, and their statements accepted as fact.)
This paragraph depicts the Kill the Gays Bill as being directed solely towards "homosexual acts." Find me a single gay activist – brick thrower or otherwise – who describes the Ugandan Homosexuality Bill of 2009 in these terms. We rightly note that in Uganda (as in American and everywhere else) bills that target "homosexual acts" in reality target gay people. We know that America's sodomy laws very seldom resulted in prosecution for actual sodomy but were, rather, the legal basis behind harassment of gay people. The raiding of gay bars, the cruel custody decisions, the military bans and other governmental employment bans, the prohibition of recognition of marriage, and other such official positions were not for the purpose of preventing "homosexual acts" and we don't pretend that they were. Only those who refuse to recognize the humanity of gay people speak as though anti-gay laws are about "acts".
One of the more chilling aspects of the Ugandan Kill the Gays Bill (aside from executing gay people) is the requirement that family, neighbors, friends, doctors, ministers, and others report gay people to the government. And that if they fail (or refuse) to do so, they face the threat of years in jail. Scott Lively supports that provision. And I think "a legal responsibility to report homosexuals in the community" is exactly how he would word it.
And look at the mild nature of criticism of the Pink Swastika: "a book that has been repeatedly denounced as inaccurate by historians." No, it's not "inaccurate", it's historical revisionism at its most insidious and it is denounced by every scholar of the Holocaust as being intentionally dishonest. But to the crowd to whom LaBarbera and Lively appeal, "historians" are ivory tower elitists dedicated to leftist views and therefore immediately suspect.
Who calls gay people "homosexuals" anymore? That right there is a red flag. This "manifesto" uses the word "homosexuals" as a noun for gay people. Gay people or people purporting to support gay rights NEVER call gay people "homosexuals." /li>
And that's just one paragraph. Other language in the article feels more at home within the anti-gay industry than in the gay community (e.g. "counter the Homosexual Agenda") and taken in its totality, this feels more like "this is what they say about us" than it does like the words of a gay person. For me, thee clincher was the listing of phone numbers to invite abuse.
So why would an anti-gay person write and post this?
That one's pretty obvious. To portray the gay community as violent and lawless with goals of "shutting down" anyone who disagrees and, as The Peter put it, "signalling a new brazennes [sic] by homosexual activists". And, equally important to their cause, to portray anti-gay activists as victims who are, in the words of this piece, "under constant attack."
As could be expected, the more rabid members of the anti-gay community are chiming in. The American Family Association sent out a news article featuring Matt (Bam Bam) Barber:
"We are going to speak God's truth in love without fear of reprisal, or even in this case, without fear of violence," the attorney assures. "So I have a message to the gay terrorists that perpetrated this crime: Your terrorist tactics have failed, and you will not succeed in silencing God's truth."
So goal achieved.
But, of course, my analysis is based only on experience and familiarity with the language of activists. I have no inside information on this article and no way of knowing for certain that the person who wrote it was not gay. And though suspicion of the event is shared by others (Joe Jervis of Joe.My.God, for example), we could all be mistaken.
As I said above, it is entirely possible that someone did vandalize the Christian Liberty Academy. Peter LaBarbera has on his website pictures of a paver with "shut down Lively" written on it, along with a note saying "This is just a sample of what we will do if you don't shut down Scott Lively and AFTAH … Fuck Scott Lively. Quit the homophobic shit".
Now this sounds much more like an gay activist of the brick-throwing variety. Not very bright, not well thought out, stupid lashing out without any thought of consequence. And here at Box Turtle Bulletin we unreservedly condemn this behavior. It is wrong and if the perpetrators can be found, they should be held liable for their actions.
According to LaBarbera, the Arlington Heights police are investigating the situation. I wish them the very best success in finding out who threw the pavers, who wrote the statement, and whether they are the same party.
