Amid the excitement surrounding Luke's provocative claim, a gambling frenzy arises and the wager is on. Terms are negotiated among the various believers and non-believers; a rules committee is formed; and Luke agrees to a one-hour time limit in which to eat all 50 eggs.
Apple CEO Tim Cooke and FBI Director Jim Comey might want to spend a few quality hours watching Cool Hand Luke, perhaps the greatest flick of all time. Because what their dispute boils down to (pun intended) is an area of the law and of societal thinking that is definitely misunderstood.
So much has now been written, argued and pontificated concerning the headline grabbing battle between Apple and the FBI, and what has emerged is a chaotic, bewildering and blurring morass. Not that the battle isn't worthy of all of the attention and hype; it is. The case has brought to light critical and nuanced issues and facts which absolutely necessitate scrutiny and reflection.
However, what's missing from the discussion is some good old-fashioned common sense, which today's Stark on IR posting now introduces into this 21st Century technological and legal firestorm.
The Device at Issue. The device at issue is an iPhone 5c, used by Syed Rizwan Farook, who with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened fire during a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center in the San Bernardino massacre, killing 14 people and injuring 22 others.
The FBI claims that there may be "relevant, critical communications and data" on the iPhone from around the time of the shooting (the FBI has already sought and received from Apple all data from any cloud storage connected to the device).
Apple claims that it cannot unlock its newer iPhones for law enforcement (such as the iPhone 5c), even when presented with a warrant, because its phones are now engineered in such a way that Apple does not hold the decryption key. Specifically, Apple's iOS operating system is designed to automatically erase local data after too many incorrect passcode attempts and only someone knowing the password would be able to unlock the phone.
Though encrypted communication platforms have been available since the early 1990s, the encryption debate began to involve Apple when, in 2014 Apple released its new iOS, which contained a feature that generates random security "keys" that are unknown to Apple and in combination with the user's passcode to decrypt the device's data. Without such mathematical formulas, the personal data is unreadable. This two-step "full disk" encryption process makes iPhones more secure, but it also means Apple cannot unlock its own products. Neither can Google after adopting the same practice.
Because iPhone 5c's (and all later models) can only run software with Apple's proprietary cryptographic signature, the FBI wants Apple to create and upload a custom version of iOS to Farook's device that overrides this mechanism. The FBI would then hook up an external computer that will make unlimited guesses to unlock the phone's contents, known as "brute forcing." That way, for instance, the government can try to crack the password, attempting tens of millions of combinations without risking the deletion of the data.
The Government's Ex Parte Request. Frustrated by Apple's refusal to create the new iOS, the government sought and obtained a court order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym of the Federal District Court for the District of Central California. The government sought the order ex parte, which means Apple did not have any opportunity to present any form of opposition to the judge.
It is not clear why the government moved ex parte and why the judge granted an order without hearing from Apple. This was not a case where the government needed to proceed in secret to safeguard its investigation; the government did not proceed "under seal," which secretes the motion from public view; and the government presented no extraordinary circumstances as to why Apple should not get the opportunity to oppose the government on the matter. Perhaps the government knew a battle was looming, and by blindsiding Apple with an ex parte filing, provided them with a head start in its public relations campaign.
The All Writs Act. The government requested the order under the authority of the All Writs Act, a 227-year-old law signed by President George Washington himself, as a source of authority for judges to issue orders that are not otherwise covered by a statute.
Cook asserted that Apple would have to create a "GovtOS," in order to meet the FBI's demands. Apple would also need to create an FBI forensics lab on site that Apple asserts could likely be used to unlock iPhones in the future, which, in public statements, other law enforcement officials have already indicated is likely to follow.
The Fifth Amendment's Due Process clause prohibits the government from compelling Apple to create the new version of iOS.
The government's request to ask Apple to create the new version of iOS, called GovtOS (including coding, signing, verification and testing) is too extraordinary a burden.
The Order would instantly empower federal, state and local authorities to barrage Apple with demands that will tie up its resources forever.
Forcing Apple to write code that weakens its devices and the security of its customers constitutes a violation of free speech as protected by the Constitution.
Other Opinions. The case is politically and legally divisive but in unpredictable ways. Most of the presidential candidates have addressed the issue on the campaign trail. Silicon Valley is split with Microsoft CEO Bill Gates agreeing that the government's request is reasonable and Google and Facebook backing Apple. Interestingly, former NSA Director Michael Hayden, who helped implement the agency's controversial metadata program and still supports it, is in Apple's corner. Even Howard Stern has expressed an opinion. Stern, the wildly popular (and extremely bright) broadcaster offers probably the most interesting, most surprising and most objective opinion of everyone (though his equally sharp sidekick, former Army Captain Robin Quivers, disagrees).
The Government's Dubious Legal Theory. First off, the government's citation of the All Writs Act, a colonial statute, to support its motion, raises an immediate red flag. Think about it: The FBI is actually using a law written not just before the era of telephones and computers, but also before the era of electricity, to address the encryption of iPhones.
Even more startlingly, the government is actually using a statute enacted just 13 years after the American Revolution to support a unilateral government power that would undermine fundamental principles of the Constitution that many of in Congress had personally just helped to write or to ratify. This is an awkward application of statutory construction to say the least – and utterly unconvincing.
Law professors describe the All Writs Act and other similar statutes as laws of so-called "compelled assistance," which are a garbled, confusing and far from settled area of legal jurisprudence.
Refusing to comply with a subpoena or other government request can make it more difficult to win important "cooperation points," which, if charges are filed, can reduce sentences and mitigate other possible punishments.
The first case worthy of mention, which the government cites as support for its motion, is a 1977 case called United States v. New York Telephone Co. In this case, the government used the All Writs Act to obtain a court order forcing a phone company to help set up pen registering devices (designed to record dialed numbers) on two telephones. In that case, there was "probable cause to believe that the company's facilities were being employed to facilitate a criminal enterprise on a continuing basis." Oddly, when carefully considered, this case actually cuts against the government's position.
A 2005 All Writs Act case also worthy of mention, captioned In the Matter of an Application of the United States for an Order (1) Authorizing the Use of a Pen Register and a Trap and Trace Device and (2) Authorizing Release of Subscriber Information and/or Cell Site Information, interestingly stands for the proposition that the All Writs Act has limits.
Another more recent 2014 case similarly enunciating the All Writs Act's limitations actually involved Apple and is captioned, "In re Order Requiring Apple Inc. to Assist in the Execution of a Search Warrant," and was filed just across the bay in federal court in Oakland.
The Oakland and San Jose matters are also distinguishable from the current Apple/FBI dispute because each involved an older iPhone, which was much simpler and easier to crack (and did not involve creating a new operating system or removing encryption protections). In fact, no prior case (using the All Writs Act or any other authority) has ever mandated that engineers be conscripted to create a new architecture to defeat a company's own security measures.
All Writs Act Precedent After Yesterday. Yesterday, New York Federal Magistrate Judge Orenstein resoundingly reaffirmed his view as to the limitations of the All Writs Act. He is obviously not convinced by the government's position, and seems even a bit outraged by it.
The New York federal case, captioned, In Re Order Requiring Apple, Inc., to Assist in theExecution of a Search Warrant Issued by the Court, held that Apple does not have to help the government unlock a drug dealer's iPhone. In this case, the federal prosecutors in New York sought Apple's assistance in unlocking the password-protected iPhone of Jun Feng, a drug dealer who negotiated a plea late last year. In executing the warrant to search Feng's residence, agents of the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) properly seized several mobile devices, including Feng's mobile telephone, an iPhone 5s that used Apple's older, less secure, iOS7 for its operating system.
Judge Orenstein first notes that the government cannot use the All Writs Act because other statutes apply to the situation – and the All Writs Act can only be elicited when no other statute is relevant to the facts and circumstances of a case. Specifically, Judge Orenstein believes that CALEA, The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, essentially preempts the government from using the All Writs Act. CALEA is a federal law that enables the government to intercept wire and electronic communications and call-identifying information under certain circumstances — in particular, when it is necessary in order to protect national security.
The government also argued that under its interpretation of the All Writs Act, the judge can rule that Apple has to help break into the phone because there is no law saying that Apple does not have to do so. Judge Ornstein firmly rejects that argument, emphasizing that such an interpretation would make it so that, unless Congress could stop it, the judiciary could make up any rules it wanted.
The Slippery Slope. The crux of the dispute between Apple and the government rests on a fairly straight-forward question: Does the government have the right to review the communications of its citizenry, no matter how tightly the communications are sealed and encrypted; no matter how onerous the burden on the company to crack its own security; and no matter how strict and narrow a standard is applied to the government's request or demand.
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FBI Director Comey asserts that this order is essentially a "one-off" and will not trigger the kind of cavalcade of demands cited above. Even though Director Comey is probably the most honest, ethical and heroic attorney general in U.S history, some less scrupulous or more aggressive local, state and/or federal investigators are bound to usurp the ruling against Apple and push the edges of the envelope.
The Government Can Never Prevent People From Communicating Outside of Governmental Purview. Regardless of the validity of the legal theories presented by either side of the dispute, some commentators assert that the primary societal issue presented by the Apple/FBI conflict is: Should the government have the right to review (under any standard) the communications of its citizenry, no matter how tightly they are sealed and encrypted.
