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"Veil of Time will enthrall you. It is both a captivating journey through time and the immutable complexities of love and a meditative exploration on the nature of perception and sanity. It is a saga of the first order."
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"McDougall's poetic prose shines, as do her thoroughly researched detailed descriptions of life in the Dark Ages. Veil of Time is a worthy addition to the time travel genre."
"As richly detailed as a fine tapestry, Veil of Time is entrancing and enthralling from the first page to the last. Anyone who enjoys the work of Diana Gabaldon or Karen Marie Moning will adore this book. A jewel of a story! Veil of Time is time travel at its best."
KAREN HAWKINS, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
"This is a unique read. Veil of Time is a thoroughly interesting, wonderfully crafted story."
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"Veil of Time will enthrall you. Claire McDougall's fine novel is both a meditative exploration on the nature of perception and sanity and a saga of the first order, a wholly captivating journey through time and the variegated yet immutable complexities of love."
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"From the moment I opened Veil of Time I was instantly swept up in the lush, haunting and wholly credible world Claire R. McDougall has created. Fiercely inventive, steeped in history and emotionally charged, Veil of Time is the gripping story of a grieving woman who is offered a second chance to rebuild her fractured family. The twist? She must relinquish her current life and return to 8th century Scotland. A powerful and thought provoking novel, reading Veil of Time is like falling into a wild, enchanting dream state from which you hope never to awaken."
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"At long last a novel that features the mystical aspects of the temporal lobe epilepsy experience. With echoes of Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife and Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand this poetically written novel tells a magical love story that spans the centuries while at the same time describing in striking detail the subjective effects of this intriguing neurological state. A brave, powerful, and incredibly moving debut novel from a very talented writer."
ANTHONY PEAKE, THE LABYRINTH OF TIME
"Readers will wonder up until the end what choice Maggie will make, and the bittersweet resolution is strangely satisfying. Fans of early medieval Scotland, time travel novels, romance, and possibly medical dramas will like this haunting, debut novel by the Scottish-born McDougall"
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"Veil of Time is a great time travel romance."
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We're Madeleine and Hudson and we teach a grade 7/8 split class at Frontenac Public School every Wednesday right after their lunch break. It is always exciting to see the students run in after their break, and it is sometimes a challenge to try to get them all settled and ready for the lesson. As a class we have discussed at length substance use and abuse, including alcohol and drug abuse and the effects of smoking. This seemed to be the topic the students were most interested in. We have gone over both physical and mental health, and what defines a healthy relationship. We have done this mainly through a discussion-based lecture, playing games, and showing videos. Moving forward we plan on starting our sexual education unit starting tomorrow, which should take the next few weeks. One of our goals going in to the year was to try to develop our students into taking their next step into high school. It has been great to see the level of personal growth each of our students has gone through so far. At the beginning of the year some of the students were shy and did not raise their hands to answer our questions but now we regularly hang out and talk with the first students in from lunch. Later this month we are planning on having our outreach day, where we are going to take the students outside of the classroom for some bowling. Time has flown by and we cannot believe we are down to our last couple of lessons. We are both really happy with how our classes have gone this year, as we feel the students have grown and learned lots, and so have we with them.


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Where Were the Egyptian Workers in the June 2013 People's Coup Revolution?
Αναδημοσίευση από jadaliyya, η έμφαση σε ορισμένα σημεία δική μας. Ενδιαφέρον άρθρο για την πρόσφατη ιστορία του συνδικαλισμού στην Αίγυπτο, και το ρόλο των ανεξάρτητων συνδικάτων που φαίνεται στην παράγραφο που παραθέσαμε πιο πάνω.
"We started the 2011 revolution and the rest of Egypt followed," is a statement Egyptian workers make with great conviction when discussing the movement for change in their country. Accordingly, in order to continue what began in January 2011, the masses of workers were out yet again in the streets and squares of Egypt before and on 30 June, and in the ensuing days until former president Mohamed Morsi's removal from office on 3 July. This might seem surprising, given that there were no signs or banners on 30 June indicating workers' participation. In fact, this was based on a prior agreement among the organizers of the protest, the youth-led Tamarod Campaign. Protesters were to hold up only the Egyptian flag, in addition to homemade signs, but not organizational insignia. So you did not see workers marching under the banner of their union or profession on 30 June. Yet the workers were out in droves in every city and town in Egypt protesting as an integral part of the June 2013 people's coup revolution. In certain industrial towns such as al-Mahalla al-Kubra, the Tenth of Ramadan and Sadat cities – they were the majority, and leading the marches.
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19.30 – 22.00 Party and Musical Evening: St Mary's Church Hall, King Street, Aberdeen (opposite King's College Playing Fields), featuring musicians from Athens Giorgos Tsimbouksis, Nickos Sariyannis and Lambrini Gioti with a varied programme of Greek songs and music; a selection of Greek food and refreshments.
11.00 – 12.00 The Greek Vases of Marischal Museum: a talk by Professor Elizabeth Moignard accompanied by a display of some of the very fine vases in the Museum at Marischal College; introduced by Neil Curtis, Head of Museums, University of Aberdeen. There is a limit on numbers of 25; if there is additional demand, the session may run twice from 10.30 and 11.30. Please note that there is no disabled access to the Museum and a large number of stairs to climb. Professor Moignard wrote the definitive description of these vases in a volume of the British Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.
Information on self-guided walks in the city centre and in Old Aberdeen will also be available.


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Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Scipio, Indiana Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodge treasurer book
The Scipio, Indiana Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodge treasurer book (dated 1871-1900; 0.09 cubic feet; 1 folder) comprises one log book that documents the finances of the Scipio, Indiana lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows during the late nineteenth century.
Descriptive Summary
1871-1900 (inclusive)
0.09 Cubic Feet
Minutes (Records)
Collection is arranged by format. The Wade Hall Collection of American Letters has been processed into discrete collections based on provenance.
Finding Aid Author
Sarah Coblentz
2009ms132.1047: [identification of item], Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Scipio, Indiana Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodge treasurer book, 1871-1900, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Biography / History
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows is a non-political and non-sectarian fraternal order of Odd Fellowship. It was officially founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland. It is known as the Triple Link Fraternity, which references the order's Triple Links symbol which allude to its motto of "Friendship, Love, and Truth.
American Letters collector Wade Hall (1934-2015) was a native of Union Springs, Alabama. Starting in 1962, he lived in Louisville, where he taught English and chaired the English and Humanities/Arts programs at Kentucky Southern College and Bellarmine University. He also taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Florida. He held degrees from Troy State University (B.S.), the University of Alabama (M.A.), and the University of Illinois (Ph.D.). He served for two years in the U.S. Army in the mid-fifties. Dr. Hall was the author of books, monographs, articles, plays, and reviews relating to Kentucky, Alabama, and Southern history and literature. His most recent books include A Visit with Harlan Hubbard; High Upon a Hill: A History of Bellarmine College; A Song in Native Pastures: Randy Atcher's Life in Country Music; and Waters of Life from Conecuh Ridge.
Source: History of American Odd Fellowship. (2019). Retrieved 2020, from https://odd-fellows.org/history/wildeys-odd-fellowship/
The Scipio, Indiana Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodge treasurer book (dated 1871-1900; 0.09 cubic feet; 1 folder) comprises one log book that documents the finances of the Scipio, Indiana lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows during the late nineteenth century. The entries include lists of payments received by members, money the Lodge paid out, annual balances for the Lodge, and the changing of treasurers over the years.
The Scipio, Indiana Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodge treasurer book collection is part of the Wade Hall Collection of American Letters, which includes correspondence and diaries from all over North America covering the time period of the Civil to Korean Wars. The materials were collected by Wade Hall and document everyday men and women.
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Scipio, Indiana Independent Order of Odd Fellows ledge treasurer book, 1871-1900
Box WH-145, folder 3
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Learning Management Systems are e-systems that seek to advance employee skills in an organization through ongoing training and development. These apparatus are fast evolving as must-have tools in the e-learning scenario. These are preferred as they are fast, convenient, consistent, effective and demonstrate high retention. But these systems are expensive and selecting the right system for an organization can be a challenge.
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Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she's a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great engineer. When her Great-Great-Aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes for a visit and mentions her one unfinished goal-to fly-Rosie sets to work building a contraption to make her aunt's dream come true. But when her contraption doesn't fly but rather hovers for a moment and then crashes, Rosie deems the invention a failure. On the contrary, Aunt Rose insists that Rosie's contraption was a raging success. You can only truly fail, she explains, if you quit.
Commended for Parents Choice Awards (Fall) (2008-Up) (Picture Book) 2013. Short-listed for Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (Picture Book) 2016.
Andrea Beaty is the author of Secrets of the Cicada Summer; Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies; When Giants Come to Play, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes; and Iggy Peck, Architect. David Roberts has illustrated many children's books, including Iggy Peck, Achitect and Cinderella: An Art Deco Love Story. He was runner-up for the prestigious Mother Goose Award for children's illustration. He lives in London where, when not drawing, he likes to make hats.