Towards this goal, I call on the Chicago Independent Media Center to voluntarily provide any information that can assist the police in identifying the person who posted the statement. There are times to stand strong on the media's constitutional right not to divulge sources, and then there are times when a paper, as part of a community, can choose to participate in the protection of the community. I hope they do not to become a pawn of the author of the statement.
If a gay person or group vandalized the Christian Liberty Academy and then wrote a statement bragging of the event, I think I can speak for the overwhelming majority of "brazen homosexual activists" when I denounce the action and say that I hope that they are brought to justice.
And if the statement is a hoax written by an anti-gay activist posing as gay, I hope that they are exposed and that statutes dealing with false police claims are brought into play and that they find themselves facing jail time.
Full statement after the break
Tags: Anti-Gay Activists, Hate Group, Peter LaBarbera, Scott Lively, Vandalism


Playing around with the idea of having a mobile reservation view! Make sure to check out Rick's concept while you're at it!
One of many concepts that help solve clunky restaurant wait list /reservation problems. Stay tuned for more updates from the @funsize team members.


Last summer I transplanted some of my red bee balm from my front garden to my back hillside. By the end of summer, they seemed to have taken root and were holding their own. This summer, I noticed lots of little sprouts coming up and was thrilled to imagine the sea of red bee balm I was going to have. We went away on an extended vacation, and I came back to this: (pic) A hillside absolutely covered with very tall, 5-7 feet, stalky plants with small white flowers that look like mutant Queen Anne's Lace. The butterflies certainly love it, whatever it is. But it is clearly invasive. My question is, what the heck is it and how did this happen to my bee balm? I had planted a checkerboard pattern of the BB to fill in and this is the exact area I planted. I'm perplexed. It really looked like bb at first, the jagged leaves, etc. Should I rip this out? It is dwarfing my other trees and shrubs. Thank you!
Red Bee Balm is a cultivated Hybrid.
The Bee Balm has been crossed with another plant likely in the mint family.
It would appear your Bee Balm has self seeded and you are growing--something else!
Because it is likely in the mint family, it may become invasive and it you don't love it, I would dig it up and discard.


If you're from Manhattan Beach or the South Bay area in general, you've probably already heard the raving reviews about Barsha Wines & Spirits. Being unable to resist all of the buzz that seemed to surround the tasting room, we thought it was time for us to experience what Barsha was all about.
Before sitting down with one of the owners Lenora, we went in for a wine tasting experience which quickly turned into a cheese tasting, bruschetta eating and "let me see how much more wine I have room for" evening.
To say the experience was different would be the understatement of the century. Entering their shop and tasting room feels like you're walking into Lenora and Adnens home and they're your gracious hosts (Lenora and Adnen pictured to the left with their daughter Pash). The room was filled with both private parties and groups of people mingling with one another. If you're still trying to figure out how to spend your evening, this should definitely be at the top of your list!
Q: Tell me a bit about your business.
A: Barsha is your neighborhood Wine & Spirits shop that is also a Tasting Room. We love small producers and really appreciate their amazing product. Therefore, that's our niche at Barsha, small production wines, beers, spirits, cheeses & food products. We feature wines from all over the world, we also have a farm fresh menu with a hint of Tunisian influence. We aim to make your experience as personal and approachable as possible. Why does wine have to be intimidating?
Q: What's it like working as a husband and wife team? What are the greatest challenges?
A: There are definitely just as many rewards as there are challenges when it comes to being a husband and wife team. It can be difficult to know when to be husband and wife and when to be strictly business partners. But to tell you the truth, I don't think I could've found a better business partner than Adnen, my husband.
Q: Can you explain the meaning of the name Barsha?
A: Barsha is one of the few words specifically from the Tunisian dialect (where Adnen is from). In French it translates to "beaucoup." It basically mean abundance, a lot. Barsha wine, Barsha passion, Barsha love. When we were searching for the perfect name, Barsha stood out because it was deeply rooted in Adnen's roots, and for myself, it was one of the few words I remembered, and used while living in Tunisia!
