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Meeting notes from April 22 meeting at Horizon
Horizon Books Cafe
1. CALL TO ORDER/WELCOME: Only 4 people attended, so it was an abbreviated meeting
2. AGENDA – APPROVAL: Done
3. MINUTES –APPROVAL: Done
Chair(s) – Report on Abdul El Sayed at Grand Traverse Report – Many people were there. Lynne estimated 500. Very positive experience. Dr. El Sayed had a good command of the issues and their ramifications.
– We are still looking for a co-chair to work with Lynne. Linda is done May 1st to "pursue her political career".
Voters Not Politicians (VPN)/Voters' Rights – Training was held yesterday.
District 1: Repeal and Replace Bergman – Endorsement of Matt Morgan –
April 24 Deadline – Will receive ballot on April 25th.
Environmental: Line 5 – There is more support to close it down after the leak from the electric cable.
– There is a retirement party for Line 5 at the City Opera House on Monday April 23rd. For information: https://www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/line_5_retirement_party
Sinclair Broadcasting – There is another meeting with IGT this week.
Gun Violence – 2600 schools had walk outs on Friday to call for more sensible gun control.
A. Tax Day March – April 21 Open Space with chicken 1:00 – We were there with a 20 foot high chicken- We had a small turnout but got only a few middle fingers and lots more thumbs up. The chicken may appear again!!
A. May10, 1 pm. Kirkbride Hall, Building 50. Speakers needed to express their outrage about the NRC proposal to change the status of sandhill cranes to game birds in our state. Registration on line before.
Next meeting is on: May 6, 2018 https://indivisibletraversecity.org/events
at Workshop Brewery
Line 5 Retirement Party City Opera House 6-8pm
A Line 5 Retirement Party that will take place this Monday evening, April 23 from 6 until 8pm at the City Opera House. Parties will be taking place simultaneously around the state. Bill Latka has created a great film about the Line 5 situation which will be just one part of the evening. I've already seen the film; it's really well-done. Please come to The Opera House for the party: it's free,
Here is a link to the Traverse City event: https://www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/line_5_retirement_party_traverse_city
Here is the link to all the events on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/oilandwaterdontmixcoalition/events/?ref=page_internal
When you come, you'll see videos, hear speakers, listen to some awesome music by Michigan's favorite, Seth Bernard, and most importantly work on strategies that will force the retirement the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline.
In Traverse City, bake and enter a creative "Line 5 Retirement Sheet Cake" in the silent auction!
Parties will take place in the cities listed below:
Detroit, Ann Arbor, Pinckney, Lansing, Kalamazoo, Saugatuck, Chicago, Grand Haven, Grand Rapids, Greenville, Mt. Pleasant, Pinconning, Buckley, Traverse City, Charlevoix, Petoskey, Cheboygan, Marquette, and even Viroqua, WI, and Boulder, CO! See you there!!!
Sign on to vote for Matt Morgan for National Indivisible endorsement
We have completed the paperwork needed to nominate Matt for endorsement by National Indivisible. We are reaching out to you know so that all members can sign up with National Indivisible to vote to endorse Matt. Basically, National Indivisible endorsements are driven and voted on by local Indivisible groups who live in the state or district of the race. The national group will only endorse Matt if they see that he has the support of members in Indivisible groups in his district.
Here's what to do to participate in the endorsement process. You must do the registration step no later than April 24 (It only takes a minute):
1. Click on this link: endorsements. Here you will find complete information about the endorsement process as well as the sign-up link.
2. Once there, click on "this form" under #4 (not on "register to vote" at the top) Fill in the few lines of info. You will be registering to vote in the nomination process.
3. You will receive an email ballot from National Indivisible on April 25.
4. Vote and return your email ballot within the timeline provided.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. Please relay this information to your group members. To elect a government that will serve everyone, we need everyone's help.
Agenda for April 15 Indivisible TC membership meeting
A. Tax Day March – April 16 5:00 p.m. Open Space on the Parkway
A. Columbine Memorial – Hagerty Center
B. May10, 1pm. Kirkbride Hall, Building 50. Speakers needed to express their outrage about the NRC proposal to change the status of sandhill cranes to game birds in our state.
C. Abdul el Sayed sponsored by the GT Democratic Party is speaking at the Grand Traverse Resort on April 19th from 6:00 – &30
Next meeting is on: May 6, 2018 (https://indivisibletraversecity.org/events at Workshop Brewery
Documentary: Difficulties of children in the west Bank
Sill one more event this week, courtesy of Victoria Gutowski, calling our attention to this film showing at TADL tomorrow at 6:30pm:
Events and Action Items from April 9 onward…
Monday, April 9, 5:30pm. Joint meeting with Indivisible GT at the UU. All ITC members invited to attend. The Sinclair committee will meet before the meeting at 4:30pm
Tuesday, April 10, 6:30-8pm. Hal Gurian will give his updated slide presentation about the status of votersnotpoliticians effort at the UU church.
Saturday, April 14, 10am-noon. Training for canvassers for VNP at Horizon Books.
Saturday, April 14, 10:30am. Jeanie Williams of Inland Seas Education Association will speak on Microplastics in the Great Lakes at the Leelanau Indivisible meeting, Leland Township Library, 203 Cedar St., Leland
Monday, April 16, 5pm. Tax Day March. People will meet at 5pm on the Open Space and there will be a march down Front Street. Lynne signed up with the national group that is encouraging such events. She will contact the police and other groups to gather support and participation. Bring appropriate signs.
Tuesday. April 17, 6:30pm. CCL is tabling at a talk about recycling in the TC area at the United Methodist Church.
Thursday, April 19, 6-7:30pm. Abdul el Sayed will be speaking at the Grand Traverse Resort. Sponsored by the GT Dems. We will discuss meeting to carpool at our next meeting on April 15.
Friday, April 13, 5:30-8pm NMEAC-sponsored Environmentalist of the Year ceremony and celebration. Dennos Museum. Learn about and celebrate the people and the creative energy that are protecting our environment and that make northern Michigan such a great place to live. Featuring speaker Holly Bird, musician Brotha James, and small plate food and drink. $25 tickets available online through NMEAC.org. $30 at the door.
Sunday, April 22, 11:30-4pm. Twin Lakes Park. CCl is tabling at another event that discusses where to recycle things in the TC area.
Sunday, April 22, 11-3pm. Earth Day. 2018 Solar Tour, sponsored by Northport Energy. From 3-5pm there will be a film and panel discussion at Sutton Bay's Bay Theater. More info @www.northporteneergy.org/2018-solar-tour
Monday, April 23, 6pm. Line 5 Retirement Party at the City Opera House. Free. Sponsored by oilandwaterdontmix.
Sunday, May 6, 11am. State Theater. A 30-minute film called Straws will be shown followed by 30 minutes of discussion. Each of us can tell restaurants that straws need not be offered routinely as a way to cut down on plastic waste.
May 10, 1pm. Kirkbride Hall, Building 50. Speakers needed to express their outrage about the NRC proposal to change the status of sandhill cranes to game birds in our state. See more info under Open Mic below.
Notes of ITC April 8, 2018 Membership meeting
April 8, 2018 Meeting Notes
Indivisible Traverse City meets every 1st & 3rd Sunday 10-11:30 at Workshop Brewing Co. April was an exception (because of Easter). These notes will be posted on our Facebook page and the Indivisible Traverse City website.
See the minutes section of the 2018 blog on the webpage: IndivisibleTraverseCity.com
People were encouraged to buy books from Horizon to thank them for allowing us to use their space today. Two specific books were recommended: Born on First Base and Dear Madam President. Linda will investigate whether it would be possible to use this space instead of the Workshop Brewery beginning in May for our regular membership meetings.
Rebecca Dallet won her election for Supreme Court Justice in Wisconsin by 12 points over an NRA-supported candidate. She promised not to be influenced by the ideology of special interest groups.
Randy Bryce seems to be doing well in the polling against Paul Ryan in Wisconsin. He needs our support as does Andrew Janz who is running against Devin Nunes in California.
Lynne announced our group has now incorporated and she is still looking for an accountant to help us achieve 501c4 states. It was suggested that Lynne approach professors at NMC to see if there might be accounting students who would be interested in undertaking the task. Or, if anyone knows of an accountant willing to take this on for minimal cost, please contact Lynne.
VNP: Training events as listed above. Volunteers will be needed for canvassing, phone banking, and GOTV efforts. Donations are needed now (donations can be made through the website). Contact Margaret if you know of a small downtown office space for rent. Marcia reported that a Record Eagle opinion piece today said voting for the VNP proposal is the most important vote we can make in 2018.
Line 5: Brenda reported because of the Congressional recess, there has yet to be any response to the letters and emails her subgroup sent out. She remains in communication with the Morgans and she expects she will hear something in the upcoming weeks from those she has contacted.
Sinclair: Gretchen and Ted received an enthusiastic response from IGT members about becoming involved with our effort to confront 7&4 News about the issues with their local news. More than a dozen members agreed to join a committee to finalize the plan that involves contacting advertisers if Sinclair and 7&4 continue to refuse to meet with us about our concerns. Today many of our members signed on to join the committee which will meet on April 9, 4:30pm at the UU before the IGT meeting.
Matt Morgan Endorsement: Lynne presented her reasons why we should endorse Matt Morgan for our Congressional Representative. Discussion followed. All members were supportive, although one member spoke up about being against endorsing anyone. There was a motion and a second to endorse Matt and to nominate Matt for National Indivisible endorsement. The ITC members present voted unanimously in favor with the exception of that one member (who said he did support Matt), and he agreed to stand aside. Bill said he would complete the online nomination application for Matt's endorsement by national Indivisible before the April 9th deadline. All members are strongly encouraged to sign up with national Indivisible by April 25, so be sure your members are on the list to vote. Go to Indivisible435, click on REGISTER TO VOTE and then click GET STARTED. It takes less than one minute to do. National Indivisible will email an online ballot to all those in Matt's district who register.
Ballots will be emailed to all those who sign up on or before April 24 to vote on April 25.
Bill again collected signatures for a petition that TC100 Advocacy Group and MI Climate Action Network will present to the Board of Traverse City Light and Power to encourage them to include a 100% renewable energy goal by 2030 when the Board creates their long term strategy. Keli collected signatures to qualify a Michigan Promote the Vote ballot measure for the 2018 election.
There will be an upcoming Town Hall on gun violence. The Front Street Writers, a group of local high school students associated with the National Writers Series will read their essays. Matt Morgan and Rep Bergman will be invited. Details will follow as they become known.
Berta will investigate whether anyone is locally planning a rally on April 20, the anniversary of the Columbine shootings. Leelanau Indivisible has been working with a Benzonia student who was in Columbine at that time.
Carol encouraged people to volunteer to make comments at a May 10 meeting at Kirkbride Hall in Building 50 before an appointed Commission that is working to open a recreational hunting season on our state's sandhill cranes. We need to sign up to comment by May 4: 517-284-6237. Carol passed out flyers that contained links to detailed information. She will have more fliers to pass out at our meeting next week.
ADJOURNMENT: 11:30 am. Our next meeting is Sunday, April 15 at Workshop Brewery, 10-11:30am.
Agenda for April 8 membership meeting at Horizon
Horizon's Book Store Café
A. Candidate Endorsement
B. Tax Day March – Where and when
Next meeting is on: April 15, 2018 (https://indivisibletraversecity.org/events
Note: this Sunday's meeting is at Horizon Books
We are meeting at the downstairs at Horizon's bookstore this Sunday April 8th. The Workshop Brewery is not available this week. We meet 10 a.m. to 1130 a.m.
Our next meeting is brought up a week because of the problem of having a venue. So we will meet next Sunday April 15th at the Workshop Brewery.
I am so glad that the Sinclair propaganda machine has been made so public.