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Having It All Without Having Children
The American birthrate is at a record low. What happens when having it all means not having children?
By Lauren Sandler Monday, Aug. 12, 2013
Photo-illustration by Randal Ford for TIME
One evening when she was 14 years old, Laura Scott was washing dishes in the kitchen with her mother when she decided she didn't want to have a child. At 26, Scott got married and waited for her mind to change. "It never happened," she says. "And I realized I was going to be fine." Now 50, Scott is more than fine: she's fulfilled. And she's not alone. The birthrate in the U.S. is the lowest in recorded American history. From 2007 to 2011, the most recent year for which there's data, the fertility rate declined 9%. A 2010 Pew Research report showed that childlessness has risen across all racial and ethnic groups, adding up to about 1 in 5 American women who end their childbearing years maternity-free, compared with 1 in 10 in the 1970s.
The decision to have a child or not is a private one, but it takes place, in America, in a culture that often equates womanhood with motherhood. Any national discussion about the struggle to reconcile womanhood with modernity tends to begin and end with one subject: parenting. If you're a woman who's not in the mommy trenches, more often than not you're excluded from the discussion. But being sidelined doesn't exempt childless women from being scolded. The Weekly Standard's Jonathan V. Last has made the case in his controversial book What to Expect When No One's Expecting that the selfishness of the childless American endangers our economic future by reducing the number of consumers and taxpayers. With fertility treatment widely available, not to mention adoption, even clinically infertile women have more options than ever to become mothers, which increases the possibility that any woman who doesn't will be judged for her choice.
Even so, women who choose not to become mothers are finding new paths of acceptance. As their ranks rise, so do positive attitudes about leading a life in which having it all doesn't mean having a baby.


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Member News > April 2020 > Meet your Land O'Lakes' Board of Directors
Meet your Land O'Lakes' Board of Directors
Get to know the newly elected — and re-elected — leaders
In February, members gathered at our 99th Annual Meeting to create connections across the co-op and share insights and stories from the past year.
At the meeting, members elected six new leaders and re-elected one leader for our board of directors. Each individual brings a unique perspective and strength as we together travel the road to our 100th anniversary.
Get to know the directors:
Paul Coppin - Newly Elected
Paul is the CEO of Reynolds United Cooperative, an ag supply cooperative headquartered in Reynolds, North Dakota, serving the I-29 corridor between Fargo and Grand Forks. Reynolds operates five locations with approximately 45 employees, and it purchases approximately 95% of its seed and CPP requirements from Land O'Lakes.
Paul grew up on the family crop and livestock farm in North Dakota. He has been an elected member of the Land O'Lakes Executive Council and serves on the Land O'Lakes Policies and Resolutions Committee. Paul and his wife, Monica, have two sons and six grandchildren.
Justin Curti - Newly Elected
Justin Curti and his family own and operate Curti Family, Inc., which consists of dairy and farming operations. Curti Family, Inc., milks 3,260 Jerseys and has 3,050 head of support stock. Their farming operation grows wheat, corn, sorghum and alfalfa across 569 acres. In partnership with P&J Enterprise, they farm an additional 1,433 acres of row crop and grow pistachios.
For the past 14 years, Curti Family, Inc., has received the Land O'Lakes Milk Quality Award, and in 2010 was the Tulare DHIA Low Somatic Cell Count award winner. Justin currently serves as a board member on the California Milk Advisory Board, Dairy Council of California and the Firearms Policy Coalition and is a member of the Western United Dairyman, Tulare Co. Farm Bureau, Tulare Chamber of Commerce, American Pistachio Growers, Firearms Policy Foundation and Firearms Policy Coalition. He is also a past member of the Land O'Lakes Leadership Council and past participant of the Co-op 101, 201 and 301, and Growth for Advocacy programs.
Justin graduated from California State University in Fresno with a degree in business and accounting. Justin and his wife, Navin, have three children.
Carl Dickinson - Newly Elected
Carl Dickinson is the president and CEO of Central Valley Ag Cooperative, a full-service local cooperative operating in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas handling grain, agronomy, feed and energy. Central Valley Ag has over 10,000 voting stockholders represented by 19 board members. Carl has been in the cooperative system for 25 years, serving the past 20 years as a local cooperative CEO. Carl served as vice chairman of the Milliman Cooperative 401K Plan board, South Central Development Corporation, Consolidated Ag Solutions and the Church Administrative Council and was also a trustee of the Nebraska Cooperative Managers Association.
Carl has been a member of the Land O'Lakes Executive Council for the past six years. Carl and his wife, Dawn, have two children.
Jared Fernandes - Newly Elected
Jared Fernandes and his brothers, Frank and Josh Fernandes, are partners of Legacy Ranches, where they have two dairy sites and farm 1,800 acres. Their main dairy milks 3,000 Jerseys and raises all their support stock, and their second dairy milks 1,250 Holstein cows. The farm consists mainly of wheat, corn and alfalfa and they also farm pistachios. Jared is the vice president of the Tulare County Dairy Heifer Replacement Committee, board treasurer and past president of the Tulare DHIA, vice chair of the California Dairy Research Foundation and is a past board member and current delegate of Western United Dairyman. Jared also served on the Land O'Lakes Leadership Council for six years and was a participant in the Land O'Lakes Co-op 101 and Leadership 201 programs.
Jared holds an ag business degree from California Polytech State University in San Luis Obispo, California. Jared and his wife, Andrea, have two children.
John Habedank - Incumbent
John Habedank, with his wife Jolee and their two sons, operate a 2,200-acre cash grain farm in northwestern Minnesota. They raise corn, soybeans, and dry edible beans. John was vice chair of the Land O'Lakes Executive Council for Ag Region 1 and has served on a variety of local coop boards over the last 30 years.
John is a lifelong member of Wild Rice Lutheran Church and currently serves as treasurer. He attended the University of Minnesota at Morris and Crookston and studied business, economics, and ag production.
Andy Mason - Newly Elected
Andy, his wife Valerie and Andy's parents are partners on their operation that has 640 milking and dry cows along with all young stock raised on their farm. They crop 1,300 acres growing corn, soybeans, small grains and hay, with most used to feed the herd and employ eight full-time employees. Andy oversees all employees, cropping and the day-to-day management of the dairy. Andy is a member of the Maryland Jersey Cattle Club, Kent County Young Farmers, Eastern Shore Holstein Club and Kent County Farm Bureau and is also the Farm Crop chair for the Kent County Fair as well as a Kent County 4-H volunteer.
Andy holds a bachelor's degree in animal science from Cornell University. Andy and his wife, Valerie, have three young children.
Christine Sukalski - Newly Elected
Christine manages the milking herd of 470 Holsteins and Jerseys and 450 youngstock at Reiland Farms, LLP — a partnership with her brother, Scott Reiland, who manages the 1,500 crop acres spread across twenty miles in southeast Minnesota. In 2019, the herd ranked 7th among Minnesota DHI herds for average total pounds of fat and protein per cow. Christine has been an ag advocacy speaker since 2007 presenting to over 50 consumer audiences and also to Land O'Lakes sales staff twice. She has served several years as a Land O'Lakes Unit Delegate and on the Policy and Resolution Committee. Since 2012 she has served on the United Dairy Industry Association/Dairy Management Inc. board.
Christine received her Bachelor of Science degree in animal science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She serves on the church council at Trinity Lutheran Church, Ostrander, Minnesota. Christine and her husband, Troy, have three children ages 23, 21 and 17.
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import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlButton;
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlForm;
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlPage;
import hudson.FilePath;
import hudson.Util;
import hudson.util.Secret;
import hudson.util.SecretHelper;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.jvnet.hudson.test.HudsonTestCase;
import org.jvnet.hudson.test.recipes.Recipe.Runner;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.inject.Inject;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.util.Base64;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

