Enjoy A More Relaxing Black Friday Weekend At Disney Springs! Deals Below!
Nine days and counting … can you tell that I'm excited for Black Friday – the "official" start of the holiday shopping season? Back for its second year at Disney Springs, Black Friday, November 24, 2017, marks the onset of three full days featuring fantastic finds and prominent promotions throughout the property. With over 80 retailers planning to take part in the festivities, it would be impossible for me to list everything here, so below, in no particular order, are a few of the offerings I'm most excited about. Here's the complete list of the Black Friday offerings.
New MagicBands: Fittingly for a Black Friday weekend, we will debut the much-anticipated solid black MagicBand, with a "first release" at Disney Springs before expanding to additional merchandise locations at Walt Disney World the following Monday. In addition, a limited-release Disney Springs Holiday MagicBand will be available while supplies last, enabling guests to unlock the magic of their Disney vacation with a festive new design. Both items will be released at World of Disney store on 11/24/17.
Making its grand debut, the Woodland Winter Holiday Dress will be available for purchase at The Dress Shop at Cherry Tree Lane located inside Marketplace Co-Op, starting at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, 11/24/17. If you love holiday patterns, the Winter Wonderland design from Dooney & Bourke will also debut on select bag styles – same place, same time, same date.
Purchase the PANDORA Jewelry Mickey & Minnie Holiday Gift Set at Ever After Jewelry Co. & Accessories, the new Disney-inspired jewelry shop in Town Center, starting on Saturday, 11/25/17.
Love dogs? And purses? Dooney & Bourke will release a new "Disney Dogs" pattern on Sunday, 11/26/17, also at Ever After Jewelry Co. & Accessories.
Disney Springs will open two hours early, at 8:00 a.m., on Friday, November 24, 2017 with regular operating hours the remainder of the weekend. Be sure to keep an eye out for special food and beverage deals and make time to enjoy festive holiday offerings including the Disney Springs Christmas Tree Trail with plenty of photo ops, Stitch's Holiday Gift Hunt which will help keep the kids entertained while you shop and Santa's Chalet, which should give you some clues into everyone's holidays wish lists!
Enjoy Your Face – Stop by this kiosk between 8:00 a.m. and noon and receive $2 off one face painting. Weather permitting, at Disney Springs location only. Offer valid Nov. 24, 2017.
Origins – Pick up the Origins Super Stars set for $70 ($170 value) or the Origins Superstar Minis (a collection of best-selling products) for $25 ($90 value). (Origins Superstar Minis offer only valid Nov. 23-24, 2017).