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title: Better Rspec errors with Quickfix formatting and Vim
excerpt: "Jump straight to your rspec error locations from Vim using this nifty trick with the quickfix window"
tags: [sample post, code, highlighting]
modified: 2014-09-14
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quickfix:
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If you, like me, drank the TDD/BDD Kool-aid and thought "mmmm", you probably started spending a lot of time writing tests which drive most of the application code you write.  Red, Green, Refactor, etc.  My tool of choice is Rspec, although Minitest is also quite nice.

Maybe I just have lazy eyes, but I get tired of scanning the pane where my tests run to find the exact location of each test failure, then navigating to it.  I'm pretty fast with vim file navigation, but I wanted a better way.

Enter the [quickfix](http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/quickfix.html)
feature in Vim.  It was originally conceived to save error messages from compilers and allow you to to jump from the list of errors to the actual location of the errors, one by one.  Yeah so that's exactly what we want to do with our Rspec errors, right?  It's just a matter of formatting the rspec output to match what quickfix expects.

So what does quickfix expect?  The vim docs are a little daunting, but one really simple format quickfix understands is:

{% highlight ruby %}
<filename_with_relative_path>:<line_number>:<message_about_error>
{% endhighlight %}

Just three chunks of info separated by two colons.

Furthermore you can open up *any* file as a quickfix file with the vim command

{% highlight ruby %}
:cg <filename>.
{% endhighlight %}

Just for giggles, go into your rails project, create a file in the root folder called "quickfix" and put this on the first couple lines:

{% highlight ruby %}
./Gemfile:5:Just some random place in in my project
./config/database.yml:10:I'm on line ten but I'm not sure why!
{% endhighlight %}

Now open up vim (in that same project) and use the :cg command to open up your quickfix file:

{% highlight ruby %}
:cg quickfix
{% endhighlight %}

You can navigate to the quickfix split and press return on either of those two lines; vim will shoot you to the exact referenced line in each file.

So what we want is to get our rspec errors to end up in this quickfix format so that they will be in a nice tidy list, and so we can quickly jump straight to the failing test in our code.

Rspec has a few built in formatters, like "documentation" or "progress" that you can specify with the --format flag from the command line.  But you can also define your own [custom formatter](https://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-core/v/3-3/docs/formatters/custom-formatters) with which you override the methods you want to modify.