This position is outdated and unrealistic to say the least. Historically, governmental access to communications between individuals was as simple as a wiretap or mail-intercept, and was available to the government upon application to a judge, and a proper showing of probable cause, particularity and the rest. But those days are gone forever.
Nowadays, opportunities for secret communications between people abound, with little chance (if any) of governmental intercept. Consider steganography apps (of which there are many), which allow users to embed hidden messages inside what appear to be family photos or audio files, with limited coding and in such a manner that it is almost impossible to detect. In the world of cryptology, a secret code known only to the user usually means that the information could be kept away from the government unless there is an existing means to compel the person to reveal it.
Besides being obsolete, the question presented is actually moot. Because even if the government were to pass a law banning fully encrypted communications, terrorists would invent other ways to mask their communications, or more likely, would simply ignore the encryption ban, just like terrorists ignore the laws against murder. Given the technological age we live in, there are, and will always be, endless technological ways to disguise interpersonal communications.
Indeed, this growing limitation upon government surveillance is not news to the FBI. The FBI began sounding alarms years ago about technology that allowed people to exchange private messages protected by unbreakable encryption. The N.Y. Times reports that in fall 2010, at the behest of then FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, the Obama administration began work on a law that required technology companies to provide unencrypted data to the government. Lawyers at the FBI, DOJ and Commerce Department drafted bills around the idea that technology companies in the Internet age should be bound by the same rules as phone companies, which were forced during the Clinton administration to build digital networks that government agents could tap.
"Supporting Apple Means Supporting Terrorists" is an Unfair Edict. This notion, that American citizens must support the government's demand of Apple, otherwise terrorists will be able to communicate free from surveillance, is misguided and designed to trigger emotion and obfuscate legal analysis. Whether or not Apple is forced to construct a new operating system, terrorists will always have ways to communicate in secret and without the fear of government surveillance. And even if nations went so far as to somehow mandate backdoors, there will always be some encrypted channels outside of their jurisdiction where the likes of ISIS can plot.
Lets also remember that there will also always be legitimate needs for encrypted communications. Just ask Chinese pastors, North Korean protestors or Russian dissidents who are targeted by authoritarian regimes, want to communicate with one another and require encryption to do so (if they want to avoid getting jailed or even killed).
Our society has decided however, that privacy intrusions like those cited above are not palatable. Whether young, old, Republican, Democrat northerner, southerner, etc., every constituency shares common ground when it comes to government snooping. All are suspicious, skeptical and apprehensive.
Perhaps in this new era of such horrific terrorism, and where social media has opened up the personal lives of so many people, there exists less concern about privacy. It is tough to tell. What is so interesting and yet another strange and unexpected irony that further clouds the debate, is the fact that young people are rallying so passionately behind Apple. Yes, the same generation whose use of social media has exposed their private lives in ways their parents and grandparents could never even have imagined, seems passionate about Apple's efforts to protect their personal privacy.
Technology Has Empowered the Government in Extraordinary Ways and the Government Must be Kept in Check. Historically, logistical concerns, rather than legal constraints, hindered the government's use of overbroad subpoenas, requests and search warrants. For instance, an overbroad DOJ subpoena could result in a company's "backing up the truck" to DOJ headquarters and dumping hundreds or even thousands of boxes of documents in response. Overbroad subpoenas before computers were a logistical nightmare, not just to review, but even to inventory, manage and warehouse, causing lengthy and tedious investigation delays.
But those days are long gone. Subpoena responses that used to require rooms, floors and buildings to store, and legions of agents to review, now merely require a silicon microchip for their storage and one agent to analyze (using an e-discovery tool). Document reviews that used to take months now take hours, even minutes.
Technology has clearly transformed the investigative playing field, empowering the government in groundbreaking and pioneering ways to identify, pinpoint, examine, segregate, and peruse data. To its credit, when it comes to data and the ever-elusive smoking gun, the government has become more creative, more resourceful (and more effective) than ever. But merely because technology can facilitate an investigative outcome does not automatically mean there exists authority to do so.
For example, consider the SEC investigatory assertiveness. Despite clearly lacking the authority to do so, the SEC's enforcement arm issues subpoenas for the production of so-called "electronic storage devices" (ESDs) such as hard drives, mobile phones, tablets, etc. – and no one in government seems to care.
The SEC is, of course, an exceptional federal government agency — staffed with a dedicated corps of highly-credentialed professionals, inspired by a noble sense of mission, and rich with an 80+ year history of investor advocacy. But sometimes the SEC gets carried away and needs a quick reality check. This is the case with the SEC's use of subpoenas demanding production from witnesses of their ESDs. Yet, until someone like Tim Cook comes along and says, "stop," the improper and unauthorized SEC practice will unfortunately continue.
This aspect of the arguments of both Apple and the FBI misses the mark. Most laws pertaining to the private communications between American citizens (perhaps with the exception of the USA Patriot Act, which was hastily passed after 9/11), protect privacy and limit the kind of private data that government investigators can access. For instance, laws such as The Privacy Act of 1974, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA), the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, and The Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 all curtail government authority and affirmatively protect the privacy rights of individual American citizens.
This brings to mind a 1998 ECPA during the time of "don't ask, don't tell," involving a highly decorated gay Naval sailor by the name of Timothy R. McVeigh, who was the senior-most enlisted man aboard the U.S. nuclear submarine U.S.S. Chicago.
While in Honolulu, McVeigh sent email messages from his America Online (AOL) account using the screen name "boysrch" and the signature "Tim," when communicating with a civilian working as a volunteer on a Navy-sponsored charity. The AOL user directory identified the marital status of the owner of the "boysrch" account as "gay." Someone tipped off naval authorities about the AOL account, which launched an investigation.
A Navy paralegal called AOL seeking the identity of "boysrch." The paralegal did not identify himself as a Navy official and did not follow the ECPA's requirement that, among other things, government officials, in order to obtain information from AOL, must either: 1) obtain a warrant; or 2) notify the subscriber and issue a subpoena.
AOL provided the information to the Navy and McVeigh was dishonorably discharged for violating the "don't ask, don't tell" rule. McVeigh sued and the case soon made its way into the D.C. federal courtroom of Judge Stanley Sporkin, the celebrated former SEC Enforcement Director and former CIA General Counsel, who was very disturbed by the Navy's position. The Navy actually admitted violating the ECPA; however, the Navy argued that AOL was at fault because AOL provided the information to the Navy and should not have done so.
Congress will find it challenging to turn the tides against historical notions of privacy protection. Americans might instinctively favor the government's position against Apple – after all, what American wants to defend the rights of murdering terrorists? But when push comes to shove, American citizens are loath to sacrifice their privacy and become suspicious of an aggressively prying government, and American judges like Judge Sporkin are equally distrustful.
The Impact of the Release of Apple's Code-Breaking Operating System. Apple asserts that if it were to create an operating system that would allow brute-force attacks, the new software would find its way into the wrong hands. The government claims that Apple is perfectly capable of protecting the new operating system, just like any other trade secret. While both the intended and unintended consequences of scenarios like destabilizing encryption of smart devices are difficult to predict, one thing is for certain. The moment any company builds a backdoor for use by governments, it will only be a matter of time before hackers figure it out and coopt it.
The government also makes a puzzling argument that the order only impacts one phone. But it seems that there does not exist a "single phone option." Given that Apple is bypassing a core function of the iPhone's operating system, it seems technologically infeasible for Apple to build that option to work with just one sole phone. The government is asking Apple to remove the restriction that wipes the iPhone after 10 tries, and that option is the same on every iPhone.
Having worked as an investigator/prosecutor for almost 20 years, including 11 years as Chief of the SEC's Office of Internet Enforcement, and having drafted the online investigative guidelines that the SEC Enforcement Division used during my tenure, I trained a legion of lawyers and investigators how to manage (and balance) the many privacy concerns of Americans.
Good prosecutors and agents always ask some iteration of these four questions before demanding information from witnesses, subjects or targets, of investigations. Whether the government investigators who sought the order from Apple asked them all is not clear (though, despite having the best of intentions, they probably did not).
There may indeed be some middle ground between Apple and the FBI, although the situation seems bleak for any sort of compromise, especially given the government's ex parte approach to negotiation, which really ratcheted up the disagreement's intensity.
Failure to communicate is an understatement when considering the Apple/FBI relationship; but there is always hope. For the government, there is hope that the public pressure on Apple will prompt a settlement of some sort. For Apple, there is a hope that an appellant court will, among other things, reverse such a broad, unwieldy and extreme application of the All Writs Act.
"In deciding this motion, I offer no opinion as to whether, in the circumstances of this case or others, the government's legitimate interest in ensuring that no door is too strong to resist lawful entry should prevail against the equally legitimate societal interests arrayed against it here. Those competing values extend beyond the individual's interest in vindicating reasonable expectations of privacy . . . They include the commercial interest in conducting a lawful business as its owners deem most productive, free of potentially harmful government intrusion; and the far more fundamental and universal interest – important to individuals as a matter of safety, to businesses as a matter of competitive fairness, and to society as a whole as a matter of national security – in shielding sensitive electronically stored data from the myriad harms, great and small, that unauthorized access and misuse can cause.