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There's another sports-related story we wanted to talk about - or at least it speaks to the fact that sports figures and companies are about more than - well, sports. We wanted to talk about that special-edition sneaker that Nike had planned to release in honor of Independence Day featuring the so-called Betsy Ross flag with 13 stars in a circle representing the 13 original colonies. According to several news outlets, beginning with The Wall Street Journal, Nike pulled the shoes after former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick privately advised Nike executives to do so.
Kaepernick, of course, is the activist famous for kneeling during the national anthem during his playing days to protest police violence, which evidently ended his playing days. He's also a Nike brand ambassador. Now, it's not exactly clear what he said to Nike, but it's been reported that he noted that the flag has been adopted by some white supremacist groups, along with a Confederate flag, to celebrate a time when slavery was legal and the country was supposedly more white or white people had all the power. Nike said in a statement that it pulled the shoes based on concerns it could, quote, "unintentionally offend and detract from the nation's patriotic holiday" - unquote.
But then other people criticized that decision, including the Arizona governor, Doug Ducey, who said that Nike has, quote, "bowed to the current onslaught of political correctness and historical revisionism" - unquote. He claimed that he would pull back support for financial incentives that were promised to Nike for opening a manufacturing plant in Arizona.
So we figured the Barbershop would be a good place to talk about all this because that's where we talk with interesting people about what's in the news and what's on their minds. So joining us today are Alyssa Rosenberg. She's an opinion writer who covers culture for The Washington Post. She wrote about this recently. Welcome.
ALYSSA ROSENBERG: Thanks so much for having me.
MARTIN: Joseph Cooper is a professor at the University of Connecticut, where his research focuses on sport, education, race and culture. Professor Cooper, welcome to you.
JOSEPH COOPER: Thank you for having me.
MARTIN: And Eugene Rabkin is the founder of StyleZeitgeist, which is a fashion blog. Eugene, welcome to you as well.
EUGENE RABKIN: Thank you.
MARTIN: So let me just read something that Alyssa wrote in her piece. She said that few things are more American than a giant company's efforts to turn a profit off a patriotic emblem, then see the product flare into a cultural bonfire. Duly noted. Duly noted, Alyssa. I'm going to actually go to professor Cooper first on this because I take it you agree with Nike's decision to pull the shoes. Is that right?
COOPER: That is correct.
MARTIN: Because?
COOPER: I agree because, one, we live in a highly politicized climate. And when we think about understanding what the meaning of certain symbols historically meant and what they mean in contemporary terms, I think it's important that if we are moving towards becoming a more perfect union and respecting the positionalities of diverse groups, then we consider maybe certain symbols that we used to celebrate - i.e., the Confederate flag, i.e., the original 13 colonies flag - that symbol isn't a symbol of unity for all Americans.
And so, taking into account groups that have been historically oppressed, such as African-Americans during that time period when that flag was created, I think that it was a very appropriate gesture for Nike to pull that particular style of shoe.
MARTIN: So, Alyssa, I'm going to go to you here because, you know, unlike some people for whom, you know, Kaepernick is just the gift that keeps on giving - I mean, there are people who just are outraged by everything he does, and there are those who want to turn this into a referendum on people who love America versus the people who don't. But one of the things that interests us about your piece is you took a different tack. You were saying you're not denying that perhaps this flag has been co-opted by these white supremacist groups. The point you made is that we shouldn't be so quick to capitulate when racists try to taint symbols of our national story.
ROSENBERG: Well, and I think it's a really interesting question. At what point has something been so thoroughly co-opted that it can't return to any semblance of its original meaning? And because a couple of obscure Klan groups or some guy from Identity Evropa or some jerks at a Michigan high school football game try to use a historical symbol like the Betsy Ross flag, who gets to say they win? You know, why do jerks who want to imbue something with a new meaning that it may not necessarily have had - why do we get to say that they're right, that they get to poison this and then none of the rest of us can have it?
I mean, I think part of what was very interesting about this debate is that clearly, this is a conversation about a symbol that has happened in some quarters but has not reached a broad audience. And so I don't know that there is a consensus on whether or not the flag is tainted.
I respect anyone who says that because the symbol has been used this way, it no longer has an uncomplicated meaning. But I am really opposed to just ceding space to white supremacists simply because they touch something, therefore it's poison. Why not fight back? Why not try to have an actual conversation about who gets to decide the meaning of these things?
MARTIN: Now, Eugene, one of the reasons we called you is that - I want to mention you didn't write about this particular story, but you've been writing as a fashion blogger about images and fashion that a lot of people have found offensive, and you're saying that, you know, fashion is meant to provoke and that fashion that fails to provoke loses its power. So where do you come out on this argument, on this issue - you know, recognizing that I don't think you were born in the U.S., so perhaps the whole history of the Betsy Ross flag and all this isn't as present for you as it is for other people. But what do you think?
RABKIN: Well, first, I couldn't agree with Alyssa more. I think that we should not allow white supremacists to reclaim the symbol that is not theirs to claim in the first place, you know? there is - there are examples like that that have happened before. There's a London brand of boxing gear called Lansdale, you know, and neo-Nazis in London, in the U.K., used to wear their T-shirts because if you cover Lansdale up to a certain point with a jacket, you get to see NSDA, which was the name of Hitler's party. You know, Lansdale did not stop making clothing. You know, they put out a statement saying that we did not - you know, we do not agree with these values. And that was that, you know?
So I don't think you should allow that - these symbols to be claimed. But also, you know, for me, the bigger issues here is stifling creativity, you know? And the sneaker is a sneaker, you know? But Nike here - what happened was Nike engaged in self-censorship, you know, because we are living in a time that is so volatile, and moral outrage is stoked so easily both on the left and on the right that it produces atmosphere of self-doubt and self-censorship. And that, to me, is a real problem because fashion is a creative discipline, just like art, and it should have that freedom to provoke and to challenge people's assumptions.
MARTIN: Joseph, what do you say about that? Professor Cooper, what do you think?
COOPER: Yeah. I mean, I think there's varying views on - this isn't the first time that fashion and politics have collided. A few years ago, Gucci put out a style or image on one of their pieces of clothing that was resembling of the minstrel show, which was highly offensive to African Americans in the United States. So as opposed to viewing it as a form - and large - a large contingency of the hip-hop community boycotted Gucci and said, you know, this was culturally insensitive.
So as opposed to viewing it as censorship, I look at this has become a more democratic society whereby traditionally, certain groups - their views and perspectives on certain symbols and images have been silenced or largely marginalized. And now organizations and companies such as Nike are taking into account those voices because they understand that these constituents, these consumers, are major stakeholders for their company. And so to me, I look at it as being more culturally sensitive, more culturally inclusive as opposed to a form of censorship.
MARTIN: So, Alyssa, I'm going to go back to this question of, how do you engage with something that has been co-opted by, for example, white supremacists? Like, there's a brand of - I'm sure - I don't want to give more credence to it, but there's a brand of outerwear that a lot of kids like, and the initials are initials that some of the white supremacist groups also like because it's - it is a reference to a salute to Hitler, right? So they're not going to stop making clothes either, but then some people would rather their kids not have that - those clothes.
So what do you suggest? I know you raised a number of examples where, you know, people have used the American flag for heinous things, but other people have said, no, it's not just yours. What do you say about how to engage with something like this?
ROSENBERG: I think you have a vigorous dialogue about it, and you put it in context. I mean, the African-American lawyer who was almost stabbed by the American flag during the Boston busing protests always said that the flag wasn't tainted for him and that as long as it was used in a context where sort of positive values were raised vigorously that it could be a symbol of what America could be. And so if it's your kids, talk to your kids about why certain people feel this way, why they might end up associating themselves with something that they don't intend...
MARTIN: OK.
ROSENBERG: ...You know?
MARTIN: We have to leave it there for now, but there's more to say because, you know, I want to ask all of you if you'd buy the shoes if they actually came back on the market, right?
RABKIN: (Laughter).
MARTIN: Would you buy it? Eugene, quickly, yes or no - would you buy it?
RABKIN: Absolutely not. I don't wear sneakers.
MARTIN: Oh, OK. Well...
RABKIN: (Laughter) I'm the wrong person.
MARTIN: That's Eugene Rabkin. He's the founder of StyleZeitgeist. That's a fashion blog. Also with us, Alyssa Rosenberg, opinion writer for The Washington Post, and Joseph Cooper, professor at the University of Connecticut. Thank you all so much for talking to us.
ROSENBERG: Thanks so much.
RABKIN: Thank you.
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Philando Castile had the legal documentation necessary to carry the firearm in his possession last Wednesday when he was gunned down by a police officer in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
A source confirmed as much to the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune on Friday, as the Minnesota Data Practices Act prohibits public access to gun permit records.
Castile's mother, Valerie Castile, has said that hours before the 32-year-old cafeteria manager's deadly encounter with St. Anthony police, her son and daughter discussed the dangers of legally bearing arms as a Black person in America.
"I really don't even want to carry my gun because I'm afraid that they'll shoot me first and then ask questions later," Castile told CNN her daughter said at the house earlier that day.
Philando Castile's girlfriend Diamond Reynolds, who captured the eerie moments after the shooting on her cell phone, said Castile alerted the cop to his weapon and license to carry it but was killed anyway.
"You shot four bullets into him, sir. He was just getting his license and registration, sir," Reynolds told the officer in the video.
The disturbing circumstances surrounding Castile's death and that of another slain Black man, Alton Sterling in Louisiana, inspired the march in Dallas, during which Mark Hughes proudly walked with a rifle strapped over his shoulder.
Hughes, too, was exercising his state-sanctioned right when peaceful protests erupted into chaos as 12 officers and two civilians were struck by gunfire from above.
The Dallas police department quickly tweeted an image of Hughes as their primary suspect, and although he was later cleared, the damage has been lethal and lingering.
According to Hughes' attorney S. Lee Merritt, the wrongly accused and family members recently fled for their lives after being accosted by a group of troublemakers at a local hotel.
"Cory [Hughes' brother] went to the bathroom and noticed a group of white guys staring at him and they had pictures of his brother up on their phones," Merritt told the New York Daily News Sunday. "He came back to me where we were eating and those same guys started taking positions around us by the exits. I got us up in a hurry and got out of there."
These instances could produce a chilling effect in African-American gun ownership, and Black Second Amendment supporters are pushing back.
Babu Omowale, co-founder of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club based in Dallas, said Hughes' misidentification could be attributed to the public's irrational fear of all Black men with guns.
"I was actually at the protest. I saw the brother with his gun, and it didn't alarm me in any type of way because to me, he's another brother expressing his Second Amendment right," he told the Texas Tribune. "But the police automatically view him as a suspect. But that's how they view us — as suspects. They view us as possible criminals when we're only applying our given rights as gun owners."
Black codes and other racist legislation have prevented African-Americans from owning and carrying weapons since the beginning of the Union. The fear of uprisings by enslaved Blacks led many states to enact outlandish laws prohibiting them from owning any object that could be used for defense — walking canes and dogs included. Following the Civil War, Jim Crow practices requiring newly freed Blacks to present a license for their firearms, successfully excluded African-Americans from exercising the right.
Philip Smith founded the National African American Gun Association in 2015 with a goal to "have every African American introduced to firearm use for home protection, competitive shooting, and outdoor recreational activities.
"As an American citizen, I have the right to carry a gun — everyone has the right to," Smith said in an interview with Complex magazine. "But the reality is that every time I open carry, I'm given a second look. There's this automatic suspicion when an African American male has a gun — unless you're a police officer — but even then there are some people who are uncomfortable with that image. It shouldn't be that way."
The publication reports 65 percent of NAAGA members are women and 10 percent of them are white.
A Pew Research Center survey found that since 1993, African-American support for gun control laws has fallen by 14 percent, while the proportion of Black people favoring gun rights over tightening gun control legislation has almost doubled in the same span — up to 34 percent from 18 percent.
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Oct 25: A Fayetteville man failed to obey construction-zone restrictions, crashed, fled the scene on foot, then attempted to report his crashed vehicle as stolen, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Kalem Murray, 20, was driving a Chevrolet Cavalier east on Lincoln Way East near West Main Street, Guilford Township, when he drove through traffic cones and into a closed lane, then struck an electronic sign directing motorists to merge into the open lane. Murray then fled the scene, leaving the disabled car in the roadway. Murray later contacted state police to falsely report the car as stolen, police said. He later admitted to being the operator of the car and was cited accordingly.
Nov. 7: Nobody was injured after a two-vehicle crash at 4:18 p.m. at the intersection of Lincoln Way East and Mont Alto Road, Greene Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Nov. 7: Nobody was injured in a two-vehicle crash at 4:56 p.m. on Lincoln Way East, Greene Township, in which the driver of an eastbound Chevrolet Silverado attempted to pass a Nissan Rouge but clipped the Nissan's front end while returning to the original lane, then spun and traveled across the westbound lane and hit a tree, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Nov. 7: A truck became stuck under the railroad bridge on Kohler Road, Greene Township, at 6:51 p.m., according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Nov. 7: One person sustained suspected minor injures as a result of a rear-end crash at 7:17 p.m. on Kohler Road, Greene Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
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Nov. 8: A St. Thomas man was uninjured after traveling off the eastbound lane of Lincoln Way West in St. Thomas Township and striking a utility pole and then a house, according to Pennsylvania State Police. The home sustained moderate damage to its northwest corner.
Nov. 8: Nobody was injured in a chain-reaction rear-end crash involving four vehicles at 9:01 a.m. on Lincoln Way East, Guilford Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Nov. 8: Pennsylvania State Police responded to a report of a lost firearm, an M&P Shield 9 mm, at 11 p.m. on Edenville Road, Hamilton Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
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Oct. 30: A Greencastle woman driving a Ford Explorer drove directly into a parked Nissan Altima in the parking lot of Sheetz on Grindestone Hill Road, Antrim Township, at 11:54 a.m. then drove off without providing information, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Nov. 2: An air-conditioning unit was stolen from the window of a property on Williamsport Pike, Antrim Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Nov. 8: A Nissan Sentra struck a deer at 1:05 a.m. on Commerce Avenue, Antrim Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Nov. 8: A Ram truck sideswiped a Ford Excursion in the parking lot of Keystone RV Center on South Young Road, Antrim Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
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Nov. 9: A Shade Gap man was uninjured after he traveled across Lincoln Way West and struck a tree at 11:07 a.m. in Peters Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
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Oct. 25: Someone entered a home on Rosenberry Lane, Lurgan Township, between 5:40 and 9 p.m. and stole a pink smartwatch, a gold necklace, a bottle of prednisone and a bottle of tramadol, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Nov. 8: A Fannettsburg woman was uninjured after crashing into a utility pole at 8:26 p.m. on Upper Strasburg Road, Letterkenny Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Nov. 9: Two people were taken to Chambersburg Hospital following a chain-reaction crash involving a school bus at 7:07 a.m. on Olde Scotland Road, Southampton Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police. A Volkswagen Passat rear-ended a stopped Jeep Grand Cherokee, pushing the Jeep into the rear of a school bus that was stopped as it prepared to turn. The drivers of the Volkswagen and Jeep were hospitalized; police said the severity of the injuries was not known. On the school bus, the driver, Jessie Walls, 35, Shippensburg, and the 18 students, ranging in age from 11 to 17, were uninjured.
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Nov. 9: An unknown vehicle struck a utility pole on Upper Strasburg Road, Letterkenny Township, then fled the scene, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Nov. 9: A Chambersburg woman sustained suspected minor injuries as a result of crashing into a tree at 2:36 p.m. on Newburg Road, Lurgan Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Waynesboro area
Sept. 10: Someone transferred money from a 93-year-old Quincy Township man's checking account into an unauthorized account, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Oct. 3-4: Sometime between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m., a gray/black 2009 Polaris 850 all-terrain vehicle was stolen from a property on Anthony Highway, Quincy Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police. The VIN is 4XAZN85A89A548349.
Oct. 16: A white 1993 Ford Mustang with an unknown Pennsylvania registration was stolen between 1 and 4:45 p.m. from a residence on Tomstown Road, Quincy Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Oct. 1-Aug. 30: Pennsylvania State Police are investigating an incident in which someone sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl in South Middleton Township.
Nov. 7: The trailing unit of an unknown vehicle hit a stop sign at 4:02 p.m. on South Middlesex Road, South Middleton Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Nov. 8: A power inverter and power tools were stolen between 5:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. from a shed on Peach Glen Road, Dickinson Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Nov. 8: A Hanover woman was uninjured after the Jeep Cherokee she was driving crashed into an embankment and rolled onto its roof at 9:50 a.m. on Balitmore Road, Southampton Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
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Nov. 8: A Carlisle woman is accused of stealing almost $100 in items from Kohl's, South Middleton Township, at 1:05 p.m., according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Nov. 8: Nobody was injured after a Ford Mustang rear-ended a Subaru Forrester at 4:39 p.m. on Newville Road at McCallister Church Road, West Pennsboro Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Nov. 9: A 9-year-old boy complained of head pain, but was not taken to a hospital by EMS, after a two-vehicle crash at 5:49 p.m. at the intersection of York Road and Fairview Street, South Middleton Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Nov. 9: Two people sustained possible minor injuries, but were not taken to a hospital, as a result of a crash at 6:02 p.m. on Great Cove Road, Ayr Township, in which the car they were in hydroplaned and slid off the road, down a 3-foot hillside and hit a utility pole. The car slid another 15 feet before coming to a rest. The driver and passenger were each wearing seat belts.
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Fahd Syed, an advocate and Yemeni-American ally to U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, shows a picture of a relative killed in the Yemeni Civil War. It was part of a plea for Americans at-large to push their legislators to withdraw military support to Saudi Arabia.
"Saudi Arabia could not continue," says U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy it's support of Houthi Rebels in the Yemeni Civil War without materials and logistical support it gets from the U.S.
Fatimah Aulaqi, a Yemeni-American from Waterbury, has raised over $600,000 for Yemeni civilians. But her and the organization she works with, Yemen Aid, would like to raise at least $1 million.
Yemeni-Americans living in Connecticut are asking people to put pressure on their elected representatives over U.S. involvement in Yemen's ongoing civil war.
The group was invited by Democratic U.S. Senator Chris Murphy to the Legislative Office Building in Hartford Friday to address Saudi aggression in the area that they say is made possible by American support.
Fahd Syed of New Haven has family in Yemen. He said that one of his relatives was murdered as a result of Saudi Arabia's involvement in the war.
Two sides in the war – Houthis and Saudi-backed forces – are fighting each other in the area with devastating consequences for Yemeni civilians.
Syed supports a bill proposed by Murphy that would effectively end U.S. support that Murphy says makes Saudi Arabia's presence in the war possible.
"Saudi Arabia could not continue without the bombs, without the refueling support, without the targeting support and without the ability to say to the international community, 'We're not doing this alone, we're doing it with the Americans,'" Murphy said.
The Senate bill had support this week from 14 Republicans. It will be debated next week and if the measure passes, would move on to the House of Representatives.
Dr. Anne Peterson of Americares said at a new conference in Hartford that a cease-fire in Yemen would allow for organizations like hers to administer further aid to civilians there.
The war in Yemen is already being recognized by the United Nations as the world's worst humanitarian crisis. It's being spurred by an unprecedented cholera outbreak.
Dr. Anne Peterson, Americares' senior vice president of global programs, said that the epidemic is exacerbated by an inability to provide health services to the war-torn country of Yemen. Her organization has been able to provide relief to Yemen but is hampered in its efforts to do more by the ongoing civil war.
Peterson said cholera is easily treated. Patients need to receive fluids in an effort to avoid dehydration.
Fatimah Aulaqi, a Yemeni-American from Waterbury, works for Yemen Aid. That's an organization that Americares partners with to deliver medical and health supplies to the region.
Aulaqi said that a Facebook campaign she started has raised over $600,000 for the Yemeni relief effort. But she said at the Murphy news conference in Hartford that more needs to be done.
"The average Yemeni has paid the price of internal grievances while also facing the same price due to the failure by the international community which chooses to look away from all sides of the crisis including the root crisis of the civil war," Aulaqi said.
With the help of Americares, Aulaqi said that Yemen Aid has provided over 400 tons in medical supplies to Yemen.
Correction: A previous version of this story referenced "Saudi-backed rebel fighters called Houthis." The Houthis are actually fighting on the opposite side to Saudi-backed forces in the area.
Murphy: Saudi-American Alliance A "Stain On America"
Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said he's probably been Saudi Arabia's "loudest critic" in the U.S. Senate for the past five years. That's because he believes that its government, led by Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, exports a "very intolerant version of Islam" that supports the building blocks of terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS.
There's growing evidence that Saudi Arabia's crown prince was involved in the killing of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi.