/**
 * @author Kohsuke Kawaguchi
 */
public class RekeySecretAdminMonitorTest extends HudsonTestCase {
    @Inject
    RekeySecretAdminMonitor monitor;

    final String plain_regex_match = ".*\\{[A-Za-z0-9+/]+={0,2}}.*";

    @Override
    protected void setUp() throws Exception {
        SecretHelper.set(TEST_KEY);
        super.setUp();
        monitor.setNeeded();
    }

    @Override
    protected void tearDown() throws Exception {
        SecretHelper.set(null);
        super.tearDown();
    }

    @Override
    protected void recipe() throws Exception {
        super.recipe();
        recipes.add(new Runner() {
            @Override
            public void setup(HudsonTestCase testCase, Annotation recipe) throws Exception {
            }

            @Override
            public void decorateHome(HudsonTestCase testCase, File home) throws Exception {
                if (getName().endsWith("testScanOnBoot")) {
                    // schedule a scan on boot
                    File f = new File(home, RekeySecretAdminMonitor.class.getName() + "/scanOnBoot");
                    f.getParentFile().mkdirs();
                    new FilePath(f).touch(0);

                    // and stage some data
                    putSomeOldData(home);
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void tearDown(HudsonTestCase testCase, Annotation recipe) throws Exception {
            }
        });
    }

    private void putSomeOldData(File dir) throws Exception {
        File xml = new File(dir, "foo.xml");
        FileUtils.writeStringToFile(xml,"<foo>" + encryptOld(TEST_KEY) + "</foo>");
    }

    private void verifyRewrite(File dir) throws Exception {
        File xml = new File(dir, "foo.xml");
        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("<foo>"+plain_regex_match+"</foo>");
        assertTrue(pattern.matcher(FileUtils.readFileToString(xml).trim()).matches());
    }

    // TODO sometimes fails: "Invalid request submission: {json=[Ljava.lang.String;@2c46358e, .crumb=[Ljava.lang.String;@35661457}"
    public void _testBasicWorkflow() throws Exception {
        putSomeOldData(jenkins.getRootDir());

        WebClient wc = createWebClient();

        // one should see the warning. try scheduling it
        assertTrue(!monitor.isScanOnBoot());
        HtmlForm form = getRekeyForm(wc);
        submit(form, "schedule");
        assertTrue(monitor.isScanOnBoot());
        form = getRekeyForm(wc);
        assertTrue(getButton(form, 1).isDisabled());

        // run it now
        assertTrue(!monitor.getLogFile().exists());
        submit(form, "background");
        assertTrue(monitor.getLogFile().exists());

        // should be no warning/error now
        HtmlPage manage = wc.goTo("manage");
        assertEquals(0, DomNodeUtil.selectNodes(manage, "//*[class='error']").size());
        assertEquals(0, DomNodeUtil.selectNodes(manage, "//*[class='warning']").size());

        // and the data should be rewritten
        verifyRewrite(jenkins.getRootDir());
        assertTrue(monitor.isDone());

        // dismiss and the message will be gone
        assertTrue(monitor.isEnabled());
        form = getRekeyForm(wc);
        submit(form, "dismiss");
        assertFalse(monitor.isEnabled());
        try {
            getRekeyForm(wc);
            fail();
        } catch (ElementNotFoundException e) {
            // expected
        }
    }

    private HtmlForm getRekeyForm(WebClient wc) throws IOException, SAXException {
        return wc.goTo("manage").getFormByName("rekey");
    }

    private HtmlButton getButton(HtmlForm form, int index) {
        // due to the removal of method HtmlElement.getHtmlElementsByTagName
        Stream<HtmlButton> buttonStream = form.getElementsByTagName("button").stream()
                .filter(HtmlButton.class::isInstance)
                .map(HtmlButton.class::cast);

        if (index > 0) {
            buttonStream = buttonStream.skip(index - 1);
        }

        return buttonStream
                .findFirst()
                .orElse(null);
    }

    public void testScanOnBoot() throws Exception {
        WebClient wc = createWebClient();

        // scan on boot should have run the scan
        assertTrue(monitor.getLogFile().exists());
        assertTrue("scan on boot should have turned this off",!monitor.isScanOnBoot());

        // and data should be migrated
        verifyRewrite(jenkins.getRootDir());

        // should be no warning/error now
        HtmlPage manage = wc.goTo("/manage");
        assertEquals(0, DomNodeUtil.selectNodes(manage, "//*[class='error']").size());
        assertEquals(0, DomNodeUtil.selectNodes(manage, "//*[class='warning']").size());
    }

    private String encryptOld(String str) throws Exception {
        Cipher cipher = Secret.getCipher("AES");
        cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, Util.toAes128Key(TEST_KEY));
        return new String(Base64.getEncoder().encode(cipher.doFinal((str + "::::MAGIC::::").getBytes("UTF-8"))));
    }

    private String encryptNew(String str) {
        return Secret.fromString(str).getEncryptedValue();
    }

    private static final String TEST_KEY = "superDuperSecretWasNotSoSecretAfterAll";
}

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Like other famous artists, such as Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel, or Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Canadian painter Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923–2002) and American painter Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) were extraordinary talents and romantic partners.
For the first time, an exhibition will retrace their respective artistic careers from their meeting in 1955 until their separation in 1979. This exhibition is organized in partnership with the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec with the support of the Art Gallery of Ontario.