Q: How did you initially get interested in wine?
A: Adnen and I are chefs, if you have an appreciation for good food, then wine will come into the equation sooner or later. Adnen's love and passion grew right away after moving to America. His passion developed even more while serving as wine director in various locations and seeing a need to enhance the wine experience for his customers. His passion has aided in my love and appreciation for good wine!
Q: Why did you choose to open up in Manhattan Beach? What do you like most about the area?
A: Manhattan Beach is sentimental to both Adnen and I. I am actually from Hawthorne, and Manhattan Beach was always my mental escape. For Adnen, his humble American roots were established in the South Bay where he opened his first restaurant! So for both of us to come back and set up shop particularly in Manhattan Beach is truly a dream!
Q: We've heard about your Locals Night and love the concept. Can you tell us a bit about it and how the idea got started?
A: Well, the South Bay is such a close-knit community, but sometimes we're so into our careers, we forget that in actuality, all of our work is interconnected. If we networked more within our community we could actually take our business to another level. So Locals Night is in a way like an Industry Night. Calling it Locals Night opens it up to people of all professions and makes it a little more intimate!
A: We love the connection we have within the community. Everyone in Manhattan Beach seems interconnected through their children, organizations, and social lives. It means a lot to feel connected to a cause. We also love that we can help local non-profit organizations raise money through fundraisers hosted at Barsha!
Q: What's one thing you'd want all of our readers to know about Barsha?
A: We have a really great Wine Club! There is the Classico Club for $30 and the Riserva Club for $50. For each club, you get 2 amazing wines every month, plus you get great discounts such as 20% off in the tasting room! Adnen hand selects each and every wine after many tastings to find the perfect wine for each club. He takes great pride in knowing that he can bring another world onto your palate!
Barsha Wine and Spirits is located at 917 N Sepulveda Blvd. in Manhattan Beach.
Well written! Thanx for the great feature!


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The visual likeness of the Warframe was later added to the Global build as Excalibur Umbra in Update 23.0. Unlike Umbra Prime, it has Radial Howl, more armor, and Sentience. Unlike Umbra Prime, it has Radial Howl, more armor, and Sentience.


Missouri lawmakers reversed Governor's decision to block constitutional carry law that drops license requirement for carrying concealed weapon where it is not prohibited.
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Daily Howler: Parents should show their children the Post--and tell them they mustn't be like that
THE WORST GENERATION! Parents should show their children the Post—and tell them they mustn't be like that: // link // print // previous // next //
HIS HOMETOWN: In yesterday's Nobel acceptance speech, Al Gore mentioned a striking fact about Carthage, Tennessee, his hometown:
GORE (12/10/07): In the last year of that war [World War II], you gave the Peace Prize to a man from my hometown of 2000 people, Carthage, Tennessee. Cordell Hull was described by Franklin Roosevelt as the "Father of the United Nations." He was an inspiration and hero to my own father, who followed Hull in the Congress and the U.S. Senate and in his commitment to world peace and global cooperation.
My parents spoke often of Hull, always in tones of reverence and admiration. Eight weeks ago, when you announced this prize, the deepest emotion I felt was when I saw the headline in my hometown paper that simply noted I had won
the same prize that Cordell Hull had won. In that moment, I knew what my father and mother would have felt were they alive.
Tiny Carthage, Tennessee has now produced two Nobel peace prize winners. (That hometown paper is the Carthage Courier. You know what to do: Just click here.) But we chucked ruefully when we saw Gore refer to Carthage as his hometown. We remembered the way the nation's great papers tried to keep that designation out of print in June 1999, when Candidate Gore made his formal announcement speech in the Carthage, Tennessee town square.