You just have to make a Ruby class.  I found a few out on the interwebs. There's one at [vim-rspec-quickfix](https://github.com/dapplebeforedawn/vim-rspec-quickfix) but I felt that his formatter was a bit over complicated. Here's a simpler one that I prefer that I found at [digitalronin](http://digitalronin.github.io/coding/2014/10/31/rspec3--vim-quickfix-list/). I modified it ever-so-slightly (name change):

{% highlight ruby %}
class QuickfixFormatter
  RSpec::Core::Formatters.register self, :example_failed

  def initialize(output)
    @output = output
  end

  def example_failed(notification)
    @output << format(notification) + "\n"
  end

  private

  def format(notification)
    rtn = "%s: %s" % [notification.example.location, notification.exception.message]
    rtn.gsub("\n", ' ')[0,160]
  end
end
{% endhighlight %}

What's going on in this class?  You need to **register** the notification that your custom formatter supports (we are only customizing *example_failed* notifications), and then you write a custom method for that type of notification.  Our custom example_failed method adds a notification to @output that consists of the location of the failed example, plus the associated message.

Because I don't want to copy this file into all of my rails projects, I keep it in my ~/code/rspec_support/ folder so all my projects can refer to it.

And you need to tell rspec to use this custom formatter when you run your tests.  Rspec can use multiple formatters at the same time, so you don't have to give up on seeing whatever you normally see when your tests run.  But using your custom formatter will let you generate a quickfix list quietly alongside:

From within my rails projects, now:

{% highlight ruby %}
rspec --format progress --require ~/code/rspec_support/quickfix_formatter.rb --format QuickfixFormatter --out quickfix.out spec
{% endhighlight %}

This runs my specs with "progress" visual formatting, but also requires my custom formatter class and uses it to format the errors into my specified output file, quickfix.out

That's a lot to type so of course it is mapped to my rspec_command in my vimrc like this:

{% highlight ruby %}
"Rspec.vim mappings
map <Leader>t :call RunCurrentSpecFile()<CR>
map <Leader>s :call RunNearestSpec()<CR>
map <Leader>l :call RunLastSpec()<CR>
map <Leader>* :call RunAllSpecs()<CR>
let g:rspec_command = 'call VimuxRunCommand("bundle exec spring rspec --format progress --require ~/code/rspec_support/quickfix_formatter.rb --format QuickfixFormatter --out quickfix.out {spec}\n")'
" opens the quickfix file and window
{% endhighlight %}

And I mapped leader q to open the quickfix window for these errors and focus on it:

{% highlight ruby %}
:map <leader>q :cg quickfix.out \| cwindow<CR>
{% endhighlight %}

Now when I run my tests, I get my usual visual cues in my test pane, but if there are failures, I can quickly pull up a quickfix list in vim with <leader>q to jump to each failure.

Looks kind of like this in real life.  Notice I still get all my rspec detail on the right, but in my vim window I've got the quickfix list at the bottom for easy navigation.

[![Vim Quickfix Rspec][vim-session]][vim-session]

So in closing:

1. Create a little rspec formatter class.  Copy mine from [github](https://github.com/pdbradley/rspec_support) if you want.  Save it somewhere convenient.
2. If you have a shortcut to run your rspec tests (surely you do; if not, why not?) modify it to require the rspec formatter code, use it, and direct its output to a file (quickfix.out is what I use)
3. In your vimrc create a shortcut to open that file as a quickfix file and use it to navigate to your test failures.

If you have a better way to do this, or a better way to format the quickfix output, let me know.  I'm always ready to level up.

[vim-session]: http://318ce10a4aff81d8fd77-9942159f0cde80bd1f0d981f1d813960.r48.cf1.rackcdn.com/mac-mini/Clipboard%20Image%2010-23-15,%201.52.54%20PM.png

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Who ever thought winter time was a time to slow down and relax certainly didn't have a camera in their hands. Winter time can be an amazing time to go out and experience the nuances of nature. Cool clear nights, frosty mornings with snow covered fields and forests the subject matter is endless. And we haven't even started on the wildlife.
This morning I left at o-dark-thirty to arrive at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland's Eastern Shore which covers over 28,000 acres of tidal marsh, mixed forests, and managed croplands. Even though the government is currently going through a shutdown, the wildlife loop has been open. But due to the snow we received this past weekend the wildlife loop has been shut down as no one is on staff to plow the road.
However that is no discouragement to me as the Wildlife loop is only a small part of the expansive wildlife refuge. Dawn was briefly colorful before the sun began to rise over the horizon and the discoveries were found elsewhere. One should always look the opposite direction from the sunrise to see how the color is reflected in the landscapes. Beautiful pastels painted the landscape and the vegetation was covered in frost.
It was a unique morning with weather conditions as the temperatures were below freezing which lead to Hoar Frost on the leaves and grasses. Sharp with their edges and geometric I lamented the fact that I had left my macro lens at home. Having everything else in the car, I pulled out the 100-400mm lens and used that for some close up photography.
The adventure continued and we traveled down the road heading to the next stop. But then we turned the corner and gasped. The snowy field was covered in fog. Magical….mystical. Gotta stop and capture it. So glorious was the fog and then turning around we gasped once more. The sun shined through the frost covered forest with the fog illuminating and reflecting the light. Truly nature is magic.
Both of these images are straight out of camera with only minor Lightroom adjustments for contrast, etc.
And when you think we might have run out of material to work with there was so much more. Marsh grasses along the road and even better the unique variety of ice formations and crystals when we looked closer.
It was a wonderful outing and I'm looking forward to offering future photography workshops at Blackwater in the near future. Each time I visit it's completely different than the time before. You may never know what you may see, but it is always wonderful for the inquisitive explorer.
Nature never ceases to amaze me. Thank you.
Truly magical – so lovely!
You are so kind Eliza and hope all is well with you. Thank you!
Yes, thank you! Enjoying the downtime of winter.
Stunning pictures, thank you very much!
Truly my pleasure. Happy you enjoyed them Ganz.
Living in Alberta where winters are very cold and very long I have found if one only braves the elements and heads out into Nature there are some truly wonderful and unforgettable experiences waiting for you.


> that should be suggested to newbies.
user categories rather than one grand overall recommendation.
I use my context below as a potential example.
fit me with "developer" and less with "user" in some respects.
-j 4 or so does take a long time on the armv7 machines (for example).
retry after some significant time in case they were temporary issues.
could not finish buildworld unless I used an older vintage from svn.
in the staging area so that installation can find them and complete.
machine and needing a work around. Or testing patches for ports.
synth was not an option first.
filesystems normally, with plenty of space).
So if I had the option for these machines only the time "resource"
with less 2G Byte of RAM.
portupgrade. But I have had some issues on occasion.
infrastructure behind some of the alternatives.
At some point I may try poudriere in each of these environments.