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OPINION | SOUTH AFRICA
One step closer to replacing COSATU?
14 March 2016 By Terry Bell
A new labour federation hopes to trigger a workers' party
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14 March 2016 - By Terry Bell
Talk of an as yet ill-defined socialism is emerging strongly on the fringes of mainstream politics, both here and in Britain and the United States. At the same time, in the name of populism, we have the likes of Donald Trump in the US and the more virulent Golden Dawn of Greece, the Freedom Party of Austria and others touting various brands of bigotry and nationalism.
Against this background, it seems appropriate to paraphrase the opening lines of the 1848 Communist Manifesto: A spectre is haunting the world — the spectre of barbarism and misery. It has arisen in the minds of millions because of the ongoing economic crisis, the increase in global joblessness and the insecurity and fear this produces.
It is a time when those in political control, along with big business and their acolytes, continue to announce that "we are all in this together". We are indeed. But what we are in and who put us there is the real question.
It is a question that has given rise to an often desperate search, mainly by working people, who are hardest hit by the crisis, for alternatives to the present order where none, prominently, exist. This vast army of the disillusioned has the potential to bring about change and is therefore the target of any variety of charlatans in political and religious garb, wooing working people and the labour movement.
On the religious front, the concentration is on that significant minority who have become hopelessly demoralised and blindly seek solace in the promise of a better life hereafter. They are prey for those often self-ordained priests and pastors offering what are effectively promised tickets to heaven or what Joe Hill in 1911 referred to as "pie in the sky, by and by".
However, there is also a growing force in many areas that is starting, in an organised way, to demand real change to a system that seems in danger of destroying the planet itself. This demand, in terms of co-operation, caring and sharing was, in recent history, the province of the labour movement and its supporters.
That all went by the board in the boom years following World War 2, when very few heeded the lessons of past booms and slumps and the dire warnings of academics such as Norbert Wiener. He was the man who foretold that robotics could result in the "industrial revolution of unmitigated cruelty" that we now seem to be on the cusp of experiencing.
Significantly, majority trade union groups still continue to support the existing order in the face of divisions usually brought about by disgruntled rank and file members. Arguably, they do so because the bureaucratic leaderships are almost wholly enmeshed with the existing system.
A steering committee has been formed to finalise details for the formation of a new labour federation.
As a result, there is growing disgruntlement and this is particularly evident in South Africa where, in Johannesburg last week representatives of 30 or more unions met as a steering committee to finalise details for the formation of a politically independent and radical labour federation.
At the same time, the registration of a National Trade Union Congress was gazetted by the Department of Labour. It was registered by Stephens Msiza, a former bodyguard of Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema. It was formed by EFF members last year, with 153 members.
The steering committee is a very much more serious project, not only because of the number of mainly smaller unions involved, but because it is headed by the more than 330,000-strong National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa). It is planned that the proposed new federation, although politically unaffiliated, will trigger the formation of a "workers' party" that will articulate policies based on "worker demands".
In many ways, this is a variation on a theme that has arisen in Britain and the US where parties that were rooted in the labour movement now have serious movements within them that are pressing for a return to earlier, co-operative values. In Britain, there is the recently elected leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, and in the US, the crowdfunded Democratic Party presidential challenger, Bernie Sanders.
Both have been in politics for decades, describe themselves as socialists and, especially in the case of Corbyn, have records of campaigning for peace, against racism and nuclear weapons as well as military interventions. Throughout what has been described as the "greed is good" years, they were always on the margins of politics. Now they are decidedly to the forefront.
Will the weight of Labour Party bureaucracy force Corbyn to compromise and will Sanders, ever loyal to the Democratic Party, end up throwing his support behind Hillary Clinton? In both cases, the waves of change they represent may well dissipate in much the same way as seems to be happening with Syrizia in Greece and Podemos in Spain.
Only a truly democratic organisation with a clear programme of action and co-operative policies to match may be able to provide hope of an alternative way forward that is not authoritarian and brutal. On the other hand, we can continue to muddle along what is an increasingly rocky path to devastation.
Views expressed are not necessarily those of GroundUp.
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national songs
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Patriotic Songs of the United States
Theme Songs of the Armed Forces
"God Save the King" (or "Queen")
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All nations have patriotic songs that express the people's love for their country. Some are or were derived from old folk songs. Many were written in time of war or revolution. Most nations have selected one of their patriotic songs as a national anthem, to be played and sung on ceremonial occasions. A national anthem usually expresses religious feeling as well as a feeling of pride in one's country. It is customary to stand, as a mark of respect, while a national anthem is being played or sung.
The instrumental version of the national anthem of the United States.
Congress officially recognized "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem of the United States in 1931. Its stirring words were written by Francis Scott Key at a time of national crisis.
In August 1814, British forces set fire to the Capitol and other buildings in Washington, D.C. (see War of 1812). When they were returning to their ships they took with them as prisoner a friend of Key's, William Beanes, a prominent physician. Key, a young lawyer, undertook to have his friend released. With President James Madison's permission, he set out from Baltimore in the Minden, flying a flag of truce. With him went John S. Skinner, a government agent.
The British ships were at the mouth of the Potomac River, preparing to attack Baltimore. The British officers agreed to release Beanes, but they put a guard on the Minden to see that the Americans did not leave until the battle ended. On September 13 they began to bombard Fort McHenry, which guarded Baltimore. While daylight lasted, Key and Skinner could see the American flag flying over the fort. At night they could only watch the shells "bursting in air." Anxiously they paced the deck, waiting for the dawn. When daybreak finally came, Key was thrilled to see, waving in the breeze, "the star-spangled banner."
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ds-00032a)
While the bombardment continued, Key took a letter from his pocket and on the back of it began to write the words of a song. He finished all the verses on the way to shore, but some of the lines were only in his memory.
As soon as he reached his hotel room he wrote out the complete song as it now stands. For the melody he used an arrangement by John Stafford Smith of an English song, "To Anacreon in Heaven." This tune, whose original composer is unknown, was already popular in the United States.
"The Star-Spangled Banner" was favorably received in Baltimore, but only gradually did it find its way into song books. It did not become popular as a truly national song until the time of the American Civil War.
O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming!
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
The patriotic hymn "America" was long regarded as the United States national anthem. The words were written by Samuel Francis Smith, a Baptist clergyman. For the melody he used the music of Great Britain's "God Save the King." Smith said he wrote the verses in 1832, but they were actually printed a year earlier for a Fourth of July celebration in Boston, Massachusetts.
My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the Pilgrims' pride,
From every mountain-side
Let Freedom ring.
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,—
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom's song;
Let mortal tongues awake,
Let all that breathe partake,
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
With Freedom's holy light,
"Yankee Doodle" is the only soldiers' song of colonial days still sung today. Its humorous verses mock the raw American troops (called "Yankees" by the British). Each four-line verse ends with the refrain:
Yankee Doodle, keep it up,
Yankee Doodle, dandy,
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.
"Hail Columbia" is almost as old as the nation. Joseph Hopkinson wrote the verses in 1798. "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" was first published in 1843. An English actor, Thomas à Becket, who was then living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, claimed he had written the verses and composed the melody.
The American Civil War inspired some of America's finest patriotic songs. "Dixie" became the rallying song of Confederate soldiers. Daniel D. Emmett wrote it in 1859 for a black minstrel show. "Maryland, My Maryland" was written by a native of Baltimore, Maryland, James Ryder Randall.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The favorite song of Union troops was Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Mrs. Howe wrote the lines in 1862 when she was visiting a Union camp. She scribbled them at night, in the darkness of her tent, to the melody of "John Brown's Body."
"America the Beautiful" was written by Katherine Lee Bates, a professor of English literature at Wellesley. She wrote the first version on the summit of Pikes Peak in 1893. "God Bless America" was written by Irving Berlin in 1918, just before World War I ended.
Although "Anchors Aweigh" is widely accepted as the United States Navy theme song, it was never officially adopted. The original version, first performed in 1906, was written by Annapolis music director Charles A. Zimmerman, with words by Midshipman Alfred H. Miles. No one knows who wrote "The Marines' Hymn" ("From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli"). It is sung to music from an opera by Offenbach. The Air Force sings "Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder." The Army adopted in 1956 "The Army Goes Rolling Along, "sung to the tune of its old song, "And Those Caissons Go Rolling Along."
The instrumental version of the national anthem of France.
The famous anthem of France was written during the French Revolution. In April 1792 the mayor of Strasbourg remarked at a banquet that the French soldiers had no spirited marching song. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, a young captain of engineers, was one of the party. That night he picked up his violin and composed the words and music of a stirring song. The whole army of the north took it up. In June volunteers from Marseille sang it as they marched to Paris, France, and at the storming of the Tuileries. The Parisians, ignorant of its origin, called it the Song of Marseille, or "La Marseillaise." Soon it was known and sung from one end of France to another.
The first stanza begins,
"Allons, enfants de la patrie! Le jour de gloire est arrivé!"
The refrain is:
Aux armes, citoyens! formez vos bataillons!
Marchons, marchons, qu'un sang impur abreuvenos sillons!
In English, the refrain is:
To arms! to arms, ye brave!
The avenging sword unsheathe;
March on! march on! all hearts resolved
On victory or death.
The instrumental version of the national anthem of the United Kingdom.
No melody in the world is sung more often than "God Save the King." For Great Britain and the British nations of the Commonwealth the song has long been a national anthem. Many other nations sing their own words to the melody. In the United States, the words are "My country, 'tis of thee".
When Londoners first heard the song, in 1745, it was like a prayer in time of danger. Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender, had landed in Scotland and was invading England. On September 28, in the Drury Lane Theater, the curtain rose again after the play, The Alchemist, had ended. On the stage was the entire cast, singing "God save great George, our King." Henry Carey is usually credited with having written the words and the music in 1740, but the origin of both is uncertain. Scarcely two copies of the early versions are alike. Since that time there have been many changes. The second stanza below was adopted in 1946.
God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
Nor on this land alone—
But be God's mercies known
From shore to shore.
Lord, make the nations see
That men should brothers be
And form one family
The wide world o'er.
The instrumental version of the national anthem of Germany.
Courtesy of the Royal College of Music, London
The national anthem of the German people is sung to a beautiful melody. Franz Joseph Haydn wrote the music in 1797, during the Napoleonic wars, for the emperor of Austria. As "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" ("God Save Franz the Emperor"), the song became Austria's national anthem. New words were set to the music in 1841 by a German poet, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben. His "Das Lied der Deutschen" ("The Song of the Germans") replaced "Die Wacht am Rhein" ("The Watch on the Rhine") as Germany's official national anthem in 1922. The song was then called "Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles" ("Germany, Germany over All"). Other songs, such as the "Horst Wessel Song," supplemented it after the Nazi Party took control of the government.
After the fall of Adolf Hitler, Germany had no national anthem until 1950, when the West German government adopted "Das Lied der Deutschen" again. In 1990 this song, sometimes also called "Einheit und Rechtheit und Freiheit" ("Unity and Right and Freedom"), was adopted as the national anthem of the reunified Germany. For official occasions only the third verse is sung:
Unity and right and freedom
For the German fatherland,
Let us each strive to this end,
Brothers all, with heart and hand.
Are the guarantee of joy.
In the sunshine of this triad,
Thrive, our German fatherland.
The instrumental version of the Canadian national anthem, O Canada.
"O Canada, terre de nos aïeux" is a French Canadian song. The music is by Calixa Lavallée and the words by Adolphe B. Routhier. The English lyrics, which are not a translation or rendering of the French, were written in 1908 by Robert Stanley Weir, a lawyer and recorder of Montreal. "O Canada" was proclaimed the official national anthem of Canada on July 1, 1980. "God Save the Queen" remains the royal anthem of Canada.
The English lyrics of "O Canada" begin "O Canada! Our home and native land." The chorus in English is:
God keep our land, Glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee;
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
The chorus in French is:
Et ta valeur, de foi trempée,
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits.