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Corporate Media Calls for 'Abolishing Parenthood', Forcing Parents to Turn Children Over to the State
by The New Agora | Jan 18, 2022 | Unconscious Realities | 1 comment
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By Matt Agorist
The publicly traded Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) is the largest newspaper publisher in the United States reaching over 173 million people monthly with hundreds of subsidiary outlets. These outlets give readers a sense of diversity, but in reality, they are all part of the same billion dollar media conglomerate. The USA Today network controls more than 260 daily local newspaper brands, digital marketing service companies ReachLocal, WordStream, and ThriveHive and U.K. media company Newsquest.
This massive media conglomerate has no problem using its multiple news properties to create narratives to shift public opinion. In fact, last March, TFTP caught the paper in an unscrupulous propaganda tactic — pushing identical content written for different states to stoke fear over guns. At the time, if you Googled, "mass shooting surge," you were returned results with exactly the same headlines, but for different states.
The headline read as follows: "Mass shootings surge in South Carolina as nation faces record high." As you continued to scroll down the results, you'd see this exact same headline for other states like Florida, North Carolina, New York, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Colorado, Louisiana, Arkansas, Illinois, Michigan, and others.
In states which didn't see a rise in mass shootings, a different title was used but with the exact same point. For example, "Mass shootings fall in Georgia, but nation faces record high." This title was applied to states like George, Indiana, California, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Alabama, and others.
Given their propensity toward indoctrinating their readership base of millions, USA Today has been in the crosshairs here at TFTP. Most recently, as in just last week, USA Today launched a push to normalize pedophilia. The outlet took to twitter with an extensive thread claiming that "In recent decades, the science on pedophilia has improved. One of the most significant findings is that pedophilia is likely determined in the womb, though environmental factors may influence whether someone acts on an urge to abuse."
After putting out this thread, they received some well-deserved backlash and frantically deleted the tweets, claiming that the thread lacked information. However, the article mentioned in the tweets remains up, which attempts to garner sympathy for pedophiles, claiming that "Pedophiles may not have control over the fact that they are attracted to kids."
Though it is important to study what makes a person attracted to children, the idea of normalizing it as a sexual preference or "natural tendency" which happens in the womb, is misguided at best and utterly nefarious at worst. Given their most recent piece, however, it may be the latter.
After publishing an article seemingly normalizing the sexual attraction toward children, the USA Today network went after children again — this time urging readers to hand them over to the state — for equity, of course.
In a column for the VC Star, one of USA Today's California posts, titled, "California should abolish parenthood, in the name of equity," the outlet unapologetically states that "If California is ever going to achieve true equity, the state must require parents to give away their children."
In the article, the author attempts to paint parents as the problem with society, claiming that they pass along privilege to their children which fosters an inequitable society. While it is certainly true that rich parents often times have rich kids, countless other children pull themselves out of their unfortunate socioeconomic paradigms on a regular basis.
What's more, if we look at the global poverty index, there are less humans living in hunger than ever before, and — outside of the pandemic — this number improves every year.
But according to the paper, this is not enough and if we are truly going to achieve perfect communistic equality, we must make "raising your own children illegal."
As it will take time for legislation like this to come to fruition, the author suggests not waiting for the law, and acting now by taking poor kids from their parents and giving them to rich parents or "homeowners might swap children with their homeless neighbors."
Abracadabra, now everyone is "equal."
Unironically, the article completely misses the point that this would in no way foster some equitable outcome. Instead, it would simply reward poor children with the homes of the rich and penalize rich children, forcing them to be homeless. But logic and reason were not expected in such ridiculousness.
The author admits to the dystopian nature of such a proposal, but says it would be a necessary means to a collective utopian dream in which the hive mind of parentless children can be used to achieve greatness.
Perhaps such coercion sounds dystopian. But just imagine the solidarity that universal orphanhood would create. Wouldn't children, raised in one system, find it easier to collaborate on global problems?
If you criticize this methodology, you are part of the problem, according to the author and are blind, "Because they just can't see how our relentless pursuit of equity might birth a brave new world."
While this article by Joe Mathews is labelled under opinion, this totalitarian's wet dream still had to go through an editor at USA Today and it was approved to be published.
Nothing highlights a news outlet's attitude toward the world's future quite like publishing pieces calling for the removal of children from their parents and seeking sympathy for pedophiles. The idea that the mainstream media, in general, has any credibility left at this point, is utterly mind-blowing — especially since they have been pushing this narrative for nearly a decade.
About Matt Agorist
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, and now on Minds.
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Nowick Gray on January 18, 2022 at 9:22 pm
Sorry Matt but I had to look at the article you reference, and disagree. I find it, indeed, ironic. That is, slightly veiled satire, of the Jonathan Swift persuasion. (Note the reference early on, to Swift's notorious essay about eating Irish children, "A Modest Proposal":
"Now, I recognize that some naysayers will dismiss such a policy as ghastly, even totalitarian. But my proposal is quite modest, a fusion of traditional philosophy and today's most common political obsessions." Continue past the glorification of that dubious status, "universal orphanhood," to the bottom line: " brave new world."


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Brighton, a coastal suburb, is 19 km north of central Brisbane and immediately north of Sandgate. It faces Bramble Bay, which is crossed by the heritage-listed Hornibrook Highway (1935) to Redcliffe. Brighton's northern shoreline is mangrove wetland, partly reclaimed in the 1930s, and its western boundary is Bald Hills Creek.
Sandgate's land sales occurred in 1853, and in 1861 access to the area was facilitated by a bridge over Cabbage Tree Creek. Stores and cottages were built. There was already the Sandgate Hotel (c1858) and six years later the Brighton Hotel was licensed. After being known as North Sandgate, the place name appears to have derived from the hotel, and the hotel's name from the English seaside resort of Brighton in Sussex, England. The hotel changed to an orphanage in 1893, the forerunner of the Rowallan institution in Wooloowin.
Sandgate was Brisbane's premier watering place, and Brighton was a 2 km walk beyond the railway station. Moreover, Brighton tailed off into mangrove wetlands. A primary school was opened in 1920, and 12 years later work started in the wetlands for road approaches to the Hornibrook Highway across Bramble Bay to Redcliffe. Reclaimed land east of the Highway approaches was used for the RAAF and WAAAF during World War II, and in 1946 the buildings were used for people moved from the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum. In due course they became the State-run Eventide Homes, where residential aged care ceased in 2013.
In the 1950s Brighton became Sandgate's outer urban growth area: the Brighton Bowls Club was founded in 1950, the Marching Girls' Association in 1955, and primary schools were opened at St Kiernan's Catholic church and at Nashville in the south-west of Brighton (1960). By 1975 Brighton had a population approaching 10,000 people.
Whilst Sandgate has the majority of social institutions and retail shopping, there is local shopping along Brighton Terrace. In the middle of the suburb there are extensive recreational wetlands, concluding with a lagoon adjacent to the Deagon wetlands.
Brighton's census populations have been:


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Introduction to Artificial Neutral Networks | Set 1
ANN learning is robust to errors in the training data and has been successfully applied for learning real-valued, discrete-valued, and vector-valued functions containing problems such as interpreting visual scenes, speech recognition, and learning robot control strategies. The study of artificial neural networks (ANNs) has been inspired in part by the observation that biological learning systems are built of very complex webs of interconnected neurons in brains. The human brain contain a densely inter- connected network of approximately 10^11-10^12 neurons, each connected neuron, on average connected , to l0^4-10^5 others neurons. So on an average human brain take approximate 10^-1 to make surprisingly complex decisions . ANN systems is movitated to capture this kind of highly parallel computation based on distributed representations. Generally ANNs are built out of a densely interconnected set of simple units, where each unit takes a number of real-valued inputs and produces a single real-valued output .
But ANNs are less motivated by biological neural systems, there are many complexities to biological neural systems that are not modeled by ANNs. Some of them are shown in figures.
Difference between Biological Neurons and Artificial Neurons
Biological Neurons
Artificial Neurons
Major components: Axions, Dendrites, Synapse Major Components: Nodes, Inputs, Outputs, Weights, Bias
Information from other neurons, in the form of electrical impulses, enters the dendrites at connection points called synapses. The information flows from the dendrites to the cell where it is processed. The output signal, a train of impulses, is then send down the axon to the synapse of other neurons. The arrangements and connections of the neurons made up the network and have three layers. The first layer is called the input layer and is the only layer exposed to external signals. The input layer transmits signals to the neurons in the next layer, which is called a hidden layer. The hidden layer extracts relavent features or patterns from the received signals. Those features or patterns that are considered important are then directed to the output layer, which is the final layer of the network.
A synapse is able to increase or decrease the strength of the connection. This is where information is stored. The artificial signals can be changed by weights in a manner similar to the physical changes that occur in the synapses.
Approx 1011 neurons. 102– 104 neurons with current technology
Difference between the human brain and computers in terms of how information is processed.
Human Brain(Biological Neuron Network)
Computers(Artificial Neuron Network)
The human brain works asynchronously Computers(ANN) work synchronously.
Biological Neurons compute slowly (several ms per computation) Artificial Neurons compute fast (<1 nanosecond per computation)
The brain represents information in a distributed way because neurons are unreliable and could die any time. In computer programs every bit has to function as intended otherwise these programs would crash.
Our brain changes their connectivity over time to represents new information and requirements imposed on us. The connectivity between the electronic components in a computer never change unless we replace its components.
Biological neural networks have complicated topologies. ANNs are often in a tree structure.
Researchers are still to find out how the brain actually learns. ANNs use Gradient Descent for learning.
Advantage of Using Artificial Neural Networks:
Problem in ANNs can have instances that are represented by many attribute-value pairs.
ANNs used for problems having the target function output may be discrete-valued, real-valued, or a vector of several real- or discrete-valued attributes.
ANN learning methods are quite robust to noise in the training data.The training examples may contain errors,which do not affect the final output.
It is used generally used where fast evaluation of the learned target function may be required.
ANNs can bear long training times depending on factors such as the number of weights in the network, the number of training examples considered, and the settings of various learning algorithm parameters.
The McCulloch-Pitts Model of Neuron:
The early model of an artificial neuron is introduced by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts in 1943. The McCulloch-Pitts neural model is also known as linear threshold gate. It is a neuron of a set of inputs I1, I2,…,Im and one output y. The linear threshold gate simply classifies the set of inputs into two different classes. Thus the output y is binary. Such a function can be described mathematically using these equations:
W1,W2,W3….Wn are weight values normalized in the range of either (0,1)or (-1,1) and associated with each input line, Sum is the weighted sum, and is a threshold constant. The function f is a linear step function at threshold
Single-layer Neural Networks (Perceptrons)
Input is multi-dimensional (i.e. input can be a vector):
input x = ( I1, I2, .., In)
Input nodes (or units) are connected (typically fully) to a node (or multiple nodes) in the next layer. A node in the next layer takes a weighted sum of all its inputs:
The rule:
The output node has a "threshold" t.
Rule: If summed input ? t, then it "fires" (output y = 1). Else (summed input < t) it doesn't fire (output y = 0).
Limitations of Perceptrons:
(i) The output values of a perceptron can take on only one of two values (0 or 1) due to the hard-limit transfer function.
(ii) Perceptrons can only classify linearly separable sets of vectors. If a straight line or a plane can be drawn to separate the input vectors into their correct categories, the input vectors are linearly separable. If the vectors are not linearly separable, learning will never reach a point where all vectors are classified properly
The Boolean function XOR is not linearly separable (Its positive and negative instances cannot be separated by a line or hyperplane). Hence a single layer perceptron can never compute the XOR function. This is a big drawback which once resulted in the stagnation of the field of neural networks. But this has been solved by multi-layer.
Multi-layer Neural Networks
A Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) or Multi-Layer Neural Network contains one or more hidden layers (apart from one input and one output layer). While a single layer perceptron can only learn linear functions, a multi layer perceptron can also learn non – linear functions.
This neuron takes as input x1,x2,….,x3 (and a +1 bias term), and outputs f(summed inputs+bias), where f(.) called the activation function. The main function of Bias is to provide every node with a trainable constant value (in addition to the normal inputs that the node receives). Every activation function (or non-linearity) takes a single number and performs a certain fixed mathematical operation on it. There are several activation functions you may encounter in practice:
Sigmoid:takes real-valued input and squashes it to range between 0 and 1.
tanh:takes real-valued input and squashes it to the range [-1, 1 ].
ReLu:ReLu stands for Rectified Linear Units. It takes real-valued input and thresholds it to 0 (replaces negative values to 0 ).
Refrences:
NEURAL NETWORKS by Christos Stergiou and Dimitrios Siganos
ujjwalkarn.me
Machine Learning, Tom Mitchell, McGraw Hill, 1997.
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January 27, 2013- A lawsuit against a Kansas woman who publicly proclaimed her admiration for the man who gunned down one of the country's few late-term abortion providers is revealing the unwavering support a small group of radical anti-abortion activists has for the imprisoned killer despite an ongoing federal investigation into the 2009 slaying.
Though no federal indictments have been handed down by a grand jury investigating whether Dr. George Tiller's death was connected to a broader case involving extreme anti-abortion activists, the lawsuit against Angel Dillard is one indication the Justice Department is taking a more heavy handed approach to perceived threats to abortion providers. In addition to alleging Dillard, of Valley Center, sent a threatening letter in 2011 to another Wichita doctor who was training to offer abortions, the lawsuit also highlights Dillard's relationship with Scott Roeder, the man convicted of fatally shooting Tiller at the physician's church.
When Roeder opened fire on Tiller, he propelled himself to icon status among abortion opponent extremists — a status that hasn't wavered since he was sentenced to life in prison. A leader in the Army of God, which supports violence against abortion doctors, notes Roeder gets more correspondence than other imprisoned anti-abortion activists.
AP PhotoThis combination of undated file photos shows... View Full Size AP PhotoThis combination of undated file photos shows Scott Roeder, left, and Angel Dillard.
Hailed by militant anti-abortion forces as a "prisoner of Christ," Roeder has been spreading his radical views from a Kansas prison. Other extremists have gravitated to Roeder, visiting him in prison, sending him money and offering legal advice, court documents show.
Abortion rights supporters fear a disturbing pattern whereby imprisoned abortion opponents inspire others to commit further acts of violence against abortion providers and clinics. But radical anti-abortion activists contend the government is trying to suppress "serious opposition" to abortion by targeting Dillard.
"We are always concerned when extremists are getting together and spreading hate and encouraging others to engage in criminal activity," said Vicki Saporta, executive director of the National Abortion Federation, the professional association representing abortion providers.
A federal grand jury began investigating in 2010 whether Tiller's murder was connected to a larger case involving radical anti-abortion activists. Though no public charges have been filed, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Dena Iverson, said the investigation is still open.