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Q: Is there a stationary point process generated by i.i.d. waiting times of any distribution? Let $\mathcal{G}$ be the set of non-empty closed subsets of $\mathbb{R}$, equipped with its natural Polish topology, as induced by the metric
$$ d(A,B) \ = \ d_H\Big(\overline{\mathrm{arc}\tan(A)} \, , \, \overline{\mathrm{arc}\tan(B)}\Big) $$
where $d_H$ is the Hausdorff metric.
For any probability measure $\nu$ on $(0,\infty)$ and any $t \in \mathbb{R}$, define the probability measure $\mathbb{P}_{\nu,t}$ on $\mathcal{G}$ to be the image measure of $\nu^{\otimes \mathbb{N}}$ under the map
$$ \hspace{40mm} (x_i)_{i \geq 1} \mapsto \left\{ t + \sum_{i=1}^n x_i \, : \, n \geq 1 \right\} \hspace{6mm} \textrm{(defined $\nu^{\otimes \mathbb{N}}$-almost everywhere).}$$

Is it the case that for every probability measure $\nu$ on $(0,\infty)$, $\,\mathbb{P}_{\nu,t}$ is weakly convergent as $t \to -\infty\,$?

For example, in the case that $\nu=\mathrm{exponential}(\lambda)$, I believe we have that $\mathbb{P}_{\nu,t}$ converges weakly to the law of a two-sided Poisson process of intensity $\lambda$ as $t \to -\infty$. But this is the "easy case", since a one-sided Poisson point process is already stationary (as a one-sided process).