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A. Philip Randolph: What You Need to Know About the Founder of the First Black Labor Union in the US
in Art, History & Culture, World Buzz
by How Africa News January 23, 2023, 8:20 am
There are numerous notable African-American leaders, and Philip Randolph happened to be one of them in the twentieth century. He was a prominent #Black civil rights leader. He established the first Black labor union in the United States. Randolph was seen as a modest individual. He never regarded anyone as inferior or superior to himself. It could be because he was not "racially internalized" as a child.
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Randolph's father was an African Methodist Episcopal Church clergyman who relocated the family to Jacksonville, Florida, in 1891. Randolph, like many other young black males at the period, eventually traveled north in search of better possibilities. He relocated to New York and attempted to break into the entertainment industry. His parents were opposed, so he attended City College of New York. He began his studies in politics and later switched to economics.
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While in college, he met his wife, Lucille Green. She was a former teacher who had left the classroom to run a beauty salon. Randolph held strong political beliefs that he was not afraid to discuss. Because of his views, Lucille's beauty salon suffered, and she lost customers who disagreed with Randolph's.
Randolph met Chandler Owen, a sociology student, and together they founded The Messenger, a radical Harlem magazine influenced by Hubert Harrison. Randolph was a candidate for New York Secretary of State in 1921, but he was unsuccessful. Later, he founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. His greatest success came as President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925.
It would be his first serious attempt to form a labor union for Pullman Company employees. Because Pullman Company employed a large number of Black people at the time, many people were critical of Randolph's efforts.
In 1935, the Pullman Company began negotiating with the Brotherhood, and a deal was reached in 1937. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was awarded $2,000,000 in pay raises, reduced workweeks, and overtime compensation. The Brotherhood later joined the American Federation of Labor. Randolph became one of the most visible civil rights activists. In 1941, he collaborated with Martin Luther King Jr. Randolph founded the Committee Against Jim Crow in the Military in 1947.
On August 28, 1963, Randolph's idea of a March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was achieved, attracting nearly 300,000 people to the nation's capital. The event is widely regarded as the pinnacle of the Civil Rights Movement, and it did contribute to public awareness of the issue. When President John F. Kennedy was slain three months later, however, Civil Rights legislation was blocked in the Senate. The Civil Rights Act was not passed until the following year.
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Golden proportions in dental esthetics. When should we use them?
Prepress and Minimum Prep veneers advantages and disadvantages. Which technique to use and when to use?
Aesthetic dentistry tips and tricks. Ceramic materials and their classification, which to choose when.
Preparing the provisionals and tips for provisionalisation.


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Hung will not overstep her role: KMT policy chief
October 30, 2016 taiwanwireservice.com General
The executive director of the opposition Kuomintang's (KMT) policy committee, Tsai Cheng-yuan, says KMT chairperson Hung Hsiu-chu will not overstep her authority when meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping this coming week. Tsai was speaking at a press conference on Sunday as Hung prepared to depart for China.
The KMT has held an annual party-to-party forum with the Communist Party since 2006. In previous years the meeting was referred to as the Cross-strait Economic, Trade and Cultural Forum. But this year, the first year since 2008 that the KMT is not in power in Taiwan, the forum has been renamed the Cross-strait Peaceful Development Forum.
KMT leader Hung Hsiu-chu has advocated the signing of a peace accord with Beijing. But a top government official in charge of China affairs has reminded Hung and her delegation not to overstep the bounds of Taiwan's laws concerning cross-strait exchanges.
Hung and her seven-member delegation will arrive in China on Sunday night. They will visit Dr. Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum in Nanjing on Oct. 31, before Hung meets with Xi, who will be participating in his capacity as general secretary of the Communist Party of China. The meeting will be followed by the two-day Cross-strait Peace Development Forum.
Seasonal winds bring cool weather to northern Taiwan
Taiwan holds maritime talks with Japan in Tokyo