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RADNOR, Pa., Nov. 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP (www.ktmc.com) informs investors that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York against Rent the Runway, Inc. ("Rent the Runway") (NASDAQ: RENT). The action charges Rent the Runway with violations of the federal securities laws, including omissions and fraudulent misrepresentations relating to the company's business, operations, and prospects. As a result of Rent the Runways' materially misleading statements and omissions to the public, Rent the Runway's investors have suffered significant losses.
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LEAD PLAINTIFF DEADLINE: JANUARY 13, 2023
CLASS PERIOD: OCTOBER 27, 2021 THROUGH NOVEMBER 14, 2022
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Kessler Topaz is one of the world's foremost advocates in protecting the public against corporate fraud and other wrongdoing. Our securities fraud litigators are regularly recognized as leaders in the field individually and our firm is both feared and respected among the defense bar and the insurance bar. We are proud to have recovered billions of dollars for our clients and the classes of shareholders we represent.
RENT THE RUNWAY'S ALLEGED MISCONDUCT
On October 27, 2021, Rent the Runway conducted its IPO, selling 17 million shares at $21.00 per share. In the months leading up to the IPO, Rent the Runway claimed that it was experiencing a business resurgence as concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic lessened, lockdown orders ceased, and its customers engaged in more social outings.
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Then, just one month after the IPO, on December 8, 2021, Rent the Runway revealed that for the quarter that ended on October 31, 2021 – just days after the IPO – the company reported nearly double its loss of the prior year quarter. The company also shocked the market when it revealed that its fulfillment expenses and marketing expenses had substantially increased and that it had a sharp deceleration in active subscriber growth.
On an earnings call held with investors that same day, Rent the Runway's CFO admitted that the company was suffering "transportation headwinds" and "labor wage rate increases" during the quarter. Although Rent the Runway failed to disclose these headwinds, the CFO stated not only that they predated the IPO but also that they were "anticipated." Following this news, the price of Rent the Runway shares declined by $1.31 per share, or approximately 10.23%, from $12.81 per share to close at $11.50 on December 8, 2021.
By November 14, 2022, the day the lawsuit was filed, the price of Rent the Runway Class A common stock had fallen to $1.58 per share, 92.48% below the price at which Rent the Runway common stock had been sold to the investing public in the IPO.
Rent the Runway investors may, no later than January 13, 2023, seek to be appointed as a lead plaintiff representative of the class through Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP or other counsel, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member. Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP encourages Rent the Runway investors who have suffered significant losses to contact the firm directly to acquire more information.
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ABOUT KESSLER TOPAZ MELTZER & CHECK, LLP
Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP prosecutes class actions in state and federal courts throughout the country and around the world. The firm has developed a global reputation for excellence and has recovered billions of dollars for victims of fraud and other corporate misconduct. All of our work is driven by a common goal: to protect investors, consumers, employees and others from fraud, abuse, misconduct and negligence by businesses and fiduciaries. The complaint in this action was not filed by Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP. For more information about Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP please visit www.ktmc.com.
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Singapore-based Plano wins world's most innovative healthtech startup
Up against 64 global healthtech startups, Plano has emerged as the winner of Galen Growth's World's Most Innovative Healthtech Startup 2020 Award. For this year's tournament, Galen Growth expanded the list of promising early stage startups beyond Asia, to include competition from the United States, Europe, the Middle East in addition to Asia, which every year, brings thousands of voters to support their favourite startup.
Mohamed Dirani, Founding Managing Director, Plano: "We are very grateful to every single person who voted for Plano and equally grateful to Galen Growth for bringing together and acknowledging so many HealthTech startups from across the globe. I personally see this outcome as a win not just for Plano and its team but also for Singapore as a nation which continues to lead the world in supporting and empowering entrepreneurship."
Plano is the first spin-off from the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI)-Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) Ophthalmic Technologies Incubator Programme. Founded in September 2017, Plano seeks to address myopia, which is a major public health challenge affecting an estimated 2 billion people today and will affect a projected 5 billion (half of the world's population) by 2050. Plano launched the world's first science-based parental control application, planoApp, with a vision to "Keep all eyes healthy in our digitised world". Today, Plano has an ecosystem comprising planoApp, planoEyecheck, planoShop and planoKids, that offers a wide range of eye health wellness solutions for all kids, parents and adults.
Wong Tien Yin, Medical Director, Singapore National Eye Centre: "For a small country, Plano's win is truly amazing for Singapore. This award will accelerate our ambition and consolidate our position in the global healthtech and digital medicine space. For SNEC and SERI, this is a testament to our ability to develop cutting edge technology that has real-world relevance and it will allow us to continue our fight against myopia, one of the most pressing public health problems for future generations of children and adults."
Galen Growth is the global leader in digital health intelligence, analytics and matchmaking, empowering global Fortune 500 companies and institutional investors to fast track their growth strategies. They nominated 64 of the most promising early stage healthtech startups from across the globe; screened for their business momentum based on its proprietary healthtech Alpha assessment matrix, which led to weeks of closely fought battles where well-known ecosystem names, thriving new startups and previous winners competed against each other. The six single-elimination rounds format through public votes led to innovative startups such as Biofourmis being awarded this sought-after trophy in 2017, followed by Halodoc in 2018 and Hello Health Group in 2019.
Plano's win was announced during the 5th annual Galen Growth HealthTech Summit, which is dedicated to digital health across the globe. After achieving the coveted HealthTech Award, Associate Professor Mo Dirani had the unique opportunity to showcase Plano to all the movers and shakers of the HealthTech ecosystem.
Julien de Salaberry, CEO and Founder, Galen Growth: "Every year, the tournament helps to bring the healthtech ecosystem together by allowing them to campaign for support and votes. With the enormous numbers of votes received every year, the tournament also signals to an ever-vibrant and competitive ecosystem. Throughout the tournament, we saw tremendous support for Plano. The founding team of Galen Growth still remembers Mo, the Founding Managing Director of Plano, back when we were at the same co-working space not so long ago. It was fantastic to see the growth and success of Plano since its beginning in 2017. We are thrilled about their future as they continue to potentially touch millions of patients' lives through education, awareness and digital solutions to transform digital eye care. As we head to 2021, the Galen Growth team is looking forward to continuously support the HealthTech startups that are transforming healthcare around the world."
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We're here because we want to restore that basic middle-class security for our families because we believe that folks in this country shouldn't go bankrupt because they get sick. (Applause.) We believe they shouldn't lose their home because someone loses a job. We believe that responsibility should be rewarded and hard work should pay off.
And the thing that we all know is that these are basic American values. They're the values that so many of us were raised with, including myself. (Applause.) I told this story earlier, but my father was a blue-collar worker at the city water plant. And my family lived in a very little apartment on the South Side of Chicago -- South Side! (Applause.) And neither of my parents had the chance to attend college, but let me tell you what my parents did do, which was just as important: They saved. And they sacrificed. And they poured everything they had into me and my brother because they wanted us to have the kind of education they could only dream of.
And while pretty much of all my college tuition came from student loans and grants -- (applause) -- you can relate to that -- my dad still paid a small portion of that tuition himself. And every semester, my father was determined to pay that bill on time -- because like so many parents, he was so proud to be sending his kids to college. And he couldn't bear the thought of me or my brother missing that registration deadline because his check was late.
Like so many people in this country, my father took great pride in being able to earn a living that allowed him to handle his responsibilities to his family, and to pay all of his bills and to pay them on time.
And let me tell you -- as First Lady, I have had the chance to see up close and personal what being President looks like. I have seen how the issues that come across a President's desk are always the hard ones -- the problems with no clear solutions, the judgment calls where the stakes are so high and there is no margin for error. And as President, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, all you have to guide you are your life experiences, your values, and your vision for this country. (Applause.) In the end, when you're making those impossible choices, it all boils down to who you are and what you stand for.
And we all know who my husband is, right? (Applause.) And we all know what he stands for, right? (Applause.) See, Barack Obama, he is the son of a single mother who struggled to put herself through school and pay the bills. He's the grandson of a woman who woke up before dawn every day to catch a bus to her job at a bank. And even though Barack's grandmother worked hard to help support her family -- and she was good at her job -- like so many women, she hit that glass ceiling. And men no more qualified than she was were promoted up that ladder ahead of her.
But I have said it before and I will say it again and again and again: He cannot do this alone. And fortunately, he never has. He never has -- because we have always moved this country forward together. (Applause.) Yes we have. And today, more than ever before, Barack needs your help. He needs your help. He needs every single one of you to give just a little part of your life each week to this campaign.