Yes, the sane ones were willing to call it his hometown. (For example, Gore was living there in 1975 when the local congressman retired. He then represented Carthage in the House for four terms, before moving on to the Senate.) "Gore officially kicked off his run for the White House in his hometown of Carthage, Tenn.," the AP's Mike Glover wrote on June 17, the day after Gore announced. But inside The Village, the fixers were determined to undermine Gore in every way, no matter how small—or small-minded. They had already defined Gore as a "creature of Washington" who had shown the world that he was "delusional" when he described the part of his childhood that he'd spent on the family farm. Gore had been elected to represent Carthage four times—but Village People didn't want to call the place his hometown. It's sadly amusing to see how hard they worked to avoid that locution.
Yes, Ceci and "Kit" went to some lengths to avoid saying "hometown" this day. (The word did make the Post's photo caption.) But no one worked harder than gruesome Anne Kornblut, then peddling her wares as a petty fixer for the Boston Globe. Here's how her report started:
KORNBLUT (6/17/99): Cradled by his family and the rural town he claims as home, Vice President Al Gore officially announced his candidacy for president yesterday in a speech that seemed to say less about who he is than who he is not: Bill Clinton.
Carthage was the town Gore claimed as home! It was like he had picked it out of a hat—and there was no further explanation for Gore's appearance in Carthage this day. Instead, Kornblut leaped ahead to the piece of deception she'd been handed, three days earlier, by the RNC. Here you saw the same of the script Village fixers wanted you hearing:
KORNBLUT: Here in Carthage, there were no traces of the criticism Gore has faced for his elite roots and longtime residence in Washington, where he was raised during his father's time as a senator from Tennessee—and where the Republican National Committee chairman, Jim Nicholson, yesterday staged an event at a onetime Gore residence, the former Ritz Carlton hotel, which Nicholson dubbed the "real Gore homestead."
So clever! In fact, Kornblut's presentation about Nicholson's event was technically accurate. The building where Nicholson staged his event was, in fact, "a onetime Gore residence." (Gore had lived there, with his parents, when he was ten.) And the building was, in fact, "the former Ritz Carlton." But it wasn't the Ritz Carlton when the Gores had lived there, a fact which Kornblut must have known. But so what? On June 14, Nicholson had sent out a clowning press release, begging scribes to say these words: Candidate Gore was raised at the Ritz. As it turned out, only the dumbest—or most compliant—were willing to stoop to that level. (For a fuller account of this clownish event, see THE DAILY HOWLER, 8/8/02. For more background on what this "homestead" was like when the Gores lived there, see THE DAILY HOWLER, 10/26/06. Then marvel at the way fixers like Kornblut turned the place into the Ritz.)
Yes, the fixers at the Post, Times and Globe struggled to avoid saying "hometown" that day. But the Washington Times clowned most heroically. "Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, bask in support yesterday in his adopted hometown," the caption on the paper's photo said. Serious, large-scale assaults on Gore's character were being invented all over the press. But even down to this small level, the Village's fixers were working hard to get their ideas in your heads. Below, you'll see them doing the very same thing with John Edwards—in this morning's Post.
STRAIGHT OUTTA CARTHAGE: On the Carthage Courier's "About Us" page, the hopeless bumpkins who publish the paper refer to Gore as a "hometown son." (Hull is described as a "Favorite Son.") You know what to do—just click here. Our question: When will the people of Carthage adopt their rulers' preferred narratives?
THE WORST GENERATION: Parents should sit down with their children this week—and read to them from the Washington Post. They should tell their children, in no uncertain terms: You must never, ever embarrass your family by ending up like the folks at the Post.
Which part of the Post should they show to their children? They should show them the embarrassing series, called "The Front-Runners," which the Post is currently running. Today, the victim is Candidate Edwards. As with Clinton, as with Romney, the Post's profile contains four parts:
An insipid attempt at psycho-biography, written by one of the world's dumbest people.
A piece called "How He's Running." (According to Kornblut, who writes today's piece, "Edwards is running as 'the son of a millworker.'")
A piece called "How He Looks" (Robin Givhan).
A piece called "How He Talks" (Dana Milbank).