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A pension fund, also known as a superannuation fund in some countries, is any plan, fund, or scheme which provides retirement income.
File:2005pension fund investments.PNG
Pension funds in 2005
Pension funds typically have large amounts of money to invest and are the major investors in listed and private companies. They are especially important to the stock market where large institutional investors dominate. The largest 300 pension funds collectively hold about $6 trillion in assets.[1] In January 2008, The Economist reported that Morgan Stanley estimates that pension funds worldwide hold over US$20 trillion in assets, the largest for any category of investor ahead of mutual funds, insurance companies, currency reserves, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, or private equity.[2]
Although the (Japanese) Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) lost 0.25 percent, in the year ended March 31, 2011 GPIF was still the world's largest public pension fund which oversees 114 trillion Yen ($1.5 trillion).[3]
1 Classifications
1.1 Open vs. closed pension funds
1.2 Public vs. private pension funds
2 Largest pension funds
3 By country
3.1.1 Government
3.1.2 Industry (not-for-profit)
3.1.3 Private
3.6 Greece
3.13 Netherlands
3.19.1 Government
3.19.2 Private
3.20 United States
Open vs. closed pension funds
Open pension funds support at least one pension plan with no restriction on membership while closed pension funds support only pension plans that are limited to certain employees.[4]
Closed pension funds are further subclassified into:
Single employer pension funds
Multi-employer pension funds
Related member pension funds
Individual pension funds
Public vs. private pension funds
A public pension fund is one that is regulated under public sector law while a private pension fund is regulated under private sector law.
In certain countries the distinction between public or government pension funds and private pension funds may be difficult to assess. In others, the distinction is made sharply in law, with very specific requirements for administration and investment. For example, local governmental bodies in the United States are subject to laws passed by the states in which those localities exist, and these laws include provisions such as defining classes of permitted investments and a minimum municipal obligation.[5]
Largest pension funds
Assets US$ (in billions)
United States Federal Old-age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund $2645[6] 1935 Non-commodity
Japan Government Pension Investment Fund $1370[7] 2006 Non-commodity
Norway Government Pension Fund of Norway $856[8] 1990 Oil
United States Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund $850[9] 1920 Non-commodity
United States Military Retirement Fund $474[10] Non-commodity
South Korea National Pension Service (NPS) $422[11] 1988 Non-commodity
Netherlands Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP (ABP) $388[12] (€344) 1922 Non-commodity
United States Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) $407[13] 1986 Non-commodity
United States (California) California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) $289.8[14] 1932 Non-commodity
Netherlands Stichting Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW, formerly PGGM) $183[15] (€162) 1969 Non-commodity
United States (California) California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) $189.1[16] 1913 Non-commodity
Canada Canada Pension Plan and CPP Investment Board $209 (CAD$234)[17] 1965 Non-commodity
China National Social Security Fund $177.4[18] 2000 Non-commodity
Canada (Quebec) Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (The Caisse, or CDPQ) $176[19] 1965 Non-commodity
Malaysia Employees Provident Fund $130[20] 1991 Non-commodity
Canada (Ontario) Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan $130 1990 Non-commodity
South Africa Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) $112 (ZAR1426b) 1996 Non-commodity
Brazil Caixa de Previdencia dos Funcionários do Banco do Brasil (PREVI) $80 1904 Finance
Ireland National Pension Reserve Fund (NPRF) $30[21] 2001 Non-commodity
France Pensions Reserve Fund (France) (NPRF) $56[22] 2001 Non-commodity
United States Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund $43[6] 1935 Non-commodity
Main article: Superannuation in Australia
Public Sector Superannuation Scheme (for federal civil servants)
Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme (older scheme for federal civil servants)
State Super (for New South Wales state civil servants)
Industry (not-for-profit)
The Retail Employees Superannuation Trust
ANZ Australian Staff Superannuation Scheme (for employees of ANZ Bank)
Previ
Funcef
Valia
Fundação Banrisul
Fundação CESP
Fundação Itaubanco
Sistel
Banesprev
Forluz
Centrus
Baneses
Aceprev
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Public Sector Pension Investment Board
Alberta Investment Management
Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Pension Plan (CAAT)
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)
OMERS Administration Corporation (OMERS)
Ontario Pension Board (OPB)
OPSEU Pension Trust (OPTrust)
BC Pension Corporation including the College Pension Plan, the Municipal Pension Plan, the Public Service Pension Plan, the Teachers' Pension Plan, and WorkSafeBC
Chile pension system
AFP Modelo
National Social Security Fund (Chinese: 全国社会保障基金理事会) [3]
Public Employees Pension Fund [4]
TAPILTAT, the Fund for Mutual Assistance of the Employees of Ioniki Bank and Other Banks, the multi-employer auxiliary pension fund.
Mandatory Provident Fund
Employees Provident Fund - A Statutory body of the Government Of India that administers a compulsory Provident Fund Scheme, Pension Scheme and an Insurance Scheme. Provident Fund is applicable across for employees across establishments (Private as well as Govt - subject to criteria). EPF is the Largest Social Security Organisations in India with Assets well over ₹ 5 Lakh Crore (US$91 Billion) as of 2013. EPF
National Pension Scheme - A defined-contribution-based pension scheme launched by the Government Of India open to all Citizens of India on a voluntary basis and mandatory for the employees of Central Government (except Indian Armed Forces) who are appointed on or after 1 January 2004. Indian citizens between the age of 18-55 are eligible to join. PFRDA
See Japan Pension Service
Government Pension Investment Fund, Japan (GPIF, 年金積立金管理運用独立行政法人)
Employees Provident Fund (Malaysia's largest, total assets of around RM407 billion in diversified portfolio)[20]
Caisse de dépôt et de gestion
CMR (French)
Employees Provident Fund Nepal
Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP (ABP)
Stichting Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW, formerly PGGM)
The Government Pension Fund - Global (Statens pensjonsfond - Utland)
The Government Pension Fund - Norway (Statens pensjonsfond - Norge)
The pension system in Romania is made of 3 pillars, one is the state pension (Pillar I - Mandatory), second is a private mandatory pension were the state transfers a percentage of the contribution it collects for the public pension and third an optional private pension (Pillar III - Voluntary).
The Financial Supervisory Authority - Private Pension is responsible for the supervision and regulation of the private pension system.[23]
Public Pension Agency (PPA)
the general organization for social insurance
Central Provident Fund
Pension system in Switzerland
Sosyal Güvenlik Kurumu (Social Security Institution, SGK)
Social Security Institution was established by the Social Security Institution Law No:5502 which was published in the Official Gazette No: 26173 dated 20.06.2006 and brings the Social Insurance Institution, General Directorate of Bağ-kur and General Directorate of Emekli Sandığı whose historical development are summarized above under a single roof in order to transfer five different retirement regimes which are civil servants, contractual paid workers, agricultural paid workers, self-employers and agricultural self-employers into a single retirement regime that will offer equal actuarial rights and obligations. The Social Security Institution is continuing its activities to provide better quality of services for our citizens with the participation of whole staff putting all their energy individually and institutionally.
Armed Forces Pension Fund