Barack needs you to join one of our neighborhood teams and start organizing in your own communities. And just one thing I want you all to understand: If you have any doubt about the difference that you can make, I just want you to remember that in the end, this election could all come down to those last few thousand people who register to vote. It could all come down to those last few thousand folks who get out to the polls on November the 6th.
And when you average all of that out over this entire state, think about it -- it might mean registering just one more person in your town. Just one more person. It might mean helping just one more person in your community get out and vote on Election Day. Think about it. One more person.
So with every door you knock on, with every single call you make, every conversation, I want you to remember that this could be the one. This could be the one that makes the difference. (Applause.) And that is the kind of impact that each of you can have in this election. (Applause.) Know that.
Virginia, I introduce to you my husband and our President, President Barack Obama!
AUDIENCE MEMBER: We love you, Barack!
THE PRESIDENT: I love you back. (Applause.) I love Virginia. (Applause.) Virginia, four years ago, you and I began a journey together. I didn't run, and you did not work your hearts out, just to win an election. We came together to reclaim the basic bargain that built the largest middle class and the most prosperous nation on Earth.
We came together in 2008 because our country had strayed from these basic American values. A record surplus was squandered on tax cuts for people who didn't need them and weren't even asking for them. (Applause.) Two wars were being waged on a credit card. Wall Street speculators reaped huge profits by making bets with other people's money. Manufacturing left our shores. A shrinking number of Americans did fantastically well, while most people struggled with falling incomes and rising costs, and the slowest job growth in half a century.
And in 2008, that house of cards collapsed in the most destructive crisis since the Great Depression. In the last six months of that year, even as we campaigned, nearly three million of our neighbors lost their jobs. Over 800,000 more were lost in the month I took the oath of office. And it was tough. It was tough here in Virginia. It was tough all across the country.
But the American people are tougher. (Applause.) All across America, people like you dug in. Folks like you fought back. Some of you retrained. Some of you went back to school. Small business owners cut back on expenses, but did everything they could to keep their employees. And sure, there were setbacks. There have been disappointments. But we didn't quit. We don't quit. Together, we are fighting our way back. (Applause.) Together, we're fighting our way back.
When some wanted to let Detroit go bankrupt, we made a bet on American workers, on the ingenuity of American companies. And today, our auto industry is back on top of the world. (Applause.) Manufacturers started investing in America again, adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s. Businesses got back to basics, exports surged. And over 4 million jobs were created in the last two years -- more than 1 million of those in the last six months alone. (Applause.) Now, does this make us satisfied?
But Virginia, I'm here to tell you we are making progress. And now we face a choice. For the last few years, the Republicans who run this Congress have insisted that we go right back to the policies that created this mess in the first place.
THE PRESIDENT: But it gets worse, because to borrow a line from our friend Bill Clinton, now their agenda is on steroids. This time, they want even bigger tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. This time, they want even deeper cuts to things like education and Medicare and research and technology. This time, they want to give banks and insurance companies even more power to do as they please.
And now, after a long and spirited primary, Republicans in Congress have found a champion. They have found a nominee for President who has promised to rubber-stamp this agenda if he gets a chance.
THE PRESIDENT: But Virginia, I tell you what, we can't give him the chance.
THE PRESIDENT: Not now. Not with so much at stake. This isn't just another election. This is a make-or-break moment for America's middle class. We've been through much to turn back now. We've come too far to abandon the change we fought for these past few years. Virginia, we've got to move forward, to the future that we imagined in 2008. (Applause.) We've got to move forward to that future where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules.
THE PRESIDENT: Now, Governor Romney is a patriotic American. He's raised a wonderful family, and he has much to be proud of. He's run a large financial firm, and he's run a state. But I think he's drawn the wrong lessons from these experiences. He sincerely believes that if CEOs and wealthy investors like him make money, the rest of us will automatically prosper as well.
Well, let me tell you something, Virginia. The problem with our economy is not that the American people aren't productive enough -- you've never been working harder in your lives. (Applause.) You're working harder than ever. The challenge we face right now -- the challenge we've faced for over a decade -- is that harder work hasn't led to higher incomes. It's that bigger profits haven't led to better jobs.
And Governor Romney doesn't seem to get that. He doesn't seem to understand that maximizing profits by whatever means necessary -- whether through layoffs or outsourcing or tax avoidance or union-busting -- might not always be good for the average American or for our economy.
Why else would he want to spend trillions more on tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans? Why else would he propose cutting his own taxes while raising them on 18 million working families?
THE PRESIDENT: Why else would he want to slash the investments that have always helped the economy grow, while at the same time stopping regulations of the reckless behavior on Wall Street that helped make the economy crash?
Virginia, I'm here to say that we were there, we remember, and we're not going back. We're moving this country forward. (Applause.) We remember.
We measure prosperity not just by our total GDP; not just by how many billionaires we produce, but by how well the typical family is doing, whether they can go as far as their dreams and hard work will take them.
We understand that in this country, people succeed when they have the chance to get a decent education and learn new skills. (Applause.) And, by the way, so do the businesses that hire those people or the companies that those people start.
We know that our economy grows when we support research into medical breakthroughs and new technologies that lead to the next Internet app or life-saving drug.
Look, we don't expect government to solve all our problems, and it shouldn't try. I learned from my mom that no education policy can take the place of a parent's love and attention. And sometimes, getting in your face and telling you what you need to do. (Applause.) As a young man, I worked with a group of Catholic churches who taught me that no poverty program can make as much difference as the kindness and commitment of a caring soul. Not every regulation is smart. Not every tax dollar is spent wisely. Not every person can be helped who refuses to help themselves.
That's what we believe. People have to make an effort. People have to try hard. But that's not an excuse to tell the vast majority of responsible, hardworking Americans, "You're on your own." (Applause.) That unless you're lucky enough to have parents who can lend you the money, you may not be able to go to college. That even if you pay your premiums every month, you're out of luck if an insurance company decides to drop your coverage when you need it most.
My opponent has different ideas. My opponent has a different view. He said it was -- and I quote -- "tragic" to end the war in Iraq.
THE PRESIDENT: He said he won't set a timeline for ending the war in Afghanistan.
Now, my opponent has a different view. He won't tell us how he'd pay for his new, $5 trillion tax cut -- $5 trillion -- a tax cut that gives an average of $250,000 to every millionaire in the country.
THE PRESIDENT: But even if he won't disclose the details of how he's going to pay for it, we know the bill for that tax cut will either be passed on to our children, or it will be paid for by a whole lot of you, a whole lot of ordinary Americans.
As long as I'm President of the United States, I will never allow Medicare to be turned into a voucher that would end the program as we know it. (Applause.) We're not going to go back to the days when our citizens spent their golden years at the mercy of private insurance companies. We will reform Medicare -- not by shifting the cost of care to seniors, but by reducing the spending that isn't making people healthier. (Applause.) That's the right way to do it. And that's what's at stake, Virginia. On issue after issue, we just can't afford to spend the next four years going backwards.
This should be the last election where multimillion-dollar donations speak louder than the voices of ordinary citizens. (Applause.) We need more checks on special interests and lobbyists, not fewer checks on them.
We're not going to eliminate the EPA. We're not going to roll back the bargaining rights of generations of workers. (Applause.) And it's time to stop denying citizenship to responsible young people just because they're the children of undocumented workers. (Applause.) This country is at its best when we harness the God-given talents of every individual, when we hear every voice, when we come together as one American family, striving for that same dream.
And, Virginia, that's why I need your help. (Applause.) This election will be even closer than the last. Too many of our friends and neighbors are still hurting because of this crisis. I've heard from too many people wondering why they haven't been able to get one of the jobs that have been created, why their home is still underwater, why their family hasn't yet been touched by the recovery.
The other side won't be offering these Americans any real answers to those questions. They won't be offering a better vision. They won't be offering new ideas. But what they will do is spend more money than we've ever seen before, all on negative ads on TV and radio, in the mail, on the Internet -- probably Tweeting a few negative ads out there somewhere -- ads that exploit people's frustration for my opponent's political gain. And over and over again, they will tell you that America is down and out, and they'll tell you who to blame.
That's the question in this election. And that outcome is entirely up to you. We're going to have to contend with even more negative ads, with even more cynicism, more nastiness -- sometimes, just plain foolishness. (Applause.) It will be worse than we saw in the last campaign. We know, because we've seen some of the foolishness over the last three and a half years.
Virginia, that's the spirit we need again. If people ask you what's this campaign about, you tell them it's still about hope. You tell them it's still about change. (Applause.) You tell them it's still about ordinary people who believe in the face of great odds that we can make a difference in the life of this country. (Applause.) You tell them.
Because I still believe, Virginia. I still believe that we're not as divided as our politics suggest. I still believe we still have more in common than the pundits tell us; that we're not Democrats or Republicans first, but we are Americans first and foremost. (Applause.