That's right! In this morning's Post, there's a full report about John Edwards' clothes—but no report about his proposals! Nowhere in these "front-runner" profiles does the Post explain what the candidates have proposed in the course of their White House campaigns.
By itself, that would be strange enough. But in its most open insult to the public, the Post has Givhan writing a report about each hopeful's clothing. And the Post has Milbank telling the world how each candidate "talks."
Is Robin Givhan the world's dumbest human? Here's the start of her blather today. Yes, she gets paid to do this:
GIVHAN (12/11/07): He pairs his faded jeans with sport jackets in that baby-boomer way, rather than a metrosexual way, in which case the jacket would be Prada Sport and the jeans would be overpriced.
Let us repeat: There is no report in today's four-part package about Edwards' proposals—but we get this predictable horsesh*t from Givhan. And as if her inclusion isn't insult enough, we also get this predictable horsesh*t from the loathsome Milbank:
MILBANK (12/11/07): For all his wordiness, Edwards is mostly silent when it comes to policy details. The stump speech offers few specifics about what he would do, even as he told his DNC audience that he would build "one America"—eight times.
That's a bit strange, since the Post itself offers no specifics about what Edwards "would do." But what makes Milbank's complaint especially stupid? On Sunday, Milbank complained that Candidate Clinton gives too many policy details! Here's how he started his (cosmically stupid) profile of "How She Talks:"
MILBANK (12/9/07): Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, opted to skip the applause lines after she accepted an endorsement last week from a New Hampshire, teachers' union. Instead, she plunged deep into the weeds.
"We have one form of learning, which is pretty much an auditory form of learning supplemented by some visual aids," she announced. "We are leaving out . . . kinesthetic and esthetic learners."
Further, she reported that "60 percent of our in-age cohort will not graduate from college" and that "a child drops out of school in America every 29 seconds."
She blamed Bush education policy, which "homogenizes the classes," and pledged to help "individual districts and states achieve a level of facility and teacher preparedness and adequacy."
Let's hear it for facility preparedness and adequacy! Put your hands together for kinesthetic learning and the de-homogenization of the classroom! Save the in-age cohort!
"For a quarter-century now, Democrats have had a habit of selecting brainy, establishment presidential nominees who are frequently pedantic," this pathetic fixer complained. But two days later, he complains that Edwards doesn't give enough policy details.
But so it goes—so it has gone for years—as the Post makes a joke of your lives.
How stupid was Milbank's piece on Clinton? It has long been a practice at the Post to ridicule Major Dems for offering long, boring policy speeches. (David Broder said he almost fell asleep at Gore's convention speech—the one with "all those swell ideas.") But Milbank's stupidity here is surpassing. He watches a candidate speak to an education group. And he finds himself offended when she "plunges deep into the weeds"— about education ideas! You have to be a real fool to write that. You have to be someone like Milbank.
But then, we've told you this for a very long time: If these people didn't exist, you simply couldn't invent them. Givhan is clearly the world's dumbest human, and Milbank may well be the most dishonest. But career liberals still refuse to come to terms with all this—refuse to say what is clear: This is plainly the worst generation—the most corrupt, dumbest, least honest.
This "worst generation" lives inside a Versailles. At the top sit multimillionaire anchors who pretend they're nothing but average Joes—average Joes like their store manager dads, the ones they insult by their phony comparisons. A bit lower down are the simpering Dowds, wondering about Ronmney's underwear and lashing out at Wife of Obama. (Simply put: If you're a woman and you're married to a Big Dem, Maureen Dowd hates your innards.) But only this group would ever conceive of a series like the one the Post is now running. The series includes a profile of each candidate's clothes—but no profile of what they're proposing.
Are they human? Eventually, science will settle that question. But before research scientists dig them up and test them for their planet of origin, parents have a job this week. They must sit with their children and show them the Post. They should say, You must never be like that!