OYAK, (Ordu Yardımlaşma Kurumu/Armed Forces Pension Fund) provides its members with "supplementary retirement benefits" apart from the official retirement fund, T.C.Emekli Sandığı/SSK, to which they are primarily affiliated.
In addition to the retirement benefit, OYAK pays "disability benefits" to the members on duty when they become partially or fully disabled as well as "death benefits" to the heirs of the deceased member if the death occurs during the member's subscription to the Foundation.
OYAK is incorporated as a private entity under its own law subject to Turkish civic and commercial codes. OYAK while fulfilling its legal duties, as set in the Law, also provides its members with social services such as loans, home loans and retirement income systems.
The initial source of OYAK's funds is a compulsory 10 percent levy on the base salary of Turkey's 200,000 serving officers who, together with 25,000 current pensioners, make up OYAK's members.
Some other Turkish private pension funds:
YAPI ve KREDİ BANKASI A.Ş. Mensupları Yardım ve Emekli Sandığı Vakfı
AKBANK T.A.Ş. Mensupları Tekaüt Sandığı Vakfı
TÜRKİYE GARANTİ BANKASI A.Ş. Memur ve Müstahdemleri Emekli ve Yardım Sandığı Vakfı
TÜRKİYE ODALAR BORSALAR VE BİRLİK PERSONELİ SİGORTA VE EMEKLİ SANDIĞI VAKFI
TÜRKİYE İŞ BANKASI A.Ş. Mensupları Emekli Sandığı Vakfı
In the United States pension funds include schemes which result in a deferral of income by employees, even if retirement income provision isn't the intent.[24] The United States has $24.5 trillion in retirement and pension assets ($15.5 trillion in private funds, $9 trillion in public funds) as of June 30, 2014.[25] The largest 200 pension funds accounted for $4.540 trillion as of September 30, 2009.[26]
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)
California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS)
Civil Service Retirement System
Fire and Police Pension Association of Colorado (FPPA)
Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund
Kansas City Public School Retirement System (KCPSRS)
Kansas Public Employees Retirement System (KPERS)
Minnesota Public Employees' Retirement Association (MNPERA)
Minnesota Teachers' Retirement Association (MNTRA)
New York State Teachers' Retirement System (NYSTRS)
Railroad Retirement Board
Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA)
Social Security Trust Fund
Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS of Texas)
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↑ Global Investment Review
↑ The Economist Jan 17, 2008 (economist.com)
↑ "World's Biggest Pension Fund Plans to Start Investing in Emerging Markets". Bloomberg. September 30, 2011. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
↑ OECD
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↑ 6.0 6.1 Budget of the United States Government, FY2016, as of September 30, 2014. Office of Management and Budget Retrieved March 1, 2015
↑ Government Pension Investment Fund, Japan. Gpif.go.jp. Retrieved on 2013-07-18.
↑ Market value. norges-bank.no Retrieved on 2014-04-29.
↑ Budget of the United States Government, FY2016, as of September 30, 2014. Office of Management and Budget Retrieved March 1, 2015
↑ http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9a701fd6-25e8-11e5-bd83-71cb60e8f08c.html
↑ Financial Statements of the Thrift Savings Fund. As of April 14, 2014
↑ "Current Investment Fund Values". Calpers.ca.gov. Retrieved 2014-05-10. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
↑ https://www.pfzw.nl/over-ons/pers/paginas/kwartaalberichten.aspx
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↑ Assets under management as of September 30, 2014. cppib.com. Retrieved 2015-02-05
↑ http://www.ssf.gov.cn/cwsj/ndbg/201309/t20130928_5909.html
↑ http://www.lacaisse.com/en/results
↑ 20.0 20.1 [2] Archived November 2, 2010 at the Wayback Machine
↑ NPRF
↑ FRR 2012 Annual Report
↑ http://www.csspp.ro
↑ 29 USC § 1002 - Definitions | Title 29 - Labor | U.S. Code | LII / Legal Information Institute. Law.cornell.edu. Retrieved on 2013-07-18.
↑ http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/Current/z1.pdf, see pp.131-135, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Reported December 11, 2014
↑ P&I Online
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Sarah M. Lyon, MD, from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues assessed the impact of increased insurance coverage on ICU utilization and mortality. Data were compared for nonpregnant, nonelderly adults (aged 18–64 years) admitted to nonfederal acute care hospitals in Massachusetts and four states that did not enact reform (New York, Washington, Nebraska, and North Carolina).
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Teranga Gold Schedules Third Quarter Conference Call and Webcast for November 1, 2018
TSX: TGZ
www.terangagold.com
Mr. Richard Young reports:
TORONTO, Oct. 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Teranga Gold Corporation ("Teranga" or the "Company") (TSX:TGZ; OTCQX:TGCDF) will release its third quarter 2018 financial and operating results on Thursday, November 1, 2018 at approximately 6:00 a.m. ET. A conference call and webcast hosted by management will follow at 8:30 a.m. ET to review the Company's results and discuss the quarter's highlights.
Those wishing to listen can access the conference call and webcast as follows:
Date & Time: Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 8:30 a.m. ET
Telephone: Toll-free +1-877-291-4570
Local of International +1-647-788-4919
Please allow 10 minutes to be connected to the conference call.
Webcast: Available on Teranga's website at www.terangagold.com/q32018.
Replay: The conference call replay will be accessible for two weeks after the call by dialing
+1-416-621-4642 or toll-free at +1-800-585-8367 and entering the conference ID 4389617.
Note: The slide presentation will be available for download at www.terangagold.com for
simultaneous viewing during the call.
About Teranga
Teranga is a multi-jurisdictional West African gold company focused on production and development as well as the exploration of more than 6,400 km2 of land located on prospective gold belts. Since its initial public offering in 2010, Teranga has produced more than 1.5 million ounces of gold from its operations in Senegal, which as of June 30, 2018 had a reserve base of 2.5 million ounces of gold. Focused on diversification and growth, the Company is advancing its Wahgnion Gold Project in Burkina Faso towards delivering its second producing gold mine, as well as carrying out exploration programs in three West African countries: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal. The Company has 4.1 million ounces of gold reserves from its combined Sabodala Gold operations and Wahgnion Gold Project as of June 30, 2018. Teranga applies a rigorous capital allocation framework for its investment decisions to execute on its growth strategy relying on a combination of cash on the balance sheet, free cash flow from operations and debt.
Steadfast in its commitment to set the benchmark for responsible mining, Teranga operates in accordance with the highest international standards and aims to act as a catalyst for sustainable economic, environmental, and community development as it strives to create value for all of its stakeholders. Teranga is a member of the United Nations Global Compact and a leading member of the multi-stakeholder group responsible for the submission of the first Senegalese Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative revenue report.
Richard Young Trish Moran
President & CEO Head of Investor Relations
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Teranga Gold
Daily Change: -0.03 -0.42
Market Cap: C$768.190M
Teranga Gold Delivers Record 288,768 Ounces of Gold, Exceeding Top End of 2019 Production Guidance of 245,000-270,000 Ounces
Teranga Gold Closes C$140 Million Bought Deal Public Offering of Subscription Receipts
Teranga Gold to Acquire High-Grade Massawa Gold Project from Barrick Gold, Accelerates Repositioning as Low-Cost, Mid-Tier Producer
Teranga Gold Declares Commercial Production at Wahgnion Gold Operations; Expected to Achieve Upper End of 2019 Production Guidance
Teranga Gold Delivers Strong Operating Results from Sabodala and Commissions Second Mine During Third Quarter
Teranga Gold Schedules Third Quarter Conference Call and Webcast for October 31st, 2019