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Град Кротоне налази се у источном делу Калабрије, на 70 км источно од седишта покрајине, града Катанцара. Град се сместио на западној обали Јонског мора. Стари део града је на полуострву. Западно од града издижу се планине јужних Апенини.

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Кротон је антички, грчки град на месту садашње јужне Италије.
Кротон је био ахајска колонија, основана око 710. п. н. е. Цветала је у 7. веку (п. н. е.). Кротон је искористио прилику да ојача војнички и економски после уништења конкурентског града Сибариса 510. п. н. е. Од тог времена, Кротон је био хегемон Италског савеза (грчких градова) који је одржавао састанке управо у Кротону, у храму Хере Лациније.
Иако је касније Кротон доживљавао поразе од Локрија и Регија, град је остао моћан све до 379. п. н. е., када га је освојио Дионисије I, сиракушки тиранин. Тада је контрола над Италским савезом прешла у руке Тарента.
270. п. н. е. Кротон је постао римски савезник, али је током Другог пунског рата прешао на страну Ханибала. Римљани су га освојили тек 205-4. године, а основали су своју колонију 194. године.
После ових догађаја, Кротон губи историјски значај.

Култура

Спорт
Најпопуларнији спорт у Кротонеу је фудбал. ФК Кротоне се такмичи у оквиру Серије А.

Становништво
Према резултатима пописа становништва 2011. у општини је живело 58.881 становника.

Кротоне данас има око 61.000 становника, махом Италијана. То је чак 6 пута становништва више него пре 100 година.

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Галерија

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Спољашње везе

Градови у Италији
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This is a vintage original late 1930s/early 1940s framed pin up lithographic print, not a modern reprint. It features a lovely, well dressed blonde beauty caught up in a classic cheesecake situation titled "Caught in the Draft" Created by Gil Elvgren for the Louis F. Dow Calendar Company. This rare old print is housed in a gorgeous gesso frame, behind glass. Measures a framed 8" x 10". Image sight size measures 6 1/2" x 8 1/2". CONDITION: In very fine condition with no apparent concerns. The frame shows scattered wear to the old glass, and would require a back hanging wire. Provenance-Grapefruit Moon Gallery.


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Summary of Information on Jihadist Websites January 2017
· Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al-Qaeda, accuses the Islamic State of waging a false campaign against Al-Qaeda, and accuses the US of the systematic oppression of Muslims and of carrying out war crimes against the population to serve its own interests. In light of this false campaign, al-Zawahiri again clarifies the guidelines of his organization, including reviving the spirit of jihad among the Muslim Nation, renewing the institution of the Caliphate, applying shari'a, liberating Al-Aqsa, etc. In addition, he emphasizes that his organization is careful not to harm the civilian population and innocent people during military operations against enemy army and security forces.
· Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al-Qaeda, eulogizes and discusses the personalities of former senior jihad leaders, Abu al-Hasan Rashid al-Bulaydi, Abu Firas al-Suri, a senior member of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), and Rifau Tah, a member of the Islamic Jihad in Egypt.
· Abdelmalek Droukdel, the leader of AQIM, calls on Muslims in Algeria to wake up to the attempts to blur their Muslim identity and to the oppression from which Muslims around the world are suffering at the hands of the Crusaders, the Shi'ites and their allies. According to him, the Algerian regime plays a significant role in the conspiracy against the Muslim Nation as manifested in, among other things, its cooperation with France, which is trying to tighten its grip on Mali. Hence, they must act against the Algerian regime.
· Abu Abd al-Rahmanal-Sanhaji, the qadi (judge) of AQIM in the Sahara, threatens to attack anyone who cooperates with the Malian army, UN forces and French forces posted on Malian soil. This comes against the backdrop of France's intention to establish new military patrols to operate on behalf of the UN against the mujahideen in Mali. According to him, this intention will meet fierce opposition from his organization since the organization's position opposes the presence of foreign forces on Muslim lands.
· Five rebel factions in Syria – Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, Jaysh al-Sunna, Jabhat Ansar al-Din and Liwa al-Haqq – announce their merger and the establishment of a new umbrella organization called Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, led by Hashim al-Shaykh (aka Abu Jaber), who previously served as leader of Ahrar al-Sham. The new umbrella organization calls on all factions in Syria to join it in order to realize the goals of the Syrian revolution, including the overthrow of the Syrian regime and the application of shari'a on the Syrian people.
· The Islamic State claims responsibility for a terrorist attack at a nightclub in Istanbul that was carried out on New Year's Eve. In the announcement, Turkey is presented as a "defender of the Cross" and additional attacks are threatened in revenge for attacks on Muslims by Turkish fighter jets.
· A supporter of the Islamic State praises the organization's use of unmanned combat aerial vehicles and emphasizes that the organization has advanced technological capabilities. Another IS supporter recommends using drones in order to assassinate generals and foreign advisors located on bases belonging to Turkey, Britain, Germany, France and the US around Mosul. The writer refers to an analysis on the subject of combat drones by commentators in the West, and notes that it is a tool that will be developed into a central weapon of the organization.