THREE OUT OF FOUR IS QUITE BAD: By some miracle, the giants of this vapor-locked breed all possess the same deathless insights. In today's four profiles of Candidate Edwards, three of them mention his troubling haircuts—the haircuts which cost way too much:
MILBANK (12/11/07): "What America needs right now is America needs a fighter," says the candidate, who was a trial lawyer and a Democratic senator from North Carolina...
Sounds like a bit of class warfare—coming from a man with a 28,000-square-foot house, $30 million in assets and a $400 haircut.
KORNBLUT (12/11/07): He has fared well in Democratic debates, outperforming Obama even after the senator from Illinois forecast an aggressive match in Philadelphia on Oct. 30. Still, Edwards has faced challenges of his own, namely "the three H's"—his expensive haircut, his hedge fund work after the 2004 election, and his sprawling homestead in North Carolina, all seemingly at odds with his regular-guy persona and progressive agenda.
MONTES (12/11/07): Always describing himself as "the son of a millworker," he tells stories of family hardships...and says he identifies with "the little guy." But he does so with such glibness, and frequency, and it contrasts so greatly with who he is today—a polished former trial lawyer worth millions—that the truth of his biography is sometimes lost. These days, Edwards's $400 haircuts and $6 million house garner the lion's share of attention, and he is testimony to the fact that youthful good looks aren't necessarily a political asset.
Only Givhan restrained herself—and she of course pitched in with this:
GIVHAN (12/11/07): [O]ften there is the sense that Edwards is so aware of the camera's gaze that he can't stop posing and simply be. He looks like a man in costume—as though he has popped his face into a cardboard cutout of "American Gothic." He is a millionaire tourist in his own narrative.
"There is the sense," this imbecile wrote—and then, she sold you her cohort's key narrative. By the way, what exactly has Edwards proposed? No one was asked to discuss that!
These are exceptionally stupid people—and they've taken over your discourse. In effect, they're a small, stupid mafia, holding a death-lock on a vital societal function. But so what? Our career liberal cohort still soft-soaps this problem, as we'll note a bit later this week. Meanwhile, we're left in the hands of this simpering crew—a gang of android imports.
Question: Since these life-forms are clearly from outer space, where do they get their shopworn "ideas?" Where do they get the handful of narratives all of them want to repeat for the public? Who is really inventing the tales these people all want to throw at you? Yes, they all know they must say the same things. From what deeply material source have these slick, stupid narratives sprung?


A new report released today by the Public School Forum of North Carolina's Center for Afterschool Programs (NC CAP) highlights large areas of North Carolina where young people are at risk of not succeeding. The Roadmap of Need, an annual report from NC CAP, uses data on health, youth behavior and safety, education, and economic development to assess the relative well-being of young people living in each of North Carolina's 100 counties.
In 2010, the Public School Forum and NC CAP created the first Roadmap of Need using ten indicators related to afterschool programs, health care, job programs and other key initiatives for youth success. The Roadmap of Need was expanded in 2013 to 20 indicators of wellness across four domains: health, youth behavior and safety, education, and economic development.
According to the report, the five top counties where young people have the greatest likelihood for success are Orange, Union, Wake, Cabarrus and Camden. The bottom five where young people are most at risk are Anson, Halifax, Northampton, Edgecombe and Robeson. The makeup of the top 5 is unchanged from last year, while Northampton replaced Scotland County in the bottom 5 this year.
At first glance, the Roadmap of Need points to counties in eastern North Carolina as those most at risk. However, the nature of countywide indicators often masks the variation occurring within counties, particularly populous urban counties where neighborhoods that alone would fare well on the Roadmap indicators can exist in close proximity to neighborhoods with many young people in need.
The Roadmap of Need has been a key resource for afterschool providers communicating with policymakers, funders, and citizens about the importance of their services, and to target areas for increased investment. School administrators, central office staff, nonprofits, community leaders, and parent advocates also use the report to demonstrate to others the needs faced by their communities. Public education advocates have brought Roadmap data to the attention of school board members, county commissioners, and members of the General Assembly, in order to inform their efforts to create state and local policies that address significant community needs.