A: I consulted the specialists, and here is the summary (I denote by $X$ a random variable with distribution $\nu$):

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*if $X$ is integrable and non-lattice (does not assume values from $a\mathbb Z$ for some $a$), then $\mathbb{P}_{t,\nu}$ converges to a non-degenerate stationary distribution;

*if $X$ is lattice, then, obviously, $\mathbb{P}_{t,\nu}$ can't converge (see an example below). It does converge if $t$ is taken from the lattice, and $X$ is integrable;

*if $X$ is non-integrable, then $\mathbb{P}_{t,\nu}$ converges to zero (see an example below).

More information is avalilable in Resnick, Adventures in Stochastic Processes 1st ed, Section 3.10.

While at the first glance this seems very natural, it is unfortunately false.
A simple immediate counterexample is $\nu = \delta_1$, for which $\mathbb P_{\nu,t}$ is "oscillating between $x+\mathbb Z$, $x\in[0,1)$".
For a continuous distribution, a necessary (and, probably, sufficient) condition is the convergence in distribution, as $t\to \infty$, of the "overshoot"
$$
\gamma_t = S_{N_t+1} - t,
$$
where
$$
N_t = \max\{n\ge 0: S_n<t \},
$$
and
$$
S_n = X_1 + \dots + X_n
$$
is the sum of iid random variables with distribution $\nu$.
If I think a little bit more about this problem, I might come up with a less abstract criterion of convergence, but I am quite confident that this should be well known.

Just for fun, here is a pathological example where all points "escape to infinity". It is discrete, but one can make a continuous example out of it.
Let $(r_n,n\ge1)$ be growing very fast, something like $3^{3^n}$ so that $r_{n+1}\gg r_n^2$, $n\ge 1$. Set $\nu(\{r_n\})= C/r_{n-1}, n\ge 2$.
Let us look at "overshoot" and "undershoot" of the level $r_n$. With positive probability (at least $1-(1-C/r_{n-1})^{r_{n-1}}$), among the variables $X_1,\dots,X_{r_{n-1}}$ there is one not less than $r_n$. Then the overshoot must have happened with adding this variable (the total value of all others is just not enough to overshoot). It follows that both overshoot and undershoot must be huge with positive probability. Appealing to 0-1 law, we have that almost surely, the overshoot and the undershoot converge to infinity, so the limit measure (at least over the subsequence $t= r_n$) is zero!

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When we left Maude and her family in Part I, they were just entering Wise County.
In Part II of the pioneer trek, Maude and her family cross have a big scare as the youngest child, Nettie, turns deathly ill!
that they would be there by mid-morning, surely by noon lunch. There was very little wind that morning and it seemed warmer than usual.
difficult for the oxen to manage the heavy wagon.
hot. The oxen won't be as fresh if it gets very hot."
Maggie made sandwiches for everyone.
the pretty white clouds above them.
the blanket they lay on. Viola and Maggie put away the bread and began packing things for the next leg of the trip.
thunderhead building over on the horizon. She quickly took the sandwich to her father and woke him.
the horizon. He followed her finger with his eyes and saw a large, anvil-shaped cloud some twenty miles away from them.
sandwich and began hitching the oxen up to the wagon. "We best be gettin' on to Decatur before it has a chance to storm.
up the sky in the distance, followed a minute later by loud thunder.
seemed nervous, and jumped at every little noise.
terrible storm was coming. He said nothing but scanned the horizon for a place of safety.
"There it is," he said with relief. "There's Decatur on that next hill." He gave the oxen another switch with his quirt and hurried them on.
the stable was being pelted by heavy rain and hailstones. Lightning and loud thunder cracked across the sky and the wind howled.
The liveryman offered to put the oxen and cows in stalls, but Cornelius declined. "As soon as this is over, we'll be on our way," he said.
some hay and water. They waited until the storm had subsided to a light rain, and then they moved out of the stable onto the street again.
on the boardwalk in front of the store.
and Tom shook hands and Cornelius thanked him for his hospitality.
cattle in the barn and give them a good rest and rubdown, feed and water.
the garden truck, along with Buddy's help. They were about the same age. Maude tagged along to help.
wagon and the Wilsons slept in their own beds.
dinner from their new-found friends.
jackrabbits which was rather tough meat, but it was meat. One day, he killed several quail and they enjoyed a much tastier dinner.
much. Nettie was fussy at dinner time and Viola rocked her in her arms.
she's just tired of travilin'." Cornelius took Nettie and played with her for a few minutes but Nettie wasn't in much of a mood to play.
joined in. Cornelius rocked Nettie until she was asleep.
usual, with Nettie between them.
deer," she smiled up at him, and he left quietly in the dark.
camp, the early dawn had faded to sunlight as the sun rose above the horizon.
meat before salting it down for preservation. Some of the meat she cut up into cooking pieces for their noon and evening meals.
could. "Mama, Nettie is sure fussy. I can't seem to get her comfortable or happy. She keeps pullin' up her legs like her tummy hurts,"
sky but they were making pretty good time.
Will Nettie make it? What will happen when the family enters Oklahoma? Find out in Part III!
Downtown Bowie at the turn of the century demonstrated its prosperity with its grand architecture.
Bowie residents made their money in cotton, peanuts, wheat, and cattle.
The beautiful Baptist College, which the pioneers would have seen as they entered Decatur from the south.
The building is now the Wise County Heritage Museum.
clearly had a fever now, and Viola began to put cool, wet clothes on her face and dabbed at her back and tummy with the cool cloth.
and sang a little monotonous lullabye that she made up, "Bye-oh, bye-oh, my ba-by." She tried nursing Nettie but she only cried more.
This went on for some time with Nettie crying, falling asleep, waking, crying, and having bouts of diarrhea.
cloths. After a half hour or so, Nettie fell asleep in exhaustion.
blanket over her little body.
as Nettie fretted and fussed. She slept fitfully on the little bed that Maude and Buddy had made for her.
the wagon and Viola resumed her vigil by Nettie's side. Everyone got into the wagon quietly and the journey began again.
wagon, all eyes were on Nettie as she lay too still on the bed. Viola moved Nettie gently to her breast and tried to get Nettie to nurse.
walked him away from the wagon a few feet.