I've seen similar questions posed here, but I still can't figure out how to verify that the return is 'working' or is included in the data matrix barcode I've created.
When I scan into your very handy decoder app, this is the result...everything I've coded in shows with the exception of the <RS> code.
I've scoured Google for any info on this particular scanner and this issue, but the closest I can find is another thread regarding the enabling of ascii mode, but isn't it safe to assume it's enabled already as I'm seeing all of the other 'hidden' characters?
Also, I have verified that the <RS> code shows when I manually enter CTRL^ into the top section of your app, so it's definitely a scanner issue...I just can't figure out how to remedy so that I can 100% verify/prove that this label contains all the required data/codes.
The ~d030 is the correct method to encode RS in Data Matrix products, such as the Data Matrix Font. You can also test this by scanning the symbols at the ISO IEC 15434 FAQ. The problem could be with the scanner or the PC that it is connected to.
MerlinTheCat	 Thanks again for your help, Brant, greatly appreciated.
For closure, and to potentially help someone else in the future...the solution was to download Zebra's 123Scan program and set the Scan/Picture mode to USB-SNAPI. I didn't find any documentation on the web, but just luckily stumbled into a trial and error victory... OPOS mode worked as well, as you see below, but SNAPI actually identified the barcode as DataMatrix, so I'm going with that!
Brant	 From what you're telling me it sounds like the decoder app is working properly, however, the barcode generator or the scanner is not decoding. What product are you using to generate the barcode? You can use our online barcode generator at www.bcgen.com to create test symbols for troubleshooting purposes.
» What product should I buy to create barcodes on Driver's Licenses?


Chris and Paul join us to discuss 6×15 "Arcadia" in which a gated community is patrolled by a straight up Trash Heap Garbage Monster. In Millennium 3×12 "The Sound of Snow" Detective Sandwich returns to help out when Frank has to deal with visions of Catherine due to whale songs and white noise.
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Office 365 continues it's march forwards with the latest new product launch – StaffHub. Microsoft StaffHub connects deskless workers to their organisations and to each other. They can be scheduled, re-scheduled, communicate, re-communicate, share and re-share (as Microsoft puts it).
Deskless workers are those, unsurprisingly, who do not normally work in front of a screen or who use a shared PC/Mac. They are people like retail workers, service workers, service technicians, hospitality workers, drivers. Unlike people who work behind screens, they have been largely left out of the revolution in workplace connectivity. Sure, they can get company emails, but among younger people especially, who reads those anyway?
Microsoft StaffHub connects deskless workers to their company, by providing a method of communication. Shift workers can be clear about when there shifts are, or if they are being asked to change shifts. They can also ask other workers to swap shifts – and its all visible and recorded. Staff can chat with each other via a chat service.
For the employer, this is handled as an add-on to the Office 365 product suite. Contact GTB for details or have a look here. Managers can setup schedules using a graphical interface, block-out time, etc.These schedules are then pushed to employees via the app.
StaffHub runs as an app (currently) on Android and iOS. It is also available on any browser through a web portal.
Obviously this is Microsoft further cementing the usefulness of the Office 365 suite. It looks to us like a simple and effective tool for people who do not have screens, but who do have smartphones. Now that Microsoft StaffHub connects deskless workers, the door is opening to empowering these workers by bringing them into the connectivity taken for granted by knowledge workers, and with benefits for businesses too.


Pumpkin Galette is a rustic, easy to make dessert that is sure to be a crowd pleaser.
I am continuing with my pumpkin themed week for Bake-a-thon with this easy to make Pumpkin Galette today. I made this for our Thanksgiving dinner and it was liked by both kids and adults alike. Pumpkin pie spice flavor makes this dessert extra special. I am not a big fan of pies because of the crust. The crust is too buttery and thick for my liking. Also for some reason whenever I bake a pie, the crust ends up puffy (even when I blind bake it with beans etc.). So this pumpkin galette seemed like a perfect alternate. Recipe is from the Kitchn site.
I made a savory galette recently with caramelized onion. So feel free to play with the fillings — sweet or savory — a galette is easier than pie. Also depending on the filling used, this could be a appetizer, a main dish or a dessert.
Pumpkin Galette is a rustic, easy to make dessert that is sure to be a crowd-pleaser. Great to make for Thanksgiving or holiday parties.
Drizzle in 2tbsp ice water and pulse until the dough is crumbly but holds together. Add more water, if needed, until the mixture holds together when squeezed.
Combine pumpkin puree, egg, maple syrup, 3tbsp of the melted butter, cream cheese, vanilla, salt and pumpkin spice mix in a mixing bowl. Beat well until smooth, 2~3 minutes. Set aside.
Bake the galette until the crust is golden brown, about 30~35 minutes. Transfer the galette onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Love galettes and never baked galette with pumpkin, after going through yours i feel like baking this irresistible galette soon.
I am bookmarking this one , maybe I will use a different stuffing , but the dessert look so earthy and rustic with beautiful pictures .
Pumpkin filling in the galette looks very sinful I would love to try this soon.


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The High Five: Acapella Group Pentatonix Claims 'We Are Ninjas' In New Video
by Krystina Martinez 8 Aug 2014 12:00 AM
Five stories that have North Texas talking: acapella group Pentatonix pays homage to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, there's a summer baby boom here in North Texas, and more. Arlington acapella group Pentatonix have released a Ninja Turtles-inspired video called "We Are Ninjas," the Dallas Morning News reports. It's not the only musical homage to […]
Five stories that have North Texas talking: acapella group Pentatonix pays homage to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, there's a summer baby boom here in North Texas, and more.
Arlington acapella group Pentatonix have released a Ninja Turtles-inspired video called "We Are Ninjas," the Dallas Morning News reports. It's not the only musical homage to the anamorphic turtles. Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign, and Juicy J have done an updated version of the "Turtle Rap" for the Michael Bay reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, much to Vanilla Ice's displeasure. It's doubtful that the rapper would have a problem with "We Are Ninjas." Check out the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deTWri3kmec
North Texas hospitals have been experiencing a baby boom this summer. The reason? It's all thanks to that winter ice storm we experienced back in December, NBC 5 reports. At Baylor Hospital in Dallas, doctors typically deliver about 10 babies a day. Last month, they've had 24 deliveries in one day. One mother who recently gave birth said, "It all makes sense. What else are you going to do when it's cold outside? Snuggle up!"
DNA researchers from the University of North Texas have identified the first person buried in a huge mass grave discovered at the now-closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Florida. The person was identified as George Owen Smith, who died in 1940. DNA experts were able to identify Smith using fragments of his bones and teeth. According to WFAA, only eight other families have given DNA samples to match with the remains removed from the mass graveyard. In the last decade, hundreds of men have come forward to tell stories of abuse and beatings at the state-run institution. These men are known as the "White House Boys", who were sent to the reform school in the 1950s and 1960s. Official records list 31 boys at the school cemetery, but researchers from the University of South Florida excavated 55 coffins from another grave.
Game wardens and Texas Rangers are pitching in to help overwhelmed Border Patrol agents. This "all hands on deck" approach has prompted criticisms that the state has been overreaching and overspending to police the border, the New York Times reports. Personnel patrol the river on speedboats outfitted with .30-caliber machine guns and bulletproof shields. Surveillance planes with infrared technology and a $7.4 million price tag circle the airspace. Last month, Governor Rick Perry announced he would be sending 1,000 Texas National Guard members to the Rio Grande Valley. He says it has little to do with the scores of unaccompanied children crossing the border, but rather policing human trafficking and drug trafficking efforts. The mayor of Edinburg questioned this move. "The perception is being raised that we're a war zone here, and that's the furthest from the truth," Richard H. Garcia told the Times.
Houston-based oil and gas company Magnum Hunter Resources will be moving its headquarters to Las Colinas. The Dallas Business Journal reports the reason is in part because CEO Gary Evans was tired of making the weekly commute from his Preston Hollow home to Houston. He's made that commute for years, but after selling off the Eagle Ford division of in 2013, he saw little reason to keep the company in Houston. Magnum Hunter has staff in both Houston and Dallas, and Evans hopes to get everyone under one roof by the end of March 2015.
The High Five