The Roadmap of Need was made possible by a generous grant from GSK.


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Whoopi Goldberg's appearance on the Tuesday episode of The View was cause for concern after she suffered on-air health troubles.
Though the show's moderator recently got over a battle with COVID-19, she appeared to still be experiencing some symptoms, as she seemed to have trouble breathing before letting out a cough.
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Goldberg left fans worried halfway through the Tuesday, November 29, broadcast after she introduced a couple of guests following a commercial break. The television personality welcomed Samuel L. Jackson and his wife, LaTanya Richardson Jackson — offering details about their new projects — but then found herself having issues as she began to say the actress' name.
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Holding her chest as she struggled to breathe, Goldberg began coughing on camera. Despite appearing to want to continue introducing her guests, her coughing fit wouldn't let up, eventually leading her cohost to come to her rescue.
After Goldberg turned to the side and continued to reportedly cough in her hand, Sara Haines reached over to pat her cohost's back, as the ladies were sitting next to each other. Haines tried to diffuse the situation while everyone around them asked if Goldberg was "OK."
Goldberg's coughing fit comes after she was absent from the panel due to a Covid diagnosis. Following her return to the show, Goldberg told the audience and viewers at home that the virus should be taken very seriously, saying: "You don't want to get this. It's not funny. You don't want this. This will kill you! What's the matter with you people?"
Though Goldberg was eventually able to carry on with the segment during the Tuesday episode, this wasn't the first time she left fans worried over her health.
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Earlier this month, Goldberg appeared to need assistance during a segment called "Whoopi's Favorite Things" in honor of the EGOT winner's birthday, which was on Sunday, November 13.
As the ladies moved from one elevated surface to another to show Goldberg's favorite things — consisting of sneakers, corkscrews and cookware — Haines could be seen grabbing Goldberg's arm and assisting her to the next item. At one point, she even grabbed Goldberg's arm and instructed her to "step up" as they made their way to the last table, both looking down at the step before moving.
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In the next few hours, we will have an official announcement from the Election General Committee (KPU) about who will become the next Indonesian president, even though the results are already known by many people, thanks to many quick counts hold by many organizations.
There are 132,896,438 valid votes for this year's election and based on the final calculation, president candidate no 2 (Joko Widodo and Jusuf Kalla) got 70,633,576 votes (53.15 %) while candidate no 1 (Prabowo Subianto and Hatta Rajasa) got 62,262,844 votes (46.85 %). There are 8,370,732 vote differences and it's more than enough to make candidate no 2 to become the next president of Indonesia.


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Aquabox from Texas A&M University has developed an easy-to-use, affordable solution to help increase food production for developing countries. The team's digitized aquaculture monitoring system will also decrease the number of pesticides and fertilizers used to farm fish and crops.
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First place: Corais - Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Roughly 37% of microplastics found in the world's oceans are derived from personal care products and synthetic textiles like clothing, expelled in the wastewater from washing machines. Team Corais developed an easy-to-use filter containing magnetite, a recyclable metal, which attracts microplastics and prevents them from being released into waterways.
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Yuri - Name Meaning, What does Yuri mean?
Yuri as a boys' name is pronounced YER-ee. It is of Russian and Greek origin, and the meaning of Yuri is "farmer". Variant of George. Also form of Juri. Also form of Uriah.
George (#125 A YEAR AGO), Uriah (#547), Jordi (#1437) and Jory are the popular related forms of Yuri. Other variants, like Joeri, are seldom used. These forms of Yuri reached the height of their popularity during the years 1880-1889 (ADOPTION OF 4.35%) and are now much less common (ADOPTION 0.21%, DOWN 95%), with the form George going out of style. Uriah is the most fashionable birth name in this compilation.