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Neo Group's boss raises stake in married deal; Lian Beng's Ong family scoops up shares
Insider moves
The Edge Singapore Published on Fri, Feb 21, 2020 / 6:30 AM GMT+8
SINGAPORE (Feb 21): Neo Kah Kiat, chairman and CEO of caterer Neo Group, bought 5.2 million shares via a married deal on Feb 13. He paid a total of $1.56 million, which works out to 30 cents per share – a significant discount to Neo Group's closing price of 46 cents on the same day.
The identity of the seller was not disclosed. With this purchase, Neo now owns about 106.3 million shares directly, or about 72.2% of the company, up from 68.6% prior to this married deal.
His wife Liew Oi Peng also holds some 8.1 million shares of her own. This means Neo's total stake in the company, consisting of both direct and deemed shares, has increased from 74.1% to 77.6%.
This married deal took place just one day after Neo Group announced its 3QFY2020 earnings for ended Dec 31, 2019. The company's 3QFY2020 revenue also doubled to $3.5 million from a year ago. Revenue in the same period was $50.8 million, up 2.7% y-o-y.
The improvement in its earnings for 9MFY2020 ended Dec 31, 2019, was even more pronounced. The company increased its revenue by 9.1% y-o-y to $141.9 million, up its bottomline nearly quadrupled y-o-y to $5.8 million.
Besides catering for company functions, Neo Group has generated "sturdy demand" from the provision of food on a recurring basis to childcare and eldercare markets. The tingkat or home delivery segment continued to contribute to growth too.
Apart from these, the company has spent the past few years acquiring or developing complementary earnings streams, including the manufacturing of foodstuff. "For resilient growth, we will continue to build up our diversified revenue streams across four key business segments," says Neo.
"Food manufacturing, our second largest revenue driver, has continued to make good headway in the strengthening of its brand name through the introduction of new products and the opening of new markets overseas," he adds.
The Ong family, who controls Lian Ben Group via the family vehicle Ong Sek Chong & Sons, has been scooping up shares from the open market. On Feb 14, they bought 10,000 shares at 50 cents each. Earlier in February, they bought a total of 240,300 shares — all at between 49 and 50 cents each. The purchase price was made at a very significant discount to its book value. As at Nov 30, 2019, its net asset value was 141.41 cents, up from 138.90 cents as at May 31, 2019.
Lian Beng's Ong family
Ong Sek Chong & Sons, as of Feb 14, holds a direct stake of some 95.2 million shares, up from 95.1 million shares. The entity holds another 55 million shares via nominee accounts, thus, giving it a total stake of 150.2 million units, or 30.06%.
Ong Pang Aik, Lian Beng's executive chairman and managing director, holds a separate personal stake of 28.3 million shares.
This gives him a total stake of 178.5 million shares, or 35.73%. His sister, Ong Lay Huan, one of the company's executive directors, holds her own stake of some 16 million shares, giving her a total stake of 166.2 million shares, or 33.27%.
On Jan 13, the company reported that earnings for 2QFY2020 ended Nov 30, 2019, increased by 51.1% y-o-y to $11.2 million. Revenue in the same period doubled to $164.7 million. The improvements were driven by both its construction and property development segments.
"Lian Beng has delivered a healthy set of results amid a competitive industry landscape, and are looking forward to building on this momentum," says Ong, the chairman.
Last December, the company won a $178-million contract via its 60%-owned subsidiary, United Tec Construction, to construct a 640-unit private residential development at Clementi Avenue 1.
With this latest order, Lian Beng has won a total of four contracts worth a total of $693 million since the start of FY2020 ended Dec 31, 2020. Its total order book has increased to $1.6 billion.
Looking ahead, Lian Beng is cautiously optimistic of the outlook of the construction industry, with both public sector infrastructure projects, and private property construction projects, keeping the industry occupied.
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Li Bin meets with Lithuanian health minister
Li Bin, minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) met with Lithuanian health minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė in Beijing on Jan 11. Both sides exchanged ideas on Sino-Lithuanian health cooperation.
Chinese doctors get admiration for free treatment in Cambodia
A group of doctors from east China's Jiangsu province has received deep admiration from Cambodian officials and common people for providing free treatment to patients here.
China to enhance cooperation with Czech Republic
China will increase cooperation with the Czech Republic in industry, medicine and finance, Premier Li Keqiang said on Nov 27 in Beijing while meeting with Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka.
Joint Statement of The Eighth Tripartite Health Ministers Meeting
We, the Japanese, Chinese and Korean Health Ministers met in Kyoto, Japan on 29th of November, 2015 and discussed health and medical issues of common concern to our three countries.
Li Bin meets Australian health minister
Li Bin, minister of the NHFPC met with Australian health minister Susan Ley in Beijing on November 17 to discuss Sino-Australian health cooperation.
New agreement launches collaboration between New Zealand and China in medical science
China and New Zealand signed an agreement on building a joint center for medical research in New Zealand's biggest city Auckland.
Improvements in healthcare after president's visit
In a Sino-UK declaration on a 21st century global strategic partnership, the two countries agreed to learn from each other in health care, urbanization, and science to improve public welfare and communications in medicine and health policy, and do joint studies to with global health challenges.
Cui Li meets with Netherland health official
Cui Li, a vice-minister with China's National Health and Family Planning Commission, met with Martin van Rijn, the Netherlands' vice-minister of health, welfare and sport, in Beijing, on Oct 26.
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Spotlight: Race is on to develop working Zika vaccine
Beijing expects 300,000 newborns in Year of Monkey
World Family Summit
The World Family Organization was founded in Europe in 1947 and headquartered in Paris.
Ebola outbreak in West Africa
Ebola has claimed over 1,000 lives in west African countries.
TCM-keeping healthy in Chinese way
The initiatives aim mainly to raise TCM awareness.
Link: China's Central Government / World Health Organization / United Nations Population Fund / UNICEF in China
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Netflix users, watch out: A new scam is making the rounds in the that is targeting customers for their banking information.
The hoax comes in the form of an email with hallmarks that look nearly identical to official messages from the streaming service. The message claims that your account has been disabled and to reactivate it, you need to update your payment details. In reality, by clicking on the link and entering your payment information, you may be giving hackers direct access to your banking details.
As of right now, there are only reports of this happening in the UK, but all users should keep a look out.
After news of the scam began to make the rounds, police departments have taken to Twitter to warn consumers not to click on the link.
In a statement to GoodHousekeeping.com, a Netflix spokesperson said when these scams arise, the privacy of their costumers is their main concern.
"We take the security of our members' accounts seriously and Netflix employs numerous proactive measures to detect fraudulent activity to keep the Netflix service and our members' accounts secure.Unfortunately, scams are common on the internet and target popular brands such as Netflix and other companies with large customer bases to lure users into giving out personal information.Members who want to learn more about how to keep their personal information safe against phishing scams and other malicious activity can go to netflix.com/security or contact Customer Service directly."
1. Always check who the sender is. Even if the email seems legit, hover your cursor over the address to see where it really came from; if there isn't a match, be wary.
2. Never download any attachments or click directly on any links. Instead, it's worth it to directly type in the website in a separate browser if it is related to an account you have.
3. Keep an eye out for bad grammar or any typos. These are often a direct giveaway that it's a fake email. Legit businesses proofread their communications.
If you find yourself in a situation where you've entered personal information like your log in credentials or payment details, monitor you bank transactions and change your password to Netflix and any other accounts that use the same password and username combo.


Mexico is the southernmost country in North America, bordered by the United States, Guatemala, Belize, the Pacific Ocean, and the Caribbean. Mexico has one of the world's largest economies, with its economy being strongly linked to the United States and other members of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Within Mexico, Agros works in the Chiapas region in the southwestern part of the country where the region rests against the Guatemala border and the Pacific. Chiapas is home to one of the largest indigenous populations in the country, consisting of approximately 12 ethnicities, and is also among the poorest regions in the country, with little access to education, health and housing.
Agriculture: 53% of Chiapas' population works in agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing, but productivity is considered to be low. Major crops include: corn, beans, sorghum, soybeans, peanuts, sesame seeds, coffee, cacao, sugar cane, mangos, bananas and palm oil.
We began work in Mexico in 2005 with the village of Nuevo San Pedrito. Since then, we have established a total of six villages in Mexico, which serve 167 families (more than 950 individuals). Today, four of these villages have graduated from direct support, with only Santa Fe Ajké and Nueva Ilusión remaining under direct support. The communities are working with our staff to hone skills that allow them to produce a wide variety of crops such as onions and peanuts, and are receiving training in irrigation management, farm management, and land conservation, in addition to learning other critical skills.


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England's Luther Burrell scores a try as Scotland's Greig Laidlaw attempts a tackle during their Six Nations rugby union match at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland, February 8, 2014. (REUTERS)
Published Saturday, February 08, 2014
England produced a powerful performance and ran in two tries on the way to a comprehensive 20-0 win over Scotland in the Six Nations Championship at Murrayfield on Saturday.
Centre Luther Burrell and fullback Mike Brown crossed the line, just as they did in last weekend's 26-24 defeat in France, to put the gloss on a dominant display by Stuart Lancaster's men.
Flyhalf Owen Farrell added a penalty and two conversions and scrumhalf Danny Care kicked an early drop goal for England who also took advantage of the second-half sin-binning of Scotland centre Alex Dunbar for killing the ball.
England are second in the championship after two matches, behind leaders Ireland who have won the first two games. The Scots have lost their opening two fixtures.


This is a nifty trick to get £15 of Amazon gift cards for a tenner, by manipulating an Amazon promotion.
Until 3.29pm on Fri 20 Nov, you can get a free £5 electronic gift card if you order items on Amazon's Pass My Parcel* scheme, which delivers your items to local pick-up locations including newsagents, convenience stores and supermarkets. Not bad in itself if it's convenient for you.
Our first idea was just order something cheap to get the free gift card, but as items under £20 can see delivery up to £5 anyway, it defeats the point. However, if you order an 'In a Greetings Card' gift card* (minimum is £10), then it has free one-day delivery. Just ensure you select 'Why not click and collect?' and search for Pass My Parcel locations to get the free £5 gift card emailed to you within 14 days of collecting your item.
Once you've ordered, you'll be sent a unique pick-up code to physically get your item, and you'll have to wait up to 14 days from this point to receive the free gift card by email. However, as long as you've ordered your parcel by 3.29pm on Fri 20 Nov, you'll be eligible.
You may want to give these gift cards to someone or alternatively just use them yourself on an Amazon spend.
Obviously you need the pick-up place to be convenient and in your area, so do check before you commit – we asked Amazon which areas are included, but it hasn't confirmed yet. When we tried, our local options included a Sainsbury's store, a local newsagents and a Nisa convenience store.
You need to pick it up within seven days and once you have, this will verify you have used the Pass My Parcel service and your free £5 gift card will be emailed to you.
Make sure you select standard delivery, or else you could be charged £4.99 (thanks to John Pickering who spotted this and emailed in).