Teranga Gold Starts Production at Wahgnion Gold Operations Ahead of Original Schedule
Teranga Gold Delivers Solid Second Quarter Production and Costs; on Track to Achieve 2019 Guidance
Teranga Gold Announces a 27,000-Metre Drilling and Exploration Program at Golden Hill
Teranga Gold Schedules Second Quarter Conference Call and Webcast for August 1st, 2019
Teranga Gold Announces Annual General Meeting Voting Results
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The show was nominated for best new TV-series for kids by Norwegian Emmys.
There is an extensive documentation of the project in the blog. Each episode has a making-of, in addition to lots of surrounding material.
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John Bolton's Book Revelations: Trump Supported China's Uyghur Concentration Camps Despite Signing Human Rights Act
By Arthur Villasanta
President Donald Trump signed into law the "Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020"
He once told Chinese President Xi Jinping he was okay with the latter imprisoning Muslim Uyghurs in concentration camps, according to John Bolton
More than a million Uyghurs are imprisoned in re-education camps, which have been assailed as concentration camps by human rights activists
President Donald Trump signed into law on Wednesday the "Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020", which requires federal government agencies to report on the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China, including the country's unlawful imprisonment of the ethnic group at "re-education camps" in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
Questions are now being raised if Trump will enforce this law against Chinese President Xi Jinping because of revelations made by former national security adviser John Bolton in his new book to be released June 23.
In this book, Bolton reveals Trump told Xi he had no objection to imprisoning Uyghurs in concentration camps. In June 2019, during the Group of 20 summit in Japan, Xi defended his construction of prison camps housing one million Uyghurs. This was when Trump said he didn't object to the camps, Bolton mentioned.
"According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do," wrote Bolton.
Bolton also revealed the National Security Council's top Asia staffer, Matthew Pottinger, told him Trump "said something very similar during his November 2017 trip to China."
The former national security adviser also mentioned Trump's unusually close affinity for dictators like Xi, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un. He was also scathing about Putin playing the president like a "fiddle".
"I think Putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle," said Bolton on ABC News. "I think Putin is -- smart, tough. He plays a bad hand extremely well. And I think -- I -- I think he sees that -- he's not faced with a serious adversary here."
More than a million Uyghurs, a Muslim ethnic minority, are imprisoned in these re-education camps, which have been assailed as concentration camps by human rights activists. There are 25 million Uyghurs in China and they are the dominant ethnic group in the XUAR.
The camps are officially called "Vocational Education and Training Centers." They were established on orders of Xi to brainwash Uyghurs as part of his "people's war on terror" launched in 2014. Uyghurs are imprisoned without trial in these camps and no charges have been levied against them.
Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with US President Donald Trump as they meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka in June 2019 AFP / Brendan Smialowski
The revised Senate version of the bill was approved unanimously last May 14, while the House voted 413-1 to pass the amended bill on May 27.
The law condemns the Communist Party of China (CPC) for its treatment of Uyghur Muslims and other Muslim minorities. It also demands the concentration camps be closed.
It directs Trump to identify individual Chinese responsible for abuses of minority groups. These abuses include prolonged detention without charges and a trial; abduction; torture; inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and "other flagrant denial of the right to life, liberty or the security of persons."
Within 180 days from Wednesday, Trump is required to submit a report to Congress identifying each foreign individual, including Chinese government officials, determined to be responsible for human rights abuses of individuals in XUAR.
The law requires the Trump administration to subject the individuals to sanction such as blocking of their assets and declaring them ineligible for visas or admission to the United States.
On Wednesday, Trump said the recent law "holds accountable perpetrators of human rights violations and abuses such as the systematic use of indoctrination camps, forced labor, and intrusive surveillance to eradicate the ethnic identity and religious beliefs of Uyghurs and other minorities in China."
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Report: Dallas Wings expected to name Vickie Johnson as next head coach
The Wings announced in October that Brian Agler would not be returning to coach next season.
Midcourt logo for the Dallas Wings during their first home opener against the San Antonio Stars at College Park Center in Arlington, Saturday, May 21, 2016.(Staff Photographer)
12:32 PM on Dec 3, 2020 CST — Updated at 2:24 PM on Dec 7, 2020 CST
Update (Dec. 7): The Dallas Wings announced on Monday that the organization will be holding a press conference to introduce its new head coach on Wednesday.
While the team did not disclose who they would be introducing, it has been reported that Las Vegas Aces assistant Vickie Johnson will be taking over the head coaching role in Dallas.
Original story (Dec. 3): It appears the Dallas Wings have their next head coach in their sights.
According to The Athletic's Chantel Jennings, Dallas is expected to name Vickie Johnson as its next head coach.
While there is no contract in place or an immediate plan for an official announcement, per Jennings, preparations for Johnson to take over the role are already being made.
While currently an assistant with the Las Vegas Aces, Johnson also coached the San Antonio Stars in both assistant and head coaching roles from 2011-17. Johnson coached current Wings players Moriah Jefferson and Isabelle Harrison while in San Antonio.
A move to the leading role in Dallas would make her the only current Black female head coach in the league.
Wings president and CEO Greg Bibb said that as of Thursday, the organization does not have a new coach under contract and does not plan to make an announcement this week.
The Dallas Wings announced in October that Brian Agler would not be returning to coach the team next season.
Agler compiled an 18-38 record in two seasons with Dallas, overseeing the transition from a veteran roster led by Skylar Diggins-Smith and Liz Cambage to a young and talented team bolstered by a slew of high draft picks.
Agler nearly led the Wings, the youngest team in WNBA, to the playoffs in the shortened 2020 season played in "The Wubble" at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. But injuries at the end of the season — Dallas at one point had only six active players available — kept the Wings from reaching the postseason for the first time since 2017.
Dallas finished with an 8-14 record last season.
"We will take a deliberate approach as we seek a new head coach to lead the Wings," team president and CEO Greg Bibb said after parting ways with Agler.
"We believe our team's youth, tenacity and talent provide us with the competitive edge to attract the right fit for our club and someone who will lead our continued growth as we pursue a WNBA championship."
Johnson was drafted by the New York Liberty as the 12th pick overall out of Louisiana Tech in 1997. She played in the WNBA for 13 seasons for the Liberty and San Antonio and was a two-time All-Star.
The news comes a day before the WNBA draft lottery. Dallas has the third-most chances to land the No. 1 pick in the four-team lottery, which is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Friday and will be telecast by ESPN.
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Combined record (2019-20)
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1. New York 12-44 442
2. Atlanta 15-41 276
3. Dallas 18-38 178
4. Indiana 19-37 104
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