Yuri is pronounced similarly to Aaro, Ara, Ari▲, Arie, Ario, Arri, Arrio, Arry, Ary, Eero, Eri, Erie, Ira▼, Oro, Orry, Uri, Uria and Yuria. Other recommended sound-alike names are Bari, Bri, Ceri, Deri, Ezri, Feri, Gari, Guri, Hari, Imri, Jori, Kari, Kori, Mori, Nuri, Omri, York, Yule and Yusif. These names tend to be more frequently used than Yuri.


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Ljubljana, 01 July (STA) - The announcement of the sale of Slovenia's no. 1 food company, Droga Kolinska, to Croatian company Adriatic Grupa is stirring controversy in political circles, with most representatives of parliamentary parties voicing disappointment with the decision to sell a showpiece of Slovenia's economy to a foreign buyer.
The decision by the debt-ridden Istrabenz holding to sell Droga Kolinska to Adriatic Grupa appears to have caught many parliamentary representatives off guard. Many voiced disappointment on Thursday, saying that such an important part of Slovenia's agricultural and food industry should have been kept in Slovenian hands.
Also weighing in on the debate prompted by Thursday's announcement of the sale is former Istrabenz chairman Igor Bavcar, who placed the blame for the sale on politicians. This is the price that has to be paid for political wheeling and dealing regarding the fate of Istrabenz, Bavcar told the STA.
According to him, Istrabenz could have been salvaged through a voluntary debt restructuring plan but was instead forced into court-mandated restructuring late last year. Political influence on banks made them opt for the latter, which is why investments such as Droga Kolinska are now being sold off, he explained his take on the matter.
Bavcar, who headed Istrabenz from June 2002 to his ousting under pressure from banks last year, also hailed his role in merging Droga and Kolinska into a single company that was subsequently brought under the umbrella of Istrabenz in 2006. The outcome of this process was an "excellent international company with respected brand names".
But Bavcar's view about political meddling was rebuffed by a representative of the junior coalition Zares party, who said the sale was brought about by the troubles of Istrabenz. "What happened to what was once a healthy company is reason for concern," Cveta Zalokar Orazem said in a reference to Istrabenz's trouble with debts.
Zalokar Orazem added that the sale should be viewed from the perspective of Droga Kolinska's future. "If the sale results in synergies and the intentions are good and proper, this may not be a disaster."
Other parliamentary parties were unanimous in voicing concern about the sale.
"Given that we're talking about the food-processing industry, this decision should have been given extra thought," Janko Veber of the ruling SocDems told the STA. He said the only justification for a sale to a foreign company was the expansion of the market.
LibDems MP Borut Sajovic said he was disappointed by the sale because Droga Kolinska was "one of the pride and joys of Slovenian business".
"I'm saddened that a buyer could not be found in Slovenia for this important company. I think this would surely have been in Slovenia's national interest," added Sajovic.
Andrej Vizjak of the opposition Democrats (SDS) rued the "loss of one of the rare brand names whose importance stretches beyond Slovenia's borders".
Fellow opposition People's Party (SLS) echoed this view calling the announcement "bad news". "I think that Slovenia should work to keep its food-processing industry in its hands," MP Jakob Presecnik said.
The hardline National Party (SNS) was even more critical, with its leader Zmago Jelincic calling the sale a "crime". He attributed the sale to the will of the government, saying that it did not care about national pride.


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The College of Creative Studies Gallery at the University of California Santa Barbara is pleased to present the exhibition "The Future Can Only Be Told in Reverse", opening February 14, 2018 with a public reception and discussion with the artists on February 16 starting at 4pm. On view through March 9, the exhibition features works that respond to the historical comic novel and media archive The Imaginary 20th Century, by Norman M. Klein and Margo Bistis. A performance piece by Maya Gurantz will be part of the opening reception.
Common aspects of the art works are the contrary layering of information, the gaps of selective memory and memory distortion, and the embedding of the digital within the analog.
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