Meanwhile lets just say that we are proud rickus contributed a whooping 19 entries.
These days our modern diet and lifestyle habits are so far removed from what was normal 100 or more years ago that many people no longer know what good health feels like. And most people definitely do not know what normal bowel movements should be like.
Chewing is a vital, underestimated, starting block to your digestion. There have been cases of people healing themselves from their digestive conditions by using this one simple principle.
One of the best pieces of evidence for the widespread prevalence of constipation is the fact that laxatives are one of the bestselling over-the-counter medicines in pharmacies today. Most households have a laxative in their medicine cabinet.


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Youth from Niger state have once again issued a 48 hours ultimatum to Abuja Electricity Distribution Company AEDC, the youth under the aegis of youthleadnigeria said the company have failed in all its agreement with the people of Niger State.
In a chat with Nigerwatch newspaper, Comrade Mohammed Saidu Etsu, who is the convener said, AEDC has taking Nigerlites for granted for too long and this necessitated this second ultimatum. The letter was sent through the Emir of Minna, Dr. Umar Farouk Bahago at his palace.
#YouthleadNigeria hereby notify Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) Niger State to improve on power supply to not less than 12 hours as agreed at several meetings or quietly Pack-Out of Niger State.
As we the consumer of electricity are not longer interested in their poor services to the Nigerlites.


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Bista Eder is a charming hotel amidst beautiful surroundings.
Located in Hondarribia just minutes from the beach and the village, you will find a cosy and homely atmosphere.
Its magnificent rooms and splendid garden will allow you to spend a few days of rest and peacefulness.
You will be able to do different outdoor activities in the vicinity, such as going to the beach, golf, horseback riding, hiking, surfing, diving or mountain biking.
You will also enjoy cultural activities like visiting museums, enjoying both the San Sebastian film festival and the Hondarribia jazz festival, wandering through the medieval walled city or the fishing district and its colourful fishermen's houses and, all the more, tasting winner pintxos (tapas) at the best national culinary awards.
• Six gorgeous double rooms with ensuite (private bathroom), four of them with an extra bed.
• Three common areas to relax, read, talk or eat as a family.
• A fully equipped kitchen to share (also known as 'txoko').
• A splendid garden with superb views.
• A covered space to repair or park your bikes.
• A quiet and peaceful environment.


My name is Robert McCowen and I am a doctoral fellow in Western Michigan University's Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation. I served as a session scribe at Evaluation 2010, and attended session number 651, Introduction to Evaluation and Public Policy. My evaluation interests focus on education, and a great deal of modern educational policy flows from the top down—so it only makes sense to find out as much as possible about how policy is made, and how evaluators can make sure their voices are heard.
"Home runs" do happen in government, but that's not how games are won. Rejoice if your work finds instrumental use in legislation or regulation, but don't make it your only goal.
Get to know the gatekeepers in government, whether at the federal and state level. Work with them, listen to them, keep them informed, be willing to respect their schedules, and you'll have a much easier time making sure your reports get to where they can do the most good.
Know the relevant body of work when you deal with policymakers. Assume they know everything important about the topics they deal with (because they might), and strive to do the same.
When writing reports, you have maybe two pages to catch the eye and make a case for your conclusions. Make sure your best evidence and most compelling findings are obvious to readers.
Be as professional as possible, including making sure your integrity and independence are unimpeachable—but be careful to keep lines of communication and cooperation open with major policymakers and other stakeholders.
Great Resource: Mr. Grob's presentation is an excellent resource for any evaluator who is new to dealing with government, and can be found here at the AEA public eLibrary.


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Victoria's secret: Assemblywoman went to dark side
I really hate it when self-professed staunch conservatives go wobbly on the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, especially since it's not just a "piece of paper." It's a pretty reliable political weather vane.
The latest casualty is Assemblywoman Victoria Seaman, who has announced she won't sign the pledge for her state senate run next year.
The power of the dark side is strong.
Seaman's decision is eerily reminiscent of state Sen. Greg Brower, who signed the pledge when he ran for Congress but refused to sign it for his subsequent senate run. Brower then voted this year for the largest tax hike in Nevada history.
Upon learning the news of Seaman's decision, some conservatives are now pulling their support, including conservative Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, who tells me she "will not support or raise money for any candidate who does not sign the pledge."
"No exceptions," she wrote.
And here's why the pledge has become such a litmus test for so many conservatives.
With the notable exception of turncoat Assemblyman John Hambrick, not one of the Republicans in the Assembly who voted for the largest tax hike in history had signed the pledge. On the other hand, again with the notable exception of Hambrick, not one pledge signer in the Assembly voted for the $1.4 billion tax hike.
That pretty much says it all.
Now, according to an email exchange I had with Seaman, she insists she'll still oppose "tax" hikes but wants to be able to vote for "fee" hikes — like car registration fees, marriage license fees, hunting and fishing license fees, you name it. But here's the danger with candidates who try to play this "what is is" game of claiming that a government fee isn't a tax.
Do you remember that gross receipts margins tax that was on the ballot last November? The one that 80 percent of Nevada voters rejected? And do you remember how, after the election, Gov. Brian Sandoval proposed a mutated version of that gross receipts tax by misleadingly calling it a business license fee?
By Seaman's logic and definition, she would have been free to vote for it because it was called a fee instead of a tax. Indeed, she voted for nine separate fee hikes in the 2015 session.
By the way, the National Park Service just announced it was jacking up the entrance fee for you to visit and enjoy Lake Mead next year from $10 per vehicle to $20. I guess Assemblywoman Seaman is OK with that since it's a fee and not a tax. I wonder if her constituents would agree?
As for conservatives who might now switch their money and volunteer time to other more committed conservative candidates, let it be known that we didn't leave Assemblywoman Seaman.
She left us.
Chuck Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, a conservative grass roots advocacy organization. He can be reached at www.muthstruths.com.
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New business book offers playbook for success in tech era
By Kate Birch
New business book Radically Human shows leaders a new path for driving success by taking a human-centric approach to technology innovation
A new business book shows that in order to achieve success today – in an era where every company is a tech company and technology innovation continues to accelerate – business leaders must adopt a bold new strategic framework that focuses on the human issues of trust, experience, talent and sustainability.
And those who master these core business differentiators will be best positioned to lead and succeed.
The new book, titled Radically Human: How New Technology is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future, and co-authored by two Accenture technologists – Paul Daugherty, CTO and H. James Wilson, global MD of technology research – offers business leaders an easy-to-understand breakdown of today's most advanced human-facing technologies and provides a clear roadmap for companies to lead.
A follow-up to the authors highly acclaimed bestseller Human + Machine, Radically Human is already receiving rave reviews. Stephane Bancel, CEO of Moderna, describes the book as offering a "set of tools and frameworks to remind everybody that the business world is not linear, but exponential"; while Arianna Huffington, CEO of Thrive, says it provides businesses and leaders with a "startingly fresh perspective on how the increasingly human face of advanced technology is transforming innovation".
And what's more, proceeds from sales of the book are being donated to help fund education and training programs focused on individuals in the middle of their careers who need extra support to develop new skills.
Radically Human – people will be the reason most firms succeed
Radically Human reveals how leading companies are adopting a new generation of human-centric technology to drive innovation amid rapid change. Radically human systems are modelled on human brains and behaviours and are able to listen, see, talk, and understand in more human-like ways than previous generations of intelligent technology.
Research from Accenture shows that leading companies that amplified their technology investments during the COVID-19 pandemic have significantly extended their growth advantage over competitors. In fact, by stepping up investments in cloud, AI and other technologies, these leading companies are now growing revenue at five times the rate of companies that lag behind.
Radically Human builds on this shift and explains why in an age of emerging technologies such as brain-inspired computing, emotional AI, blockchain, extended reality, synthetic data and the metaverse, it's ultimately people — not the algorithms deployed or technologies used – that will be the reason most companies succeed.
Examples of leading companies taking a human-centric approach
Featuring ground-breaking insights and research on more than 10,000 companies, the book provides business leaders with a new playbook for defining success – a framework that challenges commonly held assumptions around five business fundamentals – Intelligence, Data, Expertise, Architecture, and Strategy (IDEAS) – presenting each of these new fundamentals through the lens of talent, trust, experiences, and sustainability.
"In the past, people had to adapt in order to use technology. Now, radically human technology is adapting to people, accelerating their potential and changing the way we live, collaborate and work," explains Daugherty.
The book reveals rich examples of how leading companies are taking a human-centric approach to using technologies to innovate, grow and transform their businesses, while also achieving advancements rooted in human values:
Aesthetics are notoriously challenging for AI, but one e-tailer's engineers built a unique program that tapped into each customer's style to create a one-of-a-kind experience;
Thousands of changing SKUs make warehouse fulfilment a tedious task — but a new generation of smarter robots are learning from humans and changing the game.
After a fast-food chain put data-based decisions into employees' hands, they tapped into unexpected value for their customers and created a radically human experience.
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This is a meditation technique I discovered on my own. It might have been discovered thousands of years ago and documented in some ancient text. But I've never heard of it (yet). If somebody has read about this, please let me know where.
Here's how it works: After I've slept a while and I'm well rested, I might drift into a kind of meditative state that takes me much deeper than usual. I never know when this is likely to happen. I'm lying in bed ready to resume sleeping, but I'm not sleepy yet. I put my body into a position where I have minimum or no stress on any joint, and I don't have any limb resting on another. Usually this means lying on my side. It's important to note that I have to be well rested when I do this.
As you may know, I don't advise trying to meditate lying down and especially not in bed. The chief problem is you're more likely to fall sleep. But if you've just slept and you feel rested, this may work for you.
Scan your body and locate any body part that is uncomfortable, and make whatever adjustment is necessary. Stop all thought and use the mind to watch your heartbeat and breathing. Eventually, the heart will slow down and the breathing will get shallow.
After a while, as I lie there in the meditative state, I gradually sink in to an ever greater, deeper Zen state. The feeling is like separating from my physical body. During that time, the body seems to sink into an insignificant puddle of inert matter lying in my bed. It is no longer "me." I'm sure this is what some people call an out of body experience.
I have the feeling that optionally I could return to my body. Or, if I wanted, just not return. I get a peculiar feeling of exhiliarating power, in which I could continue on farther away from my body—or onward to the pure spiritual state if I wished—or else return to my body.
Thus far, I've always come back. But if I were to proceed, would it really work? Would I actually transition? I don't know. Aside from that, I've always returned to a super peaceful and ethereal state of mind afterward.
That happened to me last nite and very early this morning. Very restful.
Glad to hear it, Dee. Best wished for your continued practice.