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Commission On International Trade Law
Texts and Status
Library and Research Resources
Technical Assistance and Coordination
Sessions and Events
27 June to 15 July 2022, New York
Working Group I: Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
9-13 May 2022, New York
10-14 October 2022, Vienna (tentative)
Working Group II: Dispute Settlement
28 March to 1 April 2022, New York
19-23 September 2022, Vienna (tentative)
Working Group III: Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform
15-19 November 2021, Vienna (falls on Gurpurab)
14-18 February 2022, New York
Working Group IV: Electronic Commerce
4-8 April 2022, New York
31 October to 4 November 2022, Vienna (tentative)
Working Group V: Insolvency Law
13-17 December 2021, Vienna
18-22 April 2022, New York
28 November to 2 December 2022, Vienna (tentative)
Working Group VI: Judicial Sale of Ships
18-22 October 2021, Vienna
7-11 February 2022, New York
12-16 December 2022, Vienna (tentative)
2021 Tokyo Forum on Dispute Resolution
07 December 2021 to 08 December 2021
Co-organized by UNCITRAL, the Ministry of Justice of Japan (MOJ), and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the 2021 Tokyo Forum on Dispute Resolution, themed "Enhancing the principles of dispute resolution in the digital economy", will be held virtually on Tuesday 7 December 2021 and Wednesday 8 December 2021. Two of the three sessions will be dedicated to the stocktaking of developments in dispute resolution in the digital economy, an area which will be featured at the UNCITRAL colloquium on possible future work on dispute settlement in late March 2022. The event will be held in English with simultaneous Japanese translation provided. The event is open to the public and free of charge. Additional details can be found in the attached e-flyer.
UNCITRAL Asia Pacific Day 2021
09 November 2021 to 15 December 2021
The UNCITRAL Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RCAP) is pleased to announce the initial line-up and kick-off of its UNCITRAL Asia Pacific Day 2021 (AP Day) academic series. The main theme of the UNCITRAL Asia Pacific Day 2021 is "Enabling MSMEs and Assisting Economic Recovery through Legal Harmonization". The UNCITRAL AP Day 2021 series was launched with 3 activities in the Republic of Korea by Chung-Ang University, Inha University, and Seoul National University on 13, 14, and 26 October 2021, respectively. Find the calendar of events for this year's events here. RCAP also invites readers to revisit last year's AP Day series via the 2020 AP Day report.
The 10th Asia-Pacific ADR Virtual Conference
04 November 2021 to 05 November 2021
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Our Spot Writer this week is Jessica DeGarmo, author of ; DECISIONS (Silver Publishing, July 2011); and THE STORM WITHIN (September 2011). Next week's contributor will be RC Bonitz, author of A LITTLE BIT OF BLACKMAIL and A BLANKET FOR HER HEART.
I awaken slowly, exquisitely, alive from the soles of my bare feet to the top of my mussed head. My body hums with electricity, a spark that has started from my skin and moved inside me; it nestles into my heart and throbs there, speaking to me. I am awake. I am alive, perhaps for the first time ever.
I am lying in my bed, the same old bed I've always had, the same rumpled quilt tossed carelessly over my still form. I look around me and everything is the same. The walls, covered with memories and dreams, envelop me, hide me, comfort me. Everything is the same, yet everything is different.
He touches me once; a light caress that feels like the kiss of a butterfly. This monarch's kiss makes me tremble. My arm, exposed to the cool evening air wafting in through my open window, leaps into goose pimples. He chuckles once and reaches out again to tease me.
His firm hand runs down my arm, so gently, so maddeningly I feel I might die from it. It is merely a touch, but it is everything.
He lays next to me and turns back the quilt, pausing to smile through the intensity smoldering on his face. His eyes soften when he sees me stare back at him. Slowly, so slowly the quilt reaches my knees, my ankles, my feet, the foot of the bed. I am bare, spread before him in the twilight, but I know no shame.
There is nothing but want.
I reach for him with tremulous fingertips. He shakes his head. My arm lowers and my eyes follow him. The heat from his gaze warms me, makes me burn, sets me on fire. And then his hands, his body find me.
When we join, it is more than a physical act. It is everything I've ever wanted, everything I've ever needed, more than I'd ever hoped for, more than I deserve. But it is all I know, all I feel as we love together.
My heart leaps in joy; I offer each heartbeat to him, gladly. His soul is my destiny. His love is my fate.
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Thank you R. Are you familiar with his work?
Yes. Recent exhibit at Portland (Oregon) Art Museum. Wonderful.
Great! Lucky you :-) Here is a wonderful documentary about Freud, his story is told by those close to him, shortly after his death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khpcYyHhl28 Best wishes, Russell.
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Wow. What eyes! Nice job as always.
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Somewhere above DV, bound for Dubai
Jacques sat in what amounted to his own private jet, going over pages upon pages of legal rigmarole and red tape. His various contracts in DV had turned into a nightmare of red-tape with the increasing violence in the region and the CCD's crackdowns on travel and movement through and into the region. Unsurprisingly, they had some qualms over letting a few hundred heavily armed private security employees into the region, especially since most were identified as Muslims.
The meetings in Jerusalem had gone well enough really; even in light of the growing tension, the companies whom had sought to hire him had still been eager to finalize their ends of the paperwork. They had even agreed to the increased costs of their contracts, in light of the current risks. Légion Première came with a very well earned reputation, and they were willing to fork out the cash for it to be in their service.
He set the stack of papers aside and glanced out the window, squinting against the bright light of the sun, unfiltered by cloud at this altitude and barely held in check by the tinting of his window.
A second stack awaited his attention; Sierra Leone. He had a few hundred men on the ground there, and it too was falling apart from the inside out. He'd already received reports from his field officers of the outbreaks of violence. A few had even already begun setting up refugee camps within the fences of the mines and plants they were contracted to protect. Not the most hospitable places for civilians to live, even temporarily, but it was better then being on the receiving end of a machete because of your last name. He was already planning to deploy the rest of his men in the Casablanca barracks to the region; contracts there had been much easier to ratify with the foreign companies. They stood to loose billions of dollars in infrastructure and profits should the situation spiral any further out of control, and Jacques was more then willing to take their money to save lives.
His mind wandered for a moment, staring at the distant earth through the thin wisps of cloud the desert heat allowed to form even at this altitude. Roads and villages doted the landscape far below a midst vast swaths of open dead earth. Dead from the air, at least. There was no abundance of life below, but it was there, hidden among the rocks and scrub brush. And people, of course.
It was a strange life they lived; ruled by religion and fear, barely eking out a living by the standards of most of the CCD, although that seemed mostly brought upon themselves by themselves. He couldn't fault them for clinging to tradition of course; who was he to look down upon such loyalty? Légion Première was but a shadow of it's origins, but they clung to their traditions no matter that they were forsworn by their homeland and birthplace.
His Wallet chimed to life suddenly, and he returned to the moment to see what it had to offer.
It was bad news.
DV was aflame with insurrection and murder on all fronts. It was happening far too quickly for the CCD forces to respond. Terrifyingly efficient and coordinated, with huge swaths of religious extremists popping up armed and ready throughout the region.
Over the next two hours, based off civilian news reports, he was already beginning to piece together an understanding of the situation on the ground. When word that Dubai was teetering on the edge, Jacques gave the signal to change their destination.
It was back home to Casablanca for him and his. He would have to cancel the contracts, or at least put them on hold. There was no chance the CCD would allow him to put his men on the ground in their territory in the current political atmosphere.
His pilots had hardly finished their course correction and gained clearance to enter Egyptian airspace, less than an hour's fight from the point of their turn, when Jacques' Wallet chimed to life again. Another priority message, routed from the home office in Casablanca.
"Danjou. Send."
"Sar. Custody of Defense on the line."
Commandant Tuff, a man of British origins and no shortage of experience in the CCD military, served as the officer of command of the headquarters when the CEO was away. He had the right and power to negotiate contracts and make bids when opportunities presented themselves. If he were contacting Jacques directly with something, then it was important. This was not something as simple as cancelling their clearance to DV and the greater CCD.
"Commandant. Put them through."
A moment later and Jacques was presented with a view of a board of Generals and their staff, all grim faced and some few too distracted to actually pay Jacques any mind. "Mr Danjou. We understand you have a standing force ready to deploy to the DV region."
Jacques' mind raced, and quickly came to the conclusion of what they were going to ask. Was the CCD caught so off guard they would turn to private security elements as a stop gap? It made sense. Mercenaries were readily available, not bound to Rules of Engagement, and most importantly, they were expendable. "That is correct, Sir. My men were in the final stages of preparation to redeploy to Jerusalem."
The Generals nodded, one eagerly, at the news. It was what they wanted to hear. "We also understand that many of your contracts in DV are already cancelled."
Jacques nodded again. "That is correct, Sir."
"We want to hire your men. We have VIPs and soldiers trapped at King Abdulaziz..."
"Airport. Yes. In Jeddah. 80km west of Mecca. Site of a CCD logistical base. Major port. I am aware of it."
Jacques began bringing up screens from his Wallet, out of sight of the CoD staff. They seemed...surprised, at his situational awareness.
"Exactly. As well as Um Salama Hospital..."
"That is the one south of the airport, correct? 6km, give or take."
Again they were surprised, but once more they carried on as if nothing were amiss. "Yes. Exactly. We wish to hire your men to assist in the evacuation of CCD soldiers and VIPs from both the airport and hospital."
"And civilians, of course."
They blanched and jaws clenched in irritation; Jacques was, apparently, running circles around them. "Yes. And civilians. Of course."
"$500,000,000. Plus tax breaks, which can be negotiated in exact detail when we both have more time to dally over numbers. And I will need access to live data-feed from satellites, drones, and aircraft you have in the area. Comms channels with your forces on the ground."
He began forwarding a barrage of information both to the CoD and to Commandant Tuffs. There was a lot of work to be done, and little time to do it in.
The Generals seemed nonplussed with his demands, "We cannot give a civilian, an AFRICAN civilian, access to our satellites."
"Fine. You will give it to one of your men on the ground. And he will give it to me. And watch."
They seemed confused by that logic, "And how exactly are one of our men going to watch you if you are in your jet?"
"I will be on the tarmac. Your man will meet me the moment I land. The longer you delay my access to that information, the more people that will die."
The gathered Generals' focus shifted away from Jacques to another screen he could not see. Something, or more likely some one, made the concession and the Generals paled but quickly agreed to the terms. "We will have someone meet you on the tarmac. When can you be on the ground?"
"Five hours. I will inform you of the concept of operations shortly."
The Generals sputtered again at being so calmly dismissed by Jacques, but a moment later and the feed was cut and he was delivered with confirmation of the funds transfer, as well as given contacts with various departments with which he would need to work.
It was amazing how smoothly the CCD could operate when the Ascendancy himself was looking over his people's shoulders.
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In the soft lighting of her study, the half dozen holo-screens flashed a steady neon glow in arrangement above the desk. The Scroll filtered news articles pertinent to Eleanor's interests, an endless and comprehensive streaming of world situations, each coordinated to different screens, colours and alert sounds. Of late it had only been peppered with coverage of the Ascendancy's visit to DV, until but a few hours ago when rather more alarming news had broken. Now it dominated, flashing urgent red for breaking news that was quickly kindling and spreading like wildfire across the different channels, until the room glowed scarlet. Naturally she'd already spoken with various colleagues and peers, coordinating a response to the crisis. She was already shaping a press release.
The task stilled her mind to oblivion. Except that she was cold.
Winter seeped through the window seals, brushing shivers against her skin as she worked. Snow clumped on the frame, and bumped gentle drifts against the glass. She'd never minded the drafts and she'd never fixed them, perhaps because they reminded her in some small part how heedlessly she lost herself to work. It was an old house anyway; distinctly and proudly baroque in design, too pristine to bother with too much modernity. It had been Alistair's choice, of course, but it had never crossed her mind to sell it. They had been coming here each Christmas since the girls' infancy, and it was only in recent times that ritual had subsided. Her children were grown, and her husband. Well.
She finally stood to pull across the heavy drapes, pausing to instruct the heating to simmer up a notch.