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New summer attractions near completion
Eagle Valley Eagle-valley |
John LaConte
jlaconte@vaildaily.com
Ziplining will be one of the marquee features of Vail Mountain's Epic Discovery platform set to launch in summer 2016, with a canopy tour consisting of seven zips through Game Creek Bowl.
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VAIL'S NEW ATTRACTIONS
Forest Flyer
• 10,800 feet in total
• 3,385 feet of downhill coasting
• Travels through trees west of Pride Express
Canopy Tour
• Seven ziplines
• Incorporates a ride on Game Creek Express
• Highest zip will be 300 feet off the ground
• Longest zip will be more than 2,700 feet in total
VAIL — A 10,800-foot mountain coaster and a zipline that's so high it will require aircraft warning lights will headline Vail Mountain's new attractions for 2016. Those rides will combine with a series of "learn through play" concepts and join the resort's existing summer activities under an umbrella called Epic Discovery, which will launch next summer, Hans Vollrath told a group of reporters Friday.
Vollrath is Vail Resorts' new senior director of activities. He joined the company in late 2014, a few weeks after the Epic Discovery proposal received the green light from the U.S. Forest Service, and had to hit the ground running for next summer's launch. But with 20 years experience at Disney, he was ready for the challenge.
"They created this position and so here I am to take all of these — what I call the Wild West of these little towns of summer businesses within our resorts that have been popping up over the years — and formalize them into a business that functions together rather than separately," Vollrath said Friday. "It's really a brand that describes the guest experience that will occur over the next couple of years."
NATURE BASED
Epic Discovery is set to launch in the summer of 2016. Its marquee features — a 10,800-foot alpine coaster dubbed the Forest Flyer and a series of ziplines and sky bridges through Game Creek bowl — will both begin at Eagle's Nest before taking visitors to places on the mountain that were not accessible to regular guests before Epic Discovery. Vollrath expects it to create a whole new summer experience which people will want to enjoy year after year.
The Forest Flyer is located on the western side of Vail Mountain, just west of the Pride Express Lift (No. 26), and will feature a 3,385-foot long downhill portion. Guests will start and end at the top terminal located west of the Pride lift and will wind down through the forest, ending approximately half of the way down the length of the Pride lift, in between the Bwana and upper Simba trails. At the bottom, the guest's cart will be pulled back to the top via a straight uphill track, roughly 1,700 feet in length. The zipline tour will include seven different ziplines, spanning more than 10,000 feet. The longest single zipline will be more than 2,700 feet; the highest zip line will be approximately 300 feet above the ground. There will be one aerial bridge, located between the fourth and fifth ziplines on the Game Creek canopy tour. It is a suspended bridge made of rope and wood planks that spans from one tower to another, and it is approximately 90 feet in length and 25-35 feet off the ground.
"(The zipline tour will be) a two-and-a-half-hour experience, very nature based and integrated with the mountain," he said. "The guides that will be leading the guests on the tour will be talking about the animals and the mountain, the weather, the topography, the plants, all that stuff as the guests traverse from Eagle's Nest down to the bottom of Game Creek Bowl, take the chairlift back up, take a series of zips and sky bridges back to Eagle's Nest."
LEARN THROUGH PLAY
Vollrath is most excited about a concept he calls "learn through play," which will engage guests in an active way. In that area, Vail Resorts has enlisted in the help of one of their longtime partners, the Walking Mountains Science Center, which currently staffs the Nature Discovery Center at the top of the Eagle Bahn Gondola.
Markian Feduschak with Walking Mountains says as Vail Mountain sees more summer guests, so does the Nature Discovery Center.
"If you were to come and visit one of our programs, you would see that kids are learning a lot and they're also having a lot of fun," Feduschak said. "So that same concept is what Vail is looking to do through their various activities, so it's not just about an alpine coaster and the climbing wall and the bungee jumping that they currently have, it's about highlighting the natural environment and our public lands."
Feduschak says in addition to what's currently available at the Nature Discovery Center, Walking Mountains sees a lot more opportunities for education atop Vail Mountain.
"(Vail is) not just trying to expand summer activities, they're trying to do it in what I think is a more meaningful way," he said. "Folks can go up there and have fun, but they can also learn a lot too and hopefully come away more connected to nature."
Vollrath said contrary to his experience at Disney, Vail is not trying to create a theme park.
"But if you take that emotional connection guests have when they go to a Disney theme park, they know the stories and … they're kind of connected to what Disney is," he said. "A lot of people get up to (Eagle's Nest) and how can you not be awe inspired by seeing these views of the mountains? That's what we want to connect with our guests as well. It's totally different than a theme park, but that connection you get with it is very much the same."


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Stitcher Smart Radio newest personalized Radio App for BMW and MINI
2:56 PM PST - 8/6/2012 Written By: BMW Group
Photography by: BMW USA
BMW ConnectedDrive Stitcher Smart Radio App Source BMW USA
Beginning today, drivers of BMW models equipped with BMW Apps and MINI drivers with MINI Connected can enjoy a fully-integrated Stitcher SmartRadio™ app experience in the vehicle. Stitcher SmartRadio is the mobile leader in on-demand news, entertainment, sports and talk radio, delivering over 10,000 radio shows and live stations to customers around the globe.
BMW and MINI drivers can create a personal talk radio station experience with fresh, up-to-the-minute episodes of news, entertainment, sports, talk and live radio programs streamed directly to the vehicle's infotainment system via the Stitcher SmartRadio App on the iPhone.
In addition to creating stations that run the programs users already know and enjoy, a special Smart Station feature helps users discover new content. This feature recommends other programs listeners may enjoy based on personal preferences which are automatically identified.
"Our app concept allows customers to download the same services to their car that they use on their smartphone – simply by downloading the free app," said Dimitri Meulaping Feyou, Product Manager, Entertainment at the BMW Group AppCenter.
"More people than ever are listening on the go,"said Noah Shanok, CEO of Stitcher. "Over a third of our users are listening in the car. We're proud to partner with BMW to deliver the best listening experience for drivers everywhere".
The Stitcher App can be downloaded free of charge from the App Store and can be used worldwide in BMW models equipped with the BMW Apps option, and MINI models with MINI Connected.
BMW and MINI Apps.
The BMW Apps option offers extensive application-based integration of the iPhone for BMW models allowing "BMW Apps-ready" apps to be seamlessly downloaded into the car, where they can be operated easily and intuitively using BMW's iDrive system.
In MINI models, the iPhone can be integrated into the vehicle's existing infotainment system using MINI Connected. Thanks to extensive functionality and flexibility, "MINI Connected-ready" apps like Stitcher are easily updated. MINI customers stay connected with the latest and greatest services to enrich the driving experience.
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Stitcher delivers personalized audio programming on demand, directly to your mobile device. Stream the latest in news, sports, talk, and entertainment without the need to synchronize content or depend on traditional radio programming. Stitcher is the easiest way to discover the best of over 10,000+ shows and live stations, with customized recommendations based on your listening activity. Stitcher is integrated with Ford, GM and BMW vehicles and has been downloaded over 7 million times. Stitcher Smart Radio is available for iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle and Nook devices in the App Store and Google Play stores, or at www.Stitcher.com.
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The pre-project will be exploring Sin City, Death Valley, and City of Angels together with filmmaker Francesca Penzani, composer Ali Helnwein and more, and will culminate in a short film entitled Red Swan to be produced together later in August.E.D. This year will have India as a theme country showing.o. Residency Eina Danz is a newly launched center for creation situated by the Eina lake outside of Oslo. . TSOs 2013/2014 season program. The Opera is directed by Vishal Bhardwaj.
The performance is funded by Fond for Utvende Kunstnere, and the rehearsal space is sponsored by Tommy Sharif. Cos coesistono in un lavoro onesto e ispirato, lelectro-ambient su nuances alt. Deadline (Norway) March 25th. The NRK team came to film the farm and was interviewing Fiskum, showcasing the fact that artists are moving out from the cities to the countryside. The performance is initiated by Ellen Sejersted Bdtker and is a collaboration between Bdtker (harp and director) Fiskum (codirector, choreography and dance Lars Lillo Stenberg (song Ole Henrik Moe (composer, and fiolin) and Henrik Rafaelsen (actor). Parts of the exhibition has previously been shown at the Dillon Gallery in Chelsea in New York City in 2010. Read more here, casablanca 0811, the 2nd project in The Triptych Trilogy is heading off to shoot a short road movie in Casablanca, Morocco- on a trip to the desert. Cinematographer is smund Hasli, and composer is Ali Helnwein.


Just as I am about to hit "delete," my boy walks in the room.
My default mode is to see and focus on my flaws and imperfections. I'm starting to see a bit more.
I also see a mom collapsed on the shore who just explored the lake for hours with her children.
I also see the arms of a mom who just helped her kids across the rocks and hot sand so their feet wouldn't hurt.
I also see an adventurous mom who loves her children something fierce.