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25 Years of Entrepreneurial Spirit and Business Knowledge in Daun: Anniversary Celebrations at Thomas-Morus-Gymnasium
The school community of Thomas-Morus-Gymnasium in Daun was congratulated yesterday on its 25th business@school anniversary and honored for its role as a pilot school of the project. Dr. Dieter Heuskel, founder of the educational initiative, ceremoniously presented a check for school digitalization.
This school year, business@school looks back on 25 years of activity in schools. Thomas-Morus-Gymnasium was one of two pilot schools of the project. Dr. Dieter Heuskel, founder of the educational initiative, still clearly recalls the steps first steps in Daun: "To convince the school community of the idea, I invited the teachers and parent representatives to meet with some companies and experience together how business works. We then decided to pilot business@school as a project in the economics subject. And the rest is history."
In a discussion session, former and current business@school students and teachers from Thomas-Morus-Gymnasium exchanged thoughts about the project at their school with Dr. Dieter Heuskel, Dr. Babette Claas, Director of the educational initiative, and Mario Ehlert, corporate client advisor at Commerzbank AG and long-standing coach of the Daun student teams. This session touched on the student business ideas developed during the last few years as part of the project, and the students talked about how participating in business@school gave them a competent view of the business world and behind the scenes of entrepreneurship. Besides Dr. Dieter Heuskel, Christoph Susewind, principal of Thomas-Morus-Gymnasium, also shared his memories of Bernd Krings (✝ 2016), the school's former Director of Studies, during the event. As a project leader teacher, Krings played a key role in shaping business@school for over 15 years and left a lasting mark on the school. After the discussion session, Dr. Dieter Heuskel presented a check for €500 for school digitalization on behalf of the educational initiative.
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The Countdown is on!
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Network for Life: business@school Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary
Since 1998, business@school, the educational initiative of Boston Consulting Group (BCG), has been providing students with insights into the world of…


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The Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professorship in Armenian Studies. This specially designed endowment allows the Armenian Studies Program to invite, for one semester each year, an internationally recognized scholar in contemporary Armenian affairs. The distinguished professor will teach a course related to modern Armenian history, including the Genocide of 1915 and the formation of the Armenian Republic. In addition, the scholar will present three public lectures on a single topic; these will be published as a volume in the Kazan Armenian Studies series.
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Magnetic fields protect planets and atmospheres from solar particles. The particles from the sun are charged, which means they respond to the magnetic field and move around it. Magnetic fields are generated by the movement of magnetic material located inside the planet, usually at the core. Earth's magnetic field is generated by liquid metal at the core and Earth's rapid rotation of 24 hours generates enough movement of the liquid to stimulate a magnetic field. The other planets in our solar system, except for Venus and Mars, all have magnetic fields or traces of magnetism that differ from Earth's in various ways. So, how are other planetary magnetic fields generated?
Earth and Mercury are the only planets in our system whose magnetic fields are generated by the movement of liquid metal at their cores. Mercury's magnetic field is 100 times weaker than Earth's. It's billions of years old and recently discovered data suggests that it was at one point as strong as Earth's.
While Venus does not have a magnetic field, likely because of it's extremely slow rotation rate at about 243 Earth days, it's still protected from solarwinds using a different type of magnetism. It's upper atmosphere, the ionosphere, interacts with solar particles and acts like a magnetic version of a comet's tail or a magnetotail. The magnetotail of Venus is shaped like the tentacle end of a jellyfish and faces away from the sun.
Mars does not have a conventional magnetic field--one that is generated by movement at its core. Instead, Mars has powerful magnetic crustal fields that create fields of magnetism if situated correctly on the surface. To create the protective bubble, the magnetic lines have to connect at two points. Some of these magnetic domes are powerful enough to help maintain what is left of the vulnerable atmosphere on Mars.
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, also has the largest magnetic field, generating a magnetosphere larger than the Sun. It's magnetic field is generated by its fast rotation of 9.8 Earth hours. Unlike Earth, Jupiter's magnetic field is not generated from it's core but by interactions in it's outer core, which consists of liquid metallic hydrogen. Jupiter's core is likely made of dense, molten liquid although we can't be sure at this time.
Saturn is one of the only planets whose magnetic field lines up with its axis of rotation. It's field is generated by liquid metallic hydrogen, circulating a rocky core. Its core is heated by gravity pulling helium toward the core, and its rapid rotation at about 10 Earth hours.
The magnetic field of Uranus is a little more complicated than the other planets. Uranus' magnetic field tilts dramatically and does not align with the rotation axis by about 59 degrees. The magnetic field also runs off center through the planet. Because the magnetic field is off center, in some places Uranus has two poles while elsewhere it has four. Uranus meets the two usual requirements for a magnetic field with a rotation period of about 18 Earth hours and electrically charged convection currents near the core. Scientists believe that Uranus's odd magnetic field could be caused by the electrical currents in the salty ocean within the planet.
Neptune's magnetic field is generated within the planet's interior. Like Uranus, however, Neptune's magnetic field is significantly off-center and tilted away from its axis of rotation. Because the magnetic field line is offset, scientists believe that Neptune, like Uranus, has magnetic or electrical interactions occurring closer to the surface of the planet. If the magnetic field were generated at it's core, the magnetic field would be more likely to go directly through the center of the planet as it does for Earth.
Of all of these natural magnets, the Earth's magnetic field is the most important to our existence. If Earth didn't have a magnetic field, we would be in trouble. The magnetic field protects us from harmful radiation from the Sun and helps keep our atmosphere from leaking into space. If you want to know more about magnets in space feel free to contact us.
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Japanese who object to being forced to sing their country's national anthem have a secret weapon: the English language. Kiss Me, an English parody of the Kimigayo, has spread through the Internet and was sung by teachers and pupils at recent school entrance and graduation ceremonies, local media reported on Monday.
The song, whose composer remains a mystery, takes the syllables of each word of the Japanese original and turns them into phonetically similar English words, allowing non-conformist singers to escape detection. For example, "Kimigayo wa" becomes "Kiss me girl, your old one."
Weeks after a British music producer caused uproar in the US with a Spanish version of the Star Spangled Banner, the conservative newspaper Sankei Shimbun, denounced the new song as an attempt to "sabotage" Japan's traditional anthem.
The English lyrics have a serious political twist: they apparently refer to the tens of thousands of Asian "comfort women" who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during the World War II.
Left-wing teachers unions regard Kimigayo, which is based on poem wishing the emperor a "thousand years of happy reign," as a symbol of Japan's militarist past.
The anthem was not legally recognized until 1999, and in 2003 the Tokyo metropolitan government, led by right-wing Governor Shintaro Ishihara, ordered teachers to stand and sing it at school ceremonies. Hundreds of teachers in the capital have been punished for refusing to follow the order.
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Duncan Dew was a well-known planter and business man of Eutaw, AL. He came to Eutaw in 1822 and built this house about 1832. It is L-shaped and has elaborate interior wood trim. The house, at one time, had a two-story portico which was later exchanged for a porch with slender colonettes. That porch was replaced in the mid-1930's with the present pedimented portico using four octagonal columns removed from a house in Pickens County. Later, low wings were added to the sides of the house.
This home is located beside Mesopotamia Street on the northwest side of Eutaw approximately 0.7 mile from the downtown courthouse square (GPS coordinates 32.845486, -87.897801).