Which was when she heard it, humming low because she'd flicked down the volume after DVs alerts had started coming thick and fast. A few discordant piano keys, happy and imperfect memories of her middle child's earliest years, but it filled her with cool dread now. For a moment hesitant fear held her in stasis, her fingers still wrapped in the damask fabric. A steeling of her features joined a level intake of breath, though there was no one to see, and she returned to the desk.
Without a blink Eleanor swiped DV away, and the room's glow returned to neutral. She'd set the alert for specific keywords, and she prepared herself as the Scroll realigned. A winking light in the corner of her eye questioned if she was done with the draft of her statement, but she ignored it. The new text inked a reflection on her solemn features. There wasn't much, not yet. But enough, certainly. Sierra Leone had been building its tensions for years; Eleanor had only hoped for it to withhold eruption until her daughter was safely home.
A few deft flicks of her finger, and a call was put through to London.
"Eleanor."
He was always caustically distant, her father - at least on appearances, and she supposed it was where she got it from. Edward didn't raise his eyes from whatever captivated them off screen - a book, she presumed, by the movement beneath lowered lids. She'd interrupted the brevity of time he actually had for leisure, but she felt little remorse.
"You should never have let her go."
He did look up then, sharpness to his gaze.
He didn't speak, of course. She hadn't expected him to. So she did. "The rebels have finally taken a stand."
And they both knew the CCD's implications. Despite her politician father, and despite her talent for public relations, Eleanor had never been interested in the private wars of politics. Her strength of vision had always been far-reaching, and sometimes the important things were lost in the vastness - like the attention she should have paid to three young children - but her talent for impartial compassion had helped sculpt her father's image, and still helmed the Northbrook name. The recklessness that armed her now would take a dent out of years of hard work, but that was why she'd called him first. "I want you to get her out of there."
He held a staunch silence for a few moments, face grim; calculating their options. The answer was writ in every hard line of his face, and she nodded. "Then it must be done privately. And quickly."
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She'd first come across Samantha Brown some years ago; a brash American Eleanor hadn't liked overly much, though her dedication to the Red Cross was both admirable and startling in its tenacity. They'd met in fact at a function heralding the charity's most auspicious heroes, televised in order to garner additional funds for the relevant causes of the day, those exact details forgotten. Eleanor only remembered the night at all, one of many such events she regularly attended, for two reasons.
Firstly, because it had been one of the rarest occasions; when all three of her girls had consented to attend at their mother's side, strong-arming themselves in the wake of Alistair's betrayal.
And secondly, because of Samantha's tale of Nigeria. It might be misplaced ill judgement, but she had never forgiven the woman for the seeds she had planted in Natalie's head; her daughter had packed her bags not long after, despite Eleanor's reservations. So perhaps it would be a dry note of irony if that very same story armed her with the knowledge to protect her daughter.
She scrolled the contacts on screen until she found the one she sought. Her finger didn't hesitate before connecting the call.
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Jacques had his work cut out for him. Conference calls with Moroccan authorities, all back door/old boys club type calls to Generals and politicians, those rare few that shared a common vision with the Legion. The gears were already turning; acquisition requests writ and filed, quarter-masters and supply techs probably in a white-knuckled rage to receive sudden, confusing orders to load equipment and ammunition onto trucks with no confirmed destination on their work tickets.
That destination was Mohammed V International Airport, where 250 Legionnaires were now scrambling to unload a plane that had been bound for a peaceful landing in Jerusalem.
Maps of Jeddah, pictures of the airport, flight itineraries, supply requests, status reports, even live-streaming news, all hovered in the air around him. Other members of his personal staff worked diligently in the background, going over contact reports and sit-reps from the Legionnaires on the ground in Sierra Leone, allowing Jacques to focus on the immediate task at hand.
He frowned when a pop-up appeared amidst the myriad of holographic projections; 'Incoming Call. Private Number.'
He drummed his fingers on the simple desk at his fore, eyeing the message for a moment before quickly sweeping his hand through the air, collecting all the various screens to one side; close enough that he could keep an eye on them, while not distracting from whomever had his number.
He took a breath, then sat back in his chair, suddenly looking calm and took up a cup of coffee as he tapped the image, accepting the call. "Good evening. This is Jacques Danjou, CEO of Légion Première."
It was very unusual that anyone phoned him directly; there weren't many who had this number after all. A handful of friends, and of course the senior staff of the Legion, but they had more official means of getting ahold of him.
The face that met him was quite familiar to him. Not that they had ever crossed paths, but it served to know the sorts of people one was likely to cross paths with in his line of work. After all, he, and the former CEO of the Legion, had worked closely with the Red Cross in the past. "Ah, Mademoiselle Northbrook. This is a dark night. What may the Legion do for the Cross?"
A few deft gestures of his hand out of her view began to pop up screens of information about herself and any Red Cross operations in both Sierra Leone and DV. It always served to look like he knew what was going on, after all.
Eleanor's lips lifted in genial greeting as Jacques Danjou's face appeared on screen. She did not blink at his recognition; in fact, given who she was, she rather expected it. If he had been ignorant it would not have inspired confidence. "Plenty I'm sure, Mister Danjou. It is a dark night indeed."
He was younger than she had expected, and for a few seconds it drew her scrutiny. She may not like the American Samatha Brown over much, but she did trust her; besides which the facts spoke for themselves. Legion Premiere might be a veritable unknown within the CCD, but in Africa they had garnered quite the reputation.
"But I am not calling on behalf of the Red Cross. It is a private matter"
She placed a soft emphasis on 'private.' Jacques Danjou was a business man, and his sort did not get to such lofty places if they did not learn discretion. There was no threat or demand to her tone, of course; it only served to provide the man with context, and she trusted he could read between the lines. She had a reputation to preserve; one that could not be seen as throwing fortunes to protect a daughter while thousands of innocents burned. Natalie had chosen to work for the Red Cross. She had chosen to place herself in the danger of a tumultuous country.
Other than that subtlty she was forthright. Polite, professional, amiable; all the qualities one could expect of Eleanor Northbrook, but without pretension. She meant business.
"You are up to speed regarding the situation in Sierra Leone, I take it. Rather overshadowed by the terrible news in DV."
In fact, were it not for her system's instruction to watch over Natalie it might have been several more hours before she'd even been aware of it herself. "My daughter works in a school outside Freetown. I want her out of harm's way before the situation escalates. From all that I hear, time is of the essence. Will you take the contract?"
To some, it would be disheartening to realize that a woman of so lofty a reputation; one of selflessness and sacrifice to aid those less fortunate, to carry on the good work in an age when most of the world couldn't give two flying fucks about what happened beyond their own front door, could be so selfishly motivated.
Dominance V was aflame with civil war. Aflame literally, as the live broadcasts were already starting to show. Suicide bombs and IEDs, armed mobs, ambushes and assassinations and arsons. And while the very same and more happened in Sierra Leone, it didn't touch a single headline the world round, outside of Africa. That continent had been all but forgotten by the world, and the Red Cross' good works were often only thanks to people like Eleanor Northbrook.
And she worried only about her daughter, and her reputation.
He could not fault her in the slightest for being worried of her daughter. In fact, had she not been, that would have been a frightening revelation for him. He could also understand her desire to protect her reputation; reputation was a powerful thing after all. It opened doors. It served as a shield, and a mask. Her reputation made her job easier; and her job made the lives of others easier.
She sought to keep her daughter safe, and she sought to keep her reputation safe as well. Both were motivations he understood, and appreciated. Family was important. His was the Legion. Hers was a more direct blood tie.
He pulled up images from his Wallet, and began to compose the contract in some detail. The particulars were vague; so worded in her own favour. The Legion would secure the school and the Red Cross staff that worked there. They would secure all the Red Cross missions and staff in the country, which were, it seemed, blessedly few. The excuse was that those staff would be needed in the coming weeks as the conflict surely escalated. And in that excuse, was the legal wiggle-room they would need to secure her daughter without drawing unwanted attention to the task.
It also meant that a sizable chunk of the funds that Eleanor paid to the contract would go into establishing Legion Premiere-secured field hospitals and refugee camps. That funding of money, and the establishment of the camps, would bolster both Eleanor's reputation as a humanitarian, and the Legion's as an effective stabilizing force, able to go far beyond the means and will of similar private security companies in Africa.
"I have a team near your daughter's school. They shall secure the area, your people, and your daughter."
He'd already sent a warning order to his nearest team. They would be at the school within the hour, should the situation around Freetown not prove too troublesome for their movement yet.
Of course that team would arrive too late; Natalie would already be gone, bound for the hospital, and another team would be assigned the task, but that was a problem that would reveal itself later. The two would discuss the legal particularities of their contract, and more importantly, the disguise that hid her true motivation under a thick cloak of humanitarian desires and foresight.
Through the legal rigmarole, Jacques was direct and to the point. The negotiations on costs were not as aggressive as they would have been with a CEO of some multi-national company, however. The Red Cross was not so well funded as for him to desire to clean their coffers, and working with them had long-term benefits for him and his Legion.
But as that drew to a head, his Wallet screens popping up with important messages mostly regarding DV and some of his teams on the ground in Sierra Leone, Jacques accepted a cup of very black coffee from one of his personal retinue, as another of his men laid out a uniform and bodyarmour on an empty chair behind him. They were all beginning to gear up, making use of brief lulls in their work. They were still hours away from executing the DV rescue, but there was little time to be wasted.
"Mademoiselle Northbrook. My men will do all they can to see your daughter is safe. They are very good at their job. It is late. Please, get some rest. An impossible request I understand, but you are going to be needed in the morning to help pick up the pieces of this mess."
He stepped back from his work space and began working on the buttons of his expensive dress shirt, "You have good works to do on the morrow. 'It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.'"
Epicurus, an ancient Greek philosopher. "You have done what you can this night."
Edited by Jacques, May 21 2014, 01:31 PM.
The negotiations were not as vicious as she might have anticipated. Though Legion Premiere's services certainly did not come cheaply, Mr. Danjou did not dig deeper than he ought. Money was no barrier, of course, but she sensed in him the conscience of which Samantha Brown espoused. He was a rare one, this man. Though wrapped carefully in her professional exterior, Eleanor was nonetheless a woman on the edge of desperation, yet he did not take advantage of a mother's fierce love. He must have realised no monetary price would have been too high. But the final cost even her father would have considered reasonable.
While the contract was drawn up, Eleanor organised and transferred the details that would aid his team; Natalie's stats and picture, as well as the signal imbedded into her Wallet, secured there in grim preparation for just such a situation. Of the other Red Cross aid workers in the area, she was also able to provide suitable information. Though her daughter of course took precedence, she would not turn her back on others in a similar plight; it would have fallen under her remit anyway, once the news of fighting in Sierra Leone had eventually pierced its way through the louder cries of tragedy in DV. So she had no objections to his projected use of her funds, provided Natalie was extracted safely, and given Jacques apparent competency she already considered ways in which she might aid in the tumultuous months to come. He was direct, and she both appreciated and mirrored the succinctness. All in all it went rather smoothly.
As the legalities came to a close, and she noticed the small cues indicating how busy he was, she nodded. His kindness washed over her, though she didn't necessarily doubt the sincerity of the flowery words; she would just sooner be comforted by his action than his promises. A small smile alleviated her stoic expression, then returned to its flat line. Epicurus. He was well learned, then, and she took it as a good omen. His words struck her as poignant, and for a brief moment she considered offering something inspirational in return. Instead she inclined her head and ended the call. He was correct on the quote, but wrong on the rest. There was still plenty to do this night.


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Nuclear weapons experts found several large holes Wednesday in North Korea's claim that it has joined the ranks of hydrogen bomb-wielding nations, but some called its boasts alarming nonetheless.
North Korea announced Wednesday that it had tested a "miniaturized" hydrogen bomb, calling it a "perfect success." Even if that's not true, a failed H-bomb test can still teach plenty of lessons to a country trying to develop one, said James Acton, who co-directs the nuclear policy program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
"If North Korea felt confident enough to even try it — a true two-stage thermonuclear weapon — if it thought its technology was at that level, that would be disquieting," Acton said.
The early seismic readouts from an earthquake Tuesday evening Eastern time have suggested that the intensity could indicate a test yielding around 10 kilotons — on par with the fission atomic bombs that North Korea has tested three times before but orders of magnitude too small to be an H-bomb. Fission bombs are the kind that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, while the much more powerful hydrogen bombs make use of nuclear fusion, the same energy process that fuels the sun.
Melissa Hanham, a senior research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, said the location of the tunnels where the test seems to have occurred suggests that North Korea may not have even been testing a hydrogen bomb.
"The location of the test isn't the kind of place where you would want to test a hydrogen bomb," she said. "It's great for testing a fission device, but it's not enough for a hydrogen bomb where you would expect a much bigger yield.
Any nuclear weapon test prompts other countries — including the U.S. — to send planes to sample the air for special isotopes that might indicate what type of bomb was detonated. Analysts also comb through hundreds of sensors set up around the world by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization.
Still, there's a good chance those isotopes may not be found even if a nuclear bomb went off. That's because of factors such as wind patterns and other weather unknowns.
Hanham noted that while xenon gas was detected after a North Korea atomic bomb test in 2006, none was detected after a subsequent test three years later.
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Some experts have said that this week's test could have been a failed H-bomb test or perhaps a successful test of a fission bomb enhanced with tritium, a form of hydrogen.
Nevertheless, a nuclear weapon of any size or kind shouldn't be in the hands of North Korea, Hanham said.