Work is an important part of our lives.
It gives us fulfillment, it makes us push our limits and sometimes work makes us angry. But in the end, it actually makes us happy.
And, of course, we shouldn't forget that work, gets paid!
When you are relying on a software to do your job with, that piece of software becomes important and choosing it is a serious task. You can't be foolish and risk your job, because you didn't had the patience or the determination to choose the proper software to use for your work.
Be aware, bad things can happen!
1. Have I lost everything I've worked?
Now that's a spooky thought!!!
But not if you back up your work from once in awhile, right?
1. Historical data is extremely important as a great amount of the analysis is based on it. So loosing your data would mean not being able to report anything compared to previous periods of time.
2. Loosing your clients data would not only mean loosing all your hard work but it would also mean disappointing your clients. It could damage your future work, your future incomes and your clients future incomes. It would be close to a tragedy.
2. Are my clients not trusting me?
Trust is essential between you and your clients, because otherwise you wouldn't have access to all the details you need from your clients, you wouldn't manage to get them to collaborate with you and you wouldn't be appreciated for what you do.
So, if you are serious about your work you must provide data privacy for your clients. Some of them might not even agree to work with you unless you are confidential about their information. This means that the software you choose must store the data securely and allow only authorized access to it.
3. Am I using outdated information?
Are you sure the numbers and the information you give to your clients is real? Because, you know, errors are not allowed!
You can't afford to provide your clients with inaccurate data if you are determined to keep your reputation clean. So make sure that the software you use gets frequently updated and the results it provides are accurate.
4. Am I stuck at this stage?
as well be for the long run. So make sure it works on any platform, not only the one you use right now (considering the possibility to change it). Look also for applications that allow data exporting, multiple users and shared database.
5. Oh! You mean, I can't do that?!
I bet you have been many times disappointed by an application you have put your hopes in and that proves to be not so very useful.
So, look carefully and don't settle for a crappy software! It might be pretty, all colored and stuff but what you need from it is to do ITS JOB!!
Make sure it has all the features you need for your work and that it allows you to get the information you want out of it. You must be able to have it work for you in the way you need to!
Have I managed to frighten you?


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Optical Fiber Could Boost Power of Superconducting Quantum Computers
NIST physicists measured and controlled a superconducting quantum bit (qubit) using light-conducting fiber (indicated by white arrow) instead of metal electrical cables like the 14 shown here inside a cryostat. By using fiber, researchers could potentially pack a million qubits into a quantum computer rather than just a few thousand.
Credit: F. Lecocq/NIST
The secret to building superconducting quantum computers with massive processing power may be an ordinary telecommunications technology — optical fiber.
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have measured and controlled a superconducting quantum bit (qubit) using light-conducting fiber instead of metal electrical wires, paving the way to packing a million qubits into a quantum computer rather than just a few thousand. The demonstration is described in the March 25 issue of Nature.
Superconducting circuits are a leading technology for making quantum computers because they are reliable and easily mass produced. But these circuits must operate at cryogenic temperatures, and schemes for wiring them to room-temperature electronics are complex and prone to overheating the qubits. A universal quantum computer, capable of solving any type of problem, is expected to need about 1 million qubits. Conventional cryostats — supercold dilution refrigerators — with metal wiring can only support thousands at the most.
Optical fiber, the backbone of telecommunications networks, has a glass or plastic core that can carry a high volume of light signals without conducting heat. But superconducting quantum computers use microwave pulses to store and process information. So the light needs to be converted precisely to microwaves.
To solve this problem, NIST researchers combined the fiber with a few other standard components that convert, convey and measure light at the level of single particles, or photons, which could then be easily converted into microwaves. The system worked as well as metal wiring and maintained the qubit's fragile quantum states.
"I think this advance will have high impact because it combines two totally different technologies, photonics and superconducting qubits, to solve a very important problem," NIST physicist John Teufel said. "Optical fiber can also carry far more data in a much smaller volume than conventional cable."
Normally, researchers generate microwave pulses at room temperature and then deliver them through coaxial metal cables to cryogenically maintained superconducting qubits. The new NIST setup used an optical fiber instead of metal to guide light signals to cryogenic photodetectors that converted signals back to microwaves and delivered them to the qubit. For experimental comparison purposes, microwaves could be routed to the qubit through either the photonic link or a regular coaxial line.
The "transmon" qubit used in the fiber experiment was a device known as a Josephson junction embedded in a three-dimensional reservoir or cavity. This junction consists of two superconducting metals separated by an insulator. Under certain conditions an electrical current can cross the junction and may oscillate back and forth. By applying a certain microwave frequency, researchers can drive the qubit between low-energy and excited states (1 or 0 in digital computing). These states are based on the number of Cooper pairs — bound pairs of electrons with opposite properties — that have "tunneled" across the junction.
The NIST team conducted two types of experiments, using the photonic link to generate microwave pulses that either measured or controlled the quantum state of the qubit. The method is based on two relationships: The frequency at which microwaves naturally bounce back and forth in the cavity, called the resonance frequency, depends on the qubit state. And the frequency at which the qubit switches states depends on the number of photons in the cavity.
Researchers generally started the experiments with a microwave generator. To control the qubit's quantum state, devices called electro-optic modulators converted microwaves to higher optical frequencies. These light signals streamed through optical fiber from room temperature to 4 kelvins (minus 269 C or minus 452 F) down to 20 millikelvins (thousandths of a kelvin), where they landed in high-speed semiconductor photodetectors, which converted the light signals back to microwaves that were then sent to the quantum circuit.
In these experiments, researchers sent signals to the qubit at its natural resonance frequency, to put it into the desired quantum state. The qubit oscillated between its ground and excited states when there was adequate laser power.
To measure the qubit's state, researchers used an infrared laser to launch light at a specific power level through the modulators, fiber and photodetectors to measure the cavity's resonance frequency.
Researchers first started the qubit oscillating, with the laser power suppressed, and then used the photonic link to send a weak microwave pulse to the cavity. The cavity frequency accurately indicated the qubit's state 98% of the time, the same accuracy as obtained using the regular coaxial line.
The researchers envision a quantum processor in which light in optical fibers transmits signals to and from the qubits, with each fiber having the capacity to carry thousands of signals to and from the qubit.
Paper: F. Lecocq, F. Quinlan, K. Cicak, J. Aumentado, S.A. Diddams and J.D. Teufel. Control and readout of a superconducting qubit using a photonic link. Nature. Published March 25, 2021. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03268-x
Physics and Quantum information science
Laura Ost
laura.ost@nist.gov
Applied Physics Division
Advanced Microwave Photonics Group
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