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A Long Cliff-mas Break Comes to an End
The Campaign Spot
By Jim Geraghty
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The first Morning Jolt of 2013:
Welcome back! I don't know about you, but this holiday season seemed to stretch on forever — a school vacation that kept the kids at home for eleven days, an awful cold that kept getting passed around our family, a lost cell phone, a logistical and paperwork nightmare to replace the cell phone, and a steady stream of mostly miserable weather. On the bright side, I didn't have to deal with covering the fiscal-cliff negotiations, so God bless Bob Costa.
Depress-equestration
The fiscal cliff drama is over — for now:
After exhaustive negotiations that strained the country's patience, the House approved a bill to avert the dreaded fiscal cliff, staving off widespread tax increases and deep spending cuts.
In the 257-167 vote late Tuesday, 172 Democrats and 85 Republicans favored the bill; 16 Democrats and 151 Republicans opposed it…
While the package provides some short-term certainty, it leaves a range of big issues unaddressed.
It doesn't mention the $16.4 trillion debt ceiling that the United States reached Monday.
It also temporarily delays for two months the so-called sequester, a series of automatic cuts in federal spending that would have taken effect Wednesday and reduced the budgets of most agencies and programs by 8% to 10%.
This means that come late February, Congress will have to tackle both those thorny issues.
Yuval Levin: "This deal is projected to yield $620 billion in revenue over a decade — increasing projected federal revenue by about 1.7% over that time. And that's about it. The Democrats have made the Bush tax rates permanent for 98 percent of the public, which Republicans couldn't even do when they controlled both houses of Congress and the presidency."
The righty grassroots expressed a lot of anger, frustration, and dissatisfaction in the past few weeks. Over the past week I saw a lot of comments on Twitter in the vein of, "we have a spending problem! Why won't Republicans insist we deal with that first!"
Fume at Speaker Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell all you want, but here's the problem: The chance to gain leverage in these negotiations was on Election Day, and the GOP came up with bubkes that day. Sequestration and the expiration of all of the Bush tax cuts presented an awful status quo to begin with, and there was really no better alternative that would get A) passed in a Senate controlled by Harry Reid and B) signed by President Obama. They don't want what we want, and we don't want what they want. And time was on their side in several ways, not least of which was that as of noon Thursday, a new Congress, with even more Democrats, is sworn into office.
There was and is no magic argument, anecdote, policy detail or chart that could change that dynamic. What was worse — or perhaps, if you look at it a certain way, liberating — was that Republicans were and are just about certain to get the blame from most of the public, either for the failure to reach a deal or for the unpopular parts of any deal reached. Some of this is because of the power of the presidential bully pulpit, and some of this reflects people's enthusiasm for taxing somebody making more money than they do. But a lot of this dynamic is because a large segment of the public just doesn't pay attention to budget fights and doesn't want to pay attention to budget fights. So no matter what the numbers actually say, they're inclined to blame the party they already consider to be the problem.
Allahpundit examines those who wanted the House to vote down the deal passed by the Senate about an hour and a half into the New Year:
It's worth driving a hard bargain to get something important done, even at the price of a backlash. Just remind me again what "important" goal will be achieved by forcing a new round of negotiations. What sort of spending cuts do you expect to see here? A trillion dollars over 10 years when we're running trillion-dollar deficits annually? Even if they got Obama to agree to that, why would you believe that future Congresses would allow those cuts to happen down the line? This entire process is an elaborate charade designed to postpone the ultimate reckoning on entitlement reform, and you're simply not going to wring serious entitlement reform out of the Democrats given the two parties' current postures. Obama just won reelection; the Democrats expanded their numbers in the House and Senate; entitlement reform remains depressingly unpopular among the public despite attempts to educate them about the role mandatory spending plays in driving the national debt. House Republicans aren't going to hold out for weeks on end in the futile hope of revamping Medicare against that backdrop while middle-class voters stew over their new, higher tax brackets. Why risk some of the GOP's small reserve of political capital on a deal that's only negligibly less terrible than this one? I understand the "let it burn" strategy, to force the public to fully absorb the cost of big government. I don't understand this one.
The Washington Examiner's Phil Klein sees the conglomeration as a mix of some modest good and some considerable bad and ugly — but points out that perhaps nothing was uglier than how this mess came to be presented to the public as the best option:
Conservatives believe that higher taxes are a bad thing, that the tax code needs to be dramatically overhauled and that the true driver of long-term debt is out of control spending, particularly on entitlements. For those who thought it was possible to emerge from the "fiscal cliff" showdown without tax increases, with genuine tax reform and with real spending cuts that made fundamental changes to entitlements, this deal is obviously a nonstarter. For those who assumed that President Obama's reelection and continued Democratic control of the Senate at a time when the nation was facing an automatic $4.5 trillion tax hike would inevitably mean higher taxes without actual tax or entitlement reforms, the deal is less bad.
. . . Beyond the specifics of the deal, the process was awful. Even though lawmakers knew this reality was coming for two years (on the tax side) and a year (on the sequester side), they waited until New Year's Eve to strike a deal that passed through the Senate at 2 a.m. on New Year's Day. The public has had no chance to review — let alone understand — the legislation. So much for transparency.
But since you deserve to hear dissenting voices, who loathe the agreement that passed the Senate, here's Deroy Murdock:
President Obama repeatedly has called for a "balanced approach" to deficit relief and debt reduction. H.R. 8, the bill in question, is less balanced than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Amazingly, as the Congressional Budget Office calculates, for every $1 that this proposal cuts spending, it hikes taxes by $41! In total, $15 billion in spending cuts are dwarfed by $620 billion in tax increases. Meanwhile, America's $16.42 trillion national debt roars relentlessly on, since this measure does not even attempt to fill this Grand Canyon of red ink.
And Ben Howe: "My problem with 'pass whatever as long as taxes don't go up' position is that it's a shining example of the can-kicking that got us here."
Jim Geraghty is the senior political correspondent of National Review. @jimgeraghty
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